Dekan Begins Military Training with Demons

"Not bad, Baron Batchelor, you've finally been honest for once."

Dekan clapped his hands, offering praise.

This confirmed to Baron Batchelor once again that Dekan could read minds!

Any lie was meaningless in front of him.

He could distinguish his true feelings!

"Good, then you admit that your previous attack frightened me, causing irreversible damage to my fragile heart, and that you subjected me to cruel torture, right?"

Dekan continued to ask.

Baron Batchelor did not hesitate for long, once again frantically deceiving his own heart as he replied, "I... I admit it."

He guessed that Dekan was testing his loyalty, trying to adjust and educate him using lie-detection magic in a roundabout way.

Even if what Dekan said was absurd, he had to play along.

Dekan asked again, "Next, Cornelia attempted to rescue me, and you, being kind-hearted, decided to let me go, so she successfully rescued me. Do you acknowledge this?"

Baron Batchelor: "Acknowledged, acknowledged."

[Task Objective 2: Rescue at least three humans, current progress 1/3]

The smile on Dekan's face grew even brighter: "Finally, you suddenly forgot that I am a human, right?"

Baron Batchelor: "Yes, yes!"

[Task Objective 3: Impostors whose human identity is discovered must not exceed 3, current disguise intact 6/6]

The task interface changed exactly as Dekan had expected.

"Very good, Baron Batchelor. You are now an honest demon, and it seems you have finally opened your heart to me."

Dekan's expression was very satisfied, and he did not spare any words of praise for Baron Batchelor.

Baron Batchelor trembled, not knowing how to respond to Dekan's remark.

In all fairness, even if his fear of Dekan currently outweighed every other emotion.

The phrase "opened your heart" was still too much.

But he dared not refute it, and could only continue to hypnotize himself: I have opened my heart, I have opened my heart.

Until he confirmed that he had even developed some feelings of admiration for Dekan, Baron Batchelor finally dared to open his mouth to answer: "Yes, I have opened my heart to you."

"A teachable child!"

Dekan slapped his thigh and stomped his foot, standing up from his chair.

He had finally succeeded.

Feeling very happy, he continued to instruct Baron Batchelor: "Good, then I'll have to trouble you a bit more. You still remember our conversation just now and your own mental journey in its entirety, right?"

"Huh?"

Baron Batchelor was stunned.

Dekan frowned slightly: "You don't remember? Do you need me to help you recall it?"

Baron Batchelor instinctively shuddered all over: "I remember, I remember!"

"Good! Baron Batchelor, repeat your mental journey from just now one hundred times, and shout it out loud!"

Dekan's expression turned serious as he commanded.

Baron Batchelor: "Yes!"

And so, Baron Batchelor began to shout at Dekan repeatedly: "You are a human! I tortured you! You were rescued! I forgot you were a human! I have opened my heart to you!"

[Task Objective 3: Impostors whose human identity is discovered must not exceed 3, current disguise intact 5/6]

[Task Objective 2: Rescue at least three humans, current progress 2/3]

[Task Objective 3: Impostors whose human identity is discovered must not exceed 3, current disguise intact 6/6]

[...]

Meanwhile, other challengers who were clearing different classrooms elsewhere noticed the strange changes appearing in their task bars.

Among them were veterans who had cleared the Shadow World many times.

According to their experience, Task Objective 1 (increase exploration) was a "routine task" with a large workload but scattered difficulty.

Whereas Task Objective 2 (rescue three humans) should be a "high-difficulty task" that could only be completed by clearing Elite Rooms or Boss Rooms.

In the classrooms they had entered so far, they had not found any traces of humans.

The humans waiting to be rescued were likely only present in higher-difficulty Elite Rooms or Boss Rooms.

During the exploration process, they still needed to gradually collect clues to find the location of the Boss Room and the Boss's weaknesses.

However.

How had this task already been completed??!

They even discovered that the indicator for Mission Objective 2 had begun to increase at a constant rate!!

In the end, it reached an extremely bizarre [Mission Objective 2: Rescue at least three humans, current progress 101/3] before finally stopping!

As for Mission Objective 3, the "Restriction Mission," it was repeatedly jumping back and forth between "Current disguise intact 5/6" and "Current disguise intact 6/6."

Had this Shadow World... suffered some kind of malfunction or broken down?

Beyond their joy and surprise, they also felt a deep sense of unease in their hearts.

They had never seen or even heard of such a situation before...

They hoped that nothing terrible would happen next.

Meanwhile, the Observation Hall of Havenlit Academy outside the arena had completely erupted into chaos.

Students and teachers alike were frantically discussing Dekan's outrageous maneuvers.

Many people's mouths twitched as they watched, having only just recovered from their state of bewilderment.

Is a Tier 4 Shadow World meant to be played like this?

Never had they heard of anyone being able to do whatever they wanted while clearing a Shadow World above their own rank!

Even if a high-tier veteran raider entered a Tier 4 Shadow World, they wouldn't be able to rack up a score of 101/3 on a high-difficulty mission within just over an hour of starting!

"Is it Dekan who has a problem, or is it this Demon Academy..."

Some students couldn't help but wonder.

"Is there a possibility... that Dekan just found the school that suits him best..."

Knight Academy conference room.

It was terrifyingly silent now.

The professors, who had been watching the battle between Dekan and Cornelia, had shifted from initial worry to relief, and then their expressions grew increasingly strange.

Are these this year's freshmen?

What kind of scenes hadn't they seen before?

Humans brainwashing demons?

They truly had never seen that...

They even began to suspect Dekan—no, including Cornelia!

Could these two guys be demons themselves?!

"...Are we worried that the two of them seem a bit redundant?"

Professor Arnold pressed his temples and looked at the Dean.

He had originally thought that no matter how outrageous Dekan's behavior was, he would no longer be surprised.

But now it seemed one could not treat the lower limit of humanity as Dekan's lower limit.

If they were to encounter a "Challenger Versus" type Shadow World in the future, he couldn't imagine what Dekan might do.

"..."

The Dean was also silent.

In the Dean's judgment, Dekan hadn't been this terrifying during the entrance exam.

But ever since Dekan met Cornelia.

Everything had changed.

The two people who should least and could least meet in the world had met.

In many storylines, the "boy meets girl" trope, which is quite popular among everyone, is often a story of two people healing and redeeming each other.

But the meeting of Dekan and Cornelia...

Was them blocking the path for each other to remain human, and hand in hand, stepping toward an endless abyss...