Academy Slave Instructor

72 – Beware the Princess

Beware the Princess

“You better be careful.”

Athran, who came out hunting, looked at Zeroa, who was looking for traces of animals, and said.

Zeroa, who was very nervous about the serious voice, asked carefully.

“What did I do wrong?”

“Being close with the princess.”

When she said that she should not get close to Emilia, she felt arrogant the moment she knew her.

Zeroa, who had been pondering over whether he was simply saying it out of jealousy or because he hated Emilia, looked at him and asked again.

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“Does Aslan hate the princess?”

“No, I’m not talking about that. The princess is good, nice and has a good personality.”

Feeling frustrated with Zeroa’s question, Asran shook his head.

Zeroa, who doesn’t know the dirt of politics at all, was too weak in this area.

Aslan let out a sigh and hesitated a little as if he didn’t want to say it out of his mouth.

“I’m sorry about the princess, but the princess has no power.”

“……”

Zeroa, who knew nothing, did not understand what Aslan was saying.

Zeroa, who can’t figure out what being friendly has to do with being powerless, looks at her with her innocent face.

“I don’t know much about politics either, so Philia would be good at explaining things like this. He’s from a family, so he must know.”

“Are you talking about politics?”

“Oh, that’s right. Emilia-sama, the 6th princess, has no political base compared to the others.”

“You mean it’s hard…”

Zeroa worries about Emilia, as if she misunderstood Asran’s words.

It’s good to treat her with her kind heart, but when she gets away from the point of her problem, Asran tells her after organizing her thoughts for a while.

“So it’s dangerous just hanging out with the princess like this.”

“Why dangerous?”

“Other factions don’t want the princess to grow up.”

“I’m not an aristocrat, nor am I from a rich family.”

Even if she had one, she wouldn’t be of much help to Emilia. She said that she was not a threat at all, but that was her own opinion, and it is unlikely that other forces would think so.

Political forces are cruel and thorough, and they try to trample on even the smallest sprouts of resistance.

Rather, the more powerless she is to defend herself, the sooner she will be trampled on and disposed of. To be in a force without power, you had to have the ability to endure, whether it was family or power.

“Don’t think that other factions will be as kind as the princess. In particular, the 2nd prince is a cruel person, so he doesn’t care. Besides, he has the ideology of the chosen people, so he’s a bastard who believes that nobles should rule people like in the past. “

Asran speaks his words, but is wary of who is around him.

No matter how much the caste system is disappearing in the empire, there are still people who have aspirations for an aristocratic society, centering on the elderly.

Even if the world is changing, from their point of view, they will feel like they are being deprived of what they have, so they become more obsessed with aristocratic society, and they are wary of commoners who come up from below and think of them like worms.

If Zeroa continues to be friends with Emilia and spends a lot of time together, she will not be able to escape the eyes of the second prince’s forces.

And it was clear that she, who knew zero without any power, would be easily defeated.

After hearing all of her explanations, Zero knows a serious expression before she smiles a bit helplessly.

“I didn’t know the princess had such a hard time.”

Asran smiles slightly at the words of Zeroa, who worries about others first, even if she tells her that it is dangerous whether she has listened to her words properly.

He’s a good guy with no answers.

She avoids getting too involved in politics, but Aslan nods her head and agrees, promising to help Zeroa if she has any problems.

“You’re having a hard time. That’s why you’re forced to come to the academy.”

“Yes? The academy is a great place.”

“Is it greater than the imperial family?”

At Asran’s question, Zeroa shut her mouth.

“Most members of the imperial family transfer to Legandia Academy. And after one or two years, they graduate.”

“As expected, they are great people.”

Praise of the emperor and deification of the imperial family are natural for ordinary people. If you run the country properly, you will be praised on your own, and the better the security, the more you think of yourself as a hero.

Aslan smiles bitterly at Zeroa’s naivety, who simply believes that her abilities are excellent and she will graduate quickly.

“No, no. Superb… No, it’s blasphemy to say that. So… Yes, the purpose is different.”

Aslan, who was about to say that none of the current emperor’s children have the qualities of a commander, quickly changes his words, fearing disrespect.

“The purpose of the imperial family coming to the academy is simply to build friendships. Among the academy students in the academy, they find someone they can attract to their side and leave. The imperial family is too busy to continue taking classes at the academy.”

“Did the princess come to make friends too?”

Athran shook his head at Zeroa’s question.

Then he looks around again, becomes alert, and starts talking, asking to keep what he said here a secret.

“The princess… Is exile, so to speak.”

“Exile?”

“Whether it was an exile or a refugee depends on the viewer’s point of view, but the princess came out of the palace because she was powerless. You can tell just by looking at how she entered the academy as a freshman, not a transfer.”

At the word exile, Zeroa opens her eyes wide in surprise.

She always had a kind smile. She had no idea that Emilia, who went to school, had such a dark side.

“From the point of view of the princess, she fled to the academy to save her life, and from the perspective of other forces, they think that the princess was kicked out of the palace.”

“… Are you safe at the academy?”

At Zeroa’s question, Aslan shrugged her shoulders, saying he didn’t know.

“Because Legandia Academy is a duchy, no one but the Emperor can directly interfere with it, so it should be safe. But there have already been assassinations.”

Zeroa’s eyes flutter when she mentions her incident at her march training.

I still have vivid memories of that time. She hadn’t forgotten the sharp tension she felt when fighting someone with murderous intent for the first time.

“Each person has a different opinion, but at the academy, the only person who would do such a clever thing is the 2nd Prince. The academy has a lot of alumni, so it has a lot of authority, but few people can touch it.”

“You are my brother, are you trying to kill the princess…”

Zeroa speaks to herself with her sad eyes.

She doesn’t have a lot of money, but it was incomprehensible to know that she grew up in a harmonious family.

When you think of her sister Kara’s face, she said she could never kill her sister no matter what. However, her 2nd prince sent an assassin to her sister, the princess.

Zeroa turns dark at the terrifying and cruel behavior of the second prince.

“Anyway, her friendship with the princess means that she will receive the attention of such fearsome guys, so be careful.”

“Yes… I get it.”

She had a heavy heart. She was zero who answered helplessly, but she still expressed her gratitude to Asran for taking care of herself and even talking about this.

Athran, who managed to come up with a frustrating story, raised his sword while looking at the prey in front of him in order to save the sluggish atmosphere.

“That’s a bear, isn’t it?”

Looking at the two-headed monster called the Twin Head, Aslan says.

It has the same appearance as a bear, but it is constantly spewing fire from one side of its head.

A normal person would be frightened and run away, but Athlan threw away his bow and pulled out his greatsword, displaying his fighting spirit.

“A bear… I guess?”

“Let’s eat bear meat today. If we catch that, we’ll win.”

Twinhead threatened by hitting the tree next to him, but Aslan didn’t care and rushed at it, and Zeroa immediately raised his shield and sword to keep pace with him.

Twinheads, who are strong traders, cannot overcome the great sword of Aslan, who has the only thing they can trust equally.

Zeroa and Aslan took each body one by one and returned to the mansion, and the first Emilia boat hunting competition hosted by Diana ended with the victory of Team Smile.

The Budeul Budeul team only caught one rabbit, but the condition of the two is a mess for that.

Looking at Philia and Abigail, whose clothes were torn here and there and covered in dust, Aslan could see the situation at a glance.

‘The two fought again.’

I don’t know why, but the two don’t get along.

I wanted to tell them to stay close, but Aslan kept his mouth shut because he thought the anger of the two would be directed at him if he said it out of his mouth.

“Yes! The game I caught today will be donated to Sapphire Villa!”

“What are you talking about? We caught it.”

When Asran expresses her dissatisfaction with Diana’s words, she replies with a wide smile.

“When I asked the chef, he said meat that was originally butchered needs to be aged for a few days to be delicious. But we’re leaving tomorrow. So I decided to donate it.”

“Why did you have a hunting contest?”

“It’s all about having fun. Or was it just to enjoy tea time all day?”

It seemed like she was enjoying her life at the villa, but it seemed that even Diana was getting sick during the conversation.

Aslan closed her mouth, Diana raised her hands and said.

“But don’t worry! Diana Deshbella has prepared a banquet for you guys!”

“Do you have alcohol?”

“Obviously said. How are you going to have a banquet without alcohol?”

Athran makes a happy face at Diana’s words.

* * *

Perhaps it was a pity that she made a mistake on her first fishing trip, Rai came out for night fishing.

The basket that is still empty and the steam that doesn’t move are telling you that this time it’s empty, but Lai just blankly looks at the lake.

Fishing is something Rai really wanted to do.

She was once caught and reviled by her lieutenants while pretending to be fishing by attaching a line to her spear in a river stained with her blood after a battle.

It was a clumsy act, like a child imitating an adult, but he wanted to fish that much, and being able to spend time idly was a luxury more than anything else for Rai at the time.

If the saying that it is good to organize your thoughts is true, all sorts of thoughts come to mind when you stare blankly at the lake.

Rye thought of Emilia.

She is the most influential person in her life who has brought herself out of her prison. She couldn’t say no for sure, so she’s at least involved in this, or the decider must be her.

She even said that she could release the slave contract, so she has the authority or justification to try.

If Emilia is the ringleader, why did she bring herself out?

According to Layla’s fragmented information and what people say, Emilia came to the academy to save her life.

It wouldn’t make sense if she was pulled out of her prison simply to keep her life.

If that was the case, she would have attached a character that the old raccoon would take care of and protect, and she wouldn’t have brought herself out of the controversy.

Ray stares intently, detecting the presence of a fish loitering near the needle.

As if he was interested in the bait, Lai, who had been shouting inwardly to bite the fish as he touched it with his mouth, sagged with a helpless expression when the fish turned his head and disappeared.

‘I’ll have to meet the old raccoon to find out.’

I don’t know exactly what the opponent wants or why they made this game.

Even if Emilia is the ringleader, the final decision maker is Emperor Julius.

While facing the Empire, Rai, who had suffered through many of his brilliant and despicable schemes, was defeated and captured by him at the end.

He was exactly what prevented him from participating in the battle and destroyed the kingdom of Kaylan, but he was defeated because he couldn’t protect the kingdom anyway.

Remembering Emperor Julius, who was so clever and difficult to predict, Lai sighed as he thought of giving a blow to the old man with a nasty smile.

After arranging the place today, saying that it was a waste of time, Rai returns to the villa and enters the noisy banquet hall.

“Ohhh- Raikang is here-!!”

“Raikang, Raikang! Raikang!”

The humans in the banquet hall were all half drunk, as if time had passed since they were engrossed in night fishing.

Zeroa, who is the only one who is not drunk, warns her to be careful, but when she gets drunk, she looks at Aslan, who is excited about being killed by Emilia, with a nonchalant eye, then sees Rai, who has now arrived.

“Rye Instructor is here. Did you catch a lot?”

“No, magic is a convenient tool, but I was wrong to rely on a stick like this. I’m going to kill all the little fish tomorrow.”

For some reason, Zeroa sat next to him while trying to stop Lai, who seemed to be really like that.

Looking at Abigail, who is drinking alone with reddened cheeks, and Aslan, who is talking to the full with Emilia, Lai laughs as if she is having fun.

“Damn it, I like it.”

As soon as he arrives, he lifts the bottle and sees Lai drinking it, and the people around him clap and say “Oh”.

Diana, who handed over a large piece of meat to Rai, who emptied a bottle of alcohol, grabbed the empty bottle and smiled mischievously.

“This time I’m going to play a game of truth or lies with Lycan!”

“What is that?”

When Diana exclaimed excitedly, Aslan shouted Ou! And get up

Philia and Abigail didn’t react much, but as if they were looking forward to it, they secretly gave Lai a look, and Zeroa told her with a bitter smile.

“This is the game I was playing a while ago.”

One person tells two truths and one lie. For the rest, you just have to distinguish the person who said the lie.

It’s a simple game, but when he heard the rule that if you make a mistake, you’ll drink one glass at a time, Rai could understand why these guys became like this.

“Let’s do three lies and one truth as a special rule for raikan. We’ll reveal the truth.”

Diana calls people together.

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Apart from Emilia, no one here knows anything about Rai. Of course, Emilia only knows the story of Elliott, the devil of the world, but has no idea of Rai’s personality or disposition.

After living for almost a year, he talks about himself without hiding anything, but there are surprisingly many hidden things about Rai.

Rai stares at his drunken, hazy eyes and smiles.

“I am the devil of all nations.”