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Translator: Coughing Baby
Editor: Coughing Baby
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Chapter 91: I’m Going to Meet My Father-in-Law.
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A few days later.
Some shocking news reached the students.
It was an official announcement from the academy.
“Did you hear?”
“Hear what?”
“A huge scoop just broke! A first-year cadet was appointed as a personal teaching assistant!”
“What? Not even a third-year, but a first-year who hasn’t even been enrolled that long?”
“I’m telling you, wipe the whole front page. We need to rewrite it from scratch around this story.”
“That kid? The Class E top student everyone was talking about last time? Which professor could possibly have taken him in?”
“You’ll be shocked when you hear who it is. It’s Chief Investigator Javert herself...!”
“What...?!”
A personal teaching assistant, selected out of nowhere in the middle of the semester.
The news naturally drew the students’ attention.
Sudden or not, there had barely ever been a case of a first-year cadet being appointed as a personal teaching assistant.
Once the name of the faculty member in charge became known, the academy was thrown into complete chaos.
“No... Javert? The investigator I know?”
“Yeah! The whole academy’s in an uproar right now!”
“That’s impossible! The Chief Investigator...?”
Javert Droit.
Who was she?
The headmaster’s adoptive daughter, and the woman known as the true second-in-command of Grandia Academy.
She possessed overwhelming strength and was admired by countless students.
That very figure had taken a first-year cadet in as her personal teaching assistant.
“Wasn’t the investigator known for never taking assistants?”
“She was. Since she started teaching, she’d never taken a personal teaching assistant, or even an ordinary one.”
“Someone like her took a personal teaching assistant...?”
Javert had remained steadfastly alone until now.
Many students had hoped to become her assistant, but she had never allowed anyone into her laboratory.
It was such a well-known fact among Grandia cadets that no one was unaware of it.
Javert herself had even made it clear that she had no intention of taking assistants.
“I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen something like this.”
“A first-year cadet as her personal teaching assistant? Under the Chief Investigator herself...?”
It wasn’t just the newspaper club that was in an uproar.
The news spread by word of mouth, rapidly reaching every student in the academy.
“Wow... that guy’s on a completely different level.”
“I wondered how far he’d go after taking down the Class B top student in the ranking matches, but he blew straight through the sky.”
“Still, it makes sense, doesn’t it? He completely crushed Lady Glacia.”
“And he’s supposedly from a commoner family with no backing? Where did a guy like that even come from?”
“I saw it during the practical exam. He utterly overwhelmed Lady Glacia at her full strength.”
“What kind of talent is that...?”
The air buzzed with chatter.
Within just a few days, the academy was filled with talk of Viktor.
Then there was another rumor that drove the cadets even crazier...
“Come to think of it, weren’t there rumors that those two were dating?”
“I heard he publicly confessed in front of the entire lecture hall.”
“And the investigator said she liked him too...”
“Didn’t they say that was a misunderstanding? I think they explained afterward that it wasn’t true...”
The chaos Viktor had caused in the past was drawing attention again.
The rekindled spark spread with even greater ferocity.
This time, it came with a far weightier detail.
It was an account from students who had passed through the research building a few days before the announcement.
“Dating, my ass... they already have a daughter together!”
“I know it sounds insane! But what am I supposed to do if it’s true?”
“We saw it ourselves.”
“The other day, I saw them walking side by side with some little girl, holding her hands...”
“That girl called the investigator Mom, and called the Class E top student Dad!”
It was a deeply shocking story.
The sort of outrageous development one would expect from some cheap street play.
“No... Professor Javert admitted it herself! She said the girl was her daughter.”
“Fuck, wait. This bullshit came out of nowhere. My brain needs time to process it.”
“Is this for real? She had a daughter? A daughter around ten years old?”
“They did look alike. Her hair was black, just like the Class E top student’s...”
Still, nothing caught people’s attention like a messy scandal.
The cadets became completely absorbed in the sensational rumor.
The relationship between the two also drew attention.
One was a flower blooming high on a cliff, while the other was the academy’s hottest rising star.
“So the investigator likes younger men...”
“They’re only five years apart, though. Is that really so strange?”
“But if the daughter is around ten, when did she even give birth to her?”
“That would have been before the investigator even came to the academy.”
“Then it makes sense that we didn’t know about it...”
Rumors passed from mouth to mouth, gaining detail in an instant.
The students agonized over it among themselves, trying to make every piece fit.
They nodded along to an event that had never happened, convinced it sounded plausible.
Before long, the story between the two had been packaged into the most romantic tale imaginable.
“Could that be why she never took an assistant before?”
“That’s it! She was saving that position only for her husband...!”
“Eek... she didn’t seem like that, but the investigator is so romantic!”
“Then the Class E top student’s public confession wasn’t just a confession. It was a declaration?”
Rolling waves.
The rumors rode an uncontrollable current.
There were also those who screamed and denied reality.
“That can’t be true! My professor...!”
“I could do better! I could do betterrr!”
“How the hell could you do better, idiot? You’re dead last among the second-years.”
Most of them were students who admired and adored Javert.
Her fan club was wiped out in the blink of an eye.
The academy was in chaos one way or another.
That was the madness of students who had just finished their midterms.
“Hmm.”
With the school trip just around the corner, that topic was blazing hot throughout the academy.
* * *
“Fuck.”
The curse slipped out without warning.
I walked along, repeatedly pressing down on my mask.
A short sigh escaped me, carrying countless laments with it.
‘How did it end up like this?’
The rumors had spread through the entire academy.
It was all thanks to the bomb Javert had dropped a few days ago.
“Yes, she’s my daughter.”
“Right, Viktor?”
Those green eyes stared at me impassively.
She seemed to consider it for a moment, then suddenly made a hard turn straight into soap opera territory.
Why? I’d thought about the reason nonstop, but I couldn’t understand Javert’s thoughts in the slightest.
In the end, all I was left with was the label of married man.
‘Fuck.’
Wasn’t this responsibility without pleasure?
Overnight, I got a daughter (not really) to support and a wife (not really).
Then that fact (not really) was announced before the entire student body.
‘I did explain it as desperately as I could, but...’
Rumors always traveled thousands of steps ahead of explanations.
Rumors were simple and fun, while explanations were boring and needlessly complicated.
The academy had been conquered by simple, straightforward entertainment.
“Is that him? The guy who has a daughter with the Chief Investigator...”
“That’s him! The Class E top student!”
Thanks to that, the back of my head prickled whenever I crossed a hallway.
Most looks were curious or excited.
A few openly glared at me too.
They were probably the ones who admired Javert.
“Phew...”
I let out a sigh and kept walking.
The moment I entered the Class E lecture hall, everyone’s eyes turned toward me.
““Boss! You’re here!””
The Shuttles gave their usual yakuza greeting.
I casually raised a hand in response.
“Good to see you.”
““Yes, Boss!””
The Class E kids at least knew the whole story.
They were the first people I’d explained it to that day.
There was no need for proof, really.
They believed me as soon as I showed them Lua in her scythe form.
“Come to think of it, today was the day the grades were released, right?”
The midterms.
It was the moment when the effort everyone had poured in over the past three months was proven.
Their eyes had been sparkling. Maybe they’d been holding back because they wanted to brag.
The moment I casually brought it up, the kids rushed over as if they had been waiting for it.
“Boss! Every student in Class E improved their scores by a huge amount!”
“It’s all thanks to the secret manuals you personally wrote for us!”
“Thanks to the thorough feedback you carefully wrote for each and every one of us...!”
“Thanks to you, we filled in our weak spots! Our written exam scores are much higher than when we enrolled!”
It seemed everyone had successfully improved their grades.
When I checked the rankings, every single one of them had climbed.
They were so moved by the results that they clung to me with tears welling in their eyes.
“Whenever I read the secret manuals, I wonder how you prepared all this by yourself...”
“You cared so much about us...”
“Ever since that day, I start tearing up whenever I see ink stains...!”
“And even then, you took first place in both the practical and written exams! You really are our boss!”
Hmm.
Honestly, seeing how much they liked it made me feel a little embarrassed.
I had only scribbled out those so-called secret manuals to pass the time.
It was a book organizing the game’s settings. How could it not be fun?
‘Well... if they’re happy, that’s what matters.’
The Shuttles beamed.
I decided to smile along with them.
Ding!
[Sub Quest]
- Objective: Raise every Class E student to B-rank or above.
- Quest Deadline: Before graduation
- Penalty for Failure: None
- Reward: Character-exclusive Item ‘Black Tuner’s Scales (S-)’
The quest was progressing very well.
If things continued like this, wouldn’t everyone meet the requirement without trouble by the time they graduated?
If anyone lagged behind, I could just keep a closer eye on them then.
Anyway, I was proud that they were all working so hard to keep up.
“Ahem.”
I sat casually on top of a desk.
We chatted for a while.
Beep, beep, beep!
A notification sounded from the crystal orb in my pocket.
When I checked it, a voice message immediately began to play.
[This is Grandia Academy’s Faculty Administration Office.]
[Student Viktor of Class E.]
[The headmaster is currently looking for you.]
[Please come to the headmaster’s office in the main building immediately after confirming this message.]
It was a notice from the administration office.
After checking its contents, I could only stand there blankly.
‘The headmaster...?’
Valter Droit.
A man once called the Cult Slayer.
The head of Grandia Academy.
‘And...’
Javert’s adoptive father.
He was calling me to the headmaster’s office.
My father-in-law (not really) was desperately looking for me.
I went blank, then muttered a short sentence.
‘Fuck.’
I’m screwed.
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