Reincarnated as an Instructor in an Adult Game

[Erika]

Erika secretly received Croana’s contact by letter and immediately used letters to contact Nimi and her mother Elysia so she could move Cuddle Bell. Of course she told the people around her she was going to pick flowers so no one would notice. It seemed Erika would be kept under protection at the academy, so she could not go outside alone. Rather than could not, she judged it more useful to stay at the academy herself and report the movements around her by letter, so she chose to remain under the academy’s protection.

Erika walked the corridor on her way back from the restroom, passing classrooms that were a little restless. She kept a face as if nothing were wrong, projected the elegance of a noble young lady, and observed each classroom out of the corner of her eye as she passed.

(They’re restless, but as expected of Filim Academy students... they’re staying calm.)

That was only natural. The students had not been told that assassins who followed the Pope had entered the royal capital. What they had been told was that thieves might have slipped in, and that the academy would protect them until safety was secured. She let out a small, slightly tired sigh and held back the urge to put a hand to her forehead. Why did Raide keep getting pulled into this much trouble? She thought the castle matter was over, thought the twins’ matter was over, and now it was an incident involving the Pope. She wanted to ask under what star he had been born to attract things like this.

She spotted the two princesses and their escorts under academy protection, talking in a classroom as if to reassure classmates they had become friends with. They seemed to have decided staying put was the better plan. Hilbyid was talking with Roy about something. Both had difficult faces, arms folded, lost in thought. Those two overlapped a little with Raide and she had to hold back a laugh. That was a secret. Raide had said the two of them were rivals, but no matter how you looked at it they were friends who got along.

(...People often say men and women see things differently. Is that it?)

Her own year would not fall into chaos with those two there, and besides, they were Raide’s students, so everyone was calm.

Aurora and the others, and Porte, seemed a little tired from yesterday and Rinelle was worried about them, but they should be safe unless they were attacked. If anything, she was a little curious to see someone who could beat the academy’s defenses, Fia and Lea.

While she was thinking that, the two princesses, Relia and Tia, came walking toward her with Karinal behind them. Erika stopped, gave the smallest possible bow, and put on a glossy smile. She asked the two who had also stopped and were smiling just as elegantly,

"My, where are you going?"

"Fufu. Just some flowers. More importantly, this became quite a problem. ’Thieves’ entering the royal capital, when the same thing happened only recently."

"Just as Relia-anesama says... The royal castle needs to get itself together as well. Don’t you think so too, Erika-san?"

"...The royal capital has a large population, but I do not think they allow that much intrusion. I believe various things simply happened to overlap."

The face that crossed Erika’s mind as she said that with a smile was Raide’s. He was generally at the center of it, but she stopped herself from saying so or letting it show. She had not deepened her friendship with the three of them, including Karinal, enough yet, so talking about Raide made her a little wary. She had heard from Raide, and one look at their eyes and expressions made it obvious they were after him. Even so, she could not trust it until she saw and heard it herself. That followed Raide’s teachings, so he would not deny it.

(I cannot picture Raide-san denying it, though...)

Relia and Tia looked at Erika like that, narrowed their eyes as if they found it interesting, smiled, and spoke in voices too small for her to hear.

"Fufufu. ’Various things,’ is it."

"Kusukusu. Erika-san, if you would not mind, could you keep us company for a little talk? I have wanted to get ’close’ for some time."

"Yes. I will keep you company. I have wanted to get ’close’ as well."

"My, how lovely."

"Nf. Fufufu. Yes, let us get ’close,’ shall we?"

Anyone watching might have felt a slightly scary atmosphere, but they themselves were not trying to intimidate that much. It was only a light probing of each other, the kind of greeting that was normal among noblewomen. Erika was no longer a noble, but her core had not changed and she had no intention of changing it. Otherwise she would not be able to support Raide-san... A woman was not only someone who got protected, you know?

She walked back the way she had come beside Relia and Tia, chatting, smiled, muttered that in her heart, and sighed. For the record, Karinal, who had been watching the three of them, later recalled this moment and said it had been scary.

[Nimi]

In the tavern kitchen Nimi received Erika’s contact, stopped cooking, and started walking toward the floor. The contents were to move Cuddle Bell, and that Raide had gotten pulled into trouble again. More precisely, he had probably stuck his own neck into it... Nimi understood that and smiled a little wryly. Since the academy had started, Raide’s movements had been intense. Even when he said he was fine, she was starting to be unable to believe it.

(We’ll have to make him rest by force again...)

If he would rest when he hit his limit Nimi would not worry, but he pushed his body past the limit, so she did. She warned him again and again and he would not rest. Even all the lovers together warning him, lately he still would not rest. He was probably reflecting, but when it would help the students or them he neglected himself. As a lover that was something to be proud of and happy about, but she still wanted him to take care of his body.

She actually knew from Erika’s butler that when the tonic wore off the fatigue would hit all at once. That had been a plan Nimi and the others had thought up and discussed, wanting to make him rest even by force. Of course there was also wanting him satisfied at night, but the real point was wanting him to rest. They had thought they would get filled and have their hopes granted too, but...

(I did not quite expect that even this would not be enough.)

She muttered that in her heart, smiled in a troubled way as she stepped onto the floor, and looked over the adventurers eating and drinking. When she found the person she wanted she hurried over and spoke with an apologetic look.

"Sagua-san, do you have time right now?"

"Eh, I do, but... what’s wrong, landlady?"

"I have a request. No, a job I want to ask. The truth is..."

Sagua stopped talking with the adventurers at the same table, looked at Nimi’s face curiously, and answered. Sagua was also one of the clan’s founding members, and she had called to him because she wanted to request an escort. Erika’s message had a continuation. She wanted them to put in an escort request to the clan. Maya-san and the others at the church were apparently in the most danger, and it even said to move quickly.

Some of the adventurers in Sagua’s clan knew about Cuddle Bell, and Sagua was one of them. Erika had revealed that when the clan was founded, to increase the people who would move immediately if something happened. It was a countermeasure for times like this, when Fia and Lea were protecting the academy and Felica could not get away either. Even Nimi had not expected a chance to need that strength to come this soon.

Nimi explained the situation to Sagua, bowed her head apologetically, then straightened and looked at him. He had an exasperated face.

"Landlady, give me a break..."

"It was sudden after all...?"

"That’s not it. Don’t bow your head for a normal job like this. Honestly, I want you and the instructor to know how grateful we are to the two of you."

"Landlady, the location!? You’re short on time, right?"

"Come on! You lot, it’s work! Get ready!"

"Sagua~, the locations of the clan members in the royal capital~~~~, tell me~~~~~~~"

The adventurers who had been eating and drinking started getting ready in a flurry. Facing the floor, Nimi bowed deeply again from how glad she was they would move. A nearby female adventurer gently lifted her face and she received welcome words like "Landlady, you’re too kind" and "Sagua’s achievement was making this place our base," and she smiled a little. She thought about bringing up the reward and turned toward Sagua, but he had already stood and come over.

"Landlady, about the reward."

"Um, if it’s that..."

"I want you and the instructor to name the clan. We thought of all kinds of things ourselves, but... nothing sat right."

"Eh, but..."

"The name’s on you. All right! I’ll take the church! Three of you come with me!"

"Guess it can’t be helped! We’ll tag along!"

"Saguaaaaaa, hurry up and tell us where the clan members are~~~~~~~~~~~"

Sagua cut Nimi off with a happy laugh, and in the end she never got to talk money. Having this many adventurers help them because she ran the tavern was as happy as it got. If they could request the escort, next she had to talk with Elysia and Eima. Nimi left the tavern with several of the female adventurers who would be guarding them.

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