Surviving the Assassin Academy as a Genius Professor - Chapter 124

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Chapter 124
EP28 — How Domination Came About (1)

Valmond thinks to himself.

“There’s a terrorist attack.”

If training meant assessing the current situation and making a judgment befitting it—

“There was an aerial bombardment from the sky. But this smell creeping through the scent of Luton wood… it’s the same as the Jinxxytte from before.”

He wiped his horned-rimmed glasses with a towel and reached his conclusion.

“…This is no mere training exercise.”

Grey asked.

“Kill them?”

When Valmond turned his head, five Fortress officers and the Fortress Commander hung suspended in mid-air, their necks bound by thread.
The Dante Assassination Unit was deliberating.
Whether to kill them or not.
None had been assassinated yet.

“Wait. I have something I need to ask them first.”

From this point on, their lives would hinge on a single answer. Valmond posed what he considered truly important with utmost gravity.
While pointing at his own face.

“How does this elephant mask look?”
“Y-yes, it’s beautiful…!”

They decided to spare them.

“Huh… huh…”
“Gack, ugh… cough…”

The commanders collapsed on the floor, gasping for breath.
Still, the deliberation continued. They’d taken the Fortress now, but what came next?
At times like these, Valmond missed Kaiser and Rebecca. Both of them had produced answers rapidly when faced with difficult situations. But after those two left, all that remained was people like this.

“…Who among us is actually the smartest?”

To the question tinged with a sigh and self-mockery,
Elise looked the three of them over carefully, then stroked her chin with a grave expression.

“…Me?”

Grey and Valmond both clicked their tongues. ‘Are you serious?’ ‘That’s absolutely not it.’ Kendrick then began stroking his own chin with equal seriousness, until Valmond pointed a warning finger at him. ‘You just stick to eating honey.’ He cut him off before he could get any ideas.

“Hmm?”

“That’s true.”

“Then what if we gathered all the authority and gave it to our professor? Wouldn’t he handle it himself?”
“Huh? …Are you a genius?”

It was the perfect answer. Why were we deciding anything? Let the genius professor do it.
Peace settles in chaos, Valmond thought. From the moment they joined the Assassination Unit, they became instruments. Not just the blade was a tool—the cutting board was too. Their role was to prepare the board for the master to use.

“You there, Fortress Commander.”
“…Yes, y-yes?”

The Fortress Commander had no choice but to speak respectfully to a mere cadet, humiliating as it was.

“You’re going to help us now.”
“…What?”
“I know how the military structure of Kahla Earldom works. Let’s make use of this fortress’s troops.”

But hearing such coercion, the Fortress Commander’s pride was deeply wounded.
He understood these assassins were strong—a dozen or so soldiers had collapsed one by one without so much as a whimper. Still, that didn’t mean anything. Since when did children dare to match themselves against grown men?

“Why aren’t you answering? I’m trying to treat you as humanely as possible right now.”
“…….”

So he held his ground when—thud, thud, thud—footsteps approached. He turned his head to see a man with crimson eyes, his pupils wide and unblinking. His head was two heads higher than normal. His skull was enormous. His eyes didn’t even focus. And he was getting closer.
Not that Kendrick Drake had done anything. Merely the approach of that face made it difficult to meet his gaze.
That silence pushed the Fortress Commander into terror.

“…Ah, fine! I understand!!”

After that, Kendrick Drake let out a questioning hum and plucked a small spider from the Fortress Commander’s bangs, and Valmond found himself thinking:

There were fourteen fortresses just on this first level of the stepped mountain.

* * *

So this incident had started at the sixth fortress.
Refused three times. Gone down to the village below to eat. Returned and been turned away three more times—and then the sixth Fortress Commander had provoked him.

“Get out of here! You Royal Family lapdog gorging yourself on scraps!”

It was already night, and at this point I didn’t care about relations with the House or any of that—I was so irritated I smashed the gate open with the Colossal Soldier’s Sword ○.
Crack!!
As everyone gasped, the Fortress Commander roared.

“What are you all doing! Go capture that professor!”

The frightened soldiers came forward with miserable faces, and I intended to beat them all senseless, go inside, grab the Fortress Commander, stand him up in the corridor, and have a one-on-one conversation.

“Let’s just kill them all this time.”
“…Then what’s the difference between you and Vomittekka?”

Even Rando was exasperated enough to draw his sword, when—for the first time in ages—a Tip occurred to me.

⧉ Tip: Get yourself captured.

This is maddening.
Why?
Still, Tip had never been wrong before, so I surrendered obediently and found myself locked in the Underground Dungeon beneath the fortress.

“Go on in.”

The soldier shoved me forward.

“Keep quiet in here. The Earldom’s already on edge with that wall situation, and we don’t need the Professor making things worse.”

The soldier left, looking troubled.
Then I understood what Ran intended.

“Hey! Professor Dante! Over here, over here!!”

It was Gula, the neutral professor.
He’d come along with the summons, somehow ending up locked in this prison.

“You came to rescue me?! I knew I could count on you!”

I didn’t tell him that I’d been captured too.

In any case, I’d caught Gula before he rotted away in this cell forever, so now came the escape. I had the Subspace Pouch and Restraints on both wrists, but the player’s innate Inventory couldn’t be touched. I could wield the Colossal Soldier’s Sword ○.
But it wasn’t time yet.
I needed to think this through more carefully.

“We were summoned for unknown reasons—a few of us, you and me included—and outside there’s a monster called Vomittekka floating in the sky, so a large-scale battle will break out soon.”
“Vomittekka? Is that like that Jinxxytte monster from before?”
“Similar enough.”

He was correct.
I too felt doubt blooming inside—apparently, a peaceful path was never in the cards from the start.
I’d wanted to play it smoothly, but what was the result?

What should have been flat ground had become a prison.

“What will you do?”
“First, get some sleep. Then escape in the early dawn and slip in among the assassins using Illusion Magic. Rather than cause unnecessary chaos, I’ll just serve my role as an assassin—that should be enough.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to act on a larger scale?”

in other words, why not smash the Fortress and seize command?
She was asking because she understood the unique command structure of Kahla House.

It’s a class system designed so that soldiers obey only the “rank” he has established. But used correctly, an outsider could wield it. Ran was proposing exactly that to me.
She was telling me to become commander.

Even in Dante’s memories that had become , Eimon was truly a master of war. Someone I could trust and rely on.
That much was certain.
I had just finished organizing the plan perfectly.
Then Ran caught a mouse.

“A mouse, Professor.”
…….
“Would you like to see it as well, Professor Gula?”
“Ugh, get that thing away from me!”

Once again, I found myself utterly exasperated at my circumstances.
Two hours later.

“Professor Gula. Prepare for escape.”
“Escape…? Do you have a plan?”
“Of course I do.”
“What plan? We need to be careful! I’ve heard this Earl’s son has quite the temperament!”
“Just follow my lead.”

I shattered the Restraints binding Gula and Ran with the Colossal Soldier’s Sword ○, then smashed through the iron bars that were locked shut.

Clang-clang! Crash!

As I stepped outside, the Chief Jailer stood before me.
Along with five or six guards.
Timing, huh.

…….
…….

A brief silence stretched between us.
Since I was already committed to escaping anyway, I saw no reason to be polite about it.
Shing—
First, I drew my blade.

“I am Dante Hiakaporin, Senior Professor of Hiaka Academy. Take me to the Fortress Commander at once—”

But even as I spoke, something felt wrong. The Chief Jailer and the guards’ faces were filled with tension.
It was something different from the alarm of witnessing an escape—more like a social tension, if I could call it that.

The next moment, a guard took a firm stance.
And then, quite suddenly—

“Our apologies!”

They bowed their head.

“We, we greet you, Professor Dante Hiakaporin!”
“Please forgive our rudeness…!!”

What?
The guards had suddenly apologized. Next, the Chief Jailer himself bent his head at a sharp right angle and spoke in a tense voice.

“Sir, truly…! I don’t know how to apologize for this discourtesy…!”
……?
“We are terribly sorry, Professor! Ah, and we shall escort you to the Fortress Commander at once…!”

Why?

What was going on here.
The jailer and his guards had suddenly grown oddly solicitous.
No—this wasn’t mere politeness. They were treating me like someone of considerable standing.

“This way, sir!”

I followed in silence as he led me out, not yet understanding.
My mind still groping through the dark.

“Dante, Professor….”

As we walked, Gula murmured in shock, pulling close.

“You…! That plan you mentioned—surely you didn’t mean…??”

Mean what?
I’m as bewildered as you are.
My plan was simple: slip outside, use Illusion Magic to don a mask, slip in among the assassins.

“…you’re telling me that in just the few hours I’ve been locked up, you’ve taken the entire Fortress and come to rescue me? What kind of madman does that? No wonder Rudenbach goes pale whenever your name comes up…. How in the world did you even manage it?”

So that’s what happened.

…….

But I showed nothing of it.
My face blank, I continued walking forward.

Even so, I felt frustration at the Script remaining dark in this Incursion zone. I needed to determine whether this situation was genuinely as strange as it appeared, or whether they were attempting some deception.
Yet there was no need for confusion.

“Senior Professor Dante is entering!”

Upon stepping into the Command Center building.

“All personnel, salute!”

Every officer and the Fortress Commander rose to attention, giving me a formal hand salute.
Their fervor caught me off guard instead.

“Ah, you’ve arrived!”

It was the Fortress Commander—the one who’d mocked Hiaka Academy. I decided to question him about the situation.

“…You.”
“I—I-I—”
“…Explain.”
“The rudeness from earlier! I sincerely apologize!”
“…No, that’s not—”
“Just spare my life, I beg you! If you will only let me live, I swear I shall serve as your loyal servant with all my strength…!!”

There was no opening to ask.
But even without the Script, I could read something in their faces and postures. I studied them carefully.
Fear flickered in the officers’ eyes—the social sort of fear, like a private standing before a company commander. They perceived me as a superior and were simply nervous.
Yet one man was different. The Fortress Commander. The fear in his eyes was physical, primal—the look of someone who’d already been hit.

‘…Why?’

I haven’t laid a hand on him yet.

“Ah, please sit! I shall report on the current operation!!”

For now, let’s just take our seats naturally at the head of the table, Ran whispered beside me.

“It’s remarkable, truly. You’re as impressive as they say, Professor. We were right there with you, and we had no idea you could pull off something like this.”
“…….”

Because I’d never done it before.

Still, being caught off guard was one thing—but this was infinitely preferable to rotting in a cell.

In any case, if I’d somehow become a key figure in this fortress, there couldn’t be a better way to start.

And yet the strange events unfolding around me were only the beginning.

Minutes later, the Fortress Commander and the officers rose to their feet.

“Come with us, Professor!”

Where to?

“To the Fortress Council assembly!”

What place is that?

And so, thirty minutes later.

“The new master of the Kahla House Fortress First Level enters.”

In the First Level Fortress Council strategy chamber, I found myself seated at the head of the table as the ruler of the First Level. More than half the faces were frozen in terror. The rest exchanged uncertain glances, though they were clearly trying to match the atmosphere.

In that same instant, status windows erupted before me.

< ⧉ In response to the Incursion, you selected Domination from seven options regarding the Kahla House. >

What in the—
I’ve been locked in a cell this whole time watching rats with Ran and Gula.
At this rate, they’re going to hand me a Star Fragment next.
The moment that thought crossed my mind.

┃ Reward: Star Fragment × 45 (Base 5 × 9 Fortresses)

“?????”

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