The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Delivery

While Luca hid in his space, giggling in happiness, a small group of people tried to maintain poker faces despite intense stares.

Photos and videos about the ‘confrontation’ spread like wildfire across the Academy, and Kyle was the one who was most stressed about it.

Of course, it was him again.

The Captain never cared for such small things; people would always make everything he did a big deal.

But the big deals were usually good things. Not something like catching the fainting body of the Duke’s successor.

Another version was beating up the shorty and running to the infirmary while fearing for his death.

Then, there was an even more stressful version, kept secret by a small group, which details the two’s honeyed gazes.

However, what was probably more questionable was how he found such information.

Kyle was going crazy. But what could he do when the Captain was intent on being low-key?

Yeah, right.

Even if the Captain wore a trash bag, there was no way he’d look normal like them! And how would he keep a low profile when he’s been embroiled in such a scandal, and with that kid of all people?

Kyle had too much on his plate and felt like he needed about two solid years of vacation. But even as he thought about his problems, his inquisitive nature (actually just a snooper) made him curious about why the Captain kept glancing at the door as if expecting someone to burst in.

Technically, they didn’t need to attend these classes, especially as people actively serving the military who were already living these lessons. But not appearing in today’s class would just worsen their Captain’s image and likely add fuel to the fire.

Sure enough, Xavier unconsciously checked the door to see if the chipmunk would return from the infirmary.

Now, why a person would expect anyone to go to class after fainting would be beyond anyone who could read his mind. It would only be someone as crazy as him who would do such a thing, even with a gushing wound.

But the chipmunk didn’t come back even as the last class finished. However, Irina sent them messages saying that the ‘lovely one’ (her words) had already been discharged earlier.

So, just where could that guy be?

Of course, as a busy person with no proper concept of rest, Xavier wouldn’t have thought of Luca returning to their dorm.

And he was sort of correct.

Luca was actually in the middle of receiving delivery for the virtual pod they ordered earlier.

The supposedly ‘cost-effective’ virtual pod that cost him and his bleeding wallet a whooping 100,000 Star coins sat before him as if goading him into tears.

Luca felt faint again, this time for a totally different reason.

And he might have felt a little murderous and a little disappointed that one little system had no corporeal body.

“Is this what you call cost-effective?!” Luca blared, wanting to open the system and see how it operated.

“Host! This was certainly the most cost-effective! I even did calculations for long-term and short-term use as well as the upgradability and back-end support!”

Oh god.

Luca realized he took cost-effective measures like the rich people assessed their purchases.

For someone like Luca, being cost-effective meant buying the best among the cheapest available options.

He didn’t concern himself with verifying because he saw the prices and thought they were reasonable for such advanced technology. But now, he lost a third of his hard-earned money.

Realizing that D-29 took the correct literal meaning, Luca could only wallow in sadness at all the money that barely stayed in his terminal for a week.

Then, he vowed to get a good return on investment from this machine. He’d sleep inside if necessary to justify its cost.

So, Luca did just that. But instead of sleeping, he used his time to run around his space. He tried replicating the physical training they do every morning to see if he was now capable of doing more.

And thankfully, he was.

The feeling of being able to move around better was so novel that Luca ran around more than necessary. He even tried lifting a few boulders and logs here and there for some sort of weight training.

For someone working his ass off, he was smiling too much that D-29 began to think that the manuals had some unexplainable side effects.

Given his sudden activity, it was no wonder the happy guy slept like the dead.

It took D-29 a few moments of blaring to wake its Host, who fell asleep inside the Dungeon.

Meanwhile, a man had been pretending to rest in the dimly lit dorm room since last night. Xavier could’ve used the time to peruse the list of students and faculty, but he opted to go here to check on the missing shorty.

Xavier wondered if Luca had escaped back to the duchy after what had happened earlier because he had not returned to the dorm.

Not even after nearly staying up all night bothered about what could’ve happened.

He wouldn’t admit it, but he actually waited for the door to open. It never did, well, not until after Xavier went to class.

Luca was about to be fashionably late with how he overslept.

His only advantage was having yesterday’s infirmary ordeal as a crutch to explain why it took him a while to get to class.

But he actually didn’t want to be late. In fact, he prepared so much because he could finally train like most of the students and could test his limits against the gravitational track.

However, that was not how it looked to the rest of the class.

Luca was far slower than usual, yet he was still smiling.

It looks like something happened to his head after fainting yesterday.

How could someone be so happy when they’re lagging behind like that?

The people around him thought that way, but Luca was glad because he was now doing the training without assistance from his spiritual power.

Yes, he was slower. But this was now his actual pace.

And he wasn’t even that tired!

He could actually push for a faster speed, but Luca wanted to test his endurance.

And then you have three people who felt slightly guilty that the ranked student was now performing worse than usual.

Not that his earlier performance was that exceptional, but it wasn’t this bad!

The teacher, on the other hand, attributed everything to his recovery. Despite his condition, he was glad that the student seemed eager to participate in training.

Ordinarily, teachers shouldn’t allow their students to train after getting sick, but doing that might end up killing them out there. The corrupted creatures wouldn’t stop attacking just because you announced you were sick.

These kids need to learn how to cope even when they’re not in their best shape.

Of course, they weren’t stupid enough to fully risk the youngsters, so there’s a limit to what they can do while recovering.

Like today’s sparring.

In Falco’s mind, Luca would just have to watch for now.

But that was his stance and was not exactly reflected by some students who had other thoughts.