"My Destined One" • Tensura x Arifureta

Ch 24: Fhuren and Ilwa.

Aiko Hatayama.

An extremely responsible teacher who does everything for her students.

Aiko had only been a teacher for a short time, but she was extremely competent. One day she and her students were transported to another world and were forced to take part in a war.

They began to train, and one of them died. This was a terrible moment for Aiko. She who cared for her students above all could not easily accept the death of one of her students and yet... her brother went looking for him alone and reported him missing. Three months had passed and the student had not been found. There was no way anyone could survive that long without food, so everyone thought that the two brothers had died.

Only a group of students thought that Rimuru was alive and were searching for him in the Orcus Dungeon.

Aiko was helping the Kingdom with the food situation. She had a great class that improved the crops. She traveled to various cities and helped the crops.

Currently she was in a city known as Lake City. She had a guard of knights along with her for protection.

The students who were not in the dungeon were here as well. The reason they were here was for different protection.

All the men in Aiko's guard were very handsome and fit. This was probably a plan of the Church to keep Aiko. One of the students Sonobe Yuuka realized this and told the others. And so they put their hands together and spoke "Let's protect Ai-chan from the hot guys!"

Aiko didn't know the real motive of her students, but she was happy to have them together. She was quite happy that her students would no longer be forced to fight and was slowly getting over the death and disappearance of her students. However...

Another of her students disappeared.

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Rimuru, Hajime and his group were having coffee in a nicely decorated restaurant with outdoor tables.

They were currently in the city of Fhuren. This city was known for its goods and also for containing the headquarters of the Adventurers Guild.

The 5 of them were at a round table and some envious looks rained down on Hajime and Rimuru because of the beautiful girls. Some thought Rimuru was a girl and only looked enviously at Hajime.

Everyone was eating a candy. Rimuru and Sakura were having juice and the others were having coffee.

Sakura seemed very interested in sweets. That was understandable since as she had been a magical Beast for 400 years she had never eaten candy and Rimuru was looking at her kindly.

Yue saw Hajime looking at his plate as if wondering what it tasted like, so

"Hajime. Aaaaah"

Yue held up her fork with a piece of candy and offered it to Hajime. He ate and enjoyed the candy.

"Hajime-san, me too!"

"Just this once."

Hajime ate from Shia's fork as well. This display of affection made Envy's gazes multiply several times over.

Sakura looked at Rimuru and her cheeks flushed. She should be thinking whether to do this with Rimuru or not. If they weren't in public she would have done it without caveats, but she was a bit shy in public. However in private she was totally backwards like in the 'shower incident'. And she still had the reason that she and Rimuru were not boyfriend and girlfriend.

"Sakura-chan that's kind of embarrassing in public, you know..."

Rimuru spoke scratching the back of his neck in shame.