Volume 13 Chapter 6:  (Patreon)

Volume 13 Chapter 6: 

The next day, Keith sighed deeply before a defeated groan came out of his mouth, "Can you guys get off of me?" On his body were Herrick and Melor, who were hugging him tightly. And it was quite a sturdy hold as they had no plans to let him go any time soon. Don't you guys see how people are staring at us? 

Carrying those two was relatively easy, but those stares were another matter. 

"We missed you!" "Yeah!" The two only hugged tighter, which only caused Keith to sigh,

"Herrick! If you're going to hug me, hug Leona! Sheesh!" Aren't they engaged?! Why was he getting this?  

"Keith?!" Leona's cheeks turned red. But Keith added to this as he unlatched the lion from his body. He literally placed him on Leona and then closed his arms and legs, making him latch! 

"!"

"This is nice as well." Herrick snuggled into Leona, which only caused the smoke to slowly come out. However, her tail wagged fast, clearly showing how happy she was. 

"There!" Keith looked down at Melor as he grabbed him by the head and brought him out. The man took a deep sigh before he was going to walk again. But this time, three girls latched onto him! 

"Women, what are you guys doing this time?!" 

“We want hugs.” “Yeah.” “Indeed.” One human, elf, and demon latched on tight, refusing to let go. He thought he was finished with this, but it was even more like this. Scarlet grinned, “What? We’re just sad that we couldn’t do this.”

“...You understand everyone is watching us? Right?” Keith looked around and noticed how the people were glancing at them. They were too eye-catching, which caused them to be seen by everyone. He sighed as they entered the room with the three on him. 

“...” He saw all the students that were there. But once that was there, it would be much different from the other times. 

“What? Are you guys salty you guys lost?” Keith’s voice was directed at S-class with mocking and self-loathing. 

“...” S-class didn’t say anything. But that was more than enough to answer Keith’s questions. It was unacceptable. The thought of them losing was something they couldn’t stand. But more so, that was to F-class as well! 

Keith sighed, “You guys lost hands down so suck it up and own up to it.” 

“...If you weren’t-”

“If I wasn’t there, then you would have won? Of course, but that doesn’t change the fact that you guys are nothing more than followers in that whole situation.” Keith sighed, “Did you guys have an objective in the beginning? Did you guys think what the customers were saying?”

"..."

"No, that's because you guys thought because you're S-class, it was nothing." Keith scoffed, “S-class at the start had the highest revenue earned. However, the popularity was another matter.” There were polls about what about it. S-class was 5th, which was a discrepancy from the others. Usually, with high revenue, there should be high popularity as well. 

“It’s clear that the customers didn’t want to stay there.” Popularity and Revenue were closely tied together. That low popularity meant that the retention would not be there at all. 

"Also, let me ask you guys a question, why didn't you guys work together?" This was not to S-class, but it was all the other classes. 

"Because of petty pride due to not wanting to work with the other race, you guys worked much slower." Not having the proper people there for each job made things quite difficult. It slowed down the process. 

That manpower issue was an inside job caused by the others. F-class was able to finish everything on time because they had the right people on the job. 

“It’s fine to lose, but it’s not fine not to accept the loss and blame it on others.” Chelan was definitely the cause of their defeat. But they were half-heartedly doing so because of the title they had. It was clear they didn't care at all. 

“...” The S-class students didn’t say anything, but Keith knew that they had gotten the idea into their minds. A sudden clap came to the entire class where Aidiun had turned to them, “That is quite the correct, student Keith.”

“S-class as a whole lost against F-class. It was not something that can’t be said or changed.” Aidiun sighed, “And this is also a loss to me.” This was also a hit on his pride as a professor. Despite taking care of Clara, he never thought her class would come together to take him out like so. 

“But I’m going to use this defeat as a way to grow. So I’m going to ask you guys, are you going to let this defeat get to you?”

“No!” “I don’t want to lose!” “Not again!” The S-class students were rilled up with his words. That only caused Keith to laugh. That was when class started, and that class had caused everyone to be more attentive than before.