The Demon Saint is Missing, so I Ran to Another World

A Wild Rival Appears (Part 2)

***In one of the classrooms inside the Conclave...***

"Ugh...it's another self-study session again."

"Hey! Hey! Have you heard the news? There's a new teacher being introduced by the Head Scholar at the faculty hall! Gia saw the gathering herself!"

"Ah, so that's why our teacher left suddenly. Did you see what the new teacher look like?"

"Gia says she overheard it's a human."

"A what? A human? How did that happen?"

"Srexe, did you hear us? What can you say about this?"

Srexe, a scholar of yellow-green skin and pinkish-yellow hair from the clan of the goblins, closed the book she was reading and stared at her classmates. Then she took a deep breath, heaved a sigh, and said, "Do I look like a commentator to you? Why should I say something about the Head Scholar's decisions? If he wants to accept a human—heck, even a saint—as one of the teachers here, then who am I to protest his actions?"

A classmate of hers then added, "I think it's the human male whom the Discipline Prefect was giving a sermon earlier. He arrived with Princess Noir and Lady Shevaun Ilkes."

"What did you say?" the goblin asked. "Princess Noir and Lady Shevaun are here?"

"They are with that human, yes."

"Grr...where are they now?"

"Do you think I'd know? Gia says the teachers are gathered at the faculty hall; perhaps they are being introduced to the new teacher."

Srexe grabbed her cloak, and pulled one of her classmates, "Come with me."

"H-Hey!" the poor demon girl protested. "We are at the middle of the self-study session! Lord Scholar Gracchio will hang us if we're caught!"

"I don't care about that self-absorbed prefect, nor the rest of the Gracchi. The only one worthy to stop me is that Usarved girl, Noir—she's my only rival in this place!"

"Pfft! Rival, and yet, she bested you."

The goblin girl, though she was smaller than the rest of her classmates, grabbed the one who insulted her by the collar, and pulled the demon's face next to hers, "Listen, bitch, I don't give a fuck about your opinion. It's either you're on my side, or you're my enemy. Now choose; you're coming with me, or I'll bash your face till you won't be recognized by anyone?"

The other demon girls quickly retreated to a distance away from the goblin. Her poor victim, however, had no chance to escape, so she was dragged by Srexe out of the room. But then, as they approached the doorway...

"Hol' up, Srex, where are 'ya goin'?" a huge orc-girl stood directly across the door, blocking the exit.

"Back off, Tama'lee," the goblin growled. "I got an unfinished business with our visitors."

The orc-girl named Tama'lee chuckled and grabbed Srexe by her head, lifting the goblin one-handed. "Now, now...chill the fuck up, girl! Teacher says we stay here and do self-study. As class leader, Tama'lee will stop 'ya from wreckin' a havoc."

Exerting no effort, the orc-girl put Srexe back in her seat. The goblin was sulking, and her classmates couldn't help but laugh at her.

"Ei, why do you fuckers laugh at Srexe's misfortune?" Tama'lee confronted them. "It isn't right, 'ya know?"

"Serves her right, Tama!" one of them answered. "She's acting all high and mighty, yet she's the only one here who has repeated her juniors for five times already!"