How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 70

Winter Break (3)

There is always a quiet atmosphere on Aken Island during the vacation season.

The buildings in the faculty building, which were crowded with crowds during the semester, are also empty. Less than half of the students who do not go back to their hometowns and remain in school, so the atmosphere is the same wherever they go.

Since the vacation season in the commercial district of Saengdong-dong is also off-season, many store owners take a breather and take a break.

“Hmm…”

Looking at the glass window of the academic building at the entrance of the faculty building, I tidied up my clothes. I tidied up the buttons on the sleeves and pulled the collar of the coat to match the overall line.

When I retrieved the washed school uniform and put it on, it was indeed stiff and neat.

It is very difficult to manage school uniforms by yourself. This part owes a lot to Bel Maia.

“The amount of laundry always comes out in large quantities anyway, so adding one uniform doesn’t change the amount of work.”

“Still, it doesn’t change the fact that there will be a lot of work to do, but I’m thankful for the busy times.”

“Since you were originally from the Ophelis building, you may not have known each other, and since you are an acquaintance of the people I serve, I can exercise that level of flexibility.

Bell Maia, whom he met after a long time, has not changed. As expected, he is first-class in terms of his conduct.

The senior maid’s modest outfit was changed to a fancy maid outfit, but her tone and dry expression were still the same, with no major emotional fluctuations.

Her hair must have been a little longer, and on the right side of her hair, which was especially long, there was a rose pin the size of a fingernail.

“Did you say that the restoration of the Ophelis Hall was finished? It’s time for new students to join the company, so the maids must be having a hard time.”

“Brother Ed. But why are you still respectful?”

“It’s comfortable with respect.”

“I’m comfortable with the bottom.”

“I’m comfortable with respect.”

It feels like a strange war of nerves has come and gone.

In fact, if you reach the position of head maid, you will be narrowly placed in the position of ‘senior level’ among the staff at the bachelor’s school… As I am no longer an aristocrat or a student at Ophelis Hall, it is a burdensome position for me.

I didn’t want to mess with the genealogy later, so I respectfully respected him, but that was so uncomfortable for Bell. Anyway, she is a natural maid.

“Anyway, since the restoration of the Ophelis tube has been completed, it feels like my workplace is stabilizing as well.”

“It’s a little surprising that the restoration was completed in almost one semester.

“It is one of the most important facilities among the facilities in the living room. Most of the students who used to use the temporary living room were assigned rooms and started moving in. The same goes for freshmen.”

The second semester of the sophomore year has come to an end, and it has become the winter vacation that marks the end of the year.

The test scores came out quite well, and the closing ceremony was neatly finished, giving the school a peaceful atmosphere once again.

In terms of academic administration, winter vacation is a preparation period for the start of the next semester.

The season to finish what must be done between one semester and the next. As it is such a transitional period, it is a time when many things change within the bachelor.

The labs of each professor in charge are busy preparing for the academic schedule for the next semester, and the research work itself goes on without a break.

Also, the same is true for new students entering the dormitory. Because each student’s circumstances and schedule are different, many students enter the company in advance according to their schedule during the long winter vacation.

“By the way, I actually came here because I wanted to ask you something.”

Bell said that and stood on the street for a while.

When you get to the position of head maid, you have a lot of responsibilities, and your butt becomes heavy.

It was about handing over the school uniforms that were asked to be washed. It was enough to order a lower-level maid, and the reason why he had come to visit himself was because he had something to say in the end.

“Since this vacation, there are 7 new students from the Ophelis Hall that we will have to wait on.”

Only 7 of those many freshmen. It is a number that directly shows how high the hurdles to join the Ophelis Hall are.

“One of them has a familiar name, so I came to check it out.”

“Tanya Rosteyler?”

“…Yes. In fact, you already applied for a dormitory before the vacation started.”

New students can move into designated dormitories at any time during vacation. This is to give students time to prepare for the start of the semester.

Still, most of them finish their preparations at their home and enter the undergraduate school around the time of the placement test. You have to come early because there is nothing to do.

“You have been assigned a room in the renovated Ophelis Hall, and you are moving in the process… isn’t that your position?”

“…”

I am excommunicated from the Ross Taylor family.

Tanya is a young girl who is loved by the Ross Taylor family.

“And, as you are my younger sister, you know better than I do… It seems that Master Ed has a grudge against you for damaging the family’s honor.”

“okay.”

“…”

Bell just stares at me, probably not liking the dry reaction.

“Are you okay? I’m in a position where I can only make judgments based on the personal information and first impressions I received in advance, but… I felt that Miss Tanya is a person who attaches a lot of meaning to the family’s honor just by looking at her for a moment.”

“I understand your intention.”

Blood and flesh despise you. If one day you start to be looked down upon by a family member who shared a brilliant growth background in the past, it will definitely be mentally exhausting and difficult.

In short, Bell was worried and came to tell her in advance. Does she have to prepare her heart?

“Thank you for your concern.”

I already know very well about Tanya.

<The Fallen Swordsman of Sylvania> Act 3, Scene 3. In the episode of the student council president election centered on political warfare, the first person in the history of Sylvania to aim for the honor of being the first year student council president.

As usual with characters from the Roth Taylors, he’s a villain.

Tanya looks up to lofty honor and glory. Being the youngest student council president in this star-studded Sylvania would seem like a desirable fruit.

I closed my eyes tightly.

villain girl.

Tanya is the stereotype of that magic word itself, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t view it as a simple, exhausting villain. Because Tanya also has her own natural talent.

Tanya is a political genius.

He is a person who has learned the ways to bring legitimacy to himself by discussing causes, dividing sides, blaming opponents, and misleading problems.

Political warfare eventually becomes a fight in dirty mud. At least that’s the case with Tanya’s values.

Politics is not a process of finding the best option, but much more often it is a process of finding the less bad option.

If there is a worst (最惡) and a lesser evil (遮惡), the public has no choice but to side with the lesser evil.

Victory in political warfare is, in the end, who can be the lesser evil.

That is the value that Tanya Rosteiler instinctively learned.

The reason why he came to Sylvania so early was probably to secure his strength as much as possible before the semester started.

He will go to meet and conciliate with influential and high-spirited people inside the bachelor.

In the process, what to do with Ed Roth Taylor, who was born with the same bloodline?

Although they are blood relatives, since I am in the position of being excommunicated for now, it is safe to say that they are South Koreans.

Still, given Tanya’s personality, it’s unlikely that she’ll let someone who has tarnished her family’s name go unattended, but I can’t tell if she’ll harbor a grudge against me to the extent of taking aggressive action.

Because… you don’t know! No one else, me!

I’m in a position that I’ve played Sylvania’s failed sword castle countless times. I know a little about Tanya, who plays a fairly significant villain, but ironically, I don’t know anything about myself.

Because Ed Roth Taylor is a sparkling villain who appears briefly in the beginning and disappears quickly…!

Even in the setting book, they don’t deal with anything properly, and there’s nothing special about the later stories, and they’re really extras themselves…!

What kind of attitude did he live in at Roth Taylor’s mansion, how was the evaluation within the family, how was his relationship with Tanya Roth Taylor… There are no real clues. There is not even one…!

However, when I think about the history of this body… I can make an analogy that it would not have been treated so great.

It’s fortunate if he’s treated normally, it’s fortunate if he’s not despised because he’s arrogant and doesn’t have the ability.

“Well, I’m busy right now… If Tanya doesn’t show any signs of anything first, there’s no reason for me to care.”

“If you say that, then I, as a mere servant, have nothing more to say.”

“Anyway, I’m grateful. I had to wash my school uniform again because I was working as an undergraduate scholarship student, so it was a headache.”

“It’s okay. Lately, Lady Lucy seems to be taking care of me a lot, but it’s also because our work isn’t clear, so I’m very uncomfortable.”

“Were you even considering that?”

Bell rubbed her chin once and spoke while tilting her head.

“Recently, when I was washing Lady Lucy’s clothes, a lot of her blonde hair came out. Even while washing Ed’s clothes, a lot of things like the smell of incense from Lady Lucy’s clothes and white hair came out… I just made an analogy.”

Certainly, lately, Lucy has become more attached to her.

If I’m not doing any physical work, I feel like I’m lying on my stomach on my lap, or snoring on my stomach after a nap.

As Bell said, it was a strangely awkward position, but to notice that even after washing clothes… What would this person have been doing if he hadn’t been a maid…?

“Well… You don’t have to worry about that, Mr. Bell. Just giving out ingredients and helping out like this once in a while is a good thing from my point of view. If you have a maid, you’ll have a lot more to worry about than that, right? What? , business processing… human relations…”

“There are so many talented people on the business side, and since management and supervision became the main focus, physical labor itself has decreased and I feel more comfortable.

Bell continued her conversation, then looked at my washed school uniform for a moment before blurting out her words.

“No. Worrying too much would be a burden. No matter how complicated the relationships around Ed, Ed will take care of it.”

“?”

“I won’t meddle beyond the subject. No matter what the ladies decide… it’ll all be your own choice.”

After saying that, we let each other breathe in and out, and the breath gushed out and scattered helplessly into the sky.

“The days are very cold. Master Ed, take care of your health too. In the winter, you suffer a lot if you treat small illnesses. Your face is reddish and you have a slight fever.”

“…Does it have a lot of tea?”

Indeed, among the maids of the House of Ophelis, she was a human who held the position of ace for years. Is it possible to check her health just by glancing at her face?

“Because I think I’ll have to live with a mild fever for a while.”

“If you don’t take good care of your body, there are many people around you who will be offended in many ways. Anyway, your health is the best. It will get colder in the future, so please be careful.”

And then Belle looked at me gently and then hurriedly spoke one more time.

“…but are you really going to continue to respect me?”

Really… that’s awful…

To be honest, I thought about just letting go of the timing, but…

At this point, I also have comebacks…?

*

“Thank you for coming, undergraduate scholarship students. My name is Anise Heylan, and I am a senior assistant professor in Assistant Professor Claire’s lab.”

“Uh… uh… uh…”

“Right now, Assistant Professor Claire has been awake for 44 hours to handle conference agendas and check the undergraduate education schedule for the next semester. The deadline for the agenda is tomorrow. So, communication is impossible right now. As an assistant, I’ll pass it on instead.”

Behind Anis, who is smiling brightly with a sparkling face, I see a blonde woman with her face sunk on the office desk.

The sight of him taking a break with his glasses off and his face exhausted is more like a zombie than a human.

In one corner of the rather large laboratory, there were three male students, including myself. It was an undergraduate scholarship student, one from each grade.

Clevius Nortondale, Ed Roth Taylor, Onyx Felomire. 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, in order. Sooner or later, I will be going up one grade at a time.

“What, what. Ed Rosteylor… why are you here…?”

When I checked Clevius’s appearance, I was slightly surprised.

He is a descendant of the Nortondale family, the best swordsmen on the continent, but because of a mistake he committed as a child, he is treated as an abandoned child by the family. Thanks to that, his self-esteem is also low, and his attitude towards everything is negative.

I knew that I was not getting enough support from my family.

Well, I wanted to keep going to school somehow, but was this way to cover the shortfall in tuition?

Besides that, there was also a third-year senior named Onyx with a reliable build, but this one was completely new to him. Did he hear that he belonged to the same combat club as Clevias?

“Our bachelor’s scholarship students are required to prepare for the upcoming freshman class placement test and supervise the day of the test. In fact, you can consider this as your main task.”

Anis still grinned and set several papers down on the table.

“This is the freshman class placement test plan that Assistant Professor Claire has been working on over and over for the past week.”

The freshman class placement test conducted by Professor Glast every year. This year, assistant professor Claire will be in charge.

Of course, the results are known.

Not a single student is assigned to Class A of the Ministry of Magic through Assistant Professor Claire’s class placement test.

In a way, it can be said to be worse than Professor Glast, but in fact, it is not because the professor in charge has a bad personality… it is because the fundamental test design is flawed.

In fact, it’s not even a flaw, it’s just that the difficulty level was too difficult. It was clearly an oversight on the part of assistant professor Claire.

The freshmen just didn’t know what to do, so they just accepted it saying, “Oh, it’s so hard to get into Class A. We must work hard to be promoted to Class A.”

Still, the funny thing is that it’s fairer than Professor Glast, who just tried to pick out class A students according to my jagged standards. No one got into class A, so it was strange to say that it was unfair.

“Last year, we took part in the forest due north of Aken Island, but today we will be going to Mount Orn in the northwest corner. It’s more like a hill than a mountain, but the road is steep, so it will take some time to climb. It might come out, so I have to prepare for it.”

Aken Island is more prosperous as you go south. Conversely, as you go up north, it becomes a land of quiet nature.

This is because there are only two bridges, the southeast and southwest, connected to the protruding Nofaren Peninsula.

Since the area around the bridge connected to the continent is a key point of transportation, it was natural that the further north you go up, the less people can reach you.

Orn Mountain in the northwest of Aken Island naturally maintained its beautiful appearance. Apparently, assistant professor Claire had chosen that mountain as the place for the class assignment test.

“The basic goal is similar to last year’s test. We will place magic stones here and there on the right mountain, and each student will use their mana sensitivity to find the magic stone. If you dedicate it to ‘, the test is over. You can get a grade A. The scoring criteria below that are well documented.”

“…I think there will be too many students in Class A?”

Onyx Felomere. The dependable 3rd year combat team asked a natural question.

“If you’re a student of the Ministry of Magic, don’t you just find a magic stone right away? Even those who find it through simple labor without magic induction can come out. Just offering it on the altar at the top is enough?”

“Of course, the road to the top isn’t clearly open. From the middle of the mountain, we’ll lay all kinds of hallucination magic and magical engineering supplies enchanted with directional deception, and we’ll have to deal with monsters of intermediate level or higher on the edge of the summit.”

“Release the monsters? What if an injured person comes out?”

“Of course it’s hallucination magic. However, if you don’t defeat the illusion, the road won’t open. It won’t be easy if you don’t have combat experience.”

In short, the content of the test is finding the Mana Stone, reaching the top, defeating the Demonic Illusion, and successfully offering the Mana Stone to the altar… The success of each element becomes the scoring standard. .

“Senior Onyx assists Assistant Professor Claire in drafting the procurement plan for engineering supplies and the arrangement plan, Clevius reports to the Trix Hall, submits the documents, and picks up the necessary equipment that he requested in advance, and Ed Rosteyler… .”

Perhaps it was because she was the only classmate in the second year, Anise calmly spoke to me.

Then, he strode forward, smiled brightly, and made a friendly proposal to me.

“Let’s go on a field trip with me.”

In fact, we had never even talked to each other, but his friendly smile left a deep impression.