Surviving the Assassin Academy as a Genius Professor - Chapter 6

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Episode 6
EP3 – Dormant Dragon Academy (2)

Grey’s expression hardened.

“You’re serious…?”

She didn’t answer. Just extended her hand.

“You’re really serious? It wasn’t even an actual assassination attempt…?”

Then came an unexpected response.
A smile played across her face.

“This is insane…… Okay. I’ve got plenty of swords.”

Grey tossed the blade and scabbard aside with a flick, then turned away.

【 Dormant Dragon Academy, First Year, Grey: ‘So that’s your style?’ 】

What did she mean by ‘that’s your style’?
Either way, it was fortunate she went along with it so readily.

I headed straight for the Research Laboratory. My own little headquarters.
There, I examined the confiscated short sword.

★ Swiftness Short Sword [Rare] │ Confiscated

A masterpiece.
Grade: [Rare]. Mid-tier, at that.
Both attack power and durability were exceptional. The special option attached to it was the Swift Slash technique—the very one that had cut my bangs.
Value-wise, this was easily worth at least 300,000 Hika……300 million won in real currency. A high-grade masterwork blade.

‘For now I’ll use it. If I need money later, I can always sell it.’

It was odd that a professor was extorting students for weapons and living off them, but what could I do? That was the game.
Survival meant expenses piled up everywhere. There were many specs to boost with real money.
I was satisfied.

‘Did I nearly die just now……?’

It was absurd.

Meanwhile, I had to write up my teaching log, but since I hadn’t actually taught anything, I struggled with it.
Still, I managed to fill in something using the writing skills I’d honed on that self-introduction, when someone knocked on the door.
It was Adel.

“Professor. You haven’t left yet?”
“I’m heading out now.”
“Ah, this is a consultation request form.”
“A consultation request form?”
“Yes, yes. Cadet Grey submitted it on her way out.”

Wait. She didn’t just take the sword and leave?
In fact, when I glanced out the door, Grey was waving her fingers in a V-sign, wiggling them playfully. Her buck teeth on display. She wore the mischievous expression of a playful cat.

“Hi there, Professor~”

This wasn’t what I’d expected.

“You want me to submit it? Does that mean you’ll come with me?”
……
“But Professor, that’s amazing. No other professor has ever said anything like that to me.”

For me, it was maddening.
Was there any way to avoid this?
I’d thought it over, but nothing came to mind.

“You’ll come to the Dormant Dragon Hall with me? Really??”
“…Understood.”

I couldn’t bear to go alone, so I took Adel with me and headed toward the Dormant Dragon Hall with Grey.
On the way, Grey pressed herself against my side, subtly elbowing Adel out of the way.
All the while, she kept glancing up at me.

【 Dormant Dragon Academy First-Year Grey: ‘Hmm. He’s handsome.’ 】
【 Dormant Dragon Academy First-Year Grey: ‘How strong could he be? He doesn’t look like a weakling.’ 】

I wished she’d just stop talking.

“Professor. Professor.”
……
“Are you from the Black Path?”

Assassins divide into two schools: the White Path and the Black Path. The two rarely get along.
To put it simply—
the White Path does intelligence work for nations and nobles.
The Black Path is what we think of as assassins. They handle the dirty work: murder, kidnapping, and the like.

“Why do you ask?”
“Just curious, isn’t it? You don’t mind, do you?”
“I have no affiliation.”
“Is that so?”

Suddenly Grey stepped ahead of me and blocked my path.
Then she fixed her eyes directly on mine.
According to the Script, she was considering another assassination attempt.

“Grey.”

Just then, other cadets from the Dormant Dragon Academy came to greet us.
It was Elise and some boy.

● Dormant Dragon Academy First-Year Elise
● Dormant Dragon Academy First-Year Balmung

The boy bowed his head.

“It’s an honor to meet you, Professor.”

Grey seemed to have dulled her momentum a bit by calling me Professor after all.
Balmung, with his stylish horn-rimmed glasses and sharp features like a Doberman’s, filled the entire space around him with presence the moment he drew near.

‘This one is the son of a high-ranker from Heiamseongja….’

The grip of his handshake was formidable.
Then Balmung offered his praise.

“Professor. Your ability to contain your aura is positively artful. I can’t sense a trace of it even from this distance.”

There’s no aura to contain…….

“Please, come inside. The Dormant Dragon Academy rarely gathers everyone like this, but they’re all assembled to meet you. Everyone except one.”
“One person?”
“Yes. Princess Rebecca is currently occupied with royal affairs. But the team leader is here.”

With that, he bowed respectfully to Adel.

“I’m terribly sorry, but would you mind waiting outside? The Dormant Dragon Hall is the princess’s residence, so it’s a restricted security zone.”

Adel looked at me.
True enough—she wouldn’t be much help coming along anyway.

“Wait here. I’ll be back soon.”
“Of course~ I’ll brew some tea for you.”
“All right.”

And so I left Adel behind and entered the Dormant Dragon Hall, following the students.
The Dormant Dragon Hall.
The most stately dormitory in Hiaka Academy.
And for good reason—the Dormant Dragon Academy had a student named Rebecca, daughter of the King of Hiaka Kingdom who owned the academy itself.
Perhaps that was why.

The moment I crossed the threshold, an ornate parlor opened before me. Sofas and tables that must have cost hundreds of thousands of hika each. And a chandelier that scattered light into a thousand fragments.
The students of the Dormant Dragon Academy sat waiting there.
I felt it immediately.
Every one of them bore the adjustments of Hell Difficulty. They were on par with Balmung, or beyond…….
Young prodigies, the entire assembly.

【 First-year, Dormant Dragon Academy, Elise: ‘Impressive.’ 】
【 First-year, Dormant Dragon Academy, Kendraek: ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ 】
【 First-year, Dormant Dragon Academy, Quan: ‘…Wow. What kind of professor is this? Walking in here without showing a shred of tension? Even the dean was nervous!’ 】

Thoughts tangled in knots, all directed at me.
I didn’t care who was who.
But the fact that every single one of them could kill me whenever they pleased—that was genuinely terrifying.

“Welcome, sir.”
“……Right.”

I returned their greeting perfunctorily and made for an empty seat.
My mind had gone blank—I’d just sat down anywhere.

【 First-year, Dormant Dragon Academy, Quan: ‘Wait—! He’s sitting in the seat of honor? In a royal residence? That’s the princess’s chair…!’ 】
【 First-year, Dormant Dragon Academy, Kendraek: ‘Does this professor not even realize he’s a guest in someone else’s home?’ 】

Damn. I’d sat in the wrong place.
But I was already down, and getting up now was impossible.
At this point, what did it matter? I crossed my legs and leaned back against the chair.
What are you going to do about it, you kids.

【 First-year, Dormant Dragon Academy, Balmung: ‘The new professor is remarkably at ease. Does that confidence run that deep?’ 】

I simply sat still.
Inwardly weeping at the reality of being afraid of children.

“……I just can’t make sense of this.”

It was then that a cadet of colossal build, nearly two point two meters tall, opened his mouth.
Kendraek.

“Why did you bring that professor here?”
“Hey. Watch your tongue. What’s this insolence in front of the professor?”

It was Grey who pinched him—quite unexpectedly.

“Grey, you lost your short sword, didn’t you? Why are you taking his side?”
“The short sword or whatever—respect matters, you birdbrain.”
“Don’t call me birdbrain. And respect or whatever—I don’t understand this. The department head was refusing to assign any faculty advisor to begin with. So why bring in some new professor?”
“Kendraek, settle down. The team leader will be here soon anyway.”

Once even bespectacled Balmung spoke up, the hulking cadet closed his mouth. Yet the look he cast toward me remained far from favorable.
It was then that three attendants from the Dormant Dragon Hall approached and offered tea to everyone.

✦ Five-Color Black Tea [Common, Lethal Poison]

My tea alone carried poison.
For someone without [Resistance], it was the sort of toxin that could kill in a single sip.
While everyone else raised their cups without concern, I remained still.

“A most precious blend.”

It was then that a door at the far end of the sitting room opened.
A boy leaning on a cane limped out.
It seemed to be the boy referred to as the team leader.

“Perhaps you don’t care for black tea?”

Long black hair. Eyes with vertically split pupils.
An ominous aura radiating from his entire frame.
A male cadet with an impression unmistakably sinister.

● Dormant Dragon Academy First Year: Kaeiser

When I had gathered information about the Dormant Dragon Academy beforehand, I noted this.
This one was No. 2 at the Dormant Dragon Academy.
Reportedly, he had killed no fewer than four professors with his own hands.
A figure who must not be dismissed as a mere cadet.
Rather, he was closer to a serial killer.

“You see poison where there is tea?”

Having come this far, backing down was impossible.
My only option was to stand my ground.

Kaeiser’s eyes narrowed.
The others could not fathom what he and I were discussing. It seemed this was his scheme alone.
He limped to the seat across from me and sat down.

“You are as I have heard, Professor.”
“How so?”
“You saw through Elise’s Concealment. You measured the exact distance in Grey’s ambush. You masked your mana from Balmung. And now you can distinguish even my Formless Poison—something without scent, taste, aroma, or detectable mana….”

How am I still alive?

“You must surely be an assassin of [Grandmaster] rank or higher—on par with our chief professors.”

[Grandmaster].
A rank insignia granted to martial artists ranked 999th or higher on the continental rankings.
Extraordinary, really. The number of registered martial artists on the continent exceeds ten million.
Though at present, I don’t even possess an Iron-grade insignia.

“It is an honor to have you visit us.”

Kaeiser bowed his head respectfully.

“If the professor is busy and has been called here, then let us dispense with pleasantries and proceed to the matter at hand.”

In any case, I cannot linger here long.

“What is the reason you summoned me, a new professor at Dormant Dragon Academy?”
“Yes. To speak plainly, I believe you’re aware that a great tempest approaches in the times ahead.”
……

He seemed to be alluding to the coming war between demons and humans.

“The world flows beneath the Heavenly Way. Everything moves as though orchestrated by some invisible hand. That talented individuals like us have gathered in a single cohort, a single academy, a single department—this itself is part of the Heavenly Way’s design.”

He speaks as though aware of the game’s artifice.
Perhaps at Hell Difficulty, one perceives such things.

“At this moment, we possess talent, but we remain lacking in many ways. We must learn from a ‘true teacher’—not from professors who seek only to exploit us.”
……
“Many professors have sought only to use us until now. Yet, if I dare speak my honest impression, you seem different from them……. Therefore, I make this request.”

Kaeiser’s vertically-slit eyes narrowed slightly.

“Professor Dante Hiacapo.”

Then he spoke in a soft, deliberate tone.

“Will you become our academic advisor?”

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