boyutpedia Chapter 488 - 488: DSMW [488]
Chapter 488 - 488: DSMW [488]
It was a relatively peaceful start to academy life.Although he was surrounded by nameless jealousy, Miles didn't seem to have suffered any so-called campus bullying.
For example, scribbles on his desk, trash dumped into his locker, glue secretly smeared on his chair…
None of the things Miles had been worried about happened at all.
Thinking about it carefully, since Fusion Academy was a Duel Academy with an extremely high proportion of noble students, the students' overall quality and upbringing were naturally far above those of most ordinary schools.
Even though they were inwardly filled with envy and jealousy over Miles' close relationship with Princess Nova, these adolescent noble boys wouldn't resort to underhanded tricks behind the scenes.
Rather than scheming in the shadows, they would wait for an opportunity and decide victory or defeat openly and honorably.
This kind of tradition, derived from something like medieval chivalric spirit, struck Miles as quite interesting.
Since most of the boys were waiting for their chance and didn't deliberately bother or provoke Miles, the remaining girls who wanted to ship the CP had been even more satisfied these past few days.
Or rather, in recent days, Princess Nova herself had become even more unrestrained in sticking to Miles.
During class, she often made little deliberate movements to draw Miles' attention.
During breaks, she came up with all sorts of ways to cling to Miles, dragging him along to read all kinds of strange novels and comics she had borrowed from the palace head maid.
She followed him everywhere—eating, heading home after school, even going to the restroom (scratch that, that one's not allowed)—never leaving his side.
Since the two of them were close in age, both having enrolled early and thus being a full year younger than most of their classmates, and combined with the handsome-boy, beautiful-girl pairing, the image naturally triggered many girls' maternal instincts. No matter how much they looked, they never got tired of it.
However, through these few days of interaction, Miles discovered a very critical issue.
"Nova, do you not have any friends?"
A soul-piercing question from Miles.
This time, Princess Nova's golden eyes shifted away for once, not daring to meet Miles' gaze directly.
"W-why are you suddenly asking that, Miles? O-of course I do… friends."
Looking at her stammering, guilty expression, Miles already knew the answer.
No wonder Nova had been clinging to him from the very first day… it turned out she didn't have anyone else to cling to.
"Aisha is my friend!" Nova tried to struggle a little.
"I mean friends in your own grade."
"Aren't you one?!"
"Besides me?"
"Lishia counts, I guess. And sometimes I can talk a bit with Bella."
The name Bella was probably Nova's roommate.
And Lishia, because of Miles and Aisha, as a commoner, also had some interaction with Princess Nova.
Even so, despite having been enrolled for two months, aside from people connected to Aisha and her roommate, Nova surprisingly didn't have anyone who could truly be called a friend.
Judging by the atmosphere, everyone didn't dislike Nova; in fact, they liked her quite a lot.
Then the only reason people hesitated to approach her must have been her status as a member of the Kaiser's royal family.
It seemed that being royalty wasn't all that easy after all—especially since Nova had enrolled early. The age gap only further intensified the difficulty of communication.
Albeit Miles didn't really have the right to say anything about Nova either.
After all, in his three days since enrolling, he'd basically only been hanging out with Nova as well.
As an aside, Miles didn't have a roommate.
The reason was the same as Aisha's last year—late enrollment, ending up with the last odd-numbered student ID, making it impossible to pair him into a shared dorm room.
So Miles' roommate would have to wait until next semester's new students arrived—or perhaps a mysterious transfer student would show up.
"Ah, I just remembered something," Nova said, tapping her forehead beneath her golden bangs. "Before you came, Miles, there was someone who would occasionally talk to me."
"Oh? Who?"
"I don't know his name. But it's…" Nova extended her finger, searching through the classroom. "That person over there!"
The person Nova pointed to was a boy surrounded by others, chatting and laughing at the center of the crowd.
At a glance, he was clearly the type with connections and social pull: the kind of 'popular' character who stood at the center of the class.
In ordinary schools, such roles were often taken by so-called 'normies' who studied well, looked good, and had pleasant personalities.
However, in a Duel Academy where ninety percent of the students were of noble birth, taking on such a role required an additional condition.
The family had to hold a sufficiently high status.
Conversely, only someone with the highest family status in the entire grade could afford to occasionally strike up conversations with Princess Nova, casually brushing their presence.
Perhaps the deterrent power of the Kaiser's royal family was far stronger than Miles had imagined.
"Nova, you really are amazing."
"Why are you suddenly praising me, Miles?"
Seen this way, it was no wonder that Miles, who had received Princess Nova's enthusiastic invitation on his very first day, had become a thorn in the eyes of all the boys.
Those guys probably really wanted to see him make a fool of himself.
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The next day.
That is, the fourth day since Miles enrolled, the routine Monster Summoning class at Fusion Academy.
The academy provided a mana array to amplify the Spirit Eyes for Monster Summoning.
Although this was Miles' first time attending a summoning class, during the time he had stayed inside the Millennium Puzzle, he had already experienced it many times through Aisha's perspective, and had even personally tried it once.
If one had to put it bluntly, Miles' experience with summoning classes was far richer than that of any of the first-year students present.
Unlike Miss Erin's classes, which had no fixed order and allowed anyone willing to step into the mana array to summon in a free-form style.
Professor Field, however, strictly followed student ID order, calling names one by one for summoning evaluations.
That made it obvious: Miles was definitely going last.
And so, Miles could only watch as the first-year students, one after another, produced what could only be described as disaster-level Axe Raider summons.
Calling them Axe Raiders was probably being generous… after all, Axe Raiders at least had 1700 Attack.
Meanwhile, these first-year students, up to now, hadn't even summoned a Monster with more than 1200 Attack.
Yet judging from Professor Field's unmoved expression, these disaster-level summons—at least in Miles' eyes—were all normal for newly enrolled first-year students.
Among them, the 1200 Attack Silver Fang seemed to have been summoned by a girl named Bella, Nova's roommate.
"Student Nova Kaiser," Professor Field called.
According to the student ID order, after her roommate finished her summoning, it was naturally Nova's turn.
"Is it finally my turn! I feel like I can succeed this time!" Nova said excitedly.
Before this, Princess Nova's summoning classes had consistently failed to summon a Monster.
It was likely because the mana consumption of a single Dragonmaid summon was simply too great—far beyond what could be completed with just the mana supplementation from weekly summoning classes.
One could say that Nova's summoning performance was even worse than Aisha's had been back then.
However, unlike Aisha, Nova's practical Duel performance was extremely fierce.
This was not only thanks to the red-and-blue twin dragons in her Deck, but also to the powerful support of rare Spell Cards from the royal card vault.
"Think you can succeed this time? Then do your best, Nova~"
What interested Miles the most right now was whether, if Nova successfully summoned a brand-new Dragonmaid Monster, the Deck in his Soul Room would update accordingly.
Of course, to verify that, Nova's successful summon was a necessary prerequisite.
"I'll definitely succeed! Because every time I've succeeded before, you were right next to me, Miles. Sally also said that a princess draws strength from her knight who protects her!"
That head maid named Sally, who was always filling the little princess's head with strange knowledge, occasionally said something surprisingly sensible after all.
No. On second thought, maybe that wasn't entirely sensible either?
Still, it was true that both of Nova's successful Dragonmaid summons had been when Miles was by her side.
Hopefully, this time would go smoothly as well.
Stepping onto the summoning amplification array, mana flowed up Nova's slender, fair legs and transmitted into the Spirit Eyes in her arm.
"O noble and radiant dragon's roar, answer my call! Monster Summon!"
"Ooooooh!"
The crowd erupted in exclamations—this was the first time Nova had successfully woven a card's mana during a summoning class.
Right after, the blooming mana took on a dazzling black form, condensing into a humanoid shape.
[Chamber Dragonmaid]
Dressed in a special black maid outfit, the well-endowed Chamber Dragonmaid materialized for a flash, bowed respectfully to Nova, then transformed into a card and landed in the girl's hand.
"Synchronization successful!"
Having long since switched his Spirit Eyes to Dragonmaid Form, Miles watched as [Chamber Dragonmaid] appeared directly in his Deck.
It seemed that as long as the bond was strong enough, it was even possible to synchronize newly summoned cards directly into a connected Deck in real time.
By the way, there was no dragon form this time.
Previously, Dragonmaid summons—whether Blue or Red—had always been accompanied by the dragon forms Dragonmaid Nudyarl and Dragonmaid Tinkhec.
This time, however, there was only a single [Chamber Dragonmaid].
It seemed that the mana amplification array used in weekly summoning classes simply wasn't sufficient.
If it were replaced with the large-scale mana summoning arrays used during midterms or finals, perhaps Nova could achieve a further breakthrough.
Of course, given that Nova's entire Deck currently contained only four Monsters, being able to add another [Chamber Dragonmaid] was already something to be satisfied with.
Especially considering the effect of [Chamber Dragonmaid]—
[When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Dragonmaid" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand.]
It could reliably search a Dragonmaid Spell or Trap from the Deck.
The value of consistent searching was far more reliable than Blue's effect of blindly stacking three cards from the top of the Deck.
At the very least, it wouldn't result in situations like last time for Miles—where Blue milled three forbidden cards in a row, sending [Pot of Greed], [Graceful Charity], and [Painful Choice] straight to the Graveyard in one go, a situation guaranteed to send any user's blood pressure through the roof.
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