” And so, let us study magic today. ”
Sensei, his eyes sparkling, was seated across me with the table in between us.
It was our first lesson after a long time. Because John-sensei had to run around, dealing with problems that popped up from the aftermath of the incident.
The problems.
To put it simply, Veltor. Because of the series of incident, Jin and Jean were, of course, arrested and thoroughly stripped of their nobility but John-sensei did nothing illegal. He was actually the victim. No, you could say he was one of the people who solved the incident.
Even though he had abandoned his name, he was still a Veltor. As a Viscount, the land of Veltor Household was as big as the position. In simpler terms, the land was too small for the court to place its direct control on it, plus it was a little too far from the capital.
So in this case, it was given as a reward to people who helped in the incident. Even without this problem, the land, together with the position of the head of Veltor House, was still likely to be forced upon John-sensei.
But John-sensei, who used to be a royal court scholar, was working as a Home Tutor for Williams Beryl. Plus he himself had said that he didn’t need it. I had always thought John-sensei would rather spend his time on research rather than to govern a territory but to know that it was really true was…. John-sensei was too amazing.
Because of that, and in a sense that he kinda brought it upon himself, he was busy running here and there to deal with it. In the end, the management of Veltor’s land was given to the Beryl, acting as the representative.
Mah, Father had said ” Veltor’s citizen have been coming over anyway so there is not much of a difference. ” so there should not be a problem. Instead, this kind of situation reconfirmed the fact that Father was amazing. Who was he, really? Working as the governor of his territory, working behind-the-scenes such as this case, working as the captain of the knights… et cetera, et cetera. The work load was so huge that you could not help but wonder how many of him there was to handle it. No matter how fast he could do his work, it must still be hard.
…. The least I could do was to help..
Although I could never say it out loud cause it was embarrassing.
And so, today’s lesson was the first day in ages that I finally had the chance to speak with John-sensei.
” Yes! What exactly would we be doing today? ”
John-sensei looked at me with a ‘Oh..’, and an amused look appeared on his face.
” You changed your way of speaking. ”
” ….. ”
[TN: Explanation time. Will used to speak in hiragana, which is a pain-in-the-arse to read. Now he apparently changed to kanji, which is loads easier. Children in japan usually starts learning kanji when they are of a certain age so I guess the author is trying to convey that.]
Please don’t retort, sensei.
…I only managed to speak this clearly after loads of practice, to get rid of the lisping that came with me being at my age. …This was embarrassing so just stop… I was already very embarrassed after being seen by Sensei when I was with Chiffon, now he just said it in a way that sounded like I lisped on purpose…
” … Because I am about to turn 5 years old. ”
I managed to answer. Sensei looked shocked.
…Tch, how terrible. Don’t tell me he forgot about my age? I meant, people did not usually easily forget about these things.
” That’s right… Will is already 5 years old. ”
Not yet, but I did not feel like retorting him. John-sensei, who was completely shocked, had his maliciousness mocking aura taken from him.
” …Sigh… Turning 5. ”
” Unbelievable, right? ”
Time passed. It was unbelievable that it had already been 2 years since I first met Sensei. Just as I was submerged in emotions like Sensei, he opened his mouth, having suddenly thought of something.
” In that case… It is about time to think about schooling. ”
” …. Schooling? ”
” Yes. In Elzmu, going to school had become an obligation. ”
Became an obligation?
Wow. Even till the extent of compulsory education. You really could not make light of this country.
Still slightly shocked, John-sensei had begun to explain all about schooling.
It was as my previous world. Even though the ages were slightly different, the period of compulsory education and the education system was about the same.
Except for 1 thing.
You were allowed to skip grades. The previous me who were envious of America was happy about this point.
To put things simply, the lowest Academy would be like a primary school, with children of 10~12 years old studying for 3 years.
Mid Academy would be 13~15 years old, as like a secondary school.
High Academy was for 16~18 years old, you might think that it was an equivalent to High school but it was only attended by people who were exceedingly good at magic or were very clever and wished to work as a researcher so it would be closer to a university. By the way, John-sensei attended High Academy as a means to escape fro