I Studied Mainly Textbooks! Chapter 13

In the end, he negotiated with Reina until the bitter end and was able to resize the legs to 7 inches.

Trod trod.

Wearing the super-tight-fit school uniform, Abel walked very heavily. He looked tired from any angle.

“Why are there so many things to buy…….”

Honestly, he felt as though it would be fine to go empty-handed, but the perfectionist Reina didn’t seem satisfied.

“Hmm… there isn’t much time until the opening ceremony. Let’s come again tomorrow, then!”

“Wh, whoa, tomorrow too?”

A woman’s heart was incomprehensible.

It would be fine to just buy it off one store, but they just had to take a look at all the available stores before choosing.

Reina pulled on Abel’s coat. She didn’t look fatigued at all. She was as energized as ever.

Abel and Reina soon arrived at the academy’s front gate. Looking at the grandeur of the buildings, Abel’s jaws gaped.

“Wow… it’s bigger than the castle in Sellion.”

He thought that it would at best be a high school-sized, but…

Just the 3m tall walls were endless. This was larger than the university he went to.

“The opening ceremony is this way!”

Looking at the guideposts, Reina took the lead. As she had taken exams here before, she knew her way around.

They seemed to be just in time.

The main hall was capable of housing 5 thousand people. 300 new students got themselves in neat rows of lines.

“Let’s stand back there.”

Abel took Reina and stood at the back of a relatively short line.

A moment later, a professor, that seemed to be the princ.i.p.al, walked up to the platform.

“Greetings. Welcome to the 783rd Opening Ceremony for Helarion Academy, everyone. I am Gauss, the head of the Department of Magic, as well as the headmaster of this academy. I welcome you all.”

Clap clap clap.

Claps from 300 people filled the large hall.

“The long cold winter has now pa.s.sed, and spring, filled with vitality and new growth is right in front of us. The cold hasn’t completely subsided yet, so everyone should properly care about their health and…”

It’s here!

The princ.i.p.al’s long opening speech! Why do every single princ.i.p.als have that many things to tell to the students….

As students who wished for this to end early, this was torture.

“Fuaaa~m.”

He shouldn’t do this, but he yawned subconsciously. As expected of a professor in magic. His words contained sleep magic.

Moments later.

“…With this, I conclude the 783rd Opening Ceremony. If you look at the back, there will be professors who will each guide you according to your departments. Well, then. I wish you luck!”

Finally! The long speech ended.

“The department of magic is that way. I’ll be going to the right.”

Reina spoke as she pointed towards one of the professors holding a sign.

“Huh? You’re not in the magic department?”

“No, I’m in the swordsmanship department.”

“Eh? I thought that you were obviously going to the magic department…….”

The family of Tardema was historically a well-founded family of mages. The family was also in charge of managing the Magic Tower that produced battle mages. So obviously, he thought that Reina was a mage as well.

“I never said that I was though? We’ll be listening to the common lectures together, so we’ll meet each other pretty frequently anyway.”

“O, okay. See you later then.”

He was slightly surprised, but there were no problems. He wasn’t here for a stroll. He came here to learn.

Helarion Acadmey cla.s.sified students into three departments - Department of magic, swordsmanship, and administration. Every year, around 100 people enter each department, which makes it 300 people in total.

Around 100 people had gathered around the professor who held the sign that said ‘magic’. Abel was among them.

“We’ll first go to the main lecture room of the magic department and explain you the school rules. Follow me.”

(T/N: Somehow this feels like Harry Potter)

The students started to follow the professor.

They soon arrived at a lecture room.

“Well. For now, you can sit anywhere you want.”

The students arrived at the main lecture hall, namely ‘Kyrux Hall’, which was capable of holding up to 300 people. Some people seemed to have gotten closer before the entrance ceremony and sat down together.

Abel sat down at the very back and observed them.

‘Those guys are the ones that I saw at Erite.’

Some Sibelius or Siberia guy was here too, as well as his lackeys. Thinking about that he would have to take lessons together with them, he felt vexation coming to him. But he had to endure… even if it was for the old man’s sake….

Abel turned his head around to another group of people.

A larger group of students than the people around the Sibelius guy, were sitting around one student.

As he was a teacher, he first looked into the state of factions in the cla.s.s.

‘Looks like there will be two large factions.’

Siberia faction(?) and another one.

Right now, he had no thoughts in getting in touch with either of them. Abel’s aim was to learn proper magic as quietly as possible. Scholarship was in his objective too.

Tap tap!

“Attention!”

The professor tapped on the podium with his staff to gather attention.

“I’ll speak about the two most important things before I send you off to your dorms. Pay attention!”

Oh yeah! This guy was the short-and-clear style unlike the headmaster. Abel liked this style more.

“I don’t know what kind of status you had outside the academy, but inside, you are all friends. If you get caught by me serving someone else, or something, then I’ll kill you.”

This, he had heard from Reina.

“And this one is the most important. Don’t fight! If I find out that you used magic against each other, then you’ll immediately expelled right there and then! There are over a thousand students who were expelled for magic duels. Keep that in mind!”

Gulp.

The professor’s Eminem-speed made the students gulp.

“Well, then. Those who are called should come up front and take their dorm keys! The academy’s tradition is that the dormitory is a 3-person room, comprised of 1 student from each apartment. Then here’s the first one. Goel!”

One of the students rushed up front. It was the guy who b.u.mped shoulders with Abel in the morning.

Though, he seemed scared by the professor and received the key very politely.

“Seamus!”

“Abel!”

With Abel as the last, all the students received their keys.

“If you have a look at the key, there will be the building number as well as the room number. I’ve put your time tables in the dorms so that’s it. Scatter!’

Trod trod.

He really left after saying that. So cool.

After the professor left, the new students started talking to themselves.

“Young master! Who are they? They have more people than us…….”

Goel asked Sibelius. So it was this guy’s first time seeing the other faction, huh.

“He’s the third son of Duke Junerheart’s family. I saw him in a ball once. He’s not from a magic family, nor our enemy. Don’t worry too much. They just flocked to him because he’s the son of a Duke. He will eventually kneel before me, the first son of the greatest magic family, the Sibelius.”

“Oh yeah~. That’s our young master.”

Goel spoke flattery without batting an eyelid. Looks like he was used to this.

‘Man, these guys are bulls.h.i.tting day one….’

Observing from the side, this was straight out of a drama. These kids were doing politics already.

‘*sigh*, I might as well go look at the dorms.’

So delinquent students were commonplace in whichever world, huh.

“This is… Iris Hall?”

Iris Hall. It was a building constructed of red bricks, and the vines creeping up the walls were quite a sight to see. It seemed as though there was a gardening managing things as well, as it was neat and not out of place.

Iris Hall 3rd floor 1st room. That was written on Abel’s key.

Abel stood in front of the first room of the 3rd floor.

He had a look while coming upstairs, but there were only around 10 rooms per floor. In other words, the rooms were very large. His expectations rose.

Clack.

“Huh?”

When he opened the door, two people were already unpacking their luggage. The people from the two other departments had already arrived.

“You’re finally here! You should be from the magic department, right? I’m Ian from the swordsmanship department, nice to meet you!”

A n.o.ble-looking blond boy extended his hand. He was asking for a handshake. It was quite awkward to hear friendly intonation from the get go, especially from someone ‘younger’ than him, but he had to be friends with these guys anyway. It didn’t matter that much.

“Yeah, nice to meet you too. I’m Abel, magic department.”

Abel grabbed his hand. Perhaps because Reina was blonde as well, he felt some kind of familiarity towards blonde hair.

“Oh, this is Loki from administration. I knew this guy from before, and luckily, we ended up in the same room. Haha.”

“Oh, h.e.l.lo.”

A boy that had red hair and considerably small stature greeted shyly.

Looks like he was the type to shy around strangers as Ian was the one to introduce him.

“Yeah, nice to meet you too.”

Abel tapped on Loki’s shoulder. Then, Loki seemed somewhat panicked. He seemed not used to this kind of stuff.

“Where are you from? We live in the capital, so our houses are close.”

Ian asked a question in curiosity.

“Oh, I’m from Sellion.”

“Wow, that’s Duke Tardema’s territory! As expected of a mage, you came from the city of magic! Is your family from the Magic Tower?”

“Well, you can say that.”

“I’ve never had the chance to go there since it was so far. Can I go there in the holiday? Can you show me around?”

“Sure, that doesn’t sound hard.”

Looking at his tone of speech, this guy was definitely the sociable kind. In any case, these two were the roommates he would stay with during the academy. In fact, he was thankful for this guy to approach first.

“Oh yeah. Fried chicken and beer is the thing for first day at dorms, such a pity.”

Abel longed for chicken and beer. But here, the concept of oil-frying chicken did not exist here. Abel resolved that he would do it someday.

“Fried chicken and beer? What’s that?”

Ian asked back in confusion.

“Oh, fried chicken is…. Oh yeah, you guys are minors, so I guess beer isn’t appropriate.”

“Fried chicken?”

Ian and Loki shouted at the same time.

Abel was speaking incomprehensible words from a while ago.

“Hmm… what should I say? Divine food? It’s a drug-like food that charms anyone. So there may be people that have never eaten, but there aren’t people that have eaten just once! Between B(irth) and D(eath) is C(hicken)!”

Abel pa.s.sionately spoke about fried chicken as though he was an advertiser.

Ian and Loki looked at him strangely.

“It’s a bit of a pity, but let’s go with Korean BBQ for today!”

After saying that, Abel started rummaging through his magic pouch.