Just when Reiner was worried about not being able to solve the problem of separating isotopes, the results of the school rating were also issued.

The evaluation report submitted under Loliente's "operation" was very beautiful, and the number of academic points earned by Reiner alone led to the final grade of Crescent College this year being grade 8, which is the result of a combination of the construction of the campus, the number and quality of students, and the academic level.

In fact, Reiner doesn't expect more, after all, if he goes too high all of a sudden, he will fall even worse if he doesn't meet the conditions for relegation in the second year.

After that, unless Reiner submits a written request to increase the school's grade, he only needs to submit a report every year, and the Magic Association will be able to maintain the current grade after checking the academic score and other basic conditions, and if you want to upgrade, you will have to be investigated by the review committee as this time.

But Reiner doesn't have to worry too much for the time being.

Because the summer vacation has begun.

With the exception of the sixth-graders, who were facing the magic test, the students of all other grades had already left the campus and returned to their respective homes, and the summer vacation lasted until the first day of the month of Izumo (July), when autumn arrived and the second half of the school year officially began.

In the past few days, Crescent Academy has become a lot more deserted, and the students have gone home to quiet the originally noisy cafeteria, but the teachers except for Mr. Hawkins, who is on leave, all live in the school, and their lives have not changed much.

On the second day when the students were almost finished, Fina. Nabistin arrives at Reiner's office.

"Principal Ian Gray, I want to take a leave of absence to go home."

Fina had already applied to stay at school during the summer vacation until the end of the magic test, but suddenly handed over a leave of absence application to Reiner.

"What's wrong?"

Reiner took the petition and asked when he saw that the reason on it was "family reasons."

"My father...... He ......"

As if considering whether to say it to Reiner, Fina hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke.

"My father's condition has become serious and I need to go back to take care of him."

She said this with some gloom.

Now there is only half a month before the magic test, and if Fina returns to her hometown to take care of his father, it means that there is a high chance that she will not be able to catch the magic test.

Of course, Fina can choose to take the exam again the next year, but this year it is time for her to go through the graduation procedures, and she will prepare for the exam at home alone for a year, which is a test for both physical and mental purposes.

A guy like Claire who can stay in school until he passes the exam can only be said to be spoiled by the former principal.

Seeing Fina's embarrassment, Reiner thought about it and said.

"Go back, don't worry about the exam, it's still my father's body that matters."

"Hmmm......"

Fina nodded a little distractedly, and was about to leave, when she was stopped by Reiner.

"Wait a minute, I'm not too worried about you going home alone, I'll go with you to see your father, just take it as, uh, a home visit."

Reiner added that he vaguely felt that something was not right with the girl in front of him, so he proposed.

"Huh? But ......"

There was a slight panic on her originally indifferent face, and Fina wanted to refuse, but Reiner spoke again.

"You're the best student in this class, and it's my responsibility to help you pass the exam, and as long as you're a student at Crescent Academy, I'll be responsible for you."

Fina couldn't find any words to refute, so she nodded silently and agreed to Reiner's home visit.

Early the next morning, after seeing off the last of the students returning home, Reiner and Fina arrived in a carriage to Priest.

Originally, Claire wanted to go along, but Reiner decided that the school needed someone to watch, so she stayed at Crescent Academy.

Fina's hometown is located in the southern part of the kingdom in the small town of Sur, a remote town two hundred miles from Priest, located in the foothills of the Sur Mountains on the border of the kingdom, with animal husbandry and plantation as the main source of income, and the vast grasslands and scattered fields constitute the idyllic scenery here as far as the eye can see.

By the time Reiner and Fina arrived in Sur by steam train from Priest, it was already evening, and the sun was slowly sinking into the peaks of the Sur Mountains in the fiery evening clouds, and after the last rays of light were swallowed up by the night, the dark obsidian sky was lit up with stars.

Walking out of the station, a smell of grass mixed with mud blows through the evening breeze, there are no high-rise buildings, no traffic, and the brick and stone paved roads, the cattle are walking slowly, as if the pace of life has slowed down a lot.

"It's a really nice place."

Reiner sighs that after spending a lot of time in a busy big city, it's not bad to experience this farmhouse style once in a while.

"Hmm."

Fina didn't deny it, but she didn't seem happy with Reiner's praise either.

She led Reiner forward, and occasionally saw a few passers-by along the way, but for some reason, their eyes twinkled when they saw Fina, and they didn't dare to look directly at this place, as if they were hiding from something, and even looked at Reiner with a strange look.

Reiner seemed to sense something, but he didn't rush to ask, and just quietly followed Fina.

The roadside houses are no more than three storeys long, more are low-rise bungalows, few shops are in sight, and pubs and inns are nowhere to be found.

After walking for about twenty minutes, they came to a small three-story building, which, according to the signage, was the hospital in the town of Sur.

There are two types of hospitals in this world, one is a regular hospital with necromantic mages who specialize in this area, and the other is a clinic that relies on purchased drugs to treat patients by means of magical potions and surgeries, and there is a clinic that only has mage apprentices or low-level mages and relies on purchased drugs for simple disease diagnosis and treatment.

This one in the town of Sur clearly falls into the latter category.

Walking into the quiet hospital, a smell of potions crept into his nose, causing Reiner to frown slightly, and after a few words with the nurse on duty, they went up to the second floor and saw Fina's father in the room at the end of the corridor.

It was an old man with white hair, I really couldn't tell that this was a man less than forty years old, he described it as withered, skinny, lying quietly on a simple hospital bed, the quilt on his body was a little yellow because of many washes, and the whole person showed a sense of depression and depression.

He seemed to be asleep, breathing steadily, but the drip in his arm told Reiner that this was a seriously ill man, and that his days might be numbered.

"Every time...... It's all like that. ”

At Reiner's side, Fina said, not words of sadness, nor words of reassurance, but whispers of resentment that sounded to Reiner.

"My life...... It's all a mess because of him. ”