Chapter 415 – Episode 46. The Burden of Being a Teacher Is Not Unusual.
I came out of the living room, watched Alrik sitting in seiza and meditating for a while, and then went outside. As I came out, I suddenly remembered Airen Shimokawabe’s last expression.
Shimokawabe Airen was making an expression that gave the impression that she was envious of Alric, who was about to experience a real battle. The last expression clearly contained feelings of envy and mild jealousy.
Surely, as an advisor at Cheongshimgwan, you won’t have to experience much actual combat… Then wouldn’t it be okay if she promised Shimokawa Beairen that she would fight and recruit her?
Since there was still a lot of semesters left, I thought it would be okay to ask later. If I could recruit Airen Shimokawabe, my power would greatly increase, so I thought it would be a good idea to at least give it a try.
I ended up thinking about Airen Shimokawabe and picked up the phone. Up to this point, she hadn’t had much support, but now she felt like she needed to ask for some help from Tyra’s group.
I called Gocho Kikuhito, the 8th secretary of Taira Danjo, who oversees St. Francis Girls’ Academy. The ringtone rang twice and Gocho Kikuhito answered the phone.
-This is Gocho Kikuhito, the youngest master.
“Yes. I have something to ask you to investigate. “Today, as an educational trainee, a burden came to our class. Please do some research on that person and his family.”
Gocho Kikuhito seemed a little embarrassed by my words. From Gocho Kikuhito’s point of view, he had to let me know in advance that a deputy director would be appointed to the special team, but I had to personally inform him of this, so I guess he couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
-Sorry, sorry. We should have investigated in advance…
“Please focus on the investigation rather than apologizing for something that has already happened. Since it is a burden from the head of St. Francis Girls’ Academy and a different faction, it may interfere with future work.”
-All right. We will investigate the information as soon as possible.
I explained the rest, listened to Kocho Kikuhito’s answer, and ended the call. Investigating Kirie Kurayamada may not reveal anything, but since there is a possibility that she may interfere with me in the future, I had to do the minimum amount of research.
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Rena Sakagami stopped investigating Ryuta Yamashiro and from August before the start of the second semester, she began investigating new contacts or forces within the Yamashiro family.
Since Ryuta Yamashiro is a fictitious character anyway, there was no point in following him any further, and the purpose was to find out what force had paid to use the new name Ryuta Yamashiro.
‘If you look at the account, no money has come in… There is a high probability that it was received in kind as compensation. And…’
There was nothing suspicious particularly among the accounts or visitors. But there was just one catch. Yamashiro Atsuteru (山城 渥光), the third child of the Yamashiro family, was accepted into the Taira Group. And now he was receiving training as a new employee at the Tyra Group Talent Development Center.
At first, I tried to just ignore it, but I checked Atsuteru Yamashiro’s college grades and qualifications just in case, and it turned out that he wasn’t good enough to be in the Taira group. And although the Yamashiro family was a famous family, it was not enough to have a child join the Taira group.
‘In the end, it seems like the compensation was paid by joining the Tyra Group.’
According to the investigation up to this point, Mr. Ryuta Yamashiro is a member of the Taira family. Now things have become more complicated. Researching the Yamashiro family, a famous family in a small rural area, could not be the same as researching Japan’s number one Taira group.
It would be very difficult to find the true identity of Ryuta Yamashiro among the numerous members of the Taira Group. Moreover, it seemed unlikely that the Taira Group would just leave the Sakagami family investigating them.
“Ha… I thought it would be easy, but it’s getting more and more complicated. It would be better if my last name was Tyra, which would be easier for the teacher to recognize, so she could easily find the information.”〈 Br〉
Rena Sakagami muttered to herself and let her sigh. She then unknowingly entered the Sakagami family’s data search bar as Taira Ryuta (平竜太).
“Huh?”
I just typed in Ryuta Taira instead of Ryuta Yamashiro, but surprisingly, data about Ryuta Taira came out.
When I clicked on Taira Ryuta, there was no photo and only a one-line description. There were no photos or much data, so the Sakagami family seemed like they didn’t have much data collected.
●Taira Ryuta (平竜太): 20 years old, Taira Saburo’s illegitimate son, Taira Danzo recently accepted him into the family. Currently affiliated with the Human Resources Development Institute. Korean mixed race.
“No way…”
The two could have just had the same name. Besides, they say he recently joined the family. Would you entrust such an infiltration mission to someone like that? Moreover, although he was an illegitimate child, he was a direct descendant of the Tyra family.
Rena Sakagami rationally thought that Ryuta Yamashiro was not the same person as Ryuta Taira, but she was quite confused because there were several things that were correct, such as the fact that they had the same name and that if they were half-Korean, the Korean they were currently teaching would be no problem at all.
‘In the end, the only way to make sure everything is to go to the Tyra Group Human Resources Development Center.’
Even if Ryuta Taira is not Ryuta Yamashiro, I boarded a light plane that I had prepared separately, thinking that it would not be a loss since I could dig up Atsuteru Yamashiro, who is currently receiving training as a new employee at the Human Resources Development Center.
Looking down from the light aircraft, Rena Sakagami thought of several scenarios. Why did the Tyra Group send someone to St. Francis Girls’ Academy to a special class rather than a regular class?
Rena Sakagami did not know exactly what benefit she had in sending Taira’s direct descendants. Although she vaguely thought that it was because of Minamoto Risa, she would never know that Taira Danzo sent Taira Ryuta to rape Minamoto Risa.
Many thoughts passed by, and before she knew it, Rena Sakagami had arrived in Chiba, where the Human Resources Development Center was located. Rena Sakagami got off the plane and found a place to stay near the Human Resources Development Center.
Rena Sakagami was very tired because she could barely sleep, and she came all the way to the Yamashiro family to investigate without being able to rest. Rena Sakagami, who was trained as a ninja, said she could still move more.
However, since she still had time during the weekend, she thought she could just go to sleep and wake up again to resume her research, so Rena Sakagami jumped straight into bed.
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Rena Sakagami quickly opened her eyes. She felt as if she hadn’t slept even a minute, and it was already morning. The sunlight shining through her window woke her up. She opened the door to her hotel room to take a short walk, and before she knew it, she was in the elevator.
‘Are you half asleep?’
Rena Sakagami, feeling dazed, pressed the first floor of the elevator. Soon the elevator door opened, and she got out, and instead of seeing the hotel lobby, she saw the Human Resources Development Center building. The moment she saw the sign for Tyra Group Talent Development Center in front of her, goosebumps appeared all over her body.
‘It’s an illusion… ! That’s also very outstanding.’
Rena Sakagami, through her ninja training, could tell that her current situation was anything but ordinary. Although she could not have guessed it herself, she knew that she was being manipulated by a famous magician. When she came to her senses, the elevator disappeared, and she was at the entrance to the Human Resources Development Center.
Good profit…
The front door of the Human Resources Development Center opened with a creepy metal sound. It was as if he was asking me to come in. Rena Sakagami was worried, but she couldn’t go anywhere else. This is because it was a pitch-black space with no light other than the site of the Human Resources Development Center. Because she had a premonition that would never be good for her if she went to this pitch-black space, Rena Sakagami had no choice but to enter the Human Resources Development Center through the open door.
Tsutsutsu…
As I entered the Personal Development Center, the entrance I had just entered was now completely black. The space itself, the entrance to the Human Resources Development Center, has disappeared as if enveloped in a black fog.
It was a very scary scene, but it wasn’t strange or anything at all. The surroundings were filled with black space, but it didn’t feel foreign to Rena Sakagami. She couldn’t believe the sensations she was feeling right now. Rena Sakagami had no choice but to keep moving forward.
I saw streetlights standing sparsely on the side of the road as if telling me to follow, and Rena Sakagami walked along that road.
After walking for so long that she couldn’t tell if this was Taira Group Human Resources Development Center or just a park somewhere, Rena Sakagami saw a woman standing with a huge clock tower behind her.
Not human… ! Rena Sakagami swallowed her saliva. The woman had horns on her head. Her hair was pink, and her eyes were glowing red. And… She was very beautiful. She was a woman who did not feel like a human being at all.
“What brought you to the Human Resources Development Center?”
The pink haired woman with her horns had a beautiful voice as well. Rena Sakagami opened her mouth to such a question that did not seem malicious at all.
“Is this the Tyra Group Human Resources Development Center?”
“If you came in through the entrance of the Human Resources Development Center, it would be the Human Resources Development Center. Now can you tell me why?”
Question again. Rena Sakagami realized that she could never fool the pink haired woman as she looked at her with red eyes. She was absolute in this space. Rena Sakagami knew that if she was lying, she would know right away.
“I am conducting research to welcome someone as my lord.”
“Master? Okay… So that was it. To commemorate you coming all the way here, I will answer the question for you. “Ask.”
Hearing Rena Sakagami’s words, the pink-haired woman’s eyes suddenly softened. When the pink-haired woman said she would answer on her behalf, Rena Sakagami asked, as if possessed, if Ryuta Yamashiro and Ryuta Taira were the same person.
“Is it so. They are both the same person. Are you satisfied?”
“Yes.”
When Rena Sakagami nodded her head, the pink-haired woman picked a rose that had already grown next to her. And she held it out to Rena Sakagami. Rena Sakagami did not refuse and accepted her rose. It was a pink rose.
“It’s a gift. Now wake up. “You can hear the rest directly from the child.”
The moment the pink haired woman told her to wake up, Rena Sakagami opened her eyes. When she opened her eyes, the Human Resources Development Center was gone, and she was on the hotel bed where she had fallen asleep.
“Did I dream?”
Such a vivid dream… The moment she thought that, her hand started to sting. When I looked at her hand, I saw that Rena Sakagami was holding her rose, and she was bleeding from being pricked by the rose’s thorns.
“… It wasn’t a dream after all.”
Rena Sakagami muttered as she looked at the pink rose that had turned red with drops of blood.
