Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 866

Chapter 866

"Stop! This person is royalty. I won't forgive anyone who touches her recklessly!"

"?"

When her junior drew his staff and shouted, Yukbeltire looked around in surprise.

She thought someone might be attacking her.

But there was no one.

"Who are you talking to?"

"...To you, Senior?"

"Why?"

"...Because you called out Princess Jourin?"

"Dragons as a race have exceptional intelligence, so they demonstrate remarkable abilities in algebra and geometry. As such, I thought it wouldn't be bad for the 2nd year students here to listen."

Yi-Han nodded at Yukbeltire's perfect logic.

When his friend had said before that "Senior Yukbeltire conducts lectures normally," he had wondered what that meant, but now he could see that she indeed conducted lectures normally.

"I see. Then please forget what I just shouted."

Yi-Han said that and sat down.

Of course, Yukbeltire didn't let it go.

"Wait."

'Kuk.'

Yi-Han realized his failure and raised his head.

Should he have made up an excuse that he had shouted out of concern for Yukbeltire, who was also royalty?

"Wardanaz family junior."

"Yes, Senior."

"What's that staff?"

"..."

  *

Yi-Han made excuses earnestly. In fact, there seemed to be far more cursing of Professor Verduus than excuses, but it was an excuse nonetheless.

Direth, who had been hiding behind, also came out and actively supported her junior.

"Professor Verduus forcibly...!"

"Professor Verduus really...!"

"Anyway, Professor Verduus...!"

"Professor Verduus is truly...!"

Not only the students in the classroom but even Jourin nodded and said.

-Professor Verduus is really a bad person!-

"Yes."

If Professor Garcia had been there, she might have made some excuses somehow, but unfortunately, the only one beside them was Professor Boladi.

Professor Boladi wasn't very lenient towards a mage who had a record of tormenting his disciple multiple times.

After cursing Professor Verduus hundreds of times, Direth glanced at her friend's reaction.

With such an expressionless and cold face, it was hard to know her inner thoughts.

"...You're not angry, right, Yukbeltire?"

"Direth. You've had this bad habit of putting unreasonable blame on me from before. Such emotional fluctuations have nothing to do with me. Understand?"

'What nonsense, getting all upset just because I didn't help with research once.'

Direth grumbled inwardly.

Before, when Yukbeltire had asked for help with research saying 'It's okay if you don't help,' Direth had thought she really meant it and said 'Ah sorry, I'm busy now so I'll help next time' and refused.

After that, when Yukbeltire wasn't seen and Direth went to look for her, she was on a hunger strike in her workshop.

She insisted that 'I just forgot to eat because I was busy,' but in Direth's view, it was 100% throwing a tantrum because she didn't help with the research.

'But I have to endure now.'

She might understand if it was just towards Direth herself, but she couldn't let her be upset with her junior too. That would be too unseemly.

"Of course, I did configure the form to match the unique properties of black purplestone as a staff material. I had also prepared several magic spells and essences in advance. I'm not at all affected by the fact that Professor Verduus completed what I was trying to complete myself midway. Understand?"

"...Yes..."

Yi-Han felt a bit sorry.

In any other situation, he might have thought 'Who cares' even if Yukbeltire had thrown herself on the floor and rolled around like Professor Verduus, but regarding this staff, he had certainly been indebted to her.

"Yi-Han. I think Senior is angry."

"You think so too?"

All of his friends' opinions were similar.

Anyone could see that she was angry. Even her sister Adenart agreed.

"I think she is angry..."

"On what grounds are you saying that? I can't believe it. Adenart. Are you really a mage? At what minute, hour, second is there such evidence?"

"Eek."

Adenart flinched at her sister's anger, which she had never seen before.

She wasn't usually like this, but whatever Wardanaz had done must have given her a really big shock.

"...Would you like me to help with your artificial realm artifact research?"

Yukbeltire's hand, which had been tightly clenched with anger towards the world, loosened slightly.

"Why? Didn't you say you weren't interested?"

"After thinking about it carefully, it seems like a truly good research. Come to think of it, it's really great research. While some people are wasting their lives trying to make some strange airship, my goodness. I hope they learn from this."

Yukbeltire's hand loosened a bit more.

"If your thoughts have changed like that, I might consider allowing you to participate."

"Ah. Senior."

"What is it?"

"I think I'll be busy during the semester, so can I help you during the break?"

"..."

The tips of Yukbeltire's fingers trembled again.

  *

But in the end, Yukbeltire couldn't scold the cheeky junior harshly and chase him away.

He was too precious a talent for that.

"Then I'll start the lecture. Adenart. You can see the positions of the two dark planets drawn on the coordinate plane now, right? Express the distance between these two in coordinates and prove that formula."

"..."

Adenart was flustered by the immediate revenge.

"I... I don't know."

"I see. Next. Gainando. On the coordinate plane now..."

"I don't know!"

"Listen to the whole question before answering. On the coordinate plane now..."

Yukbeltire concentrated her questions on the juniors who had said she was angry earlier.

Her pettiness was so apparent that even the students listening to the lecture whispered about it.

Direth covered her face with her wings out of embarrassment. She felt like she wouldn't be able to call her a friend anywhere in the future.

'Amazing!'

Yi-Han was impressed.

The most surprising point was that Yukbeltire herself didn't realize at all that she was taking revenge because she was upset.

The juniors she happened to pick just happened to be the ones who said she was angry earlier!

'I'm sorry. Even I find this a bit scary.'

Although Yi-Han had been boldly confronting Yukbeltire until now, this time was a bit different.

Even among seniors, a senior standing behind the podium had a different authority.

He had no choice but to endure, as he didn't know what would happen if he provoked her unnecessarily.

-Jourin! Jourin will answer! First, we need to bring an absolute inequality...-

Jourin, who had been fidgeting, finally raised her front paw and shouted.

It was hard to hold back as she knew the answer.

Fortunately, Yukbeltire didn't stop Jourin and gave her a chance to answer.

"Please explain, Your Highness."

Jourin excitedly explained, wagging her wings and tail.

Of course, just because Jourin was excited to explain didn't mean the students' intelligence increased along with her. Most of the students were either dozing off or watching with their mouths agape.

-Servant. Servant! You understood Jourin's explanation, right?-

"...Ah. That's me."

Gainando, who had been wondering who she was calling, belatedly understood.

The sound of White Tiger Tower students whispering could be heard from behind.

-Servant?-

-That prince bastard...-

Gainando's face turned red.

What a disgrace because of his evil half-sister!

-I'm jealous. That bastard doing something like that alone.-

-It's probably because of his bloodline. Hmph! I'm not jealous at all.-

"?"

Gainando doubted his ears.

'No. Are the White Tiger Tower guys jealous of being a servant? Why on earth?'

As expected of those weird guys with bad tempers, they were jealous of all sorts of things. Gainando was dumbfounded.

Poke poke-

"Gainando, Gainando!"

"Uh, what?"

Gainando turned his head when his friends called him, poking him.

"Say you understood everything!"

"What? How can I when I didn't understand?"

"Ask Wardanaz to tell you the answer!"

It wasn't just that Jourin would be disappointed, but she might think all Einroguard 2nd years were stupid.

This was, in a way, a matter of pride for Einroguard 2nd years.

"I understood! ...Yi-Han! Yi-Han!"

-Ah. Wait!-

Jourin crawled over, scooped up Yi-Han with her front paw, and hugged him back to the front of the podium.

Then she asked Gainando again.

-Good! Tell me what Jourin just explained!-

"...!"

Yi-Han was surprised.

The lecture content was certainly like that, and she really seemed to have innate intelligence as a race.

Of course, Yi-Han's surprise was nothing compared to Gainando's.

'That... that evil dragon really...!'

Gainando trembled.

He would make sure she could never come to Einroguard again once she went back!

"By the way, Senior."

Yi-Han, who was captured by Jourin, called Yukbeltire standing beside him.

"?"

"What business does Professor Knighton have?"

Einroguard professors were divided into diligent or Verduus. Professor Knighton, befitting his background as a former high-ranking imperial bureaucrat, naturally belonged to the diligent faction.

For such a person not to come to the lecture, Yi-Han couldn't help but worry about a natural disaster.

'Like being kidnapped by a mad ancient doppelganger.'

"I heard the principal called him."

"...The principal? Why?"

Yukbeltire shrugged slightly and shook her head. That meant even she didn't know beyond that.

In fact, if Professor Knighton hadn't mentioned it before leaving, she wouldn't have known this either. Yukbeltire was as uninterested in others as Professor Verduus.

-Hmm! Gonadaltes is busy working in the capital now. Professor Knighton is probably helping with that!-

Jourin excitedly explained to Yi-Han when a topic she knew about came up.

Of course, Yi-Han wasn't excited at all. First of all, the very fact that the skull principal wasn't at school felt ominous and dangerous.

"...What kind of work is he doing?"

-Huh?-

Jourin hesitated. She didn't know the details.

-Um... This and that... Getting permission... Getting annoyed...?-

"??"

-...Jourin is sorry...-

"No. That was plenty helpful. Thank you, Your Highness."

Yi-Han comforted Jourin while inwardly wondering.

'What permission is he getting that's making him annoyed? Is he expanding the school? Or merging with Baldurguard?'

The only one the skull principal would need permission from was the Emperor, and naturally, it wouldn't be a trivial permission.

He had even called Professor Knighton to the capital.

He couldn't even guess what kind of matter that would be.

Expanding Einroguard buildings and getting more budget, or increasing the territory and getting more budget, or getting permission to destroy Baldurguard...

"Senior. What do you think the principal is trying to get permission for?"

"Expanding 5th year research support?"

'I shouldn't have asked.'

Yi-Han regretted asking Yukbeltire. Meanwhile, Yukbeltire called Direth and said.

"You'll need help escorting Princess Jourin. I'll help too."

"Ah. Uh. That. Yes. Um."

"?"

"Well... That..."

As Direth couldn't speak because of friendship, Yi-Han stepped up.

Originally, juniors should handle such unpleasant tasks.

"Senior. Aren't you tempted by the powerful reagents Princess Jourin is carrying around?"

"Only a moron would covet a dragon's body just because it's a powerful reagent. I don't know what you're talking about, Wardanaz family junior."

Although she was misunderstood as a little Verduus by the public, Yukbeltire basically had much higher social intelligence than Professor Verduus.

Even if you were tempted right now, touching a dragon's body would only result in terrible retaliation in the end. It was impossible for a mere mage to block a dragon's retaliation.

"...That's right! I don't understand why people don't know that!"

"Yes. Dragons absolutely never give parts of themselves to others. Remember that well."

-Oh.-

Jourin, who was listening from the side, was flustered.

Was that how it was?