Chapter 226: Luke Vell Ifrus

Heyo, Luke here.

Luke Vell Ifrus, if you will.

My Gramps Sage, Luarno Vell Ifrus, serves as the headmaster of Ifrus Academy of Magic, and I’m enrolled there as Sage Apprentice.

The 10 day vacation of Ifrus Academy of Magic started yesterday, so I went to the Elf Kingdom of Alheim on my own.

Even if you travel by the high-speed magical ship, it will still take you around ten days to go on a one-way trip from Glendale Kingdom, the place where the academy is located, to Alheim.

Well, I can use flight magic so I arrived here in just a few hours.

And right now, I’m here sitting at a fancy cafe’s terrace, waiting for that girl.

I’m too excited to see her since it’s been a while, so I came two hours earlier than our meeting time.

That’s why I have some free time now.

Yeah. I’m free, so let’s talk about my best friend that I made back at the Ifrus Academy of Magic.

That person was one heck of a guy, you know.

We’re going to kill plenty of time just by talking about his accomplishments for the past two years that he has been here.

Well, we’re already here, so why not, let’s start with how we met.

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I was exempted from taking the Academy entrance examination thanks to Gramps’ authority.

At first, I was wondering what I was supposed to learn from professors other than Gramps since I’m already a sage apprentice when I entered the academy.

Well, I thought that it might be fun learning alongside pretty girls my age, so I agreed with Gramp’s recommendation and decided to enroll.

Then, on the very day of the entrance ceremony, we saw aristocrats picking on a pretty girl in a ponytail.

It’s my chance to get friendly with a pretty girl at once!

— was what I thought, but the other party were noble kids, so I had to tread carefully.

At any rate, if those noble bunch tried to lay a hand on the girl, then I would make them faint with the thunder magic I prepared on hand just in case.

It was at that time when that guy called out to me.

He was slightly shorter than me, with black hair and beautiful blue eyes, and he unhesitatingly approached those nobles.

That’s right.

That guy — Halt — was the son of a count.

When I entered the academy, there was no one related to the duke and marquis in the same year level.

That’s why in our batch, Halt could be considered to have the most powerful family background.

Thanks to Halt, the girl picked on by the nobles was also released unharmed.

Afterward, Halt threatened me, and we became friends.

— Sorry, being threatened was a lie.

It’s because I called Halt stupid, but I knew from his expression and tone that he wasn’t really trying to intimidate me.

Halt arbitrarily introduced me to Luna, and he even called me his best friend.

It was at that moment that I realized we really became best friends.

Without any basis.

It seemed like we would get along, seemed like we could exchange jokes, seemed like we have the same interests and atmosphere — it felt really loose.

However, we actually did become best of friends until now.

It’s just that he has many wives now, so he’s super busy that he no longer hangs out with me.

We no longer eat out together, only the two of us.

I really enjoyed searching the stalls and trying cheap junk foods.

It was a bit lonely.

But then, Leaffa, one of Halt’s wifey, introduced someone to me, so I also have a girlfriend now.

It’s an Elf girl, and she’s super cute.

Thanks to her, even if Halt doesn’t hang out with me that frequently anymore, I was still happy.

And obviously, I was sitting here waiting for that girl.

...Oopsie, I ended up talking ‘bout my girl.

The story went off course.

Alright back to Halt, my best friend.

Halt and I, and also Luna, became good friends after the entrance ceremony, but because the classes had already been organized, Gramps didn’t give in even though I talked it over with him.

Apparently, Gramps — Headmaster Luarno — already arranged the class I would be in, because he wanted to train me into becoming someone who could bear the world on my shoulders.

Luna and Halt’s names weren’t in my class.

I was shocked.

That’s because even though we became good friends, we would be in separate classes in the end.

The next day, I pretended that I didn’t know anything about the class formation even though I did, and I went with Halt and Luna to check our classes.

For some reason, I was in the same class as Halt and Luna.

I didn’t understand.

Moreover, even the class adviser wasn’t written there.

Even though I was told that a former A-ranked adventurer and famous high-class wizard would train me.

When our class adviser entered the room, I was super shocked.

It was because that person was Halt’s exclusive maid.

About that Maid-san…

She is Tina Harivell, the Heroine.

She is a Magic Knight, a tertiary occupation, same as Gramp’s Sage status.

Not only that, she’s at Level 250, probably the highest level a person of this world could achieve.

The day after, I learned from Gramps that the class had been altered because of Halt’s wish.

Gramps, who didn’t even grant my — his own grandson — request, yet he caved in because of Halt.

Well, it’s not completely because of Halt; it was because he wanted to have Teacher Tina train me.

But because of that Gramps had to hurriedly change the arrangement of staff that took several years to do, and in the end, he had to turn everything into a blank slate and start organizing the classes from scratch.

That’s how great it would be if Teacher Tina would become my class adviser.

Hmm, but talking about this would seem like we’re focusing on how Teacher Tina is awesome rather than Halt being so bizzare, right?

Alright, then maybe I should talk about Halt’s magic next time.