RATH 43

TL: Eevee

Strict, solemn, serious.

If you were to ask me who it was that was looking at me looking like the Triple S incarnate, of course it would be human of me to answer!

There are only a very limited number of dukes and margraves within the empire.

And those that operate purely within the borders of empire, unaffiliated with the border margraves or the archduke number just ten.

Their authority is such like an impenetrable fortress that theyre called the Ten Great Families by the other nobles, and the Triple S incarnate in front of me is the head of one of those Ten Great Families, an extremely important noble in charge of an entire division of the army!

It was none other than Ariss father, the current head of the Letia family.

How may I be of assistance.

But right now, hes just a parent of one of my students.

Theres no need to be flustered.

-Owner? Youre totes flustered right now? Legs shaky shaky? Might get caught if you shake a bit more?

-Zip it.

How the hell would I not be alarmed! Hes a marquess. Its one of the Ten Great Families! Even though they say that the influence of the military families is weaker during peacetime, thats compared to the other Ten Great Families!

Hes a freaking commander of an army! In past life terms, a three star!(1)

The realm of stars that could move mountains with just a single word!

That kind of person came in, theres no way I wouldnt be flustered!

I came in at my daughters request.

Marquess Letia said as he sipped the tea that the Dean poured him. Like me, the Dean was also nervous, but unlike me, he was visibly showing it on his face.

-She tattled. The kid that contracted the delicious goddess tattled.

-You really should have hit her in moderation

-Haang? You want me to hit that tasty, moreover two for the price of one kid in moderation! Thats somethin my pride wont allow, dat!

-We have a marquess come see us because of that, so what the hell are you being so brazen about!

-All humans are equal in front of the goddess Aru-nim! So human titles dont matter ta meh!

-It matters a lot to me!

Damn it, words arent getting through to her.

I honestly want to chuck her back into a safe and seal her again, but considering the organizations fallen and Im on the run from the princess I cant do that.

I do not believe I raised my child to be weak.

Indeed?

Indeed. And Aris, that child followed through the familys training regime without one word of complaint.

How splendid.

Indeed. But that child, contacted my wife with a magic video communication tool, and told her this while crying. That school life was too difficult. My wife was quite shocked, saying she had never seen her cry since she was five.

Really?

Although my face gave nothing away, I felt a cold sweat trickle down my back.

Damn it, she even went as far as crying to her mother.

Even in the army, a hundred questionnaires cant ever hope to do more than a call to a parent!

And moreover, a kid whos never let her parents see her cry went and cried to her parents!

If this marquesss personality was reversed then right now hed be shaking me by my lapels.

And so I ask. Is my daughter being bullied at school?

She is not.

Logically speaking, a marquess family isnt one to be bullied, but one to be doing the bullying. If you were to pick on a marquesss daughter, youd have to be at least direct imperial family or an archduke, and be named as the successor to have the status to pull it off.

And a brat thats not even a successor or heir picks on a high-ranking noble first? Thats basically asking to get offed with none the wiser during the successor debate.

Then are any of the teachers tormenting my daughter?

No, they are not.

Well, something does prickle a little, but its all for the sake of education, education!

I eat and sleep at the academy for the sake of developing my students abilities, and I think and worry again and again for the sake of my students!

-Wasnt owner eating and sleeping at the academy just ta save ya retirement money? Ya did it just cause it was free if ya just made an escape route using the academy modifications as an excuse, instead of building your own house and digging another escape tunnel anyway! And lookee how youre spinning your efforts to make the kids struggle!

-Its alright since its half true!

-Then that means half of its just a scam!

Well thats just how the world works. I was doing all this with the best intentions in mind!

Then what you are saying is that Aris, my child was crying simply because the academys training was that difficult?

Indeed.

More accurately, getting hit by the metal bat would have been the difficult experience but I didnt say that out loud.

The problem was that Id spent the majority of my social life in an evil organization.

No matter how much you beat the crap out of kids there no one ever said anything.

On the contrary, I even got incentives for not killing anyone and obtaining brilliant results!

But the academy is different.

Going crying to their parents after a single encounter with the metal bat, just how weak are the children of