POV Zoe
It had been a day since that red-haired girl had been shouting and trying to get inside the village. However, I knew that nothing could be done about it.
She would never be able to enter this place because she hadn’t been chosen by it. However, there was one thing that was quite annoying. The fact that all the students could see her and could hear her shouts. It made them aware that there was someone who was trying to enter this place.
I was worried that someone would recognize her since Caedrel seemed to have guessed the identity of that individual right away. But luckily for us, we had managed to make it practically impossible for the students to see her appearance.
We were also lucky that she hadn’t shouted her name once, or else it would have just brought a lot more problems.
“CAEDREL! THIS IS YOUR DIRECTOR TALKING, MAKE ME ENTER THIS HIDDEN SPACE OF YOURS, OR I WILL FIRE YOUR ASS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!”
Obviously, there was no way for Caedrel to show up, but more importantly, she had just revealed her identity, and all the students who were training right behind them also heard it.
Murmurs quickly started spreading.
“The director is here?!”
“Did you hear that?”
“Yeah, I think that’s her voice, but why would she even be here in the first place? This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.”
“Maybe Caedrel asked for her help in his training.”
‘Should I go see Caedrel so that he can deal with this?’ I thought for a moment before shaking my head.
I couldn’t distract him from his training for something so insignificant. All we had to do was keep ignoring her, and that was exactly what I was planning to do.
“Go back to your training. There seems to be someone trying to get in here, but she will never be able to do so, and she will leave soon enough.”
Everyone looked at each other with frowns. They seemed doubtful that I was actually telling the truth.
“What if Caedrel asked for her help to supervise us?”
“But didn’t you see what happened when we tried to leave the Academy?”
“Should we go talk to her?”
They just plainly ignored me as they continued to talk with each other about what they should do next. It made little to no sense, in my opinion, and there was also no chance that I was letting someone through to talk to her.
But then, one male student stood up. I didn’t quite recall his name, but he really wanted to talk to her.
“Can I go and see why she is here? I’m pretty sure the Professor is the one who called her, or else, why would she be here?”
“Jackson’s right. We should go talk to her.”
However, I shook my head. I didn’t know who had called her. But there was no way that it was Caedrel. It was either someone who had followed them or one of Caedrel’s students was just a pitiful traitor who had contacted the director about his activities.
‘If only Phoebe was here and could go beat her ass up…’
I shook my head in annoyance.
“Xander, make sure none of them can leave the village while I’m gone.”
There was no longer a choice; I had to go and see Caedrel and ask him for some help with this persistent person.
I reached the secluded area quite quickly, and I saw Caedrel and Zale sitting facing each other with their eyes closed, not uttering a single word. I knew that it wasn’t a good idea to disturb them, but I thought there was no other choice available to me.
I coughed once. “Um, um, sorry to disturb you both. But Caedrel, that red-haired person, is causing a lot of problems right now. Could you go see her and tell her to leave?”
Caedrel kept his eyes closed as he just released an annoyed sigh. “Alright, I’ll go see her.”
He stood up, and for some reason, the aura surrounding him was much different than when I had last seen him. He was a lot calmer and more collected as if nothing could anger him. Maybe Zale had given him that state of mind.
Nevertheless, I followed him as Zale stayed and sat without moving a single inch.
After all, it wasn’t like he would be able to do anything even if he followed behind Caedrel.
Within a few moments, we arrived at the training grounds where I had left the students a few moments ago, and it seemed quite…chaotic, to say the least. A few of them were trying to get past Xander. However, they obviously didn’t manage to do so.
It was a good thing that the red-haired girl couldn’t hear anything from inside the village, or else she surely would have found things weird.
Nevertheless, as we came back, I looked over toward Caedrel’s face, and I could see him frowning for the very first time at his students. It was the first time that he seemed annoyed at their behavior. His easy-going behavior wasn’t anywhere to be seen.
“Everyone sit. I did not call for her, and I do not know how she learned that we were here, but the student who shared his location with her will have to answer to me.”
The tone in his voice was a serious one.
He wasn’t playing around.
However, I could understand what he was currently feeling. He trusted his students, and one of them betrayed him. I didn’t know much about Caedrel just yet, but I knew that lying to him wasn’t a good idea. He wasn’t someone who would forgive people easily.
“W-We didn’t say anything to the director, mister Professor! We swear!” Olivia said as she felt shivers appearing on her body because of how cold his voice was.
“I know you didn’t. But someone did, and I will find out who, and he will have to answer me after I’m done dealing with the director.”
With those words, Caedrel crossed the invisible wall and met with the red-haired girl. However, his expression wasn’t a good one. It seems like I had misunderstood his previous expression; a lot of things could anger him, and that woman was one of them.
‘Let’s hope that he doesn’t kill her.’
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