episode_0004
by fnovelpiaA man wearing a gas mask. A woman hiding a sandwich behind her back.
It was fortunate that this was an empty space with no people around. If there had been people, it would have been a very bizarre sight.
I looked up from my sandwich.
“Sorry, but I’m not really interested in that sandwich.”
“Is that so?”
Well, that’s a relief. The woman muttered briefly and sat down next to the bench where I was sitting.
“···What is it?”
“Don’t you know it when you see it? It’s a meal.”
“No, that’s not it. Why are you sitting next to me…”
“This has always been my place to eat. I have been using it regularly since there is no one there. So, if you look at the relationship, it means that you are invading my territory.”
“······.”
It wasn’t wrong. However, there was no place to sit around this vacant lot except this bench. So I lifted my butt and sat away from the woman.
“Thank you. I’m not used to sitting close to someone and eating.”
king. The woman answered in a low voice and put a sandwich in her mouth.
“As expected, it’s delicious.”
“······.”
I discovered another characteristic of the woman in front of me. This woman, there is no change in her expression.
What can I say about eating a sandwich with an expressionless expression? It was hard to put into words.
“···Ha.”
The woman who was eating while staring at my face sighed, cut the sandwich in half, and handed it to me.
“···What is it?”
“If you keep looking at me like that, my heart will become weak too. Contrary to my appearance, I am a very kind person.”
“No, it is not necessary.”
“Why don’t you just try it instead of constantly throwing it away? You’ll probably want to eat it again next time.”
“No, that’s-, ha···.”
I sighed softly.
“I can’t take this off in public.”
Thump thump. I weakly tapped the gas mask’s purge can. When the woman saw that, she took half of the sandwich offered to me and took it in one bite.
The woman who swallowed the sandwich she was chewing on asked me.
“Actually, I was curious about it earlier. Why are you using that?”
“I don’t really want to answer.”
“Then is it okay to think whatever you want?”
“You can think whatever you want.”
“Oh, can I think that you are wearing it because you are so incredibly ugly?”
“Yes, you can think so.”
“Then I guess it’s not that ugly.”
“Why do you think so?”
“A truly ugly person cannot say that his face is ugly, even as a joke.”
Crack. The woman brushed off the bread crumbs from her hands.
“So, who is it? I’m not a person with such a bad memory that I forget people who wear something like that, but it’s definitely the first time I’ve seen that.
“I am…um…”
Actually, I didn’t know my exact position at the academy. First of all, Faust said that you were his assistant, but at the same time, he told you to live as a student.
“I am a transfer student.”
So I roughly looked around. Because a transfer student seemed more ordinary than a teaching assistant without a professor.
However, the woman next to me shook her head as if it wasn’t a very easy answer.
“You’re not an ordinary student, are you?”
“Why do you think that way?”
“It looks like you really don’t know anything about Geoff Academy.”
chuck. The woman pointed to the badge on my left chest.
“Do you know that that badge is a golden dragon badge?”
“···What is that?”
“This means that you are a student in the highest class, which gathers the most outstanding students in the academy.”
“Is that not allowed?”
“It was unprecedented rather than impossible. To begin with, Geoff Academy does not receive many transfer students, and more than anything, the Golden Dragon Badge has never been given to a transfer student until now.”
Of course, I didn’t know. This badge was probably the reason the guard looked at me closely at the school gate. I attached a honey chestnut to Faust in the ledger of my heart.
“I didn’t know.”
“···Normally, the student council would assign a guide to a transfer student, but you didn’t meet him?”
Throbbing. One side of my chest was shaking. Memories that I didn’t want to recall came to mind.
“···Something happened.”
I suppressed my dizzy mind as much as I could and answered.
“Hmm, then I guess I can’t help it.”
The woman in front of me jumped up, took out her badge from the inside pocket of her school uniform, and put it on her left chest.
“···Was that the badge too?”
It was a badge with a drawing of a dragon with its wings open, sparkling in golden light.
“As the senior of the Golden Dragon, I will guide you there. Isn’t this love for juniors?”
It seemed that the woman in front of me, who was chewing on her sandwich with an expressionless expression, was also a student in the highest class.
“What do you do? Without suddenly standing up.”
I fell, I fell. The woman in front of me fidgeted with an expressionless expression.
Of course, I was very grateful that they would help me adapt to the academy. But I spit out the question that was in my mind.
“Why are you so nice to me?”
“Hmm. I have a lot of doubts. It’s hard to manage juniors like this.”
“Don’t change your mind-”
The woman who was listening to me put her face towards me.
“My face.”
“···?”
“How about it?”
The woman in front took another drink, cupped her face, and faced me.
How do you look?
“You are beautiful.”
I responded with my honest feelings. Because he didn’t seem like the type of person who likes to talk around for no reason.
Pure white hair that is more than shiny but shiny, and eyes that sparkle like gold rather than yellow. And all the elements, including other things, were harmonious.
“Right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
The woman in front of me accepted the sentiment, which would make her face turn bright red if she heard it, as if it was natural.
“I experienced a lot at the Academy because of this face. Since ancient times, beautiful women have been in pain, haven’t they?”
“···Why is that a reason to be nice to me?”
“It’s simple.”
The woman answered as she turned and walked toward the academy building.
“There is no way a person trying to seduce a girl would approach her with something like that on his face.”
“······.”
“Our junior is a person you can feel very reassured about. So just follow behind me.”
I followed behind the woman who said that and walked forward.
I had no reason to refuse if they offered to help.
***
“How old is our junior?”
“Why do you ask my age?”
“I’m just curious. This is called small talk. From what I saw earlier, it looks like our junior is not very sociable.”
‘Fuck.’
An unpleasant fact struck my solar plexus.
Faust said that there is no age limit for admission to Geoff Academy.
-Mite, I am a baby wizard. I can use Meteor.
In theory, this case is also possible. Conversely, older people could also enroll if they were exceptional in some field, such as swords, magic, crafting, or alchemy.
However, I heard that it is common for students to enter school just before they reach adulthood.
“I’m eighteen.”
“Is that so?”
Umm. The woman closed her mouth for a moment and nodded.
“I am nineteen.”
“···Really?”
“It’s true. Why are you doubting?”
“If that’s true, there’s no need to worry, right?”
“When I heard my age, I took a moment to imagine my junior’s face.”
“···Yes. Think about it a lot.”
By the way, if you are older than me, it was a good idea to treat you with respect.
“But if that person is an older person, shouldn’t you be able to talk to him comfortably?”
“I am comfortable with this.”
“Really?”
“Yes. Our juniors will end up like me if they hang out with people who claim to be 100 years old.”
“Yes?”
“By the way, what should I call you?”
Title. It’s a title. From now on, it was difficult to call it what it was.
“What is your name?”
At my question, the woman glared at me with half-moon eyes.
“Are you really planning on calling your heavenly senior and elder by his first name? My juniors, I think we are very immature in measuring the distance between people.”
“No-”
“Well, I will tell you with a heart as wide as the sea.”
“···I am truly honored.”
The woman’s half-moon eyes seemed to indicate that it was a joke, and she answered me right away.
“My name is ‘L’. It’s an easy name to call. I already told you this, so don’t forget it.”
“···Yes. All right. My name is ‘Revan’.”
“Um.”
Revan. Revan. L muttered a few times and then faced me.
“I am your sister, sister, senior. You can call me one of the three.”
“···Why are all the titles like that?”
“There is no problem with the first two because I am older.”
“Who is your senior?”
“Are you saying that someone who is half a year your senior is not even your senior?”
ha. Revan sighed. For some reason, it seemed like every time we had a conversation, we just ended up getting caught up in it.
But for some reason, I couldn’t come up with a counterargument. The training Revan has received so far consists of basic common sense and swordsmanship. Two were the end. And even in the gladiatorial arena, the person who entered first was called senior. In the end, Revan nodded and decided on a title.
“I understand. Senior.”
“Younger brother?”
“Yes, sister.”
I’m sorry, but I have no intention of calling you by your first name. I’d rather bite my tongue and rummage around.
Tsk. Elle clicked her tongue briefly and walked forward.
“I will briefly introduce you to important things while living at the academy.”
“I am grateful, but are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“No, if it’s that academy, you have to take classes, or something like that…”
“It really seems like our junior doesn’t know anything. Well, I’m worried.”
Sobbing. L made a sound without any emotion and pretended to cry, covering her eyes with her palms.
“···Stop teasing me.”
“Okay.”
El responded, taking her hand away from her eyes.
“Currently, all classes are closed for the upcoming big exam. It gives students time to prepare.”
“···This is an exam. What kind of preparation do you need?”
“Well, I don’t know the details either. Because it doesn’t tell you exactly what you’ll do on the test. All you have to do is gather your mind, restore your body, and sharpen your blade. But what is clear is that it will be a very big ordeal for our juniors as well.”
What is an ordeal? I slowly followed El, who answered ominously and walked forward.
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