episode_0045
by fnovelpia“···Oh.”
Hmm. El raised his hand to his mouth and looked into Revan’s face as if he were a strict merchant.
Revan must have been embarrassed by that gaze and placed the gas mask down on the desk.
“···So what do you think?”
“What do you mean?”
“You were curious, weren’t you?”
hmm. El, who gave a short sigh in response to Revan’s question, summarized his thoughts.
First of all, Revan’s face was quite different from what El had expected. When he lowered his gas mask, what appeared was a man between a boy and a young man, with an odd-looking appearance that did not match his earth-shattering strength.
I knew the hair was original, but it was black hair with no other colors mixed in.
I saw the eyes occasionally when I was pumping up my mana, but when I looked at them directly instead of through a lens, the purple eyes gave off a mysterious feeling of their own, like amethyst.
Well, actually, these elements are all incidental. In the end, what matters is the face.
“···This much.”
There was no flaw. It’s a little embarrassing to say it out loud, but Revan was a very handsome man. A young man with a somewhat naive appearance that does not fit with his usual appearance.
It’s not for nothing that he was from a back alley and seduced a noble lady. After removing the scar, I was able to confirm that my face had grown back to normal without any significant changes.
“You have achieved something. If he hadn’t covered his face, he would have been beating up women.”
“You beat up a woman. What is that…”
“Oh, my junior seems to be a pretty genuine guy.”
Revan turned his head without answering the words mixed with laughter. L asked after seeing him avoiding eye contact.
“Your junior, since when did you use that gas mask?”
“···It’s been more than two years since the magic stone was embedded in the core.”
“Then you must have walked around with a bare face before then.
“Well, that’s right.”
L opened his mouth while looking at Revan who spoke as if it was no big deal.
“Then I don’t think it would be too strange if he dated women a few times…”
Words filled with emotion pierced Revan like a dagger in the darkness.
At El’s words, Revan narrowed his eyebrows as if lost in thought. Naturally, three faces came to mind.
Sonia? It would be a lie if I said I didn’t have any feelings. But since he was sold into slavery in the relationship between servant and master, he passes.
Vivian? It seems like they had feelings for each other, but they left without being able to establish a relationship. So it is ambiguous to say that they were lovers.
Faust is a man to begin with. Hendricks That old man fed corrupted information into your head. Revan shook his head left and right.
In the end, it was concluded that Revan had no relationships with any women. However, L had already made a decision through observation.
‘There were women with experience or equivalent.’
The words just passed by and seemed indifferent, but it was a question filled with calculation and insight.
Given Revan’s personality, which El had seen so far, he would have waved his hand away in disgust. Because I’m the type of person who can’t stand unfair things.
However, El saw Revan’s mouth closed, his eyebrows narrowed, and he was worried. Because I took off the gas mask, I was able to see his face clearly.
thud! L roughly placed the flower pot with the fairy handkerchief planted in the corner of the club room on the desk.
“Now, let’s proceed with the experiment.”
“···Uh, senior?”
“Yes. Junior.”
“Is there anything you don’t like?”
“Well?”
L just looked at his face and smiled. However, that smile was somewhat cold. So much so that even the oblivious Revan could easily notice it.
***
“here. You can catch it.”
Tuk. El placed his hand on the plant in the pot, took off a leaf, and held it out to Revan.
Revan took the leaf held out to him. OK.
-Rust!
“Oh wow.”
The leaf that Revan caught turned black, dried, and soon crumbled. El put one hand to her mouth and was slightly surprised at that sight.
“This gas mask seems to completely purify poisonous air when worn. I never thought the difference would be this big.”
Fairy’s handkerchief. The leaves of the flower plant, which are sensitive to poison and curses, could not withstand Arachne’s poison and crumbled into powder. It was a completely different reaction than when I touched it while wearing a gas mask.
It was a mysterious and interesting sight in its own way. However, El’s gaze was focused on Revan’s face.
“Hmm.”
“···Senior? Do you have any questions?”
Looking at that gaze, Revan asked cautiously. At that question, El tilted her head and opened her mouth.
“When my junior asked me to wait for him to take off his gas mask, I thought he was going to do something to weaken the miasma.”
Revan shook his head. Controlling the poison with the gas mask off was something that even Faust said took time.
“Then why did you ask for time? I think I could have just taken off my gas mask that day and proceeded.”
As I said, El was withstanding Revan’s venom without any problem. So much so that I didn’t need the neutralizing agent I brought just in case.
Revan, relieved to see that, answered indifferently. It was a complacency, like a prey that falls into a trap on its own.
“There were a lot of scars on the face. It took time to erase them.”
“Hmm?”
After hearing the answer, El seemed lost in thought for a moment, narrowed her eyebrows and turned her gaze into space. And, not long after, a unique playful smile appeared on his lips.
Revan saw that smile and had a premonition of his future. ah. You got bitten.
Sigh. El, who had drawn a line on his mouth, asked Revan.
“Why did you erase the scars on your face?”
“That’s right, because I don’t want to see it.”
“Do you, junior, not wear a gas mask because of the miasma? Then, isn’t there anyone who can show their bare face except me?”
“···There is one person.”
“Gender?”
“I’m a man.”
The only ones who can see Revan’s bare face are Faust and El. There are only two. And the gender of the green-haired weirdo was male, so it was correct. These are sad words for the Wetzlar family’s Arietta.
“Probably one of them is Professor Faust. But for his sake, couldn’t he have fixed his face a long time ago?”
Revan lowered his head in response to the ensuing interrogation. It has already been properly bitten. However, there was no mercy for El, who was smiling.
“But my junior only recently had the scar removed. Something happened recently that made me change my mind…”
chuck. El put both fingertips together over her mouth and pretended to be surprised. It was an act that even a five-year-old would not be fooled by.
“Oh my, the only thing that comes to mind is that I asked you to take off your gas mask a while ago. So what?”
Okay. El grabbed Revan’s bowed head with both hands and raised his head. Then he looked me in the eye and asked.
“Are you doing this because you want to look good to me?”
Revan was forced to raise his head and looked at El’s face from close range. If we got a little closer, our breaths would touch each other.
“······.”
The smile on El’s face as he looked up close was the brightest smile Revan had ever seen.
L spends most of her time with an expressionless expression. The smile shown to Revan was limited to a light laugh. So Revan couldn’t take his eyes off the smile as bright as the sun that he was showing right now.
“···Haha!”
Revan’s mouth was tightly shut. However, the answer was found in the slightly reddened face and avoidance of gaze. L nodded as if it was enough and put his head back again.
“The heart of our junior. I understand.”
“······.”
A man who showed his bare face for the first time in years lowered his head and said nothing. It was a complete defeat for Revan.
***
Big. Revan opened his mouth, clearing his throat as if trying to clear his throat.
“So, what is the experiment you want to do? It has already been shown that this leaf cannot withstand the poisonous air.”
From anyone’s perspective, it was a question meant to change the subject, but L gave in to the intention. My face calmed down somehow, but my ears were still as red as strawberries in season.
L knew very well that reddened ears were a sign that something was about to explode. It was the wisdom of life that I gained through countless explosions with my parents and older brothers.
Talk. I thought that if I stimulated it further, it might really explode, so I took off another piece of the fairy’s handkerchief.
The moment Revan was about to take the leaf, El stretched out his hand.
“Then it’s no different from before, is it?”
Revan made a grumpy expression at those words. ‘Then what?’ It was a face that showed the words.
“What I’m going to do now is an experiment to see if I can purify my junior’s poison with my mana.”
Nod. Revan shook his head.
“In other words, I need to see if my mana can purify my junior. My ability to withstand poison and my junior’s poison being purified are completely different things.”
El is not affected by Arachne’s poison. However, that fact was completely different from the purification of the poison emitted from Revan’s body.
“So what do you want to do today?”
Squeak. El didn’t answer the question, but dragged a chair next to Revan. Then, he took off the black leather gloves that Revan was wearing.
“Well, what are you doing…?”
“Shh.”
Swish. El, throwing away his gloves, reached out and grabbed Revan’s hand. It was sudden and the first feeling of bare skin in a long time. Soft, warm-
“Suddenly, what are you doing?!”
“Let’s sleep. Calm down”
“Truly vibrant-”
“Would you please look at this?”
The right hand was entangled with El, and all that was left was the left hand. Tuk. The fairy’s handkerchief fell on Revan’s left palm.
“···Huh?”
“Of course, it works.”
The fairy’s handkerchief that rested on Revan’s palm turned brown and dried.
However, there was a clear difference from before when he had been reduced to powder. Revan, seeing that, closed his eyes and felt the mana flowing through his body. And I immediately noticed a change.
“Is this your mana?”
hmm. L nodded to the question.
“Yes. That’s right.”
After confirming that his mana was working to control Revan’s miasma, he took out a small note from his pocket. There was something densely written there, like a list, and I marked one of them with a pen! I drew it.
“What is that?”
“These are experiments to try today or someday.”
The letters were written in letters that Revan did not recognize. This was because it was written in archaic words so that L would not be able to recognize it on purpose.
Tuk. El released his grip on Revan. Then, he read the note and walked towards the sofa.
“Well, I’m done holding hands.”
Slurp. El, sitting on the sofa, stretched out her arms towards Revan.
“···What is it?”
“Hmm, my junior seems a bit clueless.”
Revan looked down at El, who was leaning on the sofa, as if asking what she was doing.
ha. L sighed and opened his mouth.
“One of the things I planned to do today. This is an experiment to see whether the purification effectiveness increases as the area in contact increases.”
“···Yes?”
Upon hearing those words, Revan’s head spun violently. Elle is lying on the sofa and stretching her arms towards herself. Could it be that what you think is right? Or just teasing like usual-
“Youngja, you can hug me. Oh, I don’t mean it in an obscene way, just literally hug me.”
However, El is not one to just sit by and watch Revan’s thoughts. Sigh. He drew a line at the corner of his mouth and waved his open arms back and forth.
“This is for experimentation only. Ah, I firmly believe that our junior is not a man who harbors suspicious feelings toward his senior.”
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