Succeeding as a Knight in a Gender-Reversal Game

12 – For the entrance exam

Princess Angela promised to provide support for admission to the Knight Academy, so Lena and I will prepare for the academy’s entrance exam as soon as we arrive in the imperial capital. We were able to secure the time and place.

And today, a week later

“Ugh… I really thought I was going to die… I think it would be less exhausting to hunt monsters without stopping… “

Lena walked up the entrance hall sobbing.

-Wow!!

“Aya! Ah, mom!!”

“This guy is so true! From now on, you will become knights. “Please act while recalling the etiquette training you received for a week.”

“Mom also succeeded as a mercenary anyway and became a knight… Ouch, ouch!! Sorry, Sir Sartien! “I’ll be careful!!”

Aunt Lana guided us while admonishing Lena. Every time I see Lena, with her cool appearance, being criticized by Aunt Lana like that, I feel quite the sense of incongruity between her appearance and behavior.

“Whoa…” It will take some more time for you to take my class, but you will have to be more careful with your behavior from now on. “Not only is it not easy to live in the dormitory, but there are nobles who don’t have high titles, but it’s a place like that.”

“Don’t worry. “I will take good care of Lena.”

“Okay. I will only trust Yohan. Huh, Yohan is more girly than Lena, so I guess I can trust him. When will Lena grow up like a woman? “

“Oh, Mom! Ah, there really is nothing I can’t say in front of Yohan!! “You too, Yohan!!”

Rena only lives like this in front of Aunt Lana and me, but when I see her dealing with other people, she seems very blunt… You can’t see this.

Aunt Lana, who had been appointed as a swordsmanship professor at the Knight Academy at the request of Princess Angela, parted ways with us along the way.

“In the dormitory, listen carefully to what your seniors and instructors say! Don’t cause trouble! “Take care of yourself!”

“Don’t worry! “I’ll go to class soon!!”

After seeing Aunt Lana off, Lena and I entered the crowd of people taking the test to enter this year’s Knight Academy.

And the sound heard from most of the crowd

“Wow… Hey, hey hey Look over there. “My boyfriend is passing by.”

“What? You don’t have a fiance… No, that’s my boyfriend. “Look where you are, you b*tch.”

“What do you say? Look in the mirror again. “He’s so handsome, how can he not be my boyfriend?”

“I guess it was so hard preparing for the Knight Academy exam that I became mentally ill…” “If you see me saying something like that to my boyfriend.”

“This is real!!”

It was a context not much different from the sight of women bickering from afar, without hiding their eyes looking at me.

There is no sign of being embarrassed or wanting to hide anything in those sounds.

“What brought you here? “Are you here to take the academy entrance exam?”

“It’s not a show-off male knighthood like the Holy Kingdom, and there’s nothing like that here. “It’s been over 10 years since the man came to this academy to take the entrance exam?”

“Ah… I’m in big trouble. If you live in a dormitory, you don’t even have time to drain the water… If I see someone like that here, what should I do if I go inside? ?”

This reaction is as if a pretty woman is among the trainees gathering upon entering the training camp.

In response, Lena frowned again like she did before and tried to hide me behind herself.

“Lena, it’s okay. “This hasn’t happened once or twice.”

“I’m doing this because it’s not just once or twice. Those… “If I get motivated, I should call him out right away and break his ankle to make him come to his senses.”

Lena, with a fierce face that has not been shown in the village for a while, growls at those around her again.

After the Agnes gang started listening to me, they started to wonder, but they were busy training, so they didn’t really make faces like this.

When I see Lena like that, I am grateful for her desire to protect her, but a part of me is worried about her.

It would be a bit weird if Lena’s training or friendships were interrupted by her worries about me…

Of course, Lena doesn’t seem to have any real friends other than me in town, but that can’t be the case in her academy. Since everyone is going to become an article, networking is also important.

While I was worrying about that,

“Hey, look over there… It’s the emblem of the Duke of Marhen… This is crazy… “

“Among dukes, this is the only one that sends their children to the academy, right? “They make you start from the bottom.”

“It is said that each of the children has never missed the top prize for each class… This time, the top jockey will be confirmed. Whoo. “If you don’t have a runner behind you, your score should be good, but you’ve already lost one spot at the top.”

I hear a murmuring sound coming from the door opposite me.

“……”

At the center of the sound, I saw a small girl coming in with her blue hair and sparkling golden eyes.

This is a woman I encountered several times in the tutorial and at the beginning of the story, the Knight Academy.

“You are our human rights fan… Phew… “

“Human rights cat? “What do you mean, Johan?”

“No, nothing. I hope I can take the test quickly. “Before I forget what I memorized again.”

A tank character in the game, and the only character I hit the ceiling with.

Eleanor Marchen enters majestically, cutting through the crowd.

There were already numerous women around her who were trying to attract the duke’s attention.

“This is Albion Company, princess! It is truly an honor to be with you at the academy this time! Please, this time…”

“My name is Camilla Gremitt, Baron Gremitt’s eldest daughter! Princess Eleanor, if you don’t mind, at this academy…”

Despite the fact that she is moving to her assigned seat without saying a word, she continues to hover by Eleanor’s side, saying only what she has to say.

If you give her too much attention when she has nothing to do with you, her likability will actually decrease…

“……”

Eleanor did not react to her surroundings as I expected, but she continued to twirl her fingers through her green hair, which was like her own lapping waves.

I remember that signal very well because it’s the signal that comes out whenever I’m annoyed, even when I’m catching monsters.

Looking at the speed at which her hands move, I think she’ll get angry if I don’t give her something sweet like candy or chocolate quickly…

“Now let’s start the written exam! “We ask that students taking the entrance exam move to their seats according to their numbers, and those who are not eligible to leave are asked to leave!!”

The exam number… I’m almost completely lost in the culture I haven’t experienced since the college entrance exam.

“John, here is your admission ticket.”

“Oh, thank you Lena. “There’s only you, really.”

“…hehehe, yes. I’m telling you to think like that in the future. Understand?”

Expressing gratitude to Lena for giving her exam number, she found the designated location and began moving her body.

“……”

I could feel Eleanor’s gaze with my heightened senses.

There’s nothing particularly wrong or anything like that, so you don’t have to worry about it.

* * *

“This concludes the written exam. “I hope you all put down the writing utensils you are holding.”

“There, test taker! I told you to take your hands off me!! “Do you want to get zero points for cheating?”

The sound of test proctors announcing the end of the test, and sighs heard from those around them.

It was only after I nervously put down the exam paper, which made me study for the first time in a long time, that I felt relieved.

aaah… Really, in the game, I just started with the academy entrance ceremony and didn’t pay much attention to it, but in reality, I have to study for things like this.

Etiquette, religious knowledge, arithmetic, literature, history, art…

Fortunately, I have some background knowledge in the game, and the problem with the language was that the letters were switched automatically even when I used Korean, so there was no problem at all in reading and writing, but every time something that didn’t appear in the details of the game settings came up, I got angry. I thought so.

Aunt Lana was good at teaching swordsmanship and hunting, but she wasn’t good at teaching things like this…

In the end, I had no choice but to cram for a week by studying the Bible given by the saint and the book of etiquette provided by Princess Angela as much as I could.

The last time I saw Aunt Lana, she said that if she was like this, she was as good as the average knight on the Northern Front… She needs to believe in herself somehow.

“The practical exam will be held after lunchtime. Please check your application number carefully and then gather at the appropriate testing center on time!”

It was only after the instructor, who had finished guiding her through the practical test, left the exam room that I was able to tap Lena’s shoulder, who seemed to have lost half her soul, sitting next to her.

“Lena. Wake. Let’s quickly eat lunch and get some rest. “I have to prepare for the next test as well.”

“John… Sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry for being stupid… “

“What a strange sound. “Aunt Lana also said that Lena can do it.”

“It would be nice if the problem was clearing out 10 goblin dens… Why is this necessary? Really… “

When students enter the Imperial Knight Academy, they are given the status of semi-knight, which basically means that they need to have the level of culture of a page and squire before becoming a knight from a noble family. It was my first time knowing that there was a written test in .

Why is this part needlessly medieval? Anyway, even in the Middle Ages, there were many cases where one became a knight without anything like that…

“The written exam is over. Now, all we have to do is take the practical test, so let’s eat quickly and get energized. When it comes to practical skills, Lena is also confident. He said he would protect me. Yes?”

“Ugh, ugh!! Yes!! I can’t give up like this!! “Because I have to protect Yohan!”

I stroke Lena’s head as she regains strength after being stimulated slightly.

Maybe it’s because when I first met her, I saw her exhausted eyes and a scary expression through the pad, but I still can’t get used to her cute appearance like this. If you look at his actions, there is no other boy this cute.

While comforting Lena like that, I guessed the answers appropriately and was about to eat her sandwich with Lena in the test room.

“If it’s okay, would it be okay if we sit together? As you can see, there aren’t any seats around.”

“Because this is the only empty table around here. And before the exam, I think I should eat while looking at the handsome face of Yeongsik to gain strength. hehehehe… “

“……”

Soon, tanned blonde girls from nowhere suddenly stormed into our table.