244. Lina Feels Strange (Illustration)

There is also the next schedule.

Actually, it wasn’t a very leisurely schedule.

Our Utopia decided to take a short break.

‘Everyone worked hard this time.’

Not only Ichikawa Gaul-senpai but also other party members visited the library at least once and cleared the quest.

Don’t you already know what happens if you’re too busy and rush for time?

Last time, at the Winter Palace, I was harassed and squeezed by party members.

I didn’t forget.

Let’s use that day as a teacher.

During the break, I was spending a short amount of free time with each of my party members.

In front of a sophisticated building that combines modern and hanok design.

The delicious smell that flowed from there stimulated the tip of my nose.

“Are you here? That famous soup restaurant?”

I visited a famous soup restaurant near the academy with Yuri Lee.

“Ugh, that’s right.”

I nodded to her question.

Actually, I was a little nervous now.

‘What is it? I don’t think it’s just my mood…’

I don’t know where,

I feel like someone is looking at me.

At first, I just brushed it off as just my mood.

The more time I spent with the party members, the more intense the surveillance seemed to become.

To the extent that I am now confident.

‘First of all, it’s not Sophia.’

I already knew that Sophia often follows me around and takes pictures.

However, there is something strangely clumsy about not noticing Sophia’s following her.

While taking pictures, they make all kinds of fuss and give every sign of presence.

Unlike Sophia.

The person currently watching me could not be caught no matter how much I sharpened my senses and expanded my scope.

Even though I feel like I am at my peak after taking Fire Dragon’s elixir and rising to 3 stars.

I couldn’t tell where I was looking, how close I was looking, or even if the person was a woman or a man.

Something is just watching me.

I just have a strong feeling.

‘Quite an expert…? But I watch it all day and don’t do anything. What is the purpose?’

“Jin Yuha, what’s wrong? What’s not good?”

I went into the soup restaurant and sat in front of me, and Lee Yu-ri asked with a worried expression.

It seems that my inability to control my facial expressions was evident on the outside.

‘······Well, I don’t think I’m going to do anything in particular right now. Let’s focus on Yu-ri Lee for now.’

I answered with an open face.

“No, it’s nothing. “I guess I just got something in my eye.”

“Huh? In your eyes? “Look!”

Yuri Lee pushed her face in.

I shook my head.

“Are you okay. I think it’s missing now. Ah, soup came out. Let’s eat! “I heard that this soup restaurant is the most famous place in the academy these days.”

Bubble Bubble─

One bowl each in front of us.

The white soup that had just been served was boiling and releasing white steam.

“Okay? Oh, I’m looking forward to it! “It feels like it’s been a long time since I ate soup!”

“Me too.”

“So, isn’t this the first time we’ve had soup together since we went to Camella’s Forest?”

“Hmm, is that so?”

Come to think of it, the first time I met Lee Yu-ri, we conquered a dungeon and had an after-party at a soup restaurant.

When she remembered that day, a chuckle came out of her mouth.

It was when I tried to eat soup with a spoon.

“Wait a minute!”

Yuri suddenly held out her hand and stopped me.

“Huh?”

She smiled brightly.

I immediately picked up a plate of radish radish on the table.

And then suddenly.

Lee Yuri pours the whole radish radish into my soup bowl along with the soup.

“······?”

Bright red paint spread across the white soup.

‘What on earth is this?’

I looked at Yu-ri Lee with an absurd face.

Then she said with a smile on her face.

“You like eating like this.”

“······Uh? Me, me?”

“Why, don’t you remember when you poured radish radish soup into my soup bowl and I got really angry? They say you have to eat it like this to be real.”

‘······I remember.’

How can you not remember?

Yuri Lee’s signature expression at that time.

The incident where I poured radish radish soup to see ‘Gal (喝) turtle soup’.

However, if there is a problem.

‘But actually, I don’t like pouring radish radish soup into my soup… ?’

Okay. I was originally a purist.

The ultimate soup-and-butter fanatic who just eats it with a little salt and pepper!

At that time, I sacrificed my soup with tears in my eyes just to see Yu-ri Lee’s delicious reaction when she got angry.

I never thought the karma I committed back then would come back like this.

“Ruler. Try it. “I heard it’s delicious here?”

She spoke with a face full of innocence and kindness, without a single trace of malice.

How could I tell Lee Yu-ri that I actually hate eating like this?

I couldn’t help but raise the corners of my mouth awkwardly as I ate the red-colored, contaminated soup with a spoon.

Haha. This is really delicious.”

“Okay? “I should try it too!”

Whoop!

Starlight appeared in Yu-ri Lee’s eyes as she ate a spoonful of soup.

“And! Really! This is really no joke! It’s famous for a reason! “The soup is very rich and savory!!”

Lee Yu-ri spoke with high tension, as if she was living up to her nickname of soup and rice.

I couldn’t sympathize.

‘This tastes nothing but radish radish…’

* * *

“Whoa… Full. Jin Yuha, this place was really delicious. Right.”

“Uh, uh. It’s okay.”

“Let’s come again next time! “I think it would be nice to add this to my list of restaurants!”

“Ahaha, yeah, I like it.”

“Thank you so much for feeding me something delicious today, Jin Yuha.”

“Well, it’s good to hear that you enjoyed it.”

“Then shall we go home now?”

In front of the Academy Clock Tower, Yuri Lee held out her hand and said to me.

I shook my head.

“Go first.”

“Huh? “Aren’t you going with me?”

“Huh. “I have to see you for a moment.”

“Something to see?”

“Oh, I’ll be in soon. “Go first.”

“Yes······. Well, okay! See you later!”

Yuri Lee seemed curious about what was going on.

She waved her hand and went back home without going any further.

Left alone, I lowered my eyes.

‘I can still feel it…’

Yes.

The reason why I was left alone after sending Lee Yu-ri away.

I must find out the identity of this gaze that is still watching me.

‘Who the hell are you?’

The person who is so persistently monitored by the Academy.

I still don’t know who it is or where it is.

I had a way to find out who the watcher was.

A method that can truly be called a cheat.

I took out my cell phone.

[Sword Demon: Master. I’m under the clock tower right now. ]

Wow.

When I sent a message, a reply came back right away as if I had been waiting.

[ Baek Seol-hee: Um, sorry. I finished work a little late today. I’m on my way now. I think it will arrive in about a minute. ]

[Sword Demon: It’s okay. I think you can come slowly. It looks like the watcher has no intention of running away. ]

That cheat key is the teacher!

If she has a spirit that is incomparable to mine, she will definitely be able to reveal the identity of the Watcher.

Let’s wait in front of the clock tower for a while.

Swoosh─

Tak.

The teacher suddenly appeared and landed in front of me.

“Ah, Master—”

Before I could even say hello to her.

Baek Seol-hee’s face hardened in an instant and his head jerked upward.

‘Did you find it?’

My gaze also followed her to the direction she was looking at.

Master opened his mouth into empty space.

“What on earth are you doing there?”

‘That teacher uses an honorific title?’

Woowoowooung─

Then, the air begins to distort with a powerful wave of mana.

“Chairman Lina.”

I couldn’t help but make a surprised expression.

‘I was told there was someone watching me all day, and it was Chairman Lina?’

After a while. Lina really went through the air and appeared floating in the air.

She was looking down with an uncomfortable expression.

“······Chairman?”

“······.”

“Was it the chairman who followed me around all day today?”

Then, Lina refuted with a tearful expression.

“Who’s following me around?”

Then, Chairman Lina suddenly started pointing her finger at me and admonishing me.

“Uh, you! Jin Yuha! You are the party leader in Utopia! When are you planning on becoming my successor by playing around with the party members like that? If you are a cadet at the academy, shouldn’t you put effort into training and studying!!!”

I tilted my head to the side.

‘Did Jammin eat something wrong yesterday…?’

Why is this happening all of a sudden? Is it dementia or something? Did you forget we went on a mission yesterday?

I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t even speak.

“······I think you need a proper explanation as to why you were stalking my student.”

At that time. Master provided support fire from the side.

“Well, just! “Isn’t it the natural duty of the academy director to see if the cadets are doing well!!”

Although Lina protested in a loud voice as if it was unfair.

It was an excuse that honestly didn’t make sense.

“······.”

“······.”

The gaze of me and her teacher became even colder as we looked at her.

Only then did Chairman Rina cower like a small octopus.

“Well, that is…”

She opened her mouth in a shriveled voice.