Chapter 29
How often do time pass relatively quickly? Everyone’s standards are different, but there are two ways to differentiate them.
The first is when you are doing something that is too fun or interesting. Just as there is a saying that people enjoyed themselves without knowing the passage of time, time tends to flow quickly when people focus on something. After that, he blames the lack of time with regret.
The second is when a daily routine that repeats itself continues. This case is slightly different. The process is tedious, but when you look back, you realize that time has passed so quickly.
And I’m experiencing both of the above. The lectures I wanted to listen to were interesting and the time passed quickly, and the boring lectures passed quickly because I was dazed.
As a result, it felt like yesterday since I bought a robe with my sister, but it’s already Friday. I didn’t take the last class on Friday, economics, so all classes are over at 3 o’clock.
“Today’s lecture ends here. I hope you have a good time at tomorrow’s meeting. Everyone.”
The lecture hall was filled with applause as the professor with short hair greeted him politely. I also responded with strong applause to his famous lecture.
The lecture I just took, ‘Military Studies’, was just a lecture to get points, but the professor was so good at explaining it, so naturally, I was interested. If I asked questions based on my knowledge of the history of my previous life, the professor explained it so that I could understand it.
“And the student Isaac?”
“Yeah?”
As the applause was getting louder, the professor called my name. I stopped applauding his name and stopped.
The professor maintained his characteristic strict expression and spoke with a nuance that seemed to emphasize.
“As I said before, naval warfare on the sea is completely different from ground warfare. Even if there is an ‘incarnation’ as the student said, it is impossible to defeat the power that comes from the overwhelming difference in physique.”
“Ah yes.”
“That’s a pretty good question, though. There’s no visible force, and you just use command to turn a bad situation around. But keep in mind that a wise commander wouldn’t have entered that battle in the first place. Then.”
The military science professor gave a brief explanation and left the classroom. I couldn’t help but be stunned after he left the classroom.
‘Then how did you win the Battle of Myeongnyang?’
The topic I asked during the lecture was ‘Battle of Myeongnyang’. It is an achievement accomplished by Seong-woong and Admiral Yi Sun-sin, and a historical truth that Koreans never know.
Of course, I did not explain the detailed historical background, but I put it in my own way to fit this world. Even in the Battle of Myeongnyang, the Joseon naval force was lacking in numbers, but the specifications themselves were excellent, so I did not forget to add things. For this one, I only listened to lectures quietly for two weeks, and I did not ask a question until today.
But the military science professor cut it right. It is possible to inflict great damage on the opponent, but it is absolutely ‘impossible’ to win. Even if the commander is an ‘incarnation’ chosen by God.
‘Did I make the analogy too strange? If not…’
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Even if the earth and this world are different, I can’t tell if it’s because they’re so different, or if the existence of Yi Sun-shin really doesn’t make sense.
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Even the situation in the original history was worse than the situation of the navy that I told the professor. He made the background and situation a little better just in case, but the professor decided that it was impossible.
“Why are you making such a serious expression? It makes no sense to me to hear it.”
While I was contemplating on how to make it a little more realistic, Marie sitting next to me gasped and said to me. At her, I paused to think of her and looked at her.
Marie raised one corner of her mouth, making an expression asking her to say something sensible.
“…do you think so too?”
“Of course. How can you defeat more than 100 troops by double-delivering only 12? If it were me, I would have cut off the head of the commander who would conduct such a battle? It would be better to preserve those forces and combine them with other troops. There will be no dog deaths in the city.”
Still, Admiral Yi Sun-sin won. He even said that he had been half abandoned by the king, and that Wonkyun had eaten all the soldiers he had built with his own hands.
But the above words never came out. I just smiled like a fool and agreed with her.
“Hahaha… Is it true? Isn’t that absurd?”
“You go there sometimes and you have a geeky side.”
Marie said that and got up from her seat. I also got up to go home.
“Are you going?”
As the two of us got up from our seats, Lina, who was sitting behind us, asked in a soft tone. For reference, Cecily is sitting next to Lina.
Originally, Cecily was supposed to sit with Lina until she had read all eight of Zeno’s biography, but not now. I think I’ve read all 8 books.
“You know. Me and Isaac aren’t taking economics. Why?”
In the meantime, Marie answered in a tone of harshness. She had felt it before, but as time went on she became more and more uncomfortable with Mari and Lina. Previously, she had been wary of knowing and knowing, but now she is almost outspoken and harsh.
However, Lina shrugged her shoulders with ease. The small smile on her lips clearly showed that she didn’t care about Marie’s actions.
“It’s just a pity. I wanted to talk to you a little more.”
“Would you mind saying something that doesn’t make sense? Let’s go, Isaac.”
“Uh… yeah.”
“See you both at the meeting tomorrow~”
Before I moved, Cecily smiled brightly and waved her hand. I waved her hand as if possessed by her greeting and hurried to follow her.
While following Marie, he did not forget to greet Lina. As I greeted her by nodding her head, her Lina’s smile deepened.
The smile made me feel a little nervous, but I tried to shake it off.
“Really… I hate that annoying smile every time I see it.”
Marie grumbled as she left the classroom and returned to her dorm. Rather than she grumbled, she was almost at the level of spitting her back.
I wondered why Marie hated Lina, but she didn’t say it. Basically, I tend to refrain from doing this until I ask myself.
Instead, switch the mood to a different topic. I looked into Marie’s eyes and carefully brought up the story.
“Are you going to attend the meeting tomorrow too?”
“Even if you don’t want to do it, you have to do it. I’m the daughter of the Duke of Requilis. I need to build up a network in advance.”
Nicole said that the meeting was an event for freshmen to laugh, talk, and enjoy, but hearing Marie’s story, she wanted to know that again.
As she said, the most important part of a nobleman is his connection, that is, his personal connections.
Without personal connections, there would be no one to help them in a crisis situation, and above all, politics is an essential issue for nobles.
For commoners, a freshman meeting is just an event, but for aristocrats, it is a place to build connections. Simply put, it is a rehearsal for the future.
“Did you say you were going too? I heard from Lina.”
Marie looked at me and asked. I don’t know when she heard it, but she nodded because it was true.
As I affirmed, Marie’s beautiful forehead narrowed slightly. The sign of discomfort was clearly evident.
“You really have a knack for making people uncomfortable. It’s probably not Rina’s pressure, right? Be honest.”
“Absolutely not. Did I participate voluntarily?”
“Well…”
At my infidelity, Marie opened her blue eyes and looked straight at me. As Cecily mentioned before, I tend to show my inner self well on my face.
Although Marie can’t read my expression to the level of mind-reading like Cecily, she tends to make a guess based on the color of her face. So she’s somehow calming her mind so her face color doesn’t change.
After a while, Marie, who had been staring intently at my face, stepped back with an ambiguous expression. Fortunately, the color of his face did not appear to have changed.
“Is it really voluntary? I wish Lina would attend – didn’t you say it in this nuance?”
“Absolutely not.”
Marie knows Lina as well as she hates Rina.
“And you even bought a robe?”
“robe?”
“yes.”
“Ugh…”
Marie let out a strange snort at me when she said I had bought a robe, and looked me up and down. It made me feel slightly worse because it looked as if they were giving a review.
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Eventually, Marie nodded her head to see if she had finished all the evaluations (?) and opened her mouth. It was her voice of satisfaction.
“It’s going to look pretty good. Who bought it?”
“Uh… I don’t know. Because my sister chose me.”
“price is?”
“Is it 7 gold or 99 silver?”
“Huh? You only do that?”
After all, I should say that she is the Duke’s daughter-in-law Class. 8 gold, or 800,000 won in Hanwha, was treated as ‘only’.
I recalled her family anew and asked the other way around.
“Then you?”
“I brought something from my family. My dad gave it to me as a birthday present, but it’s a dress that the famous Zelt made for me.”
Marie was bubbly and confident, but I don’t even know who Zelt is. Maybe it’s a craftsman related to sewing.
In this world, the fabric itself for making clothes is well developed, just like training clothes or leggings. This is because alchemy can replace chemistry, and because recipes are widely available, mass production is possible to some extent.
But making clothes is a different story.
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Even a sewing machine has not been invented here, so you have to sew one stitch by one by hand. So, even if the common people do not know, the clothes of the aristocracy are terribly expensive because craftsmen make them.
“It would be very expensive.”
“Of course. Even at an estimate, 100 goals would easily pass? Well, it’s cheaper than a Zelt-made one.”
It is impossible to understand the world of the rich, even if it costs 10 million won for just one dress.
As we talked, Marie smiled like a mischievous mischief. She goes on to say, as if declaring to me, with plenty of her confidence.
“Don’t fall for me when you see me in a dress. My brother reluctantly told me I was pretty.”
I responded to the joke with just one word.
“It’s still pretty.”
“…to?”
“It’s still pretty enough.”
“Uh… uh…”
He was blunt, but did he realize that he was sincere? Her skin, like Snow White, turned red in an instant. I think my answer was quite disconcerting.
However, it is the unchanging fact that Marie is a beautiful woman. I was just stating that fact straight up.
“Uh… I… that’s… uh…”
After that, Marie was restless for a long time, unable to speak easily. Her face is also so red that red water flows when you press it with your finger.
Seeing that, I thought I was just talking about it, but she played the joke first. Even though she honestly said it was a joke, her vagueness contained the sincerity, so she had no intention of overturning it.
“Uh… that… thanks. I’m a little embarrassed to hear that from you and not anyone else.”
“How am I?”
“You mean… you’re blunt, and when you lie, your face gets dirty, right? So… Anyway, yes.”
Marie nodded with a red face and then closed her mouth again.
After such a short time, Marie, who was walking while staring at the ground, glanced at me.
“…Isaac.”
“yes.”
“Am I really pretty?”
“If you don’t believe me, ask someone else. They say all ten are pretty.”
“…Hi-Hi.”
Is it that good?
Marie chuckled at my blunt reply. Contrary to her dazzling first impression of her, the freshness of her teenage girl is oozing out.
Marie’s new side came up fresh enough to bring out a happy smile without realizing it.
“Isaac.”
“yes.”
“Are you sure you’ll come to my house on vacation?”
Is it my misunderstanding that the words came in a strange direction for some reason? The friendly atmosphere and Marie’s reaction felt strange.
Anyway, there must be a good reason, I have no intention of rejecting it.
“Of course I have to go. You said that the writer of Zeno’s biography is also coming, right?”
After hearing this from Marie, I wrote a letter to my father. And his father replied that his tail had never been trampled, and that it was very likely an impersonation.
Thanks to this, I was relieved, but I was more curious about the identity of the impersonator. Is it really some kind of big guy trying to deceive the duke and not anyone else?
Marie blinked her eyes as if to think for a moment after hearing my words, and then informed me in a voice saying that she realized it too late.
“Ah~ That? I forgot to tell you. Dad is pretending to be that person.”
“What?”
“It was an impersonation. There were several suspicious circumstances, so I was investigating it, so he was a famous con artist before that. Now, Zenon’s biography is famous, so we got caught trying to impersonate a writer.”
It was a very embarrassing and futile result, but looking back, it was a natural procedure. If it was a duke, I wouldn’t believe it easily, so I would have sent someone to investigate it thoroughly.
In fact, it is correct to say that the impersonator dug my grave. I was going to make a lot of money, but even if my opponent was bad, it was too bad.
“And I met my father once, and I heard that calluses that only people who have written for a long time have? There was no such thing, so I was suspicious from the beginning. Don’t you have Isaac?”
“this?”
I raised my hand and showed the ‘pen hoc’ she described. Marie checked the pen hump on my middle finger and nodded her head vigorously.
“Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. My dad also got calluses on that side while he was doing paperwork. But do you think you’re worse than my dad?”
“I tend to study hard.”
Now you can deal with this level skillfully. After hearing my answer, Marie looked at me with a confused expression, and then asked in a worried voice.
“…Then won’t you come to my house?”
“Well…”
I thought deeply about her question. I’m sorry to Marie, but there is no reason for me to visit her mansion unless the invited artist was found out by impersonation.
‘There is no need to take risks and go…’
Although the duke made a person impersonate him, if you listen to Marie’s story, you can see that he is a person with good observation skills from the beginning. Therefore, there is a high probability that you will notice the presence of my pen hoc the moment you meet and shake hands with the peacock.
Like I said to Marie, I can answer that it was because I studied a lot, but the original suspicion is that it grows from the moment you receive it.
In particular, the Duke will consider all possibilities, so the author of Zeno’s biography may not have thought of him as an aged sage.
First of all, I’m not a pervert and the tiger has its mouth wide open, so there’s no reason to put your head in even taking risks.
I glanced at Marie, who had an anxious expression on her face, and carefully answered her. She’s sorry for her, but it’s right that she refuses what she refuses.
“…maybe?”
“Ac… just don’t tell me… no.”
Marie murmured with disappointment, then muttered a little as if a flash of thought had occurred to her. As she gently touched her chin, she knew that she was planning something, and her expression was serious.
What the hell are you plotting to be so serious? Her serious face like that was the first time I had seen her while I was with her, so I couldn’t help but be anxious.
“If it doesn’t work, let it be… If it doesn’t come, let it come…”
“… …”
“…Okay. Isaac?”
Marie, who muttered in an inaudible voice, called me with a soft smile. I replied sternly, filled with ominousness.
“Why.”
“I’m not inviting you, but if my dad invites you, will you turn down?”
“…hey.”
Now, he uses his father’s back to cast gabulgi. Even when I said it with an absurd expression, Marie only smiled.
“And I didn’t tell you, but my dad was also interested in you. He said, ‘How broad of a knowledge does a student have to teach history?’
“… …”
“What should I do? Will you come when I ask you to, or will you come when my dad asks?”
“Yeah. I’ll go. It’s okay to go. It’s really shameful.”
“Good!”
When I answered with the nuance of giving up, Marie clasped her hands in joy. I shook her head as I looked at her delighted with her.
Luckily, it was Marie, so I accepted it reluctantly, but if it was anyone else, I rejected it unconditionally. Marie may not have been aware of it, but the situation was clearly using ‘power’. It was an act far removed from the ideology of her family, Requilis.
However, if we had told him about it now, Marie might be in for a big shock. It would be better for me and for her to have her work buried in her chest.
Moreover, seeing Marie wandering around happily, even the negative feelings seem to melt away.
“Then did you allow it? If you suddenly say no, you will be scolded.”
“Okay. It will never happen, so don’t worry.”
“Yeah. See you at the meeting tomorrow! Goodbye!”
Marie waved her hand vigorously and moved to the female-only dormitory. I also waved her hand and went back to her dorm.
As soon as I got home, I took off my uniform and threw myself on the bed. The soft sensation penetrated my whole body, and I felt a strong desire to rest as it is.
‘Even if the duke is like that, tomorrow at the meeting…’
The gathering is an event that brings together not only literary students but also non-literary students. She told Nicole that she had nothing to worry about, but she was still worried.
Because Jackson was desperate to eat me right now. I wondered what kind of insults I would get at the meeting. Of course, I’m treating Jackson like a grown-up, so I wouldn’t mind.
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Even if the blood on his head didn’t dry out when he screamed, there was no emotion. Being drenched in the ideology of the chosen people felt like a middle school bottle, so it didn’t really touch me.
‘By the way, would Leona want to attend?’
Suddenly, Leona, the beast, came to mind. Will she be able to attend the meeting tomorrow? Frankly, given her circumstances, there is a high probability that she will not attend.
I lay on the bed and stared blankly at the ceiling, then turned my head slightly. The dress I’m going to wear tomorrow is hanging on the hanger. That robe alone is over 80,000 won.
‘You should hope it pays off.’
Thinking about it, I jumped out of bed. It’s too precious to kill time like this. In such a case, it is more advantageous to write a manuscript.
Next, I sat down at my desk and opened a notebook that organized the development, not a notebook for lectures. Carefully arranged developments and episodes were written, and the characteristics and rough descriptions of the characters were also recorded.
‘In the Seven Deadly Sins, anger… If we add the setting that our family was annihilated by humans, and even betrayed by the same number of people…’
I took the magic pen my father gave me as a gift from my front pocket and started writing.