Episodes 94. An Egg Containing Egg

It's been about 5 minutes since I proposed those 4 names. But no one wants to raise their hand and volunteer.

What's wrong with them? Didn't I inform them earlier?

The heavy burden makes me hold my forehead. If they don't want to, then I have to choose.

"If none of you raise your hand, then let me choose by myself," I uttered words that sounded threatening to them.

Actually, I shouldn't do this. This is a prestigious school with a good reputation in the eyes and ears of the public. The students are not only sent to learn about science and combat but also manners and readiness.

And yet, they remained silent without responding to my words.

Stevent, who surrendered to become the leader, now just turned his face away and dared not look at me.

Maybe in his mind. 'I've done it before, now it's someone else's turn to step onto the stage.' Something like that.

Moka? She couldn't possibly do it if I recall correctly. Last night, she worked overtime, and not only that. Last night, I shattered her confidence by showing how Erika could win against Tesi who had the elemental advantage.

So now, there are only two options left.

I look towards Hakam who is in front and Gita who is behind me. One of them must be chosen by me. But as I try to think, Gita's name is not suitable to be the leader. He's more focused on smaller teams rather than larger ones.

So, the only hope...

I shift my gaze towards Hakam. Hakam, who realizes my gaze, widens his eyes. He knows where that gaze is going to end.

He just resigns himself and nods. "Alright, I'm Hakam Surya. I'll be the leader of the attacking team."

Stevent, who is beside him, looks shocked. "Hakam, are you serious?!" He can't believe it.

"Yes, I'm ready. Besides, the leader of the attacking team has a different role. If I fall, it's no problem."

"That's true, but are you capable?"

"My lord- no... Stevent, remember! Always trust your friends," with that, Hakam widens his smile.

"If you insist, then I can't stop you any further."

Hearing Stevent's resignation, now only Hakam has to prepare mentally. Even though it's okay if he falls, his position as the leader will be the main morale source. If he gets eliminated early on, then defeat will be inevitable.

"Hyahhh!"

"Long live for Emir Hakam!"

"By all means, we will protect you!"

The students are very happy with this. Rarely does anyone attempt this. But now, there's nothing to fear. Everything will and must go smoothly...

CRACK!

After hearing loud noises in this room, the door used to walk to the palace opens.

Except for this one.

Sophia enters the room with a gloomy look. Not a single student notices her presence. She's like a ghost among them.

Should I help her, but as Gita said. Now there's an exam that I have to supervise. If I only focus on one student, then the other students will be jealous and lose their morale.

.......

Not long after that, I walk separately from my students. Now I'm inside the bus, monitoring them with the monitor inside.

"I didn't expect, the bus we used earlier has something like this!" Ryan, sitting next to me, looks amazed by the contents of this bus.

"Fortunately, they didn't see it, their grades would immediately skyrocket if they knew this..." I sarcastically remark.

"Asshole, you better not say bad things about your students..." Ryan's reprimand doesn't sound serious.

"Hahaha..." The atmosphere here and there is very different.

Tension is visible on each of their faces.

"By the way, who became the leader?" I ask.

Hearing that, Ryan puts on a sour and silly face. "You, how could you think that your enemies will easily reveal important information like that!"

Hearing that, I can only laugh heartily. He has a point, I asked the wrong thing. But it's not bad, I just want to lighten the mood.

"You're right, information is the most valuable thing in the world. It surpasses everything."

"Without information, we will walk blindly and not know the dangers ahead. If with information, we can know the dangers ahead and prepare to fight them."

Ryan and I continue to chat as if there's nothing serious.

But that seems to be only what's in my mind. Suddenly, after joking around, Ryan looks seriously and sharply at the monitor screen.

"Asshole!" He calls me.

"What?"

His voice is cold and toneless. When it's like this, he wants to talk about something serious.

"Did you observe the behavior of the 2nd class teachers before coming here?"

Is he referring to Fredrica?

"Do you mean about Fredrica?"

Hearing that, he shakes his head.

"Not just her, but all of the second-year class teachers."

What happened? Why did Ryan suddenly say something on a large scale?

"What... What do you mean, Loser?"

"In a simple way, many are jealous of you!"

What Ryan says is beyond my comprehension. Isn't this Podoagung School? Then why would they be jealous just because of that?

Furthermore, jealous of what?!

"Jealous?! Jealous of what?!"

There's something I don't know. If they are jealous of the Teacher Test at that time. Then they should have objected since last week. Yet until the exam, no one objected to it.

"Your identity..." Ryan says something less specific.

"How you got into this school. They heard it!" Ryan adds.

"Do-do you mean about how I entered through an insider?!"

Ryan nods but that's not the last of it. "Not just that, rumors that you're also an elemental master like Zarbeth are flying everywhere."

Strange rumors are getting wilder, and even I didn't expect it to go that far.

"Elemental master?!"

"There are some witnesses who said, during the sandstorm at school. A teacher saw you using wind magic to stop a water vortex that trapped you."

It seems what Ryan meant was when I taught Stevent at that time. Could someone have seen it?

I don't doubt that, a sandstorm that is too big, who wouldn't see it.

But to know what really happened in that sandstorm. That's something I've never heard of. Perhaps someone can detect elements and start trying to monitor me.

But who? That's the big question mark now.

"Oh, the exam is started! Focus, Asshole! We're going to see our students compete. So don't think about anything else!" Ryan's voice brings me back to focus on my work.

"Hmm (nodding)..."

Even so, what Ryan said still makes me wonder. Is someone trying to overthrow me? What's their goal?