A Genius Boy Who Was Exiled From His Family Home for “Not Being Able To Use Magic” Becomes a Witch’s Apprentice and Masters All Magic in the Right Way. This Is How You Use Your Magic, You Know?

Chapter 105.1. The Struggle Ahead

“Why…!?”

After lunchtime, in Class A.

As usual, the class is continuing with self-study, and in a corner of the room, Clyde von Helmut’s agonized voice echoes.

What his bitter gaze is fixed on is—

“Katia-sama!”

“Katia-sama, I just heard from Hermes-dono that your recent strength is due to his guidance. Is that true!?”

“Please, share those crucial insights with us too!”

The students of Class A, whose attitudes have changed since the inter-class competition.

Students who claimed, “We lost because Class B was strong”, now gather around Katia von Trakia.

Due to her remarkable performance in the final moments of the competition, she’s the only student in Class A whose reputation hasn’t fallen, but rather has risen. As a result, she’s becoming the new central figure in Class A.

“Don’t rush all at once. I’ll listen, so please, one at a time. …If you have the will to learn, Herm will teach you without discrimination. But, keep your manners in check. Herm is… mine, after all.”

She responds to the students with a calm voice. On the surface, she seems composed, but deep down, she’s probably mocking herself for having her central position so easily snatched away.

Clyde decides so and becomes irritated with his own assumptions.

Meanwhile, he is glared at coldly by the students swarming around Katia.

They say things like, “He only talked big but couldn’t do anything.”, “He easily fell for their provocation.”, and “He delayed Katia-sama’s participation out of selfishness.”, treating him as if he were the one responsible for their defeat.

(Don’t make me laugh…! That inter-class competition was a class battle; the responsibility for losing lies with the whole class, trying to pin it all on me is just so petty and dirty!)

In reality, these Class A students aren’t trying to pin the entire blame on Clyde alone, and had they won the competition, he was ready to take all the credit for himself—yet he shelves that thought and burns with anger as if he’s forgotten it altogether.

But now, he cannot express that anger.

“…What shall we do, Clyde-sama?”

The remaining students of Class A approach him.

The ones who won’t admit defeat and are loudly voicing their dissatisfaction. From Clyde’s perspective, they are the students who “are still sane”.

“It seems those ignorant students still believe that Class B’s victory was legitimate.”

“It’s ridiculous. There’s no way that’s true, is there?”

“Absolutely. …However, the fact that we can’t find definitive proof is also true. What on earth are the teachers doing?”

“Ah… you’re absolutely right.”

The students affirm Clyde’s thoughts. Sharing in their words, Clyde’s anger flares up again.

“No way, could the teachers of this prestigious academy have become so senile…! It seems I’ll have to do something about it!”

After that inter-class competition.

Of course, Clyde didn’t accept the results. He became convinced that Class B must have used some underhanded methods—and immediately went to negotiate directly with the teachers. This is a serious matter; it’s bound to harm you as well. You must interrogate the students of Class B immediately, especially that suspicious man named Hermes, and make him confess.

(And yet!)

Despite interrogating Hermes thoroughly with a large number of teachers, they couldn’t extract anything.

Class B united and resisted the teachers, resulting in no testimonies being obtained.

Moreover, Hermes even left evidence of the coercive interrogation, turning the tables and using it to fan the flames of parent dissatisfaction. Clyde cursed the teachers outright for their incompetence at that moment.

And without a doubt.

The central figure in all this is— the man from Class B.

“Hermes…!”

Calling out his name, Clyde furrows his brow even further.

Unlike Clyde, who is continually spoken ill of, Hermes’s reputation keeps rising.

The key contributor who led Class B to victory, the Trakia family’s hidden treasure, the mentor who transformed Katia from a flawed lady into the greatest magician of her generation, and so on.

How blind can they be, he thinks.

That man only gave cunning instructions from the rear during the inter-class competition. Even with his bloodline magic, he couldn’t resist Katia at all in actual combat.

How could such a man be praised throughout the academy, surpassing me, and gaining the respect of so many people?

…Those who praise him say:

He’s a person with a new, unprecedented perspective. He wasn’t just called a prodigy for nothing. He’s the one bringing fresh air into this academy.

With him at the center, they say, “This academy might change”—

(Don’t be ridiculous!!)

What Clyde can’t stand the most is that.

It’s fine for the academy to change. The signs of that have been there since Astar’s decline, and Clyde himself believed this academy should change.

But—

(This isn’t it. This way of changing is absolutely wrong. Above all, why am I not the one leading this change?!)