Hunter Academy: Revenge of the Weakest novel Chapter 46

Chapter 46 Chapter 11.5 - Sylvie

After Sylvie left the training grounds running with tears in her eyes, naturally, everyone's attention was drawn to me.

It was nothing unexpected, a simple response that humans tend to do.

But if there was one thing that made me surprised, then that would be the trauma of Sylvie being a lot deeper and stronger than I thought.

'I see. So, this is how it is.' I thought, looking at the running girl's back. As she was escaping, she was running at a speed that even I would have a hard time following.

"Student Astron." At that moment, Eleanor White's voice echoed. "Care to explain what happened?" As she asked, she came closer looking at me with a demanding expression.

"Yes. I was trying to correct Student Sylvie's form, but she said she didn't wish to fight."

"Is that all?"

"She had a fear of combat, and I did not adapt my methods to her level of comfort." As I explained what happened here, Eleanor White's gaze seemed to harden upon hearing my words.

Even though she didn't like me probably, she was still someone with a sense of duty and justice. She was a bit picky and irritating woman, but that didn't mean her values were not there.

"You didn't adopt your methods? You lacked empathy and pushed her too far, didn't you?"

"Empathy won't save a hunter inside a dungeon. This is what we always learn in this academy. Unless one doesn't have the courage to fight, then they shouldn't be here."

"Then, you should be? You have quiet words coming from the last ranked student of this academy."

"It doesn't matter what rank I am or what others feel about my words. The truth won't change."

I didn't know why I got slightly irritated when I noticed Sylvie escaping like that or why was I arguing with this woman before me, but after noticing what I was doing was pointless I closed my mouth.

"Sigh…." Eleanor White let out a sigh and shook her head. She made a pained expression as she looked at me, but I didn't understand what the problem was.

Considering the treatment I always got from the academy, isn't this how things worked?

"Go find Student Sylvie, and don't come until you solve her problems with her. You are dismissed from today's class, and I will ask you about this later."

Her words were firm, and I could sense the underlying disappointment in her voice. But I didn't care. In the first place, disappointment came from one's own expectations; it didn't concern me.

I could see the main cast of the game looking at me from the corner of my eyes.

Especially Ethan since he was pretty close to me, with him also being ranked one of the last ranks. He was looking at me with furious eyes, obviously coming from his heroic nature.

But I simply ignored him. He was the protagonist of the game with the good talent of whatever. In the first place, I was not looking for future connections that would help me in my life.

I was here to kill demons, and his heroic nature would certainly make things hard for me.

Julia had a stiff expression, Lilia was simply serious as always, and Julia was looking at me with a slight smirk, seemingly loving that everyone's opinions about me were bad. Well, humans were creatures with pride and petty nature, after all.

Then there were those that were friends with Sylvie, and they seemed furious. But again, it was not my business how I felt.

"Understood."

With a brief nod, I turned and left the training grounds, my steps purposeful. It didn't take long for me to find the traces Sylvie had left behind. Thanks to my trait [Perceptive Insight], I could see the faint signs of her hurried steps and the path she had taken.

Since she ran quite fast, the traces she had left was also quite deep, and her faint smell was also lingering since the weather was not that windy.

As I was walking on the grounds of the academy, I pondered about Sylvie. In the first year of the game, Sylvie was not a character that was helpful to the player.

Be it her healing magic, her personality, or her strengths, she was someone that was almost lacking in all types of aspects for a hunter.

Therefore her grades would drop naturally as time progressed. It was all thanks to her fear of combat, where she would face the monsters inside the gates. That would go like that until one day, she and the player would be left alone inside the dungeon thanks to a demon targeting her.

After all, there was a reason she was named as future Saintess in the game, and it was not because she had a simple healing skill….

It was something more, so she targeted my demons quite frequently, and this would get worse at the finals of the first year second them.

There, we, as a player, would save Sylvie, but she would still be a burden inside the gate, constantly being pessimistic and shaky. It was an annoying part of the game from the player's perspective, but it was also necessary. You also wouldn't leave Sylvie alone, since, if you did the game would be over.

That was because she was an essential character for completing the game.

In any case, in the dungeon, if the player had chosen to be harsh on Sylvie and speak some sense into her, she would later get a hold of herself and would start her path as a Saintess.

That was the reason why I spoke this harshly against her since she was someone that needed to be talked like that.

In a way, she was someone that escaped from her past, and it would be better if someone made some sense to her. And this was the way of my repaying debts.