The Academy’s Undercover Professor – 133



◈ Episode 133: The sword in the shadow (1)

Erendir’s hands trembled.

Her complexion was as pale as someone who had been told a secret they should never have heard.

“Senior are you okay?”

“Huh? “Why are you doing this?”

“Because your complexion looks bad.”

“Uh yeah. “I guess it’s a bit like that.”

Erendir barely managed to answer.

But even as she spoke she felt something dark stirring inside her.

To be honest Erendir felt a huge(?) sense of betrayal from Ryne.

‘You were my soulmate!’

A cry that I couldn’t bring myself to say out loud throbbed in my chest.

Rine’s junior is kind and even pretty.

Surely it wouldn’t be strange to have a friend who would eat together at least with me.

Erendir thought that the reason I couldn’t admit it was because I was lacking in myself.

‘But still. I was going to tell you a story about what happened at the Kunst auction house while we were eating together!’

She had already drawn up a script in her head on how to tell the story.

Now all I have to do is find someone to listen to it but I can’t believe I’m having a problem here.

Erendir was in tears at the unbelievable reality.

“By the way. “Rine’s junior.”

“yes.”

“Who is the person you say you’re eating with?”

“Uh um. that is….”

Line hesitated to answer.

The person who made the appointment was Freuden Ulburg. But meeting him was a secret.

Freuden was a simple person who cultivated her own flower garden away from the public eye and the only person she shared her secret with was herself.

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─I would like you to keep the work here a secret.

These were the words Freuden had asked her when they parted ways.

If Freuden’s name is brought up here he becomes a soft-spoken person who freely shares other people’s secrets.

When Rine who had been thinking so far kept her mouth shut Erendir was shocked again.

That kind and innocent junior from Rine keeps who he eats a secret from himself!

‘This is a man! It must be a man!’

Erendir was convinced that the person eating with Linne was a man.

It was a judgment made out of anger but surprisingly it was accurate.

Erendir’s eyes widened but he quickly regained control of his expression.

“Is that so? Well there’s nothing you can do if you’re busy. Ho ho ho.”

“I’m sorry senior. “Let’s eat together tomorrow!”

“of course. And am I not the kind of narrow-minded person who gives a shit about things like this? You know? It’s true. “I’m not offended or anything.”

“yes?”

“Just~. “Yes.”

“Oh yes.”

Seeing Erendir smiling Rine nodded and felt relieved.

‘thank god. ‘Because my senior understood me with a big heart.’

Still I thought she would be a little cold inside but perhaps because she was a senior and a princess she was considerate of Line with a big heart.

“See you tomorrow.”

“huh. Goodbye.”

Liné bowed her head to Erendir who was waving her hand and disappeared down the hallway with shaky steps.

Erendir who had been waving to Linne stood still as if time had stopped the moment her figure disappeared from sight.

‘Line’s junior is going to eat with a man?’

Erendir thought.

Given Line’s personality there was no way she would have approached someone first and offered them a meal.

That means there was a strong possibility that the man approached him first.

One situation was immediately pictured in Erendir’s mind.

‘It’s clear that some wolf-like guy has seduced our innocent junior Lee!’

There were quite a few male students targeting Line.

Since her status was a commoner noble male students were especially easily attracted to her.

No matter how much Rine puts up a wall she won’t be able to hide her true intentions and block out everyone who approaches her.

‘It can’t stay like this! I have to step up and help my junior somehow!’

A sense of justice is a sense of justice but Lyné was the first friend Erendir made when he came to Seorn.

My friend was about to go down the wrong path but I couldn’t just keep my eyes open and watch.

Erendir followed Linne with stealthy steps.

‘There it is!’

At that moment Line was leaving the main building and heading towards the park.

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‘park! ‘It’s a place that students often use to secretly date the opposite sex!’

Erendir also had listening ears so he knew where the students were secretly whispering their love.

She followed after Line feeling that her anxious imagination was gradually becoming a reality.

‘What shameless guy dares to kill our juniors! ‘Let’s take a look!’

Thinking like that wouldn’t Line go into the remote forest adjacent to the park?

Erendir became desperate. I wondered if I should step forward and grab Rine’s hand right now.

‘Oh no!’

While thinking for a moment Rine entered the forest.

Erendir hurriedly followed her trail and headed into the forest.

How far did Erendir go? He found a clearing in the forest and stopped.

‘Is there a small vacant lot in a place like this?’

On one side of the artificially decorated vacant lot there was also a flower bed that was believed to have been tended by someone.

And the person she was chasing was standing tall in the center of the clearing.

It looks like it’s waiting for someone.

That means that the person who promised to eat with Line is here.

‘Where is it?’

It was then that Erendir who was hiding behind a tree and looking around heard a voice from behind.

“Who are you? “What are you doing here?”

Erendir quickly looked back in surprise.

And her eyes widened as she recognized the person speaking to her.

“Are you Freuden Ulburg?”

“…The Third Princess of Erendir?”

Freuden Ulburg.

With a cold expression he narrowed his eyes and glared at Erendir.

“I was wondering who came here secretly like a rat so what’s going on here?”

“Why on earth are you here?”

“That’s right….”

Freuden shook his head as he tried to answer.

“I don’t see any reason to explain it.”

“What?”

“oh! senior!”

Did you hear the two of them talking? Liné who was waiting in the vacant lot approached.

She saw Freuden and was about to say hello but stopped when she saw Erendir there as well.

“uh? Why is Senior Erendir here?”

Then he turned his head and looked at Freuden and Erendir alternately.

A strange silence fell between the three.

* * *

“therefore.”

Erendir who was sitting on a mat glanced at Freuden with eyes full of suspicion.

“Are you saying that you took care of this vacant lot and flower bed yourself and that Lee’s junior is meeting you and having a meal?”

“Is there anything strange about that?”

Freuden replied bluntly as he ate the food in the lunch box he had packed.

Rine who suddenly became involved in the fight between the two was left unable to do anything.

As she pondered what to do about this situation she cautiously opened her mouth.

“By the way Senior Erendir what are you doing here?”

Erendir trembled at the question that hit the nail on the head.

She answered hesitantly avoiding Line’s gaze.

“I was worried because you said you were eating and then suddenly headed to the park…”

“ah. I see.”

Rine immediately understood why Erendir had followed her.

If an acquaintance were to head to the forest to eat she would have had similar thoughts.

At that time Freuden snorted and refuted Erendir’s words.

“You’re making lame excuses. That means you have no friends.”

“What? Hey! It’s not that I don’t have friends! “I’m not dating on purpose!”

When Erendir said he had no friends he slammed his palm down on the floor.

Freuden’s words were like digging into her open wound.

“joy. What on earth are you Ulburg? It’s unusual to grow a cute flower bed in a place like this. “It’s completely different from your usual image isn’t it?”

Freuden frowned at Erendir’s counterattack.

“…don’t argue about other people’s hobbies.”

“I never dreamed that that cold-blooded wolf had such taste in girls.”

“I think the princess like that should have girlish tastes.”

“What?!”

No matter how you look at the two people growling at each other it was like enmity.

Freuden shook his head.

“If we keep talking like this we’ll only be wasting each other’s mental energy.”

“joy. It’s the same for me too. “Let’s go our separate ways.”

“…Why are you eating the lunch box I packed even though you say that?”

Erendir was eating the food that Freuden had brought for him a little while ago.

At those words Erendir suddenly stopped digging and decided to go out without the shame of having come all the way here anyway.

“What should I do if the food that my junior Lee will eat is not tasty? As a senior I am eating for you to confirm that.”

Freuden looked astonished at this shameless attitude of the princess.

I am not a food inspector to prevent the king from being poisoned.

What’s even more absurd is that Erendir the princess said she would eat it for Linne a commoner.

Isn’t the situation somehow the opposite?

“Because you’re so obsessed you have no friends.”

“radish…!”

Erendir was about to shout out what he was talking about but kept his mouth shut when he saw Rine staring at him from the side.

“Uh um. “I’ve felt this for a long time. Does Erendir-senpai have any other friends?”

“What do you mean! Rine junior! “I don’t have any friends?!”

“Isn’t it?”

“no. I saw it right. Line. Unfortunately this incorrigible third princess is a pitiful person who has not been able to make even a single friend.”

“you…!”

Erendir glared at him as if he were going to kill him but Freuden only shrugged his shoulders.

When Rine heard that she couldn’t understand the situation. Erendir is a princess so why isn’t she popular?

If your status is high don’t people around you automatically approach you?

“The response is that they are curious as to why. It’s simple. “The reason Third Princess Erendir became like that is entirely because of First Princess Eileen.”

“If you were the 1st princess….”

1st Princess Eileen von Exilion.

I remembered Erendir warning me that he was a very dangerous and scary person.

“Why is that?”

“It happened because the first princess’s position was so strong.”

“Why don’t you just stop talking nonsense?”

Erendir scolded him not to say any more but Freuden had no intention of doing so.

Anyway he was also quite annoyed by the uninvited guest coming to his nest.

“In normal families it is not uncommon for children to fight over succession rights. In severe cases fights can break out on a national level.”

Just look at the civil war that took place in the northern Kingdom of Utah.

The fight between the prince’s faction and the princess’s faction ignited war throughout the Kingdom of Utah and resulted in many casualties.

“But very occasionally there is no need to engage in such pointless disputes.”

“What is that?”

“If there is a definite successor.”

Erendir let out an uncomfortable growl.

However she didn’t really have anything to say in response. Because everything Freuden said was true.

“First Princess Eileen is the person without whom there is no room for disagreement as she becomes the emperor. Because she has everything to be a ruler. …To the point where it goes too far.”

Freuden had once encountered Eileen at a banquet held at the imperial palace.

The feeling I felt at that time was the fear of falling into the ocean and feeling like I was looking into an endless abyss.

What was contained in those empty indecipherable eyes seemed to be something other than human.

“As a result other people’s status is bound to become ambiguous.”

Usually the fight between the heirs to the throne was supported by the nobles and it was a norm for it to turn into a factional fight.

However if there is an overwhelming superhuman such a faction cannot even be formed.

Since everyone bets only on the winner the fight itself did not take place.

As the 1st princess received overwhelming support the position of the remaining successors became ambiguous.

Nobles did not have to take the risk of being attached to another heir.

All I had to do was swear allegiance to the 1st princess.

“Of course even if that were the case the strong background of the title of Third Princess would still be seen as quite attractive by other nobles. “If you marry someone from your own family you can maintain a stronger relationship with the imperial family.”

“Is that also true?”

“But that too was canceled by the first princess. “I don’t know what the wind was blowing but the 1st princess decided not to abandon her siblings but rather embrace them.”

It’s not enough to save the lives of those who might become his rivals so he embraces them.

If someone had done something like this they might have been called crazy.

However if the executor is Eileen the story is different.

“It’s not about embracing it. “She just needs toys to play with.”

Erendir was in tears and retorted but Freuden did not reply.

“Anyway she is actually the first princess who is called the next emperor. “There are no nobles with big hearts who do things that are outside of her eyes.”

This was the reason why Erendir was treated unbecoming a princess within Seorn Academy.

The nobles did not even approach the 3rd princess because their actions to become friends could offend the 1st princess.

On the contrary commoners felt burdened and rejected due to her high status as the third princess so they were unable to approach her.

“Actually the Third Princess didn’t even know that and when she was a freshman in first grade she went around in all directions doing club activities and volunteer work saying she wanted to make friends.”

“Ugh.”

“I couldn’t even imagine how uncomfortable it must have been for other students.”

“Ugh.”

As Freuden continued Erendir’s head turned downward.

In the end the past that he desperately hid from his juniors was revealed.

The noble third princess was actually a loner who couldn’t make any friends!

Erendir couldn’t raise his head because of shame.

Line also felt sorry for her and opened her mouth to defend her in some way.

“Well then the first princess was that amazing from a young age?”

“Surprisingly that’s not the case. “There was a time when she was alone with no support.”

At that time there were many nobles who showed blatantly subversive behavior.

They saw the talent of the first princess as dangerous and hatched a scheme to oust her.

“But all those nobles failed to achieve their goals and disappeared without even a rat or a bird knowing.”

“Disappeared?”

“I don’t know the details. It happened so long ago and is kept a strict secret. However there is one warning that is spreading implicitly among the nobles.”

It was at that moment that Erendir who had been quietly listening received those words.

“Beware of the first princess’s shadow. “There is no place untouched by the princess’s shadow.”

Freuden and Linne’s eyes turned to her.

Erendir’s face was faint but filled with fear.

“If you face that shadow you will surely die.”

“What… is that?”

“A taboo floating among nobles.”

It might sound ridiculous but I had no choice but to call it this.

“This is why no one can easily disobey the first princess.”