* * *

“… ha.”

Hailey Baroun sighed deeply.

It was because I ran into the person I hated the most.

Bluhan Alloy was a 4th year student at Freebia Academy, with four students who seemed to be his group. There were two female students and two male students.

They giggled to see if Bluhan’s words were quite funny, and seemed to be watching Lua’s party’s reaction.

“… Who are you to be so rude?”

Olivia Nues asked, glaring at Bluhand. Bluhan Alloy smiled and shook his head lightly.

“It would be an obvious identity if our Northern Bachelor would follow you around, but you guys should introduce yourself first. huh? Isn’t that right, first graders?”

Bluhan was a pretty handsome boy, but Olivia and Anise didn’t notice his good looks. It was because the contempt and disregard in his eyes made me feel so bad.

“I beg your pardon? baby… ?”

Olivia gritted her teeth. Then one of the boys in Bluhand’s group made a fuss.

“Oh, mad. angry. Bluhan, don’t you know who you are?”

“Well, if you’re from a secluded territory, you might not know. let’s not blame it It’s not their fault that they come from families that don’t know me, right?”

Bluhan laughed as he answered.

Hailey, who had been watching him, narrowed her eyes and stepped forward.

“Stop messing with my friends, and if you have something to say, tell me?”

“what? friend? Did Bocchan raise something like that? More than that, young boy, this is the academy, so you should call him senior. Your father isn’t here either. Can I be so arrogant?”

Bluhan Alloy raised both hands as if he was dumbfounded.

“Isn’t your father here too? If you’ve never beaten me in exchange sparring, what do you believe in and play around like that? Could it be that you believe in the chaff you are dragging around?”

Haley didn’t back down, even against a three-year-old Bluhand.

At this point, Olivia, realizing Bluhan’s identity, began to shake her hands, and Anise hid behind Olivia with an uneasy expression.

“what? Chaff? Hey, the young master of the Baroun family. No matter what, you can’t disrespect seniors like that.”

One of the schoolgirls chasing Bluhan opened her ax eye and listened, but Hailey didn’t blink.

“I don’t know what to say. If you have any complaints, challenge them to a duel. Or ask the Bluhan Alloy to get revenge. I don’t know if he has the personality to do that.”

Saying that, Haley took off one of the gloves she was wearing and slammed it into Bluhand’s face. Bluhand did not dodge the glove, and the white-dyed leather glove bumped into Bluhand’s cheek.

“… this bastard.”

The blush alloy twitched his eyebrows.

“Of course, I will not forgive you for insulting the honor of my friends, so I formally challenge you to a duel. Do you have the courage to attack me, Bluhan?”

Everyone except Lua forgot what to say for a moment and fell silent at his actions as if he didn’t think about the next thing. The group following Bluhan looked at him as if wondering what to do.

“Follow me, this baby. I’ll do whatever you want.”

Haley smiled at Bluhan’s suggestion, then looked at Olivia, Anise, and Lua and said,

“You go back now. Because this is my job.”

“… Are you fighting?”

When Lua, who had grasped the situation earlier, asked with an anxious expression, Haley nodded.

“I think so, but that’s pretty much it.”

By simple calculation, it was five to one. Even though Haley had excellent swordsmanship skills, she couldn’t deal with five fourth-year students, so Olivia and Anis couldn’t move easily.

“egg plant.”

Haley took the lead and walked toward a deserted place.

“If you don’t kill me, I’ll take care of it, so don’t overlook the situation. okay?”

Bluhan said in a low voice to the fourth graders.

As they walked away, Anise asked Olivia.

“… what about us?”

“How do you do what do you do? You said we were friends, but we can’t let you deal with five people. I have to help somehow.”

At Olivia’s answer, Anise stomped her feet as if she didn’t know what to do.

“But how can we deal with seniors in the fourth grade? I’m still not good at handling wooden swords.”

“I wish I had a place to turn for help. If it was an academy, I would have told the professor or instructor, but it’s out here… ?”

It was the same that Olivia also had no sharp tips.

‘… He seems like a good kid.’

We talked for the first time today, but I didn’t want to see Haley Baroun hurt.

“Oh, isn’t it Lua?”

At that time, I heard someone calling Lua from a little distance away. Turning her head, Lua found a familiar woman and smiled brightly.

“Sister Liz!”

Lizriel was quite close with Lua. It was because they had already eaten together or had tea time several times.

Since she was a child under Philip’s care in the first place, she was in a situation where she had to force herself to be close to Lua, and fortunately, Lua wasn’t arrogant unlike kids these days, and had a lot of aegyo.

As a merchant, she knew very well that in order to attack Philip, she had to attack Lua first.

“Looks like you and your friends are out shopping for something? Then why didn’t you come find me? Whatever it was, it would have been given as a top-notch product.”

Anise asked who it was with the shape of her mouth.

“Liz is a friend of the instructor.”

When Lua answered, Olivia’s eyes twinkled.

“hello! We are friends with Lua, and my name is Olivia Nues. Next to him is Anise Praline. I’m sorry for the first meeting, but could you help us?”

“… huh? What is it?”

Lizriel tilted her head.

“My friend was dragged by scary 4th grade seniors… .”

Upon hearing the circumstances, Rizriel nodded.

“That’s a big deal, do you know where it went?”

“Over there.”

Seeing the direction Olivia was pointing at, Lizriel smiled with a kick involuntarily.

The direction was the cafeteria where she and Philip had just been talking about the construction of the swimming pool.

Lizriel was on her way back from a bit of an emergency, and Philip was still in the cafeteria.

* * *

The cafeteria in the evening was quite empty. The shop Philip visited had an old-fashioned atmosphere, so it was not an atmosphere that students would like.

It was a place mostly visited by older humanities professors, magic faculty professors, or instructors who assisted them.

‘… Come to think of it, this is an unconditional business. It’s not just a swimming pool. Spa Land in a fantasy world? I could sweep the gold coins with a pitchfork.’

Philip nodded with satisfaction as he reviewed the business plan he and Lizriel had conceived.

It felt good to feel that the fairy Yuna, who had been regarded as a nuisance, was becoming a goose that lays golden eggs.

‘For now, I’ll just have to be satisfied with the swimming pool. It’s not good to treat her too much.’

Later, when I became close with Yuna, I thought I would pamper her to the fullest. Philip, who felt the need to take care of the fairy’s mentality until the swimming pool was completed, began to think about what the alternative fairy would like.

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Just then, the owner of the cafe came over to the table where Philip was sitting.

“I am the swordsmanship instructor, right?”

The owner of this place was a woman in her early 30s.

“yes. Is that right?”

She let out a deep sigh with a troubled expression on her face and said the matter.

“The academy students are gathered in a back alley right now, and they said that a fight is about to break out. I think you should go.”

“this… I’m sorry. I’ll settle it and come back, so if my party comes, could you tell me the reason for my absence?”

“Okay. thank you.”

Philip had no choice but to get up and leave the cafeteria.

When Philip reached the back alley, the fight had already taken place.

No matter how fresh the students were, they were swinging their swords in their sheaths as if they couldn’t bear to pull out their swords.

And one of the five fighting was Philip’s student. I must have been beaten several times already, and I had black bruises on the nape of my neck, and I could see blood flowing from my forehead.

It was a bit sad to see him showing his fighting spirit not to be pushed back against five people regardless of his wounds.

“What are you doing? I can’t stop right now!”

When Philip shouted loudly, the students who realized that the person who appeared was the instructor immediately stopped what they were doing and looked at him.

“… Oh, who are you?”

Bluhan Alloy caught a breath and wiped away sweat.

He did not recognize Philip’s face. The 4th and 1st year instructors never met each other, and Bluhan, who was from the western part of the kingdom, had little to do with Philip, who was from the central nobility.

“What are you doing wearing an academy uniform and fighting in the street? Hailey Baroun, you explain.”

“… sorry. Instructor”

Haley made no excuses. However, Bluhan frowned and instead confronted Philip.

“My junior was acting a bit cheeky, so I tried to educate him. I don’t plan on making a big deal out of it, so let’s stop at this point. Aren’t you also our grade instructor?”

“… what?”

Phillip sensed a familiar vibe from Bluhan. He felt a laugh coming out of the absurdity, narrowed his brows, and glared at Bluhand.

“name is?”

“You mean that? It’s a blurhan alloy.”

Philip knew the name. In fact, he was an extra who didn’t deserve much attention, so he only knew that the boy was the second son of the Margrave of Earlroy.

“okay. Bluhan Alloy. You will make me take responsibility for the suspension.”

“By what authority, Instructor? Aren’t suspensions given by the head professor?”

Hailey Baroun wiped the blood from her forehead and looked at Bluhand with admiration in her eyes.

Even he, the heir to the Northern Guardian family, had no confidence to openly rebel against Philip Oswald.

‘Can’t it be that you don’t know?’

The Oswald family was not easy enough to treat them carelessly, even as a margrave family that was no different from a local king. For now, all I could think of was that Bluhan didn’t know Philip’s true identity.

‘How can you be so stupid?’

How little attention was paid to the faculty of the swordsmanship department, so that even the famous Philip Oswald could not be recognized. Haley clicked her tongue and spat out blood when she realized her mouth had burst.

“… Bluhan Alloy. I warn you, you might as well change your attitude to something more polite. It’s true that I’m not your grade instructor, but it’s every educator’s duty to discipline students who do wrong.”

Philip endured once. He could forgive a student twice, no matter how much he provoked him.

“I will give you and your friends a chance. If you admit your mistakes and reflect on yourself even now, I will avoid suspension. But if you keep coming out like this, your friend will be suspended because of you.”

At Philip’s words, the eyes of the 4th graders turned to Bluhan. Bluhan lightly ignored those earnest eyes.

“what… Do whatever you want. If you can.”

He seemed to have a corner of his own beliefs.

Phillip let out a smirk. He removed the sword and coat from his waist and held them out to Haley.

“Can you hold this for a moment?”

“yes? Ah, yes.”

Haley took Philip’s supplies and stepped away. He had a rough idea of what would happen from now on.

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