Chapter 115: Kurono Shinguuji

Monday.

Standing at the entrance of the massive academy, Shirou couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's huge!" Shirou had never seen a high school academy of such immense size in either of his lives. "This must be about ten Tokyo Domes, I'd guess."

After marveling at the gates of Hagun Academy for a while, Shirou took out his examination pass and walked into the academy. As one of Japan's only seven academies dedicated to training professional Blazer Knights, Hagun Academy's status was undoubtedly top-tier. Although no champions of the Seven Stars Sword-Art Festival had emerged from it in recent years, many still wished to enter this academy.

Following the directions of a teacher inside the school, Shirou quickly found the entrance exam venue. In this huge examination hall, many students were queuing, waiting for their turn. He went to the end of the line, masking his presence, and quietly observed the surroundings.

As a professional academy for training Blazer Knights, Hagun Academy naturally had the most precise instruments to assist with relevant examinations. Shirou casually glanced around and even saw some students, seemingly from the student council, maintaining order.

"Did you hear? This year, Hagun Academy's board chairman seems to have changed."

"I heard! It's apparently Kurono Shinguuji, formerly of the KOK League, ranked third in the world."

"That's why I came here."

Listening to the voices drifting from the front, Shirou couldn't help but recall information about Kurono Shinguuji. Kurono Shinguuji, that woman's ability was a causal interference type of time manipulation.

Her Blazer Art, Spatial Crumble, could warp and shatter the spacetime of a target area, destroying the space itself to the point where it couldn't be restored. It was said that this woman once had one foot in the Irregular domain, but for some unknown reason, she ultimately didn't cross over.

In short, in terms of strength, there were truly few in Japan stronger than her.

"I also heard that the new chairman, Kurono Shinguuji, abolished the previous chairman's method of selecting Seven Stars Sword-Art Festival participants 'based on ability values,' changing it to selection based on strength."

"Huh, so it wasn't like that before? I didn't know!"

"If it weren't for Kurono Shinguuji taking office and me thoroughly investigating, I wouldn't have known either!"

"I see. What a shame, I don't plan on participating in the Seven Stars Sword-Art Festival."

"Yeah, with our strength, it's better to play it safe."

Listening to the continuous discussions from the front, Shirou's mind was filled with thoughts. Kurono Shinguuji's appearance indicated that this was when the story began. Later, to foster challenge among students, she would arrange for two students of similar ability to live together and compete with each other.

This was why the male protagonist, Ikki Kurogane, would live with the female protagonist, Stella Vermillion. From there, their story of pursuing their dreams would unfold.

"Dreams, how nice. I'm pursuing my own dream too!" The dream of saving Miyu, and even saving the world.

After a somewhat long wait, it was finally Shirou's turn.

After a series of tests, Shirou successfully passed the entrance exam. However, these entrance tests were extremely strange. Most of the tests involved simple combat after strengthening with magic power.

Finally, there was an examination in a mechanical capsule; he had no idea what they were testing.

In any case, after a series of tests, Shirou received an evaluation slip.

Shirou: Attack: C | Defense: A | Magic Capacity: D | Magic Control: C | Physicality: A | Luck: A

Anomaly: Projection

Overall Evaluation: C-rank Student Knight.

"C-rank, huh? Not bad!" Looking at the 'D' for his magic capacity, Shirou knew his evaluation wouldn't be too high. After all, magic capacity held an extremely high weight in the evaluation of Blazer Knights. As for the other categories... Luck was something no one could explain.

Physicality and defense were self-explanatory; he was definitely a top-tier individual. Magic control being C was also normal, as magic control was never his strong suit.

The only thing that made him helpless was his Attack at C. It truly was based solely on ability! Shirou had some prior knowledge of the relevant rankings online. For all Student Knights, if they didn't have offensive abilities, their attack power would at most be C.

As for why his Anomaly was Projection? That was, of course, what Shirou himself filled in!

Although Shirou believed his attack power was definitely not just C, since he had come here, he had to abide by the rules. Even Ikki Kurogane, the protagonist of this world, was still an F-rank knight even if he could defeat Stella. It was truly quite frustrating.

"Classmate, congratulations on passing our school's entrance exam. Please write down your address, and your school uniform and all accompanying items will be mailed to your home later."

"I understand, thank you, teacher!" Looking at the tired-looking teacher in front of him, Shirou quickly wrote down his home address. After receiving Shirou's address, the tired teacher smiled and said, "Then your entrance exam is complete, classmate. If you don't want to go back immediately, you can tour the school."

"Oh, I can?" Shirou's eyes lit up at the prospect of touring the school early.

"Of course, you can. It's vacation time now, so there aren't many people in the school."

"Then thank you, teacher!" Bidding farewell to the female teacher, Shirou left the entrance exam venue and began touring Hagun Academy.

"This school is truly enormous!" In Shirou's previous life, although he had attended university, his grades weren't good, and it was just an ordinary university. In terms of building area, the university he once attended was much smaller than Hagun Academy. Walking through such a large school for the first time, Shirou certainly gained some perspective.

As he walked along a narrow path, enjoying the small park within the school, two figures were walking towards him from the front of the path. Coming towards him were two women, one tall and one short. The taller one wore a suit and had a tall figure. The shorter one was a loli wearing a kimono? In any case, the two opposite him looked very mismatched together.

Both parties, seeing each other, instinctively edged to the side, as the path was indeed narrow. As they approached each other, Shirou naturally overheard their conversation.

"Let me join, I'll help you!"

"No, it's good enough if you don't cause trouble for me."

"Oh, how can you be like that, Kuro-chan!"

"Move aside, you're really annoying!" Due to giving way, the two who were originally separated ended up close together. This led to the woman beside her clinging to her like that. This greatly annoyed Kurono Shinguuji.

Indeed, among the two women walking opposite Shirou, the taller one was the new chairman of Hagun Academy, Kurono Shinguuji. As for the kimono-clad loli beside her, she was the active KOK League player, third in the world rankings, Nene Saikyo. As an old rival of Kurono

Shinguuji, when she heard that her retired opponent was now the chairman of Hagun Academy, she insisted on pestering her to become a teacher there. This greatly frustrated Kurono Shinguuji, who found her somewhat bothersome.

Thus, amidst their bickering, Kurono Shinguuji and Nene Saikyo were about to pass the red-haired young man opposite them. And in the very next moment, the two who had just brushed past each other instantly changed their expressions drastically. They stopped, and their eyes, as they looked at each other, were filled with horror.

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