How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 209

Youngest person to retire (4)

There were a lot of small things like this, but anyway, the academic schedule was going on without difficulty.

As always, I am in the position of paralleling the wild life at the camp and the bachelor life at the academy. Maybe that’s why I was twice as busy as everyone else, and it felt like time passed twice as fast.

Even the daily routine was mostly one-size-fits-all.

Wake up early in the morning to check the camp, prepare food, and chat with Lortel, who woke up early.

I also wake up very early in the morning, but Lortel takes another drink and wakes up almost at dawn to head to the store. This is because you have to go early in the morning to check the inspection documents for the items that are being delivered.

After sitting by the fire and drinking a cup of tea for a while, Yenika comes out in her pajamas with dirty eyes and prepares breakfast. He also prepares my own meals, while I complete the strenuous tasks, such as chopping firewood or repairing tools.

After spending such a short morning time, Jenika and I go to school toward the 3rd grade school building. Most of the classes overlap, so we tend to spend most of the day together. Even as I also participated in Professor Kalade’s Class A class, the schedule for the advanced class of the Ministry of Magic completely overlapped.

Still, classes are divided for one or two days a week, and when other plans besides school schedules are set, they act separately.

Yenica is mainly working for the Spirit Research Society, and I often acted separately when there was something like a high school year convocation. However, whenever I go to the Elte store to buy survival tools or materials for my skill proficiency, I inflate my cheeks as if it is uncomfortable to plant, but this side is also not very comfortable, so it feels like it comforts me every time.

Anyway, there are still a lot of things to do when you return to camp after completing your academic schedule.

Even if the camp is left alone for a day or two, there are things that need to be maintained. Most of them require delicate dexterity, so I tend to do them.

If my job is to check the fishing nets, check the traps scattered throughout the forest, and organize the food materials I received from acquaintances, Yenika will prepare dinner, do the laundry, and clean the inside of the camp while keeping the bonfire burning. take charge

By this time, Lortel has also returned and is often doing paperwork in the villa, and often the three of them share a meal. In this case, the atmosphere is not very good.

And when it’s late at night, I’ll do my homework or personal study, or I’ll train to improve my stats. In the case of Lortel, she handles paperwork at the villa, and Yenica works on Merilda’s guardian neck, inducing spirits, reading books, or doing similar tasks.

Then, by the time the moon rises in mid-heaven, everyone falls asleep. Usually I go to bed late.

In the middle of the night, I sit alone at the night camp and have time to organize my thoughts while looking at the bonfire.

Listening to the sound of grass insects or leaves rustling in the wind, I organize tomorrow’s schedule and plans for the future in my head, then quietly enter the cabin and fall asleep.

The repetition of such a schedule… It lasted for about a month. It could be said that it was a month that went smoothly without any major air currents. Perhaps this daily life, which was able to pass smoothly without any other ups and downs, was the most valuable time.

Of course, there were no big ups and downs, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t any big or small incidents or changes.

However, for a long period of one month… There were only three things worth mentioning.

“…The opinion is interesting, but the basis is poor. It does not present any measurable figures, and just presents evidence for one claim as another claim. I can do this rudimentary circular argument…”

[There are many times when the presentation of an opinion itself is meaningful. Look, this person is saying that the path or trend of currency circulation should not be determined only by cash circulating in the market. There is actually more money you can’t see than money you can see. Quite an interesting point of view. If we expand and develop it, a more interesting story might come out. ]

The first is that Lucy is spending more time hanging out with Merilda.

Speaking of Merilda, her hobby is to always pile up a bunch of books in the corner of the camp and read them while humming a song.

She didn’t even take the shape of a wolf because it was hard to turn over a book. She was a girl with her white hair tied back and was always laughing at the corner of the camp wondering what she liked so much.

Lucy skimmed through the book together next to Merilda, acting as if she was trying to increase the amount of knowledge she had in her head.

Merilda was happy about the fact that she had more reading companions, so she exchanged stories with Lucy, throwing up topics of interest whenever she had a chance. If you listened to her, there were a lot of things she said that were rather difficult, so she didn’t want to intervene.

Well, Lucy still spends most of the day napping, and whenever she gets a chance, she comes up to me while I’m working at the camp and flirts with her or sits on a suitable tree stump nearby and wiggles her feet. Human nature does not change easily.

However, did you feel something about your work at the monastery… Rather than simple force, I felt like I wanted more fundamental power.

Sometimes at sunset, when I see him sitting alone in a tall tree looking at the setting sun, I think that he must have undergone some kind of change in his heart.

The second is Tanya.

“Hello, brother. I’m borrowing a closet.”

It can be seen that Tanya, who is found holding her knees in a closet once in a while when she is bored, escapes from the office whenever the student council work is overloaded.

No matter how much it is, you can’t sit in the closet of someone you don’t know, but if you’re in your room, you’ll be caught right away, so it seems like you’re running away to camp. It’s pitiful.

However, it is a closet that I open several times a day. After being inside it and being discovered repeatedly, the person himself began to change positions, perhaps feeling embarrassed.

Found under the bed, under the table in the workshop on the 2nd floor, in the corner of the wooden warehouse… It is often found in dark and gloomy places.

If that’s the case, I told him to just sit proudly by the bonfire, and that answer was also spectacle.

“Then they’ll be caught and arrested right away… No, well, anyway. I’m here because I’m comfortable. That… should I say sorting out my thoughts?”

“…”

“And I told you. Being in a dark and calm space… I feel like my heart… is opened up… It makes my heart feel refreshed…!”

My one and only brother is sinking into the darkness, is it okay as it is?

Well, actually, it’s just a temporary escape, so there’s nothing to worry about that much. Usually, before sunset, Ziggs arrives and takes Tanya away, almost kidnapping her.

Seeing that he had a detached expression even when he was being captured by Ziggs, it seemed that there were many cases where he just wanted to cool his head for a while in the first place.

Since Ziggs seems to know that, he just repeats the process of capturing Tanya without much complaint.

It’s full of blue… Student Council. For some reason, I felt faint.

And the third visit was from a person more unexpected than expected.

“I’ve been looking for information about the Holy Changryong, Velbrok, and the great sage, Sylvania, for the past few weeks in the library.”

The time of arrival was late at night.

It was late at night when even Yenika went to bed and was sitting alone with a bonfire.

The name of the girl who appeared out of nowhere… It’s Ayla Triss.

A girl who appeared as the main face madam of <The Fallen Swordsman of Sylvania> and always supported him by his side, Tayley McLore.

In the future, with her academic will and background knowledge, she has a great influence on the subjugation of Bellbrook, and inherits the will and will of the great sage, Sylvania, better than anyone else, and becomes a person whose name will be remembered in history.

“Senior Ed.”

It’s the first time we’ve met since the last Elte Co. scandal. As soon as the incident was over, I immediately went to Cleric’s Monastery, so for the time being I hardly ever saw him.

As Ayla came and sat across from the campfire, her chestnut hair blended into the campfire’s red light and turned a subtle brown.

Ayla stared at the fire for a moment, then spoke up.

“Let’s… talk.”

The conversation I had with Ayla Tris that night… She could say that this was the most shocking thing in a month that had been at least peaceful.

In the ending cutscene, she is acknowledged by the bachelor as the great sage who succeeded Sylvania’s will.

Great Sage Ayla Triss. I knew that one day I would take on that name and make a name for myself as an academic.

In any case, I knew that I would not be an easy opponent in the academic field, but… The words that followed were shockingly unconventional.

As the nighttime bonfire swayed in the wind, the shadows of Ayla and I were also swaying.

*- Bang!

So, the Bachelor started preparing for the Crestol Festival in earnest. It was a month before the start of the festival.

This festival, named after the most famous chancellor in the history of the empire, is the oldest of the country’s celebrations. In fact, since it is a festival that has been going on since the time of King Chloel I, it will be held grandly, befitting its history.

Basically, Emperor Chloel visits the various infrastructures of the empire to encourage him, and observes the events prepared by each territory or facility. As it is a slope, of course it is noisy everywhere.

“This Crestol Great Festival has a completely different meaning from the festival four years ago. It was held during the time of the change of power, and during this time, Emperor Chloe personally inspected each territory and facility.”

As a member of the Ministry of Magic, it was a mere coincidence that I came to the training ground of the Combat Division.

Today, after finishing a routine that still hasn’t changed much, I just took a different route to the camp than usual.

Normally, my usual route would be to cross Haksa-dong, enter the northern road, and then follow the trail that stretches toward the northern forest.

Today, however, I had to stop by the Trix building to renew my undergraduate scholarship, so I took a little roundabout route along the northeast road.

And, if you look around along the road, you can see the private training ground for the students of Class A of the Combat Division prepared outdoors.

“Now that we have to engage in sparring at such an important place, I have no intention of conceding.”

The 4th year head of the Combat Division, Dyke Elphelan.

In fact, the hair cut short enough to be close to a shaved head looks sleek.

However, just looking at the muscular torso and the body that reminds me of a blunt beast gives a sense of intimidation. The tanned skin looked as hard as steel despite being human skin.

Dyke, who trains daily at the personal training ground, has long since transcended the realm of humans.

The bandages wrapped around her hands were already tattered. Even that had been replaced several times over and over again, and fragmented pieces of bandages were spread all over the training ground.

The scarecrows for punching bags that roll on the floor are not supposed to roll on the floor like that.

It was made strong by adding several layers of protection magic to withstand the attacks of the students. It was not something that could be naturally pulled out like a radish rooted out and then rolled around in a broken state.

The air vibrates with a fist thrown with full force, and the ground shakes with a single kick.

Even the fairly well-trained Combat Club students would shake their legs when faced with the 4th year overall senior, Dyke Elphelan.

The feeling of facing a huge beast rather than a person. Only those who faced it could know what it felt like.

“I’ve heard a lot about how great you are. I saw it with my own two eyes during the last semester’s final exam. I’m sure you too have risen to that position with blood-stained efforts and burning willpower. I salute you from the bottom of my heart.”

The meeting was accidental.

It was only on the way to the Trix building that I ran into him punching him at the Combat Division training ground.

However, Dyke Elphelan greeted me as if he had promised.

The top is completely undressed. Sweat was flowing.

Standing firm as he was, with his arms crossed, Dyke Elphelan lowered his head and spoke.

“However, I have my own circumstances. If we meet on the arena, let’s not insult each other by touching each other’s hands. Dueling is a noble law.”

“Of course. Senior Dyke.”

He is the highest grader who is about to graduate, and among them, he is recognized for his highest level of ability.

Not only that, but he was respected by everyone among the 4th graders.

Tracyana, the head of the Ministry of Magic, who knows how to use high-level magic, and Dorothy, the head of the Ministry of Alchemy, who first combined the ‘reagent of cutting’… To the extent that even they give up in front of Dyke… Dyke Elphelan’s name value was high.

In the corner of the arena at sunset, we stood still facing each other like that.

Then, it was Dyke Elphelan who sighed and laughed first.

“Kuh… Well, there’s nothing good about being too serious. However, since he said he was the older brother of President Tanya, it was a bit like sending it off here as well. It must be polite to each other.”

“No. I heard that my brother owes a lot to the student council.”

“Well, as a member of the student council, I’m losing more. I know very well how much you contribute to the strength of the student council. Besides, even though you’re the president who always says all sorts of things you don’t like when it comes to death, you somehow manage to do whatever you’re given. I’ll take care of it. As a member of the student council, I’m grateful.”

Dyke Elphelan, senior member of the student council.

Even Dyke, who is said to break a stone wall with a single punch and crush human bones with a single kick… First of all, she was a member of the student body, so she was under the command of Tanya Rosteiler.

Whenever she has a chance, she is stuck in a shady place with a lost face and looks like a girl with a screw missing, but Tanya is also a person in power who has risen to that level.

“However, it’s true that I’m a bit worried about President Tanya.”

“Is that so?”

“I’m already overworked, but now that we’re ready for the festival, the student council’s work will be doubled. To be honest, I don’t think President Tanya can handle the workload alone.”

“Isn’t there a lot of manpower in the student council?”

“Still, since there are so many things that the student council president needs to judge and decide on his own… the amount of documents to be reported or reviewed will not decrease. In fact, from my point of view, the fundamental issues are a bit different.”

I tilted my head and looked at Dyke. What did you mean? I asked with gestures only.

Dyke directly belongs to the student council and sees how things go. Besides, he’s a bit older and his disposition is calmer than his appearance… I feel like I have a discerning eye to intuitively see the cause of the problem.

“There is no proper administrative staff. It’s like an action committee member, a survey committee member, or a moderator committee. No need for skill or experience. Most of them do the work that just needs to be done as instructed.”

Dyke spoke while arranging the scarecrows he had smashed.

“However, there is an absolute lack of administrative personnel who can lead the work while following the reporting system established in this bureaucratic system. In fact, this is a chronic problem of student councils regardless of which generation.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Due to the nature of the student council, you cannot join unless you are a student, but even if you are a child from a prestigious family with a high education, you cannot be as quick as you are in real-life administration. I will try my best, but it is difficult to maintain a unified reporting system, A person who can’t organize even basic paperwork by category is taking a seat as an administrative committee member.”

what is unavoidable You can’t ask for too much from your status as a student.

Saying that, Dyke smiled bitterly.

“A mountain of work piled up like that is also the result of an unsystematic work process. If we had a more systematic administrative committee, the workload would be greatly reduced. Ziggs is working hard, but there are limits.”

“Aren’t there some sons and daughters of high-ranking officials in the bachelor’s school? Have you contacted those students?”

“Do you know how precious it is to be a student who can handle administrative affairs? Most of the time, the faculty has them. They don’t hand them over to the student council.”

Those who have learned from the family over their shoulder how to handle the affairs of this or that bureaucratic society hold them tightly under their command and never give them up.

It is always a headache for the student council, which had to form a cabinet relatively late.

“Hmm…”

When I suddenly brushed my chin and was lost in thought, Dyke looked at me as if he was having fun and talked.

“Why? Are you willing to introduce me to even a decent person?”

“There are a few people that come to mind, but…”

“Stop it. Quite a few people have approached it at the student council level.”

“hmm….”

I was in trouble for a while like that.

It didn’t take long to put into action.

*

“Eh, what is all this… Ed…?”

A renowned senior assistant who belongs to Assistant Professor Claire’s laboratory.

Because of her antique light gray hair and aristocratic appearance, bachelor students often misunderstand her as an aristocrat… She is a commoner in name and reality.

I’m on a scholarship because I don’t have tuition, and I’m living a miserable life of peeling vegetables because I don’t have enough money for food… She is a girl who somehow manages to keep her appearance neat and dignified.

“It’s what you see…”

“This is all… work report papers…?”

Tanya was sitting in the president’s seat with a puzzled look on her face, and Ziggs was polishing her longsword in the corner of the office.

Anis Heylan, who was looking at the tall tower of documents in front of him… He left his mouth open and was at a loss for words.

“Senior Annis. You refused several times during the cabinet formation, but I didn’t expect you to come all the way to Obel Hall like this.”

“Oh, no… President Tanya… I… Actually… I came here to properly refuse one more time…”

It had just been a while ago that he had invaded the Dex building and brought Anise.

While chewing grass in the student cafeteria, she was calculating her living expenses… When I suddenly grabbed her arm and asked for a favor, she blushed and was clearly embarrassed.

The student council tried to recruit her several times, but she refused, not wanting to give up her status as an undergraduate scholarship student.

It seems that they only exchanged opinions in writing, but if you bring them to the scene and talk, your thoughts may change again.

Above all, I know because I worked as a bachelor scholarship student with her for a long time.

Senior Assistant Anis Heylan… For now, I’m weak at pushing with the atmosphere… ! It’s not too late to just push through and think about it… !

“By the way, the categorization of the documents… why didn’t you…? Chairman.”

“yes…?”

“No, that… Rather than forming a work system in such a way that documents are delivered to the president in bulk, isn’t it more efficient to set the category of work to be handled according to the date for each day of the week? For example, on Monday, the customs Work, protocol work on Tuesdays, student welfare work on Wednesdays… like this…”

“…”

“Then, from the point of view of reporters waiting for work to be processed, it will be easier to predict when the approval for the documents they have uploaded will come down, so wouldn’t the work be more efficient…?”

“…”

Tanya hesitated and averted her gaze. In fact, that wasn’t Tanya’s business in the first place.

Tanya is in the position of a driver who dictates the direction of the organization, not the position of an engineer who grinds and polishes each and every part of the car.

“And… why does the president alone have the authority to approve all documents?”

“Yeah…? That’s right… I’m the final decision-maker for everything in the student council…”

“Important things like budgeting or policy setting must be reviewed by the president… But for trivial and mundane items like simple equipment purchases or activity cost calculations, the middle manager has the authority to finalize the work before it comes to the president. It’s better to give… Otherwise, the workload would be too much for me…”

“Huh…”

“It’s good to actively utilize middle managers and categorize documents and process them in lumps. In particular, it’s efficient to collect and process similar issues in one day, and you’ll be able to handle the work intuitively from the point of view of receiving orders.”

Looking at just a few of the piled up papers, Anise quickly brought up a story.

And all of that stuff stung the lungs, so Tanya could only hold her breath.

Leading an organization and managing its systems are two entirely different matters.

“Heo-eok… why am I… talking like this… stop it out of habit…”

“Senior Anis. Where did you come from?”

Tanya gripped Anis’s hands with her tears welling up.

Seeing that majestic and well-known student council president look like this, Anis was too embarrassed to break out in a cold sweat.

“Oh, no. President Tanya. I’m a bachelor’s scholarship student…”

“I’ll put a letter of recommendation in the name of the student president to the Glockt Scholarship Foundation!”

“But considering the cost of living, I’d rather be affiliated with the bachelor’s side…”

“I’ll personally take it out of the Roth Taylor fund and provide support for living expenses!”

“It’s a very unstable choice to change your affiliation after looking at your personal support fund…!”

Anis was right. However, Tanya didn’t care and picked up a quill and scribbled on the document.

“The amount… this much…!”

“…”

“…”

Anis suddenly looked at my face and spoke in a whisper.

“That… isn’t an amount I can refuse…! What is this, Ed!”

“Are you dissatisfied with me asking for work?”

“Oh, no… I do, but…”

The length of the numbers Tanya wrote down is unusual.

Anis was staring at the long procession of ink with a confused expression.

The next morning, Tanya’s face was shining when she appeared on the podium at the student meeting.

With an impression that is somewhat more mushy than before, a smile shining brightly as if the world is happy. It seems that even bright flowers are blooming around.

What happened to student council president Tanya, who was like a walking corpse?

Have you even started dating?

Such pink gossip circulated among the female students, but…

The truth… It was more grounded in reality.

*After handing over the coat to the maid of Ophelis, Dyke Elphelan entered the private room and sat down.

As it is a luxurious and luxurious dormitory, the space is well utilized.

Antique furniture and landscape paintings hanging on the walls. After strolling in between them, he sat down at the table and let out a long sigh.

In the dark private room, the sigh of the tall man spreads. Today’s training was hard, but I can’t be idle like this.

I suddenly raise my head.

On the wall hangs a portrait of Princess Selaha, sent by the Elphelan family. It was threatening to hang it in the room.

The student council, the imperial family, and the family.

In the middle of a tangled conflict of opinions, Dyke Elphelan was interested in only one thing. It’s just endless training.

However, I can’t live forever as an idiot who only knows how to train.

Dyke leaned against the backrest and looked up at the ceiling.

The current Sylvania Academy 4th graders have a reputation as the worst generation.

Because of the different grades full of all kinds of geniuses, the evaluation of Dyke’s generation as ‘hard-working people’ was dominant.

Dumb people trying.

When he recalled the evaluation, which was half a compliment and half a curse, Dyke burst into laughter.

Because it’s not wrong.

Leading the talent of crawling on the floor more than anyone else, I came this far only with bone-breaking efforts.

All 4th graders know how hard and painful the effort was. That’s why everyone pays homage to Dyke Elphelan.

At some point, people called Dyke that, who rose to the top with only the will to cut bones, without any innate ability to do so. It’s called ‘The King of Dummies’.

Could the title of king be so dishonorable? However, Dyke didn’t even look particularly upset.

Sitting on a wooden chair in the corner of the room as if he were sitting on a throne, he stared up blankly at the ceiling.

Princess Selaha is coming.

The noble princess served by the Elphelan family…

Selaha Einir Chloe, comes to Sylvania.