Sensei 11: Departure

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I leaned back in boredom, thinking of ways I could spend time with the people inside the carriage, aside from chess, of course. That never gets boring if you focus on it enough.

"Lord Satoru, can we play chess again?" Melusine asked, never making a move to me once.

"... Maybe later." I replied, observing the movement of the other carriages.

And who were those knights who seemed to be quite stubborn to guard Aiko? Meh, I'll just call them Knight A, B, C, and Knight Leader. Seems appropriate ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

An hour, no, maybe 48 minutes earlier, two sets of carriages, one for Aiko's Party (8 students, 2 teachers, one follower/Melusine, escorted by 4 knights, and the other, for a much larger group, composing of 22 students and a squad of knights led by Meld. These sets of carriages were going in separate directions. One to a random town, and one for Holward.

I took out a cigarette, lit it up, and started smoking, surprising Aiko and the two students on this carriage.

After I puffed out some smoke, everything felt a little calmer. Maybe I should have done this later, but eh.... can't take back an action without reversing time.

"Well then, let's play some chess."

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An entire month has passed in the blink of an eye, and you know what? We've done many things during our journey, such as Aiko accelerating the growth of crops, Melusine fishing at the rivers (if there were any) and gaining a lot of fish that we split up for random villagers/townspeople and us.

Me and some of my students formed a subgroup that dealt with many problems that were on many towns and villages, and gaining good amounts of Fame and reputation from those acts, being known with many titles.

I did command many things to the leaders of the towns and villages, and we also had to do many other acts of solving conflicts on those towns and villages.

We met people, friendly or not, and interacted with them, though most of them were hormone boosted males who were lusting for the females of the group and females trying to want me or my male students to bed them. Though were stopped by Aiko or/and Melusine, and mostly me by slapping either.

I interacted with my students, especially Yukitoshi Shimizu, a Dark Magician with the capability to brainwash monsters to our side using his Dark Magic.

He's a sociopath, but that's fine by me. After all, I might be the one he only considered a friend of sorts.

I don't have much problems for now.

So, I puffed a good amount of smoke from my magical cigarettes. These actually boost the regeneration ability by fivefold temporarily and also calms down the body, mind and soul. Literally.

Don't worry, it doesn't cause cancer unlike ordinary cigarettes. But if you do smoke too much, then your body fails. Not like me who is literally immune to negative status effects.

We've travelled around 3 towns and 7 villages after a month. Which, to Aiko and some of our students, were already incredible.

We were planning on visiting more towns on the east, bordering the Empire of Hölscher and Heilig Kingdom. Basically, we're going to a few villages before we finally reach the Lakeside Town of Ur, where a past emperor of Hölscher gained a supposed legendary artifact as told by some sources.

After a little while, I reversed the time of the cigarette back to when it wasn't lit up, before picketing it back to my [Inven-Dimension] at a specific location, before leaving the world of stopped time.

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[=] One day after the departure [=]

"What the hell happened here?" Kouki asked Meld, who was also in disbelief like many others.

Meld had planned to meet these bandits here so that the students can fight, but....

Things were already out of place when a camp of bandits were mostly destroyed, which either would make Meld move on to Holward, or try to investigate what happened.

But....

*clang!* *literally the sound of a sword piercing through flesh*

A bulky bandit was thrown into the middle of the road, and then, the bandit was already dead.

In the side of the road, someone was approaching them. It wore a heavy, bulky armor, that befitted a Dark Lord, and it's head was not able to be seen, through it looked incredibly different, yet the same as the armor it wore. It's face wasn't even able to be seen.

"... Am I.... too early?" It asked no one with an androgynous voice.

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