I Became a Crazy Swordsmanship Instructor in the Game

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10 pm. It was a dark night.

Philip walked slowly down the hallway of the girls’ dormitory.

“… … .”

Because the moonlight was bright, there was no particular need for light-emitting artifacts. Besides, Philip’s senses were overly sensitive.

If you awaken your senses just a little bit, you could even hear the students tossing and turning in the room.

The first and second floors of the female dormitory were occupied by seniors, 4th and 5th graders.

Instructor Diana also said that the upper grades could be released a little, and since they were almost all grown up by 17 and 18, Philip had no intention of entering the room at all.

After turning around to Room 112, the end of the corridor on the right on the first floor, Philip stood in front of the stairs leading up to the second floor.

Then a very small voice was heard. It was in room 110.

“… Anyone know who is on duty today?”

“You must be Instructor Perek? why?”

“I can’t sleep. Have a glass of wine.”

“Do you give us too?”

“It’s not free, give me a snack.”

Philip thought for a moment. A 5th grader who is 18 years old on the first floor. In this world, when you are 18, you are treated as an adult to some degree, so drinking is fine.

Since it was my senior year, I needed to be flexible to some extent.

Philip reduced his presence as much as possible. He used magic to silence footsteps, and even breathing was barely audible, so there was no need to worry about noticing his approach.

After counting to three, I opened the door and saw the girls with their eyes wide open with a sound of swallowing their breath. They were sitting together at a table in the middle of the room in their pajamas.

“Ah, hello, Instructor.”

The student who was just about to open the stopper started to hiccup as if he was surprised.

“Heeep!”

“… I was going to tell everyone to hand in the penalty points, but I got caught before I got them, so I’ll take a look.”

“Oh, thank you.”

“If you want to drink, just pass one glass at a time. If you can’t sleep, you should do that.”

Philip said that and closed the door again. Then, after deliberately making the sound of footsteps moving away, I listened to the voice inside.

“I thought my heart stopped. Lily.”

“Isn’t that instructor him? Philip Oswald?”

“I saw him once at a party when I was young, and I bumped into him while running around. Did you think you were afraid to die then? But now I feel like a completely different person.”

Philip sighed deeply.

‘Philip, how did you live?’

He trudged up to the second floor.

The 4th graders all seemed to be lying in their seats without much movement. When he went up to the third floor, the floor used by the third graders, Philip noticed someone who was not awake walking down the hallway.

“hello. haam.”

Curly hair and horn-rimmed glasses. It was the girl from Philip’s memory.

“It’s Cheryl. Where are you going? It’s bedtime now.”

“Haam… I need to pee, so I go to the bathroom… Ugh.”

Sheryl, who had been saying anything in her sleep, suddenly felt a flash of consciousness. There was a handsome instructor who witnessed his dark history in front of him.

She thought with a bashful laugh.

‘How should I die so I don’t get sick?’

It was a problem that he fell asleep as soon as he returned from working overtime at the library until late. Philip smiled awkwardly.

“You must be very tired. Come home and get some rest.”

“… yes.”

Philip took care of her and went straight to the fourth floor. There was a whimper behind him, but Philip gritted his teeth and ignored it.

Other than the sounds of chatter in some rooms, the second years were fine.

Being covered in blankets and whispering with friends was a right in the dormitory, so Philip didn’t touch it except in particularly noisy rooms.

And Philip heard someone upstairs weeping in silence.

Philip’s pace quickened. He knew which room Lua was assigned to.

‘… ha.’

Room 507. The child’s room was right. As he drew closer, he heard an annoyed voice from beyond the door.

“Stop crying. I know you’re having a hard time and you’re sad, but stop crying. We don’t have to suffer because of you. You say you grew up in the mountains? So don’t you know the word nuisance?”

“sorry. Sorry… but… .”

“Sorry, please be quiet. Is it okay to just be sorry?”

“Hey, you’re louder now. I can tolerate the sound of that child crying. But is your voice annoying? Are you campaigning as an aristocrat now?”

“What did you just say?”

After checking the atmosphere, Philip quickly opened the door. It was just before a fight broke out.

At the presence of the instructor who opened the door and entered, the children looked at each other with frightened expressions.

“What are you doing? you.”

When Philip glared at him with a stern expression, the girl in a silk nightgown stepped out as if it were unfair. She was also a kid taking swordsmanship lessons.

Her name is Olivia Nues, the daughter of a baron.

It was a girl who wore her hair in two pigtails, so it remained in Philip’s memory.

“… Instructor. Hey, I’ve been crying all night for days now. At first, I thought it would get better, so I calmly endured it, but it’s a bit harsh to do that for three days. I’m so… .”

“okay. know. It’s not your fault, and I don’t intend to blame you. I just think that the way you deal with problems might make your friends feel a little aggressive.”

Olivia’s eyes widened as she listened to Philip’s words. She knew only that Philip would be scolded.

“And neither are you, Annis Praline. You two have similar personalities, but I think your relationship could lead to a better start than this. After I leave, it wouldn’t be bad for someone more courageous to ask for reconciliation first.”

Anise, the only daughter of Praline Firm, pursed her lips and lowered her head.

“yes… Instructor.”

“okay. If I see you eating together at breakfast tomorrow, I think I’ll be tempted to give you a shop.”

After putting an end to the two girls’ quarrel, Philip shifted his gaze to Lua.

“… I’ve been thinking about how I can help you. And I made up my mind.”

Lua’s face was bloodless and pale, and her lips were dry and cracked. Philip closed his eyes tightly.

The image of Lua in the game appeared in his mind.

A lively, strong-willed, and friendly girl.

It would take at least another month for that child to regain its form.

‘I can’t.’

After entering the world in ‘Academy Heroes’, he checked his future plans hundreds of times, but plans and reality were always different.

No matter how much I thought about it, I had no confidence to push that little girl through hardships and trials.

It was tantamount to abuse.

‘Now, I can’t help it.’

After making up his mind, Philip slowly approached the bed and hugged Lua. The hair that reached his forearm was split because he hadn’t eaten properly for several days.

“Ah.”

Lua looked a little flustered, but she didn’t try to push or reject Philip.

It was also because Philip didn’t seem to have any ill intentions, and he didn’t have the strength to resist in the first place. The body, which had not slept or eaten properly for several days, did not listen.

‘… It’s warm.’

And I missed someone’s body temperature.

“Let’s go out at once. It’s bedtime for you too, so go ahead and lie down.”

“Ah yes.”

“yes.”

Philip left the room after making sure the children were in bed.

* * *

Philip put Lua on his back and took him to his room. Likewise, after asking the maid on duty to look after Lua, he had to return to finish his duty.

And the morning was bright.

―Wow, I guess people become like that when they fall asleep exhausted from crying. master.

Returning to his room, Philip felt his heart suffocate when he saw Lua.

I never imagined that Lua’s sense of loss, which had been casually omitted from the game, would be at such a serious level.

There were traces of dried tears around Lua’s eyes and dried milk around her mouth. It seemed that the maid fed the child warm milk while putting him to bed.

– What will he do?

“How to do it. I have already set the route.”

—… ?

“I have to manage it myself from the beginning.”

‘I was stupid in the first place. Being possessed by Philip itself is a huge variable, so there’s no way the story will go the way it was originally.’

Phillip stroked his chin and pondered.

If he really wanted to follow the original story, Philip had to fight Lua in the middle of the second semester. Then he was kicked out of the academy and had to wander somewhere unknown, but there was no information Philip knew about it.

It was already twisted from the start.

‘There’s nothing I can do about it now that it’s like this. I have no choice but to keep it nearby and grow it myself.’

Lua was the only heir to ‘Sword Saint Solvein’ in this world.

As long as it was certain that it had potential beyond imagination, there was no need to follow the original work, which was full of variables.

Because as much as Philip feeds him, he will become stronger.

However, even in the process of scooping, build-up was necessary. Philip was going to carry out the first course from now on.

“Let’s start with financial therapy.”

―What is financial therapy?

“You will know when you see it.”

Philip left the room again.

The place he headed was the shopping street outside the academy.

Commercial areas for the entourage of aristocratic students who rented mansions outside, families of faculty members, or academy officials developed, and as it is one of the maps that can be freely accessed in the game, there were many hidden easter eggs or hidden pieces.

-master. I guess people don’t like to do business here. All the doors are closed!

At 8:00 a.m., the streets were still quiet.

General stores such as alchemy workshops, armor stores, boutiques, and ateliers had not yet opened, and at least restaurants were preparing to open.

Of course, Philip’s destination was not the store.

He crossed the shopping street and headed for the canal on the outskirts. It was a waterway connected to Aldea Lake, which was about ten kilometers away.

—… Why are you here?

“I have something to pick up around here… … Oh, here you are.”

Near the dam he had made to prepare for floods, his goal was under a certain ground where the grass grew exceptionally low.

Philip stood on the ground he was aiming for and stomped his feet a few times. His keen senses whispered that there was space several meters below the ground.

“Certainly here. then… ‘An uncertain investment for the future.’.”

As he said the password, the ground beneath his feet shook as if it had been an earthquake.

―Huh! What is this?

Philip took a few steps back, and the ground split open, opening a square passageway and a staircase leading down.

-master. Are you sure you’re not going down here? please say no

“Are you going down?”

―Hey… It’s scary when it’s dark.

“… It gets brighter when you go down, so don’t worry.”

As Philip said, after going down the dark stairs for about two floors, my eyes brightened. It was a cellar dug into the ground and built with stone walls.

‘I’ll have to take those off too.’

Looking at the dozens of glowstones embedded in the ceiling, Philip licked his lips. As he remembered, glowstones were extremely expensive japtem, each worth ten gold coins.

There was an old desk in the middle of the stone chamber, but no other structures. A box the size of two human heads was placed on the desk.

‘Yousef’s Golden Seal’. It should have been there.

It was an item to purchase a special membership of the world’s most secret and infinitely influential merchant.