Lanchi and Hughberlian sat in the Magic Engineering Institute dean's office, casually chatting with Professor Bora Ao for quite some time.
After learning why they had come, Bora Ao quickly approved their Return to School Procedures, and both of their Shadow World Challenge Licenses were unfrozen as well.
"Loren has been busier than ever. Recently, rumors have even started spreading around the school that he's secretly plotting all sorts of things. Ridiculous. Even though, in the eyes of most students, High Priest Loren has always been someone who appears and disappears mysteriously, he's always been an upright person. You students who see him often should know that better than anyone."
Professor Bora Ao shook his head and sighed.
These students had simply read too many storybooks and were always imagining that the refined and easygoing Loren would suddenly transform one day into the most oppressive ultimate villain.
"Of course, with him away from his post, my workload has increased as well."
Many matters that could only be approved with the authority of the Sage Institute's dean had to be reviewed by Bora Ao, the dean of the Magic Engineering Institute, whenever Loren was absent.
"Earlier, I heard some students from the Academic Visiting Group of the Yarolan Kingdom say that Iketerite Academy was most ruthless when it came to turning on its own people. I didn't really believe them at the time. I didn't expect it to be true. But why does no one ever gossip about me?"
Lanchi asked curiously.
He always felt that the students around him respected him deeply. He had basically never encountered those classic scenes commonly seen in novels and storybooks—someone jumping out to mock him to his face.
Hughberlian, on the other hand, encountered that sort of thing more often.
So she was actually