CH 397

The next day, Katharina was challenged with difficult arithmetic then answered with ease in an instant, and Mikoto was challenged with military strategy, answered something that even the teacher didn’t realize. Depth of knowledge, memorization, computational power, physical ability, everything is no match for them.

“Those exchange students are amazing!”

“That’s right… You should admit what’s obvious and objective.”

The majority of the students also recognized the abilities of those international students. They certainly have a sense of pride and self-esteem. But they have to admit that those international students are ahead of them in some respects.

In the first place, they were transferred to the 2nd year of secondary school, but it had not been a year since they started attending Caan Knight’s National School. They don’t know how long the international students have studied at the capital’s academy, but it’s highly likely that they’ve been working hard at their studies longer than all of them.

Instead of being envious or not acknowledging the other party, they should acknowledge the other party and make further efforts to catch up and overtake them. This school has such a school culture, and the students understand it and are working hard.

It’s true that they were shocked to see the ability of the international students this time, but the majority of the students were positively thinking that they should try harder from now on and do their best to surpass them.

“Hmm! I won’t admit it! It’s just that the subjects they’ve tackled and the content they’ve challenged so far have all been their specialties!”

At the Caan Knight’s National School, students learn broadly and shallowly in various fields and subjects in the primary and secondary classes. Even if you find something that suits you and specialize in it, it will be evaluated properly, and it is okay to cover everything broadly and shallowly.

If you want to become a bureaucrat, you need to know more than just your professional duties. Just because you’re a diplomat doesn’t mean you should just be good at talking to others, and if you don’t understand domestic and military affairs to some extent, you won’t be able to successfully negotiate or make concessions.

Just because you are a domestic affairs officer, it is not enough to know only about agriculture, and if you do not know about military administration and disasters, you will not be able to make a production plan or a stockpiling plan.

On the other hand, if you are going to be a researcher, you will be fine with the minimum necessary knowledge of other things. They would mind being so ignorant that even everyday life would be a problem, but magic researchers don’t need to be familiar with the domestic or military administration.

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At the Caan Knight’s National School, at the same time as learning the minimum basic knowledge broadly and shallowly, it is important to show and learn what you are good at, what you like, what you are aiming for, and how you will study. That’s why even if you specialize in one art, you can accept what should be accepted, and you can accept what can take in a broad and shallow sweep of everything

“Hans, are you still saying that? Even if it just so happened that was their specialties, even if their skill was in only that one facet, we should still recognize that, right?”

“I know that! But should they be recognized so quickly? This may have just been a matter of coincidence!” Hans yelled back.

He also understands the reasoning. But his heart is not convinced. He can’t help himself.

“Besides… those five may have been amazing in their areas of specialty, but there’s still one who hasn’t shown her abilities yet.”

“””Ahh……”””

Everyone scratched their heads and cheeks and averted Hans’ gaze. A person who should not be touched, who has already been known throughout the school in just a few days… she has a messy head of hair that hides her face and wears a mysterious tool called glasses over her eyes. They don’t know if the “lenses” of the glasses is slightly colored or if it is too thick they can’t see through it, or what kind of face is underneath them.

Moreover, it’s not just her appearance that’s strange, they have no idea what she’s good at. Judging by her appearance alone, she looks like she doesn’t exercise at all, and she doesn’t look like she’s smart either. It seems to be the only weakness among those international students, but the reality is that her appearance is so bad that no one even tries to touch her.

“Alright! I’m going to compete with that Glasses Girl in today’s physical education! Then I’ll peel off their facade to the twisted truth within!”

“Stop that,” Eduard said.

“It is better if you stop,” Bernhard added.

They had been silent from the conversation until then, and only just to stop Hans. Everyone looks at them in surprise.

“What do you mean?” Hans asked.

“What I said on the face of it,” Eduard answered Hans without looking away from his textbook.

“If you don’t want to die, don’t do something you don’t need to,” Bernhard added.

At that, the classmates gulped down the lumps in their throats. They were terrified that Bernhard, who was asleep and hardly speaking except during class, would say that in a completely normal tone as if explaining fact.

“Hah! I don’t know what you’re saying… am I going to get killed by that Glasses Girl? There’s no way that’s possible!” Hans yelled.

As if to deceive the fear that had sprouted deep in his heart, Hans scoffed and took his seat. He’s definitely going to blow away that girl with glasses in today’s physical education class. Hans was even more determined to charge in now.

Today’s class flowed peacefully, and the international students answered easily even if they were asked in other classes. At first, they thought that the subject that had been assigned to them before was just their favorite subject, but no matter what subject or question was asked, the international students were never at a loss for an answer. They all answered smoothly.

“Amazing! Ms. Claudia can do anything!”

“Fufu, that’s not true.”

As a princely girl, Claudia was attracting the attention of the female students, and replied to the female students while brushing her bangs.

“Are you really good at magic, Claudia?”

“No, it’s just like I said at the time. I’m a knight, so I don’t use magic or apply the magical theory. The only thing I’m good at is swordsmanship.”

“Kyaa! And yet you solve such a difficult problem so smoothly!”

“How awesome!”

For some reason, Claudia was being fawned over by the schoolgirls and made a face that didn’t seem the slightest bit bothered.

“Then what are the other international students good at?”

“Huh? Oh, that’s right… Mikoto and Louisa are magicians. And, Alexandra is useless with swords and magic, so she’s suitable for domestic affairs as a civil official. And Katharina is a maid.”

“Huh?!! Are you serious?!”

“Then, rather, the skills that the international students showed….. is that what they can do with their weakest facets?”

If Claudia’s story is true, then so be it. Not to say that she was the least good at it, but even the subjects she was never good at far surpassed the students of the Caan Knight’s National School.

“Then what about that girl?”

“Oh, you mean Charlotte? She’s…”

Bang!

Then, the sound of something hitting a desk resounded. The class fell silent and shivered.

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“Claudia, don’t say too much.”

“Ah, aah… Katharina, I’m sorry… I’ll be careful…”

It seems Katharina warned Claudia who was getting carried away and talking unnecessary things. When they finally realized that, the students began to whisper again. However, Katharina was terrifying and no one was able to speak as loudly as before.

The class progressed further, and finally, it was time for physical education. Hans makes up his mind and raises his hand to talk to the teacher.

“Today, let me spar with Charlotte!” he said.

“Hmm… no… though I suppose you could…”

The teacher closes his eyes when he sees Charlotte. No matter what you say, what’s with taking Hans who has the best physical education results in the Caan Knight’s National School, and putting him up against Charlotte who looks like a laggard on the outside?

“Fine by me. Let’s do it,” Charlotte said.

“””Eh!?”””

Everyone was surprised to hear that the absent-minded Charlotte answered. No matter how you look at it, such a girl can’t compete against Hans. When the surroundings tried to stop her…

“You can’t, Charlotte! You’ll seriously injure him!” Claudia said.

“That’s right! Please stop! You’ll kill him instead of seriously injuring him!” Mikoto said.

“It doesn’t matter if that stray mutt gets himself killed, but if it’s going to cause trouble to you, Charlotte, you should just stop,” Katharina said.

“If it’s me, I can handle him well! I’ll be the one to deal with him in your stead again, so you should stop, Charlotte!” Alexandra said.

“Yeah, yeah!” Louisa added.

““Eh……?””

The exchange students desperately tried to stop Charlotte while saying the exact opposite of why the Caan Knight’s National School students wanted to stop Hans. They can only watch in amazement.

“It’s okay. I understand my opponent’s ability properly. I’ll take it easy and show him,” Charlotte said.

“If you screw up, you can’t take it back! Calm down, Charlotte!”

“If he dies or gets seriously injured, it’s over!”

Hearing everyone desperately trying to stop Charlotte, Hans was trembling. Of course, it wasn’t out of fear. He is trembling with anger because he thinks he is being made a fool of.

“Stop making a mockery of me, damn it! Do you think I’ll lose to this Glasses Girl?! Here…!” Hans grabbed a nearby blunted metal training sword and hurled it at Charlotte.

No matter how much the edge is removed, it’s still an iron rod. You’ll be sorry if it hits you.

“Hey! Look! Look at that! She was able to completely stop it!”

“””Huh……?”””

However… the sword Hans threw was caught between the thumb and index finger of Charlotte’s right hand. What kind of catch is it, pinching it with your fingers to an instant dead stop? Even if you were to hold it between two fingers, the sword would still rotate and turn around from the leftover momentum. Now, it’s totally still.

“Where are you taking it easy?” Katharina said. “Please take a good look at where you gripped it to catch it.”

With Katharina’s words, when Charlotte let go of the sword that she had caught and stopped… the place where she had held it was completely distorted. She grabbed it with two fingers and crushed the iron sword.

“No… this is… um… it-it’s okay fine. It’s only this much, right? If it’s a human opponent, I can do better.”

“””…………”””

No, if it was a human, it would have been a horrific result, right?…….

“Hans… stop the nonsense. Just give up already.

“………… Right”

And Hans’ heart was broken. If you were to be picked up with that kind of force, you wouldn’t end up with just a serious injury. Hans is neither reckless nor just a fool. He can at least understand that it would be foolish to get seriously injured in a place like this and throw away his future and life.

After the physical education class ended, Hans talked to Eduard and Bernhard.

“You guys… did you know that girl was dangerous?” Hans asked.

Only Eduard and Bernhard told him to stop before they even started. He suspected they might know something.

“I didn’t know her abilities. But if you look closely, you’ll understand,” Eduard said.

“Ah? What?”

Hans tilted his head as he didn’t understand what Eduard said.

“At least everyone here should have met her at least once.”

“…… Huh?”

Bernhardt’s words don’t even make sense. What are these two talking about? I just knew that the two of them seemed to know something.

“Say it more clearly!”

“I don’t know what will happen if you keep saying what you don’t need to.”

“Think for yourself.”

“Ah! Hey!”

The two of them quickly changed their clothes and left the changing room as if they weren’t going to say anymore. Left behind, Hans struggles to comprehend their words.

“Hans, were you here this whole time?”

“As always, Eduard and Bernhardt change their clothes and leave quickly.”

Other students came to the changing room after a long delay. Eduard and Bernhardt always come back first and quickly change their clothes and leave. Today, Hans only rushed over to talk to the two of them.

“In the end, I don’t know Charlotte’s ability. What do you guys think?”

“She caught a sword that was hurled at her out of nowhere, caught it with her fingers, and the sword dented, you know? She’s not human.”

“That’s right… I don’t think there are people who can imitate her.”

“But what if it’s the classroom?”

“Or magic?”

“If there is a possibility that we can do something about this, it would be about practicing magic.”

Others casually talk like that. But Hans was reluctant to join the conversation. He doesn’t know what those foreign students are. Hans had just started to realize this and was trembling slightly as if he were hugging his own body.