Anime, starting from Re:Zero (Zero - Starting Life)

Note: I found that I could schedule multiple chapters to be published at the same time, so from now on they will all be updated at 8pm.

Chapter 13 Going to school

Roya City College does not have the uniforms or school uniforms that Rudy often mentioned.

So, every day when going to and from school, the school gate is like a fashion show.

Although I despise this kind of comparison behavior.

But Sylphy is actually one of them now.

It was all Gao Wen's doing.

Today, Sylphy, who was wearing a beige long skirt and a brown short windbreaker, still had her petal bun that she had been fond of recently. She still had a lot of accessories and magic devices on her body. After being led down from the carriage by Gawain, she took the square handbag that could probably be called a school bag from her brother's hand.

Gawain extended his ungloved hand and gently stroked her cheek to avoid ruffling her hair. Before Sylphy could blush or show any reluctance, he withdrew his hand and said goodbye gently.

"Have fun at school, and see you this afternoon, Sylphy."

Sylphy lifted her skirt lightly and saluted, saying gently:

"See you this afternoon, Brother."

Gawain did not watch Sylphy enter the campus. After all, if he did so, Sylphy's classmates would not dare to approach her. Gawain immediately got in the car according to the pace of last week, and the driver drove to the headquarters of the Vitrum Chamber of Commerce without any orders.

Seeing Vitrudia's luxurious carriage leave, several young ladies who were obviously from aristocratic families dared to move closer to Sylphy and started chatting elegantly:

"Good morning, Sylphiet-san."

Sylphy also politely said hello in turn.

"Sylphiet-san, your brother is so handsome! Every time I see him, it feels like I'm seeing a prince!"

Sylphy's classmates are generally about three years older than her, so everyone is roughly the same height as Gawain, about two heads taller than Sylphy, but everyone treats Sylphy very politely and even respectfully.

After all, City College was a place where hierarchy was paramount. Everyone's status was determined almost before they even started school, and their parents' social ranking was equivalent to their children's social ranking at school. And there clearly wasn't a family in Roya College capable of overpowering Gawain Vitrudia.

In reality, if Alice Boreas Greyrat hadn't been so outrageous back then, beating up everyone, including the principal, without discrimination, she would have been expelled from the school given her status and position. Even though she frequently assaulted classmates and even bullied and insulted teachers, hitting anyone she saw was a pure mad dog. Even if she wanted to indulge them endlessly, she wouldn't be able to do that.

Closer to home.

Sylphy instinctively shot a menacing glare at the woman who was raving about her brother, causing the slightly plump girl to freeze in shock with a yelp. Everyone immediately started teasing her about her antics, forcing her to frantically make excuses like, "Sorry, I burped." Had Sylphy not apologized, the situation would have likely devolved into ridicule about her weight and diet.

I have to say, whether good or bad, Sylphy feels that she can learn a lot in this school.

In particular, her brother created a sufficiently detached outsider perspective for her, allowing her to observe others freely without implicating herself.

Very interesting.

But Sylphy did not change her mind because of this. Every time she saw someone being bullied or showing signs of being oppressed, no matter whether the perpetrator was a student or a teacher, she would intervene immediately.

Just like her brother always said, she also had to think clearly about how to use her power, what kind of wishes she should use this power to achieve, and whether she had the strong will to carry this power.

She wants to protect the weak.

Perhaps this wish is still very simple and one-sided, and cannot be considered correct enough, but Sylphy believes that this is a very good starting point. Even if she fails, she will not be discouraged, and it doesn't matter even if she is discouraged.

Her brother will help and protect her.

So it doesn't matter.

Stepping into the spacious and familiar lecture hall, Sylphy greeted her classmates and sat down in the middle corner seat of the first row.

The girls surrounding Sylphy also sat down in their seats one after another, some packing their personal belongings, and some continuing to chat.

Sylphy also took out the classical novels she had brought today from her bag and started reading. These were common items in bookstores in Roya City, and each book cost about one gold coin, making them expensive items that ordinary citizens could hardly afford.

But Sylphy also knew that such things would soon become history. Her brother's recent short-term plan included the establishment of a factory for the production of printed magic devices. When the teacher was still around, everyone had discussed the topic of "knowledge circulation" in detail. Her brother was obviously dissatisfied with the current level of knowledge in the human world, so the manufacturing cost of books would definitely be reduced by her brother.

Sylphy has unconditional trust in her brother.

She continued to read with great interest "The Red Dragon Knight and the Last Princess", which was completed about three hundred years ago. Her deskmate did not dare to disturb her and sat down quietly.

Soon, it was time for class, or to be more precise, it was time for the class instructor to take the roll call and give a lecture.

Sylphy used a homemade floral bookmark to record her reading progress, then put away the novel in her hand and took out the paper and pen she would need for class and placed them in order.

At this time, the short brown-haired girl next to him asked curiously in a low voice:

"Sylphiet, were you watching 'Red Dragon Knight' just now?"

Sylphy tilted her head and whispered quietly:

"Yeah, have you seen it too, Vanseni?"

Vasene is not a child of the nobility, but her father still runs several caravans, and they are considered a relatively well-off merchant family. She is the only friend that Sylphy currently recognizes in school, but of course, they are just ordinary friends.

After all, she has only been in school for a week.

The freckled girl nodded repeatedly:

"This book ranks second among the knight romance novels set against the backdrop of the Laplace Campaign that I've read."

Sylphy asked precisely:

"How many have you read?"

Vanessa shamelessly raised one hand and extended four fingers:

"Four."

Then the two of them laughed quietly together.

The class teacher at the podium certainly noticed this scene, but she ignored it and continued to talk about the safety issues that everyone needed to pay attention to in today's magic experiment class.

Afterwards, the class teacher left and an old man with a long beard came in, and the literature class began.

Sylphy listened with great interest, and did not forget to record the key points of the class, as well as her own inspirations and related thoughts in her notebook.

As for the subsequent arithmetic class, she simply took out the novel and continued reading. There was no need to listen to this part of the course. Before her brother prepared the subsequent mathematics self-study materials for her, Sylphy planned to use it for self-study.

Well, that is, reading novels or drawing.

As for history class, Sylphy listened to it as a matter of interest and only took notes for the sake of her test scores.

Even though her brother thought etiquette lessons were useless, Sylphy listened and learned them carefully out of a girlish heart. Of course, she would filter out some traditional etiquette based on her own aesthetic tastes, as they would be of no use anyway.

As for magic-related courses, even the teachers would want to run away when they see Sylphy these days. If Sylphy hadn't felt that there was no need to embarrass the teacher who had no skills, the teachers might have been refuted to the point of having a mental breakdown.

Even though the Asura Kingdom stipulates that one must reach the level of superior or above to be a magic teacher, in fact, the vast majority of magic teachers are only at the level of superior in a single department. Compared with Sylphy, they are like fireflies to the bright moon.

Therefore, Sylphy has been learning "Siger's Summoning Magic" or practicing multiple casting in magic class recently.

This is how school time goes every day.

At dusk, when Sylphy walked out of the school gate surrounded by her classmates, she could always see her brother standing in a fixed position and giving her a knowing smile.

Days like this might make one want to live for ten thousand years, brother.

Chapter 14 News

Late December of the Jialong calendar year 414

In short, another year has come to an end.

It has been three months since Gawain, Sylphy, and Rudy left Buena Village and came to Roya City to settle down, work, study, and live.

From the beginning of the snow season to the dawn of spring.

Everyone has adapted to the current life and gained a lot of new fun from it. Rudy used to meet with Gawain and Sylphy every weekend, but now they have changed it to a fixed meeting once a month. The rest of the weekends are basically spent at Boreas's house.

During the first month, Rudy complained that Miss Alice, despite her respect for him, would find ways to avoid class. She wasn't even practicing the chant-free teaching method developed by Teacher Lokisi. Even the progress of her magic classes was quite disappointing, not to mention general education classes like math and reading and writing. Rudy essentially described Alice as a primitive or barbarian.

As a result, the following month, he happily informed everyone in advance that he was taking Alice out and would not be attending the party, and he also dropped the "Miss" suffix. Teaching seemed to be suddenly going smoothly. Not only did he learn water polo, but his general education classes were also making steady progress. Rudy became incredibly confident in his teaching abilities.

In the third month, we directly informed everyone that the gathering would be changed to once a month.

Sylphy's private comment on this was: "Rudy must have treated Alice as his brother's meal substitute."

She had to admit that a large part of her affection for Alice actually came from the similarities between Alice and Gawain.

As for the Vitrum Chamber of Commerce.

Strictly speaking, there was nothing much to mention about the Vitrum Chamber of Commerce. After all, with the Gawain Society secretly using force to force its way forward, the development of this tool-like group enterprise to any extent was not worth boasting about.

However, the magical printing press that Sylphy was so concerned about had indeed entered production, and had received large orders from almost all major publishers in the Kingdom of Asura. In fact, with the inspiration provided by Rudy, this huge first edition machine was nothing more than a magic-driven movable type printing press. Compared to the woodblock printing press, its only current advantage was that it could be quickly re-typeset by skilled magicians, making mass printing of newspapers possible.

(Most of these inspirations came from Rudy because Gawain didn't have any records of such primitive technology. To the Vitrum Empire, those who couldn't build a hyperdrive were probably indigenous civilizations. Medieval civilizations and the civilizations that colonized this galaxy were all on the same level.)

By the way, Rudy actually suggested selling woodblock printing machines first. They are low-cost, easy to sell, and simple to manufacture. Users must also customize the woodblocks from the Vitrum Chamber of Commerce before they can use them normally, and value-added services can be sold unlimitedly.

But Gawain rejected it.

He wanted to promote the flow of knowledge, not make money from it. If he could just take a day off and rob the King of Asura, wouldn't he have as much money as he wanted? Not to mention, with a little more time, he could also build the Vitrum Empire's autonomous mining robots and throw them directly into the mantle to dig for gold and make his own coins.

If the magical technology he currently possessed was not developed by him alone, and if it were not for the fact that he and his four disciples had sworn at the meeting not to disclose these dangerous technologies without authorization, Gawain would have wanted to print out the knowledge and technology he had in his hands into a manual, throw it to the ruling class of the world, and force them to learn it and promote its use by force.

However, this goes against the agreement with Sylphy.

So let’s do this again two hundred years later!

Of course, the above are all past events. Today’s focus is:

"Sylphy, here is your letter and package."

Sylphy was just picked up by her brother after school, and a thin red wax envelope and a small paper-wrapped square box were placed in her hands.

She looked through it and didn't see the name on the envelope or the package. She asked curiously:

"Brother, who sent me this? The teacher?"

Gawain explained as he hung up his coat:

"Yes, Luo Qixi packed it and sent it to Greylat's house in Buena Village. Paul then forwarded it to me. I sent Rudy's copy to him this afternoon."

Sylphy asked casually:

"Does my brother have two kinds too?"

Gawain nodded:

"Yes, there's a gift I brought you in your study. Let's go out for dinner tonight. I asked the restaurant to develop new dishes, so you can try them later."

"Great!" Sylphy cheered and returned to her study.

Gawain chuckled and walked back to his study. On the table was a thick letter and a package that was larger than Sylphy's and Rudy's.

Under the table was a large metal box filled with a mess of crimson dragon scales, dragon horns, dragon bones and other debris.

He sat down at his desk and thought for a long time, but finally decided not to burn the letter this time.

Unpack.

Gao Wen took out the things one by one.

He could tell at a glance that these were all various special souvenirs from the four or five small countries to the east of the Red Dragon's Jaw, including a pile of mineral or plant specimens, and several books that seemed very valuable based on their names.

“It’s just a collection of jumbled stuff.”

Even Gawain was helpless. Did Luo Qixi stuff everything she liked into the package she gave him? This was too casual!

He could guess the gift that Roxy gave to Sylphy just by feeling it. It should be the seeds of various interesting plants that she collected for Sylphy, which completely suited Sylphy's preferences.

Rudy happily opened and looked at the gift that Lokisi gave to Rudy in front of Gawain. It was very much to Rudy's liking. It was a very cute cloth girl doll that Lokisi bought from a high-end custom-made shop in a foreign country. It was said to be made with top-notch local craftsmanship. Rudy was so excited that he rubbed his face on it on the spot.

Then, what he received was a pile of junk.

Due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder, Gao Wen picked and chose these things and thought about which parts were useful. He then wrote them down one by one in his notebook and finally put them all in his storage cabinet.

After doing this.

Gao Wencai opened the letter, took out a few folded sheets of paper, and after a quick look through them, he began to read carefully from the first word on the first page.

After reading the letter, Gawain picked up the souvenirs he had thrown into the trash can one by one, and then carefully placed them in places he thought were appropriate.

Until Sylphy finished her work.

He was unable to decide where all the souvenirs would go.