Chapter 42: Vol2: Ch42: A New Instructor (1)

“Alex! There’s too many!” said a blonde girl carrying a rifle.

A group of four ran down a long hallway with stone walls as fast as they could. The one in the lead was a redheaded girl named Alex. Behind her was the blonde girl, Lita; followed by a light-brown-haired young man, Jaden; and a purple-haired girl with long ears, Elasha.

“What do we do?” Jaden asked frantically, running with a pistol in each hand.

“This is crazy!” Alex shouted. In her right hand was a broken sword and a pistol in her left.

“We have to get out of here!” Elasha said calmly, her staff swaying as she ran.

Chasing the group was a squad of armored knights. They turned corner after corner, ran up and down staircases, and lost the knights, but another group was always around the corner ready to take over. Soon, the group of four found themselves in a throne room where a blonde woman with long ears was battling a tall, dark-haired man.

“How did we end up here?” Alex said. “This is where we started!”

“This castle is riddled with magic matrixes,” Elasha said. “I couldn’t even tell where we were going.”

“What? Alex?” said the black-haired man. “What are you doing back here? Hurry! Get out of here!”

“You will not!” the long-eared blonde shot a large ball of blue mana at the group.

“No!” the black-haired man quickly fired a mass of mana of his own at the group to protect them. They braced themselves and were engulfed in a bright, silvery light.

---

“NO!” Kye jumped out of bed and slammed her back against the far wall. A wave of bright, silvery light exploded from her, and it continued through the walls as if nothing were there.

Alethea, Doran, and Michelle quickly woke up and jumped out of bed. Seeing Kye across the room on her knees next to the wall, they rushed over to her. Allison and Layla suddenly appeared in the room, too, with weapons in hand.

“What happened?!” Allison shouted.

“Are any of you hurt?” Layla asked. She saw Kye on her knees and rushed to her. “Kye, are you okay?”

“I... I’m okay,” she said. “I think it was a dream.”

“What was that burst of aether?” Allison asked. “It felt like yours, but... different.”

“Burst of aether?”

“It was a wave of white aether... but it was... luminescent. Silvery even.” Allison and Layla returned their weapons to bracelet form and shared a glance. “You said something about a dream? Can you show us?”

Kye nodded and cast memory magic to replay the scene she witnessed in her dream.

“That’s...” Allison turned to Layla. “Call mother. I want you two to look at her together. I don’t know what that wave of aether did, but it was extremely powerful.”

“We haven’t had any actual battles since Atlas, so we haven’t really seen her power at full force in a while... but that wave was... nevermind, I’ll call mother. You three lay her on the bed. It’ll take a bit for Hannah to get here.”

---

“There’s absolutely nothing wrong,” Hannah said. “Your body is quite healthy. Your mind might be unsettled from the dream, but I don’t see any issues with continuing your daily life.”

“I see,” Kye said as she stood up. “I...”

“What about her mana and aether? It’s all normal?” Allison asked. “I sensed no abnormalities, but I wanted you and Layla to look together in case you could find something I couldn’t.”

“No, nothing’s wrong with either. There are no abnormalities.” Hannah turned back to Kye. “But, if you feel off at all at any point, go to your mother right away. If we still cannot find anything wrong with you, we’ll need you to go see Evelyn.”

Kye nodded. “Okay.”

Hannah averted her eyes. “As for that mysterious wave of aether... I don’t know what to say about it. How far did it reach?”

“Outside the city, but not far. It moved fast and didn’t interact with anything. I’ve never heard of such a phenomenon.”

“I’m afraid that bit is your wheelhouse. Medically speaking, I can’t find a thing wrong with her. She’s fit to go to school.”

Layla sighed in relief. “That’s good. I was afraid-”

The door suddenly burst open and three young children ran in.

“Mama!” A little black-haired girl jumped into Kye’s arms. “Are you okay? They said you were being seen by a doctor!”

“Yes, sweetie, I’m okay.” Kye looked up at Layla and Hannah in a way that the girl would notice. “Layla and Hannah took good care of Mama.”

Hannah whispered to Layla, “This scene is so cute.”

Layla replied, “Isn’t it, though? Yami was like that, too.”

“Why is it I’m able to see her kids anytime but I wasn’t able to see yours? Huh?”

“Hehe...”

Kye gave Hannah an apologetic smile, having overhead it, then clapped her hands. “Okay, children, show everyone how much you’ve practiced!”

The three girls nodded and lined up.

The now three-year-old, legally four, Kaede stepped forward first and curtsied. “Greetings everyone. I am Kaede Akari of Nippon Sekai.”

“I am Rei Akari of Nippon Sekai.” She curtsied as she introduced herself.

“I am Joey Maya of...” The young blonde stopped short and turned to Kye.

Kye sighed and turned to Layla and the others. “Yeah, we didn’t think that one through. We gave her the Maya name, so she’s not sure if she should use Nippon Sekai or Drachenheim.”

Michelle smiled and kneeled down in front of the young blonde. “Joey sweetie, you can use whichever you want.”

The girl turned back to Kye but said nothing. Kye nodded. “Elysium.”

“People won’t know what that means.”

“With this world’s customs, I won’t be speaking to people in public. May I wait to decide?”

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Kye glanced up at Layla, not knowing the answer herself. “Age sixteen is the cutoff.”

Joey nodded and turned back to her mother, again saying nothing. “Me, too. Shall we go?” The young blonde nodded and led Kye out of the room, with the other two children following behind.

Hannah was confused and asked, “Did I miss something?”

“Joey is... different,” Michelle explained. “She talks less than Allison.”

“I resent that,” Allison said. “I just don’t like small talk.”

“Joey seems to only speak when absolutely necessary. She has this sort of silent communication thing with Kye that the rest of us don’t really understand. Apparently, it’s something they can do because they’ve spent so much time together.”

Alethea nodded. “They’ve been soul-bonded longer than Kaede and me. She was there during our past life together, but she was always in weapon form. She never once took her human form in front of me, so I didn’t actually meet her until she came into this world. Kaede and I have always spoken telepathically, but I don’t think those two do even that. I think they literally just look at each other and know what the other is thinking.”

“Interesting,” Michelle said.

Doran stretched and let out a yawn. “You two are overthinking it. Joey wanted a milkshake. I’m gonna go get one, too. I’m feeling a sweet breakfast.” He waved as he walked out.

“He could tell, too?”

“I have no idea how...”

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I am concerned about the mysterious wave of aether. I unconsciously released it, and I don’t know what it did. It really didn’t seem to do anything. No one else could figure it out either. I’m hesitant to think it was harmless.

I’m more concerned about that dream. I know who two of those people were. Both are people from realm nine, and they seemed to be fighting over four others. One was Lord Zalo Valen, king of the human nation Aeveron. The other was Lady Vera Erendell, queen of the Elven nation Erendell. The only other race that the masses have been introduced to is the demons of Daemonheim. Elves, dwarves, and various beast peoples lived in some of the other realms, but the people in the connected realms did not know of them. I showed the dream to Allison and the others, and I’m confident they know who those two are at least. I didn’t push the topic, but I’ll ask later if the thought nags.

This is the year 12006 and I’m nineteen now, legally twenty. I’m starting my fifth year at the academy today. My little brother Zen started last year, and my little sister Yami starts this year. I’m simultaneously starting my fifth year as a student and my first year as an instructor. The way things worked out is that I won’t be taking afternoon classes anymore. That means no mana, magic, or combat classes. I will still be taking written courses in the morning, but I will be teaching mana classes in the afternoon. My mana growth method was so effective that... well, I started at 275M my first year, spent six months unable to grow much, but then I invented my as-of-yet unnamed method that is basically mana weight training, though that’s an oversimplification. I started that year at 275M, and after five months of using the method, I had grown to about 950M. Another month and I grew to 1400M. Then I couldn’t practice as much until September due to pregnancy, but in the remaining months of 12003, I doubled my output to 2800M. Another year and I saw a roughly four times growth to just over 11B. The year after, it was another roughly four times, and now I’m at 45B. My output and stamina have increased so dramatically that any argument against assigning me as an instructor became null and void.

And thus, here I am standing in front of my first class. My... own class... Class S.

“Yes... so...” Kye sighed. “As I mentioned last year, I am taking up instructor duties. So...” She looked around the class and saw that everyone’s eyes were glued to her with somewhat strained expressions. “So... can we all just agree that this is awkward and get on with it? Good, let’s get started.”

“I’ve got a question first,” said Doran. Kye raised her eyebrow but nodded and let him ask. “What is she doing here?”

As Kye looked at where he was pointing, her eyes widened. A three-year-old version of Kye was standing behind her.

“Who’s the kid?” asked the commoner boy, Jesse Bell.

“She’s adorable!” said the commoner girl, Julia Valza.

Kye scooped Joey up and teleported, returning a moment later. “Ah, please disregard that.”

“She’s back.” Doran pointed behind her again.

“What?” Kye swung around and reached for the girl, but the girl teleported around behind Kye. “Hey!”

“How old is that kid? She’s teleporting like nobody’s business!”

The class laughed as Joey scampered around, dodging Kye. Once Kye finally caught her, she teleported again. That time she took a minute to return, and Joey did not follow her back.

“As I was saying, please disregard that.”

“Who was that? A relative of yours?”

“You know very well that I can’t answer that.” Kye opened a screen on her NeuraPhone and perused the class list. Our class hasn’t changed since we started together four years ago. “I’m a proctor this year for recording mana readings, so our class will be short today. I’ll only be recording everyone’s progress, then you’ll be dismissed and may do as you wish until your next class.” She summoned a mana reading orb, one bigger than the one they’d been using the last several years. “The academy will be using these from now on. They’ll read you much easier. I expect good results from everyone since you’ve all been using my growth magic since our second year. Who wants to go first?”

“I’ll volunteer,” said Colton Becker as he stood up and headed to the front of the room.

“Go right ahead.” Ten minutes later, they were finished. “This year’s average growth rate, including myself since I’m technically still on the class roster, is 6.95 up from 5.79 last year. Well done everyone! Those with the highest growth rate are Rika Tachibana, Luka Romanov, Isabell Strauss, and Adrian Zelenov at 8.2. The remaining royals and archnobles ranked in at 8.0 or 8.1.”

“So the rest of us are dragging down the upper half of the class?” one of the commoner boys asked.

“No. Alethea, Liliana, Aliana, and myself are filling that role. We ranked in at 3.5 to 4.0. The rest of you were about on par with the class average, so no, none of you are dragging down the class.”

“You’re the lowest in growth, but what are your actual numbers?”

Kye sighed and displayed the entire roster. “As you can see, I am at 45B, Alethea is at 46.2B, Liliana and Aliana are at 29.4B each, Doran and Michelle are over 21B, the rest of the royals and archnobles are between 15B and 20B, and the rest of you are between 7B and 11B. Considering Alethea, Liliana, Aliana, and I were the only ones that scored over 100M in the proper test in our first year and the rest of you were under 5M, you’ve all done quite well in our four years together. The other mana instructors and I will be teaching my growth method this year. I just want to thank all of you for believing in my method. If not for all of you growing so well, it may have been many more years before this came to fruition. Again, well done everyone!”

The class erupted in cheers and everyone thanked her in turn. After, Kye dismissed the class and moved on to the next class. Yami’s class is next. I can’t wait! As she entered Yami’s classroom, she was met by a katana being swung at her face. She didn’t as much as react and simply allowed it to smash into her now-visible barrier of light aether.

“Damn, not even a flinch!” Yami complained. “One of these days I’ll get you to block properly.”

Kye looked around at the shocked class and gave Yami an evil smile. “Please return to your seat.”

Yami flinched and stepped back. “Aneue?”

“You’ll refer to me as Instructor Kye or Instructor Akari. Take your seat. The rest of the class may also say Miss Kye or Miss Akari.”

Yami smiled and turned to the class. “See? I told you she won’t give me any preferential treatment!”

“Of course not,” Kye said. “Class, do you think I received any preferential treatment from Lady Layla Barrett, Lord James Barrett, or Lady Allison Barrett in my first year? No. In reality, they were even harder on me than everyone else... and still are, because one is my history instructor... As such, I shall also be harder on Yami. Speaking of which, since you have not yet taken your seat...” Kye snapped her finger and Yami was teleported to her seat.

“You have your own instructor, Instructor Kye?”

“Ah, yes, you younger students would only know of my public life. Let’s start properly with introductions. Greetings, Class 1-A! I am Kye Akari of Nippon Sekai. I am currently in my fifth year of this academy as a student and simultaneously in my first year serving as a mana instructor.”

“You’re still a student?!”

“Yes. I am sufficiently qualified to teach mana, magic, and combat to all years, so I am exempt from those classes. However, I am still a young royal myself and require the academic courses in the morning.”

“Is it true that you beat an S-Class beast in your first year? We’ve all seen the video, but was it real?”

“It was at the end of my first year, and yes, it was real, though I nearly died from the injuries I sustained. Due to how famous that battle became, attention came to my mana growth and what methods I use. As such, I am now an instructor and it is my duty to ensure each and every one of you breaks the standard set by previous first-years!”

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