After a long and long vacation, the day the academy began.
“This is a new feeling.”
“What do you mean?”
Leaning on the carriage heading to the academy, muttering in a low voice, Kania, who was sitting next to me, asked a question with a mysterious expression.
“A few months ago, you rode this carriage to the academy, didn’t you?”
“I think so.”
“At that time, you were looking at me like you were going to kill me.”
Saying that and smiling, Kania quietly bit her lip.
“sorry.”
“It’s a joke, a joke. By the way, what’s the situation with those kids?”
“Are you talking about Lulu and others?”
Looking back with Kania who had said that, I saw a small but quite colorful wagon rattling after us.
“It is still showing uneasy faces.”
“Well, I’ve been in despair and helpless for several years, but it’s hard to get better overnight.”
After speaking sullenly in response to Kania’s answer, she smiles and adds.
“However, things have changed.”
“What has changed?”
“Yeah, it’s weak, but it’s hopeful.”
Hearing that, I said with a relieved expression on my face.
“It’s good. I still have the energy to hold on to even a little bit of hope.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah, the most important thing is to have a little hope in order not to be broken. I know it well from experience.”
Saying that, I smiled happily, and Kania looked at me and asked a question.
“They’ll hate the Young Master without knowing the arrangement until it’s all over. Are you happy enough to smile like that?”
“I’m glad. You gave hope to people who had nothing but despair. And you will make that hope a reality in the future.”
“That’s great.”
Having said that, Kania pouted her mouth and began to grunt.
A few months ago, Kania kept her feelings tight even when she asked for it, but these days, she has been showing a lot of cute things like that.
Of course, I like it that way too. I like her as a butler, but I also like her as a friend.
“By the way, Young Master, is it really true that you bought the market alley under the guise of a disguise?”
“Yeah, taking the first step enthusiastically will make things easier in the future.”
“But… can you afford it?”
As I tilted my head at those words, Kania said with a worried expression.
“You don’t know what it means to dominate the market alley.”
“Yeah, to dominate the market alley… means to have a huge impact on the ‘back alley’. The two alleys are inextricably linked.”
Having said that, Kania sighed and spoke out.
“I’ll help.”
“No, I’ll take care of this.”
“but…”
“You die from overwork.”
As the dark circles caressed her eyes and spoke with a worried expression, Kania began to make a blank expression.
“How many tasks are you in charge of. You don’t have to help me because I’ll take care of this.”
“The former Young Master’s henchman…”
“And, I want to do some healing while doing the work myself.”
“…Healing?”
“Yeah, you can’t live with evil deeds forever.”
Having said that, Kania, who was making an absurd expression on her face, sighed and answered.
“All right.”
And for a while there was only silence in the carriage.
“Oh, it looks like you’re already here. I see the academy.”
In a quiet atmosphere, I looked out the window and scratched my head, but I woke up to the Sunrise Academy that appeared looming.
“Then, I wish you good luck this semester…”
“Young Master, I think you should carry out the operation you have planned in advance.”
“…ah.”
I’m about to shake hands with Kania with a smile, but she mentions ‘Operation’ with a serious expression.
“Are you really okay? It must hurt…”
“If it is to hide the identity of the Young Master, even a moment’s pain is not a big deal.”
Reaching out to her with a guilty expression, Kania quietly began to untie her suit.
“Then, please take good care of me today… hahaha!”
“…Hold on a second, Kania.”
Also, Kania seems to be very loyal. For me, he would endure even the pain and ask me to leave my handprints on my body.
“Heh heh…”
Also, I have to be nice to Kania.
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“Hey, your complexion has improved a lot?”
“Yeah… I got treatment during vacation.”
“Really? Great!”
Common students in Class A were talking about each other’s current situation with bright expressions in the classroom.
“Because I was treating my parents and my younger brother, I had nothing but living expenses.”
“But where is it? I’ve spent all my debts paying off.”
“You guys too? It’s me…”
Most of the commoners had a sad expression on their faces while talking with a bright expression.
They were touched by a large sum of money that they had never touched in their life, but most of them had spent almost all of that money treating their families and paying off their debts.
As a result, although the causes and shackles from which they had been collecting money were broken, common students were still forced to remain in a state of poverty.
“Still, it feels good, right?”
“Of course. My younger brother, who was always arrogant, called me oppa? After all, money is probably the best.”
“There is no fear of debtors coming, and there are no sick family members… Now I can work as much as I want. I’m glad.”
But they decided to think positively.
Just because the shackles holding them fell off, it felt like a breath of fresh air.
And because there is hope for a better life.
– Profit…
After such a long time, the common students, who had been chatting with smiles on their lips for a long time, inadvertently turned their gazes to the classroom door as the door slowly opened, and then began to look startled.
“Why is the professor like that?”
“I don’t know, who else made fun of you for being an old virgin?”
“Shh! You’re right and then you die!”
Isolet, who entered the classroom with a very angry expression, messy hair, and sullen eyes, was stared at by the children, and when she arrived at the school table, shut up and sighed.
– Profit…
“I have something to tell you…”
“Shut up and sit down. Frey.”
After sighing for a long time, Isolet let out a breath when Frey came in with Kania and tried to say something to the commoners, and gave the order.
“…what?”
Frey, who was about to send a signal to Kania with an arrogant expression on the wind, began to hesitate with a bewildered expression on her face.
“I told you to take a seat.”
As Isolette fiddled with her scabbard while looking at Frey coldly, Frey frowned for a moment, then tumbled to her seat.
“Young Master, why is Professor Lee Solet doing this all of a sudden?”
“I don’t know… Why are you doing that?”
Kania and Frey, who sat down in the wagon, blushing to the face of each other, without even seeing the painstakingly prepared strategy, exchanged opinions in low voices, but could not finally guess the reason for Isolett’s anger.
“…I have some bad news.”
At that time, when the classmates were imagining the reason for Isolette’s bad mood, she, who had been standing at the school table until then, bowed her head, began to speak in a low voice.
“From this semester, the scholarship system will be abolished.”
“”yes!?””
When the commoners heard this and got up from their seats with a shocked expression on their faces, Isolet continued the story with a gloomy expression.
“This is what I received this morning as well. So it’s very embarrassing, but it’s definitely true.”
“Go, why all of a sudden?”
“The scholarship system is a tradition that has been passed down for a thousand years, right? But to abolish it…!”
The commoners began to clamor for her.
Because none of them could afford to pay tuition.
“The reason is simple: the imperial family and the Order have cut the support and budget for the Academy in half.”
But when Isolet clenched her teeth and spoke, the classroom went silent at once.
The clamoring commoners were suppressed by the authority of the imperial family and the denomination and kept their mouths shut, and the nobles were simply looking at the burning house with a calm expression because they had plenty of money in the first place.
Only the princess Clana was quietly grinding her teeth with an angry expression on her face.
“What nonsense is that!”
However, there was a student who broke the suffocating silence and shouted.
“Sunrise Academy’s Class A is one of the most elite troops in the Empire, and instead of providing support to such a place, they’re reducing the budget? They’re not right!”
Most of the commoners, and even some nobles, nodded at Aris, the representative of the commoners, who frowned and shouted.
“…with regard to that, I will guide you from now on.”
Isolet, who was looking at Aris like that, raised her hand with a firm expression and sent a signal.
– Profit…
Then the door to the classroom opened, and people with smiles on their faces began to come in.
“Who are they… Who are they?”
When Aris asked a question, looking reluctantly at the people who were looking at them with greedy eyes for some reason, Isolet, who was grinding her teeth, answered in a low voice.
“They are the sponsors.”
“yes?”
“According to the official letter sent, the new sponsor system to be introduced in the future will replace the existing scholarship system.”
Having said that, Isolet glanced at the greedy supporters standing next to her and said.
“Directly selected by the imperial family and the denomination… They say they are highly trusted. Students can freely contact those people and prove their achievements and investment value… Damn it.”
Isolet, who had been struggling to keep her anger down, somehow managed to hold back her anger and spit out cursing.
“…Frey, follow me to the office.”
Isolette, who was chewing her lips in such a chilly atmosphere, spoke to Frey, who had been silently watching the situation until then, and left the classroom breathing life.
“Well…”
Then, Frey, who had been receiving the children’s attention, got up quietly and began to head for the exit.
“Hmm, I can’t help it. We have no choice but to introduce ourselves.”
When even Frey left the classroom, an aristocrat with a greedy face headed to the school table and spoke with a rich voice.
“Nice to meet you, Class A. From today, we call you ‘responsible’, supporters.”
“……..”
“…don’t you applaud?”
As intermittent applause erupted here and there at those words, the nobleman who went to the school table shook his appetite and continued.
“Then, shall we start the meeting?”
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“So, why did I call you instead of explaining?”
Frey, who was led by Isolet and arrived at the office, asked her a question while sitting crookedly in a chair.
“Uhhh”
However, Isolet was only grinding her teeth in anger with Frey sitting in front of her.
“If I don’t have anything to say, will I go?”
Just as Frey, who was looking at her, was about to get up, Isolette suddenly grabbed his arm.
– Swallow
“What is this doing…”
Frey, dissatisfied with Isolet’s sudden action, began to look embarrassed when she knelt while holding her arm.
“Please. Please, be a supporter of the children.”
“What?”
To such Frey, Isolet began to pray with a desperate expression on her face.
“If the donors support the children like that… don’t you know exactly what will happen…”
“Well, I don’t know…”
“Women will be forced to pay s*xual favors, and men will become slaves.”
Hearing that, Frey frowned and asked.
“How can you say that? Of course, they don’t look very impressive, but they are carefully selected by the Imperial Family and the Church…”
“Class A students are caught up in the power struggle between the imperial family and the denomination.”
Isolet continued speaking with a gloomy expression on her face.
“As the Demon King’s existence was revealed to the public, the imperial family and the denomination, which were not on good terms with each other, began to focus on securing even a little more talent. You know this very well.”
“By the way?”
“So, the place where the two powers paid attention was the Sunrise Academy. Even though it is losing its glory from the past, it is a place where talented people who have the ability to overwhelm most soldiers even if they become Class A as well as Class C.”
Having said that far, Isolet began to clench her fists.
“Of course, the imperial family and the denomination tried to attract as many students as possible to their side instead of negotiating with each other. So, they sent people on their side to the academy as supporters.”
“Only for that reason?”
“It is also to check the dean Lionel. He recently abused the dean’s authority and increased his power, so the imperial family and the denomination considered it a thorn in the eye.”
Frey, who frowned when the dean’s corruption was mentioned, immediately asked a question with a calm expression.
“What is the basis for saying that children will be treated harshly?”
“Are you asking because you really don’t know? What are the tendencies of the high-ranking officials who are influencing the imperial family and the denomination? They support the Imperial Knights, and there will be dozens to hundreds of these knights alone.”
“Anyway, are these talented people recognized by the Empire?”
“If I hadn’t touched the talented people, I wouldn’t have even touched the knights. Of course, I’m still convinced that the students will eventually comply with their demands.”
After saying that, Isolet began to pray to Frey with a trembling voice.
“The problem is, that unfounded conviction can actually happen. It looks like innocent young sprouts get caught up in the power struggle of adults. I can’t keep my eyes open.”
“So what do you say to me?”
“Please be a supporter of the children.”
“Hey, what do I like about those guys?”
As Frey responded coldly to that, Isolet spoke in a trembling voice.
“I’ll give you anything you want.”
“What?”
“So Frey, I’ll ask you. Even thinking about the old days.”
Saying that, Isolet fell down in front of Frey.
“Professor Isolet? Let’s see each other for a moment.”
“…ね.”
When a minister of the imperial family and a priest dispatched from the church summoned her, she began to grind her teeth.
“Because the nobles raised a lot of objections to your position. I think we should talk a little bit longer.”
“In a nutshell, it’s a personnel evaluation. You know the result.”
Having said that, they lifted their hands with a smile on their lips, and Isolet bowed her head and left the classroom in a desolate way.
“……..”
So, silence began to flow in the classroom.
“uh?”
It was until Frey, who had fallen to his knees and looked down at Isolette, murmured in a low voice.
“Are you hot?”
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“Hmm… Okay. That’s the end of the story. How are you? Are you satisfied?”
‘…dirty.’
At lunchtime that day, Aris, the representative of the commoners, was talking with a few students in a restaurant near the academy with a nobleman with a rich voice.
“By the way, you have pretty pretty hands…?”
The nobleman, who was about to get up after consulting with the students about sponsorship, suddenly grabbed Aris’s hand and started fiddling with it.
“👌”
Surprised by that oily touch, Aris pulled her hand back, and the nobleman.
“Don’t do that too much…”
He got up from his seat and spoke.
“…you’ll get used to it anyway.”
The nobleman disappeared from his seat, and there was silence for a long time.
“hello?”
“Now… I’m sick of it. If you don’t do what they want. You won’t get paid anyway. So, I’d rather leave the academy.”
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Eventually, when someone approached them, a student, tired of the continued scorn of the nobles, jumped up from his seat.
“Would you like to hear the story first?”
“Okay, no need…”
When the person sitting in front of her caught her, the girl tried to say no with a cold voice.
“…Ugh.”
Seeing the many pockets of gold coins the man had on his desk, he froze on the spot.
“It’s an advance payment, but… can I talk to you?”
When the person in the black robe said so in a friendly voice, the girl thought for a moment and then sat down.
It was too much money to refuse.