Unsold Slaves Returned as Heroes - Chapter 43



43. Sword Saint’s Strike for Prey

‘What, what, what, what!!’

Hiding under her bed, Aisha shoved her fist into her mouth.

Normally, she would have jumped right into the target who had eye-terrorized her and stabbed her sword, but the sight in her eyes stopped her body.

‘Oh, no. It’s not eye terror….’

Aisha involuntarily swallowed her saliva. I could see the slave trader’s back as she took off her suit and shirt one after another and hung them up neatly.

‘Well, let me see… I do.’

Perfect shoulder girdle from countless sword swings. The latissimus dorsi muscles that bulge out every time you move your waist are manly.

The countless scars on his body showed off his wild beauty. It was not the body of a scholar who studied in a small room.

Dude. A drop of saliva fell from Aisha’s mouth to the ground.

‘Why am I like this? I’ve seen a lot of male bodies on the battlefield!’

Aisha couldn’t understand why she was embarrassed. During the expedition of the Demon King’s army, the situation was not good, so it was common for everyone to take off and wash and sleep on the street or anywhere.

The reason was the difference in circumstances.

Aisha instinctively realized that this was Wicker’s room, not Luca’s, from the way she casually hung up her clothes.

In the first place, looking at the level of the room, it is more convincing that it is for chair professors rather than students.

She sneaks into a sturdy adult man’s room and spies on his naked body.

As far as anyone can see, the villain here is not Wicker, but Aisha.

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Aisha, who was not clearly aware of that fact, continued to watch Wicker in the name of keeping her trespassing in check.

‘Professor, a slave trader… Are you handsome? At first glance, I thought he was older, but when I looked closely, he seemed like my age…. Hey, I hope you’re not younger than me. Wow, side jawline.’

Wicker skillfully began to equip the greaves. He was an armor with increased mobility to work in dungeons.

He carefully checks the equipment one by one and tucks it into his waist. Although there are many types, it did not take long to get used to his hands.

‘Oh, your hands are fast. It’s not a movement trained according to the manual, but it has know-how.’

After checking a piece of equipment on the way, he tilted his head and turned around to look around the room. For a moment, Aisha tensed and shrunk her body.

Jerobeok, jeobeok.

Wicker’s footsteps echo through the room. He walks toward the bookshelf opposite him, not the bed.

‘Huh? Come to think of it, don’t I look very strange right now?’

It was at this moment that Aisha finally realized that she was doing something very wrong and was about to erase her presence.

“Luca.”

Pot!

Without time to react, Wicker lay down in front of Aisha.

“… ….”

“… ….”

The eyes meet awkwardly.

They stare at each other for a long time with no expression on their faces without saying anything.

Tick tock, tick tock.

Only the sound of the clock’s second hand moving filled the desolate space.

In that short moment, Aisha’s head was becoming a mess with all sorts of words and sentences.

‘f*cked.’

‘What excuse?’

‘This is the professor’s room, isn’t it?’

‘I’m weird right now, right?’

‘Then why are there traces of Lucas in this room?’

‘Lucas was wrong! Confusingly real!’

‘Let’s start with Lucas?’

‘Wouldn’t it make me lose my memory if I hit it well?’

‘Wouldn’t it be quicker to just assassinate?’

‘Stop talking bullsh*t and wake up!!’

‘I wonder if this person is Lucas’ teacher or what!’

‘No, I’m Lucas’ teacher in the first place!’

‘It’s because of that bastard emperor.’

‘I came all the way to the academy to enjoy some kind of wealth and glory.’

‘I’ll just go back to the Empire and see what happens.’

‘Then I should have caught a man and come to the academy with him during Euncheong Festival.’

‘Ah… I want to go to Euncheongje.’

After such a stream of thoughts, Aisha’s mind reached its limit, and she uttered her last sentence.

“Will you accompany me to Euncheongje?”

With one cheek pressed to the dusty floor under her bed, she said the worst thing she could do with her aloof face.

‘Hmm. I’m going to do a coup tomorrow and blow it up.’

Wicker answered before Aisha couldn’t stand her shame and embarrassment any longer.

“Good. See you in the morning of the third day. Could you please listen to me instead?”

“… I see.”

“The deal is established.”

After saying that, Wicker stood up. He took a new towel from the drawer and put it on the desk.

“The washroom is on the left. Excuse me first because I have a lecture.”

Kung. He left the room with a small door knock. Aisha crawled out of bed slowly after a while.

“… What?”

Aisha noticed dust fluffing out of her own hair.

Did she considerate to clean up and leave?

“… Oh.”

There wasn’t a guy like this in the military, but he’s fresh.

… For a moment.

Did you just accept the date request?

No, did I ask you out?

“Wow. Wow, wow!”

Should I say that the instinct to pick out the sharpest one among the many sentences in my head and shoot it out is truly like a swordsman?

Excited to have accomplished the great feat of asking her for a first date in her private room, Aisha sat down on her knees in rapture.

***

“Next, prepare a party of 5 to 10. Depending on the judgment of the party leader, enter first.”

Students moved in perfect order. The Dungeon Studies lecture is already in its sixth round, so he is gaining practical experience on the first floor of the lower level dungeon in the Academy Territory.

Anyway, the dungeon is narrow and there are 120 students, so I can’t move all at once, so the lecture is slower than I expected. It’s because the students are suddenly full.

“It would be nice to have an instructor to help the director.”

“Oh, I can safely manage another party!”

Yuri, who was managing the 10th party from behind, perked up her ears when she heard me talking to herself.

“You are doing very well. All three of you But responsibility is a different story.”

You can’t just burden three people in the event of an accident. You cannot have a single director.

“Yes… Joe. I understand what you are saying.”

Yuri lowered her ears in disappointment.

“It would be comfortable if I lured Instructor Aisha, but I don’t know what she is thinking.”

“Aisha said… Sword Saint Aisha?”

“Yes. Because her skill is certain.”

Sword Saint Aisha. Why were you in my room earlier?

To prepare for the lecture, I retrofitted the equipment and tested the enemy detection artifact for preparation for a surprise attack.

I felt a presence under the bed, so Luca expected that she was playing hide and seek and was going to catch her, but what is this? Doesn’t she have a face you can’t imagine?

Sword Saint Aisha wasn’t originally a character in the academy either. She is a lofty strongman who always runs at the forefront of her battlefield… No, she is a gag character.

When I first saw her, she was memorizing an incantation.

That chant is also fake.

To be honest, I cringed a little when I saw it in person.

She’s a person who uses a lot of form unnecessarily, so even when I met her eyes, she had a perfectly expressionless expression, so I couldn’t read her intentions, whether she was trying to assassinate me or had another purpose.

‘Let’s guess.’

The emperor put a wedge in to figure out the academy situation, and since I’m in charge of the princess Astley, I wonder what kind of person I was being watched.

However, considering the president’s meticulousness, it seems that the former’s mission is not going smoothly. In the first place, he wasn’t a very friendly person to the emperor.

It’s quite a big deal if you’re infiltrating my room, so I decided I should figure out the purpose.

Just then, she called me to Cheongje, so I accepted it thinking it was a good opportunity.

At the same time, I set the condition of accepting one request from me. When it is deemed safe, she intends to supervise the Dungeon Studies lectures. Then the speed of the river will be faster than now.

She’s a loyal person, so she won’t refuse this much.

“The 5th party ranger, fall a little further back. She’s the 7th party rearguard, don’t cast healing spells in haste and give the vanguard some time. Xuehua, pace yourself with the party members.”

When I gave advice to the students, a strong answer came back. Everyone does their best to deal with the low-level monsters.

Sometimes excited or nervous, but they are basically excellent people, so it’s nice to see them adapt quickly.

In the middle, Yuri grabbed my arm and dragged it.

“Yuri?”

“Professor. I have a favor.”

“Yes, you can say anything.”

“… That kind of attitude.”

Yuri folded the bible he was holding and raised her arm high.

Four main magic circles have emerged.

The dark dungeon shines brightly with the holy power of glass.

All parties and students receive her blessing and are greatly strengthened for a moment. Strength, Magical Power, Defense, Resilience, everything.

“I feel light all of a sudden?!”

“Ohh, let’s keep pushing!”

“I will enter!”

The momentum of the students is rising. He subdues the monsters gracefully.

After casting her blessing, Yuri looked straight into my eyes.

“I am no longer a child.”

Her warm pink gold divine power overflowed and was still soaking the area around the glass.

“The three of Luca and Tia are not one.”

Yuri took a step closer to me. I hesitate as I stretch out her hand to swipe her towards her right hand.

Her thin fingers barely touched me.

“So… Forget about that image now. Please look at me now, Yuri.”

Today, Yuri’s red iris looks up at me.

She looked straight ahead.

“I understand, Student Yuri.”

As I answered that, I held Yuri’s hand as it was reaching out.

Her ears stood on point. Her fluffy tail waggled wildly.

Yuri blushed and avoided my gaze before adding a word.

“… Please don’t talk like that.”

“hahahaha, okay.”

Yuri is right.

It seems I still thought of the three as yellow, black, and white.

To the extent that Yuri talked about it seriously, she must have shown that she treated her like a child.

Luca, Tia, and Yuri are all adults already.

As much as he was talented, he became stronger than I was, and it’s only natural that he’s no longer a child in his head.

After realizing that, I felt like I could see Yuri’s features clearly for the first time.

It’s new, but she’s a beauty.

“Yuri.”

“Yes.”

“We met in a very strange time.”

“Aha, I did.”

Yuri’s smile shone. Like carnelian.

***

The master was having a pleasant conversation with Yuri.

Watching her, Luca received a strange sensation that she had never felt since birth.

‘What is it?’

It wasn’t a good feeling.

It was close to unpleasant.

Goosebumps go up on the skin, and the body is here, but only the mind is floating somewhere.

But the blood is hot.

It’s different from swinging a sword.

At that time, it was pleasantly hot.

On the contrary, the body gets cold.

‘Master….’

Of course I like all three of us.

It was a well-known fact.

By the way, I have a feeling that the way the owner looks at Yuri now is somehow different from the way he used to like the three of us.

She was Luca, who was often mistaken for a man since she was young.

There was little emotional expression, but it wasn’t like that.

In that respect, she liked Aisha. Because she was a very similar type to me.

The difference is that, unlike Aisha, who puts everything down when it comes to people close to her, she can’t even show a face to people close to her.

She hasn’t learned how to express any emotions, so even now she doesn’t know what to do.

Still, one thing is certain.

‘… It’s painful.’

Was Yuri also suffering?

Did you find a way to make it less painful?

Is that why you went to talk to the master before us?

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‘It was a game.’

Luca finally realized it too.

I’ll miss him at this rate.