I don't want to be a heroic spirit

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On the way to the classroom, Okita Souji, Kurogane Ikki, and Stella walked together.

Not only Ikki Kurogane and Souji Okita, but even Stella is a student in Class One, First Year. If the classes were divided according to academic performance like the school Souji Okita attended before, then it is obvious that an A-rank knight like Stella, who is the focus of everyone's attention, would definitely not be in the same class with the two of them.

No, if that were the case, Kurogane Ikki wouldn't even have his own class.

As for Souji Okita's roommate, Ayase Ayatsuji, she is a third-year senior, so she is not in the same class as Souji Okita.

Along the way, Stella seemed to be deliberately on guard against Okita Souji. She always stood between Okita Souji and Kurogane Ikki, and even kept talking to Kurogane Ikki, leaving the two of them no chance to communicate.

It's really novel to be regarded as a love rival or competitor by a girl, and a very beautiful one at that.

But I really don’t have that idea. On the contrary, I’m really looking forward to you two getting married.

Watching the two people flirting, Okita Souji took a few steps to the side unnoticed, and at the same time slightly reduced his presence to make himself seem less noticeable.

It's not a very powerful skill, [Breath Blocking] can do this.

Although it was flirting, the whole process was more like Stella was just acting out unilaterally, and Kurogane Ikki, the wooden man, just let Stella's temper come to him and endure it unilaterally because of his overly kind and honest character.

Souji Okita clasped his hands behind his head, his attention gradually shifting from the "little lovers" to the students nearby.

Because Okita Souji has been maintaining [Breath Blocking], the classmates around her subconsciously ignore her, but Kurogane Ikki and Stella have become the focus of their gossip.

Don't get me wrong, the gossip they are going about is not some insignificant piece of gossip like "Are this man and this woman a couple?"

Most of the discussions about Stella were about admiration and jealousy.

"Is that the A-class knight who enrolled this year?"

"I heard that his magic power is thirty times the average."

"Is such exaggerated magical power really something a human can possess?"

"You've already become an A-rank knight in your first year. You'll definitely be valued by the [Alliance] in the future. If you join [KOK], entering the A-rank league won't be a dream, right?"

"That's great! You're born with such strong magic power. You won't have to train as hard as us to become stronger. You can climb up easily."

"Tsk, it's just that his magic power is a little stronger. After all, he's just a freshman and definitely doesn't have much combat experience. Just wait and see, this guy will get defeated sooner or later."

"That's it."

When discussing Stella, there are at least some who praise her and some who criticize her, but when discussing Ikki Kurogane, the opinions are completely one-sided.

"Hey, isn't that the F-rank 'Failed Knight' next to that A-rank knight?"

"Really? Why is that loser with the princess?"

"I heard that F-rank guy had a fight with the Queen Knight yesterday."

"Is this true? How can a mere F-rank loser fight against an A-rank?"

"And I heard that the one in Class F won."

"That's definitely a rumor. He's just an F-class loser. If he can beat an A-class player, I'll go kiss a sow."

Really, sometimes having good hearing isn't a good thing...

The strong malice mixed in the words made Okita Souji feel uncomfortable, especially after experiencing the previous world, Okita Souji became particularly sensitive to this kind of malice from humans.

Fortunately, this malice is not directed at her, so she should just remain a nobody.

However, Souji Okita really wanted to see the scene of the classmate kissing the sow.

Chapter 56 Vomiting blood is also contagious

"Hello new students, welcome to school. I'm your homeroom teacher, Oreki Yuri..."

Although she spoke the lines full of energy, her tone was quite tired and weak. She was obviously very pretty, but her face was pale and she had extremely dark circles under her eyes. She looked like a sick beauty. People couldn't help but worry that she would vomit blood or faint from running out of breath.

Moreover, I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but this weak tone... actually has an indescribable charm?

This is the teacher who is very distinctive in all aspects. At this moment, he is giving a lecture at the podium with a microphone, and occasionally he will make some exaggerated gestures.

The twenty or so students in the class all looked at the teacher with surprisingly consistent eyes, which was deep worry.

"I'm a new, fresh-faced teacher, and I'm your homeroom teacher for the first time. Please call me Yuri-chan. I won't be giving a lecture today, but I do want to tell you about the Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Tournament..."

"Is there really no problem? I feel like this teacher might collapse at any moment from being too excited."

Stella whispered the concerns of everyone present, and several classmates behind her who heard it nodded silently to indicate that they thought the same.

"Ahaha...but she is a good teacher." Kurogane Ikki said with an awkward smile.

Souji Okita was sitting next to Stella, with Stella between him and Ikki Kurogane. By the way, she was pulled to this position by Stella.

Aren't we being too wary of her?

Okita Souji rested her elbows on the table with her head in her hands, looking bored, but she was still listening to what teacher Oreki Yuri was saying about the "Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Tournament."

After all, it is the main plot in the early stage.

When talking about the "Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Tournament", we have to mention the "Seven Star Sword Dance Festival" first.

The so-called Seven Star Sword Dance Festival is simply an annual martial arts festival jointly held by the Seven Stars Academy. Its purpose is to determine the strongest student knight among the seven academies. The winner can obtain the title of "Seven Star Sword King".

Seven academies, each sending six representatives to participate in the Seven Star Sword Dance Festival.

The "Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Tournament" mentioned by Oreki Yuri is, as the name suggests, a competition to elect these six representatives. Each person will participate in more than ten competitions, and only the best results will be qualified to represent Pojun Academy in the "Seven Star Sword Dance Festival".

In fact, this "Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Competition" was only launched this year. In the past, students with strong ability data were directly selected as representatives.

Pojun Academy has always performed well in the previous "Seven Star Sword Dance Festival". Almost every "Seven Star Sword King" is a student of Pojun Academy, which also makes Pojun Academy vaguely the strongest academy among the Seven Star Academies.

However, starting from a few years ago, the performance of the student representatives of Pojun Academy in the "Seven Star Sword Dance Festival" has been getting worse and worse. Once, they even only made it to the quarterfinals and all of them were defeated.

Therefore, in order to improve the academy, the old chairman was dismissed, and the new chairman, Shinguji Kurono, made a lot of drastic reforms and improvements to Pojun Academy as soon as he took office.

One of them is that the emphasis is no longer on ability values ​​but on real combat capabilities, which is why there is the "Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Battle".

As long as you can win, as long as you win enough times, even if your ability value is not strong enough, even if you are just an F-level knight, you will still have the opportunity to participate in the Seven Star Sword Dance Festival as a representative, and you will still have the opportunity to compete for the title of "Seven Star Sword King".

While listening to Oreki Yuri's thoughtful and detailed explanation at the podium, Okita Souji secretly glanced in the direction of Kurogane Ikki.

She could feel that Kurogane Ikki's temperament had changed.

When Oreki Yuri was explaining the relevant information about the selection competition, Kurogane Ikki was no longer as gentle as before, but showed seriousness, even stubbornness.

It's like a sailor who has been drifting on the endless ocean for several years and finally found an island, and it is an island that must contain treasure. The will polished by the waves must be as unshakable as a rock.

Souji Okita only remembers a rough outline of the original plot, including the reason why Ikki Kurogane participated in the "Seven Star Sword Dance Festival".

It seems that Ikki Kurogane has always been targeted because of his own talent. Some people do not want him to successfully graduate and obtain the qualification of "Magic Knight", so he has been held back. It was not until Kurono Shinguji became the chairman that Ikki Kurogane had the opportunity.

As long as Ikki Kurogane can become the "Seven-Star Sword King", then Kurono Shinguji can directly grant Ikki Kurogane the qualification to graduate.

Moreover, if Ikki Kurogane really won the title of "Seven-Star Sword King", then he could also make those who have always looked down on him as an F-class knight shut up.

This is destined to be a thorny road, but this road to success has never been so clearly presented to Ikki Kurogane.

Perhaps there will be countless powerful enemies standing in his way, and perhaps those who target him will use many disgusting means, but at least "success" is no longer a distant luxury for him, but a future that he can touch with his hands.

Therefore, he would not let go, but would hold the sword tightly in his hand and cut through the thorns that blocked his way.

"How sharp, how dazzling."

Teacher Oreki Yuri was still talking at the podium, and Okita Souji's eyes gradually changed from lazy to sharp.

"The gleaming sword light at that moment truly makes me look forward to it."

"That's it. The first match will begin next week. The match schedule and opponents will be emailed to your student handbooks, so please check."

Oreki Yuri continued explaining in her recognizable weak voice, feigning cheerfulness, when Stella suddenly raised her hand.

"teacher."

"No, no, no, if you don't ask me to say 'Iri-chan', I won't answer."

Oreki Yuri playfully and cutely cast a wink at Stella, and then Okita Souji watched in shock as Stella's headscarf quickly drooped as if it had a life of its own.

"Ari... Arisato-chan..."

"Yes, what's up, Stella-chan?"

Oreki Yuri seemed very excited because of Stella's call of "Yuri-chan", although she still couldn't change her weak tone.

“How many games will we participate in in total?”

"If you're alone, you'll probably have to participate in more than a dozen games. So, you can understand that there will be at least one game every three days."

Afterwards, some classmates, like Stella, raised their own questions to Oreki Yuri, and after learning that not participating in the competition would not affect their grades, many of them considered giving up.

Finally, it was teacher Oreki Yuri who gave the closing remarks.

"So everyone, let's work hard in the coming year. Come on, let's do it together."

The teacher was obviously too excited and even wanted to encourage the whole class to cheer together.

Then, everyone saw with their own eyes that just after teacher Oreki Yuri said "Hehe, oh", he spat out more than three meters of blood.

Suddenly, the class was in uproar, and Okita Souji even slammed the table and stood up.

"Teacher! Are you okay? Wait, I'll take you to the hospital right away! Pfft!!"

"Aiya! Okita, why are you vomiting blood too?!"

Chapter 57 So-called Patients

Oreki Yuri was very happy.

Although a series of embarrassing and damaging teacher-respecting things happened, such as vomiting blood and falling to the ground in front of a group of students and being sent to the infirmary by the students, Oreki Yuri was still very happy.

On the one hand, the holding of the "Seven Star Sword Dance Representative Selection Tournament" represents that many students in this school who may not have high ability values ​​but are very talented have the opportunity to show themselves through hard work, and their achievements are no longer fixed by a piece of cold data.

on the other hand……

"I never thought that one day, the teacher would not be lying alone in the hospital bed, but someone would accompany me. Yuri-chan is so happy."

"As a teacher, are you actually happy to see your student lying in a hospital bed? Give me back the worry I had before!"

Although it is a medical clinic, Qixing Academy is really willing to spend money on the welfare of students. This so-called medical clinic is actually a building, and the facilities inside are more advanced and complete than most hospitals outside.

But it's normal to think about it. This is an academy that specializes in training swordsmiths, and swordsmiths are destined to be accompanied by pain, so the treatment is the most critical.

After all, they had rented out an entire building to serve as a medical office, so there was no shortage of wards and it was entirely possible to arrange a separate room for each patient. However, this time, at Oreki Yuri's request, two people were arranged together.

The room should have been very spacious, but it seemed much smaller after putting two beds in it.

"I thought you were exaggerating before, Okita. I didn't expect you to actually vomit blood, and so suddenly."

The one who spoke was Stella, and Kurogane Ikki was beside her, because someone was needed to take Okita Souji and Oreki Yuri, who were vomiting blood, to the infirmary, and the two people closest to them naturally became the most suitable candidates.

"Sorry, Stella, I guess you got scared."

"I was indeed shocked. After all, Oreki-sama... Yuri-chan always looked so bad, but you, Okita, didn't show any sign at all."

"Teacher, that's a physical condition, but what's wrong with you, Okita?" Kurogane Ikki suddenly interrupted, his frown betraying his deep confusion. "The doctor just examined you, but the report showed you were perfectly healthy. There's no sign of any illness serious enough to cause you to vomit blood."

"Uh...well..."

Okita Souji's eyes wandered. "Anyway, it's a very complicated reason. Even I don't understand it clearly..."

Okita Souji only suffered from a minor illness called tuberculosis during her lifetime, but because her story of vomiting blood was so famous, after she became a Heroic Spirit, this disease even followed her like a shadow and became something like a curse. This is similar to the principle of Achilles' heel.

It is said that Okita Souji also has a unique skill called "weakness", which really makes her at a loss for words...

Stella and Ikki Kurogane were still a little worried. After all, that was vomiting blood. Regardless of how serious it was, the visual effect was still very shocking. What was even more worrying was that the hospital could not find any specific symptoms no matter how they checked. However, when they saw Okita Souji's attitude of "I know what's going on", they didn't say much.

Remembering that Souji Okita had mentioned before that "vomiting blood became less frequent after a major operation", they felt a little relieved, because the operation meant that there was still a way to treat it, and the most terrifying thing was not knowing where to start.

As for Oreki Yuri, she has a chronic problem.

It is said that she has a physique that causes her to vomit several liters of blood every day. She has become a regular customer of the infirmary. Not only herself, but even Ikki Kurogane has become accustomed to it.

Afterwards, in order not to disturb the two patients' rest, Ikki Kurogane and Stella returned to the dormitory first.

"Actually, I could just leave..."

"No, Souji-chan, even if the test says there's nothing wrong with your body, you still need to rest well and stay in the hospital for observation. After all, you were vomiting blood just now. How could you be fine so soon?"

Souji Okita knows her own business. Her problem is not a disease but a curse engraved on her spiritual base. According to the memories in her spiritual base, Souji Okita seemed to be planning to use the Holy Grail of the universal wishing machine to solve the problem on her body, but it seems that the problem has not been solved, and it is even less likely that the doctors in this place can find a solution.

Hearing Oreki Yuri in the next bed talking to her with an attitude of "I'm very experienced, you have to listen to me", Okita Souji pondered for a moment with an expressionless face.