episode_0041

“Where are you really going?”

Knightley asked in a somewhat annoyed voice as he followed me up the hill.

“You’ll know when you go?”

“What strange thing are you trying to make me do again this time?”

“That’s strange. The goal is to teach in an environment similar to the field.”

Knightley didn’t ask any more questions, but he still couldn’t shake his suspicions.

“Senior Professor. This way.”

How much higher did it go up? Waver’s voice was heard from the top of the slope.

However, only voices are heard and no figures are seen.

“Where is it?”

“Here.”

As I looked around, Waver appeared among the well-camouflaged beats in the shady bushes.

The body was covered in mud and covered in twigs and leaves.

“Please come in here.”

When I lifted the cloth covering the entrance and went inside, there was a small pipe leading to the valley ahead.

“Are they still there?”

“Yes.”

When I look at the observation hole, I see something lying deep in the valley.

It is a muscular humanoid monster troll with grotesquely elongated limbs covered in dirty hair.

It must have just caught its prey, and a bone with flesh attached to it is rolling around next to it, and the creature is sleeping with its mouth open.

Since it is a hill near the city center, there are no natural enemies, so they live in peace. It’s like looking at me from my time at Brunswell.

“Where do you think you came from?”

“I don’t know for sure, but when you think about it, there is a high probability that it came from Honebe.”

“What is the basis?”

“They say a new mineral vein is being drilled there. I heard that they even hired a wizard, so it seems to be quite large.”

“So, they lost their habitat and came here. Well, this is the only place nearby that has a suitable environment for trolls to live in.”

While Waver and I talked about the troll’s funnel, Knightley looked at us in confusion.

“Sorry for interrupting you, Senior Professor. We’re on our way, right? There is no time to waste time here.”

“A waste of time?”

“That’s right. Troll hunting is Professor Waver’s job, and he gives me private lessons… .”

Knightley made eye contact with me, trailed off, then closed his mouth and turned his gaze towards the still sleeping troll.

Then he looked at me again.

“Lie.”

“It’s true.”

“Don’t do this.”

“That’s what you wanted.”

“I didn’t want this. I didn’t want to go troll hunting… !”

He stopped Knightley, who was about to scream, and put his finger on his mouth.

“Quiet. If it wakes up and jumps, it’s hard to catch its tail again.”

“What kind of crazy talk is this about troll hunting? !”

“Capturing, not hunting.”

“That’s it… !”

When Knightley gave a low growl, Waver laughed.

“Knightley student. Then what were you thinking?”

“I thought I was learning effective murder methods, kidnapping, and such!”

“The principal teaches that well. No one knows which organization you will join after graduation, so it is best to master cannabis behavior in advance.”

“But how can I catch that by myself? It’s not a horse, it’s a monster!”

He placed his hand on Knightley’s shoulder, who was angry and scared at the same time.

“Don’t worry. You’re not doing this alone. Me and Waver are doing it together. In the first place, trolls are the ones that need to be teamed up to catch them.”

“At best, the professors have an assistant role and will probably tell me to stand in front.”

“I can understand things now.”

Knightley sighed in resignation as he tried to retort further.

“I made a choice, so I have to endure it with spite, well.”

Waver grinned and I patted Knightley on the shoulder.

“You grow little by little like this.”

“That’s it. What should I do now?”

“Disguise yourself first. If you want to get closer, you have to remove the smell.”

Knightley’s gaze then turned to Waver, who was covered in mud and leaves.

“I don’t like it.”

“Do it.”

“I don’t want to do it.”

“Then go back.”

Knightley bit his lip as he pointed off the beat.

“If you graduate with mediocre grades and get a decent administrative job, you can make a living. If it’s still okay, you can go.”

“Yes, Student Knightley. Because not all graduates work as field agents. Supporting the field is also quite valuable.”

As Waver helped, Knightley glared at me with angry eyes.

“I will. But make sure you promise.”

“What promise?”

“We decided to do it together, so let’s really do it together. Don’t just push back like last time.”

“Haha. At least I have the judgment to distinguish between the truly dangerous ones, right? I’ll promise. Let’s really do it together this time.”

Only then did Knightley begin to apply the mud that Waver had collected separately to his face and arms.

“But, it’s not hunting, it’s capturing? Why? Are you planning to use it to move something heavy?”

” Lock them up and have their blood drawn. ”

“Yes?”

Knightley looked back at me with an expression that I couldn’t hear.

Even in the dirty mud, Knightley’s golden eyes were shining beautifully.

“Draw blood… ?”

“Troll blood is a very precious ingredient in healing potions. So, we will lock them in a cage and draw some blood to make a potion.”

“What… .”

“That’s how everyone does it. There is no problem with the law, and trolls are low-intelligence, cruel, and very vicious monsters that eat everything they see, even humans.”

“Is that so… .”

“If you leave it alone, it will kill people anyway, so it is much more valuable to make a recovery potion and save several people’s lives with it.”

Knightley slowly shook his head as if there was nothing to refute my words.

“Now I will explain how to catch it.”

He looked at the troll through the observation hole and opened his mouth.

“Trolls are big, but they are strong and flexible, so they can run very fast.”

“Then we should block the escape route in advance and start.”

“Exact. The place he can escape to is the exit on the other side of the valley over there. I’ll take care of that. You take the front seat. You can use this.”

I put some hunting stones into Knightley’s hands.

A hunting stone, also called a ‘Bola’, is a weapon with iron beads attached to both ends of a rope about a meter long that serve as weights.

This is not for killing, but for capturing, and is a method of tying the prey’s legs by spinning them around and throwing them around using centrifugal force.

Trolls, like monsters, have such overwhelming strength that ordinary humans can never subdue them using normal methods.

However, he has one drawback: his lower body is weak compared to his upper body.

After tripping the animal, you can kill it by stabbing it in the vital area with a blade or striking it with a blunt object.

Therefore, during the Four Years’ War, the Legion required a hunting stone gunner for each squad to deal with humanoid monsters such as trolls.

“You already learned how to use it, right?”

“I tried throwing it a few times during survival class.”

“Good. That’s enough. Aim for under his shins with this.”

Knightley, who had counted the number of hunting stones, looked at me with a somewhat despairing expression.

“There are only three… ?”

“It met the standards for carrying legionnaires during the war. If you throw it three times, you will get caught once.”

“Hey, professor. This is my first time using this in real life, right?”

“You can’t always face situations you’ve practiced for. Now, let’s go.”

“Ha, really… .”

The three of us left the beat and carefully made our way down the slope.

Waver located himself at a suitable location for easy observation and shooting along the way, and Knightley and I continued our descent until we reached flat ground.

The troll is still stretching out his limbs and snoring loudly, wondering why he enjoyed it so much. It’s really noisy.

In terms of size, it is at its strongest and most active several years after becoming an adult. In other words, it is the most dangerous time.

Trolls are basically omnivores, and when they are hungry, they eat all species regardless of their species. Of course, that includes humans.

The mere fact that he has appeared near the academy is a very serious situation and must be exterminated at all costs.

Fortunately, Waver, who was out hunting to get meat to make jerky, found the traces and tracked him down, so he was able to catch that guy today.

Let’s lock him up, draw his blood, and use it as an ingredient to make a high-quality healing potion.

A healing potion containing troll blood is effective against trauma, so more drastic practice than now is possible.

“Then let’s begin.”

“Phew… .”

Knightley tensed and held the hunting stone tightly.

In the meantime, I circled around the sleeping troll and moved to the back of the valley where it could escape.

After blocking the middle of the road and raising his hand to signal, Waver nodded, fed an arrow to his bow, and pulled the bow with all his might.

“I’m going crazy… .”

Knightley’s legs were shaking slightly as he stood on the other side of the troll and muttered.

In fact, trolls are a very daunting opponent for Knightley right now.

Honestly, it’s a pointless fuss to try to catch a troll. All you need to do is just give it a honey chestnut, knock it out, and then drag it away.

Most of the agents currently working in the field do not fight against monsters, and most of them only determine their location and provide information to professional hunters or military units.

But the worst, the unavoidable, always comes without warning.

When a tamed monster is guarding the entrance to the place you infiltrated on a mission to steal important documents, you have no choice but to fight, and Knightley will learn that today.

When he lowered the hand he was holding, Waver flicked the tightly drawn bowstring.

The troll’s eyes widened as the arrow flew in a straight line and hit its abdomen.

# # # # #

Meanwhile, at the Academy.

“Hey, you know. I have something to ask.”

Hindra Star was gathering the lower-ranking students of the graduating class one by one.

Hindrasta, who beat up the bullies of the first graduating class, is like a hero to the lower-ranking students who were bullied by them.

When such a child suddenly said that he had something to say, the lower-ranking students became very excited and gathered around Hindrasta.

“I don’t mean this in a bad way, I’m just saying this because I’m really curious.”

Once enough students had gathered, Hindrasta began speaking in earnest.

“Professor Dian and the first graduating class president. I’m asking this because I’m a new student and I really don’t know much, right?”

“What are you curious about?”

“I’m just curious, is there something special about those two? Is that so?”

“What’s special? Did you see anything?”

“Are you sure that girl named Knightley is Professor Dian’s?”

“You mean that?”

“Kal.”

At those words, the students looked at each other with puzzled eyes.

“Sophie. Kkal… what… ?”

“Huh? Don’t you know? Kkal?”

“I don’t know.”

What’s this? No matter how low-ranking they are, how can it be that they don’t even know the word they use to refer to their lover… .

ah! right. It’s been 200 years since I last saw the book that came out in it, so you might not know it.

I have to change it to ‘cheetah’* and say it again.

“I mean girlfriend, girlfriend.”

Then the students burst into laughter.

“That can’t be possible. You misunderstood.”

“Professor Dian is not the kind of person who would treat a student like that at all.”

good. First of all, this is the reputation of this guy named Dian.

“Oh, really? So what was that thing I saw earlier… .”

Hindrasta stimulated the children’s curiosity by touching his chin with a serious expression.

“What is it? Did you see anything?”

“But I may have seen it wrong… . I don’t know if I can tell you… .”

“What is it?!”

“Suuu… . If I bring this up for no reason, it could be a problem… .”

“Tell me, Sophie!”

Hindrasta, who had waited for the students to calm down enough, opened his mouth.

“Actually, I happened to see something on the academy alumni side earlier… .”

When Hindrasta lowered his voice to a whisper, the students shouted in surprise.

“Just the two of you went out as academy alumni? Hugging each other’s waists?!”

“Are you sure you saw it clearly?”

“Really?!”

As the children scolded, Hindrasta threw up both hands with an embarrassed smile.

“No, I’m not saying it’s for sure. It’s too far away to know if it was hugged around the waist or not… .”

“Actually, I have been a bit suspicious about something for a long time.”

At that time, someone secretly raised their hand and said.

“I saw Knightley come in and out of Professor Dian’s office a few times.”

Then, the commotion grew in an instant, like a fire spreading through a dry field of reeds.

“That’s ridiculous!””First of all, I might have seen it wrong, so everyone calm down… Hoho.” “Is it really that kind of relationship?” “Ah! Now that I think about it, I remember seeing just the two of them together a few times in the past.” “Ah, Professor Dian… .” “It’s a lie!” “If this is true, isn’t it really big?” “What’s going on with you guys?” “Hey, you know! I heard that a special student saw it, and Professor Dian and Knightley… .” “Be quiet! What if I speak carelessly?” “What happened to Professor Dean and Knightley?” “I told you to be quiet!””What?! Professor Dean was putting his hand under Knightley’s skirt and massaging her buttocks?!””I never said that?””No! My Professor Dian can’t do that!!!!” ” Kids! Professor Dian abandoned Professor Anna and started dating Knightley!” “Why does Professor Anna suddenly appear here?” “Oh, was it Professor Ismera? Or the principal? Anyway!”

Hehehe, there’s an uproar. There was an uproar.

Keep rolling like a snowball, hehehehe.