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It was quite a distance to Ramsdale Territory.

That’s why Ethan’s group ended up unloading their luggage at the Rivington Estate.

“It’s just one more day’s journey to Ramsdale Territory.”

“Thanks to Teacher Ciron, the schedule sped up.”

“We’ll be able to arrive relaxed.”

“When we arrive at Ramsdale Territory, I’ll guide you to my favorite place. The food there is really delicious. It’s the pride of Ramsdale Territory.”

Ciron seemed quite pleased, as if he was inviting everyone to his own territory.

That evening.

The still blunt Claudie and the two Deans, bickering as usual, visited the restaurant.

Thanks to Ethan’s icebreaking, the three Magic Department teachers, including Har, seemed to get along well.

“Right? There are some students whose talents are surprisingly frightening.”

“Yes, of course they’re still students, but if we just guide them a little…”

“…That’s our role.”

Watching the three teachers discussing classes and students, Ciron looked at them with curiosity.

“They’ve become close so quickly.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

Ethan replied casually and glanced at Claudie.

Ethan knew Claudie had a serious personality, so he wasn’t bothered by his stiff expression. But Ciron was not the same.

“Honestly, isn’t Teacher Claudie a bit scary?”

“Teacher Ciron, Teacher Claudie can probably hear most of what you say with his high level.”

“Eep!”

Ciron’s face turned bright red.

Seeing Ciron, Ethan chuckled.

The person in question, Claudie, didn’t seem to care.

“Teacher Ciron, instead of wasting time on such trivial talk, how about choosing the menu. And the rest of you teachers as well. Deans, I’d like to ask you too.”

“Ah, yes.”

“Please try to unify the menu so that the meal can come out quickly.”

The two Deans glanced at Claudie.

“Well, then let’s go with the most delicious one…”

“We need to eat and sleep quickly. Since it’s late, the most quickly served and easily digested food…”

“I’ll have the steak.”

Of course, Ethan didn’t bother to look at Claudie’s reaction. As Claudie was about to open his mouth with a frown, Nadia quickly raised her hand.

“Me too!”

“I’ll have the same.”

“…Me too.”

Claudie quietly looked at the teachers. But no one could meet his eyes.

“What would you like, Teacher Claudie? I’ll pay.”

“The same. And I’m not so poor that I need to mooch off new teachers. New teachers, don’t even think about paying.”

Claudie answered stiffly and crossed his arms, closing his eyes. It was an arrogant attitude, but if you unravel it, it was just telling the newcomers to obediently mooch off him. РαN𝖔𝐁ĚꞨ

‘He’s a good-natured person after all.’

Ethan immediately ordered the food and looked around.

The restaurant was packed. Most were eating food accompanied by alcohol, and regardless of nobility or commoner, there were many people seated in the high-class atmosphere at affordable prices.

‘If this is the Sword Saint I know, this training session will definitely not be a normal one.’

It was possible that the training session had already begun the moment they departed the academy.

‘The Sword Saint would be more than capable of that.’

“Ah, for real? Listen up. This time it’s the real deal.”

“I’ve lost so much because of you, and you want me to lose again? I’m just withdrawing.”

“No, listen, I’m telling you it’s real.”

“…Sigh, alright, let’s hear it.”

“This time, at Ramsdale Territory…”

Ramsdale Territory.

The group’s ears perked up at the familiar place name.

“I heard there’s a new teacher training session! Four academies are gathering, including prestigious ones like Freya and Ivecar.”

“New teacher training session? Isn’t that the usual thing? What’s new about it?”

“This is the main point. Until now, Freya has overwhelmingly won, right? So the payout was very low, and even if you bet, it was just breaking even. But this time, they say a prodigy has appeared at Ivecar Academy?”

“A prodigy?”

“Yeah! A new teacher, and his skills are supposedly incredible. I heard he’s already teaching two classes and even has his own private office, and the students and parents have completely fallen for him.”

“So this prodigy is participating in the new teacher training session this time?”

“That’s right! The payout has completely changed! Thanks to that prodigy, Ivecar’s chances of winning have gone up a bit.”

At the mention of payout and breaking even, Ciron frowned immediately.

They were gamblers.

Countless predictable things were placed on the gambling table, probabilities calculated, and lives and fortunes were risked.

Hearing that the sacred new teacher training session had become a mere gambling arena, Ciron tried to get up from his seat.

But before that, Ethan grabbed Ciron’s wrist.

“Shh.”

“…Teacher Ethan?”

Ethan stopped him, so Ciron sat back down, thinking there must be a reason since Ethan intervened.

Claudie and the two Deans showed no particular reaction. They were too familiar with such experiences.

“Gambling is indispensable in determining the victor. They bet on countless things. If you get worked up over each one, it’ll just be a nuisance. It’s an inexorable fact.”

The Knight Department Dean said.

“Oh! So should we bet on Ivecar Academy then?”

“No, even if it’s a new teacher. And in fact, they called him a prodigy because it’s Ivecar Academy, if he went to Freya Academy, he’d just be a normal new teacher, right? Of course you should bet on Freya!”

“Then isn’t it the same thing?”

“No. Because of that prodigy, the payout odds for Freya have risen ever so slightly! It was 100% profitable, but now the odds have risen, so this is a total gain! I have to scrape together my entire fortune and put it in!”

“Oh ho, I see?”

“Normally, it would have risen even more. But a tremendous new teacher also joined Freya, so the payout rate didn’t increase much.”

“Ah, Kai Felix! That’s the second grandson of the Felix family, right? I’ve heard the story too.”

The talk turned to Kai Felix.

The Felix family, one of the Twelve Star Families, was the foremost nobility in the south. Ethan had actually met the Archmage Hansen, who was the court mage of the Felix family, when he was reviving Prochet’s lands.

And Ethan had even received a formal invitation from the Felix family.

Putting aside the details, Kai Felix was the greatest talent produced by the current Felix family.

The Felix family had quite a few famous swordsmen, but Kai Felix surpassed them all and was called the Felix family’s finest swordsman.

Normally, he would have immediately joined the Imperial Knights, but due to Freya’s strong appeal, he was given numerous benefits and took their exam.

Needless to say, Kai Felix breezed through Freya’s doors as the top scorer, and now, a semester later, he was achieving results as overwhelming as Ethan.

‘Kai Felix, huh.’

But Kai Felix was not a particularly famous figure.

‘He had an older brother. I think his name was Rohai Felix. Kai’s talent was far superior, but Rohai, being the eldest, ended up taking everything.’

What mattered more than talent was the order of birth. Kai Felix ultimately couldn’t succeed the Felix family.

“Compared to that Kai Felix, Ivecar’s new teacher, Ethan Whiskers, is nothing special.”

“But I heard Ciron Ramsdale, the grandson of the Sword Saint, is there too. So that Sword Saint’s grandson must also…”

A chuckling sound was heard.

Ciron was struggling to suppress his angry expression, his face turning bright red. But since the subject of the ridicule, Ethan, was still silent, he couldn’t get up recklessly.

“But what about the other two academies?”

“They’re nothing special. The payout odds are incredibly high, but what does that mean? That they’ll absolutely not win first place in this training session. Freya is already first, and the rest are just filler, so no matter what they do, Freya Academy will be first. Haha!”

Daring to insult Ivecar. Ciron, unable to hold back anymore, tried to get up again, but Ethan rose even faster.

But a man with a flamboyant appearance from a nearby table stood up and stepped in front of the gamblers.

Crash!

He kicked over the gamblers’ table.

“Huh?”

Ciron looked at that side with a bewildered expression.

‘The situation is getting interesting.’

“You, what bullshit were you just spewing?”

“Huh? Wha-?”

“Damn gambling bastards, what’s this and that? Filler? You just insulted our academy. No, you insulted all the teachers affiliated with our academy. The penalty for that is your life.”

The man drew his sword.

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“Wh-Who are you?”

“I’m Dubravka, a teacher from Goode Academy. This is reason enough. Come outside. Or shall I kill you right here?”

The excited Dubravka thrust his sword, ready to strike the gamblers at any moment.

The two gamblers were frozen in fear, facing the sharp blade right in front of their faces.

“With many eyes watching, I can’t do it here.”

Quickly glancing around, Dubravka withdrew his sword and grabbed the collars of the two, intending to drag them outside.

Clank.

But someone blocked his hand as he tried to grab the gamblers’ collars.

“Who are you to stop me?”

“Isn’t the nonsense of gamblers a usual occurrence? An academy teacher causing a ruckus in someone else’s territory. The students would be delighted to applaud.”

“Ha! If you have ears, you must have heard that these damned gambling bastards insulted me and my academy! My colleagues sitting here with me were also insulted!”

Dubravka gestured to his three colleagues sitting behind him.

“So who are you to stop me?”

“Ethan Whiskers. I’m a teacher from Ivecar Academy, who was just insulted by those gamblers.”

“Ah, the famous Ethan Whiskers! If you were also insulted, you should have just buried those gambling bastards in the ground. Why are you stopping me?”

“I was trying to handle the situation appropriately, but you suddenly jumped in and took the lead. But I couldn’t just stand by and watch.”

Dubravka narrowed his brows, looking at Ethan.

Ethan was a person whose true nature couldn’t be grasped by appearance alone. But Dubravka couldn’t know that.

His sickly appearance and hazy gaze.

Who would look at this figure and think he was the famous new teacher of Ivecar Academy?

Moreover, this teacher had surpassed even Ciron Ramsdale, the grandson of the Sword Saint, and obtained the top position.

Tch.

Dubravka let out a bitter laugh.

The rumors were just rumors after all.

It was clear that Ivecar Academy, before the training session, had fabricated Ethan as an outstanding individual to shake the other academies.

“Appropriately? Is that Ivecar’s way? Pathetic. To be the top with such skills. If I had gone to Ivecar, I would have easily won the top spot.”

At Dubravka’s insulting remarks, the customers watching the tense situation began to murmur.

-Even so, that’s too much.

-This is going to turn into a full-blown fight.

-Shouldn’t someone intervene? That man looks twice as big as him.

Ciron, seemingly unable to hold back any longer, stood up from his seat. Iris and Nadia also stood up.

The Deans also seemed to think they shouldn’t just sit there, and began to rise from their seats.

But Ethan remained calm.

In a very quiet voice, he looked at Dubravka and said,

“Cut the nonsense, you loudmouthed fool. If I look easy to handle, come and try me.”

And he smiled faintly, as if nothing had happened.

“Fearless, despite your appearance…”

Ethan’s provocation made Dubravka faintly smile.

Seeing Ethan directly, he wasn’t as scary as the rumors, so he felt confident that he could easily defeat him.

Dubravka immediately took off his glove and threw it at Ethan.

“Talking won’t do anymore. Come out!”

As Ethan slowly grasped the glove that had stuck to his chest, he said,

“So you’re the one challenging me to a duel, aren’t you?”

In that case, this is self-defense.

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