The Ger Is A Part Timer [BL]

~ 9 ~

"Yes. The engineering classes don't let you study the machines used for combat. They also give classes on how to train and control a person's spiritual power. It's a win-win decision for me, since it'll be easier to transcode too, with a higher level of spirit control. So I changed my mind and applied for the combat course!

The shuttlecraft stuttered in space.

"You...", Nyx trailed off, yet wasn't ultimately able to say anything. He glanced a few times at Yu Yan's small frame.

In the end, he didn't have the heart to dissuade those excited eyes. With a slightly dark face, Nyx, who forgot that that Yu Yan can disarm ten Kenjis and five Quinns, said to Yu Yan, "Tell me if anyone bullies. List their names and their addresses, got it? It doesn't matter what background they have, just list their names and give it to me."

"Yes, Dad!" Yu Yan readily agreed like the good and obedient child he was.

Through the craft's glass window, a wide metropolis came to view, with tall towers and skyscrapers piercing the clouds, as they descended into Blue Star Empire's capital planet.

Nyx maneuvered the craft unto an airway road and drove straight to the Academy.

Margaux Academy was a large university city that could stand on its own. Just its size took about a third of the whole metropolitan area. Even in terms of money, the whole academy used credit points that couldn't be converted from or to money.

This was to promote a healthy competition, and a fair learning environment where rich students couldn't flaunt their monetary prowess. It was also a way for their students, especially in the entrepreneur classes and business section, to have practical experience in the flow of money without any adverse consequences except the loss of their credit points. They'd still survive outside or the Academy if they had money, however, they'd be quite disadvantaged the longer they stayed credit-less inside.

In Margaux Academy, it was talent and intelligence that students used as their capital. A poor but talented man outside the Academy could very well be a millionaire inside.

While Nyx stayed inside the parked craft, Yu Yan walked over to the guards stationed by the tall, wide golden gates to ask for instructions and directions.

Yu Yan's terminal code was scanned to prove his application. The guard checked the two courses he had enrolled to. It wasn't unusual to see a student enrolling two, three or more classes. Margaux was after all, a dwelling place of small and big geniuses. However, what stunned the guard was the courses the student planned to take.

He looked at the applicant and back at the paper when the other person smiled at him. It was good to have ambition, but getting into this course seemed more like a dream than an ambition if you looked at the student's small physique.

Yu Yan: I can see your doubts through your eyes! Are you letting me in or not? I'm tired of smiling ah.

Inside the auxiliary ship, the terminal on Nyx' wrist kept vibrating non-stop since a while back. He pressed his lips into a straight line, his forehead slightly wrinkled at the notion of trying to ignore it.

Soon, it stopped. He was about breathe a sigh of relief until it vibrated and ping-ed much fiercer and more annoying than before.

With reluctance pasted all over his face, Nyx hesitatingly looked at his messages. There was a pile of unread messages, and yet he didn't have to backread them one by one to know what they were after—

Pirate 5: Don't forget +1

Pirate 1: Captain, don't forget! You definitely can't forget!

Pirate 9: Don't forget +7

Pirate 3: Don't forget +12. We really won't ask for anything else, Captain, pwease~?

Old Tin: Captain, I won't ask for payment about the paint job. Just a picture of Yu Yan at the Academy gates will do. You'll do it for me, won't you :))

Pirate 1: Old Tin, I love you! Captain, you'd better reading this!

Pirate 3: Old Tin 666

Kenji: Why am I here? What's this group chat for...

Pirate 4: Yanyan appreciation group chat

Pirate 2: Yu Yan 3D giphy fan club

Pirate 7: yanyantilthead.tgif

Quinn: Child raising association group chat

Pirate 6: yanyancutesmile.tgif

Quinn: We provide child rearing advices to Captains with newfound children~

Kenji: ....

Pirate 5: Guys, don't change the subject! Captain, Yu Yan is going to university! This is a milestone! A milestone! We need a record of this milestone!

Kenji: yayanshock.tgif

Nyx closed the chat room like he was burned.

"Dad, non-students aren't allowed passed the gates", Yu Yan grumbled. He had come back to complain, half his body hanging outside of the vehicle's glass window.

Nyx nodded. He quickly opened his terminal, closed the dreaded group chat, and sent Yu Yan a more detailed interactable 3D blue print of the whole school. He already knew about that policy, given that it was his alma matter after all. As a graduate with a lot of achievements, Nyx could easily ask for the principal for a pass. Unfortunately, that would reveal that he was alive and kicking with a bounty on his head.

The only reason he could calmly sit there was that his terminal had an automatic signal blocker for all surveillance cameras within a fifty-meter range.

"But I wanted to roam the grounds with you~" Nothing was as disappointed as Yu Yan not being able to showcase his handsome, intimidating father to the whole school. He wasn't even able to brag inside the Triton! (He had though).

"Be good. Take your requirements for the entrance exam and come out quickly."

"Will Dad wait for me here?"

"En."

Yu Yan grabbed his bag and was about to leave.

"Wait."

"Hm?" Yu Yan looked back to see an internally conflicted Captain.

Though a bit disgruntled, Nyx commanded with a tone that didn't allow for a negative response, "Make a pose quick." He aimed his terminal at Yu Yan, who was stunned at first. Then, he eased and took a few steps backwards. He tilted his head in a very practiced manner and stood slightly to the side of the gate so the terminal's shutter would be able to know where he was currently at. Nyx took the photo, not even bothering to take another.

"Go." Nyx commanded when he'd finish. Although his tone a bit forceful, he was simply worried that he'd taken up to much of the child's time when he could have been preparing. If it weren't for those squiggling microorganisms, he wouldn't have had to keep Yu Yan back. Therefore, he had resolved to settle them when they come back.

Upon getting his go sign, Yu Yan waved back as he dashed inside the gates, not forgetting to yell, "I'll finish it quick so take me out to eat! You better promise! No, I promise! I promise to make you take me out to eat!"

Similar to the captain, the rock didn't allow negative responses. Like father, like son.

When the overbearing child finally trotted inside, Nyx finally eased a little. He leaned back a little on his seat for a while, before tensing his shoulders. His usual intimidating aura came out as he started the shuttlecraft.

It's been a while since he's been in the capital. It'd be a shame not to visit his friend.