Became the Academy Romantic Phantom Thief chapter 192

192 – Snack Training

I wasn’t a teacher.

It meant that it was not as easy as I thought to come up with a plan on how to educate the girl.

Especially, it was a situation where I had to teach everything in a state where it was nothing but a white drawing paper, rather than simply imparting knowledge as in a normal school.

Do you think so? Isn’t it more like a parent than a teacher?

Unsurprisingly, I had never had a child, so I was at a loss about everything.

I have no choice but to try one at a time.

First, we decided to find out if the girl has the ability to learn. If this first step fails, it will be difficult to see the girl as a person.

At least a puppy or a parrot can learn the basics, but if they can’t even do that, how can they be called the lords of all creation?

Now, then, how should we figure out our learning ability?

It was meaningless to simply give verbal orders. The girl is in a state where she can’t understand the meaning of the words and can only repeat them blindly.

One method came to me after thinking about it over and over again.

I don’t know if this will work well…

Still, it’s worth a try.

I went home through the hand mirror, gathered my supplies, and returned to the world of mirrors.

In the process, I realized that when I go back and forth between the two worlds, I start from the last place and time.

In other words, while I am in one world, time does not pass in the other world. If used well, it is an ability that opens up endless possibilities.

For example, it is possible to become stronger by training infinitely like the room of spirit and time. I don’t need to do that right now, so it’s just an example.

Anyway, now was the time to focus on what I was doing.

I returned to the mirror world and handed over the preparations I had brought to the girl.

“Come on.”

A girl staring at the chocolate in the palm of my hand.

Come to think of it, do transcendental people eat food? At least I don’t think there’s food or water inside the clock tower.

I was a bit taken aback by the girl who didn’t react to the chocolate, so I decided to demonstrate it first. The gaze stares at me as I put chocolate in my mouth and sip exaggeratedly, savoring the taste.

Then the chocolate is handed out to me again, and I take it carefully, put it in my mouth just like I did, and start munching.

Well well.

It would have been nice if he had expressed his feelings, but since he was just mumbling without any special reaction, there was no way to check if it worked well.

Do you hate chocolate?

Sorry for the long haul, I gave him another one, and he picked it up and put it in his mouth. After repeating that two or three times, I was able to guess that I liked the chocolate even though I didn’t express it outwardly.

Okay. So let’s start training in earnest.

Honestly, it was a bit embarrassing to train a girl for snacks like you would for a puppy, but I couldn’t help it because I couldn’t come up with a better idea.

As before, I put the chocolate on my palm and held it out, then pulled it back just in time for the girl to pick it up. After repeating it several times, the eyes glaring at my face seemed to express displeasure.

She hesitated for a moment as she stretched out her hand for the next step. Are you afraid of physical contact? What if I become hostile knowing that I am trying to harm you?

Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any resentment even when he carefully touched his wrist. I placed her hand on top of mine and said.

“The hand.”

“The hand.”

I repeated that several times, injected the keyword hand, gave her chocolate, and stroked her hair.

“Good job.”

“Good job.”

In addition to the reward of snacks, praise was essential for training.

Of course, this applies only to dogs, but after all, isn’t it the same for people who are smarter than him?

The girl followed the training better than feared. She only had to do it a couple of times, and the results were immediately evident.

“The hand.”

“The hand.”

As soon as I give a command, I raise my hand and then, as a reward, I stroke her hair with chocolate and praise her.

With this, it became clear that the girl had the ability to learn.

It’s still far from enough to conclude that a girl is a person based on this alone.

At the point where I was teaching commands like ‘wait’ and ‘sit’ in addition to ‘hand’, I realized that I had forgotten one important thing.

“You should come up with a name.”

In the original training, the meaning of a name is more important than you think. This is because puppies pay more attention to the command that follows in response to the name that the owner calls them.

“Hmm…”

Which name would be good?

I’m the only one who will call the girl’s name anyway, so I should just name it whatever I’m comfortable with.

I think it would be better to build it to match the image.

After taking a look at the girl from head to toe, I was able to decide right away without much trouble than I thought.

“Let’s make it white.”

Hair color, skin color, eye color, even the color of the dress you are wearing.

As the name of a girl with white eyelashes, what other name could be better suited than this?

[… That’s a very senseless naming.]

‘Huh? Goddess? Are you here now? Do you know how long I waited?’

[Sorry. It took me some time to organize my thoughts.]

I want to shoot something out of my mind, but the goddess seems to have complicated thoughts in her own way, and right now, educating Hayang is the priority, so I decided to skip it.

“From now on, your name is White. Got it?”

“From now on, your name is White. Got it?”

···First of all, I have to teach you to stop copying words.

Anyway, it seems to be a long-term project. Fortunately, while I’m with Hayang in the mirror world, real time doesn’t pass, so there’s no need to be chased by time.

Since I’ve been sitting on my hands and waiting, what kind of command should I use now?

Toilet training is…

“Ah.”

For a moment, I almost mistook Hayang for a real puppy.

No. Dangerous.

***

Time for a break.

I went outside on the top floor of the clock tower and watched the night view.

The scenery of London in the world of mirrors was beautiful, but somehow felt lonely.

Perhaps because there are no people in the world. Just because there are no people, the alien feeling like a huge set did not disappear.

I looked at White, who was sitting next to me, for a moment. This guy has been staring at me without a break since I appeared.

I suddenly became curious. What was Hayang doing before I came here?

From noble mtl dot com.

I wonder if I was simply admiring the scenery here like when I looked up from below.

In the mirror world, even the full moon in the sky doesn’t move.

It must mean a space where the flow of time has stopped in the first place.

Then, how long has Hayang been trapped in the world of mirrors?

The operator only asked for the girl to be killed, but did not provide details.

Magic engineering driven by the transcendental ability of time acceleration.

How Dr. Franken was able to use Hayang’s ability, what relationship killing Hayang had with my fate, there were still so many things he didn’t know.

The goddess said she couldn’t tell me, but the operator doesn’t seem to want to tell me.

Can I solve all the questions by myself and get closer to the answer?

“… Huh?”

While I was immersed in my thoughts, I was awakened by a sudden feeling.

At first, White placed her hand on my palm. I looked at him blankly and opened my mouth thinking about it.

“A hand?”

“Chocolate.”

Ah.

An answer that made me unknowingly burst into exclamation.

Chocolate. Those three letters were the first words Hayang uttered on her own will, not after me.

Even though it may not seem like a big deal, it was also proof that Hayang had a certain free will.

Even though I didn’t order my hand, he reached out his hand first because he wanted chocolate.

I handed him the chocolate and stroked his hair.

“Good job.”

At the same time, I realized that there was one more method I hadn’t thought of before.

You can ask Hayang directly. The existence that stands at the center of this enigmatic question more than anyone else.

Even though I can’t say anything other than chocolate right now, I was able to hear her answer directly once I was able to have a conversation with her step by step teaching.

As soon as I had one more reason to teach Hayang, I got up from my seat feeling a surge of motivation.

“Okay. Then, let’s start teaching the language in earnest.”

But I was a little worried about giving too much chocolate.

I’m sure there won’t be any problems with tooth decay, right? Still, he was transcendent in name and color, and he thought that it would be okay, but his doubts did not easily fade.

···Should we think of a reward other than chocolate?