#174
Helmut
Episode 174
Immediately after what happened with Teresa, Helmut and Area returned to the dormitory.
School starts soon. Unexpectedly, Instructor Alan bought a meal, so the following arose.
I don’t know when the next time will be, but I decided not to make an appointment.
“Go in well.”
Helmut was unable to ask Area, who waved her hand and disappeared as if nothing had happened.
In fact, there wasn’t even a question that could be asked. There were doubts, but they weren’t that big of a deal.
‘I guess I’ll have to go do some training.’
Helmut, who went to the private training center that evening, encountered Sian and Asuka.
As expected of Xian, who is well-versed in information, he seems to have already picked up Helmut’s story. Asuka waved her hand with a sullen expression.
“Hey, traitor. “Does food taste better when you eat it with Area?”
“I told you. promise.”
“Why are two guys making an appointment? It’s suspicious.”
“I have something to live for. And because Alea doesn’t like you two.”
Xian grumbled at Helmut’s fastball.
“… … “It’s true, but you say hurtful things so casually?”
Helmut, unable to tell where the hurt was coming from, raised his eyebrows and looked at him. Xian sighed and continued.
“Anyway, I think you got into a fight with a female senior at some expensive red bean shaved ice restaurant. “I heard there was quite a stir, right?”
I picked up the rumor in great detail.
“There is a woman fighting Area. “Isn’t that amazing in its own way?”
Asuka noticed something else.
“Yeah, I guess Area’s popularity isn’t what it used to be these days. The older students say that Area’s magical power has the power to attract the opposite sex. Should I say that it has weakened?”
“So your skills have declined?”
“No, I guess it means I can control my magic better. Enough to hide even its unique properties.”
“That is unfortunate news. “But why did you fight?”
The gaze returned to Helmut. Helmut had nothing to say so he kept his mouth shut. This was a tricky part to explain.
“He must be familiar with his job, and if Alea raises her voice… … . Does that girl even like you? So she had an appointment and she barged in?”
Helmut flinched at Xian’s accurate reasoning.
“As expected.”
“Is that senior pretty?”
Asuka asked with shining eyes. Xian lightly poked him in the side.
“How can you trust this guy’s eyes and ask something like that? “Because she’s pretty, she probably went for it with confidence.”
“I can’t believe you blocked me when a pretty senior woman approached me. “Area isn’t helping you.”
Asuka nodded and added.
“I heard that guy is a bit dangerous.”
“What is it?”
Asuka answered Xian’s question, pretending to know.
“That guy doesn’t even have any friends. “It means you can become obsessed with your one and only friend.”
Asuka also had only two people she could call her friends. Sian and Helmut.
“Are you just half as obsessed with me and Helmut?”
“Do you want to get hit?”
The two of them were bickering today as usual. Helmut thought for a moment.
‘It’s obsession.’
Even if it were true, it felt insignificant. Because there is currently no conflict between him and Area.
*
A new semester has begun. It did not start as a grand event. There are just classes.
Helmut returned to the second-year swordsmanship school campus on time, having not been there during the vacation. He glanced at his classmates.
‘Everyone has achieved something.’
Just because it’s vacation, no one slacks off and takes a nap. At Greta Academy, where even geniuses become geniuses, if you do it that way, you won’t be able to survive in the competition.
People came from all over to say hello to him. Being the head of the swordsmanship department is a position that inevitably attracts attention.
“Hey, Helmut. A long time.”
“Did you have a good vacation? “You haven’t been playing all this time, have you?”
“Did you ride a little? “Did you get special training in the scorching sun?”
“I heard there was a rumor that a senior named Teresa, a third-year student in the Faculty of Magic, likes you?”
“But you got kicked violently, right? “Why are you cold?”
I don’t remember receiving a confession or a confession, but it seemed like a similar situation had happened.
If you ask why, it’s hard to explain, but I think it would have been kicked even if Theresa hadn’t been so aggressive and rude.
Why do we have to accept someone’s confession in the first place?
“It’s annoying… … ?”
“Wow, this guy. “Cool?”
“Yes, you have to be at that level to be the top student in the swordsmanship department.”
“But that senior is pretty.”
“If it were me, I wouldn’t kick it.”
The chatter of the guys suddenly stopped. Without fail, Helmut was able to spot Asuka walking from the other side.
When Asuka appeared, everyone fell silent. That wasn’t any different from the previous semester.
“Hey, why do you always walk alone? “I overslept, so I’m going to wake you up.”
Asuka grumbled. It was 1 minute before class started. He narrowly avoided being late. Helmut answered simply.
“Get up on your own.”
Not only was he not kind enough to wake her up, but he didn’t know where Asuka’s room was anyway.
Asuka raised her eyebrows and was about to say something.
“Everyone, pay attention!”
It was instructor Alan. When he appeared, all the swordsmanship students stood in line.
Instructor Alan looked at Helmut somewhat awkwardly and then opened his mouth.
“Is everyone healthy? “You probably didn’t neglect your training during the vacation, right?”
“Yes, instructor!”
A loud reply came back.
“Yes, in order not to fall behind if you had any shortcomings in the previous semester, and in order not to catch up if you achieved excellent grades in the previous semester. I believe everyone worked hard. “Today is the first class.”
In the first class, exams and department schedules are usually explained. It was the same this time too.
“I will briefly explain the department schedule. “You know there will be a summer festival soon, right?”
Shouts poured out. There is no one who doesn’t like playing. Festivals were one of the few pleasures in the intense academy life. If there was a picnic in the first semester, there is a summer festival in the second semester.
“After the three-day summer festival, the midterm exam period approaches. After completing the midterm exam, you will complete a week-long performance assignment. “I will notify you of the details at that time.”
Everyone was excited about the task to be performed.
‘Are you talking about getting out of the academy and doing something?’
Helmut was also curious. Instructor Alan continued.
“Also, at the end of the second semester, a final exam and selection contest will be held. Performance in the selection competition is reflected in the practical score. The number of selected students is 2 total, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years. There are 4 students in total, 2 in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.
The selection competition is conducted among lower grades in the lower grades, and among upper grades in the upper grades. “The method is to hold a selection competition first in each grade, and then hold another selection competition without dividing the top ranked students into grades.”
Someone muttered.
“If it’s Helmut, surely he wouldn’t be in the top two? Even if I face a third-year senior.”
“Maybe so?”
“But the selection process means selection, right? “What are you going to do with it?”
“What else is there after the second semester?”
The answer came from instructor Alan.
“Immediately after the selection competitions, the Academy General Swordsmanship Competition will be held in Baden. “Our instructors are looking forward to achieving good results at Greta Academy.”
The students were upset. This time, even the quiet guys couldn’t keep their mouths shut.
“A comprehensive sword fighting competition? “Wasn’t that originally done without Baden’s academy?”
“Does the temple leave that out?”
“But you’re doing it because it’s okay, right?”
Baden is known as a city of academies, but the academy is not only in Baden.
There were several other academies in the empire or kingdom that could be called prestigious.
Other academies have previously interacted with each other, holding competitions together or sending exchange students.
There was one reason why Baden’s academies were marginalized. Because Baden is a city friendly to wizards.
Above all else, the Magic Academy had nowhere to go after the three in Baden. There were few cities as free from magical research as Baden.
The temple was particularly hostile to magic. The Temple of Lumen was not even allowed to spread its influence in Baden.
There is no way the temple would look favorably on three academies that train wizards who are a thorn in their eyes.
Because of this, other academies under pressure were naturally reluctant to interact with Baden’s academies.
However, even though it was labeled as a prestigious institution, it could not be denied that Baden’s academy was of the highest level.
The temple was pressuring high-ranking officials in each country not to send students to Baden, but few people followed suit.
This is because many people are concerned that they will fall behind other families educationally if they do not send their children to Baden to study.
As a result, those in Baden were the children of major nobles and royal families from each country. Even the temple could not put pressure on them to exclude them.
There must have been some kind of incident recently, and movement at the temple had also decreased. So a new plan was put in place.
I don’t know how many academies will participate, but there have been talks with at least three academies.
The second-year students in the swordsmanship department were excited and chatting.
“It must be fun to hang out with guys from other academies.”
“I have to show Greta that she is the best not only in magic but also in swordsmanship!”
“First of all, you have to pass the selection process. But do you think you will pass the selection process?”
“what? This bastard. “Why the fight!”
Amid the commotion, Helmut was lost in thought.
‘It’s a swordsmanship competition.’
He was the one who made it to the finals in Basor’s martial arts competition.
If he had fought Luke Yeager, he would have won, so even though the finals were a disaster, he is the winner.
Basor’s martial arts competition was on a different level from the academy’s sword fighting competition.
First of all, the prize money at stake is enormous, and even a first-class platinum player may not be a candidate for the championship.
Conversely, in the Academy Swordsmanship Competition, anyone with platinum level skills was the winner.
Since Helmut won the championship at Bashor, winning the academy competition will be incomparably easier.
It was a competition that Helmut could have easily won even though he suffered from an upset stomach and body aches. Somehow, I feel like I have an ongoing connection with the competition.
‘The academies in Baden are wealthy, so we can expect something in terms of prize money.’
With the martial arts prize money added to Darian’s legacy, Helmut became rich. But I won’t turn down the opportunity to earn more.
“Okay, this is two people from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.”
Asuka said confidently. She had no doubt that Helmut and she would be chosen.
I don’t know what the level of other Academy students is, but based on her accomplishments, Asuka also deserves excellent grades.
“This is an opportunity to win both fame and prize money, so I hope that each and every one of you will work hard without thinking that this is something that is far from you. more!”
Instructor Alan finished speaking. From summer festivals to assignments to sword fighting competitions. It was a semester where a lot of new things happened.
Among them, the closest one is the summer festival.
Everything was like that, but to Helmut, festival was an unfamiliar and new word.
Even though I had seen it written on paper, it was something I had never experienced before.
“The festival will be fun.”
Asuka, who had friends to enjoy the festival with this year, grinned.
Helmut merely nodded his head and gave a formal answer.
“okay.”
I felt a little excited.
