The night was deep, there were barely any sounds to be heard other than the gentle hushing of the and the lonely chirping of the birds as they went about their lives. It was another peaceful night.

  Inside a certain mansion in an excessively gaudy room, there was a woman ie thirties, looking at the window with empty eyes. Her name was Vilma von Beldon, the same maress who had an argument with the Headmaster of the Royal Academy several days ago.

  The humiliation she felt that day was unlike any other. She had never felt so defeated that she had to retreat. The humiliation that day had driven her mad as she couldn't do anything against the Headmaster even if she wao. She had never felt so powerless, especially to someone she siders lower than herself.

  "Rita, I want to rest. Leave me be for the moment." ［Vilma］

  "As you wish, Madam." ［Rita］

  Heeding the maress' and, the maid silently left the room after bowing her head. She was calm and dignified like how she was supposed to be. Truly fitting for a maid serving in a noble household.

  The maid's name was Rita, a oner who icked up by the maress to bee a servant of her mansion. It was the maress' grace whicreased her stature in life.

  The maress of the Beldon household had always been benevolent towards oners as she was one herself. She was someone who many people looked up to, someone who many people respect, someone who many people loveー well, used to love.

  No one knows what the reason was, but ever since a couple of years ago, the maress' personality slowly ged into something that is tradictory to her previous self. It was a ge no one expected.

  Over the course of time, the maress became a hypocrite who loathes and sneers at oners, she became someone who judges people by their status, someone who treats those who are of lower stature as her like trash, someone who only associates herself with people of the same status.

  Her ge, a couple years ago happehe same time she had picked up Rita to bee ohe household's servants. It wasn't just a ce. The reason for her ge was Rita who she trusts the most.

  Without batting ao her surroundings, Rita tinued heading towards her room. The moment she arrived, she immediately closed the room, not letting anyone in nor see what was inside.

  "Tsk! It's that new instructor's fault! If it wasn't for her, the pn would have gohout a hitch!" ［Rita］

  Baaannnngggg

  A loud bang resouhroughout the room as Rita hit the table with both of her fists, knog over everything that was on top of it. Her face ainted red with so muger that she might explode at any moment.

  The reason for her anger was simple, it was because her pn's progress had been slowed down, and the reason was her than the Headmaster and new instructors of the Royal Academy.

  Rita ractitioner of curse magid ever since she was young, she had beeing cos that would slowly poison the mind of a person. She has been usialent to trol the Maress.

  She wasn't just alone. She art of a heinous anization which sought to rule the world with the use of demonic beasts, Iblis. Her mission was to infiltrate a noble's household and take trol of it, destroying the kingdom from the inside.

  The pn has been made for several years already. From meeting the Maress up until the current time, it nned. And it wasn't only her, other people were also pnted in other households.

  Ever sia became the maress' servant, she had been making herself appeal good towards her, making her gain the maress' trust quickly, and making her quickly bee a personal maid.

  By the time Rita achieved that, she slowly let the unsuspeg maress ihe poison she had made herself, and bit by bit, she gained trol over the tter's mind. She had also started poisoning the maress' son by using the maress herself.

  But there was one fw in her pn, and that is that the maress o ihe poison on a regur basis, any interruption and her trol over her will decrease drastically. There was also the side effect of restlessness during withdrawal.

  Because of the matter in the Royal Academy, the maress has been missing the doses of poison she was supposed to intake. She was too worried about her son and his ranking in the academy.

  "Well, it doesn't matter. Ohose foolish instructors are out of the academy, the pn will progress smoothly once again. Ohe maress is under my and, all that o be done is to kill the marquess, and I will be able to trol the Beldon household pletely!" ［Rita］

  Regaining her posure, Rita swiftly cocted another dose of the poison in order to make sure that she never runs out of it. She added herb after herb into the mix and stirred it ever so gently, and with a little bit of curse magic, the poison was pleted and ready to use.

  Rita had made it strohan usual, not only because she o take into sideration the days missed, but also because she was running out of time. She o plete the pn as soon as possible.

  Because of their headquarters beiroyed a couple of months ago, the kingdom had beore active in purging the remaining members of their anization, leading to the demise of the agents pnted in noble households. Rita is one of the few that remained.

  It was because of that very ihat everything o be rushed so that they could exact their revehey o trol every household they in order t fruition to their pn.

  "Ah, it seems like I o attend dinner now. I o be careful sihe marquess will be joining us. Tsk. This is why I hate festivals." ［Rita］

  Like most nobilities, the lord will govern their fief while the dy will work in the capital in service to the kingdom. It is only in the foundiival and other importas that the lets to visit the capital.

  Although the marquess will only stay in the capital for less than 2 weeks, Rita still o be careful as to not get discovered. She ot let her p foiled at all cost. She was the hope of her anization.

  Having fixed her appearance, Rita immediately headed to the kit and served the dishes to the Beldon family with the other maids. She was so dighat she looked like a pletely different person.

  By the time they were finished serving the dishes, the only ones left in the dining hall were the Beldons and the servants that they trusted the most, who were standing nearby the doors. They were Rita and the head butler.

  "So, Gee, how are you faring at the academy?" ［Marquess］

  "I'm doing well, Father. In fact, I am a top student of our year." ［Gee］

  "I see... Then that's good... But you should know, just because you're a top student, that doesn't give you a right to humiliate your instructor." ［Marquess］

  The Marquess delivered his words full of weight and irritation, with gres which were b through Gee's skin. The atmosphere in the room immediately became heavier with his words.

  "Abraham, you're being too much! Everybody makes mistakes!" ［Vilma］

  "Don't think you're in the clear, Vilma! I khat you threatehe Headmaster to remove them!" ［Abaraham］

  "I-I did no such thing!" ［Vilma］

  "Then are you saying that His Majesty lied when he summoned me?!" ［Abraham］

  Hearing her husband's words, Vilma was quickly taken aback. She didn't expect that she had been exposed by His Majesty, the King, himself. She couldn't find any words to retaliate against her husband.

  Following Vilma's sdal, Abraham was summoo the castle by the King, and in that summon, he was warmed by the King to fix her wife and son's behavior. It was a critical matter which could cause the Kingdom's destru.

  The once peaceful dining hall has turned into pandemonium in just a matter of seds, with Abraham's untainable anger swirling all over the pce, making everyone else feel suffocated.

  But just a few seds ter, that anger immediately disappeared in an instant as the butler quickly casted "Sleep" towards the maress and her son. The two quickly lost their sciousness as the spell took into effect.

  "But well, I know that it wasn't your faults, so I will go easy owo of you. Am I right, Rita?" ［Abraham］

  "E-Eh? What do you mean, Your Excellency?" ［Rita］

  Baaannnnngggg

  Abraham raised his fist into the air and delivered it to the dining table with a loud bang, making the served dishes fly all over the room. Rita's words only added fuel into the fire.

  "Don't a! I already know what you are plotting!!" ［Abraham］

  "I-I-I h-have no idea what you're talking about, Your excellency. I have never done anything to harm the Beldon household." ［Rita］

  When Rita heard Abraham's words, her mind trembled virtually as she tried tain posure. In spite of being shaken, she still stood her ground and tinued with her act.

  She was fident that the marquess was only trying to bme her blindly. There was no reason for her to panic as she had kept hidden every piece of evidence. Especially sihe marquess resent.

  "Then how you expin this?!" ［Abraham］

  pletely out of Rita's expectations, Abraham pulled out a vial of e sort from his pocket. It was the same vial which taihe same kind of poison that Rita cocts secretly in her room.

  "N-No... That's impossible...!" ［Rita］

  "I know my wife and soer than anyone. I know that they wouldn't act like that without the influence of others, so I ordered Janus to iigate every servant after His Majesty's summon, and... it looks like it was the right choice." ［Abraham］

  "Well, that room was locked for some reason. It was the most suspicious ohe room was really hard to open without leaving any trace. Hahaha." ［Janus］

  The butler just a few meters by the right of Rita said as he cracked his neck ever so slightly and then ughed lightly. He wasn't just any butler, he also happeo be the former head of the knights uhe Beldon household.

  While Rita had meticulously hidden all her tracks, it was still easy to spot for Janus who had the ability to see through hidden meisms. It was a pletely terrible matchup for her.

  'N-No, this isn't happening! I o escapeー' ［Rita］

  Rita screamed inwardly as quickly turned around, trying to escape with everything she had, but before she could even touch the door's handle...

  ??Paralyze?? ［Janus］

  ... she had already stumbled towards the floor as she was subjected to Janus' magic. The tter only looked at her pitifully as he slowly shook his head left and right.

  "If I were you, I would just stay right there. Even if you were to escape here, the guards are already waiting for you outside those doors." ［Abraham］

  With Abraham's words weighing down on her, Rita's st ray of hope quickly perished before her. Only a bitter end was what awaited her the moment she was discovered. It was game over.

  ...

  Cck Cck Cck

  The sound of footsteps echoed throughout the hallways as a group of people walked down them. It was Grey and his css who were currently heading towards the training ground in order to train.

  It was the st day of the week once again and it was time to test the students' progress throughout the week. But when they arrived there, they saw a group of people they weren't expeg to see.

  "Yuna...?" ［Grey］

  "Ah, Grey..." ［Yuna］

  It was Yuna and her css who was currently undergoing practical training. The only thing strange was that they were practig iraining ground which was reserved frey's css.

  "Why are you here? Don't you also have your own training ground?" ［Grey］

  "Well, you see..." ［Yuna］

  Yuna quickly expio Grey the situation in order to prevent any trouble from happening. While they were doing so, many students couldn't help but look curiously at the two, w what retionship they have.

  Acc to Yuna, because of the i weeks ago, there are still csses with no training grounds. One of those csses asked Yuna to borrow their training ground and she agreed, leading to the current situation.

  It was also because of this situation that Grey and Yu for the first time in the academy outside of break and dismissal times. Not to mention they alsht their csses with them.

  While Yuna could have asked Grey via telepathy, she didn't do so as she was afraid of disturbing his css. She decided to just use the training ground briefly and tell Grey afterwards. Unfortunately, the training took lohan she expected.

  "I see... So that's what happened..." ［Grey］

  "Sorry, I wasn't able to tell you beforehand." ［Yuna］

  "No, it's alright. Unpreted things happen all the time. I'll just tell my css what happened and ask for their opinions." ［Grey］

  "Un..." ［Yuna］

  Casually walking back to his css, Grey then expined what happeo his css. But rather than his expnation, there were other things the students were more focused on. It was especially true for the boys.

  "Hey, Instructor, you introduce us to the girl over there?!"

  "Yeah, Instructor, she looks really cute!"

  "Do you think she has a boyfriend?"

  The boys and girls all paid special attention to Yuna. The girls looked at her with eyes full of admiration, looking up to her beauty. Meanwhile, the boys looked at her like high schoolers who had just fallen in love.

  While Grey uood why they became attracted to Yuna as she was extremely beautiful, he couldn't hide the feeling of wanting to beat up the boys in his css. After all, he was Yuna's boyfriend.

  "Her name's Yuna." ［Julius］

  "Eh? You know him, Yhness?!"

  "Yeah, I know her. We've eaten lunch together a few times already." ［Julius］

  "Really?! Thehat mean you're close with her?!"

  "Is she currently single, Yhness?!"

  The css' attention was quickly shifted to Julius as soon as he said he knew Yuna. The boys' eyes were especially sparkling as they looked at him like a savior, wanting to ask more details.

  Meanwhile, Grey only became more and more irritated as the students inquired more about Yuna. He was barely holding his anger back as he khat the boys meant no ill iowards him or Yuna.

  The css was so absorbed with their own world that they didn't notice Grey's scary expression. Actually, there was oudent who noticed. It was Amelia who was now trembling after seeing his menag smile which clearly wasn't one.

  "Well, she's currently serving as the temporary instructor of year 2's alpha css. As for the other question, she isn't... Actually, her boyfriend's right there." ［Julius］

  """Eh?"""

  It was only when Julius pointed his firey that the oticed how terrifying Grey's expression had bee. The moment they saw it, cold chills quickly came running down their spines.

  Julius, who was the one answering their expressions also just noticed what face Grey was currently wearing. He felt trouble loom over his heart as he saw Grey's silent and smiling expression, clearly feeling a little killing i.

  "What's wrong? Why did you stop talking? Please don't mind me and just tih your versation. You were having su iing topic, it's a shame if you stop now." ［Grey］

  Grey asked calmly as he maintaihe smile over his face, but rather than fort the students, it only made them more scared. Even the girls who didn't do anything wrong were scared, not to mention the boys.

  "Sorry, Instructor!"

  "Please don't punish us!"

  "We'll do anything, just don't make the training harder!"

  Oer ahe boys bowed their heads befrey. If oo see the se without any text, one would easily imagihe students were begging for their lives. That was how scared the students looked.

  As for Julius and Amelia, they learned ohing, and that was how scary love was. Even though Grey was usually gentle in his normal self, he became very scary when Yuna was involved. Even scarier than when he was in teacher mode.

  The issue was quickly resolved with only a little warning towards the boys. Well, even if Grey didn't warhey wouldn't think of Yuna pig up anymrey's eyes were scary enough for them.

  "Was everything alright?" ［Yuna］

  "Yeah, the students were very uanding. They don't mind sharing the training ground with year 2." ［Grey］

  "That's great news.... By the way, the faces of your students look pale. Did something happen?" ［Yuna］

  "Nothing really. They might just be a little tired." ［Grey］

  Yuna looked at Grey's students o time to make sure, and when she did, the boy's eyes immediately turned away from her. Although she was curious about their rea, she didn't pry further.

  "What about your css? It seems like you're missing one person..." ［Grey］

  "Un. It was Cadet Beldon. Apparently, he suddenly got sid o stay at home." ［Yuna］

  "I see..." ［Grey］

  Grey mumbled in a low voice as he looked at Yuna's css. There, he could see Elise, Eine and everyone else he saw before. The only one missing, like Yuna said, was the arrogant student from before.

  Of course, it wasn't true that Gee was sick. He was just under grounded ihe mansion as the iigation towards Rita was ongoing, but Grey and Yuna has yet to learn of that.

  "Instructrey, just asking. What are we going to do for practical training now that year 2 is present?" ［Julius］

  "Ah, right..." ［Grey］

  Grey was immediately made to think as soon as he heard Julius' question. While the issue with sharing is resolved, there was still the issue regarding the afternoon activities to be solved.

  Both Grey and Yuna tried to think about it for a moment, but the moment their eyes met with another, an idea popped into both of their minds. They didn't eveo use telepathy.

  For the sed time, Julius felt a chill running down his spines as he saw Grey and Yuna's smile after they locked eyes with one another. He felt something ominous he couldn't quite describe.

  "Noooo! Help meeee!"

  "Arghh! Stop chasing me!"

  "Ruuunn! Everybody, ruuuunnn!"

  Screams echoed and chaos ensued as the students ran in all dires being chased by monsters. Grey and Yuna decided to not think about it too mud just do the usual. They just summoned a bunonsters and had everyone in both csses fight them in an open field.

  While people usually say, the more the merrier, the students couldn't agree any less with their current situation. It has bee even more hell-like to them. With double the instructors, there was double the trouble.

  CHAPTER 93 END