69 – 69. Deception

Five days have passed since then.

Rank promotion evaluation. That is, until now, with two days left before the showdown with Celeste.

The work I’m preparing hasn’t changed much over the past five days.

Today too, I just silently open the door to my sparring room, carrying the newly received bundle.

Squeak-

“Are you guys doing well?”

A greeting that comes out as soon as you open the door without even checking to see if anyone is inside.

And then, quite naturally, the three heroines entered the instructor-only sparring hall.

However, it looked quite funny.

Today, it’s Adela’s turn to wake up.

“Uh, uh… Ah…”

She moaned as if she was going to cry at any moment, and found her balance with her unsteady steps.

On the top of his head, on top of his silky white hair, was a teacup filled with tea.

A teacup that seems to overflow just by taking a breath.

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“Cheer up, Adela! You can do it!”

Paula is cheering hard from the side, holding her fern-like hands tightly.

However, her motivation was too much, and Adela almost lost her balance at that moment due to her booming voice.

“Ugh…!”

With miraculous concentration,

The softness of school uniforms was maintained.

Her plea, full of desperation, scatters into the air.

“S-Scarlett? Is that done now? Is it a success?”

She is the destination of that plea,

I just sat on the floor and watched Adela’s legs closely.

And, I answered.

“No.”

“This…! You didn’t spill it!”

She seemed like she wanted to grab him by the collar, but she couldn’t do this or that because of that damn teacup.

No, if you’re going to get angry like that, shouldn’t you just remove the teacup with your hand?

I thought the emotional rift might become deeper than necessary, so I carefully removed the teacup instead.

I realized at that moment.

Why couldn’t she do it with her own hands?

“…Scarlett.”

“Oh, what if I take it out and throw it away?”

“Are you sane?”

It’s hot.

The tea in this teacup is heated.

Adela, who must have known that fact before me, sat down as if all the strength in her body had been lost.

“I lived, I lived…”

“……”

“It was a really cool balance! You can do it too, right?”

Somehow, Paula didn’t know.

Eyes as hot as the top of his head are directed at Scarlett, who takes on the role of today’s teacher.

That’s what cursing with your eyes means.

As you see now,

Scarlett and Adela take turns day by day, complementing each other’s weaknesses.

Of course, only until I get back from work and start the ‘real class’.

If the three students I encouraged succeed in infiltrating Moriam’s private room and secretly finding out the location of the ‘evidence’.

It was because they were the ones responsible for securing it.

Now, he is a person who is capable of carrying out intelligence operations, but

I’m doing it because it’s worth it.

Even if the students of the advance team fail, this does not mean that the situation becomes meaningless.

The pros and cons of Scarlett and Adela are clear,

They are also complementary.

Rather than doing your own thing in your spare time, this type of training method is more efficient.

It all leads directly to growth,

It was very desirable to see.

But this crossed the line.

I told you to teach, did I tell you to torture?

I put the teacup, which had not yet cooled down, in an appropriate place and looked at Scarlett.

“Please only apply your motivation in such a terrible direction to yourself.”

“I have to do this to silence the sound of footsteps. I’m not doing it because I like it.”

“He seemed to be enjoying it quite a bit.”

“…It must be an illusion.”

Look at them avoiding eye contact.

There are degrees of personality incompatibility.

She even gave a counterargument.

“You, the last time I was robbed, you just turned around and watched. Why is it so different?”

Even bringing up the story of yesterday.

I was reminded of this time yesterday… That is, the situation in which Scarlett and Adela’s relationship was reversed.

‘It’s really clunky. ‘How did you get into school with such circuit skills?’

‘……’

‘Well, maybe my standards are too high. I think it’s only natural for me to feel sick to my stomach when I see you again after just looking at the instructor’s skills.’

‘Well, shut your mouth. ‘Before I sew it up.’

‘Can you sew? Anyway, I was wrong again. Pull it up as if you were pulling it up, and then pull it down again. Why is this easy-‘

Well, Adela was pretty thirsty too.

However, that and this are different.

It’s hard to put galgum and burn on the same line.

However, it seemed like if I said it out loud and defended it in public, they would really fight, so I just unpacked it.

aaah!

Russell is full of both her skills and talent.

She borrowed some of her personal collection from a locksmith instructor she had become acquainted with the other day.

Among them, the mana locks were carefully selected with a difficulty level of ‘If you have Moriam skills, you should be able to do this.’

Because this was something I had been doing for five days,

They naturally picked each one out and captured them.

“Start.”

The sparring grounds became quiet for a moment.

The women who had been bickering before were completely focused on the circuit inside the mana lock they were holding.

This is truly terrifying concentration.

So much so that Paula next to her swallowed her saliva without realizing it.

And the lock that was unlocked first was-

Click!

“…Phew”

Adela. It took 30 seconds.

And, she took exactly twice that amount of time.

Click!

“Tch.”

It was Scarlett who clicked her tongue,

It was a great development.

I really felt the reward of training closely for five days.

It was possible because of their potential.

I thought this was enough.

“Excellent.”

The next day.

The day before the sparring with Celeste.

During Russell’s lunch break, something caught my eye as I was leisurely walking down the hallway.

There were three familiar faces walking down the opposite hallway, chatting.

The fat guy in the middle looks particularly happy.

“So, at that time, I threw my head back! But there was no one to accept me, so I fell asleep!”

“hehehehe, you have a pretty stubborn side.”

Female students and male students. Moriam walks along with the two.

The female student chattered and made him laugh endlessly, while the male student stayed silently by his side.

I couldn’t see where the other male student went, but I could guess where he went.

Because the location where I stopped was right next to Moriam’s private room.

So, only I could hear the sounds coming from inside.

Dismissal!

“Ah, that’s it!”

Screams leaking out through the door.

You probably couldn’t hear Moriam walking from the other side,

It sounded like a hymn to me.

I hurried my steps and headed towards Moriam so as not to raise suspicion.

He stops when he sees me.

The expression looks very bright.

“Isn’t this the class instructor? Have you had lunch?”

“Not yet. Moriam, it looks like he’s been reinstated.”

“Well, that’s it. I’ll be able to go to lectures again next month. It may take some time, but it’s probably a good thing.”

He takes his time and looks at the students on either side of him alternately.

“Until then, I can focus on teaching my students. Oh, come to think of it-“

His eyes narrow.

He looked smug, as if he was looking down.

“Your students haven’t been showing up lately.”

And, a male student helping him next to him.

“Isn’t there some kind of discord? It’s a shame.”

“hahahaha, don’t be so harsh. Instructor Ivan is also a sincere instructor. Even though he’s a C rank.”

Snap-

And then, the door to the private room opened behind me.

What came out was that the student was right.

As soon as he saw my face when I turned around, he seemed surprised for a moment, but after skillfully changing his expression, he walked over while searching his inside pocket.

“Ah, are you finished organizing it? Thank you for your hard work.”

“Yes, Instructor Moriam. We cleaned it without a speck of dust.”

I think I know what that student is thinking.

Therefore, he deliberately turned his body and bumped into it slightly.

“Ugh!”

A male student fell violently, even though he didn’t hit it too hard.

His hand, which momentarily lost its balance, crossed my outer pocket.

I looked down at him and said.

“Please look ahead.”

The student answered with a frown on his face.

“…The instructor crashed into it, didn’t he?”

The male student stands up and pats his body.

He looked at me with disdain and shot back a single word.

“Please be careful.”

Words and actions that a person in their right mind could not say to Ivan.

Before that, he had gone far beyond the scope of an attitude that could be shown to an instructor.

Moriam, who had already arrived, just smiled heartily.

“Understand. Instructor Ivan is not an instructor with particularly good reflexes.”

“Well, that’s right.”

I turned back and started walking in the other direction.

Moriam shouted loudly from behind as if everyone in the neighborhood could hear, but-

“Don’t store too much!”

I just turned the corner and checked my outside pockets.

Yes, after finding out the whole truth in the end,

Even after I was convinced that this was all a deception.

I hope you don’t take it to heart too much.

-Second cabinet, third compartment from the bottom.

It was a trap you set,

Looking at your business.

Outside the window, darkness has already driven out the light,

The mana lighting in the sparring hall was extremely bright.

The reason why we held an evaluation match late at night past 2 in the morning was,

The subject of evaluation now in front of Celeste.

It was Russell’s consideration for Ivan Kherson.

It would be better to hold it relatively secretly, so that if the class loses, there will be no word of mouth from the students.

However, it was also a useless consideration.

“Are you all ready?”

Moriam cleverly participated as a gallery.

He will spread the rumor on his own.

You probably won’t even be able to hold your head up.

She looked around.

Among the instructors who will keep their eyes on the evaluation that will take place at Ivan’s personal sparring hall, he is the only one who has the risk of recognizing Celeste’s ‘true skills’.

She was not visible.

All right as planned.

Then, now it is my turn.

“Then, thank you!”

A dazzlingly bright smile.

However, Ivan in front of him did not blink an eye.

Your posture may slightly loosen,

Being expensive.

She picked up the dagger.

At that moment, I could feel the people around me sighing.

“Huh, a dagger?”

“After all, the main weapon is a dagger.”

“You managed to get to level B, really.”

I can hear it all, you idiots.

However, it wasn’t particularly wrong.

Because the dagger is a weapon that is full of difficulties when dealing with monsters.

If there is one mistake,

The point is that she has no intention of cutting down monsters.

As a man-catcher, a hired dog.

Her plan was simple.

The magic she cast on the dagger with her ‘real skill’ is more than enough to cut the opponent in half, no matter what weapon they are wielding.

If half of your weapons are lost in a fight,

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The arrow of criticism tends to go to the side that is holding it.

Most of the time, it’s a misfortune that happens when people hear it wrongly. Taking advantage of that prejudice was her favorite scenario.

If it goes on as is,

There will be no need to bother deactivating the Celestial Dragon Armor.

“What are you thinking like that?”

“Oh… No! It’s not like that in particular!”

You snake-like bastard.

At that moment, I almost broke into a sweat while talking.

“Well, instructor, are you sure your students aren’t coming? They’ll look great… hehehe.”

“I’m busy.”

What are you thinking?

A guy who emphasizes again with a sly smile.

“It’s going to be pretty busy.”

“Ah, yes.”

Soon, one of the instructors shouts out a signal.

“Ready.”

The two pose for each other.

“Start!”

As soon as the sound falls,

She rushed over.

“Yeaaap!”

This foolish spirit was also her favorite method. Look down on them as much as possible.

The rush should be as clumsy as possible so that it can be blocked.

I will finish off that block with the second attack while cutting the weapon in half.

The dagger dug into his arms and swung.

The sound the dagger made was,

Kang!

A very beautiful plosive sound.

The sound of metal breaking.

And, she noticed.

“…Huh?”

He also brought a dagger.

It is not his main weapon.

And, that dagger-

“Uh…?”

Celeste’s dagger.

I just broke it.

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