How to Live Comfortably as an Abandoned Prince

Chapter 227. Start of the Academy Sports Festival

Time passed, and the day of the sports festival arrived.

Radel was expected to be extremely busy from the morning.

Being an integrated major, he had ended up participating in almost all events along with Leon.

Radel found Leon under the black tent used by students of the Black Falcon Dormitory and approached him.

Then he spoke casually.

"Being an integrated major is busy indeed."

Then Leon snorted.

"You? I am participating in all events. To dare discuss busyness in front of me."

As expected of Leon.

Not content with becoming a Summoning Magic athlete, he ended up participating as an athlete in Alchemy, Transmutation Magic, and Combat Magic as well.

Even for Cryptozoology, though he acted as if he wouldn't participate at first, he later registered as a substitute athlete.

"That is correct! There will be no one participating in more events than Prince Leon."

"It will be the first in Academy history, Prince!"

"Oh, what a glorious thing! We will remember today's activities without omitting anything!"

The followers around Leon spread their arms emotionally.

Those who always praised all of Leon's actions had even prepared recording stones, saying they would properly record the Prince's activities today.

"Your followers are amazing. I never imagined they would bring recording stones."

"Those guys brought them on their own."

Still, seeing Leon's reaction of not ignoring them or getting annoyed unlike before, Radel grinned.

"...Why didn't you participate in Combat Magic?"

Leon, who was quiet, suddenly threw a question.

Radel answered nonchalantly.

"There was a reason for that."

Leon furrowed his brow.

"Reason, my foot. You probably weren't confident in your skills."

"Are you sad because you wished we participated in all events together?"

"Shut up."

At Radel's words, Leon clenched his teeth tightly.

He tried to deal with him a little, but he immediately ruined the mood.

As expected, he was a guy with whom mixing words brought no good.

Annoyed, Leon turned around sharply.

"Next sports festival, I'll go out for everything. Don't be sad!"

Radel shouted at Leon's back.

If he was sad, he should just say he was sad.

Anyway, he was a guy who liked to speak indirectly.

Of course, there was a separate reason why Radel did not participate in the Combat Magic event.

It was precisely because of the advice from Beven, the Enhancement Magic professor.

'Aren't you guys Combat Magic majors? And you are an integrated major or something.'

'That is correct, Professor.'

'Good. I have a special assignment to give you.'

The special assignment Professor Beven gave was to do image training while watching the seniors' duels.

The core of this assignment was that to use Enhancement Magic well, one needed to watch the timing of chanting spells.

'Imagine. And master it. Enhancement Magic comes from quick wits.'

Professor Beven emphasized to Radel and Gusto.

'Watching guys with skills similar to yours is meaningless. Because the time when Enhancement Magic is most needed is when you are driven to the extreme where you don't even have time to chant a spell.'

That was the reason they had to watch the seniors' duels, not the same first-years.

Just in time, there was a Combat Magic duel event in the sports festival.

As representative athletes from each dormitory were participating, the level of duels was bound to be high.

It was a perfect opportunity to carry out Professor Beven's assignment.

'The Combat Magic event is the very last one.'

Looking at the timetable, Radel checked the matches in the morning first.

The very first match was the Alchemy Three-Legged Race.

There was something to prepare before the match started.

"I almost was late."

Radel arrived near the stadium.

The first thing he did was to set up a spot.

And he took out prepared items from the backpack and pouch with expansion magic cast on them.

There were large boxes and baskets with preservation magic cast on them.

"What are you doing right now?"

Armandy, discovering Radel moving busily, asked as if it was absurd.

He had just arrived at the place promised with Radel.

Discovering Armandy, Radel greeted him gladly.

"Oh, you came? Let's unfold this together."

Swept away by Radel's words, Armandy moved his body unconsciously.

As they unfolded the boxes and baskets Radel prepared, a makeshift stall was created in front of them in no time.

What is this...?

Noticing the appearance of a stall, Armandy's eyes began to tremble with anxiety.

Why are anxious premonitions never wrong?

Radel looked at his watch and said this to Armandy.

"I have to go now. Just take care of this while I run the match. It doesn't make sense to miss a big opportunity like today."

Did he entrust something to me?

Dumbfounded, Armandy gritted his teeth.

"What are you telling me to do right now? Did you tell me to come out to make me do this?"

"Who else would I ask besides you. Everything needed including coffee is here, okay? Just make ice and put it in. Keep the ratio like this."

Radel nonchalantly put a piece of paper in Armandy's hand.

When Armandy unfolded it, 'Iced Coffee Recipe' was written on it.

"Iced... Coffee?"

"Yeah. Looking at the seniors' reactions last time, it was decent. Oh right, you know it's buy two get one free, right?"

- Announcement. The Alchemy Three-Legged Race will start soon. Participating athletes please gather at the starting line.

"I really have to go now. Anyway, please, Armandy!"

Radel hurriedly entrusted the stall to Armandy and went out to run the match.

Does this... make sense?

Armandy's face clouded with futility.

Suddenly, the fate of having to make and sell something called iced coffee was waiting for him.

* * *

Alchemy Three-Legged Race.

It was a game where participants of the same grade could not join together, and representative athletes unconditionally had to form a team of two.

Because of that, athletes who usually had good relationships with seniors and juniors were inevitably at an advantage.

Otherwise, they couldn't even form a team at all.

"The types are more diverse than last year?"

"They say there are many potions newly developed by Professor Cailin."

"Phew, it won't be easy."

The athletes prepared themselves while looking at the potions placed far away.

Drinking the prepared potions in between while moving forward was the basic rule of this event.

Instead, they didn't know what effect would appear if they drank the potion.

Potions with various effects were mixed, and one of the two had to drink the potion to pass.

There were potions that increased speed or gave energy, but there were also potions that made legs heavy or caused constant sneezing.

Even if a bad effect appeared, cooperation was important because they had to take care of their partner while going.

"What? There's also a potion that makes you lose your sense of direction if you eat it?"

Inette, who came to cheer for Tunia participating as the Alchemy representative and Radel, looked serious.

"Then how do you run?"

"They say there are also potions that increase speed, so fairness is sufficient. If you run while helping each other, you can sufficiently overcome it."

"Hmph. Even so, isn't there only one winner anyway?"

"Store points are given to each team member, and later when all matches are over, the points are summed up to select the winning dormitory. You didn't listen to the rules properly."

On top of that, team members who came in 1st to 3rd place were given a special prize along with store points.

It was the charm potion.

"I know, okay? If you win, they give a charm potion too!"

"Fascinating. It seems you remember that part."

"Is he taking me for a fool?"

"No way."

Gusto retorted to Inette with a calm expression and drank the beverage he was holding in his hand.

GULP.

He drank it so refreshingly that even Inette, who was clenching her fist at Gusto's annoying behavior, showed interest.

"...By the way, what is that?"

"Do you mean this beverage?"

"Yeah, that!"

Looking at the color, it definitely looked like coffee, but fascinatingly, ice was floating in it.

It was a beverage Inette, a princess, was seeing for the first time too.

Gusto shrugged his shoulders.

"It is iced coffee. The Prince is newly selling it. Surely you didn't know?"

At Gusto's words, Inette's face turned bright red.

To think she, who was closest to Radel, didn't know this information!

Furthermore, her pride was hurt by the fact that that cheeky apprentice holy knight moved faster than her.

"Radel is selling it?"

"That is correct."

"Then he should have told me right away!"

"I thought you would naturally know. If I knew you didn't know, I would have bought one more."

"Forget it! I'm going to buy it!"

Fuming, Inette left to buy iced coffee.

Just in time, Radel, who came to participate in the Alchemy Three-Legged Race, discovered Inette disappearing while huffing and asked.

"Gusto, where is Inette going?"

"She says she is going to buy iced coffee."

It seems Armandy is selling well.

A pleased smile formed on Radel's lips.

* * *

"Radel! You were here first!"

Anesha discovered Radel standing at the starting line and ran over.

She had come to participate in the match as the same team as Radel.

"Thank you for running with me, Senior."

Radel bowed politely upon seeing Anesha.

Fortunately, his direct senior Anesha was also selected as the Alchemy representative athlete for the White Fox Dormitory, so they could form a team together.

"Ey, no. I was going to participate in the match anyway."

For Anesha, who coveted the charm potion for major practical training, Radel's proposal was also a good opportunity.

Above all, Anesha knew her direct junior's skills well.

Wasn't he a junior outstanding in swordsmanship enough to receive Senior Shartea's recognition and easily handle even that difficult hiking?

Anyway, although they had to drink potions, the basis of the Alchemy Three-Legged Race was running.

If she ran with Radel who had excellent physical strength, they were bound to be more advantageous than other teams.

It was when Anesha was looking around the athletes with relief.

'Huh? That junior is...?'

A junior with a calm expression caught Anesha's eye.

She was definitely a junior who had been warming up near here just until a moment ago.

But now, she was talking with her partner at the end of the finish line.

'When did she go all the way there?'

No matter how fast, could she disappear in an instant like this?

Tension suddenly rushed to Anesha, who had been letting her guard down.

"What is the matter, Senior?"

"No, I just thought juniors these days are really amazing. I should work hard too!"

At Anesha's expression that seemed to strengthen her resolve looking at someone, Radel also looked towards the finish line.

There, Tunia was tying her foot with a senior who became her teammate.

'She must be on good terms with her direct senior.'

Actually, among the first-year representative athletes, Leon was the biggest problem.

Because he had the worst relationship with his Alchemy direct senior.

Who Leon, who acted extremely rudely to his direct senior during the meeting time with seniors, formed a team with was Radel's biggest curiosity.

'There wouldn't have been any follower of Leon taking Alchemy, so how is he going to do it?'

But somehow, Leon was with a team member.

Surprisingly, the identity of that team member was Leon's Alchemy direct senior.

Did Leon also develop something called sociability?

Radel ended up being a little touched.

However, reality was completely different from Radel's imagination.

Leon's direct senior opened his mouth with a stiff face.

"...Y-you are giving the promised payment later, right?"

"Of course. So run properly. Surely there won't be an incident where you receive the payment and hold back your junior's ankle, right?"

At Leon's rude words, the senior's expression froze.