episode_0016
by fnovelpia“Mi, sorry!”
“Stop playing around with love and tell me about your muscle condition?”
Professor Baek Myo asks again in a voice that seems to be suppressing his anger, with only one side of his lips raised at what we are doing.
“Ah, it’s ripped really well.”
“Then, student Ain? If recovery is possible, would you like to try it?”
“Yes.”
Following the professor’s instructions, I use magic while placing my right hand on my left arm.
“[Time and space setting current and fixed dimension, revert the entity status with ‘words of healing’. Base time 1500 seconds.]”
There’s a lot to explain about magic, but for now I’ll just keep it simple: ‘Magic requires a spell with a number of words that matches the user’s level and the level of magic.’
My spell consumes one level 1 spell slot and heals my arm. I swung my healed left arm around and I could feel that it was considerably healed, if not completely.
“Would you like to check again now?”
“Yeah.”
Hoyoda approached me hesitantly, as if he was aware that he was touching my body this time, following Professor Baek Myo’s instructions.
“Here it is.”
When I held out my left arm, Hoyo furtively examined my body here and there with both hands, then looked quite surprised.
“Oh, that’s great. It didn’t just heal, it healed while the torn muscle was reconnected.”
“Aha, I see. Even recovery magic specialists have different recovery mechanisms. This guy would probably be quite effective if he were to use something like a fighting technique?”
When Professor Baek Myo looked at me with an expression that seemed to be licking his lips as if he was greedy, my shoulders hunched.
“How is your health?”
“Okay, I can learn more.”
“Then let’s do it right away!”
In the end, I learned not only the jab, but also the straight and hook by burning through the spell slots for 3 hours, and with the remaining spell slots, I spent a fairly substantial class time healing other female students at Professor Baekmyo’s request.
“Student Ain, will you come again next time?”
“Yes, can I come with you when Senior Hoyo comes?”
“I wish you could come out every day, but that’s not possible. Then let’s hold hands and come together when Hoyo comes!”
“Yes.”
When I laughed at Professor Baekmyo’s joke and grabbed Hoyo’s hand, Hoyo was startled and ran away about two steps. I’ve only ever used Hoyo in games, and I’ve only met him in real life for a few days, but it’s quite fun to tease him.
“Heehee! Males are scary!”
“Eig, you’re my disciple, but you’re so useless, so useless.”
At Hoyo’s amusing reaction, Professor Baekmyo looks her up and down with his white eyes and then belatedly goes into the locker room.
“Senior Hoyo, are you going to the club room now?”
“Yeah, I’ll go and hang out with the chairman and Bandi, then eat dinner and finish up and focus on my research! Does Ain have dinner plans with those lucky guys?”
“Yes, I’m not sure if it’s a lucky tank or not.”
In response to my answer, Hoyo put his hands in the pockets of the red coat he always wears and walked with a leisurely gait.
“Ion is fine. Lulu, she’s the one who’s honestly unlucky.”
“Are you close with both of them?”
“I’m also an infighter, and the Moratium family is famous for being knights, so we’ve been doing martial arts exchanges since I was little. That’s why I’ve known Ion since long ago.”
My gaze and Hoyo’s follow the flying broom (a toy developed by the Academy students and also appears in the game) flying around the Academy to test it out.
“That’s how I got to know Lulu too~ Thinking back now, back then, Lulu was just telling her friends what she had learned, but when I was young, I thought, ‘This kid’s showing off his magic.’”
As she said that, she laughed and said, “Actually, ‘Jaesutang’ is just a nickname that only I use for Lulu.”
“Today was fun. I never thought I’d be teaching someone. Bandi did it in 25 minutes… Hehe… I couldn’t lift my left arm.”
Hoyo giggled, imitating a bandit in a sly manner.
“Senior Lulu.”
“Haa, this time, the servant… no, Jin, you’re really here…?”
“Yes?”
“No, it’s nothing. Follow me.”
When I got out to the main gate of the academy on time, I was able to find Lulu and Ion right away. Of course, there were hardly any pedestrians at the huge main gate of the academy, but if there was a red drill-headed tiger and a white-furred dragon with silver hair standing there, I would recognize them even if I passed by on the KTX.
“That’s right, junior. When Lulu calls out to a male like this, most of the time she politely sends a servant to reject him.”
“Is that so? I didn’t mean to refuse.”
“Is that so, Lulu?”
“City, be quiet!”
Lulu, who had scolded the two of us who were mumbling, strode ahead, and I and Ion followed behind her.
“What’s for dinner tonight?”
“Well, I don’t know since Lulu made the reservation.”
“Seafood, seafood. I clearly said it before. What do you mean you don’t know?”
“Ah, what I don’t know is whether Lulu’s behavior of making a reservation at a seafood restaurant she usually frequents without thinking, without even asking her junior whether she likes seafood or not, or whether she can eat it, just because she likes it, is correct. ”
…Ion’s intelligence-related stats are quite high for a knight character, and I think that point was nicely proven by the statement just now.
Lulu’s expression was not visible at her sharp remark, but the two ears on her head, red and trembling through her fur, seemed to have suffered considerable mental damage.
If you ask me which side I am on, I am obviously the type who doesn’t mind eating seafood, and I just find Lulu’s reaction funny.
“Senior Lulu, it’s okay. I like seafood.”
“That’s surprising, junior. The north doesn’t even have a proper lake, let alone a sea?”
In response to Ion’s question, Lulu still walks ahead, but her ears turn slightly in this direction as if she is concentrating on our conversation.
“But there are freshwater fish. Sometimes, there are saltwater fish preserved through vision engineering.”
“That’s great, Lulu. Did you hear that?”
“Hey, be quiet.”
Lulu turned around and snapped at Ion’s teasing words while laughing, but Lulu’s face still showed a hint of a smile and relief.
“Today, we’re going to a seafood restaurant called ‘Piasco’. As Ion mentioned earlier, it’s a place I often go to… and the quality is also quite satisfactory. It’s probably a quality you’ve never tasted before.”
“It would be nice if you didn’t have to add that last word like that.”
Ion was about to tease her more, but Lulu, who was standing at the railroad crossing waiting for the carriages and vision-powered cars to pass by, glared at him as if she was going to kill him, so Ion held back his words for a moment.
The seafood restaurant Fiasco that I arrived at after going through many twists and turns was a large and luxurious restaurant that I had never seen before or (of course) after entering the game.
“Impressive!”
“Can I praise you more?”
“That’s because Marquis Anastasia owns most of Fiasco’s shares, junior.”
“The founder of Fiasco was originally from our family’s head chef?”
Upon entering the restaurant and listening to the story, it seems that when the former head chef of the Marquis Anastasia family retired earlier than scheduled and opened a restaurant, the Marquis Anastasia at the time put in a lot of money to start the restaurant, and has held most of the shares of Fiasco for generations.
“So the Anastasia family gets to use Fiasco almost for free.”
“No, I just pay for my food and eat normally.”
“Isn’t that money going around and around and coming back to you as your allowance?”
This time, Ion’s statement was quite reasonable, and Lulu only responded with a mild ‘Well, that’s true’.
“Welcome, Marquis Anastasia. There are reserved seats inside.”
The person who came out to greet us was the restaurant manager, who was very old and graceful. She was also a female tiger like Lulu, but she had unusually blue fur.
“The male over there…?”
“My name is Ain Frostgarm, General Manager.”
“Oh, Miss Lulu. Finally at Fiasco with your fiancé… You didn’t take this person with you to another place, did you?!”
As I greeted her politely, the general manager, who had been boasting of his elegant demeanor, suddenly started to tear up and grabbed Lulu’s hands with a moved expression on his face!
“P, fiancé, that’s not it. I’m just a freshman at the academy and my junior!”
“This old tiger, I am so touched!”
You don’t listen at all. I watch the sudden melodrama with Ion and am guided to the innermost reserved seat.
“All the food that comes out today will be paid for by this old tiger. Order whatever you want, Miss Lulu.”
“Ah, the general manager of the Fiasco Imperial Branch has been the butler of the Anastasia family for a very long time. Long before Lulu was even born.”
“Hey, Ion. Can you stop explaining things to him like this?”
“Yeah, I won’t stop.”
Ion giggled as if teasing Lulu was the most enjoyable thing in life. Lulu touched her forehead once and shook her head.
“I’d rather die than be sick.”
However, Lulu is able to take orders skillfully, taking turns giving and receiving orders from the general manager. She says she comes here often, so it’s only natural, but it doesn’t seem like she’s lying.
“Well, it’s quite nice to see you ordering so skillfully and elegantly, Lulu-senpai.”
“Miss Lulu, are you really saying that you are not my fiance? You are not making fun of this old tiger, are you?”
“Haa, really not. I really want to, but… No, Ain, are you teasing me like Ion?”
I tell Lulu my honest thoughts as she grumbles with her lips pursed.
“No, I’m not just saying this, I’m serious.”
“Wow, this this this this… Miss Lulu, this old tiger, I will pray for you every morning and night.”
“Is it worth it to even receive prayers? ”
As Lulu muttered like that, Ion placed a napkin on my lap and muttered.
“At least Sir Anastasia (the husband of the Marquis Anastasia, you can think of him as the real Marchioness) must have been around for at least 5 years.”
“Stop it…”
Lulu looked at the general manager with blank eyes as he left the room, shaking his butt as if he was in a good mood, and muttered in a soulless voice. It was as if she was watching a well-made skit.
“Can I pray for you too?”
“…”
Lulu, who was clearly far away, threw a sledgehammer into the air, as if she didn’t have the mental strength to respond, and I felt like I was hit in the back of my head with a sledgehammer.
“Ugh.”
“Damn, you showed up. Lulu’s long-range honey chestnut.”
After we stopped teasing Lulu, we started talking about miscellaneous topics.
“How was the miscellaneous study group lunch?”
“It was delicious as usual. Lunch was mainly steak.”
“The Duke of Night Sustained has a good sense, junior. Steak is a menu that is easily enjoyed by both men and women.”
“Does that mean I’m not okay?”
“Haa, Lulu Anastasia Marquis Youngae really isn’t easy.”
“I like both seafood and steak.”
“Your junior likes you too, Duke Young-ae of Knight Sustain?”
“Shut up, you.”
“Thank you, junior. You were so excited that you drank so much wine.”
“Hey, you’re ignoring me because I’m in a group? I’m in a group~ I’m in a group~ It’s not that I can’t go in~ I’m just not going in~ You understand~?”
“Yes, I understand, senior.”
“You too~ I don’t like you, honey~ But why are you acting so friendly~ Woozi~”
Lulu arrived at the female dormitory with an unnatural gait, unsteady and with the unbalanced support of Ion and me.
“When Senior Lulu wakes up tomorrow, could you please tell her that I don’t mind?”
“I’m looking forward to seeing Lulu’s face tomorrow morning?”
“Oh, of course, senior Ion too.”
“…Ah…haha, okay…”
Ion’s white face instantly turned red at my surprise words, but I couldn’t see it because it was dark around him and Lulu continued to whine.
“Please go in carefully.”
“Ah, wait a minute, junior. I’ll drop him in his room and take him to the male dorm.”
“It’s not that far.”
“Haha, junior. Please let me do my duty as a knight.”
“Um… Then I’ll wait.”
As she said, Ion really did drop Lulu off in the dormitory and showed up to take me away.
“Okay, junior. Then shall we go?”
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