I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 42. Misunderstanding and Misconception (2)

*Thump-thump.*

“….”

Elsie, walking along the forest path, suddenly turned around.

“No one’s… there, right?”

The forest, eerily desolate today, made the refreshing weather from just moments ago feel like a lie.

In the end, Elsie had won the argument with Han Doyun.

She had confidently entered the forest like that, but…

“The atmosphere is different than usual…”

Was it because she had let useless rumors fuel unnecessary imagination? Even though it was a path she always took, it didn’t feel the same as usual.

“It feels like someone’s watching me.”

Elsie, who had stopped walking, looked around with a bit of tension.

In truth, Elsie’s intuition was quite accurate.

Far away, in the bushes, a pair of bright brown eyes were watching her.

“Elsie, she really chickened out…”

Elsie had stubbornly insisted on going alone. Unable to stop her, Doyun was secretly following behind.

He knew it was a rather underhanded thing to do, but he was worried, so what other choice did he have?

This was the best he could do.

Elsie, not currently using energy manipulation, would be weaker than an average person, yet her senses were unusually sharp.

Thanks to that, Doyun, observing her from a considerable distance and relying on an obstructed view, narrowed his eyes.

“So that’s what a woman’s intuition is like… It’s like a wild animal…”

Elsie, trying to ignore the faintly felt strange gaze, swallowed hard.

“Why am I getting scared all alone… It’s irritating. Should I just use my powers?”

She muttered as if she would, but Elsie hesitated, remembering the school nurse’s warning.

‘The balance of your body will be permanently damaged…’

She squeezed her eyes shut. After hearing such a warning, she couldn’t do something foolish when nothing had even happened.

After much deliberation, Elsie opened her inventory space as a precaution for a possible situation, for a simple show of force.

The inventory function, which came along by chance from the Aesir Saga, was a completely independent ability that didn’t use energy, uselessly.

“Staff of Nullification, Gambanteinn.”

The same went for items that were merely objects.

Elsie looked at the magic staff made of ash wood with some satisfaction and headed back towards home.

*Thump-thump.*

The appearance of the house gradually began to reveal itself. The dark green roof welcomed Elsie.

“What, nothing’s wrong after all? Damn it, I got scared for nothing because of unnecessarily exaggerated nonsense…”

It was all because Thrud had been filling her head with nonsense from the side.

Thinking that, Elsie’s pace quickened, relieved that she could see her house.

Suddenly—!

However, Elsie had no choice but to stop. Even her breathing stopped at the unbelievable sight.

“What… is…?”

The silhouette of some bird visible in front of the house in the distance.

The image of a giant chicken quickly flashed through her mind.

It was a bird that was a little, no, excessively large, to the point where it was clearly distinguishable even from a distance. She didn’t know if it was a chicken, though.

That bird was breathing fire from its mouth.

“Eh…”

**Whoosh!**

“Vedrfolnir, you bastard! I told you not to eat the firewood I’ve stacked! It’s not like the branches of the World Tree you always pecked at! Damn it, you’re omnivorous…”

A strange man stood up and began pointing at the giant bird.

The man visible in the distance had dazzling silver hair…

“H-He’s taken his shirt off-”

He had taken his shirt off, revealing his cool upper body.

The muscles bulging on his bare upper body were very threatening. In many ways.

Faced with the unbelievable sight unfolding in front of her house, she couldn’t help but recall it.

The warning about the suspicious man that Reginleif had conveyed. The content that had spread by word of mouth and been exaggerated into absurdity.

Thrud’s appearance, fussing over the nonsense that was sure to have been distorted like that.

All of it flashed through her mind like a dying man’s memories.

A silver-haired pervert with a fire-breathing chicken(not) steals the panties of female students.

“…It was real?”

People feel anxiety and fear towards the unknown, whose identity they cannot grasp.

Elsie instinctively took a step back.

‘I definitely thought it was exaggerated nonsense.’

In any case, it seemed clear that this being was a weirdo who had been kicked out of the academy and was being chased by the guards.

Elsie gripped the Gambanteinn tightly in her hand.

*Rustle—*

“Hee?!”

Suddenly, a large hawk jumped out of the bushes.

Elsie, whose wariness was at its peak, stumbled and fell as she retreated several steps.

[You are… Dane’s sister? I was right. Good, Dane will-]

*Thump!*

Without hesitation or deliberation, Elsie turned around and ran back the way she had come.

A suspicious man, something like a fire-breathing chicken. And a talking hawk that wasn’t in the rumors.

She could confidently say that it wasn’t a safe situation.

‘No, it’s dangerous!’

Instinctively, she reached out one hand to cover her butt and ran.

And Vedrfolnir, who had discovered Elsie, was the memory itself of the nameless eagle.

Immediately, the nameless eagle stopped teasing Dane and turned its head in the direction where it had found Elsie.

On the one-way path leading to the house, Vedrfolnir flew up, and the nameless eagle, its information turned into certainty, sent a thought to Dane, who was pointing.

“…Elsie?! Elsie… ran away again? Why?!”

*

Doyun was relieved to see Elsie safely disappear in the direction of the house.

However, he tilted his head, witnessing Elsie running out of the forest at an incredible speed not long after.

“Elsie? Why?”

Elsie was running with all her might.

She was getting so far away that it was difficult for him, who was returning through the bushes where there were no paths, to properly identify her.

Elsie was running with a familiar staff in one hand and her skirt in the other.

Feeling an ominous premonition, Doyun quickly began to chase after her.

*

“Huff- Heah- Haah-”

Gasping for breath, Elsie ran madly out of the forest and reached the roadside entering the residential area.

Her body, not using energy manipulation, made her feel her below-average stamina.

“Just… huff… running this much, damn it…”

Her body trembled, surprised by the sudden physical labor.

It was absurdly weak. Wouldn’t she be pushed around by even a neighborhood kid like this?

“I, I can’t help it now… If it’s just a very brief use of power… it’ll be okay.”

She had to inform the guards or someone about the existence of the weirdo as soon as possible.

Elsie, who had become desperate, tried to manipulate the energy she had consciously suppressed.

The internal energy accumulated in her body, which had been stagnant, began to flow—

**Throb!**

“…?!”

_Wooo—_

Elsie felt a sharp pain in her head and began to hear a ringing in her ears that tore at her eardrums.

Overwhelmed by the shock, she covered one eye with her hand and drooled due to the unbearable pain.

This was a warning.

A warning from her body, which had not recovered.

If she ignored this and tried to draw out her power, she would really suffer permanent damage as warned.

“Damn it.”

Thump- Thump-

A heavy sound seemed to be getting closer from far away in the forest.

Elsie, desperate because of her body at its limit, turned her head this way and that.

Even though there was a road leading into the residential area, it was sparsely populated as the forest on the outskirts of the city was nearby.

There were no patrolling guards, and the only reliable person nearby was…

“Han, Han Doyun!”

Elsie’s eyes widened. Doyun’s house was visible at the end of the road entering the residential area in the distance.

Clutching her chest, which felt like it was about to burst, she staggered towards Doyun’s house.

Around that time, she heard footsteps quickly following behind her, and Elsie was startled and ran even faster.

‘Crazy! Is he chasing me?!’

There was no time to look back.

The pressure of being chased by an unknown perverted weirdo made Elsie, who couldn’t use her powers, anxious.

*Thump!*

Her heart was racing like crazy. Her vision was spinning. Just as she was struggling to exhale the rising breath and inhale air, she reached the front door of Doyun’s house.

‘This weak body! I’m going to build up my stamina even if it’s just to get even!’

Thinking that, Elsie squeezed out the last of her strength and knocked on the door.

*Knock knock knock!*

“…Doyun! Ha, Han Doyun-! It’s me, open the door!”

However, there was no sign of anyone inside.

The moment hope turned into despair, the sound of footsteps that had quickly approached stopped behind Elsie.

*Grip!*

Elsie clutched the Gambanteinn.

If the perverted weirdo from the crazy rumors was going to do something like that in the middle of a residential area, she was going to struggle.

‘I’m so tired…’

*Thud!*

Suddenly, a large hand grabbed Elsie’s shoulder.

“Hiek-!”

Elsie, startled, fell as she turned around haphazardly to swing the Gambanteinn.

“Elsie!”

“You can’t have my panties, you demon!”

“Elsie!!”

“…Huh?”

Elsie, who had squeezed her eyes shut, slightly opened them and saw bright brown eyes with black hair in front of her.

It was Han Doyun, wearing a puzzled expression.

“Why are you outside?”

“Uh… that’s…”

Doyun scratched his head, unable to say that he had been following her.

“Ah, no, this isn’t the time to be outside! Han Doyun! Let’s go inside first!”

“Huh? Huh? Inside? To, to my house?”

“Quickly!”

Elsie kept looking past Doyun with an uneasy expression.

“The weirdo from the rumors appeared at my house! It was real!”

“Ehhh?!”

That absurdly exaggerated rumor was real?

Seeing Elsie’s desperate appearance, Doyun brought her into the house for now.

With that, the door closed, and Elsie and Doyun disappeared.

*

*Thump!*

Dane, who had come out of the forest, clicked his tongue because he didn’t feel any human presence.

“No way! Really?! Elsie saw you and ran away?”

Vedrfolnir nodded.

[She seemed very surprised. She fell while being terrified and ran away.]

“You should have calmed her down a bit!”

Dane shouted, messing up his hair.

It was clear that the kind and tender-hearted Elsie had been surprised to see Vedrfolnir. Or she had seen the large eagle.

[Where would I have found the time to do that? It’s not like she and I have met before.]

Was it so surprising to see a talking bird and a slightly large eagle breathing fire and eating firewood? He had even reduced their size as much as possible.

Vedrfolnir and the nameless eagle protested a little unfairly.

“If I had known this would happen, I would have introduced you to Elsie when I had the chance!”

[Anyway, what are you going to do? It seems certain that it’s your sister’s house, but she ran away.]

The eagle nodded as if agreeing with Vedrfolnir’s words.

“I have to find her! She couldn’t have gone far! Elsie-!!”

Dane’s empty shout echoed through the quiet street.