Way of the Knights

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It's been two days since Raven and his team's return to the Kingdom with the Resource Gathering Team. 

As they reported back, Raven also informed the King about the mole he planted at the Black Curtain Guild. For now, he still hadn't receive any news from the slave but he could feel that the slave is still alive. Alexander commended him for thinking such actions since if the slave could truly return, then they would be able to keep tabs on the plans of the Black Curtain Guild and be prepared ahead of time.

Currently, Raven was back at the academy. He continued on making changes on the student's curriculum due to the implementation of the six-man cells. Unfortunately, he was once again interrupted.

His assistant informed him that he needed to attend to some more urgent matters. During the two days that he was gone, there are some students who expressed wishes to change their teammates and Raven has to hear their reasons.

Raven sighed and dropped what he was currently doing. He then asked his assistant to reach out for the students who wanted to switch teams and arranged a meeting with them. 

The teams were informed shortly after, they then arrived moments after they received the messages and were met with Raven who personally conducted the interview.

There a total of four teams who arrived. Raven invited the first team inside the office and had the rest waiting outside. 

As soon the first team entered, they greeted Raven and was asked to be seated. Raven then asked:

"Team 45, I received your request about changing a team member. Why do you want to switch members?" 

As Raven spoke, he saw the faces of the team change. One of them was particularly shocked, which gave Raven an impression that this person must be the cause of their request. Raven looked at the Leader of Team 45 with a questioning gaze. Shortly after, the Leader spoke:

"Instructor, I requested for a member exchange because I believe that with how a member of my team behaves, we won't be going anywhere." The Leader spoke in a confident tone. 

Raven then asked: "Who is this member that you're referring to?"

"It would be this person, he's takes the Assault Role on out team." The Leader replied.

Raven stayed silent and studied the guy that the Leader pointed at. He then gestured the Leader to continue explaining and that's what he did.

"His attitude towards us is just too unacceptable." The Leader stated, "The first time we met, he was already harassing our female members by openly ogling at them like a starved beast."

"You lying bastard! I did no such thing!" His teammate roared in indignation as panic visibly showed on his face.

"You stay silent for me. I'll give you time to explain later." Raven ordered, causing him to sit down and grip his fist in fury. Raven looked at the Leader and said: "Continue."

The Leader swallowed and nodded, "I tried to speak with him and explain that such actions are too inappropriate and that he should stop doing that since it's disrespectful. But instead of listening to me, he told me to shut up and even said that I was unfit to be the Leader of the team. Clearly disrespecting me as well."

"I told the rest of the team to ignore it for now while I attempted to do my best and diffuse the situation. But his attitude just became worst as we moved on. During the missions, he refused to cooperate and would just stare at us as we did the mission. He would even try to claim all the benefit for himself by bootlicking clients."

"This trend continued as we cleared missions, I tried talking to him over and over again but he just refused to listen. What took the cherry on top happened yesterday. He tried to force himself to our Healer and when I heard what he did, I decided that there's no other way about it and decided to file a request for a member switch."

As the Leader finished explaining, Raven looked at the team and saw that all of them had varying reactions. Aside from the Leader, the rest all had their heads down. The suspected student nearly tore the hem of his uniform off due to indignation. His face was covered with wrath as he listened to the words of his 'Leader'.

The Healer of the team had a rather horrified face. She was pale and shivering, probably due to fear. 

*Sigh*

Raven let out a long sigh and massaged his temples. He then waved his hand, along this action he also sent a wave of his chaos force. Instantly, the six students became petrified and was stuck on their chairs. 

All of them wore a surprised expressions on their faces and looked at Raven with questioning gazes. They then saw how Raven had an exhausted expression as he said: "Not even a week passed since the formation of Teams and there's already some drama going on. Seriously, why did I even agreed to become an Instructor if I'm just going to deal with this shit?"

His words definitely not targeted at the students. It appears that he was mostly talking to himself, clearly regretting his decisions at that time when he agreed to Ian's proposal. Well, he did became a little bit impulsive when he agreed to it since he really wanted the reform to be approved.

"Those chairs are special." Raven stated, "I recovered that from a certain sector of the Royal Army called the Interrogation Department. Once activated, those chairs will not release you unless I wanted to. As for its real function, it's quite a nifty one."

"To simplify it, I ask a question to you and your task is to answer. If you tell me the truth, then we'll move on. But if you lie? You will get electrocuted."

As Raven uttered these words, the students visibly paled and felt a strong shiver down their spines. 

"Not answering my questions will not work for you as well, since if you ignored it you will be electrocuted as well, the difference is that the shock that you will experience is stronger if you ignored my question. So just answer my questions honestly and you will be fine."

"Now then..." Raven uttered as he looked coldly at the students in front of him, "Let's begin the interrogation."

A profound shiver ran down their spine as they heard the coldness on his voice. They inwardly brace themselves and felt panic rising up to their chests.

"Assault." Raven called out, the suspected student looked at him and waited for his questions. "Did you do all the things that your Leader told me a while ago?"

"No, Instructor. I didn't do any of those things." The student replied and inwardly clenched. 

*Ding!*

A sound was heard from the chair accompanied by a green light glowing on the right armrest. Seeing this Raven nodded and said: "That means that you're telling me the truth."

He then turned towards the Leader and asked: "Did you lie to me?"

Faced by the cold expression of his own Instructor, the Leader swallowed and gritted his teeth. He then said: "No Instructor. Everything that I said was true-ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!"

He didn't even manage to finish his sentence and the shock was already administered to him. The Leader squirmed on his seat, trying his best to break free from it but he couldn't no matter what he did. He suffered from electrocution for at least five seconds before it stopped. 

The rest of his teammates paled even more as they witnessed his fate. They felt somewhat sick and afraid.

"That's you what you get for lying to me." Raven snorted. He then faced Healer of the team as asked: "Did someone from your team disrespected your dignity as a woman?"

The Healer shivered as tears flowed from her eyes, she avoided his gaze as she answered: "Y-yes, Instructor."

*Ding!*

"I see." Raven nodded and sighed. He then faced the Leader and asked: "Was it the Assault that disrespected her or you?"

The Leader was panting hard, he then answered: "It wasn't me, it's him-ARRRRGGHHH!!!!"

"You just couldn't stop yourself from lying aren't you? I can't believe I have a student like you." Raven sighed in shame, he then faced the Assault once more and asked: "Were you the one who disrespected your Healer?"

"It wasn't me, Instructor. It was our so-called Leader who did so. All of the things he told you earlier were not things that I've done. It was him who did all of that, he's just passing the blame on me."

*Ding!*

Raven nodded and then faced the Healer once more, he then asked her: "Why didn't you say anything earlier?"

The Healer lowered her head in shame and meekly said: "B-because he told me that if I said anything against him, he would ask his family to deal with my parents. Me and my parents are servants of his family, I don't want them to kill my parents so I just endured the things that he does."

*Ding!*

As the truth surfaced, the students felt the atmosphere around them dropped by a notch as Raven's face was covered with nothing but absolute coldness.