About a month after Ruli and Alma started their training.
Principal Edward opened his mouth before the whole student body gathered in the meeting ground.
Today is the day the school is announcing the representatives for the interpersonal match.
"We will now announce representatives for interpersonal match."
The second graders looked at each others when they heard that.
Can't blame them. Usually the representatives were selected from second graders and they knew their identities long before the official announcement.
However, there was no news about it this year.
"Leader First Year Class A, Mathias."
"Yes!"
I stepped forward as I got called.
"Eh? First year...?"
"It should be within the rule sure, but I've never heard first year ever getting selected...."
"And he's a Disqualified Crest. Is that all right?"
"Maybe they're going to throw the match away since we've never won an interpersonal match...."
The second graders reacted with perplexity and sympathy when they saw me.
Even though the representative seat was taken by a freshman, it seems their emotions mostly exclude anger.
Well, I could guess the reason for that.
Apparently, the Second Royal Academy has suffered 33 consecutive defeats.
Getting chosen in such a tournament means getting the short end of the stick, no one desires the honor.
It seems the second graders are thinking that the principal chooses me because he wants to give up the match.
"Member, First Year Class A, Alma!"
"Yes!"
"Member, First Year Class A, Ruli!"
"Yes!"
The second graders' uproar reached its climax when Ruli's name was called as the third rep.
"Principal, what the hell!"
"I can't believe you're sending first year kids as the reps! Lemme do it in their stead!"
"Me too! Like we'd stand being the only one safe while sacrificing the first year!"
Most of the first-year students already knew about chantless magic, so there wasn't really a fuss among them.
I guess this is the side effect of hiding the chantless magic until we have result to show in order to prevent strong oppositions.
....By the way, the second graders made it like the interpersonal-match was dangerous, but it's fundamentally safe. Physically speaking that is.
Apparently, the Royal Capital's arena has a device that puts a dual layer barrier on each participants, defeat condition is triggered when the outer barrier is destroyed, allowing matches without worry of injury, the interpersonal match will be held there.
However, it doesn't nullify the mental load and it seems there are students who are traumatized by the match.
It's an unnaturally high performance device compared to chant magic.... But I feel like there's a kind of relic with similar capability from my age.
The civilization of that time has been seemingly destroyed now, but at that time there was this slogan, 『Let's create a legacy we can be proud of even 3000 years in the future!』, lots of people created many things like pointlessly sturdy arenas and such, this arena might also be something from that time.
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