I Want to Be a Receptionist in the Magic World CHAPTER 8 Part 1

UNTIL I BECAME A RECEPTIONIST

CHAPTER 8 Part 1

Translator: Masakibluei

Tears are flowing out from my eyes. 

Teacher: “Nanari Hell, Congratulations, you got the 1^st place.”

The long-awaited moment has finally come to my life. 

The 1^st spot, the sacred spot that I have been pursuing for the past 5 years. The god of 1^st place has finally bestowed the sacred spot to me. The “1^st place” tittle which I could never achieved since I came to this school, is finally right before my eyes. 

I’m so glad that I’ve been working hard up until now. 

Days by days I had been lamenting about it while carrying the 2^nd place badge next to that guy, but with this, no one will call me ‘Hell the 2^nd place’ anymore. Personally, I have never been called with that nickname directly, but I know that everyone has been calling me that behind my back.

However, I don’t care anymore.

After all, I’m 1^st place now.

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Teacher: “And for the boy's group, Alves Lockman, congratulation on taking the 1^st place.”

Lockman: “Thank you very much.”

The moment Lockman receives his congratulatory from the teacher, the audiences start to applause.

Right now, I’m standing in the middle of the stage of the arena. This is the place where only the people who come 1^st  from the individual match are allowed to stand up here. The view from the stage is amazing. You can see the entire arena from up here. I was able to find my parents who are sitting among the audience seats. When I waved my hand towards them, they were able to spot me right away and waved back at me. Under the stage, all of the 5 grades students can be seen very clearly too. I can see Nike, Benjamin or Marisa from here.

Next to me, Lockman is receiving a golden egg from the teacher. The golden egg is one of the prizes from the competition and a very interesting object to have. When you warm it up with some hot water, it will give you one item that you really want. However, the object that you want can only be as big as the egg. To summarize, you can only wish for small objects. What a cheap egg. 

When I saw it laid on my hand after the teacher gave it to me, I start to tremble.

Why. Why why

Nanari: “Why the girl and the boy match are separated!”

There is no meaning if the matches are separated by gender!

Teacher, you never said anything about this before!

I confess all of my frustration to the teacher, then Lockman who is beside me scold me right away for being noisy. 

Nanari: “But…but…”

Yeah, I really did get the 1^st place. The FIRST place. But, it's for the girl match, which is separated from the boy match. 

Why is it so hard to get the 1^st place for real?

Even though I’m happy when the teacher said to me ‘1^st place, Hell’. 

Yeah, I was moved to tears.  But not because I'm happy,  I truly want to cry from frustration. Since before I became a 5th-grade student, I had been training day by day in order to defeat Lockman. With this outcome, my plan is completely ruined. My plan is to promote myself to the Hare higher-ups, on the top of defeating Lockman,  But what is this?

Although ranking 1^st place among the girl group is not a bad impression, I still cannot understand this outcome. I hate losing to that guy, and I feel frustrated whenever I lost to him. But I hate to be treated as I lost already even more. Because I haven't won even once yet. In the worst scenario, although I’m the 1^st place at the moment,  from everyone points of view who saw my scores up until now will think that Nanari Hell who is always 2^nd place is 1^st only among the girls. Because from the past, I always lost to him. 

Ah.  Before we came to this ceremony:

After my match was finished, my physical injuries were being healed by the healing teacher. Teacher’s healing magic is truly amazing. I know how to cast healing magic by myself, but compare to the teacher, my skill is not that good. Those large burn injuries from the match were being healed completely by teacher's magic, leaving my skin without any trace of scars. Afterward, I was laying for a moment on top of the bed before I returned to the arena to wait for my individual match which was going to start after the boy's group match. Marisa and the other girls had returned to the arena first. They left me alone inside the room. Being left alone made me felt impatient. I then scold myself ‘until when I plan to keep on sleeping?’ and go to the arena. 

I quickly opened the door to the arena. 

Because I had no idea what was the task for the boy's match, I was stunned the moment I opened the door and step into the audience seat area. I was stunned because about half or more than half of the boys were naked (they only wore their underwear). It was a nude festival. I also could not recognize the groups because they were mixing together in a crowd. I became dizzy to look at it. After all, what was that? Why naked? 

Once I arrived at Nike and Benjamin’s place, I asked them what was going on. I was told that‘without using any magic, they had to strip their opponent’s clothes until they are naked (with the exception of underwear)’. This was the task: If there are two people naked in the group, they will get disqualified.

No way, this must be a lie. It’s idiotic. What’s the meaning of this task? If you compare it with the girl match, there are some significant weight differences. The teacher said that this match is held to show the adults our future potentials. But what is this? Is this about showing off a strong and muscular body?

While I thought about it, from the beginning we were expecting to perform magic for the whole competition. That’s why everyone had been working hard on their magic. But the boy's match did not allow anyone to use any magic. The main point of the task was to take off your opponent’s clothes. Nevertheless, there should be some kind of magic technique that can be applied to this task. 

The commoners and the nobles did not have a fair match. The commoners were wearing much simpler and lighter clothes, but the nobles are wearing coat, undershirt, and vest. There were too many parts that had to be taken off and much less to say, the pants were the hardest to strip off. 

………You need to knock your opponent down first to strip their pants.

The noble girls’ faces were turning red and they were covering their faces with their hands. However, they still sneaked some glance through the gaps between their fingers. Their lady masks were generally being peeled off at that moment. They unconsciously screaming with high-pitched voice “Kyaaa! Alves-sama!” in the audience seats. At that moment, in front of us, that guy’s clothes were stripped by Santanath. Since earlier, Lockman’s fans’ had been cheering like this:  ‘Santanath! Just do it!”. It seemed that all the ladies wanted to see that guy naked.

Lockman retaliated back by throwing punches to Santanath’s face and body relentlessly. He looked so desperate and it made me laugh. By the way, next to me, Benjamin was screaming loud to Lockman and cheering him ‘Lockman! Strip him off!”. I think She really wanted to see Santanath naked. At any rate, it was chaotic. The whole scene in the arena and the audiences were all chaotic.

Meanwhile, Prince Zenon was an expert mugger. He was stripping his opponent’s clothes one by one without any struggle. He was matchless. The prince and Lockman are roommates, so they were instantly in one team together for this match. Their group opponent would be smashed very soon. By the end of the match, only Santanath’s group and Lockman's group were left and passed the task. Before the announcement, I had expected earlier that would be the result. In total, there were only 6 boys who were left. Such a small number.

In the middle of the arena, numerous fainted naked boys were scattered around. At such sight, I silently hold my hands together. It’s alright. You guys did nothing wrong. The bad ones were the teachers who pushed you to do this. The commoner boys might be fine with this, but what about the noble boys? There should be some complaints coming after this.

Then, the thing about the individual match.

What the teacher said was, “The match for individual will be separated by gender.”

 I did not hear it wrong.

E, the match is separated by gender?

Just a moment ago, that’s what he said?

I hate this. This is ridiculous! Why are the boys and the girls separated up to this point? If we are fighting with our fist, it will make more sense. But we are fighting with magic. Gender should be irrelevant. However, when I try to remember everything about our teacher’s previous explanation about the competition, there were no information about the match being separated by gender. But he also did not say that the match will be gender-mixed.

So I had jumped on the wrong conclusion!

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Translator note:
In conclusion, 
The girls were fighting with brain and they were tested for their loyalty, whereas the boys were fighting with muscle and they were tested to protect their own dignity. 

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