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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Yuziro
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Rachel quietly pressed her forehead, where veins were standing vertically.
Though this wouldn’t calm her anger, it was better than doing nothing at all.
After taking several deep breaths, she looked at Adrian again, but he was just staring at Rachel with an incredibly nonchalant face.
“What did you just say?”
She asked again, but no answer came.
With her anger rising further, Rachel asked once more.
“Adrian, I’m asking what you said.”
“Hmm.”
Again, Adrian didn’t answer directly.
He just looked at the students lined up beside him.
The failing class students spoke up on their own.
“We… we will face you in turn!”
“That sounds a bit off, Charlotte.”
The students’ attitude wasn’t much different in its casualness.
Despite the bombshell statement that a professor would represent them in the competition, they showed no signs of surprise or tension.
This time too, they wore expressions of relief.
Their eyes reflected a pure enthusiasm to showcase their skills at least once, even if they lost.
Why on earth? As the failing class…
“Haah…”
Rachel took another deep breath.
There was nothing to gain by throwing a fit in this situation.
Don’t get swept up in emotions.
No matter how angry she was, Rachel now had to secure a magic competition with Adrian.
She moved a little closer to Adrian.
“What are you thinking?”
“Even if I tell you, you won’t understand.”
“…?”
Rachel’s face, which had been full of anger, now transformed into an expression of bewilderment.
Of course, it was true that Rachel and Adrian’s relationship wasn’t good, but wasn’t this blatantly disrespecting Rachel?
Rachel’s teeth grinded.
Crunch.
Originally, they should have been in opposite positions.
But those damn kids all forfeited…
For now, she had to endure.
She had to endure until she got up on the arena with Adrian…
“Help me understand. I don’t get why I have to face the students.”
“The regulations say so, what can we do?”
“Regulations?”
Rachel’s eyebrow twitched.
It wasn’t entirely wrong.
If the representative in a magic competition remained the winner, they could stay in the arena and compete with the next opponent.
Currently, Rachel was the only representative left from the intermediate class, while all the representatives from the failing class were still in the game.
According to the regulations, there would be no problem even if the failing class sent out four students in order.
There was no problem, but…
‘Still, there are unwritten rules!’
Sometimes, unwritten rules were more important than written regulations.
It was an unwritten rule that when a professor entered as a representative, they would face another professor.
Rachel had never seen this rule broken, with her own eyes at least.
“When a professor enters as a representative, isn’t it courteous for the other side to also have a professor face them?”
Though her tone was scolding, Adrian remained calm.
“Courtesy?”
“Yes. Courtesy.”
“What courtesy at this point? Wasn’t it the intermediate class’s lack of courtesy that led to this magic competition in the first place?”
Rachel’s face hardened.
“Let’s say that’s true. But wasn’t the failing class equally discourteous?”
“Then if it’s an incident that occurred due to mutual lack of courtesy, I think it’s odd to seek courtesy now.”
Ah.
I see.
You know you’ll obviously lose if you have a magic competition with me, so you’re trying to buy time by putting forward the students somehow.
Or you’re trying to provoke me now to somehow induce me to make a mistake.
It doesn’t make sense otherwise.
If I could, I’d like to explode magic right in Adrian’s face right now.
But I must endure.
Until we get up to the arena.
Isn’t there a saying that a gentleman’s revenge is fine, even if it takes a little longer?
So, I’ll endure until Adrian steps onto the arena.
I’ll thoroughly trample him in front of everyone and turn the atmosphere around.
“Wouldn’t that be better for you too, Adrian?”
“In what way are you saying it’s better?”
“Isn’t it less embarrassing for you to quietly lose and withdraw, rather than having the image of me subduing all four students and then subduing you as well?”
“Ah. So you think I will lose, Rachel?”
“Isn’t that obvious?”
Hmm.
Adrian smiled slightly.
“Then indeed, it would be better not to accept this proposal. If you don’t accept the condition that a professor can compete, it will end in the failing class’s victory.”
“Ah?”
Realizing her mistake, Rachel hastily closed her mouth.
By this point, she had to clearly recognize and admit it herself.
The fact that in this situation, at least, Rachel was at a disadvantage.
‘This is so infuriating…’
Adrian also clearly knew that his position was much more advantageous than Rachel’s in this situation.
He was leisurely leading the conversation, making Rachel understand on her own that her position was lower.
Like training a dog.
“Ugh…”
Finally, Adrian opened his mouth again towards Rachel, who could do nothing in this position.
“Rachel.”
As her name was called, Rachel swallowed a dry gulp.
She couldn’t help but fear that words of rejection would come from his mouth.
“In exchange for me entering as a representative and competing with you, there’s one condition.”
“Condition?”
“Yes. A simple condition.”
Rachel showed an indignant expression, but that was all she could do.
Given the situation, even if Adrian came forward saying he would impose a hundred conditions, Rachel was in no position to refuse.
One condition was quite better.
“What kind of condition?”
Therefore, Rachel could only give such a response.
Adrian, as if the conversation was finally getting through, spoke with a satisfied expression.
“If you lose, sincerely apologize for your rude behavior towards the failing class. That’s all.”
“Apologize for rude behavior…”
Rachel briefly imagined herself apologizing to Adrian, then shook her head vigorously.
There was an ‘if you lose’ condition attached, wasn’t there?
In the first place, it would be fine if she didn’t lose.
If Rachel won, Adrian would write a resignation letter and leave the Academy.
“Alright.”
“I understand as well.”
And so the contract was concluded.
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“Go, Professor Adrian!”
“Win or lose.”
“Fighting, Professor!”
There seemed to be something strange mixed in the middle, but anyway, cheers erupted from the seats where the failing class students were sitting.
“Everyone who just shouted will get points deducted.”
“…?”
Adrian, who said this as he stood in the center of the arena, was very calm.
If anything, his eyes suggested that he had to do something very troublesome.
A magic competition between professors.
How long has it been since this happened?
The audience swallowed their saliva and tensed up, but the man himself didn’t seem to care at all.
From the opposite side, Rachel walked out.
“Hmm.”
Heinz, a professor in charge of higher-ranked students, stroked his chin beard.
“Magic competitions between professors usually result in a lot of losses, but it’s remarkable that this one came to fruition.”
“It seems there’s quite a bit of bad blood between them.”
“Even so, it must have been a difficult decision…”
Heinz continued the conversation with another professor beside him.
“Adrian of the failing class… He’s become famous for his struggles against the demons who recently infiltrated the academy, but I wonder if he can handle Rachel.”
“But there are rumors that the failing class has been staying at the academy every night lately for special training. So who knows?”
The conversation went back and forth, expressed as euphemistically as possible since Principal Violet was listening nearby.
However, honestly, not a single professor among them predicted that Adrian would win.
If this had been a gambling den, everyone would have bet their entire fortune on Rachel.
Violet was not unaware of this atmosphere. Violet just quietly rested her chin on her hand and thought,
‘Hmm. I wonder how it will go?’
Her eyes, filled with a strange expectation, were focused solely on Adrian.
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In the center of the arena, where everyone’s gazes poured down, Adrian and Rachel quietly looked at each other.
“You must keep your promise.”
Adrian spoke first.
“The same goes for you.”
And Rachel answered with a resolute face.
In that moment when the silence was so heavy that it made one worry the ground might cave in…
“Begin!”
The magic competition that would determine the fate of the two classes began.
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[Time for some grade A action. Kinda short chapter, but Adrian is gonna FUCK Rachel so hard next chapter i can’t wait]
