Chapter 45 – 16. The Curse (2)
April.
This is the time when colorful flowers are in full bloom and vegetation is green.
April, along with October, is neither too hot nor too cold, boasting the most suitable weather of the 12 months. It’s not raining like summer or snowing like winter, it’s just a season to enjoy the warm and cool breeze.
The weather, which can only be experienced for a moment on Earth due to global warming, lasts for over a month in another world.
What are we doing now, embraced in the arms of pure spring, where the scars of winter have completely disappeared?
“·······.”
“Uhhh…”
Nemesis of students. A major cause of stress. A demonic creature trying to bully students.
It’s just a test
“Ehh…”
“This is how I… Die…”
We were summoned to a different world on the eve of the college entrance exam, the fruitful day of our 12 years of study, and we have somehow adapted to life here.
At first everything was different. Not only attributes and magic, but also food, clothes, etiquette, culture, values, etc., Were full of unfamiliar things.
In the new world unfolding before our eyes, the irregulars were us. Changing us was much easier and faster than changing the world.
Humans are animals of adaptation.
Now we eat, dress, say hello, and take classes naturally. This is partly because of the maid who helps each of them, and it must be because the academy has many similarities with high school.
Still, I hoped it wouldn’t look like this.
“Jihoo, I have a question in the mana management class… Can I?”
“Of course. What is it?”
Test study.
If you think about it, it’s absurd.
Why should I be semi-forced into the academy at the perfect time to be out and about?
Semester 1 is in March, April, and May, and Semester 2 is in September, October, and November. In the spring and fall, they focus on their studies, and in the summer and winter, they have the freedom to take vacations.
Even though I am already looking forward to the length of vacation, which is different from high school, my heart is devastated by the fatigue I am facing.
The idea that the first class in the entire school likes studying is a huge misunderstanding and prejudice.
Of course, somewhere on Earth or here, there will be scholarly scholars who fall in love with learning. Right now, in another world, there is a tomb called the ‘Magic Tower’, located in the corner of the continent.
I’m not that kind of an asshole. It was more fun to harass Ireina on the bed than to prove the basic theorem of the magic circuit, and he would ejaculate while kneading the curve of Iris rather than the beautiful curve of the magic circle.
I glanced in front of my eyes.
A beautiful curve that is as good as Iris catches my gaze.
‘You can put big breasts on the desk…’
With two breasts the size of Hye-rin’s head placidly placed on the desk, she is having a snowball fight with her class notes.
Hyerin is more focused on studying than anyone else in the library.
Her heat is so hot that you can see it with your own eyes. All of her children who approached her to ask her questions hesitated before moving their steps towards Nana and Minho.
On the other hand, I can’t concentrate on my studies from the start. Hyerin’s chest, which was within reach of her arm
‘Do you want to hold me? Do you want to have a handjob? It’s like saying ‘This pervert♡’.
It is an inescapable instinct of a healthy man.
Both sides of her were covered by a partition and two arms, so only the person sitting across from her had the monopoly.
This must be her plot.
It is a ulterior motive to beat me and win first place in the school by making me lose my mind with my body.
‘Hyerin is a scary child…’
Thank you so much but I can’t help it.
I have to study in my room from tomorrow.
It seems that today will be the last time to participate in the ‘midterm exam study group’ hosted by the class president, Minho, to unite the class.
It is an inevitable choice for my first place in the whole school.
In my first test in another world, the “Academy Entrance Exam,” I achieved an outstanding score of “Excellence in Practical Skills.”
But I couldn’t shake the feeling of regret.
Because there were two people better than me.
Nicolas Bondrania, ‘Best Overall’, Amer di Kairos, ‘Best Writing’.
I, who had been instilled with common sense in another world for only three months, and those who had spent their entire lives had different starting lines. That’s why my writing grades were inevitably low.
But this time it’s different.
In the first semester of the first year, 100% written evaluation is conducted without a practical test.
I took the same classes, with the same textbooks, from the same professors, and solved the same assignments as them.
No more excuses are acceptable to me.
It will be very different this time.
* * *
Min Hye-rin glanced at the man in front of her eyes.
Her wide shoulders, tendons exposed on her wrists, and her collarbones visible through the cracks in her loose shirt are sexy.
It’s nice to hear his low-pitched voice explaining problem solving to his friends who approached him.
It seems like you are falling into the black eyes that are visible between his bangs covering his eyebrows.
What a charming man, she thought.
Jeong Ji-hoo, whom he first met in high school, perfectly defended his first place in the school without showing himself a single gap.
She suffered a big blow to her pride and worked harder than she did when she was in middle school. However, the result is 0 wins and 10 losses.
‘Jung Ji-hoo ranks first in the entire school, and Min Hye-rin ranks second in the entire school.’ This was accepted as truth in high school.
Even more so, she was forcibly summoned to another world with the others, with only one step left in the final and greatest opportunity to beat him.
That’s why, for Min Hye-rin, Jung Ji-hoo is her rival.
No, it was a rival.
November, when everything was confused after being summoned. She was also afraid of the future. However, unlike other people who get together with her close friends, Min Hye-rin was alone.
It is because she has been a voluntary archer while studying to beat Jeong Ji-hoo at least once.
He approached her first.
He warmly embraced her, who was trembling inside her cold iron bars.
She was alone in the imperial palace, wearing her lofty mask and swallowing only her anxiety and fear, she spoke to her.
At her academy banquet, she protected her from the touch of her idiot.
I don’t know why, but she awakened her attributes through a duel with Nalari.
Min Hye-rin quickly became friends with Jeong Ji-hoo. As she gets closer, she sees something she didn’t see in her competitive past.
His kindness in reaching out to help.
His sense of humor doesn’t let time pass when he’s with you.
His charm that pierces women’s hearts.
The idiot who was good at studying was only a part of him.
Jung Ji-hoo is no longer just a rival.
A friend you can trust and rely on, who always helps you, who is so happy to be with you, who keeps your eyes on you…
It was ‘friend’.
Now she doesn’t even know.
The relationship between him and her is close to being friends, and her feelings are sweet enough to be friends.
But Min Hye-rin didn’t know much about her because when she was in middle school, she wasn’t interested in men, and when she was in high school, she was studying so she kept away from men.
Whether it’s dating, or something, or love…
I’m just certain that this feeling is close to liking.
However, she intuits the huge wheel of fate.
A rivalry that has been going on since their first meeting.
A mythological class attribute that is unique in another world.
One’s own attributes awakened at will after seeing his attributes.
Jung Ji-hoo and herself are intertwined with invisible threads and are partners who will play important roles in each other’s lives.
He is the only man equal to her, Hyerin Min thinks.
‘So this feeling is natural, ummm.’
She hates Jeong Ji-hoo.
He doesn’t even pay attention to her, she’s either absorbed in her studies or his way of answering another girl’s questions is annoying.
Min Hye-rin wants to talk to him. However, she is too cautious to talk about anything else in an atmosphere where everyone is studying, and like her other children, she still has the competitive spirit and pride to ask him questions.
She was grumpy.
“Ummm…”
She put both of her breasts on her desk, pretending to take a break and stretch. Then she casually picked up her notebook and pulled her arms to the sides to bring her breasts together.
A lewd posture that emphasizes the voluptuousness of the chest.
It is her appearance that only Jung Ji-hoo allowed to appreciate.
Every time I jog in the morning, my chest shakes from side to side, up and down, and it just annoys me. However, she knew from the knowledge she had picked up that a man would have no choice but to fall in love with this piece of flesh.
‘······How?’
Min Hye-rin looked at him, and she was immediately disappointed.
Unchanging expressionlessness.
He just looked down at a notebook in the same position.
Huh. Not funny.
Today, while studying with Jeong Ji-hoo, I attended the study meeting held by the class president to protect the loyalty of the executives.
‘Let’s see…’
Although it has changed a lot from before, her competitive spirit is still the same.
Min Hye-rin was determined to defeat Jeong Ji-hoo in this test, so that she could not help but make him pay attention to her.
* * *
The night after the study meeting, my room.
I sat down on the sofa and listened to Iris’ fast-paced lecture.
“Heaven is above all things, and all things are below it. The same is true for attributes. What the [Heaven] Attribute ultimately pursues is ‘dominion’. Your strength will also grow stronger.”
No, she is not Iris. Although her looks are very similar, Iris doesn’t use honorifics with me.
Her name is ‘No. 1’. She is an alter ego representing Iris, who is in a deep sleep.
Iris seems to be lacking in her sleep. She sleeps for over 12 hours each day. Originally, she should have slept for 100 years, but she wakes up in 10 years, so she does. Because of this, I spend more time with No. 1 than Iris. Outside, she is in my arms in the form of square scales.
“[Heaven] Is the most superior attribute. That’s why you should be able to handle the powers of other attributes and even holy objects.”
“…Wow. That’s really amazing.”
It is known that the ability to exert powerful effects is the unique ability of each attribute.
But to think that I can use powers of other attributes as well. This is an advantage I hadn’t even thought of.
It is also a mythical attribute.
Hyerin suddenly came to mind. I have a question.
“Then what is the [Earth] Attribute? What is that attribute, and can I control it?”
“Well… I don’t know. My knowledge was inherited from my parents, but in their time there was no [Earth] Attribute.”
“Hmm…”
Heaven, of course, exists above the earth. However, the [Earth] Attribute is also a mythical level equal to mine, and other insignificant things are also on top of the earth…
What I don’t know yet is that I don’t have enough information.
“—-What!”
As soon as I heard No. 1’s words, a very unpleasant aura came over me.
Black, soggy, dirty,
Some intangible ‘power’, like the gray residue left after being trampled on countless times by the cold snow, rushes to me.
Ugh
As No. 1’s mana filled the room, my room was once again isolated from the outside world, just like the first meeting with Iris.
At the same time, the feeling that was bothering me also disappeared.
“······It’s a curse.”
Number 1 grunted and muttered.
“That is quite a powerful spell for a human being.
She closed her eyes and started focusing on something in her. As the sky blue light swayed around me, I swallowed and waited for No. 1’s next words.
Curse? What kind of guy would have put a curse on me? I’m glad Iris is nearby. What is the effect?
My wait wasn’t long.
“···Yes?”
Number 1’s expression became strange. The anger seems to have disappeared somewhere and only embarrassment remains.
“I… Celestial. May I ask you something…”
“Uh. What is it?”
“Are you gay?”
“···What?”
Gay?
I?
Do you like men?
“Yes, gay. Homosexual. Or bisexual.”
What nonsense…
I am heterosexual
Are you crazy?
“Are you crazy?”
Ah, the sound of my heart came out inadvertently. To the other person I am grateful for who prevented the curse. Sorry for something
But why are you talking weird all of a sudden?
“Whew, I’m glad… Then even if you were hit by this curse, it wouldn’t have had any effect.”
“What the hell is that?”
“It’s a curse to fall in love with a man with the [Poison] Attribute if caught. Limited to 20-year-olds who like men.”
Speaking of the [Poison] Attribute, there is one that comes to mind.
“Can you possibly trace the origin of the curse?”
“I already did. It’s about 11km northwest of here.”
“That’s about it… Okay. Let’s go after Iris wakes up.”
“Yes. But it seems that more than a week has passed since this curse was cast, so if you don’t know the exact location, you may not be able to find the remaining traces.”
“It’s okay. I think I know where it is.”
A witchcraft club with wisdom.
The manager was clearly of the [Poison] Attribute.
