Chapter 26
"Now introduce yourself starting from . . . Well anyone's fine . Alright, Mathias the top grade of the school year! Let's start from you!"
Looks like the principal is calling us by our names .
He's not calling the surname probably because your houses, upbringing and such are irrelevant in this school .
If there's someone with a famous noble name or something among us, the other students will be conscious of that person even if they don't intend to after all .
I'm in agreement with the goal and only tell my given name for my introduction .
"I'm Mathias . Just call me Mathi . Err . . . "
Come to think of it, I haven't prepared what to say here at all . This is my first self-introduction in hundreds of years after all .
. . . . Well, there should be no need to say superfluous stuff since this school is kinda like a military academy . Guess I should just tell my combat orientation .
"My crest is the Fourth Crest . . . . I mean . Disqualified Crest . My specialty is in the short-range magic and physical mixed combat . Nice to meet you . "
The crest isn't commonly known as the Fourth Crest in the present age, so I called it as they would .
The classroom rustled a bit after hearing my introduction .
"Magic and physical mixed combat, what's that?"
"Rather, can Disqualified Crest even use magic?"
"I also has Disqualified Crest and I can't use magic you know?"
The principal is grinning to see the classroom .
"Next! The runner-up, Ruli!"
After my introduction was over, the principal looked down at the paper on his hand and called Ruli's name .
That paper probably has our grades on it .
"Yes! My name is Ruli . I'm good with magic and a little bit with swordsmanship . I want to become a magic augmenter! Um . . . Nice to meet you!"
Ruli introduced herself while looking slightly tense .
The classroom rustled again, though not as loud as with mine .
Apparently, it's rare for a First Crest like Ruli to be wanting to become a Magic Augmenter . The First Crest IS the crest for Magic Augmenters though . . . .
The current world values Crests the complete opposite .
It's so bad that I begin to suspect that someone with a malicious intent made it this ineffective .
"Next! Ace!"
"Yes!"
The class continues with the introductions .
All the second to seventh ranked people had the First Crest .
And five of them besides Ruli wanted to become magicians .
"The next one's the last . . . . Alma!"
"Yes . The name's Alma . I've got the Regular Magic Crest so I'm aiming to become a warrior . Though I can't win in either magic or sword against Ruli . . . . I've got some confidence with a bow though . . . . "
The introduction was quite unfortunate somehow . Well, I guess it's only natural since the other party is the runner-up of the whole school year . The difference in their swords' performances is also quite huge .
And for some reason she's aiming to become a warrior even with the Regular Magic Crest which is well suited for magic .
"And that's a wrap . Anyone has a question?"
"Sensei, I have a question!"
Alma raised her hand .
"What is it?"
"Mathias-kun's scores on the passing announcement were weird, was that a mistake!"
"Ah . That huh . The weird one here is Mathias, not the scores . How he is weird, you can check for yourself during the practical lesson . For the time being, S class and A class will have joint lessons . I've got talk about that with you, Mathias, come to the principal office later . "
After such and such, our first homeroom ended and I was taken to the principal office .
What do they want from me I wonder .
"Alright . I see that everyone is here . "
A lot of adults were already inside the room when we entered .
They're most likely this school's teachers . Several faces look familiar from the exam and the entrance ceremony .
30% are of scholar type, 40% are of magician type and 30% are of warrior type huh .
The fact that there's not even one mixed physical and magic combat type slightly bothers me, but they have good balance if we put that aside .
"Sorry for being so sudden, Mathias, please solve this problem . And this too . "
The principal said that and handed me a paper with two problems .
And then, the scholar-type teachers begin to observe me as to not miss even a beat of my hand movement .
One of the problems is the same problem from the entrance exam back then .
Perhaps they're doubting me of cheating .
Fortunately, both of the problems are of rudimentary magic circle mathematics . The first problem can be solved in 20 seconds as long as you know Pythagorean theorem . The next problem is a bit more complex, but three minutes are enough to finish it .
I write the formula on the provided paper and derive the answer while being careful with mistakes .
Well, I can do it with my intuition without calculations for this level of magic circles .
Rather, magic circle maths are the basic for magic augmenters, they won't be able to do even fivefold augmentation if they can't do this much .
I finished solving the problems while thinking that .
" . . . In . . . an instant . . . !?"
"Oy, is this correct?"
"It's an unsolved problem . There's no way we can make sure of it unless we construct the magic . "
"But I can't see anything contradictory at the very least . Perhaps this is . . . . "
"The teacher in charge of magic augment should be able to test and confirm it shouldn't he?"
"P-please wait, I'll bring back magic stones for experiments!"
The principal office clamored the moment I finished the problems, some teachers even ran off somewhere .
Huh? This seems different from them doubting me of cheating somehow .
'Did I do anything wrong', I looked at the principal with that in mind .
"Principal-sensei, this is--"
"Mathias, do you know what you just solved?"
"The problem in the entrance exam of this academy and the extended version of that problem right?"
The principal grinned when he heard me .
"That is certainly a question in the Second Royal Academy's entrance exam . . . . . Under the assumption that it won't be solved that is . "
"Assumption it won't be solved?"
"Yea . It's there for us to see how far would the participants think it through, even if they can't solve it . . . . You seem to have solved it though . "
Such a simple problem is assumed to be unsolvable, what a weird thing to say .
If magic augmenters can't even construct this level of magic circle, that means no one in this world can make a proper magic sword .
Don't tell me that the magic swords in Bass's store are treated as proper ones, there's no way, nuh uh .
"Let me tell you the correct answer . The first problem is a question in the Royal Magic University entrance exam, the second problem is an unsolved problem that hasn't been solved even after the country gathered the entire magic scholars . "
. . . . Ha?