161 – Immaturity Was a Sin
The date ended smoothly.
Just the usual ending of ‘Today was fun, let’s play together next time’.
If you look at it as a love comedy, it definitely seems to have progressed, but the relationship hasn’t changed much.
In fact, today’s work was volatile, at least for Lee Seok-hyun, because the progress was not too great.
As time goes by, it is naturally forgotten, and when you say it, it is a memory that comes back to you.
I don’t know how Mi Joo-ran would feel, but Lee Seok-hyun judged this to be a successful date.
Just playing in the present without having to get to know each other much.
No need to share the past, no need to draw a future together.
A ‘special day’ focusing only on the present was appropriate.
In the past, being immature was a sin.
Acting rashly was always punished, and turned into a scar.
No, let’s think about the present.
Shaking off his thoughts, Lee Seok-hyun opened his mouth.
“It’s training again from tomorrow.”
“That’s right, I have to live vigorously again.”
“Yes, see you tomorrow.”
“Okay, see you at the training ground.”
The day ends like that, and it’s time to part ways.
Mi Joo-ran thought Meiri must have had a date like this.
A date that keeps the line.
At first glance, it seemed like they were being nice and playing well, but there was a clear line.
A thorough relationship arrangement that can never be surpassed, and does not even let go of trying to exceed it.
Mi Joo-ran vaguely perceived Lee Seok-hyun’s heart with her uniquely developed senses.
‘You’re not genuinely happy.’
Avoid questions about relationships, ignore them, or block them altogether.
You say that you are ashamed to talk about the past with a cold face.
When asked what he will be doing in the future, Lee Seok-hyun answers ‘I’ instead of ‘we’.
You can’t take off the wrapping paper called skill.
Mijoo-Ran looked at Lee Seok-Hyun’s back as she went first, saying that she had circumstances.
It would be nice to look back at least once.
If you would stop and look at me, even for a moment, I’ll be fooled into saying you were sincere.
Believing that you are such a child, I will cherish today alone as happiness.
However, contrary to Mi Joo-ran’s wish, Lee Seok-hyun never looked back.
Like a person running without a break, like a racehorse covering the side.
Lee Seok-hyun looked forward.
“The bad guy.”
But it’s okay to be a little more honest when we’re together.
Mi Joo-ran hated Lee Seok-hyun.
I hated him so much that I vowed to stay by his side until the end.
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Time passed quickly and before I knew it, it was time to train the kids again.
Today, it was my turn to intensively train Velos, so my body wasn’t tired.
Because magic is a profession that requires creativity, it is focused on imparting knowledge.
Bellos had a bad expression the whole time I was teaching him magic.
‘What’s going on?’
However, it wasn’t to the extent that it interfered with training, so I digested the entire schedule.
“Commoner, what are you?”
“Huh?”
By the time the training was almost over, Bellos asked a random question.
“What do you mean by that?”
“How can I teach you all about swords, fighting, and magic?”
“I just know enough.”
“Do you think teaching us will be at a decent level?”
Why is he suddenly like this?
It’s too sharp to ask.
When I looked at him strangely, Bellos opened his mouth, stroking his hair.
“Your actions have been so strange lately that the Empire is talking about Is Lee Seok-hyun a demon?”
“What?!”
It was Mi Joo-ran, not me, who was surprised.
Woo Do-hyun couldn’t make a loud sound, but his eyes were wide open and his mouth was wide open.
Bellos, who didn’t care about that, continued his words.
“It’s a very small number of stories, but it doesn’t make sense that there are only a few stories.
What Velos said was not about me, but about summarizing the situation.
It was a kind of solo discussion about Is it reasonable to be suspicious?
“But now that they’re teaching us as well, I feel like they’re really good at it.”
“If you test the mana, it will all come out whether it is a demon or not.”
“They say it’s more because you can’t use mana.”
This is something I never thought of.
I thought envy, jealousy, and suspicion would naturally follow if my skills were good, but I’m a demon.
It’s not that I’m suspicious at a corner shop in the neighborhood, but the opponent is the Skeria Empire.
Even if dust doesn’t come out by shaking it, it was dangerous to do that in a place that has the power to create dust.
“I’ve said it before, but it’s very few, but it’s just… You know that words come out.”
Bellos also said the same thing as I thought and continued seriously.
“Of course we know you’re not a demon, because we’ve fought together and believe in you.”
That’s why I brought it to you before this story spread.
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Velos believed in me, and contrary to his belief, I had only one corner where I was stabbed.
‘Does this hold you back?’
The will of the Kingdom of Lepenta.
The black mana he received there was blocking the words ‘I am innocent’.
“What is the basis?”
Because of this, I had to extract as much information as possible from here.
“The reason must be that he is overly competent in many fields. I heard it yesterday and said it today.”
“If you’re competent, you’re a demon? This is too far-fetched.”
“When you become a Mine, your skills improve dramatically, so it must be because of that. What is Skeria’s position…”
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Velos released all the information he knew to me with the trust of a friend.
To sum it up, I originally meant that I was a character who shouldn’t be this versatile.
How can people’s talents bloom in many ways?
There is a field of specialization, and people evolve accordingly.
However, in my case, I didn’t have any specialized talents, but I was full of obscure talents like octopus feet.
By becoming a Mine, all of his talents have blossomed and he has become omnipotent.
This story has been very small since before.
He said that he got a bit bigger when he learned that I was teaching Woo Do-hyun, Mi Joo-ran, and Velos recently.
Grade 6 trains higher ranking cadets? He also had a chance to win.
But why do you associate it with Mine?
As if trying to clear my doubts, Bellos immediately added.
“It must have been because I caught a top-notch mine.”
“What? Why?”
“Common sense doesn’t make sense, did the cadet catch the top-notch mage? We probably wouldn’t have believed it if we had heard it from someone else.”
“…”
It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand.
Yes, if you hadn’t seen that unbelievable sight, you might think so.
Then what was I supposed to do there, I just had to be killed by them?
‘This is just a vicious witch hunt.’
Logic and whatever were just guesses.
It’s not enough to survive the superlative Mine Racetember, so it could be a Mine since you killed it?
Or it could be that the original me died and the race tember is me now? What is this?
The timing was so odd.
If you’re going to do it, you should have done it then. Why does this topic come to mind now?
‘A story like this comes out in a situation where four named mines are captured and magic is gradually developing…’
All I could think of was that someone was trying to kill me on purpose.
‘I couldn’t have connected the case of catching the named mine and the magic revolution with me.’
Because the power I use each time is completely different from mine.
Overwhelmingly strong me, me who uses magic, me who can’t even use magic at the level of a cadet.
It was impossible to think of these three things together.
“Where is that story coming from?”
“If there’s a separate department that analyzes mine dynamics in the intelligence department, it’s probably there.”
Bastards, do you do that when you know you’re my friend? Since I’m a commoner, I’ll just poke and see.
Woo Do-hyun and Mi Joo-ran deeply sympathized with Bellos’ continued words.
If it was Mijoo-Ran, it was obvious that she would have covered it up with the grace of the royal family.
‘But it doesn’t make sense to work with something like that.’
It was not an arrow that was meticulously crafted for a valid reason.
There were strong traces of someone forcibly making it with their own hands.
So Velos must have thought it didn’t make sense and brought it to me right away.
If you’ve been with me, you’ll know I’m clean beyond a doubt.
Accidents rotate rapidly.
If the Empire had singled out me, it probably wouldn’t be long before this calm story surfaced.
It was a story that if the engine was started in earnest, the empire could attack the next day.
No, if you go deeper than that, this is a billion.
Knowing that I can solve the situation with force, it is a new pattern that I came up with.
‘…If you’re the one who analyzes the dynamics of mines, can you roughly guess whose work it is?’
You’ve already started moving.
Predictor.
My head is clear.
‘To play psychological warfare on me.’
I’ll show you that it’s still too early for a hundred years.
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“I can’t wait to see a guy who didn’t exist in the future continue to play an active role.”
While preparing for a total solar eclipse, you cannot relax.
The Seer tried to reduce the trivial variables he thought of as much as possible.
And in the midst of that, it was Lee Seok-hyun who was selected.
A cadet who was also present in the Death Meteor Incident and also in the Racetember Invasion Incident.
And each time, a lump of variables that correctly solved the case.
I had to get rid of this guy.