episode_0594

Feeling like your body is floating.

Imsol is dreaming.

It is a happy dream holding a huge piece of chocolate.

If it’s this size, it won’t be enough to last a lifetime.

In particular, the sweeter scent than other chocolates was very appetizing.

Ah.

Imsol opened his mouth to eat the chocolate.

Slurp-

“…!”

At that time, the chocolate got out of his arms and started running away.

Imsol somehow tried to chase after him.

I couldn’t miss out on chocolate that could last a lifetime.

Wiggle, wiggle.

However, Chocolate, which was strangely good at running away, escaped Yorijori Imsol’s arms.

The speed was so fast that I couldn’t catch it with my hands.

Imsol, who was staring blankly at the chocolate running away, raised his magic power.

I couldn’t miss it like this. Imsol straightened his posture to chant magic.

thud-

“evil….”

And then, I opened my eyes to the shock hitting the back of my head.

He wriggled around on the narrow bed and hit his head on the wall.

“Uh, um….”

Imsol held his head and quietly swallowed the pain.

The memory of the dream that had already faded made her forget why she hit her head.

“Ha, ha. Huh….”

It’s a familiar ceiling.

I slowly looked back on my memories.

Why did he hit his head against the wall and suffer?

“… chocolate.”

The huge chocolate I vaguely remember was a dream.

If you think about it, it doesn’t make sense.

There is no way in the world there is chocolate that big.

“huh?”

Imsol yawned with regret and felt that the seat was strangely narrow.

When I turned my head, I saw Lee Ho-yeon lying down next to me.

He was tossing and turning with his eyes closed.

“I was surprised. He was our student.”

Blink. Blink.

Imsol, who had been blinking, soon opened his eyes wide.

If the teaching assistant saw her now, he would think, ‘The professor could be so embarrassed.’ I was so surprised.

“Huh? Why is my student here?”

Is it still a dream?

But when I hit my head on the wall, it hurt a lot.

At that time, Imsol tried to pinch his cheek again.

“Haa… Ugh. Ugh.”

Hoyeon Lee rolled her eyes and turned as if in pain.

He was sweating coldly and shaking his head back and forth.

“Hoyeon…?”

At that moment, Imsol’s sleeping mind awakened.

It didn’t matter why he was here.

Im Sol placed his hand on Lee Ho-yeon’s shoulder and checked his condition.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a seizure or anything.

‘If you use magic, you will definitely wake up.’

She knows her disciple’s feelings well.

Even if you’re sleeping, there’s no way you won’t notice magical energy entering your body.

Instead of using magic power, Im Sol slowly brushed Lee Ho-yeon’s head.

Am I having a nightmare?

It bothered me to see him moaning in discomfort.

“When our students are having a hard time, the teacher must help them….”

Imsol did not know what was going on in his mind.

I had no idea whether I should wake him or not.

However, if he was in a difficult situation, I wanted to ease his pain.

Im Sol looked at Lee Ho-yeon and smiled.

Somehow I felt a sense of kinship.

The talent of the genius wizard Lim Sol was revealed to the world at a similar age to Lee Ho-yeon.

Imsol, who had an incomparably destructive talent, was called a monster from a young age and received all kinds of envy and jealousy.

If I were Imsol now, I would have put a fireball in the head of those who said such things, but Imsol when I was young wasn’t like that.

Instead, I would hug my pillow every night and cry alone.

What did you do wrong? Why was I born like this?

The decision made by young Lim Sol was to quell complaints and keep his mouth shut with his overwhelming skills.

All she could do was magic.

If I hadn’t met Lee Ho-yeon, I would still be in that trap.

In particular, what President Arthur said is still deeply embedded in Lim Sol’s memory.

‘Your student said so. ‘Don’t use the word ‘monster’ to your teacher anymore.’

Imsol felt his cheeks turning red.

Just thinking about that time still makes my heart pound.

It was to the point where he wanted to pounce on his student even now.

Imsol, who was stroking Lee Ho-yeon’s head, pressed her body against Lee Ho-yeon’s back, who was curled up like a chrysalis.

Rather than stroking his head in an uncomfortable position, I just wanted to hug him.

The sweet scent emanating from him lingered in Imsol’s nose.

It was the scent of the huge chocolate I had seen in my dream.

“What should I do for my student to like it…?”

Imsol only knows magic.

I like Lee Ho-yeon more than magic, but the only thing she is confident in is magic.

There were still many things I didn’t know about Lee Ho-yeon.

‘It’s not enough to study magic all your life, and the same goes for our students.’

There is a lot of time ahead, so just get used to it slowly.

With that feeling, Im Sol hugged Lee Ho-yeon.

I don’t know what was bothering him, but I hoped I could be of some help.

“Hmm, um….”

Did Lee Ho-yeon feel that feeling?

Lee Ho-yeon’s tossing and turning slowed down. My breathing started to become more stable.

Imsol sighed in relief and closed his eyes again.

As the tension eased, I began to feel drowsy again.

I don’t know how long I slept, but there was still fatigue in my body.

It looks like he probably didn’t sleep for long.

Im Sol fell asleep again, intoxicated by Lee Ho-yeon’s sweet scent.

[Sol-ah-. Sol-ah-?]

At that moment, a familiar voice came to Im Sol.

Im Sol, who felt a chill down her spine, walked away from Lee Ho-yeon.

I was so shocked that I pushed Hoyeon Lee away, but fortunately, Hoyeon Lee didn’t wake up.

‘… ‘Ayoung?’

Imsol carefully got up from the bed.

As soon as I heard Baek A-young’s voice, what came to mind was whether there were regular checkups? That was my thought.

However, just because there is a checkup, there is no way Baek A-young will show up in person.

‘I have to get out first.’

I don’t know why Baek Ah-young is here, but I can predict that there will be an uproar if she shows herself lying down with Lee Ho-yeon.

Lim Sol roughly picked up her crumpled clothes and quietly slipped out of the office.

I could see Baek Ayoung walking around the lab as if it were her own home.

“Ayoung. I’m here.”

“Huh? Sol! I checked the office too, but why couldn’t I find it?”

Baek Ah-young smiled happily as she looked at Im Sol, who was standing awkwardly.

I thought he might have collapsed somewhere like last time, but he seemed fine.

“Sorry. I had something to organize in the storage room inside the office.”

“You want to clean it up? Should I help you?”

“… No. Don’t worry, I’ve done everything. What’s going on? I’ll give you coffee, so we can sit down and talk.”

Lim Sol cleared his throat and made Baek Ayoung sit on the office sofa.

After sitting across from him, he moved the kettle with magic and opened his mouth.

“What brings you here all of a sudden?”

“The Hunter Association requested a meeting, but Sol, you didn’t come. I wanted to at least deliver the results of the meeting.”

“… A summons request? There was such a thing?”

“I guess you didn’t know because you weren’t looking at your smart watch.”

“ah….”

For Im Sol, the smart watch is just a machine that receives calls from Ho-yeon Lee.

Occasionally, I see contacts from Baek A-young or Min Ye-ji, and occasionally I check the teaching policies handed down from the academy.

In other words, the association’s contact has nothing to do with Lim Sol.

“I knew that would be the case, so I came to see you.”

Baek Ah-young, seeing Lim Sol with a blank expression, took out the documents she had prepared.

It was a warning about the gates of hell distributed by the Hunter Association and how to deal with monsters.

“There was something like this. Did you really come here to tell me this? Thank you, Ayoung.”

“Besides that, I was also worried that they might be continuing to train at the training site. I heard the training site has been in operation for 20 hours.”

“That’s not all I did. I taught some cadets Lucy and Rumi.”

“Really? That’s amazing. Other than Hoenn, I’ve never taught magic in private time.”

Baek Ayoung was truly impressed.

Imsol, who only knew magic, now works as a professor.

I wonder how happy the Academy’s chairman will be when he hears this.

“… I feel like that sometimes too.”

The name Hoyeon bothers me.

Right now, Hoyeon Lee is sleeping inside the office.

Imsol managed his expression and looked at the documents.

Gates of Hell.

It is said to be one of the recent phenomena.

Imsol also knew of its existence, but did not pay much attention to it.

Because she doesn’t believe in anything she hasn’t experienced herself.

However, I saw a familiar name in the documents.

“Is Hoyeon’s name here?”

“This is information provided by the Iris Guild, and the source of that information is Yeop… no, they say Hoenn. Haha, fascinating….”

“… I see?”

Imsol frowned.

Is this why my student is worried?

Is there anything I can help you with?

Many random thoughts came to Lim Sol’s mind.

“Sol, you look worried. Are you worried?”

“…No, I was worried because they said it was an emergency.”

“There’s no need to worry too much. The Iris Guild claims that a global emergency should be declared… but it’s likely to be unfounded. Experts are still skeptical.”

“I hope so.”

Im Sol read the document with a faint smile.

*

“Hmm….”

Imsol stretched out on the sofa and waved her hands.

Clatter-clatter-clatter-

At the same time, the kettle and teacup that had finished their work returned to their original places on their own.

“The guy who said he was busy talked for an hour.”

Baek Ah-young was chatting excitedly and then went home, surprised at how much time had passed.

Hoyeon Lee was sleeping inside the office, so I was nervous the whole time we were talking.

Fortunately, I wasn’t caught.

Imsol yawned and got up from the sofa. And then I slightly opened the back door of the quiet office.

Hoyeon Lee was sleeping in bed just as she had been an hour ago.

There was quite a bit of chatter outside, but since he didn’t wake up, he must have been deeply asleep.

Im Sol sighed in relief and approached Lee Ho-yeon.

“…I guess I’ve become a bitch.”

Im Sol had been chatting with Baek A-young with a nonchalant expression until just now.

Baek Ah-young must have wanted to see Lee Ho-yeon, but Im Sol took it all to herself.

Lim Sol felt guilty because he knew her feelings well.

guilty. sorry. Affection. love. Pathetic.

These were feelings that were far from those of Imsol until now.

Thanks to our student, I experienced a variety of emotions and it felt really strange.

Im Sol lay down next to Lee Ho Yeon.

‘But what can I do with something that’s good?’

Even if you call me selfish, I can’t help it.

Any feelings of guilt or regret disappeared like melting snow as soon as I touched Lee Ho-yeon’s warmth.

Surrendering to the sweet scent, Imsol closed her eyes.