On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 169
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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 169
Only Ziel Benefits
“Boss?”
“….”
“Boss?”
“Ah, Gilbert.”
“What are you thinking about that you’re not answering?”
“Hmm.”
Ziel hesitated for a moment.
Ziel wasn’t the type to share his worries.
Because there had been no need for it until now.
However, this time was a bit different.
“Gilbert.”
Ziel stopped walking and asked with quite serious eyes.
“Yes, Boss.”
“How do you make someone who talks too much shut their mouth?”
“Pardon?”
“There’s someone who talks excessively.”
A side of Boss he’d never seen before.
To think he would be worrying this seriously.
‘Someone who talks too much… could there be someone leaking information?’
As expected.
If Boss is worrying this much, that must be it!
“Wouldn’t it be best to kill them and be done with it?”
“Killing is not an option.”
“What kind of person is it?”
“A knight.”
“A knight… killing them would definitely cause trouble, I understand.”
Gilbert, who had been pondering deeply, clapped his hands together.
“Then let’s do it this way.”
“How?”
“Intimidate him. If he keeps opening that mouth, we’ll sew it shut!”
“….”
Ziel stared at Gilbert for a moment before uttering a shocking statement.
“I regret asking you that question.”
“B-Boss?”
It was unfair.
There was no better method than this!
“I’ll have to look for another way.”
“I-I’ll look for one!”
“No, forget it. It’s time. Let’s go prepare for rehearsal.”
“Yes….”
Gilbert left looking dejected, and Ziel unconsciously let out a sigh.
‘I need to come up with a plan.’
For now, no matter how much he thought about it, no answer seemed to come.
Intimidation?
It wasn’t that Ziel hadn’t considered it.
But he instinctively sensed it.
Gunter wasn’t someone who would shut his mouth over mere intimidation.
Rather, he would definitely be the type to endlessly chatter about the word ‘intimidation’ as a topic.
‘Is this what fear feels like?’
Ziel shuddered for a moment before moving his feet.
Two hours until the next performance.
He planned to look around the festival in the meantime.
‘Indeed, there’s a lot prepared.’
From the students’ booths to the various events currently being run by each professor.
The slightly disappointing thing was that he couldn’t see a Hidden Blade Throwing booth like before.
He looked around everywhere but there really wasn’t one.
Then Ziel headed to the Labyrinth Exploration event.
“Oh, Teacher Ziel?”
Elcanto welcomed Ziel enthusiastically as soon as he saw him.
“I heard the event is a huge hit? You must be busy, what brings you here?”
“I came to take a look, Professor Elcanto Paredes.”
“Oh my, welcome! You haven’t tried the experience yet, have you? How about giving it a try?”
Ziel looked at the advertisement board placed in front of the entrance.
“I see there’s prize money for the fastest completion time.”
“Yes. Well, we need to attract spectators somehow…”
[Labyrinth Exploration! Event Special!]
-Prize money and prizes will be awarded based on breakthrough time as follows!
-1st Place: 10,000 Cel
-2nd Place: 3,000 Cel
-3rd Place: ‘Lancaster’s Star’ Dining Voucher
*Note: Faculty, staff, and outsiders other than students are not eligible for prize money and prizes based on records.
“I’m not eligible then. That’s unfortunate.”
“Well, it would be a bit unfair if students participated, wouldn’t it? Haha.”
Elcanto let out a sigh of relief.
‘That was close, the event almost got ruined.’
If it were Teacher Ziel, he’d obviously set the fastest record!
‘When I tested it, it took about 15 minutes, didn’t it?’
“Still, would you like to try it once? We’re currently on a brief break right now.”
“Hmm. Alright.”
“Even for you, Teacher, it won’t be easy, you know? We really made this thing properly.”
Elcanto was confident.
Of course Ziel would set the fastest record, but he’d still encounter some difficult situations inside.
‘Thanks to Professor Emeric, we even added magic to it!’
A labyrinth installed in the abandoned building!
The goal was to wander through maze-like paths relying on dim lighting and find the exit.
In that process, terrifying phenomena occur, and magic causes confusion.
“The entrance is this way. Please go in. Come on, our students! Teacher Ziel is going in, so start it up right away!”
“Yes, Professor.”
A moment later.
After Ziel entered, Elcanto shrugged his shoulders.
“Will it take about 10 minutes?”
Elcanto poured tea into his tea cup and reached for the cookies, then hesitated.
“Hmm. I should hold back.”
I worked so hard to lose this weight.
As he slowly savored about two or three sips of tea.
“P-Professor.”
“What? Did Teacher Ziel already come out?”
“How did you know?”
“Huh?”
Elcanto checked the time and was shocked.
“3 minutes…?”
“To be exact, 2 minutes and 53 seconds…”
“He didn’t break everything inside and come out, did he?”
Elcanto rushed toward the exit.
Ziel looked exactly the same as when he went in.
Usually when people come out, it’s one of three things.
Either terrified.
Or with a relieved expression from the sense of liberation.
Or covered in dust from rolling around!
But Ziel didn’t fit any of those categories.
“It was easy.”
“Ah…”
Instead, Ziel crossed his arms, pondered for a moment, then offered a piece of advice.
“You need to increase the difficulty.”
“…”
“Finding the way was excessively easy.”
“I… see.”
“Yes. Well then.”
Ziel left just like that, and Elcanto could only stare blankly at his retreating figure, at a loss for words.
“Teacher Ziel is so cool…”
At the muttering of a Second Year Student beside him, Elcanto suddenly pulled out a cookie.
Crunch!
His stress levels shot up.
But that was only for a moment.
‘Wait. 2 minutes 53 seconds?’
“2 minutes 53 seconds. Write it down exactly and post it at the top of the record board. Write Teacher Ziel’s name next to it.”
“Huh? Why?”
“That way it’ll stimulate their competitive spirit.”
“Ah.”
Stress is opportunity!
Elcanto’s mood actually improved.
Meanwhile.
“Teacher Ziel? What brings you here?”
“I came to look around. Professor Merhen Curtis.”
Merhen, who was planning and running the ‘Blade Challenge’ event, also encountered Ziel.
“Look around?”
Merhen was flustered, as if he hadn’t thought of that possibility.
However, he soon came up with a good idea.
“Would you like to try it out?”
“Is there prize money?”
“…Prize money? There’s nothing like that. Ah. There is a small participation prize though. That one over there.”
Ziel’s eyes sparkled.
“It’s a snack set.”
“Yes. It’s nothing major, but I thought it might help with promotion a bit…”
“I’ll do it.”
“Oh.”
To think he’d fall for it like this.
“Please wait a moment. I’ll prepare everything quickly.”
Hurrying off, Merhen urgently spoke to the Third Year students who were helping with the event.
“Sword, shield, armor, helmet too! The heaviest ones!”
“Huh? All of a sudden?”
“No questions, just hurry!”
A moment later.
“Please put this on, Teacher Ziel.”
“Understood.”
“You’ll be experiencing gladiator combat wearing this.”
“Yes.”
“Mana usage is not allowed! That’s only fair!”
“Yes.”
Merhen smiled wickedly at what was about to unfold.
‘To think I’ll get to see Teacher Ziel stumbling around!’
He really wanted to see it.
It wasn’t because he disliked Ziel.
That perfection!
He wanted to see cracks appear in it just once.
Anyway, he really didn’t dislike him.
It was just some one-sided resentment lingering.
“How is it?”
“It’s armor.”
“There’s a shield too!”
“Yes. It’s a shield. Made of iron.”
“How’s the sword?”
“It’s a bit short, different from other swords.”
“Does the helmet fit well?”
“Yes. It seems a bit large for my head.”
Ziel answered each question calmly.
I expected him to say it was heavy!
‘He’s not even using mana, so it must definitely be heavy!’
“Come, come, let’s go this way. It’s right here.”
Ziel stood at the event venue where the ‘Blade Challenge’ was taking place.
It was a quite well-decorated event venue.
They had faithfully recreated a gladiator training ground.
“Now, you take the sword and strike these wooden training dummies like this, roll around as instructed, and finally do some sparring.”
“Yes.”
Merhen imagined it.
The sight of Ziel staggering.
Swish.
But he saw it.
Crack!
The sight of Ziel’s single strike splitting the wooden training dummy in one blow.
“…?”
He saw it again.
The sight of Ziel rolling once, then leaping up and cleanly splitting the stone fragments hanging in mid-air!
“Uh…?”
Finally, he saw it.
“I, I surrender! I surrender!”
Even though it was the first day….
For the first time in the event’s history, the sight of a teaching assistant playing the ‘instructor’ role declaring surrender after just a single strike!
“Professor, as expected of Teacher Ziel. He’s ridiculously strong, isn’t he?”
“…Be quiet.”
“Yes.”
What the hell is this.
How can he move so lightly and be so strong!
‘I’m sure he didn’t even use mana!’
Or did he?
Did he use it secretly?
But somehow, he didn’t think Ziel was that kind of person.
“I had a good experience, Professor Merhen Curtis.”
“….”
“Well then, I’ll be going.”
Ziel left just like that.
Merhen stared blankly at the armor, helmet, shield, and sword left behind, then approached and tried to lift them.
“Ugh.”
Heavy.
He rolled around and jumped while wearing all of this?
“He’s a monster….”
Ziel had already destroyed two events.
Next up was the ‘Barrier Breaker’.
“Huh? Teacher Ziel?”
As expected, Idel also greeted Ziel with a similar reaction to the previous two professors.
“Professor Idel Record. I came to watch.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes. It would be even better if I could experience it too.”
Clang!
The event was in full swing at just the right time.
“Argh, it cracked!”
“Should I try a little more? I think I can break it if I try just a bit more?”
A massively deployed barrier!
The satisfying feeling of smashing things with a sword must have been excellent, as people were lining up.
“Since we’ll be closing for a break soon anyway, it would be good for Teacher to try challenging it while we do maintenance.”
Idel said that for now and turned around to quickly give instructions to the Teaching Assistant.
“Maximum output.”
“What?”
“Maximum output! Make it absolutely unbreakable!”
“Uh… then you’d need a Mana Sword to break it.”
“Exactly! Mana Swords are banned in our experience anyway, right?”
The Teaching Assistant set the Barrier’s strength to maximum as instructed.
“Now then, Teacher Ziel. This way please.”
Idel confidently led Ziel in front of the Barrier.
“Didn’t you say it was break time?”
“Earlier during the break, they made it that big for inspection and tried hitting it.”
“But who is that person? He’s handsome.”
“That’s Teacher Ziel who’s in charge of the First Years! Oh right. You’re on leave so you wouldn’t know?”
Good.
All eyes were focused on them.
If he couldn’t break the Barrier in this situation, that would truly be embarrassing!
Maybe it was because he was always getting beaten by Ziel.
He had wanted to get revenge like this someday.
“I just need to break this?”
“Yes. Try breaking it once, and you can see what bursts out when it breaks.”
“I understand.”
“The Sword is here. By the way, Mana Swords are prohibited. Absolutely prohibited. It’s for fairness.”
Ziel nodded calmly.
Then he picked up the Sword and stepped back from the Barrier for a moment.
Then he pulled the Sword back and took a Thrust stance-
‘A Thrust? Not a slash?’
He thrust toward one part of the Barrier.
And.
Clang! Boom!
The barrier set to its strongest configuration….
“Wow!”
“It shattered in one hit!”
“What was that! It was a thrust? Just a simple thrust!”
It was completely destroyed.
With the magical effect Emerick had added, the barrier crumbled down like falling debris.
“….”
What just happened.
Idel rubbed his eyes in a daze.
Ziel approached and handed back the sword.
“Thank you for the experience.”
“H-how….”
“How what?”
“How did you do it in one strike! And with just a thrust…?”
Ziel answered as if it were nothing special.
“There’s a center to the mana circuit that forms the barrier.”
“Huh?”
“You just need to thrust at that spot.”
“Uh….”
“Then the barrier collapses. It’s a method for conquering barrier magic.”
So that means….
‘He could see it?’
Even I can’t see it?
You need to change the settings separately to see that?
“Just in case, it would be good to reinforce the circuit center separately. Well then.”
Ziel left just like that.
Leaving Idel with an intense sense of defeat and shock.
30 minutes.
It was the time it took for Ziel to go around the 3 events each professor was in charge of and completely demolish the events.
Of course, he didn’t actually damage the events.
He just shattered the professors’ hearts.
“I don’t need to go to the swordsmanship tournament right away.”
The First Years’ swordsmanship tournament would be held after the performance ended anyway.
Since it was a swordsmanship tournament anyway, there wasn’t anything Ziel could participate in either.
‘The rehearsal should be starting soon.’
Although there was still some time left, he thought it would be better to go early and check things out, when—
“Teacher Ziel! Teacher Ziel! So you were here!”
A voice could be heard at that moment.
Not far away.
The Family Head of Rihart, Darren Rihart, was striding toward him.
As Ziel tilted his head wondering what this was about, Darren suddenly grabbed his hand.
“I’ve been looking for you for quite a while, Teacher Ziel.”
“For me?”
“Yes! How could you do such a thing!”
Darren seemed to have something that displeased him.
“Is this about Student Celia Rihart by any chance?”
“It’s related!”
“What exactly is the matter?”
“How could you do such a thing!”
Darren suddenly got angry.
Ziel tilted his head, wondering what the situation was.
“Teacher Ziel, I heard you’re inviting the Kundel Knights to your class?”
“That’s correct.”
“How could you leave me out when discussing such an important matter!”
“Why should I tell you?”
“Well… because our Rihart Knights are superior to Kundel. Isn’t that right?”
“That’s right, Family Head!”
“Kundel is no match for us!”
The knights beside him chimed in agreement.
To Ziel, this seemed strange.
Kundel had promised to provide his knight order in exchange for sufficient compensation.
“Then what do you need?”
Daren was surprised by Ziel’s question.
“Need? I don’t need anything.”
Daren tightened his grip on the hand holding Ziel’s.
“Just invite us, that’s all.”
“I can’t do that without compensation.”
“But it’s not like Teacher Ziel would accept my scouting offer anyway, right?”
“That’s correct. I would refuse that offer.”
Daren looked dejected for a moment.
But only for a moment.
“No compensation needed. I’ll just give it to you!”
“Really?”
“Yes! Just to see Amos do well… no, ahem. I’ll do anything for my daughter and the students!”
Amos, armed with, no, disguised with a sense of mission!
Naturally, this was a reason Ziel couldn’t possibly guess.
Rivalry!
If Amos does it, then I’ll do it too!
‘That bastard Amos definitely has ulterior motives. How could he dispatch a knight order for Academy classes? There must be another reason.’
First, I’ll dispatch mine too.
Then I’ll slowly dig into the reason.
There must be some tremendous reason hidden behind it.
For example, a scheme to curry favor with Ziel!
“Understood. Then I’ll need to revise the lesson plan.”
“Just say the word! Teacher, our Rihart will cooperate in every way possible.”
Daren’s eyes sparkled.
Ziel accepted without much deliberation.
“Yes, understood.”
An unexpected benefit!
Daren’s intentions didn’t matter.
What was important was that it would help the students’ training!
‘If both Kundel and Rihart’s knights are deployed… I could expand the target to all First Years.’
Initially, only the students taking Ziel’s classes were the target for the invited education.
But if Rihart’s Knight Order joined as well, it seemed like all First Years could receive those benefits.
‘This is a good thing.’
Good for Ziel, and good for Daren too.
He wasn’t sure if it would be good for Amos, but that wasn’t Ziel’s concern.
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