Chapter 47: New Student, Encounter with a Beautiful Senior Girl (1)
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The third day of opening ceremony.
For the first-year students, there are no formal classes today.
According to the original plan, the instructors in charge of each class should lead the students to familiarize themselves with the main castle of the academy, especially the classrooms and training grounds that will be used for classes.
In addition to the two subjects of basic theory and alchemical science, the other courses in the college have dedicated classrooms.
This is to avoid some students being unable to find the classroom when classes officially start tomorrow.
On the other hand, it is to continue to fill in the small matters that were not completed the day before.
Unfortunately, Michelle, the instructor in charge of the Noren class, overslept again.
In the end, it was the principal's secretary, Sabrina, who took over her job.
This left Alfred speechless.
Because Michelle was her mother's student, and her habits in this regard were exactly the same as her mother's.
There was always a subtle feeling of guilt in Alfred's heart.
Maybe the person who made Michelle develop this bad habit was his mother.
In the afternoon, students have free time.
Alfred planned to use this time to visit Illya Arya's great library.
It is said that the collection of books in the Illya Arya Library is even greater than that of the Imperial Capital Library, and it contains many unknown secrets.
He planned to kill some time here and see if he could find anything interesting.
Alfred has always felt that both the Empire and the Illya Academy have many unnatural things that are difficult to explain with the existing information alone.
For example, the culture of the empire extremely respects puppeteers.
Although powerful puppeteers are indeed difficult to deal with, puppeteers also have congenital defects.
No matter how powerful the puppet itself is, if the puppeteer who controls it is too weak and is easily killed by the enemy, the puppet will not be able to exert its original ability.
However, there are only a very small number of people who have the talent and determination to train both puppeteers and their own strength to the top, like the Empire's Valkyrie Violet.
In fact, in the many wars between the Empire and humans or between the Empire and monsters over the past fifty years, puppeteers have always been a huge drag.
In order to protect the puppeteer troops, a large number of unnecessary sacrifices were made. Because of the high supply costs of the puppeteer troops, the supply lines were repeatedly expanded...
Such things happened frequently in the history of the empire.
However, the Empire highly respects puppeteers, and the Empire's nobles also believe that puppeteers are the strongest profession and look down on swordsmen or magicians.
Although puppeteers play an important role in the establishment of the empire, they also have a certain status in religion.
But Alfred still found it difficult to accept these words alone.
Perhaps there are extremely special puppeteers who are powerful enough to call the wind and rain?
And one day, maybe I will have to face such an opponent?
This is out of the idea of taking precautions, and also simply out of my own curiosity.
Alfred planned to take some time to learn more about the Puppet Master and see if there was any information in the Illya Arya Library that the outside world didn't have.
There are a lot of empty tables and chairs in the Illya Arya Library.
Usually, this place is also used by students as a study room.
But perhaps it is not the peak usage period now, and the part used as a study room has only a few senior students.
Passing through rows of empty seats, Alfred arrived at the front desk where the librarian was.
"Ah~ I didn't expect you to be a first-year junior. Is there anything I can help you with?"
The librarian was also wearing a school uniform, and judging by the badge on her collar, she was a fourth-year student like Cecilia.
This senior has medium-length light brown hair, which gradually turns purple at the ends.
She has delicate facial features and a great figure, giving people a very gentle feeling.
(Hmm? Doesn’t this senior have to attend class now?)
Although he felt a little confused, Alfred decided to put the question aside for the time being.
"I want to ask for directions to the library because this is my first time here and I don't quite understand the classification signs of the Illya Arya Library."
Alfred was very polite and respectful.
"Ah~ Indeed, the classification symbols of the Illya Elia Library are very different from those of the Imperial Library, and the classification method is also more detailed. If you don't come here often, it is indeed difficult to find the books you want."
The senior student smiled gently and took out a book that looked quite thick from the cabinet.
"This is a guidebook. Remember to return it after reading it."
"This is a guide... I didn't expect the guide booklet alone to be so thick."
Alfred couldn't help but let out a wry smile.
"Pfft, there are also people who often give up immediately just by looking at the thickness of the guidebook. So, what book are you looking for, junior? Let me help you."
The senior student gave a mischievous smile and pretended to take back the instruction manual.
It seemed that she simply wanted to play a trick on Alfred, so she took out the instruction manual to scare Alfred.
"Because there are a lot of books to look for, I feel bad for bothering you all the time. Can you lend me that guidebook? I think I can finish reading it in a while."
"Eh? But what are you going to do later..."
The senior was surprised by this and stopped putting the manual back into the cabinet.
"Well, I'm quite confident in my reading speed and memory. I think I can finish reading and remember all the contents of this manual very quickly."
Alfred explained confidently.
He has experienced so many reincarnations, and each one was not lived in vain.
After realizing that he might continue to reincarnate like this, Alfred began to train himself actively, cultivating some abilities that he would not lose even after reincarnation.
Reading speed and memory are also among them.
Judging from the manual in the senior's hand, it was only about 100 to 200 pages. Alfred estimated that he could finish reading the entire book in about half an hour.
"Pfft, don't try to be brave about this kind of thing, junior brother. Even if you try to be brave, you won't gain any benefit from me, senior sister. You might even make your lovely fiancée jealous."
The senior was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but chuckle.
"Senior, do you know me?"
Alfred was a little surprised.
In his memory, he should have never met this senior before.