It didn't seem like the skull principal would allow the professors to arbitrarily take a break from lectures and go out due to his personality.
'What is it? It's not like they'll take students with them... Hm?'
Yi-Han, who was lost in thought, suddenly felt an unidentifiable anxiety rushing in.
It was an anxiety that he himself didn't know why he felt it.
"Is anyone there?"
"!"
The friends on the second floor looked out the window beyond the front gate.
They saw the familiar face of a friend. It was Rowena, a follower of the princess.
"It's suspicious. Aren't the professors hiding behind her?"
"No way... Could it be possible?"
"Tell her to raise both hands and come in slowly. So we can close the door right away."
Yi-Han's heart ached at the sight of his friends having an ominous conversation.
The professors of Einroguard were corrupting his friends.
"Raise both hands and come in slowly!"
Of course, that was that, but Yi-Han accepted his friends' advice.
It was really possible that the professors were hiding behind her.
"What?! Mr. Wardanaz. Why..."
"Don't try anything funny! My staff is pointing at you!"
Gainando shouted loudly.
He was ready to cast a curse at any moment.
Rowena was confused, wondering what she had done wrong.
"What on earth did I do wrong..."
"I'll go and check."
Ratford hurriedly went down and cautiously poked his head out the front gate.
"No professors!"
"???"
"Ah. I'm sorry. We were worried that the professors might be hiding behind..."
At Ratford's serious explanation, Rowena was confused whether they were joking with her or not.
"Are you joking?"
"No. I'm serious."
"..."
—
Rowena had come to visit the Duke Icaldoren's mansion together with them.
"Even me?"
Yi-Han was puzzled.
He knew that the princess had received a riddle (packaged as a bribe) from Duke Icaldoren.
Didn't they work together at the staff workshop to solve that riddle?
If his memory was correct, they made it well, so why visit together?
"Yes. Mr. Wardanaz, you helped with the solution, right? Of course, the honor should be shared..."
"I'm fine with just sharing the reward."
Rowena showed an awkward expression at Yi-Han's words. It was a joke that was hard to react to.
"I'm not good at jokes..."
"It wasn't a joke, but anyway, I understand why you came. But there won't be any trouble for me, right?"
If the answer to the riddle was wrong and it flowed to 'Wardanaz gave advice but it was wrong!', things would become troublesome.
Originally, when the results of a group project are bad, the one who takes the most responsibility is the group leader with good grades, right?
"How could that be!"
Rowena was startled and denied it.
Adenart was never the type to shift responsibility to her followers.
"Yi-Han. Isn't it suspicious that she's denying it so strongly?"
"I can even swear on my honor as a knight!"
"Isn't it more suspicious that she's going that far?"
Gainando's ability was to be shamelessly nitpicky without hesitation.
Rowena glared at Gainando, feeling angry and wronged. She couldn't understand what kind of ill-natured motive he had for interfering with the princess's work.
'He's really too much!'
'If no one was here, he would have been hit.'
"Calm down. Visiting Duke Icaldoren's mansion isn't a difficult task."
In fact, it was a task where they just had to go, eat some food, drink some drinks, say 'The mansion is really pretty, haha,' and greet the duke.
When Yi-Han seemed to accept, Rowena's face brightened.
"It's not the first time for me."
"Have you been there before?"
Rowena tilted her head.
"Mr. Wardanaz. How do you make friends?"
"Fri... Friends?"
Yi-Han flinched.
Of course, he was close with some students, but the students from other towers were a bit...
'Can I call them friends?'
"I'm not sure if I can call them friends."
'He's even humble.'
Rowena admired Yi-Han's generous attitude. It was indeed the attitude of someone with a wide network.
If it were the wicked prince, he would have boasted, saying, 'Because I'm great.'
"Then I'll change the question. How can you call people like that?"
"Uh... Um... That's... I think it's sincerity."
"Sincerity...!"
Rowena trembled at the textbook-like yet difficult answer.
"If I sincerely cross swords and then sincerely propose to recruit them as the princess's friends, will it work?"
"I'm not an expert on friends, but I don't think that will work."
—
Duke Icaldoren regretted his own decision to invite Einroguard students indiscriminately.
'It was a mistake to call those filthy, vulgar, and stupid knights.'
The duke originally didn't like knights.
Even if they were nobles of the same empire, the rough appearance shown by knight families felt closer to barbarians rather than nobles.
He thought it would be fine if they were students who could enter Einroguard, but their actions were just the same.
"Drink! Drink! Drink!"
"This glass is for the duke who prepared today's banquet!"
"This glass is for the monsters we hunted!"
"This glass is... I don't know! I'll just drink!"
Clang!
The White Tiger Tower students, who were drunk and excited, threw the glasses they were holding on the floor, threw the dishes, went out to the banquet hall corridor, headed to the kitchen, brought the wine barrel directly, and chugged it down.
The White Tiger Tower students staying in the knights' quarters had to eat only rough and solid food instead of greasy and abundant meals.
Of course, compared to Einroguard, it was edible food, but compared to the luxurious feast in this banquet hall, the food in the quarters was garbage.
Splat!
"This bastard?!"
"Who threw the pie?!"
"I'll throw it too!! Me too!!"
Duke Icaldoren, who was sitting at the head table, maintained a calm expression. Of course, he was cursing inside.
'There's no way these idiots have any information to dig up.'
"Long live the duke! Long live the duke!"
"Duke! Thank you for inviting us!"
"Hahaha. I'm happy that everyone is eating and drinking happiᄀ..."
A cake that someone threw by mistake flew towards Duke Icaldoren's face.
The guard immediately deflected it, but the duke's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.
'...I'm going crazy.'
When everyone is crazy, only the sane ones suffer.
Students like Jijel Moradi and Dolgyu Choi put down their forks and were watching the duke's reaction.
No matter how much he had a smiling face, they couldn't help but be conscious of the mess being caused in the banquet hall right now.
"M-Moradi. Is this really okay?"
"Is it okay? What do you use your eyeballs for? Did you sell them along with your head?"
"Don't say that to me! We should stop them first, shouldn't we?!"
Even though a cake flew at the duke, these crazy students were drunk and couldn't come to their senses, causing a mess.
But if the two of them stood up and put on a serious face, the atmosphere would become chilly in its own way.
It was the same as spitting on the face of the White Tiger Tower.
Creak-
Meanwhile, the door to the banquet hall opened.
A White Tiger Tower student, who was too engrossed to notice the door opening, accidentally threw a roasted turkey with sauce towards the door.
"?"
Yi-Han tilted his head and dodged. Gainando, who was behind him, screamed and fell.
"Are they crazy?"
"W-What the hell is this...?"
While the students outside the door were whispering in shock, Yi-Han walked with big strides.
And he struck the solar plexus of the closest White Tiger Tower student with his staff.
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