Welcome to Laville National Academy of Magic.
I'm the Headmaster, Golde.
Laville National Academy of Magic Headmaster Count Golde
I see the two children of the three great heroes have an exceptional aura.
You can tell, Headmaster?
I suppose that's a hexagon-class mage for you.
No way. What does this headmaster think he's saying?
Ireeny, the heiress to an honorable barony, is one thing, but "two children"?
I'm just a typical nobody.
I've heard tales of your great deeds, as well.
They say the two of you cleared out hundreds of goblins
during the demon attack on Brave Nest.
That's right.
We decided to tell everyone that was our first team effort.
Though exterminating all those goblins
was easier than breathing.
In light of that,
we're exempting you from the practical entrance exam for our senior division,
but please, at least, take the written exam.
Of course, Headmaster.
I'm quivering with excitement to see just how advanced the exams
of such a renowned, prestigious school are.
Just as I expected, Ardy.
The saying, "A lion will use all of its strength,
even when hunting a rabbit," is a perfect fit.
Which of us is the lion in this case?
The academy's entrance exam?
Then I must prepare myself to face it!
Ah!
There it is!
Ireena Litz de Olhyde!
I passed!
That's Ireeny for you.
Now, how about me?
Huh?
Ard, I can't find your name.
I thought something was off.
Those questions were all too simple.
So they were trick questions, then?
Though if I'm the only one who didn't pass,
then what's going to happen to my youthful academy life?
Will I have to part ways with Ireeny?
I don't want to think about it!
There!
I found it!
Your name!
A zero?!
How did I pass with a score of 0?!
Who is trying to ridicule me here?
Congratulations on passing!
Headmaster?
Ardy, your answers were marvelous!
Truly perfect!
Such genius!
No, I fear they go beyond even genius!
They're monstrous!
Nay, divine!
I'm sorry, Headmaster,
but I'm not following what you're saying.
It says that I scored a 0 on the exam?
Yes, sorry,
unfortunately I must say that
all of the answers you gave on your written exam were incorrect!
All of them?
However, that's only within the standards of modern ideology.
Huh?
In short,
Ardy, your answers far surpassed what has been hypothesized.
Far surpassed?
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.
In other words,
even hexagon-class mages struggle to come up with such improvements
to the magical energy amplification circuits used to construct special class magic circles.
Then your ideas to improve magical techniques—
Headmaster!
Students!
You are all fortunate!
For you shall be able to study hard alongside this young man, Ard Meteor!
P-Please hold on!
He's calling me amazing, but...
He is a genius who has inherited the blood of the Great Mage, Jack Meteor,
and his wife Carla, the two who, ten years ago, destroyed the
resurrected Evil God and protected the peace of our royal capital, Dycaeus!
He is a great genius, indeed!
Yes, he is the son of the great heroes!
This is too much information!
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody
That's right!
Papa, Uncle, and Auntie defeated the evil god.
Apparently, Papa is known as the Heroic Baron.
You didn't know, Ard?
How can this be?
This setting is too unique!
What happened to being a typical nobody?
I'm looking forward to the future!
I'm glad I'm with you, Ard!
That's right. For now,
so long as I have Ireeny's smile
I don't need anything else.
Ardy! Ardy!
Miss Ireena!
Ardy, let's be friends!
No stealing a lead!
Miss Ireena, I've heard many things about your father.
Would you like to look around the school together?
Ardy!
This situation...
It's not so much that I'm popular as it is my parents' reputation that's drawing them.
Though I am still happy that they're proposing we become friends.
Don't get cocky, commoner.
Those country bumpkins are so annoying.
Oh, looks like not everyone's throwing up their arms to welcome me.
Come on, be honest about it!
An incompetent woman like you made into the school?
Did you seduce your way in?
I didn't do any such thing!
Then how are you even here,
you lowly succubus?!
Hey-
You stop that right now!
You're upsetting her!
Huh?
Well, well, if it isn't the Heroic Baron's little girl.
I'm Elraldo Spencer.
Even a country girl like you has surely heard of the Spencer Duchy.
I-I've heard of it.
So what?!
Tch! This girl belongs to the family of a count that serves my own.
Though even as counts, they could never measure up to the Spencer family.
So this girl is my servant, and I am her master.
You have no right to meddle in our affairs!
You're mistaken if you believe that makes it acceptable to say whatever you want.
Huh? Sounds like you're getting awfully damn carried away.
You're just riding your parents' coattails.
It doesn't matter if I'm riding them or not.
What's more important is that I ask you to apologize for disparaging her honor.
You shut up!
So you won't apologize, then?
Well,
if you manage to beat me in a duel, then maybe I'll consider listening to you.
What's the matter, Miss Ireena?
He's...
He has enough power to be the youngest man to earn the rank of square within the kingdom.
You lowly people could never hope to compare to me in terms of lineage or talent.
Understand now?
What's this commotion about?
A fight's already breaking out within my class?
What a heap of trouble.
That voice is...
Lady Olivia!
One of Demon Lord Varvatos's top generals, the Legendary Apostle?!
Wait. Wait, hold on.
Why is she here?!
Is this commotion your doing,
son of the great mage?
Huh? Oh, yes.
Not good, not good, not good!
She should be furious with Varvatos for suddenly abandoning his job and reincarnating!
If she finds out that I'm Varvatos...
L-Lady Olivia, I see you're doing well as always today.
"As always," you say?
It should be my first time meeting you?
Urk.
U-Um, well...
Hmph. You were having an interesting discussion, though.
So very well.
I'll permit your duel.
Get to it.
Huh?!
Show me your power.
Lady Olivia is judging them herself?!
That's the son of the great mage for you!
He's even drawn the interest of Lady Olivia!
Now, then...
How to finish this without Olivia catching on?
Hey, man, he's dead meat.
Elraldo's strength surpasses even the great mage's and the heroic baron's, doesn't it?
You're out of luck, snowflake.
If Lady Olivia hadn't come along, you could have gotten out of this duel.
Get him!
Go!
Die!
That's...!
He activated Mega Wall without any aria!
Wh-What a crazy level of fighting!
Huh?
I see, I see.
You're not half-bad are you?
I'll take back calling you a snowflake.
If I may ask,
what aspect of that attack and defense warranted taking your statement back?
Q-Quit acting so composed!
You're sorely mistaken if you think that was me being serious!
I'm sure it wasn't.
Such a paltry attack is—
Now you've gone and said it!
I'm surprised you're still standing after taking my Mega Flare!
Huh? Mega Flare?
What is this guy saying?
That was just a normal Flare.
Oh, he's falsely claiming his Flare is Mega Flare.
I'm happy.
It's been a long time since I fought someone I could go all-out against.
You know, putting on such an act is only ridiculous.
Though I do understand it.
Long ago I went through a period like that, too.
I gave lower-level spells embarrassing names,
and made a huge show of activating them.
Though such grandiose lies will only leave you miserable.
Why, you!
Ard!
He's completely blocking a Spencer-style Giga Flare with ease?!
Huh?
This last spell was just a consecutive activation of simple Flares.
That was no Giga Flare.
That's an insult to the creator of the spell.
Mister Elraldo,
since it seems you're unfamiliar,
allow me to teach you
what a real Giga Flare is.
A-All right! I lose!
I just have to apologize, right?!
I'm sorry!
I was wrong!
Huh?!
Huh? What?
Now do you understand?
What you just saw is a real Giga Flare.
Do not make that mistake again.
Ard, that was amazing!
Understand now? No more bullying, you got it?
If he ever says anything mean to you again, you can tell me or Ard!
Y-Yes!
Um...
Thank you so much.
There's no need to thank me.
That might have been a bit childish of me, too.
I see, "a bit childish," huh?
Shoot!
I forgot she was here!
Hey, son of the great mage,
you cast a different spell on Elraldo while activating that spell didn't you?
I cast the defensive spell Mega Wall while I was controlling Giga Flare.
There was a chance Elraldo would have been vaporized at the atomic level otherwise.
In other words,
you pulled off a double cast.
What about it?
He activated two spells at once?!
No way!
Even for him, that can't be...
U-Um, I only used a mere two spells at once!
I could understand this if I had activated dozens of different spells at once,
but a simple double cast doesn't...
In this day and age, that simple double cast is treated as a Lost Skill.
That's common sense, Ard Meteor.
Ah, not good. This is bad.
Now why are you able to use such a Lost Skill?
Further, why do you not possess the common sense for this era?
At some point, I'll get that information out of you.
We're starting class.
No need for classroom lectures,
only field training.
Form into groups of three.
Ardy! Please let me in your party!
Hey! You'd just hold him back! Get lost!
Hey, everyone, calm down...
Take turns!
I was first to ask him!
Hey, Ard, is it okay if we party up with that girl?
What should we do?
What to do, indeed?
Of course.
Want to join my team?
Me, too!
Hey, you! Come join our party!
Huh?!
A-Are you okay with having me?
Of course!
We were just looking for another party member!
What's your name?
I'm Ginny Fin de Salvan.
I'm Ireena.
This is Ard.
U-Um, thank you two for the other day.
Nice to have you, Ginny.
It's nice to meet you, too, Miss Ireena.
Today's mission
is to delve down into the third floor, slay a Black Wolf,
skin its hide, and bring that back.
That's all.
A-A Black Wolf?!
That's a Rank B+ monster!
Are you telling us to die already, Lady Olivia?!
A mission of this level should be easy for you handle, right?
U-Uh...
A-Anyway, let's get going.
A-A Black Wolf?!
It's fine, Ginny.
Yes. I'll defeat this low-level monster quickly.
Incredible!
Hm-hm! We can't have you getting surprised over this.
Ard and I have already defeated an incredible number of monsters!
Shoot. We have to skin its hide...
Controlling its strength is challenging.
I-I'm sorry.
All I'm able to do is get in your way...
Sir Elraldo always calls me slow and dumb, too.
Ginny...
Miss Ginny.
If you're interested,
would you like to take some lessons from me?
Huh?
Lessons? From you?
Yes.
I still have much to learn,
but I believe I can offer you some help.
I'd like to help you build up your confidence a bit.
B-But...
That's not possible.
What are you saying, Ginny?!
Just trust Ard!
I'm not worth troubling your time over.
You are, though!
Because you're our friend!
Friend?
Yeah!
Th-Then please teach me!
D-Don't mind it, Ginny.
I really am an incompetent woman.
That's not true at all.
Succubi are supposed to have great aptitude for magic in the first place.
And to be honest, Miss Ginny, you do—
Then I'm an especially incompetent succubus!
She's completely lost all confidence from suffering years of power and sexual harassment.
That's going to make this a bit trickier.
You must not give up, Miss Ginny.
I still have more I can teach you.
Perfect timing.
Let's practice it out on that foe.
Huh? Um, huh?
Wh-What did you just do?
It's a technique for the speedy activation of spells
by projecting simple magic circles into the air.
I personally call it Script Magic.
I've never seen or heard of that before, though.
I'm sure you haven't.
Because I created it.
You created a magic technique from scratch?!
Th-That's Ard for you!
Aren't you amazed?
Both of you can use it, too,
since it's a technique created with the desire to simplify activation.
Huh?!
The logic is extremely simple.
You incorporate a technique using the mana within the atmosphere
as its energy source into the magic circle.
In doing so, it consumes zero magical energy,
so it's not affected by the state of the caster, either.
Now, please memorize the simple magic circle I'm about to teach you.
Y-Yes!
I-I did it!
I did it!
It's all thanks to you, Ard!
That's the spirit.
And as you increase the precision the magic circle, it will improve even more.
Hey, Ard!
We're going to skin a Black Wolf and get its pelt, right?
That's right, Olivia's—our teacher's mission...
It's my fault for letting my caution lapse.
It looks like we've been sucked through a Dungeon Hole.
Which means this is...
The bottom floor,
and the Floor Boss's lair.
It's a M-M-M-Minotaur!
This cow man?
G-Ginny!
I-It's fine!
I'm here with you!
Hm, true, it does seem more formidable than the Black Wolves.
Now then, let's begin our final lessons on Script Magic.
Ard!
Look out!
Lesson one.
When fighting in close range like this,
you shouldn't be using Script Magic.
Be sure to get some distance from your opponent.
Pushing your opponent away is also effective.
N-No way...
Lesson two.
It's very effective if you use it to take advantage of an enemy's opening.
Script Magic's strength is that it can used consecutively.
Unlike common spells,
it doesn't consume magic energy,
and you can form the magic circle in short time.
Miss Ginny,
would you please deliver the final blow?
H-Huh?!
Muster up your courage and bid farewell to your past.
But...
Miss Ginny, right now you truly are at a fork in the road of your life.
If you want to change,
then show us that desire.
I...
Until now I've always run away from my bitter feelings.
I hoped that one day a lovely person
like the Demon Lord would come
and rescue me.
I didn't fight the reality before me,
and just consoled myself.
But...
I don't want to run anymore!
Take this!
I won't cry anymore!
I'll become stronger!
Well done, Miss Ginny.
Ginny, you did it!
That's our friend!
Friend...
That's right.
We defeated the Floor Boss together!
So you slew the Floor Boss?
It's because Ard taught us Script Magic!
Script Magic?
No, that's not true.
We fought really super-hard to defeat it and almost died!
It was a close call for us!
Huh?
Man, what a tough time!
I'm sure that incompetent woman clung to you the whole time.
What an easy life for her.
Seducer! Seducer!
Pretty pathetic from the son of the great mage.
I don't care what you say about me.
But please take back what you said about Ard!
Huh? Did you fall for him or something?
Well, quite the rivalry with the Heroic Baron's daughter, then.
Hey!
I won't allow you to insult those two!
Y-You impudent!
You lowly succubus!
And I won't forgive you if you ridicule Ginny!
S-Shut up!
Just you wait!
Elraldo, wait up!
What a beautiful sight.
Friendships, bonding, and trust.
Ireeny is the most wonderful of all.
And Miss Ginny is quite wonderful, as well.
Ah, what a lovely first day this was.
Now it's about time to leave school.
You wait here.
Let's have a chat.
A nice, long one.