Munchkin of the Summoning Academy

Chapter 62

Summoner’s Cup (4)

A large number of students had already gathered in the auditorium in the morning.

Not only members of the student council, but also those who seem to want to participate.

Maria and Christine had arrived first, and Sylvia and Elfriede followed me and all the nappers gathered.

Michael, who was smiling softly on the podium, waved his hand to welcome me.

“Okay. Count El Cloud has also come. Shall we start the selection now?”

“Chairman. I didn’t apply for participation, did I?”

Feeling everyone’s eyes gathering, Michael smiles bitterly as he raises his hand.

He immediately came down from the stage and said:

“Napping… No, the group participation in the Far East Summoning Research Society has been confirmed. Of course, if you don’t like it, I can’t force you to recommend it.”

“Yes? Suddenly?”

Even if Maria participates because of Michael, Christine is not the type of person who is willing to take part…

What kind of wind suddenly blew?

After receiving my attention, she explains what she is doing.

“If you participate in the Summoner’s Cup as a group, you don’t need to file a club report for the rest of your life. The club activity fee doubles.”

“If you become a club that made a big contribution to the Summoner’s Cup acquisition, other guys wouldn’t dare say anything. How about it?”

I let out a small sigh, ignoring the quick addition of Michael from the side.

“Just write the second part of Maria-senpai’s thigh report.”

“Lou, Louise!”

“It’s a report on the elasticity of each part, not the thigh.”

Perhaps her voice was a little loud, Maria’s face turned red.

Now I see that she is wearing tight riding clothes, not her usual school uniform.

In addition, wrist guards and chest guards used when using a bow.

Are you going to participate in archery and horseback riding?

In fact, when Maria and Christine participated, it was as if my participation was confirmed.

They are suffering, but isn’t it a bit like just looking at them silently?

We’re not even sausages, but we’re going in very closely.

Michael, who noticed my inner feelings, patted the shoulder with delight.

“I’m sorry. I need your help in order to win a team fight with a large summation of summoned beasts. I think Maria does some archery as well.”

“My archery skills are at the level of getting dinner from the forest. By the way, didn’t I say that I’m not good at archery?”

She shook her head again when I asked, recalling how I had taught Maria to bow in her hometown.

Michael tilted his head indifferently for some reason.

“What do you mean? Horseback riding and archery are Westwall’s specialties. To patrol the long Western Wall, you must be able to ride a horse and shoot a bow… It’s also a great help in understanding our enemies, the barbarians. become this.”

“Aha…”

but. It was not unusual from the moment I recognized the breed of the horse at a glance.

Michael, who notices his younger brother’s nudity, slaps him in the mouth.

“Oh, I just canceled it. He doesn’t know how to shoot a bow.”

“No. Wasn’t it supposed to participate in horseback riding and archery?”

“Just let me know.”

“I know.”

Turning his head away from Maria’s gaze, he gestured toward the student members.

Then a student in charge of the secretary came out and floated letters in the air.

Summoning swordsmanship, archery, horseback riding, etc… It lists the events of the Summoner’s Cup.

Michael’s voice, which returned to the podium, became noticeably louder.

“Now then, I’ll start the selection test for each event. Our academy will only send out one team.”

“Oh, only one team?”

“Hey. If you send out a lot from the Royal Academy and then drop out, there’s no such ugliness again…”

“It’s right to focus on one team to win. The opponents who will compete in the Summoner Cup will be tough.”

It was a rather sudden announcement, but everyone quickly understood.

Michael, who turned his gaze toward me, strongly urges me.

“If this goes wrong, the academy can really go bankrupt. It’s a selection test, but everyone should take it seriously. By the way, you can take duplicate exams.”

Applicants nodding their heads slightly and heading to their respective disciplines.

Without hesitation for a long time, I entered the archery event.

Summoned Combat Skills can be duplicated anyway, so I won’t draw them right now.

It looks like it will be picked after the first selection.

Among the sports in front of me, the one I am most confident about is archery.

After nodding her head to Sylvia, who was heading towards the ranks of swordsmanship candidates, Medusha clenched her fists as she headed to the exam hall.

“Louis. Can you do it?”

“Honestly, I’m not sure…”

“By the way, archery isn’t part of the academy’s curriculum, isn’t it?”

Persia tickles Medusa with her eight-stretched tail and asks.

I nodded slightly and explained.

“Summoning and archery don’t go well together. A proper summoning swordsman will quickly close the gap no matter how wide the opponent is… Still, it will be organized as a special lecture for the second year.”

“So I haven’t heard of it yet.”

“Lewis said he was not confident in summoning swordsmanship. He’ll probably do well.”

“Oh oh…”

Spirit sisters admiring Medusha’s support.

Actually, I’m much more confident about this than with swordsmanship.

I changed my mind a bit and was given a practice bow.

“Then let’s start with archery! The bow isn’t very good, so try shooting 3 times!”

A target was already installed on the dungeon.

After wearing a wrist protector on my left arm, I lightly pulled the bowstring once.

The tension is weak on a much larger subject than the one I used at home, but that’s no big deal.

That’s how close the target is.

“El Cloud says he’s an excellent swordsman? What kind of bow is that all of a sudden?”

“The swordsman sent a vassal.”

“Didn’t you guys see their maids cut their knives at the last festival?”

Maria, who heard the other candidates gossiping, stretched out her arms and pulled the bowstring.

very exemplary attitude.

When I remembered what happened during the summer vacation, my face became hot for nothing.

I wonder who dared to form in front of archery.

Maria lightly loosened her shoulders and pulled the arrow, then carefully aimed it and fired it as it is.

The result was a hit, of course, but it took quite a while.

Was it deliberately shot slowly because it was a test shot?

I wanted to do that too, so I pulled the bowstring all the way, but I habitually let go of my hand.

As the distance is close, of course it’s a hit.

When the two remaining feet were matched in an instant, Medusha tilted her head.

“What, aren’t you good at it? Maybe it’s not a fluke? Are you aiming properly?”

“You were right because you aimed well.”

The targets in the forest do not wait idle.

Uncle Henry’s teaching is to aim and shoot while pulling the bowstring.

Fast-forwarding in practice.

He flirts with his not-so-great talent.

However, Medusha was not the only one who showed an unexpected reaction.

Maria, who has narrowed the distance, speaks in a very slight protest.

“Louis. You didn’t shoot like that when you were with me, did you?”

“Well, since I was training for beginners… I was just trying to show the correct posture.”

Are you surprised that archery is Westwall’s chess?

As I was skeptical inside, Michael made the competition in earnest.

“Since the test shooting is over, let’s start right away! In the finals of the Summoner Cup, it will fly much faster and a lot more than this.”

As soon as they finish speaking, the target discs fly wildly from left and right.

Michael, who was playing the role of an examiner, applied summoning and sent it away.

I reflexively drew an arrow and shot it to hit it.

Most of the students flounder and fail, and Maria is shooting and dropping very accurately, but it’s too slow.

After a minute or so, the exam is finally over.

The student members rushed over the dungeon, looked at the color of the arrows that hit the target, and announced the results.

“36 El Cloud, 10 West Wall, 3 Giskar…”

“That’s great, Louise! It’s overwhelming!”

“It’s amazing… Archery is just a gimmick.”

Anyway, it’s much better to summon a minion that uses a bow than to fire the bow directly.

Archery is, at best, the skills of ordinary soldiers.

If possible, I wanted to stand out in other subjects.

Most of the students probably didn’t even pay much attention to archery.

However, the summoners roared in victory, seemingly happy that their participation in the Summoner’s Cup was confirmed.

Thanks for the hot face.

Maria, who smiles bitterly in the seat next to her, changes her seat to take part in the equestrian event.

While Michael showed a satisfied expression, the selection test for the summoning swordsmanship event began.

Because it is a popular event, the number of participants is completely different.

However, the selection process itself was much easier.

It was thanks to Silvia, who did not even listen to the student council’s disapproval and came forward.

“Are there any challengers?”

A magical light that rose above the practice sword with a squeaking noise.

Competitors who witnessed the Auror Blade, the symbol of the best summoning swordsman, instantly lost their motivation.

Even a professor can’t write that.

I was curious again, so I asked Michael, who was a little far away.

“Chairman. Come to think of it, isn’t it more certain that the professors go out together?”

“My brother-in-law. It’s very difficult to become a professor at our school. Usually, after meeting all the conditions, I’m in my mid-30s, so I’m in my mid-30s.”

“ah…”

Do you need to have won the Summoner Cup to become the youngest professor at this academy?

As I stick my tongue out, Sylvia rushes to my side.

At some point, this place has become a gathering place for the starters.

“Next, horseback riding!”

“I will install obstacles. Please wait.”

While the student members on the podium moved quickly, the academy’s workers brought horses to use for testing.

Right now, even if I just use the practice horse…

In the Summoner Cup Finals, personal horses will be used.

“And look, isn’t horse performance almost everything in equestrian sports?”

“Yeah. If it’s the Summoner’s Cup, will everyone bring A-rank summons?”

“Did Maria-senpai have a riding summons?”

Michael shook his head without hesitation in answering my question.

Equestrian summons are difficult to manage and expensive, so they are rarely brought to the academy.

Even if you bring it in the first place, you won’t have much use for it.

Because I walk every day anyway, and boarding is prohibited inside the academy.

There’s still two weeks left until the Summoner Cup, so I’ll be able to procure enough, but…

It’s a matter of which summons you bring.

Michael seemed concerned about political issues and turned to us for help.

“Actually, this case is against the royal family, so I’m using Westwall’s summons, but… Is there any suitable summons? If it’s a privately owned summon, there’s no problem.”

“Lou, Louise. Shall I borrow the ghost horse?”

Elfriede rushes out because she wants it to be this time.

As if he didn’t have a sport he was confident in, he didn’t take the exam.

I hesitated for a moment and then shook my head.

“If you look at it, it’s a bit of a summons from Beltern…”

“At first, ghost-type pets have strong characteristics, but they are too easy to pierce. Because there are no summoners who do not take measures against ghosts fortress.”

Michael suddenly makes a full sound.

But his words are true.

Sylvia, who was drooling next to me, called out a summons after hesitating.

“Unicorn, come out for a second.”

“hehehe!”

“Wait, Phantom Bell?”

The unicorn obtained from Beltern’s ranch jumped out of the book and slapped Sylvia in the face.

The owner doesn’t really like it.

In the meantime, Maria was flying quite a bit in the equestrian selection test.

Extensive speech, which is not very familiar, passes through the fiery ring and stands up to the palm of the hand.

It seems that he was his main specialty rather than archery.

As Michael shows a happy expression on his face, the unicorn shows interest in her.

“Pure? Hey!”

“Huh? Who else is he?”

Maria, who was selected with overwhelming results, found the unicorn and widened her eyes.

Sylvia noticed that she had to borrow some.

The understanding of the summoners and the summoners was perfectly matched.

“Okay. We also passed the acquisition of horse riding pets… Thanks to the hawk, the problems are solved one after another.”

“Don’t call me weird.”

In the midst of timid betting, Christine also passed the selection test.

The sport is repatriation.

There were a lot of seniors who majored in repatriation, but they easily beat them and won the championship.

The usual sullen look is nowhere to be found.

“What is it, Christine was so good at repatriation?”

“Because I’m serious about the repatriation class.”

Maria smiles a little at Medusha’s reaction.

Perhaps it was trained to be useful when carrying out the lord’s duties in his hometown.

Returning the Ice and Snow Hell to its original dimension is a long-cherished wish of the White family.

Christine, who pushed the unicorn out and took the seat next to Maria, took out a tangerine rice cake.

“Christine. Can’t I just try it once?”

“Don’t even dream.”

“Don’t do that…”

As the whimpering Medusha was dried, the rest of the selection exams ended smoothly.

A total of 8 students were selected in each event, including Michael and us.

Three of them will participate in the team battle of summoned beast combat techniques.

Michael, who had sent the students back who was convinced of the dropout without any objection, wrote his name down to the clerk and turned around to see Elfriede crying.

It’s nice to see the handsome student council president’s face being dyed with a warm color.

As the opponent was the opponent, the way he spoke was noticeably polite.

“Uh… Miss Beltern?”

“Hey, what can I do?”

Michael looked desperately as if asking for my help, but…

I turned my head to signify that I should solve it by myself.

In the first place, would it be okay to mobilize almost all of the nappers and then only get rid of Elfriede?

He understood my gesture and sighed a little.

“Then I’ll ask Miss Beltern to act as a manager.”

“Are you the manager?”

“Yes. Please help the members until the day of the Summoner Cup. Don’t worry…”

“Okay! Louise, I can join you too!”