Chapter 213: The Forr Student
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
“The Main Gods—whoops, I ant the System wouldn’t give a quest where I’d die for certain!”
I really wanted to say this, but to be honest, I still didn’t know how to earn two thousand-sothing Fate Points within 24 hours. This was more than half a year’s worth of daily quests.
But where there’s a will, there’s a way... I really wanted to say that as well, but the so-called way never ended up arriving.
[Ti’s up. I’m now going to confiscate your ‘newborn baby.’ Whenever you have enough points, co find . Interest will be set at 40% with compound interest; if you take too long... heh heh, you understand.]
“The hell’s with saying I understand! How much do you want to overuse this joke!?”
But, even so, there was no helping the situation. What else was I supposed to do other than earn enough Fate Points?
Alright then, my current target was to now hurry up, complete my quests, and pay off the Fate Points I owed as quickly as possible. However, my current condition obviously wasn’t the best for challenging strong opponents.
And so, there was no helping it. After having set out for less than a week’s ti, I began my return journey.
I decided to hurry back to Karo City first. At the very least, I needed to think of how to pay off my debt and receive my “newborn baby” back again.
[Daily quests, pick one of two. The first quest is to ‘Tell the World that I am the Naked King.’ The second quest is ‘This Uncle Isn’t a Pervert: Little Girl, Why Don’t You Watch This Goldfish Together With Your Uncle...’]
As I walked through Karo’s streets and looked at my daily quests, it seed to be a choice between making either myself or others suffer. Yet looking at the 50-point reward which probably wouldn’t even be enough to pay off the interest, I gave up imdiately.
“ssing up the original planned course and fate will be profitable? I should just find an Epic-ranked Quest sowhere and complete it.”
I crouched on the street and observed the busy people around as I thought to myself.
“Roland! It was actually you! When the scouts said that you returned, I couldn’t believe it.”
The person who suddenly interrupted my contemplation of important life questions was a white-bearded fellow with an excited face. I tilted my head at seeing this wrinkly old face who was so excited that his face had gone red all over.
“Oh oh oh! You’re... are you that at pie selling old man from Rubber Street? You’re here looking for the two copper coins I owe you.”
*Pu!*
Judging by how he fell on the street, in addition to the looks of the relatively young mages following him, it seed that my guess was off the mark.
“The hotel owner? The shoe polisher right in front of where I lived? The barber next door? You’re none of the above? You must be kidding! Just who exactly are you?”
I was starting to get rather frustrated. My ti was quite valuable, and this white-bearded fellow actually dared to play guessing gas with !
“You don’t recognize , and you’re getting angry with ? I’m Kaid, a junior student from the sa ti as you! Take a closer look!”
At hearing this, I paused in surprise. I could indeed recall such a junior student, but he obviously had a different appearance.
“That’s not right. Kaid doesn’t have such a large beard, and he was a handso young fellow back in the day who was quite white. Nor was he as short as you.”
The white-bearded fellow kept nodding. “Yep, I’m that white Kaid from back then, who used to be famous for being handso, who all the teachers were attracted to. But now that I’m old now, how could I possibly look like back then? My back’s a little hunched now, which is why I’m shorter.”
“You’re really Kaid? That Kaid who specialized in divination and prophecy? The Kaid who would fail his elental magic classes until Armageddon? The Kaid who wouldn’t wash his underwear for two weeks at a ti? The Kaid who used fire magic to make fireworks for confessing to a girl and ended up being treated as the ‘younger-brother type?’”
Alright, the more I spoke, the redder Kaid’s old face got, but he didn’t deny anything I said. “Yep, didn’t you also fail classes together with ? That silly public confession idea even ca from you, and as for not washing my underwear for two weeks, isn’t that your fault for exploding the laundry room?!”
I nodded at this. It seed that it actually did match up with my mories, but I still wanted to confirm sothing.
“You really are Kaid, the Kaid who chose to specialize in divination just so you could secretly spy on female teachers changing clothes and taking showers.”
This ti, the two students behind him looked at their teacher with strange looks in their eyes. To them, the Myth-ranked mage Kaid was a venerated, kindly elder who was easy to get along with. They never expected Kaid to have such a wild history.
“...That was Phillips! You definitely rembered wrong! I’m not interested in older won, I only like the younger ones...”
“Ohhh.”
It was too late to stop now. The commotion from his students made the old teacher want to find a hole sowhere to hide in.
I had now confird things. However...
“You really are Kaid, that’s great...”
Archmage Kaid was smiling with tears in his eyes. Being able to see an old friend again after so many years was indeed rather moving.
“Return my money! Those three and a half gold coins that you owe , when do you intend to pay back!? Forty percent compound interest, plus two hundred years’ ti, I’ll just calculate it as two hundred thousand gold coins.”
Everyone’s expressions froze over instantly upon hearing this.
“Demons from the nine depths, please listen to my prayers...”
Fine, this guy actually started cursing , and it seed like a ga-level magic spell that borrowed powers from the demons. I knew that my joke had gone a little overboard, so I jokingly explained myself.
“Getting angry so quickly, you really are Kaid. Co, we should find a place to drink a little as fellow bros.”
There were four great joys in life—eting with rain after a long drought, the first night after being newly wed, becoming famous for your accomplishnts, and eting an old friend in a distant land.
There were also four great sorrows in life—only having one drop of rain, the groom being soone else, writing the wrong na on the test, and eting a debtor in a distant land.
But, right now, Kaid, who seemingly owed money, was quite happy. After drinking so alcohol, he even joyfully went looking for so young girls and asked, “How about letting this grandfather show you so western tricks? Look, lollipops! Look, goldfish...” and then he was dragged away by his disciples.
Today, Kaid’s impression of being strict and archaic was probably utterly ruined. Perhaps, starting from tomorrow, stories of the old Kaid’s new “fierceness” would be told all over the city.
“Oh my, even though this is just so free alcohol, it’s still pretty good. This should be the Auland’s Hualan District’s special three-hundred-year-old brandy. Its price should be at least five thousand gold coins; you’re really willing to go all out. Hmph, don’t think that you can buy with money. You still need to return my money to .”
[System Reminder: You bastard, can’t you just stop bringing up those three and a half gold coins of yours? Also, you rembered it wrong—there weren’t even any gold coins back in that ti, it was obviously just three and a half copper coins. You should learn from Kaid here. See, he’s forgotten entirely about it, and he’s even agreed to pay for your room and board.]
“Copper coins? Forget it; there’s no difference. You should also forget about the Fate Points I owe you, then. I’ll never ntion these coins again.”
Alright then, the system didn’t answer , but my guess was that that bastard of a system was probably preparing so sort of “glorious” achievent like “Scrooge” for .
And right now, Kaid returned in joyous spirits. Yep, we should just ignore the tiny handprint on his cheek. It seed that little girls wouldn’t care if he was so venerated archmage and would still slap him.
“Roland, why are you drinking by yourself? It’s such a rare celebration party, you should be happier. This is also where I want to introduce you to the others as an old senpai; you should at least give so face here.”
“Don’t ntion it. Just look at how they’re all pointing; no need to ntion face, they probably all think that I’m just an old demon.”
“You don’t say, it truly is strange. Although after reaching a certain level, the physical body will indeed beco nearly indestructible, and the rate of aging will drastically slow, but for you, not only your physical body but even your soul feels like it’s filled with energy, as if you’re a newly-born baby. And, your current magic power doesn’t feel strong.”
I smiled without answering. So things were too difficult to explain even if I wanted to.
Kaid shook his head, knowing I didn’t want to say anything, and he didn’t pry any further as he began chatting about the past.
“Do you still rember Ailulu? She actually got married to Caso, our fellow student...”
I had forgotten many things already, but luckily, divine power helped recover quite a few mories of the last God’s Descent. Plus, I had the records from my experintal log, so I could mostly match those to my mories.
Of course, so confusion was still unavoidable; for example, misrembering a beautiful lady as a handso boy, misrembering owing money as being owed money, or misrembering copper coins as gold coins...
[System: Can you stop bringing up those three and a half gold coins already?]
Cough, getting back to the main topic, after getting old like , ntioning past events would always be nostalgic and long-winded. This chat took up half the entire night. Except for a few of us, all the others had left already.
After chatting about so many things, even I felt rather nostalgic upon hearing about my past classmates and friends’ news.
Ti was cruel and would never stop ticking. With two hundred plus years having passed, the number of classmates I had that were still alive weren’t many. After all, Gold was an obstacle, Legend was another obstacle, and Saint was yet another obstacle. In order to reach the limit of human life, one must reach at least the Saint rank, and the probability of that was absolutely minuscule.
“Oh right, do you still rember Teacher Alia?” Kaid smiled mysteriously, as if he had finally found my weak spot. “Back when you were together with her, many archmages were sad to the point of despairing, and there were quite a few that used your image as a voodoo doll. She’s still looking for you, and won’t believe at all that you’re dead, and she’s always been single. It seems that she’s deeply in love with you, so how do you intend to pay her back?”
I didn’t react much to this, but Atadia and Soranto beside us were obviously shocked and exclaid out loud. They had kept worrying that their teacher Kaid would continue to embarrass himself, but never expected to hear about a topic like this.
“Impossible, the gentle and kind Teacher Alia was the dream woman for a countless number of students, how could she possibly...”
“What! I’m the Angelic Alia Supporters Club mber #1047, this definitely can’t be real! Teacher, you’re going to face the wrath of all us innurable Alia fans!”
*Slap!*
Kaid awkwardly smiled at after he slapped both his students on the back of their heads to shut them up.
“You’re actually tempted by physical appearance, how immature.”
After those taboo things occurred, Alia indeed had an infamous reputation, but with the passage of two hundred plus years, as long as those old fellows kept quiet about things, not many knew about Alia’s past. In the students’ eyes, they probably only saw that astonishingly charismatic Teacher Alia who seed so gentle and easy to get close to.
“...Who was it clutching my thigh and crying that year long ago, and then running off while still crying and shouting ‘I’ll leave Alia to you, you have to treat her well, or I’ll never forgive you in my life?’”
This ti, it was Kaid’s turn to break out into a cold sweat. The next mont, he adjusted his beard and changed to a serious expression.
“That was Alibert—it was definitely that fellow! He was one of the biggest Alia fans around back in the day.”
Okay then, seeing that Kaid was treating to three-hundred-year old brandy, I decided to sowhat save his face.
“So, Teacher Kaid had this side to him as well back in the day.”
“Why are you saying that we’re being tempted by physical appearances? Could it be that Teacher Alia also has another side to her, a wild, seductive side? Ahhh, I really want to see that side.”
One was exclaiming while the other one was panting. It was obvious that none of these guys could be considered normal.
Kaid and I could only exchange glances and smile wryly at the younger generation’s fascination with Alia. It was similar to how we were fooled that year as well.
“Wild? More like insane.”
“Believe , if you ever saw her other side, you’d likely be on her experint table, and then... there wouldn’t be anything else left for you.”
After so hesitation, I still decided to tell them.
“Actually, Alia found , and we ca to the Earth Elental Plane together this ti. Teacher Harloys is also together with us.”
After I said this, Kaid was still fine, but the two Alia fans’ eyes turned red and seed like they were about to jump .
However, Kaid revealed an expression of deep contemplation. He knew that the Earth Elental Plane was no place to be going on a honeymoon, and all three of us were considered world-class calamities, so we definitely had so kind of reason for coming here. Then, he connected the dots to the recent strange occurrences, and now revealed an expression of sudden realization.
“...Could it be that the increase of the Earth Elental Tide and the inability to teleport between dinsions were caused by you guys?”
“Teleportation between dinsions isn’t working anymore? No, we didn’t cause that, but it’s highly likely to be related to our goal. You know about Emordilorcan, right? As the Earth Elental Lord, he’s probably the only one who can seal off this entire plane. The Elental Tide’s increase is definitely related to him.”
“Emordilorcan? Last I heard, didn’t he go to the Northlands to join up with the beastn?”
“...Your news is behind by at least half a year. He’s returned, and he’s seriously injured. This ti, we ca here for sothing big. Would you like to join us?”
[Congratulations to host for activating a Legend-ranked Quest, and a reminder from the System: Hmph, it’s definitely not because I’m taking pity on you that I’m giving you a quest that can help you pay off your debt.]
“Stop sinisterly pretending to be cute, you’re as un-cute as could be!”
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