Waking up Hikaru noticed that he also had a proper futon on his bed. I sleep too much and my head is heavy the other way around. Outside the window is a blue sky like diluted —— apparently not much time has passed since dawn.

"... overslept"

It seems right to think that Lavia fell asleep with her head in her hands and left it for the next day. I'm hungry. When I wake up, I tremble lightly into the cold air drifting indoors. I feel the approaching of winter.

"... where did Lavia go?

Then when you wake up, you weave your gown out of the closet. It was almost at the same time that Lavia returned from outside as she left her bedroom.

"Morning, Hikaru"

"Morning. Were you out there?

"Yeah —— 'cause I thought it was time for Hikaru to wake up"

Hot air is rising from the paper bag you are holding. He bought me breakfast.

Cheese in fried bread. The bean soup is in the pitcher. Get the bacon out of the refrigerator of the magic guide and that will be enough breakfast.

"Thank you. I was just hungry."

"Yep..."

"? Lavia?

Lavia, whose expression doesn't float,

"... because until now Paula has made me breakfast, but I'm more certain to buy it than I make it"

"Ah."

Hikaru doesn't cook much either. Lavia and I have something in common there. He is a nasty person whose mouth is loud but his hands cannot move.

There is also a morning market nearby and many stalls. I don't have a problem with buying a meal from early dawn, but I'm sure it doesn't taste good anyway.

Breakfast is over and the dirt from your journey is well removed. Familiar Hikaru left the house with Lavia.

It is the college that is on its way. College lectures are suspended when winter is in full swing. The facility is empty, so we can carry out research, cage it in the library, and so on.

Hikaru had another discussion with Lavia at breakfast about "going to Tubra" proposed to Celica yesterday. As for Lavia, it means she has no particular problem, so I decided to get ready to head to Tubra once I have completed the necessary greetings.

Lavia headed to the library because she only wanted to finish reading the book she was about to read, and Hikaru headed to Lecture Building C of the Little Sword Lecture to keep her voice shut, just in case.

(For once, you have a high school or college-like vibe...)

Speaking of the original, I went to this college because it also meant clearing up the untrained that I only had a little left —— that I wanted to go to school properly.

(You didn't do much of a student-like thing)

I rubbed it at school, and the instructor, Milkrep-Van-Quad, drank it for me, helped build a student union, and polished it "in secret".

When it comes to what Hikaru has learned, it is the most useful body judgment for the last "secret". Originally, for Hikaru, who had no martial arts skills at all, Milk Crepe —— Millet's teachings were dry weather. Knowledge was absorbed so that the cotton sucked water, and even though it was irregularly strong "hidden" it was further polished.

("Hidden" is my lifeline, so I need to raise it more)

Now he's dead —— I don't know Hikaru yet —— and if Unken asks, "How far are you going to go..." Hikaru still thought he had a long way to go "in secret".

So there must still be something we can learn in this college.

…………

Building C —— Hikaru narrows his eyes when he comes to a building that just renovated the equipment room. Open doors. Intense alcoholic odor drifting from inside.

At Hikaru's feet are abandoned boots, with trousers twisted and placed at the end, a cardigan at the end, and --.

"Are you drunk..."

Millet, who was just wearing a shirt on top, was asleep with a noise of speed and nose. Hikaru, looking for two pebbles of soybean size, threw them into Millet's nose and punched them in.

"Phew!? Ko, is this feeling...!?"

"Are you awake?"

!?

Millet, waking up his body, turned his gaze to Hikaru, who stood at the entrance.

"Instructor, what happened to your promise to me? I told you to stop drinking deeply, didn't I? The limit was up to three drinks, right? I mean, it's so cold, if you're taking off your clothes and you're asleep, you catch a cold --"

"--hi, hikaru kun? Hikaru?... Hikaru, are you?

Something's wrong with Millet, who got up fluttered.

"Hikaru guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!"

"Wow!?"

It was an amazing momentum. And I didn't change it because it was unexpected. Hikaru is hugged by Mirei to be tackled. I was pushed down as it was and rolled to the ground.

"Huh? Oh, you know, the instructor?

"I'm up, I'm up. Ooh! He's alive. Whoa, whoa!!"

"That's alive..."

"I called Borderzad exactly, but, no, he said he might be dead by now..."

"Yes!?"

Millet smells like alcohol and her makeup is broken. It's a big deal, but she couldn't peel it off. Thank you. He worried about himself.

Listening to the story, the Oriental Four Star seemed to tell the Claudes about Hikaru, but Claude and Luca headed to Jalazak. Sylvester and Ekaterina also went home, and Mikhail didn't know what had happened since, only Miley, because he was also on Claude's escort to Jalazak.

We only knew that Hikaru had headed to Borderzad to solve the monster abnormal reproduction of the Un el Portan Great Forest. A large number of monsters were pushing against the Borderzad and the Adventurer Guild was looking for reinforcements in the neighborhood. If you just ask me that, surely, you don't think there's any way I can do this with one college student. And it was the other instructors who anointed the fire. "Borderzad adventurers are wiped out," he said, as Mirei sounded. Although the Dean of the Academy followed me "not to say anything uncertain".

"Heh... looks like he's been spreading a lot of fun rumors"

Several of the faculty members' names were written on Hikaru's "List I'm Gonna Make You Hurt One Day".

Push Millet's body and get up.

"But I thought you were really dead. Ooh..."

"... he's alive. Trust me for a second."

"Because."

"Uh, you look terrible. You should wash it. I'll get some water."

Hikaru gives Mirei a handkerchief.

I never thought Miley would have worried me so much. Even though we are face-to-face in lectures, there is also a sense in Hikaru that we have come of our own free will. I also thought Mirei might be neglecting me.

(... you're not a bad person. if you don't even drink)

At best, let's be careful not to let this guy drown in booze —— Hikaru tried to get up with that in mind.

"Oh, my God."

A voice that can be called there.

"If you think my comrade is back, you're doing a lot more radical things with the instructor."

…………

He was closely watched where he was pushed down. What Hikaru, who looked back like a robot with a gigigi and out of oil, saw was Katie, a magic conductor researcher smiling with a pleasant face.

"Don't tell Lavia anything extra," he stabbed Katie with the nail, "I'd rather go on researching the Holy Demon than that?," he asked for research cooperation.

"Uh... I think I'll go to Tubra."

"Ho."

"Oh, Hikaru, are you going to Tubra?

Together with Katie and Millet, she came to a cafeteria in the college.

Millet's clothes are good (...), but her face is sappy when she removes makeup and washes it. I was asking for coffee to wake up drunk.

"Yeah... well, I was thinking of going once"

"It is. Well, the college's gonna be closed in a little while, and I'm gonna head back to Jalazak when I get my annual report together, as appropriate."

Don't do it right there, I just want to say, but I won't say anything about Hikaru because this is all about Millet.

I hear Tubra and Katie eats it.

"No way, are you going to see the ruins?

"Yeah, well, I think it will"

"I'm coming too!

Katie with a rough nose and a low back. Gatan and Iss rang and a handful of cafeteria guests saw what was going on.

Katie still stands out because she also has enthusiastic fans in her lab and is a celebrity within the college. In the early hours of the morning, I was lucky the cafeteria was vacant.

"No way!?"

"... I thought they'd say that."

"Pfft. Don't be honest with me."

"Because Dr. Katie has helped me. It helped, Bullet."

"Oh!"

Hikaru handed Katie a revolver bullet in a leather bag. In fact, the bullet I shot with Lavia's greatest magic had been damaged and needed repair.

Without this bullet, we wouldn't have been able to defeat the Earth Dragon subspecies intact.

"I also have a replacement bullet. I'll give it to you later."

"... thank you"

"When are we leaving? Today? Tomorrow?

"You're a lot quicker. Are you okay with getting ready or cleaning up?

"I'm caged all year round in the lab, so you can only compile your annual report"

Talking about that,

…………

Mirei was looking at this one with jito eyes.

"What is it, Inspector Millet?"

"... Hikaru-kun"

"Yes."

"... I'm going too"

"Yes?"

"I'm going too! Uh, you wanted to go! Tubra!"

"What?"

"--What are you so vegan and decent about?!? Why are you getting along so well with Dr. Katie?!? You can go with anyone older beautiful sister!?"

"............... Could it be that you include the term 'older beautiful sister' when you refer to Teacher Millet?

"Don't ask me back in the face! You're embarrassed!"

Mirei seemed angry that Hikaru and Katie seemed to have secrets they shared.

"The instructor's going home, right? You should show your parents how well you are."

"Hikaru's going to tell me something different."

"I'm a common sense man."

"Can I deny it with all my might?

"But even I have company, so I don't want to take anyone any more trouble. Guess."

"So why are you treating me like a 'troublemaker'!

Then Mirei watched for a while, but Hikaru didn't shake his head vertically as hard as he could. I couldn't help it when it came to Katie. Because we have promised research cooperation on the Holy Demon, and there was a possibility that there was something related to the Holy Demon in the ruins of Tubra.

That's how the day came to head to Tubra.