The Academy Grew Livelier by the Day
After many days, the Dragon King's Oathbreaker had finally taken the advice.
That's right. The new waitress in the shop was none other than Sunny, the owner of the shop whom I had protected with the might of the True King during the Siren and Ji Clan's scheme to hunt her down.
The trouble I'd found for Professor Lanaia had never been limited to just one thing.
Sunny had been lucky enough to become a Dragon King oathbound, but her overly idealistic pursuit of freedom of will meant she not only failed to serve diligently but also created all kinds of misdirection to stop the Dragon King from recruiting more oathbound.
Such top-tier traitorous behavior eventually exposed her at a critical moment, despite how well she'd hidden herself, when she received a blessing at the worst possible time.
If I hadn't been assigned a mission and stepped in, she would already have been killed by someone else's hand and purged from the ranks.
Of course, even now, in the eyes of Kelson, the Siren demigod, the true culprit, A'Long, had already met his end. The person before him was nothing more than a puppet under his control.
Before the mission ended, Sunny had spoken candidly about her deep uncertainty. At the time, I'd offered her a little guidance: come to the Academy and see if anyone was interested in her special constitution.
She'd clearly hesitated a little, but in the end, she'd come.
Though she'd arrived a little late, she'd handled things quite well. Drawing on her work experience, she'd quickly landed a job at the very shop I'd mentioned.
I remembered that at the end of the mission, she'd lamented that the wasteland no longer had a place for her, and that