Chapter 153

Chapter 153

No matter how much he thought about it.

‘Hiloa’s Request.’

Roan felt a sincere loyalty growing toward Hiloa, who until now had simply been a ‘presence in a game.’

‘Only a deity of this level deserves to be the supreme god leading a religion!’

Step—

Roan knelt on one knee to show respect in front of Ludiac, who had delivered the goddess’s will, and replied seriously.

“Whenever Lord Hiloa issues a command, call me at any time.”

“Understood!”

Leaving Ludiac’s bright smile behind, Roan left the Forbidden Library.

‘This is really…… an unexpected jackpot.’

***

Outside the Forbidden Library, which meant the McGodal Room, naturally looked exactly the same as when he entered.

Bell and Charlotte were sitting quietly on the bed, just as Roan had placed them.

‘Well, let alone quietly, there wouldn’t even have been time to move.’

Roan stroked the heads of the two divine beasts a few times.

Click—

— Guys, I’m back…… is no one here?

At that moment, the sound of Beanin entering the room was heard.

“Senior.”

“Ah, Roan. You were here. Where are the others?”

What on earth had Beanin been doing? His hair was singed by fire and his clothes were practically rags.

It was the typical appearance of Acherandir students who had taken a pop quiz.

“They went to help prepare for Professor Uli’s class.”

“Ah?”

Although Beanin roughly understood, he seemed to look ‘just in case.’

Roan nodded and replied.

“Demona is the first-year class representative.”

“Oh dear……. How did that happen? So that’s why Uldein was talking about Wicronon earlier. Hector too?”

Beanin wore a genuinely pitiful expression.

The notoriety of Uli’s class representative was naturally famous throughout the school.

“Yes, anyway, since they went for class preparation.”

“It’ll be hard for them to come back to the room today.”

As if there was no need to say more, the two shook their heads and went into their respective rooms.

Beanin had to relieve the fatigue of the pop quiz in his own way, and Roan wanted to fall asleep early in a quiet atmosphere after a long time.

……Because even though he looked fine on the outside, it was practically equivalent to staying up all night for a week because of the Bell of Eternity.

Click—

Just as Beanin grabbed the doorknob to enter his room.

He suddenly realized a strange fact.

‘But how does Darc know that preparing for class is an overnight job?’

Has he not done it before?

However, Beanin soon smirked and thought nothing of it.

‘It’s Roan, so of course he knows~’

A normal second-year, Beanin, who was exhausted in body and mind from the pop quiz, and

Roan, the storm freshman who swept through the rumors of Acherandir.

Indeed, Beanin was in no position to worry about Roan.

Meanwhile, returning to his room, Roan spoke to Charlotte, who was sitting politely on her knees in one part of the room, and Bell, who was flying around above her as if teasing her.

“Bell, Charlotte. I am tired, so I will sleep. If you want to play, you can play more, but be quiet.”

[Ehh? Already? Let’s play more!]

Shriek—?

Hearing Roan’s words, Bell and Charlotte tilted their heads and hopped around on the bed.

Their master, who had just returned after attending class normally, was suddenly tired?

However, before Bell or Charlotte could even ask about it.

Breathing softly—

Lying on the bed, Roan had already fallen fast asleep.

***

The next morning, when Roan left his room to wash before going to class.

Haggard—

There, Hector and Demona sat side by side on the sofa with dark circles reaching down to their chins.

Seeing that they weren’t even bickering as usual, they must have been extremely tired.

“……When did you get back?”

“Ah, is it Roan…… we just got back……”

When Roan asked, the two only turned their creaking heads and looked up at him with teary eyes.

“Professor Uli’s warehouse…… is hell……”

Demona spoke, shuddering as if she still felt creeped out thinking about it.

“Belts flying around…… cups screaming……”

Hector sat next to her, combining subjects and verbs that did not match at all.

Surprisingly, they were things that actually occurred in Professor Uli’s warehouse.

Although Roan roughly guessed what they had been doing, he asked out of politeness anyway.

“What did you do?”

“……We had to drag out the materials to be used in today’s class.”

“There were too many…… and they were in the deepest parts……”

The two were trembling, tightly hugging only their sacred spirit beasts.

As if the only thing they could trust and rely on was those fellows.

“If it weren’t for Banjjak and Black Knight, I might have died.”

“Me too. Eongeong and Silsil saved me.”

Roan shook his head as he watched the two.

“It’s hard to believe, but you wouldn’t die.”

If there were things that could actually kill students, they wouldn’t have pushed freshmen into warehouse cleaning.

……Of course, they could get seriously hurt.

“Is that a consolation?”

Demona glared at Roan with betrayal in her eyes.

Naturally, it wasn’t a consolation.

Roan had only delivered the facts accurately.

“Class is starting soon. Are you going to have breakfast?”

“Yes…… we have to eat.”

Demona and Hector followed Roan, tottering like zombies toward the kitchen.

Just then, Beanin also woke up and came to the kitchen.

“Good mor…… though it doesn’t look like a good morning for you guys.”

He was startled by their appearance, then soon nodded.

Beanin had shared a room with Uldein during his first year, and Uldein had looked exactly like that back then.

“The 300,000-Gold Senior must have slept well.”

Hector let out a deep sigh and greeted Beanin.

“I told you my name is Beanin…… and it’s not 300,000, it’s 350,000.”

Beanin wore a highly disgusted expression at the pettiness of cutting off 50,000 gold in the process.

Meanwhile, Roan pulled out tableware like forks and knives along with food.

“Hieeeek──!”

“Gasppp──!”

Seeing that, Demona and Hector recoiled in fright simultaneously.

“Y-Y-You, where did you get that terrifying object!”

“Terrifying fellow! Did you give Professor Uli a holy power source in exchange for that!”

“……This is just a normal fork. Didn’t you eat with this yesterday too?”

Roan tapped the fork on the table to prove its safety.

Even so, the two could not dispel their suspicion.

“Then you’re saying that fork won’t try to stab my eye or make a blackboard-scratching sound in my ear?”

“Yes, prove it!”

It was a common reaction of students who had entered and returned from Professor Uli’s warehouse.

And Roan knew the way to overcome this trauma.

“Refined, I will prove it.”

“Hieek─!”

As Roan prepared to rush at them holding the fork and knife, the two quickly became obedient.

“I, I briefly forgot that Roan is more terrifying than a fork……”

Demona and Hector quietly finished their meal with normal tableware.

As they went in front of Paneroa Hall, the three female students, looking no different from usual, were already out waiting.

“You came out early. Were you waiting?”

“No. We also just came out.”

Sion smiled brightly and shook his head.

Neigh—!

Shriek—!

Meanwhile, the female students’ divine and spiritual beasts tried to play with their owners’ friends out of gladness upon seeing them.

Rumble—

But when Roan’s sharp gaze directed toward them, they naturally changed direction.

Toward Demona and Hector, who were following behind Roan.

Haggard—

Neigh……

Meow……

But the faces of those two were not something that even a bright and playful baby sacred spirit beast could possibly bear to look at.

Uncharacteristically dejected, Saengsaeng, Kiki, and Noeul each returned to their respective owners.

Of course, their owners were equally startled.

“Hector, Demona, did something happen?”

Raphia asked with worry.

Demona spoke with a venomous expression.

“Do you guys even know what Professor Uli’s warehouse is like……?”

“Ah, ah……”

Instinctively sensing that this was a topic that shouldn’t be touched further, Raphia quickly backed away.

Actually, it was Raphia who had suggested using stealth holy magic and running away to Sion yesterday evening.

……Although Sion had immediately agreed upon hearing that, too.

Anyway, perhaps because they had a guilty conscience, the female students fell behind, keeping as much distance as possible from Demona and Hector as they descended the cliff.

Thus, Roan and his friends arrived at Hetrona Hall where Professor Uli’s class was held.

“Be sure to behave yourself today. Don’t harass the other fellows.”

Roar—!

When Roan gave a special warning to Bell at the Sacred Spirit Beast Conservatory, Bell let out an aggrieved sound.

[It wasn’t me, the other fellows were the problem!]

‘Right, right. I also walk around saying that all the time.’

Roan responded, nodding cursorily.

Although he seemed aggrieved in his own way, in Roan’s eyes, it was indeed Bell’s fault.

Perhaps sulking because even Roan didn’t believe him, Bell snapped his head away and flew to the spirit beast tower.

Shouldn’t Master understand me at least?

Still, he seemed to intend to occupy the top first this time to avoid any problems.

On the other hand, Charlotte saluted Roan politely and walked in with graceful steps.

[Hmph, acting like a sycophant…….]

Bell grumbled in the distance, but Roan couldn’t hear it clearly.

After sending the divine beasts in, Roan waited a moment for his other friends who came with him before heading to the lecture hall.

“Saengsaeng, behave yourself~”

“Noeul, Pallangi, sister will be back!”

“Kiki.”

Shriek—?

Unlike the female students, who had grown quite used to leaving them at the conservatory,

“Waaaaah—! Eongeong! Silsil! What am I supposed to do without you guys!”

“What if the chalk attacks me? What if the chairs fly around?”

Demona and Hector were clutching their sacred spirit beasts, crying as if the world were ending.

‘I can’t tell if the human is leaving the spiritual beast, or the spiritual beast is leaving the human.’

Roan watched the two with a look of contempt.

Then, realizing they would be late for class at this rate, he grabbed the scruffs of their necks and practically dragged them toward the lecture hall.

“Being late is a fine.”

“What? Even being late is a fine?”

“Since the opponent is Professor Uli.”

“…….”

Demona and Hector were grease-stained but began to walk on their own feet.

‘I’m worried about how much fuss they will make once we enter the lecture hall.’

Slide—

Since quite some time had been delayed at the Sacred Spirit Beast Conservatory, a significant number of students were already inside the lecture hall.

If there was a decisive difference compared to the first class.

— Wh-What is all this?

— It looks like some kind of parts?

A mountain of parts was stacked on each student’s desk.

The students already looked fed up just looking at the colossal amount.

— Don’t tell me we have to go sell all of this at the commercial district?

— It might really be so…….

For freshmen, they had a decent grasp of Uli, but in Roan’s eyes, it was still far from enough.

‘Simply selling parts won’t make money.’

To make money, one must rightfully create independent added value.

……Putting aside whether it was right to have students create that added value during class time.

Yet surprisingly, Demona and Hector had no reaction upon seeing that mountain of parts.

Roan asked in wonder.

“Are you not scared of those?”

He thought it was about time they shouted, ‘The bolts will enter my earhole!’ or ‘Argh, the wires are choking my neck!’

At that, Demona nodded as if it were only natural.

“Yeah. Those guys are quiet.”

“““???”””