Chapter 859 – Hero’s Gaze Preliminary Skirmish.

Ixia, who had just been at Pryunar Academy for a month, was fascinated by Serrus seeing her for the first time.

Some people may say that they usually see the dreamy magic of the floating island, but what is so amazing, but to a girl who has lived her entire life in the magic stone forest with a father who is a talented wizard, a lively city full of people is more mysterious than magic. .

However, Ixia is secretly timid.
She was reluctant to walk alone on crowded streets.

That’s why Nelf, the top performer in her grade, and Lena, Dre’s squire, took her on a tour of the city.

Lena lost her contracted spirit not too long ago, and is in her grief.
It was gradually restored by Dre’s constant comfort and the whispers of her newly contracted spirits that they would definitely meet again.

This city tour was also for Ixia, but it was also part of her diversion.
In the meantime, Ixia, who witnessed her hunting for the first time, was very excited.

“Wow… He was really handsome?!”
“Yes. I see.”

Lena affirmed, but that’s all. She didn’t seem very interested.

Ixia wondered if the women in such a big city were immune to it because she often saw people who were so cute.

She is not immune to men, she was nervous about any man, but she used to be even more firm in front of a handsome man like before.

‘It was almost like Kitz-sama.’

Recalling the face of the hero she secretly admired, Lena said without hesitation.

“Your teacher is much more handsome.”
“…”

Ixia let out her moans vaguely, neither denying nor affirming.
She was pricked by her conscience to affirm her, and to deny that she owed him a lot of grace, she was pricked by her conscience as well.

‘He really likes Dre.’

Ixia when they came to Boyd’s castle.
Her cheeks blushed as she recalled that Flaon and Dre were doing strange things.

From what I’ve seen so far, I feel that Dre is unexpectedly very popular.

“Umm. Who’s more handsome… I guess it depends on your taste.”

At the sudden voice, Ixia cast a grim glance at the person standing next to her.
It was Nelf.
She was looking rather puzzled at Ixia, who was looking at her.

“…Ah. Come to think of it, Mr. Ixia didn’t see Instructor Dre’s dressing up.”
“Are you decorating?”
“Yes. I was a bit surprised too, but I really like the original version.”
“…”

Hearing that made me very curious.
I thought the secret to Dre’s popularity was her ability, but was she actually her face?

‘Handsome…?’

I couldn’t imagine it at all because I was usually dressed in loose clothes and had dead eyes.

“You look scary because of those eyes, but if you wear clothes that fit your eyes or cover your eyes a bit, you’re definitely handsome.”
“Nonsense!! Sensei has attractive eyes…!!”

Even Nelf, who first brought up Lena’s story, blinked at her.

“Um, maybe. What kind of style does Nelf like…? A violent… Manly style like Instructor Dre?”

Ixia asked cautiously.
A girl who can hardly be called a childhood friend whom I saw once when I was very young.

However, she seemed dazzling to Ixia as she tried to stand on her own by throwing off her identity as a white-katsu.

In other words. I wanted to get to know you.
That’s why she tried to talk to her even if it was a little too much, and fortunately, Nelf responded.

“Umm… I like it. I’ve never really thought about it, but…”
“Nelf-sama will prefer being an assistant, not a teacher. Unconditionally.”

Lena smiled and said.
When that lively and gentle beautiful girl smiled, it was the same woman, but she was breathtakingly beautiful.

Okay.
She certainly has a beautiful face, but for some reason Ixia felt a little afraid of that smile…

“Assistant…?”

Nelf asked.

“The intangible assistant.”
“Nonsense!!”

Nelph groaned.
It was 100% pure denial without blushing or anything.

“He’s just my brother!”
“Oh, brother…?”

Nelf shook her head at Ixia’s meaningful words.

“A biological older brother. They’re not actually older brothers, but they’re just like brother and sister. I respect them, but I don’t see them with the opposite sex.”
“You’re so handsome…?”

Ixia remembered the intangible.
He’s different from Kitz, but he’s a handsome man in a different direction.

Since she was young, she has been with someone like that. If she was like him, Ixia thought, she must have been smitten.

“Me too, but Tohute oppa… No, the intangible oppa isn’t interested in women at all.”
“Gee, really?”

She looks like a woman would wake up and cry.
Come to think of it, Katz didn’t have that common scandal either.

Rather, there were a lot of strange rumors about Drega, Clarir, El, and Laiet.

‘All of them are very pretty people…’

Among them were Meyal and Ashita, who stood out even more among the beautiful girls.

Is Dre really handsome…?
Ixia became curious.

‘But why are most of them only people with lovers or fiances…’

Of course, among the rumored dating she had with Dre, there were suitable ones, like Emily, who were about the same age and didn’t have a boyfriend.

‘There are so many rumors among the instructors…’

Among the instructors, rumors about Emily spread the most, and there were even rumors about Rupuls Long and Mullin, who seemed to have no interest in men.

Even in Mullin, there were many girls who secretly intertwined the two of them by saying that they matched well.

Recently, rumors have circulated that Principal Lenea and Instructor Dre are like that.

Lenea’s true face has not yet been widely disclosed, so she is a mess. If she knew what she really was, rumors about her would have been much louder.

‘But the loudest rumor these days is…’

Ixia blushed.
The small number of groups that come to her mind, but with radical theories.

Kitsuna intangible. Or comparing Alfred to Dre…

‘I can’t believe there was such a world.’

Ixia tried her best to calm her pounding heart.

Then Lena stopped and she suddenly ran to wherever she was.

It was where an old woman with a full load of luggage was.
Lena spoke kindly to the old woman, who then summoned one of her spirits.

The spirit carried the old woman’s burden and drifted away.

At first glance, it was a pleasing sight, but from Nelf’s point of view, it was a bit creepy.

Originally, a spirit cannot be far away from the caster, and the lower the spirit power, the closer the intelligence is to that of a baby, so it cannot carry out complex commands.

In addition, there were many cases where the Spiritualist’s quality was low and he did not listen.
Even if they want to obey, they are reincarnated beings, so they have little fear of death, so they rarely give in to the means of suppression.

The spirit summoned now is undoubtedly an intermediate level spirit.
He is also absolutely obedient to Lena.

That alone would be enough to pay for a meal, but the number of spirits contracted with Lena was incomprehensibly large.

While working with so many spirits that it’s hard to even count, each one has such a strong bond.

‘It’s a ridiculous talent.’

Nelf sincerely thought that it was a relief that the boy grew up good without a bad heart.

Lena is back soon.
In fact, something like this has already happened several times.

This girl would go straight to help if someone was in a little bit of trouble.
As she kept looking at it, I could see that she was doing it because she really liked it.

“Lena-san is nice.”

Ixia said cautiously, and Lena shook her head.

“No. She’s just behaving as a former teacher’s squire.”
“Is it suitable for an instructor?”

Nelf asked, and Lena’s expression changed in her.

“Yes! How many good deeds you do!”

Soon all kinds of stories came out of Lena’s mouth.

Like funding a run down cafe.
Giving immediate gold to someone whose house burned down without insurance.
Donate money to an orphanage or poor family.

“I-Really?”

Nelph opened his mouth slightly.
All of them were unexpected stories.

“Really!”

What Lena said was true.

She doesn’t usually show off, but Dre goes by.

There were countless cases of her taking off her pockets.
Even so, she didn’t want compensation.

Lena said that the gold was not showing her respect for nothing.

“So, even though Sensei receives a lot of money for production and power generation procedures, he always has no money in his pocket…”

That said, she doesn’t even open her hands to the Hart family.
Since she was able to earn a lot of money herself, she was only spending it out of her own pocket.

“I had no idea…”
“Wow. You don’t show that…”

Ordinary aristocrats would have made her good deeds spread, and her condescension would have come back.

Lena smiled proudly.

“Actually, I am also the one whom the teacher helped. Have you heard of Count Sherton’s story…?”
“Ah! Could it be that the stable child…?”
“Yes! That’s me!”

Lena is delighted with Nelf’s reaction.
Ixia laughed briskly as she listened to their conversation.

“Instructor Dre is kind and popular.”
“…No.”
“Yes yes?”

Ixia was frightened when Lena suddenly became serious.

“Teachers are never very popular.”
“Yes, yes…!!”

Nelf felt salty for Ixia’s inability to learn.
Dre is actually popular, but that’s just unpleasant for Lena.

‘The instructor seems to see Lena as her daughter…’

Nelf cheering me on from the bottom of my heart.
She, too, involuntarily thought of Dre.
He who fought proudly against the demon king in the forest of Jinma.

‘…He’s a cool person.’

Unknowingly affirming, she felt a gaze.
In fact, the gaze had been going on and on since before.

Rena is a beautiful girl with a side-up tail and a neat and gentle atmosphere.

When we talk to her, she’s flimsy, but on the outside, she’s a cold, haughty, and mysterious beautiful girl, Ixia.

And… To Nelf, a pretty girl who looks like she’s painting her own face.

It was a combination that couldn’t help but draw attention.

But today’s gaze was different.
Something… Very sticky, unpleasant, and terrifying.

It was not just one gaze, but several gazes seemed to be mixed.

Nelf felt a little uneasy.

“Ixia. There’s a very nice tea house on the floating island. Why don’t you go there?”
“I want to go…!”

Nelf chose appeasement rather than asking to go back.
The moment I was about to take Ixia with her shining eyes.

“Stop there!!!”

A booming, thunderous voice struck the three girls.
Along with the ice-hard Ixia, Nelf and Lena hesitated.

The two girls frowned at the noise, but did not stiffen.
Soon, a group of people broke through the crowd and walked out.

Silver armor glistening in sunlight.
And engraved on the armor…

‘The Suruta Empire? Seeing that it’s a green seal, the Knights of the Holy Tree?’

Nelph’s eyes narrowed.

There are a total of seven knights in Suruta, and they are color-coded.

The green one was the Order of the Torch.
But what do they mean?

The one who walked first.
The commander of the Knights of the Sacred Tree walked straight toward Lena with a hard face, but stopped when he saw the two people beside him.

‘Nobility…?’

Nelf and Ixia.
Girls with silver and purple hair, showing off their charms.

Beauty is also beautiful, but that grace can never be produced by criminals.

The leader of the knights felt such natural elegance only in the royal family.

In fact, Ixia was frightened of her, but in the eyes of others, she seemed proud and confident.

‘Um…’

Did he reject the prince’s invitation because he believed in something?

First of all, I tried to commit it with enthusiasm, but this is not the Sruta Empire, it is the Entiaer Kingdom.
And if the opponent was not a commoner but a prestigious nobleman, it would be difficult to go out stronger than this.

‘Moreover, he’s a student at Pryunar Academy.’

Even the knights of Suruta would not dare to touch the students there.
However, the Lena in question did not look like an academy student.

Her knight commander decided to try her out.

“You there. Are you a student at Pryunar Academy?”
“No.”

Lena replied confidently, and the knight leader widened her eyes.

“Are you a noble?”
“No.”

Not even nobles?
Anger formed on the knights’ faces.

“Then you’re a commoner?”
“That’s right.”

I’m a commoner with that look.
The knight commander felt a little disbelief and anger at the same time.

“You. Just now, what did he…”
“Wait. Are you saying you know who this person is serving?”

Nelph stepped forward.
The knight commander flinched, but then growled.

“Anyone will not be higher than the prince of the Suruta Empire.”
“Prince…?”
“The one you insulted just before.”

Insult?
What passed through Nelph’s head reminded him of the man he had just talked to Lena from earlier.

‘…Did you come just for that?’

The moment when Nelf, who was surprised at the man’s true identity and at the same time astonished, was about to say something. The knight commander shouted first.

“We need an apology! Come with us.”
“…I apologize if I offended you, but I can’t follow you.”

Lena said confidently.
The knight commander could not stand it any longer and drew his sword.

“I can’t understand you when you say nice words…”

Coo coo coo.

The knight commander stopped talking.
Unknowingly, the intangible beings surround him.

‘Government ordinance?’

Dozens of them too.
While he widened his eyes at the power beyond imagination.

“Wouldn’t you like to do that?”

Breaking through the crowd, a woman walked out.
An unfamiliar, first-time woman.

But she was an outrageous beauty.
She came out with her black hair flowing and was dressed in a bizarre outfit that looked like plain clothes or priestly clothes.

If a stranger like Dre had been in this place, she would have said that it was like a traditional Japanese bok.

A girl who feels like a snow woman.

“Who…”

Before Lena even asked.
A spirit whispered.

[Lena. Run away.]

Run away?
The spirit continued to speak to Lena who was bewildered.

[I feel the energy of the king of ghost monsters.]