Academy Slave Instructor

17 – Cracks

Cracks

There is no need to clean up the cots made of natural materials, so if there are 4 of 7 of them, all you need to do is remove one tent.

As Joe 7 arrives in front of her ethyla in first place, sesset looks at her with her expectant eyes and holds out her hands.

“You came in 1st place, but don’t you have any tokens?”

“No. Just wait.”

“Sheesh- I should have rested a little longer.”

Sesset turned her head while clicking her tongue and waited patiently for the other group to come. Everyone seemed crazy because she was running out of time, but she seemed to think that 10 minutes was surprisingly enough for her and all the groups gathered in front of Etila within the time.

“We will march in order, starting with the first group of Class A. Since it is a covert movement, we will not carry a torch, but since it is a training exercise, we will not stop the conversation. We will move. Follow me.”

The students hated Etila’s words. I can’t even use mana, but I have to go through a dense forest without fire. The tall trees almost blocked out the moonlight, and the ground was rugged.

A long procession is formed in two columns, and when the group march begins, music is heard from here and there. It is difficult to pass through a pitch-dark forest where only the back of the head of the person in front is visible.

“I can’t see anything, but I’m sure I’m on my way, right?”

“The lead instructor won’t have to get lost.”

Rai responds calmly, but the academy students, who had no way of marching without light at night, are shaken by the limited vision and inconvenient movement. As Arya catches Sesset who nearly trips over a tree root, she asks Rai with her disgruntled face.

“Laykang, do you have any tips on how to march comfortably?”

“The world isn’t that easy. If you don’t have mana, you’ll have to endure the inconvenience.”

“But please tell me something.”

When Sesset asks Diana to copy her nickname for her Rai, Rai looks at Zeroa.

Her gaze asked me to tell her the answer, but Zeroa just innocently blinked. Why? She replied, and Rai sighed and looked at the academy students behind her.

It is said that conversation is possible, but everyone is having a hard time with the unfamiliar night march, and they do not exchange opinions properly. Behind Team 8, where Philia is, the academy students from Class C are looking at Rai as if expecting something.

“As long as you can’t use mana, there’s no such thing as magic tips. You guys are trained as commanders, so you have a habit of looking around, but here you just walk while looking at the back of the person in front of you and under your feet. “At least you won’t break your ankle or fall off.”

Philia nods her head at the small but good advice to avoid injury at least. She, including herself, is walking around looking around where everyone here can’t even see.

If you focus on the person in front of you, your field of vision will narrow, but you will definitely be safe. And since she has less in her field of vision, she suffers less mental fatigue than being vigilant in the dark.

As Philia thinks it’s good advice and focuses on Zeroa’s backpack and feet in front of her, her gill bard murmurs softly.

“Pretending to be cool is a piece of advice that anyone can give.”

Filia’s head turned at his words.

But this time he was close to the 7th group, so Zeroa and Aria in the front row also see him. It was clear that Rai didn’t react, judging from the fact that Cesset was also looking at Arya with her head pulled out in front of her.

“Sorry. I’m out of line. I’ll be careful.”

“It’s not Philia’s job to apologize. Shouldn’t an apology be Gilbard’s job?”

Gibbard, who flinched at the people’s gaze, saw Arya with cold eyes and was so scared that he couldn’t say anything. When Philia apologized, Cesset frowned and spoke sharply.

The faces of the academy staff and Aria, who are evaluating from afar, enter Gilbard’s gaze, who was only rolling his eyes here and there with his head blank and white.

“My, who should I ask for permission to express my thoughts? Honestly, that’s advice anyone can give.”

“You’ve been looking around like a chased dog until you’ve heard the advice anyone can give you. Is your neck okay? I was afraid I might bang my head so hard I might break it.”

When Gilbard pretends to be strong and refuses to change her opinion, Sesset laughs at her and mocks her.

As the taunted Gilbard tried to approach Seset with her face on her face, Philia raised her hand to stop him.

“Don’t break the ranks. And you were wrong first.”

“Whose side are you on right now? If you like team 7, go to team 7.”

“Wow – childish. If you like group 7, go to group 7~”

“Three three.”

When Sesset mocks her again by repeating Gilbard’s words, Philia calls her name and sends her eyes telling her not to do it. When Sesset, who had kept her mouth shut because she didn’t like her, Philia looked at Gilbard again.

“Relax, I’m marching.”

“So…”

“Come to your senses.”

When Gilbard felt a strong force in Philia’s arm that was blocking his body, he couldn’t continue her words and shut her mouth. When he became quiet, Philia lowered her hand and walked silently, focusing on Zeroa’s back again.

Gibbard had a disgruntled expression on his face, but he kept his head down and said nothing, just walking.

The academy students around Rai quietly followed his advice, and although they did not listen to Rai’s advice due to the distance, as time passed, the academy students who got used to marching naturally followed his advice and walked with the backs of the people in front of them.

The long march, which makes one wonder when it will end, ends around the break of dawn.

In the wide open space where the academy students could gather, Layla stood upright.

“Thanks for your hard work, Instructor Etila.”

“Yes, I think I can get some rest now. Please work hard, Instructor Layla. Wake up in Class A, do your best.”

Ethila handed over her academy students to Leyla and stretched her to another place.

After staying up all night and moving, the academy students gathered in an empty lot where they could rest and were relieved that they would be able to rest even a little bit, but Leila said calmly.

“You were all scattered in a surprise attack while moving the rendezvous point.”

“……”

Without disappointing the expectations of the academy students who thought they were starting training right away, Layla continued her words.

“Those of you who are separated from the main force must hurry up and rejoin the main force. The main force holding the flag will be in the forest here, so join us in two days.”

As Leyla speaks her words, the staff member next to her raises her flag.

As the academy students check the flag, a white light appears around the staff holding the flag and they move in space.

“The main force is about 10,000 strong. It continues to move in search of a terrain to set up a barracks on. You have two ways: follow the trail of the moving main force, or find the place where the base camp was built. Whichever you choose, everyone. Of freedom.”

The staff distributes maps to each group. This time, when the 7th group was given a complete map, Zeroa was delighted, but Cesset and Rai smiled bitterly.

To say that we are given the same conditions as others means that there is still something left. It would be difficult to find a moving main unit, but a condition is added here.

“All the captains, please come forward.”

She didn’t have to worry about what else would be left behind her thanks to Leyla’s cool pace.

As Sesset goes forward and waits, someone approaches Rai and talks to her.

“Hello, Instructor Rai.”

“Oh, no princess, she said she wanted to see me.”

When her 6th princess, Emilia, whom she saw from afar, approached, Zeroa panicked and tried to kneel her, but she was stopped by her.

“It’s okay. Zeroa-kun. I’m an academy student at the same Legandia Academy as Zeroa-kun. I’m a classmate with you all.”

“Ha, but…”

When Emilia calls her name, Zeroa, who stops in her sloppy posture, cannot come to her senses in her embarrassment and joy.

“It’s okay. Please be comfortable with me. Long time no see, Aria.”

“Yes, Emilia-sama. I’m glad you look healthy.”

Emilia and Emily, who are related to each other, greet each other formally.

However, after a polite greeting, Emilia looks at her rai.

“So what do you want to do? Tell me.”

Rai had already seen Emilia several times during her lectures. She was Emilia, who always asked her to be comfortable with her, but among her instructors, the only one who didn’t treat her with respect was her Lai.

“Rai, she came because she thought it might be possible to become a team with the instructor.”

“You sent Diana yesterday, so did you come yourself this time?”

“You have to be at that level for the instructor to serve you.”

“She’s a humble instructor, but she’s pretty passionate.”

“She’s nothing special. If I had to choose one person out of all the people here, I’d choose Instructor Rai without hesitation.”

Rye laughed lightly, and Emilia laughed too.

As a direct descendant of the emperor, Emilia knows of Rai’s past, the Demon of the World. She was the Empire’s greatest foe, and none of them matched her abilities.

“I’m sorry, but I’m with them right now.”

“I got kicked out. I can’t help it. I hope next time I get a chance, I can do it together.”

Even though she came looking for her, Emilia shyly withdrew. Zeroa tilted her head at the ambiguous attitude of whether she really came to take her to her group, and Aria stared blankly at Emilia’s back as she withdrew.

While talking with Emilia, Layla tells her academy students in a loud voice that she has conveyed all of her messages to her supervisors.

“You guys were lucky enough to survive the raid, but supplies were lost in a desperate situation, and the captains chose which supplies to lose. Group A, group 1 half of the supplies except food, group 2 half of the supplies except food, 3 Half breakfast…”

At Layla’s announcement, the academy students looked at each other with dazed expressions.

It took a long time to explain the situation, but to sum it up, it was about whether to throw away food or equipment. Besides, she let the captain decide without even giving her time to consult with her members.

The foremen lined up next to her don’t look good, as if they’ve become criminals even though it’s not their fault.

Every student at the academy is either happy or frustrated by the leader’s decision.

The rations were only enough for 3 days, so most of them chose to lose their equipment, but sometimes a group chose rations.

“The stamina gain is at the end of the day.”

While Zeroa worried about her supplies she would lose, Rai regretted that she didn’t gain much from her stamina.

Each group is called and the employees take supplies from the members, but Group 7, to which Lai belongs, passes by without being called. The academy students thought it was strange and looked at Rai, but he still listened to Layla.

“I will announce half of the supplies except food for Class G, Group 8, and finally, Class B, Group 7’s decision. Group 7 loses all selected supplies, not half, due to the penalty entered by the instructor.”

At Layla’s words, Zeroa opens her mouth wide in surprise. Even the students at the academy thought that this was a bit harsh and looked at her with sympathetic eyes.

Standing with a trembling expression on her face, she is not making eye contact with Joe 7.

“Chapter 7 lost all their food.”

After Layla finished talking, her staff came over and took out the food from Zeroa’s backpack. Most of what was inside was food, so his backpack became slim as if telling the current situation.

“Health gain is back.”

At Rai’s carefree words, Zeroa looked at him with a devastated expression. The captains standing in a line next to Leila return to the crew, and the downcast three-set approaches the seventh group.

Three-set, who was walking while looking at the floor, stopped in awe when his teammates’ eyes met, but soon smiled awkwardly.

“If I had known it would be like this, I would have secretly skipped something on the march.”

There was no rest during the night march. In a state of starvation without eating breakfast, three-set avoids their eyes in a situation where there is no food or even water to drink.

Rai sees Aria through her silent crew.

“What would you have done?”

“… I would have thrown away my gear. Even if I lost all of my supplies, I still have my personal gear.”

“Zeroa, you.”

“Is it food…?”

“Any questions?”

“No, no. Food. Food.”

When Rai asked while glaring at him, Zeroa was taken aback and answered again. After hearing the two of them answer, Rai looks at Sesseth, and she gulps her saliva and says:

“It’s the captain’s decision. Don’t be dissatisfied, Raikang.”

“Who said what? Good job.”

“Huh? Aren’t you angry?”

“You didn’t lose anything, so why am I angry? You should curse the academy for doing this.”

Seeing that she doesn’t seem angry, Sesset looks at her for a moment and then raises her head.

“I’m sorry, everyone. Even if we don’t have anything, we can live happily.”

When Sessett, who has returned to her original mood, asks why Rai chose her food, she looks at Zero Ah and says.

“Because I believed in Zeroa.”

“Yes? Me?”

“Yeah, you know a lot about forests. He told me a lot about edible plants.”

“But even so…”

“And the equipment we have right now is the essential equipment selected and selected by Lycan, so I thought it was absolutely necessary.”

As Sesset speaks with her confidence, Rai strokes her hair.

“Good job except for the word lycan. I would have kicked you in the ass if I had lost my equipment.”

“Hee hee hee – So you’re going to kick her ass, Aria?”

After hearing her answer, Rai turns her attention to Arya, and she flinches and covers her hips with both hands. Zeroa couldn’t hold back her laughter because she was so cute, and Aria, feeling embarrassed by her, awkwardly corrected her posture, and Rai rushed at her.

Aria running away in surprise, Lai chasing after her, and Zero A and Sesset laughing behind her do not look serious.

Gilbard, who was by her side, grumbles when Philia watches Group 7, who seems to be friendly despite facing great difficulties.

“Why did you choose food?”

Philia also chose food, so the food for 8 trillion was reduced by half. The already small amount of food has decreased even more, so now even if you save money, the food is not enough.

“The unchanging opposite point is the wide distribution of vegetation. Enough food is available.”

“Did you even get ranger training?”

“No, but I’ve only roughly learned how to identify edible plants.”

When she gathered at the rendezvous yesterday, Philia noticed something strange in group 7. Group 7 was eating different food from people, and fresh-looking plants and mushrooms seemed to have been collected on the way.

With the addition of supplies and gatherings, the table of the 7 groups was more generous than the other groups, and the three sets who ate their fill were able to considerably preserve her stamina.

Gathering is not difficult to think of, but distinguishing edible creatures was difficult without knowledge.

A group with no one familiar with the forest was a dream come true, and most of the groups that made the choice to throw away food had academy students who knew the forest well.

If you have enough food to eat, you will benefit greatly. Feeling satisfied not only with her physical strength but also with her mentality, Philia, thinking that her efficiency could improve further, visited Zeroa at her assembly point and asked her about her edible plants.

She can’t learn everything in a short time, Philia, she only learned about the plants that fit her criteria.

She learned only a few of the plants that were common in the Unchanging Forest, and that were easy to distinguish and had no similar poisonous plants. While she was marching, as the sun began to rise and her eyesight cleared, she practiced searching for plants. Did

She is a beginner, but after learning from Zeroa, she found out that there were a lot of plants that caught her eye unexpectedly. Philia decided to throw away her food.

“What are you going to do with what you just learned yesterday?! Besides, you have to find the main unit, but you’re going to waste time gathering?”

“Right, I’ll spend my time gathering.”

“You say it proudly. Can you help with clumsy knowledge?!”

“Now, don’t fight too much. Actually, I don’t understand, but it’s already been decided, so let’s move on. There’s no time to be angry.”

When Gilbard gets angry, Ron intervenes from the side. Grabbing Gibbard about to scream and dragging him back, Ron tells him something to suppress her emotions and approaches Philia.

“You have an idea, so you would have done that, but I also think it’s better to lose equipment. My shoulders hurt because the backpack is so heavy. I’m envious of Team 7.”

“Okay, let’s throw away our equipment too.”

“What?”

“What are you saying?! If that’s the case, you should have chosen equipment instead of food from the start!”

Gilbard, whom Ron had barely suppressed, approached Philia with a fiery rage.

When her mood wasn’t good, Somneri stayed still while watching her, and Philia spoke calmly without changing her expression.

“Because there’s something we can’t afford to lose in our gear. All we’re going to throw away is two tents and tools to manage our gear.”

“……”

“I learned a lot while watching Group 7 from the side. No, I learned a lot not only from Group 7, but also from the groups around us. I’m going to throw away my equipment and lighten my luggage.”

“Weren’t we supposed to share opinions together?”

Ron asked with an awkward smile, and Philia nodded her head.

“That’s right. I can’t help losing supplies due to the leader selection, but I’m presenting my opinion now. Let’s save our health by discarding unnecessary equipment.”

“Let’s throw away food and equipment? What kind of stupid things are you talking about?”

“I don’t think I’m stupid because I’m just throwing away useless things.”

“That’s your idea.”

When Gilbard irritates her with a sarcasm, Philia, who takes her objections, looks at Ron. Receiving her gaze, he glances at Gilbard, then smiles bitterly as if he’s sorry, disapproving of Philia’s opinion.

When the two objected, Somneri quietly raised his hand in objection, and when everyone objected, Gilbard spoke triumphantly.

“Do you still think you’re right?”

“Not yet. But if everyone opposes, let’s leave with the equipment.”

Everyone objected to Philia, but she calmly stood up without changing her expression.

I objected to appease the fiery angry Gilbard, but when I tried to put on my backpack, Ron, who had a heavy shoulder, shook her head and followed Philia. Quickly chases after the two.

Left alone with her, Gilbard cries when Philia looks at her from afar, then gritting her teeth and chasing after her.