” ” ” “Happy Birthday, Lars!” ” ” “

–It’s been a year since then. I was celebrating my tenth birthday. I had done the same with my brother, but it seems that it is customary in the Irving family to make the tenth birthday extra special.

As usual, I invited my parents, my brother, Nina, and of course Verna-sensei and Nord to the house and we are enjoying a sumptuous dinner.

“Lars is already ten years old. Children grow up so fast.”

“Yes, Dedite is also excellent enough to take the top position at the age of twelve, they’re the sons I’m proud of.”

I put the steak in my mouth and lowered my shoulders, feeling ticklish as they stroked me. Nina, who was watching, chuckled and said to Verna-sensei.

“Hmmm, Lars-sama, you look embarrassed. I’m getting older too, you know …… too …… Ah, how old is Verna-sensei?”

“Fueh!? Ah, I, I’m twenty-three years old. I was eighteen when I met the three of them.”

“Guh …… So you’re younger than me …… I was Sixteen-year-old when Lars-sama when he was born ……”

“So now I’m twenty …….”

My brother was doing the math.

“No! I don’t know what I’ll do if you say more than that ……!”

“I wonder if there’s anyone good out there……”

Nina was trembling as she clutched her fork. My mom is confused, wondering if she really needs to find someone for Nina. With a bitter smile at the situation, Dad puts his hands on the shoulders of me and my brother and says.

“Next week is the entrance ceremony. Good luck with your studies. But don’t try too hard to be like Dedite, okay? Enjoy yourself as you are. You may be brothers, but you’re still my child, and Dedite is Dedite. And Lars is Lars.”

“Thanks, Dad! Yes, I know!”

I’m impressed with my dad, he’s a very good person. If it were my parents in my previous life, they would definitely have said that I can’t lose to my brother. It’s amazing that he’s telling brother about it so softly.

–Now, as my father said, I’m going to enter the academy next week. My parents finally told me how much I needed to pay for school, and it was 250,000 beryl, including uniforms. But this was just the entrance fee, and I would need to pay another 100,000 Beryl per year.

I worked hard and saved up enough money to pay for it, and the total amount was two hundred and thirty-four thousand, eight hundred and thirty beryl. I was just one step short of earning enough money to enter the school.

I held out the money and said with pride, “What do you think?”,

(T/N: 234, 830 beryl)

“It’s money you’ve saved, so spend it as you wish. Even Dedite didn’t pay for it himself. I can’t make you pay for it.”

That’s what my dad said and gave it back to me.

I was amazed at how much he had saved, but apparently, without us seeing, he had expanded the sales channel for vegetables and medicine to another town that Verna-sensei was going to.

Since the other town was also in the territory, it was good that there were many people who knew my father. My father’s vegetables were so well received that they were even shipped to another town or something. My brother and I, who were helping him, were very proud when we heard about it.

That’s how I was able to enter Oblivion Academy. And there was one more thing that made me happy.

“I didn’t expect Nora to be able to attend.”

“Yes! I was surprised too, but the director of the orphanage asked the guild to lend me the entrance fee. I was a little embarrassed when he said I should go to the academy, but ……”

“I’m sure brother is most happy about it.”

“Of course I am! It’s a dream come true to be at the academy together.”

“Yeah.”

Kuh …… even sarcasm don’t affect him, as expected of my brother. By the way, Nora is Nord’s real name, because Nora’s father wanted a boy and told her to name her that and dress like a boy.

When it was decided that she will go to the academy, Nora told the truth.

……. I’m predicting that the academy will be in trouble. This is because at the age of ten, Nora has become a beautiful girl, her freckles have disappeared, and she has developed a girlish body.

“(It’s hard for my brother …… No, maybe it would be hard to get a hold of her because she’s the head of the class?)”

I hope nothing happens to the two of them as they smile at each other, and I go to the entrance ceremony.

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“You look good, Lars.”

“You too, Nora-chan!”

“Yay!”

“Thanks, Mom and Dad.”

Nora and I were standing at the entrance to the auditorium where the entrance ceremony was being held, dressed in our school uniforms. And unusually, Nina and Verna-sensei were also in town.

“Congratulations, Lars-sama!”

“Ufufu, you’re a student at the academy now, so you’ve graduated from me now.”

“That’s not true. You’ll always be our teacher, Verna-sensei.”

“That makes me happy. Thank you.”

The teacher, who had changed from her usual tattered black clothes to a sapphire blue dress, was all dressed up and had her hair up. I wonder if Nora, Verna-sensei, and other girls who hide their faces tend to be pretty? It’s the first time I’ve seen it, but Verna-sense is very beautiful.

“Let’s go inside, it’s about to start.”

“It’s going to be the same as with your brother.”

“Don’t say that! Come on, let’s go.”

“Mmm. Lars-kun is not very good at sitting still, right”

“I, it’s not like that.”

After being hustled away by my mother and pointed out by Nora, we went inside. Nora and I went to the student section and sat down on chairs. Fortunately, we were next to each other, so we could avoid being surrounded by kids we didn’t know.

We looked for Ryuuze, Brao’s son, and Luciel, who we hadn’t seen since she was five years old, but we were almost at the back of the class, despite there being about fifty new students, so we couldn’t see them from the back. I don’t even remember Luciel very well anymore ……

“– So, I hope you enjoy the school. That’s all.”

Clap, Clap, Clap ……

After the usual address by the headmaster, we left the auditorium in a hurry. After this, we met up with our parents and headed to class.

“I hope we’re in the same class.”

“Yeah. It would have been nice to have brother with us.”

“It can’t be helped. He’s an older brother, after all.”

“Well, it’s brother who’s the most disappointed, though.”

Nora giggled and I laughed along with her. When I was looking for my dad and the others, someone called out to me from behind.

“You’re the kid who was given the skill of [Jack-of-all-Trades], right?”

“Hmm? You are ……?”

There was a strong-looking girl with light blue hair standing there.

Now, the Academy Arc begins now!

Who is the girl with the light blue hair?

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“Let’s see, here comes the hard part!”

Ahhhhh! It’s the Academy part that I hate!

“Yikes ……”

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