A godson named Ruby Bergson was a girl who didn't talk much about her inner life.

The fact that she was Ketsey, for once, knew as a teacher, but she seemed, too, to be lying around.

Ketsey has a history of being disregarded for human rights as a 'playful race'.

That prejudice, unfortunately, remained stuck with some nobles, so the Ketsies had many trying to hide their own race.

In view of these circumstances, we at the College also refrained from revealing anything about her…

Sometimes I thought.

I wonder how things like love and friendship can be seen in the eyes of Ketsey, who have been persecuted by being loved -.

Ruby had an atmosphere somewhere neglecting things like being considered or tender... or favored.

If there are any signs of that at all, it would be tearing up, deluding...... carefully polite, as if you were taking a distance.

If, for them, being loved is the greatest humiliation, I thought the atmosphere would also fall.

But... even if it did.

To the usual members who added Phil to the Department of Combat s class, she also seemed to be forgiving.

Especially to Gawayne, a rival from the beginning of school, he felt a little different from his other classmates...

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One day I was walking on the campus of the college and I noticed someone laying on a branch of a street tree.

It was Ruby.

- Ruby? What are you doing in there?

When I spoke, Ruby did not even turn her face, but pointed to the sky as she sewed a gap in the leaves.

'I was watching you because I'm free. Ha ha, good friends. "

When she looked at the tip of her finger, in the middle of the blue sky, she saw a small figure, like a dot.

It's Jack and Phil.

Those two occasionally, oh well, date on the sky.

I don't know what's fun, but since I was in Dimkurd, the two of you liked that one.

-... because the rank battle is over. It's sagging.

"Kuku. Tough, isn't your master? My jizzy was similar."

There is a slight, but off-season, between each period of the step-level battles that split between the first and second semesters to take winning stars.

I panic because after the first semester there will be a Spiritual King battle, but the only period shortly after the late end like now was in a year when the Spiritual Academy's air relaxed.

... Well, depending on his late grades, he won't be able to afford to do it long enough, but Jack meets his graduation requirements (a breakthrough in the first-level league) in the first trimester of this year, so it's an easy-going one.

'I envy you. I'd love to. This is one hell of a first-level league.

-... but I think I can afford it.

"Kuku. Actually, it suits my skin. Anything in the first level league has an ant feel."

The harshness of the first-level league is exceptional among rank fights.

Since the majority of people are in Seto, whether or not they can graduate from college, they all don't choose the means anyway.

It's natural to poison or fellow opponents. It's the beginning and end of having students who even have their hands on the eight hundred that are clearly forbidden by the rules.

By achieving a 70% chance of winning in such a lawless zone and completing more entrance fights, you can finally meet the graduation requirements of the College.

"Next time I'm gonna break through. You beat that bastard too... '

Ruby, who was in front of a big trial, whined with the same willingness, though.

... that bastard, that must mean Gawayne.

Since enrollment, Ruby had seen him as a rival.

You always compete with your grades to see if you have the roots for a complete defeat in the first year of school.

The presence of competitors helps growth.

I think so, but I thought of one thing as a teacher.

- After all, aren't you going to work with someone?

As Jack and Phil do, rank fights are usually combined with someone in Intelligence to fight.

Elvis, Gawayne and Azerea had also found companions for each of them.

But only Ruby kept fighting and intelligence flirting...

'What is it? You want me to transfer you to intelligence, Doctor?

- It's not like that...

Honestly, if you only look at aptitude, I think intelligence suits Ruby better than combat.

Her spiritual art [a single realm] is her ability to keep up with intelligence.

In fact, she was promoted to the first grade by the information advantages she gained from that ability.

How much performance would she perform if she focused on intelligence?

For example - yes.

If I combine with Gawayne.

With his honest personality, he's not very good for intelligence warfare.

That's why Ruby's burial of its shortcomings should have allowed Jack and Phil to combine no less...

"I don't work with anybody. I told Jack's guy one day too - I've lived by myself. That's why I'm here until I do."

And then Ruby smiles invincibly.

"On the day I made a mistake working with Gawain's bastard or something. Oh, you know, you can't take down the sketch, can you?

... I've never had a rival, though I look great at them as teachers.

There are no incisive people in the same position.

We were alone when we were training with Tura, and even then, the opportunity never came to compete with someone for the art.

So... I'm sure that was a bond I didn't know about.

It's not just an enemy, it's not a companion,... of course, it's not a man or a woman.

Ruby and Gawayne were tied up in a first-rate bond with each other.

Years after this, after the collapse of the College, the two will finally combine their hands in a workplace called the Knights of the Kingdom of Laes.

But... I'm really sorry.

It was never once that I saw the work...