Are you crossing the line? (2)

-Whew~

“Hehehe!”

-Whew~

“Woohihi!”

-Shoot~

“Hehehe!”

“… … “

It’s been two days since the princess transferred to the black magic department.

She was giggling, the corners of her mouth raised, like a villainess in a novel who is thrilled to be tormenting someone.

Of course, she wasn’t harassing anyone right now, she was just harassing people by continuously waving the magic she had cast in the sky.

I thought she had a bit of a foolish charm even before, but now that she’s acting like that, she’s really the typical neighborhood girl.

“Wooheeheehee…! Keluk!”

“Then you will use up all your magic. Stop and rest for a bit. Here is some water.”

“Oh my, what a commoner with sense!”

The neighborhood girl, who had been giggling and coughing until just a moment ago, returned with a smile like a blooming flower as she accepted the water jug I gave her.

Wow, your expressions are really rich.

“Gulp! Gulp! Kya~”

“Is it that fun?”

“Net! This is really fun! The girl did a good job learning black magic!”

When the princess, who had drunk water as refreshingly as if she were in a commercial, returned the water jug, I nodded and told her to clean up and take a short break before sitting in the shade nearby.

It’s a really hot summer now.

“Thank goodness. I was a little worried that you might not come out because you were upset yesterday and said you didn’t do well, and that you didn’t like black magic.”

“Wow! I’m not the kind of girl who gives up because she’s not good at something! Rather, I’m the kind of girl who enjoys breaking down and overcoming obstacles!”

“Oh… I feel like it’s really true, so it’s a little scary.”

“Huh? What are you scared of?”

“Are you going to set everything on fire and destroy it like a tool room?”

“Eww!!”

At my teasing remark, she raised her eyebrows, puffed out her cheeks, and started punching me in the arm.

“Disrespectful! Disrespectful! Disrespectful!”

-Thud thud thud!

Haha. He’s really cute, but he really hurts.

As I was laughing and chatting while enjoying a fun class with the princess, I began to feel her gaze and voice again today.

-Hey, what’s that? She’s with that guy again.

-Tsk. Don’t look at it too often, you’ll get caught.

-How is that? You couldn’t even use the Sword of Darkness yesterday. If you’re like that, weren’t you originally learning black magic?

-Of course. He’s known for having no talent, but there’s a really high chance that he deliberately studied for a year to manipulate public opinion by pretending to be talented in black magic, and then came here and is acting like that.

-Oh my, you rascal. Don’t you even know that your opponent has a criminal record?

-Hey, even if he knows, he’ll still get upset if you just show him the other person’s face… Kid.

-… Well, aside from the black hair and eyes, their appearances are pretty similar.

I feel bad for her because she sticks with me and gets cursed at for no reason. And I want to shut up those bastards who talk nonsense without evidence.

I want to ask, rubbing my chin, what is the purpose of me, who approaches us uselessly while pretending to speak quietly so that we can’t hear.

Those guys who don’t know her position or her will and talk nonsense without ever trying to find out why she lived that way, but raise their voices as if to tell her to listen, are disgusting.

Of course, since she lived a good life hiding it, I understand why the royal family and the emperor misunderstand because they didn’t reveal it, but I can’t help but be angry.

It’s true that she’s using magic a little more easily with the help of the reincarnation cheat called Nara, but that doesn’t mean she deserves to be cursed at like that.

-Pok.

“… Princess?”

“Commoner! The girl doesn’t care! So, show your expression and release your fist, I’ll hit you!”

“Ah… “

The princess noticed before me that I had been clenching my fist without realizing it, and she smiled brightly as she placed her hand over mine to suppress it. I was surprised and relaxed my fist.

“I’m sorry.”

“No, the girl remembered all their faces, so she could just tear out their hair and turn them into alopecia areata patients later.”

“Huh?”

“Hehehe!”

It really breaks my heart to see her stop me with her smile and words that I can’t tell if she’s serious or joking.

If this isn’t an arrhythmia.

‘I’m going crazy. I think I’m really completely in love with the princess…’

A feeling of affection for the opposite sex that you feel for the first time and are becoming certain of.

It’s possible that I really do feel love for the princess, not like.

Even though I’m probably suppressing those emotions through self-hypnosis, I can’t help but feel my heart beating faster whenever I see the princess.

Well, there’s still a chance that it really is an arrhythmia, so should I get it tested later?

“Hot. But there’s no need for the princess to come out.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Oh, that’s… “

As I looked at the guys who were badmouthing me while thinking properly about the feelings I had for her, I realized that there was someone who had taken action before me or her.

“What the hell is that? Did they come here to take a class… “

“I don’t know if you came here to muddy the waters of the class?”

“Really! I don’t know why those kids go to the academy… Huh? Me? “

“”… … “”

Who is teaching the class now?

Without going far, the teacher who followed me all the way to a foreign country after causing an accident and being exiled, and the teacher who took on the role of education…

“You haven’t been able to do any additional operations since yesterday, and you still have time to crack pumpkin seeds and chatter? My sister… Do you find what Topju is saying funny?”

“Oh, no. We were just taking a break… “

“What the hell, rest? Rest is like training until you lose all your energy like a sledgehammer and then taking a short break in the shade. Rest is not like sipping coffee from the beginning of class to the end like a sledgehammer and watching others. Don’t you get it? “

“We, we trained properly too…!!”

“Ma, you trained? Except for a few of you here, all of you are getting the hang of using additional magic. Did you really do it? Then you must be confident? Yesterday? “

“That, that’s… !”

Additional magic operations.

Training to move magic by linking magical power to magic that has already been activated may seem incredibly difficult, but it is not that difficult of a technique for low-level magic.

The higher the level of magic, the higher the difficulty of the magic that needs to be imaged, and the magical power that needs to be linked increases exponentially, so from that point on, it is an area that really requires talent, but this training is such that even someone like Chunsik who has maxed out his special ability at level 2 can sufficiently do level 1 magic with just one or two days of practice.

Those who have been unable to do this training until now, honestly, have no right to criticize the princess who became good after receiving cheats.

When I expressed my gratitude to my older brother Chun-sik, who cleaned up the kids who were shelling pumpkin seeds instead of me and the princess, with just a look and the corner of my mouth, my older brother glanced over and started talking to them again.

“I think more than 80% of the students who have already taken the class have figured out the additional operation, so we will start the evaluation from today. This is something that has already been approved by the instructor, Piana Stone Topju. Those who pass today will get an A+ for the first practical subject, and those who pass tomorrow will get an A. It is convenient to think that the grade will drop for every day you are late. Do you understand?”

“At…?”

“Okay, wait a minute! You said you’d give me a week… !!”

“Who said that I only do this kind of crappy training all week? Even I, who has been stuck at level 2 for years and can’t grow, can do it in a day or two, so what?! “

While wearing the red ranger uniform, the older brother, who spoke in a thug-like tone that made it seem like he had returned to being the old Chunshik from the back alleys, and shouted at the guys who were cracking pumpkin seeds and cracking nuts, started to tell the other students in a loud voice that from now on, those who were confident should come out and take the test.

And thanks to that, the guys who didn’t focus on training and just talked behind our backs turned pale.

It looks really good.

“Oh, girl, I don’t think you can get 10 right yet… “

“It’s okay. You’re just out of magic right now, so recover and train a little more before you take the test. I’ll watch over you until you pass.”

“Phew… But if we do that, the grades of the commoners might drop.”

“I think the princess will pass today.”

“… Even if she is overrated, the girl is just embarrassed.”

“Haha! Where did the usually confident, noble, and dignified princess go?”

“The princess didn’t go to school today!”

“I see. Then, I guess I’ll have to raise the princess who is so insecure and hunched over in front of me.”

“Ugh…! Either way, I’m saying I’ll wait!”

“In the first place, hyung… didn’t the assistant teacher tell you to teach me?”

“That’s true, but… “

I patted her shoulder once, worried that she might hurt me, and shook my head telling her not to worry, then held out my hand like yesterday.

“Please feel my magic power like yesterday while I recover my magic power. It will definitely help you pass the test.”

“… I don’t remember what happened yesterday.”

“I remember.”

“I told you not to remember!!”

“Phew!”

When I saw her panicking as if yesterday’s slip of the tongue had become a trauma, I burst out laughing. Then, as if embarrassed, she started hitting my arm again, but a little weaker than before.

He really is a cute person.

“Okay, let’s get our magic up quickly. If we don’t get through this training quickly, the next training will be a bit more difficult and will definitely take a long time.”

“… Okay.”

She blushes as if embarrassed to hold my hand because of what happened yesterday, but she slowly places her delicate hand on mine. I circulate it a little faster than yesterday and with a little more magic power.

It’s a bit strange that the princess is growing faster than when I first met Nora and helped her get stronger quickly, but I think it’s possible that it’s due to a god-given ability that doesn’t appear in her traits.

The ability to take away other people’s traits.

Of course, the conditions are quite difficult, but perhaps from the perspective of learning the power of others, feeling my cheat ability of magical power control may feel a little familiar to her.

If you continue to control your magical power while thinking about her in various ways like that.

“I can’t admit it! I’m a black magic researcher!”

“”?””

It wasn’t the kids who were getting yelled at by Chunshik, but another student who was raising an objection.

That guy was definitely Watt, a level 3 trait guy, right?

“So what, I’m also a researcher of the Black Tower.”

“You’re older than me and have a lot of experience working there, so you’re probably familiar with other techniques, but I’m still learning at the academy! And in the practical exam, if I can’t do advanced operational techniques that can only be used in battles like this, you’ll fail my grade. If you evaluate me like that and I don’t graduate, are you going to take responsibility for it?!”

“Wow, this kid is driving me crazy… “

Most students are eager to delve into the new realm of magic they have seen and learned yesterday and today, but not all of them feel drawn to it.

The proof of this is that just a little while ago there were guys who were talking behind our backs and criticizing us.

But people who rush in with a little logic like that are harder to deal with.

Moreover, Chunshik is a magician at the magic tower, and his senior-junior relationship was established as one where it was natural to criticize each other.

The students’ backlash is bound to be absurd and ridiculous.

Moreover, that reaction is even more absurd because I know very well that the operational magic I am learning now is more helpful for research than combat.

“Ma, are you in my lab?”

“Yes. I belong to the Black Horse Lab.”

“2nd grade now?”

“Yes.”

“But you’re saying this has nothing to do with research? What on earth did you see yesterday and today?”

“Yes?”

If a junior had attacked him like that at the rooftop, he would have already swung his fists, but anyway, this is an academy for kids with fluffy hair.

Unlike usual, he killed his personality and explained to the boy in a soft voice how much this operation would help his research.

“Even so, isn’t it too early? I’ve been getting A+ grades in research, not combat, until the third semester last year, and I can’t accept that my grades went up and down in one day just because of this one skill.”

“… Oh my, oh my, Doya. Did I tell you to watch it right now? I told you to watch it until the end of class today? “

“So, there are people who haven’t adapted yet, so please give them at least three days… “

“Didn’t you say you’re going to pick the kids who’ll be in the rankings in a week?! But is one week even possible with such basic skills?!”

“So if you associate that with grades…!!”

As the conversation went completely off-track, Chun-sik started getting more and more agitated and blushed on his forehead.

I feel like I might really get into an accident if I keep doing that, so I frown and look at him with anxiety.

“Oh my… That idiot is so cool. To go up to such a vicious old man, if she were a girl, she wouldn’t fight back for fear of getting hit and buried in the ground.”

I unconsciously wipe my face away at the princess’s words, which seem to indicate that she is about to see something interesting.

Oh my, if you keep doing that and really hit me, I’ll be in big trouble.

“… Wow, that’s it. Hey! Rudis!!”

“Huh?”

“Huh? Yes?”

Chunshik, who looked like he might collapse at any moment due to his high blood pressure, called out to me loudly, and I blinked and then slowly approached him as he nodded.

Moreover, the princess who follows me while laughing and holding onto the hem of my clothes, saying, ‘This will be fun!’ is a bonus.

“Ma, Inma said that the research and this training have nothing to do with each other, so you show me.”

“… What does it show?”

“Ah, there’s anything! Show this kid a catalyst or something, and show him. What a jerk. He doesn’t understand… Tsk.”

I don’t know if it was directed at me, the Watt in front of me, or both of us, but whatever it was, my brother wanted me to demonstrate my research-related abilities using this magic operation technique.

Anyway, the only thing that was worth showing off right away from what my brother had said was the catalyst, so I took out the mid-level catalyst that I usually carried around with me from my pocket and poured too much magic power into it to destroy it.

“… Huh? That, that’s an intermediate catalyst… “

“Yes. It’s intermediate. And the broken catalyst powder is now useless. But… “

The ability to use magical power received from God. And the magic use method developed by the master.

With these two, there are things you can do even with a completely destroyed catalyst.

I worked on it so intently that it slowly grew tired before my eyes.

“… Oh, two lower-grade catalysts were created… ?”

“Well, it didn’t go as well as usual. If it goes well, it can get up to 3.”

“Did you see? How many catalysts did you blow up while researching? If Yorocolom becomes proficient in the application of magic and the control of magical power, even the broken catalysts can be recycled. Even if I show you this, does this still have nothing to do with research?”

“Wow…! It was like the alchemy I saw in fairy tales from long ago!”

-Clap clap clap clap!

“… … “

The students’ eyes widened in surprise at the technology I showed them, even more so than yesterday, and this time, there were a lot more looks of admiration.

Well, I guess I’m a little jealous of the act of reviving materials that cost money. After all, money is good, right?

However, Wattman in front of me glared at me as if he did not acknowledge it, as if he was dissatisfied. It pierced through the sound of the princess’s clapping.