The Soul Substitute Trash of the Duke Family
Chapter 39

Leona assisted Kaze was busy concocting some herbs, while Kei was busy stirring the ingredients. The three of them made some medicine, poison, antidote and elixir just in case.

A fragrant pot of medicine and elixir is smelled in Leona's room, signifying a premium quality homemade concoction.

Leona herself secretly studied drugs and poisons autodidactically based on her late mother's books and some books she read in several libraries.

"Enough, Kei." Leona.

Kei stopped stirring the potion and took out a few small bottles, then filtered and put them in the bottles.

Leona immediately sealed her man-made potion in a scroll then smiled in satisfaction.

"I'll be out for a minute. You guys get some rest." Leona's word to Kei and Kaze.

"Well, Leona-sama."

Leona immediately disappeared from there leaving a strand of flower petals. Recently the girl tried to master flower control techniques, like Konan from the Naruto anime who mastered paper control techniques.

Leona finally appeared in the field located not far from the academy. Luckily the place was quite quiet and he felt that someone was relaxing on the tree and feeling familiar. Looks like it's his friends or Carl.

A demonic smile rose on the girl's face, she removed her presence and approached the tree she was hanging from and placed her hand there. It appears a kanji inscribed with a word 'exploded'.

Leona immediately moved away from the tree and chanted a hand symbol, and...

'TWOARR'

'BRAAKKK'S'

'Gubrak'

The trunk of the tree was destroyed and collapsed successfully making people who were relaxing were shocked and fell.

"Accusingly, who would dare disturb my sleep?" Angry annoyed. The purple-browed man who had a pigtail at the nape looked around him and found the sinless smiling perpetrator not far from him.

"Hehehe... Good afternoon, Master Carl..." Sapa Leona and just ran away.

"You're a brash student!" Carl is upset. As he was about to chase the girl, suddenly a messenger eagle flew above him making Carl undo his intentions.

"It looks like the head of the academy is calling. Wrafts." Carl immediately disappeared from there.

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Carl shows up suddenly making Margaretha puckle lightly hiding her surprise.

"Good afternoon, Madam. Is there a mission?" Ask Carl to the point.

"Can you come up typing the door, Mr Carl? Good thing I don't have a history of heart disease." Margaretha was upset.

"I forgot." Carl chuckles.

Margaretha breathed in frustration. Only Carl can make it almost boil when dealing with the man.

"I have a mission for you, Carl. It's not a light mission, but a pretty dangerous mission." Margaretha ransacked the documents that were on the table. After finding it he handed the document to Carl and read it straight away. A demonic smile was plastered on his handsome face.

"Wah~ This mission is perfect for coaching my team, Madam. I'll take it." Carl said happily. In the heart of the man laughed Satan imagined he could avenge the actions of his protege.

"Tomorrow you set out with some knights from the imperial side." Margaretha.

"Then I go tell my kids first. Warft's." Cut Carl out and get out of there.

While the four students Carl is busy training in a special place of academy training. Looking at Eura who was busy controlling the sword aura, Iven who was busy making sculptures using his earth magic, Wei Tao who was seen lying down while reading a book, was busy making a statue, while Leona came running while laughing out loud and occasionally looking back.

"You why?" Iven asked without turning his attention to his sculpture.

"I just made teacher Carl fall out of a tree." Leona was honest and chuckled while normalizing her breathing. Then Leona immediately sat down next to Iven and immediately pulled out a scroll. The girl again made an unfinished fuinjutsu formula.

"You're so ignorant." Wei Tao said as he peeked out from the book he read.

Moments later, Leona finished making the fuinjutsu formula and was intending to give it a try. But just as he was about to try, a familiar voice came interrupting their activities.

"Hello my beloved children~" Sapa Carl who suddenly appeared right above Leona's fuinjutsu formula.

'TWOARR'

"Geez, I made teacher Carl the first try!" Leona exclaimed as her fuinjutsu was stepped on by Carl and exploded a second later.

While the three colleagues just looked at Carl with a look of pity while holding back laughter when they saw the appearance of Carl who now looks sad. The man looked messy in tattered camping clothes. Luckily the power of the explosion was not great so Carl did not die in vain.

In one flick of the hand, Carl's appearance returned to normal. Without warning, the man immediately grabbed Leona's ear, causing the master to grimace.

Leona rubbed her ear reddened by the kiss of death from Carl's burly hand. The pigtailed man could have been hit twice by Leona's explosion.

"Why did Master suddenly appear right above my fuinjutsu formula, anyway?” Leona's grumbling.

"But you can rest easy because Master wants to be your weird-ass-mode experiment what's his name." Sahut Wei Tao flat.

"Fuinjutsu, not a weird move." Leona.

"So, what's the matter, Master?" Tanya Iven who is still loyal to make a statue with her land magic.

"We have a mission. I deliberately chose it to train your abilities." Carl's cheerful voice that made the four furrow their eyebrows and put on a lazy expression. The man pigtailed before him must have chosen a mission that was of no quality to them.

"We get a mission to exterminate the bandits at the border of Kamitsuki Empire. This is the Emperor's direct order." Carl said solemnly with his index finger touching his chin when he realized the four demons were looking at him lazily.

Instantly, the eyes of the four demon children glittered happily. Finally their teacher wanted to find a mission that stretched their muscles.

"So when does our mission begin?" Tanya Leona enthusiastically.

"We leave tomorrow. Then I'll go first." Pamit Carl and immediately walk casually leaving the four who are now discussing their plans tomorrow.

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Leona gazed at the shining moon full of freshly rising from the eastern horizon in the company of a flashing star like a sprinkling of jewels from the balcony of the room. The girl settles down with Kei into her pillow in the form of a black panther.

Kaze accompanied Leona by sitting next to the girl and gazing at the beautiful night sky. They were swept away in each other's minds.

Leona finds out that the dukes are controlled through a ring and some villages are removed from the royal and Imperial maps. And he just found out that some dukes who became royal dogs were controlled through ancient artifacts and the villages were deliberately hidden by the Empire.

Is the ancient artifact a ring the king always wears? He chose not to care if the royal family did not harass him. Another story is if they interfere first, eating Leona will destroy it all the way to its roots.

"Leona-sama, it's time for you to sleep." Said Kaze who was still faithfully sitting next to her.

"I'm not sleepy yet, Kaze." Leona Sahut.

"But you have to rest enough remembering tomorrow you'll be on a mission." Kaze said firmly.

"Yes, I know. But seeing the beautiful moon makes me lazy." Leona said with a smile.

Kaze chooses silence and lets Leona enjoy the late night. He stared at the wall clock that showed the time of nine o'clock at night.

Leona closed her eyes enjoying the cool night breeze, not to mention the softness of Kei's feathers which made her feel like she was flying into the clouds. Slowly drowsiness overcame her and the girl began to fall asleep in a dream.

Moments later, Kei transforms into a human and immediately moves Leona's body up the bed carefully and Kaze covers the girl.

While Carl lay in his bed while watching the elixir bottle given by Leona due to the explosion of fuinjutsu girl. It turns out that Leona is more mysterious than she thought.

Leona casually says she bought the elixir at the drugstore, but Carl can smell the delicate fragrance because it is of premium quality that cannot be found in any Empire.

Many people reject Leona because of the predicate of troublemakers. Moreover, Leona who never took part in training made them sure if the girl would be a burden only.

But when Carl sees the girl in person, a lot of things are hidden by him. Even though he had neither mana nor aura, the girl's ability to analyze left him stunned. Even his fighting abilities are quite great, making Carl sure that he hides his potential.