Chapter 12

I think this is a mistake.

Watching Leon and the teacher discuss tea of all things had become boring after 10 minutes.

The first few minutes were amusing due to the older gentleman smacking some sense to Leon.

After that, it became an eyesore.

How utterly dull.

I wanna go back to my lab so badly. Tinkering around is much better than whatever all of this is.

Back in Eostia, education is a privilege. Most often only reserved to nobles or high-end merchants. If you're lucky, you can be sponsored if you show talent in whatever field and get scouted by the local lord and be sponsored but at the cost of your loyalty to said lord.

You would think getting an education in Holfort would be enjoyable or educational?

It's not.

Most of the classes are all about ethics and court courtesy with a dash of magical studies and science.

It was understandable.

The school wasn't meant to be an educational ground but a breeding ground.

The school was meant for the young nobles to find a partner, may it be an alliance or a whim, it is encouraged. Graduating single is frowned upon and seen as a mark of shame to a man if he doesn't find a partner in his time at the academy.

And with the power held by women or in this case, a bunch of little girls, it's an ordeal to go through.

They are just the lucky ones.

Holfort's matriarchal society might be beneficial to the opposite sex but it's a cancer to their society.

Leon's story is just one scenario. If this keeps up. Birth rate would slow down to a crawl which is a slow and insidious killer to a kingdom.

If Fanoss gets a sniff of Holfort's situation, they can attack without that relic of theirs.

Back to my situation, my time in the academy is uneventful and dull. Some girls had tried cozying up to me but Chloe's glare is a good deterrent.

The only interesting thing I can do here is stealing ehem borrowing some books in the academy library before scanning and making copies for Olga.

The library had quite the bounty on them.

Olga is currently reading through them like a starved orc. It's actually the first time I ever see her being so enthusiastic.

At least she's enjoying her time here.

Now, if only these two would finally shut up.

"Oi, are you just gonna mooch off me?"

I ignored Leon's annoyed glare by drinking his tea.

It's actually delicious, props on him.

"Ara, Ara. Are we not welcome here, Master Leon?" Olga asked. A seductive yet teasing tone in her tone makes the boy blush red.

The hell are you blushing for?

Chloe and I deadpanned at the guy. Olga might look like a beautiful and mature woman but she's still a dark elf.

You don't stick your dick in crazy as they say.

Me and Chloe are an exception due to this thing called consent.

Me and the dark elves had decided to crash into Leon's tea party for now much to his anger.

I have no plans to make a tea party and serve a bunch of girls. Handling Chloe and Olga is enough for him, thank you very much.

Suddenly, we can hear a scuffle outside of the room.

Leon naturally checked it out as our host for today.

A few moments passed by and he came back with an unexpected guest.

All of us stared at him as he guided the main heroine of the story to our table.

"Olivia, this is my friend Mika and his servants. Don't worry, their good friends." He said to the wary girl while pulling a seat for her.

"Nice to meet you, Mika-san." She bowed respectfully.

She's clearly scared. Her eyes glanced towards the girls before moving away fearfully. A fear for elves or servants?

"So, what brought you here in this fine morning, Olivia?" I asked.

She is supposed to be with one of the five idiots as Chloe calls them.

"Ahm, I was invited to Sir Brad's tea party but…" She trailed off. Distraught and shame.

I looked at Leon.

"I found her being bullied by first-years, they tore her invite." He confessed.

"Shameless" Chloe clicked her tongue.

"How despicable, and here I thought nobles would be different here." Olga said with a huff. She then looked at the blonde girl with a kind smile.

"Don't worry, girl. You're safe here."

"Thank you for your hospitality!"

Leon served us tea after the preparations were made. I had Olga and Chloe join us, which Olivia and Leon didn't mind.

"I'm saying, you should just punch them in the face. Assert your dominance to them!"

"Chloe-san! That's mean!"

Olivia and Chloe hit off like siblings. With Chloe being the delinquent older sister while Olivia's the younger pacifist.

"Should we stop them?" Leon whispered to me.

"No, it's better this way. She's comfortable and forgetting what just happened earlier. But we need to take action and I mean you!" I whispered back, surprising him with my words.

"What do you mean by me!?" He hissed.

"Your the one who's familiar to the plot but it's clearly fucked right now, fix it and I'll assist."

Leon's warning about the plot is a serious threat. My fight with the pirate armada was testament to this world's power and threat.

If the Fanoss invasion happens, we would be on the back foot.

This is why I had Luxion monitor my experiments and projects while we try to fix this mess.

Meanwhile, Olga just watched the show like a proud mother.

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"You should really stop teasing Leon." Mika said to Olga as he read Luxion's updates in the bed.

They are currently in the dorms, ready for bed as night falls.

"I can't help it, he just makes it too easy for me." The dark elf chuckled while brushing Chloe's hair after a goad soak.

Both elves are naked as the day they were born. The two had become accustomed to Mika's presence to the point of revealing their more provocative customs.

Dark elves prefer sleeping nude due to their sensitive skin.

Mika didn't show any reaction to the two beautiful naked women in his room. He is already used to seeing their bodies. Chloe's body is already memorized in his head in order to please the dark elf every time they had their session.

It proved to be useful in cutting their session hours in leeway for his experiments.

"Why do you even tease him so much, Olga-sama? He's a human." Chloe craned her neck to look at the older elf in question.

"I thought you hate humans."

Olga snorted.

"I do hate humans but sometimes, you find diamonds in the rough." She said going back to combing the younger elf's long hair.

"How so?" Mika's curious now.

Olga hummed before answering. "Well it doesn't hurt if I tell you."

"When Humans lay their eyes upon me, I can always see the same thing… "

"Lust and desire. It's always the same through the years I have lived. Even in this new world, it's all the same."

Mika tried to comment about her age but Chloe glared at him, daring him to say it.

He didn't dare.

"But Bartfort is quite different, do you know what I saw when he saw me?" She said,

Both Mika and Chloe looked at her, curious.

" Lust. I saw lust in his eyes but…"

" It was overshadowed by respect and fear. A curious combination I might add, Fu Fu." Olga said with a chuckle.

"Huh? So that flaky guy does have merits of his own." Chloe said. Her impression of the young Bartfort Baron isn't so impressive. She finds him to be too passive and a schemer.

"Hmmm, Bartfort is not a warrior Chloe. He is just like any other student in this academy."

"A civilian."

Mika's words reminded the elves how much different Mika is to Bartfort even with similarities. Both men gained technological advantages but used it for different purposes.

Bartfort used Luxion for comfort. In his words, to live and have a family of his own.

Meanwhile, Mika used it for his revenge. From a simple farmer, he became a warrior capable of toppling kingdoms on his own.

Bartfort is cautious and doesn't take risks. Mika will do everything to gain the most favorable outcome.

Both men contrast each other.

Something they respected to one another.

"Cuddle?" Chloe asked as she crawled into the only bed in the room.

They had decided to share one bed since day one.

Both dark elves don't trust the academy.

Instead of answering, the dark haired youth opened his arms, inviting the young elf.

Mika immediately found himself a dark elf clinging to him.

He pulled the covers over his and her body to sleep even though he doesn't need it.

Chloe would be mad though if he doesn't.

So he would just use sleep to make plans and calculations for his experiments.

Olga chuckled at the two lovers, a pang jealousy came to her but immediately smothered. She soon joined them, hugging the younger dark elf from behind.

"You better not have sex while I'm sleeping, you two."

With one last warning from Olga, they slept while Mika planned and organized his work while caressing Chloe's head.

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"Hoh, so your sister isn't so useless after all."

"Oi, Chloe! I'm the only one allowed to bad mouth my sister!"

"Apologies. With the way you're describing her, you gave her an image of a snake."

"Oi!"

Ignoring Leon's and Chloe's banter, his sister, Jenna, did a fine job in handling Olivia's situation.

How could a commoner like Olivia know that she must give a gift to the highest ranking female in the academy.

Which is Angelica Rapha Redgrave, the villainess of the story as Leon told us.

The most surprising twist however is that both women bonded and enjoyed each other's company which was a surprise.

Turns out, Angelica is interested in adventuring. Olivia's connection to Bartfort and me made her interested. Olivia remained as her hostage for a whole day, asking questions that Olivia won't share even with Leon's bribery.

Chloe kicked him for that, to which Olivia scolded the girl which ended in another scuffle.

The three get along like siblings, with Leon being the troublemaker, Olivia as the caring little sister and Chloe as the eldest.

"This place isn't so bad afterall." Olga suddenly said beside me.

While the three are in a squabble of their own, me and Olga are seated in Leon's tea room while watching the show.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked curiously.

Taking a sip of her tea, a blend Leon brewed which she found to be delectable, she answered.

"Chloe's becoming relaxed and trusting to them."

I look at Chloe.

Comparing her to herself from last year, the difference is vast.

Chloe was untrusting and cold when I first met her. She is always on guard and tense, waiting for the betrayal that would never come.

But now,

She's now relaxed. Even her hate for humans didn't affect her relationship with Leon and Olivia. She's treating Leon like how I treat Kai, an annoying friend but a friend nonetheless. Olivia meanwhile is being pampered by her the most. I don't know why but she clearly saw something in the Scholar student.

"Makes you wonder if these kinds of days last?" Olga said.

I didn't reply to her.

The answer is obvious.

They don't.

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"Are you sure you would go alone, Mika?" Bartford whispered.

Currently, we are in the dungeon for a class activity.

Which is the perfect time for me to do my job.

Leon's info of where the remaining Saint relics are invaluable. Finding out that one of them is just sitting pretty at the bottom of the dungeon is a surprise but a welcomed one.

We already informed Leon about our plan to take and cleanse it for Olga's research. He accepted it.

He doesn't want any shenanigans added due to a haunted relic. It wasn't part of the info he had and would totally change the story.

So here I was, decked in my uniform with zero armor with Leon waiting at the dungeon entrance.

"I can take care of myself but you have to cover for me."

"Yeah I know, if it's announced you're missing, I'm the distraction."

"But seriously? How are you gonna get to the bottom alone?" He asked.

"I got my way. See you in 1 hour."

With that said, I immediately ran inside the dungeon while ignoring his cry of surprise.

Leon is on his own for now. Chloe is not here, much to her disappointment but she needed to guard Olga. A couple of arrogant students had tried to buy her as a slave but mine and Leon's presence is enough to make them leave.

I only have an hour to complete this.

Reaching far enough in the dungeon while destroying every single monster in my way by my Beam Saber, I activated the Unicorn.

Its armor enveloped me in its protecting embrace before unfolding to its NTD mode.

Time to blitz my way through.

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"What the hell happened?"

I asked Leon in wonder as to why Angelica Rapha Redgrave herself is on his team and why he is injured.

I thought Lady Redgrave was supposed to be in the prince's entourage but it seems it wasn't.

My descent to the bottom was disappointing. Every single monster in my path is too weak for a challenge to test my DG enhanced body.

I hadn't found the limits of my body yet.

Finding the bracelet was easy and backtracking my way was faster due to the lack of monsters which I blitz through.

And that's how I found myself here.

"Leon got injured but I already healed it." Olivia replied to me. I looked at Leon waiting for an answer.

"I'm fine man, this is just a scratch." He then mouthed " Later".

He better have an explanation why his supposed story is not going on the right track.

I looked at the Prince's entourage to see the main anomaly.

Marie Fou Lafan.

The moment Olivia went out of script, me and Luxion started working on it.

Lafan came from a noble family deep in debt. A family so proud of wasting money and shameless for borrowing some of it. It's the reason why they became so deep in debt.

Looking at the girl, I can only feel pity, which is a surprise.

The girl is suffering from malnutrition and stunted growth.

She won't grow up beyond her current age unless it is fixed.

But even with her condition, she managed to seduce all of the Prince's entourage which is very impressive.

The girl is a Master manipulator.

But for now, let's deal with the fall out of this situation.

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Chapter end

Mika didn't do anything noteworthy in Mobuseka except for his extermination of the pirate island.

It's because of Leon.

Leon's story and information made him go full on turtle and being a background character.

His in uncharted territory after all and Leon had the most expertise in the story.

This is due to Mika still building up his power.

His fight with the pirates which the GMs got dunked on made him realize that an army is not the way to win. He is part of the military force of UC, so his first plan to win is to make an army for himself.

But it's now changed due to Mobuseka.

Let's just say he's currently experimenting with DG cells and looking at the catalog to counter Mobuseka Armors.

He's looking at the MA mobile suits *wink*

So buckle up boys cause you're about to see some MAs in the future.

Also after the duel, I might return Mika to UC for some action.

Riders of the Sky is a pretty good fight to join in.