Academy Slave Instructor

161 – Where She Goes

Where She Goes

Marge, the priest of Reuteri Glue, looks up at her Abigail and smiles brightly.

Abigail, who stopped by to get her divine power and became friendly with her little Marge, often stopped by her luteri glue to meet her.

She didn’t really become a member of the church, but she kept her promise to come see her.

Marge greeted her with her beaming smile every time she came, and her Abigail spent her time with her.

She was an Abigail who didn’t say mass or pray, but Marge, unlike the other priests, doesn’t care.

She grumbles and is a bit rough, but she is warm inside and Marge is good at spending time with Abigail.

“Thank you for your help today.”

Abigail silently nods her head.

She is Abigail who doesn’t normally attend church events, but she was different today.

She was clumsy, but she took care of the children at the orphanage with Marge, and she also did the laundry and cleaning.

For Marge, it was a happy time that reminded her of her past with Abigail.

Marge, who comes only around her waist, walks through her chapel holding her Abigail’s hand tight.

Abigail raises her head as sunlight streams through the long, narrow towered windows and illuminates the statue of Lutera.

Through the dazzling light, you can see a faintly shadowed statue.

It’s not particularly smiling, but it’s a delicate sculpture full of benevolence.

It seems to be the work of the carpenter who consulted with Rai at the time.

“If I pray… Will Rutera… Hear my prayer?”

“Abigail-sama, will you pray? Of course. Ruthera-sama is a gracious person and always listens to my prayers.”

As Marge speaks confidently, sticking out her chest, Abigail watches for a moment before bending her one knee toward her statue.

Marge, who doesn’t get it out of her words but knows she has neither her affection for her god nor her faith in her, her eyes widen in surprise.

A panicked Marge soon comes to her senses and sits down next to her Abigail as she joins her outstretched hand and prays.

Ruthera’s doctrine emphasizes inner faith, so their prayers are always silent.

Marge slowly opens her eyes after offering a prayer saying that Abigail is able to pray to Lutera and she thanks her.

Still praying, Abigail’s face looks calm, but she looks sad somewhere.

After some time, her eyes open and her eyes meet her Marge’s.

“Abigail… What’s wrong?”

“No. Nothing happened.”

It’s a lie.

Marge wasn’t blind, but she knew that Abigail was lying on purpose.

She saw Abigail’s smile for the first time, but she was very bad at lying.

Marge, clutching her hands, hugs Abigail.

“If anything happens, tell me.”

“…… Ok.”

Abigail quietly strokes Marge’s back.

Marge is worried as she leaves her church, but she tries to see her off with a smile.

“Abigail, you must come again next time. By all means. I will wait!”

“Yes, I’ll come again.”

After smiling at Marge, Abigail turns around and walks away.

It was a promise I couldn’t keep, but I don’t want to worry that child.

Abigail, who was walking down her street, took her belongings that she had prepared in advance and went out of her castle gate.

From a distance, she turns around and looks at the whole view of Legandai.

You can see the academy buildings at the far end.

“……”

Abigail frowned at her silently, and she gritted her teeth and shook her head.

Abigail turns around as if shaking off her body and heads somewhere with a heavy gait.

* * *

“Um… Is sparring sparring today?”

Regarding Zeroa’s question, Rai stood crookedly and looked at the people gathered.

Because except for miracles, Rai tries not to use potions or healing magic.

It was because of Abigail’s existence that she was able to break her bones and cut her without hesitation, so that she could engage in sparring close to real combat.

I had missed it before, but this was the first time Abigail didn’t come out for 5 days in a row.

While Abigail was away, she only ordered simple sparring, Rai puts her arms around her and grins while contemplating.

“Let’s go catch it.”

“Yes? Do you know where it is?”

“Let’s go to the dormitory, there must be something.”

“Is there a separation between men and women? Men are not allowed to enter.”

“I’m a lecturer?”

At Rai’s answer, Zeroa shut her mouth.

“Who wants to beat Abigail?”

“Me.”

“Nanana, me!”

“Everyone is of the same mind.”

“I’m not…”

Philia and Diana raise her hands, and Zeroa looks at her and shakes her head, but is ignored.

So the four of them head to the dormitory.

“This is the first time I’ve been to the dormitory.”

“It’s my first time too.”

“It should be the first time.”

Philia looks around her and answers Rai.

Diana said while Rai shrugged her shoulders at the words that seemed to ask why she said something obvious.

“I’m used to coming here often. Abigail… Must be room 304 on the third floor.”

“Will I… Wait here?”

“Follow me. Go in at a time like this or sometime.”

Rai drags the shy Zero Ah inside her.

At first, she was a little throbbing, but Zeroa soon calms down when she sees the female dormitory, which looks just like the male dormitory.

Having visited the men’s dormitory from time to time, he feels the faint smell of sweat permeating the hallways as well as the women’s dormitory.

It was unavoidable as all the academy students were devoted to training.

“Why are you looking so disappointed, what did you expect?”

“Zero, hey.”

“No, I didn’t expect anything!”

Ray and Diana laugh mischievously as if they enjoy teasing Zeroa.

A few female academy students are surprised to find Rai, but when they see Diana and Philia behind her, they just say hello and pass by.

Since there are almost no school students in the dormitory during a break, Diana arrives at the door unhindered and turns her doorknob.

“I heard it’s not inside? Shall I drill it?”

“We’re not bullies. We shouldn’t be violent.”

Lai sits in front of a doorknob and puts a clip she doesn’t know where she got from into the keyhole.

“Aha, it doesn’t have to be violent.”

“It’s a great way to connect people in a world where people don’t trust each other.”

Just when you think you’re making a dog noise, the door opens with a click.

It is surprising that he has the skill to pick locks, but he is also fast at picking locks.

Ignoring the gaze that was staring at his back with thin eyes, Rai went inside.

The room was cleaner than expected.

There was exactly the basic furniture provided in the dormitory, nothing new or decorated by Abigail.

There are traces of her life, but clothes and things are clearly organized, so the usual rough Abigail doesn’t come to mind.

“Wow, I suddenly feel bad for not being more tidy than Abigail.”

Diana laughs and searches her room to her heart’s content.

Philia, who has no interest in spying on other people’s private lives, gets a subtle feeling as she silently looks around the room near her door.

There were traces of her life, but no human warmth remained in her room.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been here.”

Rai speaks as if representing her heart in her philia.

“Has Miss Abigail gone to work and she hasn’t come back yet?”

“I don’t think he went to work.”

Diana, who was sitting at her desk, answered Zeroa shaking her envelope.

Then he hands over the letter to Rai.

“I read it thinking it was a love letter, but this time I made a mistake. Read the lycan alone. I’ll be out.”

Diana with a serious expression takes Philia and Zeroa, who are curious, and goes outside.

Her Rai, who was staring at her, turns her attention to the letter in her hand.

The letter came from Elin, a self-proclaimed detective.

As she reads the contents, she immediately understands why Diana has a serious expression on her face.

In the three letters, Abigail’s past. And the target to liquidate the work is written.

Judging from the fact that the last letter came a month ago and that it says that he will contact you once he finds out the whereabouts, he has a hunch that this letter is probably not the end.

The last letter with the whereabouts of the target to take revenge will be in Abigail’s hands.

As Lai tries to leave with the letter in his arms with an expressionless expression, the staff guarding the entrance to the academy approaches the room.

“Hello, Instructor!”

“Yes, hello. What’s up?”

“Ah, actually, the instructor has no work, but there is a customer who wants to meet Miss Abigail. She hasn’t been contacted in particular, so I stopped by to check… But Miss Abigail seems to be absent.”

Her staff who peeked into her room greeted her and when she was about to leave, her rai called her.

“Isn’t a customer a white-haired kid wearing a hat?”

“Yes, that’s right. Does the instructor know someone?”

“I know that.”

Rai smiles wickedly and follows her staff to the entrance.

Elin, who was sitting leisurely in the waiting area for her entry permit, smiles brightly at Rai.

“Oh, Lai-san, it’s been a while. Zeroa-san also seems to have a clear vision…”

As soon as Elin saw her Rai’s smile, she turned around and ran away, but her Rai hand was faster than him.

Grabbing her ear, Rai puts her ear close to his mouth and speaks in a horrifying voice.

“Why are you running away?”

“Yeah, it’s because Mr. Rai is making a scary face! You’re mad, I didn’t do anything!”

At Ellin’s words, Philia and Diana tilted their heads.

There was no blood coming out of his body, and his smile looked the same as usual.

Feeling that they were close enough to notice even the slightest difference, the two looked into each other’s eyes and then turned their heads away.

“You didn’t do anything? What’s the letter to Abigail?”

“That’s… A request. Please call Abigail! I’m sorry!”

“She’s doing this now that Abigail is gone.”

At Rai’s words, Elin is taken aback.

“Huh?! Then… You’ve already left. I had more information to tell you…”

“Tell me. And guess where he went.”

“No, I can’t tell you the customer’s information with my mouth watering.”

She was Elin, who had been intimidated just a moment ago, but she shows a professional attitude and she firmly refuses.

She was Elin, who vowed that even if she got angry, she would never say anything, but when she saw Rai’s bright smile, chills went down her spine.

“Could you lend me one glove?”

“Use mine.”

When Zeroa gives her gloves, Rai puts them on her hand and asks Elin.

“Do you like bathrooms? Do you like stables?”

“… I don’t like either of them… Woah, no one likes the bathroom, right?”

“Yes, then it’s a stable.”

* * *

“Huh-gyak-gyakya! Mr. Lai, Mr. Lai! Reach! Reach! Argh! Smell!”

Elin, who was grabbed by the back of her head by Rai, hurriedly exclaimed while holding her horse dung in front of her eyes.

Feeling the warmth rising from the sh*t she just wrapped up, Elin struggles in fright, but she can’t get out of Rai’s grasp.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s warmer and softer than I thought.”

“Shi, no-! Mr. Lai, this is not it, I’d rather just torture, torture.”

“I’m not a violent person. Now, take a deep breath and don’t talk about it because it might get in your mouth-“

“aaagh-!! I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you.”

Her Elin, her eyes tightly closed, calls out to her, and her Rai, who stops her movement, lifts her up.

Freed from Rai, Elin sighs in her relief, she says.

“How could a man do such a dirty thing?”

“Looks like you haven’t experienced it yet.”

“No, I mean… Abigail.”

Elin, who had been rolling her eyes back and forth, turned her words away as she was in danger of getting her hair caught again.

“I can’t help it. And personally, there’s something I want to ask Mr. Rai about Mr. Abigail. I’m sorry, but Mr. Zeroa and the others can step down? This is Mr. Abigail’s personal past.”

Seeing Elin’s serious expression, Diana turned her body first.

When she seems to show her curiosity or play a prank on her, she leaves first, so Philia looks at Diana and Elin alternately and moves her place.

Zero Ah also follows and when they are left alone, Elin takes her paper from her arms and gives it to Rai.

“This is a request that Mr. Abigail asked me to investigate.”

Rai silently reads the contents of the paper and listens to Elin’s explanation.

What Abigail wants, what Elin has investigated so far, and even the new facts she was trying to convey to Abigail.

After hearing it all, Rai frowned as if he was in trouble.

“I came here because I thought it would be better to face-to-face and explain it than to send it through a letter. It’s a request, but it’s not good for my actions to result in the birth of an indiscriminate revenge demon.”

Elin said with a bitter expression.

“Abigail must have gone to the Bell Union.”

“Yes, and the first destination is probably to find a mercenary named Jack One-Eye.”

“Is this the teacher I met when I was a mercenary? It must be to listen to the local situation and get help.”

“That’s right. This is the location of Jack One-Eyed. My real name is Khalid Augustine.”

Elin tears the paper from her notebook and hands it to Rai.

She not only listed Jack’s whereabouts, but also a list of people at the Bell Union who could be of help.

These informants are nothing more than property, so when Rai looks at them, Elin smiles.

“Did you pay back the debt you lost to Mr. Lai with this? No, you owe it to me now. hehehe-“

“Come on, put it on for now.”

Rai stood up, tapping Elin’s head, and put the paper in her bosom.

It was time to bring back the disciple who had run away blinded by revenge.