Useless Person

Ms. Jeanne beckons me to come to her, she is sitting on one of the seats nearest to the battle area in order to spectate and record the battles. Wearing her usual glasses and black close-fitting business suit which amplifies her endowed chest and hourglass figure.

"Sit over here." she pointed to the seat right next to her.

I followed her instructions and sit right next to her.

"There's no need to be nervous, I'm just here to talk about your recent mock battles."

"No, I'm not really nervous. Rather than anxiety, I think fear is welling inside me more right now." I muttered to myself.

"Huh?" I think she heard that and now she's looking at me with an annoyed look.

Her untied black hair that goes down to her waist and brown eyes makes her very beautiful but it makes her more terrifying when she's angry. She's usually friendly and well-liked by her students but even those students doesn't approach her when she's pissed.

"Miss, why did you call me here?"

Ms. Jeanne can only sigh at my brazen attitude. Thank God she's not that angry, I could've died.

"I'm only here to talk about your recent performance on the mock battles, at this rate you'll need to repeat your entire first year."

"Eh? but it's only the first month."

"I know you're at a disadvantage because of your abnormal constitution but that doesn't mean you should stop trying, you should take your mock battles seriously, Seiji."

"I'm actually trying though, I'm always taking it seriously."

"Then, what's this?"

She show me a video using the tablet on her hand, what was shown is me with my arms widespread, fully accepting the wind barrage fired at me.

"That time I have nowhere to run so it can't be helped, I just had to accept the reality."

"You should at least try to get hit points even if you know you're gonna lose."

"Hit points?"

"Seriously, that guy didn't teach you anything?" That guy, is he talking about Mr. Spade. "Ultimately the points is decided by winning but you can get additional points by how much is the damage taken by your enemy, and how long the battle took."

"Wait, mock battles are graded?"

"Eh?"

"Eh?"

"I thought every student knows that, isn't that explained on the very first day of the school?" I can't remember what I'm doing on the first day of school, maybe my mind was floating that day.

After a long silence...

"Well what's done is done. I'll just give my best to lose this one." I stand up with a serious look on my face.

"You should try properly to win." Ms. Jeanne can only look at me with an exasperated look on her face.

"Yeah, you should listen to Jeanne. It's also leave a bad mark on my teaching career if a student got held back."

I look at where the voice is coming from, at the back Mr. Spade is walking his way down to us wearing his usual black robe with a lazy look on his face.

"You're late." said Ms. Jeanne.

"My bad, my bad, the school principal called me... but I'm still within time right?"

This is Mr. Spade, the class advisor for [Class-XXX]. He teaches us normally but is gone right away after the class is over, no one knows where this guy usually goes. The students also doesn't ask questions about the lesson to him since they think he's unreliable, he's your normal lazy teacher.

"Come to think of it, he's a teenager in the middle of his puberty. Students like him usually will be motivated if they're given a reward by a beautiful teacher such as yourself Ms. Jeanne, if they win." Mr. Spade give me a smirk.

"Is that right, Seiji?" She tilt her head a little and look at me.

"No, thank you. I'm good... can I now join the others?" I swiftly answer and ask for permission.

"....yeah." Ms. Jeanne seems a little surprised of how fast I answered.

I then joined my class, leaving the two teachers behind. The two classes are already drawing slots on the box before I appeared, they always use this way to determine who you'll fight in the other class.

"Hey, did you know that the mock battles are graded?" I asked Duke and Mizuki after arriving.

"Yeah." The two answered while having confused looks on their faces. It seems that I'm the only one who didn't know.

It looks like I'm also an idiot.

Well, my grades maybe dead right now but it can still be revived although I'm the one who killed it. I can only wish for a good match up.

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"I'm dead."

"Number thirteen huh? It seems you're my opponent." the girl in front of me said.

Laticia Flovier, one of the daughter of the King of Ribel and the sixth princess, but she's well-known the most by the nickname [Calamity Witch]. Her knowledge about magic is better than most students and teachers here, and most of the students think she's the strongest one in this academy.

"It seems that way." I can only nod at what she said.

"Hmmm..." She offered me her hand.

She stared at me with her silver eyes, is she trying to discern me? With her short silver hair and clear white skin, it wouldn't be strange if you called her Snow White with the silver hair although I don't know what she's thinking because of her expressionless face. Seriously, stop staring at me.

"What are you doing?" She asked me, it seems that I'm also staring at her too much.

"Would it be alright if I touch you?" As I asked her that, I can feel the deadly stares of her classmates, mostly boys and a few girls. Are they jealous?

Are they thinking "How dare you touch her?" or something like that.

"It's fine." She answered without a care.

As I take and hold her unbelievably soft right hand, I shake it and then make an evil grin towards her classmates staring at us.

"Is it good idea to antagonize them?"

"Not really but it's fun, if you beat me up they're probably gonna go back to their normal attitudes... let's have a good fight and good luck to us."

"Hmm... good luck weird person." She's a nice girl.

After the two of us finish shaking hands, we go back to our seat.

"I'm not going to help you if they beat you up later." Duke said to me after sitting next to him.

"As if I need your help." This coward.

Now what to do, my enemy is the strongest student in the school. I hope I put up a fight.

Since it's Laticia, she usually fires every magic she knows at the enemy and that's the end of it, I've never seen anyone survive her barrage of magic or someone shorten the distance between her opponent and her. I suppose she'll start with a barrage of magic again.

As the first battle starts with [Class-I] and [Class-XXX], I stand up and walk towards the supervisor of this mock battle, Ms. Jeanne and the others in order to borrow a weapon.

Mock battles in this academy between the first years is usually magic battles because most of the first years students chose the Magic Department, about ninety percent. The ten percent of the students belong to the Science Department which are exempted from mock battles, if I only knew that in the first place when I entered this academy I would've joined the Science Department. Since I didn't know that yet when I first entered this school, my thought is like this "Another world, very cool, since most people struggled in the Science Department way back home I should join the Magic Department here." Plus the thought of joining the Magic Department because it's an another world appeared because I read too much light novels. Naturally, I joined the Magic Department without knowing I can't use magic. Yes, out of all the exchange students that transferred to this world I'm the only one unable to use magic.

There's actually a reason given to me because of my situation. In this world, there's this thing called Mana, it's invisible just like the air but you can't feel it. The act of using magic has two steps, first absorbing mana in the air to your body and second by letting it out using magic. The first step is very natural to the people of this world, absorbing mana to your body and releasing it out, repeating it over and over again is like breathing to them. In other words, the me that can't use mana is akin to not breathing in this world, in conclusion I'm not even a living thing in this world. The reason for that is because my mana capacity is blocked, mana capacity is the amount of mana you can absorb into your body before you release it. Everyone's mana capacity differ from each other after they were born but they can expand it by meditating and some other magical stuffs I don't know about. It's just that I have an unique constitution where a few in a billion people have, since my mana capacity is blocked I can't absorb mana, therefore I can't use magic turning me into a useless person.

If you think that my mana capacity being blocked would gain me another ability like those overpowered isekai protagonists. Like I can reflect magic or be completely immune to it, I don't have that... seriously I don't have that.

I can only laugh and cry at my own helplessness. Even this dagger in my hand is better than me.