Chapter 522 – Episode 56. Preparation for the Sports Day and the Second Request From the Student Council.
“This is no joke. “It could be very dangerous because drugs are involved.”
-Teacher, aren’t you in danger?
“I am… Because I’m good at fighting.”
Shido didn’t have anything to say in response to Tsubaki’s question, so he glossed over it with strange words. Saying that I’m an expert in martial arts won’t apply to Tsubaki Shido when I’m going to a place where there are drug criminals who will definitely be carrying guns. Even so, I can’t reveal that I have superpowers…
-The teacher is black… Because he’s a knight?
… I thought I saw something during the Oofuchi Erika rescue incident. Shido leaves Tsubaki alone, so there’s no way he won’t recognize something. Tsubaki Shido, whose hobby is obtaining information, would have gotten the information from a camera installed somewhere, or from a disciplinary committee member who participated in the battle. I should have been a little more careful.
“… It was just a cosplay.”
Tsubaki was speechless for a moment because of such absurd words that no one would believe. After a while, Tsubaki Shido’s earnest voice was heard on the phone.
-Don’t play around. Teacher.
Shit. I just don’t believe it either. I can’t help it. In times like this, it was best to just go ahead shamelessly with Operation Iron Plate.
“But no. “As a teacher and a hero, I can’t do anything that could hurt my students.”
It’s embarrassing to call myself a hero, but I can’t help it. The image of the Black Knight in the world was already that of a hero. Marvel and GC also created hero characters with armor similar to mine and serialized them to great acclaim, so my image as a hero was already too strong.
I heard that Aitana, who became famous for fighting famine and being the face of America’s superpower special forces, was already raking in money from all sorts of places for image rights, and I was a little envious of that. Of course, I had no intention of selling my face as the Black Knight, no matter how much money I was paid.
He is a person who will later become the chairman of a conglomerate, but he is acting like a hero? Not even Batman or Iron Man. I wasn’t going to be the hero, but I was going to be content with being a shadowy figure sitting in the back. This world is not a world of heroes, but a world of mega corporations without blood or tears.
-The teacher can protect you. The Black Knight who fought against famine…
Well, now that I think about it, I recently got a telekinesis shield. If I put it on Tsubaki, I think safety will be guaranteed…
“Just this once. And I hope you will keep my work a secret from now on.”
I decided to take Tsubaki Shido with me on the condition that my identity be kept a secret. After hanging up the phone with Tsubaki Shido, who excitedly said that she would understand, I contacted Rena Sakagami and Yuka Otagi, who I had thought of in advance, and asked them to meet me in front of the school gate.
I put on some clothes and left the house. Now that summer has completely passed, the cool air tickles my cheeks. The air in Miyashi was surprisingly good for a city. Although the population is small for a city, this may be due to the influx of fresh air created by the surrounding Mt. Fuji and the sea of trees.
It made sense that rich people would build villas in this city. The air is good, and there aren’t many ordinary people, but there are a lot of rich people who can communicate with each other, and it’s reasonably bustling, so you can buy anything you need at any time. I think I’ll try to build a villa around here later.
“Ah! Sir!”
I’m walking to school, thinking about her villa, when at her front door the red-haired Yuka Otagi sees me and waves her hand. Standing next to her was Rena Sakagami, wearing a ninja mask. She’s wearing a mask because there might be a fight.
“Yeah, but…”
When I was about to say that Tsubaki Shido might come, I saw Tsubaki Shido. They started out similarly to me and ended up arriving similarly.
“Eh? Why try?”
“Wouldn’t it be dangerous?”
Otagi Yuka and Sakagami Rena were looking like they were asking why they were here with question marks on their faces.
“When Oohuchi was kidnapped, I thought I saw him wearing the Black Knight armor…”
“I see.”
“I see.”
The two of them listened to my brief words and nodded without any further explanation. Soon Tsubaki Shido arrived, and we entered the academy.
“So, did you know where to look?”
“Ah, shouldn’t I just wander around in the forest and search every house that looks suspicious?”
In response to Tsubaki Shido’s question, Yuka Otagi said, “Is that difficult?” She answers with a facial expression. Tsubaki Shido sighed and turned over the paper she had printed, one by one.
“The reason I insisted on following you was because I thought I would be wasting time like this. “It’s a map showing the location of the management team’s temporary building that we researched in advance, so you can just look at that before you go.”
I see. It seems that Tsubaki Shido expected us to make such a reckless move and insisted on joining us.
I checked the paper I received. It’s written in quite detail. Because the academy site was quite large, there were quite a few rest areas and warehouses for the management team. While looking at the map, I pointed out two of them. It was an old warehouse deep in the forest that I saw from a helicopter, and it was a warehouse close to the back door where groceries and other materials came in, not the front door.
“Manufacturing is likely to be done in a place with few people, and the finished drugs will be stored for export in a place where vehicles can easily enter and exit, so these two places are suspicious.”
“It would certainly be more efficient to check suspicious areas first than to check everywhere.”
Everyone nodded at what I said, and we decided to split into teams of two and look at two places at the same time. The plan was to check the two locations and, if not, look for a nearby location. Of course, Tsubaki Shido was on my team because I brought her with me, and Rena Sakagami and Yuka Otagi were on the team.
“The request given to us is not to subdue drug criminals, but only to obtain information, so don’t overexert yourself and don’t force yourself to fight.”
Except for Tsubaki Shido, the rest are talented people who can beat drug criminals in droves, so it can’t be said that it’s too much, but since they’re not making any money, there’s no need to use their strength.
“Okay. “I will report the situation and deal with it, so don’t worry, teacher.”
“Master, don’t worry.”
The two left a message telling them not to worry and headed to a warehouse deep in the forest. It seemed like the city was out of consideration for Tsubaki’s presence and gave us a place that was convenient for us to get to. They both have good intentions.
“I was considered.”
“Don’t worry, these two are strong.”
“I know that those two are strong.”
Even Tsubaki Shido knows that the Otagiga family is a vampire family and the Sakagami family is a ninja family. We walked slowly and headed toward the back door. I met security guards on the way to the back door, but since they had already taken enough money from me, they passed me by without saying anything.
“What are the guards saying?”
“I usually put some oil on it.”
“… As expected.”
I didn’t know what I was imagining and saying, “That’s right,” But we fell silent when we saw the warehouse in sight. There were two warehouse buildings: a warehouse where items from outside the academy came in first, and a garbage dump where items from the academy (such as trash) were sent out.
I applied a weak telekinesis shield to Tsubaki Shido and motioned for her to follow. Tsubaki Shido seemed a little surprised by the translucent shield in front of him, but he followed my instructions and headed toward the warehouse.
Most of the items in the warehouse were food ingredients, cleaning supplies requested by the management team, and other miscellaneous items, so there was no security guard present. There was no need to spend money on protecting it because it was easy to track and not easy to steal. There was a lock on it, but the lock was like a tree branch in front of me.
We easily entered the warehouse and began to slowly look around the warehouse to see if there were any drugs. After searching for about 15 minutes, we couldn’t find even a trace of the drug.
“There isn’t one?”
“This is where things come in, so wouldn’t it be natural for things to be in the garbage dump? “I won’t be digging through the trash.”
There is some truth to this. Since this warehouse is a place where goods come in from outside, it seemed strange that there were drugs in it. A dump would be a place where you can take things without arousing suspicion.
We left the warehouse and went straight to the garbage dump. There was no food waste, so there was less unpleasant odor, but it still had the characteristic smell of a garbage dump. There was an incredible amount of general trash, paper boxes, and plastic trash packed in large bags.
Earth rape demons were living at St. Francis Girls’ Academy…
I looked through the garbage dump, thinking about being eco-friendly. Well, I wondered where I would have hidden the drugs. First, general waste is eliminated. It’s all in black bags that are hard to distinguish, but regular trash is dirtier than other trash here, so it would be disqualified from a working standpoint.
Most of the plastic was transparent, so there seemed to be no room to hide the drugs, and it seemed like they would be between the unfolded and overlapping paper boxes. I think it would be easier to find if I marked the paper box.
“I think it’s between the cardboard boxes.”
“It definitely seems like that.”
Shido Tsubaki must have been thinking the same thing as me as she approached the pile of paper boxes and said, Since I had no intention of directly touching the messy box that I didn’t know what it might contain, I also pushed Tsubaki back and looked at the pile of cardboard boxes. When I looked closely at the pile of boxes, it wasn’t that noticeable, but there were a few piles of boxes that had been checked with something like a red pen.
Suddenly!
I used shadow domination to remove the twine that held the stack of boxes together, and then used telekinesis to lift the unfolded boxes when I heard a voice behind me.
“Haha… “Teacher, what brought you to this dump?”
It was the voice of the management team leader. It was not the usual good-natured voice of an old man, but an eerie voice full of life.
