The Demon Prince goes to the Academy

o.”

What was that?

Was it a stretch to think that the group mission created some form of camaraderie among the Class A students?

That reminded me again that if we were to go through school together, there was a possibility that a unique bond might form between us.

* * *

* * *

As the day advanced past noon, the dead asleep people also started to wake up.

“Urg… My whole body is aching.
I think I’m going to die.”

“A-are you okay?”

“No… What about you, Adelia?”

“I-I just… After I got taken, I just ended up here… I was scared and surprised, but I wasn’t hurt.”

“That’s a relief… Let’s go eat something.”

“Yeah.
There’s a restaurant over there.”

“I’m finally getting something proper to eat…”

Harriet came out with an empty expression on her face and then headed towards the restaurant together with Adelia; it seemed like she was physically as well as mentally exhausted because of the spell she cast in the jungle in the middle of the night.

When she walked past me to get to the restaurant, Harriet met my eyes.

“Are you okay?”

“…Yeah.”

She avoided my gaze for some reason.

After reaching a safe environment, she might have recalled many things, like how she hugged me and cried while whining to me.

It seemed like she came to her senses after she entered a safe zone and remembered how she relied on me when she had a mental breakdown. 

Wha-what have I done? Just what did I say? I must have gone crazy! That just had to be it!

It seemed like that was what she was thinking.

She’d probably be that way for a while.

-Reinhardt, won’t you come swimming as well?

In the distance, I could see Ludwig, who was playing with the other boys up until then, beckoning me to come over.
Since the mission was over, these guys were frolicking about just because.

“I’m sick and tired of swimming, you bastard!”

-Is that so? Then there’s nothing we can do about that!

Were those guys actually crazy? How could they keep on playing like that?

-Puhak!

And I could see a girl in a swimsuit splashing around in the sea outside the bay far off in the distance.

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That girl.

Ellen shook her head for a while and eventually returned with some lobsters skewered on a javelin.
She trotted over to me in her swimsuit and pointed the spear—and the large lobster—towards me.

“Let’s eat this.”

“…Again?”

It was a little surprising that she asked to eat together with me.

Did she really want to eat that again?

* * *

The restaurant.

The children ate different types of food and a lot of them; only Ellen went ahead and caught another lobster for herself.

She only wore one of her training suit jackets over her swimsuit.
In fact, there were quite a lot of students only wearing their swimsuits to eat.

“…Do you really want to eat that again?”

“I want to eat it properly cooked.”

That girl seemed to wonder what the giant lobster would taste like if it were properly cooked, so that was why she handed the lobster over to the restaurant staff at the time.

All the staff there were people who worked at Temple.
So if the chef of that place was the same person that made our dinners, then they were definitely skilled.

Of course, Ellen didn’t want to only eat lobster.
She already stuffed fried rice, sausages, and pasta into her mouth.
She ate even more than usual because she couldn’t properly fill her stomach for the last few days.

Soon, lobster grilled in garlic butter with gratin on the side got brought to our table.

When I tried that properly cooked version, it tasted even better.

It was only natural that the eyes of the students who were stuffing themselves with various dishes in the restaurant crowded over to us because of the delicious fragrance.

However, there was only a single lobster dish as Ellen hunted it herself.

“You can eat some.”

When I said that, Harriet, Liana, Adelia, and Bertus came over and tasted some of it.

“It’s okay.”

“I might be sick and tired of this, but it certainly is still very delicious.”

Everyone said that the cooked version of the lobster was even more delicious.

“I do like it, but I think the one we had on the first day was a lot better…”

Harriet seemed to remember the lobster she ate on the first day to have tasted even more delicious because she didn’t expect it to taste good.
It was a psychological thing.
Seeming as if she really hated remembering that time, her face turned really red.

Those factors couldn’t be ignored either.

The guys from Class B also came closer and asked Ellen if they could eat some of it.
They even took turns tasting a bite.

“Did you learn how to share your food now?”

“I can just catch more.”

“Oh, is that so?”

It was a rather simple way of thinking.
If there wasn’t enough, she could just catch more.

I thought I wouldn’t be able to eat lobster for a while, but when I put it in my mouth, it was so delicious that I ate quite a bit of it.

Then I remembered something I had completely forgotten.

“Ah, the leather!”

“Oh.”

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Ellen seemed to have only recalled it at that moment.

* * *

After dinner, Ellen and I went to Mr.
Epinhauser.
In the end, he also wanted to enjoy the same things we enjoyed, so he was lying on one of the sunbeds wearing an Aloha shirt.

To be honest, I certainly felt it again at that point.

That the world there was really weird.

There were even things like Aloha shirts.
It was like my mind was in a complete mess when I put in these costumes.
There were even synthetic fibers.
I had no idea how they fabricated them, though.

It was a ridiculous world that could be better described as a mix of modern and contemporary medieval fantasy.

“If it’s about that, you can take it back with you.
I’ve been entrusted with processing these things, so you should be able to get it by the time you’re back in Temple.”

When we asked what happened to the jaguar leather, Mr.
Epinhauser gave us a really unexpected answer.
The mission was over, so I didn’t even know that he had that kind of role.

“Think of it as your spoils of this mission.”

Perhaps they left that job to a person who was experienced in handling animals.
After selling it, Elle, Delphin, and I would share the money earned between us.

After my hunger was sated, I laid back down on a sunbed, and Ellen laid down on the one next to me.

I felt like I could sleep there for two days.

The pocket money Temple gave us was also quite large, so there was no need to rush to get more money.
There was nothing wrong with just relaxing there.

“What are you going to do with the money?”

“Nothing much.”

Ellen also didn’t think that much about it either.

Even if she didn’t say anything, she also must have been very tired, so she immediately fell asleep—only the sound of her steady breathing reached my ears.

She had done a brilliant job without uttering a single complaint or whining.
In fact, I saw Ellen getting very exhausted a lot while we were roaming through the jungle.

She had gotten really dirty and sweaty in the jungle, but at that moment, her face and hair were clean and soft.

I put a towel over that sleeping girl’s legs and got up.
It was a bit sad.

Really.

All it took was a proper place to sleep, something delicious to eat, and fresh clothes to wear that made the most fierce hell into a paradise.

I guess living life wasn’t anything special after all.

-Reinhardt! Come on! It’s fun!

“Are you that crazy about swimming?”

Ludwig had eaten and gone back into the water, making a huge fuss again.

-Pat

“Who cares?”

Suddenly, Bertus approached me from behind and placed his hand on my shoulder.

“Opportunities like that won’t come often, so how about we go and play?”

That reminded me that Bertus never actually went into the sea up until then.

It was the boss’s order, after all.

“Haaa… Alright, let’s go.”

I’ll show you just what it means to play in the water.

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