Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1062

But that’s not my fault.

Despite recalling it, Headmaster Skull was quite brazen.

If you had a prior engagement and wanted to use him to help with magic during the holidays, you should have taken him away yourself.

You did such things under Professor Verdus yourself, so you shouldn’t complain when it happens to you.

“Magical slave?”

Lad, it’s just a metaphor.

Lee Han glared at Headmaster Skull.

After all the trouble of filling Einrogaard’s empty vault?

“No, Headmaster. You brought Yukveltire out even though he had other plans?” Professor Garcia asked in disbelief. The fifth-year student’s eyes sparkled with hope.

Thankfully, there was one wizard here with a sound mind.

Indeed. But Professor Garcia, let me explain. Yukveltire is not innocent. Last year, he tried to kidnap a professor. The year before that, he tried to kidnap a friend. If you use a sword, you should expect to be hit back, right?

Unfortunately, Professor Garcia’s point was immediately argued against.

Yukveltire’s past had caught up with him.

Did he make a proper arrangement with Wodanaz? Didn’t he act badly using his senior authority?

“Gasp!”

“Ah, no. It’s not like that,” Lee Han answered, embarrassed, as Professor Garcia looked at him doubtfully.

Of course, Yukveltire was annoying, but at least this time, he wasn’t threatened by authority.

Professor Garcia, don’t believe him! He kidnapped Wodanaz before, and Wodanaz still ended up as his student! He can’t make normal judgments if he can just learn magic.

“That was the Headmaster’s doppelganger…” Lee Han argued, but Professor Garcia was almost convinced.

Yukveltire’s hands trembled with anger towards Headmaster Skull, realizing he had completely lost.

A great wizard who hates Headmaster Skull will probably be born later. Even though he didn’t use magic to see the future, Lee Han could somehow see it. He spoke to calm his senior down.

“I’m pretty much done with what I was doing. I’ll help with the research.”

“But the time that flew by can’t be made up for.”

“Do you want to do it for the rest of the vacation, or just leave?”

Yukveltire thought for a moment before answering.

“It’s better to do it for the rest of the vacation.”

“As expected, you are smart, Senior,” Lee Han said. Professor Garcia quietly approached Alsicle.

Alsicle huffed.

“To leave a person behind!”

“Shhh! This is not the time for that.”

“Such shallow tricks won’t work…” Alsicle was even more furious at the typical Einrogaard tactic.

Wizards from Einrogaard were excellent at all sorts of underhanded schemes. One of them was to deceive people by making a fuss as if something big was happening.

Such tricks only fueled Alsicle’s anger, as he had been tricked by graduates several times already.

No, this is really not the time for that. You need to worry about something more important.

Alsicle paused when even Headmaster Skull spoke seriously.

Gonadaltestes was a great archmage, and no matter how relatively close Alsicle was to him, his respect did not fade.

Alsicle held back his anger and asked.

“Why?”

Professor Volardy is convinced of what happened on the last expedition and is trying to blame you. Goodbye.

Headmaster Skull didn’t want to be caught by Alsicle, so he disappeared immediately.

Professor Garcia panicked alone.

“Still, it’ll be okay! Just don’t wander around alone!”

I should have just stayed in Petrograd. Alsicle deeply regretted it.

What glory did I come back here for!

“Wow! It’s Alsicle!”

“Ack!” Alsicle’s difficult time was still not over.

Alsicle stumbled into the grand mansion. Dusty portraits of old wizards stared down from the walls as he climbed the wide, marble staircase. He saw a golden-eyed girl he had seen a few times and was horrified.

Why is Princess Jaurin here?

“Alsicle! Wyvern play! Let’s play wyvern! Where are you going! Let’s play with Jaurin!”

“Wodanaz! Wodanaz! Help me!” Alsicle frantically flapped his wings, looking for Lee Han, the contractor who could at least stop this dragon.

The second-year students admired Alsicle as he covered the stairs with ice to create a shortcut and zoomed down, turning them into a slick, glittering slide.

“That’s amazing magic.”

“It’s even cute!”

Alsicle barely managed to find Lee Han on the first floor. Wodanaz was gathered with other friends, chatting.

“Wodanaz! The Princess is trying to kill me!”

“Huh? It’s not that bad. Why are you making such a fuss…” Lee Han knew what wyvern play was.

It was a game where Alsicle was thrown up in the air, and Alsicle flapped like a wyvern.

“Don’t you know that human form is harder to control strength than dragon form? Do you want to see me smash into the ceiling? And if I smash like that, Volardy Begrek will come and stab me right away.”

Instead of saying, ‘Hey, it’s not that bad,’ Lee Han looked seriously troubled. Alsicle was even more terrified by that reaction.

“You have to say it’s not! Why are you doing this?”

“I think you should be careful of Professor Begrek…”

“I’m staying here for a bit.” Alsicle sat down between them, and the second-year students said firmly.

“Don’t touch the treasure.”

“Treasure?”

“Wodanaz raided a bandits’ fortress and brought back treasure. We were auctioning them off.”

What the heck happened in the meantime??? He had wasted quite a bit of time in Petrograd, but he never thought there would be so many changes.

What the heck happened in the meantime?

“Alsicle, could you close the drawing room door?”

“Ah. Do you need a quiet place?” Alsicle hurried up the stairs, his small legs moving quickly. But Lee Han shook his head.

“I’m worried about my senior’s gaze.”

Only then did Alsicle realize that Yukveltire was standing blankly outside the door. It was a persistent determination to get his junior into research without wasting even a second after the auction was over.

Adenart was so ashamed that she hung her head low. She wanted everyone to forget that they were sisters.

“C-can’t you tell him to come in and wait?”

“We don’t want to.”

“Frankly, I’m bothered by my senior.”

Cold-hearted bastards. Alsicle shuddered at the cold reaction of the second-year students.

Alsicle was a specialist in ice magic, but compared to the reaction of the second-year students here in Einrogaard, the cold he handled was rather warm.

“You’ll change your mind if you hear it too. Here. Listen.” Alsicle began to explain about Yukveltire’s journey.

First, Yukveltire, realizing that his perfect vacation research plan had been ruined by Headmaster Skull, reacted calmly despite the shock.

Oh, no! Yukveltire! To think that your magic would be disturbed by such an evil archmage. Let me be your servant and help you instead!

A friend volunteered, but Yukveltire refused. This was not something a friend could help with.

“Wait. Wait. Something’s weird from the start.”

“Why?”

“If it’s a friend, isn’t it Senior Diret? There’s no way Senior Diret would say that…” If it was Diret that Lee Han knew, he would have definitely said this.

Well, what can I do? I can’t help you during the holidays. Complain to the Headmaster.

“Really? Anyway, that’s what I heard,” Alsicle shrugged. Lee Han had no choice but to listen to the obvious lie.

What a despicable person. Such lies when he’s not here. Anyway, after shaking off his clinging friend, Yukveltire arrived late in the capital.

Since Lee Han had left a week earlier, there was bound to be a time difference no matter how quickly he flew.

“But as we know, we went to Petrograd.”

“We did.”

“Petrograd was better than I thought. There were a lot of unlucky guys, though.” The friends who were listening chimed in.

The experience of visiting Petrograd was quite a shock to the students here in Einrogaard as well.

“That’s a relief. From the way the Petrograd wizards are talking, it seems like the exchange meeting will be held. If Einrogaard and Petrograd do it together… is it the Pitah Festival?” Alsicle remembered the old name.

The exchange meetings of the imperial magic schools each had their own names.

When two schools did it together, when three schools did it together, and so on…

The name of the competition between Einrogaard and Petrograd was definitely [Pitah Festival].

Lee Han, who suddenly became curious, asked.

“Did Einrogaard and Kalarogaard ever hold an exchange meeting between the two of them?”

“Yes. Walpurgis Night.”

“Einrogaard and Valdrogaard too?”

“Uh… it was definitely an imperial magic school friendship exchange meeting.”

The students were taken aback when a suddenly businesslike and cold name came out. Lee Han regretted asking.

“Anyway, the Princess arrived late in Petrograd.”

Surprisingly, Yukveltire was already acquainted with the Petrograd wizards. Considering his grade and skill, it would have been stranger if he didn’t have any friends.

“So you talked and then chased after me?”

“No. The Petrograd wizards told me to leave. As you know, the relationship between the Einrogaard Enchantment Magic School and Petrograd isn’t very good.”

I don’t know!?

Lee Han was dumbfounded, but unfortunately, there was no one to explain it to him.

“A commotion broke out, so I went out and stopped it. We shared magic stories and showed each other artifacts to calm everyone down.” Alsicle’s excellent magic, outstanding career, and cute appearance were excellent at calming people down.

When Alsicle stepped in to help, the Petrograd wizards put aside their old grudges and allowed Yukveltire to enter. Yukveltire also praised the artifacts of the Petrograd wizards.

“Oh.”

“So the Princess asked where you were, and the answer was that you had gone ahead?” Lee Han suddenly felt uneasy.

Why did he feel uneasy when the atmosphere was warm?

“What happened?”

“I immediately pointed out that the Petrograd wizards’ artifacts were trash…”

“I didn’t point it out.” A senior who was standing outside, whose face was not visible, argued. Alsicle ignored him.

“I pointed it out. In fact, it was more of a harsh criticism than a pointing out.” Alsicle, thinking it wouldn’t work, quickly slipped out with Yukveltire.

It was not good to have a fight break out in enemy territory.

“Uh, but Alsicle. Listening to it, it seems like you only suffered, but you’re still taking Senior’s side?”

“I suddenly felt sorry for him when I thought about him being abandoned.”

“Senior Yukveltire! Come inside!” Lee Han quickly opened the door and changed the subject.

“So what do I need to do?”

“What we’re going to work on this week is combining these two magics.” Yukveltire laid out dozens of magic circle diagrams on the table and began to explain.

His eyes seemed to be slightly blazing, perhaps because of his mood.

“Combining these two magics is not easy, so you better be ready. Specifically, all the bounty hunting and other things…” Lee Han brushed it off and took the important diagrams.

“Just a moment. I’ll be back after asking something.”

“Stop…” Yukveltire panicked, thinking that the evil junior was trying to escape with the evil escape he had learned from the evil Headmaster Skull.

But unexpectedly, Lee Han returned not long after.

“I’ve redrawn the magic circle here. He said there were some mistakes in the existing magic circle.”

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