episode_0149

As we were talking, the sky outside the window turned yellow.

It’s evening.

Victoria asked me if I wanted to have dinner with her, but I shook my head because I had somewhere else to go.

The dorm she lives in provides dinner, so at least she won’t miss out on anything.

So, after saying goodbye to Victoria and saying goodbye tomorrow, I left the student dormitory.

The large building immediately to the left as you exit the main gate.

That’s where I live.

As soon as you enter, someone comes out to greet you. He’s not a caretaker or anything, but a real butler. Since this is a place where King Hypion himself stays, it’s strange that there’s no one like him.

Once inside, the work is simple.

Wash, change clothes, eat, and leave.

The problem with not revealing your opinions too much is that you have absolutely no money in hand.

No one ever explains to me why I was put into the Royal Academy, so it’s a bit frustrating having to guess everything.

My brain isn’t that good to begin with, so it’s hard for me to predict what will happen in the future or the thoughts of someone I haven’t seen, let alone interpret what I’ve experienced.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t help but ask.

One day, Hypion will grow old, and as he grows old, his body will wear out and he will become sick. Then, he will eventually use the opportunity for healing called the Harvest. He may not know when he will use this one opportunity, but he will definitely use it.

You said it was a good harvest season, right?

It’s better to aim for that time since you can get organized memories at that time.

When the harvest season comes, I don’t read the memories after that. I watch them together and remember them. There’s a subtle difference. If the subject of the subject is included in the memory, my subjectivity is included when I watch them together.

Of course, it doesn’t only have its drawbacks.

You can’t literally control that body, but you can still feel it. No, you can feel it even more.

I feel all the body movements that can be called unconscious, starting from the surface of the skin and all the way to the internal organs.

That’s how I spent my day.

***

The next day.

My body was sleeping, but I myself was not sleeping, so I woke up in the morning.

A person with the job of a maid came in and made a creepy expression as she saw me getting up right away.

Is it that strange?

It could be seen that way because it is a mixture of Soo-oh’s appearance before he grew taller and Cho-seol’s appearance.

Her skin is so white that she looks pale.

When I get out of bed, a maid comes to me. And I wash as she tells me to, and I get dressed as she tells me to.

Afterwards, while I was eating breakfast, a butler whose name I didn’t know yet asked me if I wanted a carriage ready, but I shook my head and declined.

I felt like if I didn’t walk even this much, there wouldn’t be much movement.

So I greet the butler who sees me off at the entrance and go straight to the Royal Academy.

Carriages travel along the street that stretches from the main gate to the building in the middle of the school.

And next to them, students coming out of the dormitory are walking to school. Some people, like me, live outside, while others live in the dormitory.

The building has a very classical appearance. There is a staircase leading up to the entrance, and there is a row of large pillars, as if it were a temple.

When you go inside, there is a wide space. And on both sides of the wide space. There are stairs that you can go up. The stairs go up in a spiral direction on both the left and right.

But I won’t be going up there until next year.

Because the grades and floors are matched.

Since I was a first-year student, I headed to the classroom on the first floor.

It is not a space with desks and chairs lined up closely together like a classroom in faded memories.

Rather, it is very wide. There is a fan-shaped space, and at the top there is a podium where the teacher teaches, like a performance hall. And around it, there are tables and chairs arranged like steps.

Considering the number of people, it is so open that it might be too sparsely populated to be called a classroom.

There are already several students inside. There are both boys and girls.

If you stand at the entrance and look around the class, you will see four large groups. Strictly speaking, there are five.

The last one is the group without a group. Victoria and I are in that group too.

Victoria hasn’t arrived yet.

He’s a late riser. He’s one of those people today. He’s running hard right now, so I hope he doesn’t get late.

With that thought in mind, I headed to the seat I had sat in yesterday.

I went up the stairs and there was already someone there.

“Eek!”

As soon as she saw me, a girl got up from her seat in surprise, apologized, and ran away. She was in this class yesterday, so she couldn’t run away even if she ran away, so why was she running away?

He went away without giving me a chance to say anything.

Since I couldn’t move to another seat, I went back to the seat I sat in yesterday.

I took a look just in case and the place was clean.

If I had done something, I would have done it.

If you look at it, it wasn’t that noticeable, so it just sat there and then got startled and ran away when I left.

I should have just gone and sat down in the empty seat.

The seat I sat in yesterday was empty, so I thought I could always sit there, but surely the seats don’t change every day of the week?

Not long after, Victoria came in.

The teacher came in right after that, so I barely avoided being late.

Victoria sits next to me like yesterday.

I guess I must have run so fast because I can feel the heat coming from your body all the way here.

Okay, wake up a little earlier.

Fortunately, I don’t know if it’s fortunate or if he’s just using his superpowers for something really useless, but the sweat on his body evaporates as soon as it comes out, so his clothes don’t get wet at all.

At first, I thought it would be hard to breathe, but as soon as the sweat came out of my body, it evaporated.

When I saw that, I knew he had superpowers.

There was something minor like that, but after the first class that day, lunch time came.

“It’s hard, Bell… ….”

As everyone stood up and left, Victoria whispered to me. She looked tired, not physically, but mentally.

There are a lot of people here who are in different positions than the people you usually meet. So I guess it’s hard for Victoria to be here.

Well, Victoria isn’t that social of a person.

He looks more like his father than his mother, and he loves tinkering with clockwork machines. If you throw him in a place where he has to be careful with his relationships, he’s bound to get tired.

“You’ll feel better after eating.”

“I’m not that simple, am I?”

But it brings a smile to my face.

I remember eating so much yesterday because the food was so delicious. Not only was it delicious, but it also helped relieve stress.

As it was a structure where the higher-ranking person would go first, I was waiting in my seat with Victoria, who was not of noble rank, when suddenly a girl approached me.

“You’re Belle, right? Follow me.”

He didn’t even introduce himself in an overbearing manner. But I nodded. He looked angry when I nodded without answering, but he didn’t say anything to me.

I want to say it, but it’s stronger to suppress it. In other words, someone called me using this girl. It’s an order to bring her here, so I’m holding back.

“Bell, can I not follow you?”

“Eat first.”

Victoria asks me, worried. Who the hell is worried about whom?

I followed the girl who called me.

The girl didn’t go to the restaurant. She went to a place away from her class.

Deep inside the building.

Even if you make a 90 degree turn, you go in deeper.

When we went inside, the smell changed. If the outside smelled like a school, the inside smelled strong. No, more like a strong grassy smell?

“Theodore. I brought you.”

“Thank you for your hard work. Go away.”

As we enter, there is a very sharp-looking girl sitting there. What is unusual is that, although it is summer, she is wearing a rather long dress, unlike others.

Considering that everyone in the class was wearing relatively short clothes, this person is likely either behind the times or someone who cares about tradition.

“Theodore. A wild man of unknown identity.”

“Is that okay? Or should I give the order?”

Then the girl who brought me here lowered her head and whispered as she passed me by.

“Behave politely to Theodore.”

And she left the room. She’s a really thoughtful person. Not in a flattering way or anything, but she thinks deeply.

The girl named Theodore is a popular person.

“Okay, sit here.”

A person whose name I don’t know is an adult or not, points in front of me. There is a table in front of me, and a car is parked in the empty seat.

So I sat down.

“For someone who was so highly regarded by the royal family, he’s very quiet. He seemed more sharp on TV.”

She looked at me and said.

If you didn’t know him well, you might mistake his face for glaring, but he was looking at me with curiosity and no particular emotion.

“I am Canna Temelaine Theodore. You are Belle, right?”

Theodore. He’s a man of considerable rank. Aurora remembers his name.

“Yes, I’m using the name Belle now.”

So I told the truth.

“That’s strange. Did you have an original name?”

His expression is full of doubt. And judging by the slight change in his speech, his stiff speech from before was pretentious. This is his natural speech. It seems like he is using his head to think, but is he not that smart?

“Usually I use my original name, but this body didn’t have an original name.”

It’s an artificially made piece of meat, so it doesn’t have a name.

The girl in front of me thought for a long time after hearing what I said.

“Ah. Are the owners of the body and mind different?”

At least I don’t remember saying that on the air or in the newspaper. But did this person figure that out from what I said?

“That’s right. How did you know?”

When I said that, the person who said it was even more surprised and stepped back.

Fear, disgust, doubt, and curiosity.

He has a look on his face that shows a mixture of emotions.

“I just thought, maybe, that’s what it was. It was similar to what I imagined.”

I’m not sure what you mean.

It sounds like I’ve imagined something different in body and mind, and I’ve said things that that person might say.

“What a strange person.”

He blinked his eyes at my words.

“What are you doing to me?”

“Why?”

“If the owner of the body is different, no. Oh. I see. It was originally an empty body. That. Since you said it has no name, since you didn’t steal it, you’re so confident?”

When you get straight to the point, ask about it.

This guy is smart. I thought he might be stupid because his speech changed so easily, but I was wrong.

“Yes.”

I have a smart head. Daegon and Wonshicheonjon are the same. Even though I have memories, I can’t do things like them.

“Your words are short. Are you embarrassed?”

“No, I’m not the type to talk much.”

When I talk too much, it’s easy to make mistakes, and I’ve never been the type to talk much since I was young.

And I said what I wanted to say for the rest of my life, to the point where my speech would never go back to normal. I begged, begged, and begged.

anyway.

“What do you want from me?”

She must have called me for some reason. I looked straight at her and asked her what she wanted. She listened to me, thought about it, and then said this.

“This time, to say hello. And if anything happens in the future, tell them that Princess Theodore called you and come find me.”

She said it as if she knew what was going to happen.

I drank the drink in front of me. It’s very strong. No, in this case I should say clear, but it’s not my taste.

Then she smiled bitterly.

“You’re not careful. What if it was poison?”

It’s more like advice than a joke. I don’t know what it is, but I guess he called me to test me out.

Well, let’s give some points there.

Since I seek to tell only the truth, I answered like this.

“Monsters are hard to kill.”

And then I got up from my seat, said goodbye to her, and left the room.