Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 621

Chapter 621: Chapter 621 - Taming the Fifth Year - Ceremony

"She is not making up words," Larissa said between laughs, wiping at the corners of her eyes. "Those are literally the official terms used in certification documents."

"This is a nightmare," Ren muttered, slumping further into his seat until his head nearly rested against the carriage’s padded back. "Give me a thousand corrupted beasts over this any day."

"Oh, don’t worry," Liora said with a mischievous smile that promised nothing good. "The award ceremony will be the least of it."

Ren clung to that like a lifeline, straightening slightly with renewed hope. "Today’s ceremony will be easy?"

"Relatively," Larissa responded, though her tone suggested ’easy’ was a generous interpretation. "The awards will be announced publicly as always, but actually receiving them after this year’s end will depend on you maintaining a clean academic record."

"Wait," Ren frowned, confusion all over his face. "They give me the awards but then they can take them away?"

"Technically, the awards are provisional until you’re an adult and fulfill the final certification of academic compliance," Luna explained, falling back into her formal lecturer tone. "If you incur significant disciplinary infractions or fail to maintain minimum performance standards during the transition period to adulthood, the Accreditation Committee can revoke award authorization under the continuous suitability clause."

Ren stared at her, his expression blank with incomprehension. "Can you say that in normal words?"

"If you get in trouble or your grades drop a lot, they take away the awards for not being suitable for the title’s responsibilities," Mayo translated with a smile, her casual phrasing cutting through the bureaucratic fog like a knife. "Your titles and rewards will be very large, so your tests will be harder than normal."

"That!" Ren pointed at Mayo with enthusiasm. "Why can’t everyone talk like that?"

"Because," Larissa said patiently, the tone of someone who’d had this argument before, "you need to get used to formal terminology. Your tests are going to use these terms constantly. Your tutors are going to scold you too..."

"My two tutors," Ren uttered with resignation, the weight of it settling on his shoulders like a physical burden. "Zhao and... who else?"

"You won’t know until the formal inter-academic tutorship assignment," Larissa responded. "But most likely someone you don’t know since they must be ’impartial’..."

She paused, organizing her thoughts. "Zhao will probably focus on practical aspects related to your specific territory and local responsibilities. So the external tutor will evaluate your understanding of broader noble protocols and your capacity to interact appropriately with the kingdom’s aristocracy in general."

"Sounds horrible," Ren said honestly.

"It is," Liora agreed with cheerfulness that seemed almost cruel. "But it’s necessary if you want to be officially recognized as a noble."

Kira cleared her throat from her position near the window, her professional demeanor reasserting itself. "If I may, young master, perhaps it would help to know that most students find these lessons... challenging. Even if they have small or no awards, simply inheriting the lowest title can be cause for failure, and many nobles lose their place, so they try to earn it back through military service by dedicating more years than normal after finishing school."

"Even those who grew up as nobles?" Ren asked with greater concern, his eyes widening.

"Especially the low-ranking ones," Hana responded from her position. "Because they assume they already know everything and then discover that formal protocol is much more complex than what they practiced at home. The difference between casual noble behavior and official court protocol is like the difference between knowing how to cook and running a restaurant."

"That... really doesn’t make me feel better," Ren admitted.

Larissa put a hand on his shoulder, the touch warm and reassuring. "You’re going to be fine. You’re incredibly intelligent when it comes to complex systems. You just need to apply the same mentality you use for beasts toward noble bureaucracy."

"Beasts make sense," Ren protested, his voice taking on a plaintive quality. "They follow logical patterns of evolution and synergy. Bureaucracy sounds like someone designed a system specifically to be as confusing as possible."

"That," Mayo said with a knowing smile, "is because they did."

"Why?" The question came out almost as a plea.

"To keep common people out," Liora responded simply, her voice carrying the cynicism of someone who’d grown up seeing these systems from the inside. "If you make the process complicated enough, only those with extensive formal education can navigate it. It’s a barrier to entry disguised as administrative procedure."

Ren processed this for a moment, his expression darkening. "That’s... incredibly elitist."

"Welcome to nobility," Liora and Larissa said in unison, then looked at each other and laughed at the synchronization.

The carriage continued its journey toward the academy, wheels rattling over cobblestones while Ren sank deeper into his seat, contemplating the year ahead. He had faced corrupted creatures the size of buildings, developed revolutionary cultivation methods, literally saved the kingdom from invasion.

And apparently, none of that had prepared him to do his patrimony verification documentation.

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