Chapter 62 – Chief

000

“Today’s opening of the practice room ends here. After cleaning the practice room, clean up the tools, please return to the dormitory quickly.”

A voice amplified by the use of magic echoed throughout the lab.

He lowered the bow he was holding and quietly tossed his head back.

If you look at a target 110m away in front of you,

Dozens of arrows are stuck in the red spot in the middle.

Among them, there were also those that went in by tearing the arrows that were stuck first from behind.

“Huh…”

A talent for marksmanship inherited from his father, who served as a sniper in the war against the Empire.

As the eldest son of the Orlarion family, it was natural for him to set an example for other students in the `Archery Department`.

There is no room for this Trace Orrion.

“Wow~! Sasha is amazing! They all hit the center of the target from 200 meters away!”

I hear the voices of the girls talking loudly next to me.

Looking around, there were about three women gathered and chatting.

Standing in the center is an orange-haired girl with beast ears and a tail.

Sanasia Rufenwolf.

Although her body was pretty, she was a girl who was well-trained in what she needed as a hunter.

Above all, her characteristic is that she has human ears and animal ears at the same time.

When I recall what I heard in my self-introduction on the first day, it was said that it was because of ‘something’s curse’.

When I first saw her, I had the impression that she was just a little cute girl.

Perhaps thanks to the power of the special imprint that appeared in her eyes, her archery skills were superior to those of ordinary students.

Most of all, they quickly realize that their senses are more sensitive than others, even in the slightest sound or sense of incongruity.

“Well…?”

Look even now, he felt my gaze and looked this way.

Of course, as the eldest son of a traditional family, I don’t easily make eye contact with women.

It’s never because I’m nervous or because my heart is pounding.

According to what I’ve heard, as a member of a special blood family, I had an unfortunate environment when I was young.

Huh. It’s not this body that would shake my heart about something like that.

He had a sense of mercy to the point where he felt sympathy for a girl with a harsh fate.

It is the mindset of noblesse oblige.

But never speak first from this side.

That’s the advice of a father who achieved love at the age of 50.

A woman who truly loves (hunter), even when she stays still, she comes to herself.

That is the attitude a hunting expert should have.

Surrounded by her friends, she happily wags her tail just in case.

I came to realize this body’s compassionate heart.

If it comes to you, you are ready to accept it.

“Huh-huh… Ahahaha…Haha!!!”

Imagining that day makes me feel better, so I can’t stop laughing.

I don’t mind the whispering around me.

Because, his hunting was already successful.

“Ah! Mr. Cleon!”

In the meantime, her voice resonates throughout the practice room.

Looking back, she sees her black-haired man pretending to be close to her.

However, Sana Sia, with her ears perked up, gently wags her tail and grabs his hand.

It was like my dog ​​’All Thors’ who always welcomed me at my home.

I’ve never seen such a brightly smiling face, this body…

I couldn’t stand it and grabbed the arm of the male student in the same department next to me.

“Hey! Spanking! Who the hell is that guy!”

“…My name is Schubert. Huh…? Ah, Mr. Cleon?”

Spanking looked at the man named Cleon and brought up the name as if he was used to it.

“Cleon…?”

“Ah. Trace always goes home right after class, so I don’t know. Mr. Cleon says that if Sana Sia stays late, he always comes to pick me up.”

So, is the man named Cleon the protector of Sanacia?

You must have been nervous for no reason, didn’t you mistakenly thought that a rival had appeared?

“Is the man named Cleon also a student at the academy?”

“No? I heard you were a temporary lecturer in another department. Was it the sex department…?”

“Seo, sex department!? Isn’t it an unscrupulous department that says only those perverts gather!”

It’s a big deal.

To be protected by a man who is as good as an instructor in the sex department.

You never know when his best prey will lose his chastity.

“More than that. If you don’t clean up the practice room quickly, it’s a penalty.”

I didn’t pay much attention to the spanking talking behind me.

My eyes were just fixed on the unscrupulous human named ‘Cleon’.

001

Even at the academy, where various education and research are conducted day and night.

When the sun goes down and dusk falls, the dark night descends.

Although the lights of the magic lanterns lit by the roadside illuminated the surroundings.

Even so, the road to the lodging is still long, and the lonely cold night wind blows.

If I were alone, I would have walked quickly and ran to the lodging in one step.

But if Cleon was by his side.

Sasha sings a delightful hum, even as she walks slowly beside him.

Throwing away the loneliness in the darkness that calls for solitude.

I was able to go on her way home with a bright mood.

“These two are faces you see often.”

When Sasha looked back at Cleon’s words, a bright smile hung over her face.

“Yes! Both of you are so kind!”

Seeing her like that, Cleon also made a smile on her lips.

A girl who was born as a member of a closed tribe and was forced to live as a mother to give birth to a strong child from a young age.

She rejected that fate and ran away from her tribe, and somehow, through some fate, she came into contact with Cleon.

That encounter greatly twists her future given to her -.

She eventually severed her ties with her past, to which she clung like shackles, by her own power.

However, life in the city could not be said to be so rich.

No, she would rather stay with Cleon than stay in the city.

She spent her time hiding in a mansion in the woods.

She would have enjoyed staying with Lyla, Quon, and Luti, too.

Without looking into anyone’s eyes.

Just free. Make friends, learn new things.

A daily life where she can go home with her family and co-workers with her hum.

Perhaps this was what Sasha needed.

Cleon felt sorry for her and her reassurance at the same time.

Of course, if you stayed in Alvein’s party and had an adventure with him.

One day, he might have been seriously hurt by his runaway.

Even so, it is clear that she had a little inconvenient experience.

Cleon was responsible.

If only I could relieve myself of that responsibility and see her smile.

Coming to the academy might have been the correct answer.

But-

“The ears and tail still don’t go away.”

At Cleon’s words, Sasha had pointed triangular animal ears like those of a fox that sprouted on top of her own head.

It moves the fluffy tail that has grown from its waist.

It has senses and can move at will.

The ear could hear much more than the human ear.

The tail moves like a third hand and can carry anything from light to slightly heavy.

It had enough strength to carry the bag on its way to class if need be.

Although it was convenient if it was convenient.

As expected, it was a bit of a strange feeling for her, who lived without these things.

Above all, the cause of these creations was the biggest concern.

The erosion of the ‘Hunter’s Imprint’, a clan ability.

By using a special lens made by Lyla, he hides from others that his imprint usually comes to mind.

It’s only outwardly like that anyway.

If you take off the lens, you can clearly see her curse that emits a distinct light.

That day, when he used the power of imprints to bury his fellow countrymen who had fallen as beasts.

Originally, she too was eroded by the imprint.

Losing her reason, she might have become a beast.

Why did she stop in the middle and become halfway there?

Neither she herself nor the knowledgeable Lyla knew why.

Although the animal organs that have been created in the body are also real.

In reality, like Galatea’s body, it was close to a lump made of ‘magical power’.

If she has anxiety in the current situation.

When the erosion of the imprint progresses again.

A situation like a ticking time bomb that may change the whole body.

Even in order to solve it, the power of the knowledge that the academy had was needed.

“It’s okay! I have the lens Mr. Layla gave me and the amulet Mr. Quon gave me… Above all, Mr. Cleon is by my side!”

Sasha smiles brightly as if she doesn’t want to show her anxiety.

I want to protect the smile of this girl who is like the sun.

Cleon was thinking quietly.

“It’s a relief that Layla’s dormitory is top-notch! They offer a mansion with a workshop as a dormitory. The academy is amazing!”

As if to change the subject, Sasha raised her voice.

Differential dormitories were provided to the academy according to the student’s performance.

When you become the head of a major department like Lila.

One whole mansion inside the academy.

It was provided as a lodging for her.

Originally, there were many sons of nobles in the position of chief, so it was a consideration so that the servants who assisted them could stay together.

Layla said that she spent her time at the academy doing research alone in a spacious mansion without any servants.

Perhaps because of that, the whole house was in the same condition as the room Layla used when she stayed in the city or Gortian Mansion.

Upon arrival, when Quon goes into nag mode and cleans the entire house clean enough to somehow stay in.

It must have arrived in the morning, but the sun had gone down and had already turned into a night sky.

Whatever.

It was wide enough for a total of five people to stay, including four people and Galatea.

Because Ryla also assigned them rooms, telling them to treat them as if they were her own.

The group never lived apart.

“I don’t care if I’m alone with Cleon~”

Although there was a demonic sword that obscured the harmonious atmosphere of the party.

“”No!””

Because of Quon and Sasha’s opposition, Cleon was safely given a room.

By doing so.

Although the place and form are slightly different.

Even now, it is a place where everyone can safely live together.

Waiting for the two of them.

002

“How about the interpretation of the cube?”

After the meal Quon made, Cleon found Layla’s room.

Lyla sat in front of the desk in her room, laying out various magic tools.

He was groaning while examining the Memoria Cube.

“From the large equipment in the studio to the special analysis tools that ordinary people cannot touch. I’ve used everything, but it’s not easy, after all.”

Lila takes off her monocle and sighs.

On the first day she returned to the academy, all the magic tools for analysis from various eras she brought in a box.

Failing to decipher the Memoria Cube was a pretty painful outcome.

“The more information the Memory Cube contains, the more difficult it is to interpret.”

“I heard that.”

When Cleon nods, Layla continues to explain the cube.

“Considering the era in which it was made, it’s a pretty old-fashioned cube. The analysis tool needs to be an ancient object that matches it…”

“Can I get one?”

Lila was silent for a moment, then slowly shook her head.

“I can’t find it. It exists, but.”

“What do you mean?`

Lila looks at the curtains in the room for a moment, then pulls them back.

In the moonlit night, a huge bell tower rising in the shadows came into view here as well.

A huge clock bell tower in the center of the academy.

‘Tower of Aion’

It is generally known that it plays a role in notifying the entire academy of the start and end of classes.

The true value of the bell tower was conveyed to some students and teachers.

An underground vault of antiquities… The entrance leading to ‘Vitos’ Warehouse’.

That is the true meaning of the Tower of Aion.

“It’s okay with the chief’s authority just to enter Vytos’ warehouse. I’ve been in there a few times.”

Lila closes one eye and recalls the memories of the many ancient artifacts she saw there.

A huge golem that was revered as a god in a certain region.

A machine said to be able to control the climate.

A forbidden magic book that has the power to revive a lion, but is said to summon dangerous creatures.

Each one is only objects that cannot be restored or reproduced with modern technology.

These were things she could neither understand nor use.

But only one.

If there is something she is interested in too.

‘The Stone Dagger of Trismegistus’

It is a stone key hanging on an unbreakable rope.

One of the few ancient magic tools that even modern people can use.

It was an item that only existed in Vitos’ warehouse.

Its ability is ‘the ultimate interpretation ability that can interpret any magic tool’.

To be precise, as an object with the power to forcibly open the concept of ‘closed’.

Closed artifacts with vast amounts of information inside, such as the Memoria Cube,

It is something to be used as a last resort.

However, the stone gun loses its power the more you use it.

Therefore, it is prohibited to use it for self-interest.

It is expected that there will be more important artifacts than the Memoria Cube.

For such private use, the stone gun could not be touched.

After hearing the explanation up to this point, Cleon quietly opened his mouth.

“But that explanation means there’s a way to use it, right?”

“Of course. It’s not easy.”

Lila sighed, closed the curtains, and sat back in her chair.

“This school is quite student-centered. When you reach the top level, you have more authority than professors in most departments.”

“It seemed so.”

Of course, there are definitely departments that don’t.

In particular, the head of the department and the head of the sex department, who is a Reds play partner.

Even during class, she doesn’t take off her name tag that reads ‘Bitch of the Department Head’ around her neck.

The headache got worse and I felt like I was going to lose my mind, but I’m used to it now.

“Among the artifacts in Vitos’ warehouse, there are some that students can use if they want. One of them is a ‘stone gun’.”

Saying that, she raised her right hand and showed all five fingers.

“But you can’t do it alone. Permission to use the stone gun comes down only with the consent of the head of the five departments.”

When Cleon heard the story, a few wrinkles formed around his eyes.

There are 21 departments in the academy.

Only five of them- I wonder if it would be difficult to get the cooperation of four people, except for Lyla.

The Department of Magic is the largest and oldest department within the academy.

Thanks to this, the checks received from other departments were also great.

And most of the seniors are from aristocratic families.

Basically, there were many people who had an attitude of looking down on commoners.

There were also those who did not want to admit that they were from rural commoners.

On top of that, Layla’s arrogant attitude before meeting Cleon.

It left a bad impression on other students.

Most of them shook their heads just because Lyla Flamewatch wanted to cooperate.

“Ugh… I’m sorry.”

After the explanation up to that point, Layla lowered her head as if she had died.

If only his usual behavior had been good.

It would have been possible to use the stone gun with the consent of the other chiefs right away.

Layla felt that any failure to do so was her karma.

Cleon looked at Lila for a while and patted her on the shoulder.

Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t like her past of being cold to others and looking down on them.

How far the Memoria Cube is is a personal matter.

It was Cleon’s own desire to see what was inside.

“It’s okay. Regarding the agreement of the chiefs… Let’s think about countermeasures little by little. There is also a problem with Sasha and Galatea.”

“Yeah. But I’ll apologize first. I still don’t have that high of a human rating among other people.”

“That… It doesn’t seem like that.”

At Lyla’s words, Cleon is the head of the swordsmanship department they met during the day.

I remembered Aruru Tromeia’s face.

At least she was reassessing her assessment of Layla.

Of course, I couldn’t confirm whether I would agree as the chief with just that feeling.

She was a Cleon to her that she felt she could have her faith somewhere in her.

Perhaps, that she herself is an honest person who does not hide anything.

It must be because she felt it even in a short conversation.

However, Leila seems to be a little dissatisfied with Cleon’s expression as if he is thinking of another woman.

“Who are you thinking of?”

And make a bolmen sound.

“No. I thought it would be nice if you could make friends too.”

At Cleon’s answer her, Leila opened her eyes wide and raised her voice.

“Because the academy is not a place to make friends! A middle-aged father who is concerned about his daughter’s friendship? You!”

Calming down the angry Layla, Cleon naturally raised the corners of her mouth her.

“Ah.”

Then, Layla saw the change in Cleon’s expression of hers and raised her voice of hers.

While living in Gortian Mansion, Cleon tried not to smile at himself as much as possible.

He now smiles naturally in front of himself.

That fact suddenly brought a warm feeling to her heart.

Layla stared silently into her Cleon’s face for a moment.

Then she turns away from Cleon and silently turns her body around.

“What, what. I’ll try to get the consent of the other chiefs by pretending or pretending. Chi, I’m not trying to be friends.”

It was a wonderfully exemplary tick-tick.

Cleon sees Laila and opens her mouth.

“Yeah. I’ll talk to the head of another sex department.”

“Chief of the sex department… What is it? I’ve never mentioned it before, but just hearing that title gives goose bumps down my spine.”

“…”

Leila trembled and looked carefully back at Cleon.

“You mean you’re the best student in the department where the most perverts gather at the academy? That means…”

One beat, she catches her breath and opens her eyes wide to talk to Cleon.

“Academy Top Class Pervert [Academy Top Class Bitch]”

Academy top class bitch.

It’s a scary name to hear.

Cleon, of course, shared her story with her.

Indeed, she was a student worthy of that title.

“Uh, anyway! Let’s work hard together for the interpretation of the cube. I heard you have to go early tomorrow morning for an erection test at the bar?”

“Damn… I forgot.”

Cleon quickly leaves Lila’s room with a grim face.

Layla sighed for a moment as she looked at his back her.

Then, he sneaks up on the picture frame her lying face down on her desk her.

“A friend… Is it?”

It’s too much of a story for yourself.

She thought so and drank the bitter tea.