Entrance Exam (1)

“Hey! Why was Allen disqualified?!”

“Allen, you failed?”

The examiner told Allen he had failed, prompting Cecil and Klena to speak up. Dogora was staring intently at the writing on the appraisal board.

“Well, it looks like I failed, so good luck on the exam, everyone. Should we decide where to meet after it’s over?”

“Hey! Why are you moving on already?!”

Allen said it so calmly that Cecil couldn’t help calling him out.

(Well, if I can’t attend the academy, I’ll just have to find something else to do.)

Allen didn’t mind failing. He already knew all his stats would be listed as E, so he’d suspected he might not pass. In this situation, the letter the Viscount had written for him probably wouldn’t help either.

(Still, it’s valuable information that they’ll fail you for low stats even if you have talent.)

As he waited in line, Allen had seen applicants—roughly one in three, or thereabouts—being told on the spot that they’d failed. It wasn’t only applicants with E across the board, either...