This Story Has a Smooth Landing (So They Say) (Part 2)

The Itsori route was definitely about to go straight into endgame reckoning time.

And he would turn from a strict teacher into a sadistic one too!!!

Though his frivolous, lazy personality was bound to be exposed sooner or later, he really did not want it to happen today!!

He had to cover it up!!

Like the protagonist of a hot-blooded manga, already half-dead, yet seeing his friends constantly getting beaten up and beginning to burn his little universe.

In Russell's mind flashed the virtual space Nahida had created, along with all sorts of illusions from the ninja book Hashirama had given him.

A snake that seemed as though it had never existed abruptly began to move within his pupils.

Illusion—Snake.

Baryon Mode, a power regarded as an obscene trick because it could physically erase its target outright, began to turn at this moment.

Cup-Bow-Snake-Shadow: Was the thing in the cup a snake, or the shadow of a bow?

Through eye contact, it caused the target to develop a "cognitive error," overlooking some things and rationalizing what was missing.

Even the words on the Prompt Device seemed to carry a hint of complicated meaning.

Sure, it was normal for someone with a body full of undeveloped skills to suddenly awaken some overpowered noob-crushing ability after being provoked, but awakening it at this particular moment...

Didn't that make him look way too much like a beast?

"What the hell am I worrying about?"

Russell gritted his teeth and mentally cursed Mio Takamiya's mother a thousand times before quickly opening the door.

Itsori carried a basket as she walked home.

As a wizard.

Miss Itsori was undoubtedly rather much like an intern.

Freshmen often held university professors in awe—this old bastard had at least a ninth-degree mastery of scholarship.

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