Chapter 51: Brilliant Little Thief
The end of Professor Uriel’s lesson was expectedly hectic. Though the enigmatic man treasured peace and silence, he allowed the uproar; after all, these students were only first-years, just beginning to absorb his unique and demanding style of teaching.
This brief chaos also gave Uriel the freedom to observe young Merrick unnoticed as the class emptied, whispers buzzing about the new project.
The boy who had survived the Conqueror, challenged a professor and struck a Class A, Back-Rank tamer.
Uriel’s gaze tightened with curiosity. There was something curious about him. It wasn’t always that a low-ranked student intrigued him more than his higher ranked peers.
Without a doubt, he would be watching Jethro’s progress in the Academy closely. Provided there was progress to watch.
For Jethro, he found himself fairly excited about the project, which was an odd feeling for him.
He already knew everything about all the mechbeasts that were in that class hall— he knew how they would cultivate in principle and the best cultivation modules for every one of them. But he was curious to know how tamers would execute theirs. Especially prodigies like Padva.
They agreed to meet every other day after school in the repository to compare their mechbeasts’ cultivation progress and exchange insights.
After that and an awkward ’see you later’, Jethro and his roommates; Kekius and Oand reunited almost immediately.
Kekius tried to fish for information about whether Jethro had a thing for Princess Padva, but Jethro shrugged it off with a statement along the lines of: ’"The thing we have is trauma. Shared trauma. My therapist’s words, not mine."
Kekius eventually gave up.
Then, together, Together, they walked into the final class of the day: Taming Gadgets.