The Rebirth Of The Hero’S Party’S Archmage [EN]: Chapter 94

Everyone anticipated it, and the next day, Delaiten [the name of the school] was buzzing from the morning commute to classes.

“Hey, did you hear? Insung Gongja is going to crush Griffin Valor!”

“What? Isn’t Griffin Valor a royal club for nobles?”

“I don’t know! Anyway, they say he even quit the student council to crush them?”

Unlike before, when it only caught the attention of the freshmen, even the talented students in the 2nd and 3rd grades were intrigued.

“Wow, that young master is having fun with his school life.”

“It’s good to have something to watch before the festival, right?”

“When is the match? In ten days?”

Those excited voices, carried on the breeze announcing summer, vividly reached Elin Ludwig’s office.

“Even if they’re pathetic, they have ears everywhere, so they must be hearing all the chatter, right?”

When Rain, who was standing across the table in the office, replied, “Yes, I can hear them perfectly,” Elin’s fist landed squarely on his head!

“What? ‘Yes, I can hear them perfectly~’?!! How much more do you want to get hit! Are you out of your mind? What were you thinking when you created this mess!”

“Ack, aack!!! I’m sorry! Please spare me!”

“This Griffin Valor, it’s a royal club with a thousand years of history! My father, me, and your mom and dad are all alumni! My brother even won the national competition with the president as a team!”

But you’re shutting it down?

Even quitting the student council?

Only after delivering a total of fifteen blows did Elin sigh and lean back in her chair as if collapsing, holding her forehead because of the headache.

“Do you know what you’ve done?”

“I’m sorry, Aunt. But I couldn’t back down due to personal reasons.”

“Yeah, you pathetic thing. Go now. You don’t have much time since you have to learn the basics in ten days.”

I couldn’t help but wonder about Elin’s reaction.

Why is she taking this so lightly?

Wouldn’t it be strange if she didn’t ask what the personal problem was?

“Weren’t you angry? About quitting the student council…….”

“You pathetic kid, what’s there to be angry about? Even if my brother or I were in the same situation, we would have done the same thing.”

“Yes?”

Far from being angry, she was even proud that I had made that decision faster than anyone else among the six student council members.

Even in that situation where all the 2nd and 3rd grade executives were excellent.

The reason Elin was angry was because the solution was so reckless.

“Maya’s unreasonable demands could have been easily rejected if you had told the faculty or the president.”

“But… I thought I had to teach them a lesson before it was too late.”

“What?”

“That their magical skills aren’t that great.”

For a moment, Elin’s eyes flickered as she saw her brother’s face overlapping with her nephew’s face. And then, a hollow laugh escaped.

Yeah, that’s what it is.

Like father, like son.

So you also have a fighting spirit stemming from a sense of justice, just like your brother gained everyone’s respect with it.

“90 out of 100 points.”

“Yes……?”

“If you’re a successor to the Ludwig family, you should have that much spirit. That way, underlings like the Ten Great Clans won’t dare to try and rise above their station later.”

Elin gave a sharp smile as her nephew, who had shrunk back as if expecting to be scolded more, tilted his head in confusion.

“But don’t think that this genius professor Elin Ludwig is such a pushover that I’ll go easy on you just because you’re my nephew.”

“……!”

“I’m going to give it my all to protect this club. Come back after training to death, unless you’re planning to tarnish the family name.”

As I bowed my head and left the office, Logan, who had been holding his breath and waiting outside, made a fuss.

“Are you okay, Gongja-nim [term of respect]? You didn’t lose an arm or a leg, did you?”

“She just told me to do my best?”

Logan and Nora exchanged glances and tilted their heads almost simultaneously.

“Gongja-nim seems to get along really well with scary professors.”

“My aunt is my aunt, so it doesn’t matter, but professors?”

“I’m talking about our Great Sasuk [term of respect for a martial arts master]! He’s a very scary person, but he only praises Gongja-nim, doesn’t he?”

“Is that scary? I thought he was a fun person.”

If Owen is the tiger professor of the 1st grade, Elin is the tiger of the 2nd grade, and Marchena is the chief professor of the 3rd grade.

It was a topic that Rain, who was receiving favor from all three of them, found difficult to understand.

Anyway, now that I’ve finished talking with Elin, who could be said to be the biggest obstacle (?), it can be said that the real show is about to begin.

“Alright, then, let’s go find the team members!”

“Roger that!”

“Yay★”

First, we decided to split up and gather the team members. The idea was to have close junior disciples bring each other, and the assignments were as follows:

“Then I’ll bring Lillian.”

“I’ll take Kayden. He listens to most of what I say♣”

“Okay, then I’ll take Wiber. We’re in the same class, so we’re quite close.”

“Yes?”

“Hmm★?”

“Why?”

Because of his uniquely sharp personality, Wiber had few close friends among the junior disciples of the Eight Great Factions except for Kayden.

In fact, Kayden was friendly with everyone because he treated people without being picky about their personality…….

Anyway, for that reason, Logan is now standing in front of the [Sohyang(所向)] class, wringing his hands and hesitating!

“Hey, Lillian……?”

“Hmm?”

“Logan told me to call you…….”

Lillian, who was preparing for the first class, raised one eyebrow and looked at Logan.

Not only Lillian but even the other students were shining their eyes with interest, wondering if there was a fight between the junior disciples.

As Lillian stood face to face with Logan, the tense silence was amplified to the extreme.

“What is it?”

Then, with a foolish smile, Logan, who had been mumbling for a long time to the point of being annoying, finally spoke.

A high-pitched, strained voice.

Logan is nervous.

Even though he has muscles so strong that all men admire him, Logan couldn’t help but follow the law of men, who become pure-hearted in front of the woman they like.

“If you don’t have any urgent business, I’d like to go in.”

In the past, she would have just ignored him and gone in (she wouldn’t have come out in the first place), but Logan mustered up courage at Lillian’s attitude, which was slightly kinder than before.

“Th, that is, well… Re, Rain Gongja is doing magic volleyball, you know that, right?”

“Roughly.”

“The, there aren’t enough team members, so, how about, um, helping, uh, wouldn’t you, haha…….”

I brought up the main point.

Now let’s think about how to persuade her.

Lillian was a heroine who extremely hated wasting time and extremely avoided interacting with others.

Therefore, I judged that she would immediately show her intention to refuse and wondered how to persuade her.

“Magic volleyball team member?”

Surprisingly, Lillian, who was stroking her chin with her hand, seemed to be lost in some thought. Then she gave a very unexpected answer.

“It wouldn’t be impossible.”

“Wh, what did you say?”

“I don’t belong to any club yet. I don’t have time either.”

What’s going on?

Does Lillian like me too?

Was she just being shy all this time?

‘Then shouldn’t I start thinking about how many sons I’ll have?!’

A daughter would be nice, about three of them…….

I worried about how to persuade both the deans and my parents, how to spend my old age, and what kind of grandfather I would be to my grandchildren.

As Logan frowned deeply in thought, Lillian, who mistook him for being suspicious, cleared her throat and shook her head once.

“There’s no need to doubt my intentions. I just owe Rain Ludwig a debt.”

Logan, who was already running a brain simulation of what to say at the meeting, didn’t hear those words.

Meanwhile, in the schoolyard outside the classroom, Wiber, who was slinging a leather bag in a delinquent manner, stretched and said annoyingly.

“Really, school life is a joke. Some people come here and just try to graduate somehow.”

Then Kayden, who was walking to school side by side, scribbled on a notebook with a fountain pen. He is congenitally mute and cannot speak.

[Not an unacceptable reason. The challenge to the student council was from the 3rd grade side, so it’s a bit hard to see it as a joke.]

“That guy is just joking about everything! He enjoys watching guys like us groveling! He got into college easily, so that’s why he says that!”

Kayden tilted his head slightly again. Wiber shook his head with a sigh.

“The final exam was a shame too. If that guy hadn’t been from a powerful family, you would have won.”

Kayden tilted his head slightly once more. His emotional expression gestures were always so trivial.

[I lost because my magic was lacking;; Even if the judges were all adults from the faction, the same result would have come out?]

“No, why do you keep taking his side?”

[I’m not taking his side, it’s a fact.]

I was trying to comfort him somehow…… It was then that Wiber heard the voice he hated the most.

“Kayden, I found you★”

At that creepy voice, Wiber tensed up and cowered, while Kayden looked back at the guy normally.

“The Genius Disaster Gongja needs magic volleyball team members, let’s help him♣”

Nora grabs Kayden’s neck and drags him away as if he doesn’t need consent. But the reply Kayden wrote in his notebook was even more absurd than that action.

[ㅇㅇ ㄱㄱ (Okay, let’s go)]

Wiber, who was blinking blankly, blocked Nora the next moment. Nora smiled brightly and tilted her head.

“Why, are you going to join us too, Wiber?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Are you crazy? Nora is originally like that, but Kayden, why are you helping that kind of guy?”

[I’m helping him because he asked me to ㅇㅇ (Okay);;;]

Ah, come to think of it, Kayden was that kind of guy too. A typical good-natured person who would get backstabbed because he would do anything if someone asked him to…….

Just as I was sighing, I heard the voice that Wiber hated the most.

“Oh, I found you, I found you.”

He entered with the false name of Genius Gongja, but now he is the undisputed No.1 among the first-year students of Delaiten.

Rain Ludwig.

A handsome boy whose family and appearance are unmatched was approaching, waving his hand affectionately as if he had been close for a long time.

“Wiber~ let’s play magic volleyball together.”

Wiber’s eyes narrowed. Is he provoking me now? If not, why is he asking as if it’s natural?

“I refuse.”

“Why?”

“Why… are you asking because you don’t know?”

Rain’s eyes, tilting his head at that question, sparkled purely as if he really didn’t know.

You’re kidding me.

I thought I should make it clear here so that I wouldn’t be bothered in the future.

“I hate you. I don’t just hate you. I’m just sick and tired of the nobles themselves and I hate them.”

So get out of my sight.

I threatened him with a more prickly and aggressive tone than usual, but Rain tilted his head to the other side with composure.

“Why?”

Looking at that appearance, I felt annoyed, no, angry.

“Do you know how my father was able to get from the Rohinum Faction to here?”

“?”

“My father had to do 108 bows for a year to enter the faction! For a whole year, until the flesh on his knees was all scraped off!”

As I recalled the hardships my father had gone through at that time, I raised my voice without realizing it.

The first-year students, who were chatting happily and entering the Yongmyeongwan building, glanced at this side with surprised faces one by one.

Wiber didn’t even pay attention to those guys and threw a sharp look at Rain.

“And even after entering, I had to work like crazy to avoid being kicked out. That’s how I got to this position.”

“Oh.”

“But what about you nobles? You just take everything I’ve barely achieved for granted just because you were born well! How unfair is that? That’s why I hate it, that’s why!”

It was pure anger.

It was also the root of the malice towards the nobles that had been piled up deep in Wiber’s heart…… and the nobles’ reactions when they made such remarks were always similar.

They would shout that it was rude, or they would sneer with a sneer, ‘Then you should be born a noble too’…… There was no logic in the response at all.

‘I’m not surprised because I’ve been through it so many times. I don’t expect it anymore.’

Because for the nobles, commoners were beings with a status similar to beasts.

There was no need to respond.

If a stray dog barks, who would be there to soothe him, asking why he barks so hard?

‘Now they are wearing the same clothes because they are students, but they think that only the appearance is the same, but the roots are different.’

Therefore, Wiber, who had only come this far with effort, was always an eyesore and an unpleasant existence to them.

“You must have worked really hard to be so loud.”

But something was strange.

In the tone of this noble in front of me now…… something was missing. The nobles’ sense of superiority that looked down on the efforts of commoners from the beginning.

“I’m so sad★”

[ㅠ….(Crying)]

Unlike those two bastards who were watching the situation from the side and making fun of me.

“I understand why you hate nobles.”

Instead, Rain nodded as if he had finally understood, and then rattled off words that were hard to understand.

“But with that reason, I don’t need to be hated, do I?”

“?”

“Wiber, how much did you study a day?”

“Twelve hours was the minimum.”

Rain chuckled at the provocative answer.

“Eighteen.”

“?”

“Eighteen hours on average. The time I’ve invested in studying magic every day since I was nine years old. That’s six hours more than you?”

In those eyes and voice that seemed to purely recall the past, strangely, not even a shadow of deception was felt.

Because it was the truth.

As Rin, until he left on his journey, and as Rain, until he entered the school, the boy had always used that time solely for studying magic.

“You said you hate me because you think I got to this position without any effort?”

“……!”

“But when I opened it up, I worked harder? So there’s no reason to hate me.”