Chapter 154

Chapter 154

Sion and the other female students tilted their heads.

‘Then parts are naturally quiet, could there be ones that run wild?’

……They did not yet know the fact that there were indeed parts that ran wild.

“Demona, anyone would think gears were flying at us.”

Raphia spoke to Demona in a playful tone.

She seemed to have mistaken Demona’s words as just coming from her usual eccentric way of thinking.

Demona opened her eyes wide and asked.

“Uh? Did you enter Professor Uli’s warehouse?”

“……???”

Raphia decided not to ask any further.

Because she didn’t want to look interested and get dragged into preparing for next week’s class for no reason.

However, among the many seats, only one seat was clean and empty, without a mountain of parts.

“……Why is this seat empty?”

Roan felt a strange sense of unease for some reason and asked Demona.

If there was exactly one thing that was different in Acherandir, he had to suspect it first.

Demona shrugged and replied.

“I don’t know. Senior Uldein told me to leave one seat empty?”

……If even the person who prepared it didn’t know the reason, he had to suspect it all the more.

Roan tried to avoid the empty seat and sit elsewhere by any means.

“Maybe he’s not going to make me do anything during class because I worked hard?”

Instead, Demona quickly sat in that seat.

“Heretic, then where is my seat?”

“Figure out your seat on your own~”

“You heretic bastard!”

Demona and Hector began to bicker as usual.

‘I don’t think it would be like that no matter how much I think about it, but I should leave it as is for now.’

Roan did not bother to step in and stop Demona.

Around the time class was about to begin.

Slide—

Professor Uli, the five-colored squirrel half-blood, opened the front door and entered.

— Th-The Professor came in on time?!

The students were extremely surprised at the natural fact that the professor had entered in time for class.

“Has everyone been well?”

— Th-The Professor greeted usssss?!??!?!!

And when Uli offered a greeting in a highly displeased tone, they practically felt like flipping over in surprise.

Regardless of the students, Uli climbed onto the podium and spoke as follows:

“Today, we will have time to personally make the parts that form the basis of crafting holy relics.”

— Th-The Professor is teaching!!!!

— Hey, but isn’t it normal for a professor to teach?

— Ah, right, indeed.

Desirably, the students could realize how to be grateful for normalcy.

Meanwhile, Demona asked Roan.

“Isn’t the Professor a bit strange today? I even brought my pouch to pay money.”

Clink—

Demona even pulled out a pouch of gold coins from her chest.

Somehow, she looked rather disappointed.

Roan replied.

“Actually, we already paid the money. We enrolled after paying tuition, after all.”

“Aha! As expected, Roan is smart~”

Roan wondered if this was something one had to be smart to think of.

‘Though one might not know if they’re stupid.’

And he turned his gaze toward his other friends.

“Uh, Darc is right. We paid tuition, didn’t we?”

“Right, we paid money so naturally that I didn’t realize.”

Then, hearing even Sion and Raphia having such a conversation, he clicked his tongue.

‘Noble bastards, seriously!’

Because they paid with family money, not money they had earned through blood and sweat, they could say such things so casually.

……Of course, Roan had not paid the tuition with his own money either.

However, at Roan’s level, it could be considered that his life was also included in the tuition.

In the midst of that, Demona raised her hand high and asked Uli.

“Professor, why are you so kind and not taking money today?”

— Gasppp!!!

— It seems Wicronon wants to get fined again!

Naturally, the students were horrified.

Even in the opinion of Acherandir students, such a question felt like one that should never be asked to a professor, regardless of kindness or unkindness.

On the other hand, Uli replied quite calmly.

“I didn’t want to either, but the Principal fined me.”

“Why?”

“He said I made a holy power source to make money by exploiting students…… and also the ridiculous reason to actually teach during class hours. What’s so important about that anyway.”

Hearing Uli’s answer, the students were dumbfounded in real-time.

‘Do people usually call that a ridiculous reason?’

Commonly, such things were reasons to be expelled from the school, not just fined.

“Even the holy power source Darc made was confiscated…… well, this sort of thing is not important now.”

But Uli seemed highly aggrieved.

‘To think Harden took it, that’s a relief at least.’

It was truly fortunate news for Roan.

At that moment, Uli, who had been scanning the students, looked at Roan and Demona and asked.

“But why did you swap seats?”

“…….”

Roan grit his teeth at the situation that did not fail his expectations.

‘Looking back, in Acherandir, you shouldn’t stand out.’

Undoubtedly, because he had made something like a super holy power source last time, Uli seemed to intend to give Roan a particularly difficult task.

“Eh? Wasn’t it left empty because I worked hard yesterday?”

Demona tilted her head.

“Cleaning the smallest warehouse is hardly hard work. That is Darc’s seat, so swap seats quickly.”

“Hmph……”

Demona wore a tearful face and swapped seats with Roan.

“What Darc will do is currently being brought in, so wait a moment.”

“……Yes.”

Roan had no choice but to sit at the empty desk.

Considering that Atoga brought back Pierrebo, who was almost half-dead, Uli might bring in even an unfinished golem.

In any case, Uli held up the exact same materials as those placed at the students’ seats and began explaining.

“Now, remember this well. This is part 1. There is a grooved part in the middle; you fit part 2 into it, cover it with part 3, and then secure it with part 4.”

— Ooh…….

— Did you understand?

— I don’t know yet, but it’s great that he’s explaining it.

Following Uli’s explanation, the students tentatively brought the parts together, albeit clumsily.

“Professor, what kind of holy relic does this make?”

Sion raised his hand to ask.

Although she knew how to assemble the parts, even if she tried as Uli taught, the outer shape was hard to view as entering any holy relic.

Uli replied immediately.

“It’s not a holy relic though?”

“““???”””

The students’ mouths fell open.

If they weren’t making holy relics in a holy relic crafting class, what on earth……?

“This is not a holy relic, but making a component that goes into a factory-type holy relic manufacturing machine.”

Fortunately(?), it was indeed related to crafting holy relics.

Though the problem was that it was unrelated to the class.

Sion asked again, hesitantly.

“Th-Then why are we doing this……?”

“Because it’s the most profitable at your level. I will give you 2 talents for each one you make.”

“““?!??!!??”””

The students were astounded.

To think the professor would have the students do a side job.

And they stealthily focused their attention on Demona with expectant eyes.

Whenever this happened, Demona would deliver a sharp remark that would even fluster the professors.

However,

Snip— Snap— Click—

“Roan, this isn’t working well?”

“The positions of part 2 and part 3 are swapped. No, the shapes are completely different, so why are you confused.”

“Aha~ As expected, Roan is good at everything!”

Demona was trying to assemble the parts more diligently than anyone else.

Uli watched her in satisfaction and said.

“Do it diligently like the class representative. I’ll make sure you get paid without fail.”

Of course, Demona was doing this because of the massive fine, not loyalty to Uli, but anyway.

— S-Shall we try it first?

— It doesn’t look that difficult difficult…… we can earn a few days’ food expenses?

The students whispered among themselves, yet picked up the parts on their desks.

‘They can earn food expenses, sure. Though Uli will earn house expenses.’

2.

This labor cost for this single part was about 10 talents, which was known to Roan. To him, Uli was nothing but a lowlife robber.

Since it wasn’t his business, and for the sake of preserving the students’ innocence, he didn’t say anything, but.

Clank— Clank—

Soon, the students handling the parts grew rough in their hand movements, perhaps because things didn’t go as they wished.

“Sion, this somehow feels like it keeps spinning in place……”

“You too?”

“It’s not working.”

The parts did not bind properly as Uli had simply demonstrated.

After trying a few more times, Sion soon frowned and held out the parts he was holding to Roan.

“Darc, it doesn’t seem to work.”

“……So why are you handing that to me.”

“, !”

Sion was perhaps embarrassed belatedly that she had handed over the parts so naturally, and she blushed.

Raphia asked.

“Can’t Roan do it either?”

“……I can do it.”

Roan resented himself for not being able to proudly say ‘I can’t’.

Why did he memorize even the assembly method of such trivial parts!

“Watch closely. When making these parts, you must inject holy power into specific areas simultaneously and bind them. Look here, there is a small arrow engraved on this part……”

Roan explained slowly to his friends while properly controlling his mana.

Indeed, following his words.

Click—!

With a cheerful sound, the parts clicked together and were completed.

“Wow! It really works?”

“Thank you, Darc!”

His friends looked around the part Roan had made in wonder.

…… .

Thud—

Roan placed the part he had made to demonstrate on the desk.

Sion reached out his hand to take it again.

“I will take this now!”

Zzzt—

But for some reason, Roan’s gaze watching that hand grew sharper.

“……?”

Sion wondered why Roan was behaving like that for a moment, and then spoke with a look of disbelief.

‘No way, surely not over that?’

“I will give you 2 talents……?”

Slide—

“……What are you waiting for, take it.”

Only then did Roan loosen the strength in his eyes and push the part to Sion.

Sion was astounded.

‘How petty!’

The talents Roan possessed must exceed 10,000—in reality, it exceeded 20,000—yet to think he showed such cheapness over a mere 2 talents.

However, since he hadn’t spoken out loud, it was slightly ambiguous to call him a flat-out miser.

Could it not just be a coincidence?

“Ah, y-yes.”

Sion made parts in his seat while stealthily checking Roan’s reaction.

— . .

— , .

Meanwhile, the students who had not yet received the crafting method from Roan glared at them with envious eyes and grumbled.

‘Hmm, knowing Uli’s personality, he won’t end the class unless the workload is fully met.’

Slide—

Roan stood up with that thought.

— Hieek! Hey, he heard what you said!

— !

The students were terrified, thinking Roan was going to launch a punishment holy magic at them, but fortunately, that was not his purpose.

“Galland.”

“U-Uh? Wh-Why, why, why are you here.”

“I-Is it a duel challenge?!”

The place Roan went first was to Galland, who sat next to Trian.

When Roan spoke to him, Galland was visibly flustered.

…… .

“I will explain only once. Watch closely.”

Roan picked up a set of parts from Galland’s desk and showed him where to inject holy power and bind them.

“Do you understand?”

“Oh…… it really works when you do it that way.”

While feeling amazed, Galland seemed to wonder, ‘Why is he suddenly teaching me this?’

Trian, who was watching along, asked.

“Darc, but how do you know such a thing?”

At the rational question he hadn’t received in a long time, Roan was momentarily flustered.

‘Why is he asking that?’