episode_0041

* * *

I never dreamed that three of us would end up eating together like this.

I often had lunch with Raon, but Assyria came between us all.

Raon is the crown prince, Assyria is the sword master.

Maybe it was because we were all people with similar abilities and looks, but I felt like everyone in the restaurant was paying attention to us.

I’m dying from the burden.

These are the types of people who don’t fit in with the ordinary me, so why do things keep getting tangled up like this?

I don’t know anymore.

I ordered my usual lunch of stir-fried meat and vegetables.

Assyria naturally sat down next to us and ordered a meal with meat as the main dish.

Raon said he didn’t have an appetite today and ordered a meal consisting mainly of soup and bread.

When the meal arrived, Assyria was the first to speak, picking up some meat with his fork and putting it in his mouth.

“After you finish lunch, duel me. Jodell.”

I knew you’d say that.

“…..After I finish lunch, I have to go to the library.”

“Library?”

“Why in the library?”

At the word library, Assyria and Raon looked at me at the same time.

I shrugged and scooped up a spoonful of the exquisitely stir-fried meat and vegetables into my mouth.

As expected, this restaurant has the best food.

“There’s something to look for.”

“…..Then the duel!”

“The duel… um, later… much later…. I’ll do it when I have time. I’m a lot busier than you think. ”

Assyria’s face crumpled at my words.

It seemed that he had finally realized that I had no intention of dueling.

I ignored Assyria and focused on my meal.

Assyria’s gaze stuck to the side of my face is stinging. Stinging.

Am I crazy? I’m going to fight you again. If I lose the fight, you’re going to ask me to fight you again.

Then, I suddenly saw Raon dipping bread in soup and eating it. The bread looked so delicious that I swallowed my saliva without realizing it.

“….Laon, the bread looks delicious. Let’s trade a bite.”

“Yeah.”

Since we sometimes switched up the side dishes during lunch, I put my food in Raon’s bowl and Raon reached out to dip some bread in the soup and put it in my bowl.

At that moment, Raon stopped in midair with his hand outstretched.

…….What, what are you doing instead of giving it to me?

“What are you doing?”

Raon smiled meaningfully while holding the bread.

Raon always behaved strangely when he made that kind of expression.

As expected, Raon brought the bread to my mouth and spoke.

“Okay, ah~”

Assyria dropped his fork at the sight of Raon.

I also looked at Raon with my mouth open.

What kind of joke is this?

I wonder if Assyria is acting like this because he’s angry because he’s only interested in me. I was wondering how I should accept this incomprehensible behavior, but Raon was faster.

It was because Raon stuffed the bread he was holding into my mouth as if he couldn’t wait any longer.

“Ugh!”

I ate it against my will and glared at Raon with an uneasy expression.

“How is it? It tastes better when I feed it to you?”

I nodded roughly.

“…..The two of them are really close.”

“Of course. We are best friends at this academy. We even share a room.”

“….Is that so?”

“Yes. I’m thinking of going out on a date soon.”

“…I see.”

What is it? I feel like there’s a bit of a conflict between the two… Am I imagining it?

The Assyrian fork quality has noticeably slowed down.

Raon had a winning look on his face.

It doesn’t seem to be a love line… I know why, but I still don’t know.

I ended up ignoring them both and focusing on eating.

It was a little odd that the Assyrian meat fork would come and go near me a few times, but I just focused on my meal because there was no end to it.

* * *

After the meal, I chased away Assyria and Laon, who kept chasing me, and headed to the library alone.

‘….Wow, there are so many books.’

As expected, it is the greatest academy in the empire.

The library had three floors and was full of books.

I looked around the library. There weren’t many people there.

On the first floor, there were many books that were commonly available on the market, including miscellaneous knowledge, and from the second floor onwards, there were many books on various abilities such as magic, swordsmanship, and spiritism.

On the third and final floor, I finally started to see the books I was looking for.

I’m talking about books related to ancient relics.

But it’s so huge that I don’t know where to start or how to find it.

I looked around and approached someone who looked like a librarian.

“Hello, I’m looking for a book.”

“….Yes. Go ahead.”

“Are there any books on ancient relics?”

The librarian was an ordinary-looking woman with brown hair in pigtails and glasses. The woman pushed up her glasses, seemed to think for a moment, and then nodded.

“There are 43 books in total.”

“Ah….”

There’s so much more than I thought…

When will you check all of that?

“…..Could you please tell me the top 3 books you recommend? If possible, something about the uses and methods of using relics.”

“Please wait a moment.”

With those words, the librarian disappeared from that spot.

No, it moved so fast that it felt like it had disappeared.

I guess that librarian’s ability is the wind.

‘….Are you a spirit master?’

As the wind blew, the librarian’s body began to move around the library.

Wow. A spirit….

It’s interesting that spirit masters are uncommon in webtoons.

Normally, it would be normal to be invisible at the speed of the wind, but to my eyes, which have inhuman kinetic vision that surpasses that of a normal person, I could see her moving very clearly.

I waited quietly for the librarian to return.

A few minutes later, the librarian appeared before my eyes again, holding a book in her arms.

“Here it is.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

After saying hello, I took my book and sat down in the empty seat.

There were three books in total that the librarian gave me.

I flipped through the book. Ancient relics… relics.

Ancient relics were summarized as having many unique abilities that people wanted to possess.

That’s probably why everyone risked their lives to go in when they heard that a cave with relics had appeared.

Just finding ancient relics would be a huge success.

‘Hmm…. there’s not much content.’

I skimmed through three books, but didn’t see anything of note.

However, since I still had time, I was looking around to see if I could read just one book, and then a black book caught my eye.

I approached the book as if possessed.

‘…..Everything about ancient relics?’

I quickly flipped through the book, thinking I’d give it a read.

Inside were drawings of various ancient relics, including one that looked exactly like my hourglass.

And as I read that, my eyes slowly grew wider.

‘….oh my god.’

* * *

I left the library after borrowing a book with the information I needed. I decided to go to my room and read it carefully, and I walked away.

“Jodel!”

“…..Senior?”

Then I saw Assyria waving and calling me.

Assyria was sitting on the bench in front of the library, waiting for some time.

“….Have you been waiting all this time?”

“Let’s duel!”

Wow, that’s amazing. That’s amazing. There’s no shortage of sincerity.

‘Yeah. I lost. I lost.’

At this point, I thought it would be better to just stick together and call it a day.

If I didn’t fight him, he would haunt me for the rest of my life.

I guess I’ll have to make a wish this time too.

If you ban them from dueling for life, they’ll object, so banning them for a month would be fine.

There was also the option of deliberately losing, but Assyria, who was quick-witted when it came to swords, could not stay still.

“Haa, I understand. I understand. Let’s duel. Yes.”

“….Really?”

As soon as I finished speaking, Assyria smiled brightly.

I blankly looked at Assyria.

I couldn’t help but be amazed when I saw that smiling face after seeing only cold and blunt faces until then.

She really is pretty… As expected from my favorite… Her smile made my heart flutter.

As I was inwardly admiring Assyria’s laughter, I felt the murderous spirit I had felt in the classroom earlier again.

I turned my head sharply.

‘who is this!’

…..Huh? What about him?

When I turned my head, there was a boy with an ordinary face and freckles standing there.

The male student, who was clearly showing that he was an extra, was glaring at Assyria with jealous eyes, alternately looking at her smiling face and me.

‘This is no way…’

I think so….

There was a scene that often appeared in webtoons.

This is the scene where the jealous male students take out their anger on Raon because she monopolized all the beautiful and pretty girls.

Has that anger ever reached the level of bullying, violence, or even assassination attempts?

Of course, Raon was able to easily escape from that situation because all the heroines around him were munchkins.

But somehow, it felt like that situation had become my situation.

‘I’m not Raon… If you think about it, I’m an extra too…’

Why do I have to receive such looks?

…..I guess Jae is an Assyrian fan.

Well, I guess the work of these small extras isn’t that big of a deal.

I ignored the gazes staring at me and headed to the training room with Assyria.

Without any thought of what would happen in the future.