A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood

Episode 178 – Emergency Faculty Meeting

An unprecedented explosion occurred in Maroonbah City.

If it were a normal Noble Academy, there would not have been any reaction even if such an explosion occurred.

If you were to look for the reason, it was because Noble Academy basically does not allow students to go out.

You can enjoy the same facilities inside Noble Academy as outside.

Therefore, Noble Academy students did not have any inconvenience in living at the academy even if they did not go outside.

However, this time things were a little different.

There were not one, but two Noble Academy students involved in the explosion that occurred in Maroonbah City.

One person is Damran, who was an executive member of Bless and accused the head of the planning department of corruption.

The other person was Adalbert, a freshman who entered school this year and, despite being a first-year student, had an advisor and was learning a major different from the one he had chosen.

Neither of them were ordinary people attending the academy.

Moreover, one person is attracting attention as a whistleblower who exposed the injustice of the group he belonged to, while the other was a man of exceptional talent and courage who fought against monsters to save his fellow members. ＞

Is that why? At Noble Academy, all the professors were gathered in the conference room even though it was the weekend.

Few of the professors who suddenly received the call and gathered in the conference room seemed to be able to determine exactly what had happened.

“…”

Just one person. Except for Nina.

“Is everyone gathered?”

The person who opened the door to the conference room and entered was senior professor Prelda.

The professors all fell silent when they saw Prelda entering the conference room with a slightly disgruntled expression.

Then, each person looked around to see if anyone had not come.

“It seems like everyone who could come has come.”

“Really? Then let’s start the meeting.”

Professor Frelda nodded when Professor Han said that everything seemed to have arrived and announced the start of the meeting in earnest.

“Everyone is probably resting on the weekend, so I want to first say I’m sorry for calling you out.”

The first thing Prelda did was apologize for calling out the professors over the weekend.

The professors gathered in the conference room reacted with disbelief to her apology, as a senior and most respected professor.

“No, Professor. If you call me, I have to come out, even if it’s on the weekend.”

“Don’t interrupt me.”

Among them, one person thought that Prelda had finished speaking, so she opened her mouth and received a scolding that she would not listen to.

After being scolded by Frelda, the professor scratched the back of her head and bowed her head to express regret.

Prelda opened her mouth again, looking around to see if she had accepted the professor’s apology.

“The reason I’ve summoned you all over the weekend is because a massive explosion the likes of which has never been observed occurred in Maroonbah City.”

When Professor Prelda said that an explosion occurred in Maroonbah City, the professors gathered in the conference room showed different reactions.

“Huh? An explosion in Maroonbah City? Is that true?”

There are some professors who have doubts about the news that an explosion occurred in Maroonbah City.

“Ma, in Maroonbah City? Is that really true? Is that true? Isn’t that wrong news?”

A professor’s complexion turned pale and he asked Frelda again and again if what he heard was true.

Professor Lee was a person who hid slush funds in Maroonba City without anyone knowing.

Therefore, unlike others, he was more sensitive to the news that an explosion occurred in Maroonbah City.

“That’s strange. An explosion in Maroonbah City? Isn’t that a city that never lets explosives or similar items that are deemed even slightly dangerous pass through?”

A professor used his knowledge to analyze the truth of the incident.

“…”

And among them, only Nina was looking at the floor with a gloomy expression and saying nothing.

Professor Frelda sighed after seeing the reactions of the professors gathered in the conference room.

These things are professors. She was looking back on her life, wondering why I had been teaching those guys all this time.

“Do I look like I just called you here to tell a joke this weekend? Do I look like a very leisurely person?”

In the end, Professor Prelda had no choice but to put pressure on her professors gathered in her conference room.

When Professor Frelda asked if she looked like an idle person, she kept her mouth shut and remained silent as if everyone was dumb.

“The information that an explosion occurred in Maroonbah City is not a lie but a fact. I am telling you this as a senior professor.”

When Professor Frelda mentioned her accident at Maroon Bashi while putting her own professorship on the line, it was only then that her professors realized she wasn’t lying.

“By the way, what did that explosion have to do with our academy, so you called us?”

“It’s related. The two students who left Noble Academy early this morning headed to Maroonbah City.”

“But, based on that alone, we can’t say the two students went there. It’s possible that they simply set that as their destination and stopped by somewhere else first.”

A professor questioned Frelda’s words.

Did the two really go straight there? It was a question arising from reasonable suspicion.

The question Professor Lee asked was completely natural.

The students at Noble Academy were young enough to be considered children compared to their professors.

So, of course, the objection could be raised that on the way to the destination, you may have taken a different route and enjoyed something else, so you couldn’t go.

“That’s not true. A list of entrants to the remnants of the city was found, and the names of students Adalbert and Damran were written on it.”

“Yeah, but… Wouldn’t there be a record of going outside before the explosion occurred?”

The professor who challenged Frelda placed all his hopes on the possibility that the two had gone out of the city before the final explosion occurred.

The reason he objected to Professor Frelda’s words to this extent was not because he had any resentment towards Professor Frelda.

As a professor at Noble Academy, he was also saddened by the uncertainty about the fate of students attending the academy.

Although he may not be a student he teaches, he is still bound by the same name as Noble Academy, which is why he feels like he is a part of one community.

However, Professor Frelda’s head did not go up or down.

As her head her bobbed from side to side, she rendered even her last objection raised by the professor useless.

“The access record only showed the time I entered, but not the time I left. I looked for another entrance just in case, but there was no record there either.”

And the last words she spoke decided their fate.

“The signal from the two people’s student ID cards has completely disappeared.”

The student ID card issued to all students at Noble Academy is basically used in place of an ID card.

Because various types of magic were applied overlapping, the student ID card served as an excellent location tracker in itself and also served as a vital monitor that could monitor the student’s physical condition.

This location tracking magic does not activate within the academy, but activates the moment you go outside the academy.

Also, the student ID card had a strengthening spell, so it could not be broken or broken by most attacks.

However, immediately after the explosion occurred in Maroonbah City, the signals sent by the student ID cards the two people had at regular intervals completely disappeared.

Then, we could make the following guess.

1. For a student ID card to disappear, there must be an explosion of enormous power.

2. An explosion of tremendous power occurred in Maroonba City.

3. Adalbert and Damran entered the city of Maroonba, and there is no record of them leaving.

4. The location tracking record of the student ID card has been lost in Maroonbah City.

5. The last time the two people’s locations were updated was before the explosion occurred.

“Considering this information, it is even more unfortunate news for those who know the two people…”

Professor Frelda looked around her and expressed her opinion, but was unable to continue until she looked at someone.

“…”

Nina Gratias Esselton.

Adalbert’s advisor and a new professor from far away, the Bregerne Empire.

If you go by the facts revealed on the surface, that was the only relationship between the two.

However, Prelda, who had lived for a long time, knew that the two were not connected simply as priests.

Therefore, she could not bear to look at Nina’s face as she listened to herself in a shocked and depressed state.

A loved one who was thought to be dead has come back to life, but no one but the person involved will know the pain caused by the sadness of being separated again in less than a year.

All she could do was lead the meeting herself so that her other professors would not be interested in Nina’s condition.