Good news, I escaped successfully.
Bad news, I was caught again soon after.
After exchanging a moment of eye contact with the smiling mentor, I sighed again, and I had no choice but to resign myself to stopping this futile effort.
How could someone possibly activate a decompilation spell the instant someone leaves, rewriting the destination coordinates to their own workshop's location?! I was so sure of escaping right under my mentor's nose the moment the spell was successfully activated.
Where's the defensive barrier that was supposed to cover the entire academy?! Help!
To give a somewhat inappropriate example, it's like the game of eagle catching chicks. I, a fledgling without the protection of a mother hen, thought I could use a feint to escape danger, but unexpectedly, the feint did work, and I ended up swinging the back of my neck directly into the mouth of the smiling eagle that had been waiting for a long time.
Then you can only obediently wait to be completely devoured, right?
The key word is "to entrust".
Obviously, my mentor had no intention of letting me off the hook just because I chose to give up. Instead, with a strange smile, he put his hands behind his back and tiptoed closer: "Speaking of which, I sat in on the lesson for a while before, and I was quite surprised to find that my dear disciple said he was not very familiar with the starry sky scenery and wanted to ask someone else for advice."
"You didn't even think of asking your dear mentor first... As your mentor, I really feel hurt and sad."
Her figure grew with each step she took, and in the blink of an eye, she had grown from a little girl to a young woman, and finally returned to the figure of a mature woman who was only half a head shorter than me, pressing me step by step into the corner of the workshop.
Her golden eyes lit up, flickering like swaying flames, and her long, silvery-white hair floated up on its own with the rising magic. The large shadow cast by the light behind her completely covered me, obscuring all my vision.
Of course, something even worse is happening.
I hadn't noticed when I was resting with my young-looking mentor earlier, but now that I looked closely, I saw that she was only wearing a plain white lace-trimmed slip dress, the length of which barely covered her upper thighs. The light and thin fabric exposed a large area of skin from her collarbone to her thighs, leaving me momentarily unsure where to look.
To make matters worse, this perverted woman used one hand to hold my chin down, forcing me to open my eyes wide, while her other hand reached down to the already loose straps of my tank top. As she slowly pulled them down, she muttered in a rather lewd manner, "Hehe, want to look at the stars with your dear mentor? I guarantee you'll want to come back again after you see them once~"
Help! Someone is trying to violate professional ethics and harm their own students!
"Cough cough."
Fortunately, just as I was struggling desperately to escape the clutches of the powerful beings who had locked all my magic circuits, a familiar cough suddenly came from another corner of the workshop, interrupting the violence that my mentor was about to commit.
"Your Majesty, I apologize for disturbing your enjoyment again, but I hope you can conduct this privately during your rest time."
An older woman, dressed in a stereotypical ice-blue fitted robe, wearing a wide-brimmed pointed hat and thin-rimmed black glasses, crossed her arms and calmly reminded everyone, "It's working time now, and our previous conversation isn't over yet."
"...Ah~ Ah."
As my mentor loosened his grip, a pale golden magic circle flashed beneath my feet, allowing me to escape as quickly as possible to the woman who had spoken earlier and hide under her protection.
"Good morning, Yumi." The woman turned her head slightly to look back, and through her glasses, she met my gaze as I hid behind her feet. "I'm glad to see that you've become even more skilled with your Transfiguration. It's just a pity, though, that it would have been better if we had seen this in class."
I guiltily looked away, pretending to be just a docile little kitten who didn't understand what she was saying, and didn't dare to answer.
Because the person standing before them was none other than the headmistress of the academy, Ms. Juliana.
And, although this scene seems absurd, it's not the first time.
It seems like the previous times I was ambushed by my mentor like this, it was always when the head of the academy was present? Fortunately, the head of the academy has evolved from being so panicked at first sight that she almost bit her tongue, to now being able to calmly make sarcastic remarks. I don't know whether to be glad or lament that her worldview has been shattered to the point of being used to it...
So, could it be that the mentor and the dean are at odds? But even if these two are at odds, why do I always have to get stuck in the middle?
By the way, even after learning Transfiguration, I still can't escape my master's clutches! Damn it!
After regaining my composure and confirming that the workshop's doors were temporarily closed to me, I curled up as much as possible in the corner closest to the door and furthest from my mentor. Meanwhile, under the silent warning gaze of the academy headmaster, my mentor reluctantly put on his coat and sat down with his knees drawn up to his chest.
"Let's continue with our previous topic."
He gestured for me to stand quietly for a moment, then turned back to his mentor. The dean nodded slightly and flicked the pages in his hand.
The magic, shimmering with an icy blue light, easily held the pages in place in mid-air, lined up with the side containing the writing facing me and my mentor. Then, I heard the dean begin his businesslike narration: "Just now we were talking about the various draft suggestions submitted by the faculty members in the academy recently, and the work arrangements for the near future."
Ah, a familiar scene.
I recognized the situation at a glance.
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