The Hero Creation Classroom of a Reincarnated Ordinary Person: After Reaching My Limit As An Adventurer, I Reluctantly Opened A Classroom In The Countryside To Earn Money For The Future, And My Student Became The Strongest - Episode 16

It wasn’t a significant enemy. That’s what I thought.

Scabear is considered strong around here, but from my perspective, having received guidance from my teacher, it’s an opponent I can easily defeat. Even if there are two of them, it’s the same.

Heavy rain, as bad weather, makes the ground muddy and worsens the footing, but it does not have an impact significant enough to sway the course of the battle.

“?”

Suddenly, amidst the sound of the rain from behind, I heard the sound of a blade being drawn.

The sound of a sword being drawn from its sheath, but behind me, there’s only the teacher.

(Maybe, in order to finish quickly, the teacher will cooperate too… Will I get to see the teacher’s swordsmanship?)

Even though I had sparred with my teacher before, it was with the sword sheathed, far from being a serious match.

But from now on, you’ll be able to see the sword techniques with the sword drawn by the teacher.

I was so looking forward to it that I even forgot to hide my upturned lips and turned around.

“Sensei――”

I thought about calling out to the teacher, but…

What appeared in my field of vision was a flash of a blade.

“……Huh?”

As soon as I noticed my body getting hot, a sharp pain struck.

When I quickly looked down at my body, I saw that the light armor over my left chest had been slashed diagonally down to my lower right abdomen.

Thanks to the light armor and my body instinctively moving backward, the wound is shallow, but it is hot and bl00d is flowing out.

When I place my hand on my abdomen, it feels lukewarm.

My mind is still in a state of confusion.

(Wh-why? Why? Why… Sensei?)

I can’t think straight in this incomprehensible situation.

“I told you, didn’t I? Don’t trust anyone on the battlefield.”

The teacher’s words reached my ears.

“Why…?”

I can’t believe it and ask, but the response I get is a teacher who is exasperated.

I was given a gaze colder than any I had ever received before, and then.

“Sorry, but you’re no longer needed.”

The teacher swung the sword again.

“Ah…”

This time, on the contrary, from the left abdomen to the right side of the light armor.

I feel a deep, deep heat and intense pain in the wound, and I sense my body going limp.

I could no longer stand and slowly fell to the ground.

A pathetic fall, unable to even execute the breakfall I was taught by my teacher.

No, more importantly, why was I just cut by the teacher? Did the teacher really cut me?

I don’t understand. I don’t understand anything.

I have no idea what is going on.

Please teach me, teacher.

“Sen…sei…”

Only the sound of the rain echoed.

I feel the world gradually getting darker and my body getting colder.

Why did this happen? I don’t understand anything anymore.

“Well, if I just leave it as it is, I’ll probably get eaten by a monster and die out here.”

That one word from the teacher stuck vividly in my mind.

Before I could fully contemplate the meaning of those words, I felt the intense pain and the warmth of the bl00d I had shed, and my consciousness slipped into darkness.

I feel brightness and warmth.

When I slightly opened my eyes, I felt a warm sensation and the sunlight.

Is this the teacher’s house?

“……Oh, you’re awake!?”

I was trying to figure out where I was by looking around the room when the door opened and an old lady came in.

After being surprised that I was awake, she turns to me with a worried expression.

“Um, um…”

When I try to move my body, a sharp pain shoots through my chest.

If you put your hand on your chest, there was a bandage wrapped around it.

“You shouldn’t move. For now, I’ve used the medicine, but your body temperature was dropping because of the rain, and you were bleeding too.”

“W-What is…?”

“Don’t you remember? You were found collapsed in the nearby forest. You were cleanly cut, so it wasn’t a monster but a human who did it… Either way, it was a disaster for you.”

“……I see. Thank you very much.”

Only after being explained to that extent did I finally remember.

I was cut down by the teacher.

“Oh, I’ll be in the next room, so if anything happens, just call me, okay? You should take it a bit easier.”

When I was bowing my head and clenching my fists, the aunt seemed to be considerate and said that to me.

“Um, where is this place?”

“On the outskirts of Esther’s town”

It seems that I didn’t come all the way here, but rather someone who happened to be nearby helped me.

The aunt who answered me leaves the room as it is.

The only one left is me.

If you lie on your back in bed, the sunlight coming through the window is warm.

But on the other hand, my heart was completely frozen.

“I… to you, Sensei…”

Even now, I can vividly recall that scene from back then.

The teacher slashed me and left me there.

“Used up”

“If left alone, they will be eaten by monsters and die.”

The words that were said keep running through my mind, and I grip my fists tighter and tighter.

“Betrayed…”

I had been working desperately hard and had been meeting the teacher’s expectations.

But I was the only one who thought that way; the teacher must have seen it differently.

“…………”

I feel anger at being betrayed and abandoned in the rain.

But more than that, I was sad.

The pain, as if my chest is going to burst, has been attacking me continuously since a while ago.

I believed in you. I thought I could trust you more than anyone else.

But as a result, to think that I would have to pay such a painful price.

“Hah… hah…”

If I place my palm on my chest, a slight pain still runs through.

The wound from being slashed by the teacher relentlessly reminds me that this is reality.

So sad, so sad, and with the anger and regret towards the teacher, my heart is in turmoil.

Tears fall from my eyes, creating small stains on the futon.

“Ugh… kuh… sniff… ugh…”

It hurts, it’s painful.

I don’t understand why I have to go through this, but the teacher who could explain it to me is no longer here.

No matter how much I think about what’s wrong, I can’t find an answer.

(Why? …Why? Why is this happening… to me…)

I lie down on the bed and cover my face with my arm.

But the tears wouldn’t stop, and no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer.

It’s so painful that my heart feels like it’s going to burst, and I have a headache from overthinking.

(If I’m going to feel this way anymore… I don’t need any interactions with people…)

After thinking that far, I finally felt a slight easing of the pain.

“Hah… hah… tsk…”

Before I knew it, I was out of breath, so I took a moment to catch my breath.

That’s right. I should just stop interacting with people.

You only need to interact at the bare minimum to get by.

“…………”

I realized it was a simple thing.

Wipe away the tears with my arm, exhale, and slowly lift my upper body.

Although there is still some pain, it’s not to the extent that I can’t move.

Thinking that, I noticed that there were light armor and straight swords nearby.

I get out of bed and change clothes as quietly as possible.

And then, having returned to my usual attire, I placed my hand on the window ledge and turned to look at the door.

“Thank you very much, Aunt.”

Thanking the kind person whose name I don’t even know, I climbed over the window and went outside.

I left the house where I had been recuperating, making sure not to be found.

A few hours after Eve left the house, the owner of the house, Paula Harmony, came to check on things and was astonished by Eve’s absence.

However, seeing the open window and the absence of her equipment, it seems he came to the conclusion that she must have left.

“Hmm”

She lets out a troubled sound and places her hand on her cheek.

“I was going to talk about the black-haired guy who told us that the kid had collapsed, but he disappeared, didn’t he…”

That word, of course, never reached Eve’s ears.