Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 37, Individual Lessons

In the blink of an eye, time has come to the end of this week.

On Friday morning, after confirming that he could teach classes normally, Ritas actually felt like clenching his fist to celebrate.

If he teaches for another week. No, two weeks, the number of days he attends classes will be equal to the number of days he spends recovering from his injury!
"Ugh--"

Ritas couldn't help but sigh.

Overall, this was a week in which nothing special happened. Or rather, in the life of the academy, it was normal for no unexpected incidents to happen for many years. Before, Ritas was either lying down or on his way to lie down, as if he was cursed.

Hmm. Maybe I'm really cursed?
The noisy voice of the Bathing Goddess echoed in Ritas's mind.

He just subconsciously regarded the goddess of bathing as a god, and thought that the sound in the disc was the guidance of the god. But in fact, even if he said that those sounds were curses from the devil, it would be completely reasonable.

So, Ritas hasn't heard the voice of the Bathing Goddess for nearly a week.

But the goddess of bathing is something that people find strange if she is absent for one day. If she is absent for two days, people are a little concerned. If she is absent for three days, people don’t think it has any impact. If she is absent for four days, people almost forget about her.

As far as I can remember, the goddess of bathing said that she was going on a "business trip. Intensive tutoring", so she would not be online for a few days. Therefore, Ritas had nothing to worry about.

It was that when the Bath Goddess was away for a week, Ritas really had a peaceful week.

This adds further evidence to the claim that the bathing goddess is equivalent to a curse.

When he arrived at the Yewwood class's classroom, Ritas saw Engel still in the corner.

These days, Engel probably couldn't stand Miriam's pestering anymore, so he accepted her apology and chose to reconcile. This incident made the atmosphere in the class return to normal.

However, with these events, Engel has received more attention than before, even if he is unwilling. Therefore, no matter how hard he tries, he can't be as thin as before.

Engley looked even less adept at dealing with Grenville than Miriam.

Although Miriam is enthusiastic, cheerful and active, she always keeps a certain distance from others. This was noticed by Ritas after the goddess of bathing reminded her. However, what the goddess of bathing said, "Miriam does not have physical contact with others," is wrong.

He just hardly had any physical contact with male students, but his contact with female students was quite natural.

In contrast to Miriam, although Grenville needs time to get familiar with others, once he gets familiar with them, he has no sense of boundaries.

It is precisely because of the obvious temperature difference between Engley and Grenville that some interesting things happened this week.

That was the scene where Grenwell invited Engel to go to the academy cafeteria together. They were seen by students from other grades. The student simply warned Grenwell, "This is the magic academy. Put away your tricks. You can't bully other students here."

This warning made Grenville look confused.

However, looking at him with his muscular build and Engri, who was hunched over like a chicken and had a look of resistance on his face, there was nothing that could be done about other people's misunderstandings.

By the way, Grenville encountered this situation twice in a week. And both times, students from the Yanxin School stood up with a righteous look on their faces.

It seems that other students also have their own troubles.

Shaking his head to let go of unnecessary thoughts, Ritas began teaching for the day.

On this day, Ritas continued to consolidate the students' theoretical knowledge in the morning, and then started the magic practice class in the afternoon.

After nearly a week of study, the students of Yew Fir School have also mastered the most basic elemental magic.

Among them, Miriam is naturally still the best in practice.

He successfully released elemental magic of multiple elements with exceptional completion and control.

However, the better Miriam performed in the practical class, the more headaches Ritas had.

Because, in theory, Miriam is a mess. He's in a complete "I don't know what's going on, but I'm making magic happen" situation.

Such talented students are not uncommon in the long-established Earls College. And such students will have two situations in the future.

One is to practice magic based on natural intuition, but eventually one will hit a wall. Once one hits a wall, one will lose even confidence and end up being like everyone else.

The other option is to continue to blaze a path of your own in your own way and write a new chapter for the vast world of magic.

In these two cases, the ratio is about one hundred to one.

However, although the probability of the latter is very small, Ritas, who knows that Miriam will become a "hero", still tends to believe that Miriam will not fall to the bottom.

But Miriam in the "Star Mark" game world has a different development trajectory from reality. Now, even if he wants to go to the Shadow Mist Forest to find monsters to practice practical magic, the monsters in the forest have already been plowed clean by Livis.

Therefore, since a deeper understanding of magic would not be an obstacle, Ritas planned to think of some ways to help Miriam study well.

The student who performed slightly worse than Miriam in practice, but performed particularly well in theory was Sylvie.

After a period of contact, Ritas's impression of Sylvie is "a girl who doesn't look like a girl."

This is not to say that Sylvie is masculine, but her behavior is too mature to be that of a girl under fifteen years old.

She is serious and attentive in her studies, like a model student who has walked out of a painting. In terms of communication, her attitude towards other students is more like a colleague than a classmate.

Neither make enemies with others, nor be particularly close to others.

Except during class time, he never appears with other students.

Not only physically, but also mentally, I seem to be keeping a distance from everyone.

In fact, Ritas admired Sylvie. He felt that Sylvie was doing better than he did when he was a student. When he was a student, he also wanted to keep a distance from everyone, but he undoubtedly went too far.
In short, Sylvie is currently the only student in the Yew Fir School class that Ritas does not have to worry about in any way.

The next person to perform well was, unexpectedly, Grenville.

Grenville's magic theory was a mess, and in practice, the only magic he used well was the wind element magic that matched him very well.

However, before this, almost all the students had never been exposed to magic, and only six of the classmates had Grenville's special magic skills. What else could Ritas ask for?

Apart from these three, who are considered “excellent” students, the remaining three are relatively poor students.

Iris's magical talent remained basically unchanged compared to her previous displays.

To be fair, Iris's magic talent was at the level of "barely able to use magic". Generally speaking, unless a girl with such magic talent was born in an extremely wealthy family, her parents would not consider sending her to a magic school.

Of course, Iris is a special admission student, so she doesn't have to worry about these things.

Compared to Iris's magical talent, her naturally strong physique may be a more suitable direction for her development.

However, Ritas was only a tutor at the magic academy. Besides, it was far from the time to plan for Iris' future.

As long as Iris is still interested in learning, Ritas will take it seriously. Merci, who performed better than Iris, is actually in a better state than when she was learning defensive magic.

Perhaps because she has been practicing controlling the power of the star patterns in her body, Merci has also done a good job in controlling elemental magic.

However, the scale of those elemental magics was incredibly small.

There was an almost imperceptible breeze, a stream of water connected by several drops of water, and when it reached the fire element, it struggled for a long time and only produced a wisp of smoke.

Although, Ritas could understand Merci's concerns, he also knew that she had already done her best just to separate the magic and the power of the star pattern.

But as a mentor, he felt that he should still think of a solution.

Finally, there is Engel, who was not a problem student when we were studying defensive magic last week.

Ritas also didn't know why the student had been trying to hide himself.

In terms of hiding other aspects, Engel may have done a good enough job, but in terms of magic, in the eyes of the expert Ritas, his performance was too "lame".

Engel could have performed better, but he deliberately suppressed his performance to the point where it was somewhat mediocre and unsatisfactory, but not so bad as to be targeted.

You know, according to the information from the Bathing Goddess, if Engel had not been selected in the "choose one of two", he would have surpassed Sylvie and Miriam as the top student in the class, and then transferred to the Green Ivy class.

Thinking back to that time in the conversation room, when I asked Fili, the thin student, about Engli, he showed a slightly subtle attitude.

Ritas felt that the abnormal aura from Engri was becoming stronger and stronger.

According to the current situation of the class, Ritas felt that he had reason to have a private conversation with all the students except Sylvie.

It just so happens that after learning a few basic magics, in the second half of the semester, the instructor also needs to provide corresponding guidance based on the characteristics of each student.

So, at the end of the magic practice class, Ritas announced something to the students.

"Magic is unpredictable, or rather, a free thing. So, the same is true for learning magic. No two wizards will take the same exact path. As for the path you plan to take in the future, I, as your mentor, can provide you with a certain degree of advice. So, starting next week, I will give you a one-hour private lesson after school."

"Although it is a lecture, the process should not be as serious as a classroom. As for the content of the course, although the main part will be related to magic, if you have any other questions, you can also raise them at that time."

"So, next Monday, remember to provide a rough list of your free time. I will book the specific time for this special class with you based on my schedule."

As soon as Ritas finished speaking, Miriam said "Huh?" After being glared at, he quickly shut up.

This one-on-one special course is a benefit that only students in the Yew Fir class, which has a small number of students, can enjoy.

However, in the Yew Fir class, it seems that only a few students can understand how valuable the "Professor of Magic's Private Course" is.

After announcing this to the students, Ritas asked Ms. An to ask Adeline, the tutor's assistant, whether she planned to participate.

Although Adeline was probably too lazy to spend six hours of her life on the students, she still had to ask.

As for why it was An who conveyed the message, it was naturally because Her Royal Highness the Princess went for afternoon tea again.

Sometimes, Ritas wondered why the goddess of the baths called Adeline "Cake".

Obviously, "afternoon tea" is more appropriate.

After school that day, Ritas, who had made an appointment with Merci, came to the Fairy Lake after many days.

After Levis promised that there would be no problems in Shadowmist Forest, the two of them resumed their special training at Fairy Lake.

However, if Levis really follows Ritas's suggestion and invites some adventurers to stay in the dense forest, their special training location will need to be moved.

Ritas has a stereotype of adventurers, and it's a bad one. When there are monsters, adventurers fight monsters, and when there are no monsters, the mixed adventurers are monsters.

Fortunately, the application for the establishment of the seminar was successfully approved, and Livis also helped Ritas to apply for the venue.

Therefore, next, Ritas and Merci only need to find a more remote venue to continue their special training.

As for Merci's special training results, Ritas couldn't judge.

After all, he himself didn't understand anything about star patterns.

He did go to the library to look up information, but found little useful information.

At this time, the fastest way is to do what Livis did and find a knowledgeable person, such as a "sage", to obtain information. But Ritas obviously does not have such ability.

Moreover, out of protection for Merci, he did not intend to publicize the matter before Merci had good control of this power. Therefore, he had not even discussed it with his only friend John.

If I have to say, from the perspective of magic practice, Merci has made progress in guiding her power.

Since Mercy had attended a magic practice class that day and was a little tired, Ritas stopped the after-school training after only an hour.

During the break, Ritas called out the Fairy Queen who had been avoiding him for the past few days and asked for the agreed reward.

Fairies are not very good at counting, but that doesn't mean Ritas asks for more money.

Fairy Queen Ruby is stingy, but Ritas is not.

Moreover, it is said that the flying frog Toppa, who had been lost once before, is now lost again. Ritas feels that the commission between him and Ruby can be turned into a long-term one.

Among the rewards, the other materials were fine, but the "Morning Rain and Dew", a material with a very short shelf life, made Ritas feel a little embarrassed.

In the end, Ritas, who had no way to deal with it and didn't want to waste it, boiled a few eggs with clear water mixed with morning dew, and put them in cups and bowls woven from large leaves.

Beside the Fairy Lake, Ritas, Merci, and a group of fairies who came out after smelling the fragrance, tasted the delicious egg soup, all with peaceful expressions on their faces.

"Mercy, that's enough for today. We'll see you in the classroom next Monday. By the way, don't forget to arrange a time for individual lessons."

At dusk, after completing a day's work, Ritas, who was about to return to the dormitory, said this to Merci before leaving.

But before Ritas could turn around and leave, Merci called out to him.

"Professor Ritas!"

"Um."

“No need, wait until next week.”

By the Fairy Lake where fireflies were gradually lighting up, the confused and embarrassed girl said this with her head slightly lowered.

(End of this chapter)