Avoid Former Co-Workers

146 – 146. Battle of the Road School Powers (3)

“No, how many times do I have to say it for you to understand? I’m a Levant student, so don’t stretch out and go back!”

“I’m not here to stretch, I’m here to get my grades!”

He is arguing with the professor in charge of this class, who holds the title of professor even if he doesn’t actually teach.

At first glance… Seeing that it’s called a war of power, it must be a student, but it’s not really pushed behind.

“Oh my head… Didn’t you do your research in Les Brandts properly?”

“What investigation?”

“There is no answer for Sirach Road School! I don’t know about the other three places, but this is a place where proper training is not possible because it is regionally remote!”

But just when he introduced himself.

-‘Ranked 11th in level E in the Levant Academy page ranking.’

Lana listened carefully. E grade, 11th place.

‘E grade 11th place… Even if I came in B grade or A grade, it wouldn’t be enough!’

So Lana couldn’t help but grow frustrated and bit her lip.

Although it has only been a few weeks since I entered this school, I got a rough idea of how the road school works.

Aid allocated by Les Brandts in proportion to number of students and hours of attendance. Based on this, they are just holding their ground.

Even if the goods arrive, their actual use is limited, and the rest are sold to the warehouse or smuggled out.

Sirah Road School receives only the support of the administration of the principality, and students and professors have no choice but to goof around.

E grade in such a yard…?

This rotten school wouldn’t even be eaten at that level. Probably the other half as well…

“Wake up your dreams. Do you think you can take these guys and defeat even one monster?”

“…”

While Junon and the professor were arguing, that one word struck Lana in the head with a hammer.

“No matter how hard you try, nothing will change even if you teach from now on, who is only Page Rank E Rank. There’s no way that the guys who were like this before I came will change anything meaningful after two weeks!”

I couldn’t deny it.

Faction warfare is basically based on students’ skills, so what can you do in just two weeks?

And the next words stabbed Lana deep in her chest.

“If there was a guy from this school who wanted to go back to Les Brandts, he would have made an effort. At least, no one was like that! They’re all hopeless scoundrels!”

I want to deny it, but it is 100% correct.

If he had tried to do something himself instead of relying on the professor at Road School, he would have done it right away.

Also, if you participate in this power battle and show outstanding results, you may be offered a re-admission from Levant.

The only one who denied that and waited for the professor’s instructions was none other than himself.

The starting point is wrong. It wasn’t that I was tied to the noose of dropping out, I went in to be tied alone.

But… There’s no way I can accept that easily.

“Cee!!”

“Heh, heh, heh…! Somewhere a professor says, but a student rudely runs out! Ughhh. Tsk tsk. Lana, tsk. Lana, tsk. Lana, tsk. She’s the kind of guy who won’t get into Levant for the rest of her life!”

Lana passed by Junon and ran endlessly through her hallway.

No one asked where she had gone or what she was doing. Except for Junon.

“…”

“Don’t let me have vain hopes, let’s go. It looks like the page ranking is also E, doesn’t it matter anyway? Hmm.”

Junon, who had been quietly watching Lana’s back, slowly approached the professor.

“What, what!”

I wonder why he felt such a sense of intimidation from his cold face, but the professor’s heart sank without even realizing it.

Then I was immediately grabbed by the collar, and my heart actually fluttered.

“I’m not a new professor like you. I’m just a pessimistic old man.”

“This, this guy? Whoops!”

As the collar that had been held by Junon lost strength, he was immediately thrown down.

The professor raised his eyes to keep from losing momentum, but when he faced those jet-black eyes, he gulped down his saliva.

“Never set foot in this classroom again. I will teach your classmates.”

A voice drowned in anger echoed through the classroom.

***

“Damn, where the hell have you been?”

While arguing with the professor, I felt eyes on me from the side, so I glanced at it.

Somehow, that gaze was not pretty. However, when I looked closely, the girl’s face was one I knew all too well.

Every time he heard the professor’s voice, his face contorted miserably.

That’s probably a sense of embarrassment.

I am angry at the professor who keeps saying that I can’t do anything, but it must have been my anger at myself for not doing anything.

“What did he say his name was… Oh, yes!”

Lana. It was definitely that name.

“Lana! Where are you! Say something!”

A sense of shame is a very frightening feeling.

It’s not even a thing to shake one’s reason, it’s a dangerous emotion that breaks a person’s will and makes them lethargic.

And the deeper the sense of self-doubt, and the longer the time spent confined without overcoming the sense of shame, the more impoverished humans become.

Those who are engulfed in that emotion cause a sense of contempt for themselves, and soon after, the paralyzed reason commits a task without being able to overcome the urge.

Lana probably wants to prove the professor’s words by now, so she’s already invisible.

“Answer me, Lana! Where are you!!”

She wasn’t supposed to be tied down to that idiot old man. I should have jumped out right away…!

“Lana! Where are you… Kuwak!”

“Kyaaah…!”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t see the way ahead, but I’m in a bit of a hurry right now, so excuse me…?”

Wait, the voice of the person I just bumped into was a woman. I hope Lana…

Thinking, she turned her head, but it can’t be such a lucky situation. However, she was quite unexpected.

“Ouch… Finally found Junon.”

Gray-white hair braided on one side.

This voice is somewhat calm and quiet, careful yet somewhat powerless.

The blue ribbon she always wore in her pigtails was a face she hadn’t seen in quite a while.

“Adele…?”

“Umm… It’s been a while, isn’t it?”

“Uh, uh uh… Yeah.”

I never thought I’d see this face here. However, I feel like I should apologize first.

“Sorry, Adele. It’s hard to explain, but I have to find someone now, so I’ll hold off on saying hello!”

“Uh, uh uh? Juno-on! Wait a minute!”

I can’t help it because I’m busy looking for a student who might be doing something wrong…!

I apologized straight to Adele afterwards… Huh?

Adele passed me before I knew it. He even used magic to directly block my path.

“If I’m looking for people, I’ll be faster than myself.”

“Oh?”

“I was once an academy student too, right?”

Adele’s magical power creates wind.

The magic flowing from the small wand draws a magic circle, and the condensed wind materializes three sparrow-shaped entities.

Adele is an elemental wind mage, and a support position that condenses and applies it in a certain form.

As a wizard, she was someone who could also use sensory magic.

That’s right. Asking for help is much more efficient than chasing after you alone like this.

“North, northwest, northeast. Can you send it in three directions? I’m a little shorter than you, and I’m a female student with bangs pinned up instead of ribbons. She also has freckles.”

“Leave it to me.”

Close your eyes and grant the sparrows another sensory magic.

The sparrows will partially assimilate with Adele and become their eyes.

Within a few minutes, Adele opened her eyes.

“Northwest. It’s not too far from here. Stay alone. I’ll guide you.”

“Thank you, Adele.”

“Eh, yes. I can’t miss it…”

“Yes. I’ll have to go soon.”

You’ve gone too far. Even though she said she was alone, she hadn’t had an accident yet.

I decided to prioritize soothing Lana’s mental state.

***

-‘Wake up your dreams. Do you think you can take these guys and beat even one of them?’

No.

‘Even if I teach from now on, nothing will change. There’s no way the guys who were like this before I came will see any significant change after two weeks!’

No!

– ‘If there was a guy who wanted to go back to Les Brandt at this school, he would have made an effort himself. At least, nobody was like that! These are all hopeless beggars!’

No!

The professor said he was someone who would never change no matter what he did.

He said that there was no way that there would be any significant change.

It’s a hopeless pit… He said.

I had to deny it.

“It won’t work if you show it yourself…!!”

You just need to erase the stigma of dropping out of Lebbrandt.

You just have to work hard and make changes.

Lana bought one of her swords with all her money. And she ran like mad to the place where she could meet the Witchbeast.

If you directly beat the beast and drag the corpse back.

I can deny everything about that professor. Some say that he is a hopeless loser, and some say that he is a dropout who did not make any effort.

Chigrak- Chigrak-

A stump is approaching this way with a bad look.

It was the biggest old tree, said to eat the birds in the area and even touch the finely raised livestock.

‘Okay. If I catch something like that, I won’t be able to say anything.’

My hands and feet are shaking. The Witchbeast I encountered for the first time in a place other than Talbrut Arc was more terrifying than I thought.

Even so, Lana has no intention of going back. Even now, as long as she gets out of Stump’s attack range, she can get out without difficulty.

“Hiyaaa!!!”

Lana charging at her stump with her sword drawn.

She was already in a state where her impulses, fueled by her sense of self-doubt, outweighed her fears that she might lose her life.

She didn’t back down like that, and the result of her attack was that she was horribly hit by a branch whip that hit her side, and her future rolled on the ground.

“Huh up…!”

A heavy breath pushing in with the pain of her broken ribs. Now, Lana felt something in her.

When the sound of a tree branch gets closer and the size of a tree monster larger than a human body approaches, that feeling blooms.

Horror. It was a feeling called.

Sensing that the fear of death is slowly approaching, he tries to move his body, but his legs do not budge.

The whip of the branch of her old tree that made her roll to the ground comes flying once again.

If you hit from the right to the left a while ago, this time you will be struck from the top to the bottom.

“Mom… I’m sorry…”

I was arrogant. It was premature and stupid.

There was nothing wrong with the professor in charge.

-‘Wake up your dreams. Do you think you can take these guys and beat even one of them?’

A hopeless loser who can’t beat even a single monster. Realizing that it was me, I closed my eyes.

But why?

A light suddenly shines over her head. With a crackling sound.

“Uh…?”

The girl narrows her eyes. With her narrowed eyes, she realized that something was missing on the ground.

The shadow has disappeared.

The shadow made by the branches of the old tree that covered the girl’s body in darkness was taken down from above her. But was that all?

“Did you think it ended there because you were lacking?”

The shadow created by the branches of the old tree did not disappear.

It was smashed.

The one that shattered her ribs and blew away a human body.

As of now, they are scattered on the ground in pieces. The only ones here are herself and the man who just raised her voice.

Lana slowly raised her head.

Eventually, the girl raises her head and faces her jet-black hair that cannot be covered even by the sunlight.

“If you realize that you are lacking, you have to learn and solve it. Don’t do this kind of thing again.”

No. Rather, it seemed that the light of the sun had created his halo.