Chapter 29
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 29: Crushed by the Disaster I Brought Upon Myself (9)
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What happened just now?
Alicia and I recalled the situation just now while blinking blankly at the happening that passed like a storm.
Suddenly the lecture room door exploded…
Master and Kairin entered…
And left seeing our appearance?
Why? What about our appearance....
““Ah.””
A familiar déjà vu was felt.
Our judgment was fast.
Realizing our thoughts matched through exchanging gazes, we opened the lecture room door and ran out immediately.
In that process, there was a minor incident where the lecture room door broke, but since Master broke it in the first place, there was no guilt.
Fortunately, Master and Kairin hadn't gone far.
We hurriedly grabbed the two people's shoulders.
“Why did you come already? You guys looked ready to suck faces.”
“You will be arrested for blasphemy.”
“I spoke facts, what freezing blasphemy.”
“It's not like that. We were trapped in a barrier, and since the Saintess's condition wasn't very good, I just tried to measure her fever.”
“Really?”
“That's right! It's a misunderstanding!”
At Alicia's words, Master looked at me and her alternately with strange eyes.
“Are you really not in that kind of relationship?”
“How can I become that kind of relationship with the Saintess.”
“Hmm... True.”
Although Master is a crazy person, he knew to what extent the Saintess's position was important.
Seeing signs that Master was being persuaded, Alicia drove this momentum and changed the target to Kairin next to him.
“Kairin! You know it's a misunderstanding, right!?”
“...I didn't see anything.”
“I said it's a misunderstanding! You know the whole situation!”
As Alicia's face turned red, Kairin's serious face relaxed in an instant and she smiled.
“Pfft.. Got it, I'll stop the teasing here. But how did you get trapped there?”
“We don't know well either. There was a magic tool inside the lecture room, I think it's because of that.”
“Magic tool? There aren't many occasions to use magic tools in the Knight Department though.”
“The two of us tried to break it with full power but it didn't work.”
Master reacted to Alicia's words.
“Hmm? It was a bit hard indeed. But Disciple, unable to break even that one thing, when do you intend to become an Expert?”
“How can I break something Master said is hard?”
“Phew, weak guy.”
Fortunately, seeing the topic changed, it seemed the misunderstanding was resolved.
It was when I moved to take the lecture with Master and the Saintess and Kairin were about to part ways to go play together.
“....Dain, would you explain what this situation is?”
Professor Kell appeared from somewhere.
The moment I saw him, one fact I had forgotten came to mind.
‘....Ah, I blew up the lecture room door and came.’
Because I did my best thinking I had to resolve the misunderstanding, I completely forgot.
Come to think of it, the noise was tremendous when Master broke the barrier.
It was heard clearly even inside the barrier, so how would it have been outside?
...If we stayed as is, people would have flocked and it would have become troublesome in many ways.
“What explanation?”
“Didn't you smash the lecture room door.”
“Ah~ My disciple was slacking off so I went to find him, but the lecture room was blocked by a barrier so I broke it.”
“What do you mean a barrier in the lecture room?”
“How would I know that.”
Master answering while shrugging his shoulders.
Instead, I, the person involved, supplemented the explanation.
“There was some magic tool inside. Because of that, the Saintess and I who went in to talk briefly got trapped and couldn't get out.”
“....I'll check. Please wait a moment.”
“It's my lecture time right now. Handle it quickly.”
“Got it, so don't rush me.”
Professor Kell entered the lecture room where the door was smashed and came out holding the cube.
Perhaps because Master smashed the barrier, the cube no longer shone unlike earlier.
Touching it this way and that, Professor Kell explained.
“This is a magic tool used in magic response lectures. I don't know why this was in the lecture room.”
“Didn't the assistant forget to retrieve it after class?”
“I will look into the details once. You guys come later when you have time and write a statement. Since it's not your fault, there is no need to feel burdened.”
“Annoying.”
“I'm asking a favor.”
Master nodded roughly to Professor Kell and gestured.
Afterward, Professor Kell left first to look into this matter, and the four of us also parted ways in the directions we originally intended to go.
Practical Spearmanship time started like that.
At most it was about 10 minutes late, so there was no big hindrance to the class.
In the first place, it was a lecture that didn't affect grades much either.
Although the professor delayed the lecture time by 10 minutes to take care of his disciple, no students with complaints were seen.
Instead, students' eyes sparkling as the lecture started.
Just what about our master is good for them to be like that?
Come to think of it, Master spat out informal speech nonchalantly against Professor Kell.
Professor Kell also didn't care much about Master's bullshit as if used to it.
Did the two know each other originally?
To react saying it's annoying even against the Head Professor who is the highest in the Knight Department, it seemed they had quite a friendship.
Anyway, the subsequent lecture also proceeded smoothly.
Master said he would do it intensely as much as he was 10 minutes late, and for once, he stepped up directly and exchanged blows with students, and students were also happy as if deeply moved by sparring with Master.
Throughout listening to the lecture, I wondered why this crazy person was like this today, but I couldn't dare spit it out of my mouth.
Instead, around the time the lecture ended, I asked a student who finished sparring first and was resting.
“May I ask just one thing?”
“Yes, what is it?”
“Everyone listens to this lecture very diligently, why is that?"
“Where would there be an opportunity to listen to Undying Dain-nim's lecture? Thanks to Mr. Ethan, Dain-nim is personally giving lectures here, so naturally we must listen.”
“.....Undying Dain?”
What is that... Undying Un...that?
What is that nickname.
As I looked as if I didn't know at all, the one surprised was rather the student.
“You don't know?”
Him looking at me absurdly as if asking why I don't know when he's my master.
I was equally flustered.
“What is that?”
A nickname I've never heard before in the world.
Undying, isn't that too grand a title given to my master?
Maybe if it were Prodigal or Mad Dog...
“Professor Dain was active in the Wild Hunt caused by the Orc Great General Kargash 25 years ago. To buy time for allies to retreat against Orcs filling the plains, he stepped up alone, awakened as an Expert, and exterminated the Orc great army.”
“Is that why he is Undying Dain?”
“Yes, that's right. As Dain-nim became an Expert, his Aura came to possess the characteristic of recovering himself when inflicting damage on the opponent. Thanks to that, he could be active alone against Orcs whose greatest advantage was numbers.”
Expert is a realm one step further from Aura User.
Understanding of martial arts and ability to handle Aura increase significantly, and one develops physically by a level.
The biggest characteristic of an Expert is that one can put one's own characteristic into Aura.
That characteristic was as diverse as the number of Experts, so there was no standard to distinguish exactly.
However, those who reached the realm of Expert possess abilities incomparable to Aura Users, so they become heroes treated intensively by each nation.
The characteristic of Aura Master possesses is Absorption.
As the student explained earlier, it is a very selfish ability where if he inflicts damage on the opponent, he recovers himself.
Before throwing me into a monster pack, he showed it a few times for demonstration, and it boasted truly bitchy performance.
He forces damage while attacking the opponent with Aura, and recovers damage received from the enemy and consumed Aura by attacking.
Unless receiving a fatal wound to the extent that the wound cannot be recovered in an instant, theoretically he possesses infinite power.
Furthermore, since he is at the realm of Expert, opponents who can pressure Master are countable on one hand in the continent, so among peers, it can be seen there is no one who dares to match him.
Since he is a master possessing such skills, it's not strange he was active in the battlefield but...
“Disciple, clean up.”
“Yes.”
‘That person is a hero…?’
No matter how I thought about it, I suffered too much to attach the title of a respected hero to Master.
So I couldn't dare tell the truth to the students looking at Master with sparkling eyes just because he's my master.
After the lecture ended, finally escaping from Master, I headed to the club room to look for what to eat for lunch.
In the club room, there were many people who came to solve lunch like me.
Some discussing restaurants to visit, and others worrying while looking at the gourmet map.
I discovered familiar black hair in that group.
“Senior Luciela.”
“Oh my, Junior. You came?”
Perhaps her schedule didn't match with other seniors today, she was worrying alone looking at the gourmet map.
Come to think of it, I said I would treat her to a meal once last time, but there hasn't been an opportunity until now.
If she is okay with it, going today seemed good too.
“Senior, if you don't have anyone to eat with today, want to eat with me? I said I would treat you once last time.”
“Fuhu, I was waiting for when you would propose. I wondered if you forgot.”
“No way. How could I forget a promise made with Senior?”
“Eut…! Our junior shouldn't keep teasing this senior.”
A cute reaction seen after a long time.
Right, I wanted to see this appearance.
Having obtained the desired result, I naturally changed the topic.
“Is there anything you want to eat?”
“I'm thinking of eating fried food after a long time, how about you, Junior?”
“Sounds good.”
Like that, we left the club room.