Chapter 10 : Ai-chan’s Bodyguards
Hatayama Aiko, 25 years old. Social studies teacher.
As a teacher she taught specialized knowledge to the students, she also tried to improve their academic performance. She wasn’t soone who only gave guidance, but soone exemplary. Surely, those were serious matter for her, even more so, were her “allies”; those who thought of her as the most important person. To put it concretely, she was the adult that the kids could depend on outside of their families.
This was influenced by a big event in her student days, but let’s leave it at that. Anyway, as the ally of the students outside of their houses, Aiko’s pride as a teacher beca the pillar of support that helped her call herself a teacher.
Therefore, Aiko was extrely dissatisfied by their current situation. Suddenly, while she was stunned after being summoned to another world and arbitrarily forced into a fantastic situation. The student with the greatest charisma in class continued the talks instead of her. And then when she noticed her precious students were preparing for a war.
No matter how she tried to persuade them, the decided “flow” easily swept away her opinion, she was unable to stop her students at all.
“That’s why, I will at least protect my students!”. Is what she was determined to do, but with her rare abilities, she was told to settle with being useful with the duties outside of combat (farmland improvent and developnt). Although she desperately tried to oppose it, she was persuaded by her students. Aiko herself was unable to object to the point of view of the right person in the right place.
She spent every day anxiously thinking about the students who were fighting beyond her reach. Guarded by temple knights of the Church of the Saints and imperial guards of the Herrlicht kingdom, she visited every farm village and undeveloped area, but when she finally completed that work and returned to the royal palace, what awaited her was a certain student’s death.
At that ti, Aiko blad herself over and over for being unable to force herself to stay with them. “After all, aren’t I just being carried away after thinking myself an ideal teacher!?” Sothing like that. Certainly, Aiko was perplexed because she couldn’t even be certain if sothing might have changed with her being there. But, this incident gasun, struck Hatayama Aiko’s head as a teacher, in other words it awakened her.
Toward the students who were unable to stand up because of the overwhelming fear of “death,” the church and the kingdom still wished for them to resu their war preparations. Aiko thought, “As if I would let it happen for a second ti!”, stood to oppose the church and the nobles of the kingdom. Using her position and abilities as her shield, she shouted out, “Don’t co near my students,” to corner them.
As a result, she sohow managed to gain victory. There were no students who refused to fight. But their hearts wavered because of Aiko’s persistence. In addition, her already high popularity was grew further. Although she wouldn’t do anything like war, the ironic result was that, at the very least so of the encouraged students appeared to escort Aiko in her duties running all over the place.
“There’s no need for you to fight” and “Because the knights are escorting , I’ll be okay”, was how she persuaded them to give up, but so of the students stood up and said “We’ll protect Ai-chan”, filled to the brim with determination. Following that, she was eventually overwheld, afterward they followed her around the farmlands, and “I was swept around again. I am such a bad teacher…”, while on all fours was still fresh in her mind.
By the way, this ti, although the dedicated knights escorting Aiko assisted in persuading the students, sohow it beca a situation where the students stubbornly refused to back down. If they asked why they opposed the bodyguards, as a consensus of all the students, they blocked everything with the words:
“As if we can leave Ai-chan to soone we don’t know!”
The students’ sense of crisis was directed at not thieves and demonic beasts on the road ahead, but rather it was turned towards Aiko’s dedicated knights. Their reason was that all of the mbers were good-looking guys. This was the upper echelons’ strategy to tie Aiko’s talent to the kingdom and church. In short, it was a honeytrap-thing. One of the students who noticed it inford the other students and “Protect Ai-chan from the good-looking military n corps” was ford.
However, there was a miscalculation made by the students. The so-called hunter becoming the hunted scenario. To prove it, these were the persuasive words that the knights gave the students.
Commander of the temple knights and the bodyguard, David:
“There is no need to worry. I’ll protect Aiko. I won’t let her get even a scratch. Aiko is… … my everything”
Vice-commander of the temple knights, Chase:
“For her sake, I will even throw away my beliefs. I am determined to dedicate everything for Aiko. Don’t you feel relieved even by this much?”
Imperial knight Chris:
“It’s my destiny to et Aiko-chan. Did you think I’ll let my destined person die?”
Imperial knight Jade:
“… … I swore to risk my life. Not as an imperial knight. But, as a man”
This ti, the students thought, “Just what on earth happened!? They all had a change of heart!”, sothing like that. In other words, at first they thought it was Aiko who would fall into the honey-trap, but after hearing those words they shout, “We won’t hand Ai-chan to unknown people!”, as if they were her parents, they didn’t want to part from Aiko’s side.
It should be noted, what happened between Aiko and them… … because it’s a long story it’ll be omitted, but Aiko’s idleness and inborn diligence made a gap. Coupled with her sincerity which perated her surroundings, they had already beco Aiko’s believer ‘when they noticed,’ well sothing along those lines. When told, it could beco an entirely new story… … so a lot happened. A lot of things.
With that said, currently, the students were divided into Kouki’s hero group, which continued to train inside the “Orcus Great Dungeon”, the stay behind group, and Aiko’s bodyguard group.
After that, two months after the ssengers of the empire visited Herrlicht kingdom, Aiko and her party that improved and developed farmland were currently using the carriage to go develop a new farmland. Their destination was the lakeside town, Ul.
“Aiko, aren’t you tired? There’s no need to hold back if you’re tired, you know? We’ll imdiately take a break, okay?”
“No, I am okay. David-san. Rather, didn’t we just take a break a while ago? I am not weak after all”
Inside the spacious and large carriage, the commander of Aiko’s bodyguards’; David, worriedly talked to Aiko. Aiko’s reply was mixed with a wry smile.
“Fufu, commander just can’t stop worrying about Aiko-san. Because a while ago you were exhausted after just a day of travel… … that’s why I am also worried. Make sure to not hold yourself back, okay?”
“I apologize for the inconvenience that ti. That was the first ti I had traveled by carriage… … but, I am really okay because I’ve beco accustod to it. Thank you very much for your concern. Chase-san”
At first, Aiko displayed disgraceful behavior because she had yet to experience how a carriage moved, she blushed because she was reminded of her past, and thanked the vice-commander of the bodyguards; Chase. Towards the blushing Aiko, Chase covered his mouth with his hand in agony, and tried to casually take Aiko’s hand… … “Gohonh!”, his hand was stopped by a cough and a sharp gaze. The one who stopped him was a schoolgirl, Sonobe Yuka, who sat diagonally in front of Aiko. She was a mber of “Protect Ai-chan from good-looking military n corps.” Because they wouldn’t know what might happen if there were only Aiko and good-looking military n inside the carriage, several mbers also ca to board it.
By the way, there were eight people inside the carriage. Outside were knights on the scale of a platoon, they tried to hold back because it was already too late to tsukkomi about how only the commander and vice-commander were allowed to ride the carriage. These good-looking guys had also tried to give so reason or another to ride the carriage. They seed to not want to be separated from Aiko.
“Oya, oya, I’ve been stared at. To have gathered so many wrinkles on your forehead, wouldn’t it spoil your cute face?”
Chase said that accompanied with an iken-smile. It was an attractive smile that could make an ordinary woman inadvertently blush. But, Yuka’s reaction was, “Peh!”, an expression of soone who wanted to spit on him even now.
“Not only Ai-chan sensei, do you also call other won “cute”? Ai-chan-sensei, this person is surely a bad philanderer. Please be careful, okay?”
Yuka believed a guy that’s capable of saying another woman is “cute” in front of his beloved, wasn’t a good guy. These guys also had realize they were used by their employers to honeytrap Aiko. They knew that their appearances were capable to making won’s hearts flutter. Because she knew that, Yuka was irritated by Chase who was able to smile daringly, and she made a small counter.
“S-Sonobe-san. Don’t be that belligerent. Even though you finally called “sensei,” you still called “Ai-chan”… … isn’t it okay to just use Aiko-sensei?”
“That won’t do. Ai-chan-sensei is “Ai-chan,” that’s why nothing else will do except Ai-chan-sensei. That’s the consensus of the students”
“Wh-what’s with that, I don’t understand it. Moreover, is it the students’ common view? Is that the way this generation thinks? Work hard , this is a trial for my dignity and reliability as a teacher! I must understand how my students think at any cost!”
Toward Ai-chan-sensei who said to herself, “Fight-!”, Yuka and Chase’s awkward interactions, and similar atmosphere beca warm and fuzzy. That’s the reason why Aiko’s called “Ai-chan,” but she didn’t notice. Her road to beco a dignified teacher was a long one.
Even so, for the reliability part, the students were truly depending on Aiko. Even when seen from an outsider’s point of view, she was the most familiar adult the students had, after all. Her recognition beca stronger when she stood up to oppose the leaders of the kingdom and church. Especially toward the students that were brokenhearted because of Haji’s death, Aiko beca their ntal support.
As a matter of fact, even for the students who requested to be Aiko’s guards, the desire to simply be near Aiko was half of their reason for doing so. It should be noted that, the mbers of the Ai-chan’s bodyguards, other than Sonobe Yuka were Sugawara Taeko, Miyazaki Nana, Aikawa Noboru, Kawahara Akira, Tamai Atsushi, and Shimizu Yukitoshi, a total of seven students.
From there, they traveled on carriage for four days.
Good-looking military n tried to approach Aiko, but Aiko, who thought everything they said was for the sake of their employers, just let it pass through her ears. Aiko didn’t notice that they had truly fallen for her. Added with the effect of students glaring at them when they tried to seduce her more than necessary, a heavy mood often ca about. But it soon changed into a warm and fuzzy one because of Aiko’s speech and behavior… … and that repeated until the group finally arrived at the lakeside town, Ul.
After recovering from their travel fatigue, they began to survey Ul’s outskirts’ farmlands and made their plan of improvent. Although there were a lot of love-codies with Aiko at the center during those tis… … that was also a story for another ti.
Finally, they began to reform the farmlands, and recently she got “Goddess of Good Harvest” as her second na that started to spread from Ul town, then once again, a new incident occurred and squeezed Aiko’s mind.
One of her students disappeared.
Aiko worked the best she could. All for the sake of her precious students. In the end, what awaited her was an impactful reunion that would end in an undesirable outco.
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