episode_0119

After a spectacular dinner, she and her roommate went to the dorm room and unpacked.

Maria’s roommate was Princess Albrecht. Of course, that wasn’t my intention. Just following the academy’s long-standing tradition, the partners were decided using dice.

“Hmm… His Highness Albrecht. Even if I stumble for a moment, you don’t have to worry. I do that often.”

“Oops?”

“Well, so… It means you don’t have to hold on to it. Because I’m better than I look… .”

“… Since you said so. Anyway, I understand.”

Albrecht was a quiet person. The light dark circles under her eyes further deepened her quiet appearance.

If an ordinary student were assigned to be a roommate with a saintly woman, he would be extremely nervous or even overly excited when talking to her. Maria has received such hospitality so many times.

But Albrecht was different. Because she was so quiet, Maria often spoke first. However, the conversation did not continue amicably, nor did the awkward atmosphere disappear.

‘Ugh… ‘He’s a difficult person.’

Maria, uncomfortable with the awkwardness, turned around and focused on unpacking. On the way, a boy suddenly came to mind.

‘Mr. Evans was surprisingly comfortable to be with… They seem to be the exact opposite. Oh right.’

Maria quickly took out a notebook from her pocket. I looked at the clock and the time was 7:50. Her ‘personality’ had 10 minutes left.

Maria, who was sitting on a chair, put a piece of paper on the desk and started writing down.

It was Mary’s long-standing habit and custom of behavior. At 8 o’clock, another personality wakes up, so you write down and inform that personality of things that happened during the day or things to keep in mind. It was an efficient means of communication between two people who could not communicate even if the sky was the limit.

‘Once I entered Eden Academy safely… I became roommates with Her Royal Highness Princess Albrecht. I was assigned to class A without any problems. and… Now I have my first friend. I am a friend of a different age than the priest grandfathers of the religious order or the nuns. His name is Evans Grant. He has a very pleasant personality and is very friendly. But I’m saying this because I don’t know much, but is it common for friends to pinch buttocks? Even the opposite sex?’

It is not easy to summarize a day in ten minutes. It was a familiar experience for Maria, who turned 18 this year, but there was so much going on today that she couldn’t help but be pressed for time.

Tick-.

While I was working hard with my fingers and scribbling the pen, the sound of the clock pointing to 8 o’clock rang quietly. For a moment, Maria’s white eyes became blank and blank.

*****

I feel like I want to storm into Maria’s dorm room right away, but the problem is that I don’t know where her room is. But I still have a way left.

The cool night air touches my cheeks. As it moves silently along the dark wall, it feels like a thief. Okay, from today I am a thief. Eden Academy’s deviant thief.

The place I’m heading to is the main building. The main building where Eden Academy’s classrooms and principal’s office are located. Why am I going to Maria when I have to go to her?

That’s right, Maria is probably ‘there’. waiting for me Of course, I am referring to Mary of the Night.

[During the day, I will be the younger me, and at night, I will be the current me.]

Maria’s personality changes at 8 PM. At least that’s what she said.

[Never forget and come in the year 701 of the imperial calendar. To Eden Academy’s reading club.]

Also, Maria invited me to join the academy’s reading club. I guess I was really looking forward to meeting you at the book club when I said that… There’s no way she wouldn’t know that the clown called Joker is impatient.

Like a wild cat, I walked in the darkness of the night and moved to the main building. There were lights and security guards carrying flashlights and keeping watch, but if they were caught at that level, they could not be considered professional thieves.

The hallway of the main building has CCTV installed like a dormitory. However, blind spots exist in any CCTV.

Blind spots are the home of thieves. A precious home that provides a place to stand. I lightly put my foot out and stepped on the dark blind spot. So we moved forward with great strides.

The place I’m looking for is the library. Of course, as I came to this academy for the first time today, I don’t even know where the library is. So, you have to go by intuition.

Libraries are usually located in places that are easy for students to get to. No matter how much industrialization is in progress in the world, and even if we live in an era where we can find the information we want with a square box called a computer, the old-fashioned knowledge that comes from books cannot be replaced.

The main building consists of a total of three floors. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders take classes on each floor. Then, where is the library likely to be… Probably the second floor. Because it is the easiest place for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders to go.

After making that decision, I looked around the second floor. Fortunately, as I expected, there was a library at the end of the second floor.

I had to hide myself because of the security guards walking around with flashlights on me from time to time, but the brighter the flashlight, the darker the shadow. Moving through the shadows, I arrived at the entrance of the library I was aiming for.

Phew… I let out a sigh. I have never thought of myself as having bird breasts, but my heart is pounding and my heart is pounding.

There is a saint behind this door. The Virgin Mary, who spent seven days and nights with me at the Tower of Babel 500 years ago, will be waiting for me.

Seven things that changed the fate of me, Oscar Lucifer. During that time, I learned about unknown emotions, and although I did not fully understand them, I came to yearn for them.

The fascination of seven days and nights lasted five hundred years. It was only a moment, as if I was drunk in a dream, but the dreaminess of being a saint made me intoxicated. Like a man in a back alley who was addicted to drugs and was only chasing a scent that could not be found anywhere, I came all the way here in search of a saint.

Clap-.

I grabbed the iron door handle. It was cold. Completely different from my head, which is hot like a blazing fireball.

Sigh-.

When I pulled the door handle, the dark interior of the library was opened. Inside, a figure was sitting on a chair.

“Ah… .”

A grin appeared. It felt like my ears were blocked and nothing came out of my mouth except laughter.

“Ahaha.”

I walked briskly. Right now, I don’t want to worry about CCTV or anything. The feeling of gratitude surges up to the very end of my throat.

As dark adaptation progresses, vision gradually becomes clearer. At the same time, the outline of the figure in the darkness gradually becomes visible.

Eyes, nose, mouth, ears. Seven facial features came into view. It is white, neat, beautiful and neat.

The corners of Inyoung’s mouth were drawn into an arc. Moderately, not excessively.

I had seen Maria smile several times during the day, but it was an infinitely pure, naive, and pretty smile. It was qualitatively different from the profound smile in front of me now.

“Saint.”

He let out a short sigh and moved closer. Inyoung still didn’t move a muscle.

However, the clear tremor of the air passing through my skin and the sound of her gentle breathing let me know that what I see before my eyes is not an illusion.

“It’s been a while.”

Also, that voice that penetrates my ears as clear as the sound of mountain stream water.

“Joker.”

Those white eyes that stare at me calmly and clearly.

“Okay, it’s been a while. Really.”

Everything about Maria makes me raise my eyebrows.

“How have you been?”

“No, because Maria is not there. I couldn’t even communicate.”

“Is that so? Thank goodness.”

“What are you happy about? I heard you haven’t been having a good time.”

“You will be able to live well from now on.”

It is a word with a clear meaning. I didn’t bother to point out the obvious meaning.

Instead, he fell forward as if he had collapsed. Towards her, who spreads her arms wide towards me.

Pook-.

A slender body came into my arms. The body that I have held indirectly through the silent cross for the past five hundred years is now in my arms.

The warm body temperature seeped into my entire body. The more I did this, the more I strengthened my arms.

“It hurts, Joker.”

“It’s okay, I won’t die.”

“Phew… Did you miss me that much?”

“You scolded me for being late in communication, and now you’re making fun of me? Should we take a look at the past?”

“I heard that there is nothing more enjoyable than chatting and reminiscing about past memories with your lover.”

“ Well, it’s not that I’m not good at talking, but I just can’t win over the saint with words.”

From mouth to ear, from mouth to ear.

Words that are communicated intuitively come out of each other’s mouths and enter each other’s ears. My left cheek feels slightly itchy as I feel Maria’s right cheek.

“Were you reading a book?”

“Yes, there is nothing better than reading to kill time.”

“What book were you reading?”

“I guess it’s a book about love between a man and a woman… I found it in the library. Shall we read it together?”

As if tickling my ears, a sweet question flutters through me. I answered firmly.

“No.”

“Hmm, aren’t you familiar with the book?”

“Later. I want to stay like this just a little longer.”

“It seems like you are just being foolish. Like a child.”

“You may have forgotten, but I am a child now. He’s an 18-year-old academy student. Since you’re no longer an old maid, why don’t you act like a child?”

“Hehe, is that so.”

I moved my hand up and pulled the back of Maria’s head towards me. Maria did not resist.

“Is there a scene like this in that novel?”

“Is there really a romance novel that doesn’t involve lovers cuddling?”

“No, I mean the scene where they reunite after waiting for each other for 500 years.”

“… .”

“Kkkkk, it looks like there isn’t one. It can’t be possible.”

He slowly stopped hugging me and turned to the side and sat down next to me. It is an action based on experience.

As Oscar, my only experience of truly loving someone was Maria, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have any experience with the opposite sex. Rather, he has dated and used quite a few women from one social status to another.

Holding on to someone for too long is a behavior that can make a woman dislike you. The demon’s fundamental desire is greed, but for now, it is suppressed for the time being.

It’s amazing. How could a clown like me truly love a woman and go so far as to suppress his desires? Not acting, but sincerely.

“Maria is a model student. Is it okay to go around places that are off-limits at this late hour with male students?”

“If it is for the purpose of edification as an apostle of the Lord, wouldn’t it be possible to be forgiven?”

“Rehabilitation? Are you saying it’s not something you do out of personal feelings?”

“People say things like this are ‘simultaneous and private.’ We also go on dates and educate others.”

“Do you also deviate from private life?”

“… It’s because I’m influenced by Joker. I was a good student who followed the school rules, but I ended up becoming such a deviant student.”

“Khahahaha! If the truly ‘corrupt’ writers see this, they will burst out laughing!”

I feel like I want to talk for even one more minute, but there’s something I have to do before that. I raised my finger and pointed to the library door that I had left open when I entered.

A hazy purple magic bloomed from the fingertips. An incorporeal hand named Telekinesis closed the door to the library.

Clap-.

The nights at the Academy are long. Chew it slowly and happily and enjoy it.