It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 189

Chapter 189: How to Invite Kyung-joon to the Festival (1)

Scroll Department Head Office.

『Department Head Frankel』

The nameplate on the desk belonged to none other than Frankel, Sever’s close friend and Ezeri’s ‘former’ advisor.

After much deliberation, Frankel finally spoke.

“I have a vague idea of who Kyung-joon is and where he is.”

When Frankel said that.

“Oh!”

Edict’s entire face lit up with a bright complexion, raising his expectations even further.

However.

“I can’t introduce him to you yet, nor can I bring him here.”

At the completely opposite words that followed immediately after, the expectations that had been raised were instantly thrown to the floor, and a dark cloud fell over his face.

“What?! Why on earth not!”

Edict, standing in front of Frankel’s desk, shouted in a tone of utter incomprehension.

“Why this and that, my answer will not change. Go back.”

Nevertheless, Frankel only lowered his head to the side and spoke softly.

“Ugh……! Please don’t do that and……”

Edict did not give up and tried to persuade Frankel.

How many more times did he try to persuade him like that?

“No. I can’t bring him. I’m not going to bring him. Hurry up and go back.”

It was the umpteenth time he had been told to go back.

Frankel was really stubborn.

But Edict was just as stubborn.

Once a Hooli family wizard is stuck on something, no matter if the department head comes, the president comes, the Fairy King comes, or the world ends, they will eventually push through with their own beliefs.

“Then open a scroll programming lecture or form a research team by forming a separate faculty! If you’ve read that paper, you know, don’t you, Professor? The potential contained in that paper! The future! It’s a study that will completely overturn the fate of scroll magic, which has been buried in the name of orthodoxy and history and is on the verge of disappearing into the annals of history!”

At Edict’s passionate plea, Frankel made a deeply troubled expression.

“……I know that too.”

Frankel was well aware of how great an otherworlder Kyung-joon was, and how great the research he had left behind after stopping by for ten days was.

Rather, as the head of the Scroll Department, he knew it far better than Edict, the department representative.

“But not now! Go back!”

However, ‘now’ is not the time.

But the excited Edict did not catch the underlying meaning in the department head’s words.

“Department Head! Are you really going to do this! I won’t go! I won’t go back! I will not go back until I bring Kyung-joon-nim here, even if I have to defecate here!”

Thud!

Frankel couldn’t stand it any longer and jumped up from his chair.

“Teclyn! Do something about that stubborn Hooli b@stard!”

In the end, the department head, disgusted, asked Teclyn, who had been sitting quietly by his side the whole time, for a favor.

There was no one better than the Uo family to stop an excited Hooli family wizard.

“Yes.”

Teclyn, nodding her head, cast a spell without a moment’s hesitation, as if she had been waiting.

“Edaz, su ansh dlu (floor, hole under that b@stard’s @ss).”

Wooong!

In an instant, a hole large enough for a person to fall through opened up in the chair Edict was sitting on.

“Whoa!”

Whoosh!

Edict, falling straight down to the floor below, pulled by gravity.

The hole that had been drilled closed in an instant.

The wooden floor was spotlessly clean.

It was a skill that an ordinary human wizard of the kingdom could not easily imitate.

But for students at Fairy-Elven Magic Academy, this was basic admission qualification.

“Phew…… Thank you.”

In the now quiet office, Frankel let out a satisfied sigh of relief.

Then he plopped down on his chair and struck up a conversation with Teclyn.

“Teclyn, you’re having a hard time.”

“That’s right. I’m dying every day.”

“I can see that.”

Frankel had also heard about what had happened at the Scroll Department’s festival booth today.

“I swear, it’s like he’s trying to start a religion……”

Even now, the Scroll Department students are following the instructions of their representative, Edict, and spreading the word about Kyung-joon and his research all over the school.

This was a headache for Frankel, who was in a position where he had to hide Kyung-joon’s existence.

He could have found a way to stop it with the power of the department head, but it was festival time.

For Fael University students, who are busy studying every day, the festival period is a very sacred sanctuary that even the president cannot touch.

Thinking back to the time when a student riot had broken out when he had touched the sanctuary, it was not easy to impose sanctions.

“So could you please bear with it a little longer? I’d like to ask you to keep that guy from making a fuss in the future.”

“Of course, if it’s the department head’s request.”

Teclyn bowed her head slightly, performing the elf etiquette of placing her hand over her name tag.

However, she added.

“But honestly, I don’t know if I can stop him.”

Others may not have noticed, but Teclyn, who had known him for a long time, saw it clearly.

His eyes had turned emerald green several times today alone.

Even when he was a child, when he first fell in love with magic, his eyes didn’t sparkle this often.

This was the first time he had activated his 『Hooli Eyes』 so many times in a row, like today.

That meant that Edict was deeply interested in Kyung-joon and his research.

Teclyn thought for a moment, then let out a small chuckle and confided in Frankel.

“You know, professor. Once the Hooli family gets stuck on something, there’s no answer. That’s exactly the state Edict is in right now.”

“Still, you’re from the Uo family, aren’t you? If it weren’t for the Uo family, the Hooli family would have already destroyed themselves.”

“The way you say it makes it sound like our Uo family is some kind of family that cleans up the sh|t the Hooli family makes… well, it’s not completely wrong.”

The Uo family and the Hooli family are very close, to the point where their mansions are next door to each other.

And the Uo family has always acted as a control for the Hooli family, who, once they get stuck on something, start to go through fire and water.

“Then I’ll be on my way, Department Head.”

Teclyn, thinking that the conversation was over, bowed slightly and turned around.

She was about to go downstairs to pick up Edict, who was trapped.

“Yes. Good work.”

As she left the department head’s words of thanks behind, she put her hand on the doorknob.

She paused for a moment and asked, turning her head slightly.

“This is just my guess…… but the word ‘now’ you just said to Edict, can I take that as meaning it’s not the right time yet?”

Unlike Edict, she had correctly grasped the underlying meaning of the department head’s words.

“Think what you will.”

“I understand. Then I really will be on my way.”

Creak, thud.

The door opened and closed, leaving Frankel alone in the department head’s office.

Frankel muttered to himself in a room where he was the only one.

“Phew…… I knew this would happen someday, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon.”

Frankel was also a professor in the Scroll Department.

He had anticipated that this would happen even before Ezeri’s master’s qualifying exams.

After all, her and Kyung-joon’s joint research product, the heat pump or whatever paper, was worth it.

Edict’s words that scroll programming would be responsible for the future of the Fairy-Elven Alliance and would lead to another golden age of scroll magic.

Frankel agreed with those words, but……

“……It’s not the right time yet.”

Official contact with Kyung-joon had not yet been authorized, and even the Fairy King had sent a letter saying that now was the time to be cautious.

A cautious and careful approach was needed to ensure that Kyung-joon, a tremendous talent, was brought over to the Fairy-Elven Alliance.

But this strategy might be about to change.

“Arc-en-Ciel made the first move. The Fairy King will change his strategy soon too.”

Arc-en-Ciel, the Great Mage Tower, was also on the side of the Fairy-Elven Alliance, but Frankel speculated that the Fairy King wanted to keep Kyung-joon under his direct control.

But that was already beginning to waver.

With Ezeri being scouted to Arc-en-Ciel, the chances of Kyung-joon doing the same had increased.

For some reason, the Fairy King wanted to keep Kyung-joon for himself.

He would never let the Great Mage Tower monopolize Kyung-joon.

So surely, his stance would change soon.

“……As long as nothing goes wrong until then.”

Would the son of the Hooli family really stay put and not cause any major trouble until then?

Probably not.

Looking at Edict’s eyes, which now almost worshiped Kyung-joon, it seemed that it was already too late.

“So for now, it’s carrots rather than sticks.”

Smoothly.

Frankel pulled out a piece of paper from under his desk drawer and began writing something on it.

It was an official letter to the administration team.

『Subject: Application for Department Name Change』

『Applicant: Department Head Royce P. Frankel』

『Matter: Scroll Department → Department of Scroll and Scroll Programming』

『Rationale: To adopt the new academic discipline of scroll programming and promote more advanced research….』

Scribble. Scribble.

Thud.

Frankel finished writing the contents of the official letter and stamped the department head’s seal on the last signature line.

All he had to do was take this to the administration team and the name of the Scroll Department would be changed starting tomorrow.

Not just any Scroll Department, but a department that also researches scroll programming.

“Kyung-joon… I can’t put his name in there outright, but this should be enough to keep that Edict quiet for a while.”

As long as he kept quiet until the end of the festival.

Another order would come by then.

Frankel had also planned to actively recruit Kyung-joon once the Fairy King’s stance changed.

It was only because the Fairy King had told him to proceed quietly behind the scenes for now that he had taken a passive stance.

However, the Great Mage Tower, Arc-en-Ciel, had already noticed Kyung-joon’s existence and had already scouted Ezeri, one of his line.

So, in preparation for a change in stance later, he was planting seeds in advance.

By changing the name of the department to include ‘scroll programming’.

And when the Fairy King’s stance changed and he was able to move aggressively……

“There was a vacancy for a professor, too. He’s a friend who helped me clean up that Sever mess…… I’m sure I can work something out with the president and pull a TO over to the Scroll Department.”

Frankel was thinking of bringing Kyung-joon in as a professor, not a master’s or doctoral student in the Scroll Department.

“No, not the Scroll Department, but the Department of Scroll and Scroll Programming.”

Frankel muttered to himself with a chuckle and headed to the administration team.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

The next day, the name of the Scroll Department was changed.

In front of the notice posted in front of the Scroll Department tree, a group of students gathered and chattered excitedly.

『Department Notice』

『The department name will be changed as follows after the festival. Please note this.』

『Scroll Department → Department of Scroll and Scroll Programming』

『※The following three courses will be introduced on a trial basis at an appropriate time after the festival.

Introduction to Scroll Programming – Professor TBD

Otherworld Scroll Making: Python Basics – Professor TBD

Scroll Programming Practice – Professor TBD』

And Edict, who had checked the notice posted in front of the Scroll Department tree, did the same.

“Ehehehehe…… Ehehe! Look, look! Teclyn! See, see? This is totally a sign that they’re going to bring him in as a professor!! Woohoo! He’s finally coming, Kyung-joon-nim! A god of scrolls like him is actually going to be a professor at our school! What a joyous occasion! Our students won’t be able to stay still now, will they?!―☆”

(※What a joyous occasion: My heart is filled with extreme joy.)

Contrary to Frankel’s expectations, Edict did not hold back in the slightest.

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