Chapter 44 – Final Exams (2)

A narrow and dark alleyway.
In the early morning leading up to Saturday, I was heading to the Meteor Shop.

– Come today.

It was yesterday that a message came from a witch who hadn’t had any contact since the first message exchanged. For the upcoming holiday, after having sex with Seo-in until he passed out, I quietly slipped out of my dorm room after seeing the message that arrived just in time.

I’ve been there once before, but it’s still a complicated road, so I used my search skill to head to the store.

– My daughter and my daughter.

And when I got to the front, the hinged door opened automatically as if it were an automatic door.
When I entered the store through the open door, the items on the shelves were still the same as if there had been no customers.

-Thud. Clap.

As I entered, the automatically closed door clicked and the lock turned.

“Welcome.”

Her voice came from across the shelf.
I didn’t understand why they had blocked the display between the store entrance and the checkout counter, but I didn’t want to argue with that.

If you see that the door is locked, you’re probably thinking of getting a massage.

I passed her display and approached her sitting at her checkout counter.

“Hello.”

“Yeah, it’s been a while.”

She said, wearing the same outfit as last time, her face hidden by her wide-brimmed hat.

“Hmm…? Siwoo, I feel a creepy energy from you. What is it?”

She asked suddenly.

She honestly expected that she wouldn’t notice, but she couldn’t help but be a little taken aback when she actually heard it.

“Hey. Has she become a demon?”

She asked, changing her tone, looking at me with golden eyes shining from under her brim hat.

“No.”

Knowing that my answer was true, she looked at me with complicated eyes.

“Then why do you have demons?”

“Killing Mine gave her Mage.”

I was under a lot of pressure, but I didn’t shiver at all.
I was proud, so there was no reason to tremble in front of her ability to grasp the truth.

“I see…”

She said with her serious face.

“Do you know about Mine?”

“Okay. Of course you know.”

She replied calmly, nodding her head.

“I feel like I got involved with those guys. That must have been pretty painful. But how did you, a human, absorb demonic energy…?”

She asked me with her questioning eyes.
Of course, because I am an incubus.
But I never meant to tell her about it at her risk.

“That unpleasant aura brings back bad memories.”

She said, frowning at her.
Perhaps it reminded her of her original world, which had been destroyed by the demons that had invaded through her world of glass.

“What do you mean bad memories?”

Of course I pretended not to know.

“I don’t see any reason to tell you, since the story isn’t very pleasant.”

As expected, he did not tell the story of the past, probably because he lacked a good impression.
I wanted to check my current affinity, but the moment I raise her mana to use the Eye of the Incubus, she will notice her like a ghost.

“There is a reason I called you today.”

“Are her shoulders stiff again?”

When I asked, she cleared me for a moment and cleared her throat.

“Hmmmm… It’s a fair price. Did you get that pendant?”

As expected, she said, dyeing her face red, as if she hadn’t forgotten the taste of my hand.

“Of course.”

I used my massage skill to go behind her and put her hand on her shoulder.
I didn’t miss the anticipation in her eyes, and unfortunately, today I started the massage with the robe pulled all the way up.

“Huh… Today was good… I feel like her shoulders have become lighter.”

She moaned at my touch, and after her massage was over, she caught her breath and said.

“I’m glad you were satisfied.”

“Okay. Let’s go back today.”

Again, after the massage, she tried to send me back quickly.
I had no intention of going against her planting, so she turned her back and tried to leave.

“Oh, and I’ll find out about Magi. Think of it as a service.”

“…Is that okay?”

I honestly wish I didn’t.
Of course, humans cannot have the devil’s power, Magi.
The more she researched this, the more her suspicions about me would only grow.

“Yeah, it will take quite a while… But I just happened to be interested.”

She said, resting her chin on her as if this was nothing.

“… All right.”

∴

The practical test in the Blessing Department was extremely simple.
How quickly you can create buffs and switch back to other buffs.
How many BPs do you have.
How long can you keep the buff?

All was easy for me.
Other students said that there was a delay in the process of configuring buffs and managing mana, and that concentration was necessary, but when I thought I would just use the buff, the buff was automatically cast.

Also my BP is 200.
It is a state just before moving on to the stage of awakening.
There will be no students following me in BP’s holdings.

Finally, the duration of the buff.
Having invested most of my points in mana, I was quite confident with the duration of the buff.
Unlike other students, I acquired BP regularly and raised my mana stat with points.

“Ahyeong, how are you preparing for the practical exam?”

“Yeah, actually it’s not me, but the spirits are acting on behalf… But it feels like cheating.”

In her case, the score is based on the power of magic, the speed of casting, and the number of types of magic that can be cast at the same time.

But cast speed and simultaneous cast.
Both were very simple evaluation items for Ayoung.

Since it is a magic used by the spirits, casting speed and simultaneous casting are automatically possible.

“I think I need to increase my power first, so I’m practicing intensively to improve my power.”

To put it bluntly, the power aspect was lacking compared to the other two evaluation items, but if it was the power of the elemental arts she was using, she wouldn’t have to worry.

“Then, all that’s left is writing…”

He was still studying for exams with Laysha recently, so he didn’t have to worry about supplementary classes.
In fact, I have already surpassed the level of study that I need to study, but wouldn’t it be better to aim for a high score when I started?

“I heard from Laysha, Siu, that she is good at studying too?”

Ayoung said while stroking me as if she was proud.

“Your hair is messy. Don’t do it.”

“Hi-Hi. Nope?”

Actually, I didn’t really mean not to do it.
Because honestly, it feels pretty good.

“But now, after the final exams, vacation will come soon…”

Ah-yeong removed her hand from my head and said with a bitter expression on her face.

“Are you going to your parents’ house during vacation?”

“Yeah, I guess I should.”

Ah-yeong told me the shocking truth with her somber expression.
From what I’ve learned, the character I’ve been possessed by is her orphan Eda, and it seems that she came out of her one-room at the same time she entered the garden. A character that didn’t even exist in the game.

Of course, unlike me who had no place to return to, she had to go back to the Seo family.

It was the moment when my swimsuit plan using summer vacation collapsed miserably.

“Why are you making that face? It’s not like I can’t see you every day even if I go back to my parents’ house.”

I wonder if I made a gloomy expression, she said as she met my eyes.

“If you want to meet anyway, you can meet every day. Right?”

“Yes.”

Anyway, her home, like the garden, is located in the Seoul area.
It’s just that we can’t spend the night together, but we can see each other every day if we want to.

“Can I go every day?”

When I asked, she smiled.

“Not every day.”

It is not because of my mood that a negative answer felt like a positive answer.

∴

“Student Kim Si-woo… Already has this level of blessing…”

The blessing arts instructor looked at me and said, unable to hide his admiration.

The way to take the test was simple.
While taking her test, I had to put her buff on her according to the situation her instructor said.

If a party member is about to be attacked by a monster, a durability buff.
If you are in a situation where you need to move quickly, you can apply agility buff.

Of course, the 200 BP buff ability that was cast automatically was more than enough to surprise the Blessing instructor.

“Student Siwoo Kim. The practical score is 100 points.”

The results of a simple test were pretty staggering.

Surrounding me, I could hear the exclamation of the Blessing Department students, who were fewer in number than the Healing Department students.
Feeling not too bad, I moved to the magic department building where Ayoung was taking the exam.

“The next Seo A-young student!”

The magic instructor’s voice rang out, and her automatic door opened, revealing Ah-yeong’s figure.
Should I say it’s more serious than the Blessing?
As befits a building built to train magic, the walls were made of manastone alloy steel plates made by smelting manastone.

Ayoung gently closed her eyes.
She did it to hide the emerald light in her eyes, but in the eyes of the other students and instructors, she would look like she was just concentrating on using magic.

The ball of fire flew towards the target with a gust of wind and then exploded.
It was quite powerful, but it couldn’t distort the steel plates around it, so it couldn’t use the power of Grun, and it couldn’t use the power of mist because there was no water.

Even so, Ayoung was smiling as if she was quite happy with her own growth.
The students around her were also surprised.

Now that her practical exam is over, she decides to wait for Ah-young.
The written test was after all was over before the practical test.

“Siwoo!”

As soon as Ayeong came out of the magic department building after the practical exam, she found me and ran towards me.

“Were you watching?”

“Yeah, how did you know?”

“Myst told me.”

Tell me something like that
Certainly, it seems that spirits serve not only as magic, but also as the eyes and ears of the spirits.

“Okay? It was great.”

When I complimented her, she smiled at her.

“No, it’s all thanks to Siwoo.”

“You tried.”

Ah-young, with her desire to develop further, faithfully gathered her natural mana and communed with her spirits.
But she shook her head.

“No. Didn’t Siu give you this spirit’s eye, the ring of growth, and the pendant of nature?”

Ah-young looked at her own ring finger and at her rings and necklaces around her neck, she said.

She didn’t have to say anything.
Ah-yeong and my eyes and expressions were representing each other’s feelings.