I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 79. Awareness

The drug-induced sensitivity made Elsie go crazy even with the slightest stimulation.

Even the simple act of being held, the mere shock of kicking off the ground to run, made her head spin.

Amidst the confusion, Elsie complained inwardly.

‘What the hell kind of poison is this…’

But the complaint didn’t last long.

It was because Doyun leaped forward, strongly planting his feet.

Thump!

“Ugh…!”

At that momentary impact, Elsie let out a deflated sound, once again burying her face and tightly gripping Doyun’s clothes.

It was serious.

What kind of vicious poison could this be?

It was such a cruel poison. Clearly, it was a sadistic poison designed to torment people.

Otherwise…

There was no way she would feel so excited, her body heating up, and her entire being becoming so sensitive.

The moment Doyun, who had leaped briefly, landed, the impact was transmitted once more.

It was unavoidable. Elsie could only cling on, feeling a maddening dizziness.

Elsie buried her face in his chest, panting.

Slightly flustered by the sight, Doyun asked.

“Elsie, are you okay?”

“No… I’m not okaaa…”

Elsie’s breath heated and then cooled his chest.

The collar of his shirt, stretched out as far as it could go from her constant pulling, was no longer a concern.

Because he didn’t dislike Elsie’s dependence on him.

Rather, he even wanted her to rely on him.

Doyun wanted Elsie to feel trust and reassurance from him.

“Just bear with it a little longer. We’re almost there.”

“Okay… It feels like the poison is getting worse… S, so hurry… please…”

Elsie buried her face and gripped Doyun’s clothes tightly, as if preparing for the impact that would start again.

Doyun nodded, gazing down at her.

And he ran.

The academy dormitory began to appear in the distance.

There was nothing she could do about the changes in her body, soaked in the drug.

While being carried by Doyun, she could only cling to him, bury her face in his chest, and endure.

Because she kept doing that, Doyun’s faint scent of sweat and body odor penetrated Elsie’s nose.

It wasn’t unpleasant or disliked, but simply unfamiliar.

Because she was so sensitive, Doyun’s scent seemed to stir her mind and become imprinted.

‘If… Han Doyun hadn’t come…’

Even if she had risked the danger of her drugged body and exploded with energy to escape, there was a high possibility that she wouldn’t have been able to return alone in this state.

She probably would have been crawling on the streets before long.

She owed Han Doyun a great debt.

‘Thank you… Doyun… When I get better… I’ll be sure to thank you properly…’

“Ugh…!”

A groan escaped again from the shaking impact of running.

‘Please, could you go just a little faster…’

“Haa…”

Elsie’s relentless effort to not lose consciousness continued until they arrived at the dormitory.

*

Elsie, who had briefly lost consciousness, lay on the bed with a pained expression.

Health teacher Heyrun, who had rushed over on the Bifrost, was by Elsie’s side, examining her.

Based on the information Elsie had given Doyun, she was examining the symptoms of her body.

The light of healing that burst from Heyrun’s fingertips enveloped Elsie’s body.

‘There are traces of at least three types of mental magic being used chaotically… And this is… Elsie seems to have mistaken it for poison, but this isn’t poison…’

Examining Elsie’s condition, Heyrun was shocked and muttered to herself.

“Goodness… What on earth happened to this fragile child…”

There were no signs of external wounds or other violence, but the extent of exposure to mental magic and the drug was severe.

‘Doyun said she was conscious until they arrived at the dormitory.’

It was terrifying mental strength.

There was no other way to express it.

Because the drug Elsie had ingested was that potent and deadly.

There were people watching Heyrun examine Elsie from a distance.

Doyun and Thrud, fidgeting and restless.

And even Reginleif, with a serious face.

The three anxiously waited for Elsie’s examination and treatment to end.

How much time had passed?

In the heavily subdued atmosphere, Heyrun finished the treatment and approached.

“It’s really terrible…”

Everyone flinched as Heyrun sighed deeply and opened her mouth.

Unable to bear it any longer, Thrud grabbed Heyrun’s hand and cried out.

“Elsie! She’s going to be okay… right…?”

Meeting the anxiously shaking golden eyes, Heyrun closed her eyes.

And slowly nodded.

Sighs of relief were heard here and there, and when she opened her eyes again, Thrud was half-sobbing.

“But tonight will be the critical point. And… she’ll need to rest for at least all morning tomorrow.”

Thrud’s eyes widened at Heyrun’s words, saying tonight was the critical point after nodding that she was okay.

“Wh, what does that mean! You said she was okay!”

At Thrud’s desperate cry, Heyrun looked straight at her before slowly shifting her gaze towards Doyun and Reginleif.

And she began to speak as if for everyone to hear.

“First of all, there are traces of powerful mental magic being inflicted on Elsie. As many as three layers of it.”

Mental magic.

It is extremely difficult to handle properly, and it is a dangerous magic with the worst efficiency that even erodes the user’s mind.

To be exposed to not just one, but three layers of such magic.

Doyun clenched his fist tightly.

“Charm, hallucination, and paralysis of consciousness. These three types of mental attacks have been confirmed.”

Heyrun took a breath and continued.

“If it had been an ordinary person, it would have been over the moment they were hit by those triple attacks… But Elsie seems to have gone beyond simply resisting and actually shattered the magic itself. So even just that is amazing, but…”

The problem was what came next.

“Elsie said she seemed to have been poisoned, right? When I checked, it wasn’t poison. Of course, it was as terrible as poison could be…”

Hearing Heyrun’s explanation, Doyun asked her with a disbelieving expression.

“Not poison… Then what is it?”

Elsie’s condition was clearly not normal.

If it wasn’t poison, how could Elsie’s strange symptoms be explained?

Heyrun stared intently at Doyun before answering.

“What Elsie ingested… wasn’t poison, but a very potent aphrodisiac.”

Everyone’s faces went blank as if they had been hit in the head.

An aphrodisiac?

“Its effects are arousal and hallucination. And it causes an effect that excites you enough to paralyze your reason…”

Heyrun looked each person in the eye and continued.

“The problem is… she was exposed to this potent aphrodisiac for a long time. I’ve neutralized it as much as possible, but the degree of concentration in her body is severe. Now, all that’s left is to wait for Elsie to recover on her own.”

So that’s why she said tonight was the critical point.

Hearing Heyrun’s story, the three were finally able to understand her words.

“Honestly, it’s nothing short of a miracle that Elsie was still conscious until Doyun came to rescue her.”

Heyrun shrugged.

So that’s why Elsie’s eyes were unusually bewitching, unlike usual?

As Doyun was lost in thought about Elsie, Heyrun asked.

“Doyun!”

“…Yes?”

“Elsie said she was conscious, but… was she really okay?”

“Um… she was definitely clinging to me more than usual, not like Elsie at all… but she seemed okay.”

After finishing his answer, Doyun’s back tingled from the fierce glares he was receiving from Thrud.

In any case, all that remained was for Elsie to endure tonight’s critical point.

“Saying it’s a critical point makes it sound like she’s seriously ill… but really, all she has to do is endure it well. Even though it’s been neutralized, there’s still some of the drug’s energy left, so she won’t be able to sleep.”

Doyun, who was worriedly looking at Elsie lying down, asked Heyrun.

“Is there anything I can do to help Elsie?”

Heyrun smiled sadly.

His heart was commendable, but right now, simply waiting was the way to help.

“Unfortunately, there isn’t. It depends on Elsie’s natural recovery.”

Elsie had briefly lost consciousness, but she would soon open her eyes due to the drug’s awakening effect.

When that happened, her body, which had been neutralized, would likely feel a sense of emptiness and be tormented even more for a while.

At least for a few hours.

Elsie would have to spend a painful time where she couldn’t do anything herself, and couldn’t receive help from anyone else.

“But if you want to help Elsie… the night will be long, so stay by her side so she doesn’t feel lonely.”

Saying that, Heyrun held up a finger.

“But! Doyun, you absolutely can’t take care of Elsie alone! Make sure two people are watching over her!”

“Why?”

“Didn’t I say earlier? Elsie is currently suffering from a strong aphrodisiac effect. Even if I neutralized it, it’s not perfect. So… you know what I mean, right?”

As Heyrun stared intently, Doyun understood her meaning and flinched, nodding his head.

It would be dangerous in many ways to have a man alone by Elsie’s side while she was suffering from such a drug.

Doyun, recalling how Elsie had unconsciously clung to him, blushed slightly and nodded his head again fervently.

Thrud, glaring at Doyun’s appearance, said with distrust.

“Han Doyun… I think it would be better if I watched over her alone?”

“D, don’t worry!”

Doyun’s face flushed as he remembered Elsie’s appearance, which had stimulated his protective instincts.

“Th, there’s no problem…!”

As Doyun stammered and shouted, the women’s teasing gazes poured down on him.

Unable to bear it any longer, Doyun ran out to cool his head.

He needed to soak his face in cold water.

Thinking that way.

As Doyun ran out, Reginleif said to Thrud.

“I’m worried about Elsie too, so I’ll come check on her from time to time.”

“…Teacher.”

“Yes? What is it, Thrud?”

“Those guys who made Elsie like that… we can catch them, right? I can’t forgive them… that innocent child…”

“You don’t have to worry. Hymir and the city’s mayor, Njǫrðr, are investigating directly. So you just take good care of Elsie.”

Thrud slowly nodded.

In her tearful golden eyes, there was suppressed anger towards those who had tormented Elsie.

Splash!

Doyun, who had splashed water on his face, let out a long sigh.

“Haa…”

Then he raised his head and looked at his reflection in the mirror.

“….”

Doyun slowly raised his hand and placed it on his chest.

The stretched collar of his shirt, the crumpled chest with Elsie’s handprints.

Beyond that, he could feel his own heart beating.

“Elsie…”

Just quietly reciting her name seemed to make the beating in his chest grow louder.

That pretty name, rolling softly, kept lingering on his lips.

The soft sensation he felt when he held her in his arms, the way her small head leaned against him…

“…Okay, let’s go.”

Shaking his head to shake off his thoughts, Doyun headed to the room where Elsie was.

*

Elsie, who had briefly lost consciousness, slowly opened her eyes.

Immediately, a tremendous sense of fatigue washed over her.

Like withdrawal symptoms, her body began to burn and ache.

She couldn’t explain it, but it was a very poignant feeling.

Her lower body kept tingling, and she kept twisting her body.

Elsie, who had started to sweat, wiggled her toes and realized that someone was holding her hand.

Turning her head, she saw swaying light pink hair.

It was Thrud, nodding off while holding her hand tightly.

Doyun must have safely moved her to the dormitory.

“Haa…”

She tried to lift her body slightly, but a terrifying sense of loss washed over her, and her energy drained away.

Still, her body wasn’t unusually hot, so it was bearable.

“Was I… detoxified…?”

Barely managing to lift her body and lean against the headboard, Elsie sighed.

Her lips trembled slightly, and she was sweating.

Was this aching feeling hunger?

‘Come to think of it, I haven’t eaten anything since lunch.’

As Elsie blankly stared at the ceiling, she heard the sound of the door opening.

Turning her head, Elsie confirmed Doyun’s appearance, looking slightly surprised.

“Han Doyun…”

“Y, you’re awake. Elsie, how’s your body? Does it feel a little better?”

Elsie slowly shook her head.

“I don’t know.”

After briefly looking down at Thrud, who was nodding off, Elsie shifted her gaze to the sky beyond the window where the moonlight was subtly shining, and opened her mouth again.

“It just… keeps aching…”

Saying that, she turned her blue eyes and stared intently at Doyun’s face.

Elsie’s appearance, clutching her chest and speaking in a poignant tone, was very seductive.

“I, I see. It must be because some of the drug’s energy is still left.”

‘The health teacher said the effects of the drug would be quite lingering, but was it this much…’

If she was still in this state, it might indeed be dangerous for him to take care of Elsie alone.

Although Thrud was dozing off in that brief moment he had left, it was fortunate nonetheless.

Elsie, who had been blankly staring at Doyun’s face, began to look at Thrud again.

“Th, Thrud must be very tired. She was running around saying she had to find you and even ran out of the city.”

“I see…”

Elsie’s languid voice tickled his ears.

Doyun swallowed hard.

His heart, which he thought he had calmed down, began to stir.

“Han Doyun.”

“Huh?! What’s wrong?”

“Why are you so far away? What are you doing not coming here?”

Elsie scolded Doyun with a slightly sulky voice.

Seeing her expression, which seemed a little disappointed, Doyun hesitated and approached the bed where Elsie was.

He repeated the health teacher’s warning countless times in his head as he took heavy steps.

“Why are you hesitating so much… I have something I really need to tell you… something to convey…”

Perhaps because her mind wasn’t fully intact, Elsie, whose emotions were more expressive than usual, lowered her head dejectedly.

Seeing that, Doyun quickly approached the bed Elsie was leaning against.

Then Elsie smiled brightly with a slightly flushed face.

That appearance, as if she was vaguely drunk, was so incredibly cute that Doyun clutched his pounding heart.

“I have something to tell you… I have to tell you. Because I owe you.”

“…What is it?”

Elsie raised her head and quietly looked into Doyun’s eyes.

In that moment, a glimmer seemed to flicker in her slightly hazy eyes.

“…Thank you for helping me. Han Doyun.”

Words of gratitude that she had to convey.

With those words, Elsie, whose consciousness became hazy again, lowered her head and slowly closed her eyes.

He felt a warmth in his heart.

Doyun stood still in place for a while, unable to move.

The moonlight was unusually bright tonight.