The New Instructor
“You can tell by my appearance, but from very far across the sea….”
Ah, no. I can’t end it like this. It’s too disappointing.
The protagonist had come to the academy. A bratty student who picks a fight with an ‘I’m so great’ attitude appears.
At first I tolerated it, but when I couldn’t take it anymore, I personally gave him a proper lesson.
That way, everyone would admire him and see him differently, and a girl who develops a crush would appear!
Wasn’t that the basic development? Why don’t I have even that?Thinking like that is stupid? After being trapped in the tower for a hundred years, you don’t say such things.
What I had were monsters and ghosts that didn’t adapt.
But somehow, with reincarnation, my spirit became strong, and I endured.
If it hadn’t been for that, I might have hanged myself long ago.
Anyway, a bit aggrieved, Rion continued to glance sideways at the students.
Is there any fool who thinks he’s easy? Any guy who wants to cause trouble?
One who focuses more on ‘future hero and black-haired foreigner’ than ‘student and instructor’!
“Instructor, you must have been a very strong person there!”
“Huh? Well, yes, that would be the case.”
“Amazing. I’m looking forward to the training.”
“....”
Damn it. Because it’s the Hero Academy, none of them show that at all.
Why do only good responses come out? From the demon’s perspective, it’s sad.
Since I didn’t intend to do this, but now it’s this way.
“Ah. If any of you students want to see my skills, come forward. It’s only natural to think that since a black-haired foreigner is teaching hero candidates.”
Golden, silver, red, orange, blue, green, purple…
But black is missing. No black-haired hero candidates.
Probably the gods didn’t like northern or foreign people.
Yet the one teaching these hero candidates is a black-haired foreigner.
Rion recalled this part and reluctantly stepped forward, quite reluctantly.
Was it the demonic instinct of an unavoidable boss monster?
Swish—
When Rion let the student come forward, did he finally want to clash?
One of the students behind raised his hand, indicating he wanted to clash.
“Yeah. You, student. Come forward. Come to my side…”
But Rion’s expression crumpled instantly.
Damn it. Why you again.
“Eh? It’s Eleonore-nim.”
“The one who came out is her?”
Ignoring the expectant and curious reactions,
the student who came forward and stood beside Rion was none other than Enril.
I didn’t want to face her, but why does he keep meeting her?
Now, does this woman not know about him?
Or is she pretending not to know?
Doubts again.
“....”
He wanted to turn around and go back to his seat.
Why did she come out when he was trying to catch a brat?
Then, instead of admiration, the probability of getting the title ‘who dared to lay the hero low’ would be high.
The students having unfriendly gazes was a bonus.
‘Did she do this on purpose?’
He looked at Enril again, but no sign she noticed.
Just genuinely curious, wanting to see Rion’s strength.
Then this way, it’s a problem. Enril has clashed with Rion multiple times.
Although she didn’t use full power in the process, she might be familiar with that power and aura.
And if she senses even faintly that power and aura, she would suspect.
Once suspicion is born, it never disappears.
The bigger it gets, the bigger it gets, it doesn’t shrink or disappear.
That’s why the emotion of suspicion is scary.
So, he hadn’t wanted to be suspected in the first place.
“Really, are you going to step out, Enril student?”
“Yes. I want to know what kind of strong person is in the instructor’s world.”
“Hmm…. If you get injured because you’re a hero…”
“Eh?”
“No problems will arise, right?”
In a state where power is restricted, and the opponent is not an ordinary candidate but Enril.
He won’t lose, but maybe he can’t protect Enril.
If Enril gets injured, his position becomes very awkward.
So Rion asked that question without bad intent.
“....”
“....”
A strange atmosphere fills the training ground that was full of goodwill a moment ago.
Rion’s words just now subtly ignored Enril.
As someone who had defeated her many times, he had no choice but to worry.
But to students who don’t know the situation, he just looks like an arrogant instructor.
With his haughty voice, the effect appears late.
“Don’t worry. There’s always a healer on standby, and I’m not that weak.”
Actually, Enril didn’t seem bothered at all, just preparing her stance.
If he backs down now, the instructor’s pride is shattered.
But if he really clashes, there are too many things to worry about.
Rion, who had been thinking hard in the moment—
“Still, making a hero injured is a bit much, so let’s compete in another way.”
Finds a way to convey his cultivation art without revealing his true identity.
“It’s a mana battle.”
“Mana battle, you say?”
“It’s a way to shock the opponent’s body with the mana you possess. Using the body is forbidden. Only mana. If defense is breached on either side, the match ends immediately.”
Students know how important mana operation is.
And why they’re here is because of that.
Hearing about mana battle, curiosity will surge.
“Okay, Instructor. Then let’s do that.”
“Quick agreement is good. Students? For safety, step back a bit.”
Before Rion finishes, the candidates back away.
Even in a moderate mana battle, the result depends on who the mana operator is.
One is a hero who survived the tower multiple times. The other is the instructor who became one unanimously.
They think a fierce battle between them.
“Well. Then… shall we start.”
But contrary to the students’ expectations.
“Hah?!”
Exactly 5 seconds after starting the match.
Enril collapses in her seat.
*
Hero Academy student, hero candidate, Adnel.
She was an ordinary daughter of a baron, but at some point, her mana control talent awakened.
And soon, she was recognized by the sacred relic and entered the Hero Academy.
It was a place with only duty and sense of mission, but once you enter, your family’s social status rises.
It was hard. It was a very grueling and endless ordeal.
But she endured. For herself, her family, and the world.
If it was really her fate to become a hero, she would follow it.
Even if not, becoming strong here as much as possible isn’t bad.
Just being able to fight monsters is enough.
Then one day, Adnel found a new reason.
She hadn’t even graduated yet, just a mere candidate.
Yet the only one who returned alive from the tower.
Even though she didn’t defeat the master, she reached the place, the real hero.
‘Eleonore-nim.’
Strong. Enril, she was strong enough.
She herself rejected the name ‘hero’ and shook her hand.
But she told everyone that entering the tower still has hope.
So she admired her. She wanted to become strong like her.
Someday, even if she couldn’t return, she wanted to fight like her, believing it’s fate!
‘....Why is such a person…?’
The opponent is a black-haired foreigner instructor who came from across the sea.
She didn’t ignore him. He must have taken the instructor position because he has strength.
But she didn’t doubt that Enril, her hero, would be stronger.
The tower is the only place no one has returned alive.
Hell itself. All heroes praised as great couldn’t return.
Except Enril!
Because of that, not only the students of the Hero Academy but also those who teach them, imperial officials, citizens, even people from other countries all think ‘Enril’ is the one who will definitely break the tower.
“Hah!”
She, biting her lip, sitting on the ground in pain.
No visible wounds, but in extreme pain.
The person she respected and admired the most collapsed right in front of her.
Even if trivial, the shock is huge.
‘Instructor…?’
Even though it was a spar, the opponent collapsed.
So she should immediately stop and check if he’s okay.
But the instructor Rion just stands there watching Enril.
‘Even if instructor… this is too much!’
Enril lost. She’s in so much pain.
The only one who returned from the tower, the only one who can save the world!
Adnel couldn’t accept it easily.
Too shocking, she starts looking for the culprit unconsciously.
She knew it was wrong, but emotions didn’t allow it.
She doesn’t know why she did it.
Suddenly, anger surged from deep inside when she saw the instructor.
A moment ago he was fine, but suddenly couldn’t hold back without attacking.
When she came to her senses, she was already running towards him madly—
*Thud!*
“...Ah!”
She punches the face of the new instructor Rion.