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‘Wow, it actually worked.’

That was what I almost blurted out unconsciously seeing Arin who had really split the boulder in two, even with my help.

Without technique, it’s absolutely impossible to cut a stone with a sword. That’s why I had set a one-month time frame for the students who didn’t have technique yet.

In a month, with the accumulated effort, developed muscles, and know-how, they should be able to cut the stone with a little correction added.

Of course, I thought talented ones like Arin or Kana might succeed within a week or two at the earliest… but I never imagined they’d succeed in just an hour and a half.

Moreover, the sword used to cut the stone wasn’t even the Carnia I had given, but an ordinary mass-produced sword, meaning she had cut the stone purely with ‘technique’ aided by my help, not equipment advantage.

‘The power of talent is really scary…’

They say talent without effort is useless, but Arin had both talent and put in effort, so maybe that’s why she achieved this result.

“Ah, come to think of it…”

As I was walking through an empty corridor after finishing the swordsmanship class and heading to the next class, I let out a small sigh recalling Kana who I had seen at the edge of my vision while leaving the practical training ground.

She looked quite dejected after all. Probably because she felt the extreme difference between herself and Arin.

“But that’s all because Kana didn’t use a kitchen knife.”

However, there was no difference in their innate talent. It’s just that Arin had talent in swords and poured effort into swords, so she achieved this result, whereas it didn’t make sense for Kana, who had talent in cooking and poured effort into cooking, to achieve the same result as Arin with a ‘sword’.

Today I let it slide that Kana used a sword because I didn’t have a kitchen knife, but it seemed I should teach her the combat method of a chef using a kitchen knife if Kana comes to find me at the cafeteria tomorrow.

It’s nonsense for a chef to use a sword.

Once Kana understands and properly utilizes the combat method of a chef using a kitchen knife, she would probably grow stronger day by day.

Of course, as a chef, she would be lacking compared to Arin, but she would still become strong enough that ordinary guys couldn’t approach her level.

“Alright, Avatar.”

Thinking about what I needed to do tomorrow, I found a corridor where filtering wasn’t applied, went into a corner, and touched Kama on the avatar window I pulled up.

[Do you want to select Archer – Kama?]

“Select.”

My long flowing hair instantly shortened, and my appearance changed to a white short-haired look.

It was time to go teach the archery class.

Riana Sel Moonsgard was trembling right now.

If you ask why, it was because the professor of the archery class, which was the most important practical class for her, was the sister of Professor Aria, with whom she had gotten into a conflict before coming to the Puhara Kingdom.

No, it would have been better if it was just a conflict. The problem was that she had even shot an arrow at her, enraged by her insulting the Elf race.

Of course, as the princess of the Moonsgard Kingdom, she still thought it was a justified action, but a problem is a problem, so she couldn’t help but tremble more and more as she thought about it.

Arriving at the large field where the archery class would take place, her body was still trembling even though it was just before 5 o’clock.

“It’ll be okay… It’ll be okay. She might not know…”

Riana clasped her trembling hands together and checked the time on the clock tower, and the moment the minute hand pointed to the hour hand, a woman opened the door of the building connected to the field and walked towards the large field where Riana was standing.

Thud── Thud──

With shoulder-length white hair swaying, eyes like jewels embedded with a blue-green color, wearing a green dress that looked as if it was tailored from nature itself, and carrying a bow on her back that looked obviously high-class.

“Wooow…”
“Could that person be our professor?”
“Amazing…”

Sounds of admiration could be heard from around. And Riana couldn’t help but agree with that admiration.

How could one not admire a human with beauty comparable to her own?

At the same time, she exuded an atmosphere that made one feel at ease just by looking at her, making it impossible not to like her.

But Riana unconsciously composed her face that was about to relax and looked at the white-haired woman with as calm a face as possible.

If this woman was really her archery professor, it meant she was Professor Aria’s sister.

Praying that she didn’t know about that incident, Riana watched every move of the white-haired woman, and the white-haired woman who had walked onto the large field stepped onto the platform and bowed slightly with a kind smile.

“Nice to meet you all. My name is Kama. I’m Kama who will be teaching you archery from today. I will be conducting the class quite intensively, so it might be difficult to keep up, but I hope you will all work hard to follow along.”

A neat greeting like that of a noble’s conduct and a beautiful voice fitting that conduct.

The other children all had relaxed expressions as if entranced by that smile and voice, but Riana opened her eyes wide seeing her conduct.

‘That’s Elven etiquette…!’

The reason Riana was surprised was that the conduct of the white-haired woman who introduced herself as Kama was none other than the etiquette that only Elves keep. merchants or some nobles who had interactions with Elves might know this etiquette, but Riana had memorized the faces of all those who had contact with Elves.

However, she had no memory of ever seeing Kama’s face. Then perhaps she had learned it from someone else?

Seeing traces of Elves for the first time in a long while since coming to study in the human kingdom, Riana looked at Kama with slightly moved eyes, but when Kama turned her head towards her and their eyes met, the words she said shattered the momentary emotion that had filled Riana’s heart.

“You must be… Miss Riana Sel Moonsgard? There’s no need for long words… Please choose whether you’ll come out and bow your head or receive penalty points.”
“…Pardon?”

At Kama’s words, Riana’s light blue hair swayed, lost. Riana desperately hoped that she had misheard just now, but the reality that came was mercilessly cold.

“You didn’t think I wouldn’t know what you did to our sister, did you?”
“Th…at…”
“Well then, I’ll leave it to your choice whether you’ll receive penalty points or take the punishment I give.”
“Ha, haha…”

At her kind but inevitably fearsome smile, Riana let out a soulless laugh.

“Are those two… dead?”
“Yes.”

In a place called the depths of the demon realm. In a dark place where damp demonic energy swirled, five men and women were seated around a round table.

The atmosphere was so serious that it seemed no one could properly open their mouths, but as if no one cared about that, the man sitting in the seat of honor rested his chin on his hand and opened his mouth.

“It’s not a big loss even if they die, so there’s no problem, but did the demon crystal make contact for sure?”
“You don’t have to worry about that. I confirmed that it made contact for certain. There were two suitable hosts. It parasitized successfully.”
“That’s a relief. If even that had failed, there would have been a problem.”

The man, having confirmed that the demon crystal carried by the two who had infiltrated Lua Academy in the Puhara Kingdom had successfully found hosts and parasitized them, let out a sigh of relief and extended his hand.

At the tip of his extended hand was a transparent crystal ball. The man drew out mana and poured it into the crystal ball.

“Then let’s take a look at the faces of those who became hosts.”

If the parasite of the demon crystal had certainly succeeded in parasitizing, their images should appear. And as if to support the words of the one who delivered the information, the faces of two girls appeared in the crystal ball.

One was a girl with a black ponytail and navy blue eyes, and the other was a girl with orange hair braided up.

And the faint demonic energy felt from inside their bodies. It meant that parasitization had certainly succeeded, so the man revealed his teeth in a smile.

“Good, the hosts are certainly prepared. Then everyone knows, right? The next place we’ll move to is Sky Island. If the plan there fails, we’ll reimplement the original plan.”
“Yes.”
“That goes without saying.”
“Understood.”

The men and women nodded their heads at the man’s words.

And soon, as everyone stood up ending the meeting, only a cold chill lingered around the round table as if no one had been there.

“Ah, come to think of it, we should also use the demon parasites implanted in Arin and Kana’s bodies. I almost forgot about that.”

With my foot on the back of Riana, who was bowing her head with her hands behind her back in front of me, I quietly muttered.

Those things I had found when I saw them before. Because Yeonhwa’s body was too strong, how should I use those things that had parasitized Arin and Kana to be praised for using them well?

It was truly a matter to ponder.