“With Magi-sama to teach you how to use magic, and the Sword Saint-sama to teach you swordsmanship… What an enviable environment.”
“Sword Saint-sama?”
“Did Shin-kun not know about it? Speaking of Michel Collin-sama, he’s someone who has reached the pinnacle of Swordsmanship, and he’s been titled ‘Sword Saint’-sama.”
“…To me, he’s nothing but a hellish instructor…”
Sword Saint… that’s actually what he’s called? I guess it’s expected that his training was severe.
“But since Sword Saint-sama was the one who taught Shin-kun swordsmanship, then the Knight Academy students will probably not say anything.”
“I don’t know about that. Even though Sword Saint-sama taught him how to use the sword, he can also use magic. They’ll probably target him out of jealousy.”
What’s with that? How troublesome…
“Well, no matter what, it is necessary to participate in the joint training. Since it has a decent purpose, no matter what they say, I’ll just not let it bother me.”
“That’s impossible!”
“Haaa~…”
Somehow, I feel like something downright troublesome is about to happen…
A few days later, the Knight Academy had arrived for the joint training.
Four students from the Magic Academy and four students from the Knights Academy. A total of eight people makes a party, which will go outside the Royal Capital to train.
For practical training, they will subjugate a number of the currently increasing amount of demons.
We, the magic students gathered in front of the Royal Capital’s gate where I met the students from the Knight Military Training Academy — I’ll just shorten it to Knight Academy — for the first time.
As expected of people who train with swords daily, their bodies look more robust compared to the magic students.
This time, the group was arranged according to the rankings of our entrance exam. The Knight Academy also used the same method to divide into groups. This situation, since everyone is a part of Advanced Academies, there shouldn’t be a large difference between abilities, thanks to how the groups were formed. This is probably done on purpose with the intent of bringing about the best results, turning students into elites.
Since it’s our first time meeting students from the Knight Academy, the first thing to do is to introduce ourselves.
“Knight Military Training Academy top student, Kreis Lloyd.”
“Second seat, Miranda Wallace.”
“Noin Curtis.”
“I’m Kent McGregor.”
What’s with that. The students from the Knight Academy greeted with ill humor.
Kreis is a good-looking man with blonde hair and blue eyes. His arms were really muscular. He gives off the feeling of a Royal Knight.
Miranda has short black hair, and how do I explain this… She looks firm overall. Her arm looks really sinewy.
Noin has brown hair and brown eyes, but compared to the other two, he looks rather slim, and his eyes were slightly narrowed while glaring. Since he’s slender, I wonder if he’s skilled in tactics?
As for Kent, he’s a macho man with blonde shaved hair. He was also carrying a large sword.
“I’m Advanced Magic Academy top freshmen student, Shin Walford.”
“Second seat, I’m Augusto von Earlshide.”
“Maria von Meshina.”
“Ummm… I’m Sicily von Claude. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
On our side, although Maria seemed slightly displeased, everyone else greeted normally. Gus looked as if their displeasure had no relation to him while Sicily looked like she didn’t see anyone looking displeased.
“So that’s the grandson of the Hero…”
“In the end, he’s just a Magician.”
However, the Prince is also together with us…”
“Ahhh, this will be difficult.”
The students from the Knight Academy, Kreis, and the others were talking with subdued voices. It looked like they wanted to talk to us as though we’re inferior to them, but because Gus was with us, they couldn’t do it.
What the hell is that?
“Hey, before we start the training practice, is it okay if I ask something?”
“…What is it?”
The representative, Kreis, replied.
“Have you and the other ever fought with a demon before?”
“Tsk… Just because you were able to take down a devil, you’re acting like you’re all that… No, we haven’t. But so what? Are you displeased?”
“Huh? Why would I want to boast about that? That’s not what I’m trying to say. In a few moments, we will be subjugating demons. It’s better if you guys stop saying foolish things like ‘The difference between Knights and Magicians…'”
“We are saying is, so what are you doing to do about it?!”
“You’ll die, you know?”
I tried to threaten them a little. With this, I wonder if they’ll become slightly cooperative?
“Sh-shut up! The work of subjugating demons is originally done by the Knight Academy alone! And then suddenly Magicians wants to come and obstruct our work! It’s fine as long as you guys don’t get in our way!”
Rather than being cooperative, they rebelled. Moveover, do they not understand the real meaning of this joint training?
“You guys… are you participating in this training with those kinds of thoughts?”