Chapter 613
As Yi-Han stepped out the door, Eandurde followed him closely.
"Junior. You need to stay here."
"??"
Eandurde looked at him as if to ask why she had to do that.
Seeing this, Yi-Han pondered how to explain.
"So, from now on, we're going to a place where we don't know what kind of violence the principal might..."
"Don't casually slander people. I've already used up all the violence."
The skull principal interrupted Yi-Han's words and put a bracelet on Eandurde.
It was a bracelet that suppressed the evil eye imbued with the petrification curse and the hair that turned into snakes.
"Is it okay to take her?"
"To adapt to Einroguard, she needs to practice going around as well as studying."
Seeing his growling junior, Yi-Han suddenly became worried.
Surely she wouldn't attack passing citizens?
'I must stop her.'
Yi-Han firmly resolved not to let his junior become an imperial criminal.
"Let's go."
The two students moved their feet, following the skull principal.
The junior sniffed, smelling the people passing by.
"That..."
"That's an ice cream cone. It's ice cream on a baked waffle cone."
At Yi-Han's explanation, the junior's eyes sparkled.
And she immediately took a stance to snatch the ice cream cone held by a passing child.
"Turn to iron, cloak!"
Yi-Han quickly tied the junior's arms and legs with his cloak and transformed it into iron, then urgently whispered.
"What did I tell you, junior? If you attack first...?"
"Ah. Don't attack first!"
"That's right!"
At Yi-Han's words, Eandurde became sullen.
She had wanted to try that snack.
"...Principal. Please give me some money to buy ice cream."
"If you buy everything they want, you'll spoil the child."
The skull principal said this but still flicked an imperial silver coin. Yi-Han went to a street stall and bought an ice cream cone.
"Here. If you need something, you buy it with money. Understand?"
"Money is earned through work."
"That's right!"
Yi-Han felt proud of his junior who was licking the ice cream and saying admirable things as she had been taught.
As expected of a smart kid, she remembered three things when taught one.
"But is it not okay to steal money?"
"...Junior. Let's talk again. So, if you steal money first..."
Yi-Han continued to teach Eandurde on the way to meet the Pengerin family's new student.
The junior understood everything well, but whenever a passing person had something interesting, she forgot the teachings and took a battle stance.
Seeing this, the skull principal made a comment.
"We need to enroll her in Einroguard quickly."
"..."
Yi-Han was worried that his junior might be called something like 'the beast of the Black Tortoise Tower' by her tower mates after enrolling in Einroguard.
She should have many friends like Nillia...
"That..."
"I said no!"
Yi-Han immediately grabbed the back of his junior's neck with one hand and swung his staff with the other to firmly secure the cloak.
The junior said with a dazed look.
"I think we've arrived..."
"...Haha. You have a very good eye! Isn't that admirable?"
Yi-Han quickly let go of his hand and staff and praised his junior.
Eandurde nodded with a grin, forgetting that she had just been misunderstood.
***
The Pengerin family was a family with quite a high reputation in the empire, and as such, the nobles of the family had great pride.
One of the people who inherited this characteristic the most was Alhidle.
How much time had passed?
Finally, having found the answer, Alhidle raised his head.
"I've solved it!"
"..."
"..."
"?"
Alhidle was flustered by the different reaction from usual.
The elders of the family were looking at Alhidle and Yi-Han in turn with bewildered eyes.
"Well done, young Pengerin. But your senior wrote down the answer the moment you lowered your head."
"...?!!"
Alhidle looked at Yi-Han, unable to believe it.
Surprisingly, the paper Yi-Han was holding also had the same answer as Alhidle had given.
Moreover, it was written neatly without any formulas!
'Impossible! This is a trick!'
The skull principal spoke with an arrogant attitude.
"Young Pengerin isn't bad. He might be a bit lacking for Einroguard, but... well... Einroguard isn't a harsh place that blocks a student's enrollment just because they're a bit lacking."
'You're really going too far.'
Yi-Han felt a little sorry when the penguin mixed-blood junior made an expression as if the sky was falling.
Someone like Alhidle could probably achieve grades within the top five in the first year.
It was just that Yi-Han was exceptionally good at arithmetic, not that Alhidle was lacking...
"A-Alhidle isn't just good with numbers. Alhidle is also very proficient with letters."
"Would you show us?"
The people of the Pengerin family brought a thick history book from the Three Kingdoms era without hesitation.
And then they opened a random page.
"Now, Alhidle. Read this."
-As the three kingdoms burned the continent hating each other, the enraged ■■■■■ took revenge...
"Wait."
The skull principal pointed out when Alhidle tried to subtly skip over it, making him stop reading.
"Why are you skipping it?"
"Huh? This is erased so I can't read..."
"It's not erased. Wardanaz? Explain."
"...That's rewritten in the Seoharin Kingdom script. It reads 'Gonadaltes' in Seoharin Kingdom script."
"!!!!"
Alhidle was greatly shocked by Yi-Han's words.
Unlike before, there could be no trick here.
Wasn't it a book that the family members brought and opened!
'There... there was someone more outstanding than me...!'
"What's next? Swordsmanship?"
"Y-yes."
"Bring a sword. Wardanaz."
At the skull principal's merciless instruction, Yi-Han whispered.
"Principal. Isn't this a bit pitiful?"
"Are you saying I'm pitiful for trying to persuade and enroll someone with no particular talent? Thank you for comforting me."
"...No, I mean that junior..."
"You should be thanking me for making him realize his place for free. It's better to realize it now. If he realizes it when he's older, he'll become like Alcicle, would that be better?"
Seeing the skull principal butcher Alcicle who wasn't present, Yi-Han quietly closed his mouth and went to get a sword.
***
After several rounds of competition, the reception room of the Pengerin family became quite quiet.
One of the family elders muttered in a low voice.
"Perhaps Alhidle's talent wasn't that outstanding..."
"Were we too enchanted because he's a member of the same family?"
"Wh-what are you saying! Even people outside the family said Alhidle's talent was outstanding!"
"Maybe it was just a compliment out of courtesy."
"...?!"
Could... could that be?!
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