chapter 14
14 – Hey, come to the Knights Faculty. (5)
“Catherine.”
“…”
The day the princess of the duke goes to the academy in earnest to take her first class.
The atmosphere inside the carriage of the Duke of Roelheim headed for the academy was low pressure.
Leon opened his mouth, looking at his master who pouted.
“How long are you going to be pissed off?”
“huh.”
She said, “I’m angry right now,” with a pouting face as if protesting.
“No, you just entered the academy yesterday. It’s a time when there are many things to do, but the first thing to do is to train magic…”
“Stupid. Insensitive. A eunuch who can’t eat even if given.”
“Hey, really…”
“Really, I can’t believe it. I didn’t expect to be kicked out even wearing match underwear. I think next time I’ll just take it off and go in. I think I’ll react a bit that way.”
“…”
“No. Why don’t you just take it off and give it to me? If Leon doesn’t love you, if you can love even a part of Leon…”
No, this woman is crazy.
“Uh huh. Where did you learn those bad words?”
“huh.”
It’s been that way since morning.
I think it’s because I took the girl who sneaked into my room last night in a princess hug pose, threw her back on the bed in her room, and ran away.
“ha…….”
Leon let out a deep sigh and turned his head to look out the window.
Almost arrived, the whole view of the Prüch Academy comes into view.
There are two types of students: students who pass through the front gate hesitantly as if they are not used to it, and those who pass through the front gate naturally.
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Just by looking at it, you can tell who is a freshman and who is a current student.
‘giant?’
By the way, in front of the main gate of that large academy, a man of the same enormous size was standing.
A man who catches the attention of students to the point of glancing at them whenever they pass by.
A super-tall person who appears to be 3 meters tall,
It was a blond, middle-aged man with handsome sideburns.
Located near the entrance of the academy, right in front of the main gate,
A man standing still staring at the carriage depot.
Who the hell are you waiting for so hard as a stone statue?
And what is it that makes all the people passing by him look surprised?
Soon the carriage stopped and the door opened, and Catherine held out her hand to me.
She still shows off her pouting teeth with her head turned to the side.
Does that mean escorts can’t give up even if they’re angry?
I laughed at that cute gesture, lowered my head slightly, and took her hand.
“Get off, lady.”
“…I’m still not angry.”
“Would you like to do well?”
“really.”
At my calm reply, she grumbles, “That’s mean.”
But I couldn’t care less about her complaints.
It was because the man who had been standing firm took a stride and stopped in front of me.
“who are you?”
“Are you Leon, who saved Her Highness Princess Laura from an unknown attacker yesterday?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Knight dean?”
“You seem to know me.”
“Nice to meet you, Count Krysen. I’ve heard a lot about you from my father.”
“Nice to meet you, the daughter of the Duke of Roelheim.”
Catherine seems to know who this man is.
Seeing her say that, it sounds like a pretty big deal.
Well, to me, he’s just an old man with a vicious appearance that I’ve never seen before.
By the way, the lingering feeling of the words ‘rescuing Her Highness’ from this uncle’s mouth is a bit strange.
If you heard what I did to the princess, you wouldn’t be able to say anything like that.
Could it be that the crazy princess didn’t tell me that she cursed me?
‘Why?’
I’m the one who killed the assailant, so let’s say that.
Seeing as there is no mention of the knight I killed, and no mention of insulting her,
I guess it’s true that I haven’t told anyone else.
Was it because I was ashamed of being cursed at by a commoner, or was it because I was ashamed to say that I had even said thank you?
If it’s not that, I don’t know if it was because he was really sorry for me.
Well, it’s me who doesn’t have to bother Katherine, so it’s a good thing.
‘What the hell is that woman thinking?’
I looked at the old man in front of me with a puzzled feeling.
Then, the middle-aged man looks straight at me with blazing eyes.
“The remaining left arm of the beast, is what you did right?”
“Yes.”
Excluding the dead knight, the only people who were there in the first place were me and the princess.
If the princess gave a rough explanation of the situation, there would be no point in taking it off, so she just answered the truth.
“As expected.”
“I’ve seen Her Highness teach myself, but no matter how genius she is,”
“You’re still not enough to write such a famous move.”
“Ah yes…….”
I don’t know what you want to say.
“So who are you…”
“Hey, I’m late in introducing myself.”
The middle-aged man held out his right hand as if to shake my hand.
Even if it’s the size of the palm of your hand, it’s about the same size as the head of a fairly average person.
I also reached out my right hand and grabbed the man’s hand.
“My name is Ferdinand, Count of Kreisen. By the way, he’s serving as the head of the Knights’ Academy at Prüch Academy.”
If so, this man is one of the hundred sword masters representing the Empire,
Is it the dean of knights, one of the three deans who supervise the prestigious Prüch Academy?
“My name is Leon, the butler who assists the daughter of the duke.”
I can feel Count Ferdinand’s kneading my fist muscles as if he’s trying to check them.
When I removed my hand from shaking hands at the unpleasant sensation, he gave a big nod.
“As expected, it must be you.”
“No, what are you doing…”
“Leon-kun.”
thud!
The Count, who had been touching Leon’s hand like a mad pervert, suddenly knelt down in front of Leon.
Then, while keeping eye level with the young man,
I look at him with a very hot and intense gaze.
“Hey. Do you have any intention of becoming a knight?”
“……Yes? I don’t have one.”
“No, la… Then there’s nothing you can do about it.”
At Leon’s cool answer, the dean of knights brought that serious face to the young man’s face and continued.
“This Ferdinand will propose to you with the hope that you will not refuse.”
What the hell are you trying to say so desperately?
A red-haired young man who tilts his head at an incomprehensible situation.
The Count raised his hands and grabbed Leon’s shoulders, and said while shining his eyes that burned like fireworks.
“Hey, come into the Knights Faculty.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a question mark appeared above Leon’s head.
“……I’m a butler, right?”
“I think we need to talk about that part. Princess of the duke, is it time now?”
“Time is fine. However, the story of the Faculty of Engineering seems a bit embarrassing.”
“Well?”
“Leon is my butler. I don’t like being in a situation where he’s not around, Count.”
clear gaze.
Leon admired inwardly the way she clearly expressed her opinion.
I didn’t know that I would go out so confidently to the top of the academy.
As if he had roughly noticed what she thought of Leon, the man grinned at him with that ferocious face.
“Heh heh. It seems that the lady cares for the butler very much. I understand that feeling. Regardless of social status or profession, it’s hard to find such a promising man.”
“Does the dean think so too?”
“Of course. That’s why I came here to scout myself like this. If you listen to it, it won’t be a bad story to the young lady.”
“… There’s about an hour and a half left until class starts, but I think it’ll be fine if it’s over within that time.”
“That’s enough. I don’t want the princess of the duke to be late for her first class either.”
“The dean asks, but I think it’s polite to listen.”
“Thank you for your consideration. How about Leon?”
“If you’re okay with it, I don’t mind.”
‘It would have been great if you could have removed the word ‘Gun’ from the end of the name.’
It’s correct to nod here, even for the sake of Catherine’s face.
So the three of them moved to a nearby cafe while catching the eyes of the students and staff.
Maybe it’s because most of the students are aristocrats,
There were more than a dozen cafes in the academy.
There are more than 30 premium cafes in the dukedom, less than 10 of them.
After roughly ordering coffee from a nearby cafe, we sat in a private room inside the cafe.
Count Ferdinand, using the two seats alone, gulped down the coffee in front of him and opened his mouth.
“Does the Duke’s lady know about Leon-kun’s strength?”
“……Yes. My magic training partner is Leon, so I can guess his true skill to some extent.”
“There must have been a background for the young lady to be in the 4th class at the age of 20.”
Ferdinand made a surprised expression.
“Then I’ll tell you directly. I want Leon to be a transfer student to our engineering department.”
“……If you say you’re a transfer student, is that what I know right?”
“That’s right. I’m trying to give Leon-kun the privilege of transfer, the only one in the academy’s history.”
“I’m sorry to say this, but I know there’s a big difference between Leon and the undergraduates.”
A middle-aged man nodding his head in agreement.
“Well, that’s true. However, the reason it doesn’t matter is that Leon-kun is already a sword master. The difference in status doesn’t matter in front of him.”
“So, do you have an offer?”
“That’s right. The lady may know, but the academy is run in a deformed structure.”
“I think I know what you’re talking about. I’ve heard that there is a difference in status between professors and undergraduates.”
“You know exactly. That’s right. It’s a chronic problem with all academies on this continent.”
That most of the professors who provide quality education are not of high status.
It was an incurable disease that all academies had.
Educational institutions strive to provide better education for their students.
Create a better environment for that, and bring in better teachers.
Focused on skill and performance,
We spare no effort and passion to improve the level of our students.
But students are nobles. Most of them are children of high-ranking aristocratic families.
No matter how hard they try to capture the atmosphere that ‘a professor’s words are absolute’, the attitude of professors who lecture in front of the heirs of prestigious families is bound to shrink by itself.
However, to recruit only professors from aristocrats, the pay and quality of education vary greatly depending on the level.
In the first place, having a talented aristocrat as a professor was a near-impossible task.
You can tell by looking at Catherine’s father, Duke Julius.
Inviting a yangban, one of only a handful of class 7 wizards in the empire, as a professor?
What a busy person he is.
It is said that nobles who are great enough to provide quality education cannot be called because they are busy from the beginning.
So the three deans of Frueg adopted the meritocracy of eating mustard with weeping.
Talented professors were hired by the academy regardless of status.
At the same time, I tried to save the authority of the professor as much as possible.
However, the descendants of noble families, who had a sense of privilege carved into their bones, did not follow it properly.
“Did you see the history of the professor who came in this time?”
“Ah, Professor of Introduction to Magic Tool Manufacturing?”
“What kind of person are you? Looking at it, he was a baronet. He said he was the president of Balton Corporation.”
“Former president? Ha, that’s absurd. Do I have to learn from someone like that?”
“So. My dad is the one who can buy Balton’s own company if he wants to.”
Of course, there are more students who treat professors properly as teachers.
However, it is also clear that there are students who implicitly or openly look down on professors in this way.
Leon, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, nodded as if he understood correctly.
“I understand perfectly what you mean.”
“Really?”
“In short, those who set up things like foals while their greatest achievement in life is meeting their parents well.”
Leon grinned wickedly, tearing the corners of his mouth.
“Those guys who don’t even know the subject matter, you’re asking for some mental training, aren’t you?”
“……You completely understood, didn’t you?”
Uh huh
When did I say that, man?