How to Survive at the Academy

Giving meaning (3)

Until sunset, everyone in the party had to sit around the shore and wait.

The handing over of the belongings they had brought was over immediately, and the monks were sitting amongst themselves and chatting among themselves.

If you look around the beautiful coastal scenery for several hours, your eyes will get used to it, and it will become a daily scene. After all, it’s a deceitful law to look at people’s eyes.

It was around the time when I was having several conversations with Abbot Austin about the life inside the abbey while enjoying the sea breeze.

It is a time when the sun is slowly setting.

Riding on the horizon over the coast, I was thinking about when the sun would push my head… When I looked at the sea again, the water had fallen so much that the sand had risen.

It’s not spacious, but it’s large enough to pass through. Gradually, the nuns also sensed that the time had come, and they were checking their belongings.

At that moment, the door on the majestic saint’s carriage opened.

The immature nuns were startled, and everyone stood up, put their hands together and bowed their heads, and the workers looked up at the carriage with respectful expressions.

The appearance of Clarisse descending the stairs of the carriage in a calm and well-arranged state is as if a messenger from the gods has arrived in the world.

As if symbolizing a neat body, the hem of the white saint’s dress gently sways in the sea breeze.

The pure white hair, the contrasting red eyes, and the bright red butterfly hairpin are just as they were imagined.

Telos consider it a great honor to see a saint even once. Most of it is mixed with a huge crowd, and you can barely see a small figure in the distance.

To be able to see Saint Clarisse in such a quiet atmosphere at such a close distance is like the blessing of a lifetime.

As Clarisse descended on the sandy beach, the atmosphere of the bustling scene completely subsided.

She came out to the shore, escorted by soldiers, and greeted me with a small smile and nodded.

It’s just a simple courtesy, but it was shocking to hear that Saint Clarisse greeted me as a senior… The atmosphere at the scene froze. It wasn’t a very pleasant atmosphere for me.

Clarisse grabbed the hem of her dress and pulled it up. The monks who were watching offered to grab the collar and lift it up, but they politely declined with a soft smile.

And, leading the escorts… they slowly make their way over the sandbar that leads to the Cedric’s Monastery.

The image of Clarisse slowly advancing towards the large monastery in the distance under the setting sun, had a strange aura that made the site sacred in itself.

However, I couldn’t stay still. The nuns were already on their way out with their luggage.

I too, who had been sitting quietly on the shore, got up from my seat, tied the hem of my robe, and walked towards the monastery.

*“I heard that Clarisse-sama’s meals are checked and taken care of by a nobleman… Actually, I wonder if such a grand process is necessary. When it comes to our monastery meal, it’s just grass.”

“Still, it seems that I will lead the basic verification process and the process of entering food.”

“Well, what can I say, as a mere nun, since it is a procedure that the saint has tolerated. Stop doing whatever you want. Don’t worry, we’ll give you everything you need.”

As soon as Clarisse arrived at the monastery, she headed to the prayer room on the top floor of the spire.

It is said that there is also a room where she eats, sleeps, and lives. She used to use the top floor in the Ophelis Hall, but it seemed it was customary to give the saint the top floor closest to the gods. I heard that he also lived on the top floor in Seonghwangdo.

The role assigned to me is to receive reports on all environmental factors that come into contact with her, and to control and manage them so that there are no significant changes.

It is usually done by a high-ranking priest of the Holy Hwangdao, but Saint Clarisse seems to have already said that there is no need to send a special appointment to the archbishop this time.

He seems to be a middle-ranking officer more than I thought, but it felt very strange to be entrusted to me.

However, compared to the importance of work, the workload did not seem to be as large as expected. In fact, it is because environmental changes cannot happen easily in this monastery, which has nothing but a beautiful and majestic exterior.

“I’m sorry that I couldn’t give you a luxurious room. Well, that’s what monastic life is all about, isn’t it? Abstinence and frugality are the basics. In this Cedric Monastery, even if the imperial family comes, you have to live with only weeds in your mouth.”

“I took it for granted.”

“It’s good not to say bad things, but I try to keep the quality of my meals as good as possible, since the peacock is better. Of course, it would be difficult to expect a supper.”

“It’s done. Please prepare the same meal as the other monks. It would all be labor.”

“Hey…”

The inside of the Cedric’s Monastery is just as grand as the outside.

Marble and white bricks are exquisitely combined. After passing the entrance stairs that continued to rise upward, I saw the grandeur of the central chapel… When I first built it, I wondered how they brought so many materials to the island. Well, I would have mobilized magical means.

And if you walk through the door that leads to one side of the chapel, you will find a small garden lush with greenery, and a corridor surrounds it. You can see the garden through the marble columns stretching along the border, and the garden was also neatly maintained.

As I walked along the corridor, even the pleasant drafts felt like a part of the monastery, and I even thought that it would be okay for me to come to clear my mind even if I was not a religious person.

Of course, it’s not a place where access is allowed for personal reasons.

“It certainly makes me feel very warm because a noble man, which is rare these days, will get better.”

“I am not going to give you such a generous evaluation. but…”

Even as I walked along the corridor, I could not help but be conscious of the gaze I felt from the surroundings.

Perhaps because he was walking with Abbot Austin, the other nuns were not allowed to approach him recklessly.

However, a nun passing by with a basket full of vegetables, a foolish nun running around on one side of the garden, a child hiding behind a marble column in the cloister and glancing at it, passersby who are bound to pass when crossing the cloister. Until…

From the chapel to the hallway, it was hard to get used to the gaze that shook my pupils everywhere I went.

“You are a foreigner. You have to accept the curious gaze.”

“Am I really the only man in this great monastery?”

“why? Do you feel like you are in heaven?”

“…”

“I’m not kidding, right. Hell, I didn’t think I would like this kind of environment even if I pretended to.”

Abbot Austin chuckled and slipped inside at the end of the cloister. Apparently, my room was prepared as far inward as possible.

“Well, these days, the male tendency has gotten a lot stronger… But in the distant past, I even took in one or two famous men to take a look… Although it was a long time ago…”

“If the abbot says it’s old, how old is it…?”

“Well. Have you ever heard of the name of the war hero ‘Zellan’? He also used to stop by this monastery and donate. Let’s go a little further back…and so did the previous generation of Archmage Glockt.”

Indeed, like the living fossils of the Telos Church, the names they call are characters that will only appear in books.

Archmage Glockt, a disciple of the Great Sage Sylvania and leaving behind all kinds of great achievements.

Zelan the Severer is one of the three scholars who took the lead in subjugating the Ain tribes along with the guardian Obel and protected the Chloel Imperial Family.

This grandmother was a person who lived at the same time as such humans.

“Well, that’s all the humans I would call a ‘good yangban’.”

“…”

“It wouldn’t be very pleasant to hear this old man say it’s okay, but it is. Kahahak! Oh, you can follow me this way.”

The sun has just set, and it is already time to call it night.

Even in the monastery, the atmosphere was filled with the atmosphere of finishing the day’s work and getting ready to go to bed.

As it is a monastery where the start of the day is early, the ending is also one tempo early.

The room the abbot showed us was more modest than expected.

A bed, a wooden table, a wardrobe, and a window in a space of about 5 pyeong. That’s all.

The view of the coast from the window could be said to be superb, not suited to the size of the room, but… that was all.

Still, it is a much better environment than the camp where outdoor life was the main focus. Have you spent several months surviving in the wild, which is difficult to even call a place of residence? It felt too comfortable for me.

“Then you know that the schedule starts tomorrow. Good luck nobleman. If you need anything else, just tell me.”

With that said, Abbot Austin says without trying to close the door.

“Ah, I think I’ve already emphasized it once before… but you’re good at locking doors…”

There was mixed laughter.

– Boom!

The door closed with a dull sound, leaving me completely alone in the room. First of all, there was no light source in the dark room, so I lit a candlestick.

– Shoot ah, shoot ah.

The sound of waves passing softly from outside the window. A sky full of stars.

Whenever the candlestick’s flame is blown away by the wind, my shadow on the wall of the room shakes with it.

Indeed, in this sight, it seems as if I was left alone in the world. There is no environment like this to forget about the worldly things and only think about God.

I put my luggage down and sat quietly at the wooden table with my arms crossed. As the living environment suddenly changes, it seems that the body needs a period of adaptation.

No, it’s too early to go to bed in the first place. If it was a camp life, it would be early evening, but it is strange that this monastery is where everyone is already preparing for bed.

“Hmm…”

If you’re going to grab breakfast tomorrow and stop by the top of the spire where St. Clarisse is, it’s probably better to go to bed early.

While I am in the monastery, I plan to help out with various things so that she can blend into the interior of the monastery while managing the saint’s environment. Because there’s nothing good about being noticed.

The prayer meeting attended by the distinguished guests will be five days later. Until then, I plan to completely blend into the monastery, so that attending the prayer meeting does not feel uncomfortable at all.

However, Abbot Austin’s request was a bit of a concern.

– ‘I don’t want to disturb the human side of children while discussing their faith’

– ‘In a nutshell, if possible, it’s a voice asking you to stay as a prince.’

I understand the sublime meaning, but it is difficult to move according to its words.

In fact, as long as it is a line that can blend naturally into the monastery, there is no reason to increase or complicate relationships more than necessary.

So, to some extent, I was thinking about hitting the wall. In the first place, I am not a good human being enough to become a prince on a white horse. I don’t even have the heart to work that hard.

Do I have such an obligation to be the prince in a fairy tale so as not to break their dreams?

I had to make an unreasonable request… Only this side was embarrassing.

Just do the basics, just the basics. I have a mind like a robber, but who will curse me?

*The prince lives in the guest room on the 4th floor of the Cedric Monastery.

Rumors circulated that if he had heard it, his hands and feet would shrink and the blood would disappear from his face. It had been three days since Ed Roth-Taylor had visited Cledric’s Abbey.

In fact, Ed Roth-Taylor hasn’t done much in the past.

At dinner, we go into the saint’s room, check her condition, and have a personal conversation.

And all they did was lend a hand when caring for the vegetable garden in the monastery, share meals eaten by commoners in the main hall, and then work together on various chores.

He used to dig up the fields and harvest, clean the inside of the monastery, and repair broken facilities through woodworking techniques.

In particular, she is curiously active in helping men repair clothes, and the repair nun, who has just become an adult, often goes to the repair room to the point where she can’t sleep at night and thinks about miscellaneous things.

As for myself, this is a position that I am indebted to, so I think it should be done of course, but the position of the nuns was completely different.

The noble girls who come to the grand prayer meeting every year are all arrogant, and they often complain about everything from the menu alone.

So, there were quite a few girls inside the monastery who had animosity towards the aristocracy without knowing it or not, but Ed Roth Taylor was gentle enough to be different from those humans.

He doesn’t smile brightly, but the way he leaves after helping him in a chic way as if it’s not a big deal is completely different from the arrogant image that comes to mind when you think of aristocrats. It may be a natural consequence to make many girls swallow dry saliva.

On the first day, I woke up in the morning, put on a leather shirt and a wizard’s robe, prepared the saint’s meal, and prayed in the chapel.

As soon as the prayer was over, Ed Roth Taylor went up to the garden and took care of the garden with the abbot… and repaired the broken workbench and plows with just a few hammers.

And while walking around the inside of the monastery, he checked and repaired all the parts where the door was loose or the hinges were out of alignment, and he fixed all the missing parts of the window frame. It was not a small amount of work, but it was an amazing speed to finish it all in the morning.

A high-ranking nobleman, even a nobleman from Roth Taylor, sweating profusely while holding a hammer and nails with his arms rolled up… It is said that all of the nuns had absurd expressions on their faces.

Eventually, when they started repairing defects in the furniture in the nuns’ private rooms, the nuns, you and I, asked for repairs to every little detail in my room, causing an uproar. In fact, it was a very selfish request for Ed Roth-Taylor to come into my room.

It was not a job that could be done in one day, so Ed Rothtailer told the Abbot that he would proceed slowly. The expression on Abbot Austin’s smiling face was significant.

In fact, up until the first day, Ed Roth Taylor was only regarded as a ‘just a noble with a good personality’.

On the second day, he demonstrated a simple spirit technique to some nuns who were interested in magic.

As the monstrous-sized fire bats moved around and made their way across the garden, the nuns were startled, clasping their hands together one by one.

For the nuns who do not go out of the monasteries on the outskirts in the first place, the status of being a senior student at the prestigious Academy of Sylvania is of course an object of admiration.

In particular, the nuns, who had a strong interest in magic and holy magic, followed him with their eyes twinkling, often asking for advice or training methods on how to respond to magical powers. Each time, Ed Roth-Taylor gave me a sincere answer and gave me a positive answer saying that if I try harder, it will work out.

Overshadowed by his status as a nobleman, the fact that he was a talented person in the fields of magic and spirits was not revealed.

He had a strong image of a worker because of his unusual personality as a woodworking nobleman, but he is the undisputed chief of the Sylvanian Ministry of Magic. It would be foolish to be blinded by the beauty of the body and not appreciate his intelligence.

In addition to that, the mysterious image of directly assisting the saint is added, so it means that you have already gone so far.

In fact, from this point on, the evaluation of Ed Roth-Taylor was moving beyond a handsome nobleman to the title of ‘Prince’. It is said that he is like a prince in a fairy tale, equipped with wisdom, virtue, and body.

wonderful prince. I will definitely ride a white horse. You are in the monastery now, but when you return to your hometown, you will live in a splendid palace with numerous servants. Still, he has an upright personality, and he listens to everyone. He knows how to handle swords and shoots bows well, but he doesn’t stop training his magic. Seriously, where did such a prince appear? Only such a perfect person can stand at the pinnacle of aristocrats. Can’t you just hug my body for once? You can easily swipe it up. If you hug me like a princess, you will feel like flying in the sky.

It’s a compliment that you can’t hold your face with because you’re suffocating when you hear it.

There is no one in the world who would hate to be highly valued, but too much of that is poison.

In fact, if you are in a position to live on your own, it is natural to provide this level of labor and show respect. At least in Ed Roth Taylor’s thinking.

However, there is one variable he hasn’t caught on to. A group of girlish delusions that start to swell and swell with each other… In the end, they lose their direction and run wild.

Naturally, he idolizes someone, erasing all useless shortcomings from his memory, and elevating human beings to a mythical being who doesn’t even go to the bathroom and doesn’t produce eye mucus.

‘Bocchan Ed said that he can cast magic strong enough to destroy the entire outer wall of the monastery with a single gesture.’

‘Bocchan Ed said that he is well-versed in spirit art to the extent that he can handle all the highest-ranking spirits.’

‘The arrow that Bocchan Ed shoots cuts through the sea with only one foot!!!!!!!’

‘Does that make sense?’

‘Ah… can’t you…?’

‘Oh no, it might be possible if it’s Master Ed, right?’

‘It’s possible! It’s absolutely possible!’

‘That…is it…?’

It would be better if it ended there.

‘Once you hear Master Ed’s voice, your brain stops and your eyes don’t move, so be careful!!’

‘I know that?! Ed said he once killed a bear with his eyes alone!!!!!’

‘According to the rumors I heard, you know how to stand and ride a horse?!!!!’

If you command ‘Look at the water and freeze it, they say the water turns into ice!!!!!’

‘They said that if you put your mind to it, you can read all the books in the library in one night!!!!’

‘Rumors are also circulating that Sylvania is not teaching Master Ed, but that Master Ed is teaching Sylvania Academy!!!!’

‘Also!!! I see!!!!’

“…”

It was the morning of the third day that all these rumors entered Ed’s ears.

Abbot Austin, who encountered Ed from the Saint’s Room, was on the verge of bursting into laughter.

“Good morning. He kills bears with his eyes alone, knows how to perform stand-up horseback stunts, commands the water to freeze, reads the entire library in one night, and the Sylvanian Academy’s teacher, Ed Scion.”

“……”

“You look embarrassed. Aren’t you unfamiliar with the imagination of the nuns who do not know the world? I’m starting to wonder where I’ll go on the day the VIP prayer meeting ends. Aren’t you supposed to rub it with Telos-sama, who gave it to you?”

In a place where beliefs about Telos are being discussed, what are we going to do with the birth of a new belief?

Ed Roth Taylor looked at Abbot Austin with his axe-eyed axe-eyed.

“Well, it’s a rumor that once seemed to be popular, so don’t worry too much. I’m warning you to do something in moderation…but if you control the imagination of a teenage girl, it tends to go crazy…

“Is the monastery always like this?”

“Of course, the tension is lower than this. Isn’t this a place to discuss your faith? I don’t feel any more excited because of you. But… yes… incidents and accidents do not cease to be the same as in the past.”

Abbot Austin, who received Ed’s coat, burst into laughter.

“I hear strange rumors among the nuns these days. The monastery is haunted or something.”

“…a ghost?”

“Last night they heard thumps between the exterior walls, or the sound of people walking from the ceiling. Not only that, some of the ingredients in the monastery kitchen were missing, and there were testimonies that they saw a strange shadow in the hallway at dawn… There were a lot of children crying at night saying they couldn’t sleep alone.”

Ed had heard rumors about him, too. At night, the shadow of a small person often appears by the window.

“It’s not good for such ghost rumors to circulate in the monastery serving Telos-sama. It’s a prayer meeting for the VIPs to come soon, but I don’t like this kind of chaotic atmosphere.”

“Okay… you must be thinking a lot.”

“Still, thanks to you, the atmosphere is not as gloomy as it is. Playing knights among the nuns would be very tiring, but I’d like to ask for a few more days. When you leave, I will bring you a small present.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter to me… Recently… the eyes of the monks looking at me have started to get a little dangerous…”

“Your chastity is up to you. Come on, let’s go fight and let’s go.”

When I looked at my faint eyes, Abbot Austin laughed, jokingly saying that he was rather happy.

“right. should have told you that Look at my mind.”

Abbot Austin has delivered some pretty important news, as if he remembered it too late.

“Princess Persica is said to be arriving at the monastery today.”

*Until the ebb comes, no matter how imperial you are, you have to wait at the seaside while watching the monastery.

It is an act that is meant to clear the mind and prepare to enter sanctuary.

The Princess of Persica has a personality that doesn’t care about giving such small meanings. If you just wait in front of it, it’s just free.

She sat quietly in a large royal carriage and talked about the situation with her aides… Although she had already heard some news about the inside of the monastery.

“That Ed Roth-Taylor is here. The man who is deeply involved in the Roth Taylor family tragedy and is said to be the most powerful supporter of Fenia’s forces.”

“Yes. It is said that you are coming to the throne of Saint Claris-sama, but it is not yet known how this happened.”

“Well, it’s something you have to see and judge for yourself… Still, there is too little prior information about the man.”

Persica is a cautious person in everything.

Selaha and Penia. Since he is the man who is conscious of all the other runners with twins in his eyes, he is thinking that there must be something.

The reason the Princess of Persica came to this monastery even though she strongly expressed her will to Emperor Chloel was to take advantage of Abbot Austin, the elder of the Telos Church. All the ingredients have been prepared.

At this exquisite time, a man named Ed Rothtailer has arrived at the monastery in advance. Is this really a coincidence?

The Princess of Persica has only very limited information about the man.

Information that can be obtained by using the princess’s authority. The man’s past history, background, and location in Sylvania are everything.

Even when he fought a nerve war over the Elte company, he could only come up with the fact that his judgment was extraordinary. In the end, detailed information as a human being can only be judged by seeing it in person.

However, it is impossible to meet without any preparation. As an opponent of high importance, we had to approach it with caution.

“Tune.”

“Yes, Princess Persica.”

“It seems that the man has already been living in the monastery for a few days. That would mean that we had no choice but to co-exist with the inner humans to some extent.”

With an alluring smile, Persica used to look around the aides in the carriage and talk.

“The scholars or the people of the family may have been able to keep their mouths shut, but the monastery is completely burnt out from his point of view. It’s an environment where there are very few humans who can move according to their will.”

“Yes.”

“When you sit in the monastery, gather all the information about it. Excellent numbers of information that could not be known just by researching a bachelor’s degree or family will be pouring out. At the very least, make it impossible to get out of these grips.”

The Princess of Persica stretched out my hand and then grabbed it tightly.

“Since he’s a key figure in the Phenian faction, it’s good to take this opportunity to get it right. either by conciliation or coercion. Let’s not choose any means and methods.”

“Yes, I understand…”

There is still plenty of time until low tide.

The Princess of Persica was arranging her thoughts and staring at the huge Cledric’s Monastery.

Seonghwangdo, the headquarters of the Telos Church. It is not disrespectful to say that it is the next largest scale.

It was truly a magnificent sight.

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