-SHATTER!
“USELESS! How can they be so useless?”
Professor William screamed in anger as he threw his cup on the ground. He just got a report from his subordinate that Victor, whom he gave the order to take care of Hiro had just been killed.
“Didn’t he say that he would easily take care of him?”
Professor William was fuming with anger. He didn’t care whether Victor was killed or not but the fact that he failed to kill Hiro really made him angry.
“Humph! A Rank-B with so many men could not even take care of a single boy. He was really better off dead than alive!”
Professor William continued to curse at Victor.
“Did Hiro Ernest do it on his own? Or has anyone helped him?”
Professor William asked after his anger had calmed down.
“Report to the Master! Julia Vaelin was the one to report the death of Victor. Her report stated that she had killed Victor in the offense of kidnapping her sister with evidence to back it up.”
The subordinate reported.
They were not at the scene and didn’t know exactly what had happened. As all the people involved in the incident had been killed by Julia and Hiro, there was no one that they could find to know what had happened. They had to rely on the information that Julia brought back to The Authority.
Julia had reported the incident to The Authority. She lied that she was the one to take Victor’s life in order to not alert the enemy as well as for them to underestimate Hiro. If others knew that Hiro could defeat a Rank-B Explorer, they might send stronger people after Hiro.
For that reason, Julia decided to take Hiro’s credit in order to defend him. She also provided enough evidence to show Victor’s involvement in the crime which made The Authority understand her action.
“How did Victor even end up kidnapping Julia’s sister? Did I not mention that he had to take care of Hiro or did he hear that I wanted to kill Julia?”
Professor said that he could not handle the anger that was boiling inside. He thought that rather than doing what he asked, Victor was doing his own thing and provoking other people. He didn’t care that Victor was provoking Julia but the fact that he was focusing on other things when he specifically asked to kill Hiro was infuriating him.
“It seems that Victor wanted to kidnap Hiros’ sister in order to lure Hiro. By coincidence, Julia’s sister was with her and they ended up getting kidnapped together.”
The subordinate answered.
“Haha… You mean to say that his plan ended up inviting a Rank-A and he got killed as a result? Truly useless garbage!”
Professor William yelled. If Victor was alive, he might have already been beaten to death by William. Professor William cannot tolerate how idiotic the whole situation was.
“Hmm… how did the GreyRat guild respond?”
Professor William asked. After having one of their guild masters’ children killed, he thought that the GreyRat Guild might have made some kind of trouble with Julia.
“Aside from his parents, other guild members’ responses are quite weak. Many guild members felt that Victor deserved that and many top executives also plan to not pursue the matter.”
Victor was truly a scumbag hated by his own guild members. He would use his position to bully others who were weaker than him and also make various troubles for the guild.
Moreover, unlike Victor, his brother was good at everything and many support him over Victor. Now that the competitor and the troublemaker were gone, they didn’t want to pursue the matter. He didn’t also contribute anything to the guild. He would rather spend his time partying than going to the dungeon with the guild.
He was seen as a coward who had nothing to show but his rank. There was not a single person who would be sad even if he died.
Moreover, with the evidence provided by Julia, there was nothing to blame for her actions. GreyRat guild also does not want to get on the bad side of The Authority just because of Victor.
So far, the only response that the GreyRat guild had was to send someone to apologize to Julia for Victor’s crime. Now, with Victor’s death, Professor William can’t rely on anyone from GreyRat to take care of Hiro.
“Haha… You can thank your luck for now. Soon your miserable days will begin!”
******
Hiro, Yui, and Elysia were back at Ace Academy without any trouble on the way. And after resting for the whole day, the next day they had to go back to school and continue their studies.
Since the incident in the abandoned warehouse in StarCity was something that other people were unaware of, nothing was different in Ace Academy except that Professor William was suspended.
Hiro’s fame once again skyrocketed due to the fighting between him and Professor William. A debate arose among the students about Hiro’s strength, which contested Rank-B. Many think that he has already reached Rank-B.
Many students were glad that Professor William got the punishment that he deserved. They were always ridiculed by Professor William and held grudges against him. However, due to his background, they could not do anything but endure.
The school was also in full swing as Ace Academy was getting ready to test first-year students on their survival skills. Just like Hiro and Zero went through in their first year, Yui and Elysia had also gone through similar tests.
While Hiro and Yui went about their normal lives, Julia returned to the abandoned warehouse to investigate the incident carefully. She appealed to The Authority for an investigation as she said that someone else was targeting Hiros’ life.
As The Authority viewed Hiro as a valuable person, they were not reluctant to deploy some of their best investigators to investigate the case. Julia joined to help the team with the investigation.
During the investigation, many clues pointed to Williams’ involvement in Victors’ crime, however, without conclusive evidence it is hard to pass judgment on him.
Moreover, there were some members of the investigation team working for Professor William’s father who would constantly portray William as just a friend of Victor who is innocent.
However, Julia, who suspected William to be the one behind Victor’s action, confirmed the truth. She only needed some evidence to confirm her guess. Even though the evidence was not enough to blame William, it was enough to validate her guess.
While she could not persecute William with those shreds of evidence, she could warn Hiro and also the other higher-ups about her speculation. With her Rank-A strength and her contribution to The Authority, they would need to take her words seriously.
Even if Professor William’s father is a top executive, they will watch William’s actions carefully and will not spare him if they get evidence that shows he was targeting Hiro’s life.
Professor William, who had no idea, still continued to make plans on how to deal with Hiro.