Today's small room of the Anomalous Magic Research Society was as quiet as ever, with the occasional faint sound of flipping books and the crunch of chess pieces touching the board.

Harold and Lilina are playing a board game similar to "chess", which is now the final game of the tiebreaker, and each move Harold takes a lot of time.

Harold Moth's chess pieces in his hand were unsure for a long time where the next move would be appropriate.

He raised his eyes and glanced at Lilina on the opposite side of the chessboard, but found that her face was as calm as water, staring down at the chessboard, but her mind seemed to wander away from the chessboard, undisturbed by the situation on the chessboard.

If Lilina were to be given a rating of her playing style, Harold would rate her as "scary-minded".

Harold originally thought that he should be able to grasp this kind of board game, at least his level would be much better than the cheerful little girl in front of him.

But his self-confidence was soon defeated by the unforgiving reality.

Harold's style of play is fierce, and he is a fast-attacking player, but this time Harold feels as if he has hit a ball of cotton, and the opponent can always defuse his own aggressive offensive and disintegrate his situation like a cocoon.

If Lilina suffers a little loss at some point, it must be to pave the way for a bigger advantage, and Lilina's shrewd calculation allows her to succeed every time.

She never takes risks and covets temporary gains. Instead, they slowly accumulated an advantage over Harold, and accumulated small victories into big victories. By the end of the game, it has already occupied an absolute advantage on the board.

"How? The seniors have been thinking about it for so long, have you figured out where to go next? Lilina looked at Harold with a smirk.

Harold squeezed the pieces in his hand hard, sighed, and threw them back into the box.

"I'm throwing in the towel, well, I didn't have any talent for this kind of game since I was a kid. You're pretty good, Lilina. ”

"Hehe, someone doesn't seem to have any talent for magic anymore." Edith, who had been reading with her head buried on the other side of the desk, looked up and pushed the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose. "Since Lilina joined the club two days ago, someone's magic level has completely lowered the average of our club."

"Miss Edith, there is a saying that you don't slap people in the face, and you don't expose your shortcomings when you scold people. Anyway, our club doesn't count Lilina now, just me and you, and the magic level will always be high and low. ”

Harold's mana level is indeed poor and pitiful, except for the wind magic that consumes less mana, using other types of magic will quickly drain his mana.

"We haven't heard of the proverb of any country you're talking about." Edith looked dismissive.

"Huh?" Lilina looked at Edith a little confused, then at Harold. "The predecessor is so beautiful, he should be very good at magic, but I didn't expect ....."

"There's nothing to do with being good at magic and looks."

Edith and Harold blurted out their complaints at the same time, their eyes intertwining in the air.

"Humph!" "Cut!"

The next moment, the two of them immediately twisted their faces to the side.

"Let's make peace with this guy for a while."

That's what the two guys who couldn't see each other were going to do.

"Sister Edith, what book did you just read? So seriously? ”

At this time, Lilina, who had finished playing this game of chess, suddenly became interested in the book that Edith was reading.

"The college's big library is borrowing to talk about the last war of mankind to destroy the sharp ears, and we think it's very good." Edith put the book up so Lilina could see the title.

Harold squinted at the title of the book, and on the black cover was written a few large words: "Triumphant Recital: A Chronicle of the Battle of Srktaya."

After scanning the title of the book, Harold immediately straightened his waist, his arms were flat on the table, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, his eyelids drooped slightly, and he looked at Edith with the corner of his eye, and came to a "Harold-style" disdain.

"Huh." Harold's voice was soft, but the taunt was just right.

"Hey, what's there to say now! But if it's any, don't blame us for freezing your mouth! Edith's head was smoking, and she was speaking harsh words.

Harold was unhurried, he straightened up, his elbows propped up on the table, his hands on his chin.

"Are the elves extinct? I remember that the orcs had set aside an archipelago for them to live in, and I guess they were having a seafood party every day. It seems that Harold is going to seize the opportunity to criticize her this time.

"It's not extinction, it's a mistake in our mouth." Edith suppressed her anger and honestly admitted. "But after the victory in the Gulf of Srktaya, the Sharp-Eared are gasping for breath under the protection of the orcs."

"Great victory in the bay of Srktaya. Oh~, a great victory in the bay of Srktaya. Ha ha. Harold couldn't help but scoff.

"Why isn't it a big victory? The human alliance of 130,000 against the 260,000 orc and elf alliance forces also forced them back to the orc continent. ”

At this time, Lilina, who had just been listening quietly on the side, couldn't help but speak: "Senior Sister Edith, the official caliber of this battle a hundred years ago is a great victory, and it is also advertised in the book. But there are some things that can't just be taken at face value. ”

Harold glanced approvingly at Lilina, then turned to Edith, and said, "You really believe the things in the book, you are really young. ”

"Oh!" Edith rolled her eyes at Harold. "The Western Empire, the strongest of mankind, suddenly retreated, leaving only a symbolic small number of troops. The navies of various countries are not in place because they need to make a long detour, and the sea of white storms between our continent and the orc continent is controlled by orc ships. And in that battle, the elves and orcs outnumbered the humans. In the face of these difficulties, this battle can still be fought five or five, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a great victory, right? ”

Lilina looked a little strange, and she didn't say anything. Harold smiled even more merrily, and at the sight of his smug face, Edith finally couldn't help it, and threw the tome in her hand at Harold's head. The latter caught it quickly, and with a vigorous push, the book was back in front of Edith.

"I finished reading this book last year, but I don't have to read it again. All the points you just talked about are in this book. But you really didn't see the author's obvious deliberate penmanship? Other books about this battle have not used adjectives such as 'triumphant' and 'great victory'. ”

Edith's face was gloomy, and she didn't reply, just stared at Harold. Harold didn't see it, and he continued: "This book talks about the situation of the human alliance in great detail, but when it comes to the orc and elf alliance, the total number is as high as 250,000. ”

Edith was stunned, but she was still a dead duck with a hard mouth: "So what? Isn't that true? ”

"It's a fact. But this is the eighth battle against the elves, and it is also a battle to expel the elves completely. Before the orcs came in, the remaining 200,000 elves had been besieged in Srktaya Bay for nearly a month, until the orcs sent 60,000 reinforcements across the sea. ”

Edith immediately understood, and she looked at Lilina, who nodded at her, indicating that Harold was not wrong.

"Fighting across the sea, 60,000 reinforcements, the remnants of the elves were surrounded for a month. These are all things that are deliberately not mentioned in the book. If these factors are taken into account, it means that the orcs fought across the sea with 60,000 living forces, and dragged the remnants of nearly 200,000 elves who were surrounded for a month and might not even be able to hold a bow, and then fought with the 130,000 human coalition troops except for the Western Empire, and finally patted their butts away, and transported the remaining 200,000 elves by the way. Is this still called a triumphant song? It's called faceless! ”

Edith scratched her head in annoyance, if someone else corrected her, she wouldn't be upset at all. But it was this annoying guy in front of him who seized the opportunity to deliberately put on a "Oops, you don't understand!" The gesture was correcting her, which was very uncomfortable, and it was not easy to have a seizure.

"This author is also a little interesting, the book refers to elves with the contemptuous term 'pointy ears', and the orcs are not mentioned by the contemplative term 'canine tooth ghost'. Hawkers, the author of this book is a virtuous person with the Holy See, who advocates the hanging of all elves, but allows orc students to study in the academy city, which is quite subtle. ”

Lilina finally couldn't stand it anymore, and she quickly interrupted Harold: "Oh, seniors, don't hold on to it, there will always be omissions in books written by people." Ithine-senpai saw it for the first time, and it was normal that she didn't know everything. It is said that the reason why the orcs would send troops to shelter the elves who were enemies before was the real interesting part, but there were very few people who paid attention. ”

"Oh, what's your opinion? Some speculation is that the orcs are interested in the flesh of elves, but I guess the orcs don't have that kind of leisure, right? Harold asked, obviously curious about what Lilina would think.

Lilina was secretly relieved to see that Harold had finally taken his interest away from Edith.

"Orcs are neither empathetic nor nosy. It is out of their own self-interest that they will come to the rescue of the elves. ”

"What's the explanation?"

"They are worried that we humans will attack their territory with the momentum of the Extinct Elves, so they should take this opportunity to strike first. And their race is not as big as our humans, so we have to open the situation hard with the first punch, lest hundreds or thousands of fists hit back. Therefore, there has been no major war between the orcs and humans for a hundred years, in addition to the impact of crossing the sea, it is estimated that there are also factors of the war a hundred years ago. ”

"It's amazing, much higher than someone's vision." Harold stared at Lilina, but squinted at Edith.

"Smack" Edith closed the book fiercely, and she never had the leisure to read it again.

Harold heard the voice and turned his head to look, and the two began to make eye contact, and the 'atmosphere' began to heat up again.

"Why don't you go out and fight, and see if we freeze you to pieces."

"Hey, angry? Come on! Whether you can touch my clothes this time is a matter of two words.

The meaning of the eye contact between the two was probably this.

"Well, it's going to be an eight-day holiday next, are you going to kill time with a club activity or something?" Seeing that the atmosphere between the two began to stiffen again, Lilina hurriedly changed the topic to play a round.

"Oh? Lilina, what do you have in mind? Edith's answer was somewhat weak.

"The Anomalous Magic Research Department is too orthodox in terms of magic research in the academy. Why don't we go to the countryside around the city and look for it, maybe we can find the necromancer's altar, the ancient tomb with ancient magic, the gathering place of hoodoo in a hidden place, in short, a wonderful place that normal people will not find. ”

As Lilina spoke, her eyes gradually flashed with little stars of expectation, just like seeing a fan girl of a male god.

"Alas," the two sighs in the chamber coincided again.

"What the hell is this girl's brain circuitry?"

"Sure enough, we come from a family called an explosive family, but we can't understand how girls in high society think."

A certain two people complained wildly in their hearts.

So the atmosphere in the room finally returned to calm.