episode_0041

“Customer number 203. The food you ordered has arrived.”

“Thank you.”

It rained that evening.

It was a refreshing spring rain that signaled the end of spring and the beginning of summer.

After buying some fast food at a shopping street and returning to the principal’s office in the main building, I grumbled and opened my umbrella.

Being famous is a bit of a difficult thing. It is not simply a problem related to an individual’s privacy, but it also causes discomfort to those around him.

If I go around the world as my true self, the people I meet around me become embarrassed and uncomfortable. Does it feel like the division commander comes to the soldiers’ cafeteria and eats together?

Of course, if I were a pleasant character who could harmonize with them and laugh and chat with them, the mask of discomfort on their faces would quickly come off and fly away, but Elm Northmund is a strict old character.

There is no way I could comfortably eat with a griddle on my face when everyone is shaking when I make eye contact with them.

So usually when I go out to eat, I take on the appearance of someone else. Now I was in the guise of an instructor.

As summer comes and the days get longer, at this time, a pretty twilight would be waving and illuminating the exotic-style buildings, but the sky filled with dark clouds hid the orange glow of the sunset.

The streets of Academy should be full of after-school activity by now, but perhaps because of the rain, there were few people on the streets.

The streets are dark as it is not yet time for the streetlights to be turned on. Since it was raining, I felt a little droopy.

It doesn’t seem right to say that it was described as a refreshing spring rain earlier, but now it’s falling, but it’s true, so what can you do?

Personally, I hate rain. I especially hate it when my clothes get wet and damp.

But my original form, Yongin, is a reptile. Reptiles like moisture. Mentally, I hate the rain, but my body reacts, so something like a cartoon is happening where the body and head fight.

My body feels refreshed, but the wind from Elada that carries my sighs makes me feel unbearably heavy.

I burst out laughing at the truly contradictory situation and thought about various things as I walked along the sidewalk blocks, and before I knew it, I had arrived at the main building.

I shook off the moisture from the umbrella and put it into the plastic umbrella cover.

“Che.”

Any time you look at this, this is a sight to behold.

The Northmund statue located in the main hall of the Academy. Being nearly 5 meters high is a huge waste of space.

The stone statue, illuminated by the light from the chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, even looks majestic, perhaps because of the atmosphere.

Still, is this stone statue a landmark of Ellada? As I watched it every day, I felt like I was becoming attached to it.

‘hmm?’

I saw someone sitting on the sofa in the corner of the entrance hall.

A long-haired girl sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed on her chest and staring blankly at the Northmund statue.

‘Yoon Sia.’

Come to think of it, tomorrow was the day of mana hole creation. The work will be repeated as it was done with Han Se-jun in the past.

Is that fact making you nervous? Does he think that he, who has no talent for mana, will ultimately fail and be kicked out of this place?

When I came to, I found myself sitting on the sofa across from her.

“Hello. It’s Yoon Sia, right?”

When I thought about it, I thought maybe I approached him too without hesitation. Sitting around someone without asking for permission can be a nuisance to the person concerned and may look strange to those around them.

Plus, the light from the chandelier is the same. Its mere presence sets a strange mood. This atmosphere may be good for couples, but it is not helpful at all in the current situation.

Some students coming down the stairs of the main building, wondering what they were doing and now returning, look at me with curious expressions.

Well, since it’s the instructor’s appearance, there won’t be any strange rumors going around, but it’s still true that it’s against etiquette.

“… Yes.”

“Uh… Um.”

I let out a small groan inside. Humans are creatures that are sensitive to moods. I too was naturally in the mood.

While contemplating what to say, I came up with the most common rhyme in this situation.

“Don’t be too upset if things don’t go well tomorrow.”

“… .”

At those words, her eyes, which had been ignoring me and only looking at the stone statue, moved. Did I bring up again something I had tried to forget? His expressionless face ripples and his pupils tremble.

“This is not the only road. I heard that you came here because you wanted to meet Northmund, but it’s not just about fighting alongside him. Supporting him from the other side is not a bad choice either.”

She turned her head away, as if she was displeased with what I said. The atmosphere seemed to have gotten a little worse, and a little anxiety rose in my heart.

“As you know, this road is too dangerous. Rather from the other side… .”

“I’m sorry.”

She interrupted me and looked at me. I’m sorry was just one word, but when I saw her eyes, which had been a swamp of murky sewage, tremble with a different meaning, I realized that it was her mental protest.

It was common knowledge that people could talk with their eyes, but I let out a small gasp at the fact that someone could say “please stop paying attention and go away” so powerfully with just a look.

“… Of course, I understand that you don’t feel good right now, but I think you’re too stiff right now. therefore… .”

As I continued speaking, she hugged her legs together even more, crouched down, and lowered her gaze. It seemed like he was just saying that he didn’t want to hear it and would ignore it.

I followed her gaze and saw her yellow Crocs slippers. And on top of that, I could see her white bare feet. After watching her little toes wiggle for a moment, I sighed and got up.

“Okay, try your best. Then let me give you some advice.”

Even after saying that, she didn’t raise her head, so I had no choice but to talk to the top of her head that was facing me.

“Moving mana requires a strong will. Tonight, hold the object you value most and feel it. And imagine that the essence of that object moves through your body.”

This method is used to provide mana education to children in the original work.

To be honest, there is no particular basis, but it is something that a mother reads world famous fairy tales to the child in her stomach for prenatal education or emotional education. I don’t think it means more than that.

Even though most people receive education like that, most people are unable to awaken their special abilities. The majority live as ordinary people without even feeling the flow itself.

To be honest, I didn’t say that with such expectations. As if it was the same for her, the head of her head facing me remained unchanged.

“I am a mana taster and non-talented person, so it would be presumptuous to give advice, but this is the method that Northmund told me about a while ago.”

Of course, I still couldn’t awaken. He smiled and walked away. As I was walking up the stairs, someone was rushing towards me. I could hear the slapping sound of the rubber of my slippers hitting the marble floor.

I guessed who the owner was, so I shrugged my shoulders and went up the stairs, opened the door to the principal’s office, and went inside.

Unfortunately, when I opened the paper bag, the burger was completely cold.

I cursed softly and put the cold, shriveled French fries in my mouth. It was still raining outside the window.

*

“Good job Hopkins.”

“Ah… iced coffee! Thank you professor! This is Mana Hall!”

I wiped the sweat from my forehead with a handkerchief and congratulated him.

I am also a mana user now. Those who ignored me are all dead! Robert Hopkins, who was running around saying, hit his head on the ceiling with a loud thud and fell down.

His physical enhancement ability seems to have fused with the newly created mana hole, further improving his abilities.

His jumping power far exceeded his expectations and he hit his head so hard that he fainted and pushed him away with his feet and headed out of the mana chamber.

Mana Chamber. This is a miniaturized glass dome that was used on the first day of the Ability Development Study. The interior is about the size of a small room and is a place filled with highly concentrated mana.

As I rolled Robert into the waiting room outside, I saw the last runner. She looks at me and nods. This was already the 8th greeting I received today.

It was clearly said to be 1pm, but she was already waiting here several hours before the start.

In the morning, I headed down to the basement with a box containing magic stones to set up the mana room, and she was already in the waiting room.

She was the first to arrive, but unfortunately she was placed last. The mountain she had to climb today wasn’t going to be easy, so this was the order I decided on.

I looked at the clock and it was already 4 o’clock.

“You made me wait for a long time. I was the first to come, but I’m sorry I made you wait until the last.”

“Oh, no, Professor.”

She answers me with a wide smile. A feeling of pity arose as I saw her acting as if she were a different person, so different from the way she showed up just last night.

“Yes. I’m a little tired after working all day today. Just rest for about 10 minutes.”

Using mana, I floated Robert and placed him on a chair in the waiting room.

She appeared stomping the person with her foot and even threw him into the air, but she never gave him a glance after I appeared.

At first glance, I could have looked at her, but from beginning to end, her eyes were only focused on me, as if I was the only person in her world.

I put the handkerchief I had been wiping off sweat into the inside pocket of my suit and looked at her. Now that I think about it, I see that her right hand was grasping something strongly from earlier.

Is that really true? I may have been following the folk remedies from the original novel that I mentioned last night as advice.

“What are you holding in your hand”

“Ah. This… Who was it yesterday… This is what a strange person said as advice… .”

“… .”

Interesting. I thought it was a bit cute to see him waving his hands in a bit of confusion.

“That… I don’t believe that, but still… I still want to. He told me to practice responding to mana while holding the object I cherish the most… .”

“It’s the most precious thing. If you don’t mind, could you show me?”

If you keep it that much, it must be a very precious keepsake.

But what was in her carefully spread palm was very different from what I expected.

What came out of my palm was a crumpled piece of cloth. A piece of fabric with the edges of the torn section standing up roughly, as if someone had torn it off with force.

In a way, it looked like the end of a tie. It was a piece of fabric made of the same material as the tie on my favorite suit.

“It’s a piece of cloth. It’s a little wrinkled, but it looks like very expensive fabric. Is it your family’s?”

“Yes? ah… that is… . I… that… therefore… .”

“No, you don’t have to say it. I’m sorry for reminding you of unpleasant memories.”

I made a mistake.

From the looks of it, it seemed to be a by-product from the corpses of family members who had been mangled by monsters, but it was a great disrespect to keep burying it.

In addition, wasn’t she the one who suffered from mental illness because of that incident and was a wreck before? I was so indifferent.

However, when she heard those words, she also clearly looked embarrassed. She lowered her head and said, “That’s not it…” It seemed like a voice was heard.

I grinned loudly and started talking about something else.

The reason for the overaction was to divert this uncomfortable atmosphere. As we sat across from each other in the narrow waiting room, my nerves continued to grow even though we didn’t say anything.

When I think about it, it’s outrageous that I, the principal, would be embarrassed in front of a child who had just passed the terms and conditions.

“Kuhm… . So, the mana hole creation process will begin soon. First, I will infuse mana into the altar where your mana hole will be located.”

The top of her head that was facing me looks up at the sky and her eyes turn to me. Her face was flushed, as if she wouldn’t miss a word of what I said.

She continued speaking, trying to ignore the piece of cloth that was wriggling in her hands.

“And immediately, I will entangle you with this rope of mana sealing. This is a task to forcefully fix your Danjeon, but this process will be very painful. But I hope you can endure it.”

“Yes, I will definitely do that. I won’t disappoint you.”

He waved the mana seal rope in his hand and said to her.

In general, the dense mana in the chamber was enough to create the task. All seven people who went before used this process and never used ropes.

However, it is a necessary task for her, whose mana sensitivity is close to zero. My magical energy that enters her will be held in place by the rope while her dantian is inflated.

Just as a rubber ball with little elasticity is forcibly stretched and stretched to a certain extent due to its elasticity, the only way to hope is that the mana filled in the chamber will fill the expanded empty space.

“… .”

Is this a silent protest? I’m really worried about the piece of cloth she keeps kneading.

At first, he was hiding it in his palm, but after it was shown to me, he was openly fidgeting with it.

It’s my fault for bringing up an unpleasant story, but you keep bringing it up like this… .

In addition, his facial expression is so serious without even a trace of laughter that it is scandalous.

Unable to bear the awkwardness, I took something out of my inventory.

She looked puzzled when she saw the object flying through the air and landing in her hand.

“… Brooch?”

“It is an artifact. It has the effect of increasing the wearer’s physical vitality. I hope that serves as an apology for my rudeness.”

For a moment, I looked puzzled and said, “Huh?” When I saw her smiling brightly like a flower in full bloom, I made an expression that said that was the case.

As he was looking at her with his arms crossed and a satisfied expression, he suddenly covered his mouth with his hand and started crying.

“No, what on earth.”

Embarrassed, I hurriedly got up and approached her in the seat across from me.

It was a small space, so I arrived in front of her in just a couple of steps and was looking at her holding back her tears when I heard a stupid sound next to me.

“Ah… It’s a lump on my head. uh? Professor Northmund.”

The guy who just woke up from fainting seems to be having a hard time understanding the current situation and is making stupid noises.

‘shit.’

It’s a difficult situation. It’s a situation that seems like something out of a morning drama, but this far-fetched situation not only doesn’t make my heart flutter, but it’s humiliating to me.

I was thinking about making an excuse, but it felt like I was belittling the level of a world hero, so I just kept my mouth shut and gave Robert an annoyed look.

“No, that… Hehe, sorry!”

Unable to overcome my gaze and not even knowing what he was sorry about, Robert gave an apology that was not an apology and quickly ran away up the stairs.

ha. I feel like a fool.

When I looked at her, the culprit, she was rubbing the corners of her eyes with her fingers, as if she had cried. Maybe I’m out of my mind, but this time, a big smile doesn’t leave my face.

“I’m sorry. I’m so happy… .”

“… .”

He sighed and looked at her, then spoke one word in a weak voice.

“… Go inside the chamber and lie down.”

yes She smiles brightly and enters the mana room. She had a brooch I gave her on the shirt-shaped blouse on her chest.

I couldn’t help but smile bitterly at the refreshing sound full of life, half a thousand years away from her empty voice the previous evening.

Okay, it’s starting now.

I don’t know if it will work or not. Since her mana sensitivity is so low, even if she does such work, it will only hurt her body and may ultimately fail.

Although it wasn’t something I had originally thought about, I thought it was fortunate that I gave her a brooch-type artifact.

okay. Even if it doesn’t work out, what happened here will be a good memory for her. Whenever you miss me, you will be able to look at the brooch and recall this memory.

But if done right,

We may be able to reveal her secrets and the identity of her special abilities.

If you become accustomed to using this ability through the use of mana, it will at least provide an opportunity to properly understand what form it takes.

GDO sees it as a completely useless ability, but I think differently.

I think that because the base mana is so low, the special abilities are not being displayed properly.

To put it simply in Ramirez’s terms, it would be seen as a situation where the mana collected in the guy’s hand simply heated up before it ignited.

And when people see that, it’s just a hot pack level skill! That’s what I understand.

okay. I believe so.

“Then let’s go reveal her secret.”

I saw her lying on the bed provided in the chamber through the glass window on the wall, and I headed towards her.