## Chapter 866 – Murder Instigation: Kim Kat

ㅡThwack.

Amidst overwhelming enthusiasm, I raised my arm.

“Woo-oo-oo-oo-ook!!”
“Waaaaaaaah!!!!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!!”

The reaction is good, as expected.

As soon as the students realized I, Kim Kat, was the martial arts tournament champion, they began screeching like pterodactyls cursed by an ancient spell.

Well, it’s only natural.

I, Kim Kat, came from a world of unbridled capitalist consumption where the concepts of stars, talents, and idols were recklessly exploited as entertainment.

The fantastic, batshit crazy spectacle I put on at the martial arts tournament pursued the `extreme` and `ultimate` of that entertainment. In doing so, I ascended as a kind of mythical, legendary, illusionary super idol.

On top of that, I won the `Martial Arts Tournament`, the capital’s biggest fighting competition, which is popular with everyone, young and old. In a world that reveres strength, it’s bound to be a hit.

Especially with kids.
Students get even more excited about that kind of thing.

From now on, the lecture of that legendary paladin, Kim Kat, begins. This is going to spread by tomorrow, I can feel it. Judging by the reaction, this is definitely going to be a success. Let’s turn these students into fanatics like those kids at the paladin training center!!!

“Alright, alright. Calm down. Let’s start the lecture now.”
“P-Paladin-nim, just a moment!!! Does that mean you’ll be teaching theology at the academy from now on!!!”

They sure have a lot of questions.

Looking at them, they all had sparkling eyes. Only the purest or the most fanatical people can make that kind of face.

It seems like they’re the former, but it’s better to let them know properly. That’s how I can turn them into the latter.

“That’s not the case. I’m only lecturing until Father Quelln returns. I’m just filling in because he’s away for a while.”
“No way!!!!”
“To, to learn directly from Paladin-nim…!”
“I can’t believe this is real!!!”

I calmed the students down.

“I know you’re excited, but I’d appreciate it if you could calm down. I’m here to teach you something very important. Father Quelln’s vacation is about a month. In other words, the time I can lecture is also only about a month.”

Hearing that, the students went ballistic like dinosaurs hit by a meteor.

“T-That means every minute and second is precious!!!!”
“Our encounter with Paladin-nim is only for a month!!!”
“This is the most valuable time of my life!!!!”

Is a month not enough?

“Th, that’s right!! Paladin-nim!! The dance!! Show us that dance of ascension!!”
“What?”

Right then. A male student sitting in the middle stood up and shouted, slamming his desk. Are you kidding me? Asking me to show that expensive dance now?

“Da, dance!! Paladin-nim! Please show us the dance! It’s my lifelong wish!”
“Wooooooaaaaaaah!!!!”
“Dance! Dance! Daaaaaance!! The sacred ritual dance!!!”
“Hold on, students? Calm down a bit…”

Then, as if they were being incited, the students, completely out of their minds, called out to me like an audience chanting for an encore.

“Dance! Please show us the dance, pleeeeease!!”

Oh, crap.

“Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim!”
“Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim!”
“Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim! Paladin-nim!”

Damn it, it seems like it’s hard to control them because they’re kids. The paladin kids were okay, but… no. Those guys weren’t normal either.

“…Whatever.”

Well, they’re all around high school age, so I guess it can’t be helped. Hormones are raging during adolescence, so it’s impossible to suppress their impulses.

Come to think of it, I felt something similar when I was in high school.

It reminds me of those days.

“Hehehe, these students are full of energy. Good. Since it’s the first day, I’ll show you! But after that, you’ll listen to my lecture! Understand!”
“Yes, sir!!!”
“Yes, sir!!”

Shouting loudly, I immediately performed a moonwalk, ravaging the space like a bumper car in reverse. ㅡSwoosh, swoosh. Swoosh. At first, it seemed like I was walking backward, but suddenly I increased my speed and ran backward.

ㅡOooooooooh!!!!

The students who saw my fantastic skill began to admire me intensely. But there’s no time to do it for long. There’s only one lecture today. Let’s finish it quickly.

“Dejaaaaaaaaat!!”

ㅡWhoosh!
ㅡSpinning around and around!!

As I was running backward, I suddenly bounced my body and jumped to the ceiling, rotating thirteen times in the air with my head down and landed.

ㅡCha-ak.

“Ooh!! Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ook!!!”
“Waaaaaaaah!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!”

Screams erupted.

“Aaaaaaaaak!!”

The students tore at their hair and rolled their eyes back. It was like watching a world star’s concert. Of course, it didn’t end there.

ㅡWhoosh whoosh whoosh!!

The enthusiastic students jumped up from their seats like a horde of zombies and began running towards me, trampling and jumping on the stepped desks like martial artists.

You crazy bastards!!

“Paladin-nim!! Please, a handshake!! I’m begging you!!!”
“Please!!!!!!!!! I’m begging you!!!!!!!!!”
“Paladin-nim, you’re so cool!!!!!!!!”

I briefly thought about the fact that these kids, regardless of gender, were causing this ruckus, but it seemed more accurate to think that they were acting like beasts, causing this ruckus regardless of gender.

No, I didn’t expect them to be this enthusiastic.

ㅡThwack!

Anyway, I grabbed and shook the hands of the students who asked for a handshake.

“Alright, nice to meet you. Strive for your future.”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!”

I shook hands with each and every student who asked for a handshake in that way. I thought I needed to calm them down to proceed. And above all, it’s the first class. It’s okay to give this much service.

After shaking hands with everyone, I sent them back.

“Hehehe, has everyone calmed down now?”
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
“Yes!”

I feel like I’ve gotten a little closer to the students. They still looked excited, but they were still sitting in their seats with their notebooks open.

I can finally proceed with the lecture.

“Then let’s start the real lecture now. Ah. Before that, let me ask you in advance, have our students been taking this theology class from the beginning? Raise your hand if you have.”
“Yes!”

ㅡWhoosh whoosh whoosh!

The students quickly raised their hands. About ten of them seemed to have been taking this class from the beginning. Are they that interested in a liberal arts course?

Are they interested in theology itself?

“You, the female student sitting in the very front. May I ask why you’re taking it?”
“Yes! W-Well, it’s embarrassing to say this, but… liberal arts courses don’t affect our grades, but we need to take a certain number of hours to advance to the next grade. So, I’ve been taking them early in the semester as soon as school starts. Every year.”
“Is there a reason for that?”
“Once the semester starts, the real classes begin… so it’s better to finish the liberal arts courses in advance when we have relatively more time. If we take them at the last minute, we might not be able to take other classes.”

When the female student answered, other male and female students shouted.

“Yes! Me too!”
“Same here!”
“I did too!”

In other words, they seemed to be finishing the liberal arts courses in advance when they had some free time at the beginning of the semester. It seemed like they had to complete a certain number of hours of this liberal arts course to advance to the next grade.

“Ah, you need to complete a certain number of hours of liberal arts courses.”

It doesn’t affect their grades, but it seems like the students who study well finish the liberal arts courses at the beginning of the semester and focus on their studies. It’s better to do that.

Good.

I roughly know how this class works.

It doesn’t affect their grades and they just need to fill the hours, so it’s not that important. There were even students sleeping when I came in. It must have been a class that usually proceeded in such a relaxed atmosphere.

In fact, who would like a boring theology lecture?

It’s bound to be boring if a real priest teaches it seriously. And kids don’t react seriously to things that they don’t really need. Especially if it’s boring.

But.

“First of all, let me apologize to our students in advance. I’m very sorry to the students who wanted a class that seriously researches and pursues religious doctrines, but I don’t teach general theology classes.”

I pursue entertainment.

“Father Quelln will do all those general classes. Since I, Paladin, am teaching it, I’ll do it my way.”

Take general classes from Father Quelln.
I’m going to do something more important.

“Th, then…?”
“Could it be!! Paladin-nim’s special class!!”
“Such an opportunity exists!!”
“Ah, my idol!!!!!!!!”

Scanning the students who were giving me expectant eyes.

ㅡInhale.

After inhaling.

“This Paladin will now tell you something very important!!!!!!!!!! Understand!!!!!!!”

I shout loudly.

“…!”
“…!”
“…!”

The students were silent for a moment, surprised by my tremendous volume. Looking at them, I shouted again.

“Understand, students!!!!!!!”
“Ye, yessir! I understand!!”

Emphasis.

“What important thing could it be…!”
“What kind of class will it be!!”
“It’s touching…!”

The students began to react in their own ways, and I came down from the platform and went up to where the students were, making exaggerated gestures.

“Do you know that demons and heretics are overflowing in this world right now!!! Do you know that they are constantly gnawing away at the kingdom’s land and property! And the lives of the people!!!!”

I shout passionately as I pass through the students.

“A, demons…!”
“Such inhuman beings!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!”

This is what I’m going to talk about from now on.

“The kingdom is being threatened by those demons and heretics!! This is a real situation!!! As a paladin, I’ve been at the forefront of those battles, defeating heretics and demons!! The story I’m going to tell you today is about that!!”

ㅡKuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Very loudly!!
Shouting as loudly as crazy paladins!!

“C, could it be!!!!!!”
“A tale of defeating heretics and demons…! Are you going to tell us that!”
“Paladin-nim’s heroic tale!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!”

That’s right!

“Yes!!! It will take the form of a heroic tale, but it can be said to be the most important story of all!!! This is reality, after all!!!”

ㅡThwack!

At the very back of the stepped lecture hall.

Standing in the highest place, I looked down at the students who had turned around to look at me and said.

“Do you know that a Demon Gate has opened…!!! That demons from Pandemonium are invading through that gate!!”

ㅡThud!!

A shock like lightning struck the lecture hall in an instant.

“Pa, Pandemonium!!!”
“A Demon Gate!!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!”
“I, I!!! I’ve heard of it!!! I heard there was something like that in the outskirts…!!”
“I’ve also heard that heretics have been arrested!!!”
“Demons!!!!”

The students began to react to this shocking revelation.

“I went to that battlefield with the paladins to close that Demon Gate!!!!!!!”

I shouted before the students could come out of their shock.

“H, hoo…! Hoo-oo! Hoo-oo!!”
“O, ooh…!
“Th, th-th-th, battlefield…!”
“The battlefield of demons!!!!”

The dreamy students received a secondary shock from my words and swallowed their breaths, tearing at their hair.

Not everyone knows about the Demon Gate and demons. In this other world without the internet and telephones, information is bound to spread slowly.

The students don’t know the details either.

In fact, even in a world with the internet and telephones, it takes effort to get proper information, so it’s only natural that even the children of nobles don’t know about it in this other world.

“Such a mythical…!”

The invasion of demons and the paladin who set out to close it.

ㅡTrickle.

The moved students began to shed tears.

“There!!! I saw it!! And I met it!! I met it and fought it!!! What do you think I, this Paladin Kim Kat, encountered on that battlefield!!!! Guess!!!!”

I gave them an impromptu quiz.

“A demon…!”
“A heretic!”
“No! A necromancer! A wicked necromancer who opened the Demon Gate!!”
“The gatekeeper that the demons use!!!”
“A witch! It’s a witch!! A witch opened the gate!!!!!”
“A heretic! It’s a heretic! A heretic!!!”

No one guessed correctly.

“You’re all wrong!!!!!! What I saw was!!!!”

Staring at the students who were focused on me.

“The hell’s…!!!”

Taking a moment to catch my breath.

“Most powerful!!!!!!!!!”

Stretching out the words to build up concentration.

“Archdemon!!!!!!!!!!!!”

When I reached the climax, I spat out the answer with a serious face.

“Andromalius.”

The correct answer is the archdemon of hell, Andromalius.

As soon as I revealed that.

“Guh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh!!”
“Gurgle-gurgle!!”
“Archdemonnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!”

The students began to faint. Starting with the female student in the very front, then the male student behind her. Then the female student sitting next to her. They fainted one by one, spewing foam.

“Waaaaaaaah!!! Waaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaah!!”

The students who didn’t faint could only have seizures.

“I…! I fought that archdemon Andromalius!!!!!”

It’s a terrible story.

“Gurgle-gurgle-gurgle!!!!”
“Sa, save me…! I can’t breathe…! I can’t breathe!!! Mommaaa…!”
“An archdemon from legend!!!!”
“Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ook!!!”
“This…! This isn’t real!!!!”
“Mom! Mom! Mommaaaaa!! Mommaaaaaaa!!!!”

ㅡDrip drip drip drip.
ㅡDrip drip drip drip.
ㅡDrip drip drip drip.
ㅡDrip drip drip drip.
ㅡDrip drip drip drip.

Tears streamed down the faces of the students who were having seizures and spewing foam. Yes, they were so shocked that they burst into tears.

“To have the opportunity to hear such a story…!!!”
“I’m glad I’m alive!!!”

I shouted at those students and told them the story of fighting Andromalius. I embellished the truth and spun my yarn to create a mythical battle, and finally, we were victorious.

“So our students must also know!!! This world is dangerous! Demons are invading! Because they all want human blood and souls! And negative emotions!! We must stop them!!!”

This is what I wanted to say.

I elevate and inspire their emotions with a heroic story, and then incite them to fight against those beings for the sake of the world. Kids like that kind of thing. At a dreamy age, they dream of this kind of thing.

Especially about righteous fights and wars!!

“That’s not all!!! Not only Andromalius! I’ve also defeated demons and heretics in countless other battlefields!! As a paladin of the Brass Celestial Host!!!”

And by constantly injecting the keyword “Brass Celestial Host,” I brainwash them to follow the same path as I, Paladin, who has become your idol. I’m becoming an idol and creating a fandom…! Then these kids will become followers of the Brass Celestial Host!!!

“Do you want to hear more of my lectures!!!!!!”
“Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Yes!!!!!!”

The effect was positive. The students, who were completely immersed in the story that was like a heroic tale, were once again enthusiastic about me. Is this what the ethics teacher who showed movies in class felt like?

“Alright! Then…!”

Just as I was about to tell them more stories.

ㅡDing ding ding ding ding.
ㅡDiiiiing.

The bell rang, signaling the end of the lecture.

“Ah, time’s up. See you next time.”
“Pa, Paladin-nim, wait!!!”
“Just a moment!!!!!!”
“Just a moment!!! Tell us more about the demons!!! In more detail about the demons invading!!”
“This world is dangeroooooooous!!!”

At that point, the students were almost going crazy.

“Calm down. There’s no need to be impatient.”

I said to them.

“You’ll be able to see me again in the next lecture.”

With those words, I left the lecture hall. At the same time, I heard a sound from behind me that sounded like the devils of hell were screaming. It was the students’ wailing. The students’ lament, mourning my departure…

With this much for the first class, I can say it’s a perfect score.

This is Kim Kat class, Saintess-nim.

“Lehu.”