Hard Work Will Never Betray Me (WN)

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“Thank goodness there's not a lot of wind.”

After the answer sheets were collected, the large auditorium was filled with a buzz of excitement.
Some were mourning, some were rejoicing, some were despairing, and some seemed to be opening up.
As for my lovely fiancée, Lily, I saw her walking toward me with a question sheet in her hand.
She's so cute.

“Lily, did you get it?”

, “Well, I managed.
But the philosophy was the hardest part.
What was that, “Refutation and Rebuttal of the Ancient Conceptualism from the Standpoint of Modern Magical Existentialism”?　How am I supposed to know that?”

“That was a dump question, wasn't it? ……
I could have written a 400-word essay on what I know, but if I wanted to do it properly, I could have written a whole paper on it.
Well, I'm sure it's not the level of an entrance exam for an institute.
I'm sure it's not at the level of the entrance exam of the institute.
……The geometry was even worse than that.
How did you solve the verification questions there?”

“You just had to use Nikostratos' theorem.{

“What's that?”

“Hal, ……, what did you learn from your sister?”

“Geometry's not my thing.　That's okay, I can do philosophy and history.
……”

'I could do arithmetic and geometry.”

　It seems that Lily is a science and math person.
She's a reikejo, reikejo.
I'm a liberal arts student.

“I guess I'll feel a little better next time because it's magic.”

“Well, you've had a lot of classes with the master, haven't you?”

'It was pretty hard, but now I realize how much that learning experience helped me.
……”

Marie always used to say, “You can't use magic without fully understanding its theory,” when she taught us the theory of magic.

　Magic is not something that depends solely on magical manipulation techniques or a sense of feeling.
It is something that has to be used after completely understanding the principle of its activation by reading the magic formula that contains the information on the structure of the magic.
Otherwise, it will end up discharging a mass of energy that cannot even be called halfway decent magic because its power and efficiency are not good enough.

　That's why Marie-san put so much effort into teaching us about magic theory in general, including the magic formulas that each of us would use.
Thanks to this, all of us who came out of the Demon Forest Training Program have a certain level of knowledge of magic, whether we are good at it or not.

“Anyone who has studied at the Demon Forest will definitely be able to pass the entrance exam.'

“What about Werner?”

“That guy, he looks like that, but he's going to keep it on the edge, so …….
I think he'll be admitted, maybe, just possibly …….”

“.
…….
Emilia is definitely not going to make it.”

'The Schneider siblings are a different matter.
They're not technically mages, they're swordsmen'.

Johann and Emilia are not very good at study, and when we were discussing the theory of magic, they were sitting next to me with their eyes wide open and they were snoring.
It would be a bit harsh to ask them to go through the gate of the four postgrad schools.

　Besides, they were fine with it.
Their specialty is in swordsmanship, not the study of magical theory.
Wemages can do the hard work.

“I don't have much time left, so I'm going to go pick some pheasant kijiji'.

Oh, I'm going to pick some flowers at …….

“You're the Fat”

“Idiot!　Don't you know the word sensitive?'

A man with a red maple leaf pattern on his cheek may or may not have appeared in the exam hall of the Magic Academy that day.
……

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'Stop.
Put the pen down and do not write anything on the answer sheet after this.”

　The second departmental, magical liberal arts exam was over.
This time, I think I did better than in the liberal arts.
Unlike the liberal arts, there was not a single problem on this one that I didn't understand at all.

“Lily, good job.”

This time, I turned to Lily and found her calmly organizing her stuff.

'I was just like, “Well, this is how it's going to be, “

'That's a winner's statement.
……'

'I'm sure you've solved as much as I have Hal, and I'm sure it's about the same for both of us.

“Well, when you're not worrying about falling off, that's true, too.”

I've also developed a device that creates a pseudo-windless condition by hitting the wind in the opposite direction, but is it usable?　”I think it would be quicker to create a normal boundary”.

“I think it would be faster to put up ordinary boundaries.
If it gets cold, just put up wards.”

“Then let's have it right now!　I'm about to collapse from hunger!”

“Of course, after 13 hours of sleep and skipping breakfast, you must be starving!'

“Ha-ha-ha!”

“How could you focus on the exam with that?'

　The meal is laid out on a mat in the courtyard, where there are few people.
We enjoyed a brief rest in the sunlight, which was warm even for winter.

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