Peace Hunter

At the academy.

Since the academy festival had been forcibly ended due to yesterday's attack, we decided to clean up and tidy up the decorations and equipment related to the academy festival. Not only did the Elevrad members decide to clean up the equipment, but the other students also decided to help clean up. They also helped clean up the academy grounds, which were filthy from yesterday's attack.

Meanwhile, many knights were patrolling and guarding the academy to prevent another attack like yesterday's. Moreover, many of the knights were gathered near Charles and Chloe.

"It seems those knights are keeping a very tight guard on you," I said.

I was currently cleaning up equipment, such as the damaged booths, with Charles and Chloe. So I also noticed that many knights were around us.

"It seems like Mother ordered the knights to keep us under close guard," Charles said.

"But Mother shouldn't have done this," Chloe said.

"Doesn't that mean Her Majesty cares about you guys very much? She doesn't want anything to happen to you again," I said.

"Well, even so, this treatment makes me uncomfortable, Rid," said Charles.

"I feel uncomfortable too," said Chloe.

"Perhaps this will only last a few days, and Her Majesty the Queen won't treat you like this anymore. For now, you should get used to it," I said.

Charles and Chloe nodded.

As we were cleaning up the damaged booths in front of the academy lobby, I noticed several people standing in front of the academy lobby holding what I assumed was an Artifact. Miss Karina also appeared to be accompanying them.

One of the people holding the Artifact handed it to Miss Karina. Miss Karina accepted it and immediately pointed it toward the front of the destroyed academy lobby. I sensed Miss Karina expending some of her mana as she held the Artifact. Slowly, the academy lobby began to recover. Several other Artifact holders also helped restore the building by pointing their Artifacts at it. Then the academy lobby building began to recover more quickly, finally completely restored to its original state before the attackers attacked yesterday.

"That Artifact seems to be the same type of Artifact usually installed in tournament arenas, and it functions to restore the tournament arena if it is damaged. It seems like it can restore any damaged object. But the more severe the damage, the more mana it requires to repair it. That's why several people helped Miss Karina repair the building, and the recovery process went quickly."

"I wonder if there's an Artifact for repairing objects, is there also an Artifact used to create objects? Like creating new buildings that have never been built before?" I thought.

After repairing the academy lobby building, Miss Karina and several other people entered the building. It seemed they wanted to see if there were any damaged areas inside the academy building and intended to repair them immediately.

We continued cleaning up the booths in front of the academy lobby building. But as we were cleaning up the booths, I sensed several people watching me. It wasn't the other students who were paying attention to me, but rather the adults nearby, such as the academy staff, the academy soldiers, and others. Not only now, but there had been several people watching me before. Even some of the people who had been helping Miss Karina repair the academy lobby seemed to be watching me.

I turned to look at the people I felt were watching me. Chloe, seeing me turn around, became curious and asked me.

"What's wrong, Rid?" Chloe asked.

"Nothing. I just felt like several people were watching me, one of them being this knight I'm looking at," I said, looking at the soldier.

"Hmm, I see," Chloe said.

Chloe then walked over to the knight ​I mentioned earlier.

"Hello, sir knight," Chloe said.

"Uh-huh, Princess Chloe, h-hello too. What's wrong?" the knight asked.

"Look, my friend over there felt like several people were watching him, and one of them was you, sir knight. Do you have a reason for watching him?" Chloe asked.

"Watching him? N-No, Princess Chloe. M-Maybe it was just a coincidence that I was looking at him, so he thought I was watching him," the knight said.

"Just answer me, I know you're lying. You must have a reason for keeping an eye on him, right? Is something going on?" Chloe asked.

"Okay, I'll be honest, Princess Chloe. Actually, this morning I was reading a newspaper published by 'Diganta'. In that newspaper, there were many articles about your friend, Rid Archie. I kept an eye on him because I was simply curious; I had no ill intentions towards him. Some of the people who were also watching him probably had the same thoughts as me," the knight said.

"I see. So you've been paying attention to Rid because there's a lot of news about him in the newspaper that was released today. I'm curious about what news is in that newspaper, but unfortunately, the newspaper isn't circulated among the students inside the academy, so the students can't read it. Did you bring the newspaper, sir knight?" Chloe asked.

"Unfortunately, I didn't bring the newspaper, Princess Chloe. I left it outside the academy gates," the knight said.

"I see. Okay, then I'll go back to tidy up. Thank you for telling me, sir knight," Chloe said.

"You're welcome, Princess," the soldier said.

Then Chloe returned to where Charles and I were.

"Why did you approach that knight, Chloe?" I asked.

"To ask him why he was paying attention to you," Chloe said.

"You shouldn't have done that, and besides, I don't mind a few people paying attention to me," I said.

"But isn't it a little uncomfortable being watched by people like that? Especially if those people turn out to have malicious intentions. But this time, you can relax, Rid, because those people aren't watching you because they have malicious intentions. They're watching you because they're curious after reading today's newspaper. The newspaper has a lot of information about you," Chloe said.

"Newspaper?" I asked.

"Yes. But I don't know what news related to you was in the newspaper because the knight didn't bring his. I'm a little curious, though," Chloe said.

"I didn't expect me to appear in the newspaper. I think this happened because I was questioned by several people yesterday. I'm a little curious about what news was published about me in the newspaper," I thought.

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Then that afternoon, several nobles arrived at the academy, including the three Dukes: Duke San Quentine, Duke San Angela, and Duke San Minerva. Duke San Lucia didn't come today, and instead, Lord Irwin came in his place. Yesterday, Duke San Lucia himself said that if he didn't come, he would send Lord Irwin. The nobles who came to the academy brought manpower to help tidy and clean the academy. Thanks to them, the cleaning and tidying work progressed quickly.

Then, in the late afternoon, Queen Kayana and King Albert arrived at the academy. Caroline also arrived with Queen Kayana and King Albert. Due to yesterday's attack, Queen Kayana decided to take Caroline back to the palace. Caroline complied, as she was only here to enjoy the festival. Since the festival was over, she felt no need to continue staying at the academy. But today, Caroline decided to return to the academy. Caroline approached me, Charles, and Chloe, who had just finished cleaning up the booths that had been damaged by the attackers yesterday.

"Hey, Brother Rid, you're in the newspaper today. There's a lot of news about you in the newspapers," Caroline said.

"I already know about that, Carol," I said.

"Even though you know, you haven't seen the newspaper in person, have you? Because it's not circulated among the students at this academy. Thank me for bringing you this," Caroline said, holding up a newspaper.

"Here, do you want to read it?" Caroline asked.

"Okay," I said.

"Is it just me, or is Caroline getting closer to me?" I thought.

Well, I didn't think much of it. Then Caroline handed me the newspaper, and I started reading it. Charles and Chloe also read the newspaper.

"It's true, this newspaper has a lot of news related to Rid. There are even many photos of Rid in this newspaper. It mentions that a first-year student at San Fulgen Academy named Rid Archie made a significant contribution to fighting a group that attacked the academy," said Charles.

"You're amazing, Rid. You were even called a 'hero' in this newspaper. And I just found out that you also protected me when I was unconscious. You even protected Carol, Irene, and senior Gretta. Maybe I'm late in saying this because I just found out, but thank you for protecting me, Rid," said Chloe.

"I also want to thank you for protecting me, brother Rid," said Caroline.

"I didn't do anything, you don't need to thank me. If you want to thank me, you should thank Miss Karina," I said.

"I'll thank her later, but the important thing is that I've thanked you now," said Chloe.

"Okay," I said.

Then I continued reading the newspaper.

"No wonder so many people are paying attention to me today, especially since they're all adults. It seems they've all read this newspaper."

"If this newspaper is reporting on me like this, it's no surprise that I'm being noticed by so many people, because I've become the center of attention because of this newspaper. Even my relationship with Irene was covered in this newspaper. Being the center of attention, I don't know if this will be a good thing for me or not in the future," I thought.

-To be continued