episode_0028

beauty

beauty.

If you ask what it is, people will give you numerous answers.

Gorgeous jewels are beauty.

A beauty that everyone recognizes is beauty.

Clean and neat order is beautiful.

Depending on the person, there will be hundreds or thousands of answers.

In other words, beauty is not something fixed.

It’s just a word used for description.

But, at this moment.

Saella was able to declare.

‘Beauty’ is what is right in front of you right now.

‘Ahhh…’

He was watching Edin refining a potion using alchemy equipment equipped with various magical engineering devices.

In order to witness once again the pinnacle of Edin’s skill, he followed him into the basement of the general store in hiding.

Saella was impressed once again by the way he handled the magic engineering machine with the exact precision written in the manual without a single error.

However, Edin’s true value was not limited to that.

Dig up herbs and use magic machines.

As if it was just a prologue.

When he removed all the obstructive engineering machines and started the process by hand.

Saella felt as if she had encountered another world.

A technology of perfection that leaves no room for error.

Could something more precise than this exist in the world?

Saella put all her nerves and concentration into her senses to capture even a little more of that perfect figure.

My senses have become extremely sensitive to the point where I can catch even the smallest bugs, such as fleas, if they tremble.

Look at it with that sense.

A person’s hand trembling can almost feel like an earthquake.

He was concentrating as hard as he could and was trembling to the point where he could clearly feel his body movements being controlled to the limit.

No matter how restrained your body is, errors due to these slight tremors are bound to occur.

In fact, just from this alone, I was able to see how great Saella was.

The body trembles less than the inanimate desk sitting next to it.

If this is the case, how precise is Edin’s technology?

You will know for sure.

“Heo-eup…!?”

The moment his eyes caught Edin’s hand movements, he almost screamed without realizing it.

I endured it with transcendent patience, thinking that Edin would lose concentration.

does not exist.

Tremors caused by errors are not visible at all.

Even the slightest tremor feels like dancing.

Just quiet.

Even the heartbeat and tremors, which are natural as living things, are calculated and controlled, as if they were calculated and controlled.

There was so much silence around him.

How detailed a control skill does it take to be able to do that?

Even Saella, who had stretched her senses to the limit, could not guess.

‘It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen…?’

I thought so before.

I have no doubt that it will continue to be like that in the future.

But you are wrong.

I realized that I had very wrong and arrogant thoughts.

‘The pinnacle of beauty. I cannot dare to evaluate… beauty itself…!!’

He pursued beauty more than anyone else and wanted to obtain beauty.

An elf who worshiped beauty.

At that moment, he realized that the beauty he had to worship had appeared right before his eyes.

“Phew, completed. Does it feel good this time?”

And that, without any special process.

The moment I saw Edin, who had created an A-rank potion with simple precision work, using materials that were no more than a few bronze pieces.

“Huhhh… I worship you. Beauty itself. Mr. Edin.”

In the end, with tears streaming down his face, he came out of hiding and fell to the floor, bowing to Edin.

“Ugh?! It’s a surprise!”

Edin was startled by the sudden appearance of Saella.

“Uh, where did it come from… huh? Are you crying…?”

I was surprised twice to see him lying face down in tears.

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When Saella was suddenly worshiping Edin.

Octo, Ens, Tom.

The three male students were eagerly spreading bad rumors about Edin.

It starts with the first year intermediate class.

However, most of the 3rd class like them have not yet returned from external training.

I visited students from other classes with whom I had previously held joint classes.

In particular, among them, I mainly visited those who were soft-spoken and liked to create rumors.

They are the ones who like to exaggerate and spread rumors to the extent that most of the nonsense that comes out in first grade comes from them.

“Hey, this is something only we know. If I spread rumors for no reason, I might really get chased by that guy at the general store.”

And at the end, a magic spell is added.

“Of course. I will never tell anyone.”

On the surface, it looks like he will really remain absolutely silent.

To translate those words into their language, ‘The moment you become invisible, I will spread it all over the world.’ That is.

I also told the story to the trusting beast people and the snow tribes of the northern part of the continent.

“Dare! The honorable Ronin warriors will not forgive such a vile person!”

“Such an evil bastard should be locked in ice!”

I’m spreading the story to a few people.

“Hey, did you hear that story?”

“What are you talking about?”

“There is a perverted employee targeting that first-year girl.”

“There is a rumor that he is the new store owner at the general store.”

Although the Adventurer Academy is said to be regardless of age, gender, or race.

These days, the status of adventurers is increasing, and the average age of students is becoming much younger.

Most are in their mid to late teens, just starting to leave home.

There are children who have just had a coming-of-age ceremony or who have not even had a coming-of-age ceremony yet.

And for those young people, life at the academy was truly boring.

Class, eat, sleep in the dormitory, class, eat, sleep.

It is said that upperclassmen who have been recognized for their skills are still allowed to request adventurers from outside in their spare time.

For first-year students who have just started external training, there is only a really boring daily life.

As a result, these rumors became a very stimulating source of entertainment for them.

Rumors that had no basis were inflated to the point where they spread all over the place in an instant.

A while back, I almost ended up turning two random students into a couple.

Of course, it did not spread to a large extent thanks to the parties involved actively providing explanations, but even after experiencing such an incident once, they still wanted stimulation.

In particular, there are rumors that faculty members approach female students to see what they can do.

It was very provocative content.

“…I guess so, I don’t know.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Oh! Seo, teacher.”

This rumor began to spread among students, and naturally it also reached the ears of teachers.

Teachers’ reactions were divided into two types.

The first is a case where students are ignored because they are spreading rumors.

“…Here we go again.”

“Anyway, why do young first graders do this?”

“Should I ask them to create some kind of play facility to relieve stress?”

It’s not like it doesn’t exist.

However, there are types of sports where the difference in physical abilities is too wide.

It’s like a board game where everyone who uses magic tricks wins.

Anyway, most of these are students who graduated from the Adventurer Academy.

It is not that they do not know the feelings of students because they also experienced the first grade.

And that’s why I think this is just a rumor that can be ignored.

But some teachers were different.

“But what if it’s really true? If there is such a person among your employees…”

He had evil intentions towards the student and even approached him directly.

He tells the academy students, who are supposed to teach and protect him, that he is an academy employee, and threatens that if they talk about anything, the academy will kick you out.

If such an employee really exists.

“I think it would be a good idea to first find out the truth and at least conduct an investigation.”

“Whether this is real or not, if we don’t respond, the image of the academy’s faculty and staff will be…”

They said that this could be true, so we should find the person responsible for the rumor and check whether it is true or not.

If it is true, the students who heard the threat could be in danger, and if it is not investigated, the academy’s image may be tarnished for being silent.

“As this case involves faculty and staff, I think we should respond thoroughly and not ignore it.”

They certainly had a point.

However, strangely, there was one thing that caught me off guard with their words.

“You never say it’s a lie.”

Someone pointed out something that seemed odd.

Then, some of the teachers who wanted to investigate closely looked away and muttered.

“Since he was brought in by the Chairman, I honestly think he can be trusted, but… I heard that he was a C-rank adventurer who used to live in the warrior party.”

“If it was because he had really good connections… he might have actually made that threat…”

Kwaang!!

At that time, someone woke up and hit the desk very hard.

The desk was completely shattered, and the person who stood up… Lunarin Brettis spoke with a very displeased expression.

“A gisaeng at the hero’s party. I don’t know where and what you heard.”

In particular, he was glaring at those who had just spoken negatively about Edin, the protagonist of the rumor.

“Are you saying that the insight of me and Chairman Mureos, who recommended that person, are trash? It was clearly delivered. I will convey this to the Chairman as well.”

“Lu, Teacher Lunalin…?! Wait…!”

“Oh, no, that’s not what I meant…!”

The teachers were embarrassed by Lunarin’s sincerely angry appearance and tried to make excuses, but Lunalin had already left the teacher’s office.

“…ugh. Teacher Lunalin is proudly present.”

“Tsk tsk, be careful what you say.”

And while I felt sorry for them and the other teachers, I looked at them pitifully.