26 – External Instructor(2)
Seria was at a loss for words looking at Elerain.
She didn’t expect to encounter Elerain here of all places.
“Elerain?! What are you doing here?!”
“Hm? Well, I’m a student here, Ahem!”
She placed her hands on her hips and blew air through her nose.
Upon seeing her dress, Seria nodded with a convinced expression.
“So, that’s it. Did Dad finally give you permission?”
“Yes…….”
“Do you two know each other?”
At that instant, Kael intervened between them.
With his appearance, Seria cast a glance and scratched her cheek.
Then, Elerain answered instead, with a joyous expression.
“We’re family!”
“Family?”
At these unexpected words, everyone including herself stared back at Seria.
Then, she groaned out a response.
“Yes. We’re family, but to be specific, I am currently on the run.”
“No, you were driven out… Eh!”
The next moment, Seria desperately covered Elerain’s mouth with her hand.
It seems she was indisputably chased out by an Elven elder.
‘Could it be, Seria was the daughter of the elf elder.’
I knew she was an elf.
Even if others didn’t know, hadn’t I noticed that she used magic to hide her elf-like ears?
Kariel quietly alternated his gaze between her and Elaine.
‘They do look a bit alike now that I think about it.’
Their appearances were completely different, but there was a certain similarity in both of their magical energies.
While Kariel was coming to terms with this internally.
“Whoa! By the way, sis, did you know the professor?”
Taking her hand off her mouth, she tilted her head with a smirk.
Then Seria, noticing Kariel’s gaze, closed her mouth.
They did know each other.
But, she was also the one who chased him out of the party years ago.
So, she didn’t quite know how to respond.
Seria rolled her eyes and looked to Kariel.
And then he answered for her in a calm, steady voice.
“Yeah, we know each other.”
“Whoa! How do you two know each other? It’s surprising how small the world is…”
“Wait, Elaine, why are you here anyway?”
Worriedly, Seria quickly changed the subject.
The next moment, Elaine, as if remembering something, opened her eyes wide.
“Oh! I came to ask the professor something… But why are you here, sis?”
“The people here this time came as guest lecturers.”
Kariel pointed to Seria, Jane, and Livia.
The next moment, Maria and Ray behind them look utterly surprised.
“What, what? Those people?”
“Maria, am I thinking correctly?”
“What’s up, what’s up, why that?”
Seeing their reactions, Elaine makes a puzzled face.
Maria responds to the question in a rather startled voice.
“All those people are part of the hero’s party.”
“Huh?! Really?!”
“Yeah. A hundred percent.”
Rey nodded as if he agreed.
Elaine’s eyes sparkled as she turned to Seria.
“Sis! You were in a hero’s party?”
“Ah, ahem. Yeah.”
She moved her head up and down, wearing a troubled expression.
Normally, she would have felt pride at such a reaction.
After all, wouldn’t it be so? She was taking down demons for humanity.
However, due to Kael’s presence next to her, for some reason, she felt more prickled by her conscience than usual.
“Let’s stop the conversation here.”
Suddenly, Kael interrupted between the two of them.
And then he continued speaking.
“I’m sorry, but we have something we need to do right now.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Yes. I apologize.”
“No problem! I’ll be back to ask more later then!”
“Do so.”
The three of them then elegantly disappeared with those final words.
Kael quietly looked at Seria.
Soon, he opened his mouth with his usual indifferent expression.
“Let’s continue where we left off.”
“Oh, uh-huh!”
In this way, the two of them discussed the afternoon lecture they were going to have.
***
And so began the afternoon lectures.
There were many people in the lecture room.
Elaine asked around, looking around her.
“There’s a ton of people here?”
“Yes. After all, it’s the hero’s party lecture, isn’t it?”
“Was your sister that great?”
“Well, I heard she even captured a Demon Army Commander recently.”
“Wow.”
Elaine’s eyes sparkled brightly at Maria’s words.
Maria, however, threw a question at her, as if she could not understand Elaine’s reaction.
“But you said you clearly didn’t know her?”
“Ah, yes.”
“But you didn’t know anything about her?”
“Ah, In Elinia, we’re not really interested in knowing about the outside world in detail. That’s why I couldn’t find out much about her.”
To be honest, she only found out that she was part of the hero’s party just a while ago.
As she added the last part, Maria nodded convincingly.
“Hmm, I see.”
“More to the point, Maria, why did you come to listen? I thought you weren’t very interested unless it was about magic?”
At Elaine’s question, Maria gave a meaningful smile.
Then with a voice full of curiosity, she said, “I heard that Lady Seria had made a contract with a spirit.”
“Really?”
“Yes. So, I thought she might teach about it in this lecture.”
“Oh……”
Elaine had a moment of realization that she didn’t know much about her sister after all.
At that moment.
-Step. Step.
A figure climbed onto the stage.
He was none other than Kael, one of the hot topics in the academy recently.
He looked at the students seated and spoke.
“Everyone, please be quiet.”
“……..”
Momentarily, everyone shut their mouths.
Kael looked around at the students, then turned his head.
“Teacher, you can come in now.”
A woman with blue hair and blue pupils ascends onto the stage.
The students lose themselves briefly at her arrival.
A handful of the male students even go as far as blushing.
Such was the extent of Seria’s beauty.
“Ah, hello everyone. I’m Seria, one of the adventurer’s party who’s come as external instructors this time.”
“Wowww!”
The students screamed at her self-introduction.
The male students even rise from their seats to give a standing ovation.
As soon as everyone quiets down, Seria continues her explanation with a beaming smile.
“I assume most of you here didn’t come to hear our story?”
“Yes!”
“Originally, I was supposed to teach archery, but seeing as so many of you are here, I’ll teach you all a method of contracting with a spirit that will benefit everyone.”
Finished speaking, she begins to draw a magic formula on the blackboard.
Soon thereafter, she recalls the contents taught by Kael in the past.
-Shorten that magic line a bit and add more magic to this formula. Yes, just like that.
Kael, who taught her specifically, one by one.
At that time, she took it for granted.
Because she was a wizard, after all.
Because she was only providing support with magic from the rear.
However, that was not the case.
There were an innumerable amount of magic users who couldn’t even do up to this extent.
No, there was hardly any wizard who could surpass Kael.
She took his goodwill for granted not knowing this.
That’s why she blurted out such a disparaging remark to Kael.
-I am different from the other two, I can’t beat around the bush. I will say it directly. You’re not helpful to the party. It would be great if you could leave.
It was something she definitely should’ve never said in front of Kael.
More than anyone else, the one who had been the most helpful from the rear had been Kael.
But she had realized it way too late.
As Seria drew the formula, she reminisced about that moment.
“Seria, it’s over.”
Before she knew it, Seria had drawn all the magic symbols.
Coming to her senses suddenly, she released her magic power.
“Once you have drawn all the formulae, infuse your magic power into the symbols.”
-Woong.
At that moment, a light emanated from the magic symbols.
Seria, looking at the luminous magic symbols, continued her explanation.
“Normally, you cannot end here. To make a contract, you must also include a blood oath in the magic symbols.”
“But in my case, there is already a contracted spirit, so I don’t need to do it.”
With these words, Seria poured more power into her magic symbols.
At the same time.
-Peu-ooong!!
A storm of magic power raged from the magic symbols.
Soon, a tiny man appeared in the center of the storm.
He asked with a grim look.
-What is it that you have summoned me for?
At the appearance of the tiny man, all the students wore expressions full of interest.
It was understandable because it was difficult to see a spirit normally.
But this was no ordinary spirit.
It was a spirit summoned by the Hero’s party.
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Therefore, all the interest was, in a way, expected.
At the moment everyone’s eyes were brightened by the appearance of the Silpheed,
-Heuk!
Suddenly, Silpheed was taken aback when he saw Kael.
The behavior of the Silpheed provoked puzzled expressions of the surrounding students, including Seria.
“Silpheed, what’s wrong?”
As Seria asked, tilting her head, Silpheed bowed towards Kael at a right angle.
Then, he exclaimed in a voice full of tension, as though he was facing his superior.
“I am in the presence of the Queen’s master!!!”
“······.”
There was an awkward silence in the classroom.
-“The Queen?”
-“If you mean the Queen that the spirit spoke of, do you mean the Spirit King?”
-“Oh, you mean the Spirit King’s master is Professor Kael?”
Realizing the reaction roundabout, Kael instinctively understood.
He had blown it hard, right from the first day of external lectures.