Maou Reijou no Kyouiku Gakari - Chapter 1 – Fired –

Chapter 1 – Fired –

The square room has a nostalgic feel to it.

A large chalkboard that takes up more than half of one of the four sides of the wall.

Wooden desks and chairs arranged in a neat grid pattern.

Classroom, it’s one room that can only be called that for all intents and purposes.

And around the center of the room, five girls are seated in a row, side by side, as if they’ve been waiting for me.

「These are the Lord’s daughters. These are your new students.」

The woman in the maid’s uniform who had led me to this point, pointing with her hand towards the five of them, said it as if it was already a decision that had been made.

The girls stare at me in silence.

One of them is priceless. Another one seems to scorn me. And another one yawns in boredom. Each of the five have a different color of emotion in their eyes.

「These kids…..」

When I walked through that door, I thought I had done everything I could to prepare for it.

I thought I had done everything I could to prepare for it, but this was far from unexpected.

In front of those five girls with their own characteristics, I could only gaze at them in amazement.
(is the last line the right translation for this? i have no clue… 人・間・に・は・あ・り・え・な・い・特・徴・を持つその五人の少女を前にして、俺はただ呆然とその姿を眺めることしか出来なかった)

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–one week ago.

「Frey-kun, you don’t have to come back tomorrow.」

A large desk with a pile of papers, and a fine white bearded old man sitting across from it, said to me.

「Huh…?　Dean I don’t understand what you mean by that…」

「Hmm….. Well, let me make this simple for you, kid.」

「Fired…?」

「Yeah, you’re fired.」

As soon as the Dean said that, he began to process the pile of papers at hand, as if to say that this was decided a long time ago.

I’m fired……… Fired………. Fired!

「Fi-, fired!　Me?　Why!」

「Why?　You know that better than anyone, don’t you?」

The dean takes one look at me this time and says so in a cold tone.

The eyes, hidden behind the thick glasses I could see for a moment, seemed to have an even colder contempt in them than his tone.

「Not at all! I have no idea!」

Recalling my not-so-long teaching career, I can’t think of anything that would get me fired out of nowhere. I’m sure i haven’t done anything like that yet.

In response to me refuting that while raising my voice, the headmaster exhaled loudly.

Then he opened his mouth again with a look on his face as if to say, “Oh dear”

「Several female students have informed me that they have received inappropriate instruction from you.」

「Huh, inappropriate instruction!?」

When I heard those words, I thought back again, but I still had no idea what he was talking about.

Inappropriate teaching of female students, just the sound of that word alone is certainly quite inappropriate.

But of course I don’t remember doing such a thing.

「Well, we have multiple statements from other students who were not involved in the incident.」

「Which students?　I would never say that–」

「You can’t tell me that. I am supposed to be protecting the students, not you. And that doesn’t give you the right to make a defence.」

The dean tells me this in a loud but clear tone, covering my protests.

That tone of voice that pushes me away tells me disgustingly that I’m no longer a subordinate to this guy to protect.

「What, don’t I even have the right to defend myself…?」

「The board and the faculty unanimously decided on this. Accept it quietly.」

Saying that, while lifting his slightly misaligned glasses, the dean holds a document in front of me.

As he said, the board of directors and the faculty committee unanimously decided to revoke my, Frey Garnett’s, teaching credentials at this academy.

「No way…」

An even deeper sense of despair surrounds me.

This is not something that would came out of the blue.

I’ve felt the swordswoman’s air since I was suddenly called out by the headmaster on my day off, but I never imagined it would reach this point.

「Where are we, Frey-kun?」

「Eh?」

「I’m asking you where we are.」

The dean looks straight at me this time and asks me that question.

「The Royal……..Luxe Academy of Sword and Magic…」

At no point did i think that answering it would make things better, but i answered the question with a conditioned reflex due to the hierarchical relationship i had cultivated so far.

「That’s right. And what’s the philosophy behind it?」

「It’s about finding the next generation of young people who have the power to be the heroes of the next generation and leading them right to it….」

「Yes, that’s right. So, as you know, this school is attended by many promising students, mainly from the most prominent families in the country, right?」

「…Yes」

The academy named after the hero of the country, the brave…….Lux. It is commonly known as the ‘Brave Academy’.

Although it has a short history of only fifteen years since its establishment, it is known as an academy that gathers the country’s best personnel as teachers in departments other than swordsmanship and magic, which is indicated by its name, and provides the highest level of education in the country, both in name and reality.

The students come from some of the country’s most prominent families and are young people of exceptional talent in some skill, and many of the graduates have gone on to hold important positions in the country and military.

「Therefore, even if you were innocent, our school has no choice but to make that decision when it comes to this kind of thing.」

「…Is that because I’m from a commoner’s background…?」

「There’s no point in letting this go on, Frey-kun. I wouldn’t summon the guards myself, would I?」

I couldn’t spell out any more words to the headmaster, who just gave a one-sided, shunting ultimatum without answering the question.

And then he left the room in silence.