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25. Warrior Party, Entering the Human World

“All new students have been decided for each dormitory, and after the entrance ceremony, the semester begins. Guys, did you know that all other faculty members at the academy have submitted syllabus?”

The president asked a question to four chair professors, including me.

“Why am I paying for something like that?”

“The body needs no plans. Because the body is reborn every morning!”

“hehehe, I’m busy these days.”

Rather, other chair professors rebelled against the president.

“I didn’t even expect it. You know what to do.”

I stepped in front of the disappointed president. I took out the syllabus from my pocket and handed it over. I only gave the outline to Sersi, so I wrote it perfectly in one day.

“I never thought I would receive a plan from the chair professor while I was alive.”

“Rules are important, aren’t they?”

“Excellent, Professor Phidias. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve heard the name of the course I’m going to teach.”

When the president checked my documents, he exclaimed as if he was moved and drank a glass of wine at once.

“Dungeon Studies!”

“We will give students hands-on experience. In dungeons, martial arts, magic, healing, and utilization, all of those skills are needed. If you only learn from books on campus and play against each other, it will only stop at the theoretical stage.”

“Funny. It will be a very interesting lecture.”

“Hey, are you provoking me now?”

Felia, in charge of the Water House, raised her head at me and gave me a ferocious look.

“This is not what I said to you. Your earlobes are wide.”

“I just can’t let it go. Discipline never betrays. No matter what situation comes, no matter what enemy comes!”

The Crown of Fire Band, too, sported a mane and gritted her teeth.

“Moreover, this body is a . Sword, bow, spear, mace, use any weapon better than anyone else. Do you think an adventurer scouring corpses in a dungeon can reach this level?”

“In front of the Demon Dragon, you can’t survive with only your dexterity.”

“Dexterity? I look like a seamstress! Insult!”

Band bristled with excitement. It was a slip of the tongue. A metaphor or a joke doesn’t work with the lion beast, but I forgot.

“I can’t stand it any longer! It’s not enough to tarnish the chair professor’s honor, but to pollute the martial arts of the warriors! Fight the duel in the name of the Goddess!”

“The usual academy.”

The president shook his head as if his head hurt.

Then the door opened and the academy guards rushed in.

“I am making an urgent report. A disturbing invasion has occurred in the academy territory.”

“Invasion?”

“Imperial. Although they are not military forces, they entered the territory without prior notice using large-scale teleportation magic.”

“Have you played Barrier Regiment? No, that’s okay. At least, he must be the emperor again.”

The president clicked his tongue and launched a vision into the air. The field of view was provided through the familiar, like a surveillance camera.

“Right, right. The Emperor and the Praetorians. What else did you come to complain about? Semester hasn’t even started yet!”

The president sighed heavily.

I also confirmed the image of the emperor in the image.

Sandra von Condensburg.

The lord of an empire and a tyrant driven by the principles of having an entire continent at her feet.

While the war broke out with the demon king’s army, he calmly led the human world alliance, but from the time the end of the demon king’s subjugation was in sight, he was building his national power again.

This case was unexpected even for me. It’s because it wasn’t an event that happened in the original story.

As long as the demon king was subdued earlier than in history, it was expected that the events at the academy would also flow differently. Still, it is quite unusual for the emperor to move at this point.

“I don’t know what’s dissatisfied with it, but I’ll have to calm it down somehow and send it back. You are a person who has no logic at all. No, can I call him a human?”

“No big deal, President.”

“No big deal. The commander-in-chief of the empire, not anywhere else, has moved by using teleportation magic. It could be the spark that will break the non-aggression pact in 300 years.”

I nodded leisurely.

“Isn’t this a common parental meeting? Leave it to me.”

***

“Glass, glass.”

“Whoops!”

When Yuri opened her eyes, she saw a familiar face. It was also a frequent occurrence for Luka to shake his fainting body.

“Ugh, sorry. She caused trouble….”

“Stay still.”

Luca gently pressed Yuri’s shoulder as she tried to raise her body.

“If you do this, you can only see the sky?”

“Oh, really. Luca is a genius!”

They were still flying in the sky. Luca devised a solution for Yuri, who was suffering from a fear of heights.

“Oh, but is it okay if I don’t step on it? Are you flying well?”

“Yes. Come to think of it, even if you don’t step on it yourself, you just need to generate power. I’m turning it with wind power. It’s a little slow though.”

Tia was skillfully casting wind magic and turning the pedals.

“Haaa…. Don’t do this before! What have you been up to!”

Aisha, wet all over her body, spewed out her displeasure as she sprawled across her floor.

On the other hand, Luka, who was sweating pleasantly enough to jog, said calmly.

“You came that fast. I’m going to rest for five minutes and then step on it again, so get ready.”

“No, ah… under.”

Aisha hurried over and tried to ask what she was going to do. I don’t know, but it must have been related to the ‘Master’ that Luca often talked about.

When Aisha first met Luca, she got the impression that she was a cold, cruel and hurtful child.

So she thought that the Emperor’s order was a nuisance, but when she met Lucca in person, her thoughts changed and she actively decided to take care of her exclusively herself.

There were times when even Luka’s expression relaxed. She later found out that it was when she remembered something to do with her master, she said.

‘Yes, good is good. Tsk.’

It was also true that Luka had silently fulfilled his duty as a warrior for the continent. Aisha thought she would hang out with Luca for the time being, even though she complained a lot on the outside.

‘Still, if you can escape, do it right away! I have to somehow beat the Emperor and Shobu….’

A tyrannical, selfish tyrant. Obviously, obsession with warriors is also to increase national power now that the war with the Demon World is over. The hero is the best weapon and deterrent.

‘I’d rather keep Lucas away from the emperor for a while, so is it good?’

No matter how stupid the emperor is, right after the war with the demon world is over, he will start a war in the human world right away.

Even Lucas, who is not a citizen of the Empire, has no obligation to participate even if his name comes down.

Aisha speculated that it was only showing the action of owning the hero, so it might be used for political negotiations with other countries.

In the future, there is a high probability that Tia will belong to the Nation of Darkness and Yuri to the Nation of Law, so the Empire will take Luca and become one of the three pillars of the furnace.

But is it possible to control them in the first place? It’s a shame because the kids have their own brains.

I’m sure the emperor has some idea to woo Lucas.

‘What do you know? I’m going to retire now.’

It’s annoying, so I keep my destination a secret, and if I’m at the academy, even the emperor won’t be able to touch me for a while.

Can’t you cover your poo enough to touch the Sacred Zone?

You think you’re going on a little long vacation.

After a long yawn, Aisha looked at Tia, who was lightly casting magic, and at Yuri, who was still lying down with her eyes fixed on the sky.

‘Come to think of it, why do they seem to have the same thoughts as Luca?’

Aisha’s intuition was accurate. In fact, Yuri had the same idea.

She remembered her wicker as she watched the sun tickle her eyelashes through the clouds.

‘There are so many scary things in the world.’

A new adventure always comes with a scary experience. It was my first time at such a high place, so I hadn’t known that I had a fear of heights.

‘But when I was with my master, he hugged me every time like this.’

Yuri inadvertently embraced her own arm. She misses once again the kindness that ran through her skin when she was with him.

She became an adventurer and faced all kinds of monsters, but she never got used to the feeling of fear.

When you suddenly meet something you have a bad memory with, your skin will automatically reflexively tingle, your brain will shrink, and you will cry.

That day, for example, there was a sudden thunderclap in the middle of the night.

― hehehehe!

Yuri was startled by the sudden sound of a rumble that pierced the sky and jumped out of bed.

She bounced so hard that she almost hit her head on the bunk bed where Luca was sleeping.

― Brother! Oh brother!

Yuri ran to the next room in her sleep and jumped into the arms of Wicker, who was sleeping snoring at her. Buried her head, only her tail, which rose high, rustled.

― Ugh… Who are you, White?

Even though Wicker was tired from working as a peddler and mercenary the day before, he immediately understood Yuri’s condition and pressed her large upper ears to cover them.

If you spread and press the furry hairballs inside her, Yuri will not be able to hear outside sounds.

Then she became a little less sensitive and tolerable of her thunder.

It was a trick that only Wicker, who had a high understanding of the structure of beastmen’s ears and had big hands, could give.

― My brother… I’m sorry….

― It’s okay… Koreok….

Wicker closed his eyes in the pouring sleep and dutifully covered Yuri’s ears as he dozed off.

If you close your eyes tightly in that state and cling to Wicker, you can hear the thump-thump of his heart coming from his chest.

A little rough and heavy, a beating sound different from his own.

When I counted the little fairies in my head to the beat, I would not hear the thunder before I knew it, and I would go back to sleep without realizing that I was asleep.

‘It would be embarrassing to do that again….’

Yuri closed her eyes tightly for no reason and put on her grip. He got into the habit of doing it instinctively whenever he felt ashamed.

‘The owner might not like it….’

It’s been 13 years.

This is the time when an unlucky dynasty might be replaced by treason after taking power.

Immediately, Luka, Tia, and Yuri have changed so much that they couldn’t even recognize them. Just because he was their master, there was no way he could remain as he was then.

After reaching that idea, Yuri suddenly felt a little uneasy.

“Hey, Tia.”

“Huh?”

“What if the master hates us?”

“Um….”

Tia didn’t even think she hadn’t thought of it, she didn’t answer straight away.

“No. Master likes us.”

To her, her Luca answered with her confident voice.

“Maybe… ?”

“… Huh. Luca is right!”

“Because I am the owner.”

“… Ehehehe, right!”

The three shared the same mind and each pictured the future they wished for.

“Oh, boys! Arrival to the human world!”

Aisha shouted as she gazed at the far sight at the head of the airship.

Traces of buildings created by civilization began to appear on the horizon.

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