Academy Slave Instructor

54 – No Victory, But No Losing

No Victory, But No Losing

It will take a while for the unit to move to the training area.

Even if it was an academy capable of large-scale spatial movement using the power of the ruins, the troops had to move to the designated place on horseback, perhaps because it was too much for a large number of troops.

Rai, who will be transferred to space after the deployment is over, opens the list of academy students participating in guidance and training during his free time and looks at it for a while.

The location of the first deployment in training is open to everyone.

After marking the place where the academy students’ troops are, Lai thought for a long time in silence. He has to start training soon, but Philia, frustrated when he sees him not telling him what kind of strategy he will carry out, opens his mouth first.

“What are you going to do?”

“What kind of kid is Class D’s Aizen?”

With still no answer, Rai points to Aizen’s troops and asks.

“He is steady and thoughtful. He has good grades and has time to look around, so he keeps pace with the people around him.”

Listening to Philia, Rai nodded her head and looked at Abigail. She ignored it for a long time even after receiving the gaze asking you to speak, but when Rai continued to see her, she could not stand it and opened her mouth.

“A coward who only cares about people.”

Philia furrows her eyebrows at her words of insulting her fellow hagwon.

But after hearing Abigail’s words and nodding her head, Rai puts her little flag on Aizen’s troops and says:

“What about Delia from Class A?”

In response to Rai’s question, Philia explains about her. She is bright, passionate, and a confident person who always knows how to act first.

But Abigail had a slightly different opinion.

“An idiot who doesn’t know that his head is empty.”

After listening to the opinions of the two, Rai planted a flag in Delia’s unit as well. Rai, who heard the opinions of all the students, fell into thought again, and Philia couldn’t hold back her curiosity and asked her.

“Why did you ask?”

“What do you think you need to know to win?”

Answer questions with questions. It’s annoying, but Philia answers Rai’s questions wholeheartedly.

“Information on enemy forces, types of soldiers, geography of the battlefield, and commanders.”

“What’s in the commander’s information?”

“Career, frequently used tactics, information of subordinates… Maybe?”

“What next?”

“… Inclination?”

After thinking about it for a while, Rai nodded her head saying that she was right at her answer that did not contain her conviction.

The reason she couldn’t answer confidently was because her tactics weren’t something she created alone. The commander’s temper is simply impatient, so the tactic of provoking and enticing him will not work.

Because many of the adjutants belonging to the commander also know their own strengths and weaknesses and anticipate how the enemy will behave. The form of how to act in a number of cases is predetermined before battle.

An elaborately crafted tactic is like a cold machine that does not allow personal inclinations to enter.

When Philia, who doesn’t understand, expresses her opinion, Abigail laughs at her.

“A fledgling.”

“What?”

“Do you think war spins like a cogwheel? Ah- you’ve never moved anything other than chess pieces? It must have been fun, isn’t it exciting to win with set rules in a set game?”

Filia’s expression hardened when she saw the funny narrow red eyes.

“When is your tactical training? I’m changing the date, so would you like to hang out with the newbie?”

“Why me? I don’t care about this annoying drill. This human dragged me and got points, so I won’t do it anymore.”

“Are you running away?”

“Puhahahahaha, are you saying that’s a provocation? That’s why it’s no use to those who grew up as nobles.”

Abigail laughs out loud. This is not common as she always sits in silence with her frown on her face.

Philia’s hand snaps near the handle of her sword, expressing her anger.

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Abigail, who gave her a blatant gaze as if to draw out her sword, slowly lowered her hand to her sword.

“Kids, if you’re going to do something stupid, go out and do it. It’s crazy.”

She still looks at the map and sees Rai waving her hand in annoyance.

Then the door opens and Dudley and Hana, the academy staff, enter.

The two of them have also been through Rai’s test, and Dudley is familiar with them, especially since he trained with Philia.

“Hello, Instructor Rai.”

“Oh, Mr. Dudley’s evaluation? Thank you.”

“Do I dare to judge the instructor? I am just a porter carrying a familiar.”

Dudley replies by showing the bird on his shoulder.

“Originally, I was in charge, but Dudley-senpai forced me to come.”

“Miss Hana!”

When one of her whimpers turns her head and whines at her, Dudley yells at her in embarrassment and then looks at her rye with her sullen expression.

“Hey… I want to see the instructor’s tactics… If you don’t mind…”

Seeing Dudley’s shy face, as if confessing her love for some reason, Philia turned her head away in embarrassment.

“For me, the more people there are, the more fun it is. Mr. Hana, please take good care of me.”

“Yes~ Please take good care of us~”

If it’s just the two of them, Rai raises her hand, and Hana gives her a high-five, then another high-five between her elbows, and they run their palms back and forth as if dancing.

Lastly, people around them look blank when they see the two touching each other, but Lai and Hana don’t even pay attention.

Once the deployment of troops is complete, Lai is transferred to the location.

In the clearing in the forest, the soldiers we saw earlier stood proudly in line with each other. Rai smiled and asked the soldier in the front for the bag, and he put it down in front of him.

“Please drop all bags in front.”

* * *

“Ah-!! What are you doing? Instructor Rai suddenly opens the bag and starts taking out items! The soldiers do the same! Instructor Layla, the commentator? How do you see it?”

Leyla is sitting next to the moderator with a puzzled look on her face as if she was forced out.

“Throwing away supplies.”

“Yeahhh?! Supplies? Why are you throwing them away? I don’t understand. Is there some clever plan?”

Leila, who looked at him silently for a while to see if she didn’t like the high-tension host, gave a small sigh and replied at the moderator’s torch, winking at the public and urging them to speak quickly.

“I’m trying to increase the marching speed by lightening the load. Since I can save stamina, it’s good for maneuver tactics.”

“Yes! Mobility tactics! As you know, this is the specialty of General Georg, Commander of the Northern Region! But aren’t they all necessary items? Is it okay to throw them away like that?”

Layla answers right away as if she has given up on the look in the eyes of the moderator who demands an explanation again.

“The current supplies that soldiers have are basically what they take with them when they go to war. They are full of camping items and weapons and equipment according to the situation. The end of training is at 7:00. All that is left for the day is discarded. Will.”

“Oh- So you’re maximizing the unit’s ability assuming the end of the war? Wow- It’s an amazing tactic. As expected, it’s like an instructor!”

“Anyone can do it.”

“Ah! While I’m talking about it, the academy student Se-Seth starts emptying her backpack just like Instructor Rai!”

Thanks to the shouting emcee, Layla’s last words were buried.

In the center screen, Setet is throwing things away just like Rai.

“As expected, do masters and disciples look alike? Seth-san acts the same as soon as she starts!! As expected, she is like an academy student who learned from great academy instructors!”

“That man is so damn noisy.”

Looking at the society, Aslan frowned. Aslan, who is too bothered by raising the academy and irritated by forced tension, grumbles and drinks.

“Why? Interesting.”

“f*ck, I’m surprised.”

Seeing Diana leaning over and bringing her face closer, Aslan is startled and nearly falls off her chair, but manages to balance herself. Diana laughs at him, then sits next to her and says good-bye to the academy students in the distance.

Diana, who seems to have come to Aslan after being with a group of academy students whose faces she doesn’t know, sits down casually as if she made an appointment with her beforehand, and she grabs Zeroa’s drink.

“De, eat.”

Seeing Diana, who was silently pointing to her glass and putting on a bright expression, Zeroa nodded her head. Diana, who had drunk a cool drink as if she was thirsty, put her glass back in front of Zeroa.

“Whoah- I’m glad I had a seat. I thought I was dying because I was among people for a long time.”

“You sat on your own?”

“No- what’s between us, ah. Here it is, here it is. This is the side I drank.”

Diana, who was talking with Asran, saw Zeroa staring at her glass, and she smiled and turned the side of her that she had put her mouth on in front of Zeroa.

“Oh, no. I didn’t think so… But…”

“Yeah, what do you think?”

With her innocent expression, Diana smirks as she moves closer to Zeroa. As her body tilted, her breastbone was visible through the slightly gaping gap, and Zeroa blushed and avoided her gaze.

“Don’t make fun of the innocent and stay calm.”

“Eh? Shall we go to Aslan then?”

This time, as she leaned over to Aslan and approached him, he pulled back the chair in embarrassment. Diana covered her mouth and laughed at her reaction, snatching Aslan’s glass.

“Then this is mine!”

“…… Do as you please.”

Hee hee- Diana, who was drinking a drink with a smile, saw the emcee shouting passionately.

“aaa! What is this?! The academy students don’t fight with each other! Did the previous provocation bring the academy students together?!!! One flare! Two! Three! Dear Nee! Did the academy students agree?! I’m chasing Instructor Lai’s troops! It’s a great tactic to destroy the strongest enemies first!!!”

“Definitely a little irritating.”

She doesn’t even know it properly, but when she says it’s a great tactic at the end of her words, she seems to be annoyed. As she listens to the loud emcee and sees the academy students chasing Rai’s unit, Diana turns her head and laughs.

“Where did you bet?”

It’s about gambling. You can’t miss this big event. It is a place where you can verify not only money, but also the analytical ability of individual academy students, so most of them participate in gambling, no matter how big or small.

“I didn’t take the bet, but one thing is certain, that Laycan loses.”

“Eh? I bet on winning?”

“Do you really think you can beat that troop difference? It’s 14 units, 14 times the difference. They’ll do propaganda, but they can’t beat all of them. The quality of the soldiers is the same, but how do you win?”

“I just walked because the magnification was high.”

Diana, who replied with a crushing smile, looked at Zeroa, who was speechless. Zeroa, who was still staring at her glass, was taken aback by her gaze and stuttered her words.

“Oh, that’s not it…”

“It’s okay to put it in your mouth as much as you want. More than that, where did you bet Zeroa?”

“Ah… I… Walked, but rather than I walked… Instructor Rai told me to walk…”

With excited eyes, the two wait for Zeroa to finish her words. Diana is excited when she hears that Rai, who is participating in the event, bet her money.

Although she lost all her money after being caught by Bright when the gamble was over, Rai has never been wrong.

“I bet on a draw.”

“……”

“Hmm…? Is there a draw?”

“Yes, I didn’t even know it was there.”

Athlan and Diana are at a loss for words at Zeroa’s answer. A total of 15 units participated in the training. Since it is a training to gain points by attacking each other, there may be a joint win, but there is no draw.

For a draw to come out, all units must survive until the training is over.

Of course, no one bets on a draw because that doesn’t happen.

However, after betting on an impossible situation, the two of them slowly get up after thinking about it.

When both of them got up, leaving only herself, Diana smiled and said to Zeroa, who was taken aback.

“I’ll bet for a while, so take my seat.”

“I’ll be back soon, Zeroa.”

The two do not listen to Zeroa and run quickly.

No one bets so much that they don’t even know there is a draw. If it turns out to be a draw, as Lai expected, she could achieve her dream of making a fortune. This time, there are so many cases that multiple bets are possible, so Asran and Diana run to bet even a little money.

* * *

“Do you want to put those cheeky kids on their noses now?”

Lai, who was running away from the chasing academy students, looks back at his unit with a smile on his face.

The movements of the troops are unusual, as if they had made up their minds. He seems to be relaxed even though he is pressing Lai’s troops by blocking or chasing the road from all sides to see if he is hunting.

“Mr. Herschel, Mr. Rice, Ms. Guwanna…”

The names of the soldiers came out from Rai’s mouth. As a total of 10 soldiers came forward, Filia felt that their faces were familiar.

These are the people who appeared when Rai asked who was the most senior while drinking beer. I don’t remember all of them, but some faces even Philia remembers.

“Yes, there are too many enemy commanders, so I picked an additional lieutenant. Congratulations on your promotion.”

Rai claps his hands and laughs, but the soldiers look at each other with bewildered expressions.

Even if there are more adjutants, it doesn’t mean that the number of soldiers will increase. In addition, even if you are a veteran, the position of an adjutant is not that easy.

“Then I will give Mr. Herschel the first instruction. Take 20 soldiers and follow this route.”

Rai handed over the copied map and gave an order.

A soldier named Hershel looks at the map with a blank expression, then responds loudly belatedly and drags the soldiers away from the unit.

Seeing Herschel’s squad moving away, Philia looks at Rai.

“What do you mean?”

“Well, isn’t that something the other guys have to think about?”

Rai smiles a mean smile.

No matter how many units there are, each unit has 300 soldiers, totaling 4,200. It is not possible to compose a perfect encirclement with that number.

The academy students also understood that, and at first blocked the road or pursued it, driving Rai’s troops to one side.

However, a group breaks away from the unit and heads for a loophole in the siege. The academy students, who have no way of knowing the situation, have no choice but to think about whether they should pursue the group.

“I’ll teach you how not to lose, so learn it well.”

At Rai’s confident words, Philia nodded her head and followed.