episode_0043

Elada’s gym.

It is a place that is unimaginably spacious compared to a typical school auditorium or indoor gymnasium, and although there are over 100 people inside, it seems like only a small portion of it.

And a strange sound is heard from somewhere in the gym.

“Ugh… Ugh.”

With hard eyes, I looked in the direction from which the sound was coming.

There, there was a woman with long hair that looked somewhat foolish.

In her hand, she was holding a sword with a sharply forged edge made of steel, and her bangs were sticking to the sweat that had formed on her forehead, as if she was immersed in it, giving her a comical look.

I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but she was holding a sword in her hand and making an unknown sound, and combined with her large breasts that did not lose their presence even when covered in gym clothes, she looked a little strange.

A weak but steady wave of magical power continued to flow from her. A wave so weak that no one but me can feel it.

And when my body touches the flowing waves,

Slowly she opens her eyes and looks at me. The students around me, who were watching the scene from the corner of their eyes, can be seen taking a small, sharp intake of breath.

“Concentrate properly. Just because it emits strange sounds does not mean that mana is injected into the weapon. Proceed with the feeling that the mana rod connected to the palm is directly transferred to the weapon.”

“Yes! Okay, Professor!”

I narrowed my eyes and spoke bluntly to her, and she smiled at me.

A sharp nose is visible above smiling lips. She has skin as white as a ghost. Above that, her unique eyes were looking at me.

Long, vertically slit pupils, like those of a reptile.

Looking at those non-human, alien eyes, I recalled an incident from a few weeks ago.

The day she made her first danjeon.

“… You.”

“Yes? radish… Anything happens.”

I was so startled that I walked up to her and lightly cupped her cheeks with both hands. She seemed momentarily surprised by my sudden action, but soon her face turned red and her gaze wavered.

But I wasn’t interested in her actions. Everything I had was focused on this incident.

“What happened to your eyes? Can you see properly? Is there anything in the world that seems different? Do you feel a strange sense that you are different from before?”

“Yes? ah… that… That’s it.”

Her portrait eyes tremble again as I hear my questions pouring out like rapid fire. His gaze wanders in all directions, as if he doesn’t know where to focus his gaze.

Seeing the size of the vertically torn pupil growing and shrinking, it seemed that its function was no different from before.

“Yes… Your vision is as good as before. I don’t think I see anything different… hmm… Looking different means… I can now see mana. Right now, this room is shining beautifully in blue… Umm… and… ”

“… Just follow me.”

As she tried to answer each and every question, I covered her mouth and left the mana room.

‘It was like that.’

As I was lost in reminiscing for a moment, I saw her looking at me with a happy face. Seeing that, the people around him become more agitated.

I knew that there had been bullying towards her before, even though she had no talent. And after that day, the bullying disappeared.

I’m not sure if it’s a good thing, but I think people are intentionally ignoring her and avoiding her.

The reason is not because of her talent.

Those are her eyes. It’s because of those eyes that people around her are now uncomfortable.

There is an old saying that if your body were worth a hundred nyang, your eyes would be worth 90 nyang. That’s why a person’s eyes are such an important organ, and they serve as a good standard for evaluating a person’s impression even when meeting for the first time.

Therefore, Yun Shia has a human appearance, but her eyes are so foreign that they make viewers feel an uncanny valley.

“What are you doing? Now is the time to train for mana weaponization. Please continue.”

“Ah… yes Sorry!”

Since it was a public event, instead of the faint smile he showed her, he instead shot her in a blunt tone.

With a smile still on my face, I nod, raise the sword in my hand again, and begin to resume my previous work.

A unique wave still emanated from her.

‘Always-on activation type ability.’

No, it may not be right to call it a always-on type. Rather, it should be viewed as a permanent mutation type supernatural ability.

Continuously active supernatural abilities are extremely rare. In addition, the permanent mutation type was even rarer, so even in the original setting, you could count it on one hand.

‘In the original novel, there was someone who said he was a ronin (狼人).’

The person with superpowers who turned into a wolf has already died at the time of this work and is only mentioned in records. I don’t know if there are other people with permanent mutation abilities at the time of the story.

The progress of the story was focused only on the main character and heroine rather than the background setting.

My memory flashed back to a few weeks ago.

“It’s mutating. It’s definitely mutating from humans to something else.”

“What kind of transformation is this?”

I took her to Elada’s infirmary and had her examined, and a staff member wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and a white coat revealed the results with a very interesting expression.

He was a guy whose glasses kept falling off to the point where it was annoying, so he had to keep adjusting them.

“Nosmund’s guess was correct. What was previously known as immobile erythrocytosis was because Yun Shia’s total magical power was insufficient and the mutation did not proceed properly. First of all, blood cells have different forms in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, etc. For example, birds have a central core that humans do not have. In the case of mammals, there is no central nucleus and the center is hollow. This is an evolved form to better transport oxygen, and the size of the blood cells is also designed to better transport oxygen by containing more hemoglobin, but in humans, the diameter of the blood cells is Approximately 8μ indented, the center is 1μ and the edges are 2μ─”

“Stop! stop! Just get to the point!”

As the guy’s rapid-fire rap-like words poured out, his glasses had already slipped down three times, so he desperately tried to restrain himself from raising his hand and shouted.

“Ahaha… sorry. I have a bad habit of not being able to see anything else when I’m immersed in it.”

His mouth said he was sorry, but his expression was sullen and dissatisfied, like a child who was so excited about the holidays that he smashed his uncle’s figure collection and was caught by the person in question.

I sighed a little at that sight.

“So, Yoon Shi-ah is turning into a reptile. The blood cell shape is similar to that of a reptile. The same goes for the heart. Unlike humans, reptiles have two atria and two incomplete ventricles, so oxygenated blood and non-oxygenated blood mix, which is why when Yoon Si-yang used this ability in the past, oxygen deficiency occurred.”

It must have been a pity for him, but I didn’t hear the story behind it. So the point was that she was turning into a reptile.

I woke up from the flashback and returned to the present, narrowing my eyes and looking at her.

Permanent mutation type ability. The guy with glasses said it was a reptile, but I could roughly guess who that reptile was.

Probably me. He was a guy who had always admired me. Wouldn’t it be like a chameleon out of nowhere?

In a way, it was ironic. Even though I have the body of a reptile, I have assimilated into human society and have the appearance of a human, but she, who is a human, rather wants to have the appearance of a reptile.

‘If you think about it… .’

It changed like this just by creating Danjeon. Then, if her magical power gradually increases… Could it be that he will completely transform into a dragon like me?

… Isn’t that a bit like that?

Because it was difficult to imagine her being tolerated, I first imagined the feminization of my body.

Two gorgeous horns, scales covering her entire body, a protruding snout, a long tail, and her unique large breasts—

“… Oh, this isn’t a good idea.”

“Che.”

Almost at the same time, I opened my mouth with someone. Someone next to her looked at her, frowned, and cleared their throat. At the same time, I also frowned.

“Oh, sin… Sorry… ”

He was shocked and tried to apologize to me, but I waved my hand to stop him, and when he saw that, he nodded as if he understood. But he was still looking at her from the corner of his eye, making an unpleasant expression.

To that guy who, even though I forgave him once, doesn’t dare to know the extent and still holds back.

“You idiot. Take care of yourself.”

“Yes? Argh!”

A few loud thuds were heard, followed by a scream and the sound of someone falling.

I kicked his shins several times. He couldn’t stand the repeated hits on the joint and fell to the floor, hugging the throbbing part and moaning.

But at the same time, he looked like he couldn’t understand why he was being criticized by me.

“You are no better than the guy you ignored. Your mana is just flowing out of your palms. At least she succeeded in applying mana to the area around the handle, but what are you, you stupid bastard?”

“Ah… Ugh… sorry… I will work harder.”

“If you understand, get up quickly and continue training. I will especially keep an eye on you.”

I frowned strongly and spoke to him. Now this guy seems to have forgotten who is criticizing him.

And has he foolishly forgotten what kind of situation humanity is in right now?

This curriculum may seem harsh at first glance, but it will quickly get them back on track to dealing with monsters.

In other words, the priority is to develop your own skills quickly rather than worrying about others, but you can’t even figure it out.

Besides, they will be comrades who will have each other’s backs on the battlefield. But how dare they do such a thing to her?

“Tsk. Pathetic.”

He bows his head at those words. After watching that for a while, I started to move quickly. I could feel the students getting more nervous every time I walked past them in the division I had just woken up in.

As I corrected the posture of one of them, a question came to mind.

‘Now that I think about it, why am I so angry?’

It’s not like me. As an educator, his actions just now were definitely something to point out, but it wasn’t enough to make me angry.

Basically, as someone who constantly stands on the battlefield, I intentionally excluded all interfering factors that could cause unpleasant emotions and excessive stress.

Otherwise, my spirit wouldn’t have been able to endure on the battlefield where people around me kept dying.

But why am I angry about something so trivial now?

I frowned and sighed heavily at the feeling that I couldn’t even understand.

*

“Haaa!”

Gideon swung his huge greatsword with great force, and one of the slashers was cut in two and fell down.

Todd, who tried to bite Gideon’s leg next to the dying and screaming slasher, also got his head pierced by the great sword thrown out.

It was admirable to see him move the great sword, which had been slashed horizontally, right up to the side and dispose of the monster in an instant. It was also great to spot Todd approaching from a blind spot.

Meanwhile, white light was clearly flowing from his great sword.

The white sword energy flowing through the great sword seemed to have completely succeeded in converting it into a mana weapon.

─Geuuu!

About 5 meters away, the Growler was preparing to make a noise. A monster that attacks mentally, and does dirty things to those who listen to it, extinguishing their will to resist and causing them to fall into fear and despair.

─Quaang!

There is a loud explosion that you can’t believe was caused by a stamped foot, and the Growler is pierced by his sword.

The Growler, who was about to let out a scream mixed with mana, flinched in confusion as if he could not understand his condition, but when he raised his greatsword upward, he fell to pieces.

When monsters die, they leave behind magic stones. They are not proper living beings, but beings closer to mechanical devices powered by magic stones. The only difference is that it is made of fabric.

However, the monsters that Gideon swept away did not leave behind any magic stones. That means─

“Excellent Gray.”

When I snap my fingers, the scene where there were pieces and blood stains is completely cleaned up. To be precise, it would be more correct to say that it disappeared as is.

It was just a battle with monsters implemented using fantasy magic.

“He has very good fighting sense. Additionally, it is especially commendable that the ability can be used whenever necessary rather than constantly activating it. And the insight into the battlefield is also good.”

“Thank you. This is all thanks to what the professor taught me.”

That’s not an empty word, it was really great. It was good to be able to identify blind spots well, and it was also good to save magic power by using it whenever necessary rather than always activating it during battle.

It is one of the bad habits of those with the ability to strengthen their bodies. Just as they do not know that their clothes will get wet in a light rain, they often use their ability throughout the battle and end up in trouble due to a lack of magical energy at critical moments.

At first glance, body strengthening may seem to require less magical energy, but it actually consumes a lot of mana. If you use a mana weapon on top of that, you’ll run out of mana quickly.

“And Ramirez.”

I looked at Jimmy next to him and saw that he had his arms crossed and was whistling as he looked at Gideon.

He had eliminated all of the monsters less than 30 seconds after it started and was leisurely watching Gideon’s battle.

Speech ability. In particular, with his specialty, flamethrower, he instantly roasted monsters.

“… Like Ramirez.”

“Hahaha thank you, professor.”

Ramirez’s ability itself was almost complete in terms of combat, so there wasn’t much to say. It’s just something you were born with from the beginning.

A guy of this caliber would definitely become a big name in the future, but the fact that he is not mentioned at all in the original work means that he died in the middle of it.

As I rested my chin on that thought for a moment, I saw them talking to each other.

“You’re having a hard time with such trash abilities, Gray. Ah, tears are blocking my path.”

“Childish bastard. Could he be insane? Well, unless you have a strange mind and always have strange imaginations, there is no way you would awaken such an ability. Did you want to set the house on fire?”

“What dude? Do you ignore people with special abilities? You son of a bitch!”

“You really are ignoring us.”

At those words, the students in the gym rose to their feet and sparks flew into their eyes.

These guys ended up hurting the pride of the body-enhanced people and special people who made up the majority of the awakened people.

“Most people with special abilities have a story behind them. Was he abused, was he living a lonely life, was he not loved by his parents and lacked affection, or was he a mental patient like you?”

“You little bastard!”

“Both of you, shut up!”

After watching their feud for a while, I saw that they were touching each other’s weaknesses and hurriedly lashed out.

It was something that should not be touched. Unfortunately, what Gideon said was true.

Of course, not everyone is like that, and there may be cases where they are awakened by a sudden thought, but most people with special type abilities are people who were very unhappy in the past.

When I went on a field trip to Elada, I was looking through the documents containing the new students’ information and read all about their growth process and special features.

In most cases, people awaken the ability to block others after being abused by beatings and violence, or they awaken the mental ability to convey their own feelings in the hope of understanding other people’s feelings after being neglected and ostracized, so I hastily shut their mouths. It was blocked.

Actually, if you think about it, Han Si-woo, the main character of the original work, was probably in a similar situation. The very ability to give a buff to someone with a kiss was a symbol of his lack of affection.

What on earth happened to Yun Shia in that world? .

“Both Gray and Ramirez, get out of here right now. Instructor! Bring these guys out and make them die until this evening!”

“… Yes, sorry, Professor.”

“Sorry… .”

They apologized for what I said, but they were still looking at each other and wheezing slightly.

As Red Riding Hood dragged them out of the gym, I called out to the next person.

“… Until next time.”

However, even after they were gone, I felt the low anger sparked by the incident still linger inside the gym, and I sighed softly again.