"Mars do you have a lover?"

"Yes I have 4 lovers, but I don't think my private life is anything that interesting... Now let's start, from into pairs of two and begin sparing"

the group of students were rather obedient and quickly formed into pairs and began sparing, Mars would watch them and point out their mistakes and even join them in sparring form time to time and soon the hour of morning swordsmans.h.i.+p was over

"Okay we're done"

The group of students all had light sweat on their foreheads, some more than others but they all beamed happy smiles as they improved every time Mars pointed out their flaws

"Can't we continue a while longer teacher Mars?"

"Nope not unless you want to miss breakfast"

Mars left the training grounds along with the group of students, He chatted with the student's while they made their way to the dining hall. Mars continued chatting with the students while he ate only saying goodbye to them when they had to go to the next cla.s.s, Mars gave a sigh as he watched the group of students walk away

'Alright, time to switch gears, onto the next cla.s.s... What was it again?.. Oh right more swordsmans.h.i.+p'

Mars walked back to the training field and repeated the process of what happened earlier with another group of students just for a longer time, in fact it was until midday where he then once again accompanied the students to eat

'I could get used to this...'

Mars walked around the campus during the midday break and after that he once again trained another group of students swordsmans.h.i.+p, only this time there was someone he knew among the group

"Mars!"

"Yes, yes 78 don't cling to me like that... Have you been a good girl?"

"Yeah I behaved very well during morning cla.s.ses"

the other students looked at Mars and 78's intimate behaviour until Mars cleared his throat and spoke to clear up any misunderstandings

"I am 78's guardian, but enough about that let's get started"

Mars then once again thought the group of students swordsmans.h.i.+p (78 included of course) for a couple of hours before cla.s.s ended again, 78 ran over to Mars she was dressed not in her vibrant red dress but in a student uniform, Mars asked her

"Are you done with cla.s.ses for today?"

78 gave a happy nod

"Umm!" 

"Then do you want to walk around town for a bit?"

"Sure!"

Just as Mars was about to leave with 78 a teacher Mars didn't know stopped them

"You must be Mars right? There's a teacher meeting just after this, I was told to fetch you"

"I see... Sorry 78, some other time?"

"Boo! Mars you stink!"

With such words 78 ran off, Mars gave a sigh while the teacher looked at him funny and spoke

"Having such a relations.h.i.+p with your students is not advised"

"... I am her guardian and was the person that paid her tuition, our relations.h.i.+p is pure"

"That... I see, well in that case ignore what I just said"

"Well then, there was that meeting?"

"Yeah please follow me"

Mars followed after the teacher and soon reached the administrative building where both of them walked into a meeting room and sat down amongst a lot of other teachers, Mars only knew Rick there and gave him a wave when he spotted him, Rick gave a nod back

'let's see what they have to say at this meeting...'

Soon a middle aged man arrived and sat down at the end of the table and spoke

"Sorry for the wait everyone, for those of you that see me for the first time I am the vice princ.i.p.al  my name is Michal, I was told we have a few new teachers amongst us so let's do an introduction round"

The introductions started, Mars paid attention and tried to remember all the new names and faces of his fellow teachers and soon it was his turn to introduce himself and so he stood up and spoke clearly

"My name is Mars, I am a new teacher here and plan to teach for half a year, I teach swordsmans.h.i.+p and I am also a gold ranked merc. I am the guardian of 78 and I hope to get along with you all"

Finished with his introduction Mars sat down again as the round of introductions continued and after another five minutes the round was finished and Michal spoke again

"Good, the reason I have gathered you all here is to discuss the upcoming event: The yearly field trip, for this year we will be heading to a nearby town by train before we head out into a forest and make camp there for a week, during the field trip all teachers are expected to contribute to the collective safety of the group so I expect much from you all, especially those of you with merc or hunter backgrounds"

Mars gave a nod, he certainly was not going to let anything happen to the students, now that he was a teacher (although only a temporary one) he knew his responsibilities and was going to uphold them. What followed were a more detailed briefing about the field trip as a whole, Mars listened with interest and soon the meeting was over Mars got up and stretched before he left the meeting room and headed out to find 78

'Let's see... She's not around here... I wonder where she went..?'

Mars walked around campus, greeting the students he knew but after having made a round around campus he still had not found 78

'.... Well maybe she's with her friends... Whatever let's head into town alone then...'

Mars left campus behind and headed into the city and looked around various shops, stopping to have some food at a cafe and all in all, just enjoying himself for a bit until the sky turned dark then he decided to head back to the campus and after showing his teacher ID at the gate he went back to his room and went to bed

The next morning Mars woke up early and got dressed before he went towards the training field and sat down and meditated for a bit until the students showed up, when Mars opened his eyes he was a little surprised because there were a lot more students in the group then there had been yesterday so he quietly muttered

"Why are there so many of you compared to yesterday?"

Then he gave a sigh and addressed the students

"Good morning and what a wonderful morning we have here today, let's start with some light warm up, everyone grab a wooden sword"

The student quickly grabbed wooden swords and one of them even grabbed one for Mars and handed it to him

"Thanks, now let's start off with some light overhead swings to warm up, watch my example"

Mars took the sword with both hands before he raised it above his head and swung it down where it stopped right before the ground before he raised it up again and looked at the students

"See looks easy right? So let's start with 50 swings"

Mars watched the students perform the overhead swings before he also started and quickly did 50 himself (so fast that the wooden sword turned into a blur) before he put on a smile and spoke to the students again

"Good, now line up in a single line"

The students quickly lined up and Mars took the wooden sword on his shoulder and spoke

"Now, the first one in the line accompany me for a light spar"

"Yes!"

A female student that looked to be in her late teens stepped forward and raised her sword before she swung it at Mars, Mars easily blocked before he spoke

"Come on, I know I said light but put some power in those swings!"

"Y-Yes Mars!"

Mars spared with the student for a few minutes while giving her instructions on how to improve before ended the spar and praised her

"You have natural talent but remember to work a little on your footwork"

"Okay, will do Mars!"

"Good, now the next one in the line"

Mars spared with the entire group of students one on one without breaking a sweat, when he was done he put the wooden sword on his shoulder and gave a nod

"Good, that's it for today, now let's go get something to eat"

Mars put his wooden sword back and walked off towards the cafeteria with the group of students while chatting with them before they all gathered at one table and ate breakfast when a student that wasn't part of his morning cla.s.s approached him

"Mars can I talk with you for a moment?"

"... Sure"

Mars walked with the male student, a young man in his late teens over to a corner of the cafeteria(he regnonised him from one of yesterday's cla.s.ses)

"What's your name?"

"My name is Gorge"

"Okay Gorge what is it you want to talk about?"

"Well the truth is I want to ask for some of your time in the afternoon for some more swordsmans.h.i.+p training... Would that be okay?"

Mars thought for a moment before he gave a nod

"Sure I am here to teach after all, say bring some of your friends too if they want to come"

Gorge's face lit up into a smile before he gave a nod

"Yes I'll do that!"