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Latia slowly picked up another steel ball and threw it into the ring.
Although her speed was slower than Karin's.
The steel ball passed cleanly through the ring.
Latia turned her head to look at Karin.
"I lost in psychokinesis magic. Now it's one-on-one."
"What?"
"I won in the four elemental magic, so it's one-on-one. I realized something while hanging out with Davian..."
Whoosh.
Another steel ball drew an arc.
"The fastest way to grow is to quickly admit what you can't do and calmly do what you can."
Whoosh.
The next ball also drew the same arc.
"I think you need to realize that too, Karin."
"Ridiculous. Are you trying to teach me now?"
"I'm just telling you because you seem a bit desperate. I used to be like that too."
"Th-this. Impudent..."
Whoosh.
The last steel ball drew a perfect arc and was sucked into the ring.
"Impudent? Saying that to the eldest daughter of the Meridiem Duchy. You're quite brave, aren't you?"
"Wh-what?"
Latia's expression hardened coldly.
"Just because I'm playing with you doesn't mean we're the same. Know your place, secret weapon girl."
Latia turned her head and left the evaluation hall.
Her bright blonde hair shimmered.
"You... you!"
In the afternoon, the healing magic evaluation test was held.
The practical evaluation was a free topic.
Listening only to this, it seemed like a relatively easy and free evaluation.
But the reality was not so.
"Okay, as I announced in advance, this healing magic evaluation is a free topic. Show me as much healing magic as you can."
Miss Medium Frill, the school nurse, spoke in her usual cheerful voice.
But the students' expressions were not so.
"Why? Are you scared to hurt yourselves? Hesitating because it might hurt?"
Free topic.
But there was no target to cast healing magic on.
The target for casting healing magic in this evaluation was themselves.
"I had so much trouble getting this evaluation method passed in the faculty meeting. Hurry up and show me, kids. Your passion."
An absurd evaluation method.
They had to injure their own bodies and use healing magic directly.
But no student questioned whether there could be such an absurd exam.
The first day Medium came to the healing class.
She stabbed a dagger into her arm to show the students how to treat self-inflicted wounds.
What about after that?
Two weeks ago, she completely bent her wrist backward, exposing the white bone, and showed them how to treat fractures, didn't she?
"You can only understand the patient's heart if you're in pain. And there's no better practice than feeling the process of healing in your own body. You have to feel the process of bones attaching, muscles connecting, and flesh filling in order to properly cast healing magic on others. As I announced in advance, if it's difficult to inflict wounds yourself, you can ask a friend to help."
At that time.
Luna approached Davian.
"Davian."
"Yeah?"
Luna Fueri held out her white and slender left arm.
"Break... my wrist."
Medium said that she would give a perfect score in the midterm practical exam regardless of the written test score if they broke their wrist and completely healed it.
"Are you really going to do it?"
"U-uh."
Luna's left arm was trembling.
Not just her left arm.
Luna was trembling all over.
If you're going to do it.
It's better to do it quickly.
Thud.
Davian grabbed Luna's arm.
The moment Luna squeezed her eyes shut.
Crack.
Davian completely bent Luna's hand backward with his other hand.
"Kyaaaa!"
Luna opened her eyes, which had been tightly closed.
Her large eyes were filled with tears.
"O-ouch. It hurts. It hurts so much."
Friends gathered around Davian and Luna.
Medium on the platform looked at Luna with interest.
She was holding her left wrist with her right arm and crying.
Davian urged her.
"If it hurts, heal it quickly. What are you doing?"
"O-okay."
Luna took her right hand off and cast healing magic.
Blue light came out of her right hand and wrapped around her left wrist.
Snap, tap.
She started matching the completely broken and fragmented bone pieces first.
As the healing magic progressed, Luna's sobs also stopped.
After a while.
"Done!"
Luna's left hand was completely back to normal.
Luna held up her left hand and jumped up and down.
"Miss Medium! I'm done healing!"
Medium on the platform gave a bright smile.
"Good job, Luna. You get a perfect score on the midterm."
"Thank you!"
Following her, brave students came to Davian one by one.
"Um... Davian. Just make a small cut here."
"Davian... can you slap my cheek?"
"Davian... can you make a small cut on this side?"
"Just one flick on the forehead..."
Since only magic students were gathered.
Davian, who was also majoring in swordsmanship, had become an expert in inflicting wounds.
Latia, who had been pondering for a while, approached.
Pointing to her calf.
"Cut from here to here. Deeply."
"Deeply? How much? Enough to cut off my leg?"
"Are you crazy?"
"Then how much."
"Not just a surface cut like the girl before. More deeply. Properly."
"I'll cut the muscle too."
Latia hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Davian disinfected the dagger with fire elemental magic and cooled it again with water elemental magic.
"Here I go."
"Okay."
Davian, who was squatting, lightly swung his arm.
Swish.
The sharp dagger cut through Latia's calf like paper.
"Hiss!"
Red blood flowed out quickly.
"Hoo."
Latia, who took a deep breath, began to cast healing magic with both hands.
The reason she asked for a wound on her leg was to cast magic with both hands.
Blue light poured out of Latia's hands and began to connect the torn muscle tissue.
Amid the students who were getting big and small wounds.
Karin approached.
"Davian, break my wrist too. Like Luna."
"Can you really do it?"
"Luna did it, so why can't I?"
"You won't regret it?"
"Me? Karin Oberia?"
Crack.
"Kyaaaa!"
Karin Oberia.
Selected as a subject for a secret project by the Royal Magic Department.
She had been learning magic from royal magicians since she was four years old.
She had never slept more than five hours a day.
She invested all her time, except for learning, training, eating, and sleeping, in mana cultivation.
She showed talent in all magic except for spirit magic, which required special affinity.
The magicians who taught her were also burning with enthusiasm.
The magicians who participated in the secret project all agreed.
That this project was the only project that would raise a magician who would never be seen again in the Kingdom of Alcancia.
And now.
The secret project of the Royal Magic Department.
Karin Oberia was rolling around on the floor of the auditorium, screaming.
"Ugh! It hurts! It hurts! Ugh!"
Latia, who was sitting on the floor of the auditorium and treating her calf, asked.
"Davian, why is Karin like that?"
"I don't know. She told me to break her wrist, so I broke it."
Latia shook her head and muttered to herself in a low voice.
"See? I told you she was desperate. I've been through it all before."
Latia focused on treating her calf again.
Luna came to Davian and asked.
"Shouldn't we help her?"
"Leave her alone. It's a practical evaluation. She told me to break it."
Karin was still rolling around on the floor.
In between, she tried to manifest healing magic with her right hand.
But she couldn't concentrate at all because of the dizzying pain and the sight of her own bones and muscles.
'Damn it! I can heal this much fracture!'
The time would have been enough to complete the healing if it had been someone else's hand.
But the real world was different.
She tried to concentrate and attach the bones somehow.
But it didn't work out as she wanted.
'Again... focus again. Even that airhead Luna did it, so there's no way I can't!'
Whoosh.
In her haste, powerful healing magic was cast.
Thud.
Suddenly someone grabbed Karin's right hand.
"Who is it? Oh! Teacher..."
"If you had sprayed that healing magic on your wrist just now, you would have been immediately sent to the Royal Medical Center."
"......"
Karin also knew that she had almost had a big accident just now.
Blue light poured out of Medium Frill's hand and wrapped around Karin's wrist.
The broken bone fragments began to attach one by one.
"If you want to become a real healer, not just learning healing magic out of greed. You must not lose your composure in any situation. If the healer loses composure, the patient will die or become disabled on the spot."
Medium Frill's strict voice.
Karin's treatment was over before she knew it.
Medium's voice returned to its usual bright tone.
"But. Your courage was great. The attempt was good too. You must have thought you could heal this much, right? Next time, let's practice finding your composure more. Karin Oberia."
"Yes......"
Karin, who lowered her head, stood up weakly.
About an hour later, the midterm practical evaluation of healing magic was over.
There were several students besides Karin who had injured their bodies and lost their composure.
Davian finished the evaluation by making a small cut on his forearm and then healing it.
On the way to the student cafeteria.
Latia brushed past Karin and said in a small voice.
"Two to one."
Karin looked at the back of Latia's head and clenched her fist.
But she couldn't argue.
In the four elemental magic and healing magic, Karin had completely lost to Latia.
'Healing magic is definitely several levels above, but if it wasn't for such a crazy evaluation topic of breaking my own body......'
It was a pity, but the result was the result.
There was no need to break her bones, but it was Karin herself who chose to follow Luna and break her wrist.
Karin sighed deeply.
'I can't help it. I was immature.'
Then she walked vigorously again and joined Davian's group.
'It's not all over yet.'
Student cafeteria.
Velum shouted.
"Really? Luna, did you really break your wrist yourself?"
"I didn't break it myself...... Davian broke it for me."
"Anyway! You told him to break it, right?"
"U-uh."
"And you healed it all by yourself?"
"Well... that much isn't a big injury."
"It's your wrist, your wrist!"
"It hurt, but on the other hand, I thought I should heal it quickly so it wouldn't hurt quickly... so I could concentrate. Davian told me that too."
Bonita looked at Davian and said.
"You have a more cruel side than I thought, Davian. Breaking your friends' wrists and cutting their calves."
Davian tilted his head and looked at Bonita.
"I'm surprised to hear you say that, Bonita. Unexpected, isn't it?"
"I was joking."
"Joking? You're joking, Bonita. That's even more unexpected, isn't it?"
"Whatever. Let's eat."
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