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67.1

Ch. 67.1 - Item (2)
Tower 1, 79th floor.

Meeting room.

Headmaster Archie Hayden opened his mouth while tapping the bookshelf with his fingers. "You failed, didn't you?"

Then, Professor Raiden of the New Moon Department of Magic, standing across from him, nodded his head while adjusting his eyeglasses.

"Yes."

"Tsk, the headmaster is going crazy again."

"I'm more worried about the Supreme Leader than the headmaster."

"You're naive. It's unfortunate that you failed, but there are other ways."

"...... You're planning to provoke Professor Maizen."

"That's right."

Although there were other ways, the failure would still be painful, so Archie Hayden took off his glasses and rubbed his forehead.

The real reason for opening the Persona Gate this time was quite simple: To deal with a student who was highly likely to attend the "Aslan Seminar."

The Aslan Seminar was something that only the elite of the world's greatest magical families could attend, or those selected as the "Rising Stars of the Twelve Constellations" every year.

The mages of Arcane Academy (Dark Mages Academy) didn't want Eisel Morph, who received the blessing of ice, to attend the Aslan Seminar.

If Eisel Morph, who received the Blessing of Ice, attended there…

"She’ll take away another fixed piece."

That was troublesome.

Moreover, the Morph family itself was quite a burden, so he thought it would be good to get rid of it quickly.

"I could have also dealt with three troublesome students, unfortunately."

"... Hmm. Well, that's true too."

The boy and girl who seemed to have fallen from the sky, and even the princess of Adolveit; they were all students with a high possibility of attending the Aslan Seminar.

"Oh, right. You don't need to worry about Baek Yu-Seol."

"... Is that so?"

"He's the one who boasts about not using magic in the first place. Society doesn't think highly of him either. It's not even a task to exclude him from the list. Rather, recently, the princess of Adolveit visited the council for the seminar matter."

"Hong Bi-Yeon... is not involved, I suppose?"

"That's right. That psycho came. What on earth is he up to? After aging as much as he has, is he planning to attend the seminar? Ridiculous."

Each of this year's incidents felt like a bomb. The world's greatest geniuses all enrolled at the same time, and the headmaster's plan started at this moment…

"As if it wasn't enough that the headmaster seemed to have caught a scent, it's really the worst. Is there anything else to report?"

"No, there isn't."

"Then go."

"Yes."

Raiden bowed his head and left the meeting room.

While walking through the corridor, he stopped for a moment and looked at the wall.

There was a mirror.

He adjusted his eyeglasses and neatly arranged his hair, styled into a clean bun. As a professor, he had to pay special attention to his appearance to maintain his image.