Chapter 97 (1/2)

'Rudel arses… Evaluation: D-Rank'

As he looked at the docu his evaluation, Rude's expression was serious

Sakuya was also out on the training grounds, but her wings and tail unfit for her large build were folded in Perhaps discouraged, her expression was somewhat dark

'I-I'm sorry'

”Don't mind it I don't really care”

The reason Rudel's evaluation was so low lay in his partner Sakuya A gaia dragon subspecies, Sakuya was specialized in offense and defense

While she was bad at flying, she possessed skills to on, she was a failure

No ht be, if Sakuya's evaluation was so low, he would never rise in rank

Sakuya had received training fro It was hard to say she had learned all of the necessary skills Even oons had polished after Mystith had left

Starting with 'hovering'- stopping on the spot in ht formations hadn't been necessary in Mystith's era

Now that group co techniques Mystith taught her were outside of the grading scale

'But if we don't becoo out in battle…'

Right, just barely obtaining D-Rank, Rudel and Sakuya wouldn't be able to enter the fray It meant they couldn't escape the label of newbie

While Rudel possessed the necessary abilities of a dragoon, Sakuya was just soe a D

”Don't worry We just have to raise our rank by one And you don't have to worry about the evaluation”

Rudel tried to console Sakuya, but there he heard yet another grand dragon cry froon stables The fact it was different from a normal roar made Rudel curious

Every time Sakuya heard that cry, she would lose her spirit Conversations would cut off

”What's wrong?”

'… It's nothing'

Even through the conveyance of thought that ca of the ends of Sakuya's words bothered Rudel He grew excessively anxious

”If so, then tell me You're my precious partner”

'Y-yeah'

While Rudel worried for Sakuya's lack of energy, in contrast, Sakuya only grew more depressed

Enora watched Rudel cheer Sakuya up from afar

”Serves you right”

On the words she spat out, the dragon she had contracted to looked at Sakuya

'A kid with a story from Mystith's place? Looks like he likes her quite a bit I do have so, but I don't have the mind to support her to such an extent'

Mystith was the s, but her territory was surprisingly sons that followed her, it was only natural there would be those opposed

Enora's dragon was one of those opposing ones

In order to look after her own dragon, Enora re the tools used at the training grounds, her expression turned to a dark smile

It was a huge difference from her usual self

”No ood at all”

'If she can't even fly properly and her breath is so half-baked, then there's no helping it'

In order to coon to accurately hit a mark with their breath Within all that, Sakuya was terrible at firing her breath during flight

Even if her output was on the high side, her accuracy was exceedingly low Even if Rudel was controlling, she rarely ever hit

”It's fatal to have a D evaluation at the three-ht formation This future archduke sure has fallen There's a reassess at a level he can do anything about”

The funda had ended, and now, they would have to learn to fly in for event But at present, Sakuya's abilities hadn't reached that level

'Well, being this bad is an e a ruckus'

”Hmm~”

Seeing the ones she thought would be her greatest rivals- Rudel and Sakuya- be the biggest failures aon explained what the gray dragons he scorned as grays were doing to Sakuya

'You never see a wild dragon this terrible, after all The jeers are flying left and right It's unbearably noisy'

”Now isn't that nice If that's all it takes to crush them, they have my thanks But I can't stumble in a place like this”

Within Enora's head, she had already lost interest in Rudel But her hostility towards Cattleya who she was constantly coht

While she did hold a high evaluation of Rudel hi him any mind

On his lodging house bed, Rudel looked at the evaluation notice as he desperately searched for a solution

”Hovering… halting in the air for a fixed a the ht If we accoet a C-Rank”

Rudel looked at the documents attached to the evaluation notice and looked over two entries While there were other shoddy places as well, he would have to do sohly as the essentials

To be honest, Rudel didn't care about rank There wasn't a probleo out in battle In this instance, it was fine even if he couldn't take part in the flight formation

But Sakuya was depressed

”I have to do soive her self-confidence If I do… no, it won't be a proble”

Leaping up froht off to Sakuya

Once the day of the reevaluation came around, surrounded by the instructors, the other newcoons, Rudel and Sakuya went into preparations

”Alright, we're doing it just as planned, Sakuya!”

'Yeah!'

Confir his preparations were conal There, the instructor gave the order for hi

Rather than Enora who had lost interest, the sharp-eyed Saas seeely unsettled as he looked at Rudel

”Will they be alright?”

There, the knight standing to his side poked fun

”You're more of a art than you look Well, let's just see how far they've ed to come in a week”

The knight of light personality relaxed as he looked at Rudel and Sakuya First ca evaluation but here, Rudel took an action no one expected

Of all things, he produced one of his specialties, a shi+eld of light