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[Ether: Pain]

Ether obtained with a curse.

It is used separately as curse and pain, but if you look at the origin, it starts from the same place.

Two ethers were created when all pain was absorbed through the empire’s magic.

There was an opinion that the heroes were split in two because the pain was the biggest cause of agitating the surrounding mana, and another opinion was that the pain was too great to be contained in a curse.

Aether is a force that has only recently been discovered, so they have not been able to find the cause.

Fortunately, the two had similar properties, so it wasn’t difficult to fool them into one.

‘It was controlled, but you didn’t die, right?’

Running towards the opponent without even checking to see if he or she is down is so defenseless.

[Rigging Life]

He healed his body by placing a curse on the surrounding land. Perhaps because it was made for a curse, my body did not respond to pain and had good regenerative abilities.

‘It’s worth it since the mana of all races has been mixed together.’

As I approached Princess Barney, gravity pressed down on my body. Looking at the ether’s reaction, I guess it’s not dead.

“Do not disturb. Do you want to see your master die?”

The gravity that was weighing me down weakened. If you’re going to do this, then maybe you should provoke me or not.

[Pain absorption]

I absorbed the remaining pain and injected my life force into her. My pale skin and breathing slowly returned to normal.

‘By the way, did the princess come alone too?’

Even if I sense my surroundings, I can’t feel people’s life force. I don’t know where to take her.

“It’s becoming a nuisance.”

Can you see him carrying the princess? There is a 100% chance that it will be annoying. Since it’s the first day, I don’t know anyone and there’s no way to let them know.

‘The student ID card will come out tomorrow.’

In the end, I decided to wait by her side until she woke up.

I laid her down on the bench outside the gym and cursed me to go into suspended animation. Although it didn’t put me into a state of suspended animation due to my tolerance, it was enough to bring me back to consciousness.

This way, you won’t feel hungry in the cold. My sisters told me not to do it, but this method was the most convenient for me.

-Kill me.

-I want to live.

-I want to see the light.

-Why only you?

-die.

-Free me.

-Because of you!

I can hear the resentment of the vengeful spirits bound to my body.

The ghost of a dead baby.

The baby’s mother’s vengeful spirit.

My mother’s vengeful spirit.

‘Why are you blaming a child you haven’t even seen?’

When I was young, I couldn’t even sleep, and every time I cursed, the number of vengeful spirits decreased.

Although there are more vengeful spirits remaining. I was able to quietly listen to this much. It will all disappear someday.

‘I don’t think my mother’s spirit will disappear.’

Unlike other souls, the vengeful spirit that looks at me in human form will remain by my side forever.

Because we are family.

***

-Be strong.

It was a sound I had heard since I was young.

I trained to death under my father, a war hero.

He did not avoid fighting with strong men, and went to the strong men himself and challenged them to a duel.

He learned the lightening of noble people at a young age, and realized ether at a young age.

I worked 10 times, no, 100 times more than the kids around me.

However, the gaze of those around me was cold, and there were people who laughed at me.

‘The power of nothing’

Words they use when they laugh at me.

It’s been like that since long ago.

In this country.

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‘I’m sure… .’

He challenged the rumored student to a match, and when he saw him using ether, he used ether himself.

After that, sudden pain, auditory hallucinations, and other symptoms appeared… .

“Did you wake up?”

When I turned my head to the sound of a faint voice coming from next to me, there was a boy standing there.

“Yes. Here.”

“This is a rest area next to the 4th training hall. He fainted and moved here. I’m sorry for touching your body without permission.

“You don’t have to apologize. Rather, did you always stay by my side?”

“Yes. It’s too conspicuous to carry a woman.”

A voice with an unchanging pitch and gray hair. Dark red eyes visible through them.

When I realized that those eyes were looking at me, my breath caught in my throat.

“Treatment was done. I think it’s going to be a bad day, so I’ll just leave.”

I wanted to say it was okay and thank you, but my body didn’t move. Like a prey being eaten by a predator, fear took over my body.

“Ha… .”

In the end, it was only when he was far away that I was able to breathe.

What was that just now?

An overwhelming fear and sticky energy that I didn’t even feel from my father. My whole body was covered in sweat, and my lips were trembling.

still.

“I should apologize.”

Since I am a special admission student, the dormitory is close by. I can’t do it today because it’s late, so I’ll have to go find it tomorrow.

***

‘Should I stop using this method?’

Pain transmission is the technique I use the most. It works on almost all beings that feel pain, regardless of their attributes or compatibility, and can kill 90% of them in the case of sight seeing.

‘The heroes didn’t work, though.’

However, the battles at the Academy are not premised on killing. In addition, a problem that I had never seen before arose.

‘Obviously, he scared me.’

Her reaction when she woke up was clearly fear. The pain has settled into her subconscious, and she is afraid of me, the culprit.

If you see her scared, there’s a good chance that other students will be scared too. This is a fatal problem for me as I have to interact with people to break the curse.

It’s not that you can’t fight with a curse, but since you’ve been using it for auxiliary purposes until now, you had to change your method.

‘2 days until class. Let’s think slowly.’

As I walked, I eventually arrived in front of the first-class dormitory.

The dormitory was a small mansion. The first floor had a living room, dining room, and kitchen, and the second floor consisted of three rooms.

I headed straight to the kitchen and took out a large amount of meat from my subspace pouch. Even though it was enough for 10 people, it was one meal for me.

When I placed a piece of meat on the pan, it filled the pan. If things continue like this, it will take too much time. Even now, my hunger is screaming at me to eat meat right now.

‘Let’s give up on texture.’

I applied magic to the kitchen knife and cut the meat into pieces. Meat cut into pieces less than 1cm in size was fried in a pan. The meat cooked quickly and went into my stomach.

‘Not very good.’

The taste was the same, but there was nothing to chew and it felt like eating patient food.

I don’t like the feeling of eating to avoid dying. no. Does anyone like that?

If the curse exerted its original power and I felt extreme hunger, if I went out of my mind, it might have been better than it is now.

-Wow

The ether radiated warm energy and enveloped my body. Unlike the curse and pain, the ether always took care of me.

Perhaps because it thought it didn’t want to eat, it sacrificed nearby meat to provide nutrients to me. Even though he usually doesn’t listen to requests, he comes forward right away when I’m having a hard time.

“Thank you.”

After adding kitchen remodeling to my to-do list for tomorrow, I went to bed.

By placing a sleeping curse on yourself.

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Academy day 2.

Today’s schedule is to register for classes and visit the academy.

The academy tour is a program prepared by the academy where you pair up with a senior and travel around major facilities and the academy city to gain necessary knowledge.

‘Did you say that a senior of a different race with similar status would come?’

Even if status is not important, high-end stores cannot be recommended to ordinary students. It is said that the race is covered in one year of classes. Did you say that as the school talks about racial harmony, there are many classes on it?

As I was having a light breakfast (4 pieces of bread, etc.), the bell rang. I stopped eating and headed to the front door.

When I opened the door, Princess Barney was standing there.

“Well… good morning.”

“Good morning. Princess Barney.”

“You don’t have to say she’s a princess. Because the Academy is an equal place.”

“I understand. Miss Barney. What brought you here?”

“That. I was sorry yesterday.”

She bowed and apologized. The Prince of the Sea Dragon Kingdom is like that, and perhaps because he takes after his father, his behavior is the same.

“Please lift Ms. Barney’s face. What happened yesterday was my fault.”

“I was scared of you who stood by my side. This is my fault.”

“It’s my fault for not knowing my abilities, so please stop apologizing.”

Only then did she stop apologizing. After that, she asked about my ether, but I kept it a secret. My ether is hard to notice. I’ll find out later, but I wanted to keep it a secret for now.

There wasn’t a big reason. just.

‘Curse doesn’t have a good connotation.’

It’s an awkward power to say with confidence.

Just as I finished talking with Miss Barney and was about to go back to eating, the bell rang again.

I put down the bread again and headed for the door.

“Who are you?”

When I opened the door, a black robe was standing there.

His entire body was wrapped in a robe and his head was bowed. If you can feel the vitality, it is true that it is a living creature.

“Who are you?”

“…”

“I can’t hear you clearly. Could you say it again?”

“2..years..ye..”

“… Please say that again.”

“I’m in second grade.”

2nd grade?

Is it because of today’s tour?

“Are you sure you came here for that tour?”

“Yes… That’s right.. ”

“There’s still one hour left. You arrived quickly.”

“Yes? Isn’t it 9 o’clock now?”

“It’s 8 o’clock.”

“Uh…?”

“Sorry!”

It was expected that today would not be a peaceful day.