"--Yes, we're done! Good work!"
asuring abilities was finally completed over two days of work.
The ability asurent itself had been done in a simplified version when Tenji entered high school, but this ti it was necessary for the issuance of the explorer's license, so a detailed asurent was needed.
Professional explorers are required to do this when renewing their license, and the rule is to take asurents approximately once every three years. This helps maintain accuracy and makes things easier inside the association. There are other individuals who pay money to take asurents outside of the renewal period in order to increase their explorer grade, but it is said that taking asurents once every three years is sufficient.
There are roughly four categories: written, physical, athletic, and calling.
In the written test, they are tested on a wide range of essential knowledge, such as the types of monsters they know, their weaknesses, and basic knowledge about dungeons. However, Tenji was still a high school student, so it was difficult for him to get a good score here.
The physical asurents done were more detailed than the general ones taken at his school.
This had nothing to do with the grade so it was unclear why it was being done.
Athletic ability asurent is a test of bare athletic ability without the benefit of a calling. In the first place, the benefits of calling can only be demonstrated when the whole body is in a state of strength. In other words, if you put a lot of strength in your back and your abdominal muscles, you will gain extra-human strength along with calling. That's why the first physical education exercises at Highschool are famous in the world for the hellish lecture where you just have to keep putting strength into your back and your abdominal muscles. From there, the curriculum of the physical education lecture is designed to gradually get used to exercising while putting in a lot of effort.
In this asurent, a device is attached to the whole body to asure whether there is any unnecessary force in the body, and the asurents are taken with the utmost care to ensure that there are no irregularities.
And finally, there's the calling ability asurent.
This test asures a person's motor skills in such a way that the whole body is exerted and the person's true potential is demonstrated accurately without the enhancent of Calling. It is so important that it is said that the main explorer grade is determined this way.
These fields are also special, and since only battle-specific fields are asured, inevitably, that outside of the combat calling are often issued an explorer's license below the calling grade.
Godo is no exception to this rule, and since it is not a pure combat calling, he has a license as a third-level explorer, which is one level lower than the calling grade.
After those asurents, the total results ca out sooner than he expected.
"Amagi Tenji's first explorer grade is...... fifth grade. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work."
"Yes, thank you."
Tenji bowed to the three asurent people who had been dispatched by the association.
The three of them applauded Tenji for getting it done and replied with smiles.
It's our job to clean up, so don't worry about it and go ho.
"Yes, okay!"
When Tenji learns that he can finally go ho, he can't help but get excited.
Tenji giggles, but gives a fresh smile at the end.
The three Association people remained in the exercise facility after Tenji was gone.
Slowly, the three of them began to clean up and started talking about other things.
"He's amazing, though. He made it through four days in a dead body, didn't he?"
"Ah, yes. When I heard that story, I doubted his ntal state at first. But he was a more normal, good-natured young man than I expected."
"Yuhara, Kasama don't take the reports from the association too seriously. Now, get on with your work. I'll buy you a yakiniku when I'm done."
[TLN: Yakiniku, aning "grilled at", is a Japanese term that, in its broadest sense, refers to grilled at cuisine.]
"What? Really? Shogitsugu-senpai, you're so generous."
"Seriously? Yes! Yakiniku, yakiniku!"
The two won were inspired by the word "yakiniku" (grilled at) and their movents beca sharper.
Most of the people in the association have a calling, so they too are able to finish a task quickly and with a speed and power that is far beyond that of ordinary people.
The clean-up was over quickly and they were in the doorway changing into their outside shoes.
"Speaking of which, Shogitsugu-senpai"
What's wrong? Is there sothing wrong?
"No, it's not that, but......earlier, what did you an by not taking the association's report seriously?"
"Oh, about that. The Association has a lot of...... enemies. That's why so explorers don't trust them very much."
"Hmm? I don't understand what you an, please explain it more clearly!"
"Well, the point is, not every report that cos into and from the association is true."
"What does that have to do with that nice young man?"
"No I don't know but I have a hunch...... that he's just making it up as he goes along. In short, there is a possibility that the reports that have been made to the association are untrue."
"Oh no, there's no way that's true for a young man like he"
"Do you really think so?"
After saying that, Shogitsugu took out the docunts that Tenji failed to asure during the ability asurent, and also took out the docunts that could be asured and laid them out.
The two won looked at the asurent results and compared them.
"Amagi-kun looked like he failed on purpose. And did you see how he mumbled sothing right there and then made so strange hand movents?"
"No."
"Not at all."
"I knew it. And this is the result of the asurent after that, after that hand movent. It's super normal. And yet the results of the failed test were more. I've never seen anything like this."
"Eh, it's just a coincidence, isn't it?"
"That's right. That's why Shogitsugu-senpai can't get promoted anyti soon."
"Shut up, I'm just trusting my guts. Well, so don't take the association's report too seriously. That's my advice."
"Yes."
"More importantly, where do you want to go for yakiniku?"
The two won didn't seem to take it too seriously, but Shogitsugu was the only one who felt uncomfortable with Tenji's words and actions.
However, he quickly grabbed the paperwork from the failed attempt and threw it into a nearby trash can.
"Well, it's my duty to throw away any failed data. I hope...... it's just a bad hunch."
The general manager muttered to himself as he left the sports facility.
"Oh, noooo!"
Tenji listened to their conversation on a nearby bench.
He heard them very clearly.
He had bought a sports drink from the vending machine outside to restock his supply after the workout and sat on the bench to rest.
He was in a place where he should have been noticed, but apparently, Tenji was in the shadows at this ti, and he was not noticed by anyone.
Tenji hurriedly fished through the trash after they left and picked up the papers Shogitsugu had ntioned.
"It's true. I have used the 'Book of Enma' while being observed. I'll have to fix it."
Tenji had hurriedly disguised his calling when he was asuring his ability.
He put the papers carelessly in his pocket and returned to the hospital room.
"I'll burn this...... when I get ho."
Vowing to secretly destroy the evidence.
And so Tenji's stay in the hospital ca to an end. He said goodbye to Dr. Nanasei, Nurse Imasaka, and the other people who had helped him so much during his recovery. He then headed back to Sasazuka, his ho for the first ti in about a month, looking at the sky as it turned to dusk.
He changed trains from Ochanomizu to Shinjuku and from Shinjuku to Sasazuka.
It was a 20-minute walk from Sasazuka station, but the journey felt nostalgic and faster than usual.
The house is a single-family ho, the only positive legacy his parents left him.
He unlocked the door with a clank and opened the front door of the house.
"Maharu, I'm ho! Do you want to go for sushi or yakiniku today?"
Then, with a thud, Maharu appeared vigorously from the living room.
"What? What did you just say!"
"Which do you want, yakiniku or sushi?" Tenji said.
"What, what's going on all of a sudden?"
So Tenji takes out a thick brown envelope from his bag.
"Huh....... I got so extra inco! What? Don't you want to go?"
"I'm going, I'm going! I'll definitely go! Sushi then!"
"Yes, go on and get dressed fast then."
Once Maharu decides to do so, she turns bloody and runs to her room to change.
Tenji gave a small satisfied laugh at the sight of her.
This is how -- the Amagi siblings once again find peace and tranquility in their lives.
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