As much as the entire massage hurt, I woke up the next morning feeling utterly refreshed and awake.
My body didn’t even hurt at all! There weren’t even any muscle aches either!
I would kind of like to say that this made the massage worth it but… Remembering how much it hurt to even be there made me hesitate…
Maybe I can ask them to be gentler next time…
Or maybe it’s just the fact that it’s been an entire week since I last slept in a proper bed which helped with the ‘waking up better’ part.
“Good morning Mistress, are you ready for school today?” Katsuki asked while pulling aside my curtains to allow sunlight to stream into the room.
Oh right, I’m back at the main mansion instead of the countryside manor house, especially since Mary said that everything had already been ‘dealt with’.
Speaking of which…
“Of course I’m ready! I already missed a week’s worth of lessons! I’m looking forward to going back to school again! Plus, this should trigger some new event flags!”
“Understood, Mistress. Would you like to go with the red dress or the white one today?”
Obviously Katsuki had no idea what I was talking about which just makes her so cute~
“Ehehe, before that… Katsuki~ Let me fluff you~” I requested shamelessly.
Surprisingly, she wordlessly turned around and presented her tail to me without complaint.
Ahhh~ Fluff! Mofu mofu~ Katsuki’s tail is so soft! This is already starting out to be a great day!
*
Thanks to Katsuki, I went to school with Odeta and Delmare with a spring in my step~
“Sister Aster seems to be in a good mood today?” Odeta noted while following beside me.
‘Did something good happen in the morning?’ Delmare scribbled on her notebook.
“Ehehe~ I guess I’m just happy to go to school again! And I missed going to school with you, Delmare! It’s been a week after all!”
Delmare quickly scribbled a few more lines on her notebook before spinning it around to show me.
‘I missed you too, Aster! Can I sing to you later, please?’
Oh yeah, she hasn’t managed to sing to me for awhile now!
I was just about to agree to her request when I noticed a few people step out onto the road to stand in our way.
Looking up, I quickly realised who it was.
“You!!” Danio Wess, the noble who got owned in the Guild and hired those Mercenaries cried out when he saw me. “How are you still here?!”
I tilted my head at him, “Why can’t I be here? Do you have any business with me? If you do, make it quick, I don’t want to be late for school.”
He scowled at me, “School should be the last thing you should be worrying about! Did you decide not to go to the Dungeon after all? Ha! I knew it! You ran away with your tail between your legs, didn’t you?!”𝑂𝗏𝐿xt.𝐂𝒐𝗆
I let my tail snake out from under my dress menacingly, “Hey, I can smack you to next week with my tail if I wanted to! You better watch yourself!”
He spat on the ground, “Puh! So you’re not even a pureblooded Mahun!! Pathetic! I can’t believe you can be a noble of this proud Kingdom!”
Uwaa… I didn’t think that on top of being a pathetic weakling, he was also one of those Mahun supremacists…
Maybe because his family felt that he was such a failure it drove him to go and group up with other failures to make himself feel accepted? I dunno how idiocy works.
Delmare scribbled on her notebook again, ‘Is he a friend?’
I shook my head, “No. He’s just some child of a noble family that got involved with us during our quest. He was quite rude so Odeta thrashed him and he tried to get back at us by hiring some Mercenaries to kill us in the Dungeon.”
“Wa… What?! That is slander! I never did anything of that sort!”
All of us ignored him.
Odeta turned to me, “Should I beat him up again, Sister Aster?”
I waved my hand, “It’s fine. He’s not worth our time anyway and he can’t do anything to us.”
We attempted to walk past him but he stepped in our way with his posse, blocking us from continuing forward.
I sighed at him, “In case I wasn’t clear enough, I have school today and I’d hate to be late for it. So if you could just kindly go somewhere else to get fucked, that would be preferable.”
Unexpectedly, he sputtered and even looked embarrassed, “Wha… What nonsense are you talking about?! Only someone desperate and demented would even think about getting fucked by you!”
Oh, whoops… I forgot about the common sense of this World. Public sex is no big deal so I guess when you tell someone to go get fucked, they would take it in the literal sense of actually going somewhere to have sexual intercourse.
He probably thought that I was implying that either of us wanted to have sex with the other party.
I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see Delmare hiding behind her notebook, ‘Aster can fuck me if you want~’
She even drew a blushing face beside her words too.
Err… I’ll do that later, ok?
I patted her head before turning back to the guy, “I don’t care, I just know that you’re in the way right now, so why don’t you just go away? Don’t you have a Dungeon to go to?”
Even though we completed the Dungeon, there were still a few more stragglers inside the Dungeon that needed to be killed for the Dungeon to be fully reset, so the quest was still ongoing.
That’s why the Dungeon would most likely still be closed off for students for at least a month or so, where they would be launching inspection teams to go through the entire Dungeon to ensure all the high ranked monsters have been cleared before opening it up again.
In the meantime, the quest would still be up until the Dungeon is declared to be safe so people would still be able to farm some money from there even from the lower ranked monsters if they wanted to.
Danio did not seem to think so as he crossed his arms, “Ha! Have you not heard? Someone had already cleared the Dungeon! Why would I still go and clear it if the Dungeon was no longer at my level?”
Oh? Is that how it works? Because we’ve already completed the Dungeon, it won’t be regarded as a D ranked Dungeon anymore? That’s interesting to know.
Or maybe he just wanted to be the first party to finish it and was upset that someone beat him to it? Though it seems like he doesn’t know it was my parry that did it.
I waved my hand dismissively at him, “In that case, don’t you have better things to do than accosting some students? If you’re looking for girls, then go to a brothel or something.”
“You dare?! Which house do you belong to?! How dare you act like this in front of me?! Has your House not taught you any noble etiquette?!”
“Even if they have, I would not be wasting it on you, to be honest. You’re really just not worth my time.”
He drew the sword at his waist, “That’s it! You’ve insulted my honour for the last time! I demand a duel with you!”
I looked down at the sword he was using to point at me, “Is this to the death or something?”
He sputtered, “Wha… What? Of course not! Are you a child of a newly established noble family or something? How could you not know something so basic?! What school are you even attending?!”
I tilted my head at him, “I guess because I never needed to know all that etiquette stuff. And isn’t it obvious? I’m attending Aerialla Academy.”
“Hmph! You must have only managed to get in due to some kind of fluke! As your senior who has already graduated, let me show you the difference between us! Take this!!”
He lunged towards me and I had to stop Odeta and Delmare from leaping to my defence before turning back to hit him with an elbow strike across his face.
The blow actually caused him to squeal out in pain before he fell onto the ground with a bloodied nose.
He laid down there and groaned for a few seconds before losing consciousness.
I then turned towards his followers who were just looking at their leader who was passed out on the ground, “So… Can I go now or do I need to knock all of you out as well?”
They pulled out their own weapons so I went ahead to cast [Static Bolt] on all of them, watching with mild interest as they all dropped down onto the ground and started twitching helplessly.
I then stepped over all of them casually before continuing my way to school with Odeta and Delmare following behind me.
Hmm… I should have just done that from the start. The next time he shows up in front of me, I’ll just zap him with a paralysing spell before walking off.
In fact, let’s just do this for all the troublesome people I meet in the future! No more problems with people blocking my way anymore!
Wahaha! I’m a genius!