「W-well then, please come right here!」
「Nn」
「Woof」
After separating from Weena Rhyn in the staff room, we were heading to a place with a female teacher who had been assigned to guide us.
「Th-that is the eighth tower. The advanced classrooms are on the first floor」
The Special Battle Class was outside of the Academy for practical training, so she had to go around to some of the classes she was in charge of as an instructor first.
Inez, the girl and instructor in charge of mock battles like Fran, was our guide. In terms of ability, she was at least a D-ranked adventurer. However, she had a good intuition to sense Fran’s strength. That was why she was so strangely nervous and timid right now.
So, I thought it would be better for someone without any fighting prowess to be our guide. But well, we didn’t have any choice.
We then left the teacher’s tower where we had just been and were now heading to one of the department’s towers a short distance away.
As we walked, Inez briefly explained to her that each tower had a specific role. There were research towers for teachers, storage towers for magic tools, and quite a few other places that students were not allowed to enter.
This place was just like a huge university, wasn’t it? It seemed to be more than just a big academy.
She said that the tower we were going to visit was used especially for combat training and practice.
「F-Fran-dono, the waiting room for the Special Battle Class that you will be transferring into was here, so you’ll have many opportunities to use it later」
「Okay」
「For the beginning, Let’s introduce you to the advanced class」
After we walked together, Inez seemed to have lost some of her nervousness, and she explained a lot of things to her.
The advanced class, as the name implies, was a class of advanced students. This academy has several departments, including many specialized departments. However, there was also a general department that does not have any specialization, where students could uniformly learn everything. The advanced class was the class to which the advanced students of the general department belong.
In the case of the Academy of Magic, they do not divide the students into different grades because the ages of the students were quite different.
They first need to learn magic in the elementary department. Those who were able to master the magic there will be able to move on to the next class.
But if they couldn’t learn magic after years of training in the Elementary Department, they’ll be expelled. Well, this was an Academy of Magic, so they need to be able to at least use magic.
Next to that was the Basic Department. However, it was often referred to as the Junior Class in the academy. In this department, students took classes that had little to do with magic, such as classroom lectures, and were taught the basics of using magic for about two years.
If they don’t have any problems here, they will be admitted to the practical department. In other words, they will be an advanced students. There were many advanced classes of the General departments to choose from such as the Adventurers Department, Magicians Department, and Special Combatants department, as well as quite detailed specialties such as Fire Magic, Water Magic, and blacksmithing.
Students could choose the class they wanted to belong to and study what they wanted in the form of seminars or club activities.
About 70% of the classes were decided by the department, and the remaining 30% could be chosen by themselves.
Besides, after graduating from the Practical Department, students were allowed to re-enter other departments, so as long as they were motivated, they could learn whatever they wanted.
I was even surprised to learn that some of the students have been students for more than ten years by repeatedly changing their departments after graduation. On average, it takes about five years for a student to graduate.
「The previous Special Mock Battle Instructor had retired, and we General Instructors were somehow filling in the gaps, so you was a great help this time」
「Is there a difference between a Special Mock Battle Instructor and a General Instructor?」
「There is, of course. The most important job of a Special Instructor is to demonstrate overwhelming ability. Since that is impossible for us」
In this world, some overwhelmingly strong people couldn’t be easily reached. So, they wanted students to learn of that firsthand and also to develop the courage to immediately flee or negotiate with a strong person without becoming stiff when confronted. That was the role of the Special Mock Battle Instructor.
In short, it was their job to beat them with overwhelming force in a mock battle. To do that, they needed to have tremendous ability.
「I see. But, did Weena Rhyn was not good enough?」
Fran asked so. Well, she was right. I think Weena Rhyn would be a perfect fit for this role.
「The Director is not very good at holding back. No, that’s not it. She’s just simply too powerful, and there’s a limit to how much she can go easy on them. Just as a dragon cannot lift a pup with its claws, no matter how hard it tries」
She had never accidentally hurt a student, but she had overdone it many times against bandits. Because of this, the teachers have asked Weena Rhyn to avoid doing a mock battle with the students as much as possible.
However, they hadn’t found suitable personnel for the past few months, so they had been conducting special mock battles with multiple instructors and continuous attacks on the defending Weena Rhyn.
「However, the effect was still too subtle. So, I am very grateful to have such a strong person like Fran here even for a short time」
As she talked about this, we were led to a room at the back of the first floor of the tower. It seemed to be a room where classroom lectures were held, and about twenty students were taking the lectures there.
「Redua, can I have a moment?」
「Y-yes. Umm, Inez-sensei, who is this girl here? 」
「I came here to introduce her. Fran-dono, this girl is the one in charge of the teacher of History, Redua. And these people here are the students of the Advanced Class」
「Nn. Understood」
The students were looking at us with astonishment. However, the surprise seemed to be directed not at Fran but Inez.
「Th-that Devil Instructor, Inez, bringing a child here…?」
「Wh-who is she? Is that really Instructor Inez?」
「For someone like her to do something like that… It’s just like the Devil getting sunstroke!」
It seemed that the normal Inez and the current Inez were more than a little different. It seemed that the students were astonished to see her changes.
「Devil? You’re a human though?」
「N-no, you don’t have to worry about it! Hey! Those who said that before! I’ll remember you!」
「Hiii!」
I see why they call her the Devil Instructor Inez.
「Haah, she’s Fran-dono, the one who has been assigned to take care of you guys as the Special Mock Battle Instructor!」
「I’ll be in your care」
「「「Eeeeh!」」」
There was a different kind of shriek, but Inez shouted again to shut them up. So, this was her true nature, I guess.
「Silence!」
「「「…」」」
The students then immediately fell silent. She was amazing, wasn’t she?
「You may not be able to understand it, but Fran’s ability is real, you know? It will be tomorrow before she can start, so look forward to it」
「Nn」
「Woof!」
「And this is Fran-dono’s follower, Urushi」
「We’ll be in your care」
「Woof woof!」
「「「Please treat us well!」」」
Immediately after Fran’s greeting, the students bowed their heads in unison. They may still be skeptical, but if they behaved badly here, Inez’s thunder would surely strike them.
Well, I guess she could read the air. However, Inez seemed to be unhappy at the fact that her students did not believe her words.
「Fran-dono, can you scare them a little?」
「…Okay」
Perhaps she meant to threaten them with her intimidation skills. But Fran had chosen a different approach. She was probably worried about the fact that she might threaten the students with killing intent instead.
「Nn」
What Fran activated without chanting was a technique to create a light ball. The students’ eyes then focused on the ball of light she created near the ceiling. However, when the students noticed, Fran’s figure had disappeared from their sight.
Fran’s disappearance then made a commotion among the students.
Knock knock.
A sound then rang out in the back of the classroom, causing all the students to turn around in panic. What they witnessed was Fran standing quietly at the very back of the classroom, completely unnoticed. She just stayed there without being noticed until she hit the wall.
What Fran did was simple. All she did was draw their eyes to the ball of light, make it disappear, and move fast. But the students must not have known what was going on.
However, the fact that she was able to deceive everyone’s eyes and move in an instant was enough to show her ability. After all, if this had been a battlefield, there was no doubt that they would have been cut down without being able to do anything.
Furthermore, the students in the Advanced Class are capable enough to notice the difficulty of no chanting and blocking presence. There was not a single student who looked like they would be underestimating her anymore.
「Even you guys must have witnessed a glimpse of Fran’s abilities. So, look forward to it tomorrow. Shall we go then?」
「Nn」
「Well then, I’m sorry for disrupting the class」
After that, we repeated almost the same exchange about five more times, and the greeting tour then ended.
But what did her reaction mean in the teacher’s room where we were led to at the end? Inez seemed to be the leader among the instructors, and it seemed strange that she was using honorifics with Fran.
Aside from the instructors in charge of mock battles, the teachers in charge of fundamentals and tactical theory are not that strong, so they couldn’t seem to detect Fran’s abilities.
And since the Special Battle Class will be coming back tomorrow, she should also greet them as a transfer student too.
