Blacksmith Volume 2 Chapter 19
My spring school life had gone by in a flash, and most topics talked about in school had turned towards the end of the semester exams.
The test results are coming out today. Comprehensively, this along with the results of the exams before winter break will decide what class you’re admitted to next year, so of course everyone is going to desperately study for them. Some people even had bloodshot eyes.
While the delusion of everyone here and there To rest, probably waiting for the test results.
As soon as they’re done announcing the exam results, summer vacation will start.
There are some people who stay at the school, while other return to their homes. Two whole months where we can do whatever we want.
There were eight exams, each worth a 100 points for a total on a 800-point scale.
Elective exams were carefully regulated so that the students wouldn’t complain that one was more difficult than the other. People still ended up complaining though, thats just the way the world works.
The results were posted before noon, many of them were placed as expected.
First Place: Arc Kudan 800 points
First Place: Iris Parala 800 points
Third Place: Eliza Deauville 799 points
Fourth Place: Rail Rain 797 points
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Seventh Place: Kururi Helan 777 points
As expected of Iris. Despite the work that she had to do on the field, she still scored full marks.
The prince as well.
Eliza seems to have stumbled again though, just one point away from first.
The one I’m actually surprised about is Rail.
There were many changes this time due to people not studying, but the hardest class to study for out of them all, was medicine!
From the twenty-three points that I lost, fifteen of those were from medicine.
I was so close too! I had the second highest score in that class!
Yet somehow that guy was still able to pull off a perfect 100 points! I will never forgive him for that!
Well, I still hold a little bit of a grudge from all the times he’s harassed me too.
I guess these are the results of not-studying enough though, it’s only natural they’d end up like this..
Now that I’ve seen the results, I should start preparing myself to go home.
There are some things I have to do before that though.
First I received thirty pieces of what was harvested from the potted face pack plants that Toto had grown, placing them in the horse drawn cart to mail them back.
Toto won’t be able to come to my territory this summer, he has to go back home to his own. I can safely say that I’m not going to see him for a while now, at least that’s what he said when we parted..
Ever since the fight, it looks like the harassment from Maury has stopped. I don’t know if it’ll start again in the future, but the person in question said that it’ll be alright. I sincerely hope that that is true.
Eliza of course, was frustrated by the results, complaining to the point that I almost mistook her as angry, rather than just frustrated. Although it looks like the Four Heavenly Kings are increasing their security around me, my relationship with Eliza seems to be progressing quite smoothly. Also, it looks like Eliza is returning home to the Capital City. She ended up cautioning me to watch my physical health, since I was just recently injured. “The Flower Prince” book I had borrowed from her earlier was also returned.
I was actually a really good story, it even made me cry a little bit.
I don’t even want to remember Rail’s story, but I ended up hearing something funny from him.
After tentatively greeting me, Rail relentlessly tried his best to give me a hug.
I really don’t want to remember this.
What did he tell me what was so funny you ask?
You see, I ended up promising to keep in touch with him, because at the very least, he’s useful when you need to find out information about things, and in return he told me this:
“The prince was rejected by Iris recently.” Apparently he had invited Iris to come home with him to the capital to meet the king, but she ended up refusing, saying that she’d feel uncomfortable surrounded by all that luxury despite the fact that she was just a humble commoner only two months ago. I think I laughed a little too hard when I heard this. I sure am a horrible person, aren’t I?
Even so, I agree that his invitation was too sudden and poorly planned.
Oh, and it seems Rail is returning with Arc to the Capital.
The Capital, huh? I heard that its commercial market is flourishing right now, I want to visit there someday.
Anyways, I ended up paying Iris a visit myself in the end.
I heard that Iris was just going to spend her vacation alone here at school.
She wouldn’t be troubled with food, clothing, or shelter, and she also has the library to pass the time, but two months is far too long to spend alone. It’s too sad, so I wanted to lend her a hand.
“Iris.”
I called out to Iris who was watering the vegetables in the field.
“Hey Kururi, look at this! The vegetables we planted are beginni