Academy Ankle Reaper

06. Did I do anything wrong?

In any group, there are always people who stand out, whether in a good or bad way.

Atlas was a standout in a bad way.

I couldn’t see you all standing together in a line, so I had to come to the front.

And those who dared to say that fact had to take care of the medical corps.

Andy Robinson… No, for the apprentices who went through that period, Atlas Titan was like a nightmare.

Andy’s second rider junior, the worst mad dog in the history of the Knights, the ankle hunter, the black gremlin, the absurd butcher, the physiotherapist, the etiquette injector, all sorts of nicknames were attached to him.

I didn’t pick it up somewhere, but Andy was also one of the victims who was beaten to blood by Atlas for making a mistake.

Perhaps, until Atlas got out of the apprenticeship ticket… No, even when he became an official member, Atlas’ presence was unique among the Imperial Knights, to the extent that it was faster to find a member who had not been beaten by him in a similar rider.

Even when the number of people beaten by him and sent to the medical service exceeded three digits, Atlas was never punished by the Knights for ‘violence’.

Those who went to the knights to report that they were beaten by Atlas had to return to the parade ground for whining after a senior was beaten by a junior.

In the Imperial Knights, who must have the best military force, the strong one is always right.

The item that the seniors justified themselves by doing all sorts of absurd things to the juniors rather entangled them.

Rumors in the social world say that he was reluctant to be seen as the eldest son of a titan, but if that guy was not good enough, then what would happen to the people who were beaten up by him?

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I didn’t intend to pursue it this far.

However, the blatant gaze directed at him made him feel bad, so he glared at him together, and when his eyes met, he ran away.

Seeing that they ran away, it was a natural instinct to chase after them.

‘That’s Andy-senpai.’

I noticed it while chasing, but the professor (presumably) who ran away was a senior member of the Imperial Knights.

As I searched for his memory, his image came to mind.

I wasn’t that prominent.

The fact that he didn’t stand out means that during his apprenticeship, he wasn’t someone who was marked by him.

At that time, he was under a lot of stress, and he was so full of energy that he burst out the moment he started gossiping about his kidneys even a little bit.

Why did he run away?

Looking at what I don’t remember, I don’t think he did anything wrong during his apprenticeship days.

Seeing as he runs away as soon as we make eye contact, he may have been beaten together when they came in groups.

But at that time, the seniors were all running to protect their pride, so I don’t keep that in mind.

“Senpai, did you do anything wrong to me? Why are you running away?”

“That… Can’t be that, how many years has it been? Is it four years?”

“I guess that’s enough.”

Four years means we haven’t seen each other since before I quit the Order.

Andy, who was a regular member, and Atlas, who was in charge of a high-ranking officer, were of different ranks, so they had different places of work.

“So why did you run away?”

“Why did you come after me???”

Then why did you chase after him, he ran away like someone who had been stabbed, so he chased after him.

“I chased after you because you wanted to run away.”

“I ran away because I was scared because they were chasing me!”

“No, I’m afraid of what I did. It’s absurd… But why is your senior at the academy?”

“Ugh… I’m retired… I can’t keep up with him anymore..”

“I’m sorry. If it was senpai, she would have been able to reach Master someday.”

“Did you eat something strange? Why are you posting it like this?”

“Even if you say nice things to me, it sucks.”

I wasn’t just talking nonsense.

I’m not a person who didn’t have a ssaksu, so if I trained until middle age without any accidents, I would have been able to reach the level of a master.

Maybe it was broken in the end, there’s no help.

As the Imperial Knights are the best armed group, they are often put into places that ordinary people cannot afford.

“How are you here, isn’t it busy?”

In the spring, there is no time to be leisurely in a place like this when they are working on a plan to subdue the monsters and barbarians that infest the border area and break their momentum.

“I threw away my resignation because something important happened.”

“The captain accepted it?”

“Don’t you know that?”

“Then it’s desertion, can you handle it?”

“That’s why you should help me.”

“Is my..?”

“You know it’s a secret that I came here, right?”

“Why am I…! If I get caught, I’ll be in trouble too!”

As Andy came out uncooperatively, the longsword lodged in her floor made an unpleasant noise and moved forward.

“This is not a favor.”

“Ugh…”

It moves along the hard stone floor like cutting pudding, reaching Andy’s neck.

Andy can even cut stones with a sword if he puts an aura on his sword.

However, it is impossible for Andy to cut a stone like this without wearing an aura around the sword.

“If you cooperate, I will take the reward without regret.”

“Ugh… Ugh”

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Seeing Andy’s back as he walks away as if he was weak after declaring his surrender, her heart feels relieved.

It’s a harvest so good that you can forget all the unpleasant things that happened a little while ago.

‘Looking for collaborators inside the academy… A good start.’

Academy faculty members have become collaborators, so I’ll take care She

She’s going to be assigned to be in charge of freshmen, so she’s even better.

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Lucia Russell was waiting in her waiting room even though her exams were over.

When her exams are over, most of the time she goes out to get assigned to a dormitory, and even though she doesn’t have to stay inside, she doesn’t bother waiting at the door to the exam hall.

After such a commotion, her students who were waiting for her just looked at Lucia standing in front of her exam room and whispered in small whispers.

“Why aren’t you going?”

“Aren’t you waiting for him to come out?”

“Ah, that’s pitiful.”

It’s true that I’m waiting for that person, but that’s not the reason.

She wanted to apologize to the dwarf tribe who were hurt by her words, now inside her exam hall.

She said she was small because she was a dwarf… She must have been hurt.

In a society where there are people bigger than you, you must have been tired of hearing it.

Lucia Also, she reflected on herself that if someone called her as big as a bear, she would have been hurt, but she was too thoughtless.

I felt offended by the useless speculations going around, but I didn’t bother to correct it because it was difficult to talk to someone I didn’t know.

Just as the students in the waiting room cheered when Lucia smashed her golem, you can see the situation in the test room from inside the waiting room.

The dwarfs who entered the test site were confronting the newly replaced golems.

The replaced golem looked a bit different from the golems I had seen before because it had a pointed head.

As soon as the command to start the test is given, the golem’s head flashes and a beam of light is fired.

The golem was split in two.

“?!”

‘I couldn’t even see… ‘

“The golem self-destructed?”

“Then, how will the exam go, is it just the end?”

“Hey… I ate it on test day.”

“I wish I could be like that too… I’m lucky anyway”

To the other students, it seemed that the golem had just been destroyed by itself.

No. The golem didn’t self-destruct.

‘That dwarf destroyed the golem..!’

The dwarfs must have destroyed the golem.

With a speed that Lucia couldn’t even catch properly, she cut the golem in two faster than the golem could attack.

Looking at the cleanly cut golem, Lucia was perplexed.

That golem was trying to use .. No, the attack magic she used was obviously of a different class from the practice golem she was dealing with.

If you have the ability to break a golem in two with one shot…

It was the moment when he realized that his power, which had been holding back Lucia, who was confident in her strength, was not a misunderstanding.

She was ashamed of herself for not being able to deduce his skills from his perfect figure.

The dwarves quickly grow thick enough to be indistinguishable from dwarves if they are not managed as they are short, but he maintained a perfectly balanced body shape despite being a dwarf.

You must have put a lot of effort into it, just seeing it and thinking it’s cute…

What was even more absurd was what happened after that.

Looking at the broken golem, he stared at the ceiling once before returning from the test site to the waiting room.

And as soon as he came in, Lucia cheered up and opened her mouth.

“Hey… !”

I mustered up the courage to talk to him, but as soon as the door to the waiting room opened, he disappeared.

It’s literally gone.

Just like when he broke the golem in two, he quickly escaped the waiting room at a speed that was hard to catch with the naked eye.

Looking at the empty door, Lucia thought with dejected eyes.

‘Have you been hated?’

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After a candid conversation with Andy, she was trudging down the hallway to her dorm room.

Until I arrived here, I was obviously trying to take a break while watching the main character’s situation.

It’s nothing to brag about, but the Atlas life I’ve lived was a life of just running forward without a day off.

But now that the whereabouts of Hayden Parker, the main character, is unknown, there is no time to take a leisurely break.

We must find him as soon as possible.

The fact that the most important thing was not resolved made me as uncomfortable as having a fishbone stuck in my throat.

Yeah.. In fact, I thought it might not exist.

But at least you have to be sure.

If you can’t, at least you should be prepared for the upcoming threat.

If you can’t block it… Thousands of people will die.

“Ah… Thank you earlier!”

I was moving to the dormitory thinking deeply, but someone started talking to me.

The main character (estimated) was red-haired and late for the entrance ceremony.

“Did you attend the entrance ceremony well?”

“….Yes.”

Her face was dyed as red as her red hair, probably because she recalled the countless stares she felt when she opened the door and entered while the solemn performance was in progress.

I tried to find it, but it worked.

Let’s take this opportunity to ask your name, it’s the first time in a while… It’s not that there’s no chance that she could be ‘Hayden Parker’.

‘What will happen will happen.’

This was the sentence that Hayden, who couldn’t save her family, always wore on her lips as a habit.

“This is also a fate, so let’s say the same name.”

“Me… Me??”

“I am Atlas T… No Nemea. Atlas Nemea.”

“I… I am Amy Parker!! I say..”

When she heard the last name, she called out for joy inside.

The names are different, but Parker was right.

Amy’s blush-like face turned even redder, as if she was embarrassed to say it right away.

Looking at it this way, is it because red hair like Hayden is also her family?

So her family went first and Hayden hasn’t enrolled yet?

“Do you have an older brother or younger brother in your family… you?”

“Uh… I am the only daughter… ?”

Her head pounded at the mention of her other siblings.

“I can’t do that… even among my cousins… Will there be Have you ever heard of Hayden Parker?”

“Yes… I… Only my parents know people who share the same last name..”

‘It’s ruined.’

There is no Hayden Parker.

I don’t know what happened, but now it’s about 90% confirmed.

The main character… It was confirmed that there was no Devil Slayer in the world from the beginning who had to hunt demons.

The first invasion is about to begin soon… And we have to deal with it without him??