Chapter Chapter 85: 10. We came, we saw, we won (10) (2/2)

“It’s cuz, owner’s ex-disciple was raised by beating her up with my little sister, meaning my little sister’s disciple! And on this side, I got th’ students I raised by personally hitting them myself, and hence my disciples! I can’t allow my tasty unni to lose to owner’s ex-disciple that tasted the hands of my little sister!”

“What a personal reason.”

So you’re saying it’s a match between No.17 who grew up getting hit with the wooden bat versus Yugrasia, who grew up getting hit by the metal bat.

Although the one who was taught by me personally was No.17, there was only about a year’s worth of difference between how long she was taught for compared to the Yugrasia kids.

That kind of gap can be closed with the metal bat.

“Now that does seem quite an amusing prospect.”

“Hmph! This is my unavoidable fight with my little sis! As the big sis I can’t lose to my little sis!”

I know for a fact that this thing was produced 7-8 years after the wooden bat, yet she continues to claim that she’s the elder sister.

Well, is it the difference between having an ego and not?

In that case, the wooden bat has a chance of evolving into an ego weapon later on!

“So what, my little sis got sold to owner’s disciple cuz’a bad owner.”

“Now that I think about it, I wonder how Rein’s doing…”

When I considered No.17 running around perfectly fine, it did seem like he’d handed them over safely, but who knew if he might have gotten caught by the imperial princess and getting tortured in some underground dungeon somewhere.

“Wait, owner? Ya said that wasn’t gonna happen? Owner’s last disciples are all from good households, so he could get away safely if he just handed them over!”

“So what, it’s the imperial princess we’re talking about. Even the emperor can’t touch her, so you think any of the other nobles could?”

“Poor boy, I feel so sorry for him!”

“Well, that’s the worst-case scenario.”

When I took Rein’s face-reading, his fate was one to get stabbed over a love affair, not at the hands of the princess.

“I dunno what this face-reading thing is, but I bet owner’s entire fortune that the latter fate is owner’s fate!

“If I bet my entire fortune on a bet with myself then I don’t win anything?”

“But, this is something owner already admitted would happen!”

Well true, although that’s only a story for if I get caught.

And so, I will never, ever let myself get caught!

#19 Their story: A certain former host’s (current slave) story.

He’s definitely going to get caught.

“That’s how it’s going to happen.”

In a certain giant room, that unlike what one might expect, had nothing in it aside from a giant bed.

When I arrived here, I heard from Lady Iris about the instructor.

Contrary to what he’d said to me when he said he’d go to some village at the end of the world to farm the land, he was acting as a teacher in one of the key educational institutions of the empire, Yugrasia.

But even so, the imperial princess discovered him.

“Rein, you need to stay right here. Because of what you said back then, let alone all of the intelligence agents in the empire, all of the key members of His Highness the Crown Prince’s faction ended up searching all the villages in the middle of nowhere.”

“Yes ma’am.”

When I nodded my head, the young lady nodded in turn and stroked my cheek with a wistful expression on her face.

“Our opponent being who he is, you did nothing wrong, Rein, but there might still be someone who wants to take their frustrations out on you after being made to roam the empire for a year. So Rein, rest up here until I get back.”

Let me ask a question to the young lady who’s looking at me as if she’s truly regretful she has to leave.

“Um, Lady Iris…”

“Iris! How much longer are you going to call me ‘lady’ between the two of us!”

“Hahaha, y, you know, Lady Iris.”

“Really, Rein…”

As the young lady made a disappointed expression, I raised my had slightly and pointed at something.

“This, could you please take it…”

“No.”

“R, right?”

As the young lady instantly turned to me with dead eyes, I could do nothing but shut my mouth.

Because if I said anything more here, it felt like something might happen.

“Mm, it’s alright as long as you understand. Then… you really need to stay quietly here, alright? If you need anything, ask the maids and they can get it for you.”

When I nodded again, moisture welled up in her wide eyes as she pulled me into her embrace.

“When the imperial festival ends, I can take some time off as well. Then, let’s do all sorts of things that we couldn’t do because I was too busy.”

“Ye, yes.”

I didn’t dare ask what ‘all sorts of things’ were meant to be, and could only see the young lady off.

“I have to escape.”

After I sat around quietly for thirty minutes just in case, I made my resolve.

I have to escape. That’s what my instincts were telling me.

I understood why the instructor continued to run away when the princess of the strongest nation in the world, and a beauty 20 years younger than him to boot, wanted to marry him.

Although the fact that I was experiencing it with my own body, was most unfortunate for me!

“But how…”

This is one of the ducal houses of which only three existed in the entire empire, and the only one who was active in the imperial palace itself, the Leonhart family, who was arguably the leader of the Ten Great Families, and I was at their main residence!

And in said main residence, I was in a room on the highest fifth floor.

“I don’t think I could run even if I wasn’t collared…”

I muttered as I touched the collar attached to my neck.

This collar was actually a special one that the imperial princess herself commissioned from the dwarves, all to catch the instructor!

Without even a keyhole, the only way this collar could be opened by its original user, and if she so desired, the young lady could paralyse my body, render me unconscious or know my location in real time.

“But still… at least…”

In the fear that I would lose something important when the young lady came back after doing whatever it was she had to do, I opened the door a crack…

“What is it?”

“Did you need anything?”

“Ah, ahhaha! I was wondering where the bathroom was.”

Eight pairs of eyes were trained on me as their owners smiled brightly.

But, their dress aren’t that of maids, but clearly and perfectly knights, milady?

Rather than maids, aren’t they guards set to watch over me?

“The bathroom is inside the room.”

“Ah, thank you.”

She was smiling, but the aura she exerted was yelling at me to shut up and get back in the room, so I nodded and went straight back inside.

“Now that I think about it, there isn’t even a window.”

How was it that there wasn’t a single window in this giant room.

Had she blocked them all up because I was coming here?

As I entered the bathroom thinking that, as I thought, there were no windows in the bathroom, either.

“The smell’s going to be a problem when I have to do a big one.”

Although of course, it’s a bathroom designed for my own personal use, but still.

“Yep, let’s run.”

It was a room that seemed impossible to escape from, but the more it felt like that, the desire to escape became stronger and stronger.

“But… how do I escape?”