Sparse trees and greeneries, rge open spaces, and unpaved grounds. Apart from the buildings on the sides, those were the only things one would easily notice as they stroll iraining grounds.

  In such a wide training ground, several people sprawled motionless on the ground while some were sitting or standing silently, not uttering a single word as they took to heart the defeat they had just suffered.

  "Ugh... What happened..." ［Julius］

  Julius, the sed prince, held his forehead with his right arm as he slowly regained sciousness. His whole body was still sore and ag from the strikes he suffered from the golem.

  As for the golem who caused him sutense pain, Grey had already celed its summoning, thus it has turned baana and vanished into thin air. It had a short life, not that it was sidered a living thing anyway.

  Julius was the st to wake up amongst his cssmates. Even when Grey had already casted recovery magi them and their wounds had already healed, some of their body parts were still sore, making moving a little painful.

  "It seems like all of you have woken up." ［Grey］

  "Wait... who are you again...?" ［Julius］

  "Yhness, he's our new instructor, Instructrey." ［Amelia］

  Julius tried hard to recall who the young man before him was, but it was to no avail. Thankfully, the kind girl with the dete-type ability helped him out. She was called Amelia.

  Having beeen so badly, the students of the Royal Academy have accepted Grey to be their new instructors. While their pride was hurt, they couldn't deny the fact that it was because of their own weakness. They didn't hold Grey atable.

  "Ah, right... Wait! Then that means..." ［Julius］

  "Yes... We lost..." ［Amelia］

  "I see..." ［Julius］

  Although Julius responded calmly, his frustration was still showing as clear as day as he ched his fist. It was his first time losing to someone his age, not to mention so one-sidedly. He was frustrated at his own weakness.

  "Since you've all lost the match, just like what we agreed to, I'm going to bee the new instructor of your css, and you'll have to follow my instrus obediently. No one's against this, right?" ［Grey］

  Answering Grey's question, all the students nodded in sileh traces of deje present in their eyes. They have no other choice but to aowledge Grey's strength and swallow their pride.

  Evehey only fought the summoned creature and not Grey himself, it was on sehat the summoner must at least have a suffit amount of mana and mana quality. It meant that the summoner must at least be at the level of the summoned creature.

  Not to mention the fact that Grey didn't even tire out when he summohe golem, everyone in the css had assumed that Grey was at least a D-ranker. Someone whom they will never be able to beat with their current selves.

  "Looks like everything here is fine. I'll be going bay offiow." ［Arnelius］

  "Ah, yes... Thank you for the help, headmaster." ［Grey］

  "It was my pleasure, Instructrey. I'll be in my office finishing some paperwork. You're always wele when you need something." ［Arnelius］

  The Headmaster took a final g the alpha css students before turning around and waving his hand goodbye. He headed back to his office where a ton of work was waiting for him.

  As frey, he looked at the students' status ss for a quick while and thought of the best way to teach them, or rather, he was thinking what monsters he should summon for them to fight against.

  "Alright. Now that I'm your instructor, we'll be doing things differently. Rather than lessons, we'll be having practical training everyday until my tract is finished. Does anyone have a question?" ［Grey］

  "Umm... Instructor, what do you mean by practical training...?" ［Amelia］

  Amelia asked as she raised her right hand shyly, still a little afraid of Grey and still traumatized about what she just experienced. And in respoo her question, a big smile appeared on Grey's face.

  "You'll be fighting summoned creatures day after day, of course." ［Grey］

  When Grey said those words, all the students' jaws dropped to the ground like an anvil falling from the sky. They were extremely shocked to the point that some even fainted just from hearing his words.

  "Wait, Instructor, does that mean we're going to fight a golem, everyday?!"

  "Instructor, we're going to die from that!"

  "Instructor, please have mer us!"

  A non-stop barrage of pints and cries were directed to Grey from all dires, with the students' faces half scared and half begging. Some even have tears f at the er of their eyes.

  Even the sed prince who was royalty was frozen the moment he heard Grey's words, or rather than saying he was frozen, it was more like his mind ran into an error as he tried to process what Grey had just said.

  To Grey, it felt like he was a father who was on the receiving end of his children's tantrum. Except in his case, there were ten children and all of them were parts of noble households.

  ...

  Silehere was only silehroughout the rge as Yuna arranged her things on the desk. Ever since she fired a high-level spell oraining grounds, the students have bee a lot more quiet and obedient.

  After arrangihings and fixing the desk a little bit, Yuna then grabbed a piece of paper and a pen she saw in the desk's drawer and started writing things down. She was designing a pn to teach her students.

  Yuna's quiet scribbling was the only subtle sound which reverberated throughout the as she tio write down her pn and schedule. During the eime, not a siudent dared to utter a word.

  Yuna used the schedule of activities the Headmaster gave her and Grey as the basis oraining pn, only pitg in a few things here and there, making it simir to how she and Grey trained Eliza before.

  'Hmm... This should be it...' ［Yuna］

  As she put down the pen, Yuna reviewed the tents of her pn, making sure that everything was written down correctly. And when she was sure of it, she then looked towards the students, making them just a little.

  "Umm... Who here is the css representative?" ［Yuna］

  "T-That would be me, Instructor" ［???］

  Answering Yuna's question, a beautiful blonde girl sitting right o Elise raised her right hand shyly, with it trembling a little bit. She was one ohe sed year's stro, Eine von Geldoria.

  "Umm... Eine von Geldoria, right...?" ［Yuna］

  "Y-Yes, that would be me." ［Eine］

  "Mmm... I've been wanting to ask this, but... are you perhaps Sir Gustav's daughter?" ［Yuna］

  Faced by an ued question, Eine was frozen a little bit to the point where her trembling stopped a little and her expression became one which was obviously puzzled as to why Yuna asked her with such question.

  "A-Ah, y-yes... I am Lt. ander Geldoria's eldest daughter." ［Eine］

  "I k! So that means you're Elise and Liz's cousin, right?!" ［Yuna］

  "Y-Yes...?" ［Eine］

  An even more puzzled expression loomed over Eine's face as she witnessed Yuna's expressionless face bloomed into aed state. She looked nothing like what she was before. It was as if she was a different person.

  "You know, I've heard stories about you from Sir Gustav. He never really mentioned your name so I didn't easily identify that it was you he was talking about. He even talked about the time when...." ［Yuna］

  As Yuna tio ramble on her own, not only Eine's, all the other student's faces also became dumbfounded in her ge of attitude. If she looked like a cold demoness before, now she looks like a bright angel. A very rge trast.

  For a few minutes, Yuna rambled on her own about the stories of Gustav and Eliza to the whole css. While no one really uood her, the tension within the quickly disappeared as they witnessed Yuna's true personality.

  The very first oo get rexed was Elise who already had a ce to i with Yuerday. After seeing Yuna cheerfully telling stories, she became fortable and realized she was still the same friend she made yesterday.

  Though Elise was a little bewildered at the fact that her friend had bee their css' instructor, she couldn't really bme the academy after witnessing her capabilities. Yuna was more than qualified.

  Elise had already expected that Yuna owerful after hearing that she guarded her little sister, Eliza, for quite a while. She had expected her to be at E-rank, but oh boy, how far off her assumptions were.

  "Ah! Sorry, I kept on rambling! I totally fot that we still have csses." ［Yuna］

  Yuna only stopped rambling when she realized how much time had passed. Her adorable rea when she realized it was the ig on the cake. Because of it, the css had bee totally rexed.

  "Ah, right, Cadet Geldoria, what monsters could you fight against right now?" ［Yuna］

  "Umm... Everyone here should be able to fight against orcs with retive ease. If we were to push ourselves, we would be on equal grounds with ogres." ［Eine］

  While she was a little puzzled with Yuna's question, Eiill answered it with the best of her abilities, not skipping over aail. She wasn't the css representative for nothing.

  "Alright, the's head to the training grounds!" ［Yuna］

  """Huh?""" """"Eh?""""

  Dumbfounded expressions pstered on their faces, all the students voiced out a response full of fusion as they failed to uand Yuna's iions. As for Yuna, she was gleaning with excitement.

  Without saying a single word to the students, Yuna brought them to the wide training ground she just froze a while ago. Thanks to Grey, there wasn't any ice or ess present on it.

  "Alright, this should be good." ［Yuna］

  "Umm... Instructor, what are we doing here...?" ［Eine］

  "Training!" ［Yuna］

  When Yuna said those words, everyone in css suddenly jolted as if they instinctively felt a looming danger approag them. One way or ahey all felt something bad was gonna happen.

  "W... What kind of training...?" ［Eine］

  Eine asked nervously and Yuna beamed a bright smile to them as a response. Moments ter, screams of fear, pain, and fusion filled the training grounds. It was the very definition of pandemonium.

  The students ran around and brandished their ons as they struggled for their dear lives. Yuna had summoned Ogres, F-rank monsters, for each of the students to "train" against.

  While such a chaotic se was going on, Yuna was just sitting in a nearby shade, cheering for them happily with a bright smile on her faot even pitg in when one of the students got knocked unscious.

  As for Elise and Eine who were amongst the top three best in their year...

  "Kyaa～!! Help meee～!!" ［Elise］

  "Mama～!" ［Eine］

  ... they were having the time of their lives as they screamed to the top of their lungs. It was an experiehey were never going tet throughout their entire lives.

  ...

  A few hours has passed since Grey crushed his css with a single golem, and lunch time has finally arrived. It also meant that he'll be having lun the Royal Academy's cafeteria. Something he looked forward to.

  Grey was very excited at the thought of eating in the cafeteria as it has been almost a decade since he had done so. He was feeling nostalgic as he reminisced about the times he and his high school and college friends had lun the cafeteria together.

  But as much as Grey wao enjoy the nostalgic atmosphere, there was ohing which bothered him. And that thing was the fact that two of his students were following behind him. It was Julius and Amelia.

  "Umm... Cadet Julius, Cadet Amelia, may I ask for the reason as to why you're following me around?" ［Grey］

  "We just want to have lunch with you, no other reason." ［Julius］

  "Ah, I see..." ［Grey］

  Grey o Julius' response, but iy, he wao retaliate about what kind of a was. It was something which didn't ahe question at all. In short, it was an insanely useless answer!

  Although he wao retaliate, he couldn't as the two's identity was that of a prind a noble's daughter. His rank was higher than them but really didn't feel like exposing it to the public.

  Just right after Grey gave up oopic, he saw Yuna and Elise at the er of his eyes, and another dy he does not know, lining up at the ter to buy their lunch. The other dy was, of course, Eine.

  "Oh, Grey!" ［Yuna］

  The very moment Yuna noticed Grey's approach, she immediately waved her hand eically towards his dire. Elise also did the same, although not even close as eic as Yuna's waving.

  "New friends of yours?" ［Yuna］

  "Well, sort of. They're my students. This is His Highness, Cadet Julius, and Cadet Amelia. Cadet Julius, Cadet Amelia, this is Yuna, my partner." ［Grey］

  "My name is Yuna, it's a pleasure to meet you." ［Yuna］

  "I am Julius von Helvor Alfriohe pleasure is mine." ［Julius］

  "And I'm Amelia von Redlocke, it's also a pleasure." ［Amelia］

  After introdug themselves, they quickly became acquainted with each other. The ones with Yuna also bowed their heads in order to greet Julius. After all, he was still the sed prince of the kingdom.

  "ht, Grey. This is Eine, Sir Gustav's daughter." ［Yuna］

  "o meet you, I'm Eine von Geldoria." ［Eine］

  "As Yuna had said, the name's Grey. I'll be in your care." ［Grey］

  "Agh... All these introdus are making me dizzy. How about we get lunch first? I'm already starving." ［Julius］

  Following Julius' suggestion, all six of them lined up at the lunch ter and bought themselves some lunch. They then found themselves a rge table and sat there together with one another.

  "Wow～ Instructrey, Miss Yuna, you really finish all of that?" ［Amelia］

  Amelia asked traces of surprise in her voice after seeing how much food Grey and Yuna bought from the ter. It wasn't really that much, but it wasn't the normal amouher. It made them stand out a little.

  Speaking of standing out, they once became the ter of attention again, especially with a handsome prind three more beautiful dies apanying them. But uhem, Julius wasn't bothered by it, rather, he was used to that kind of attention.

  "Don't worry about us, we finish this without a problem!" ［Yuna］

  "I... I see..." ［Amelia］

  Or so Amelia said, but she still looked ed about Grey and Yuna. She found it hard to believe how someone like Yuna who has a slim and delicate figure could eat such a rge amount of food.

  "Oh, by the way, Miss Yuna. I haven't seen you here before. Assuming that you're Instructrey's partner, are you perhaps the new instructor for the alpha css of year 2?" ［Julius］

  "Ah, yes. It's my first day today." ［Yuna］

  "Ugh... Just what the heck is happening...? Just why are we having new instructors e...?" ［Julius］

  Yuna answered calmly as she started digging in on her food, not even bothered that Julius rince. Julius oher hand was having a headache as he tried to uand what was going on.

  Unlike before when she showed respect to Julius as a prince, Yuna now treated Julius casually. The reason was simple. It was because Yuna was now focused on the food rather than Julius.

  "ht. Elise, how did your css go? Yuna wasn't being too harsh on you, was she?" ［Grey］

  When Grey asked that question, Elise and Eine's faces turned pale and their eyes instantly became lifeless. Eine was even trembling just by remembering what just happehis m.

  As for Yuna who was the cause of their current state, the moment Grey looked at her, Yuna's eyes immediately went swimming towards another dire, obviously guilty about it.

  "On behalf of Yuna, I apologize if she ever did something unreasonable." ［Grey］

  "Ah, it's alright. She just made all of us fight ogres, that's all..." ［Elise］

  "Yeah, we weren't screaming all the time at all..." ［Eine］

  "Ah, I... I see..." ［Grey］

  Elise and Eine said they were alright but their eyes and faces were not on the same page with them. It was clearly an unfortunate experience for them that they surely won't fet even if they tried to.

  While Grey wao scold Yuna a litt, he really couldn't do so since he also did the same thing to his css. Not to mention that he was softhearted when it es to his girlfriend. It was impossible for him.

  All Grey could do was ease their hearts a little and cheer them up. A token of apology of some sorts. It was also the perfect time since all of them were having lunch at the moment.

  "Grey, what are you retrieving?" ［Yuna］

  "It's pudding." ［Grey］

  The moment Yuna heard Grey's words, her ears immediately perked up and her eyes lit up with expectations. Seeing her rea, the others also became curious as they anticipated what Grey was taking out.

  After retrieving the pudding, Grey then gave everyone a cup of it which they examined with eyes full of curiosity. Well everyone, all except for Yuna. She looked very excited.

  "What is this?" ［Julius］

  "It's a cold dessert called 'pudding'. sider it as a token of apology for what Yuna and I did earlier this m." ［Grey］

  "Pudding, huh..." ［Julius］

  Seeing Grey and Yuna feed a spoonful of pudding to themselves, the others followed suit ahemselves with a spoonful of pudding as well. Their reas were something Grey and Yuna were familiar with.

  "Whoa! So delicious!" ［Julius］

  "It's so sweet!" ［Elise］

  "It melts in my mouth～" ［Amelia］

  "So soft～" ［Eine］

  Everyone's mood was quickly lifted up as soon as they ate their cups of pudding. Although it was supposed to be for dessert, since Grey took it out too early, everyone e before they even had their meal.

  "Grey, seds!" ［Yuna］

  There articur someone who mao finish her cup in just a matter of seds as if she was being chased by someohat particur someone was her than Grey's beloved girlfriend, Yuna.

  "Hey, Yuna, I just gave you one, didn't I?" ［Grey］

  "But it's just too good! I 't stop myself!" ［Yuna］

  "Haah... Really, what am I going to do with you... Finish your meal first, I'll give you another oer you're doing." ［Grey］

  "Yaay～! You're the best, Grey!" ［Yuna］

  A smile beaming brightly on her face, Yuna hummed happily as she ate her lunch with a very delighted expression. While her hands moved quickly, she still minded her manners and ate with grace.

  It wasn't just Yuna earing a delightful expression, everyoting along the cafeteria table was the same. Though such happiness won't st long after they experieheir afternoon training, but that's a story for another day.

  CHAPTER 80 END