Chapter 60: The Commander's Son Starts a Teaching

"Um... ehem. Let's start class."

From the next day onwards, I will take over as the children's teacher once a week. Since it is said that they will go all the way to my house, I gather 3 students at my home training ground and start class.

"Ah, um... Arth-sensei."

"What?"

"I-I'm not very confident about magic, but..."

The girl who says so is one of the students, Manaka. The other two nodded at the words of the girl with brown hair and freckles.

"I agree. I don't feel like I can control it unconsciously."

The brave girl with green hair, Laia, says so while manipulating the wind.

"I mean, you're younger than the other teachers, but is it really okay? Are you really strong?"

Gulliver, the naughty red-haired boy, said that, so I nodded.

"Yes. Well, I'm stronger than you guys."

"Really? I'm pretty strong."

I said with a wry smile to Gulliver who was shadow boxing.

"Gulliver's magic certainly increased his explosive power. Laia is wind magic, and Manaka is hypnotic magic."

Instantaneous Strength Up is a downward compatible magic for physical strengthening, but depending on how it's used, it's possible that it can surpass physical strengthening if it's just speed. Wind magic seems to always be wrapped in wind to the extent that even the person himself cannot control it. And hypnotic magic is in a way similar to the heroine genre, but it's more like a brainwashing system.

"It seems better to teach Gulliver how to use it in practice. Laia should know the limits of what she can use now to control wind magic. And Manaka should practice using hypnosis on me."

"B-But... it would be bad if the teacher was hypnotized, right?"

"Okay, give it a try."

Manaka uses hypnotic magic against me, even though I'm puzzled by those words. A strange rhythmic power tries to enter me, but it disappears as soon as I activate the physical enhancement. I laughed at Manaka who closed his eyes even though I was amazed at her cheat power.

"Open your eyes"

"Yes... Huh?"

"What's wrong, Manaka?"

"I should have used magic on the teacher, but there is no response."

"So, hypnosis magic doesn't work on me, so you should try using bang bang."

Manaka was surprised at those words. When I looked at Laia after seeing that, she said while being a little confused.

"Should I use wind magic?"

"First of all, know your limits. Use wind magic to the limit"

"I understand"

"And finally, Gulliver will train with me in combat. The only thing you can rest assured about is that I don't use magic."

"You can afford it, Sensei. In that case... let's go!"

After saying that, Gulliver kicks this way very quickly with increased instantaneous power. I stopped kicking without being particularly impatient at that speed that I can't think of as a child.

"No... you're lying!"

"Gulliver. Being fast is your characteristic, so it won't be effective unless you shake it more, you know?"

"Kuh..."

Hearing those words, Gulliver unexpectedly obediently jumped to maintain his speed and then rushed in. Well, he's fast and his kicks aren't bad, but on top of knowing that he's coming, the difference in physique and the difference in specs in the basic part of physical ability doesn't even make it a match. He's immature, but he's not a kind of student who easily loses.

"Amazing... you can block Gulliver's attacks without magic."

"Well, more importantly, Laia-chan. Sensei has plenty of time to spare. Even though I've used hypnosis magic several times, it's been nullified."

"Manaka. You're pretty merciless, aren't you?"

Two girls having such a conversation. It's true that I've been being target by hypnosis magic several times since a little while ago, but I'm unexpectedly surprised by her decision and when I was able to prevent it with ease, Gulliver smiled wryly because Gulliver looked like he was about to cry.

"Gulliver, don't cry like this. The world is full of things worse than this unreasonableness."

"Hey, I'm not crying!"

"Yes? That's fine. So what are you going to do? Continue like this or quit?"

"I'll do it! I'll definitely hit the teacher!"

From that day on, my life as a teacher began. For Gulliver, practice kumite<tn: kumite is one of the main section of karate> so that he can use the magic that increases instantaneous power to the maximum. Swordsmanship would be fine, but Gulliver is fast, so if he's going to do it, I think a light weapon such as a rapier or a knife would be good, so I taught him kumite first. I'm the son of a knight commander, but being a knight isn't just a sword job. It's important to be able to fight even if you don't have anything to gain. And I had Laia use wind magic until she got tired, and had her grasp the scale and hone her sense of strength. And then, Manaka always use hypnosis magic on me and learn how to control it. The minimum requirement would be to be able to control it by feeling without actually being hypnotized.

I've been blessed with students who have quite strong quirks, but I don't want to cut down on my time with Alice, so I try to do my best and get results. Well, all the kids seem to be geniuses, so I'm not too worried.