I’m a Hero, but I Gave Up Saving the World

20 – I’m in Yongsan, what are you guys going to do?

“Did you call, Professor?”

“Five. Are you Petra? He said he was a teaching assistant for 10 years, so I imagined him to be a student, but he is younger than I thought.”

“Professor, you are really young.”

I wasn’t kidding.

Petra, who saluted politely, carefully observed Faust, who had risen to a tremendous throne as the lord of the mage.

young.

was very young

No matter how young you are, you are under the age of 30.

It is common for old veterans to take the place of the Mage Tower Master, who can rise only after studying magic for a long time and making great achievements in practice and theory.

Giotto Giobert is now 67 years old, and it was almost his 60th birthday when he became the head of the tower.

However, Faust has already achieved great success at the same age as Petra. No, she might be younger than Petra.

During the holidays, I ask my relatives, “When are you going to become a professor?” “How long are you going to be a teaching assistant who earns less than 10 shillings a year?” “Then, how do you get married?” Petra, who suffers from nagging, couldn’t help but feel jealous of a person who rose to prominence at a young age like Faust.

Besides, this person didn’t make any particularly outstanding achievements.

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Just because he’s a hero, he used that power to take over the mage tower.

‘This person is the same… Lucy Von Letlea’

The former hero had also visited the academy before. Everyone was uncomfortable because he came in the name of studying the ecology of the continent of Pangea and interrupted the study atmosphere while drinking.

In particular, Petra, an assistant teacher, had to take care of Kwak Dong-soo instead of the great professors who had to keep their bodies in shape, but the drunk Kwak Dong-soo suddenly grabbed her breasts and committed blatant sexual harassment.

“Oooh, do you have big breasts? Isn’t it a waste to study at school with such big breasts? Save some talent!”

Shocked so much, Petra shed tears, but instead of receiving help, she was scolded by those around her for ruining the atmosphere.

You probably don’t want to offend the hero’s feelings. Everyone.

In the end, the case ended with Petra apologizing to Kwak Dong-soo on the contrary. That day, I cried so much that I couldn’t fall asleep.

‘In the end, this person is just trash who takes advantage of his position as a warrior… Sigh… Should I have just quit the real academy? But I’ve only done this for 10 years. If I stop doing this, what am I going to do? I gave up my youth because I wanted to become a professor somehow. I can’t even get a boyfriend… Actually, it was very popular. I got a proposal too. I came this far refusing that it was not the time to date. If I can’t become a professor here, my life is over.’

No matter how trashy Faust is, he’s still better than Giotto Geobert… The reason why Petra was here was the thought and the expectation that the possibility of becoming a professor would be slightly higher in a special tower with fewer people.

“——Academy graduation grades are excellent. Upon graduation, he was promoted to an intermediate wizard, and a few years later he became an advanced wizard. Is this fairly fast? Even so, he is only staying as an assistant until he turns 30… I haven’t published any papers for a long time at the academy.”

“that’s… !!”

When Faust pointed out the blanks on the resume, Petra was furious.

I wrote a lot of papers.

Countless! Because I only ate and did research!

But everything was taken away! To that bald bastard!

That… To the Archmage who has tremendous power.

Even if I appealed to someone about the damage, no one helped. He often pretended not to hear with an awkward smile. no one… I don’t want to pretend to be with the owner of the mage tower.

Although that’s common sense.

“Why? Do you have something to say?”

“… no… ”

Not wanting to give her an image of cursing her old boss from the start, Petra chose to remain silent. I couldn’t hide the miserable and mournful expression.

“If you look at the student records from your school days, it says that you were very popular with professors because you followed the rules to the point of being naive and took the lead by example, taking on difficult and dirty work. On the other hand, because of his inflexible personality, he often fought with students. I know roughly what kind of character he is. He is the type not to do politics.”

“So I am trying to become a professor at the academy.”

“Then this special tower must have been very disappointing. As you can see, there are only four students here, and there are only you and me on the faculty.”

“… I guess so.”

I kind of expected it. It’s a special tower that isn’t popular, but it was obvious that this jockey would be more terrible.

There are two reasons.

First of all, it is because of the notoriety of former warrior Kwak Dong-soo. After he became a warrior, he enjoyed drinking and going out, causing trouble wherever he went, and the same was true here at the academy. Petra wasn’t the only one having a bad experience. I couldn’t even shout because the opponent was a hero, but inside, everyone hated Kwak Dong-soo.

So, the students and staff of the academy basically had an antipathy toward the hero.

The second reason is that he was afraid of Faust’s retaliation.

A number of Academy employees were indirectly responsible for branding Faust as a thesis plagiarist and expelling him.

If you apply the logic of an earring if you wear it on your ear or a nose ring if you wear it on your nose, you could have accused all students of the school as accomplices.

Then, when rumors spread that the king of Aurelia had been beaten so badly by Faust that he lived cleaning up horse manure in the stables, everyone was disgusted with fear that he had returned to the academy to seek revenge.

It is not strange to say that the consensus that Faust should not stand out as much as possible spreads among students and professors alike.

So, people have no choice but to gather.

“Magi Tower has over 800 students and close to 100 faculty members. The new tower is about one-third the size of it, but it is still overwhelmingly larger than ours. Obviously, the magic towers are on equal terms, but if this is the case, we will become an institution that is as strong as we can be. Right Petra?”

“For now, yes. It is true that the current academy revolves around the Magi Tower.”

“Why did you volunteer for the special tower despite knowing that?”

“… It’s because I’m tired of living in the Magi Tower.”

“Is that all there is to it?”

“Yes?”

“It’s not an academy, but I’ve been involved in education for a long time. so i know Throwing away a boss who has served you for 10 years is a difficult choice to make without a good reason. tell me What is the real reason?”

“there… that’s… .”

Giotto Giobert is the most powerful person in the academy.

The great sage is actually a symbolic being and has little involvement in practice.

Petra knew very well that no one would take her side if she gossiped about the powerful person who could control the lives of more than 80% of the academy students.

Petra said, “It’s okay, so tell me. I was on your side,” he recalled. What he secretly whispered to his senior was conveyed intact to Giotto the next day.

A senior with an innocent face came to visit with Giotto.

“Professor is not like that. Petra you misunderstood. Right, Professor?”

When I said —, I really wanted to kill myself.

In the end, people are on the side of the powerful.

There is no one in the world who will fight Giotto Giobert for a mere teaching assistant.

Furthermore, isn’t this person an unconscionable warrior who usurped his position by force of strikes?

How can you expect help from someone like this?

“It’s okay, so tell me, Petra. Because, as your supervisor, I felt the need to know.”

“Nothing! There was none!”

“… … … … yes?”

Faust didn’t ask any more questions to the blatantly annoyed Petra and closed his resume. Petra, who had been beaten by her advisor, had already closed the door to her heart, but unfortunately Faust perfectly understood her psychology.

In fact, he also had a past where he rolled like a dog in graduate school for over 10 years in Korea.

No matter how hard they try, there is no way for graduate students to use their hands if the professor intercepts their achievements in the middle. It’s just being stolen. One year, five years, ten years are being exploited endlessly.

Faust understood that feeling better than anyone else.

Faust superimposed his past self on Petra, whose fingers trembled with anger.

“I heard that Giotto Gioverte’s hobby is to flirt with young women.”

“-Yes?”

“There is a girl in my class named Gulna, and it looks like she was offered to help her avoid getting kicked out of the academy if she dated her. My grandfather, who is older than my father, testified that he got goose bumps.”

“Even to the students… ”

I didn’t know that the bald head could do that. The fact that Petra had devoted 10 years to such a human made her feel exhausted.

“That Giotto Geobert held a committee and suggested revoking your intermediate mage qualifications.”

“yes… I knew. They’re trying to stop me from becoming a professor. If you are disqualified as a high-level wizard, you cannot be appointed as a professor… uh? Did you say intermediate now?”

Even if the advanced qualifications are invalidated, at least you can continue to work as a teaching assistant, but if you lose the intermediate magician qualifications, you have to pack up and leave the academy. How would a low-level wizard do research and teach students?

The students of the academy are low-level wizards!

I can’t stand in the church even if I’m embarrassed.

“No, to go that far… that bald head… !”

“It’s just a rumor, but they say you have evidence to uncover the Giotto Giovert scandal. They’re afraid of that, so they’re trying to kick you out of the academy.”

“… … … … … … finished.”

It feels like someone maliciously knocked down a tower that had been built over ten years and sank like a domino.

Petra dropped to her knees and sat down.

“Gioto Giobert is the president of the disciplinary committee. I’ve never had an agenda proposed by him ever be rejected. Everyone looked at him… It’s over now. At the age of 28, I was demoted to a lower level wizard and kicked out of the academy. finished… my life. my career… finished. big… !”

How will I see my mother’s face when I go back to my hometown? I said out loud that I would become a full professor at the academy. I promised myself that I wouldn’t become an ordinary office worker, farmer, or full-time housewife.

Even if I wanted to join the company now, a 28-year-old newcomer would not accept me because it would be burdensome.

Alas, it’s really over. My dreams, my youth, and my career.

A life in which the breath of a powerful person blows away like dust at once. Even I was a victim.

It is unfair. I feel like I’m going crazy because I’m unfair and unfair, but now everything is over—

“—End of it? Who wants to retire? Now your boss is me I’m not good-hearted enough to make my one and only teaching assistant drop out of the way.”

“Ha, but be realistic. Even if you want to stay in the academy, if you are disqualified as an intermediate mage, you have to leave the academy as a rule.”

“The punishment has not yet been decided. Hand over the evidence of sexual harassment that you have.”

“Yes? Why, why?”

“Because I, as the owner of the special tower, was notified to attend the disciplinary committee. Give me the glove, I’m going to counter-punch the horny man.”

“… … … … .”

Petra was dubious and handed over the sleeping pills Giotto was trying to give her.

After a while, Petra’s disciplinary committee actually opened, and all the high-ranking members of the academy rushed into the conference room. Petra Brookeullin, the subject of today’s conference, also took a gloomy step along with Faust, her advisor. I couldn’t go inside the meeting room, but I was given the painful role of waiting outside.

I was in the worst mood, especially when I ran into the grinning Giotto Geobert.

“Oh Petra. were you still here? What happened to a low-level wizard at the academy? oh Did you come to take supplementary classes? Ha ha ha ha ha!!”

“”ha ha ha!!!””

All the high-ranking officials nearby laughed along. Laughing loudly at the jokes of those in power is the basis of social life. Even those who say they use their strength did their best to please Giotto.

With this alone, the results of the disciplinary committee seemed obvious.

“Did I tell you? Even if you don’t know the world, you don’t know too much. your career is over Go home and milk the cows. Because that suits an incompetent woman like you.”

Petra was so intimidated that she couldn’t refute a word. I was really afraid that it would be like what Giotto said. Faust told me not to worry… What can be done against Giotto, who is like the incarnation of corrupt power?

‘… to mom… I should ask him to teach me how to farm.”

Petra already had a premonition of defeat and was lost in escapist thoughts.

But suddenly there was a shouting sound in the meeting room, and a loud voice went back and forth for a while.

People waiting outside, including Petra, muttered, wondering what was going on.

Usually, the disciplinary committee ends within 30 minutes, but people started to come out of the room only after two hours.

Among them, Giotto, who was easily recognizable because he had no hair, found Petra waiting and gritted his teeth.

When Faust followed him, he swallowed his anger and had to hurry on his way.

“What happened?”

“Your punishment has been rejected. In order to adjust the level of the mage, the consent of all three tower masters is required. I exercised the beato.”

When Faust grinned, his already handsome face shone even more like the sun.

“And since Giotto’s fingerprints came out on the sleeping pills you had, it was decided that a new disciplinary committee for Giotto’s sexual harassment would be established.”

“No way… Most of the high-ranking members of the academy are Giotto’s personal connections, so how could that be? No matter how clear the evidence is, if Giotto seizes it, everyone will only side with him!”

“If I keep doing this, I say that I will beat the hero and cross over to the demon continent to offer the holy sword to the demon king, so everyone did what I said?”

“… … … … .”

With this incident, Petra became a firm supporter of Faust.

No, it might be more accurate to call them believers.