As I walked away from my classmates, I found Jill waiting for me with a nervous expression on her face.
["Jill, what is it?"]
[Jill: "It's nothing much, you just looked worried... Is everything okay?"]
["Yeah, I just had to tie up some loose ends."]
I said as I began walking again.
[Jill: "By the way, who were those people?"]
["My former classmates, the 'Heroes'..."]
I scoffed.
Jill's expression turned sour again as she raised her pace to catch up with me.
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After the ceremony ended, we were guided to the student dorm by the staff...
[Jill: "Well then, Ren, I'll take my leave now, if there is anything you need, just call for me."]
["Yeah, I'll do that."]
Jill's room was just next to mine.
I turned around and opened the door with the key I received:
The room was about 40 square meters in size. It was decorated with luxurious furniture and had a huge window front with a gorgeous view of Empyros. The kitchen had an oven and a fridge powered by magic crystals. There even was a magical communication device placed on the table with a note attached to it:
"Channel your magic power into it to claim it as your own. It can be activated by channeling an additional amount into it and thinking of the mana signature of the intended individual."
I did as instructed and thought about Jill, and after a short pause, I heard a static noise and Jill's voice.
[Jill: "Hello? Who is this?"]
["Ah, sorry, It's me! I just wanted to try the communication device."]
[Jill: "Oh, I understand, but you know, you can just call it as it is, a phone."]
Ahhhh~ It seems the Otherworldlers influence reached even this far...
["Ah, well then, I think I need a round of sleep... I'll see you later!"]
[Jill: "Okay~ later then!"]
And with this, I ended the call, slumped down on my bed, and quickly fell asleep...
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Elsewhere in a luxurious kitchen stood a tall woman. She wore casual clothes and a white apron, her dark, purple hair tied in a ponytail behind her sharp ears and scaly horns.
Her appearance could be described as extremely beautiful if it weren't for the fact that her yellow, maddening eyes were all too focused on cutting off the skin of the corpse of a wyvern and the blood on her hands and apron.
Her mouth formed into a crescent smile that revealed her sharp teeth. While she licked her full lips in anticipation she received a call:
She answered the phone with her bloodied hand.
["Yeah, Gram here."]
[???: "Hey, It's me! I'm currently at Capital University, and would you look at that... Two delicacies! Two!"]
She replied in a voice as cold as steel to the itchy, hypertensive voice of the caller.
["I'm interrested, go on."]
While talking, the womans eyes did not lose focus as she continued to skin and cut the wyvern into steak sized pieces of meat.
[???: "One is the ice-dragon Yukiara, and the other one I've never seen before. Seems to be a fire-dragon called Ren."]
["Interessting, can you make preperations to give me a position in the teaching staff? prefferably as a combat instructor.
...
Ah, by the way, why are you telling me this? What's your goal?"]
[???: "Sharp as ever, Ms. Gram. Well, let's just say this Ren is a Emperor Candidate, and I'm not shure the Candidate the 'Nul' is backing can win under normal circumstances..."]
["Ahhh... So you want me to get rid of him, because I'm Siegfriede Gram, the Purple Dragon Slayer. But you know, Just because dragon is my favorite food doesn't mean I'll cooperate so easily. I expect 500 Gold in addition. Ah, and by the way, isn't the Golden Dragon Slayer Herces always by the side of the Yon candidate?"]
[???: "Yes,k he is, but we don't have controll over him at all, so you are much easier to handle."]
["What?! Are you calling me an easy woman, just kidding ;P"]
[???: "Funny as always I see... Anyways, I'll prepare everything for your arrival."]
["Alright then, I'm pumped!"]