Chapter 35 – 13. Subject (3)
A rugged mountain range blown by the wind.
In the pitch-black silence where the sun disappears and the two moonlights are hidden behind the clouds, an out-of-the-box ray of light awakens all things from sleep.
Pagjijikㅡ Kururureungㅡ
A merciless storm of lightning.
The violent surge burns everything on the ground, accompanied by roaring thunder, announcing that Jennifer de Kairos has finally reached this place.
Every time she waved her purple hair and waved her hand in the air, the slashing nemesis increased in an instant. But her expression is not bright, with sparks all over her body like her lightning cloud.
“The reaction?”
To the question of the first princess of the empire and now the commander of the 3rd corps, the man standing next to her answered.
“There was… There isn’t.”
“·······.”
“As expected, our princess! The majesty of annihilating vicious lunatics with a single blow of great authority will be remembered in posterity—”
“It can’t be. Shut up.”
A man who shuts his mouth at her sharp gaze and shyly scratches the back of his head. Is he really the Empire’s leading transcendentalist? Jennifer lamented inwardly.
Carion, the frenzied mirror of the Five Classics of the Empire, supported by my father to subdue the cultists. Compared to his ghastly nickname and her splendid major, the man she had been seeing for a year was too light-hearted.
Frivolous Why are you so playful even at the age of 40? As good as that skill, or even half that, it would have been much better if he had a serious personality.
This man is also eliminated.
Nevertheless, his skills were very reliable on the battlefield, so Jennifer kept close to Karion while suppressing the rising disgust.
Ignoring the urge to electrify his mouth every moment, she gazed down at the winding mountains from the top of a mountain.
Missed this one too
It was a stroke of conversion to raid the main base of the cult and eliminate the head and executives, but it failed due to haste without sufficient preparation.
Hwangmyeong received suddenly the day before yesterday. To sum it up, it was an order to ‘finish what you were doing as quickly as possible and return’.
Cultists are evil. Members of his church believed in evil spirits as heretics and engaged in all sorts of bizarre eccentricities and bloodshed for a very long time.
Since they always operate only in the shadows, their identities are still veiled. At present, the empire does not know the gods the cultists worship and their goals, nor the size of the cult and who its leader is.
When they bumped into each other, they were always busy running away. Like Leia, a dark mirror, she often rode through the shadows and disappeared in an instant.
Jennifer remembered him from a month ago. Then she and her Third Corps raided a cave based on her hard-earned intelligence.
The cult was in the middle of a strange ceremony with a young man and an object resembling a kettle in the center. The unconscious man looked as young as Amer, and it was unknown if he was alive or if he was a corpse.
The raid was quite successful. The leadership escaped with the man, but she managed to secure the unusual kettle.
‘Their specialties are witchcraft and curses, so there is a high probability that this is also a witchcraft tool. I’ll have to leave it to Soniel to analyze it when I get back. No, let’s take Soniel on our next expedition.’
Jennifer recalled her sister, the empire’s greatest astrologer, with her relaxed smile.
One year since leaving the ecliptic. It’s been too long since I’ve seen her beloved sisters. She felt guilty for not being able to attend Amer’s awakening.
‘Is everyone doing well? It’s Soniel, you’ll be fine… Amer is in trouble. He doesn’t know if he’s been caught by some bad guy. Soniel must have taken good care of it.’
The rest of the male family is not her concern.
Dave will take care of himself. Because he’s one of the few decent guys she’s ever admitted to. And······.
Jennifer wished her only brother, Porcus, would die soon.
* * *
‘It’s also Soniel unnie! Best!’
Amer admired the refreshing morning after a long time.
The white pill that her sister gave her yesterday. Her medications for relieving the side effects of her own properties were effective.
Normal-level Awakeners say that a few magic tools are enough to suppress side effects. She herself is on a continental level, so she seems to need a powerful tool called medicine.
According to my sister, this drug cheats on the [Beauty] Attribute. Every time she ingests it makes her believe that she is having sex with after stopping or something. I don’t know the exact principle.
This doesn’t make the property side effects go away forever. If you keep taking the pills, your body adapts and they become less effective, she says. If that happens, she will have no choice but to eat the ‘undiluted solution’.
A piece of advice comes to mind as her sister hands her pills.
She–I’ve tried drinking the undiluted solution myself a few times, and the effect is clear. But she said that it was not an easily obtainable ingredient… Do I have to save on medicine?
Amer said she only plans to eat one pill right before bed.
‘I’m invincible after taking the medicine. My sister is a god.’
There are still many pills. It won’t be a problem for a while. You can use the time you earned on drugs to find other solid solutions.
She ate lunch in a restaurant dedicated to nobles with the ladies of high-ranking nobles she knew, then headed to the afternoon class.
‘Sex and sex’. A lecture to listen to after stopping. She took a seat next to Wisdom, who arrived first.
Now she herself is not afraid of anything. Starting today, this class is a method of discussing and discussing in groups. From now on, the only thing left to do is reduce the time spent near the stop.
Amer’s expectations were miserably wrong.
[ Joe Lottery Result ]
1. Celie & Vincent
2. Hyerin & Jihye
…
8. Zihoo & Amer
…
“······.”
Is it right that I’m looking right now? Even if you rub your eyes, nothing changes. Of course, to be in the same group as Jihoo. In terms of probability…
Oh, this is a dream That’s right, it’s a cowardly plot with a damned attribute that keeps trying to tie me up with Jihoo. Is this a lucid dream? Is the realism really that great?
“Oh, Amer. We’re in the same group. Please take good care of us throughout the semester… What’s wrong?”
Ouch! It hurts···. The pinched thigh meat is tingling. What is it, isn’t it a dream…? So, is this really real…?
“Huh, I wanted to be in the same group as Jihoo…”
“······Is that the same for me?”
In response to Ji-hye’s reflexive displeasure, Hye-rin, who became her partner, took one hit and grimaced. Amer saw a ray of hope in their conversation.
“… Then should I change partners? I don’t have to be Jihoo… Jihoo, Jihye, and Hyerin are all my precious friends!”
Rock Paper Scissors was completed when Jihoo responded that he had nothing to do with Amer’s proposal. At the end of that fierce battle, Ji-hye won.
“Oh yea!”
With a smile of wisdom, Amer approached the professor. It was to get permission for Joe replacement. However, the answer that came back betrayed her expectations.
‘Impossible due to equity issues with other students.’
It’s not wrong, but…
‘Yes? How dare you ignore the imperial family’s request?! It’s just… You can’t do that. Get scolded by your sister…’
Amer soon gave up and moved to a seat next to his partner, Jihoo.
“What’s wrong, you say you’re not a professor? That’s right. Please take good care of me throughout the semester.”
Her smile shakes at his laughter.
Probably no problem. You’ve been given medicine, and you won’t be seeing Jihoo for the rest of your life, right? Maybe she’d be better off sticking with him.
“The theme of the first group activity is ‘Speaking with consideration for the opposite sex’!”
Amer couldn’t concentrate on the professor’s words because every time she saw Jihoo, she desperately turned away from the new dreams of her past.
* * *
Magic is attractive.
Magic, a technology that uses mana as fuel to realize the caster’s will into the world, provides wizards with new functions beyond limbs.
The potential between a wizard and a non-magician is literally the difference between heaven and earth.
Learning magic is not different from ‘evolution’ in a way.
Just as the difference in ‘intelligence’ separates man from beast, widening a vast gap between the two.
Different human beings, classified as magical, are clearly divided in their superiority and inferiority in terms of their influence on changing the world.
That’s why I love magic.
Characteristics of the [Heaven] Attribute discovered during prior study of Imperial Palace magic.
I have been endowed with all sorts of magical talents.
[Fire] Attribute awakeners handle ‘Fireball’ better, and [Water] Attribute awakeners handle ‘Watercut’ magic better. However, I can skillfully manipulate both spells.
If I were to build a pyramid of people according to their magic talents, I would be at the top.
I want to build up my skills as soon as possible. However, the curriculum of the first semester of the first year of the academy is only classes focused on boring theories and boring liberal arts knowledge. New spells will start learning next semester.
So the method I chose is the club.
The ‘Magic Study Club’ under the umbrella of the ‘Magic Research Club Association’. This is where you aim to learn as many magics as possible. Throughout the club’s activities, the process of discovering, acquiring, and conquering new magic is repeated.
From here, as a magician, I will soar toward a higher realm.
Likewise, the ‘Magic Development Center’, which is under the same club association and focused on research and development of new magic, looked interesting, but such activities can be done at the research institute where you will soon enter as an intern.
As Hye-rin is aspiring to be a knight, she applied for a club called ‘Chivalry’ where she can practice her swordsmanship. She hasn’t asked Minho yet, and Ayeong seems to have entered the ‘cooking department’.
Wisdom joined the ‘Sorcery Club’ under the ‘Magic Research Club Alliance’. Her [Death] Attribute specializes in spells, especially curses, so it’s an excellent choice.
Although she and I belong to the same union, they belong to different clubs.
From now on, she will meet and interact with various people in a place where I am not.
Reflecting on this fact, I visited the Wisdom Room with Ireina.
“Welcome! Comcom.”
“Oh, this is your room. It’s cleaner than I thought. You didn’t just clean it when I came, did you?”
“What, I mean, you don’t know? Hehe.”
In the academy commoner’s dormitory, there is no clear distinction between men’s and women’s areas. Also, the rules are loose, so there is no problem if I enter the Wisdom Room late in the evening.
Since she and I live in the same building, the layout of her room is exactly the same as mine. Living room and kitchen, large room and small room. She would have had a large room for herself, just like me, and would have given the smaller one to the maid.
Maid, La.
We sat side by side on the sofa in the living room. The Maid of Wisdom took some fruit from the kitchen and began to peel her. I spoke to a person I had never seen before.
“Did you say your name was… Anna?”
“That’s right.”
“How old are you?”
“I’m twenty years old.”
The well-groomed brown-haired maid answered politely. I looked at her carefully.
Clear skin without blemishes, fine features, and long eyelashes. She is a beautiful woman that is not common on Earth. Unfortunately, her figure is hidden by the thick maid’s uniform, so it is unknown.
It gives the impression that he will do something very well. A woman who is sincere, skilled, and does her best in whatever I want…
Anna is a slave to wisdom. Over the past few months, Jihye and Anna must have built their own bonds by sleeping, waking up, and living in the same space.
It is doubtful whether the word ‘bond’ is appropriate for only possessions…
“Jihye, can I ask for one thing?”
“Yes! Of course! What is it?”
On Earth, there was only me around Wisdom. Repeated day by day with parents abroad. For years we studied at the same schools and academies, ate at the same restaurants, and studied in the same reading rooms.
But not now. Currently, there is also Anna by Wisdom’s side.
If we compare the total amount of time we spent together, I would have an overwhelming advantage, but if we only look at the last few months, Anna is also not easy.
“I was thinking of borrowing your stuff for a while.”
“Ooh, take anything!”
A woman I can’t be without. A woman who will do anything I ask for. A woman who would commit suicide because she could not stand the loneliness if I abandoned her.
A thoroughly unfair and dependent relationship. It is more than I can hope for.
I was all about wisdom. Certainly until a few months ago.
Not sure now. This is because there is a variable called Anna. I’m assuming that nothing much has changed.
No one other than me should exist in her world.
That’s why I’m trying to put wisdom to the test.
“I want to do it with Anna. Can I do it?”
I thought as I looked at Ireina, who furrowed her eyebrows, Anna, who was frozen with a fruit knife, and Ji-hye, who tilted her eyes because she did not understand my words for a moment.
‘Don’t hesitate, I want you to give me the answer you want. That way, neither you nor I will get tired…’
