The Vampire Is an Academy Honor Student

Chapter 077. Competition (1)

early morning.

I was alone in the competition waiting room for the first match of the preliminary round.

“It starts in 5 minutes!”

“yes.”

Whoops!

There was not much time left, so I tied bandages around my wrists and ankles and grabbed my sword.

And after a while, we moved to the venue along with the officials of the competition.

‘The competition period is one month.’

Unlike the King of Knights, the period is quite long, so the cadets who are confirmed to be eliminated immediately return to their home countries.

Therefore, in order to remain in the empire until the second oracle a month later, he had to continue winning the tournament.

‘It’s not difficult.’

When I looked at the list of participants, there was no name I knew.

If there is a person who has a certain amount of performance, I will not know the name, so it means that they are all extras.

‘Of course, I can’t say there’s no other case like Dante, but… .’

There are degrees of obscurity.

It didn’t seem like he would be caught by them at the point where he had already defeated Yuriel, an S-rank NPC.

“hmm?”

At that time, I felt something look at me and turned my head to one side of the venue.

There, a couple of men and women were looking this way.

It’s a familiar face.

Sword Saint. and… .

‘… Sigrun?’

High Elf Sigrun.

If you look closely, you can see her lieutenant, Karansis, behind her.

‘You were still in the Empire?’

This thought came to my mind first before anything else.

How long has it been since the War of the King of Knights ended, and are you still staying here?

Considering that elves are uncomfortable with human society, it was unusual.

‘Did I really have a business?’

Last time, I thought the purpose was just to watch the tournament because I didn’t do anything other than observe Yuriel, but seeing that it’s still there, it seems that it has a different purpose.

It seems that there are unresolved matters yet… .

‘what?’

I was curious, but for now, I pretended not to see it and naturally looked away.

Because the competition came first.

“This is Roan Karziel.”

“I am… .”

exchange greetings with each other.

“Double swords!”

The confrontation began right away.

“… … .”

“… … .”

An opponent who carefully pumps up mana with the tip of his sword facing this way.

I was inwardly amazed.

If the opponent was a cadet from the kingdom he had never heard of, he might be off guard, but he couldn’t find anything like that at all.

‘It’s quite a bit.’

A composure not often found in young cadets.

In addition, when looking at the color of mana, the strength is also considerable.

The ability to aim for the quarterfinals or the semifinals.

But this time the opponent was bad.

Queek!

“… !!”

Bend your upper body while bending your gaze and front foot to the right at the same time.

Then the opponent instinctively pursues it.

Amazing reaction speed.

But I stayed where I was, not moving.

It deceived the opponent with simple foot movements and gaze processing.

“Ugh!?”

He mistook me for attacking him and had already responded.

Kagagak!

The moment you realize that you have been tricked, you stop right away, but your center of gravity fluctuates as you get caught in reverse action.

Dalian practically ended here.

Because it was harder to find a part that wasn’t a loophole in the opponent now.

Fain!

I quickly sped up, approached the opponent, and swung my sword.

A sharp attack with half a beat.

“… !”

When the opponent instinctively closes their eyes at the rushing silver blade.

Tok.

“… ?”

I slowed down at the end and put the sword lightly to his throat.

The opponent cautiously opened his eyes at the cool touch.

He was looking up at me with a puzzled expression.

I waited for the observing knight to raise the flag, then said with a sword.

“Good job.”

“ah… .”

Only then did the cadet realize defeat and look up this way with a hopeless expression.

I left him behind and left the venue that had cooled down.

The time it took for the sparring to end was only about 3 seconds.

* * *

Dalian ended quickly.

Leaving the dumbfounded audience behind, Roan left the venue.

Sigrun looked at the back for a while and spoke in a voice mixed with amazement.

I wondered if I hadn’t seen a similar scene in the King of Knights match last year.

“There are so many talented people in the kingdom.”

“… … .”

Cadet Jin was never weak.

However, the opponent’s skills were so overwhelming that I didn’t even have a chance to show my skills.

“I was surprised because it was my first time seeing a cadet… .”

after a while

Yohan, thinking of someone with Roan’s silver hair, answered.

“He must have been Karziel.”

“If it’s Karziel… . The Ian Karziel you were talking about then?”

“It seems to be his brother.”

I’ve heard that there are definitely health problems, but looking at Dalian today, it seems to have been completely resolved.

No, it wasn’t the degree of resolution, but the pure physical ability seemed to overwhelm the opponent.

Because the speed in a short moment was amazing.

‘but. The son of a warrior could not be lying in a hospital bed.’

Not only Ian, but also the Duke of Gilead, who did not hand over the previous swordsman’s position until he grew old.

His change was not surprising, as the other family had had such monsters for generations.

“really. By the way, was there no signal this time too?”

“… yes. It doesn’t seem like that either.”

To John’s question, Sigrun answered while holding the unresponsive branch of the World Tree.

Even at the time of the last King of Knights, I thought that Yuriel might be an apostle.

No, I was pretty sure.

But this time the oracle came down and it became clear that it wasn’t her.

After thinking about something for a while, John opened his mouth.

“I have a guess.”

Knight King last year. There was an incident in which an organization made up of Dark Elves inside the Empire was destroyed.

One of the members surrendered and the investigation was concluded saying it was a disintegration due to internal division, but John had a different idea.

bloodstains on the wall.

This was clearly an artificial trace.

I’m not sure who exactly… .

“Maybe you shouldn’t buy it?”

“… … .”

It is certain that the possibility is high.

Sigrun nodded with a troubled expression.

Calculating the time the battle took place through the corpses of the Dark Elves was roughly the same as the time the branches of the World Tree reacted.

It was night, so it fits with the oracle.

Coincidentally, due to the coincidence of time with Uriel’s sparring, they were confused.

‘Because I changed the schedule.’

It was her request that the Dalian time, originally during the day, was delayed.

I can’t blame others, so what can I do?

Until the response comes again, I have no choice but to wait quietly in my country.

It was a bit disappointing, but it was okay because I was prepared that the mission could be long since I left Elvenheim anyway.

“If there are no other instructions from the World Tree, I plan to wait another five years.”

“… You see.”

I wondered if ‘five years’ and ‘once’ could be words together, but the opponent was a high elf.

Their sense of time, living together with the World Tree for nearly an eternity, will be different from that of humans.

“Hmm?”

At that time, Sigrun, who had discovered something, narrowed his brows.

Roan stayed at the venue to watch the rest of the game.

And the elf sitting next to him.

‘for a moment. Half-race elf?’

I couldn’t see his face well because of the puffy robe, but the energy I felt was just like that.

Strangely reluctant, yet exudes the aura of the same people.

‘… no way?’

Even if they are of mixed blood, an elf is an elf.

Sigrun’s eyes instantly turned sharp as he wondered if he was being treated as a slave.

But John denied this.

“no. Judging by the fact that she has no shackles and the family crest is engraved on her robe, she seems to be a lady-in-waiting.”

“ah… .”

As the saying goes, it was hard to find negative emotions in the two of them sitting side by side.

There are so many cases of being consumed as slaves, so I just thought it would be the first thing for a moment, but looking back, it feels rather like a guardian.

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Sigrun looked at it with interest for a long time, then noticed something and opened his mouth with a strange expression.

“Interesting. however… .”

“?”

“There, the elf has something strange in it.”

“That’s strange.”

“Margie.”

“Well, since it’s a mixed blood, wouldn’t it be natural for it to be a Magi?”

“Yes. but… .”

Sigrun murmured.

Loved by nature and very sensitive to ‘ma’, she could feel it.

A young elf holds an absurd amount of magic in that small body.

Even at a rough estimate, it seemed to be more than 10 times that of a typical mixed race.

It was amazing how it hadn’t gone so far.

Is it because of your mental strength?

Or is it the influence of the surroundings?

Either that or both.

‘… … .’

After thinking for a while, Sigrun soon gave up his thoughts.

It was someone else’s business in the first place, and either way wasn’t very important.

Only one concern remains.

‘Do you know the other side?’

Since it’s his own body, the elf himself would of course know.

But does her master know this?

If you don’t know, trouble may happen later.

‘… … .’

It doesn’t matter if you didn’t notice it from the start, but you already knew it.

It was embarrassing to just let it go, knowing that it could be difficult later.

Even though they were of mixed blood, they were the same people.

There are quite a few elves who reject mixed races, but Sigrun was far from such.

After thinking for a while, she made a decision.

‘I’ll have to meet you sometime.’

When Roan isn’t there. Let’s meet the elves alone.

* * *

As expected before the start of the tournament, there were no opponents who could threaten me.

Whether or not I checked myself, I swept through the preliminaries by stamping my opponent with an overwhelming difference in skill.

The week-long qualifiers are over.

After some number of people were filtered out, the finals started right away.

In the first match of the finals that started like that.

I came across a very unusual cadet.

“This is Laurel Portis.”

“… … .”

Her pale complexion reminded me of Roan at the time of being possessed.

However, the powerful voice and clear eyes resemble those of a knight.

The two incompatible attributes combine to give a strange sense of difference.

I replied, looking him up and down from the side of my eye.

“… This is Roan Karziel.”

It’s been a while, but there were a few things I could know.

That’s his talent as a martial artist.

From the silent gait to the natural momentum of the body.

I felt the same way as when I first discovered the gemstone Dante.

However, there is one difference from Dante.

‘Is it blocked?’

Something strange is stuck in the mana rods all over the body.

It’s not completely clogged to be called a bottle, but it seems to have been like that after all, judging from the fact that there are holes in some places… .

I frowned and thought.

‘Does this make sense?’

I’ve never seen such a phenomenon occur congenitally.

No, in the first place, it was questionable whether he would be able to control mana with such an unstable body.

Probably not.

‘Then how did you pass the preliminary round?’

Judging from the fact that the family crest is familiar, it is quite a prestige place.

Doubts arose about this.

Or, did you use a fraudulent method?

Whether it’s skillfully tweaking the match, or bribing the opponent.

or not… .

‘… … .’

By the time these questions arise,

I stopped worrying at the cry of the observer.

“Double swords!”

He drew his sword and changed his posture.

‘If you check it yourself, you’ll know.’

Even if he doesn’t know, his sword won’t tell a lie.

And so the sparring begins.

Hwaaak!

“under?”

Despite the bad news, the deep blue mana that naturally bloomed once.

And I was surprised twice with a much better move than I expected.

“Huh!”

Caan!!

“… !”

My hands are tingling.

Surprisingly, despite his physical condition, he was better than any other student he had ever met.

It’s strange that he didn’t leave a single line of his name in the main story.

‘… also.’

I was convinced of his ability.

Why can’t I leave my name.

It’s simply because I didn’t survive until the main story started.

outstanding talent.

However, the cadet has ‘poison’ in his body.

‘I don’t seem to know, but… .’

Someone had been trying to kill him for a very long time.

‘… … .’

I was greedy.