Chapter 304: Axxel
“I heard you returned alone? Did you run away, leaving your team behind?” the
mocking gaze of the middle aged man wasn’t hidden from anyone.
Eren was sure that this person was targeting him. Or rather, he was targeting the one known as Professor Liyone.
He was not too surprised. In almost every workplace, there were people like this. There was always office politics involved, especially when a higher ranking position was on the line.
Eren didn’t want to bother with the man as he wasn’t here to make friends or get promoted. He only wanted to take someone and leave.
Ignoring the man, he stepped inside his class.
“Are you ignoring me?” the middle aged professor was stunned. His lips twitched in frustration.
In the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of Eren, revealing his super speed that was on the verge of teleportation.
Looking at that ability, Eren was slightly taken aback. This was quite a good ability, especially for someone like him.
At first, he didn’t pay much attention to the man but now he was more interested.
“Professor Liyone, did you forget our
promise?” the man asked, glancing over at Eren’s class.
“Promise?” Eren wondered what he was
talking about. Was there a promise that
could make trouble for him?
“How can I forget the promise,” he quickly recovered his expressions. He didn’t express too much happiness or sadness as he didn’t know what kind of promise it was.
“How about you come to my office and we will talk about it in detail?” He placed his hand on the middle aged professor’s shoulder, trying to take him away.
“You… Are you taking me for a fool? There is no need to delay it. A fight for the right to Eldric can’t be forgotten. The winner
will be the one guiding him!”
“The right to Eldric? A fight for that? Are
they children or something?’ Eren scratched the back of his head,
understanding the entire situation.
As Eldric was a new student, he needed to
be assigned to a class. No matter which class he was assigned to, someone was going to be discontent.
In this case, he was temporarily assigned to Liyone’s class which upset this person. It made him make a bet with Liyone where the winner was going to get Eldric in his class.
“I don’t have time for such childish bets. I accept my defeat. Take him,” Eren sighed in response, getting past the man.
Eldric was the reincarnation of the First
Hero. If possible, Eren didn’t want to deal with him for now, especially entering into a student teacher relationship.
He needed to kill Eldric to unlock another portion of his Bloodline in the future, so he didn’t want to overcomplicate things.
“You! Are you making a mockery of me? I
have been training my students for the last two days and at the last moment, you want to give up? Even if you’re scared, I won’t let you step back!”
The S Rank Professor known as Axxel didn’t want to lose this opportunity where he could insult Liyone and make him embarrassed. It wasn’t just about Eldric but also removing a potent threat.
That’s why he had been preparing so hard.
Even luck helped him as right after the bet, Liyone had to leave, having no opportunity to train his students.
“Train the students? Was the bet about
battle of classes? This man… Does he really want to keep bothering me so much?’ Eren was planning to take Axxel with him
to devour him but the man simply refused to accompany him, focusing more on the battle.
“Today, you can’t run away. The battle shall
go on! Pick their students from your class
who will fight three from my class. The side which wins more will be the winner.”
Axxel wasn’t even listening to Eren which almost made him facepalm himself.
It was easy for him to arrange the battles in
ways where he could win, especially since he could use Identification on the opponents to arrange his students
properly. Still, he wasn’t the least bit
interesting.
“Fine. If you want to go with that, I will
agree. And here I thought that we would go
forward with the bet after I showed you the new treasure that I found outside…”
Eren scratched the back of his head, sighing. “What a pity. Even the Dean is not here to see that. Then again, it’s better that not many people know about it. I can never judge people who might want to steal it.”
‘A treasure that can even shock the Dean? Just what did this man find? Is that the reason he came back so early? Because he was afraid of losing that treasure? If it’s really that incredible, should I…”
xxel was completely silent at that moment. He wanted to see that treasure and find ways to take that from Eren.
If he made Eren put that treasure on the
line in this bet, then how was he going to be sure that Eren didn’t give him something else entirely after losing? He
hadn’t seen that treasure yet after all. “Cough, on second thoughts, I think we should not be in a hurry for this fight. We can have it tomorrow as we need time to
set things up. Until then, why don’t you show me the treasure you found?” Without the slightest of shame, Axxel fell
for Eren’s trick. He wanted to see the
treasure first and then have that bet to make sure Eren couldn’t lie later.
In his momentary greed, he didn’t think
things thoroughly.
“In that case, why don’t you come with me? It’s in my office.” Eren nodded before telling his class that they were free today.
He turned around and left with Axxel who
also freed his class, only telling them to train on their own for the battles that were to come tomorrow.
In Axxel’s class, people didn’t think much
about it. However, those who knew Liyone were more confused. Why was their teacher suddenly so friendly to the man he would often curse in class? Something didn’t feel right..
