Evade The Hero and Flee!

ment I realised that, I quickly woke up Hill.
Since he already knew about my plan, he hurriedly finished getting ready to flee and rushed back to my room.

As for Selena, she was in charge of monitoring Alice so I figured that she’d show up pretty soon on her own.

“Sir Hero!”

The moment I thought that, Selena burst through the doorway and entered my room.

“But, how?!”

“Selena, you’re finally here? Come on, let’s bounce already!”

“I’m sorry?”

She was making a flabbergasted face, but we didn’t have time to leisurely shoot the breeze here.

Even if she was known as my comrade, people would still find Selena running around the royal castle in the middle of the night rather suspicious.

The royal family might determine that something had happened and dispatch people to find out what’s what.

“Hurry up and follow me!”

I jumped outside the window and used magic to erase even the sound of my landing.

“Hill!”

“I’m coming!”

After landing safely, I gestured with my hand and called for Hill.
He lightly jumped out from the window next.

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“Sir Hero, I never knew I’d get to experience jumping through a window in my lifetime.”

“Things like this can happen in life, Hill.”

“It seems that this is not your first time?”

“Yup.
It happened a lot in the past, you see.”

Mostly when I was still under the tutelage of the instructor, obviously.

If you wanted to survive the magic bombing raid in the middle of the night while you were asleep, you simply had to learn how to jump through a window.

Ah.
Even though no one died back then, though.

However, that was an even scarier prospect, alright.

Should I say that I could sense the obsession of not wanting to grant us a comfortable death during the bombing raid? And it felt like that obsession had reached its zenith after the bat’s entrance.

“Sir Hero!”

While I was swimming in the reminiscence of the past, a shrill high-pitched voice came from the side to hit me in the face.

“Shh! We need to be quiet here.”

“I need an explanation, please!”

Unless you, too, were an ex-employee of the evil organisation, you’d definitely get flustered when a trusted comrade asked you to jump out of a window without giving you a reason.

That’s why I chose to explain the situation in-depth to her.
“We gotta chase after my instructor.”

“Yes, I get that.”

“And while we’re doing that, we also need to get out of this kingdom, too.”

“That’s what I don’t understand.
Sir Hero, aren’t you scheduled to tie the knot with this kingdom’s princess?”

“Nope.
I’m not.”

Selena seemed to have fallen further into confusion at my speedy denial but, too bad, we really didn’t have enough time to chat like this.

“In any case, we need to hurry up and go after my instructor.”

I quickly summoned a spirit to begin our pursuit.

Although the instructor and the metal bat were outside the influence of the spirits’ powers, that story didn’t apply to Alice or the two pet creatures.

Not only Alice, but even the two pets boasted even better potential than me, so it turned out to be rather easy to stick spirits to their sides.

With this, it should be quite easy to catch up to my instructor…

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“…Obviously, I never thought that way.”

Indeed, my opponent was none other than my instructor.

Mirua told me that Professor Nicerwin, a man who was thought to have reached the pinnacle of the summoning magic, and my instructor were one and the same person.

And on top of that, he was a part of the best academy on the whole continent.

Yugrasia was famed for helping you surpass your limits and become a powerful expert if you managed to get accepted by them.
And he was responsible for bringing great upheavals to such an institution!

An institution that produced the youngest swordmaster, the youngest grand magician, the youngest god-level summoner, the youngest summoner of a great demon, and even the youngest summoner of the Spirit King in history!

They all sounded like utter bollocks on the surface, but knowing that my instructor was behind those events… they sure sounded plausible to me.

Well, I, too, was subjected to a similar education regime under a similar environment, after all.

My instructor was responsible for creating a monstrous academy like that, so would he really be unaware of the spirits’ existence, a type of summoned creature?

I’d say, hell no.

He probably had cottoned onto the fact that I had employed spirits and used them against me to dig a trap.

Soooo, I better use that against him and determine his escape path but, with the instructor being who he was, he probably had predicted this turn of events, too…

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“Urgh…”

While worrying, predicting, and calculating, I found myself back to the starting point somehow.

“Hill, any oracles?”

“Nothing so far, Sir Hero.”

The most accurate thing to rely on was the powers of the gods, but my instructor was someone ‘rejected’ by the world itself, so not even the gods had any ways of tracking him down.

“Which means he’s already met up with Alice…”

According to Hill, the influence of the gods didn’t work in the vicinity of the individuals seen as the ‘singularity.’

The Goddess of Nature even said that she’d need a medium belonging to her Order like the hero or the saint in order to exercise her powers in the surroundings of this singularity.

And since the Goddess couldn’t locate Alice anywhere, it could mean that the girl was not moving separately from my instructor.

“In that case, we need to go after them.”

We followed the trail left behind by the power of the spirits stuck onto the other beings in my instructor’s group, eventually reaching a remote corner of the castle walls.

“Wow.
Even though he is my teacher, this is still seriously impressive.”

“I think I now understand why you say that, Sir Hero.”

“Judging by the traces left behind, this must’ve been created not too long ago.”

What made us, a group made up of the hero chosen by a goddess and his comrades, was none other than a doghole on the wall.

The hole itself was so small that one person would barely fit.
However, the impressiveness of this feat was on another scale when the hole itself had been burrowed in the wall protecting a kingdom’s royal castle.

Not only did the soldiers regularly patrol this area, but the walls themselves were reinforced with several different magic spells, too.
So to think that he managed to dig out a hole like this…!

And knowing that we hadn’t been staying in this castle for that long, our collective shock became even bigger.

“Fine.
Looks like we can also exit through this hole, then.”

Well, the path was already laid out.
And it was a far simpler method than jumping over the castle walls or slipping past the castle gates, too!

“Hill, you go first.
Selena will go next.
I’ll keep an eye out for any pursuers, then be the last to escape.”

To counter any potential emergency, I chose to remain behind and watch the surroundings.
If I was the only one here, it’d be simpler to use force to extricate myself from the worst potential situation.

“If something happens to me, return to the Order of Nature first without me.
We’ll meet up there at a later time.”

“But in that case, what should we do about your teacher, Sir Hero? Are we going to give up on the oracle?”

“We can only carry out the oracle when we are not under house arrest, wouldn’t you agree? Besides, don’t you think other Orders will make their moves sooner or later?”

Of course, other religious orders would never catch up to my instructor even after mobilising all of their personnel.
But right now, my escape took precedence above all else!

Only after making a safe getaway could I go after my instructor later.

“The most ideal event is for us to escape from here unscathed and go after my instructor straight away!”

Thankfully, no soldiers or knights charged into this spot while Hill and Selena were making their ungainly escape.

A bit later, both of them managed to crawl through the doghole in the castle wall and emerge on the other side.

And then…

“Welcome back, Sir Hero!”

“H-huh?”

The very first thing (or things) I saw after crawling outside was the awkward, cramped smiles etched on the faces of Hill and Selena.

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And the next person to enter my view was Princess Vera making a truly pleased smile which contrasted so much with the expressions of Hill and Selena.

[1]: Although I translated the line as ‘I knew it’, the word the author used there could also be translated on the sly as ‘history’ as it’s a regional Korean dialect.
Or he could’ve just made a typo, instead.
Who knows…