“Hmm…”
Rosaria was deep in thought.
‘I don’t know the specifics, but….. basically, Rachel is actually a princess, and her life is in danger, right?’
Last night, Rosaria met Rachel with Felix. Unable to process the flood of information, she began to untangle the complicated thoughts in her head one by one.
‘And we were already having trouble with that Bjorn or Viking guy… but it seems like having Rachel, the princess, would solve that…’
Whoosh-
Thwack-
“Ugh!?”
Lost in thought with her chin propped up and eyes closed, Rosaria lightly dodged a wooden sword flying towards her face with just a tilt of her head. Then, twisting her waist, she swept up her leg and ‘lightly’ kicked the student, who was staring at her with a bewildered expression, in the stomach.
“How can she dodge even with her eyes closed?”
“And she’s just spinning in place, but we can’t even touch her!”
Following him, students already covered in dirt and looking battered shouted, panting heavily, as they surrounded Rosaria.
More than half of combat class was spent sparring, but none of her classmates could match Rosaria. So, Rosaria would train by sparring with all of her classmates at once.
However, the gap between the students’ skills and Rosaria’s was so vast that they struggled to even graze her clothes.
What’s more, Rosaria was fighting while completely lost in thought, shutting out her surroundings.
‘The Imperial Guard of the Empire is definitely strong. I foolishly allowed an attack last time, but I must never let that happen again.’
Rosaria, who thought of herself as reasonably strong, recalled the chilling sensation of the blade against her neck last night and resolved to do better.
“Class dismissed!”
“Haaah…! It’s over…!”
“Finally… ugh…!”
The students, who had been kicked around by Rosaria for so long, collapsed to the floor as soon as they heard the words “class dismissed,” gasping for breath.
“You’re all such weaklings. Why are you so weak?”
‘Crazy bitch…’
‘She doesn’t realize she’s a monster…’
‘I just want to… ugh…! Ah, I’d lose. Damn it.’
‘Still, class is over… I should go back to the dorm and rest…..’
‘I’m hungry…’
The students, hearing Rosaria’s words as she clicked her tongue at them collapsing like fallen leaves as soon as class ended, were filled with curses, but they managed to hold back, not wanting their already tattered bodies to be torn to shreds.
She was saying the same ridiculous things that Darian used to say to her endlessly back at the main house, which she had found absurd.
Still, class was over, so they thought it was over for the day and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Now, anyone who couldn’t touch my clothes today, run fifty laps around the drill field.”
“…Excuse me?”
“What… did you say?”
“I’ll check with Professor Gerton later, so if you lie and skip out, you’re dead. See you later.”
The students, staring at Rosaria’s retreating figure as she nonchalantly dropped those earth-shattering words, looked at each other.
And then.
“You crazy bitch!!!!”
“Son of a bitch!!!”
Finally reaching their limit, the students let out cries of despair and cursed Rosaria.
But nothing changed.
After grinding their teeth and cursing Rosaria for a long time, they got up, staggering, and began to listlessly walk around the drill field.
“Come to think of it, it’s almost been three months since I came to the Academy.”
Rosaria muttered as she strolled leisurely down the hallway after class.
The students’ attention was still focused on her, but after she punched a few of the ones who rushed at her, no one dared to approach her openly.
Since coming to the Academy, many things had happened, but she was now somewhat adjusted.
Dorm life and classes were the same. Once she got used to them, it felt like she was back in college, which wasn’t bad.
The classes were easy too, since she only had to move her body without needing to study anything complicated.
“Soon it’ll be the end of the semester~ I should rest well when I go home~”
It was already November.
The Academy’s semester ended at the end of November.
Rosaria was filled with thoughts of relaxing and having fun at home during that time.
Then.
“…Huh? What’s with all the people gathered over there?”
Rosaria, noticing a crowd of students gathered around a bulletin board in the hallway, wondered what was going on and headed towards it.
“Excuse me~ Just passing through~”
“Oh, who… Eh, Lady Evergarden?”
“It’s Lady Evergarden!”
“Yes, yes, it’s Evergarden. Please move aside.”
Rosaria, pushing through the crowd of students, lightly ignored the students who were shouting at her and turned her gaze to the bulletin board.
“Let’s see… 2nd semester final exam ann…ouncement… Ah. Final exams.”
The bulletin board contained the schedule for the final exams, which would be held before the end of the semester.
“Well, the exam is a rule before the end of the semester. I’m not surprised. What will it be this time…?”
Rosaria wasn’t particularly surprised, since exams before the end of the semester were the norm.
She hadn’t studied for the exams, but she was confident in her physical abilities, so she didn’t think there would be any problems.
“Let’s see? Note… Due to the previous incident, this final exam will be replaced with a written exam… What?”
However, it didn’t take long for her confident expression to turn sour.
“That’s what I heard. This time, the exam will be written for both combat and non-combat departments.”
“What the hell are you talking about all of a sudden?!”
Rosaria, after checking the final exam schedule, immediately went to Felix to confirm the information and shouted, jumping up from her seat.
“In the first place, I haven’t studied here at all!”
Rosaria was very embarrassed because she had never opened a book since coming to the Academy, let alone taken a written exam.
“That’s something to be proud of. Then what did you do?”
“Um… beat up kids… and… um… what… was there?”
“I heard you were always lying down and sleeping during non-major classes? The basic economics professor told me to please stop your sister from snoring during my class.”
“Ah… did I even snore…?”
“Sigh.”
But Felix already knew everything.
Even if it was a combat major, basic classes were still held.
Even in the major, there were written classes on everything from how to hold each sword to human anatomy (you had to know how the human body worked as much as you used it), and basic tactics.
Even in that situation, Rosaria would often go out to the training grounds, beat up the students, and come back, and she would always sleep during written classes. Her attitude was so bad.
“No, honestly, if the practical exam is 70% and the written exam is 30%, do we really need the written exam? It’s not like I’m trying to be a top student… right?”
“Okay, okay, don’t look at me like that!”
Rosaria, shrinking back at Felix’s criticism, made a poor excuse, but couldn’t stand Felix’s look of pity and shouted.
“I don’t care~ What can I do? I haven’t studied at all, so what exam? I’ll just pick number 1 for everything. It’s almost the end of the semester anyway~”
Rosaria, who was feeling embarrassed by the sudden exam, didn’t care because it was almost the end of the semester and thought it would be fine somehow.
“Didn’t you know? If your grades are below average during the semester, you have to stay at the Academy and take supplementary classes even after the semester ends?”
“…What?”
However, Rosaria’s pupils widened at Felix’s words, as if asking what he was talking about.
“Supplementary… classes?”
“Right? The Academy is ultimately a place to train talent, so the passion for education is amazing. You might have to stay at the Academy until the semester starts? Huh? Brother? Brother?!”
Thud-
Rosaria, staring at Felix with shaking pupils, jumped up from her seat and ran out of the lab before he could finish his calmly spoken, terrible words.
“Ugh… I don’t understand at all…”
The place she headed to after running out of Felix’s lab was the library.
Rosaria, who had never been to the library during her time at the Academy, asked the students for directions and came. She piled up her major-related books like a mountain and was looking through them, but she couldn’t understand anything.
“I… took the college entrance exam, went to college, and took exams… why am I such an idiot now?”
Paper was paper, and words were words.
Rosaria clearly remembered studying for the college entrance exam in the past, taking the exam, and taking major classes, but now she couldn’t study at all.
Her brain, already hardened from serving in the military, had been completely reset in terms of studying after experiencing the super-special situation of being possessed by another world.
-Mom, what are you doing?
“Ah, Litt. I’m studying now.”
-Studying? What’s studying?
–Is it something to eat?
“…Ariel, all you ever talk about is food? When did you become such a glutton?”
As she was struggling for a long time, two spirits popped up and started peeking at Rosaria, who was looking at the books.
“…Wait. Most people can’t see spirits, right? Then… I can cheat openly and no one will know?”
Then, Rosaria suddenly began to devise a secret plan to pass the exam by using the spirits.
“That’s right. It’s much better than a cheat sheet, right? Why didn’t I think of this?”
Rosaria, realizing that she didn’t need to study if she had the spirits, immediately smiled and muttered, closing the book she had opened.
It was a perfect plan that anyone could see. She wanted to praise herself for coming up with such a plan.
“The Academy strictly prohibits inappropriate behavior related to exams. That won’t work.”
“Huh? Who… Gasp?!”
At that moment, a voice denying Rosaria’s thoughts, who was very excited, was heard. Rosaria turned her gaze to the voice and her jaw dropped.
“Hello? Senior?”
There, wearing the Academy’s uniform and holding a thick book in her arms, was Rachel, looking at her.