Bullied but Popular

45 – Borage return

Tristan’s headmaster’s office at Bollywood Academy.

“You’re here quickly.”

“yes.”

“Why is your face like that?”

“I was beaten by a girl.”

“You’re pitiful for my disciple.”

“……”

Aren took a teleport right from the palace and returned to Boligi Academy.

Principal Tristan looked at Aren’s face for a moment and then said,

“It seems like another accident occurred in the meantime.”

“… It’s like I’m the problem…”

“Well, you have a problem.”

“……”

At Tristan’s confident words, Aren cleared his throat for a moment, then lifted his voice and said,

“Kheuheum! You can misunderstand! But! If you’ve seen me up until now, I understand that you’re misunderstood! But me!”

“This time, you received a marriage proposal from the emperor, right?”

“… I feel bad.”

Aren’s voice lost its power.

Tristan, who looked at the student like that for a while, said as if he was tired, patting his shoulder.

“Among my students, you are definitely the first one who causes trouble like you.”

‘It’s unfair!’

Clearly, Aren was at the center of the accident, but he was never the cause.

Aren felt unfair, but Tristan didn’t care and continued the conversation.

“Besides, the emperor’s work has become a bit cumbersome.”

“…yes, but if I keep saying no…”

“I’m not talking about that.”

Tristan interrupted Aren and took out a letter from his pocket and held it out to Aren.

“This letter arrived this morning, read it.”

“yes.”

At Tristan’s words, Aren read the letter slowly.

‘Jim is Lisbeth Britannia! We will send our academy students to Borage for exchange with Exgent. It will be sent on the day the vacation ends, so the principal should prepare to greet them! more! The emperor of Britannia!’

“……”

“… How is it?”

“… sorry?”

It was an absurd letter.

‘What should I do?’

As if something had happened because of him, Aren noticed Tristan.

On the other hand, Tristan sighed as if he had no intention of holding Aren accountable and sat down.

“Well, there are parts of Emperor Lisbeth’s original thoughts that I don’t know, so I can’t help it. I’ll think about this later…”

Tristan asked, looking at Aren’s attire.

“Homework?”

“… yes?”

“Isn’t that a subspace bag? Take it out.”

“……”

Aren paused for a while and then slowly took out the homework assignments Tristan had given him one by one.

And Tristan looked carefully at each textbook and said,

“… You didn’t do your homework.”

“… Exactly the time to do it.”

“You didn’t even touch it.”

“sorry.”

This one was a bit shameless.

However, Tristan didn’t scold Aren this time either, and said as he covered the textbook.

“Well, it’s still early in the vacation, so that might be the case, let’s do this later.”

“Yes, that’s a good idea.”

“Don’t mess around and follow me.”

Tristan said that and left the principal’s office.

After walking for a while after him, Aren soon knew his destination.

‘Department of Engineering?’

Aren was puzzled when he moved beyond the Department of Operations and into the Department of Engineering, but the building of the Department of Engineering was strange and he began to look around.

“Oh! There are certainly many buildings that are different from the Department of Operations.”

“Aren.”

“yes?”

Tristan called to Aren who had been looking at the buildings for a while.

“Do you know why I called you here?”

“I don’t know anything but dungeons.”

“…Yes, dungeons are also a problem…”

Tristan put on a thoughtful expression for a moment, then said.

“You don’t have to worry too much about being a High Human now.”

“why?”

“I’ve cleaned everything.”

“… yes?”

When Aren did not understand, Tristan elaborated.

“This means that there are no nobles or secret organizations targeting you anymore, and even if there were, they wouldn’t be able to openly target you.”

“… thank you?”

“Why are you questionable?”

“No… I can’t believe it.”

I knew that Tristan had quite an influence in the country, but I didn’t know it would be to this extent.

He might have known if he was on active duty, but he is now the principal of the retired academy.

However, Aren didn’t realize it when you said that you had sorted out those who were aiming for disciples in the past few days.

Tristan said to Aren who couldn’t adapt.

“There is one problem left… but it’s impossible in my line.”

“A place?”

“I’m not sure yet, but maybe I can contact you from Nerestia.

‘Nerestia again?’

Suddenly, the image of Duke Hamel at the party comes to mind.

It certainly looked dangerous even to Aren, but I have no idea why he was targeting him.

‘Because I’m a high human? Or in a dungeon…’

As if reading Aren’s thoughts, Tristan speaks.

“It’s a dungeon. Nerestia has no direct interest in you.”

“…then for what purpose could you come to me?”

“……”

Tristan paused and looked back at Aren with a slightly stiff face.

“Don’t ask me one thing.”

“yes.”

“By any chance… was there an elixir in the dungeon?

“There was.”

Googgit

‘what?’

As soon as Tristan heard Aren’s words, his face hardened like a stone statue.

Aren carefully called him.

“Sir, sir? Why is that?”

“… Ha, that’s the worst.”

Tristan muttered, then looked at Aren and said,

“Who has the elixir?”

“… me.”

“Why do you always cause trouble?”

“…? Is this the right flow of the conversation?”

“Haa… this is so…”

what was the problem

Tristan was lost in thought, his face furiously wrinkled, as if he were really serious.

Seeing this, Aren hesitated and took out the elixir.

“Hey… Shall I leave it to the teacher?”

“… It’s not like taking out something precious like that.”

Tristan straightened up, then turned and walked away.

“You have it, and don’t tell anyone that you have Elisser.”

“… yes…”

what the hell is going on

One thing was clear, it could be inferred that Nerestia wanted the elixir.

‘Who is sick? But is this really that serious?’

He was willing to hand over the elixir if anyone in the ducal family was ill.

Of course, it wasn’t free, and he intended to take as much as he could, but somehow, judging from Tristan’s reaction, it didn’t seem that simple.

While Aren was thinking quite seriously, he heard Tristan’s voice.

“Actually, there’s a reason I called you.”

“Any other reason?”

“Aren, you must have awakened Princess Frey with your ability, right?”

“Yes? Oh, that’s true, but I was always a supporting role, and Frey’s sister made it herself.”

Certainly, Aren’s ability would be of great help to the training of other mana users, but in the case of Frey, it was different.

Frey’s growth as an archmage was the result of her talent and hard work.

After listening to Aren for a moment, Tristan nodded.

“Anyway, it means that training has an effect.”

“Yes, the bigger the room for growth, the faster it grows.”

“Feel so good.”

Saying that, Tristan entered the gymnasium of the Magic Engineering Department.

“huh?”

When Aren entered the gymnasium with him, there were already people inside.

“… Aren?”

“Lilina?”

Aslan’s princess, Lirina Aslan, and Jake, the headmaster of the Magic Engineering Department, were at the gymnasium.

“Why are you so late?”

“It’s late because I have something to scold.”

Tristan answered Jake’s question and looked at Aren and said,

“Aren, the reason I called you is to support Lilina. Please help her train here.”

“All right.”

It was a sudden notification, but Aren accepted without hesitation.

It was because he owed a lot to Tristan.

“Oh, Aren is helping me with my training?”

“Yes, that’s how it is.”

When Lirina opened her eyes wide in surprise and spoke, Aren also opened her eyes wide and spoke fluently.

Jake, who was staring at Aren like that, said.

“Aren Deepus, I have heard of your abilities.”

“Yes, Mr. Jake.”

“Can you do it for me too?”

“yes?”

Aren speaks in bewilderment at Jake’s sudden request.

“I can do it, but it’s hard to expect a big effect for the archmage.”

“I know. I just want to experience your ability once, so let’s ask.”

As Jake spoke in a heartfelt voice, Aren glanced at Tristan.

As Tristan nodded at that gaze, Aren spoke to Jake.

“Okay, so I’ll use my ability, so would you like to cast a simple spell?”

“Sure.”

As Jake went right into the cast, Aren put his hand on his back and used interference.

Interference

At the same time that Aren’s interference reached Jake’s mana, his magic was manifested.

whoops

“…… Right.”

Above Jake’s hand was a fireball that emitted twice as much heat as usual.

After observing the fireball he created for a while, Jake removed the magic after a while and looked at Aren and said,

“Thank you, thanks to you, my thoughts are organized a little.”

“No. It’s nothing.”

“No. It’s true that your ability is great, especially for a wizard, there is no power that is as good as your ability.”

“is that so?”

“Yeah, maybe to the Magic Engineering Department…”

“stop.”

Tristan cut him off when Jake suddenly said something nonsensical.

“What kind of nonsense is this old man talking all of a sudden?”

“Tristan, it’s because you don’t know this child’s abilities. Aren’s abilities are for wizards…”

“It’s okay, go out, Aren will help you with Lilina’s training.”

“… It sucks.”

At Tristan’s banquet order, Jake looked at Aren as if he was sorry, then turned and left the gymnasium.

Or not, said Tristan, looking at Aren and Lirina.

“Lirina, as you’ve probably heard, Aren helped you in your training.”

“Yes, Mr. Tristan.”

“And Aren.”

“yes.”

“You, the person in charge, should know better than what I’m talking about. I want you to help Lirina train in your own way.”

“All right.”

Aren nodded as if it were natural.

Seeing that, Tristan laughed and added one last word.

“When Lilina’s training is over, Aren will come and practice right away.”

“… Didn’t you hear me?”

“You heard correctly.”

After that, Tristan left the gymnasium.

“……”

“… It’s been a while, Aren, isn’t it a long time?”

“Yes, how are you, Lirina?”

As soon as the awkward air flowed, Lirina greeted first, and Aren also responded happily.

“But Lirina, why are you still at the academy?”

“I decided not to go back this time, there’s also the assassination case…”

“Hmm, I’m sure it’s safe here.”

Lirina was attacked by an assassin on the last field trip.

That had happened a while ago, and going back to Aslan was certainly dangerous.

No matter how much the king trusted him, it was better to avoid Lirina returning to Aslan as much as possible unless his protection was perfect.

“I can see why I was called.”

“Yes… I’m sorry for me.”

“No, even if I wasn’t Lirina, I should have come to the academy anyway. Never mind.”

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Lirina needed strength to protect herself.

Perhaps she asked Jake to train for her own preparation according to her own advice, and the news came to Tristan and to herself.

Aren recalled the conversation with Lirina the other day.

‘I said I wanted to become stronger.’

Mental strength, not just physical strength.

Aren stood up and looked at Lirina and said.

“Go hard. Don’t cry.”

“Yes! Thank you!”