Book 1 Chapter 31
“It’s my first time coming to Rumeria since enrolling.”
Leo said as he got off the ferry that traveled between Rumern and Rumeria, and Celia nodded.
“Me too. It’s been more hectic than I thought, so I haven’t had the chance to come out.”
Although many Rumern students come to Rumeria every weekend, not many first-year students regularly visited Rumeria yet.
The reason was that they hadn’t yet gotten used to their academic schedules.
Leo adjusted the collar of his uniform.
“Is it quite a strict rule to have to wear uniforms even when you come to Rumeria?”
“I don’t mind. Our academy’s uniforms are well-designed, and being a Rumern student itself is a great honor.”
Celia shrugged.
“Besides, the reason for such a rule is to prevent people from doing foolish things in Rumeria. If you’re wearing a uniform, it’ll be immediately known to the school who’s acting foolishly. So, I heard it’s a rule that many students break. Well, the moment they get caught by a professor, of course.”
Celia made a gesture of drawing a line across her throat with her hand.
“It’ll be a slap on the wrist, though.”
As she said, many students were seen wandering around Rumeria in casual clothes, and quite a few were caught by professors.
“By the way, why did the student council president want to see you and me?”
It was quite strange for the student council president, who was on an assignment, to want to meet them outside.
But Celia had a look of disbelief at the question.
“Are you really asking because you don’t know?”
“I’m asking because I don’t know.”
“Don’t you know who the student council president is?”
“I don’t.”
Hearing Leo’s answer, Celia let out a deep sigh.
As they entered Kurajoo Street, a bustling area, Celia said,
“Chairman Lis, who is the student council president, is the heir to our family! So, he’s your cousin!”
“Really? My cousin was the student council president?”
“Really? Really? How can you not know Lis? He’s the best student in Rumern and the heir to our family!”
“It’s possible not to know.”
Seeing Leo shrug as if it wasn’t a big deal, Celia clutched her head.
While they were talking, they arrived at the accommodation they had stayed in before the entrance ceremony.
Jing- jing-
As they opened the door, a bell chimed.
“Welcome! Ah, you’re students from Rumern! Are you planning to stay for the weekend?”
As the employee asked with a bright smile, Celia said,
“Is Lis Zerdinger staying here?”
“Lis Zerdinger, you mean? Yes, he is staying here. Are you with him? Or do you have a separate appointment?”
As the heir of Zerdinger and the student council president of Rumern, he was quite a celebrity.
Many people visited him without reservation in an attempt to build a connection with Lis.
As hotel employees, they had seen many such situations, so they showed caution.
This was because, as employees of a high-class hotel, they had a duty to provide guests with the best resting space.
“I’m……”
“Oh? Who is this! Isn’t it Celia?”
At that moment, someone in the first-floor lobby called out in recognition.
He was an Eastern man with black hair and eyes, and he approached with a bright smile.
“Senior Li Jamua. Long time no see.”
Celia greeted him with a proper posture.
Li Jamua.
He was a fifth-year student at Rumern.
“Haha! Are we being too formal between us?”
Li Jamua laughed heartily.
“Miss employee. These are our guests.”
“Ah, pardon me.”
“Not at all. Let’s go inside.”
Waving his hand, Li Jamua led Celia and Leo inside.
“By the way, who is this?”
“This is Leo Flove, my cousin.”
“Oh? Are you that famous first-year representative?”
Jamua’s eyes sparkled.
An all-class ability user.
That fact alone was enough to surprise the entire school, transcending grades.
Even in Rumern’s history, where only students with extraordinary talents were admitted, an all-class ability user was unprecedented.
Some current students and professors still considered Leo a fraud.
‘Well, even in my past life, people looked at me strangely when they heard I was all-class.’
Leo, who knew well why people were skeptical, took it in stride.
“You seem like a skilled knight.”
Jamua smiled wickedly, looking at Leo.
“Lis is waiting. Let’s go up.”
Walking ahead, he straightened his shoulders.
“Magic is good, and summoning is good! But above all, the best is this body!”
Jamua struck his chest with his fist.
“If you polish your swordsmanship while supplementing it with magic and summoning, you’ll probably become a great knight!”
Celia nodded at his words.
“That’s right. Leo, you’ve been neglecting your swordsmanship lately.”
“Oh no! That won’t do! You can’t become a great knight if you neglect your training.”
“Really? Celia, how about we increase the intensity of our training a bit?”
Celia, who had spoken out of turn and was now being pushed back, avoided Leo’s gaze.
Jamua, unaware of the situation, thought Leo was passionate and smiled with satisfaction.
“That’s a good attitude!”
“Shut up, Jamua.”
As they reached the top of the stairs, a sharp voice was heard.
“Don’t professors tell you not to talk about academic departments carelessly to dual-class students? Moreover, you’re forcing an academic department on a junior who is an all-class student from the first meeting?”
A Southern woman with light brown skin and reddish-brown eyes was leaning against the wall in the second-floor corridor.
Wearing a Rumern uniform and a badge with a '5' on her left chest, she was also a senior.
With the pattern of a book and a staff embroidered on her right shoulder, she seemed to be from the magic department.
She detached herself from the wall and, with the clack-clack of her heels, pushed Jamua aside and stood in front of Leo and Celia.
“Hello, my name is Torua Yan. You must be Celia? I’ve heard a lot about you from Lis.”
“Hello, Senior Torua.”
Although they were meeting for the first time, Celia had also heard about her from Lis.
She heard that Torua was the top student in the magic department’s written exam in her fifth year.
“And… you must be Leo Flove?”
Torua looked at Leo without a word, then scoffed.
“Professor Ren praised you to the skies, so I had high expectations… What is it? That pathetic amount of magical power? I feel like a fool for having expected anything.”
“Are you calling Leo pathetic right now?”
Celia bristled.
“I’m just stating the facts. So, Leo.”
Clack- clack-
Torua approached Leo and said,
“Quit your knightly and summoning classes right now and focus on magic.”
Torua put her arm around Leo and pointed to the ceiling.
“Leo, look up. Can’t you see your potential shining like the stars in the night sky?”
“I can only see the magic lamps on the chandelier on the ceiling.”
“You don’t understand what I mean. I meant for you to see with your eyes closed.”
“Then I’ll just see darkness.”
“You have the ability to evaluate things intuitively. That’s an essential quality for a magician. It seems you’re a magician by nature.”
Torua was a typical magician who only said what she wanted to say.
“Senior Torua, you just said not to force academic departments…”
“Celia, I’m sorry, but this is a matter of the magic department, so could you not interfere?”
Celia narrowed her eyebrows and asked Jamua,
“Is this okay?”
“Of course not. But she’s a magic fanatic, so she won’t listen no matter what you say.”
Jamua shook his head.
“If the professors find out about this, they’ll have a big fight.”
“But the professors don’t know, do they?”
“They will know.”
“Why?”
“Because I’m going to report it.”
Celia’s face became blank at the touching friendship built over five years of near-death experiences.
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“Oppa!”
“Celia, have you been well?”
Upon entering Lis’s room, Celia smiled brightly and clung to Lis.
Leo looked surprised at the sight.
As a member of the Zerdinger family, Celia, who always had a motto of being neat in appearance and orderly in conduct, was showing a spoiled side that Leo had never seen before.
‘Looking at her like this, she’s definitely a fifteen-year-old kid.’
As Lis smiled at Leo, seeing him act his age, Lis said to Leo,
“So you’re Leo. I’ve heard a lot about you. Is your mother doing well?”
“Yes. Have you met my mother?”
“I met her when she was young. I’ve also sent her several letters since coming to Rumern.”
“My aunt?”
Lis chuckled as Celia looked surprised.
“Your aunt was quite famous when she was a student. You’ll naturally hear about legends as you go through school life.”
“For example?”
“Her leading a group of students to the principal’s office because the dormitory cafeteria’s desserts were terrible is very famous.”
“That was my aunt?”
“So that was my mother, after all.”
Celia’s mouth dropped open, and Leo looked as if he had expected it.
“Yes. Thanks to her, students can eat delicious desserts at the dormitory cafeteria. I tasted the desserts at the time… and as the student council president, I strongly agreed with my aunt’s opinion.”
Chuckling, Lis nodded and said,
“Anyway, I’m sorry for calling you on the weekend. I thought we wouldn’t see each other for a while once we started school, so I called you separately like this.”
“I’m fine!”
Seeing Lis after a long time, Celia acted spoiled and chatted happily.
While looking after his sister, Lis also paid attention to Leo.
‘I can see why Celia admires him.’
As the heir of Zerdinger and as the student council president of Rumern,
Lis was an impeccable person.
Not only his skills but also his character were exceptional.
‘He’s like someone close to being a hero.’
Leo felt that it was only a matter of time before Lis ascended to the position of hero.
“So, Oppa! Which hero dungeon did you clear this time? Who was the hero?”
Amidst a long conversation, Celia asked.
“That’s still classified, so I can’t tell you. But I can tell you that I recovered two pages.”
“Really?”
“Yes. Although one of them is so severely damaged that it’s impossible to implement even the hero’s world.”
Lis said regretfully and checked his watch.
It was already dinnertime.
“It’s already mealtime. You don’t know any hidden gems in Rumeria, do you?”
“No, do they exist?”
“Of course. Do you think I’ve been going to Rumern for five years for nothing? I’ll take you to a truly delicious place today.”
“Wow!”
Celia stood up with a bright smile.
“Leo, is there anything you can’t eat?”
“I eat everything well.”
“Really? I see. You go down first. I’ll organize my luggage and come down.”
Celia hummed a tune and pushed Leo’s back out the door.
From his luggage, Lis took out the box containing the sealed pages of the hero’s record he had recovered this time.
It was an item that should never be shown to ordinary students, so he had to carry it with him when he went out.
Holding the box, which was slightly smaller than his palm, Lis paused.
An unusual wave of power was felt from the box.
‘What is it? Is the hero dungeon I cleared this time going berserk?’
Lis’s expression became tense.
Torn pages were in an unstable state.
Even after clearing them, it was common for them to go berserk again and create hero dungeons.
Lis narrowed his brow after opening the box and checking.
The hero’s record showed no reaction.
‘Wait. Could it be?’
He quickly opened the box of the severely damaged pages.
A small fragment of a page, about a thumb joint in length, was emitting a faint gray light.
Lis was surprised that the page, which had shown no reaction until now, was now displaying its power.
‘What on earth is this…?’
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