I Ran Away From Them and Became an Academy Professor

80 – Necessity

“Professor!”

I collapsed right away.

It was because the accumulated fatigue from the fight with the monster and the pain in the legs rushed back after the fight was over.

But Flora couldn’t look away.

The dejection that one person’s life was over, the shock of someone’s death that he had never seen before, and the guilt that he could have saved but could not save right in front of him, came all at once.

It was dark in front of my eyes, and I couldn’t see anything.

Perhaps, you will have to live with the trauma for the rest of your life.

The night has passed.

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[A student death occurred at Hestia Academy, which has the title of the best in the empire.]

[What was Hestia doing?]

[Can you entrust a student to Hestia, where the deceased came from?]

[The student’s name is Keira. A 17-year-old student of the Department of Divine Power who entered this year]

[The culprit who killed the student was Seria Forte, who is said to be a saint who disappeared a while ago?]

[However, there is only psychological evidence, but no physical evidence.]

Reputation as the best academy in the empire. As befits him, when something bad happened, many newspapers spit out the news.

Let all students aim for Hestia, another prestigious academy is an opportunity! I wanted to encourage the newspaper more.

The entire empire was in an uproar over the Hestia incident.

But there was a girl who didn’t mind that.

At the age of 17, he is considered an adult in the Empire.

The inside was very tender. He was a person who had a lot of affection and thought of others.

So, Keira’s death devastated Flora’s mind.

Two days later, Keira’s funeral was held.

She also participated in hockey with students who knew him, as well as Reina, Avur and Cabri.

Flora was also in a black mourning dress, but her eyes were dead.

She seemed to have difficulty moving her body because she had no strength.

The person who appears to be Keira’s parents was wailing in front of the photo.

She shouted that she was an unfilial child who went before her parents.

Flora put her hands together and bowed her head in front of Keira’s picture.

Then she turned helplessly and ran out of the funeral home.

Keira’s parents found it.

The two followed Flora.

···That looks a bit odd.

Flora sat down on his bench.

His head was down.

A shadow entered his gaze, which had only seen his feet.

“Is that you?”

It was a voice full of anger and sadness.

Responding to the sound, she looked up and saw a middle-aged man and woman who looked like her husband and wife.

And the man’s hair was the same color as Keira’s.

“I’m telling you! It’s you!”

The woman grabs him by the collar and pulls him.

The man continues.

“The reaction you just showed… Is the same as I was when I first saw someone dead… And the only person who died here was Keira, my son… Did you kill him? Did you kill him?! “

Flora’s mouth trembled.

Her words slowly come out of her mouth.

“Did I… Kill…?”

The woman shouts.

“Yeah! Your b*tch is dead! You’re dying too!”

“····Please stop.”

“What?!”

“I couldn’t stand to see any harm done to our academy students anymore.”

“····What? Isn’t my son a student here? Keira is well taken care of and killed… You’re going to protect this student?”

“····There is nothing to say about that. But please don’t say anything to this student.”

I blocked Keira’s parents and Flora.

“This child tried to the end to save your son. Of course, you two were the most shocked, but she must have been just as shocked. If you want to scold me, please do it. It’s no different than killing him.”

My words widened their eyes.

“Is that you? So… It wasn’t this b*tch, it was you?”

The woman slapped me on the cheek.

I didn’t resist.

The sound of her hand hitting my cheek echoed once, twice, three times… Countless times.

Her face was cut and bleeding.

Even so, I kept getting slapped without saying anything.

“… Honey, stop it.”

With no end in sight, the man stopped the woman.

“How could I stop! This guy killed my Keira!”

The woman sobbed and shouted.

However, the hand she continued to swing stopped.

“…Did you see Keira’s deathbed too?”

“Yes, I was there.”

“Looking at you, I understand. That girl and you must have tried to save Keira.”

“·····”

“So you’ve seen the last of Keira, let me ask you one thing. What did Keira say at the end?”

I said, looking at Keira and her parents.

“I was brave, confessed to the woman I loved and left.”

“hahahaha, he’s my son too. Honey, let’s go.”

Hearing that, his parents slowly left.

····I don’t even dare to predict how heartbroken it will be.

I turn around and look at Flora, who is sitting on the bench… What’s this guy like?!

Flora was whispering the same words over and over, looking down at her with more dead eyes than before.

“I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I killed I I killed it, I killed it, I killed it, I killed it, I killed it.”

If you do this, you will be in big trouble.

He is in a state where he might commit suicide.

I had to calm down first.

But I didn’t know what to do because I was sick of things like this.

So, I grabbed her and hugged her.

This is a method used in the past when hockey was in trouble.

“You didn’t kill me.”

“… No, I killed it…”

“You worked hard, you tried to save it.”

“I couldn’t save him, Keira was dead.”

“So you’re going to die too?”

“I don’t deserve to be alive.”

“Then I don’t deserve to be alive either.”

“Professor is strong, he can protect people.”

“Then what do you do? I couldn’t protect the most important student.”

“But you can’t replace an S-class adventurer with someone else.”

“You are the same irreplaceable being.”

“No, I can replace it as much as I want. I can replace myself with the same Divine Dynamics department right now. At best, beginner healing magic can be used by anyone.”

“No.”

“That’s right.”

“No, you are irreplaceable.”

“Why the hell.”

“There is no one in the world who can replace ‘Flora’ rather than just ‘Priest’. You are the only one in the world.”

“····What do you mean by that?”

“You, Haki and Reina’s friend, me and Professor Kiria’s disciple…You, your parents’ daughter. Do you think there is an existence in the world that can replace that?”

“·····”

“Flora, you are the only one in this world… You are an existence that cannot be replaced with anything else.”

“·····”

“And by the way. Keira said that she likes you….If it’s you, you don’t want to remain as a curse in your heart for the person you like. He will also want you to live.”

“Huh…”

“That guy has courage. Then he must hold on to that courage and live like a tenacious man to repay Keira, right?”

“Huh…”

“There’s no need to forcefully forget it. You must have been shocked, but let’s just leave Keira in her heart and live to save more people so that we can protect it next time and not repeat the same mistakes. Me too. I will live like that.”

“uuu…!”

“If you still can’t find a reason to live, I will find it for you.”

I saw Flora desperately holding back her tears.

“So don’t hold back your tears, you can cry.”

With those words, Flora burst into tears.

“aaa-“

I patted Flora on the head.