The Zhan Clan’s healers were treating George.

When Durgan had left George with them, they didn’t know if they should heal George or not because he was only a commoner, but as Durgan had a reputation of being a righteous guy, they decided to treat George even if it was only to made Durgan happy.

After Serka and Kermu had gone to deliver the unconscious and heavily injured Hyrk to the Zhan Clan’s best healers, they had also asked for Geroge’s state.

That fact shocked the healers who had started to believe that George should be some special commoner to have three geniuses from different clans caring about him. They felt pity that his lost arm was unable to regrow because it was healed with natural healing and a lot of time had passed since that.

Aizu was also worried about Yale because he hadn’t left the realm before the portal closed, but as she knew that Swordmad had a token that can show if he were alive or not, her worries were more controlled than the others.

Aizu looked at the worried faces of Serka, Kermu, and Nurvey.

Initially, she didn’t want to tell about that token existence to the nobles as she still didn’t feel comfortable with them, but after seeing that they were also worried about Yale, she decided to reveal the token’s existence to them.

After that, she guided them to where Swordmad was waiting; there wasn’t any other member of the academy there.

“This man is Yale’s master; he is in charge of us until we return to the academy.”

Aizu introduced Swordmad to the nobles, but Swordmad didn’t seem happy as he was staring a token in his hand. That was Yale’s token showing that he was still alive, but Swordmad didn’t see him leaving the realm.

Swordmad wasn’t paying attention to others; he was only looking for Yale since the first month passed and the kids started to return.

“Yale had decided to remain in the realm; he is the one who opened an exit to all of us.”

Swordmad didn’t expect that Yale was able to open a space-time passage to the Imperial City, but he understood it better after Aizu explained the situation to him.

After Swordmad heard that Yale had obtained such a valuable legacy in the special realm, the possibilities of Yale getting some privileges inside it were high.

On the other hand, he was cursing Heruk for provoking the realm’s self-destruction, he should have killed him after reaching the Imperial City, but as Yale wanted to deal with him personally, Swordmad didn’t act.

Kermu and Serka also explained what happened in the special realm since they met Yale for the first time and Serka told him about Yale’s secret identity. As Swordmad was Yale’s master, he had the right to know about it.

Swordmad was surprised that Yale managed to form a relationship with all the noble clans, but he wasn’t astonished by Yale’ s hidden identity.

The first time he came to the Imperial City he hadn’t any interest about the noble clans’ special skills, but after Yale and the others entered into the special realm, he managed to get some information.

He discovered that Time Healing was a skill which belonged to the Zhan Clan, so Yale and Ange should have a blood relation with them. The fact, Serka told him that Yale was her cousin only confirmed Swordmad guess.

Swordmad didn’t have a good impression of the noble clans due to their love for trying to bind geniuses by marriage, but as Kermu and the two girls didn’t have such intention and were worried about Yale, Swordmad didn’t feel like he was talking with arrogant kids from the noble clans.

Fortunately, Durgan didn’t know about the token nor Swordmad’s presence, because Swordmad would get angry if he heard that someone dared to engage Yale forcefully. That fact was something Aizu, Nurvey, Kermu, and Serka had decided to keep secret to avoid problems.

Nurvey hadn’t spoken a word even if she was also there; she only stared at the token in Swordmad’s hand.

Serka understood Nurvey’s intentions; she wanted to have a method to know if Yale was still alive.

After all, Serka also wanted to be able to confirm if her cousin was still alive after Swordmad left, she could understand Nurvey.

Kermu also had the same thoughts as he considered Yale a close friend after living so many experiences inside the special realm, but he was hesitating if asking Swordmad for the token or not.

“Mister, can you give us that token? We are also worried by him, and we have no method to check if he is still well. Aizu has told us that there is another token in the academy. We will be grateful if you let us keep this one.”

Serka was the one who finally asked, as she was Yale’s cousin her chances of success were higher than the others.

Swordmad felt that the worry those nobles showed to Yale wasn’t fake, but he was hesitating about giving the token to them.

“Just give them the token, don’t worry.”

Swordmad nodded to the request after that voice spoke in his mind, he knew very well who talked to him, the Mysterious Expert. Since the Mysterious Expert said that Swordmad should give the token to them, he just did it.

Swordmad gave the token to Serka as she was Yale’s cousin and the one who asked for it, but she gave it to Kermu just after that. As the Zhan Clan had other factions, she didn’t dare to keep the token for fear it was stolen, Kermu’s position in his clan was the best to ensure the token’s safety.

Nurvey also didn’t oppose to that; she could see the token whenever she wanted since she was used to going to Kermu’s house, that was the place the three of them played together since they were little.

Swordmad sighed after giving the token to them; he only wanted to return quickly to Nacesai City.

Swordmad knew Yale’s personality if he didn’t leave the realm with the others it meant that he had a method to exit.

However, Swordmad doubted that Yale’s method led to the Imperial City as there was no preexisting passage to use and the Imperial City had protections against portals, that was why the portal to the Nacesai academy was outside the city walls.

If Yale could choose, he would go to Nacesai City, so it was better to wait for him there, and if for some reason he appeared in the Imperial City’s surrounding, he had friends who could help him. Especially with his hidden identity, it was difficult that some random thief dared to hurt him before managing to reach any of his friends.

What Swordmad feared most was that when Yale leave the special realm, he would appear in a dangerous place. If Yale appeared in some countryside town, he would be alright in Swordmad’s eyes, but if he appeared in a bandit’s territory or a city similar to Nacesai City, he might be in danger.

Swordmad hoped that he was worrying too much, maybe Yale would already be in Nacesai City when he returned with the surviving students.

Swordmad looked to the other three tokens in his possession which were the only ones that remained unbroken. Those were the token from Aizu, George, and Lor.

Swordmad knew that George was in treatment and Aizu was in front of him, but he hadn’t seen Lor leaving the special realm.

Given the explanations the nobles and Aizu gave to him, the realm’s state when they left wasn’t something anyone could live in, and Heruk was planning to kill her before.

Thus, Swordmad believed that Lor had fled mixing with other commoners and deserting the academy. Because Swordmad was only focused in looking for Yale, it wouldn’t be difficult for her to have escaped.

Swordmad guess was in the right, Lor had offended too many people relying on Heruk’s social status. Since she had lost his support, returning to Nacesai City would be a torture for her.

She was lucky enough to find Heruk’s intentions before he noticed her presence. Then, she ran away until leaving the special realm and fled from Imperial City with the first batch of commoners who retired after the first month ended. She knew very well Heruk’s personality, and he wasn’t joking. Fortunately for her, Heruk liked to brag about his intentions in a loud voice.

Swordmad didn’t care about someone like her, he didn’t have time to go hunting her and as Heruk, who was the main danger to Yale due to his background in Nacesai City, had been killed he would settle the matter for the moment. Of course, if someday Swordmad met with Lor, he would still kill her.

After the kids left to go seeing George and Hyrk who were in the healing process, Swordmad sighed and spoke to himself.

“I hope you will be able to come back soon.”

***

Time passed in the outside world.

Sat into the altar Yale finally opened his eyes.

“Time to leave.”