Chapter 270: Delphina temporarily ignored

After a few hours, Amiya finished, and I must say that the dragon girl impressed me, even though she was crying in pain and letting out a few painful moans, she never screamed.

In the end, she lost one of her hands, lost both wings, had her horns sawed off, lost one of her eyes, and had needles stuck in her arm. For a dragon, besides being painful, it would be humiliating.

Since they place great value on their draconic parts, this shows how she was willing to sacrifice her pride for her younger sister, and of course the younger sister cried the whole time.

It even seemed like she was going to ask to stop, but she endured it well, which was entertaining to watch. When the time was up, Amiya stopped, it’s obvious from the damage that she’s terrible at this.

The cuts on the wing are irregular, and the horns were sawed off in a crooked way, which is an obvious flaw of someone who doesn’t maintain a firm grip when cutting, but for a beginner, she did well.

“Hey, dragon girl, are you conscious?” I ask the girl strapped to the chair, covered in blood, with her head down. She nods weakly, lacking the strength to lift her head.

“Tell me something, have you seen humans in your tribe?”

“Y-Yes…negotiation…t-treaty” She mumbles a few words, seems too tired to respond, but this already gives me the answer I need, and reminds me that I didn’t pay attention to something important.

Delphina…Delphina is coming to the academy, and if I’m right, the negotiation of the humans with the mermaids has already succeeded, which means the humans now have a route through the sea.

Of course, they have no idea that this is a trap and that the mermaids only accepted their proposal because of me, but I should adjust everything so that Delphina doesn’t cause any problems.

I can’t believe I set aside something so important. I was so focused on the heroes that Delphina ended up slipping my mind momentarily. Now that the humans already have permission from the mermaids to use the sea, they will probably go after the dragons or elves.

They still need a land route, and all the land routes that lead directly to the sea are already territories of some race, and they can’t just move an army through such areas without permission.

I just wonder if they’ll choose the elves or if they’ll choose the dragons, depending on which route they decide to follow, I’ll have to change my plans.

“Hey, little girl, I’m going to rename you, I congratulate you, you are officially the property of Amiya and myself, and I take care of my things, don’t worry, you’ll have a relatively good life.”

’Dragons…it’s very likely that they’ll side with the humans because they hate the Demon King.’ It’s natural in the history of dragons that they hate the Demon King, so they’ll probably ally with the humans.

“P-Please c-cure my sister” The little girl cries now that it’s all over, she begs me.

“The younger one will be called Ash and the older one will be called Arael. Ash symbolizes ashes or what remains after the fire.”

“Arael has a divine suffix, given to her for having earned my respect.” I start healing her before she dies. The two were an interesting thing, even if not killing them is a bit disappointing.

But I must put reason above instincts, they can be useful to use against their tribe. Even if they have escaped, it is almost certain that the tribe wants them back to serve as breeders to have children, and I can deceive them with this, pretending that I will give them back.

In addition, they can be useful to me in some other things, and I can also get answers from them.

“Amiya, what are you doing there? Release those girls from the chair, they still need to swear absolute loyalty to us.” I tell Amiya, who is just watching like an idiot. She quickly runs to the girls to release them.

I’m not that good at healing others, so healing the girl takes a little while, but she’s out of danger, although she hasn’t recovered her wings and horns yet.

“You can start with you, Ash.” I chose the names of the two in a slightly special way as well. Asharael is a single name that has its own symbolism, of what is reborn from the ashes, as one did everything for the other to survive, I thought it would be a good name.

I divided it into two, giving a piece of the name to each one, I doubt they can discover that it is just one name and honestly it doesn’t matter if they know.

“I-I…Ash s-swear in the name of the primordial goddess to serve P-Pandora and Amiya forever.”

’She has a good memory.’ She just heard our conversations and yet memorized our names, I like that they are smart.

“I…A-Arael swear in the name of the Primordial Goddess to serve Pandora and Amiya forever.” Arael speaks with a tired voice, barely able to keep her consciousness even though she is being healed.

“They are yours, Amiya, use them as servants. As a teacher at the Academy, I will give you special permission to keep these two at the academy.”

Amiya doesn’t have good enough grades for two servants, but I’ll take care of that.

“Arael, we have a lot to talk about, but let’s leave that for later. First, let’s go back to the academy.” I have things to read, I want to know what random information Serena sold me.

I approach Amiya for a small “conversation” to clarify what not to talk about.

“Amiya, you know this is our secret, right?”

“Y-Yes, I w-won’t tell anyone anything.” Amiya speaks nervously. Unfortunately, she didn’t summon a new outfit, I even thought about making her eat a piece of Arael, but I gave up since it would be strange for everyone here.

“Great, if the two slaves say something important about their tribe, let me know.” Amiya nods as I disappear into the shadows.

“Amiya, can you go back to the academy on your own from here? You can enter with the two slaves, if questioned, say I allowed it.” I say, disappearing and leaving all the boring work to Amiya.

I quickly appear in the academy’s office where I see “Akari” drinking coffee while signing some papers.

’It’s the middle of the night…’ She’s really a hard worker.

“Do you need anything, Pandora?” Akari looks up from the papers, observing me.

“Amiya will have two slaves, just allow them to enter. Also, I had forgotten to ask, but is a ’princess’ of the Mermaids coming to the academy or something similar?”

“Yes, in fact, she has already arrived, but she has not yet started attending classes for personal reasons. Along with her, the Elven Princess has also arrived and is not yet in classes either.”

’Elves…’ This complicates the situation. Which side will the humans choose? They seem undecided, they haven’t chosen which path to follow yet, and unfortunately the king and other nobles don’t inform me or Veritus of anything.

And I know why, although I’m important, they want to reduce my authority over the kingdom, and removing me from strategic meetings is one of the ways to do this. If the Grand Duke’s family doesn’t have much relevance in military planning, authority naturally decreases.

’Greedy rats’ It’s pure personal greed, they’re keeping someone who’s useful away just to reduce that person’s influence, ironically this is a pure stroke of luck since if I were in those meetings, I would know exactly what to do and how to opine to give myself a tactical advantage in the war.

Although, in my view, they are underestimating me. They think that if they take the Grand Duke out of military planning, it won’t make much difference, in other words, they don’t consider me a big enough threat.

“Akari, what does the Mermaid Princess look like?” I ask just to confirm that it’s really Delphina. Honestly, if it’s her, I know she’ll be very angry that I forgot her and put her in a class only with the heroes.

“Well…she’s a small girl, has shark-like features, but is albino, and has shown herself to be very violent and cold with the academy staff who tried to touch her or enter her room to adjust it to her liking.”

“She said something about mortals being unworthy of touching her body or entering her quarters without permission, even if they hadn’t actually entered yet.”

’Hahaha, that’s so like Delphina to say that.’ I think with a smile on my face, remembering our first physical interaction, it was precisely because I was a goddess that our first physical interaction began, as she deduced that I was worthy of touching her.

“I understand, tell her that Professor Pandora wants her studying in the same class as the heroes.”

“…” Akari looks at me as if I’m strange before sighing.

“The classrooms have a regulation on the number of students, but okay, however, know that the Elven Princess will also be in your class.”

“…And why?” I ask.

“The Elven Princess made it clear to the academy that she would only study if it was in the best class, and she considered that the same class that another princess deems suitable is the one she will study in.”

“Of course, this left two options the class in which Evangeline is or the class where the Mermaid Princess will be. However, elves and humans don’t get along very well because of the frequent enslavement of elves by humans.”

“So she doesn’t want to be in the same class as Evangeline, who is a princess of the human kingdom, this made her decide to wait for the Mermaid Princess to choose a class just to be in the same class.”

“Okay, I guess it doesn’t matter.” I’m not interested in the elves, but if she wants to be in this class, she’ll do badly, because I’m a strict teacher who obviously has her favorites! The only one who will do well is Delphina, not only because I won’t do anything to her, but because nothing can hurt Delphina.

Honestly, if I put Delphina in a dungeon, the dungeon would be defeated instantly, after all, she is a goddess with a status in the billions or more.

And anyway, the heroes will probably just study more this year at the academy and reach their maximum level.

This reminds me of the war prediction made at the very beginning, where the war could happen in 2 to 5 years, and it was quite accurate, since it’s been a year and a few months since I was born and the war is approaching.

All the races are preparing for it in their own way, soon the world will become chaotic.

“Akari, I’ll spend some time in my room, it’ll be the same one I had as a student, I need privacy.” I want to read the information I got in peace.

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