episode_0032

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“….Raon, are you late again?”

“I’m sorry, beautiful teacher. I won’t be late again! Please just let me see you once.”

“And you’ve never been early. Minus star rating today too.”

“Ah, teacher~”

Raon, who had been speaking cheerfully, slumped his shoulders at the sharp reaction of his teacher.

But as if it were a daily routine, the teacher told us to go and sit down and started preparing for class.

Then Raon pouts and approaches me.

As expected, the person sitting next to me was Raon.

Raon only then noticed me sitting next to him and waved happily.

“Oh, Jodell! You’re my match after all.”

I didn’t know there would be any vacancy except here.

I had no intention of becoming close with Raon, so I turned my head away and pretended not to hear. That was when.

“What, how dare you ignore Raon-nim’s words?”

“What is it?”

…..wasn’t it something like this?

It only took a moment for the gazes of the extras, who had initially felt favorable toward me, to turn into hostility.

You shouldn’t ignore them just because they’re extras.

Since they were a group that gained more power the more they gathered together, it was easier to live at the academy if you catered to their wishes.

I hurriedly looked at Raon and spoke kindly with a smile on my lips as if to say, “When did I ignore you?”

“……Yes. That’s right. We’re a match. It’s nice to see you again like this.”

“Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Let’s get along well from now on. My partner. I really wanted a partner anyway, and I’m so happy that someone as cute as you is my partner.”

I awkwardly laughed out loud at the sight of her naturally interlocking her fingers and smiling with her eyes.

Plotting is a daily occurrence. Plotting with the same man too….

‘It’s hot… It’s hot.’

He pretends to be friendly, but his eyes are focused on me and are so attached that it makes my face feel hot.

I felt like I was going crazy from the burden.

Extras are extras, but especially Remy. Don’t you want to put that killing in?

I thought I had grown up enough to be able to control my life, but I still have a long way to go.

Remi’s murderous spirit was so suffocating that the glares from others felt like coquetry.

Well, by this time, Remi would already be in love with Raon.

When Raon first saw Remi in the classroom, he called her pretty. After that, he soon started taking good care of Remi when she was alone.

Remi falls in love with Raon at that sight.

Because he is experiencing the feeling of love for the first time, he cannot speak directly to her, so he is just secretly stealing glances.

It’s just a innocent unrequited love now, but it gets worse later on and reaches the point where he chases Raon around 24 hours a day like a stalker.

‘….But I’m a man, so why is everyone jealous?’

Surely you’re not mistaking me for a school girl?

At that time, when I was thinking that I should naturally show that I was a man, my teacher handed me tools one by one.

‘What is this?’

It was a tool I had never seen before.

It looked similar to the correction ball used during the exam, but it was a little different. Maybe it was a little smaller and seemed harder?

“Okay, today we’re going to practice using mana to its limit.”

Is the first class a mana class?

“Any ability can be used more powerfully if it is based on mana. In order to do so, you need to train your mana well.”

Yes, mana is important.

I also couldn’t use skills properly before because I didn’t have enough mana.

Of course, now. There’s no need to worry about that, though.

“This crystal ball is an absorbing crystal ball that can hold infinite mana. Today, I will pour all the mana in my body into this crystal ball.”

Can hold infinite mana?

I looked at the crystal ball with curious eyes.

“How does it feel to use all your mana… It’s most important to know what your limits are. As you use up your mana to the limit, the amount of mana you can use will gradually increase. Okay, Jodel.”

“Yes!”

“Can you handle mana?”

Those who enter the academy are basically capable people.

They had abilities that were superior to others. That was why the teacher asked them questions as if confirming, but he had an expression on his face that seemed to assume they could handle them.

Of course I could handle it. I probably handled it better than the teacher.

“Okay. Then let’s begin.”

As soon as the teacher finished speaking, the students started to put their hands on the crystal ball one by one. They all looked very curious.

I observed the scene.

The more color you put into the crystal ball, the darker the color becomes.

As you pour more mana into it, you will see a crystal ball that starts to turn yellow.

Since they are definitely capable, their colors quickly become darker.

Especially noteworthy are Remy, and Raon… and….

“Hey, hey… Lara, don’t sleep, hurry up!”

“But… I’m sleepy…”

“Come on. Just do this and sleep.”

“….Ooh, I see.”

Even Lara barely managed to get up when Elsie woke her up and reached out to the crystal ball.

“Jodel.”

“Yes, yes?”

“Should I stop looking and do it?”

“Yes, sir.”

As the teacher walked around guiding the students, I stopped observing the children and put my hand on the crystal ball.

“Think of pushing mana into a crystal ball.”

“…..yes.”

“Oh, right. Are you good at it?”

As I poured mana into the crystal ball, it quickly began to take on a yellow tint.

As I was blankly staring at the increasingly bright yellow light, a curiosity suddenly occurred to me.

I wonder how much mana this crystal ball can receive.

I started to apply my strength in earnest.

Just a little more… just a little more… I keep pushing in with curiosity, but one by one, I see children taking their hands off the crystal ball and gasping for breath.

It was a clear symptom of limitations. But the main characters were still fine. So I guess it’s okay for me to do more too.

I really wonder if it can accommodate infinite mana….

I started pouring my mana into the crystal ball.

My mana is maxed out anyway. You don’t have to worry about getting tired.

When the main characters start getting tired, I just pretend to be tired and act out my actions.

‘It’s pretty. It’s like the sun….’

The color changed from a deep yellow to a golden color. It felt like a dazzling sun.

As I kept looking at it, I felt like I was being sucked into it.

‘…..and.’

As I was staring at the crystal ball as if possessed, without even realizing it and paying attention to my surroundings, and applying force, I heard a clicking sound from somewhere.

What is that? Where is it coming from?

I looked around.

Crackle, crackle, crackle.

“Huh?”

That was the sound coming from my crystal ball.

I was taken aback by the crystal ball starting to crack from the bottom.

What the heck, why is this thing breaking?

I was so flustered and didn’t know what to do when the teacher shouted.

“Jodel! Stop Mana!”

At the sound of the teacher’s startled voice, I slowly stopped applying force to the crystal ball.

As the power was reduced, the crystal ball seemed to have reached its limit and could no longer hold out, shattering into pieces.

“Ah….”

It’s broken.

What is this…

“……Teacher, I think this is defective?”

I clicked my tongue as I looked at the broken crystal ball.

But I didn’t hear anything from the teacher.

I looked at the teacher, wondering if he would change the correction ball, but then I flinched and closed my mouth.

The teacher was looking at me with an expression that was hard to describe in words. And it wasn’t just the teacher.

‘…What is it? Why is everyone looking at me like that?’

Those unpleasant gazes, as if looking at a monster…

The same was true for Laon next to him.

It was a look that seemed to show that he was tired.

I looked around. I hadn’t noticed it because I was so focused on the crystal ball, but everyone’s faces were pale from excessive mana usage.

The main characters also kept their hands off the crystal ball.

All the kids in the class were staring at me with their mouths wide open.

‘this….’

It seems that because they were so focused, they didn’t notice that the main characters had taken their hands off the crystal ball.

I should have taken my hands off of it, but I made a mistake.

And on top of that, he even broke the crystal ball…

‘This… I think… it looks like it was taken from the first day?’

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‘What’s this?’

Yuri, the teacher of the special ability class, looked at Jodel in disbelief.

Jodel, who arrived for the first time today, said that he was selected as Professor Luken’s assistant.

When Professor Luken was spitting and talking about how he had great abilities, I just turned a deaf ear and thought, “That’s just how it is.”

I heard it was the ability to handle wild beasts… but I wondered how great that ability could be.

but….

As I looked at the shattered crystal ball, my thoughts changed.

‘The first…’

The student who broke the crystal ball…

Was that supposed to break…?

I just found out about this.

Even Crown Prince Raon couldn’t wake up…

Even when everyone else was exhausted and took their hands off the crystal ball, Jodell’s crystal ball continued to brighten.

I was surprised at the crystal ball reflecting the sunlight for a moment, but then cracks slowly began to appear on the crystal ball.

Fortunately, Jodel reduced the mana at the end, but if it had broken while continuously injecting mana, there would have been chaos.

‘monster….’

Is this the appearance of a new monster?

Yuri now understood why Professor Luken had praised her so much.