Episode 363
Due to the skeleton principal’s personality, it seemed unlikely that the professors would allow him to take a break from class on his own.
‘what? It wouldn’t be like taking the students out together… hmm?’
Lee Han, who was lost in his thoughts, suddenly felt an unidentifiable anxiety rush over him.
It was an anxiety that I didn’t know why I felt.
“Are you there?”
“!”
My friends on the second floor looked through the window at the front door.
I saw the face of a familiar friend. She was Rowena, a follower of the princess.
“It’s suspicious. “Aren’t the professors hiding behind you?”
“Could it be…could it be possible?”
“Tell them to come in slowly, with both hands up. “So we can close the door right away.”
Lee Han’s heart ached as he saw his friends having an unpleasant conversation.
The professors at Einrogard were ruining my friends.
“Put your hands up and come in slowly!”
Of course, that was it, and Lee Han accepted his friends’ advice.
Because there really could have been professors hiding behind it.
“yes?! Wardanaz. why…”
“Don’t do anything foolish! “My staff is aimed at you!”
Gainando screamed.
He seemed ready to throw a curse at any moment.
Rowena was confused, wondering what on earth she had done wrong.
“What on earth did I do wrong…”
“I will go and check.”
Ratford hurried down and carefully stuck his head out the front door.
“There is no professor!”
“???”
“ah. sorry. “I’m afraid the professors are hiding behind me…”
Rowena was confused by Ratford’s serious explanation as to whether he was joking or not.
“Are you kidding?”
“no. “I’m serious.”
“……”
* * *
The reason Rowena came was to visit Duke Ikaldoren’s mansion together.
“Me too?”
Lee Han was puzzled.
I knew that the princess had received a riddle (a bribe disguised as a bribe) from Duke Ikaldoren.
Didn’t we work together in a wand workshop to solve that mystery?
If I remember correctly, it was well made, so why bother visiting together?
“yes. Wardanaz helped solve the problem, right? Of course, there is also honor…”
“I don’t mind just sharing the rewards.”
Rowena looked awkward at Lee Han’s words. It was a joke that was difficult to react to.
“I’m not good at telling jokes…”
“It wasn’t a joke, but I understood why I came anyway. But if there is a problem, it won’t blow up on me, right?”
If the answer to the riddle is wrong and it ends up being ‘Wardanaz gave me advice, but it’s wrong!’, it becomes a hassle.
In the first place, if the results of group assignments are poor, isn’t the person most responsible for encouraging good grades?
“How could that be!”
Rowena was shocked and denied it.
Adenard was never one to place blame on his followers.
“Lee Han. “Isn’t it suspicious because you strongly deny it?”
“You can swear on your honor as a knight!”
“Isn’t it even more suspicious that you went that far?”
Gainando’s ability was to be shameless and not hesitate to find fault.
Rowena glared at Guynando in anger and resentment. She couldn’t figure out why she was interfering with the princess’s work.
‘He is such a great person!’
‘If no one was there, I would have gotten hit.’
“Calm down. “It’s not that difficult to visit Duke Ikaldoren’s mansion.”
In fact, all I had to do was go and get something to eat and drink, then say, ‘The mansion is really pretty haha’ and say hello to the duke.
Rowena’s face brightened when it seemed like Lee Han would accept it.
“It’s not my first time going.”
“Have you ever been there?”
Rowena tilted her head.
During vacation, the boy from the Wardanaz family was so busy that even if he had a few more bodies, it wasn’t enough.
Have you visited the duke’s mansion before?
‘I don’t think you were friends?’
“This is not a city mansion…”
Lee Han slowly changed the topic.
There was no benefit in having to say that I visited Einrogard without permission during the semester with Professor Boladi.
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If it even gets into the ears of the skeleton principal later, wouldn’t the road be blocked?
“There’s no need for any special preparation, right? “Is it okay to just visit?”
“yes! The duke will also have a commemorative gift prepared and waiting for you!”
“Yeah… wait, it’s a gift?”
Lee Han was surprised.
“What gift?”
“ah. Every time the students visit the mansion, His Highness the Duke gives them gifts, saying they are the pillars that will take responsibility for the future of the empire…”
“So what kind of gift is that?”
Rowena, slightly overwhelmed by Lee Han’s force, stuttered.
“Well, you gave me these accessories last time… Is there a problem?”
Lee Han’s eyes wavered as Rowena took out a small medal made of pure gold.
The number of followers of the princess must be quite high, but she sprays things like that every time students come.
‘surprising!’
The wealth was surprising, and it was surprising that even though he had that much wealth, he did not give any compensation when he defeated the poisonous pollutant that attacked the duke last time.
In fact, it was mostly the latter. Lee Han still had a grudge against the Duke.
‘To only take care of the royal family like that, he must be a despicable bastard who bows to power.’
“You are a kind person.”
However, regardless of the spite, I couldn’t not accept it if I was given a gift like that.
“Can I bring other friends too?”
In response to Lee Han’s question, Rowena nodded as if she had naturally been waiting.
“No matter who you are here, His Majesty the Duke said you are welcome.”
Duke Ikaldoren welcomed any student of Einrogarde, even if he did not have blood from the evil prince or the Makin family.
In fact, when inviting the princess, I told her that if she had any friends, she could invite them as she wished.
“Are there any restrictions on the number of people?”
“yes. He said that the more people he brought, the happier he would be.”
“Right.”
Lee Han nodded and started writing a letter with his quill.
Dear Salko of the Tutanta family,
I know you don’t like being associated with a noble family, but even taking that into account, I’m contacting you because a really good job has opened up. Surprisingly, you can earn a gold coin or two just by eating…
* * *
The first-year Einrogard students gathered at the city’s vacant lot were surprised.
“Isn’t today the first day of school?”
“For a moment I thought it was Einrogard.”
That’s how many top students were gathered together.
Even the priest students of the Phoenix Tower came by invitation.
“I hope everyone enjoys a hearty meal at the duke’s mansion.”
“…Sleep, wait a minute. Wardanaz. “By any chance, the reason you invited me today wasn’t because of the meal, right?”
“Of course not.”
The priests were reassured by Lee Han’s words.
Lee Han sent me a letter saying, ‘As a student at Einrogard, I have an opportunity to brighten the occasion by participating,’ but I was a little embarrassed when he brought up the story of the meal.
Well, there was no way they would call the priests and take them to the duke’s mansion so that they could get some food.
‘Of course there must be another reason.’
It was clear that there was a reason for priests to be in the mansion’s banquet hall. Because the boy from the Wardanaz family didn’t do anything useless.
“But why aren’t there any White Tiger Tower guys?”
“I sent out an invitation, but everyone said it was impossible because I had a schedule. Requests from adventurers are good, but I think you’re too focused on them.”
“…?”
“???”
Neilia and Ratford looked at Lee Han as if he were a thief.
What do you mean by the person who is most passionate about adventurer requests than anyone else?
“I never thought you would collect this much.”
Rowena blinked in surprise.
I once again felt Lee Han’s wide network of connections.
Although Aden Arth had followers, there were limits.
Even when they were immediately invited to ‘bring Her Highness’s friend,’ the followers reacted with things like, ‘Can we dare to call ourselves friends?’
The followers, who were seriously considering, eventually said, ‘I think it would be better for the princess to invite her friend separately instead of us.’ However, Ardenart did not want to disappoint the followers, so instead of inviting a friend, she said that she would take Rowena with her as a friend. .
Everyone was moved and passed on, but Rowena was worried that Aden’Art had no friends.
As a knight, if the person you serve does not have any friends, loyalty means forcing them to make friends, so Rowena has been worried about this a lot lately.
“Wardanaz. How on earth do you make friends?”
“Friend… friend?”
Lee Han paused.
Of course, I was close with some students, but other than that, all of the other top students were a bit…
‘Can we call ourselves friends?’
“I’m not sure we can call ourselves friends.”
‘Until you are humble.’
Rowena was impressed by Lee Han’s generosity. She truly seemed like a person with wide connections.
If he were a naughty prince, he would have boasted and said, ‘It’s because I’m good.’
“Then let me change the question. “How can you call people like that?”
“Uh… um… I guess that’s not really true.”
“Sincerity…!”
Rowena was thrilled by the standard yet difficult answer.
“Would it work if we sincerely mix swords and sincerely offer to recruit Her Highness the Princess as her friend?”
“I’m no expert on friends, but I don’t think that will work.”
* * *
Duke Ikaldoren regretted his decision to blindly invite Einrogarde students.
‘It was a mistake to call those dirty, vulgar, and stupid knights.’
The Duke originally did not like knights.
Even though they were nobles of the same empire, the rough appearance shown by the knightly families made them feel closer to barbarians than nobles.
I invited them because I thought it would be okay if they were students who were good enough to enroll in Einrogard, but they did the same thing.
“Drink! Drink! Drink!”
“This drink is for His Royal Highness the Duke who hosted the banquet today!”
“This drink is for the monster we hunted!”
“This one drink… I don’t know! “I’ll just drink it!”
Clink!
The White Tiger Tower students, who were very drunk and excited, threw the glasses they were holding on the floor, threw the dishes, went out into the hall of the banquet hall, headed to the kitchen, brought the liquor barrel directly, and drank it down.
White Tiger Tower students living in the knights’ dormitory had to eat only rough and hard food instead of rich and rich meals.
Of course, compared to Einrogard, the food was edible, but compared to the luxurious banquet at this banquet hall, the food at the hotel was trash.
Clap!
“This bastard?!”
“Who threw the pie?!”
“I throw too!! me too!!”
Duke Ikaldoren, who was sitting at the head table, maintained a calm expression. Of course, he was swearing inside.
‘There’s no way I can dig up information from idiots like this.’
“Long live His Royal Highness the Duke! Long live the Duke!”
“Your Majesty the Duke! Thank you for having me!”
“ha ha ha. “Everyone is eating and drinking happily, so I’m happy…”
A cake that someone had accidentally thrown flew towards Duke Ikaldoren’s face.
The guard immediately hit it and sent it flying away, but the duke’s eyebrows couldn’t help but twitch.
‘…I’m going crazy.’
If everyone goes crazy, only normal people will suffer.
Students like Giselle of the Moradi family and Durgyu of the Choi family put down their forks and watched the duke’s thoughts.
No matter how much he was smiling, I couldn’t help but notice that he was having a hard time in the banquet hall.
“Mo…Moradi. “Are you sure it’s okay?”
“Are you okay? What on earth do you use your eyeballs for? “Why don’t you sell it along with your head?”
“Don’t do that to me! “Shouldn’t we stop it first?”
Even though the cake was delivered to the Duke, these crazy students were so drunk that they couldn’t come to their senses and were making a mess.
However, if the two of them stand up and face each other with a straight face, the atmosphere will become cold.
Likewise, it was like spitting in the face of the white tiger tower.
Sigh-
Meanwhile, the banquet hall door opened.
A student at White Tiger Tower who was too absorbed in noticing that the door was open accidentally threw a roasted turkey with sauce at the door.
“?”
Lee Han nodded and dodged. Guynando, who was behind him, screamed and fell.
“Are they crazy?”
“What the hell is this…?”
While the students outside the door were whispering in astonishment, Lee Han walked away with great strides.
He then hit the nearest White Tiger Tower student’s solar plexus with his cane.
