Episode 91. Professor (9)

There are so many people in the shower room of the Agoge dormitory that there is no time to step foot after dinner.

“There is a set time for hot water to come out. From 6 to 10 in the evening.”

“So there is no one there now.”

“yes. I was the only one who washed in cold water.”

In the empty bathtub, Yuri was warming up the cold water she had received with her magic for Charlotte, who was covered in the blood of a hound.

“Put your hand here. how is it? Are you still a little cold?”

“No, I think it’s fine.”

“Then I’ll pour you some water. Close your eyes.”

Chow.

The hot water poured on Charlotte’s hair was sucked into the sewer, turning her hair red like a rose.

Yuri spoke to Charlotte, who was silently staring at the blood flowing down the tile.

“You saved everyone there. The restraints were out of order, I could have been in real trouble… .”

“no. It was something I had to do, of course. … By the way, the classroom must be chaotic by now, right?”

Right after the hound hunt was over, Professor Dana teleported them to the agoge dormitory.

In the eyes of the students, it must have seemed that she had disappeared in the dark.

“I will, but… . don’t worry too much Everyone there was rooting for you. If you pretend, you pretend, maybe the kids are talking about how cool you are?”

“Is that so?”

“then! Rumors spread very quickly here, so I’ll have to pay more attention to camouflage magic from now on… . At least no kids will be scared that a vampire is lurking in this school. Anyway, you are the lifesaver.”

“thank god… .”

Charlotte, now relaxed, closed her eyes, feeling Yuri’s hand washing her hair.

“me… . Why did Professor Dana just watch the hound cage open? I think I know now.”

“yes? Come to think of it, Professor Cliff didn’t do anything until he was beaten by the Hound.”

“Obviously, you helped me gather courage.”

As Professor Cliff said, vampires must survive by drinking someone else’s blood.

There are still many vampires fighting monsters on and off the frontlines to repay the lives borrowed from humans.

“I had a servant who gave me blood every day, so I forgot about that fact… .”

The punishment of the ancestors does not end with just running away from inner desires, but it can only be paid by protecting humans with the determination to shed blood.

As an aristocrat, his duty is not to avoid students for fear of becoming vampiric, but to protect them and improve the perception and treatment of the species called vampires.

Charlotte, who tasted blood to protect someone for the first time, is now determined not to run away from vampirism.

“I, who will lead our tribe, must not act like a coward.”

“Then can I make a lot of friends now? good night! Do you want to go hang out with us on the weekend? I will bring my friends.”

“Uh, um… . I like it too, it’s good… . Oh right.”

“yes?”

“Yuri, what about Professor Dana? Aren’t you waiting outside right now?”

“You just left. I think he said he had to go catch someone?”

* * *

“While I was away for a while, what the hell happened… ?”

On the podium that Rox and Elsie found again with Skillbeck, only the bloodless remains of the hound were strewn about.

As if the students had already scattered, only the empty monster cage and the distraught Professor Cliff remained in the classroom, proving the horrors of the past.

While Skillbeck checked on the fainted Cliff, Rox looked around, holding back his vomit.

“I killed four hounds, and the surroundings are so clean… .”

I felt uncomfortable in the scene where there was not even a bloody smell, as if it had been disinfected, let alone fresh blood.

‘Who did this? glass? if not-‘

At that time, in front of Rox’s eyes, the still wriggling Hound’s organ protruded.

“Look at this, it’s so fresh! Can I use this as a material for demon dissection practice? The leather is almost stuffed.”

“Take it away! Woo-wook… . I feel like throwing up.”

“Can’t we take this? sorry… . To throw away something so good. Even in the Witchcraft Research Department, it’s hard to find an A-class sample like this… place?”

Looking at the hound’s heart in her hand, Elsie’s face gradually began to turn white.

“Why, why? In addition.”

“Among the scholars of the Witchcraft Research Department, there were some vampires, right?”

“vampire?”

“Since it’s a different department, seniors may not know it well, but if you think about it simply, it’s an employee of an external company working in the Beast Research Department. Even though they are not members of the Empire, they are monster hunting experts who are taken to the Imperial Academy.”

The Witchbeast Research Department hired those who were famous for hunting monsters among vampires, and entrusted them with the management and control of the witchbeast test subjects.

“… Certainly, if a vampire offered the blood of its prey to Esca, it would look exactly like this.”

“But, it takes one thing. The point is that it took the experts of the Beast Research Department about two days to make such a clean sample.”

“About that part… . You should take into account that the more favored Esca has, the faster it takes to offer a sacrifice-”

“Seeing how much blood was sacrificed in that short period of time, it would be correct to regard it as the highest level individual… ?”

They looked at each other silently, then shouted at the same time.

“That girl!”

A female student with a hazy impression who subdued Yuri with just her eyes before class started.

The magic he felt was as ordinary as his appearance, so I couldn’t help but wonder how a student like that was able to take control of a unique magic user… .

“If the opponent is a high-ranking vampire, even a glass student will be overwhelmed.”

“Should we find out the truth about this and report it to the society?”

Rox thought for a moment and then shook his head. Their mission was to classify the dangers of unique magic users.

“… Write down specifics briefly, and focus on the original mission. The vampire case will be investigated separately if the president of the society deems it necessary.”

“That, right? It is also too dangerous for us to follow alone.”

“yes. First, take out the Yuri student timetable.”

“Yep. Let’s see, Yuri’s next class… . This is Professor Ang Lee’s ‘Basics of Building Magic Formulas’. Class starts in an hour and a half.”

“great. Let’s go to the Mado Linguistic Department in advance.”

Leaving behind the skill bag, which instructs the guards to control access to the classroom and clean up the scene of the incident.

The two escaped from the general hall to continue Yuri’s observation… .

“Hey. Invisible two there.”

“… .”

“Don’t look away. Let’s not do this between people who know everything about each other.”

They were caught by the back of the back of a high-ranking vampire who was waiting for them with their hands in their pockets in front of the front door.

As she strode forward frowning, Elsie whispered to Rox with a puzzled face.

“Uh, what? Aren’t you supposed to run away!?”

“He was figuring out our identities a long time ago. It means that the ability to detect mana is a monster at the level of the president of the academic society… !”

“Then are we going to die like this… ?”

“… Let’s try to talk.”

The vampire schoolgirl who dragged the frozen two into an alley with no eyes to see growled at Rox.

“Looking at the level of invisibility or the fact that I knew who I was when I used the perception-damping magic. I don’t think they are ordinary wizards. What is your identity? Where did you send it from?”

“Gee, calm down. I didn’t mean to follow you.”

“Then who were you hiding to follow?”

“That, that… .”

“Oh, can you not speak? good, good Everyone said that at first.”

As she smiled evilly, Elsie screamed.

“Ha, please save me just once! I don’t like it!!”

“… What is he saying now? Ah, is it a way to pretend not to know anything until the end?”

“Oh no, that’s-“

“yes. Let’s see who wins. I still need a new specimen, but I hope you can hold out for about 10 minutes… ?”

Soon, suspicious vials poured out of the vampire’s pockets.

Again~!

The moment a drop of solution fell from an open vial and touched the ground, the ominous green ground gave off a sour smell.

“Kyaaah!”

Elsie hid behind Rox and trembled, but in a situation where Rox was so twisted, there was no point.

It was impossible to reveal to a vampire who was not an official the fact that the Imperial Society secretly came to investigate the background of a student.

But without saying that, they couldn’t prove their innocence to a high-ranking vampire.

The time when Rocks was constantly thinking about how to get out of this crisis.

“Professor Dana. Calm down.”

“Ugh… . Huh, junior?”

Seeing the two cowering in front of Dana, Ian sighed and approached.

“Fortunately, it is not too late. They are guests from the Imperial Academy.”

* * *

Thanks to Elma’s urgent call and running, the guests who had been preparing for the reception two weeks ago were able to avoid an unfortunate human experiment.

“I didn’t expect the interview three days later to be moved forward like this.”

After the magic class, I invited Rox and Elsie to my office.

Perhaps because he was caught up in several unexpected accidents, the voice of a man named Rox was thick with fatigue.

“Because we were inexperienced, we got help from the professor.”

“no. Well, the person you faced is also treated as a kind of irresistible disaster in Kiruna… . I hope that saying that it couldn’t be helped will comfort you.”

After drinking a cup of tea in front of Elsie and Rox, they were able to talk about the original purpose of their visit.

“Student Yuri has a good attitude in class. He seems to get along well with the students around him. It’s not easy for a unique magic user to adapt well to society like that, but you managed it well.”

“It is overrated. Yuri was a good-natured student who approached introverted children first before using her own magic.”

“Professor, you might think so, but… . Have you heard of research showing that the majority of those awakened to native magic end up in prison camps shortly thereafter? From our standpoint, whose main job is to manage them, we have no choice but to show interest in the professor who raised students like Mina and Yuri.”

Not just unique magic users.

The Imperial Academy predicted that I had a big influence on Inna, a Rang, learning magic, and Carol defeating Holden, the chief immortal.

“Especially, the news that Princess Frill received the highest grade in half a semester is considered a serious issue even within the imperial family. Even though he is the youngest, he is the one who has the right to inherit the throne… . We have to keep an eye on the rapid growth.”

‘I heard that the people who were supposed to meet in three days are suddenly being held by Dana, so I wondered what the hell was going on… .’

It seems my name has become quite famous within the imperial family without even knowing it.

I’ve been focusing on surviving here and raising my students, so I’ve never really thought about how I’ll look outside of school.

‘It’s to the extent that the Imperial Academy, which is extremely reluctant to contact the outside world, sends a separate person to me.’

I thought he was only coming to hear about Carol’s research at the conference, but I never expected that he would infiltrate the school to investigate me and the students around me.

‘It’s a little annoying that I tried to spy on you secretly… . class exists. In a world where the authority of the imperial family takes precedence over anything else, this should be taken for granted.’

In the end, what I need to consider now is, what kind of attitude should I show to the interest shown in the imperial family to help me and the students? There was only one fact.

“And… . Oh. I forgot to give you this.”

“This… ?”

“It is an invitation.”

A letter from Rox.

Concerns began to flow in a new direction.