Chapter 176 : Chapter 176
Chapter 176. Academy Faculty Meeting
“Does that make sense? Applying to all majors.”
Professor Cailin of Alchemy said as if it were absurd.
He was feeling a sense of despondency doubled by the joy he felt when he discovered Radel's major application in his office.
The image of Radel asking questions while visiting the Alchemy Workshop came to Cailin's mind.
How much are these materials, do you sell magic tool blueprints as well?
If I apply for a patent, how are royalties managed?
They were questions befitting an Alchemy major student more than anyone else.
Cailin thought while listening to Radel's questions.
He's totally won over!
But that was only his own delusion.
The only consolation was that other professors were feeling the same way.
“During the career counseling yesterday, he did say something like that.”
Professor Marianne said.
Yesterday, when Radel asked if he couldn't major in all subjects, Marianne didn't react much.
Because she naturally thought it was a joke.
She had heard students say they didn't know which major to choose, but saying they wanted to major in everything was a first.
Even for a student who loved studying, there was no such case.
At Professor Marianne's words, Professor Thomas asked.
“Something like that?”
“He asked if he couldn't major in all subjects.”
“I see. Radel was already……”
Professor Thomas's eyes sank.
Radel wasn't a student who was greedy.
It was clear that he genuinely had all majors in mind, beyond just a double major.
Free thinking that breaks the mold of common sense.
Isn't that Transmutation Magic itself?
Thinking he was indeed a coveted talent, Professor Thomas shut his mouth.
Other professors were also sitting in their seats, thinking deeply.
Professor Cailin offered an opinion first.
“Let's get the application from Radel again. I think we just need to persuade him to do a double major.”
“Persuade? Is there really a need for that?”
Professor Lilian actively voiced her opinion as if she had been waiting for this moment.
“Isn't he doing this because it's hard for Student Radel to choose too? I think it would be fine if the professors decided for him instead.”
An ominous light was emitting from Professor Lilian's eyes.
Professor Cailin asked with a feeling of 'surely not'.
“What do you propose we do?”
“Of course, we should fight among ourselves.”
Professor Lilian smiled brightly.
This was the opportunity Lilian had been waiting for.
‘Thank you, Student Radel!’
Using this as an excuse, she could fight to her heart's content with professors of other majors.
Professor Lilian's heart swelled with anticipation.
“I agree with Professor Lilian! If a student is lost, naturally a professor should guide them. Let's decide that he follows the majors of the two victorious people among us! Hahaha!”
Professor Donton, who wanted to battle with the strong no less than Lilian, came forward to support her.
It was the moment Cailin and Marianne opened their mouths simultaneously.
“That won't do.”
“That makes no sense.”
Just then, a suspicious voice flew from somewhere and intervened among the professors.
“What won't do?”
Startled by the sudden presence, the professors looked at him.
“Principal!”
It was the Principal of the Imperial Magic Academy, Cromwell Bondis.
As the professors recognized him, Cromwell wore a suspicious smile on his lips and made an expression that was wicked beyond measure.
“An Academy Faculty Meeting. Would it be right for me to be missing from such an event?”
Even the professors who had seen Cromwell for a long time flinched at his sinister tone.
Although he was a principal devoted to the Academy and cared for students more than anyone, that suspicious atmosphere was something they never got used to.
Hearing the whole story from the professors, Cromwell's smile deepened.
He opened his mouth slowly.
“Hmm, indeed. He took the Academy very lightly……. To think he would make such a choice.”
It was a cruel smile that would make even a devil cry.
* * *
Radel was called to the Principal's office and was sitting facing the Principal.
POUR.
Cromwell, the Principal, said to the golem pouring tea from the side.
“Give this student hot cocoa. Very sweet, with plenty of marshmallows.”
The content should have been fine, but when the Principal said it, the atmosphere became strange enough to make one wonder if he had put something in the drink.
However, Radel already knew what kind of atmosphere the Principal had, so he didn't mind much.
Watching Radel receive the cup with both hands and express gratitude, Cromwell asked.
“Student Radel, why did you submit applications for all majors?”
“I apologize if I offended you. But my feelings are sincere.”
In the end, Radel couldn't choose a major until the end.
Because he liked all of them.
Furthermore, while having career counseling with Professor Marianne, the thought of wanting to take all majors became clearer.
‘I want to tell you to choose Summoning Magic, but you have sufficient talent for other magic as well. I recommend a double major for you.’
A situation where even the supervising professor acknowledged his talent.
It meant Radel hadn't started this thoughtlessly.
“Do you mean you are truly sincere……? Fufu, someone comes to mind.”
Cromwell opened his mouth with a gloomy expression, laughing.
“Quite a long time ago, there was a student who walked the same path as Student Radel. That student with outstanding talent had such a strong will to explore magic that he ended up making a wrong choice.”
“A wrong choice?”
Cromwell closed his eyes.
“That is correct. He ended up choosing all majors just like Student Radel. Thinking of the bloodstorm that swept through the Academy due to that, it is truly a pity. Because professors of all subjects engaged in a bloody battle to have him.”
Radel seemed to know who the student in the Principal's story was.
This story must be the story of the Principal's school days, not anyone else.
Because he knew from listening to seniors that the reason double majors were created in the Academy was because of the Principal.
“I realized then. Stop, please stop! No matter how much you want to have me, it was undeniably inappropriate behavior for professors to act like this among themselves. To think division occurred in the Academy due to one student's outstanding talent…….”
From some point, the Principal was continuing the story referring to the narrator as himself.
“That wasn't all. The wound of having the student they tried so hard to obtain taken away must have been great for the professors. They kept avoiding me. Ah, what an unfortunate event this is. They simply couldn't bear to see me become someone else's direct disciple.”
Cromwell lowered his head and bit his lip as if regretting it.
“There was only one way to soothe their hearts stained with scars, and that was to major in all subjects. Becoming a disciple of all professors. For that, that student repeats graduation and admission.”
In the history of the Academy, the Principal was the only person who completed all majors while postponing graduation.
It was an achievement accomplished by an unrivaled genius.
Not stopping there, Cromwell rattled off unheard-of anecdotes one after another.
Stories about how the professors adored him so much that they gave him so many assignments he didn't even have time to see the professors' faces.
Even a story that later, the professors entrusted classes entirely to him and didn't even show their faces.
The more Radel listened to the Principal's story, the stranger he felt.
‘Doesn't this somehow seem like the professors avoided the Principal……?’
Why did the image of past Academy professors fighting duels to tell each other to take him because they were too afraid of the Principal come to mind?
However, Cromwell was deeply immersed in his own story.
“Thanks to the professors trusting me and entrusting classes to me, I ended up becoming an excellent assistant. And I came to realize my destiny as an educator.”
Cromwell crossed his arms and shuddered.
Perhaps he got goosebumps at his own outstanding past.
“The joy of watching students grow! Learning magic was fun too, but nothing was as enjoyable as watching students grow dazzlingly under me. How commendable it was to see them doing the assignments I gave them. Fufu.”
Radel inwardly expressed his condolences to the Academy seniors the Principal would have taught.
Somehow, it felt like he should.
“The memory of suffering back then remained with me for a long time. And when I became the new Principal of the Academy, I made a resolution. That things like the past should not happen.”
Cromwell looked at Radel with a dark smile.
“Now, here is a question. What is the school rule I changed first after taking office?”
Surely……?
At this moment, even Radel couldn't help but have his heart pound.
Cromwell opened his mouth with a wicked expression.
“Student Radel, did you think there is no course in the Academy where you can learn all majors? You took the Academy very lightly.”
As he waved his staff, a piece of paper fluttered and flew in front of Radel's eyes.
There, it was written like this.
‘Integrated Major Application Form’.
* * *
Integrated Major.
A major system changed directly by the Principal so that it could be used if a student like his past self appeared.
But it was also a system that had been dormant until now because no one applied for it.
It was unknown to the extent that even Academy professors didn't know about it.
Because no matter how outstanding an Academy student was, there was no case of choosing all majors.
But here, there was a student choosing that path.
“Fill it out and bring it by tomorrow.”
“Yes. Thank you, Principal.”
Radel accepted the Integrated Major Application Form joyfully.
And it was when he was about to leave the Principal's office.
KNOCK KNOCK.
“Principal, I have returned from the errand.”
An unexpected figure appeared in the Principal's office.
It was Professor Bronson Sendert of Mana Training.
Errand?
It was strange that the Principal asked for an errand, but it was also strange that the person doing it was Professor Bronson.
Professor Bronson raised his eyebrows as if unexpected upon seeing Radel, then flinched in surprise upon seeing the Integrated Major Application Form in Radel's hand.
There is someone really trying to do this?
It was a school rule he had only seen in passing when he became a professor.
Unless one was crazy, he wondered what kind of guy would do such a thing.
But to think that was the disciple guy taking his lecture.
“Hello, Professor.”
“You…… can you really do it?”
When Radel greeted him politely, Professor Bronson pointed to the application form with his chin.
But Radel had a face asking what the problem was.
“Of course.”
Professor Bronson was lost for words for a moment but regained his senses and greeted Radel.
“If you are going to do all that, you won't have time in the future. It was fun meanwhile.”
“What do you mean. I'm going to take Mana Training in the second semester too?”
Radel grinned and said.
Taking not just one subject but all subjects, and he says he will take Mana Training too.
It was an absurd remark, but he didn't feel so bad about it.
The corners of Professor Bronson's mouth went up slightly.
At the same time, an alarm rang in Radel's ear.
[The target's Affinity surpasses 5.]
[The target's Affinity has become 10.]