Chapter 14:

They raised the price of rice.

A jokers world


A few days went by.

Luke would rarely come to academy. Hikaru and others managed to avoid meeting him.

Everyone had different morning routine.

Sana will water in plant and do simple stretching. She planted many different type of plants and herbs in garden, she used them in her research for trying new spells.

Aki would sleep till late then go for a round in neighborhood just to interact with others there.He become friends with most of neighbor.

Sana would go to the coast from the back of the house and train there. Hikaru would occasionally come there to have a duel or train with her.

Hikaru get ups early, take a bag and leave the house. Hikaru runs to the academy then take different routes to go home and buy something if needed. In the way to academy he meets many old peoples. Many of them would greet him and Hikaru sometime walk with them. 

Hikaru trains at coast near the academy.There are not peoples there so no one can see him. He can go in middle of sea and practice underwater. He meet many type of creature at coast and underwater about which he only read in books.

It was around late autumn almost winter, Hikaru was teaching in class.

"So next topic is race"

'Ahhhhh i dont want to talk about it ' sighed hikaru

"First race is Half beast-Quivon"

'The race Sana belongs to huh'

"Quivon is race of people who excel in fighting.They were a huge help to elf side during the war. Their is not any way to differentiate them with normal humans with only appearance. They have special ability called Freedom. They require years of training to freely enter and exit this state. When this state their ability to sense and predict the future increases during a fight. This ability can only we used when they are in a serious fight.It drains too much energy and have effect on body after its deactivation, but when they get hang of it the after effect don't cause much exhaustion."

'I still remember those terrifying days when Sana would get in freedom mode.' thought hikaru while shivering

Someone asked,

"Can a magician win against them?"

"That would depend on the person himself, I have told you all before be it magician or swordsman no one rule over other. It's the person who does. Same goes in society, be it looks , wealth, power,status, it's the person character which can win over others."

The vice principal daughter Mai asked,

"What about an Elf? will you sir, win the fight against a swordsman"

'Again?' Hikaru thought.

It all started when the class get to know that Hikaru didn't have a rank, well even before that.

'The class was not full of all delinquent type of people or student with bad behavior. It's was just that they hated me for a statement and that was WHETHER IT IS A NOBEL, A ELF, A HUMAN, A HALF BEAST OR BEAST FOLK EVERYONE CAN OVER POWER THE OTHER.WHY NOT JUST BE FRIENDLY WITH EACH OTHER. i said it after seeing some elf and humans behavior to others and with me. Well i understand that i am not the type of person whom you should seek to give you advice or follow, i do have selfish personality, i don't deny. some still stick with me and i also have fun with them. But why hate me for not having a rank or not taken a simple exam'

Some elf and humans were offended by that statement and started to hate Hikaru but he didn't cared that much.

His class has more amount of elf students than any others.

'why fight over that huh? i will give you better reason and target to hate if you want. They raised the price of rice fight over that, at least it will help me somehow. I was going try make sushi here in this world.'

"Who knows" Hikaru replied to her.

Mai replied with "Everyone does"

Mai also hated Hikaru.

"Focus here on what am I teaching." Said hikaru

Then hikaru talked about other races 

For ELF, their lifespan varies or it is better to say it declined. Early elf used to live for million of years but slowly their lifespan reached around 200 years latest. 200 years lifespan elf are rare, most commonly found ones are 400 or 500 years one. The oldest elf alive is around 1,500 years old. He the main head of the elf region in HOLY CONTINENT. Elf are known for their high lifespan and efficiently using their mana. Nature is one of their source to store mana from. They cherish Nature and have some tree which is like god to them.Elf have longer ears in pointy shape than human.

Elf baby development when compared to human goes slowly.

For first hundred years the elf would look same as a 14 year old human child. Elf train their child for first 100 year in their home region and if after that they want to train them further they are sent here to academy.

Even after all that hatred towards human they still depend on human resources and trades to live. The HOLY CONTINENT soil can't grow much type of crops their and to earn money they need more education towards human culture. It was a deal made after the war that only one academy will be opened for teaching the new generations so that the hatred between the two continent people can be removed by upcoming young ones, but that didn't went as planned.

Hatred still remained. While some forget about it some tried to keep the flames going.

For Seasie, the ones who can live under water and on surface.They lived on HOLY CONTINENT.

For ANIMA, who looked like cats and dogs human form, they lived at MIXED RACE CONTINENT. 

For DWARF, The one who excel in craftsmanship. They also lived in MIXED RACE CONTINENT.

For HUMANS, simple but somehow amazing creature. They live on MIXED RACE CONTINENT.

Class ends. Hikaru went to other classes.

Hikaru was teaching in his last class of day after that he had free time. He could do anything in that time, but he mostly used it to prepare for classes and tests.

It was common lecture class, in which things other than magic and fight were taught. It was just about to end.

"..and that's how the price is decide for dungeon goods. Looks like it ended at perfect time, if you have any questions you can ask me, i am free after this"

Hikaru just set foot out of the class, some boys came towards him and asked

"Sir sir can you listen to over personal problems"

Hikaru furrowed and said "I get money to teach you not to listen to your personal problems"

"Pleasseeeeeeeeeeee." all requested

"huuuuuuuu...okay but don't take my too much time"

Hikaru was close to all of the students in class or you can say that they enjoyed hikaru's class more than anyone else.

Hikaru would help them with their problems, many of them were form dorm so he thought it was okay to talk with them a little.

'It's a teachers duty to help their students in his personal life up to a point right?' were his actual thoughts.

it was their lunch time so hikaru had a chat with them in their class.

"so what you want to talk about?"

one of the students asked "sir, a way to make money faster"

"Grow them from soil"

"sir be serious please"

"Then tell me also when you get to know the way. Next"

another one asked "Then sir.."

He leaned a little and says quietly "How to propose to a girl?"

"You are asking water how to start a fire. I can give you advice on how to not get depress after getting rejected."

"You hang out with 4 beautiful ladies sir."

"You know One of them is my sister right?"

"Please sir" said the student with eyes which you can't ignore. 

"Ahhh...You better get excellent marks in the upcoming test then i could also request to raise my salary"

"Sir do something for us to, we promise we will score the best from all other classes"

'I don't think they will.' Said hikaru to himself in mind.

"I will think about you all also, but first you tell me who is the one you are going to propose?"

The student leaned close to hikaru, and lead hikaru with is eyes to a girl eating lunch with her friends in back around the window.

Hikaru luck did his work. 

'She!!' Thought hikaru.

Hikaru saw her stealing glance at the student also, but he didn't want to jump to conclusion. So he thought of another way in which  all, the boys and girls and hikaru will gain something.

"Hehe.."Hikaru laughed quietly.

"Sir did you lost a screw?"

"Shut up."

Hikaru signals all the boy's to come a little closer.

"You better get a good score, if you didn't i will haunt you day and night"

Then hikaru stands and says in a little loud voice

"Are you boy's trying get me kick out of academy, at least try to gain a passing score in the upcoming exam"

All the boy's in hikaru class had pretty decent score around 70 percent average but hikaru lied saying

"You didn't understand the recent lessons. I told you to ask me if you have any problem "

All girls attention was at hikaru.

"Haaa....." hikaru let out a fake sigh.

"Girls! Can you help me?"

One of the girls asked "with what?"

"Can you teach these boy's please" requested hikaru by joining his hands.

"I won't get my salary please"

The girls were still didn't seemed to agree. Hikaru played his last card.

"In return i will treat you to my cooking"

Hikaru cooking was famous because he also used he knowledge from his world here.

"For all girls?"

"I bet and it will be a new dish you will be addicted."

All girls looked toward each other.

"Okay we agree"

"Then let's prepare the groups, you can study in the library on Sunday I will ask the Vice principal for it."

Hikaru wrote numbers on a paper and handed them to all the boys and told them to not look at it.Number 0 was not written on any paper.

"Now put the paper on your head and face the other way. Make sure the number is visible to us"

Boys did as hikaru said.

"Girls take a look at all the boy's and their number, check if i made any mistakes"

"What mistakes " a girl asked

"Any mistake" hikaru shrugged 

"Don't look this way boy's."

Hikaru handed out a blank paper to all the girls.

"One group will be 8 people" said hikaru

Then he went close to all the girls and said quietly

"I am lazy, so put any number you like and if you dont want to get in any group just write 0 on the paper"

Some girls looked at hikaru as they saw an angel, while some gave hikaru a look of confusion.

After all the girls write the number on the paper, Hikaru said 

"Now boy's you can turn around. Girls stand with the students of your group"

Surprisingly no one wrote 0.

'Wait, i am not that dense to not notice that many girls feelings.' Thought hikaru.

All the girls just wanted to help hikaru so they didn't wrote 0 and they also wanted a taste of hikaru cooking.

Takenji the vice principal came to the class and said

"Haha your class is lively. Would you mind coming with me a second hikaru"

Hikaru said while looking back and running towards Takenji

"You all better remember the deal"

And he left the class with Takenji.

"So sir what's the matter?"

"I wanted to inform you to prepare your class for the dungeon exploration which is going to happen at the end of month"

"Okay, i will teach them more about dungeon exploration and things they should look out for."

"Haha I can rest assure if its you"

"Sir, that aside what do you think about raising my salary"

"Straight forward as always hahaa. I will think about it after looking in the results of common class in the upcoming exam"

'My salary is going to increase' shout hikaru in his heart.

"What about some meal with me tonight at my house"

"Sure why not, I will inform my sister about it later"

"The last time you treat me and my wife, she became a fan of your cooking"

"I am glad you liked it. By the way about the exploration.........."

After some more chat with Takenji, Hikaru went and told his sister about his dinner at Takenji place.

Before leaving the academy he checked with the common class to ask for any objection with group study, no one objected.
















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