Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon's POV: ]

"Ah, you're here~."

The headmaster's office was located closest to the top of the academy castle where the eternal [Source] that powered the entire castle's magic systems existed.

This wasn't the first time we were here, obviously, but just like every other time we have been here, this place looked completely new.

Or in other words, this place felt as new as it did the last time we were here.

"Good morning, headmaster."

"You look all better now, hun? Are the preparations for the conference done?"

"Hoho, almost. Almost done. There's not much left so you should look forward to the letter. It might arrive anytime soon now."

"Of course."

She clicked her tongue while looking at him with an upset look and then after shaking off all her bitterness for the moment, she looked at me.

[{ "He doesn't seem to be exhausted but I can tell he is overly happy about something and that, for certain, is no good thing," }]

[{ "Or you might just be overthinking." }]

[{ "You don't believe me?" }]

She knew he was a bastard that enjoyed giving hard times to the two of us.

He had made us do enough things in this little time we have been here that she had started disliking this bastard.

She knew every time there was going to be a new difficulty for us from his side, and every time he was happy like this, she would say she had a bad feeling about that time.

And I don't blame her for that, his happiness was certainly no good thing for any of us.

'It's just that if he was going to give us a hard time, I now have faith that the rewards for overcoming those hardships would also be present there.'

We were compensated for all that we do in one way or another, and if we were here for what we were thinking we were here for, it was only going to be a good thing in my personal opinion.

"Anyway, a very good morning to all of you as well, and since the two in the back have that look, I believe you already know why you might be here."

"We have an idea."

Rein nodded with me as well and continued looking at him with narrow eyes to see if there was any change in his expression, or aura, or anywhere that could indicate a bad thing.

And, she actually found something.

[{ "Yeah, he's going to say something absurd." }]

I had no idea what she saw in him or what he might be going to say that would sound absurd, but I didn't have to waste my energy thinking deeply about any of it.

"Haha, I knew you would know~. As expected of my new best ones~. So… you all should start packing up as soon as you go back to your dorms after classes today."

"Hun?"

"What the?"

Even the presidents standing right behind us were stunned for a moment.

"What do you mean by you All, headmaster?"

He did not say 'you two' as he was supposed to while addressing the two of us and instead said 'you all' as if he was telling it to all of us.

"Hmm? I thought you knew already."

There was a smirk on his face that we were surprised and, seeing this, Rein had a frown on her face.

[{ "I told you." }]

[{ "You sure did." }]

The headmaster was smirking and that was no good thing. There is nothing in this academy as scary as him smirking like that, and the four of us knew just how exhausting it was every time that smirk appeared on him.

"Hohoho-."

"Stop laughing like you are some kind of old man, you bastard."

She was done with his suspense build up.

-Screlk.

And went ahead and sat down right before him.

"What perverse kind of pleasure do you get by doing this?"

She was looking at him with an angry look and narrow eyes, a kind of expression the headmaster was already used to now.

"But am I not an old man already, young lady?"

"Shut up."

She didn't like him. But she had no choice but to put up with his behaviour.

"Headmaster, what do you mean by packing up? And why all four of us?"

Cradle and the president were also already familiar with the animosity between the two of them, so they weren't that surprised even after seeing her practically curse at him.

They just acted casually as they always do, came forward and sat down with the two of us in their places before the headmaster's desk.

"So none of you have any idea, hun. That's a rare one."

The smirk her he had transformed into a pleased smile instantly, making the frown she had even deeper.

"Well, you were busy with everything here so it's possible you haven't had much time to observe what's happening in the outside world.

But… it's alright."

And now, the pleased expression he had had turned into a calm smile as if he was looking at what was going on.

"But, you at least know about Pope Benedict's successor, right?"

"Hun?"

"You mean Saint Lumiare?"

"What about him?"

"Wait, no. I thought it was just a rumour?!"

I shouted with the most surprised expression I had while sitting in this office and my eyes were wide open after the name he had mentioned at that moment.

"Lucifer? You know-."

"Wait a minute, Vice president. Wait."

No. This…

They were looking at me with a taken aback look and there was a smile on the headmaster's faces as well as if he already knew I was going to act like this.

But, all of that on one side…

'One of Judges of Meyat, Pope Benedict and one of only six divine healers of (6-Wings) in this world, someone who had helped mom a number of times and someone that was one of the most important figures in the empire as well as the world, had only one direct successor.'

A young person almost the same age as me who was also blessed by the Goddess of justice and was the only individual of this generation that qualified for the position of the Saint of Meyat, someone who would later bear the divine stigma of the high goddess.

'He was a famous individual ever since he was discovered by the holy knight order of the Temple.'

He was said to be kind, gentle, and a direct reflection of the pope in his younger days… however, since a few weeks ago, there have been some conspicuous rumours going on about him.

"As expected… you know."

"…"

He was one of the most important people in the empire right now and he was going to be even more important after the pope officially announced his retirement.

And since he was studying in the holy city of Jacob in the special institute of the Temple at the moment, there was a lot less attention on him compared to last year where he was practically everywhere in the news.

'It was said that he possessed the highest affinity with light elements ever recorded in the history of the empire.'

He was even getting compared to the branch manager of the adventurer's association of this very island in terms of the light element affinity.

And the nature of his light was even that of a holy, healing, and spiritual kind. The one that was the best suited for the 'protector' of the innocent that were in charge of seeing the truth of the given situation.

'He was a normal young boy for now that, though wasn't on par with the prodigies of the current era in terms of pure talent and understanding of their craft, he was a good candidate.'

There was certainly a reason behind the pope choosing him instead of anyone else, so the world was looking forward to his progress and even with less attention on him, he was not someone that just anyone could mess with.

'And still, there were rumours going around that he was also part of the demonic human group that had attacked Lakmer.'

They were baseless rumours that no one knew the origin of and though I did not check the truth of this information myself, I already had Miss Moon look into this along with grandpa Zhen.

'The rumours had started fairly recently so there wasn't much impact of them on the world yet but, they were rumours. No one knew just when they were going to explode.'

There was a chance the whole world would be talking about this issue today or tomorrow, and that's just how the rumours of this kind were.

I wasn't concerned about this topic until now since I knew the chance of these rumours being a new tectic from the real perpetrators behind the Lakmer incident were much higher, but, the look in the headmaster's eyes…

"Is it true?" Looking straight in his eyes, with a concerned look, I asked with my fingers locked together.

And with a smile on his face, the headmaster nodded his head.

"That's what you will have to find out..."

He summoned a few files on the desk for us, and with a curious look in his eyes, he continued.

"…by infiltrating the [Kaksha]."

He was giving us a new task right when the Conference was approaching, and this task even needed us to go out there on our own.

But even though it concerns our perfect attendance and the classes we would miss out on, since the matter itself was so concerning… we have no choice in this matter.

"Haaaa."

This was more complicated since it was connected to the pope.

But then again, we weren't going to meet him in that place, so that was at least a good point.

'I wanted to meet him as my real self one day and thank him and the other two judges for all their help.'

But until that time comes, it was better to not go before him in any kind of disguise since he would undoubtedly see through us all.

And that… would be even more concerning.