One morning Ireina walks into Ard's room while he is still asleep and startles him awake, and then suggests that the two of them enroll in the Academy of Magic.
That day Ireina and Ard visit the Laville National Academy of Magic, where they meet the headmaster. He praises them both, and mentions the incident in which they defeated a number of goblin monsters during the attack on Brave Nest. Ard remembers that event, and remembers that they had agreed to say it was a team effort rather than reveal that he had protected Ireina by himself. Impressed by their abilities, the headmaster tells them that they need only take the written examination and may skip the practical one, which Ard accepts with complete seriousness.
On the day the results are announced, Ireina passes with outstanding scores, which makes them both happy. Ard, however, soon realizes that his own name is missing from the results board. After looking again a few moments later he finally finds it, and is shocked to see that his score is zero, and that he has still passed. The headmaster then approaches the two of them and begins praising Ard, which leaves him confused enough to point out that he scored nothing at all.
The headmaster reassures him. Although his answers were technically incorrect, he explains, they went far beyond the expected answers, because his ideas were better than those of Hexagon-class mages. He keeps on praising Ard, and even calls his parents heroes in front of everyone.
On his first day at the academy Ard is frustrated to learn that his parents are not an average couple after all, but are in fact famous heroes. Even so, he cheers up when he realizes that Ireina is beside him, and the two of them enter their classroom together.
As soon as they walk in, almost every student in the room comes excitedly over to them and offers to be their friend — every student except a few nobles and arrogant boys in the class. One of those arrogant students starts bullying a girl, and Ireina quickly steps in to stop him.
He turns his attention to Ireina instead, introduces himself as Elo Spencer, and explains that the girl he was scolding belongs to a family of retainers who serve the Spencer family, which means that she is basically his servant. Ard steps in and tells him to apologize. Spencer mocks him instead, and challenges him to a duel. While Spencer laughs, Ireina grows worried, because she knows that Elo Spencer is extremely powerful.
At that moment the homeroom teacher walks into the classroom and angrily demands to know what is going on. Ard is startled the moment he sees her, because he recognizes her as Lady Olivia, one of Demon Lord Varvatos's top generals. Lady Olivia notices him and asks whether he was the one causing trouble in her class, and he admits that he was. Lady Olivia becomes excited and approves the duel, which leaves the entire class shocked.
A few moments later the duel begins. Spencer starts trash-talking Ard, who remains completely calm. As soon as the fight starts, Spencer unleashes his technique, Mega Flare, and Ard blocks it easily with Mega Wall. Spencer uses the same move again, and it still fails to hit its target. Frustrated, he has to listen while Ard mocks him for giving such simple techniques such grand names.
That only makes Spencer angrier, so he casts several flare techniques at once and launches them all toward Ard, who blocks them effortlessly with his barrier. When Spencer's friend calls the attack a Giga Flare, Ard decides to show them what a real Giga Flare looks like. He activates his power and fires it at Spencer, shocking everyone present as they witness the true power of Giga Flare. Unable to withstand the attack, Spencer quickly surrenders, and Ard immediately stops the technique.
Ireina is overjoyed, and the bullied girl thanks Ard for standing up for her. Lady Olivia, however, laughs and walks over to Ard, and points out that he had secretly cast Mega Wall on Elo to protect him while he was using Giga Flare at the same time. Ard admits that he did. Lady Olivia explains that casting two spells at once is a lost skill, and asks him where he learned it. Ard becomes nervous while Lady Olivia declares that one day she will uncover the truth about him.
Later that day, Lady Olivia tells the students to form teams of three for a training session against black wolf monsters. Ard and Ireina decide to team up with Jinny, the girl who was bullied.
As the training begins, Jinny becomes frightened at the sight of a herd of black wolves, while Ard and Ireina defeat the monsters with a single move each. Seeing that, Jinny becomes discouraged and says that she is only getting in their way. Ard reassures her that she has nothing to worry about, and says that he will teach her some magic. Jinny refuses at first, saying that she does not want to waste their time, but eventually agrees after Ireina encourages her to learn.
As Ard starts teaching her a few magic techniques, Jinny fails to perform them, loses her confidence and falls to the ground. Ard realizes that Jinny has suffered a great deal of harassment and has lost all her belief in herself, so he decides to lift her spirits — just as a silver wolf monster approaches the group. He asks Jinny to watch closely while he uses his own self-created skill, Script Magic, to defeat the monster.
Both Ireina and Jinny are shocked to learn that Ard created the skill himself, and they are more surprised still when he tells them to learn it, because it is actually very simple. As he explains how the technique works and demonstrates it, Jinny successfully uses Script Magic on her very first attempt. Overjoyed, she hugs Ard, and Ireina soon joins in as well.
As the three of them continue forward, they walk into a trap and drop through a dungeon hole, landing on the lowest floor, where the dungeon boss awaits. The moment the boss appears, both Jinny and Ireina are terrified, while Ard calmly steps forward and announces that he is about to teach them the final lesson of Script Magic.
As the dungeon boss charges at him, Ard stops the attack and tells them never to use Script Magic in close-range combat, then punches the monster to create some distance. He fires several magic attacks at the boss using Script Magic, explaining that Script Magic does not consume magic power, which allows multiple spells to be created at once.
Once the monster is badly injured, Ard asks Jinny to deliver the final blow. She is frightened at first, but she remembers her past and everything she has suffered, and gathers the courage to step forward and finish the monster. Using Script Magic, she lands the finishing blow while declaring that she will become stronger and never remain weak again.
After defeating the dungeon boss, the group reunites with the other teams, and Lady Olivia learns that Script Magic was used to defeat it. Ard tries to deny it. Meanwhile Spencer and his group approach Jinny and start calling her a seducer for having Ard protect her. This time Jinny gathers her courage and slaps Spencer for insulting both her and Ard.
Spencer and his group quickly flee, which makes Ard happy for a moment. His happiness does not last long, because Lady Olivia stops him and hints that the two of them need to have a talk about Script Magic, leaving Ard extremely nervous.
Ard somehow manages to avoid that conversation. But one day he is summoned by the headmaster, who tells him about an upcoming event involving the students, at which the queen herself will be present, and asks Ard to take part and give it his all.