Volume 11 8: Un, Sounds Familiar
“Mr. Lin, You use Ice Knight magic, isn’t that right?”
After dinner, as soon as the servants had taken away the cutlery Musred spoke.
It’s a really straightforward question, but something a normal person would deny.
“Yes. Is something wrong?”
Unfortunately I am not an ordinary person.
“As expected....Although the old man’s intelligence network can’t find where Mr. Lin came from but it definitely has something to do with the Wood Family in the Kingdom of Mitchell.”
“My identity bothers you.”
historical
“I wouldn’t go that far. I also ask that Mr. Lin not mind it. A full investigation is necessary for the safety of our children.”
Did you know that I was the one who destroyed all of the attack airships you sent out? If you knew that then you wouldn’t be speaking to me so calmly, right?
But who knows, maybe they have high mental strength.
“But you didn’t just come over to ask me about my life? Wouldn’t there be nothing that would benefit you in that?”
“Unlike what people would expect, Mr. Lin likes speedy conversations. Then I will stop with the excessive conversation. I would like to ask you to give special lessons to Hart so that his Water Magic Knight skills will rapidly improve.”
“This is....you obviously don’t need to make any special requests. As Hart’s teacher I naturally want to see him become stronger. If that wasn’t the case then Hart wouldn’t have made any progress as a Water Magic Knight, now would he?”
As I said that I looked at Hart.
As our eyes met, he looked away awkwardly. Even though he is the subject of the conversation, he didn’t dare to speak with his father here.
An idea suddenly flashed in my mind to take him out of the family’s control, but I also thought that it was too much trouble.
But it seems that things aren’t as simple as I thought.
Ding, New Title Acquired Leader LV1
Controlling your own unit, you can create a new unit: Trainee
Trainees gain 5% extra experience. Can select specific skills for them to learn.
Level 1: Can edit 3 trainees
Ding, New Quest Open
Character Plot Branch——Betray the Nobles
Guide Hart to betray the Kjell Family
Reward: Leader LV2, 5000 exp
Expert Challenge: Complete the quest without your instructions being discovered by the Kjell Family
Expert Reward: Leader LV3, 10000 exp
Wtf. World-chan, do you have too much free time? Can I skip this quest? I feel that it’s too troublesome....
But I will accept it since the skill is good. I’ll add Oyado and Hart as trainees.
Oyado’s strange skills that I’ve wanted to learn for some time now. For Hart, Water Knight magic sounds good. I’ll collect it.
As for Aliyah, do I need to learn those skills? It’s completely unnecessary.
Except I don’t know how trainees study my skills. Could it be that it improves their insight? If they learn my high magic consumption skill then it’ll only waste their energy.
“Mr. Lin?”
I turned my attention back when I heard them speak.
“Have you given it some thought? I told you the conditions, let Hart keep learning from you so that he can progress faster. We will naturally be willing to pay for any inconvenience this causes.”
“This is....”
I thought about it and smiled.
“It’s really vulgar to mention money. I happened to have something you could help out with.”
“Please tell me. By my honor, there must something I can do.”
“It’s simple. There are two children of the Marshall family in my class. My condition is that during my tenure you won’t do anything to cause them trouble. I don’t want my students to be in danger every single day. To be honest, it’s a conflict between you people in the older generation, isn’t it?”
“....Makes sense. Mr. Lin, I’m surprised you made this point. I might not have agreed if you had asked me before, but seeing that you don’t seem to hold any prejudice and truly made Hart improve, I believe I can trust you as his teacher. I will agree to this condition. Naturally I will be expecting nothing less that the conditions I outlined earlier. So, Hart, ask your teacher to take care of you.”
“Un, it’s no problem at all.”
We touched our glasses in a toast and the agreement was sealed.
It’s more than I expected. Even without the family interference, the treasure hunt was quite troublesome.
Speaking of the treasure hunt....
“Yeah, Mr. Kjell, I have something I want to ask. There is a girl in our class called Beatrice. Her arm has a doll’s arm attached to it, is that the work of your business?”
“....Oh, you’re talking about the Chell Family. It really is rather impressive, but that is not our product. How should I put this, it’s a doll after all. Even if we can attach a soul to it, but combining the human body and the dolls, well, our family has no such ability to be honest.”
When I asked he seemed to be a little embarrassed.
“What’s the matter? Is Mr. Lin interested in that?”
“Not at all. Beatrice is a student in my class now but hasn’t come for some time. I think that may have something to do with it.”
“Haha. It seems that Mr. Lin feels responsible for every student. Well....I may know something about that arm.”
“Oh?”
This old man. Just how much does he like to keep people in suspense.
“Well, about that.”
He said, rubbing his chin.
“You’re going to find a surgeon by the name of Michua · Menglode. I hear she is in Nightsteel City but is hard to find.”
....
Why does that name sound familiar?