Chapter 251

Chapter 251

Actually, until now, Taedi had not worked on this giant magic very seriously either.

It was just a process of preparing little by little since she had to revive the Dead Forest someday.

……Above all, she had simply shown it to Roan because she had nothing to do during the immediate remaining time.

However, seeing the student show such enthusiasm, Taedi also felt energized as a teacher.

‘Indeed, Student Roan is really kind. No wonder it felt like he listened to my story impressively last time!’

Was this what they called the communion between a clergyman and a black mage?!

‘Ah, Student Roan is a black mage too.’

……Thinking about it quietly, it was simply communion between fellow black mages.

She shouted, clenching both of her fists.

“Alright! Let’s try it together!”

“Yes, the Legendary Quest!”

“Legendary-grade what?”

“I mean roughly that let’s make the Dead Forest into a legend.”

“Oh, yes!”

In that way, the professor and the student willingly threw themselves toward dozens of magic circles.

“Professor, what is this magic circle?”

“Ah, that is for dead cells……”

“This one?”

“That is to materialize the region……”

“Ah, then for a magic circle like this, at my level, we apply it like this……”

“As expected of Student Roan!”

The two sharing opinions and analyzing magic circles on the sea of black magic!

‘Delightful, the Legendary Quest!’

‘Delightful, the class!’

However, since they had already consumed a lot of time, the remaining time was literally nothing but crumbs.

Slide─

“……What is this again?”

Harden, who visited McGodal Hall to send Taedi back, clicked his tongue seeing the absurd situation taking place inside Room 101.

It was clearly quiz week, but weren’t the professor and the student waving their hands over some giant parchment.

Moreover, as Harden was also a clergyman at base, seeing two black mages happily and joyfully discussing black magic twisted his stomach.

“Ah, Principal, are you here already?”

“We aren’t quite finished yet……”

Flash─!

“Kyaak!”

“Ugh.”

[Ugyaak!]

The two black mages and the one dragon rolled on the parchment, holding their eyes.

“Every time you meet, what is so delightful, and what makes you work so hard?”

‘Wasn’t it good for him too if they enjoyed and worked hard in class……?’

Roan was curious, but in case he was hit by holy power again, he did not say it out loud.

Meanwhile, Harden, who scanned the parchment wondering what on earth they were doing, glared at Taedi.

“Professor Taedi……”

“Wh-Why are you acting like that, Principal?”

Taedi trembled, wondering if she had done something wrong.

……Actually, as a black mage, it was normal to tremble like that in front of a Holy Spirit.

It meant it was not something to ask lightheartedly, “Why are you acting like that?”.

“Were you conducting the freshman quiz with this sort of thing?”

“Ah? A-, ? ! , !”

Realizing that Harden was having a massive misunderstanding, Taedi jumped up and waved her hands.

Then she hurriedly took out the artifice cube from her pocket and explained.

“The quiz was to solve this cube up to Stage 3, and this was just to use as a reference and to study……”

“And to obtain advice?”

“Yes, because Student Roan is smart…… Eh?”

Caught right in Harden’s leading question, Taedi blushed.

She had been caught spreading a giant magic circle and asking for the opinion of a novice black mage when she was the Lord of the Dead Forest.

Harden clicked his tongue and said.

“No matter if you are an invited professor…… you need to take a class on teaching methods.”

“Oh? Will you let me take it?”

“…….”

As Taedi asked innocently, Harden was conversely lost for words.

He had only said it to tease her, but thinking about it, he could not let a black mage formally take the Acherandir teaching course.

Just then, Roan cut in between Taedi and Harden and said.

“Principal, an ancient sage said that if three people walk together, there is bound to be someone to learn from.”

“Which ancient sage? At least I have never said such a thing.”

“…….”

He could not bring himself to say, ‘He is a person named Confucius on Earth.’

“I saw in a book that roughly such a person exists.”

“See? I told you Student Roan is this smart!”

“……Isn’t it a novel?”

At the sight of the professor and the student collaborating to argue back, Harden let out a sigh.

Somehow, the bond between professor and student, and the enthusiasm for class that he had wanted when establishing Acherandir, were best shown by these two.

Did he really have to invite more black mage professors.

“Whatever. Anyway, now that class is over, you return too, Taedi.”

“C-Can’t we do a little more?”

“Why are you working so hard when you aren’t even getting paid! Do it in moderation, in moderation!”

As Harden cut her off sharply, Taedi pouted her lips.

Still, since she did not want to die, she folded the large parchment step by step.

Harden reached out his hand and opened a portal in a corner of the classroom.

Woooom─

“Then see you next week, Student Roan! Study while resting once in a while!”

“Yes, safe travels, Professor!”

“What safe travels when it connects directly to the Dead Forest.”

The Principal throwing cold water on the warm farewell between professor and disciple!

Anyway, once Taedi returned to the Dead Forest, only Roan, Harden, and the two holy beasts remained in Room 101.

“You guys leave quickly too. The Principal has to clean up the remnants of black magic you’ve made.”

Although the dark mana would not escape outside because he had set up a barrier, the inside had to be cleaned.

At Harden’s words, Roan also remembered something.

“Ah, Principal.”

“Why.”

“This time, you must leave a moderate amount of dark mana. Hearing Professor Kaina’s words last time, being too clean also raises suspicion.”

Harden frowned deeply.

Clang──!

“!!!”

Kyaooong─!

He then emitted holy power much stronger than usual.

Roan and Bel were startled.

“Impudent fellow! As if the Principal wouldn’t handle it on his own!”

“Y-You are absolutely correct.”

Roan nodded, feeling his entire body throbbing.

He had not really intended to act impudently this time, but had only conveyed information he heard in class.

‘At any rate, his mind is excessively narrow for a Holy Spirit.’

Roan politely bowed to Harden and called Bel and Charlotte.

“Let’s go now. Without bothering the Principal.”

Whether receiving Harden’s holy power twice in a row was quite a burden, Bel could not climb onto his shoulder as usual, but nestled in Roan’s arms, groggy.

Charlotte was a normal holy beast, so there was no problem.

As Roan was about to leave McGodal Hall, he suddenly found one more narrow-minded aspect of Harden.

‘This time, my eyesight didn’t even improve!’

If improving his eyesight every time he was bathed in holy power was a consolation, it was a consolation, but this time it seemed he had simply shot holy power…….

* * *

Leaving McGodal Hall, Roan headed directly to the Great Temple of Nerchiora.

Since it was now club activity time, he planned to take Sion and go to the club room.

In the distance, the grand facade of the Great Temple was visible.

In front of it, a familiar pink-haired girl and a blond boy saw Roan and made a gesture of recognition.

“Roan~ Here, over here!”

“I know without you jumping like that.”

Thanks to Demona’s fuss, Roan was able to walk while receiving the minor attention of other students.

“Is your class completely finished?”

“Yes. The quiz ended early, but she let us out right on time to teach us a few more simple holy spells.”

Assistant Anne was famous for filling the entire class time unless there was a significant event.

For ordinary students, it was not very good, but for named characters aiming for growth, she was a wonderful teacher.

“Really, if it’s a quiz, shouldn’t she let us out a bit early? So tight……”

Since Demona belonged to the category where even ordinary student tasks were too much, she naturally did not like Anne’s method.

It did not really matter.

Since Anne also disliked Demona anyway.

Roan asked Demona.

“And did you pass the quiz?”

“Ah, of course~”

Demona nodded cheerfully, as if asking why he would even ask such a thing.

It was slightly unexpected.

As the quiz for light attribute class was on the quite difficult side.

“Ah, what the quiz was about was.”

“Wasn’t it illuminating a darkness fragment?”

“?”

Sion, who was about to explain the content of their quiz for Roan, tilted her head.

How did he know that?

It was just as Roan said.

Darkness fragments, which only appeared in specific terrains, possessed the property of absorbing light, and in this world, they were used to make things like sunglasses or light-blocking plates.

If one could overcome that property and make it bright, they passed.

Just then, Demona said to Sion.

“You silly Sion!”

“Y-Y-You, what did you just call me……!”

Sion turned red with anger to the tip of her head.

It seemed her face heated up to a shade much redder than her hair color.

To think she heard the word “silly” from Demona, her life as a Saintess candidate was finished!

However, Demona said what she had to say regardless.

“Roan’s parents appear in his dreams and tell him! How can you still not know that!”

“You silly Demona! Why would Roan’s parents tell him about our exam?!”

“……Eh?”

Ah, indeed.

Demona pondered like a person caught in a massive self-contradiction.

To be sure, no matter how vast and knowledgeable Roan’s parents were, there was no reason to tell him the quiz of a class he did not take.

After pondering for a while, Demona asked Roan.

“Why did they say they told you?”

Roan clicked his tongue at Demona’s extremely pitiful question.

“They didn’t tell me.”

“What?! Then how did you know?!”

It seemed Demona was more surprised that his parents did not tell him, than that Roan knew the quiz of her class.

“Because the light attribute quiz is the same every year. Did you think I was someone who knows nothing if not in a dream?”

“Y-You weren’t……?”

Thud─

Demona seemed highly disappointed.

Roan gestured with his eyes to Banjjak and the Black Knight standing next to Demona.

It meant to handle it on their own.

“A-Ah! I see! Roan was originally smart, stop it, kids~”

Demona was chased by her own spirit beasts, running around distractedly.

If she spent another year like that, it would not feel awkward at all even if she directly fought in a Sacred Combat.

“Anyway, Sion. We must go to the club room.”

“Ah, yes. Correct.”

Roan and Sion naturally set off, completely ignoring Demona who was running around here and there!

“W-Where are you going! You must go with me!”

“……Our clubs are different, why would we go together.”

“Take me with you! Look at this, ah! It’s dangerous because of my spirit beasts!”

Demona shouted while waving both of her arms frantically to block the attacks of Banjjak and the Black Knight.

Thud─ Bam─!

Waving them at such a high speed and failing to block even a single attack, taking all of them, was also a skill if it could be called one.

‘Getting hit by her own spirit beasts, what does that have to do with us?’

Roan coldly judged that Demona’s demand had no meaning.

Unless there was some danger factor on the path.

Since if the spirit beasts she had to participate in Sacred Combat Club activities with were dangerous, they themselves were completely useless anyway.

……It simply meant he did not want to go together.