After finishing the conversation with Dean Ama'lane, I thought about his words about killing some person to impersonate him. Was I the kind of person or half-elf who could calmly kill a person to hide himself?
I didn't know, realizing that the dean was right and I couldn't find another solution and not admit that it was time to change my thinking and approach to solving such problems. I didn't want to be constantly afraid that the Cray Empire or others would find out who I really was. Lost in my thoughts, I did not notice how Keirin returned, she again put on the servant costume that I bought her before the rating fight. Looking at me, she couldn't help but frown during this time, she began to understand my expressions well.
- Trey, what are you thinking? - Keirin asked, sitting down next to me.
Turning my head in her direction and looking at her and smiled maybe it's strange, but feeling that not one gave me strength.
- I was talking to Ama'lane, the dean of swordsmen. - I answered her, looking at the table.
Surprised, Keirin did not understand what I was talking about with Ama'lane, she knew that he was at the moment when I accepted the power of the chosen god of chaos. But at the moment she did not understand what my conversation with him was connected with.
- I heard Hei and Nreu talking today, they have an order from the emperor and Empress to find Prince Alurik and they have already submitted assignments to the bureau hoping to find information about me. - I said, looking at the table, seeing our reflection on the surface with Keirin.
Looking at myself, I still had a hard time accepting myself as I am now. Arriving at the academy, I hoped to remain unnoticed until the end of my studies at the academy, but everything went wrong at first from checking the swordsman and then I attract more and more attention. Maybe this is the fate of all who were chosen by the gods? Be the center of attention.
- He took care of those who knew or could offer some information about me, but there was one last thing that could lead to me. - I continued, raising my head and starting to look around the room in search of how to say it.
Realizing that Ama'lane was giving a recommendation, but I agree that this is the only way to get rid of the fact that the Cray Empire is looking for me, at least for a while. Keirin was sitting next to me and silently waiting for what I would say next.
- This is the form I was tested in and it belongs to Prince Alurik if it is found, I will have a lot of questions and suspicions. Therefore, the dean suggested a way out is to find a person similar to me in appearance and provide his corpse as mine. - I continued talking, trying not to look at Keirin.
She had every right to condemn me for such a decision, but I saw only this opportunity.
- I don't want to constantly look back to the fear that the Cray Empire is somewhere nearby, so I accepted the dean's recommendation and will find a person like myself, but that's not all. - Not noticing how my voice gets quieter, waiting for Keirin to react.
But turning my gaze to her, I did not notice any condemnation in her eyes, there was an understanding that it needed to be done, feeling how it became easier for me to breathe, I involuntarily smiled again.
- But that's not all? - Keirin's quiet voice was heard. She doubted that we had talked about this with the dean.
Agreeing with her, I began to talk about how Ama'lane asked me to participate in this year's tournament as a swordsman. I didn't see any reason to refuse his request, so I agreed.
- But Trey, you don't have a new swordsman technique that can hide your Cray Empire technique. - Keirin spoke incomprehensibly of my actions.
She was right, I didn't have a swordsman's technique, I didn't want to use a technique that wouldn't be with me for a long time, so there was only one thing left to get into the capital and the castle where at least some Abel technique could be stored.
- That's right, so we can't delay infiltrating the capital for another three months. We will try to enter the capital after we finish escorting the caravan. - Explaining the plan to her, I saw her frown at my words.
I watched as she thought about my plan and I found it funny to watch her beautiful face frown as her eyes narrowed then as she looked around the room thinking about something.
- And how do you plan to explain that you didn't return to the academy after completing the task? - Keirin asked, looking at me intently.
I tried not to laugh seeing her like this, she was very similar to Samantha, no wonder they were sisters.
- We'll come up with a thread, I don't know if it will be possible to delay, I think the deans and the director won't mind much. - I answered her trying not to laugh, it sounded better in my head, but what was done was done.
She looked at me uncomprehendingly, she could not clearly understand why the deans and directors would not mind.
- We'll deal with this when we arrive in the city, tell me did you buy everything? - I asked, returning to a calm state.
Keirin didn't understand how it was so easy to quickly change the topic of conversation, but she agreed that it could be discussed during the escort of the caravan.
- Yes, I bought everything, but I didn't know that we were planning to stay there for a long time Trey. - Keirin replied, annoyed that things were not going as they had agreed.
Laughing at her irritated intonation, she has not yet got used to the fact that everything is not going the way we plan.
- It remains only for Cassandra and Samantha to say that we are going on assignments so that they don't worry. - I said, thinking how to tell them this.
Thinking about how to tell them this, I could not find the words they would like to hear, especially Cassandra, fearing that she would want to go with us, but there was a tournament for which they were training now, they both participate and this should have stopped her wanting to go with us.
- Do you know what you're going to tell them? - Keirin asked with interest, looking at Trey.
Shaking my head, I got up and went to pour tea for myself and her, I was thinking about what our little trip with Keirin would bring us, I didn't really want to take her with me, but the mark of a slave and a master, not knowing how it works because of the intervention of the goddess of chaos, I didn't want to risk and of course Keirin had experience in traveling too unlike me, she had been to different places in this world and knew many things that I still had to learn.