Chapter 692 – 692. Magic School Stra (5)
“Ah, father… ?”
Luna, unaware that this was her dream, began to weep for her joy that she had met Jurgen.
“Lu, it’s Luna…”
Jurgen hesitated at Luna’s tears…
“It’s Luna!”
He hugged Luna and started to cry.
Luna was stunned by Jurgen’s unfamiliar appearance, and she hesitated in his arms.
But not long after…
“Father…”
She hugged Jurgen tightly and she began to howl like him.
The two of them hugged each other tightly and cried endlessly.
It was only then that the two of them, who cried exhaustingly for a few minutes that seemed like hours, began to look at each other’s faces formally.
Her mother and daughter, who don’t usually shed tears, cried so much that her eyes were red and swollen.
“I… I made you cry again.”
“My father… You cried for the first time.”
The two said that and started laughing at each other.
Then he started looking around.
It was a flower garden.
It was also a gorgeous flower garden that existed in the past, when Luna was still a child.
Luna looked at the flower garden and tilted her head.
“What… Has the flower garden become like this?”
“Let’s sit down and talk.”
“Ah… Yeah.”
Luna erased her earlier impressions and started to walk carefully, taking a modest pose, just like she did for Jurgen when she was a child.
Her head and shoulders tightened around her neck so as not to shake, and her upper body and lower body stiffened so as not to contain useless temptations, and she slowly took one step forward.
Seeing Luna like that, Jurgen calmly opened her mouth with a calm voice.
“It’s Luna.”
Luna, startled by her Jurgen’s voice, grabbed her skirt with both her hands and stopped her feet.
“Yes, Father! Hey, maybe I made a mistake…”
“You don’t have to.”
“… Yeah?”
Luna raised her head and looked at Jurgen’s expression.
If Luna had known Jurgen, she would have yelled at her and corrected her posture in the same situation.
And after her correction, when her day was over, she would gather up all the wrongdoings of the day and shudder with her fear at the thought of being punished.
However, the image of Jurgen entering Luna’s eyes was not the Jurgen she had known until now.
“Now… You don’t have to do that anymore.”
She was a Jurgen I had never seen before, appealing with tears of guilt.
“I… I treated you too harshly.”
Jurgen then began apologizing to her Luna, reciting that she had done her wrong.
“As a father and head of household, I only put a strict stigma on you for not fulfilling your responsibilities. I… I am not worthy to be called your father.”
“Father…”
Luna said, wiping Jurgen’s teary eyes with her hand.
“Me too… Obviously, I was sad when I was young. But… I came to know now. The fact that I can live in the world thanks to my father’s teachings.”
“Hey Luna…”
After staring at each other like that, the two slowly started walking around the garden.
So we walked around and talked.
Talking about the past, the story gradually moves to the present.
At the beginning of the conversation, Jurgen’s lips moved a lot, but towards the end of the conversation, Luna gradually tossed it.
And at the end of the conversation, it reached a climax by informing that the family lottery ticket and estate had been retrieved.
Even though he already knew the story, Jurgen answered with a bright smile as if he had heard it for the first time.
“Yes… Thanks to you, me and Nora… And our entire family is alive.”
And Jurgen…
“Ah… Father…”
He stroked Luna’s hair and smiled happily.
The act of stroking her daughter’s hair as she wished in her lifetime. Although he did not live, he was thus able to fulfill his wish in a dream.
And while it was Jurgen’s wish, it was also the wish that Luna had been dreaming of.
Luna smiled as her face blushed at her unfamiliar experience.
“Father’s hand… It is really warm.”
“… I’m glad you made me feel it even now.”
The moment Luna felt languid after being stroked by Jurgen like that, she was able to recall the news she hadn’t told her yet.
The news she was going to tell her while keeping it well until the end.
“Ah… That… Father. I actually…”
“…”
Jurgen looked at Luna who hesitated and stroked her hair again.
Then she smiled knowingly and opened her mouth.
“Did you have someone you like?”
“Ah… Yeah!”
Luna began to tell Jurgen the story of her Holy Guardian.
From the time she met at school to the time she came to Levin to solve the case that broke out…
When Jurgen heard Luna’s words, he smiled happily and nodded to her.
“You are a very nice man… To do for me what I couldn’t do…”
“Father… As I said before, I received too much from my father.”
Luna explained in her own words all the respect and love she had for him, even as she felt Jurgen’s pressure as a child.
Jurgen took a walk around the flower bed, listening to Luna’s sincerity as if checking her first button, which had already been sewn on.
It was definitely the same story.
However, there was not a single hint of boredom on their faces.
As the story continued, the day began to turn red as if time had passed.
Luna continued to open her mouth, smiling regardless of the setting sun, while Jurgen smiled bitterly as if she was slowly getting ready.
“It’s Luna.”
“Yeah. Father.”
Luna replied with a bright smile that she hadn’t shown to Jurgen before.
Jurgen put up with her pain, but in the end she had to say something that erased her smile.
“It’s time to go back soon.”
“Ah…”
Perhaps because Luna was in her dream, she couldn’t take Jurgen’s words as a sign of parting.
It was just a way to end her pleasant routine.
Jurgen looked at Luna’s sad expression, smiled at her, and began to say her last words.
“It’s Luna. The man you like… It looked really good.”
“Ah… I’m so glad. Did your father like it…”
Luna smiled, dyeing her cheeks a light pink, as if receiving her own compliments.
Jurgen saw Luna’s expression and smiled at her.
The flower bed, which had been tinged with red light, began to be buried in darkness before I knew it.
Just before darkness fell, Jurgen said a word to Luna.
“Love. It’s Luna. Even before… Even now… In the future…”
“Father…”
The moment Luna tried to answer that, everything was covered in darkness as if the play called the world had ended.
..
..
“Ji… ?”
Luna let her last words out of her mouth and stared at the state she was looking at herself.
Jurgen, who had been looking at her until now, had disappeared.
Only…
“Did you have a good dream? You kept laughing.”
Sung Soo-ho, smiling brightly, was looking down at him.
“Uh!?”
Luna recalled the vivid scene of her meeting with Jurgen, and she gasped.
Jurgen, who did not know it was a dream and kept talking casually, was nowhere to be seen.
There is only Sung Soo-ho, who was just giving her a lap pillow…
Luna was only then able to realize that everything that had just happened was her dream.
Sung Soo-ho looks at himself with worried eyes.
Luna sighed heavily to calm her mind.
“Yeah… I had a nice dream.”
“Can I ask what your dream is?”
“… I met her father. You never came out of a dream in your life…”
Luna confided all of her dreams to Sung Soo-ho.
Seong Soo-ho listened earnestly to Luna’s words without disturbing his expression.
As Luna watched Jurgen and Nora’s graves and held back her tears, she barely had her last words.
“At last… I couldn’t say goodbye properly.”
Luna began to feel self-defeating at the fact that she hadn’t properly greeted her parents, even in her dreams.
She was repeating in her dreams the regrets she had in real life.
Sung Soo-ho softly hugged Luna and whispered.
“Then let’s finish here.”
“But it’s already too late…”
“No. It’s not too late.”
Seong Soo-ho gently removed her Luna from her, looked at her, and spoke again with a serious expression on her face.
“I think it’s useless to regret that we couldn’t do it before, or that we couldn’t do it even in our dreams. What’s important is… You are doing it now.”
“…”
Luna glanced at her grave while hugging the Holy Guardian.
Core of the mind.
Come to think of it, even though Luna came to her tomb and greeted her, she didn’t greet her when she left.
Even if she already regretted it, she continued to give birth to another regret, such as that she was late.
‘Yes… I was thinking wrong in the first place.’
Luna said to Seongsuho as she made a promise to herself.
“Thanks… Without Suho, she would have kept regretting it.”
“Ruler… Then let’s say goodbye formally.”
“Yeah…”
After hearing Seongsuho’s words, Luna wiped her tears, corrected her expression and posture, and opened her mouth.
“Father, mother… I’m sorry for greeting you so late. And… I love you.”
Luna smiled as if she had cleared out all the knots in her own heart.
After releasing all of her inner core, her Luna began to look around her.
Through the ornate windows installed in the building, golden pillars reminiscent of a baptism of light were shining onto the cemetery inside the building one by one.
“I didn’t feel it before, but the building is really well built. Seeing the sunlight illuminate the entire cemetery every morning…”
“Iknow, right… When she came before, she didn’t feel…”
It was a work of art that was revealed in reality.
And in the distance, a man who looked like the protagonist of the artwork was standing there staring at the large tombstone.
Even if the plaster statue was standing, it maintained a firm posture that everyone believed.
The dean looked at Claudia’s tombstone illuminated by the sun, then nodded and turned around.
Then he came up to us and smiled bitterly.
“Haha… Sorry. As I got older, I lost my concept of time, so I didn’t even know it was morning.”
“Fine. We even slept.”
“Heh heh heh. Then let’s go back soon.”
How many people in the world can make fun of the dean?
Luna could feel her liver shrinking at the sight of Seong Su-ho making fun of herself in the dean’s room.
‘Suho… Is he really the right guy for me?’
Luna was not blindly forgiving or understanding Sung Soo-ho just out of consideration.
The talent he has, the grace he bestows, and… Love.
All of this made Luna understand Seongsu-ho’s flirtation, as it put an overwhelming burden on her.
It was because she didn’t want to touch the patience of a man named Seong Soo-ho because of her jealousy.
And, perhaps because of Jurgen’s words in his dream today, Seongsuho’s evaluation, which was quite unpredictable, had risen further.
No matter how much it was a dream, the fact that it was tested by Jurgen, who was strict, was a bigger place for Luna than she thought.
Seong Soo-ho spoke to Luna, who was so burdened and at a loss as to what to do.
“Luna… If you don’t mind, could you give me just 5 minutes alone before I leave?”
“Five minutes? What are you going to do?”
“… I want to say goodbye to you two and leave.”
“If that’s the case, even now…”
“Well… I have something I want to tell you secretly…”
“… I see.”
Luna was able to shake off the burden that had built up in her heart at the sight of her Holy Guardian.
‘Suho didn’t treat me well for a reward. I also… Let’s find out what we can do rather than feel the pressure of not being able to do it.’
She thought so and said to Seong Soo-ho.
“Then I… I’ll wait outside the building.”
When Luna opened her mouth to the dean’s notice, the dean quickly responded with a smile as she noticed.
“I will wait outside too.”
“Sorry for bothering you.”
“Heh heh heh. Now that I’ve received an apology, I’ll take it as a sign that I can ask again later.”
Haha…”
After the conversation with Seong Su-ho, the dean moved first, and Luna followed him and glanced at Seong Su-ho.
The figure of Seong Soo-ho seriously observing the grave and praying silently.
‘… I can’t just take it either. I have to do something.’
Luna made a promise to herself as she headed out of the building.
