Academy’s Second Seat

“What kind of teahouse is my lab? Why is everyone doing this in my lab?”

Professor Cromwell frowned, wearing glasses.

A lot of papers were piled up in front of the desk, and Professor Cromwell’s dark circles were down to his chin.

“I came here because I thought you might get mentally ill. I can’t say thank you… … .”

“The semester starts tomorrow, and I didn’t know there would still be so many documents… … .”

taken from readwn.com

Maguire and Robert said, sipping tea as they sat down at the guest table.

Since Robert was a professor of black magic and had no important position in the academy, there were few papers to process, and Maguire had more assistants than other professors, so he had already finished using them.

“It’s an individual ability test in a week, are you ready for that?”

“I finished that, but it’s a headache because of the joint practice for the first and second graders.”

At Maguire’s question, Cromwell took off his glasses and said:

taken from readwn.com

Maguire nodded at Cromwell’s words and opened his mouth.

“Ah, this time I was too poorly prepared.”

“Once we have the basic framework in place, I don’t think it will be a big problem.”

At the conversation between the two, Robert picked his ears and frowned.

“You can just do what you do, make it so complicated.”

“The level of the first-year students this year is higher than usual, and the last incident happened, so I’m more concerned about it.”

Professor Maguire heard the conversation between Robert and Cromwell and raised a topic.

“Were you expecting more from this personal evaluation than that?”

“What do you expect? After all, a magic circle or a guy who scribbles.”

At Professor Robert’s words, Maguire smiled.

“Leave it. Who will take first place?”

“You can’t even use scrolls for personal evaluations anyway. Even magic tools can only be used by the students themselves.”

“This time, a student named Luna Railer was recommended by Cromwell. Was it a real thing? Even without scrolling, this time around, the top place is a winner. Astina will take the 2nd year anyway, but the 1st year won’t know?”

Then Robert raised an eyebrow.

“Is Astina the first place in the second year?”

“Then you mean there are other students?”

Cromwell responded to that.

“Although Astina may have excellent grades and combat skills, her personal evaluation is a little different, right?”

Robert said confidently.

However, there was nothing wrong with that.

The individual evaluation was not based on the person’s fighting ability or performance, but rather measuring the strength of the person when the person’s strength was raised to the maximum in one shot.

So, no matter how good your grades, combat skills, or senses are, if you don’t have a decisive shot, you might not get good grades.

“Even if the guys under me are little kids, this evaluation will be a little different, right?”

“Is it about the Borval you carried with you these days?”

“Well, there’s Borval and Rudy Astria.”

Cromwell smiled at Robert’s words.

It felt a little different for Robert, who had not originally accepted anyone as a disciple.

Although he did not bring up the word “disciple” directly, it was practically the same as raising disciples.

Considering the ‘event’ that Robert experienced, it was a great development.

“Well, aside from the second year, the first year attracts the most attention.”

taken from readwn.com

Maguire and Robert nodded at Cromwell’s words.

“This time, Maguire raised Luna Reiler, first-year senior Evan, the first princess Lie von Listonia, and Rudy Astria. Not one can be left out.”

-bang!

As Cromwell was saying that, the door to the laboratory shattered open.

At the entrance stood a muscular man.

It was the Professor of Swordsmanship, Jackson Pumpkin.

“sh*t… … . You seem to be telling a funny story!”

As he entered, the three professors of the Faculty of Magic frowned.

Anyway, these three these days are very annoying to Jackson.

It’s because he kept talking about Yeniel after the final exam and acting annoyed.

“I don’t know about you! We can’t leave out Yeniel and Locke!”

“We’re talking about the Faculty of Magic, so why are these guys named?”

“Well, don’t we all evaluate together!”

“Oh, so you mean your students can take first place?”

“Then it makes sense! I don’t know about the 2nd graders, but the 1st graders are the most outstanding guys ever!”

Robert raised the corner of his mouth as if he had caught Jackson like that.

“Then how about betting? The professors here.”

“betting?”

taken from readwn.com

Maguire questioned Robert’s words.

“It’s about choosing who will be first in the first year.”

“Yeah, good! What would you like to bet on?”

At Jackson’s words, Cromwell grinned and brought a piece of paper.

The paper had a new system written on it.

“What’s this?”

“It is a weekend watch system that starts next week.”

“Oh, I heard this. There is a lot of talk about the security these days, so it is a system in which one professor waits in the academy until 10 pm on weekends.”

To Cromwell’s words, Maguire added an additional explanation.

“It looks weird and annoying.”

“So we’re going to do this.”

As Robert frowned, Cromwell added an explanation.

“Why don’t the rest of the people share the job of the first-ranked person?”

“Five.”

“That’s great!”

When Professor Cromwell said, the other three professors also responded positively.

Professor Maguire then tapped the desk first and said:

“I’ll be Luna Railer.”

“I am Rudy Astria.”

Robert crossed his legs and said, of course.

And everyone’s eyes turned to Jackson.

Every day, Jackson boasted about Yeniel, but in a personal evaluation determined by the power of one shot, Yeniel was at a disadvantage.

Because Yeniel was a female swordsman who used a rapier.

“Hmm… … .”

“Hurry up.”

Then Jackson opened his eyes as if he had made a decision.

“I will be Lok Lucarion.”

“Fop. What to do with Yeniel, who was so proud, and choose another girl?”

“Hmmm… … . The situation is the situation and the bet is a bet, so I made the most rational decision.”

“Then Cromwell, who will you be? No Rudy Astria. It’s a duplicate.”

Robert said firmly, looking at Cromwell, his last turn.

“Don’t worry.”

Cromwell spoke his name without hesitation.

“Evan, I’ll be Evan from the Faculty of Magic.”

@

When I woke up in the morning and went outside, a cool breeze greeted me.

The sweltering summer had already passed, and the cool autumn had begun.

It looked like autumn, with a blue and high sky and floating clouds.

As I was walking while looking at the sky, I heard a lively voice.

“Rudy! good morning!”

“Hey, Luna.”

I raised my hand and greeted Luna.

It was the first day of school, so all the students around looked tired, but Luna was smiling with a lively face.

Of course, I didn’t feel that tired either.

Luna and I had the same life during vacation.

As a result, even after school started, instead of feeling tired, I felt like I was just acting as usual.

“Rudy, what is today’s first class?”

“Professor Cromwell’s Magic Practice.”

“okay? I’m a liberal arts class on the first floor, so let’s meet in front of the restaurant after finishing!”

“Okay, see you later.”

After making lunch with Luna as usual, I walked to the classroom.

Looking at it this way, there was no difference between the 1st and 2nd semesters.

It just felt like continuing the peaceful academy life.

However, that thought soon disappeared.

Without much thought, when I entered the classroom of the practical class, I saw two students.

One is Lee.

And the other was Evan.

I almost closed the door thinking I had entered the classroom by mistake because of Evan’s sudden face.

However, he made eye contact with Li, who was frowned, and entered the classroom with a mouthful.

As I entered the classroom like that, Evan turned his head toward me, apparently feeling popular.

“Hello, Rudy Astria.”

and greeted me

I was taken aback by Evan’s sudden greeting.

We met a few times at the training center, but we didn’t even make eye contact, let alone say hello.

And then why all of a sudden… … .

Evan abruptly got up from his seat and held out his hand to me.

“I wish you well throughout the semester.”

what… … .

I frowned at Evan’s shriveling behavior.

When I saw it as a game, it was an act of just passing it over, but I was so embarrassed when it was actually done right in front of my eyes.

I looked at Lee with a puzzled expression.

Lee also frowned and shrugged as if not knowing why he was doing that.

I couldn’t keep him standing for now, so I smiled awkwardly and took Evan’s hand.

“Yeah, let’s get along.”

I sat down with Evan shaking hands.

I had a rough conversation with Rie, but frankly, I didn’t know what Rie wanted to say, so I passed it on.

If it’s an important story, why don’t you come back later?

After a while, Professor Cromwell entered the classroom.

Professor Cromwell looked at Evan and opened his mouth.

“Did everyone say hello? This is Evan, whom we will be taking classes with from this semester. I’m not going to tell you to get along, so don’t fight.”

Professor Cromwell said so and held up a piece of paper.

“I have an individual competency test next week. Everyone knows about it, right?”

Professor Cromwell glanced at us as he said those words, then stopped looking at me.

“Rudy Astria.”

“… … yes?”

“Evaluation is just evaluation. The outcome of the evaluation is not that important.”

When I heard that, I wondered what this person had eaten wrong since morning.

So what do you mean the last time you called us and said the result was bad?

As I frowned, Professor Cromwell nodded, as if understanding my intentions.

“I said last time that your grades were not good. However, what I want to say is that there is no need to pour all of your energy into the evaluation of such a trivial ability. It’s just that it doesn’t have a big impact on your grades, and you’re only using that amount of energy.”

When I heard that, I agreed a little.

Well, I didn’t mean to put all my energy into that kind of evaluation.

I thought that it would be more detrimental to spend all my strength and exhaustion on such an evaluation.

As long as you maintain a certain rank, there is no problem with your grades.

“First… … All right.”

“Yeah, be sure to be sulky.”

“yes.”

It seemed that there was something sinister about Cromwell’s words, but I didn’t know what the intention was, so I just passed it on.