194 – [3] Chureop
#194
“It must have been very difficult. “I heard an old friend showed me something like that.”
“It makes me think a little too much, but it’s not particularly difficult… ….”
I told you earlier.
They said they didn’t get along very well.
“Still, since we are old friends, don’t you still have feelings for us? What’s more, she showed signs of extreme pain?”
“It was like that. “He said all kinds of nonsense, wondering if he was experiencing withdrawal symptoms.”
“If it’s my older sister. Regardless of the attack, he must have felt very sorry.”
It seems like something that requires reconciliation between the perpetrator and the victim.
Sister, you’re not saying that, are you?
“It sounds like you are asking me to forgive you… ….”
“Well, you could see it that way, right?”
It was real.
Actually, considering my older sister’s age, the teaching method itself is bound to not match the current trends.
I keep my age a secret, but I am certain that I have lived for more than half a thousand years.
It was natural to prefer the old-fashioned education of just making peace.
“But what my sister wants to say is that you should forgive her, but do not completely end the violence.”
No, wait, that’s not it.
What should I not collect?
“Yes?”
“Living like that for the rest of your life without forgiving is just as difficult.”
I know it’s difficult.
Why do forgiveness and violence go together?
Then it is not meaningful forgiveness.
How can we forgive the world and not stop violence?
“But it is also difficult to show broad generosity and just forgive.”
“…… “I don’t understand.”
“Yes, that could be true. But when I was older, I forgave everyone like that.”
It’s not like you can run a virtual machine in a human brain.
How can forgiveness and violence coexist?
“Forgive even your enemies. But don’t resort to violence.”
“This is my first time hearing this.”
“It’s an adage that’s been around since my sister was young, telling us to practice forgiveness to our enemies. Of course, it’s almost been forgotten now, so it’s not particularly strange not to know.”
How old is this proverb?
I’ve never heard of it, not even from my grandmother.
“Anyway, Sian, just this older sister, following the proverb, reconciled with an acquaintance who had been her enemy for the first time in hundreds of years.”
“Reconciliation…… ? What happened…….”
I’m really curious what kind of reconciliation this will be.
Is this reconciliation going to involve some punches?
“Roughly speaking, that friend betrayed me and became my enemy. “This sister forgave me with a pure, healthy, and young heart.”
I don’t know if I have a young mind.
I don’t know if it’s really related to the proverb I mentioned earlier.
“Uh…… Sister? Then what I said earlier about not refraining from violence…….”
“Of course, I didn’t just forgive you. “After receiving forgiveness through the help of my parents, I often used them as a target for magic training.”
“?”
This is all bullsh*t, right?
Has this sister finally gone senile?
No, I don’t know the exact age, but I don’t think I’m at the age where I’ll become senile yet.
That’s why I tried my best to understand the words that I couldn’t understand even though they were clearly Korean.
“This is the ‘forgiveness’ contained in that proverb.”
“That…… Is this right?”
“Don’t get hit. “Respect for people originally comes from violence.”
It may seem true, but looking at a thousand birds, it may not seem right.
But when viewed from a universal moral perspective, it was definitely not the case.
I was astonished and widened my eyes at the past that showed the end of traditionalism.
Sister Su-a continued her words clearly with narrowed eyes, whether she knew this or not.
“So, you don’t have to think too complicatedly about that friend. Just forgive and teach that child appropriate ‘Far North-style forgiveness.’”
Say you forgive, but use gaslighting to create a human bag, not a sandbag.
It was worse than anyone could imagine.
It seems better to forgive, even if it means risking being punished.
Whether I knew this or not, I explained it in detail.
I felt like her head was hurting, and I cut her off to get out of here.
She immediately said that her body was sore and asked me to massage her again.
No matter what she said, it was somewhat rude, but Su-ah still nodded her head with a bright expression on her face as if she understood.
Then, she gradually massaged the less-massaged areas with a very warm gaze.
“Chureup.”
The small sound of swallowing.
It seemed like the massage was a bit difficult.
Actually, considering the cold sensation I felt, I thought it would be a bit difficult.
You could say it was because the room was chilly, but the temperature there was normal.
It was difficult to even call it magic, but the related magic could not even be felt on her skin.
This seemed like an aftereffect of frequent use of ice magic.
As it was an aftereffect, not only her hands but all of her skin felt that way.
The good news was that it was not overly cold.
“It’s not that cold, right?”
“It was a little cold, but it was okay.”
“Hey…… Then I’ll be a little more gentle this time. “Turn your body over forward.”
“Yes.”
As Su-a said, she turned her body over.
As the warmed area on the front of her body touched my back, a warm feeling came over me.
However, although she was cozy, she was not comfortable.
The long chair attached to the wall of the laboratory was not ergonomic except for some leather cushions.
There is only one thing that offsets this inconvenience.
It was Su-ah’s sister’s massage.
Knock, hold.
“Tell me if the area you pressed hurts. Got it?”
The process of releasing the load on the body while rapidly increasing mana.
If it weren’t for this, the past month would have been a series of terrible lives.
It may seem like it is a bit long, but it had no choice but to be long because a thousand people gave her medicine that increased her total magical power.
When you need to rest and gradually relax your body, what can you do if you have increased your total mana even by just a small amount?
Moreover, magic efficiency had not yet been fully recovered.
It was better than when it was cut in half, but it still needed to recover a little more.
“Huh…… “By the way, sister, how long should I continue this massage?”
“hehehe…… Until mana efficiency is fully restored? But even if you stop here, it will recover naturally, so there is no big problem.”
“Then I think recovery will be delayed…” … “If I get a massage for full recovery, roughly how long will it take?”
“If I get it like now, one month? “I think it would be about two months if I took it a little more generously.”
One month or two months.
It was an ambiguous period.
Anyway, I was planning to leave the academy during the vacation.
Since it was impossible to take Su-ah, who was a professor, with her, she had to be left to natural recovery.
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“Why? “Do you have somewhere to go during vacation?”
“I haven’t decided yet…… “First of all, it’s not an academy.”
“Hmm, is something going on?”
Rather than saying there is work, you go there to create work.
Sister Su-a massaged my topless body and placed a question mark above her head.
“I’m trying to find items that increase the total amount of magic power and items that enhance superpowers.”
“Uh…… Why? “Aren’t you high in the Academy rankings?”
It wasn’t just high.
Since the reorganization, she has always maintained first place in the group.
“First place in the group. “It is on the high side.”
“Then why?”
“I don’t think this will be enough.”
“I got to first place, but I’m not good enough? “If you do that, won’t other people be categorized as terrible, rather than deficient?”
“Yes, probably. That’s why I’m trying to become even stronger.”
Horrible level.
It may seem like an exaggeration, but it was clearly the truth.
The gap between academy cadets and current hunters, excluding those at the top, was too wide.
Although other academies were said to be at a higher level, that did not justify the skills of the cadets here.
– “Come at me, you bastard!” I’m ranked 27th in the Hios Group— Wow!”
– “Surrender! Surrender!!! Help!!!!!”
– “Have fun dueling while following the rules and manners— 100 million!”
If they just duel, they will be swept away like fallen leaves in a cold wind.
For me to say it was because I fought well, my opponent’s skills were really poor.
It looks like you haven’t really captured anything that could be called actual experience.
That’s why I was even more worried about my future.
Sister Su-ah tilted her head as if puzzled.
So I pointed to the TV in the corner of the lab.
Sister Su-a turned on the TV with the remote control placed on her table.
Then a news channel caught my eye.
– “With the troops of the Atlanta Treaty Organization gathering at Chareltea. “The Kingdom of Catuium and the Principality of Aquodros, which were designated as the targets of this military operation, continue to receive strong criticism day after day.”
Click.
– “If this operation is successful, it will reach a distance that could pose a threat to gates connected to Germany and other allies. But that’s why this operation must keep an eye on the intervention of Germany and its allies…….”
Click.
– “Who will take care of your health? The answer is ‘Nartica’! Meet the potion highly praised by current academy cadets, ‘Elixir that will never know even if it returns,’ at the Nartica store right now!”
Click.
“Hmm, nothing special?”
Soo-ah opened her mouth as if she didn’t know.
But now she was just getting used to repeated bad news, and was not in a position to discount it as nothing special.
“Did you see the news earlier? “Everyone is preparing for war.”
The preparation phase was coming to an end and we were entering escalation.
Soon, a war claiming to be a military operation would break out.
“Maybe I, along with the other cadets, will be taken to a place like that.”
“…… Being dragged into battle? “First place in the academy’s first-year group?”
I couldn’t be sure, but it was quite possible.
I nodded bitterly.
“You can see that the 3rd and 4th grade academy students have now been convened and are heading to Chareltea. “If this continues, all students in the same class as me will be convened next year.”
“Forcing convocation for students below the third grade would not have much meaning. “Is it really possible to do that?”
“If you are not called up as a cadet, you may be called up by the military. As you know, I have to go to the military too, right?”
Conscription is a magic word limited to countries.
The name is army.
“…… Ah.”
“Why do I go looking for such items? “Do you understand now?”
I couldn’t trust the security of other academy cadets or the gathering place.
When called upon, there is only one thing I can truly believe in.
It was my own ability.
