School
After being harassed by Hazen from start to finish, Asch and Liana, pass through the school gate surrounded by red bricks.
The prestigious Lessenar Magic Academy, is the symbol of the Academic City, Zagreb, and it’s the magician training school with the oldest history on the entire continent. The method they choose their students is, through magic. There’s no discrimination to rank, nationality, or race, and if you’re considered a brilliant Magician, you’re even exempted from the school fees, and you can receive specialised magic education.
They enter the school building and arrive at the shoe rack. Naturally, there’s nobody who’s impaled by the thumbtacks in their shoes and hopping around. Visualising that unfulfilled scenery, the worst-natured Dark Magician, sighs loudly.
“Haa……”
As he’s sighing, he changes into his indoor-use shoes――
!?
“Guwaaaaaaaaah”
Thumbtacks. Having the thumbtacks placed in his shoes impale the bottom of his feet mercilessly, Asch hops around.
“Kuh……who is it……how despicable”
“……”
‘Nothing can happen in this world, that’s more deserving than that’, Liana thinks.
That being said, since they were used to the harassment towards Asch, they gave it a light first-aid treatment and entered the classroom.
The class they belong to, is the special class that has an assembly of the most brilliant Magicians. The other students are all stalwart people who went through grueling examinations, but the two of them, because they were recommended by Hazen, the strongest Magician, they’d been allocated into this class as an exception. Especially for Asch, because of how brilliant his results are, he skipped grades. There was no way those prideful elites, would be fond of that.
The moment they entered, overwhelming animosity was directed from the class. However, it wasn’t towards the both of them; it was directed only at the worst-natured student. It’s been three months since he was allocated to the special class. The students already know full well of his character.
“……Asch”
Liana, who’s beside him, pokes at his flank with her elbow.
“I-, I got it……everybody, morning”
He shows a made-up smile that’s 100% not smiling.
“””……”””
but, they ignore him.
The students are facing the table, ignoring him more than they ever can.
“Kuh……not only are they talentless, even their nature is the worst huh”
Immediately, animosity came pouring at the ill-natured student who insulted them again.
“Hey, Asch! Your smile, it isn’t enough. Got it? Do it like this……morni――”
“Morning, Liana!” “You’re as adorable today as always huh” “That’s right, I, have a question I don’t understand” “Ho-, hold up, I have a question I don’t understand as well” “You just want to get close to Liana, right?” “Tha-, tha-, that’s not trueー” “Liesー, ain’t your face beet red” “It ain’tー” “Liesー”
“Err, you see, Asch also――”
Welcomed by everybody, Liana was instantly swept into the circle of people. In the elitist capability-supremacy prestigious Lessenar Magic Academy, there’s no way the beautiful young girl, who’s the daughter of the strongest Magician, whose both personality and looks are top-notch, is not popular.
On the other hand, Asch, who carries pretty much the same attributes, is all by himself because of his difficult personality. And then, the worst-natured boy, who’s left behind by himself, ends up putting up a strong front and snorting,「Fuu」.「Huddling together is a proof of weakness」, he puts up a strong front with all his might, drops that comment, and takes his seat. He opens his textbook while giving it his all to pretend that he’s fine.
Kin Kon Kan Koーn.
The chime signifying the start of the lesson rings, and the students who were huddling around Liana until just now take their seats altogether. The classroom’s door immediately opens, and a male teacher enters. Jasper＝Layzer. In his late 20s, he’s on the younger side, but he’s an extraordinarily competent Magician.
“Now then, let’s begin the lesson, shall we. Everybody, open page 68 of the textbook”
Ignoring that instruction, Asch immediately, raises his hand.
Ignoring that raised hand, Jasper started his lesson, but,
“Sensei! I have a question”
Because of the loud voice that’s impossible to ignore, he finally resigned himself to the student who’s fiercely making his appeal.
“What is it, Asch＝Dahl-kun”
“Yes! I was revising and came across a sentence on page 68 in the second paragraph of the『Construction of Magic Power』chapter,『Because Magic Power is bestowed by God, it is still unknown as of yet where the source of it is』. Regarding this sentence, there is an experiment I want to test out”
“……”
“According to the hypothesis I tested out, when it comes to the source of Magic Power, at the top and side of the left cerebral hemisphere, there exists a portion that governs Magic Power. If you assemble experimentees composed of those who can and cannot use magic and perform a large scale experiment, you can know whether or not this is correct! Sensei, what do you think!?”
Table, slam!
“……are you done? Then, let’s begin the lesson, shall we. Because Magic Power is bestowed by God――”
“……”
Asch, who, because of his passionate pursuit of irrelevant knowledge, is overwhelmingly out-of-place.
