Chapter 291 – Chapter 291 Magic School Shutra (2-26)
Luna rushed into the auditorium and as soon as she got on the podium she looked at me and she started asking gibberish.
“Hey, what is this?”
“Woke up? You must have been really tired yesterday Wake up late.”
“Well, that’s not important right now.”
Luna, who blushed at the prank in my words, shook her head and began yelling at me to get her to her senses.
“Please explain!”
“Okay….”
I started with what happened in the morning and explained at a glance why I was in this situation.
Luna began to furrow her brow, her face tinged with embarrassment.
“Lewis… Did you say that?”
“Yeah, I guess I couldn’t surrender.”
“Oh My God….”
Luna placed her hand on her forehead and started looking around her.
Me, the professors around me, sitting at the only desk on the podium, and the students gathered in the auditorium….
Luna also seemed to be able to confirm her evaluation of me roughly based on the conversations of the students inside the auditorium.
Then, Luna and Luis, who were standing far away, met their eyes.
Luis, who met Luna’s eyes, was approaching this way with a notebook in her arms.
‘I didn’t think it would end easily. I didn’t expect you to do something crazy like this.’
[This is a really great tenacity.]
He was a young man with tenacity enough to admire Armonia for being great.
Louis glared at me and Luna and calmly explained to the old woman professor standing in the middle.
“It’s a test I made myself overnight.”
“… Student, you know how much the situation has grown right now, right?”
“I know. However, I wanted you to know that not only me, but also the students here are dissatisfied with the exam, so I made this request.”
“… Like.”
Louise bowed her head to say hello and started coming toward me again.
And another professor passing by.
“….”
“Kuu….”
Sonya glared at Louis, her arms crossed.
Of course, the professor’s talk about the leak had reached Sonya’s ears as well.
Having already said that to someone who should have been careful due to his promotion to assistant professor, the relationship between the two had now crossed a river that could not be crossed.
Louis hurriedly lowered her head to Sonya and sprinted towards her.
I was sitting at my desk, leaning my chin on my arm and looking up at him with a sarcastic tone.
“Jingle jingle…. I hope you will do something like this.”
“Shut up. If you had just taken the test normally in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“Louis, just say that….”
“Luna… This has nothing to do with you. Get out.”
“….”
Luna also noticed the people around her, so she couldn’t shout out loud easily.
Louis put the notebook on the desk, and the old woman professor who came next to me and the professors next to me opened their mouths.
“This situation is really… I don’t like it, but with the consent of the students here, I will end the situation by solving the problem you created.”
“First of all, as the student said, we will not look at the problem you created as it is a problem that is being solved because of cheating.”
“But if by any chance you made a problem of ridiculous difficulty….”
“You don’t have to worry about that. The problem I have now is….”
Louis responded with a confident smile.
“I just changed the situation and some figures from the questions from this exam. If you can’t solve this problem, I think that being third in writing can also be evidence of cheating.”
My mouth twitched when I heard Louis’ words.
‘… Armonia.’
[Yes.]
‘It was good to test with Enel last time, wasn’t it?’
[I’m glad I was able to remove the uneasy factor with one test.]
I had previously corrected a test question I had received in advance with Enel.
Actually, the first goal is to have Luna solve the exam questions.
And the second purpose was to solve the Enello test questions in case something like this would happen.
I didn’t know how the gnome would react, so I practiced it, but it was really fortunate.
And the result that could have come out at that time….
“Now, there are 10 questions in total. Time is… Would 30 minutes be enough?”
“Don’t you know? Wouldn’t it be okay if you just made the problem right?”
“This bastard….”
It was the fact that if you transform a problem once solved differently, Enel does not enter that much.
‘I’ll solve it soon.’
However, the professor, who did not know my inner thoughts, started to pay attention to the students who were talking loudly inside the auditorium with an awkward expression on his face, as if he still did not like the situation.
“Students gathering here to have a look is not calling them to come and play. This is to ensure that rumors are put to an end so that unnecessary speculation does not run rampant. Be quiet from now on.”
Everyone shut up at the old woman’s words.
And she said right away to Louis and Luna.
“You two should leave now. Shouldn’t we at least provide an environment where we can take the test?”
“Yes.”
“… Yes.”
Louise looked at me with a fishy smile and immediately turned to her, Luna sent her worried eyes and she started following Louis.
The old woman professor turned to me.
“… I hope that the school’s reputation will not be tarnished.”
“Yes.”
As I nodded, the professors around me began to watch me from a distance, including Sonya, who was looking at me with concern.
The old woman nodded and opened her mouth.
“Now, solve the problem.”
I didn’t answer and opened the note to check the problem calmly.
It was so elaborate letters, numbers, and shapes that I wondered if each letter was printed on a computer.
Above all, the dark letters that seemed to have been written with a fountain pen had already soaked in well, so they were well dried so that they would not smudge or smear on the hand.
I murmured over the communication while watching those clear letters.
‘… For a moment.’
[… ?]
‘Armonia, wouldn’t that be possible?’
While looking at the problem, an interesting thought came to my mind, and I naturally smiled and started solving the problem.
***
After 20 minutes passed, Seong Soo-ho solved all the problems and submitted them to the professor.
“Are you done?”
“Yes, I solved everything.”
“If you look at what has come out this far, you must have only guessed at the difficult questions… It sure is fast.”
Looking at Seong Soo-ho’s confident smile, Professor Magta nodded his head with an unknown expression.
Professor Magta said he looked at the notebook for a moment, then approached Lewis and handed him the notebook.
“Since it’s a student-created question, the student must know the exact answer, right?”
“Yes. I definitely remember it.”
“Check it out quickly.”
“Yes.”
Lewis began to concentrate, flipping through the notes one by one, checking the answers.
The moment we moved into the middle like that, Louis suddenly started to smile brightly.
One piece… And one piece….
He was smiling so happy that he wondered if there had ever been such a happy situation since coming to school.
After turning the last page, Lewis waved his notes at the students and started cheering.
“Look! The guy who got only 4 out of 10 right! After all, cheating is right!”
“!!”
At his cry, not only the students, but also the professor, and even Luna, began to look at Seongsuho with puzzled expressions.
Seong Soo-ho just tilted his head and made an expression of incomprehension.
In particular, it was Luna who was shocked the most.
If the problem had been slightly modified, there would be no way it could have been solved.
But she stepped in and tried to defuse the situation somehow.
“Wait, Louis! Anyone can make a mistake if they take a test in this situation now!”
“Nonsense! It’s him who accepted this! Luna, why the hell are you covering such an idiot!?”
“Uh, idiot!? Louis, you say that now!”
It was the moment when the two were about to quarrel.
“Well? Is everyone holding a fun event except for me?”
A man’s voice with a low-pitched tone resonated throughout the auditorium, and everyone began to turn their heads toward it.
The professors standing on the podium all shouted rigidly.
“Ha, dean!”
“Heh heh heh….”
The dean waved his cloak and calmly walked to the podium and asked again.
“What kind of fun event are you all doing?”
“That is….”
Head Professor Magta approached the Dean and began explaining the situation.
After hearing the entire explanation, the dean began slowly erasing the smile he had a while ago.
It was obviously not an angry expression, but the person who usually laughed suddenly became tense, and everyone around him began to get nervous.
“It’s cheating on the test….”
“Sorry. It was too petty to tell the dean, so we tried to talk about it after we solved it.”
“… Okay.”
Nodding the dean’s head, he approached Louis.
The dean looked at him and asked quietly.
“Are you the student who complained of cheating?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
The dean nodded and asked.
“What is your name?”
“This, name… My name is… Lou, Louis… B, this is Brandtrup.”
Louis sighed with a puzzled expression and spat out his name.
Just a few days later, when he said the name he had already asked before, Louise’s veins automatically began to bulge red.
Everyone didn’t know what was going on, but they kept their mouths shut and waited for the dean’s next words.
“How… Has the objection raised by the student been resolved?”
“Ah! Yes! It has been proven that the guy over there has been cheating.”
“Proof… Then what about the evidence?”
“Zu, the proof is…. Proof is enough!”
“I will ask you again.”
The dean opened his mouth with an atmosphere of great pressure.
“What about the evidence?”
“That… That….”
It wasn’t just Louis who was shivering now.
The former student in the auditorium, and Luna, who was right next to him, also began to feel their reason being torn apart by the intimidation he exuded.
The dean continued to speak.
“Are you suspicious of the professors at Stra School and questioning the exam method without any evidence of cheating?”
“That, not that….”
“On the subject of students… Do you dare to treat our professors that way?”
“It’s great….”
It wasn’t the usual threatening tone.
The dean’s words contained anger and hostility, and began to gnaw away at the spirits of the students around him.
When everyone was shaking with fear, it was none other than Head Professor Magta who solved the situation.
“Dean… Stop being angry. We made a decision because we thought it was necessary for the image of the school. If there is any fault, it is with us.”
“… Okay. We will discuss this separately later.”
As soon as the dean heard her words, he immediately loosened her expression and began to smile at her.
All the students in the auditorium began pounding their chests as they barely exhaled.
The dean looked around at the students around him and smiled.
“I will tell you just in case. If you get caught cheating, it never ends in expulsion.”
“….”
“And above all….”
The dean glanced at Louise, raised her voice, and said:
“If you don’t get caught, you can consider that also a skill.”
“… Yes?”
Everyone started to mumble at the dean’s words, and the professors also started to mumble at the dean’s words.
The dean began telling her story over and over again.
“If you can go unnoticed in cheating at Shutra School, it’s safe to say that you have really good skills. Because….”
He smiled again and said with the same air as before.
“If there is an intruder in the place where the test papers are stored, the action is to be taken immediately.”
“….”
“If you have any skills, I hope you can show off your skills to the fullest at any time. Only if there are multiple lives at stake.”
It was as the dean said.
This was because the place where the test papers were kept was near the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and it was impossible to enter under the associate professor.
“In a nutshell… I bet you won’t be able to pierce it easily either. Challenge yourself whenever you want.”
In this way, the dean directly resolved the suspicion about the test paper leak and then told Lewis.
“But since we have already started, we must see the end. How was the exam?”
“That, that’s it! That guy couldn’t even solve half of my problems.”
“Hmm… That is questionable.”
The dean glanced at Seong Su-ho for a moment, then held out his hand to Louise.
“… ?”
Thinking of the dean’s hand as a handshake, Lewis held out his empty hand, and the dean smiled bitterly.
“I want you to give me the problem you made.”
“… Hey, here you are.”
Lewis, his ears flushed with embarrassment, handed over the dean’s notes with his trembling hands.
After the dean received the notes, he called the professors and handed over the notes.
“Please look at it together and review the difficulty level of the problem.”
“Ha, dean! Difficulty never matters! The problems were modified from the problems presented this time….”
“I am just checking. Do not worry.”
“Ah, I see.”
Louise’s smile began to show itself when she saw Seong Su-ho, who had been quietly watching the situation with a dissatisfied expression.
‘Stupid bastard… Even if the dean doesn’t have a problem with cheating, if you’re wrong that many times, you’re done.’
If a problem with only a few parts was transformed so completely wrong, anyone would have no choice but to doubt it.
And it was the same for Luna.
‘Please… There must be an error in the problem….’
Luna was afraid that Sung Su-ho would be punished severely, so she prayed earnestly for an error in the problem Louis had created.
However, contrary to Luna’s expectations, desperate words came from Professor Magta’s mouth.
“Dean. Difficulty isn’t a problem. Certainly, I only modified the questions on the test paper.”
“Okay….”
The dean nodded and closed his eyes, and Louis, who heard Professor Magta’s words, looked at Seongsuho with a happy expression.
Approaching Seong Soo-ho, who was still in awe, Louis began to speak in a whisper.
“Stupid cubs. Are you making an idiot face because you still can’t figure out the situation? You’re done, asshole.”
“Hmm….”
Louis shrugged his shoulders at Sung Soo-ho, who reacted bluntly.
“What do you think? If you ask for forgiveness even now, I’ll void the bet. Oh… You don’t want to bet anymore? Should we start preparing to run away from school?”
“No, you can’t do that.”
“… What?”
“You can’t void the bet.”
It was the moment Seong Soo-ho smiled and said.
After staring at the notebook away from the professors for a long time, a word came out of Sonya’s mouth.
“Wait. Professor, this… The answer is… Do you think everything fits?”
