episode_0113

CVII.

After blaming everything on the magic god’s fault, the atmosphere became friendly again.

The witch lifted the barrier that had been activated the moment May saw light, and the clown, who was by Mei and me, relaxed his guard against an unexpected situation.

Just like that, we returned to the room.

Click―.

As soon as I heard the door close,

“Self~. let’s party Huh?”

The clown leaned towards me and suddenly brought out the party.

“Party, I agree.”

“Oh! It’s a party!”

“… If you are having a party, it may be a good idea to skip training for a day.”

The three Arcana strongly agreed to the proposal made by the clown. If the atmosphere is like this, it means that the answer is already decided and you should just nod your head, right?

“Then. But there’s no need to make it such a grand party.”

“That’s what it says. I mean. lol. Just like before, we don’t get people’s attention, we eat delicious food by ourselves, we talk about various things, that’s it. My brother~. You don’t even know that?”

May’s ‘party’ ended up being a grand event, but it started out as a tea party with eating and drinking in a room several times larger than the rooms of other academy cadets.

The witch’s quick action skills soon began filling the large table with food from high-end restaurants. Starting with appetizers, main dishes and all kinds of desserts.

In addition, when Tukhungi added the rare wine ‘Virgin Lady’ that was stored in subspace, it seemed as if the banquet had the formality of a nobleman or even a royal family.

“Should I call Lina too?”

“Oh, let’s invite Catherine’s family too! Are you okay, oppa?!”

Lina, who was the first to be contacted, opened the door again as if breaking it and came in.

“Grey! Finally!?”

“No.”

“I haven’t said anything yet?”

“Yes. Anyway, no.”

“Chet.”

“I heard you don’t even eat properly because you’re practicing these days? Don’t skip meals.”

“Yes! Yes, yes!”

Lina, who had a pouty expression on her face, quickly smiled and nodded when she heard people worry about her.

Then he went straight to the table where the food was placed and took a seat. As soon as Lina sat down, Catherine’s family of three came in as promised.

Uncle Joseph, Aunt Poppy, and Catherine.

Lina and the four arcana,

Hornet,

And even Noel, who used to be Caligo’s Heresy Judge but now naturally calls him ‘Master’.

Adding myself in there, there were a total of 11 people, so it felt like the large round table was quite full.

Instead of the usual quiet atmosphere, it was a lively, noisy and noisy atmosphere.

‘I don’t hate it.’

Strangely enough, I didn’t hate it.

The seats on either side of me at the table did not belong to Arcana. Neither the witch nor the clown nor even May could come by my side.

Catherine and Lina took one seat each and chattered as if they were never tired.

Like a competition?

Yeah, it looked like a competition.

Who is cuter?

Well, this kind of competition.

“Grey, gray. So there I am. I bought something called victory underwear. So, today our baby… … .”

“Oppa. Eat this. Ah~.”

“Profit! You damn kid! I was talking!”

Lina said, ‘Are you making a baby?’ If you try to say the same line, Catherine immediately stops you.

As a result, Lina got angry,

“What? kid? Hey, what year were you born?”

Catherine’s reaction is completely outrageous.

“Uh… ? me? Three hundred and seventy… … .”

Lina was taken aback by the unexpected force of Catherine’s confidence and force, and stuttered her answer.

“This year is the 393rd year of the continental calendar, so is it the 370th year of the continental calendar? The continental calendar number before my date of birth starts with 33. This sister’s birth year is 330 years old. Do you understand? So, call me sister. Kid.”

Well, it’s like this.

Aunt Poppy or Uncle Joseph did not think at all to stop them, but instead they smiled happily and cheered them on by clenching their fists to cheer them up.

I turned my attention to the Arcanas just in case, and they couldn’t hide their smiles as if the situation and the two guys’ actions were cute.

“That’s a lie!!”

Lina jumps up from her seat and looks at me, shouting in disbelief. I hope you take my side and say it’s a lie.

But it’s true. I also know that Catherine was born in the 330s.

When I didn’t seem to correct her, Rina was also surprised and stuttered, unable to say ‘sister’ easily.

“Don’t fuss. He’s young too.”

“Tch!”

“Answer.”

“… Yes.”

Catherine’s sarcastic remarks, which reminded her of the angel of love, were enough to frustrate Lina.

Of course, in a fight with force, Lina might win by a landslide, but in a fight of words, the angelic Catherine wins by a landslide.

In the first place, Catherine is a scary child who later sinks even the dean with her words.

Laughter brings laughter.

The cycle of laughter becomes shorter and shorter as Catherine and Lina’s jokes, which are not jokes, are accompanied by a luxurious wine with a unique name, ‘Virgin Lady’.

Like the atmosphere of a harmonious family gathered in front of the fireplace at the end of the year for the first time in a long time.

“What! Except us!”

“I’m disappointed. Gray.”

Like politicians during election season, today, after returning from a tour of Evergreen Academy and Evergreen City, even the Dean and Vice Dean Fletcher joined in, grumbling.

“Who contacted you?”

Suddenly, such a question occurred to me. There is no answer.

“No, no. I’m not trying to say anything about contacting you, I’m just curious.”

But again, there is no answer.

Everyone looks at each other blankly, with curious faces.

Even Uncle Joseph and Aunt Poppy.

no way!

“Ah, okay. I don’t know who it was, but I got in touch with you. Yeah, yeah. good job. Yes.”

Was it awkward?

I guess it was awkward.

Everyone even seemed to notice that ‘no one’ contacted Dean Hu due to my awkward acting.

Just a little while ago, they looked at each other with curious faces, but now they were smiling embarrassedly at each other.

“Bad guy.”

“I didn’t really mean it that way.”

“Cruel guy.”

“Confirmation I didn’t say this to kill you.”

“Excited!”

Like a child who wasn’t invited to a birthday party, he stomped over to the table with a pouty face on his face and quickly took a seat before becoming the dean.

In fact, the dean was also grinning like a pervert as he talked about things like how he couldn’t be with his son’s family after they woke up.

Afterwards, he seemed to be in such a good mood that no matter what I argued about, he would just laugh it off and say ‘heh heh’.

After finishing their meal, they left the table and stood at an improvised long table, chatting non-stop while eating dessert or drinking more wine. Even though I have so much to say.

“Oppa. Oppa.”

The only women here who call me brother are May and Catherine. And of course, the main character with the cautious, delicate voice like now is Catherine.

Feeling a tug on the comfortable training uniform I was wearing, I stopped talking with Vice Dean Fletcher about the recent situation and turned my head, where, as expected, there was Catherine.

“Yes. Catherine.”

“Look at this! My sister May gave it to me. how is it? Do you think it suits you well?”

What Catherine was pointing at was a bracelet and necklace with wooden decorations.

The decorations reminiscent of stars, moon, and sun were small and cute.

Also, as with all of May’s creations, the light pink color appears and disappears depending on the angle at which the light hits it.

Moreover, the wooden decorations were not just carved from hard wood, but were made with Jingbeol on the day May first appeared.

Among the materials used to make witchcraft supplies, one of the most important materials is wall wood.

It was made by a shaman who has reached the level of Noejeon, close to the origin of Noejeon’s spirit knight, and is made from jujube wood, which is full of magical power. It is more precious than natural wood.

Everyone was watching Catherine without showing any signs of it.

Was it because I woke up from a long dream?

Compared to Josef and Poppy, who are in the same situation, Catherine hates being approached by strangers or people she meets for the first time.

For the first time in a long time, she was laughing and chatting in a gathering of only her close friends.

The appearance was both pitiful and cute, so everyone was secretly paying attention to it, so the bracelets May wore on her thin wrists and the necklaces she wore on her hands were bound to attract people’s attention.

and,

“Oh? Isn’t it amazing?!”

The dean, who was a Circle 9 superhuman and had no intention of eating or dying, looked at the necklace in Catherine’s hand with sparkling eyes.

As a wizard, his unique curiosity must have been aroused.

And the object containing the power of the highest-ranking shaman gradually attracted his interest, and the discovery of the incomprehensible object must have excited Dean Hu.

Enough to make you hear heavy breathing and shake your shoulders.

Then, upon the dean’s actions,

“Aaaah! Grandpa!!”

Catherine freaks out, as if she’s met a pervert, and turns her back, clutching the necklace with both hands.

“Ah, no, I… … .”

After making excuses, the Dean and my granddaughter Catherine hugged me and didn’t even look at me for fear that the Dean might take her necklace.

“I can’t really understand the atmosphere.”

And as if acting cute in front of me until now had been cowardly, Mei’s bitter words, as if she had been possessed by a vicious younger sister, pierced Dean Hu’s heart.

“Oppa. Why does grandpa do that every day?”

Catherine’s words, which I felt should be nicknamed ‘cheeksal’, as she tugged at my clothes and whispered to herself while asking questions, were heard not only by me but also by Dean Hu, who was a superhuman.

“Kuk dirt!”

The dean fell to the floor, clutching his chest.

But no one felt sorry for him or comforted him.

‘Is this what you call self-employment?’

No one paid attention to the dean after he became frustrated, as if he wanted someone to look at him.

Although it would be cruel to call her a substitute, the accessory and magic artifact that May gifted to Catherine attracted attention.

There was no one with a low sense of taste who could not recognize that it was not simply a cute and pretty accessory.

When people’s interest was gathered, the explanation of the artifact began with May’s cute coughing sound of ‘Ahem!’ and the twitching of her silver ears on top of her head.

“Necklaces have protection and breakaway functions. It has a defensive spell engraved on it that prevents most surprise attacks. cellar… … . How many times can you block a master attack? However, if you are surprised or attacked with no defense possible!”

“What do you say?”

Catherine, who is just as cute as her, stamps her feet and follows May’s cute explanation of cutting, looking forward to the next story.

“You will immediately take refuge in an outer dimension and then move on. Next to me.”

“Wow, wow! Wow!”

Catherine was just innocently surprised and amazed like a child, but after doing a frustrated cosplay on the floor, the dean raised his head in surprise.

With a curious look in my eyes as to how that happens.

Did you feel sorry for the dean after he just raised his head and looked at you pitifully in the same frustrated manner?

“Oppa.”

no.

May didn’t seem to care about Dean Hu.

When I see him smiling brightly while looking up at me without even looking at him.

“Do you remember how we moved to rescue the three superhumans before? Oppa?”

“Huh? Yes.”

I remember.

How could I forget the time when I ignored the magic that interfered with space movement and moved instantly? Above all, it was a magic that hindered spatial movement installed by the dragon.

“It’s a similar principle.”

Because it was such a brief explanation, and because it was a magical part that wasn’t my area of expertise, there was nothing I could do other than nod my head and say something stupid like ‘Ah!’

Then, I suddenly felt a strange gaze touch my cheek.

“What is it?”

He is the dean. He was still sitting on the floor with an awkward posture, glaring at me.

“Heung!”

After snorting in an uncharacteristically innocent manner, the dean’s actions

“I want to buy eyes that haven’t seen before.”

I tried to keep the party atmosphere going by giving him a reprimand.

okay. did.

“Wait a minute. By the way, old man.”

“Why! What!”

“You gave it to me this time, right?”

“What else!”

“Artifact. For defense or escape. For my beloved son, daughter-in-law, and precious granddaughter.”

“… … Huh?”

Dean Hu looks at me with an expression of complete confusion on his face, and then looks around at the people around him.

There was no need to wait for an answer. Just looking at that means it wasn’t given to me.

“Please. a little. Yes?”

Dean Hu bowed his head again as the words contained many meanings. In a way, I feel sorry for him, but my honest feelings are more pitiful.

“You still haven’t come to your senses.”

I didn’t just feel pitiful towards him from a humanitarian or human perspective. Dean Hu’s family is Dean Hu’s Achilles’ heel.

So is this simply Dean Hu’s Achilles’ heel?

you’re welcome!

If he turns into an enemy for whatever reason, whether it’s through threats or coercion, it’s not just a matter of one superhuman getting away.

Dean Hu is a link to the Cradle of the Unmanned and also has a close relationship with the Tower of the Wise.

Where is that?

He is the person who knows the most secrets about me and the Arcana.

Didn’t you take the Mana Oath?

What does it matter?

When an enemy tries to get information from Dean Hu, if he thinks the information is more important than destroying his mana core, which means losing his superhuman power, he will of course force it.

If you assume the worst of the worst.

I feel sorry for Catherine, who seems strangely friendly to me, and I feel worried. Emotionally, yes.

Aunt Poppy and Uncle Joseph are also people for whom I am grateful and thankful for treating me as if they were trying to teach me, who grew up without knowing the love of my parents.

However, that is not why I openly show my disappointment to Dean Hu. It may sound like I’m repeating myself, but this was so important.

“No shame.”

“I’m not doing this just because I’m worried about Catherine.”

At the very least, there should not have been any room for harm to those of us on the same side.

“… that. I’m sorry.”

“Yes.”

His apology was natural, and I ended it with the hope that he would come to his senses.

At least in this place.