Knight's & Magic: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 4] by Hisago Amazake-no

Author:Hisago Amazake-no
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 3: Let’s Enroll in School

One day, Ernesti was sitting in his living room, pondering something with a conflicted look on his face. The cause of this expression was a letter lying in front of him. The words “Notice of acceptance to Laihiala Knight Runner Academy” were written on it. Now that he was halfway through being eight years old, it was about time for him to attend school.

Laihiala Academy town, where Ernie lived, was built around Fremmevilla kingdom’s largest school: Laihiala Knight Runner Academy. The school could generally be split into three courses, each course lasting for three years. The elementary course started at age nine, the middle from age twelve, and the high from age fifteen. Most students only enrolled for six years, taking the elementary and middle courses, and that was normal. In Earth terms, the high school course was more like college—devoted to advanced study. So only a small number of students enrolled for it. As an aside, in this world people were considered adults at the age of fifteen. While it was common for people to only get serious about employment at eighteen, the number of people who were independent at fifteen was not small.

At any rate, though “knight runner” was in Laihiala Academy’s name, it wasn’t just attended by those who wanted to become knights or knight runners. The elementary and middle courses were subsidized by the country, so many children attended school regardless of their status. Fremmevilla kingdom’s education system was a little different from Earth’s system of compulsory education, having been shaped by the country’s special circumstances.

Fremmevilla kingdom was hailed as a country of knights. Though that sounded cool, looked at from the other side, it really just meant that battles were all too common. The country was rife with monsters, and the many farmers who worked large plots of land were easy targets, enduring long years of constant damage from monsters. Because of that, it became a matter of national importance to protect the farmers, who paid their taxes in crop yields. The reason the country didn’t try to eliminate all monsters was simply because there was no end to them.

Of course, knights existed to protect the people, but unfortunately, the kingdom was so large that it was not easy to protect all of it, no matter how many knights there were. Also, in most cases, knights only deployed after getting a report of monsters, so it was easy to be caught on the back foot. Relying solely on the knights wasn’t enough to keep the damage from spreading. Because of that, the farmers started to want means of defending themselves. It didn’t take long for the kingdom to respond to that desire. In order to teach them the bare minimum of combat skills and magic, institutions were built and laws were written. In the end, Fremmevilla kingdom wasn’t so peaceful a place that farmers could get away with not fighting; they needed to defend themselves.

There were those who worked for

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