Preparing for the Field Trip. But with Training on the Side

7 AM, with the cold dawn air still lingering.

I was now walking to the academy.

The day after the Sky Island incident, the academy had been closed for the past two days under the pretext of stabilizing the students and investigating the academy, but from today, the third day, classes at the academy were resuming.

Of course, since I had entrusted Isolde to Mu, I wasn’t alone but accompanied by Morgan at my side.

“Hmm, the morning streets are indeed nice.”

I said, taking a deep breath of the air that chilled my lungs.

As it was early morning, while walking the empty streets, one could occasionally see women carrying loads walking briskly, workers pulling carts perhaps going to do business from the morning, and shops slowly opening their closed doors one by one.

Unlike the bustling afternoon streets, the morning streets were filled with small conversation sounds lingering peacefully.

It felt like strolling on a dawn beach at a travel destination.

Feeling the fatigue from finishing the temple’s meal preparations early in the morning dissipate at this scenery, I closed my eyes to enjoy the leisure of the streets a bit more, but it seemed this demon walking beside me had no such sentimentality.

Morgan looked around at the peaceful street scenery, then soon let out a small sneer and opened her mouth.

“To think that I, a former demon executive, would be able to openly walk around such a prosperous human kingdom’s streets. They say you never know what life holds, and it seems that’s true.”

“Just know that the moment you try to reveal or say that you’re a demon, your head will fly off.”

“My, how scary.”

I immediately cut off Morgan’s dangerous thoughts in response to her subtly dangerous statement.

Because it would be truly dangerous if she made such a statement.

The only ones who knew that Morgan and Isolde were demons were me and those related to the temple. Other than that, no one in the Kingdom of Puhara knew they were demons.

No, to begin with, since we didn’t show anyone the process of subduing them and transporting them to the temple, the Kingdom of Puhara didn’t even know that the two demon executives had fallen into my hands.

But what if either Morgan or Isolde revealed their identity? It was clear as day that the Kingdom of Puhara would be turned upside down.

Fortunately, neither of them had any intention of speaking, and they were just saying it jokingly, so I only gave a light warning and let it pass, but still, thinking of the potential situation was terrifying.

Therefore, even though I knew it was a joke, I immediately cut off her words and then let out a short sound as the academy’s gate started to come into view.

“We’re almost there. That over there is the main gate of the academy. You’ve memorized the way well, right?”

“Of course. It would be difficult to forget such a simple route.”

“That’s good. You’ll have to come on your own when I trust you enough to let you go free in the future, so remember it.”

Morgan nodded as if it was obvious when I asked if she had memorized the way from the temple to the academy.

I nodded at her words and walked towards the academy gate.

“Hwa… Yawn…”

As we approached the gate, we saw a guard yawning languidly, seemingly tired. It seemed he was quite fatigued from standing guard from early morning.

But it wasn’t really my concern, so I just gave the guard an eye greeting and led Morgan into the academy.

The majestic appearance of the main building that comes into view immediately upon entering the academy. Perhaps impressed by the main building’s appearance, Morgan let out a small exclamation.

“Hooh…”

But unfortunately, there was no time now to leisurely let Morgan sightsee the academy.

The place I needed to go right away was my personal professor’s office.

First, I had to go there to organize the information that wasn’t fully sorted, and then wait for Mu who would bring Isolde, so I grabbed the back of Morgan’s neck who was admiring and turned her around.

“I’ll let you tour the academy later. There are more urgent matters now, so follow me first. We’re going to my professor’s office.”

“I wanted to look around more leisurely, but if that’s the case, I guess it can’t be helped.”

Morgan obediently started moving her feet that had stopped at my words and followed me. I went up to the main building with Morgan in tow.

I headed towards Aria’s professor’s office located exactly on the 3rd floor of the main building.

My professor’s office is located close by, not even 50m away from the 1-A class I’m in charge of.

Walking slowly down the quiet 3rd-floor corridor as students hadn’t arrived yet, I soon stopped in front of an antique-looking door.

“It’s here.”

“Here?”

As I stopped, Morgan who was following behind also stopped and asked me, and instead of answering, I opened the door with a key and turned on the lights as I entered.

Click──

“Cough, cough! Damn, I guess I haven’t cleaned for too long.”

“It seems so… Cough! It’s a bit dirty.”

And as soon as I turned on the lights, I coughed at the dust floating in the air and entering my nostrils.

Did I not clean for too long…

Even at a glance, there was quite a bit of dust accumulated inside the professor’s office. Morgan also frowned at this and carefully entered the room.

It’s not incomprehensible that this much dust has accumulated since I haven’t cleaned for almost five days, including the two days the academy was closed and rejecting the cleaning service provided by the academy, but it still felt unpleasant.

Feeling my lungs that had been cleaned by the morning air getting dirty again, I cursed and opened the windows of the professor’s office, and thought about doing some light cleaning but soon gave up on the idea.

Although dust had accumulated, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t sit, and it would be more certain to leave it to the cleaners after finishing today’s work.

Thinking this way, I sat down after dusting off only the dust on the chair and desk.

Naturally, there was no place for Morgan to sit, so she stood beside me.

I glanced at Morgan and then picked up my documents on the desk that I had last seen and left five days ago.

“It’s still the same.”

As I dusted off the dust accumulated on the documents, the page I had last written five days ago was still open.

What was written on that page was none other than the original story of the Human-Demon War and the expected content of how the story might change.

As I was slowly looking at the content I had written, Morgan, who had tried to peek at what I was looking at beside me, tilted her head.

“What language is this? Didn’t all human nations use a common language?”

“Hm? Ah, certainly, you can’t read this.”

At Morgan’s words, I tilted my head for a moment, but after a few seconds, I understood what she meant and nodded.

This document was nothing other than a record of future events, that is, quests.

It was a document where I had organized my memories of the story and predictions of how those stories might change due to my intervention.

Naturally, it was a document that shouldn’t be seen by anyone else, so all the writing on the paper was in Korean.

Although “Hyung Hyung Saek Saek” was a domestic game, the characters used in the game were of a completely different system.

Therefore, this document written in Korean was something only I could read, and there was no way Morgan could read it.

So, after pondering how to answer, I found an appropriate answer and replied.

“This is the traditional script of our homeland. It’s a different script from the common language, so it’s natural that you don’t know it.”

“Hmm… I see?”

To be precise, it was the script of another world, but there was no need to tell her that, nor should I.

As I vaguely glossed over it, Morgan seemed to lose interest and stepped back slightly with a snort to lean against the window, and I turned the page I had read completely five days ago and picked up a pen.

Since the Sky Island incident had gone awry this time, I had to transfer the content I had organized related to that into this document.

Since we only caught two of the demon executives, I had to prepare for interference with the large-scale magic circle that Idea would be going around to set up, and at the same time, I had to consider the probability of the Demon King’s appearance in future events since he had suddenly appeared.

Scratch scratch────

As befitting a document made of high-quality parchment, a pleasant sound echoes through the room every time I move the quill pen.

I slowly begin to fill the blank pages with black ink, and occasionally add footnotes or reference drawings to parts that might be confusing when looked at much later.

Once I start concentrating, even the dust making the air stuffy doesn’t bother me, and only my hand moves repetitively.

Morgan, who was beside me, must have thought she shouldn’t disturb my concentration even though she was bored, as she started walking around my professor’s office with quiet footsteps, but I didn’t particularly stop her.

Any documents that Morgan shouldn’t see would all be organized in Korean, and other than that, they were at best just books from this world and useless trinkets.

And so, how many hours passed like that.

“Haaah…!”

When I thought I had concentrated on organizing the documents for at least 30 minutes, I stretched and got up as the organization was roughly finished, and only then did Morgan, who had been walking around the professor’s office, approach me, realizing that my work was done.

“Is it finally over? You were quite focused.”

“Yes, it’s roughly finished.”

“Hmm… If it’s okay, can I ask what those organized contents were about? If it’s difficult to answer, you don’t have to tell me.”

Hearing that the organization was finished, Morgan leaned against the window like before and asked me.

It seems there was nothing particularly interesting in the professor’s office. Or maybe she was just curious about what I had been organizing, but in any case, the content I organized this time was difficult to tell her, so I answered while putting the quill pen I was holding back in its place.

“I’m sorry, but this is difficult to tell you. However, I can tell you about other things. For example, important events that will happen in the immediate future.”

“Hmm? That sounds quite interesting. Is it okay to tell me?”

“Of course. It’s something you need to know too, so there’s no problem.”

I couldn’t tell her about the content I organized this time, but instead, I could tell her about the main story quest that was about to happen next.

Morgan seemed to still have anxiety about whether it was okay for her to know about the future, so she asked again, but I nodded to that.

From the beginning, I had intended to bring Morgan and Isolde on this quest, so it was also something they needed to know.

And at these words of mine, Morgan’s eyes sparkled with overflowing interest as she asked, and I opened the page of the document with the content I was going to tell her and began to speak.

“First, the next place where an important event will occur is where our academy is going for a field trip.”

“Field trip? Where are they going for a field trip?”

“The Underwater Kingdom.”

“The Underwater Kingdom… You mean that kingdom called the history of magic?”

At my mention of the Underwater Kingdom, Morgan tilted her head slightly as if she had some knowledge and asked back.

The name of the next quest to occur was “Flip the Deep Sea”.

It was a quest that takes place in the Underwater Kingdom where Lua Academy goes for a field trip.

As far as I could think, the Underwater Kingdom was the only kingdom where magical civilization no less than… no, even surpassing Meiyel’s magic was concentrated.

As Morgan just said, it was a place that had been with magic from the beginning, to the extent of being called the history of magic.

And the story that occurs in this Underwater Kingdom starts with Idea leading a small group of demon soldiers and infiltrating the Underwater Kingdom.

“Idea? That one is at the center of this affair?”

“Yes. That one is at the center of this incident.”

“What on earth is she aiming for to even infiltrate? She’s not the type to do something like infiltration when she needs something, she’d just destroy the place, wouldn’t she?”

Morgan voiced her doubt at the words that Idea was at the center of this incident.

Certainly, as she said, Idea was not a demon executive suited for infiltration that required patience, and at the same time, she was a tomboy who moved very much as she pleased.

However, even she had a reason to act like this, and it was none other than because of a single library located in the Underwater Kingdom.

A library that is believed to have existed before the Underwater Kingdom was established, storing a single book that records information on everything that exists in the world.

More precisely, a library whose purpose is to store that single book.

I showed Morgan the image of the building drawn in the document and said.

“The Library of Records. That is Idea’s purpose for infiltration.”