28 – Request for countless handshakes
When I opened the sliding door that I had opened every morning and entered, I was greeted by the same classroom as usual.
I had only been away for a week at most, but it felt like it had been a long time since I came back from limb.
“Huh?”
“Bell!”
As I stood silently with the door open and looked around the classroom, I heard the voices of a man and a woman near the window.
When I look at it belatedly, what I see is a familiar face.
In this class, it was Aden and Tina who could be said to be closest to me.
Two people with their eyes wide open came towards me as if they had spotted me.
Feeling glad for some reason, I smiled unconsciously and tried to move my steps to the point where we met.
That moment.
“Hey! The fixer has arrived!”
Suddenly, the voice of a young student resonated in the classroom, and everyone’s eyes were fixed on me.
Rather than that, what do you mean by a solver?
“What, you said you came already?”
“Are you really here? Wow!”
Then, the cadets in my class, who I hadn’t even talked to much about, rushed at me like a wave.
Looking over his shoulders, I saw Aden and Tina standing tall in their seats, and the two of them looked at each other, laughed at each other, shrugged, and went back to the window.
No, those are them.
If a person has fallen into this situation, you should think about saving him, should you just throw it away?
Somehow, the look in his eyes and gestures just now felt like, “It’s difficult to have a popular friend.”
“Dinaur! Are you okay?”
“I heard it was a huge battle, so I can go to school already? Who were they after all?”
“The kids from Class C came to our class. Please let me know when you come.”
Anyway, the classmates who surrounded me in an instant started pouring out all sorts of words.
Some people asked about their physical condition, some people wanted to know the details, and some people gave information about the contact information others had passed on.
Swept away by the cascade of interest, I inadvertently took a step back.
This is a sight I have seen many times before.
In a cartoon I enjoyed watching in the past, the scene where the townsfolk rush at the main character who came to save the village.
I was worried that I wouldn’t even rinse, but fortunately that skit didn’t happen.
‘No, but why is he crying again?’
Meanwhile, a girl wiping her tears with her handkerchief came into her eyes, and she was dumbfounded, not knowing what to do. Gave.
“Thank you so much, Dinauer. Actually, Enya from Class C is my friend. She told me that they all owe their lives to you.”
“Ah….”
Only then did a low sigh escape from my mouth, realizing that there was a reason for the tears.
I can’t believe he was Enya’s friend.
If that’s the case, that’s completely understandable.
Me too, but Enya was in a pretty critical situation as she was attacked by a spirit at the time.
Anyway, even if you think that the expression that you lived thanks to me is an exaggeration, it’s quite burdensome.
But they complimented me this far, but I didn’t even bother saying no, so I decided to admit the credit moderately but take off the attached flesh.
“Rather, I am the one who lives thanks to Enya and Aldrick. Defeating the enemy was practically nothing more than luck.”
If it wasn’t for the help of those two people, Lone and I might have been finished the moment Sirius appeared.
Moreover, even though they could escape at any time with the help of the Spirit King, they helped us until the end.
In that respect, the real hero is not me, but the two of them.
Drruck.
In the middle of answering the outpouring of words one by one.
The front door of the classroom was thrown open violently, and silence enveloped the audience in an instant.
“Stop making noise and take a seat.”
“Yes….”
Professor Seras, who stood on the podium with the sound of his shoes clattering, opened his mouth with his characteristic cold tone, and the cadets who had gathered around me quickly returned to their seats.
Whoa, thanks to you, I survived.
Anyway, it’s still a bit early for the bylaws. Why did you come in early today?
Surrounded by doubt, I headed to my seat by the window, put my bag aside and looked up.
Then, somehow, it seemed that Professor Seras’ eyes met.
‘Is it because of my mood?’
The moment he tilts his head and tries to put the necessary items on the desk.
“Hmm.”
Professor Seras, who was glancing at the attendance desk, heard a clearing of his throat, followed by a low voice that penetrated his ears.
“Bel Denauer, you worked hard.”
It’s just a short word, but somehow it seemed like I could feel various emotions in it, such as my worries as a homeroom professor and my gratitude for helping to solve the case.
In the meantime, avoiding your eyes and pretending nothing is wrong is the way Professor Seras behaves.
“Thank you.”
When I conveyed my thanks with a smile that leaked out without my knowledge, it seemed like an arc line was drawn on Professor Seras’ lips as well, albeit very faintly.
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The Wizard’s Forest incident didn’t seem to have a bigger impact on the academy than expected.
At least for the cadets.
Somehow, since the academy buried the existence of the followers, the biggest factor was that they were simply buried as a group of outcasts trying to take Astasia’s blessing.
At least, it seemed to be a hot topic among the C and E classes, which included the four people who were at the scene of the incident at the time.
‘It’s just right.’
I was worried that there might be too much attention, like when I first arrived in the classroom today, but the atmosphere is passing by my excessive self-consciousness.
Anyway, at the point where my face is sold to the followers, it’s not nice to be on the cubic stage for nothing.
That’s why Aden tried to live as strong as possible in the original work.
In that sense, one of the group that just solved the case. It is the phenomenon I want to be quickly forgotten in the interest of just that much.
“hahahaha, the kids have been sticking to you all day.”
It was a word suddenly thrown by Aden to me as I was eating soup at the school cafeteria after a long absence.
Her face was always imprinted with an excessive smile.
Wouldn’t it be hard for this kid to smile like a good man like that every time?
The past is also quite dark, but I think I can always keep a smile like that.
Perhaps most women will instantly become likable, but seeing a guy who looks like a gisaeng long-tailed girl smiling is not very pleasing to a man.
‘My face is strangely thinner than the original.’
Anyway, since I only answered questions like a machine for half a day, I had a hot face so I shot Aden sharply.
“Don’t split it up because it’s not your business. Men and horses.”
“Ahahahaha…. Mi-sorry.”
Then, the smile quickly turned into a wry smile and the guy handed over a short apology.
Now that I’m feeling a little better, I’m about to continue my meal, but I feel something poking my lower back next to me.
“Ah, didn’t you feel good though? The kids care so much.”
“No work.”
It was none other than Tina, who helped me with a smirk and stabbed my lower back.
At this, I firmly drew a line, tore the bread with my hands, soaked it in the soup, and ate it.
Watching this makes me want to go back to the hospital.
Maybe thanks to the consideration of the academy, the meals were more plentiful there.
‘Come to think of it, the academy said they wanted to pay for it.’
I was in the hospital room and I overheard these words from Professor Seras, but I erased them from my mind.
I don’t know what you mean by courtesy, but I hope you give me some money so that I can eat well.
“Cadet Bell Denauer?”
“… Yes?”
As I emptied the dry bowl and wondered if I should eat another bowl, I heard an unfamiliar voice behind me.
I turned my head thinking about why everyone else was so anxious about waiting for others to eat, like the guy from Pareon from before.
Standing there was a woman wearing horn-rimmed glasses with dark khaki hair neatly tied back behind her.
I tried to remember where I saw the face, but I succeeded in recalling the other person’s name.
“You were Professor Vanessa, right?”
Apparently, when I was in the hospital, he was the person I visited briefly as the president’s representative.
Because of that impression of being thorough, it was deeply imprinted in her mind.
If Professor Seras is cold, this one seems to be a bit strict.
“I haven’t been to the church for a long time, so just call me Vanessa.”
“Ah, yes….”
As if my thoughts were right, Vanesha even pointed out her trivial title and fixed her dripping glasses with her index finger and moved them back to her place.
“Have you finished your meal?”
“Yes, as you can see….”
“Sorry. The president suggested joining us.”
It looks like the president is looking for me, and she, her secretary, has come all the way here.
Looking at Vanesha looking at my empty bowl and expressing regret, I think she did well to eat it quickly.
Just imagining a meal with the Academy President is terrifying.
Even if you line up the delicacies from Amman, you can’t tell whether they go through your nose or mouth.
“Anyway, if you don’t have urgent business afterwards, could you follow me for a while?”
“If the president calls, I can’t help it.”
Even if there was an urgent business in the first place, it is obvious that he would have been forced to take it, citing one reason or another.
If I could guess why Olberus was looking for me, he couldn’t have a more urgent matter than that.
It’s about a follower and no one else.
“Leave Belle alone. I will clean it up.”
“Are you my messenger? It’s okay.”
Arden offered me a grateful offer to clean up the dishes, but I quickly refused and stood up with the tableware.
In the first place, it was the other side that was in a hurry, not me.
It’s not like it’s taking too long to clean up these things for a while.
Just the moment I put the used tableware in the tableware return box and lightly shake my hands to move my steps.
Vanessa, who was standing next to me, spoke with a smile that seemed kind of pleased.
“Are you saying you do your own work? You are steady.”
“No. What….”
He wasn’t even a three-year-old, so he scratched his cheek and averted his gaze in embarrassment when he was praised for something like this.
She regrets not being able to finish another bowl anyway.
If you want to be ambiguous, I should stop by the canteen on the way back after talking with the president.
It’s okay to skip at least one class.