chapter 6
6 – 1. Monbung becomes a teacher (5)
Of course, this meant that the time for admission had arrived, but that did not mean that students had actually started to enter the academy.
But that doesn’t mean I could have stayed stuck in the territory and listened to Cardia’s nagging. That wasn’t it either.
Anyway, the time for admission was approaching.
I really hate it, but since I have been appointed as a teacher to teach incoming students, I also have to prepare to receive students.
It was said that what had been put off until now could no longer be put off.
That is, going to the academy.
I have to go to the place where the Dimensional Exchange Academy is located, where I will have to work for at least the next few years.
Since I couldn’t put it off any longer, I headed to the academy created by the five dimensions working together, feeling like a cow being dragged to the slaughterhouse.
“Welcome to the Dimensional Exchange Academy. Marquis Ern Bachard.”
A middle-aged man with a handsome beard said this as he looked at me getting off the horseless carriage, the pride of the world of Monaka.
For your information, why a carriage when there are no horses?
ㅡPush profit!
A golem resembling a horse pulled this carriage instead, so it was a carriage anyway.
It could be said to be the pride of a steampunky worldview that exudes steam.
What a great civilization it is that it even automatically drives you safely when you enter your destination.
Automatic driving, which was impossible even in my previous life, is standard here?
In this respect, I think the technology of this life is superior to that of my previous life.
Of course, since magic is a technology that has been stolen, it may be so.
“Marquis?”
“…Ah, what did you say?”
“No, it’s not like that… are you okay?”
Are you okay?
It wasn’t okay.
There’s no way it’s going to be okay.
I didn’t want to come, but I ended up coming, so how could it be okay?
However, it was something the majestic Empress ordered.
This is something that a noble should be proud of.
…No matter how much you hate it, it has to be that way on the outside.
“I’m sorry. “I was so excited that I was finally able to carry out the mission the Empress ordered me to do. I had a hard time sleeping, so I guess I’m a little tired.”
“Ah, I see. Indeed, the Black Lion Lord.”
It was all bullsh*t.
I had a hard time sleeping, but it wasn’t because my heart was pounding. It was because I was struggling with the thought of whether I really had to be the teacher of those monsters. It wasn’t because my heart was pounding.
I’ve been having trouble breathing and digesting food for the past few days.
It was all because of stress.
“By the way, is this a newly built academy?”
“yes. “It is a building that was designed by us humans, and the construction and construction was done by a combination of the Elyos, the Demons, the Waters, and the Foreign Gods.”
“indeed.”
For some reason, I felt uncomfortable.
But there was nothing I could do.
With human technology, it is impossible to erect a building of this size in just a few months.
As Monaka’s Academy is not only a building, but also has spaces prepared for various races… If it had been left to humans alone, it would have been a major project that would have taken 10 years.
If I had done that, I wouldn’t have had to come here for 10 years.
I looked up at the Dimensional Exchange Academy.
…It looked exactly like the building I had seen in my blurred memories.
The difference was that the academy in my memory was just an illustration, but the building before my eyes was real in reality.
On the right, there is a forest area for water people who love forests and trees, and on the left, there are various water sources, from fresh water to salt water. Anyway, it is a place full of everything, so it is truly a confusing place.
It was Monmus Academy, the setting of Monaka.
really.
It’s Monaka’s world.
It was a fact I had already accepted for a long time, but seeing it like this gave me new feelings.
What on earth is this feeling?
Yes, that’s right.
I felt like I wanted to get out of here right away.
Get me out of here…
I don’t want to go to school.
But I’m a teacher at this school, right?
It won’t work, really.
I’m done.
“Marquis?”
“…I’m sorry. I just don’t know what to do next. “It’s a task that the Empress has entrusted to me, so I can’t do it in vain.”
A middle-aged man nodded as if he understood what I said.
…Anyway, who is this person?
When I arrived, he immediately started talking to me, but he was someone I didn’t remember.
“…By the way, I’m sorry, but who are you?”
“Oh, this is true. My introduction is late. sorry. “I am Sebastian, who was sent to help Marquis Ern Bachard with his daily duties.”
“hmm.”
It’s Sebastian.
…It was a name that seemed fitting for someone like a butler.
I think it would fit perfectly if I wore a cool monocle.
…hmm.
“…Why are you doing that?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
It seems like a name I’ve heard before somewhere.
Where was it?
My memories are vivid.
Well, I guess it’s not that important.
With that in mind, I nodded.
Anyway, judging by the fact that the middle-aged man with the handsome mustache in front of me did not give his last name, it seemed like he was not a nobleman.
So I changed my attitude.
The 23 years were enough time to transform my personality while living in the country of courtesy in the East.
It’s not something to ignore things like age or a long-term will.
This world is a world where higher values exist.
It was just rank.
The nobles of this world are mostly the result of a long period of mixing and roasting each other’s blood in a world where superhumans exist, and unlike the mass-produced chiseled chins of their past lives… they are closer to the result of racial improvement at the genetic level.
It was roughly like that.
In general, nobles are strong.
This was because he had outstanding natural talent.
If 90 out of 100 nobles can achieve the aptitude for being a knight or a wizard, the opposite is true for commoners.
Among 100 commoners, there were only about 10 who had the aptitude for being a knight or a wizard.
The same was true even if you barely had any talent and awakened your special ability.
Commoners were overwhelmingly inferior to nobles in both their natural magical power and physical structure to handle fighting.
Blue blood can be said to be considered a separate race, to the extent that commoners have no choice but to believe it, even if blue blood literally flows from the body.
anyway.
Such a class society.
Moreover, as a marquis in an overwhelming class society where the gap in power was felt, it was right for me to show an attitude appropriate to that status.
…It was common sense in this world that I learned because I once used an honorific language to an old farmer in my estate to protect the funeral will and was shocked and apologized.
Maintain your dignity.
Run Noblesse Oblige.
Fulfilling my duty as a blue blood, like a noble.
That was the appearance of the nobility of this world.
Of course, there are not many people who keep it all.
On the battlefield, the commoners had no choice but to play the role of meat shields at best, so countless nobles were separated and forced to practice noblesse oblige.
Well, thanks to that, the respect and public sentiment towards the nobles… and the blue bloods, was high.
We fought simply to survive, but whatever we fight, we fight, and what we protect, we protect.
anyway.
While mistreating commoners and showing off his authority to the fullest.
Act with a restrained attitude.
That was the attitude befitting both a knight and a great hero called the Black Lion, so I did that.
“Yes, Sebastian. I understood that you had come to help me. So, what is this job?”
There was only a month left until the time of admission, but it did not mean that admission had started yet.
The building is going up, and the Dimensional Exchange Academy… It can be said that it is close to the time when the certificates of admission for the ‘students’ who will enter the Monmusu Academy will be delivered.
But I was wondering what kind of work there was, and Sebastian said.
“First of all… I would like to hear the Marquis’ opinion on the academy’s school uniform, which has not yet been decided.”
“hmm.”
is it.
Is it a school uniform?
It’s important.
Will we ever see that shameless school uniform again?
I really liked it back then…
I wondered what it would be like now.
Could I like watching monsters running around with their butts visible at the slightest breeze…?
No, wait a minute.
…Do we have to decide on a school uniform?
“…Hasn’t even the school uniform been decided yet?”
“I don’t have anything to say, but yes. That’s right. Because people from so many different levels are planning to enroll…”
With admission to some damn academy just around the corner, school uniforms have become stable.
It was a ridiculous situation, but when I thought about it, the Dimensional Exchange Academy was just beginning.
I was told this was the first time.
There will be many twisted influences due to me.
“…good night. Then where should I go? Are all the other teachers gathered?”
“Ah yes. “Because you gathered a week earlier than the Marquis.”
is it.
They came a week early, so they haven’t even decided on school uniforms yet.
What a mess.
No, there might be a reason why I couldn’t just say something.
It was not impossible that there was some political conflict involved.
Or, it could be that the wicked merchants reared their snake-like heads because they were finally able to make a living.
It was clear that Monmusu Academy, or more accurately, Dimensional Exchange Academy, was a place I hated coming to… but when I thought about the future, there were few places with greater potential value than this.
Even if that wasn’t the case, I didn’t know that my political enemies might have influenced me.
The reason is just, whatever.
At first, I thought he would take Elysia because he seemed pitiful, but in hindsight, there were many reasons to give, such as why he was seduced.
anyway.
I don’t know if it was something I had put off, but I said with a somewhat stern face because it was a frustrating task for me to have to do it.
“…It’s shameful that I, who was appointed directly by the Empress, am the last one. Take the lead, Sebastian. “Let’s go now.”
“Ah yes! Marquis Bachart. “Then come this way.”