How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 66

lucy mayrill (3)

Fallen leaves splattered with every step he took.

When I came to my senses after playing in the mountains as if I was half-float, I was already halfway up.

I sat on the edge of the top of a coniferous tree that I could barely see and looked down at the mountain. The color of the forest, which had been dyed colorfully, has subsided.

The leaves of late autumn disappear one by one, and the mountain prepares for the next season.

The girl blankly looks at the sky.

As I sniffed and inhaled, sticky moisture clung to my lungs.

“It’s going to rain.”

I thought about it a little. It feels much more youthful and pure than my original voice.

The fast-paced girl becomes aware of her voice as soon as she hears it. oh this is a dream

Looking down, I looked at the outfit I was wearing right now. It wasn’t the academy uniform I usually wore, but the old blouse I wore when walking in the mountains back then.

The scenery you see is also not Aken Island.

The Rameln Mountains in the northern part of the empire where I spent my childhood. An old hut can also be seen through the cracks in the branches of the trees.

What is the reason why I dream of my childhood now?

I’m not a girl who thinks deeply enough to analyze such things. However, if it’s a dream I have, I want to ruminate on good memories.

What comes to mind is the owner of the cabin in that landscape.

He has a shaggy beard, wrinkles, and a stooped back, but at least he is an upright human.

A self-proclaimed scholar, but also a top-notch magician. The usual things I do on such a subject are chopping wood, reading a book in an armchair, playing my instrument while staring blankly at the fireplace.

They are things that are not a big deal together.

When the girl was just born into the world, the archmage had already reached the twilight of her life. What kind of life he has lived is completely unknown to the girl.

While dreaming of old dreams, shall we see the old man’s face? With that thought in mind, the girl lightly braced her leg and kicked the tree.

The sound of the wind cutting through the sky and the fluttering of the hem of clothes pounded on the ears.

The girl jumped off quickly and reached the front of the hut, where she naturally wrapped herself up and landed.

I feel like I’m back in my hometown with the look of that old cabin in the past.

Looking at the pretty window on one side, the shadow shimmers. It is not difficult to draw the back of an old man sitting in a rocking chair in front of a cozy fireplace and waiting for a girl.

The girl walks slowly and approaches the hut. Uncharacteristically for her, I feel excited.

– Tuduk. Took. Took.

However, there is a fact that the girl overlooked. The humid air that made my chest feel damp all the time. As if to retrieve the double track, before long, rain begins to pour.

“…”

The raindrops quickly grow thick and wet the girl. Clothes stick to the skin because of the damp water. A few strands of hair stick to her cheeks, showing off her presence.

After looking up at the pouring rain for a while, the girl turned her gaze back to the cabin and swallowed in vain.

The light in the cabin, which looked cozy until just now, is off. The light of the bonfire that was visible through the window disappeared in just a few seconds.

The eaves are full of cobwebs, and the neat doorknob is also dusty.

This is a nightmare.

Even though I was aware of it, I couldn’t help but get out of my body.

I quickly opened the door and looked inside the cabin… Someone was still sitting in the rocking chair.

dark interior. Through the damp air, inspiration slowly turns its head.

It is a skeleton without a single flesh. He gritted his teeth and looked at the girl.

Years have passed and the bones have already been crumbled, and the centipede crawls through the hole where the eyeball should have been.

He continued to clench his teeth before whispering to the girl. Why didn’t you save me? I had a chance, why did you ignore me?

There is no change in the girl’s expression. As always, I stare at the skeleton with blank eyes.

The skeleton curses the girl.

Don’t think that the things by your side will last forever. One day, like me, you will be crumbled away by the storms of time, and you will be left alone and count the days you will die. You know very well that loss comes without any warning.

After saying that, the appearance of the teeth that stopped colliding with each other seemed like a terrifying smile.

Still the girl didn’t even move. The skeleton gradually turns to powder and disappears.

The skeleton completely loses its shape, and only the clothes it was wearing remain and sit down on the chair.

– Woe!

Lucy opened her eyes and raised her upper body.

“…”

The place is Room 203 in the closed building.

The bachelor is putting all his energy into restoring the Ophelis Hall, but it seems that he will be able to re-enter the company at least next semester.

Until then, the old closed dong was decorated and used as luxuriously as possible. Still, it couldn’t be as luxurious as the Ophelis Hall before the half wave.

The situation was unavoidable, so most of the students had no choice but to accept it.

Still, the excellent workmanship of the maids of Ophelis did not go anywhere, and the public opinion said that the building was tolerable as a whole, except for the rather poor building.

Lucy wiped off the cold sweat, kicked off the blanket, and got up. Then he immediately opened the window. The cool morning air blows away the cold sweat.

The outer part of the living building and the entrance to the teaching building come into view.

The dormitory curfew had already passed. It was late at night, but Lucy jumped out of the window without taking off the frill pajama the maid had forced her to put on, putting on her witch hat.

Enormous magical energy radiates from its entire body, and high-level spatial magic is instantly manifested.

I don’t know why, but Lucy wanted to go to the northern forest right away. Lucy, who reached the northern forest in an instant, landed in front of an old cabin.

“…”

I took a deep breath and peered through the window. In front of the flickering fireplace light. I caught my eye on Ed Rosteeler, sleeping in a shoddy bed covered in a shabby blanket.

A sigh of relief came out for no reason, and Lucy leaned against the outer wall of the cabin and sat down.

As it is, the whole view of the camp comes in at a glance. Since Lucy has had the experience of lying down and taking a nap in quite a few places, she can notice at once that the camp is losing its vitality little by little.

The amount of firewood saved does not increase. The same goes for food. One of the table feet is broken, but it is not repaired. The smoker didn’t work for a while. The traps that should have been installed in the middle of the forest are all on display at the camp.

The owner of this camp is now… preparing to say goodbye to the camp.

Strictly speaking, it had nothing to do with Lucy. Still, feeling empty, Lucy sat alone with his legs wrapped around him and looked up at the sky.

The traced sky also looks down at Lucy.

“It’s going to rain.”

To those calm words, there was no one to answer.

* [Magic ability details]

Rating: Proficient Magician Specialty: Common Elemental Magic: Quick Casting Lv 9 Mana Detection Lv 9 Fire Elemental Magic: Combustion Lv 15 Wind Elemental Magic: Wind Blade Lv 14 Intermediate magic is now available!

Elemental Magic: Spirit Response Lv 13 Spirit Understanding Lv 13 Spirit Manifestation Lv 3 Sense Sharing Lv 3 Spirit Slot: Lower Fire Elemental Mug Response Level: 3 Elemental Sense Efficiency: Good Unique Grant Skill: Blessing of Fire (Temporary Fire Immunity Explosion) Explosion ( Lesser Explosive Magic)

Fire Magic Ability Increase Elemental Slot: Empty New Elemental Slot! : empty

“Soon you’ll be able to sign a contract with the lieutenant spirit, Ed. Merilda says she wants to sign a contract with Ed quickly, but if we keep going like this, it might really be possible.”

The day got very cold.

The evaluation at the end of the second semester is also starting soon. I had already applied for the undergraduate scholarship program, but I still wanted to devote some time to my studies because I had the desire to win a grade scholarship.

Even so, training in other fields should not be lax, so in the end, the importance of time arrangements came to the surface again. Fortunately, there are good teachers in the field of animology.

“Ed’s growth is really amazing. His Spirit responsiveness already exceeds that of ordinary novice Elemental Weavers, and his basic Mana responsiveness has gone up quite a bit.”

It was a car that was sitting on a tree stump in front of a crackling bonfire and practicing spiritism.

Under the appropriate amount of coaching from Yenika, she repeatedly mastered the Spirit Manifestation, and learned to share her senses with Mug until she became proficient.

Skilled spirits say they can share the spirits and all five senses, but it’s not really necessary to do that… It’s more efficient to train them to share only the most important perspectives.

Sensual sharing isn’t very efficient with mana, and when it’s over a certain distance, the effect drops drastically, so even that Jenika doesn’t use it unless it’s needed… It doesn’t feel like a gimmick, though.

However, you should learn everything you can learn.

[It’s worthwhile to gain experience while constantly granting spirits to things like this. Mr. Ed. ]

Mug sat on Yenika’s shoulder and jumped around. But she doesn’t look all that happy. Rather, it feels like he is hesitating as if he cares about something.

“That… Lucy… did I do something wrong…?”

Yenika is smiling somehow… But no matter how much, she can’t help but be concerned.

I don’t know why he’s doing this, but Lucy has been clinging to me since morning, staring at everyone who approaches with her ax eyes open.

Normally, Lucy doesn’t move unless the sun rises in the middle of the sky or she’s hungry. But today, for some reason, he came early in the morning to the corner of the camp and sat down.

Normally, the maids at Ophelis Hall grit their teeth and maintain a neat appearance, but today, as if she had escaped from the dormitory early in the morning, she is wearing only a light frill dress that looks like pajamas. It seems that even Lucy, who is good-looking, has a day or two like that every year.

Thinking about that, I was going to do my own thing, but suddenly he grabbed my collar and followed me around.

– ‘…What?’

– ‘…’

If you look at me asking what you have to say, it is just silent practice with a blank face. However, he does not let go of his collar.

It is in the midst of spending the morning in such a bizarre state that it is a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of

I decided to train early in the morning to celebrate the weekend.

Gradually, the skill base to learn intermediate magic was prepared, so in the morning, I read a reference book on intermediate magic and wielded magic here and there.

Meanwhile, Lucy lay down on my lap on her stomach, swaying her feet as if in protest, and did not fall.

When I had an early lunch, I clung to the back of the board, and after that, when I started studying spiritism on my own, I sat back to back behind the tree stump where I was sitting and stared blankly at the sky.

Weekends are busy though.

Compared to weekdays, which are hit by academic schedules, there is more time to spend more freely, so it is a day to take care of all the things that have been put off during the weekdays.

After school or before bedtime, when there is still time left, he doesn’t even show his nose… I wonder if he’s teasing me for being persistent when there’s a lot to do and time is running out.

Even then, when someone appears, he suddenly changes his impression and stands upright.

When Ziggs passed by while he was jogging, he suddenly made a strange noise and prevented him from approaching…

When Belle Maia hurriedly comes to her with neat clothes and accessories and tries to change her clothes, she accepts Belle’s hand in a surprisingly gentle manner.

I wondered if he had eaten something wrong, so I put my hand to his forehead and measured his temperature, and it was cold rather than hot.

“I-I’ll apologize if I did anything wrong… Huh…?”

After lunch in such a strange state, and by the time Yenika came to help with the Spiritual Mastery training, Lucy had rather sharpened her appearance.

It feels like something is more hostile towards Yenika… In fact, her expression is closer to fear than hostility.

She wakes up in a cold sweat and keeps blocking Jenika from approaching… When asked to explain why, she just shakes her head.

Even so, if Yenica approaches within a few meters radius, she is staring at her with a vengeance that she will bite her at any moment, so it is unclear which beat she is requesting it to be tuned to.

Jenika, who has been hostile to Lucy for several days already, was just unfair.

Being treated in such an attitude might make her angry, but she doesn’t know what to do because Jenika’s nature is kind in the first place, and Lucy has a strange sense of incongruity.

“I must have eaten something wrong. He’s a very capricious kid, so even if he does this, he’ll soon get angry.”

I had no choice but to say that.

Lucy finally clung to my back like a cicada and glared at Yenika.

The way he wraps his arms and legs and stares as if telling him to go away is like a kid trying to stop someone from taking his stuff.

Jenika tilted her head a few times with a worried face, then sighed and left the camp.

*

Lieutenant Fire Magic ‘One Point Explosion’

It is a magic developed from the fire spell, and it is an intermediate level magic that causes a small explosion by concentrating magic on the place where the eyes meet and gripping it tightly.

Firepower and size are eventually proportional to the amount of magic power, so depending on the user, there are cases where it ends at the line of burning, and there are cases where the archmage completely collapses the building.

It’s a very small spell compared to the fire spell, but it’s not a middle-level magic for nothing. The advantage of one-point explosion comes from its overwhelming versatility.

It is easy to deal with ignition magic, which has a long casting time and can clearly see the spread of flame.

However, the ‘single point explosion’, in which sparks bloom instantly from the target point, has an overwhelming amount of impact, and if you don’t catch the flow of magical power quickly, you will be hit in an instant without a chance to deal with it.

“I can’t learn the basics even if I do it all day… I can definitely feel the difficulty of learning from the middle level magic.”

It takes quite a while to learn middle class magic as it is a body with almost no magical talent. It looks like this even though I did some preparation during the Elementology lecture.

Even though I trained almost all day with the most efficient training method, I don’t think my name will come up on the skill window, so I’m exhausted at this point.

The sun was slowly setting before I knew it, but I felt empty for no reason as I didn’t seem to have any results.

“Ehh… let’s eat.”

I closed the elemental science book and threw it roughly around.

Then, he picked up a lump of luggage on his lap and lifted it up.

Lucy had absolutely no intention of leaving, so she sat on my lap all day while I read elemental science books and studied the flow of magical power.

“…Ahhh…!”

Lucy spread her small body wide open and stretched, and then the line she spat again with a blank face was still the same.

“…I’m hungry.”

“Go get something to eat. The meal time for Ophelis Hall students is over soon.”

“huh.”

Surprisingly, Lucy stood up without much resistance and was about to leap in the direction of Ophelis, but suddenly corrected her posture.

Standing right on the tree stump, he looks at me and then asks.

“Hey.”

“why.”

“What are you going to do when I go?”

It’s really strange that Lucy asks such a question.

While I was gathering firewood for a quick bite to eat, Lucy looked at me gently.

“I have something to do after I eat.”

“to do?”

I slowly turned my head to look at the simple wooden table. Above it is the key to the secret safe that Professor Glast gave you.

Gradually, the undergraduate investigation was completed, and the entrance to the secret laboratory that Professor Glast had created without permission was also closed.

I was thinking of entering the library through the hole Lucy had drilled.

Once inside, I had to check what the library was like… what the contents of the safe were.

It’s hard to postpone it any longer, so I’m going to move tonight.

“Before that, you should check the bonfire and fireplace. The temperature may drop below freezing at night, so if you do something wrong, you could really freeze to death.”

It’s time for the winter break.

I put on a lot of clothes, but after the sun goes down, my breath starts to seep out. For the time being, I plan to maintain dual heating using the mug’s flame. There would be no place to use a large amount of mana right away, so it was wiser to save firewood.

If you join Dex, you won’t have to worry about this.

Joining the Dex building or living in a cabin? The scale’s arms swing to and fro like reeds. It would be nice to set a course of action in the future if you decide at least until the vacation begins.

Whether she knows my troubles or not, Lucy looks like she’s looking at my expression…

“Come with me.”

It was such an incomprehensible sound.