Time went by, and in the remaining day he had. He went anywhere to cramp much knowledge into the Dictio. Loses the money in progress to rent a book from a bookstore as he can't afford to buy it with his current budget until the day when he departs to the academy.
'Huge,....'
In front of him, there's a single ship with a big balloon on top of it. The luxury transportation that his current gold can't even have the courage to imagine to buy the ticket.
As he showed the conductor his recommendation letter, with a smile on his face the conductor granted their permit to Erik.
The quality of the transportation can be seen in the interior, which greets him as he walks toward the inner section. A glimmering wooden floor and many luxury interiors that decorate the way made him feel weird.
In the innermost section of the skyship, the assembled student candidates can be seen flocking to each other creating their cliques.
'Nobles huh,...'
From the distant area that has the upper and serene place inside the skyship, he was there. Glancing between the crowd and the outside view from the ship while wearing the glasses.
'....all the main characters,....'
'....as thought, they were here,'
The princess from the Kingdom of Aragon, Elria de Aragon, The fallen noble Elise Maxwell, and The commoner Edna.
The male main characters are Corin, The genius mage Kian, and The prince of the Pallas Kingdom Abraham Pallas.
'And myself, the commoner Erik,....'
The game itself is based on an original novel that captures the struggle of the main character Elise, her journey and her love story along the way she tries to elevate her status from fallen noble.
But the game version has its story tweaked, Edna, the one that isn't in the original novel got added as a playable character as well as Erik. Causing the whole community to say that Edna is the actual heroine in this game.
They all will be in S class, but Erik alone will be in C class. Not the lowest but not the highest too.
'Well, with Erik's constitution, it's no wonder he was in C class,'
'I don't even know how he managed to get himself the letter of recommendation-, as if I will know how he is in class C either,'
'But one thing that I need to do is, don't get involved with two of the main characters,'
'They have the most annoying nature,....'
When Elise walks to the most deserted room, the nobles boarding the same ship whisper to each other, bad-mouthing Elise as she walks. Not only her-, but even Edna and Erik can't escape their eyes.
With a sigh, Erik says, 'A bunch of kids,...'
The flight took 3 hours to take him to the Academy City, after he got off the ship he needed 30 minutes to reach the entrance of the academy by foot.
When all the candidates gathered, the instructor led them to the hall to take the test.
'From what I know, from 1200 participants there's not even half of them will be accepted,'
'....What a sadist academy,'
The test sheet has been distributed, the atmosphere has turned into that kind of battlefield. All the people here stiffed up looking at the sheet, but some are relaxed especially the main character.
But, Erik was different.
'...shit, this test, I don't understand at all,'
The fact that Erik had just transmigrated barely just a week ago slapped hard on his face.
'Is this a trap question?'
'It doesn't make any sense at all!'
He gritted his teeth and sweat began pouring.
'Even the Dictio didn't have the answer for this!!'
'What is this nonsense??'
When Erik tries his best to search for the answer through the glasses, the instructor says, "Times up!"
'Wha-!'
The sheets fly by themselves and then slowly come to the instructor's tables which are neatly arranged.
'Crap! I only answered the first three!'
While sighing, Erik says, "Haah, it seems I will deviate from the original story and be placed straight into F class,"
"Let's just forget it, they will announce it later at noon so let's go somewhere to pass the time,"
Inside the room, the professor gathered to discuss the candidate's fate. In front of a long table, each professor took a seat and filled up the empty chair provided, but, at the end of the table, there was still one remaining left.
The room was silent, all of the professors kept their serene, waiting for the headmaster to come. Not long after, the door opened up, and a young man figure walked pass-through. The professor stands up, greeting the prominent figure of the school.
With a smile on his face, he says, "So, any interesting candidate this year?"
Heard that, one of the professors said, "Yes, there's the aristocrat from two kingdoms, the successor of the mage tower, and the fallen noble,"
"I see, Elria de Aragon, Abraham Pallas, Elise Maxwell, and Kian wasn't it?"
"Yes, but there are quite a few candidates without background, between them, the one named Erik is the one stand-out among others," added the professor.
"And the reason is?"
"He only answers the first tree of the question,"
Interest can be seen in the headmaster's eyes, "Hoooh, I see, that's quite surprising in this day and age,"
"The question means for a knight to answer,...."
"But, isn't that the usual? It's not that rare to see candidates intentionally only answer the first three,..."
"Yes, but headmaster, this candidate's answer is different,"
While speaking, the professor handed over Erik's answer sheet, "Usually, they just left it blank or answered it like in the book that explained what knighthood is but...."
After reading it, his expression changed, and his eyes widened as if he didn't believe what he had seen, "This is,...."