I Was Reincarnated As An Instructor In An R18 Game... - Chapter 87

While holding Foria-san in a princess carry, I hurried toward Suzuya.

When Suzuya was almost in sight, I heard a voice call out to me from behind and stopped.

“Haah, haah, Instructor Reid!”

“Roy…”

Roy, carrying a girl on his back, approached while breathing heavily.

A short-haired girl with white hair, who resembled Foria-san.

Her name is Synk, Foria-san’s younger sister, and one of the four members of the harem.

When Roy reached me, he smiled while sweat trickled down his forehead and spoke.

“Instructor Reid, I was just about to head to Suzuya!”

“Shall we talk while walking?”

Roy nodded to my words and began walking beside me.

Roy seems to have left the castle gate on Seventh Street and had been practicing his swordsmanship.

He had planned to invite Lucy, Shirin, and Runen, but when he heard they were having tea together, he decided not to.

Having trained since morning, he started feeling hungry and decided to stop, intending to enter the royal capital through the castle gate.

That’s when he spotted Synk sitting against the outer wall of the castle gate.

She didn’t respond when he called out to her, and he couldn’t just leave her, so he was heading to Suzuya hoping for my help.

Then, he explained that he saw me and called out to me.

I looked at Roy’s face walking beside me, smiled, and said.

“Well done.”

“Thank you very much!”

When Suzuya came into sight, I noticed a few people gathered outside Erika’s place.

Waiting outside were Erika, Elysia, and Niimi, along with the three female adventurers keeping watch.

As Roy and I approached, Satur came walking over and looked at Foria-san’s face with concern.

For a brief second, Foria-san directed her gaze at Satur, seeming to recognize her.

But she quickly looked back up at the sky with a blank expression, prompting Satur to glance at me.

I nodded at Satur with a serious expression, and Satur nodded back with a worried, serious expression on her face before going back on alert.

While returning to her post, Satur glanced at Synk and showed a deeply troubled expression.

When Erika stepped forward, I approached and spoke seriously.

“Sorry for the sudden trouble.”

“No need to worry about it…”

“Erika, I’ll call Merine.”

“I’ll bring some warm soup, if that’s alright?”

“Please do, Mother, Niimi-san.”

Standing on either side of Erika, Elysia and Niimi looked at Foria-san and quickly sprang into action with serious expressions.

Seeing her state they couldn’t see it as someone else’s problem.

I gestured toward Synk, who Roy was carrying on his back and Erika quickly moved to examine her condition.

Erika gently stroked Synk’s hair and smiled at Roy as she spoke.

“Well done, Roy-san.”

“I just couldn’t leave her. Besides, I don’t see it as something to be praised for.”

Roy spoke seriously to Erika, and Erika gave a wry smile before glancing sideways at me.

Roy likely said it wasn’t a big deal because, to him, he simply did what was right.

I gave Erika a wry smile in return and handed Foria-san and Synk over to the maids led by Merine, who had come from her house.

Erika said they would be cared for at her home and asked me to wait in the inn’s living quarters.

Roy and I exchanged a look and nodded, and I replied to Erika, “Got it.”

Then, in front of Erika’s now-empty house, Roy murmured softly.

“Eyes…”

“Hm?”

“The reason I couldn’t ignore her was because of her eyes.”

“…”

“Eyes like that… it’s just not right. No one should have eyes like that.”

“You did well bringing her here. Be proud, you did the right thing, Roy.”

After I said that, Roy turned to me and gave a solemn nod.

I smiled, placed a hand on Roy’s shoulder, and gestured for him to follow me to the inn.

As we reached the inn’s entrance, a loud voice came from inside the tavern, and I turned to look.

“Aaaahhh, she’s so cuuuuuuuute!!”

“Lea-neesama! I can’t move if you keep hugging me!”

“Uwaaaaaah!!”

While listening to Lea and Croana’s banter from inside, I let out a wry smile as the inn’s door opened.

I turned to look and saw Fia, giving a charming smile as she spoke to Roy and me.

“I heard from Niimi, so I’ll make you some tea. …Oh, I have permission to enter the house, you know?”

“I’m not doubting you, thanks. You’ve gotten close with Niimi already, huh?”

“Fufufu, it’s because you love us all equally, of course.”

“…That so.”

Fia gave a charming smile while tilting her head slightly, and I rubbed the back of my neck to hide my embarrassment.

Roy gave a respectful bow to the girl, who was smaller than him, and greeted her.

Roy didn’t treat her like a child; he treated Fia as a proper lady.

Fier responded by picking up the ends of her black rose-inspired dress, elegantly greeted him with a slight curtsy.

Then Fia turned her gaze from Roy to me and smiled as she spoke.

“As expected of your student.”

“…He’s definitely a student I can brag about.”

Hearing our praise, Roy turned slightly red and looked embarrassed.

Entering the residential area behind Fia, we drank her tea and made small talk with Roy.

Around an hour had passed when the entrance opened and Erika and Satur stepped inside.

After Erika said hello to Fia, Fia returned the greeting with a smile and started making tea.

Erika said that Foria and Synk were being looked after by Elysia, Niimi, and the maids.

Erika sat across from Roy and me at the dining table and let out a small, tired sigh.

“Foria-san… still needs some time. I was able to hear a bit from Synk-san, so let me share.”

“…Please.”

“Yes…”

After hearing Roy and me, Erika gave a soft smile and began to talk.

The Gurugar party had taken an escort request in a nearby town.

The request came from a baron, and it seems his daughter fell in love with their leader, Gruug, and proposed to him.

The baron explained that due to the fall of many noble houses, Gruug might be granted a title to fill the ranks.

It’s not unheard of for adventurers to be granted titles; some even pursue it deliberately.

Whether he thought it through or not, Gruug immediately accepted the engagement with the noble’s daughter.

The other two women, aside from Foria and Synk, left the party in anger, while Foria and Synk confronted Gruug.

Even so, Gruug continued with the engagement, and Foria and Synk ended up witnessing the two spending the night together.

Devastated, the two walked all the way back to the capital rather than taking a carriage.

After finishing her explanation, Erika drank some of Fia’s tea. Satur then added more with a sorrowful tone.

“Foria and Synk have been with Gruug since the party was formed five years ago. They both loved him… and had confessed many times over four years, without ever getting a clear reply.”

“Four years… really?”

“…That’s right.”

Roy responded to Satur’s words in disbelief.

I hate to say it, but I can’t believe it either. Gruug was so cool and capable in the game, always assisting in battle.

I didn’t want to know that someone like him was actually so indecisive and pathetic.

Gruug’s support was valuable from the start to the end of the game, and his harem’s close bonds made players jealous.

I never imagined he’d be the kind of guy to make a woman look like that.

“You know… the village Foria and Synk lived in was destroyed by a monster stampede. The only survivors were Foria and Synk, and the one who saved them was Gruug.”

“…So that means, aside from the capital they were based in, they have nowhere else to return to?”

“That’s right, Instructor.”

“No way…”

Roy looked down with an indescribable expression, his hands clenched tightly on his knees.

Glancing sideways at Roy beside me, I turned to Erika with a serious look.

“I’d like to protect them for a while…”

“Arrangements are already in place. My mother and Niimi-san both insisted we must not take our eyes off them.”

“…Makes sense.”

“I agree with Mother and Nimi-san. We cannot take our eyes off them.”

After hearing everything from Erika and Satur, the option of letting them go or looking away doesn’t even come to mind.

And I have no intention of doing so.

If they have nowhere to work, they can become exclusive adventurers for Suzuya.

They need time to recover, to heal their hearts and bodies at their own pace.

As I stood there with arms crossed and a troubled face, Fia began to stare at the entrance.

Tilting my head at Fia’s action, she looked at me seriously and spoke.

“Looks like the man we were talking about has arrived.”

“…Gruug, huh?”

“Probably… Right now, Croana and Lea are talking with him in the tavern… You’re going, aren’t you?”

I stood up from my seat, gave Fia a sly grin, and started walking toward the entrance.

Fia gave me a troubled smile at my reaction, while Erika and Satur exchanged glances and gave wry smiles.

Roy rose to his feet and trailed behind me, wearing the determined face of a man who had made up his mind.

I paused, looked at Roy from the corner of my eye, and asked.

“Ready and determined?”

“Absolutely.”

“…Shall we?”

“Yes!”

Roy and I opened the front door and headed toward the tavern.

The sound of Roy shutting the door came from behind me.

Whatever your reason for showing up here, Gruug, those two aren’t going back with you.

–

After Reid and Roy left the room, Erika let out a sigh and gave a small, amused smile.

Seeing that, Satur laughed lightly and spoke.

“That boy really is going to turn out just like the instructor, isn’t he?”

“…He already is.”

Erika replied to Satur with a tired voice.

Fia chuckled amusedly at Erika and said.

“True. He really had the same vibe as Reid… I almost laughed.”

“Fia-san, this isn’t a laughing matter.”

“Oh come on, it’s fine. The future looks entertaining, doesn’t it?”

“Give me a break…”

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