Magic Academy's Genius Blinker Chapter 23: A Failure in Class S (5)

Late evening.

After finishing Hong Bi-Yeon's 'Special Lecture', I imdiately left the academy site and headed for Arcanium.

I had to go to a bookstore.

"Does she really believe in all that?"

Thinking about what I had just done, I felt a sense of sha and guilt.

Hong Bi-Yeon. She was obviously a good and smart mage, but her disadvantage was that she had a stereotypical way of thinking.

But, that did not an I should have taken advantage of her.

'Well, it doesn't matter since she's a villain anyway.'

I could not help it. Right now, Argento's image as a magic sword was hovering in front of my eyes.

I have to convert Argento into a magic sword as soon as possible to increase my involvent in the academy plot.

'Let's stop thinking about it. I have to buy books too.'

Tomorrow, I would need books for my major because I was going to take practical classes and lectures earnestly.

As I walked through the streets of the magical city of Arcanium, a panoramic view of the colourful Mage tower and nurous magic academies unfolded.

Carriages were led by winged horses, and small floating islands hovered in the air. The streets were quite crowded with students, including , who ca out to purchase books in haste. n and won could be seen walking around in pairs.

They were truly cheerful, those young ones.

The streets were beautifully paved, and colourfully lit buildings were lined up one after another. As soon as I entered an alley while looking at the essence of magic engineering, I imdiately activated Flash to move away.

'Is it here? I can't rember.'

In the ga, one could automatically press 'listen to the lecture', but in reality, one needed a major book.

Another absurd thing was that the increase in grades differed depending on which major book was used.

At first, I rembered buying books at a fairly famous bookstore in the city. There were many kinds of books along with a lot of custors, so I thought it was better anyway.

But, I was wrong. It was later revealed by the players that there were hidden books all over the city that added to grades.

In particular, the bookstore where such books were most often hidden was 'naless bookstore'. It got its na because its signboard was empty.

After wandering along the alley for a while, I arrived at an unnad bookstore. It was a pretty old place.

As I creaked open the wooden door of the crumbling bookstore, which looked like it would scare away even ghosts, a sll of musty books greeted .

There was an old man dozing off at the counter. That perverted old man pretended to doze off like that and observed guests with magic detection skills. Well, there was always sothing unique about long-lived mages

Without hesitation, I walked inside. It was quite old, but there was 'Maela's Handwritten Notes'. He was soone who graduated from the Stella Academy as a top student 10 years ago.

I did not know why it was being sold here.... However, if you take a magic engineering class with those handwritten notes, you would get a perfect score almost unconditionally.

My grades might not really matter because I had Sentient Spec, but there were hidden recipes stored inside, so I might find sothing useful later.

'As long as I have that, I can study the rest of it with just plain books.'

After all, I got a perfect score thanks to the Sentient Spec.

'Let's see... I think I found it.'

No one had also touched it. Maela's na was clearly written on a 'Magic Engineering Theory Handwritten Notes.' So might say that having a lot of hand stains was annoying, but it was beneficial to . Old books, by the way, were always preferable.

As I reached for it, a white wrist appeared from the other side and grabbed the book I had chosen.

"...?"

"Oh?"

I turned my head slightly and noticed a sky-blue-haired girl, slightly smaller than , frantically withdrawing her hands as if they were on fire.

While I recovered my hands, I was frankly bewildered when I saw her.

"Eh, Eisel?"

"What. Do you know ?"

"Huh? Uh, you know you are famous."

It was because Eisel Morph, also called the 'Miserable Mistress', was looking at with an old used book in her arms.

She flicked the strands of her waving sky-blue hair and stared intently at .

"Oh, you... the one from before?"

"Uhh."

'It's nice that you rember , but can't you rember that we t two tis before?'

Eisel stood like that for a while and then shook her head.

"I enjoyed the discussion earlier... It was quite disappointing that you didn't explain it to the end."

Co to think of it, Eisel could not solve all of those problems. So, while trying to solve the problem, there might or might not have been a story about building a relationship with Mayuseong.

"Anyway, it was nice to et you," she said as she turned her head coolly and went to the other side.

By the way, why was she in the store that sells used books?

I hurriedly pulled out Maela's notebook. Since I did not lose this, everything was going great.

Then I took out other books one by one and glanced sideways at Eisel.

She was taking out one after another books, but strangely, she seed to care about the price tag.

'Oh, that's it.'

This bookstore mainly dealt with second-hand books, so soone rarely ca here unless he was a poor student like .

However, admission to the Arcaneum's five prestigious schools was only for the truly wealthy. It ant that the few students with my background had to spend all of their life savings right before their parents died to raise their tuition fees.

In other words, coming to an improvised bookstore... would an she was as poor as I was.

'It's a bit sad.'