How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 166

Melancholy of the Wolf (2)

I had never heard of the name Patriciana.

However, the family name Bloomriver behind it was quite familiar.

Act 5 of < Failed Swordsman of Sylvania >.

The final act, which deals with the story of Seongchangryong Velbrok and the great sage Sylvania, is filled with episodes mainly dealing with the war of nerves between families until the truth is revealed.

As much as it deals with the story of the establishment and origin of this Sylvania Academy, many characters are involved, and among them, the characters of families that have been passed over as the story progresses are included.

If you were to choose famous samurai from the Chloel Empire, you would pick the Calamore family, the Nortondale family, and the Elphelan family.

The Bloomriver family occupied the lowest place in the magical family, but after Emperor Chloel ascended the throne, it was a place where they had a lot of accidents, so they were disgraced from the prestigious family.

Successive family heads, who were more interested in alchemy than magic, accidentally suffered serious injuries or blew up a hill while conducting absurd experiments… Even with all sorts of accidents, he did not stop his aggressive magic experiments.

Of course, it’s like a fairy compared to the Ross Taylor family, who research the power of evil spirits… The problem is the number of frequencies. Explosions, food poisoning, contamination of water sources, and environmental damage followed one after another… It was a place that led to trouble even in Chloel’s royal family, as accidents could happen if you were a little careless.

Still, taboos are strictly observed, and the new head of the house, Cinir Bloomriver, is more common sense than I thought… These eccentrics somehow managed to maintain their positions as high-ranking aristocrats.

The Bloom River family, called the ‘Witch’s House’ because they always do extraordinary magic quests… They also enrolled two students at the Sylvania Academy.

Tracyana Bloomriver and Patriciana Bloomriver, the twin daughters of the countess Sinir Bloomriver.

Contrary to the expectation that they would enter the Ministry of Pensions, both entered the Ministry of Magic, and surprisingly, the older sister, Tracyana, even occupied the top position of the Ministry.

“Well, Lucy Meiril, who is now the 2nd year senior, has risen to such an absurd level that the light has faded, but the traditional strength of Sylvania Academy was the 4th year seniors.”

The higher the grade, the higher the level of students.

It is only natural that the level of senior students in the 4th grade is the highest among senior students. It’s just that the members of the protagonist’s generation have a ridiculous average.

Dyke Elphelan, head of the combat department, Tracyana Bloomriver, head of the magic department, and Dorothy Whitefelts, head of the alchemy department.

Patriciana Bloomriver, who sent me the letter, is the twin sister of Tracyana Bloomriver, who is currently the 4th year head of the Ministry of Magic.

Two of the top 3 seniors in 4th grade have already met.

Dyke Elpelan, the head of the Combat Division and the head of the entire 4th year, broke into a sparring with Professor Kaleid during the final exam last semester.

It was like watching a bear, leading a giant and running swiftly with gauntlets on.

And Dorothy Whitefelts saw her when she was chasing Professor Glast.

I couldn’t play an active role because I was overpowered by Yenika, but I belong to the famous Whitefelts family anyway.

She is the older sister of Joseph Whitefelts, the head of the 1st year Magic Department, a girl who is treated as an actual ace of the Pension Department, and one of Professor Glast’s pupils.

However, the twin wizards Tracyana and Patriciana are completely uncharted territory. His name is also long and difficult to distinguish, but he wasn’t even a very important figure in < Failed Swordsman of Sylvania >.

As a mage from the troublesome Bloomriver family, I thought she would have a great role, but the point where the scenario started to escalate was when the twin mages were graduating… He exited without receiving any spotlight.

So, it was necessary for me to personally investigate the person who sent me this absurd letter.

“Tracyana-senpai is famous among the 4th year students for being able to handle two types of high-ranking magic. Not everyone gets the position of the head of the Ministry of Magic, and even the 4th year chief. In fact, even considering that, it’s ridiculous.”

“Hmm, I see.”

A student shelter located in front of the Student Union Building. This place, with numerous wooden tables lined up, is usually full of students regardless of time zone.

However, during summer vacation, the entire campus is quiet. Just because it was in front of the student hall, it was no different. Normally, it is a place where you have to compete to get a seat, but during the off-season vacation, you could rent a place at all.

“Well, there are a lot of bad rumors about the Bloomriver family… but they’re also the place where many advances have been made in the field of alchemy experiments. I’m well aware of that.”

Sitting across from me is Elvira Aniston, the sophomore head of the Pensions Department.

He is a student with a deep passion for learning about alchemy and magic engineering, and he was in charge of managing various reagents and magic engineering supplies in the ‘generation of protagonists’, starting with Taily.

The orange hair that has become sporadic and sticks out here and there shows her personality that is not particularly interested in managing her appearance.

Still, the sharp and mischievous face remains as dainty as a little devil.

“I know about Tracyana-senpai… but I don’t know much about Patriciana-senpai. Rumors abound.”

My sister’s side is also the top of the grade, and she often shows her face in public events like this, so she’s quite famous among the students.

However, the younger brother who sent me the letter said that his whereabouts were more mysterious than expected, and that he did not show up well during class.

After reading through the letter I gave Elvira… With her eyes half-open, she scratched her chin a few times.

“You flew to Ed’s old address?”

“okay.”

“hmm…”

It was on the way to the Glockt House that I met Elvira.

There was someone who was doing something strange, so I went closer and checked it out, and it was Elvira and her party.

As much as Elvira was well-versed in the field of alchemy, she thought she might also know about the Bloom River family, a family closely related to alchemy, so she was just taking a moment.

“According to rumors, I heard that, unlike her older sister, Senior Patriciana is a person who is stuck in the corner of the lab and doesn’t come out. She rarely comes out to undergraduate classes, but I heard that she almost made up for the attendance score with practice scores and self-study written scores.”

“Is that possible?”

“Well, my older sister, Tracyana senior, said that she always came to class, so the difference must have been whether she was the top or not.”

There is no law that both of them will be good at studies because they are twins, but anyway, their natural study heads were similar.

“It’s a rumor I’ve heard over and over again. He’s not interested in rumors about his bachelor’s degree or what’s going on at all, and he’s just immersed in his own research… He’s a typical roommate.”

“…”

“So, you didn’t even know that senior Ed was excommunicated and expelled from Ophelis Hall, so he sent a letter to the old contact network, right?”

“How long has it been since I was kicked out of the Ophelis coffin and you still don’t know that?”

“I’m getting goosebumps too. Isn’t this why you don’t know that the student council president has changed?”

No matter how much, they go to the same school, so how can they be so uninterested in outside news?

Basically, all academic events go out as announcements, and there are many cases in which professors recite it once more in various classes.

No matter how much it is, it doesn’t make sense in reality that you don’t know any news about such a big bachelor… I thought.

“Actually, former alchemists like us have a strange habit. There is something like a romance to set up a secret laboratory somewhere and do a lot of experiments…”

Elvira said, slightly opening her eyes as if confessing a crime.

I know that Elvira also secretly set up a secret laboratory in a corner of the eastern cliff area.

“So, the Pensions Department sometimes provides students’ individual research labs in underground facilities… but that’s not enough, so they set up a separate secret lab in an external space. If they secretly made such a thing and stayed there…”

“Still, you shouldn’t have come to class. Can you stay there 24 hours a day?”

“It is, but…”

Elvira said with a shy smile, as if a new possibility had come to her mind.

“T-Tracyana-senpai and Patriciana-senpai are twins. To be honest, if you just change your hair color with magic, you won’t be able to tell them apart.”

“…”

Did Tracyana attend all the substitutes?

I was wondering why my grades were so good, but was it because I took some classes twice?

“Is that possible with human physical strength?”

“So he must have been the chief. Well, not really, just my guess. Just a guess.”

Elvira went through the letter, folded it in half, and handed it back to me.

“Anyway, just reading the letter, it seems that Patriciana-senpai is strangely righteous. That’s why, you shouldn’t recklessly kidnap and imprison people.”

“Why do you take it for granted that this is all true…”

“No, if necessary, at least one person can be kidnapped and imprisoned. Didn’t you have all the circumstances?”

Elvira, speaking fluently, blinked her raised eyes.

Looking at the seat next to him, a boy was struggling with his arms tied behind his back and his mouth and eyes covered with a cloth.

“Eup! Eup! Eup!”

A slim physique and a gloomy feel. It was Clevius, known as the sword demon of the Nortondale family.

“I’ve been ignoring it with difficulty since before… but I still want to ask.”

“yes?”

“Why is he here?”

Elvira sighed heavily and rubbed her chin.

“I’m making it into a person.”

“…”

“Listen, senior. He’s still really out of his mind. Every time he gets a chance, he spits out gloomy sounds and starts arguing with everyone he makes eye contact with. Last time, he yelled at senior Ed too, didn’t he?”

I don’t mind Clevius making particularly offensive comments.

In the original, he was like this in the first place. Everything is negative and gloomy, which makes me feel bad, but he does it anyway.

“Clevius needs to develop some more social skills. When he gets a chance to meet, he turns off all the lights and sits quietly in a dark corner, talking to himself strangely.”

“…”

“It’s a waste to become a more dignified and cool man like this. That’s why I take him to parties and dress him up in cool clothes. Sometimes he tries to run away by causing a competition with that extroverted atmosphere, but there are a lot of reagents that have a calming effect. Because of that, you can easily defeat them.”

As Clevius bent over in the streets of town, the blindfold that was covering his eyes slipped down.

In that state, he made eye contact with me, and he sent a desperate look and sent a rescue request to save him just once.

“…How long are you going to stay like this?”

“Until you say you’re going with me to the Pensions Department dinner next week.”

“Do you really have to go there?”

“It’s good to build a lot of people, and there’s no better place to train social skills.”

I stared at it for a long time with my dumbfounded eyes, but Elvira didn’t care and let out a snort.

“Also, I also have a desire to go with a normal male student. Because I am a girl too~.”

Saying that and seeing Betsy smile, I swallowed dryly.

When he met Clevius’s eyes again, his earnest eyes were filled with moisture.

Please save me just once. I won’t speak arrogantly again. I will treat you well as a senior without being grabbed by the collar or getting nervous… It seemed that such a message was being conveyed.

I barely averted my eyes.

Being caught up a bit… Not too bad… Clevius…

*[ Magic ability details ]

Rating: Proficient Magister Specialty: Elemental Common Magic:

Quick Casting Lv 13

Mana Detection Lv 14 Fire Elemental Magic:

Combustion Lv 18

One Point Explosion Lv 3 Wind Elemental Magic:

Wind Blade Lv 16 …. Aspect Magic:

Astral World Magical Expression Lv 4

Temper Conversion Lv 3

Death Immunity Lv 0

Time Prison Lv 1 (new!)

Short-distance space movement Lv 0

Forced Gathering Lv 2

Visual Vision Lv 0

Dazzle Lv 1 (new!)

I have already read <Introduction to s*xuality> more than 10 times. Now, I have memorized the order of items for each chapter.

There are quite a few cases where I can’t remember the details, but I thought I had embodied all the big details anyway.

Nevertheless, the growth of Aspect Magic still felt like it was at a standstill. Even if you train for a long time, the magic expression level does not go up.

There are guidelines on how to train other magic fields because they are from the original work, but Aspect magic is really something I have never experienced before.

Therefore, the effective training method had no choice but to learn it by bumping into it with the body.

At least, after reading the book and using Aspect Magic several times in actual combat… A new area of ​​magic was pierced.

Time prison and dazzle.

I’ve seen the time prison used by Professor Glast and Lucy.

It is a magic that completely blocks the movement of the target for a few seconds or minutes. However, stopping the target’s time itself is an action stage, so it cannot affect its body.

It is far from the basics of suppression magic, which is to attack while suppressed. It is a magic that stands out more in terms of temporarily leaving the battlefield.

And another magic, ‘dazzle’.

This magic that temporarily controls the target’s mind and makes it act as desired… Compared to other Aspect Magic, it consumes a much larger amount of mana.

In addition, if the opponent’s magic response level is higher than mine, or if the skill proficiency of Seduction is too low, the control range is noticeably reduced.

If the skill proficiency rises beyond the limit, you can really completely dominate the target, but with a low skill level, you can’t command an action that the opponent can resist.

It is said that by increasing the skill proficiency of seduction magic, you can break the opponent’s reluctance and make unreasonable demands… In that case, the amount of mana consumed would be enormous.

With low skill proficiency, it is only possible to induce the opponent’s movement or naturally disperse the flow of consciousness.

“Hmm…”

This is what I feel every time I look over the Aspect Magic Army’s skills one by one, but they are magic with unbelievable power.

Compared to elemental magics, which are mainly in charge of firepower, Aspect magics are specialized in adjusting the battlefield and creating variables.

It felt like a perfect fit for my fighting style, so I wanted to practice as much as possible.

It was a bit painful to know that I couldn’t use my newly learned magic because I couldn’t use my magic properly right now.

It was when he came to the front of the Glockt Hall, checking the newly acquired magic here and there and checking the increased stats.

“You’re here at last, Ed Rosteyler.”

Stairs leading to the entrance of the Glockt House. A girl sitting in the middle of it and supporting her chin caught her eye.

“…Senior Patriciana?”

“Really, you’re making an expression that you don’t know anything! You’ve read all my letters!”

The first thing that catches your eye is the purple short hair. When the bangs are raised with a hairpin, the pure white forehead is revealed beautifully. Her eyebrows, strong in assertiveness, were narrowed to a snug fit.

“You have camp in the northern forest, right?”

“…”

He jumped up from his seat, saw me and began to stomp his feet and become angry.

“Did you think I wouldn’t know?!”

“Oh, yes… did you know?”

In fact, pretty much everyone knows.

Well, most of the students still don’t seem to have the idea that I’m living such a wild life in the woods, but I wasn’t keeping it a secret.

“Be honest, blow up what the hell they’re up to!”

“…I don’t really decorate. I don’t have a place to live, so I live there.”

“Don’t lie! The dormitory is fine, but you’re talking nonsense!”

“It’s been less than two years since I was kicked out of the dormitory.”

“…uh?”

Patriciana tilted her head for a moment at my words, then sighed again and continued talking.

“I see. I… I’m a little dark in the news outside.”

Having said that, Patricia wiggled her fingers and hesitated. Then she suddenly regains her senses and raises her voice.

I got the feeling that the other person was overdoing something and getting angry, so I listened quietly for a moment.

“Anyway, that’s not really important…! You, a little taller than me, with gray hair tied back… you know…?”

“…”

After hearing that impression, there is only one person that comes to mind. No, it wasn’t a person, it was a spirit.

In other words, he was a high-ranking wind spirit who ran away from the camp as if he had run away from home.

“I saw him walking in and out of camp every day, and not too long ago he finally ran barefoot out of the northern woods!”

“…so what?”

“Once I secured and protected it. I’ve seen him disappearing near your camp every day, not coming out for days, days, and barely walking out every few days! I’ve never seen him eat properly, and he’s in a haggard state every day. Go… You couldn’t even leave the forest as if you were tied to someone! I don’t know what kind of threat he made…!

It’s definitely misunderstood if you just listen to the explanation.

“Always barefoot, without proper clothes… He’s not treated like a human being! That’s why I took this opportunity to take care of him and secure him! If I don’t tell him the truth… I know I’ll report it to the school!”

“Before I explain… that… how do you know the circumstances around my camp so well?”

At those words, Patricia swallowed in vain and her pupils trembled.

“That… someone who doesn’t know anything about the bachelor’s school, how can he know so well about the current situation of that girl who comes and goes to my camp…”

“…what do you do with that!”

“Something like a secret private research facility prohibited by the bachelor level… Did you build it near the forest in the north?”

“…”

I asked as if floating. If there was such a facility in the northern forest, it would surely have caught my eye.

Well, I’m a human first… The range of movement is also limited, but there is no way that Merilda, who manages the entire forest, will not know.

“You saw…!”

You saw and fell asleep and now you confessed, son of a bitch.

Suddenly, magical energy erupted from Patriciana’s surroundings. Now that the situation has come to this, I am going to exercise my skills.

Well, I’m not sure I’ll hurt you… Is it that he intends to seize the initiative in the conversation by pressing down at least by force?

Unfortunately, I’m in a state where I can’t use my magic right now. It was the moment when he was about to reach out to this and that magic engineering supplies in his arms.

― Whoaaaaaaagh!

There was a feeling that the air was splitting in an instant.

The wind blew, cutting between me and Patriciana, and someone else intervened.

The figure of the girl caught in the wind from a long distance… She looked exactly like Patriciana Bloomriver.

However, her eyes are a bit more like a purebred, and her hair is bluish. Everything else resembles Patriciana so perfectly that a first-timer might not be able to tell the two apart except for the color of their hair.

The girl who appeared along with the wind, wearing a large staff in one hand, instantly manifested a law circle and destroyed all the magic spheres that Patriciana had manifested.

―Quagagagagak!

“Kyaaha!”

– Whoa!

Patriciana held on to the railing to brace herself against the raging wind.

The girl who landed with the wind, Tracyana Bloomriver, the senior of the 4th year… Her school uniform was fastened tightly and she looked back and forth between me and Patriciana.

“Sister…! Welcome back! This person…!”

The blue-haired Tracyana trotted toward Patriciana, tugged at her earlobe, and brought her toward me.

“Ahhhh! Ahhhh!”

“Sorry, my brother is a bit immature!”

“Sister! It hurts! Let go of this! Listen to me!”

Tracyana pressed Patriciana on the head and made her apologize.

“It’s because he has a tendency to jump to conclusions on his own. He’s a good kid by nature, so just close your eyes!”

“Sister! It’s not like that! Sister! The camp where this human lives… there… that girl…!”

“You mean the girl you put in Lorail?

Saying that, as Tracyana manifested her magic power, another wind was created, and the girl landed above the Glockt tube.

The girl with a white dress and flying hair is a familiar face.

“…Meryl.”

Merilda opened her mouth to say something, but stopped. Apparently, she doesn’t want to find out that she is her spirit.

When playing at the school, it is Merylda who moves as a human being. It is to be wary of not being able to go to school as comfortably as before after being exposed to the world as a spirit.

Just by talking to a spirit, you can feel the magical energy transmitted through it, and you can instantly know that it is a spirit.

That’s why Merilda in human form doesn’t speak in front of strangers at all.

However, it seems that he tried hard to explain that he was not abducted… It seems that Patriciana’s lack of sensitivity caused her to not properly understand Merilda’s incompletely manifested explanation.

“You, you…!”

Only then did Patriciana startle and look towards Merilda, but Merilda often jumped out and hid behind me.

Patriciana, who was watching the scene, stared at my face and Merilda’s for a while… .

Soon, he lowered his head.

“I’m sorry!!!!”

It would have been nice if the situation was judged so quickly in the first place.

*Patriciana was crying in the corner of the bench with her arms raised and punished.

“I received a letter from the head of Sinir. My mother rarely sends a letter so suddenly, so I was a little embarrassed too.”

Tracyana Bloomriver looked oddly grown-up, unlike Patriciana.

It’s amazing that the looks can be so similar, but the atmosphere they give off can be so different.

“It looks like something very big happened in the Ross Taylor hometown. News hasn’t reached Sylvania yet, but rumors will start spreading soon. Because it was such a huge event.”

Cinir Bloomriver was the one who was at the site of the great tragedy at Roth Taylor Mansion.

I, Ed Rosteyler, who was involved in the case, returned to the academy, so I sent a letter to my daughter who was at the academy to inform them of this news. The letter Tracyana was holding seemed to have just arrived.

“You haven’t been particularly wary of me since you’ve heard the news. Senior Tracyana.”

“I’m on your side, Ed Roth-Taylor. My mother thought you wouldn’t have been a part of the Roth-Taylor family tragedy.”

Tracyana showed me the letter Sinir had sent. It also meant that she trusted me.

“If my mother judged that, then I should believe you too. But if the news is known, rumors and public opinion about you will form within this school. In any case, you also wore the name of Ross Taylor.”

“Will it harm me in any way?”

“Well, we’ll have to wait and see. Anyway, I wanted to put some face stamps on you, and that’s a good thing. It looks like the public opinion of the 4th grade will flow in your favor.”

Tracyana was sitting in the corner of a bench sharpening her cane.

“I don’t know why, but Dyke, the head of the combat department, really likes you. It’s a poisonous species that’s hard to see these days. Dorothy, the chief of the alchemy department, seems to have some antipathy.

“…”

“I’m just asking, what did Yenika do to her?”

“Can I go ahead with no comment?”

“…Yes, I won’t ask. Petrin, raise your hand.”

Ugh, Patriciana raised her hand straight up. She seems to have a bit of authority for her twin sister.

I wonder if there are many things that Patriciana is inferior to Tracyana in many ways. The title Petrin seems to be a nickname…

“Anyway, since you’re in the same boat, I’ll tell you. My mother, Cinir Bloomriver, the head of the Bloomriver family… is attached to Tanya Rosteiler.”

I was taken aback by those words and shuddered. Then she slowly moved her gaze towards Tracy Ana.

It would not be strange if they were destroyed right away. I can’t believe I joined a family like that. Even though I am from that family.

“When the news about the Ross Taylor Mansion starts to come in earnest, public opinion will start to divide even among the students belonging to the various families in the school. At that time, you will have to distinguish between those who are on your side and those who are not on your side.”

“I’ve gotten used to it enough to get used to staring at it with a nasty look.”

“Just disliking a person and considering that person a traitor are completely different in weight.”

He nodded at those words. He was right.

“You can trust Dyke, the 4th year chief. But I don’t know much about Atalante, the 3rd year chief of the pension department. The same goes for Wade, the 1st year combat chief. Just like Rin did.”

“Okay. Thanks for the advice.”

“What kind of advice… it’s just a matter of course. So…”

Tracyana dusted off her clothes and stood up, pulling Patriciana’s cheek. She stood up like that and greeted me.

“Anyway, it’s a pity that the first impression wasn’t good. Let’s see. Maybe… at the next combat practice, or maybe at a joint class.”

I nodded, and Tracyana dragged Patriciana away into the distance. Since she said that she would stick with her as an ally, she seemed like a pretty reliable senior. Although she was rather small in stature.

“By the way… let’s hear how this happened…”

I let the two wizards go and looked back.

Merilda was there, shyly avoiding her gaze.

*

“next.”

A guest room in the grand and splendid imperial palace.

On the sofa in the brightest and most spacious room among them, Lucy Meiril sat still.

The chef, who swept all the jerky in the imperial kitchen and brought it to the table… I was breaking out in a cold sweat.

Lucy Meiril, the rare genius wizard who sent the evil god Mebula back by herself, was lying on the couch, chewing mouthfuls of beef jerky and throwing it away.

The eyes of Selaha, who was sitting across from her, were smiling, but her mouth was not smiling at all.

“…This is not the taste…!”

Lucy Meiril, who has been holding a beef jerky feast for about three hours… He was never satisfied.

She is the person who threatened that Selaha was a first-class guest. The man who had been the head chef of the imperial family for 13 years was breaking out in a cold sweat, and she was in a state of contemplation on how to satisfy this human being.

She had to put up with a throbbing headache while maintaining a smile around her eyes.

This wizard who came to the imperial family as a substitute for Ed Roth Taylor… Lying on the bed with soiled clothes, stepping on the carpet without taking off his shoes… The truth was not usually the truth.

Besides, his appetite is so picky, he only shows a casual attitude even at the grand banquet of the imperial family.

To put it bluntly… Very thick and nasty… !

But Selaha kept smiling without saying a word. She just sits across from her with the tips of her lips quivering.

There’s no dignity whatsoever in what you do… . I kept thinking about sending it back, but I couldn’t.

However, Lucy herself seems to be very dissatisfied with the treatment, so it seems that she will return at any moment.

Of course, if Lucy decides to go back, the imperial family cannot stop it by force. That’s why they don’t actively open their mouths or negotiate something.

It was crazy and crazy.