Chapter 91: Could It Be?
The commotion that arose when the imperial investigation team visited soon died down. Since the investigation team came from the imperial family, they didn’t cause any trouble within the academy or needlessly scare the students.
The investigation seemed to proceed quietly and, of course, our club wasn’t suspected. In fact, since there was no evidence, it was natural for it to proceed quietly. Something had to come up for there to be a commotion, after all.
That was impossible unless Saint Aimar returned to life.
Thanks to that, our club was able to continue living as if nothing had happened, and I woke up to a refreshing morning.
“Yaaawn.”
Was it because I’d been doing a lot of different things lately? It was to the point where I fell asleep almost as soon as my head touched my pillow.
In my previous life, I often suffered from insomnia. It was common to stay up all night preparing for night raids. It was why I hated war.
I hope it never came again. It was where my talents were discovered, but that didn’t change the fact that war was terrible.
“Ki… kreu…”
I could hear Karnas snorting in his sleep, which made me chuckle. He looked so cute sleeping belly up as he was.
Just as I was about to turn him over, I suddenly recalled the sight of Karnas flying a few days ago.
He couldn’t fly perfectly yet. However, it was possible for him to hover in the air by flapping his wings and then land gently. Previously, he couldn’t even properly spread his wings, but this little one was growing too.
“But it seems like your body hasn’t grown much.”
He was still small enough to fit under my clothes. I felt relieved, but also worried.
“Should I try giving him something different to eat?”
I wish I had someone to ask about dragons, but I didn’t. Was it a good thing that he ate everything without being picky?
“Once you can fly properly, let’s try hunting.”
Anyway, since Karnas was also growing, I should prepare to hunt around the Forest of Bonia.
First, I checked the day’s class schedule.
“In the morning, I have a liberal arts class… in the afternoon, there’s a class on summoning.”
Professor Delphineso.
I heard from my second sister, Clare, that she was eyeing me after the special selection test. Clare had guessed that the professor would suggest I go to the Summoning Association with her, but she might suggest something even more serious.
Well, whatever.
I didn’t want to give the impression that I had decided on a career path yet. Summoning was fun, but it wasn’t so interesting that I would want to put everything else aside for it.
“And after afternoon classes, I’ll practice swordsmanship… Once I’m done, I can go straight to the forest.”
That concluded today’s schedule.
“Karnas, shall we go?”
“Kikreuk!”
Just I finished washing up and left the dorm room with Karnas in my arms一
“Dane!”
Priscilla seemed to have been waiting for me, as she suddenly got up from the sofa in the ninth floor lobby and approached me.
“Good morning, Priscilla.”
“Good morning. I’ve been waiting for you to come out.”
I smirked and said, “I was going to get it today. I’ll tell you how to use it later tonight.”
“Really?”
Priscilla was jumping for joy. Was she that happy? After all, love bloomed even on the battlefield. When people fell in love, they changed completely.
“Now I can go out without worrying! Damn disciplinary committee.”
I shrugged. It was already a well-known fact that the committee was keeping a close eye on Priscilla.
Of course, if I got the ‘Illusion Generator Mk.2′ from my eldest sister, Arabella, today, she’d be able to fool the warden perfectly.
“I’ll look forward to it, alright, Dane?” Priscilla winked and asked me as if she had just remembered something.
“Oh, about the Imperial Investigation Team…” Priscilla whispered to me with an extremely anxious expression. “Nothing will happen, right?”
“Yeah. It’ll be fine.”
“Well, that’s fortunate, but… the Theology Department is still in chaos. Actually, if you look at it closely, the imperial family is trash.”
I just laughed at the sudden remark.
“What could Saint Aimar have done wrong? Anyway, I heard that the investigation is also going slowly.”
“Yeah. We won’t get caught.”
“That’s great. Oh, and…” Priscilla asked me slyly. “What is your club’s next activity?”
“Nothing has been decided yet, why?” I asked.
“Well, because it was fun!”
“…”
I wondered if this was still the same girl who was making a fuss about never doing it again.
“I guess I’m a thrill-seeker.”
Yeah, well. Good for her.
“Then why don’t you join the club?” I asked.
“Huh? Really?”
“Yeah. If you haven’t joined a club yet.”
“Sure!”
That was how Priscilla came to join our club.
Hold on.
Did that mean we really had to change the club’s name? Should I insert the word ‘Divinity’ before or after ‘magic summoning exploration spearmanship swordsmanship’? Or in the middle?
“Then, from today onwards, I am also a member of the club!”
“Yeah.”
Well, let’s think about it slowly. The important thing was that someone as skilled as Priscilla had joined.
Before, Priscilla had received Saint Aimar’s grace, and her divine powers became stronger. She said with her own mouth that she was the most outstanding talent in the Theology Department. There was no way she wouldn’t be of help to us.
I’d already gotten Leila and Ernest’s consent. I asked them about it the other day, and they both seemed to welcome it.
“Alright. If you ever need to kill any undead in the future, just say so! I’ll crush all their heads…”
“…”
I just hoped Leila and Ernest wouldn’t learn her manner of speech.
“Anyway, I’m leaving. Oh, by the way, the club room is 506. Here’s the key,” I said.
After handing over the spare key, I took the elevator down. Now it was time to go to class.
“Today’s class is about…”
Since it didn’t suit my personality to rely only on my talent and not prepare for class, I looked over the content of the day’s class in advance.
Basic theory and practice of summoning. Of course, this was something I already knew, but there was no harm in looking into it further.
However, starting next year, I would have to take full advantage of the Autonomous Department’s rules and actively participate in upper-level classes.
“Dane!”
I turned while thinking that there were a lot of people looking for me this morning. I saw Digron running toward me.
“Heuk, heuk. It really is you, Dane! Hello!” he said.
“Uh, hi.”
“I heard the news! Congratulations on passing the special selection exam!”
It felt like it had been over two weeks already. Still, congratulations were congratulations.
“Yes. Thank you,” I replied.
“You’re amazing. I still can’t even dream of passing the official summoner exam… These days, everyone in the department is talking about you!”
Was it possible for a person to change like this? Didn’t he still have some ill intentions toward me? He was acting too awkwardly for someone trying to take revenge.
When I thought about how he kept swearing and threatening to kill me on my seventh birthday, it really was a total about-face from how he used to be.
Well, even if that happened again, I’d be able to handle it. In the meantime, Digron also brought up the association.
“You know the chairman of the Summoning Association, Elgard, who came as an examiner? He’s currently on probation. My senior told me.”
“Probation?”
“Yeah. Honestly, it was an incredibly dangerous test, no matter how you looked at it. My goodness, even if it was a special test, how could you possibly ask someone to subdue a third-class Antares? And he didn’t even actively stop Antares when you clashed with it!”
I tilted my head.
Whatever the intention, from my perspective it wasn’t ‘that’ dangerous. Of course, the probability that the chairman really knew my abilities was low, but in the end, I was able to subdue the summons without getting a single scratch on me.
“Anyway, because of that, Dean Delphineso actively protested, and the association was put in a difficult position.”
“I see.”
Actually, I wasn’t interested in the politics of the Summoning Association. As long as they didn’t drag me into it, I didn’t care. The problem was that I had a feeling that someone would try to do just that, whether it was Professor Delphineso or Professor Temeric.
Sure enough…
“Dane, can I sit next to you?”
“Yeah, if you want.”
I was trying to concentrate on the lecture that was just starting, with Digron sitting next to me, when Professor Delphineso—who had come in to give a lecture—saw me and said, “Dane Sogres? When you’re done, could you come talk to me for a moment?”
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Professor Delphineso was fully prepared.
‘Dane Sogres will now walk only the path of a summoner.’
Specifically, as a summoner who was ‘taught by Delphineso Einz’.
The association that kept bothering her had been muzzled using Elgard as an excuse. She had also beaten Professor Temeric to the punch with the recommendation letter, so he wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Now, all that was left was to further solidify her position as dean and drive the wedge in.
She was talking about an incredibly strong wedge called ‘Dane Sogres’.
‘A member of House Sogres and the disciple of the head of Nixion Magic Tower… he also has a strong backing. This is more than enough.’
Professor Delphineso had no intention of stopping at the position of department dean.
The imperial family.
Her dream was to lead the Summoning Corps of the imperial family, a place where only the best summoner of the empire could be the leader. It was rumored the current one would be retiring soon, and she planned to succeed him, so all of her work now was just to secure that position.
‘If I register Dane Sogres with the Summoning Association, the old folks there will be thrilled.’
It was a so-called sacrifice. A sacrifice for her ultimate advancement. Sure, it was an incredible talent for a sacrifice, but in reality, there was no better sacrifice.
‘If Arabella had acted as I intended, this wouldn’t have happened. Tsk tsk.’
Professor Delphineso clicked her tongue, then smiled. Just imagining the near future could make her laugh.
“He can’t refuse my request.”
Professor Delphineso added a spoonful of wishful thinking here. Since he even tried to score points with her by buying Dessert Set No. 1 from «Pascal Bakery», she naturally assumed that Dane Sogres would also place more emphasis on summoning.
“It’s almost time for him to be here…”
Professor Delphineso glanced at her watch. She told him to go ahead and finish up first, but it had already been ten minutes. He should be there by now.
But as another five minutes passed, the door to the dean’s office remained silent.
Professor Delphineso looked at the door with a look of disbelief.
“Maybe this time… Set No. 2?” Professor Delphineso’s expression brightened. “Oh my, I’ve only eaten one piece of Set No. 1 and I’m saving it… Should we share one this time?”
It was at that moment, as she smiled brightly…
Knock knock.
Finally, there was a knock on the door.
Professor Delphineso replied with a smile, “Come in.”
The door opened一
“Huh?”
The person who came in was not Dane. It was a messenger from within the school.
“What is it?” Professor Delphineso’s expression turned indifferent again.
She looked a bit disappointed, but her expression couldn’t help but change once again.
“Um, Dean Delphineso. I have come to see you for an urgent matter.”
“What is it?”
“Dane Sogres asked me to inform you that he will not be able to attend his meeting with you today.”
Professor Delphineso’s face twisted.
Couldn’t attend?
“What do you mean by that all of a sudden?”
It was a completely unexpected situation. However, the messenger continued to say unexpected things.
“Did Dane Sogres tell you that?”
“N-no.”
“Then?”
“The Imperial Investigation Team dispatched to the Academy… suddenly summoned Dane Sogres.”
“…!”
The imperial family.
At those words, Professor Delphineso’s face began to turn red with embarrassment.
