Chapter 179

Chapter 179

He really hadn’t paid any attention until now, so he hadn’t realized.

……In fact, when told they had to scale a thirty-meter cliff to attend class, no one had the luxury to care about whether they were wearing a skirt or not.

Moreover, there was no way Harden would have made the path without considering such things.

On the cliff of Paneroa Hall, multiple layers of protective devices were set up to severely punish anyone who turned their gaze with dirty intentions.

For that reason, it didn’t really matter, but the female students, whose faces turned red at Yusina’s words, began to climb down after her.

Espard admired them.

“Wow~ It hasn’t been long since they enrolled, but they all go down so well? I think I fell about once a month during my first month.”

Demona and Hektor shrugged their shoulders.

“Because Roan is here~”

“Indeed. Without Roan, we would probably still be falling.”

“?”

Espard tilted his head.

Did Roan perhaps teach them how to reinforce their bodies with holy power as soon as he enrolled?

‘No way. Even if Roan had awakened holy power before enrollment, he hasn’t learned anything.’

Espard smiled, thinking the freshmen must have their own cute circumstances, although he didn’t know the details.

With that, they safely descended the cliff and headed toward Cayler Hall.

Since the other friends also had a similar direction, they decided to walk together until they split up.

“Full Moon Pear Pie in the Kedan territory was delicious. I tried it ten years ago. Do they still sell it?”

“Full Moon Pear Pie! I really like it too!”

Thanks to Espard’s old story related to her family, everyone liked it.

“Ugh… I really don’t want to go to the warehouse. Isn’t there some way?”

“None.”

“So cruel…”

Except for Demona, who had to go to Uli’s warehouse soon.

But Demona clapped his hands, as if a brilliant trick had occurred to him in an instant.

“Since Professor Uli likes money, what if I hire Professor Uli instead?”

Naturally, there was no way that made sense.

Since Uli herself didn’t particularly like going into her own warehouse either.

“Why don’t you just go quietly.”

“It’s because you haven’t been to the warehouse! That place is hell! Hell!”

Demona stamped his feet, throwing a tantrum.

“Hmph! Sparky, Black Knight! Follow me! I can’t communicate with a study ghost who grew up sheltered like Roan!”

‘Who’s calling whom sheltered.’

Roan stared dumbfoundedly at Demona’s retreating back as he huffed and walked far ahead.

At any rate, it was a good thing for Roan that he went ahead like that…

“Argh! A shark!! A shark appeared!!!!”

But there was no way Demona would do anything to make Roan happy.

Had he walked about thirty meters?

Demona suddenly made a strange noise and began running back in a hurry to where Roan was.

At first, the friends didn’t pay much attention to Demona’s words either.

“Demona, really. No matter how much he hates going to the warehouse, a shark appearing on land?”

“He’s a heretic, after all. It’s not a new thing.”

“Pathetic.”

Sion even scolded Pallangi, looking up at it.

“Pallangi, no matter how much you hate looking at Demona, you shouldn’t bewilder people carelessly.”

Flutter—

Pallangi expressed its wings in a way to show its injustice, but it was not conveyed to Sion.

However.

Swoosh-swoosh-swoosh────!!!!

“““???!?!!??!?!!”””

Clearly on the bare ground paved with sidewalk blocks, something like a shark’s fin was sticking up and approaching at high speed, exactly as Demona had said.

“W-What is that! The heretic’s words are true?”

“Believe me for once!”

“Would you believe it if you were me?!”

“Pallangi! When did you bewilder even us?!”

With a speed that could barely be followed by the eye, the fin swimming in the ground as if it were water was terror itself.

What kind of holy art was it? The path the fin passed through left absolutely no trace, making it even more bizarre.

Thus, the friends were horrified and tried to run in all directions, but then slipped behind Roan, eyeing him.

The belief that if Roan didn’t run away, it might not be a big deal!

On the other hand, Yusina, Roan, and Espard, who were watching that scene, recognized the identity of the fin and were nodding.

“It seems that person is the accompanying professor.”

“Probably.”

“Oh, then it’s been a really long time since I saw her.”

As Roan naturally joined the conversation, Yusina and Espard stealthily glanced at him sideways.

”Who does he know this is?”

That professor wouldn’t have taken charge of freshman classes, though?

However, before the two could even ask Roan, the fin had arrived right under their noses.

Fwoooosh──!!!

The fin shot up from the ground with tremendous momentum, befitting its swimming all the way here.

“““Argh! A shark ghost!!!!”””

Demona and the friends screamed in unison, all holding up both hands.

……For some reason, the friends were gradually becoming like Demona.

Roan looked back at them with a look of disdain and said,

“That is rude. She is not a shark, but a killer whale beastman.”

“Huh? Yes? Ah?”

The friends alternately looked at the person who shot up from the ground and Roan with confused eyes.

‘I-Is that what’s important right now?’

Then again, calling a killer whale beastman a shark ghost was indeed rude.

“S-Sorry…”

Just as the friends were about to apologize for being rude,

Rumble───

“““!!!”””

they were rendered speechless by the immense aura of the fully revealed killer whale beastman.

A tall woman easily standing over 180 centimeters.

Long straight hair with white and black harmonizing in two-tone.

A body that didn’t look overly rugged, but strong as if she had gone through numerous real combats.

Actually, seeing up to here, it might not be that surprising since they had seen all kinds of people, but.

”’Is she a relative of Riel’s?”’

Facing a blunt and cold impression that reminded them of Riel, their mouths did not open easily.

As the friends’ gazes naturally turned to her, Riel shook her head and said,

“No.”

Although they had a surprisingly similar impression even to Riel, in reality, there was no relation between the killer whale beastman and her.

However, as could be inferred from the image, she was also the professor who would later become Riel’s role model and greatest stepping stone for growth.

At any rate, the killer whale beastman glared at each person standing in front of her quickly but sharply.

That gaze was like a well-honed rapier, so Sion, Demona, Hektor, and Rafia were unable to overcome the pressure and grew extremely tense.

On the other hand, Riel seemed to endure it resolutely with her characteristic cold expression.

Yusina praised her in a low voice to Roan, as if surprised.

“Wow, Riel is really brave. Everyone who sees that professor for the first time gets scared.”

Roan, thinking there was no way that was the case, slightly glanced sideways at Riel’s expression.

Tremble—

Sure enough, Riel was not unresponsive, but on the contrary, she was deeply terrified.

To the point where one might wonder if she would faint soon.

‘Well, it can’t be helped.’

Considering the identity of the killer whale beastman professor, it was natural for them, who were still just freshmen, to instinctively feel fear.

However, he couldn’t just watch them tremble like that.

Roan turned to his friends and said,

“Do not worry. She is a kind professor.”

“R-Really?”

“Yes. Just like Riel is.”

Fortunately, if it had been other students, it might be different, but those who had already become close friends with Riel were quick to understand.

Yusina stepped forward and introduced her.

“This is Professor Tyrmi! You guys haven’t met her yet, but she is a professor I really like!”

With even Yusina speaking like this, the friends, somewhat relaxed, bowed their waists and apologized to Tyrmi.

““We are sorry, Professor Tyrmi.””

“If only you hadn’t been swimming in the ground, we wouldn’t have been surprised. We are sorry.”

Of course, the last remark belonged to Demona.

“…….”

Tyrmi had no reaction even to the friends’ apologies.

She merely looked around with indifferent and heavy eyes,

“Darc.”

and only said this in a low bass voice.

“Heuuuk! Are you really getting expelled?”

Demona made a fuss.

No matter how one listened, it didn’t seem to be a voice carrying good intentions.

However, Roan answered by slightly raising his hand without a care,

“Yes.”

Nod—

Tyrmi nodded and opened her mouth again.

“Beatrice.”

“…Yes?”

Nod—

Sion glanced around and followed Roan in answering.

“Panelia.”

“Yeees~ Professor!”

……It was merely roll call to check if everyone had arrived.

Demona, who made the fuss, was punished by his friends.

“Moderation is key, Heretic!”

“Yeah! You make us even more startled for no reason!”

“Too much!”

“Argh! Ow! Hey, honestly, if it were you guys, wouldn’t you have been surprised— stop hitting me~”

Thump thump—

It was convenient for the friends that they had no need to dirty their own hands (?) ever since Black Knight and Sparky came into existence.

Meanwhile, having confirmed that all the students who would go out with her had arrived, Tyrmi reached into her chest.

Demona, who was knocked sideways and beaten, warned Roan upon seeing that,

“I think it’s a real duel proposal this time! Roan, run away! Argh! Stop hitting me!”

……Listening only to the voice, it was impossible to tell who was receiving the duel proposal.

Roan looked down pitifully at Demona, who was thinking of him even while getting beaten by his own spirit beasts.

‘He should look after himself.’

Drawing something from her chest, Tyrmi threw one each to Roan, Yusina, and Sion with lightning-fast hand movements.

Flick flick flick—

“Huh?”

In Sion’s case, the speed was so immense that she didn’t even notice right away when the object appeared in her hand.

On the other hand, Roan and Yusina knew very well what they had received.

“I’ll enjoy it, Professor Tyrmi!”

“Thank you.”

“…It’s not a duel challenge, it’s pastries?”

Demona looked up at the warm bags held in the three’s hands with bewildered eyes.

Just as he said, it was a confectionery set sold at a famous bakery in the commercial district.

Although rumors had spread among the students, it sold out so quickly that it was actually hard to eat.

‘Is she… a really kind professor?’

Sion tilted her head, looking at the warm bag of pastries that was even piping hot.

Meanwhile, Tyrmi tossed a word to Espard and the other friends whom she hadn’t managed to prepare pastries for,

“Sorry.”

“““???”””

The friends, still dazed, had no idea what was going on.

In Tyrmi’s own way, it meant, ‘I would have bought more pastries if I had known there were other students, my apologies.’

Espard spoke to Tyrmi with a broad laugh.

“You really haven’t changed, Professor. How have you been?”

It was Espard’s friendliness that could not be easily ignored.

But Tyrmi merely looked at him with eyes from which her inner thoughts could not be read at all, and said,

“Yeah. Let’s go.”

And then, she submerged (?) into the ground again just like when she arrived, heading forward at high speed while parting the surface.

It meant that since business was finished, they should head off to the off-campus volunteer work.

“Then we shall go now. See you tomorrow.”

“Huh? Yeah. Have a safe trip, Roan~”

“Return in good health!”

“Buy my present!”

Indeed, now that it was time to go, the friends let Roan go without much lingering regret.

Roan widened his eyes slightly in surprise, then nodded once and walked quickly, chasing after Tyrmi.