Chapter 322 – Children’s Thoughts. Adult Thoughts.

I don’t know how it went after that.
He answered the questions of the wizards around him, demonstrated the decomposition magic a few more times… It came to me vaguely, but I can’t remember it well.
Still, considering that the atmosphere did not subside and continued enthusiastically, it must have been a good response.
At least the demonstration ceremony was a success and my spirit magic was recognized.

However, the uneasiness did not go away throughout the demonstration.
Lena’s trembling eyes.
If it had been a disappointed expression or a face of little interest… She would have said ayy failed.
But that terrifyingly hardened face kept me from thinking that I had overlooked something, that I had done something wrong.

“As expected, it’s unheard of. This is my business card. Please stop by when you come to the Mage’s Tower.”
“Thank you. I’ll see you soon…”

The bombardment mage who helped me with my demonstration held out her hand.
Outsiders all showed favorable views.
A few looked at me with worried eyes with stiff faces, but that was none of my business.

After a rough greeting, I found the appearance of my servant.
Swish swish Because it is a small child, it is difficult to see with the naked eye.
Only the teachers from the academy looked at me with uncomfortable expressions.

Damn.
I’m not interested in you.
If you can’t find Lena, let’s find the reporter.
She will be with the dog.

But the reporter is still smiling beside me.
The urge to throw a punch in that fucking face welled up, but I barely held it back.

“Lena, where are you?”
“Well. I don’t know why you ask me.”

The old man opens his arms and speaks casually.

“You see, I’ve been with you since before, haven’t I?”
“…”

Crunchy.

I felt as if the wires in my head were about to break.
Even though he knew my condition, he continued to talk.

“Look. Eight days.”
“…”
“I won’t hold you accountable for my broken golem. Just tell me about the magic later.”
“Responsibility?”
“If I knew it was going to break, I wouldn’t have taken it out so easily.”
“I didn’t even know it was so old that it could be broken by a new instructor’s magic.”
“Still, isn’t it true that you broke it?”
“In the first place, you are my…”
“Teacher.”

He immediately turned his head.
There, my squire, whom I was looking for eagerly, stood with his hands together, business-like as usual.

“You’ve worked hard.”

The smile on his lips made him look like a doll.
Words that are not sincere at all.

Why?
At least you can congratulate me.
I was sad inside, but now is not the time for that.
I turned my back completely on reporter Yeo and knelt down to meet him at eye level.

“Did you see?”
“Yes. I saw it well.”
“I’m glad. That… How was it?”
“Yes. It was a very good magic. Although there are concerns about abuse, it is innovative and great enough to blow away concerns…”
“No no.”

I don’t want to be praised like that.
I just…

…Just what?

No matter how much I thought about it, I swallowed the incomplete words and forced myself to speak.

“It’s nothing to talk about here, but shall we move for a while?”
“I’ll move it.”

Reporter Yire turned his back and walked away.
I didn’t like that relaxed gesture.
He soon turned his attention away from him and focused on Lena.

“Lena.”
“Yes, teacher.”
“Now slowly… Why don’t you focus on your original job?”
“Work…?”

Lena’s eyes widened slightly.

“Until now, I had nothing to do, so I was working under the Vice Principal’s command, but now I’m going to be busy.”
“Yes…”

Lena is good at hiding her feelings.
Even so, there was a hint of reluctance in her tone.
Anxiety is amplified.
Is there something, something that can make her heart flutter?

Let’s think about what Lena wants.
She was right below the Archmage at this young age. She aims to become the youngest pleon.

Desire for honor? Performance?
The means that can fill it up to me right now… There are many.

“Since it has become a sword of mad flame, it will be called here and there, and there will be many things to learn from work.”
“Yes. I think it’s great.”

A tone with no emotion whatsoever.
Okay. I was wrong.
There shouldn’t be a lot of work to do.
It seems that he wants to achieve success in the magic world, not just success, and he has devoted himself to magic for only a week, but the study of magic is so deep that it is hard to know the end.
It’s nonsense that you have less time to study.

“Come to think of it, there won’t be much to do.”
“…What do you mean by that?”

Lena widens her eyes.
She showed interest.
It’s a chance.

“It means that you don’t have to focus on the seed’s work, you just have to study. In the first place, I promised the boss that.”
“…Aha.”

Is it still lacking

“But, but, sir. But as a servant…”
“It’s okay. That… There is one student and one stranger who have both said they want to be my squire. In the worst case, we can leave the seed to them.”
“Oh, I see…”

I don’t know why my words are getting smaller and my voice is getting smaller.
What am I doing wrong
Why is he doing this

I didn’t want to do that, but the rage that was like garbage and cruel, but clearly my own, was slowly raising my head.

Fuck.
Annoyed.
Why do I have to make fun of you like this?
To the subject that I only followed as a servant, to the subject of a girl with nothing, what was so good about it…

…
No, no.
These asshole thoughts are just out of anger, and they don’t mean it at all.
It’s like a dog.
I didn’t mean to think like that.

“You don’t have to do anything. Just…”
“Teacher.”

It was a low voice, but it also sounded heavy.
The little girl’s call froze me.

“I, I… I want to be a Pleon.”
“…Yes.”
“And I think the quickest way to become a Pleon is to work as a journalist and assistant principal.”
“…Yes.”

Lena stared straight at me.
She is biting her lip and shaking her body as if holding back something.

“Give me time. Just give me a little more time… I’ll be right back.”
“…Little.”

How much.
I’m glad I didn’t ask.
Because it won’t be any more miserable.

There was silence for a while.
Soon, Lena bowed her back and ran away, and her I lowered her neck as if she were on one knee.

“Instructor.”
“…?”

When she looked up, Professor Pai Chen was looking down at me.

“The demonstration hall. Shall we clean it up?”

He had an expressionless face, but somehow he seemed to be laughing at me.
But I didn’t have the energy to get angry.

I don’t know how the demonstration ended.
Several people came to me and then left.
Later, he even came to the principal and congratulated me.
I gave a rough answer.
Then, when I came to my senses, it was already evening, and I was sitting blankly in a chair.
Feeling the presence, I turned my head and saw someone lying next to me blowing on a bottle.

“…When did you come?”
“It’s not that you didn’t pretend to know, you really didn’t know, brother.”

It was Mullin.
She’s holding a bottle in her mouth and holding her dick… Like… Ha.
…Will turn
It doesn’t even drip like usual.
Have you ever been so discouraged?

“What are you so down on?”

It must have been visible to Mullin.
She glanced at her asking in her puzzled voice and shook her head.

“The demonstration ceremony was also successfully finished.”
“Why did you come?”

Aren’t you even close friends with me?
Or, did you come to ask something you couldn’t ask these days?
Perhaps something related to Nanar.
But Mullin gulped down her drink without a word from her, and I glared at her.

“Why did you come?”
“…To watch.”
“Watch?”
“Sister… The principal told me to go.”
“? Why?”

It’s the first time I’ve seen him hesitate like this.

“Why?”
“… I feel anxious because I think I’m going to do something.”
“…”

What to do
They take good care of me, so I’m not angry.
If I stayed like this, I would go to the research center with a knife.

“Is that so…”

He laid her head on the sofa.
Then Mullins came up to her and she gave her a slap in the face.
It doesn’t hurt that much, it’s just a slap to the point of pushing it.

“…What is it?”
“No. I wonder if this is the bastard I used to know…”

Laughter came out at the bewildered tone.

“Why is that? What the hell.”
“…Hey Mullin. Since you’re also a lecturer…”
“Except for now.”
“Yes. Since you are a lecturer, you must know about the job, right?”
“To some extent.”
“Then…”

And I asked what I was curious about.
I lent her subordinates to another instructor’s formal work request, but can I cancel the request at will?

“Instructor’s request… If you’re a professor, you don’t have time to do it, so you have no choice but to borrow it, but if you’re the same instructor, that’s okay.”
“Is that so?”
“Because he was a reporter in the first place, and he took the vice-principal on his own, so it’s no different.”
“…Right.”

What is it, “My” Circumstances “Roughly” Knew “You didn’t know.
I got up.
Mullin made a worried face.

“I’ll take you now, right?”
“You sound all normal.”
“Ah?”

He grinned at Mullin, who was losing his temper.

“I’m going to take my seed, but who says what?”
“…”

In the first place It was simple.
She is my seed she belongs to me
If it stays like this, it will only annoy me. Let’s see the conclusion

And I ran straight to the reporter’s research lab.
I squeezed out the strength I was sucking on and increased my speed.
Mullin chasing after me was very funny.

“Hey! Where are you going!”
“…”
“Hey!”

I arrived at the reporter’s research institute right away.
I touched the crystal ball of the gateway.

[Who are you?]
“Eight instructors.”
[…

No answer came.
What.
Previously, when Gold, a student, came to visit, he opened the door and the instructor said, what are you doing?
I suddenly got angry.
Should I force it open?

After barely persevering, I muttered ‘one’ in my heart.
Then someone said

“Hey, what are you doing without opening it?”
[…! Instructor Mullin?!]

When Mullin, who was standing next to me, spoke bluntly, the door burst open.

[Sorry. Please come in.]

Discrimination is what it is now.
At that, Mullin let out a sigh of relief.

“Haa… Be angry with me at least half as much as you do to me. Even the kings of a country have such a high status that they tremble, but to those close to them, they are silent like a hukou, so they are ignored… Dude!”

I ignored it and walked forward.
Arrive at the front door soon. Professor Paicheon walked out of the security room.

“Welcome, Instructor Dre. What are you doing at this late hour?”

His words were polite, but his expression was full of displeasure.
It wasn’t her time to pay attention to him.
Ignored and passed

“…! Wait. Tell me what your business is…”
“…Two. Get out of the way.”

It was Mullin who said that.
He was glaring at Professor Paicheon with an angry expression.

“Mu, Instructor Mullin. But…”
“It’s the vice-principal who did the disrespect first. Do you want to make it a problem? Shall we make it big?”
“…”

Python backed off.
Thank god. If it wasn’t for that, I would have been beaten to death and it would have been a problem.
So I went inside, inside.
A place where you can feel the bright energy.
Where Lena is.

She was in the middle of the lab.
Dozens of researchers. I can see the faces I saw at the demonstration today.
Among them, he was working hard, moving around busily with flasks and papers.

Being called here and there by those bastards… I thought it would be difficult to study.
I took pleasure in it, then I loathed myself.
Am I only trying to make my own profit when I should be doing it for her?

Let’s take That would be good for her too.
I closed the distance
She walked over to Lena, who, as if tired, tapped her shoulder with her dainty hand.

“Teacher?”

Wide eyes.
What dwelled in those eyes was an emotion close to joy, so I was delighted too.

“Lena.”

A few of them looked back at me and made a surprised face.
Ignoring them, I said.

“I’ve come to meet you.”
“Sir…! ​​Thank you. But it’s a bit far from work, so if you go home first, I’ll be back soon…”

It’s an impressive eye.
I guess I did well to come here.
I said I wanted to at this time.

“You don’t have to come here again.”
“…”

Lena hardened as she smiled.
She soon became troubled, and so did I.
I didn’t expect this kind of reaction.
But I didn’t want to put it here any longer.
Even if he helped me become a Pleon, at least I didn’t want to help him go here.

“Let’s go.”

Reached out.
But Lena just stared at my hand, not thinking about holding it.
Bowed head. Two dainty hands holding the hem of the white gown given to them by the institute.

“Lena?”
“Teacher.”

She looked at me with her determined face.

“I can’t go. I have work to do.”
“It’s okay. I can solve it with my authority…”

Foot.

Someone spewed
When I raise my head, everyone smokes.
I felt dirty.

“…I can. I can take you as the same instructor. So…”
“I want to become a Pleon, sir. If I do my job here, I can become a Pleon in the near future.”
“…Fleon… I can help.”

Lena turned her head.

“Give me some time.”

How do I do this
I couldn’t tell.
With his head turned away as if he was ignoring me, while looking at me as if he was trying not to offend me… With a face like a stranger.

…No. It was someone else
I am, but still…

“Stop it, Instructor Dre!”

Suddenly, the researcher next to Lena blocked the way.
No, not just him, but others too.

“If you don’t do your job as an instructor properly, how are you going to help me become a Pleon?”
“Disassembly magic is obviously a new field, but to make a Pleon with just that. You’re too arrogant.”
“Lena is living a faithful life now. If you have a conscience, you should hope for Miss Lena’s future and help her. If not, do you want to take her away only for your circumstances?”
“Don’t get in her way.”
“Joy…”

Talking people.
Are you blocking her way? I?

…Is it?

I can not know.
I didn’t know much about the qualifications in this world, and I didn’t know that Lena was aiming for the rank of Fleon.

It is also true that they left Lena halfway alone as they said.
But…
Even so, this boils inside. Anger.
A week of hard work. This is nothing.
Just, the inside that had been boiling thinking about Lena for over a month turned into regret and 　anger　　boiled violently.

Rather, I wish Lena would have told me straight.
Just leave it alone
That it is disturbed
Then I would do that

“Hey, hey… Everyone. What can I say to the teacher…”

Lena tries to calm people down while panicking.
However, the researchers acted resolutely, as if this was an opportunity, as if they would not allow Lena to be taken.

“You’re just getting in the way of Miss Lena.”
“As long as we’re there, we can’t take her away. She’s already a member of this lab.”
“Go back, Instructor Dre.”

Boogle. Boogle.

I couldn’t open my mouth.
It was obvious that if I opened it, it would be a shout.

“Hey.”

Suddenly, someone stood in front of me.
It was Mullin.

“What topic are you guys teasing the instructor about?”

The researchers suddenly became quiet.
No, some tried to open their mouths.

“Ah?”

When Mullin glared at him, he fell silent.
And she looked at Lena.

“Look at this rattlesnake.”
“…Are you talking about me?”

Mullin sighed.

“If you’re going to tell me, be sure to say it and stop lingering.”
“What are you talking about…”
“I’m not a lover who fights for love, I just want to be a Pleon, and Dreon is annoying because you’re just getting in my way, so if I tell you I’ll quit your squire, everything will be resolved, isn’t it?”
“I-I didn’t think so!”

At Lena’s words, Mullin smiled hotly.
Like what kind of bullshit.
But… Couldn’t be blamed
Because I thought so too.
Lena caught her breath and she looked right at me.

“Teacher.”
“…Yes.”

How did the voice break out?

“I want to become a Pleon.”
“…Yes.”
“So, please give me some time. With the knowledge I learned from the lecturer as a journalist, I’m sure sooner or later…”

I’m a journalist again.
What the hell is that old man?

“Did Gizaer promise to make you a Pleon?”
“He promised to make it happen as soon as possible. He even wrote a letter of recommendation to the principal.”

It was a sound I hadn’t heard.
The principal didn’t say anything to me.
She clenched her fists.

“…Is there any help I can offer?”

Lena opened and closed her mouth.
She had a very hard-to-talk look on her face, and then she spoke up.
I couldn’t hear what was in front of her because I was desperately trying to calm her boiling head, but I could hear what she said behind her.

“‘…’ Please don’t look for me.”

Please don’t look for it At that end… It felt like a string in her heart was being cut somewhere.
And the researcher next to me did not know the speed of me and did not care.

“It’s not like that, but take this opportunity to cut off all ties.”
“This person is a great person, but when it comes to magic… Uhhh.

Then, Professor Piecheon, who had been watching, approached.

“It’s ugly anymore, Instructor Dre. Let’s go back today…”

Kwajangchang!!

When I came to my senses, I had blown all the fixtures on the desk.
Wind pressure rises, the researchers hit their butts, and the surroundings are broken.

“Teacher…”
“I!!!!”

The words I endured became evil.

“How much am I!!”
“Stop.”

Wiing.
Cheeky.

Something like tens of thousands of threads scattered around me.
All of that was a magic instrument where magic and science were fused.
When I turned my head, I was surrounded by tens of thousands of mechanical arms and dozens of magical weapons that came out of Giza Yire’s back.

Each one was as powerful as the magic weapon we saw at the demonstration today.

I remembered the conversation I had with Kaisir the other day… Why the instructor was equal to the status of a country’s king.
Indeed. This is equivalent to a country’s army.
It was that strong.
Considering that each magic weapon had a different spell, it wouldn’t be too difficult.
But. I didn’t have time to worry about that.
Just… I was distracted by the seven colors in front of me.

Spirits of different attributes summoned by Lena.
It spread out like a check on me.
Stunned, I stared blankly ahead.

“Lena.”
“…”

Seeing the little girl with a surprised face, I calmed down my boiling heart.
No, he just disappeared on his own.

Suddenly, my father came to mind.
Daddy once said something to me.
I decided that she wouldn’t talk to Lena like her father back then.
But I couldn’t stand the boiling emotions, so I squatted down and bowed my head.

Like my dad someday.

Haa… With a spontaneous sigh, I let out the words.

“I don’t know what to do with you.”

A weak voice came out.

“I… What should I do with you?”
“Teacher…”

I only understood when I said it.
I see
Back then, my dad, he didn’t know how to treat me.

Like me now

Cheekyuk. Cheekyukdeok.

Only the eerie sound of the magic machines surrounding me echoed through the silenced laboratory.