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“Haaam~”
After the patrol was over, Instructor Philip and Ophelia returned to the tent they had set up beforehand. Perhaps because it had been a rather tiring day, Ophelia turned her head away from Philip’s eyes and yawned.
“Are you tired?”
“yes… little bit. I must have been too nervous earlier.”
Ophelia nodded at Philip’s question.
“It was a pretty terrible experience. I’ve met quite a few wolves. I also raised it when I was young… For a while, I would be surprised just by looking at the guard dog.”
“yes? You mean you’ve ever had wolves? Are you from a noble family?”
“oh! Oh no. I don’t have a last name. Of course he’s a commoner. So, father… … No, my father ran a butcher shop. Originally, wolves drool when they see raw meat, right?”
For Ophelia, who was about to lose the concept because she was relaxed, Phillip personally woke her up.
‘The worldview was dirty and rough. What about raising a wolf in a butcher’s shop? If I opened a raw fish restaurant, I wonder if I would have raised a Kraken.’
“ah. okay. If you run a butcher shop, you can.”
Philip showed tolerance for the questionable excuses, whether he wanted to hide his identity. Ophelia, however, stared at Philip with displeasure.
“Do I look stupid?”
Philip asked her question, as if asking what she was talking about.
“What do you mean all of a sudden?”
“I, no matter who sees it, I am clumsy. Instructor Oswald is not an idiot, and a commoner instructor with skills like that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but no one asked about me. Didn’t the professors leave me because they decided that I would be useful in the fight just now?”
The words were right. A swordsman with skills above this level would have noticed the momentum of Instructor Ophelia to some extent.
But surprisingly, no one paid any attention.
“It does. But isn’t it a bad thing to respect privacy?”
“Of course, it’s something I’m thankful for, but it’s just too much. If I were a villain who infiltrated the academy with a bad heart… .”
“If so, it would have been buried somewhere by now. As you may not know, the Freevia Academy has all sorts of protection and alarm magic. Even if you are a master of necromancers, you won’t be able to use much power inside the academy.”
The students of Pribia Academy were, to put it mildly, the future of mankind. Students who grew up here returned to their estates and took over their estates, or were doing their duty as nobles on the northern front, or in all sorts of dangerous battlefields.
The same was true of commoner students. Rather, they tended to be more active than the nobility students.
In other words, in a world where magic and aura exist, an educational institution called the academy was one of the essential devices for maintaining society.
If graduates who received the right education were not constantly put into society, mankind would lose the ability to resist the demons in a few generations.
There was no way the security of an institution that played such a role was clumsy.
“… .”
In fact, Philip already knew why she was able to serve as an instructor without any problems.
‘Christine Baroun? I don’t know why he suddenly wants to be an instructor, but since he’s not a bad kid, wouldn’t it matter? I don’t have the personality to teach the kids roughly, and I don’t think it’s going to have a bad effect seeing how much she likes her younger sister, Hailey. And since he has a strong sense of responsibility, he must have been attached to the academy for at least a few years.’
Once Felicia already knew her identity.
‘Leave it alone. It’s not a loss for us. I’ll eat in moderation and go back when I’m tired. With the Baroun family, there’s no way the academy would do any repair work. It’s a family that knows quite a bit of honor, so they won’t do anything shameful.’
The same was true of the head professor.
‘Oh, you mean that girl? Even if it wasn’t, I saw a familiar face, so I said hello first, but he pretended not to know, which was out of place. I’m pretending I don’t know if there’s something wrong with it.’
Professor Kessler openly pretended not to know.
In conclusion, the fact that she served as an instructor without any problems was thanks to the adults’ efforts to overcome the deviation of a reputable and sincere noble lady.
Of course, if I told her about this, the shame could have caused misfortune. Perhaps she truly believed that her true identity had not been revealed.
“If the instructor wants to reveal his identity, I won’t stop him. If that’s not the case, I’m happy to help.”
“… blood. It is.”
Ophelia sighed, looking as if something had leaked out. Then, as if he had just remembered something, he suddenly asked a question.
“Does my brother listen?”
Philip, already distracted from her and thinking about Rappo, responded to the sudden attack without thinking.
“You mean Haley? very exemplary… Alas.”
‘How can I fall for such a childish trick?’
It was a really unexpected newspaper.
Philip well knew that sometimes these childish tricks worked better than advanced psychological warfare, but he didn’t expect it to go so easily.
Philip looked at Ophelia with a bewildered expression, and she rolled her eyes at Philip and sighed.
“As expected, you already knew!”
“no… that is… .”
“Are you having fun playing with people? If I do this, I will only become an idiot!”
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Philip, stroking his pinched arm, came out of the tent and headed towards the place where he could feel Rappo’s presence.
‘… It’s a relief that she’s like me in terms of her personality.’
Fortunately, Ophelia, or Christine, didn’t seem really upset. When she heard from Philip that the disguises and actions she had taken to hide her identity had been ineffective, she closed herself in her sleeping bag with a grim expression on her face.
I didn’t get an explanation as to why she did this, but there didn’t seem to be any significant reason.
‘I’ll have to ask later.’
Thinking so, he left the camp and moved to a remote location.
“… That, little master? Arrived as ordered. Do you have any business with me… .”
I saw Rappo, who had changed into the shape of a wolf, waiting for Philip. He sat upright in an angular posture, watching Philip’s eyes.
“Are there any difficulties in the search?”
Philip asked. Rappo shook his head.
“that… Will there be any reason? There is nothing for the little master to worry about.”
“To be honest, I am willing to help. I don’t think there is any need to solve it alone. I wonder if this isn’t something to build pride on.”
As Philip comforted him, Rappo gave a loud whimper and then admitted the truth.
“It is actually very difficult. I remember that there is a seal of my kind around here, but it seems that the traces were covered up with magical tricks.”
“Is there a seal around here?”
When Philip asked, surprised, Rappo let out a deep sigh.
“If I remember correctly, a shaman from the Wolang tribe is sleeping near here. He probably knows where the great warrior is sleeping and where other people of his own kind are sleeping.”
“That kid? You must have been very close, right?”
“That is… She is the younger sister of my wife Roro. That is, my sister-in-law.”
Philip sincerely sympathized with Lapo’s plight. It was because he had to find the place where his sister-in-law was sealed.
After thinking for a while, Philip came up with a good idea.
“Then let’s do this. I’ll recruit a skilled wizard, so let’s take some time and search around this area together. how is it?”
Rappo bowed her head deeply with a moved expression.
“I really don’t know how to repay this favor. little master… .”
“Looking at it earlier, you seem to have quite a talent for acting, just do as I say. It’s uncomfortable, but I can’t help it. I don’t want the fact that I have a big relationship with the Wolang people to be widely known yet.”
“Please leave it to me. I will definitely do it.”
Philip told Rappo of his plan, and Rappo immediately agreed and put Philip on his back.
The place I arrived at after a short run was near the tent shared by Professor Castler and Instructor Ferek.
“Professor Murella? Would you like to come out for a second?”
Professor Cassler, feeling the presence of the silver wolf that had been making him nervous that afternoon, was quite startled and immediately summoned his staff. However, when he found Philip sitting on his back, he asked with a dumbfounded expression.
“No, Instructor. What is this?”
“As you can see, this wolf has a favor to ask of us.”
As Philip climbed off Rappo’s back, Rappo cleared his throat a few times before speaking in a solemn voice.
“Humans, you look quite competent. As for me, I am a member of the Yulang tribe, who have guarded this land since ancient times, and now I am wandering the world in search of my own people. If you will help me find my people, I will reward you with ancient treasures.”
“… ?”
Professor Kassler looked at Philip with a gaze demanding an explanation.
Philip replied as if he couldn’t help it.
“Instructor Perek, I’m asking you to lend me some money. I think it would be enough for someone who knows how to properly use detection magic… .”
Kassler didn’t even have to step out himself. Anyway, it was good to see that the quality of Instructor Ferek’s detection magic or Castler’s was similar. As long as I could find some magical traces, that was enough.
“buy… Quite embarrassing though. I’ll get it right away. You don’t seem to be evil… Why don’t you let me hear your opinion first?”
Remembering the image of Rappo biting and killing a black wolf while saying something nice, Castler summoned Instructor Ferek without much doubt.
This was possible because in a world where it was not uncommon for gods and guardians to ask for help from humans.
Instructor Ferek, who was called out after enjoying a sweet sleep, looked at Rappo’s dignified appearance, gasped, and murmured after swallowing his breath.
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“Please, I hope that wolf isn’t out to enjoy a late-night snack… .”
Cassler and Phillip reassured him, and Instructor Ferek, who had heard the explanation, asked a question with a puzzled expression.
“… If you help that wolf gentleman, what will happen to your practice?”
“Anyway, the second day is training for position building and troop organization, so a day or so won’t matter. Instructor. The instructor helped me a lot because I was not familiar with the academy class, so this time I will help the instructor. To others, I will say that I have been sent on errands to nearby cities.”
It was just a matter of using the detection magic a few times anyway.
“Don’t worry, I will definitely compensate you. Human. I am a body that has lived for a thousand years. I know exactly what mages will like. For example, what about magic spells that have now been practiced?”
When the wolf, who looked like something great, said that, Instructor Ferek nodded with a slightly happy expression.
“If the professor says so… .”
Instructor Ferek, whose eyes went round at the word magic spell that was practiced, slightly bowed his head to Philip, not even imagining what would happen to him.
It was an expression of gratitude for giving me this opportunity.