“This, you filthy old hag!”
The one who launched a surprise attack aiming for the opening was the red-haired middle-aged man.
The swordsman who had been lying as if dead when Ria first arrived here. He swung his sword, which was as large as his body, with astonishing speed and shouted toward his back.
“Hurry and escape! Aren’t you Ian’s little sister?!”
Ria couldn’t help but be dumbfounded by the help from a person she was seeing for the first time in her life. But even that was only for a moment; her brain, which knew all the famous figures inside the Academy as a merchant, soon derived one name.
Derek the Skull Collector.
He was a professor in the Swordsmanship Faculty where Ian was enrolled, and a legendary monster hunter. But even such a renowned swordsman couldn’t handle ‘Greed’ alone, as evidenced by the fact that he had been collapsed before Ria arrived.