Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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\'You\'re right as well, Lucy. But what can we attribute to this situation? He was subconsciously able to do it so there\'s nothing we can speculate here either.

The only thing we can say would be this incident being a coincidental enlightenment.\'

[{ *It still does not justify how someone who does not even understand the Truth of Soul is able to tap into their consciousness, master.

Logically, this does not make any sense.* }]

\'I\'ve said it many times and I will say it again, dear. There are some things in this world that just don\'t make any sense.

Just look at you… how do we explain your existence with the logic that we have.\'

She was a part of my being, a part of my origin skill that was \'gifted\' to me by my master.

She was a skill that somehow had her own consciousness and ego, as if she was a unique individual herself.

She was a skill so she was a part of me, but since she was a part of me and an individual, she also shared my being.

Technically, we were two people sharing a common physical body.

Which does not make any sense on the broader natural spectrum.

[{ *…we aren\'t talking about us, master. We are talking about the captain of True dragons and how he was able to-.* }]

\'I know well what we are talking about, dear. Don\'t get worked up like that, alright? There\'s nothing wrong with being able to do something most others cannot.\'

If anything, it was interesting to find out how someone is able to do something the most other people cannot.

And in this particular situation, the captain that I had been the most curious about since our first encounter on the entrance test island, was turning out to be something more than what we had expected him to be.

\'Let\'s not underestimate him anymore, Lucy.\'

Not only did he have a unique origin, he was also someone that had an affinity for Aether.

He was much older than me, and many of our classmates but not as old as Rein or some others.

The age itself wasn\'t something he was concerned about since he wasn\'t the same \'human\' and the rest of us thanks to his unique origin, however, he was still part of this world.

Additionally, above his skills and abilities, he possessed a special talent to talk in the most convincing manner.

\'Unlike our initial evaluation of him, he not only has talent with his eloquent way of speaking, he is also a mysterious person that knows how to hide his true self well.\'

Even when he revealed his first experience as his familiar to us a few days back, he was hiding his true expressions very well.

\'The surprise that let out and the joy that he was actually feeling were two different things.\'

He clearly knew how to handle himself— and that made him kind of dangerous.

He has been with us almost since we started the academy life in one way or the other.

He first mentioned that he was searching for good companions for their adventures after they finish the academy and he was very open about a lot of things.

Yet…

\'Aside from the things that we know about him, things that we have talked about and the things that we have seen from his screen, we don\'t really know much about this person we call captain \'Alpha\'.\'

Not everyone knew his real name, or the reason he was hiding it from them.

Plus he was a member of the student council and he knew we were as well now that he had seen the relationship we had with the President and Cradle.

But, that part wasn\'t concerning to us.

What did concern us though, was the fact that he knew about us more than he should by this point.

\'His knowledge and information gathering abilities were on par with some of the best masters of this field I\'ve known until now.\'

He knew about things that he should not and he knew about things that no one should even without a Pinnacle skill like Prince Alph\'s or even without a unique background like Nova\'s.

We didn\'t even know about his family or parents yet since he never talks about personal things before anyone.

But at least we had known what we can use him as in our plans or within the \'group\' that we are gathering.

\'But after this… well, we will have to reconsider the possibility of his position.\'

Around a week has passed since that incident and after our talk that day, we haven\'t had the opportunity to talk with him that much.

\'The tests were ongoing and even though he was smart and knew things, he wasn\'t like us.\'

Not only did he want to get better scores than us like Tia, he also wanted to be prepared for anything like that extra point test that he had not experienced yet.

\'He was a captain with ambitions.\'

And, he was a kind of opponent that had yet to show all that he can do— much like Prince Alph who led his own house.

[{ *Even after considering all things, master, why is it that the creature that is bonded with him, his familiar that person takes over without their consent, does not protest against his actions?

They aren\'t on best terms from the looks of it so-.* }]

\'Again, Lucy. I know you are observant, logical, and the smartest being I know, but there are some things that common logic doesn\'t apply to.

Try learning from my memories and experiences.

See what it means to be a \'tsundere\' or a person that does not show their true emotions outwardly.\'

She was an extremely smart individual that could learn faster than even the best geniuses I know, and she was more than a skill.

That\'s what made her one of a kind. But still, even she didn\'t like some of the things.

And the way Captain Alpha was leading us didn\'t go well with her.

\'We took him to various places, he was able to meet a divine being thanks to us, and see something he might have never been able to thanks to us. Plus we fed him good food and he was repaying our kindness with attempts of manipulation.\'

He was an ungrateful person and she didn\'t like him for that. But, well, that was just how human nature was.

\'We want more than what we have, we want to keep what we have, we want to have more without losing anything- which is ridiculous, but that\'s just how human nature is.\'

We are greedy, so I don\'t resent him for not trusting us completely like the others do.

Truthfully, that\'s what made him more special actually.

\'Let\'s forget about this and think about other things later, alright?\'

Currently, we are in the middle of finishing our All energy understanding paper. And this one would be the last theory paper for us.

\'Only three papers are left now and there\'s one holiday between them so soon, this midterm will be over.\'

Unlike what I had expected, the Understanding nature that was taken in a big plain where every student was placed together went well.

\'It was in a racing game format where all of us had to reach a certain point in that space and along the way, solve the various problems we face with our own answers.\'

There were many simple problems while some of them were more difficult than what I was even excited about.

The familiars played a vital role in that so, if it wasn\'t for Celes, I would have not been able to get the score we achieved at the end.

\'And, thankfully, Captain Alpha didn\'t take advantage of his power to sync with his familiar.\'

It seemed like he was trying to convince him to allow him to do what he had only done one sidedly until now, so he had to waste a lot of time.

But still, he still managed to finish in the top five with some of the highest scores.

\'The ability to sync with his familiar and using the Mana voice like that was very effective.\'

And since I can\'t show much of Celes\'s abilities, we were limited.

\'He on the other hand didn\'t have those kinds of restrictions.\'

Showcasing his abilities would only result in a better score from the judges so, he did what he was supposed to and got a good score.

\'Then there were other papers— magic engineering papers were pretty good, there were some practical questions but they weren\'t that difficult.

The alchemy paper was good as well. The practical parts in it could be substituted with the theoretical questions so it was fun as well.

The general papers of Magic and weapon understanding, understanding of Mana, as well as Language and manners went well as well.\'

At least for me…

For the others though, there were some papers that stood before them as an obstacle and some of their papers were especially difficult comparatively.

\'Rein was even angry after she gave her Society, culture, and history paper that was practically filled with practical things.\'

But she somehow did well.

\'Now… the last three papers were left for us. And for me, it was going to be Cooking, Magic and weapon practice, as well as the Economy and currency.\'

Two of them were confirmed to be mostly practical while the third one was yet not clear enough for us.

The economy and currency paper was the only paper among all of them that was going to be the last one for every one of the students of the academy.

\'We will be giving it together, so, the chances that it will be something practical like Understanding of nature paper are very high.\'

In fact, we might just have to move to some other place for this considering the subject of the paper.

\'And since the academy has always emphasised the practical importance of this paper, I\'m wondering what the headmaster has in store for us for that final paper.\'

We even have an unexpected holiday before that last paper so… all of us are wondering what is going to happen on the last day.