After that, other students’ introductions followed.
After the last student finished their self-introduction, Lee Hyun nodded and continued.
“Then we’ll have to choose a class president…”
“I’ll do it!!”
“I’ll do it.”
The ones who raised their hands were Ludwig and Lumina.
Other than these two, there didn’t seem to be anyone particularly interested in the class president position.
In fact, that’s true. Since becoming the class president just means more troublesome things to do.
Among the students who thought they would just be grateful if someone took on that role, Alicia suddenly raised her hand.
“Teacher! I want to do it too!”
“Three people… In fact, there aren’t many good things about taking the class president position from a general perspective. Honestly, it just means a lot of annoying work.”
Things like helping prepare for classes, controlling the students while he’s not there, etc.
After telling them about the duties of a class president, Lee Hyun thought for a moment and continued.
“But it wouldn’t look good if there are too many demerits, so I should tell you about the merits. If you become class president, you can get special lessons from me once a day. And I’ll give you an artifact at the end of the semester.”
At his words, the students’ eyes changed.
It’s not just annoying work, and there are rewards given.
Then what reason would there be to turn away from that?
Coming to the academy, and especially entering Class A, which specializes in combat training, means they desire to become stronger.
For such people, special lessons from the instructor had no choice but to be quite an attractive offer.
It’s even more attractive if you get an artifact on top of that.
One by one, more and more hands were raised, and even the brightly smiling Alicia was the last to raise her hand.
With this, everyone was challenging for the class president position.
“There are too many… If we decide by voting, I think everyone will vote for themselves. In this case, it’s better to determine it through ability, right?”
The orientation time was slowly coming to an end.
It worked out well.
Since the next class is training time, we can do an ability test.
“Everyone move to the combat training ground.”
Some students who arrived at the academy’s combat training ground opened their eyes wide and looked around.
All the training facilities were state-of-the-art as if proving that it was the best educational institution on the continent.
From magical training tools made with the support of the Ivory Tower to wooden dolls used in the Mountain of Martial Arts.
It was no exaggeration to say that nothing was missing.
Lee Hyun, who entered the training ground, led the students to the sparring area in the corner of the training ground.
“From now on, come out one by one and fight me. It’s an ability test and a process to check your weaknesses, so don’t feel burdened and do your best.”
“Will it be okay? I might kill you, you know?”
The large student growled.
Ettel Londbyer.
The son of the Gaorde mercenary corps leader and a mercenary who has participated in numerous battlefields and earned merits before becoming an adult.
So he showed confidence, and Lee Hyun smiled and shook his head at him.
“If you can, I’ll give you all my fortune. Come up first.”
Lee Hyun snapped his fingers, and Ettel confidently climbed onto the sparring ground.
And,
“Ack! Ack! My bones! I got hit in the bones!!”
He collapsed, unable to properly withstand Lee Hyun’s combo attack.
When he fell to the floor and couldn’t even squirm after not even lasting five minutes, Lee Hyun healed him and said,
“Impressive. Perhaps due to your real combat experience, you react well to irregular attacks. However, your resistance to magic is low, and you attack too randomly when agitated. You seem to be weak to psychological warfare, so you should focus on mental training. For someone like you, I recommend magic training.”
“Ugh… Th, thank…”
After receiving healing from Lee Hyun, Ettel went down, and he leisurely said,
“Next.”
Not many students lasted more than 5 minutes in a spar with Lee Hyun. The students who had initially laughed at Ettel were gradually giving him looks of admiration.
In any case, he belonged to the top tier.
“Kyaaa!”
With Lumina’s scream, she rolled on the floor.
She had collapsed, unable to withstand the barrage of energy balls created by Lee Hyun’s multi-magic.
She’s panting, but she has no more mana to use.
When Lumina admitted defeat, Lee Hyun checked the time.
“6 minutes and 31 seconds. Still, that’s the best so far.”
“Thank you…”
Ludwig, who had been in first place with 6 minutes and 28 seconds until just before, looked at Lumina coming down from the training ground with a crumpled face as if he had chewed on poop.
Although it hurts, Lumina’s expression looked bright, satisfied after beating Ludwig.
“Well… Then next is.”
“Me~! Please take care of me! Teacher!”
With a bright smile that brightened the surrounding atmosphere, Alicia stepped forward.
She lightly bounced up and down and stretched her hands as her brilliant blonde hair swayed on the training ground.
“Alicia Raytraver! I use the Strong Fist and Wall Illusion Palm techniques!”
‘Looks like she trained a lot during that time.’
The physique revealed by the academy trainee uniform was perfect for a fighter.
It seems she thoroughly trained the basics under the Fist King during that time.
Lee Hyun put down his sword and lightly extended his fist.
“Start.”
“Ahahaha~!!”
With a lively laugh, Alicia exploded forward.
She slid to Lee Hyun’s front and lightly stepped forward.
– Whoosh!!
Receiving the power of the earth through her feet, she unleashes an attack using that power.
A strike that looks as if it’s drawing the essence of the Strong Fist aims straight at Lee Hyun’s chest.
‘Strong.’
It’s not some flashy attack with just a fancy appearance.
It’s a sufficiently practical and destructive attack.
Lee Hyun deflected the fist strike flying as fast as a shell with the back of his hand, and lightly extended his arm.
“Eek!”
Alicia twisted her body, narrowly avoiding the extended hand.
The following combos were fast and strong, to the point where it would seem like the Strong Fist at a glance.
However, all those attacks were fluidly aimed at Lee Hyun’s gaps. In other words, they contained the essence of the Wall Illusion Palm to the point where people could not easily discern it.
‘Not bad. She properly studied the Wall Illusion Palm.’
You can’t make such attacks by training for a day or two.
It’s probably the result of constant training since she received the lesson from him long ago.
Lee Hyun blocked or avoided those attacks and looked at Alicia.
As he endured, Alicia’s face was filled with a smile.
“Ehehe! How is it?!”
“Excellent.”
For someone who passed it down, there’s nothing more rewarding than this.
As Lee Hyun smiled and nodded, Alicia, who took a step back, slowly exhaled.
“Then I’ll go all out from now!!”
In conclusion, Alicia also lost.
Her record was 7 minutes and 11 seconds.
She endured by blocking fatal blows using the Wall Illusion Palm and Strong Fist, but ultimately, her limit had to come.
“Ahahahaha! It was so fun!”
Even while lying sprawled on the training ground floor, Alicia couldn’t stop laughing.
Lee Hyun, who healed her, looked around at the students.
“The top performer is Alicia Raytraver. Any objections?”
“No objections!”
“Good. Then the training class is over. Listen well to the rest of the classes, too.”
The rest of the classes are for general education and theoretical lessons.
Since he was not in charge of those classes, Lee Hyun left the students and exited the training ground.
***
The things an instructor has to do are not just teaching the students.
Applying for training facilities for training.
Applying for monster subjugation to participate in real battles.
There was a surprisingly large amount of other miscellaneous paperwork to do.
Who knew the instructor, who seemed to just play around in the game, would have so much work to do?
But it’s easy compared to writing papers at the Sage Tower.
I took the documents I had to work on and headed to the academy’s cafeteria.
It was when I was reading the documents for a while after ordering a strong coffee and sandwich,
“Guess~ who~.”
I felt soft hands covering my eyes.
I couldn’t see, but I could tell just by the voice.
“Alicia.”
“Correct! Hehe! Teacher. Are you eating dinner here?”
Alicia, who sat in front of me, was smiling brightly.
Such a bright kid.
I told the staff to bring a drink for Alicia and bit into my sandwich.
“Yeah. Have you been well?”
“Yes!! What about you, teacher?”
“Me? Well. I was busy getting the Sage qualification. By the way, you used to speak casually in the past. Now you’re speaking formally?”
“Ehehe~. It’s actually a bit awkward, but Uncle said I shouldn’t speak casually at the academy.”
“You can just speak comfortably to me. Some guys like Ludwig, Ettel, and others speak casually, too.”
What’s so important about the way of talking?
The important thing is to see the true ending.
Rather than worrying about useless things and being unable to focus, it’s better to just be comfortable.
“Huh?! Really?! Hehehe~. Then I’ll speak comfortably~. By the way, I heard from the kids. They said you’re a really amazing person, teacher?”
“I’m not that amazing.”
“Eii~.”
A white hand slapped my arm.
She’s good at clinging to me, whether in the past or now.
It’s probably because of Alicia’s unique friendliness, just like in the game.
“So I was thinking with the kids about why such an amazing person became an instructor at the academy~.”
“And? Did you find an answer?”
“Umm. No? Everyone just said they didn’t know~. Ah. I’ll drink this well~!”
She sipped the sweet strawberry juice and raised her index finger.
“Anyway, so I thought about it! Teacher, you came all the way here to meet me! How about it? Am I right?! Am I right?!”
I decided to take Alicia’s route to see the true ending.
So, it would be correct to say I came to see Alicia.
“That’s right. I came to see you.”
“Huh? Ah. Ahahaha! Really? Wow~! I’m so happy~!”
“Is that so?”
“But teacher! You shouldn’t just say things like that!”
Alicia, who reached out her pretty hand and lightly held my hand, took the juice glass and stood up from her seat.
I glanced and saw there were girls from the same class over there.
Are they going to eat dinner together?
They became friends quickly in one day.
“I made plans to eat dinner with my friends today! Teacher, you should also eat a proper dinner, not just sandwiches! Then I’ll get going! Bye~”
I watched Alicia wave her hand with a bright smile and approach her friends, then turned my eyes to the documents.
Let’s get to work.
***
Alicia, who left the cafeteria after parting with Lee Hyun, felt her heart pounding and muttered softly.
“I, I was surprised…”
“Huh? What does that mean?”
“Huh? Ah, it’s nothing~!”
“But Alicia. Did something happen? Your face is a bit red? Is something going on?”
Only then did Alicia bring her hand to her face, smile brightly, and shake her head.
“Just~!”
“Just?”
“…I was wondering if… and I also heard something that made me feel good. Ehehe~!”