Book 3: Chapter 111

Book 3: Chapter 111

Chapter 111

The morning after the exam had ended, Tenji was sleeping soundly in his bed when he was abruptly awakened by his phone's vibration.

"Hmm?"

Rubbing his heavy eyelids, Tenji checked the screen of his phone that had been placed next to his pillow, only to find an unfamiliar number displayed on it. Tenji always made sure to register the name, number, and guild of his contacts, so it was rare for him to receive calls from unknown numbers.

Puzzled, Tenji answered the call with his groggy voice, "Hello, who is this?"

"It's me, I heard about your report from Chigo," said a rough, unmotivated voice on the other end of the line.

"Leon-san!?" Upon hearing that gruff voice, Tenji immediately recognized who it was. He couldn't believe that he was receiving a call from Leon, and without thinking, he pushed aside his blanket and sat up straight on his bed.

"Why are you so surprised? Also, what time is it over there?" Leon asked.

"Well, I'm surprised... It's 5 in the morning," Tenji replied honestly, still feeling shocked.

"That's why you sound sleepy. Anyway, I heard you defeated Black Keroberos," Leon said matter-of-factly, even though it was still early in the morning.

Tenji couldn't help but smile wryly at Leon's familiar pace and replied, "Yes, it was quite a struggle, but I managed to do it."

"I heard the details from Fuyuki. You still have a long way to go," Leon said.

"I'll keep working hard," Tenji responded earnestly.

"Just keep growing with Chigo. I talked to Limey myself. It was lucky that we settled it for a hush money of 2 billion yen."

"2 billion yen!?"

"Well, don't worry about such a small amount of money."

"Huh? A small amount of money? 2 billion yen..."

Upon hearing Leon's crazy sense of money from the moment he woke up, white steam rose from Tenji's head.

"You defeated Black Keroberos... So, you've reached about half-first grade level of strength, I guess."

"Well, my physical ability is still equivalent to that of a second-grade explorer. If I use summoning, it would be about half-first grade level. I still have a long way to go."

"I see. For now, don't come back until you can beat Black Keroberos with ease, that's all."

The call ended abruptly, as usual, leaving Tenji with no choice but to smile wryly.

"Let's go back to sleep...Oh, I should have asked about the Nine Kings. Well, I'll ask next time."

In his air-conditioned room, Tenji crawled back into the warm bed and went back to sleep for a while.

Waking up a little later than usual, Tenji was making breakfast for Chigo, who was sitting in the living room with her stomach growling.

Chigo didn't seem to have the idea of making it herself, so she had been waiting for Tenji to wake up.

"Chigo-chan is like a pet."

"Munch munch... Why?"

"If you're hungry enough to make your stomach growl, you should make some bread yourself. You're just waiting for me to wake up, like a cat I used to have."

"Hmm... oh, the scrambled eggs are delicious today."

Chigo, who didn't seem very interested, was eating the scrambled eggs on her plate with plenty of ketchup. She spread jam or something on the bread and enjoyed it."

"That egg, yesterday on the way back, the kitchen truck guy gave it to me saying 'I have some leftovers'. I think he wanted to say 'congrats on finishing the exam'. It looks like a pretty fancy egg, doesn't it?"

"Mmm, this is delicious," said Chigo, continuing to eat with single-minded focus. Once finished, she flopped onto the sofa and lay on her back, turning on the TV and lounging around.

She really was like a cat.

As she leaned in to look, for some reason, the two of them showed an unsatisfied expression.

"W-what is it?"

"Anyway, take a look at this."

Fuyuki showed the tablet, and Tenji's reaction was also a "Huh?"

There are exactly 45 first-year students enrolled.

Although it was a different exam, the results were displayed in the order of the 45 students.

1st: Demilia Garcia 5246 points'

2nd: Carlos Torne 2123 points

3rd: Mohammed Pyne 1658 points

4th: George McToine 1298 points

5th: Amagi Tenji 977 points

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The voices of the three people hummed together.

They never imagined they would get a single-digit ranking out of 45 people, and they groaned "Hmm" at the result.

To be honest, it wasn't their original goal.

But...

"Nice job, Tenji."

"Well, it can't be helped. Why don't we celebrate today?"

The two of them seemed happier than disappointed.

And it made sense.

Tenji had been unfairly evaluated for a long time. These two had spent enough time with him to not like it.

They were happy because they knew how much it meant to Tenji to be truly evaluated.

Although the result was somewhat frustrating, Tenji chose to smile and accept it.

"I got 5th place for the first time in my life. By the way, how many points did you get when you were a first-year, Fuyuki?"

"109,878 points."

"What is that..."

Fuyuki, who had obtained the best reward in the history of Mallorca Esquela, was indeed a monster outside of the norm.

Knowing this fact, Tenji and Chigo involuntarily reacted.

Thus.

After completing the first half of the program at Mallorca, Tenji finally climbed up to level 5.

And Tenji finally opened the second gate to hell.