I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

I silently noted the flavor that Miss Ella ate—it was lavender. I'll try to choose desserts with this flavor next time I have the chance. But speaking of which, why was such a strange-tasting food created? I was a little puzzled, but since Miss Ella liked it, I didn't care.

"Ah~ah, I don't know why my whole body feels so soft today, like it's turned into slime. Nothing particularly important happened yesterday, and even when I woke up, I felt like I'd forgotten something important."

"Eh? Is it the same for Ms. Ella? I felt the same way when I woke up."

Miss Ella held a sandwich in her mouth, seemingly lost in thought. However, this state lasted only a few seconds before she gave up and took a sip of milk from the glass bottle beside her.

"Well, I'll remember it later. There's nothing I can do if I can't remember it now. I better finish eating quickly and go to school. Luckily, class starts at 8:30."

"Well, there's a practical exercise for magic manipulation class today, right? I'm sure it'll be no problem for Ms. Ella."

Ms. Ella's eyes rolled, then widened as if she had seen something important. She's been like this a lot lately, and I don't know what she's seen. Even if I ask questions, I get evasive answers.

"Ah, we're running out of time. Let's finish eating quickly so we can go to class."

"Yes, I'll get ready right away."

After quickly finishing their meal, Lotte and Ella picked up their dimensional backpacks and walked out of the room. A breeze blew their hair, and they both quickly suppressed it with their free hands, but Ella had an extra sandwich in her mouth.

"Hmm...Hmm...Yeah, I hope we don't get caught by the teacher."

Seeing Ella quickly swallowing the sandwich, Lotte narrowed her eyes slightly.

“That shouldn’t be the case…”

After saying that, the two of them ran towards the academy quickly as if they had agreed.

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*Note: What Ella sees when she turns her eyes is the timeline in her mind’s image.

Chapter 30: Magic Operation Class and Strange Students

"Ahem, huh—luckily I made it in time."

Fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, and Ella supported her knees with her hands and gasped heavily.

"Miss Ella is completely exhausted."

"I can't help it. If I knew who created this sickly setting, I would definitely catch him and torture him until he fainted every day!"

"boom--"

Suddenly, a silver flash of lightning appeared in the originally clear sky and fell on a statue engraved with the college logo not far away, blowing the statue to pieces.

“Ugh!”

Ella, who was originally panting, froze for a moment, and let out a slight cry as she watched the statue being blown into powder.

Is the Loli God eavesdropping? I, I was just joking...

"Attack! It's an attack! Activate alert!"

The distant shouts of the academy's guards echoed. It seems the security has tightened. I hadn't seen much movement from the guards since I destroyed the sacred pillar. Uh, no, now's not the time to talk about that. We need to hurry to the arena.

"Lotte, keep running."

"OK."

……

"Ella, how many times do I have to tell you that even if your practical skills grades are fine, you can't be late. You can even come early and sleep in later. It's hard for me to handle you being late all the time."

Inside the circular arena

There were about thirty or forty students in various uniforms standing there. Lotte and I were standing next to the line, receiving criticism from Yajie, the practical skills teacher.

"Um...something unexpected happened today, so..."

"Here we go again. Don't you get tired of using surprises every time?"

"But this time it was a real accident. The statue in front of us suddenly exploded while we were walking."

He quietly gathered water elements in his eye sockets, and looked up at Yajie with a pitiful expression. Whenever he was late, he only needed to do this to avoid a long lecture. Sure enough, it worked this time.

Yajie waved at Ella as if to shoo away a fly.

"Alright, alright. I'll let you go this time for Nina's sake."

"Thank you, Sister Yajie."

Ignoring the sighs in the team, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve and quickly ran to the end of the team with Lotte.

Yajie glanced at the students in the arena, and after confirming that everyone was present, she slammed her staff on the ground. Today, Yajie was still wearing the same standard healer outfit as herself - a pure white uniform with a short skirt, but with an extra black badge on her chest that symbolized the academy's mentor.

"Today's class is scheduled for magic manipulation. Since this is your first time taking a magic manipulation class, you need to test your mastery of magic. I'll go over the process."

Yajie moved to the side, revealing a black operating table about two meters long and one meter wide behind her. There was a round crystal ball at each end of the operating table. At this time, the crystal ball was completely transparent.

"The magic manipulation class tests your ability to control magic rather than your familiarity with skills. Some people, even at level 20 or above, still have less control over magic than a single-digit beginner. Improving your control over magic will allow you to use magic more efficiently. However, this course has different requirements for different races. I will explain the details separately during the final exam."

Placing one hand on the crystal ball, Yajie injected magic power into it. A hint of blue light, symbolizing magic power, could be seen injected into the originally transparent crystal ball. Then, a stick figure about one foot long with a slight hint of gold appeared on the operating table that looked like a sandbox.

"This thing is what you control when you inject magic power into it. Today's test is to try to condense it into a stick figure like me. If you pass, you'll pass."

As soon as Yajie finished speaking, the team started to discuss uncontrollably. They could hear some words like "This course is totally unfair." Ella couldn't help but feel curious and whispered to Lotte.

"Why do you say it's unfair? Isn't it all done with magic?"

"Hasn't Miss Ella heard of this when she was studying magic?"

"Of course I know about magic manipulation, but why do you say it's unfair?"

After hearing Ella's words, Lotte blinked twice in confusion.

"Well... what they mean is that the demons' magic is too destructive, so they can only cast powerful destructive magic, making it difficult to perform precise operations. Meanwhile, while the magic power of the gods is generally smaller than that of the demons, they have no problem performing precise operations. Other races like dragons and elves also have these problems, but they're not as obvious as with the demons and gods, so the unfairness is more towards the demons. However, Ms. Ella is very good at this, so there's nothing to worry about."

"Eh? Really? This is the first time I've heard of something like this. I kept hearing people talking about 'demon healers' and 'the demons actually have healers' when I was walking down the street. I was wondering what that meant, but now it seems like that's the truth..."

Ella began to doubt whether the career of a demon healer she had chosen was the best choice.

"Then let's go one by one in the order of the team."

Yajie waved to the two people at the front of the team, who happened to be two male demons with purple eyes. When the two men saw that they were chosen, they frowned and made bitter faces as if they were going to be executed, and slowly moved to the operating table.

"Um... Teacher, could you please lower the requirements a bit? This test is too difficult for us demons."

"If you lower your standards now, you'll have a hard time during the final exam, you know?"

The boy who had originally made the request with a bitter face turned pale and placed his hand on the crystal ball resignedly.

"Let's get started."

As Yajie finished speaking, the eyes of the two demons became serious, and the discussions in the arena gradually became smaller until everyone's attention was focused on the two demons.

Just like when Yajie demonstrated, a trace of blue magic appeared in the crystal ball, but unlike Yajie's slowly diffused magic, the magic in the crystal ball scurried around like a little snake. There was no sound, but it was so violent that it seemed to be able to smash the crystal ball into pieces.

"As expected, the demons' magic is very destructive."

A divine man with half silver and half red hair in front of him sighed, then turned around to look at Ella who was talking to Lotte as if he remembered something. The corners of his mouth twitched unnaturally, and he raised his head to the sky and talked to himself.

"There are exceptions to everything."

Nearly five minutes had passed. Although beads of sweat continued to drip down the faces of the two demons who were working hard, nothing appeared on the table. Although the blue magic power in the crystal ball was no longer running around violently like it did at the beginning, it was still circling as if waiting for an opportunity to strike. Finally, the blue light became smaller and smaller until it dissipated.

"Let's stop here."

"I'm sorry, Teacher Yajie, I can't control my magic."

"This is normal for demons. The rules will be relaxed during the final exams, so keep working hard."

"Yes."

Not caring about the failure, after comforting the two demons, Yajie continued to let the people at the back of the team test.

Unexpectedly, when the two demons walked to the back of the team after the test, the other students did not show any sarcastic expressions or say any provocative words, but just moved forward normally and prepared to go on stage.

——Although most people in the academy would choose to avoid the demons and reduce communication, they would still not do anything to take advantage of others’ misfortunes... Ella felt a little relieved. She had been thinking that if there was a provocation, maybe a demon would bring her out and say something like "For the glory of the demons, please help us vent our anger, Ella." Now it seems that this situation will not happen.

"Um, Princess—cough, cough..."

I heard the demon behind me seem to be saying something in my direction. When I turned around, I found that the demon man who was speaking was slapped to the ground by another demon.

"Um, are you calling me?"

"No, no, this guy was just talking to himself. Ella-chan, you should get ready. The magic power of us demons is very difficult to control."

The demon who mercilessly knocked his friend to the ground pressed his head to the ground while answering Ella with a smile. This weird scene made her feel at a loss for words.

Perhaps noticing his complicated look, the demon who had spoken earlier explained.

"This is our special way of greeting each other. Don't be surprised, right?"

As he said this, he grabbed his companion's head and forced his face towards him. Although his face was covered in mud, he nodded in agreement with the same strange smile as his companion who had abused him.

"Well, I guess I was just talking to myself. There's probably no one of national princess caliber in the class."

"Yes, Ella-chan is right."

If there were a princess-level person, I really wanted to see what they looked like. Iris was only a member of the royal family of the God-man Clan, but she was already so beautiful. So what would a true princess-level person look like? I must go and see them if I get the chance.

"It's your turn, Ella-chan."

Feiyuan's thoughts were brought back to reality. It was Yajie who was calling him to go on stage.

The next one should be Loti. I wonder if Loti can pass it at her current level... It's just a test of magic operation, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

After instructing Lotte, she walked to the operating table under the watchful eyes of the students who had already finished the test, placed her hand on the crystal ball, and waited for the opportunity to inject magic power.

Ah, this feeling of being stared at is really uncomfortable... Anyway, I just need to be better than the previous demon. If I can really condense something, there will definitely be a bunch of people surrounding me.

It might be because of the crystal ball, but just by placing my hand on it, magic power was automatically drawn from my body. This design was probably made for students who had not reached level ten and were unable to actively inject magic power.

The blue magic power in the crystal ball is like a part of my body. It won't move on its own unless I give any instructions - it's great... It feels like I have a very obedient pet, and I can't help but feel proud to show it to everyone.

"Wow, you're truly worthy of being a healer. Your control over magic is simply unmatched."

Someone in the crowd shouted, and then everyone else started praising him.

Uh, no, at this time it should pretend to be violent.

He controlled this trace of calm magic power and made it rotate around the inner wall of the crystal ball. In his opinion, this was no different from the violent magic power of the demon before.

"Not only can it be stabilized, but it can even control the movement of magic power at will! Such an ability is already at the level of a demon prince, right?"

"Uh...but no matter how I look at it, they're no different from the demons before."

"That's because you're not strong enough to see it. Have you ever heard of a demon prince who appeared as a healer? This level of control surpasses any demon king in history, right? Even the demon kings of the Demon God War were never heard of using healing magic."

I don’t know when it started, but the direction of the conversation among the crowd began to become strange.

Being stared at by the intense gazes of the surrounding classmates, Ella's whole body trembled slightly unconsciously, and she felt her palms begin to sweat... She had never shown this kind of reaction when faced with the huge tuition fees.

Hey, hey, this looks exactly like the demon from before who couldn't control his magic, right? Why is it different in my hands? This is weird no matter how you look at it! Is it because I'm not violent enough? Then--

The magic power that was originally just rotating around the inner wall began to jump wildly. The speed of rotation even left a trail of afterimages inside the crystal ball. The originally transparent crystal ball turned into a gem filled with blue light in the blink of an eye.

"Are you finally losing control?"

"Tsk, haven't you figured it out yet? Ella-chan doesn't even bother to concentrate her magic power. She's just playing around with it. Alas, what a shame! If I hadn't chosen to become a magic caster, I would definitely become a healer and apprentice to Ella-chan."

"I think you're simply in love with Ella-chan, right?"

"Huh? What did you say? A warrior like you definitely doesn't understand the difficulty of mana manipulation. Magic like Elementary Healing requires as much mana manipulation as making a Fireball turn in mid-air. To be able to make mana swirl at such a high speed inside a crystal ball without dissipating, perhaps Aira-chan is even stronger than the previous Demon King."

Hey! Who on earth could say something so irresponsible? How could someone still boast about themselves after such seemingly complete disarray? Could they really be their admirer?!

Several anger marks seemed to appear on his head, and the corners of his mouth twitched unnaturally.

"Alright, Aira-chan has passed. As long as you keep up this performance, you'll definitely have no problem with the final exam."

"Huh? Uh, no, that's not right, Miss Yajie. This is definitely out of control, isn't it?"

"Ella-chan, are you still trying to hide your strength at this point? As the teacher of the practical magic class, of course I can see through it. Okay, it's Lotte-chan's turn next."

Ella was pushed by Yajie and moved to the side in small steps, with a dazed look on her face.

Is this... is this even possible? Is this academy truly the best on the continent? Suspicious, Ella lowered her head, avoiding the hungry gazes of the other students, who looked at her like they were hunting prey.

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Illustrations from the game: Ta no Shita no Shita