The Demon Prince goes to the Academy

st two more on that night.
Each class had eight people remaining.
Bertus folded his arms and stared into the dark jungle.

“This time, I’m pretty sure there isn’t just one raider…”

It was impossible to attack both camps at the same time like they had if there was just one.
Bertus seemed to think that there were at least two of them.
Charlotte agreed to Bertus’ guess.

“There are actually more than one.”

“…Did you check?”

“We were a little further ahead.
We found traces going in different directions.”

Because they had Delphine, who was good at hunting and tracking, Class B moved a lot faster than us and was able to gather more information. 

“Since we’re here now, let’s follow one trail each.”

Two trails.

Charlotte suggested that Class A and B should follow one each, and Bertus agreed.

One trail led to the middle of the island, and the other trail seemed to lead to the other side of the island.
Charlotte gave Bertus the right to choose first—he chose to follow the trail leading to the middle of the island.

“By the way, if the condition is catching both of the raiders, what will happen when we catch one each?” Liana said curiously, meaning to say that there was no way for both our classes to be victorious.

“Since we’ll get additional points, I think they’ll probably evaluate the other parts as well.
Rather, if we absolutely have to catch both… That would be a headache…”

If we had to catch both of them to finish the mission, things would be difficult.
Bertus seemed troubled by that thought.

It was nighttime and, no matter how bright a light we had with us, our view was still limited.
Class B had Deelphine; due to her tracking background, she would be able to move a little faster than us.

We were able to hear various howls of beasts in the nighttime jungle.

-Rustle!

“Wh-what was that?!”

The kids were so anxious that they jumped at every rustle of a bush.
I wasn’t much different, though.

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Cold sweat was trickling down everyone’s faces and necks. 

“Nocturnal animals might end up attacking us suddenly.
Stay vigilant.”

It had also been confirmed that there were large cats and other wild beasts in the jungle.
There was the possibility that we might get attacked by such a wild beast, apart from the raiders.

Everyone seemed to have only just realized how crazy it was to enter such a thick jungle at night.

-Splaaaash!

“The stream…”

Soon, we reached the stream we had discovered the other day.

“I think they crossed over.”

As Ellen said, the trail cut off at the stream.
However, due to the recent heavy rain, the stream was almost overflowing.

“How can we get over there?”

With the stream as it was, it wasn’t possible to jump over it, so Bertus was posing that question.
If it was just us, we’d be swept away the moment we set foot in the stream.

But it seemed rather obvious that the raiders somehow crossed the stream.

“Th-there… Can we use those, maybe?”

Kono Lint put down the bundle of rope he had slung over his shoulder.

“Oh… Right, we had that.
Okay.
Well done for bringing it with you.”

Following Bertus’s instruction,.Kono Lint brought whatever he could carry.
Honestly, that guy probably didn’t think it would be of much help, but he couldn’t just leave it in the camp, so he brought it with him—it had actually turned out to be quite helpful for us.

“If we tie this to a tree on the other side and this side, I think we can somehow cross the stream…”

Of course, everyone had that thought floating in their heads.

“How do we get it to the other side, though?”

However, that didn’t change the fact that we had to take one end of the rope to the other side.
Bertus looked at Ellen.

“Ellen, do you think you can jump across the river?”

“No.”

When Ellen said it was impossible for her to leap across a river of such breadth, Bertus just nodded, saying, “Is that so?”.
Anyway, we somehow had to cross over to get one end of the rope to the other side.

Wait, there was a way.

“If we tie the rope to something like a rock and throw it over there, we could send it over to the other side.”

Bertus nodded after listening to my explanation.

“… We could do that.
We can send it to the other side like that, but we won’t be able to tie it to a tree.
In the end, one of us has to cross the river to tie…”

Bertus suddenly closed his mouth as if he had just realized something.

It wasn’t just Bertus.

There was only one person that could cross the river safely.
Everyone wordlessly stared at Kono Lint.

It was possible for him.

“Ex… Excuse me? G-guys…? M-me… Why me?”

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Bertus put a hand on Kono Lint’s shoulder.

“We believe in you.
Lint.”

Kono Lint didn’t have the guts to refuse Bertus’s gentle coercion.

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The plan proceeded without a hitch, with all the female students covering their eyes, not looking across the stream.
Kono Lint teleported to the other side.
Naked, obviously.
Cliffman tied one end of the rope to a rock and threw it over, then Kono Lint hurriedly tied it to a nearby tree.

After that, with both ends of the rope tightly tied to trees on both sides, I crossed the river, handing him his clothes.

“Wha-what is it…”

“You really can do this anywhere, huh?.”

At my words, Kono Lint shouted with his face tomato red.

“I didn’t want to do this!”

Still, Kono Lint’s ability was quite useful during the mission.
Just by giving up his dignity, he would have no equal among the supernatural power users.

“Ooh! Now we can cross the river!”

Terrifyingly powerful torrents were raging below, and they had to rely on that single rope to go across.
Of course, all those that had no combat-related talents were rather reluctant.

Harriet shivered, looking like she would absolutely refuse to do it, her face particularly pale.

It was Ellen who came after me, then Cliffman tried to cross over.
By the time he climbed about halfway across, Ellen, Kono Lint, and I could see it.

Something was approaching our party from behind.

“Tha-that… That.
What is that…?”

Kono Lint muttered as his complexion grew ashen.

“Run away!“

Ellen shouted.

“Run away, you fucking idiots!”

Only after my shout was added did they turn around to look behind them.

Something was approaching the kids, its eyes shining red in the darkness.

The others living on that island.

Bertus looked at the approaching giant and muttered blankly.

“They weren’t… humans…?”

What came after us wasn’t human.

“Rooooooaaaar!”

It had green skin and red eyes.

“Gaaaaaaah!”

With the appearance of the orcs, the kids began to run away, scared to death.

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