[Translator - Peptobismol]
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Chapter 135 - The Academy Visit of Lormane (1)
"I’ll keep it a secret for now."
As soon as we returned to the Academy, Orendi spoke up.
"Such a significant figure, and yet no one knows their past—there must be a reason for keeping it hidden. So, I’ll be the only one to know."
"Yeah, sure. Do that."
"And the same goes for Student Sophie."
Orendi looked over at Hindrasta.
"Me? Everyone already knows I’m from the Reblanc Mercenary Group."
"Not that. The fact that you pissed yourself when you saw the dragon, let’s keep that—oof!"
Before he could finish, Orendi barely avoided Hindrasta grabbing him by the collar, fleeing at lightning speed toward the dorms.
"What the hell is that crazy mage rambling about?!"
"Watch your mouth! He’s a professor!"
"Professor my ass. And hey, you!"
"What now?"
Hindrasta seemed ready to say something as she fumed, but then she shook her head.
"Never mind. Forget it for today. I’m leaving."
With that, she turned around and walked off toward the student dormitories.
Crazy dragon, tch.
When I got home, Olysia greeted me.
"I heard from the Vice-Headmaster! You went to the Reblanc Mercenary Group? Did everything go well?"
"Yeah, it all went smoothly."
I told Olysia about what had happened in Reblanc.
"Eek?! A d-dragon?! Why?!"
"Sometimes dragons live in human form for various reasons."
"Ugh, that’s terrifying... But you chased off the dragon, didn’t you? And even got compensation. That’s incredible. But there’s one problem."
With a stern expression, Olysia raised a finger.
"That was way too dangerous! It’s a good thing everything turned out fine, but what if you’d gotten seriously hurt fighting a dragon?!"
"What else could I do? If I’d left things as they were, everyone would’ve died."
"You could’ve just run outside the castle and opened a dimensional gate to escape! Dealing with dragons isn’t the job of an Academy professor—it’s for the military!"
"Do you really think you can outrun an angry dragon?"
"Even so! Please, never do something so reckless again. Promise me!"
"Alright, alright. I won’t. And even if I do get hurt, I’m not going back to Brunswell."
"That’s not what I meant!"
Olysia shrieked.
"I don’t care about Brunswell! I don’t want you to get hurt!"
"Is that so?"
"Of course it is! You’re my only family! If something happens to you...."
Olysia trailed off, biting her lip as she cupped her face in her hands.
"If I end up alone again... what will I do...."
She let out a trembling sigh before roughly wiping at her eyes and looking straight at me.
"I’ve made up my mind."
"Made up your mind about what?"
Still, Olysia’s a teenager now. Maybe it’s time to think about sending her to school.
She spends all her time doing housework with no friends—that’s no way to live.
Since both the Headmaster and Vice-Headmaster will be at dinner tonight, maybe I should start laying the groundwork for enrolling her.
Even though it's called the Special Mission Academy, the theory classes aren’t that different from other academies. With the right adjustments, the curriculum could work for her.
Just like she’ll asking them to take care of me, I’ll ask them to look after Olysia.
# # # # #
The afternoon was incredibly busy.
Since the Headmaster and Vice-Headmaster were coming, we had to clean the house and prepare the meal—lots to do.
Olysia usually worked like an ant, so there wasn’t much to clean indoors. I headed outside to tidy up the garden instead.
I pruned the overgrown trees and swept the area in front of the house.
While sweeping along the wall, I noticed something odd.
Two rectangular stones were propped up against the back wall of our house at an angle.
What’s this? Leftover construction materials?
But they didn’t seem like building supplies based on their shape.
We didn’t have any stones like this anywhere else around the house.
Hmmmm....
"Olysia!"
"What is it!?"
"Did you put these stones here?"
Olysia came running out of the kitchen and tilted her head when she saw the stones.
"Huh? Why are these here?"
"Do you know what they are?"
"These were originally stacked over there. I moved them because they were an eyesore, thinking we might use them later. But...."
She tilted her head again.
"I definitely didn’t leave them here. I put them over there."
She pointed to a spot a few meters away.
Olysia has an excellent memory, so there’s no way she’d be mistaken.
"Really? So someone must’ve moved them here...."
"Who would go out of their way to do that?"
"Good point."
After mulling it over, I decided to get rid of the stones altogether.
Judging by their size, someone could use them to climb over the wall.
I tossed them into the nearby overgrown lot and returned to finish tidying up around the house.
# # # # #
As the late summer sun dipped below the horizon and dusk settled in, someone was lurking around Dian’s house.
It was Maya, the Priestess from the clinic.
At the moment, Maya was flustered because something she had always relied on was missing.
The two stone slabs she had hidden out of sight behind the house had completely disappeared.
She walked around the property several times but couldn’t find the slabs anywhere.
Without them, short-statured Maya couldn’t see over the wall.
While she pondered what to do, she sensed people approaching and quickly pressed herself against the wall.
It was Headmaster Kirrin and Vice-Headmaster Ismera heading her way.
[Translator - Peptobismol]
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