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

A Problematic Education (Part 1)

**Greg**

Similar to Chersea and Cherflammen's time-reckoning before we introduced the calendar, Cherflammen's 'time' was chaotic, with only the terms 'weeks' and 'days' used to show the passing of ages. And the idea of it was credited to Alexa, who was also said to be confused with the demons' system of determining the dates of their events. She taught them how to use the weeks and days, or so as they claimed. But the demons were not even aware of 'hours', 'minutes', and 'seconds'...even the 'years'. They would only refer to the events, and use those as 'markers' in which they would teach their history.

For example, the servants of the House Usarved would tell me that Lady Noir was born 109,523 weeks after the death of Lady Cassandra David—a major event in demon-kind. Her current age was 2,833 weeks...

"..."

Honestly, I find it weird that Alexa gave them the 'weeks' and 'days', but never the 'years', 'hours', 'minutes' and 'seconds'. Or did they forget about it?

Interestingly, if I computed those figures based on an Earth calendar (with approximately 52 weeks in a year), it would put Alexa's death happening 2,160 years ago. And Lady Noir's 'Earth'-age at 54 years old.

Yeah, she's way too old than me, who's supposed to be at 25 years. But demons have different bodies than us, so I guess her age's still young by their standards.

"..."

And come to think of it...Lady Ruro, the Beastman Saint, is said to have seen and fought side-by-side with Alexa. So, if that's true, then she's two millennia old by now.

Wow. I didn't know I was living with real, living heroes of old, huh? As someone who loved history—on Earth and on this one, I'd say it's a thrilling discovery. However, that would have to wait; I got to deal with the current problems I was facing here.

Anyway, enough with that. Back to the chaotic 'time-reckoning', just like in Chersea, the demons of Cherflammen knew the 'day' had ended when they took a 'long sleep'.

Nevertheless, for a place like the Conclave which conducts 'round-the-clock' classes, a day was ended only when the 'long sleep' bell was sounded. Still, even with that, there were demon educators up and awake, teaching students who attend their lectures during the 'sleeping hours'. So really, I couldn't understand the purpose of ringing the 'long sleep' bell.

As for me, I don't know how the Conclave create its schedules. The administrators just told me to 'come to school whenever you want to teach'. And I was left thinking, 'what if I don't want to teach?', what would these folks do?

"..."

Ah no, my goal here is to get my student's ashes, so I need to impress the people here.

So, time cards and login hours be damned, I prepared myself to come to my class.

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Lady Noir eventually woke up just as I was about to leave the dorm room.

"You're really diligent, aren't you, Sir?" was her 'greeting' to me when she saw my scholar's uniform. "Didn't you just come to your class yesterday?"

"Hm? Isn't it normal?" I asked, deliberately averting my eyes as she walked around. "And won't you dress yourself up, milady?"

"Shevaun's still sleeping."

"Oh..." I was about to ask if she couldn't do it herself, but then, I remembered how the maidservants back in Castle Darkmoor treated me. I guess a noblewoman like her won't move and clothe themselves unless their servants came with them, eh? And also, Shevaun's supposed to be Lady Noir's chamberlain, so she should wake up before her mistress...