Chapter 96 – Research Collaboration

#096.

“Shall we go..”

Normally, I would have eaten lunch and headed straight to the abandoned building, but today I took a leisurely break and headed to the office.

‘But I guess I can help..’

First of all, they said that they collaborate on research every Friday to increase the time they can spend together, but I don’t know what to do.

“Something will work.”

But I don’t want to just hand over the books and say I don’t know.

Recorded by me too. In other words, there was curiosity about karma.

If karma and record are really the same thing, this was a golden opportunity to figure out the mechanism of my ability.

You may also know how to collect karma more efficiently.

-Smart.

“Come in.”

When I arrived in front of the office and knocked, permission was immediately granted.

When I opened the door and entered, I saw Cristina, who had already laid out wads of paper on the table in front of the sofa.

“Professor. What has happened in the meantime?”

I asked, sitting across from her, and Christina looked through her stack of papers as if asking about something trivial.

“I saw you at lunch right now, what are you asking?”
“Even if I don’t see you for a while, I wonder what you’re doing. What do you do?”

As she uttered her cheesy words, Cristina frowned and held out a piece of paper.

“Look at it for once. Because the rough research topic and goal are written.”

When I turn my gaze to the paper, I see the word ‘history of records’ at the beginning.

Below that, the information roughly heard during the prom was well organized and only the key points were written.

The first story mentioned was about the ancients.

“The ancients had a special ability to see their records..”

Does being able to see one’s records mean that it has a status window?

Cristina immediately added a supplementary explanation to the questioning chanting.

“Each person has a special ability. For example..”

Cristina muffled her words, then raised her hand to energize her.

Platinum colored magic swirled in her hand and began to compress.

She wondered if she could really do this. As she was staring blankly at the extremely compressed mana, Christina disturbed her mana.

“In my case, it could be called compression. It is said that the ancients called this an inherent authority.”
“Inherent authority..”

Looking at the same name, it was clear that my abilities were the same as those of the ancients.

‘Why did I have the abilities of the ancients?’

Actually, when I thought about it, the information was so small that I had been ignoring it until now, but was there anyone who sent me here?

How can you send it with this ability?

‘What’s the purpose…’

If the ability is enough to send it to another world, it is not an ordinary person.

Even Lucas, the 11-star knight, couldn’t bring anyone from another world.

No, it’s not that he can’t bring it, he didn’t even think about it at all.

And when I learned about history from Nia, I never heard of it, which officially means it never happened before me.

Then, suddenly, a ghost story came to mind.

The ghost story that if you reach the level of 12, you will disappear.

‘Could it be that he was sent to another world just like me?’

If so, he was most likely the same person who sent me.

Because it makes more sense than to think there’s another one like that.

Cristina said she should be left alone with her thoughts.

“What’s the matter? Do you have anything in mind?”

Christina sticks her face out to see if she can get some important information.

She shook her head as she stared into her twinkling eyes with curiosity.

“No. She has nothing in mind. Anyway, it’s amazing that you have unique powers.”
“Nothing. So, do you know what kind of research you are doing?”
“Um… Aren’t you collecting ancient records and putting them together to create a theory?”
“Yeah right. Then the long-hidden truth will be revealed.”

First of all, I know what kind of research it is.

But..

“So what do you want to do with that research?”

She didn’t say why she was doing the research or what she was going to do with the theories.

Cristina was silent at my question, then she said.

“I will find out where the soul goes.”
“A soul..?”

I don’t know why it flows from the record to the soul.

She tilted her head in complete incomprehension, and Christina shook her head.

“It’s okay. Since this is a personal matter. She said she would cooperate on the research? Then, organize the information in this book.”

Cristina, as if she didn’t want to say more, handed me a book.

Palak-

It wasn’t that thick, so after a quick glance, Christina pointed it out right away.

“You can’t… Don’t you know how to read?”
“Yes?”
“Otherwise, there’s no way it could be deciphered so quickly.”

I blinked and stared at the book.

‘This is difficult..’

Come to think of it, I’m just weird.

It doesn’t make sense to be able to perfectly read the language used in the past, which is unknown for thousands of years.

‘Sup.. Is there something strange about the status window?’

Could it be that the original owner of this body was a descendant of some ancient person or something?

Seeing that it had so many characteristics of the ancients, it was certainly suspicious.

She was lost in her own thoughts for a moment, then opened her mouth.

“By using ice slime’s cold and soft properties, it is possible to perfectly reproduce the female vagina. Continental men’s cocks average 12cm..”
“For a moment!!”

When she recited the contents of her book exactly as it was written, Christina stopped her face with a well-earned face.

“What, what are you doing? Why would you say that…”
“Did I say what it says here?”
“What..? I hope it can’t be..”

Cristina took her book as if she couldn’t believe me, and she struggled to interpret it.

And it wasn’t until 10 minutes later that she put the book down.

“It’s real..”
“Um… I’m sorry?”
“Oh, no. I’m really sorry. Anyway, how do you interpret it so well? Not many people have learned the ancient language…”

Cristina must be surprised that I can interpret the ancient language so perfectly.

In fact, I myself am amazed.

“Um… I don’t know. I read it from the beginning…”
“From the beginning…? How..”

When she shrugged her shoulders in reply, Cristina crossed her arms like a detective facing a mysterious locked-room murder, and she lost herself in her own thoughts.

She stared at him and tapped her on the shoulder.

Cristina quickly came to her senses and apologized.

“Ah! Sorry. Then let’s quickly interpret it.”

That’s how the two of us fell in love with interpreting ancient books.

It’s nice to be with Cristina, but I’m starting to get bored of reading all the books.

So I got up from the sofa to get some fresh air and said.

“Ah.. I’m going to go outside for a bit. Do you have something to do?”
“Then can you return this and borrow me a new book?”

Cristina looked like she was just fine, but she asked cautiously if she was bothered by the simple labor.

So she nodded briskly, took her paper, and picked up the books.

“Sure! Pamper yourself, please!”
“Then I will ask you.”

Cristina smiled, saying that she was not, but she was alone, but she was fine.

‘Good!’

Thinking that she was easily increasing her likeability, she left her office with joy.

After walking for a while, I immediately threw the books into my inventory and headed towards the Academy Library.

When I left the 1st grade building and entered the largest building in the center, I saw a huge interior.

After moving along the guide map for a while, the library came out, and I headed straight to the counter.

“I’ll return the borrowed book here.”
“Yes. Wait a minute.”

The glasses-wearing female clerk checked the books I had laid out one by one, took out a piece of paper from a drawer, nodded her head, and swung her pen.

“Confirmed.”
“Can I know where these books are?”

When I handed over the note Christina had given me, the clerk who took it and looked it over pointed to one side.

“They are all ancient books. There is that corner over there, so please look for it.”
“Oh, thank you.”

Thanks, I went a little in that direction and saw bookshelves tagged with Ancient.

There, I found all the books written on paper and headed to the counter.

“Please.”

When she put her books on the counter along with her student ID, the female clerk looked through them one by one, wrote a note on her ticket, and handed it over.

“Please return the books within two weeks. If you are late, you will be unable to rent for a certain period of time, so please be careful.”
“Yes. Take care.”

I lowered my head, took all the books, and went to the office. Suddenly, the store caught my eye.

‘Should I buy something..’

I like dessert, so I wonder if I would like it if I bought something.

Since you said you don’t have to cover any food, why not just buy something that looks delicious?

With that in mind, she went right into the canteen and started looking around.

While looking around, strawberry cake caught my eye.

“I ate strawberry cake at the ball too..”

Thinking that failure is an inevitable choice, she finished the calculations and headed to the office.

-Smart.

“Come in.”

She knocks and goes inside. Christina gets up from the sofa and she comes over and takes the books.

“Great job. You can just come in next time.”
“All right.”

She answered and placed her strawberry cake on the table, which she had been hiding behind her.

“…What is that?”

Sitting across from her, even glancing through her books, it seemed quite appetizing.

When she saw it, she became grumpy for nothing.

‘It’s just too much to give…’

She had no plans at all, but she must do some testing.

“I just want to eat because I am bored. Anyway, professor. What shall we do now?”
“Ah, yes.. Then, can you organize the data here? See the classification above? You can arrange it that way.”

Cristina’s eyes were fixed on her strawberry cake, and she answered my question hastily.

As I said, looking at the materials, I saw something like A-3 above.

As I was putting them all in order, I felt Christina’s gaze keep going back and forth between the strawberry cake and the books in my keen senses.

‘Because it’s cute.’

Come to think of it, Cristina is only 23 now.

It is said that on Earth, it is the age to enjoy youth in full swing.

In this world, even if she is over 20 years old, she will be treated as an old virgin, so she can’t be honest.

As soon as I finished all the data, the bell rang.

It was the bell announcing the end of the afternoon lecture.

“Oh, right! I didn’t eat the cake.”

I heard the bell and then as if I remembered it, I unwrapped the cake and raised my fork.

“Ah~”

She deliberately opened her mouth wide to show off and scooped the cake with a fork and brought it to her mouth.

Then Christina forgets to look at her book and she opens her mouth after me.

‘Oh really… I’m going crazy.’

It’s so cute it’s hard to hold back a laugh.

So she finally put down her fork and burst into laughter.

Haha! Oh, that’s really funny.”
“What, what? What’s the matter?”

As I lowered her head and laughed, Cristina looked at the fork I had set down and was very embarrassed.

“Do you want to eat? Actually, I don’t like strawberry cake.”
“What? What are you talking about.”
“Professor. You like strawberry cake. Eat. I have to go to dinner anyway.”

As she got up from the sofa, as if going straight to her dining room, Christina opened her mouth with a pout.

“…It must have been on purpose.”
“Actually, I was just going to give it to you, but the reaction was so cute. I ate it because I didn’t even eat it. Got it? You will be sad if you throw it away.”
“Just leave quickly.”
“Yes~”

She grinned and held the door.

And just as I was about to leave, I heard a small voice behind me.

“You did a good job today. …Thank you.”

She turned back at the voice and saw her face covered with her nose buried in her book.

“It’s nothing. Rather, you know tomorrow, right? It’s at the front door at 9 o’clock.”
“I know..”

After making a proper date appointment, I left the office and headed to the dormitory cafeteria.

And just as we arrived in front of the restaurant, a thought crossed my mind.

“Oh, come to think of it, I must have been salivating from laughing at the cake.”

***

Meanwhile, Cristina was looking at her cake and furrowing her brows.

“Be cocky.”

Whenever she had a chance, she hated Lai who made fun of her.

Of course, she also provided ancient books, helped with interpretation, returned books, and even bought strawberry cake, but she didn’t like it.

Cristina looked at it for a moment, then lifted a fork and shoveled her strawberry cake into her mouth.

She and she were taken aback by the unusual taste.

“Hmm!?”

Sweet and sour strawberries and soft yet rich cream.

There is a perfect harmony with soft bread.

But that wasn’t all.

A strange sweetness that could be called heavenly taste continued to linger at the tip of the mouth.

“What? This taste…”

If she bought something on the way to and from the library, she would of course stop by her academy store.

She knew the taste of the place well because she usually used it herself.

It was a good place to eat, no more, no less.

But this time is different.

Of course she couldn’t help but be surprised as Christina.

“Did the ingredients change?”

Out of curiosity, she split the cake with a fork and examined it, but she couldn’t find anything different.

So she split and ate.

Strawberries first.

“It’s delicious..”

Then cream.

“It’s good..”

And let’s eat bread.

“Huh? What?”

I felt the familiar taste that I had eaten countless times so far.

“Ah.. You switched strawberries and cream..”

With that conclusion, Cristina ate the cake and popped the last piece Rai had cut first with a fork into her mouth.

And..

“Uh? Why is this…”

I felt the sweetness even in the bread, and I fell into confusion.

Cristina, who had been looking at the empty plate for a moment with her questioning eyes, spurred her office to the canteen to resolve this question.

And again, she bought a strawberry cake and tried it and couldn’t understand it.

“Why… Isn’t it sweet?”

Cristina, feeling frustrated by her questions that she couldn’t quite solve, she headed to the dorms.