How to Live As a Returnee Munchkin Swordsman

37 – Finding traces (1)

Tristan Hero Academy.

The ‘Teaching Assistants’ located in each department here are broadly divided into three categories.

“Selena. “During the next lecture, I will devote about 30 minutes to your lecture, so prepare well.”

“M-you mean me?”

One is a teaching assistant assigned to a level 5 disciplinary instructor or a level 4 research instructor.

Rather than working as a teaching assistant, they learn the instructor’s work more efficiently by working and learning under a senior instructor.

Sometimes, they lead classes in the absence of a senior or through special lectures.

In particular, in the case of Selena, who achieved level 4 as soon as she was selected as a new instructor, the timing is even faster.

“huh. Now you should prepare for the lecture as well. “Aren’t you going to have to follow Instructor Edgar and get an instructor next year?”

“All right. I will work hard, senior!

Literally, an assistant instructor with the strongest tendency of an ‘assistant instructor’.

Therefore, if they had the ability, they were instructors who were ready to leave the bosom of their senior at any time and set up their own lectures and labs.

In fact, these were people of much higher status than they could be called teaching assistants.

“Cadet Carol. You must not wear Max Air magic tools while on duty.”

The second is ‘student assistant’.

As the name suggests, the heroes who are enrolled as cadets at the military academy work as teaching assistants in the form of working scholarship students.

“Instructor, the Max Air Magic Tool is a device for improving work efficiency. When I wear this to work, I can concentrate much better than usual.”

“… … .”

However, there were many inexperienced and troublesome cadets, as they were not formal teaching assistants who worked for a salary.

Perhaps because the concept of scholarship students and cadet welfare is strong, there are no student assistants with a proper sense of work.

So, the instructors also rarely sincerely expected them or entrusted them with important tasks.

Just because the administrative office told me to use it, the level of filling the seat.

That was exactly the position of student assistant.

And last -.

“yes. This is Instructor Edgar’s lab.”

A ‘professional teaching assistant’ who mainly handles work in the instructor’s laboratory and lectures.

These are mainly assigned to external personnel or those selected for the recruitment of assistants in military academies.

As much as they work while receiving a salary, and because they were selected by the instructors themselves, they had a lot of work compared to other TAs and their work was much neater.

The 217th laboratory of the Faculty of Swordsmanship.

The same was true of Ray, a professional assistant in ＜Instructor Edgar’s Lab＞.

In charge of Edgar’s deputy work and overall administrative work related to ＜Balut Sword＞, she had to work tirelessly every weekday.

In particular, the phenomenon was even worse these days, when interest in Edgar Mullik and ＜Balut Sword＞ increased rapidly.

-Teacher Ray. nice to meet you. I am Billy Densk, Executive Director.

“Ah yes. hello.”

It was now common to receive calls from the head of the administrative department of the Swordsmanship Department.

Ray picked up the pen and paper with a familiar movement.

Administrative Director Densk was a very talkative person even within the Swordsmanship Faculty, so there were many times when he would miss it if he didn’t prepare to write it down in advance.

-hahahaha. It’s nothing else, isn’t Instructor Edgar’s activities outside the world amazing these days? I caught monsters by grade, and recently I even caught Lahara in the 2nd tier monster swamp.

“… yes.”

– It’s really something I’m proud of as the head of the Department of Swordsmanship. After all, where does the lineage of the great mulique marquis go? You have just been selected as a new instructor, but you are already raising the status of the faculty, right? Assistant Ray is also assisting such an instructor, so a corner of his heart must be full of pride. ha ha ha.

“… … .”

Just the point please.

The words reached the tip of his chin, but Ray barely held it in.

Although Densk’s chief administrative officer tends to annoy people a little, he was still a superior who belonged to a very high position in terms of rank.

There was nothing good about it because I had to hate him.

-It’s nothing else, the Central Administrative Office of the Military Academy contacted us with a request for a special lecture in our department.

“Special Lecture… You mean?”

-is it so. The topic is how to deal with monsters and beasts, but Instructor Edgar is also an expert in that field, right? So, the Central Administrative Office also picked up Edgar’s instructor and requested it.

Edgar’s reputation, which had been steadily rising recently, rose sharply while hunting the second-tier monster, ‘Lahara of the Swamp’.

An instructor who can hunt not only high-level monsters, but also monsters.

He also came from a noble aristocratic family, and was a new instructor who had just been selected.

It was a structure that was bound to become popular with the cadets of the military academy.

-This special lecture is said to be a large-scale lecture that the royal family also cooperates with, so I hope Instructor Edgar will accept this request. I will actively coordinate the schedule within the department.

“All right. I’ll tell you when the instructor comes to the lab.”

-ha ha ha. yes, yes Next to great people, there are other great people. Every time I see Assistant Ray, the work process is refreshing. Then contact the administration office later.

“… … .”

The head of Densk’s administrative department, who constantly shakes his mouth and adds words to the end.

Ray, who was slightly fed up with him, slowly put down the currency crystal ball.

“… There are a lot of really unusual people.”

After working as the butler of the Mullique family for a long time, he came to a new group called the military academy, and there were many human groups he had never seen before.

From the cadets who seem to have eaten the concept, to the instructors and assistants of other departments who dispute every case, to the administrative staff who do not easily deal with normal requests-.

They were people who couldn’t understand Ray’s common sense.

“and… .”

but.

The most unusual among them is, of course, Edgar Mullick.

It was a change in the man Ray had always been aiding.

-Because you are here, I am also mentally comfortable.

It was like that from the first time I entered the ＜Balut sword method＞ lecture.

He did not simply use himself as a work assistant, but gave himself a role as an assistant instructor while directly attending lectures.

Not caring at all about the fact that he is an assassin hero-.

He just finished explaining because ‘that’s comfortable’.

… It didn’t end there.

-You can betray me as much as you like. Instead, our relationship will continue until then. Until that moment – I believe in you, and you believe in me.

-I was just comfortable talking to someone I could talk to.

The first time I went to the ‘Blue Swamp’ by believing only Cadet Reese’s words.

There, when he hunted the second-tier monster, ‘Lahara of the Swamps’, and obtained the continent’s first destiny as ＜Chaser＞-.

The man was still with him, trusting himself and telling him everything.

Ray didn’t understand that blind trust.

“… Am I not suspicious?”

Unlike Edgar, she had many things she couldn’t reveal to him.

My past before becoming a butler, and my duties as a butler… .

Even her abilities as a ＜assassin＞ hero had never been properly shown to him.

Of course, this was because he, the target of escort, had unexpectedly strong power, but anyway, it was hard to understand that such a person could be trusted to this extent.

Edgar Mulick.

For Ray, that man was the closest and most difficult person.

Boooooong-!!

As if to shake off her thoughts, the lab phone crystal ball rings again.

At that sight, Ray also shook his head and picked up the crystal ball.

There are many complicated things, but one fact still remains the same.

The point was that Ray was now Edgar Mullick’s butler and assistant.

“Yes, this is Instructor Edgar’s lab.”

* * *

Department of Swordsmanship, Building 3.

Classroom 311.

I was starting a crisp Monday morning with a lecture.

“ … Therefore, the connection movement between the 3rd and 4th is very important. These herbivores are particularly aggressive movements within the Balut sword method, so you can fill in the lack of defensive means only by smoothly bringing evasion skills in between.”

beginning of semester.

My lecture, which had a lot of talk and a lot of trouble, is now taking its place to some extent.

The cadets who did not listen to the lecture despite being absent in the beginning are now returning to their seats and filling their seats, and the aristocratic cadets who made a fuss about canceling classes are now listening to the lecture in compliance.

There are several reasons.

First of all, the administrative office did not accept their cancellation inquiry.

And this was the second time that the power and effectiveness of the ＜Balut Sword Technique＞ received positive reviews from cadets and went viral.

But the most decisive event is… .

‘It’s probably hunting demonic beasts.’

The witch hunt that took place in the ‘Blue Swamp’ last week.

The rumor that I had captured the second-tier demon beast ‘Lahara of the Swamp’ quickly spread within the royal family and the military academy, and my name, already a celebrity, was once again featured everywhere.

No matter how high a level you are, there is a difference between catching a monster and a magical beast.

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As the fact that I was an instructor with excellent skills enough to hunt monsters alone spread among the students, the students who had been fighting words with me and accumulated sediment began to secretly return to the lecture.

… After all, they did not have to miss a good lecture by a talented instructor.

“Instructor. Doesn’t the Balut sword method not use a shield in any case?”

So like this.

There were even hot-blooded cadets who would ask questions during class.

In the meantime, the attitude of taking classes that I could never see except for Kayla and Mirenne.

I smiled wryly at that cataclysmic change.

‘It’s really simple.’

Is it because I’m still young?

The so-called hero cadets had this simple side.

Of course, I wasn’t the type of person to deal with the minor issues that arose during the first lecture, so I actively accepted their request for reconciliation.

Thanks to this, the ＜Balut Sword Technique＞ lecture had a particularly lively and refreshing atmosphere even among the swordsmanship department lectures.

“Then, today’s lecture will end here. “The next class will be held in the training hall, so make sure everyone knows that.”

“Um, instructor? Are you not accepting additional applications for special training personnel?”

After class, several cadets asked the same question.

The green swamp area, a monster lair where the demon beast ‘Lahara of the Swamp’ appeared.

It was evident that they wanted to visit the hot topic and practice in person.

But I shook my head.

“Not yet. Please wait until this instructor receives additional personnel later.”

Kaela, Myrenne Thilope, Rhys, and Lucas Chadbell.

These four cadets alone are enough for now.

Just looking at the level of understanding that follows the class, these four people are the most outstanding, and right now, entry to the ‘Blue Swamp Area’ is temporarily restricted at the request of the kingdom’s investigation team, so they cannot enter.

After I finished class like that.

I approached Ray, who was organizing data alone.

“ray. “Have you looked for a place nearby to hunt demon beasts?”

She raised her head in a daze at the sound of my voice, then returned her usual eyes and answered.

“It seems difficult. Basically, monsters are located at the source of monster dens, or they often appear in special magical phenomena- these monsters have already been hunted, or we can’t find them because we don’t have permission.”

“hmm… Is it because of the rewards like magic stones or magic tools?”

“Most of the time explorers own it.”

The fate of ＜The Chaser＞ and the crossroads of ＜Beast Chaser＞.

And although he obtained an inevitability outside the standard of ＜Magic Stone Absorption＞, it was not easy to actively utilize it.

Witch Beasts are dangerous and difficult to hunt, but they become money.

When hunting is finished, magic stones and by-products for each level are unconditionally dropped, and if the monster is located at the source of the monster’s lair, there are times when there is a special reward such as a magic tool.

That’s why explorer heroes turned on their eyes and searched for them, and even if that wasn’t the case, there were many cases where countries or individuals owned the right to enter.

“If you go to the north, you will meet a lot, but… .”

It is not that there is no way at all.

The northern part of the continent and kingdom.

If you go to the area called ＜Land of Ruins＞, you can meet the Witchbeast.

It’s the worst wasteland, filled with demons and beasts in the first place.

At one time, certain areas were recovered through the ‘Northern Recapture Operation’, but the deprived places were still infested with demon seeds.

But Ray shakes his head.

“It’s difficult on schedule.”

“I guess so.”

I wasn’t going to war, and I couldn’t go there as I was currently working as an instructor.

No matter how low the standard is, at least you have to go on vacation before you can go.

Thinking that far, I licked my lips.

‘I can’t do it.’

He ambitiously sought a way to increase his physical abilities and magical powers, but unfortunately, it seemed that the time would have to be delayed a little later.

I thought I should focus on the lecture right now, and I followed Ray and organized the class materials.

however… .

“Instructor Edgar, you are here.”

A familiar face, as if I hadn’t seen it in a while, came into the classroom.

“Seniors?”

It was my senior instructor, Akina Crowfly.

She said to me with a slight smile.

“Would you like to come to the undergraduate reception room now? A nice person came to Instructor Edgar.”