房客(糙汉)何璐程曜坤

Chapter 414 136 - Back to the Aspakeony Academy (part 5)

"(Master! One of the pretty lady puppets just walked into the faculty office!)"

"(It's the big red-haired one!)"

The two sentinels called out to the black-haired boy as he was about to turn the corner.

|Is that so? We can just meet with him then. Thank you, little ones."

Zoemi smiled and nodded without speaking anything out loud and changed his original plan.

When he and Burushi moved along the hallway, the black-haired boy stopped by a large, elegant door instead of moving past them and knocked on it with his crystal cane.

"Eh?! My lord, the headmaster's office is..."

"I know. This will speed things up, believe me."

The blond-haired heroine flinched and stared at Zoemi in disbelief while pointing down the hallway with her index finger, but then the boy merely shook his head from left to right and assured her.

"...if you say so..."

Burushi breathed out anxiously, glancing back at the group of students trailing them.

The good part about Zoemi stopping by the faculty office was that the students have stapped too – as if confused about whether the black-haired boy was going to turn himself in or not...

"Teachers are having a meeting, you need to wait."

The voice of one of the male teachers came from the inside without the man even bothering to open the door.

"You heard that, my lord? Let's just go straight to the headmaster's office!"

Burushi kept glancing over at the students behind them amongst whom a few were already activating their enchantments in preparation of... whatever it was that they were planning to do...

"No."

"Why?!"

But Zoemi merely shook his head again and raised his cane to knock on the door once more.

|First ice, then just a bit of water, please.|

"(Ay-ay~!)"

"(Okay~!)"

He thought while lightly tapping on the magically enhanced door – and his sentinels responded with a child-like excitement...

*CRACK*

"!!!!!!!"

"!!!!!!!!"

"!!!!!"

With just the lightest touch of the boy's crystal cane, the entire door turned into a block of ice that then broke and shattered into thousands of brilliant pieces that whooshed past him and spread through the hallway.

"Good morning, teacher. I came here to notify the headmaster that I and my attendant, miss Burushi, have arrived."

As everyone except him was stunned speechless because of the annihilation of the supposedly the highest quality magically enhanced door, Zoemi nodded his head at the closest teacher and announced in a calm voice.

"Zoemi...?!"

A tall, burly red-haired man standing a bit farther in gasped with his eyes wide like the dinner plates.

"Ah, lord Vereq. My way here passed without any trouble, thank you for worrying about me. I am grateful for taking it upon yourself to explain the situation to the Academy's staff."

Zoemi didn't even blink as he leaned to the side to have a clear view of the corpse puppet Aspkeony was using as a figurehead headmaster and smiled while nodding his head a bit deeper.

The black-haired boy used the chance and peeked inside the faculty office and was surprised not to see the blue-haired young female teacher, Rokiana Grea Perserios – but truth be told, she wasn't the only teacher missing, so he just moved back, walking back to the hallway.

"Oh."

He raised his brows and gasped softly as if this was the first time his attention was brought to a bunch of less than friendly students all rearing to perform some vigilante justice – or more likely a lynch – on the black-haired boy rumored to be responsible for the series of kidnapping of both nobles and commoners alike.

"Teachers... I believe some people want to have a duel with me. I accept their eagerness and wish for you to supervise it. Please and thank you in advance."

Zoemi breathed out heavily as if he found the entire situation not worth his time at all, and asked looking straight at Aspaekony's corpse puppet.

"Now hold on – what are you even suggesting...?!"

A middle-aged red-haired teacher that Zoemi recognized as Ikarveth – the same person that Arreta didn't want to get married to and escaped the Auequas territory.

"Nothing much, teacher. Just that as the heir to the Banemor territory I will not let myself be bullied in any way shape or form. Since this is an educational facility, it should be obvious people come here to learn."

The black-haired boy shrugged his shoulders, looking at Ikarveth indifferently, and shrugged his shoulders while raising his crystal cane.

|Do not kill, just freeze them all.|

"(Yaay~!)"

*thump*

Zoemi thought and brought the cane down to the cheer of one of his sentinel.

…

And that's all.

"Thank you for your time – I'm off to the lectures. Burushiyou can get acquainted with the Academy from the servant's perspective. The staff does have access to a few more facilities than students so it will probably take some time, just make sure to show up by the recess."

Zoemi nodded with satisfaction and spoke to his speechless attendant.

"Ah, now that I think about it, according to the second-year schedule, my class should have lectures with teacher Rokiana. Hmhm~! I wonder if she will be surprised to see me? Dad might actually forget to tell her that I woke up. Teachers, have a nice day."

The black-haired boy nodded and muttered to himself lightheartedly before nodding to everyone in the faculty office and limped back down the hallway he came from while supporting himself on the crystal cane that made a clear, cold sound each time it touched the floor covered in white frost.

"N-now hold on! Who do you think you...! You... you... what in the world...?!"

Teacher Ikarveth became red in the face from anger and busted out of the faculty office to scold the casually leaving boy but almost all words left him as he got into the hallway and looked after the leaving individual.

The black-haired boy was already in the middle of four dozens of ice sculptures when he stopped and straightened his back as the students trapped inside of them could only watch with trembling eyes widened in fear.

"Life lesson number one. Don't try to bite more than you can chew. Pride is important, but overconfidence kills."

Zoemi announced coldly and went on his way, moving between the people encased in ice that was completely stopping their mana movement within their bodies making it impossible for them to thaw or break out of it.

"Zoemi! Student Zoemi!"

Aspakoeny's corpse puppet got out of the faculty office too and called after the black-haired boy while passing the stunned Ikarweth.

"You said that you will make an announcement about my return."

"...ack...!"

Zoemi answered vaguely without turning back, but Aspakeony flinched through Burdoff's body and let out a voice of a kid being caught red-handed.

"If my attendant will be bullied, I will take it as if I was put in harm's way and will respond in kind."

The boy added, raising his crystal cane to the side, making sure that the message will reach at least the teachers, not to mention the frozen students.

"(Master, they can hear you too! I make little holes so the sound can come in! Ah! And air too!)"

|Thank you~|

One of his sentinels declared proudly, making that part clear, prompting Zoemi to smile at its cuteness as he proceed to walk unbothered by the rather worrisome addition that the sentinel has made...