Fugaku was in the office with Ranpo, Kojin, Reggie, Laria and about 9 other team leaders. He had a rather serious look on his eyes, one that spoke like he was ready for battle "So? Submit the status report of your students. I told you all to prepare it, this is not a joke.", all the team leaders in the office started to submit the reports of their students. The status reports contained that of Kazuma and the rest of his allies, along with some other students. Fugaku was taking a look at the reports, he nodded "Good, all their skills, strength and intelligence stats haven't reduced at all. That's impressive.". Ralfold walked in "I'm sorry to barge in like this lord Fugaku, I have the status reports of my students just like you asked.", Ralfold submitted the status reports of "Volt and Regina.". Fugaku nodded his head and replied "Hm, looks good enough.", he looked at all the team leaders and asked "So, do you think these students are ready to keep going on more missions? I need a simple answer.". All the team leaders replied "Yes sir, they are.". Fugaku turned to Reggie "What do you think, Lancer?", Reggie replied "From what I've seen from the kids of this city, especially a selected few, I think they're good. They've been taking on missions of killing bandits and retreating stollen property. Not just that, I believe they have a good sense of what they're powers are capable off.". Fugaku nodded "Good....." he turned to Laria "What of your students? Gwen, Yuki and Marallda?", Laria replied "Those three are doing exceptionally well. Infact, I had a light sparring match with each of them individually last week.". Fugaku replied "Light sparring?", Laria replied "Yes, we didn't train for too long. We simply just trained for 30 minutes, I had something important I had to do.". Fugaku sighed "Sure, no problem. I called you all here because you all have exceptional skills as soliders and assassins. Not just that, but you've been able to train kids who have incredible talents. I believe you know the things that are coming soon?". Reggie asked "And what might that be, sir?", Fugaku replied "The war between the city of Kagahara and the Knight country.", everyone in the room had narrowed eyes, Ranpo and Kojin on the other hand didn't have reactions at all. Fugaku explained "When you all were still young, you all experienced the war yourselves. You saw your fellow teammates die, you also experienced near death. The Knight kingdom is up to something nasty. I don't know what it is, but our spies from the city of wind, especially the one's in the pillar state of the city have observed some Knight city soliders in an abandoned city close to their city. We don't know what it is, but we do know that they are preparing drive knight machines.". Laria asked "You mean the robots taking the shape of knights? I heard each one can over throw a city.", Reggie replied "Yeah, it's true.". Fugaku explained "It depends on the amount of technology and power they have that gives them the ability to create such powerful weapons. And plus, myself, Kojin and Ranpo here also fought those things during the second war we had against them. There were five of them, each one was B-rank, these two here were also B-rank at the time. And I happened to fight the lord of that city as well.". Ralfold sighed "Jesus Christ, please don't bring this topic up, alot of bad memories are flowing all over my head.". Fugaku explained again "You all lost someone special to you during your first war in the Knight kingdom, friends, family and teamates. You brought yourselves back up from those trauma, Im afraid you all have to go through that war again if you don't want to lose your precious students this time around.", this statement from Fugaku had everyone shoock. Fugaku took a sigh "My fault, I didn't mean to scare you all like that. Either way, there have been sightings of assassins killing people of other nearby cities, i heard they call themselves the hornets webs. They kill people and remove their hearts, sometimes even parts of the brain and bones have been missing from the corpses we found. They have been spotted to be wearing these yellow and black assassins costumes.". Fugaku brings out a picture of some of the assassins "We don't know who they are, but we can track them, this a photo one of our soliders took of them. These people definitely have a leader. And obviously, they have a base somewhere. The next missions for our students is too find the base, locate the assassins and kill them.". Reggie also explained "If I may, Lord Fugaku. I believe they were spotted in the huge forest that is about 600 kilometres away from the city, it's north-west.", Fugaku nodded "Is that so? I see the tracking team under the science industry have been doing their jobs. Good, we now know or at least have a good idea of where they are. Reggie, go to your house and use any of your drones to locate them. Our next mission is to kill the hornets Web cult! We should be able to accomplish this mission before next month.". Later that day, at around 3:00PM in the afternoon, Mio, Kazuma and Yuji were all laying their backs on a tree as they sat on the floor. The kids were tired and beat up "Who the fuck allowed this kind of training?", Yuji asked. Mio replied "I don't know. But fighting golems like those without using our special abilities is insane. I was almost convinced Ranpo wanted us dead.". Kazuma joined in the conversation "I know, right? Each and everyone of those golems were things I needed my spirit mark to deal with, and they were all about a hundred in number.", Mio explained while catching her breath "Well atleast, we are alive. And I didn't even use my demonic powers to win.", Kazuma added "Um, Mio, you went crazy so hard to the point I actually thought you were on demon mode.". Mio replied with a small chuckle "Ha? What are you talking abo-", she fell asleep. The boys turned to her and were a bit dumbfounded "She fell asleep, huh?", they thought to themselves. Yuji layed his head back on the tree "Kazuma, you good back there?", Kazuma replied "Yep, I am. Right now all I want is a light nap.", he got comfortable and closed his eyes. Yuji smiled at him "Hm, you're right. After all, you did the most work out of all of us.". Yuji looked up into the clear sky "Right now, all I want is to enjoy how peaceful the world is.". He looked at the sky for a few moments before closing his eyes with a smile and falling asleep. Ranpo walked in and saw the scattered golem parts all over the field "Wow, these kids went crazy again today. Unlike the last few weeks that they beraly survived this training, they managed to pull it off well today.". He looked at his team with a smile after reflecting ".....You kids never cease to amaze me. My prodigy students.".
END OF CHAPTER.