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Capítulo 213: Teaching a rewarding experience

"...teacher… Are you going to prevent me from attending your lessons as punishment…?"

And then, Gabriel took Melinda by surprise, clenching his fists and asking her in a voice that clearly suggested he was putting up a brave front while on the verge of tears.

"HAH! As if!"

"...!"

In response, Melinda laughed out loud, causing the boy to flinch in shock.

"As long as you're not getting kicked out from the course your parents are paying for, you will attend my training sessions whether you like it or not. I mean, the participation in it is no longer voluntary. For you, at least. What I'm trying to teach to all of you is self-control and focus and you clearly need a whole lot more of it, young man!"

"!!!"

Melinda straightened her back and crossed her arms while declaring down at Gabriel who perked up and looked up to her with an awestruck expression for some reason…

"Thank you, teacher! Ah! Thank you, teacher."

He cheered out in joy before gasping and hurriedly bowing his head, repeating himself in a much more official voice.

"...trying to get on my good side, eh? Cheeky bugger."

Melinda wasn't swayed by the boy's act and squinted her eyes at him while muttering.

Well… maybe she was swayed just a little bit since Gabriel did seem sincere.

*click*

"And I hope you will learn from that. Now go to see the medic. I've had enough of your yelps."

The door to the office Melinda and her student were waiting by opened and the scolding voice of the vice-commander of the facility chased someone out.

"..."

Melinda's gaze turned into a viciously sharp glare in preparation for the guy who went overboard with self-defense and beat up a child…

"....!?"

Only for her to back into her seat with a shocked expression when a beaten-up teenager limped through the door, holding his sides and wincing with each step as if both his leg and ribs were messed up in some way.

"..."

"..."

The young man looked to the side and as he noticed Gavriel, he glared at him only to met up with equally furious glare.

"...!"

"...?"

But the next moment, the injured young man noticed Melinda and flinched with a fearful expression, shocking her quite a bit.

Because even though that youngster wasn't one of her student, he was definitely one of the trainees under the instructor she assisted.

…and it wasn't Lucas Vendro'in…

"...mhy aphologhies…"

"!?!?"

The young man spoke up, but his words were distorted by the clear lack of his front teeth, stunning Melinda even more.

"!!!"

But nothing could prepare her for what came next as when the first youngster limped further, three more showed up.

Two of which were supporting the third one.

All of them were beaten up badly.

And not just pretty badly.

Severely.

The one in the middle had his face so swollen that Melinda had a hard time identifying him. He had to be supported because one of his legs was bent in the wrong direction.

The two supporting him weren't much better as the one on the left had a black eye, with his eyeball dyed completely crimson from all the burst blood vessels and a swollen wrist, while the one on the right had his nose basically crushed like a splattered tomato and a bruised ear swollen to the size of a ripe apple.

"?!?!"

Melinda looked between the four youngsters and the young boy by her side.

She did not just a double or a triple take but a quintuple take before breathing out with exasperation only now realizing that she misunderstood the situation her pupil was in.

"Listen, Gabi. I'm not encouraging that behavior of yours. But I want to say this. I'm impressed."

"!!!"

As the injured youngsters got away, Gabriel began to stand up but was stopped by Melinda who nodded at him without being able to conceal a smile.

Then, both of them entered the office.

"Young Lady Fenrioette… Pardon my rudeness but… what are you teaching those boys?!"

Right out of the gate, the vice-commander of the facility stood up and confused Melinda by grilling her instead of the boy she accompanied.

"Me?! I'm teaching them to hold back. How can they be in complete control of their emotions and body at all times and such, I guess? The very things I myself zealously practice each day."

The gold-haired girl, who didn't even have the chance to sit down or even approach the vice commander's desk, gasped in confusion and declared.

"But you're training them for combat!"

"...no…? I'm… I'm not, though…?"

The man behind the desk called out, making her tilt her head and deny the ridiculous accusation.

"Young Lady, how do you expect me to believe you when one of your students, a nine-year-old CHILD, beat up an eighteen-year-old man and three of his friends, all between sixteen and eighteen, into a pulp? He sprained the wrist of the one who grabbed his arm and tried to pull him away just by going with the punch, for Perseverance's sake!"

The man stood up from his seat and declared, slamming his hands against the desk for the greater effect.

"He did?! You did?! HOW!?"

Melinda's eyes widened, and she gasped in disbelief, turning to her student and asking him in exasperation.

"I…. I just got very angry but thanks to the training I didn't just start swinging blindly at him, but focused on and targeted all the weak points I noticed, teacher."

The young boy fidgeted before revealing, apologetically lowering his head.

"That's fair."

"No, it's not! What do you even mean by fair?!"

Melinda tilted her head and nodded, acknowledging the answer, but the facility's vice-commander was not having it.

"Eh? Well, isn't it obvious?"

"...wh-what…?"

The gold-haired girl raised her brows and asked such genuine confusion that she utterly bewildered the vice-commander.

"I mean, everyone has a strength stat, but normally, no one actually fully uses it. Even when fighting, it's not utilized to its limits. I believe I might have accidentally enabled my students to tap into the full potential of their strength stat…"

"ACCIDENTALLY?!"

Melinda blushed and admitted in a cutesy voice but the man behind the desk raised a high-pitched voice, seemingly on the verge of panic.

...which meant she succeeded in changing the focus of the whole talk...

"Yes. Well, for me, it takes my everything to control myself to not use even a fraction of my strength, but my methods can definitely be used to achieve the opposite effect."

"~!"

"...?!"

The gold-haired girl said, causing a completely different reaction from the boy at her side and the man behind the desk, one being that of awe and the other of bewilderment.

"Also, since I kind of see the direction of this conversation, I'll say this. I do not specifically gatekeep my methods. It's just that the only ones who want to learn from me are the students that I currently have."

Melinda added with a dismissive shrug.

"Everyone is welcome to attend, even the guy who badmouthed Gabi's fiance. Only after he apologizes, of course."

She smirked rather sinisterly and tilted her head in a way that showed her sharp eyes in the most innocently threatening way as once again she took over the course of the conversation with her overpowering aura.

"That said, Gabi, you need to think about your status more. Do you believe your fiance would be proud that you defended her in such a way?"

"...! N… no… She wouldn't like it, teacher…"

Then, the gold-haired girl's expression turned stern, and she addressed the boy by her side, making him flinch and lower his head apologetically.

"That's right. You need to do these things in a proper way. Next time something like that happens, you cannot simply rush the person in the wrong. You challenge them to a duel and crush them in a situation when your undeniable victory will be celebrated and not get you in trouble."

"!!!"

"Yes, teacher!"

Melinda splendidly intercepted any possible lecture, moving her hand to the side and tapping Gabriel's chest without looking at him, making the vice-commander of the facility stare at her in agitation while the adoring boy called out in the most pious adoration.

"I'll have you know that your behavior will be reported to both Lord Hugin and His Highness."

The vice-commander gave up on whatever he was going to say originally and declared with a grim expression.

"Please do. It will give His Highness and Madam Hugin another perspective for when I will report to them during the evening meal. With that, I'm assuming the two of us are free to go?"

"..."

Unbothered, Melinda nodded her head graciously before asking while challenging and winning the staring contest with the man behind the desk.

"Indeed. Nothing that I'll say will get through to you anyway."

"Thank you for understanding~ I'll go and see to Gabi's injuries now~"

He scoffed, trying to retain a semblance of authority, and the gold-haired girl played along playfully by curtsying to him before giving her student an encouraging push to leave the office without any sort of actual punishment or even a scolding.


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Capítulo 214: They don't know their place

When Sigurd Em'ralido arrived at the knight training facility he was in charge of he was greeted by…

…no one…

"...?"

Confused, and alarmed by the lack of any traces of life he passed the abandoned guardpost and entered the main building.

Despite most trainees and instructors living within the complex, the Emperor of Emperors found all the rooms and offices either locked or empty, even the office of the vice-commander, Charles Inve'ristio, who was basically in charge of the entire facility while he was gone.

"..."

When Sigurd was about to take out a message scroll and call out an emergency, some sort of commission at the back of the building got his attention.

Once he looked through the window, he saw a group that must have consisted of everyone that should be within the facility. However, why they all gathered there was a mystery.

Still, recognizing the employees, the large man could breathe a sigh of relief, and his anxiety was replaced with curiosity.

Maybe they gathered for some sort of announcement?

As he exited the building and walked around it, he was met with another surprise.

The bluish-gray skinned pale-gold-haired underling of his was leaning against the wall and peeking from the corner.

"Your Majesty."

Hugin's ears twitched, and she turned her head towards Sigurd, greeting him politely.

"...what is going on there…? Why did everyone leave their posts?"

After nodding back, the Emperor of Emperors didn't feel that he needed to hold back and asked, leaning to the side to have a look at the training ground himself.

"It's time for Melinda's lesson."

Hugin chuckled as she revealed, making it sound as if that alone was enough of an explanation.

"Melinda's lesson? But… That's Charles over there with the youngins, isn't he? And all the instructors and the guards. And aren't those the senior knights from the Royal Guard?"

The Emperor of Emperors shook his head before pointing out in shock at the group, singling out everyone he recognized.

"Oh, the ones from the Royal Guards were invited by Sir Charles the other day and showed up today of their own volition. Melinda doesn't mind."

Hugin couldn't stop chuckling and motioned at the zealously training middle-aged men being instructed by the petite gold-haired girl right next to youngsters, not even in their teens, who weren't losing to their elders in terms of focus and attention to the instructions.

"...then this is her little training session that some trainees asked her to join…?"

"Indeed. She teaches them self-control, at least that's what she calls it."

Sigurd asked, and Hugin nodded with her long ears twitching playfully.

"She's the one teaching?! Ehem, never mind. And what does it look like to you?"

Sigurd asked further, greatly intrigued.

"Oh, she does teach them control. Complete control over their own body and strength that is. How can they use the absolute minimal amount of necessary strength for a task, and, interchangeably, how can they bring out their utmost limits at any time. And by doing so, she brings out the full potential of the strength stat, which normally goes untapped resulting in a substantial buff."

"That almost sounds like the berserker rage without any drawbacks that is also available at any time, though…"

The woman smiled while motioning towards the group with her head, making the large man lean back and point out half-jokingly.

"That is exactly what it is, Your Majesty."

"..."

But to Sigurd's great surprise, Hugin not only didn't refute his statement but wholeheartedly agreed with him, leaving the man utterly stunned.

"We should join them then, shouldn't we?"

"I was waiting for Your Majesty to say that. I asked Melinda whether it would be okay for both of us to join too, and she appeared exceedingly happy about the idea~"

The Emperor of Emperors shook his head and then declared with an excited smile to which the Dusk Elf woman chuckled with her ears twitching in anticipation.

—----

"Hold on, hold on, hold on… But that's so stupid and doesn't make any sense! No, wait, I must have misunderstood or misheard something. Could you please repeat their statement?"

Melinda raised one hand while rubbing her forehead with the other as if braving through a terrible headache and asked Hugin.

"The Church of Perseverance rejected your offer of help as well as the help of the Knight Order. Instead, they requested a duel between one of their Holy Knights and the strongest knight of the Royal Guards in order to showcase how strong the buffs of the Saintess and the Chorus of Deacons of Blessing are. Since they can cast them on individuals as well as groups, the Church's wish is to reassure the public about their safety in the face of the threat of the Frenzied Deep-Dusk Dullahan in such a way."

The Dusk Elf woman breathed out with an apologetic expression and repeated herself.

"Didn't I show my Kill Log to their representative…? I didn't just imagine doing that, did I?"

"You most definitely did display it. Lord Zane also stated his unwavering support to your offer, but the Church's officials dismissed it as him being shaken by the loss of his comrades."

Melinda closed her eyes, holding her head with both hands and groaned, prompting an even more apologetic response from Hugin.

"That's what I call a bad way to end the on-the-job-training course…"

The gold-haired girl sat upright only to lean back into her seat and stare vacantly at the ceiling of the room she had been living in for the past two weeks.

"I must admit, even though the rejection of the offer was something that we did consider, what they requested instead went beyond any of our expectations."

"Because it's stupid."

Hugin sighed with a bitter expression, and Melinda immediately followed her up in annoyance.

"We knew that they claimed your spell as the work of the Saintess and the Choir of Deacons of Blessing, but the stunt they're trying to pull here is…"

"Stupid. Plain and simple. No sugar coating. It's stupid. They are stupid. A super-boss that's probably way over level 300 or 400 and is capable of wiping whole cities off the map before we know it, is freely roaming the Empire. All while the Church wants to use the chance to show the supremacy of their own forces over the actual peacekeepers! They aren't just normal kind of stupid! They are deranged!"

Hugin added, and Melinda finished for her, going above and beyond to express how annoyed and agitated she was over the whole thing.

"I should just ask Zane to send Rose over and take me out there to kill the Dullahan quickly. The Church can claim they are behind it too. I don't care."

Suddenly, the gold-haired girl stood up and announced, done with the ridiculous incompetence of the supposed defenders of the people.

"Please wait!"

Adrianna, Melinda's personal maid who somehow remained unnoticed until she made a move, raised both hands and pleaded, getting in the way of the furious girl.

"My lady, consider the risk! Please, at least wait until the monster is tracked down and marked before going out there. Preferably not acting until the head of the Shadow Stalking Ripper Panther will decay completely, and the Dullahan will lose its abilities!"

Adrianna continued her plea, repeating the newest available intel about the beast terrorizing the land, meaningfully glancing at Melinda's stomach.

"I share your maid's sentiment, and I'm certain that Lord Zane, as well as His Majesty, have the same stance on the matter."

"..."

Adrianna declared and was supported by Hugin, making Melinda tense up with a grumpy pout.

"Fine."

"Thank you~!"

In the end the gold-haired girl muttered as she slouched, making the other two exchange relieved glances and call out in unison.

"But I want to see that whole demonstration. And I want to be the one to choose which Knight will participate!"

"That can be arranged."

Melinda declared sternly, and Hugin immediately agreed.

"How much time do we have?"

The gold-haired girl sat back down and asked.

"No matter what kind of publicity stunt they want to pull off, waiting more than three days is inexcusable, so that would be the upper limit."

"Well, so that's what we're working with. Please inform the Academy that my return will be delayed appropriately. Adi, do we have a message scroll on hand?"

"Here."

As Hugin answered, Melinda shrugged her shoulders while nodding before asking and immediately receiving the scroll from her maid.


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