"Are you really sure the rumor is true Venessa?"

"Mmm."

It was extremely early in the morning at the magic academy, Venessa and Mai were both up and about due to a particular rumor that had slowly spread over the last week or so. Rumor was that their new teachers did personal training along with the transfer student Mare at this time out at the practice fields at this time.

"I hope it's true, otherwise I sacrificed my precious sleep for nothing.."

Fighting drowsiness Mai yawned loudly and breathed in the cold morning air as she made her way to the practice fields following close behind Vanessa that had cast a spell which allowed her to see clearly in the faint moonlight.

"There's something up ahead."

Stopping a few hundred meters from the fields Venessa's long ears twitched as if she heard something strange.

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"... What is it?"

"I don't know, whatever it was, it's gone now."

The elver could have sworn she had heard the sound of something walking directly towards them, but when she looked for the source she saw nothing. Feeling like there definitely was something hidden watching them in the dark, Vanessa rea.s.sured her friend there it was nothing as she knew Mai handled such things poorly. With no further issues the pair made their way to the field without problems and soon spotted a part of the area that had been lit up by torches.

"Again!"

Hearing the sound of heavy blows landing along with sharp sounding commands Vanessa and Mai rushed closer to see what was going on, and was awestruck at what they saw.

"Again! You're losing focus, please concentrate!"

When they heard that Mare and the new teachers were doing personal training they had imagined something along with what they themselves had been doing, not Mare sending out lighting fast kicks aiming for Lux's head.

"Enough! Dax show her how it's done."

Apparently not satisfied with Mare's kicks Lux called for their culinary teacher that had been observing all along.

"You need to spin more Mare, look closely."

Taking a relaxed stance Dax slightly spread out his center of ma.s.s before he rapidly spun around and delivered a series of lightning fast kicks that sounded like they each could cleanly take the head of an armored knight.

"By using your core muscles to reorient in mid air you should be able to bring down the time lag between each strike while retraining your momentum."

"Mmm, I'll try."

Finding the example as well as Dax's teaching useful Mare continued repeating her practise Mai took that movement to speak up.

"G-good morning!"

"Good morning Mai, Venessa too."

As Dax was the one free at the moment he put on a bright smile and greeted the 2 students of his.

"Up for some early training? Or do you want to ask some questions regarding cla.s.s?"

"N-no we heard a rumor…."

Feeling quite guilty when she realized they were basically spying on their teachers, Mai seemed to shrink in size as her voice drowned out and she waited for scolding.

"I see.. Well there's still a few hours until breakfast so why don't you girls join us?"

"Eh? but-"

"No buts, Mare will wake you up in the morning from now on so you don't miss the start of morning practise."

With an ever larger smile Dax dragged Mai and Venessa a bit away from Lux and Mare before stating the real reason in a quiet voice.

"She needs some friends. If you're both really opposed to this I won't mention it again."

With a serious expression that Mai taught quite unnatural for him she suddenly became aware of how alone Mare had been ever since she transferred in. As Mare had stated doing her introduction she didn't interact with any of her cla.s.smates at all, she just quietly went to and from cla.s.s in a manner that seemed incredibly lonely.

"Okay."

Wearing a resolute expression Mai did her best to seem like a reliable student, which Dax in turn only saw as extremely adorable before he started ruffling her hair like a grandparent while turning his attention to Vanessa.

"What about you?"

"... Sure, this seems fun."

Showing a faint smile in response to Mai's precarious situation the elver also agreed to follow an increased training regiment, as she was also somewhat interested in getting closer to Mare and her new teachers.

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"Let's continue where we left off last time, I believe we were talking about seasonal variety of vegetables in regard to taste with relation to preserved alternatives.-"

Having just started a new lesson with the cla.s.s Mare was a part of Dax snuck a glance at her to see she was surrounded by Mai and Vanessa.

(Seems like that worked out okay..)

Pleased with the small plan of his working out fine a small smile appeared on Dax's face as he continued his lecture.

"-We'll start of by looking at the homework I a.s.signed and discussing what you all found out, you up there start."

Changing up his usual routine of asking one of the students sitting in front, Dax instead addressed one of the n.o.ble children that had so far been inactive in his cla.s.ses.

"Haa? Why the h.e.l.l should I?"

But in return the student just scoffed at him, instantly silencing the rest of the cla.s.s.

"John was it?"

"So you've at least heard of me? Just continue your cla.s.s and don't mind me."

"Yeah, you are part of that group of small time douchebags lead by that Andrew fellow that keeps disturbing other cla.s.ses when things don't go his way."

"What the f.u.c.k did you just call me!?"

"Exactly what I just said. Contribute to cla.s.s or get out of my f.u.c.king sight, your choice."

Dropping his warm and kind att.i.tude Dax seemed to radiate some kind of pressure that made the youths present feel a collective cold chill run down their backs.

"What the h.e.l.l do you think you are!?"

John however didn't notice the warning signs the other students had, instead flaring in anger. In response the smile on Dax's face only seemed to grow larger as he walked towards the angry student, stopping right in front of him.

"What I think I am? Definitely not a teacher, therefore the false sense of safety and rea.s.surance that I won't rip off your arm and beat you to death with it is holey mistaken."

Dax's cold words clearly rang out in the quiet cla.s.sroom as all eyes gathered on the student and teacher when John made perhaps the greatest mistake of his life as he swung his fist at Dax, not surprisingly the fist never found his target as Dax caught it.

"Get the f.u.c.k out of my cla.s.sroom."

Squeezing the caught fist holding just short of breaking bones Dax dragged the youth like a piece of trash out of the cla.s.sroom as John cursed and screamed loudly for him to let go.

"Anyone else want to leave?"

Looking around at the other students Dax only saw fear in response and realized he had f.u.c.ked up. Breathing a deep sigh Dax's usual smile returned.

"Okay here's how it is, as some of you might have noticed I am not a teacher, therefore I might go about this differently than some of you are used to. In my opinion as the person with the most extensive life experience here is that you can't learn anything with respecting your teacher. When I look at all you youths in front of me I see bottomless potential, I sincerely believe each and one of you will grow up to be great people, even the one I just threw out of cla.s.s. I will do my utmost to guide each and one of you towards that greatness, but it will not come at the expense of a single student acting out, which is why he was removed."

Having offered his sincere explanation the best he could, Dax could only stand quietly and watch the students slowly come to the conclusion that they didn't want anything to do with his cla.s.s any longer, until one of them spoke up that is.

"It's only natural that the teacher decides who is worthy to who and who isn't worthy of their education. Now hurry it up and continue cla.s.s, I need to steal all your knowledge so I can beat you next time!"

With Anna stepping in the worst situation was averted as laughter spread throughout the cla.s.s in response to her ridiculously greedy sounding outburst.

"W-what!? Hurry it up already!"

Blooming completely red up till her ears Anna reminded Dax of some sort of princess, which gave him an idea that in turn made him show a smug smile.

"As you wish my lady."

Bowing deeply like a butler only Dax's voice seemed sincere as he responded to Anna while the normal att.i.tude once more returned to the cla.s.s.