episode_0043

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After parting ways with Assyria, I returned to my room.

It seemed like Raon hadn’t returned to his room yet.

After looking around the empty room, I went to bed and took out the book I had borrowed earlier.

‘Ancient relics….’

I found an inscription on an ancient relic that looked exactly like the hourglass I had.

I was surprised when I saw it in the library.

First, I took out an hourglass from the drawer to check the accuracy.

“There’s not much left….”

Now I saw an hourglass that was less than half full.

In just a little while, the floor will be visible.

I looked back and forth between the book and the sand world I was holding. As expected, it looked exactly like the picture. That was right.

[An hourglass that can cross time

You don’t know if you’re going to the past or the future. So when you turn the clock over, you have to think carefully and turn it over.]

The explanation was the same. The exact same words as the explanation on the paper were written underneath it.

But inside the book, there were other things written down that couldn’t fit on this piece of paper.

[Once you turn the clock over, you can’t go back to the original time until you find an identical hourglass.

If the sand in the hourglass turns over and falls to the bottom, we can never return to the original time, so we must find another sand world before that.

When the sand in the hourglass runs out, the body begins to adapt to the time period and begins to change in earnest.

I hope you won’t be too surprised by how your body has changed overnight.

That means now that it’s perfectly adapted to that timeline.

So, you should always be very careful before turning over the hourglass.

If you don’t want to live like a ghost in a time that you can never return to….]

‘So what this means is…..’

If I don’t find an hourglass exactly like this one, then I become a person from this time zone?

But the hourglass was already almost empty.

The chances of ever finding the hourglass again, even though I didn’t know where it was, were zero.

This means that if all this sand goes down, the growth that was halted will also start.

Because I’m still stuck in the same place I was five years ago.

Fortunately, I came to the future 5 years later. If I had come to the past, I would have been turned into a kid in an instant.

‘…Well, it’s not that bad for me.’

I didn’t like the fact that my body wasn’t growing on its own, and I also didn’t like the fact that I looked like a parasitic brother.

Grow up into an adult….

There is not much sand left in the hourglass.

A week at most. Three days at the fastest? If it suddenly changes, everyone will think it’s strange…

‘….Well, I guess I can just wake up and say I’ve grown up a lot.’

I put the hourglass back in the drawer without thinking much of it.

I also had a feeling that it wouldn’t be that big no matter how big it got.

This solves the mystery of the hourglass.

Fortunately, the results weren’t too bad.

Since I had no ties to this world, there was no difference between going back to the past and living in the future.

Maybe it would be better now, when I started reading webtoons that I already know well.

I lay down on the bed.

My body felt incredibly refreshed, perhaps because I had released all the strength I hadn’t used in a long time.

Assyria had a pretty shocked face.

Still, I am relieved that we won’t have to worry about Assyria for the time being.

What should I wish for Assyria this time?

Should I ask you out on a date again?

Or…. I slowly closed my eyes in a happy fantasy. Sleep was creeping up on me. I thought I should just sleep for a bit and then wake up.

I stopped thinking like that and slowly fell into sleep.

* * *

“Target found.”

Rashia raised the corners of her lips.

Rashia was climbing a large tree in front of the boys’ dormitory.

The tree, which was considered sacred, was so large that it covered the dormitory building, allowing the target’s room on the upper floors to be seen through the windows.

Who would have thought that the Assyrian I met at the restaurant was that Assyrian?

After we parted ways at the restaurant, I did some research.

Sword Master. The being that suppresses the power of the Sword Master… Of course, Assyria may have overlooked it…

The fact that he is now traveling with Assyria, who always travels alone, is unusual.

I had been curious about you ever since we met at a restaurant in town, but I never dreamed that we would be in the same academy, and that we would have the same special ability class.

On top of that, I created an enemy in the class and gave them missions like this…

Everything was going just as Rasiya had wanted.

Of course, I did put up my business cards in conspicuous places to make it that way.

I never thought I’d get caught like this.

‘This is why people should live well…’

If you don’t want to meet an assassin like yourself.

Rashia smiled.

‘And your name is Jodelle…’

The boy’s name just so happened to be one that was very similar to his own.

A boy with the same name as me whom I couldn’t find no matter how hard I searched for him…

I was even more drawn to her physique because it was exactly the same as Jodell’s, who I had broken up with at the time.

Of course, that’s not true. Jodelle would be 20 years old by now.

Ah, I shouldn’t have missed it then… I should have taken you by force, letting you miss out on something fun under the pretext of training…

It was a mistake to send it to Solar in the first place.

For the first time in her life, Rasia regretted it. She had acted immaturely when she was young.

If we ever meet again by chance, I will break both of your legs and make you live forever as a toy by my side.

I’ll play with it until I get tired of it.

Rashia smiled.

For now, the target was the assassination request from a boy with the same name, Jodel.

….Now, how should I kill you?

Poisoning is the easiest and most convenient way to kill someone… but if you can notice someone spraying poison in a restaurant, you have a pretty good eye for detail.

But poisoning isn’t the only way to kill.

There are countless ways to kill a person, you know.

Should I try it this time?

I’ve always wanted to try it, but I’ve never tried it before.

It’s the beauty queen.

It was always so boring that I just killed him.

But with such a cute appearance, it would probably be fun to use a beauty trick to knock her down and then kill her.

While Rashia was imagining such fun things, her mouth was watering.

“Miss. This is really annoying.”

Jodelle, who was thought to be sleeping on the bed, suddenly appeared to jump up from her seat and started to approach the window. Rashia was startled.

‘…..What? It didn’t emit any life energy?’

I haven’t made such a rookie mistake since I was a child.

Does that mean your presence has been discovered?

I had a feeling in the restaurant that it wasn’t easy, but there was no way it could be… Next to my grandfather, I was the best at hiding my presence.

First, to avoid the approaching Jodel, Rasia quickly hid her body in the grass.

“….I definitely felt a presence? Was it a bird?”

The window opened and Jodelle’s voice was heard.

It was just one word, but it was enough to send a chill down Russia’s spine.

‘What’s that boy…’

You sensed the presence of the next head of the Jack family, didn’t you?

Again there was a loud bang as the window slammed shut.

A bright smile hung on Rasia’s lips, so bright that it seemed as if her ears would split open.

* * *

‘Crazy, crazy, crazy… crazy…!’

It’s Russia.

Russia!

I woke up from a sleepless night, feeling the gaze of someone constantly. I could feel it as soon as I opened the window. I had the detection skill.

It was definitely Russia.

Why was Rasia, whom I had completely forgotten about after seeing her at the village restaurant, hiding in that tree and watching me?

It was something that gave me goosebumps just thinking about it.

Okay, let’s calm down. Calm down. Are you already interested in Raon?

In the webtoon, there were often times when Racia would sneak a peek at Raon through the window like this. Thinking back on it, it wasn’t really something new.

But it seems like there isn’t much contact between the two yet…

‘….No. The original is very messed up now.’

Raon didn’t seem interested in Lara at all, and Remi seemed more interested in me than Raon.

Every time we met, he always gave me food, but since he didn’t give it to Raon and only gave it to him, it seemed like he was upset with Raon for something.

Assyria was originally not going to chase me, but rather leave the academy after a brief meeting with Raon and focus solely on training.

Things started to go awry, and I happened to be in the middle of it all.

‘Could this be all my fault?’

If we exclude Laon’s work, there was one more reason why Rashia was watching like that.

I lay down on the bed as casually as possible.

Fortunately, once I opened the window, I didn’t feel any more eyes on me.

It seems that the quick-witted Rasiya thought there was nothing more to see and went down.

‘Yeah… there’s one more case where Russia does that…’

When I received the assassination request.

‘Hey, no way….’

I shook my head.

Could I possibly be the target?

Maybe something happened with Raon while I was busy running around.

I’ve never done anything to deserve retaliation against anyone at this academy that would put my life at risk?

Surely not. Yes. It has to be not.

I desperately hoped that the owner of the murderous gaze that had been glaring at me lately wasn’t the one who had asked Rasia to assassinate me, but the anxiety in my heart did not go away.

I felt like I needed to take better care of myself starting tomorrow.