I Became The Academy Necromancer chapter 187

187. Solutions

“Haam.”

Late dawn.

Scratching his stomach, Hansen wakes up and feels his lower leg tingle and opens his heavy eyes.

I felt like I was going to pee at any moment, but I was too lazy to get up.

I wanted to just put up with it and sleep, but since I had done that once before and got up while wetting the bed, I sighed and got up.

“Aww.”

My head throbbed like it had been beaten with a hammer. I was paying for an expensive binge with a woman on either side of me at the store, thanks to a good deal of money yesterday.

I’ve heard that expensive alcohol doesn’t have a hangover.

Could it be that the contents of the bottle and the liquor were different?

Suspicious Hansen went into the bathroom thinking about this and that.

After a while like that.

Cool and empty, Hansen comes out of the bathroom scratching his head with his magpie house.

I can’t see the inside of the dark house properly, but I’ve been there countless times anyway, and it’s not wide enough to get lost in.

Hansen, about to go back to his room, looks at the door across from him and makes a puzzled expression.

A lover’s room.

Originally, the place was intended to be used as a room for a child to be born later.

But now we don’t even talk to each other, and it’s been quite a while since we’ve been in separate rooms.

They manage money separately, and rarely see each other’s faces.

But it wasn’t that we didn’t break up because we still had feelings for each other.

If both of them left this house, they would have no place to live.

The relationship with a lover has already become dull, and it is just an uncomfortable cohabitation due to necessity.

The fortunate thing is that I didn’t have children.

“Hmm?”

A lover’s room that has become a relationship that can be called a stranger now.

Looking at the open door, Hansen makes a puzzled expression.

When you just went to the bathroom, was the door open?

During my usual hangover, questions that I wouldn’t have paid attention to popped into my head.

Hansen then slowly reached out his hand and poked his head into the room.

It didn’t make much sense.

In a situation where I wondered if it was just a thief.

“Keep, ek! Interrupt!”

A lover’s voice that sounds like he’s gasping for air. All in all, the eyes adapted to the darkness just in time.

The silhouette of a lying lover.

And then, on top of that boat, something struggles and starts to spurt out.

At first it looked like a tree root, but gradually it started to take on a human shape.

Dududuk.

It turned his head and charged at Hansen with thick red eyes.

* * *

It feels like a long time has passed, but looking at it, the winter vacation at Robern Academy is not yet over.

It is now mid-January after passing the year in North Whedon since classes start in the spring of March.

I had returned to Robern one step ahead.

Eleanor went back before us to attend her year-end banquet in her capital, Gray Pond, and Arya went back to her hometown to spend the year with her parents.

I left Illuania and Sevia behind because I thought it would be better to stay in Northwedon rather than Lovern.

In the end, the party was me, Findenai, Owen, and Erica.

She didn’t bother going back to Violen, the Bright family’s domain. Erica, who returned to Robern with me, was now in my laboratory.

Per Petra, a pink-haired professor who has passed her year in her own laboratory even though it’s vacation without her lectures, cautiously stands to my right.

“How are you?”

She slowly moves her right hand that has been attached to her. It was really strange that it felt like my hand because it was affected by mana.

Not only does it move as you wish, but even the sense of touch is alive, and you can feel the cool air of the laboratory through your right hand.

It was a moment when I realized once again how great Professor Per Petra was.

“Awesome. It feels no different from the real hand.”

Compared to the left hand, the liveliness and sensation feel dull, but it is literally only at a pale level.

It was a world apart from attaching hands like mannequins.

“Because if you have a sense, you can feel the pain as well. I deliberately lowered the sensitivity in preparation for an unfortunate event.”

“… ….”

“But, Professor Deius does a lot of tough things.”

“Then, if you increase the sensitivity to the maximum, will it resemble your hand?”

When Erica, who was listening silently next to her, tilted her head and asked, Professor Perr scratched the back of his shaggy head heheheh.

“Perfectly impossible, but I am still trying to make it as similar as possible.”

Professor Perr’s voice gets weaker and the tone rises when he talks to Erica, unlike when he talks to me.

Apparently, it was her Erica who brought her to her Robern Academy, so it seemed that she had established herself as a close friend of Fer.

I check the right hand of the two people who started talking about the prosthetic arm.

Look at it even if you turn it around, poke it with your left hand or press it with your fingernail.

It is a heterogeneous, but distinctly felt sensation.

I know that Professor Ferrer is dreaming of the perfect prosthetic arm and is continuing his research.

If you keep going like this.

“… ….”

Turn your head slowly.

I couldn’t see it from Erika and Fer’s eyes, but I could see the Dark Spirit and Stella staring at my right hand from either side of me.

[It’s amazing.]

[If I had seen you while I was alive, it would have helped me a lot.]

“If.”

Unknowingly, I opened my mouth to the two of them and spat it out. Soon after, I thought I was being too hasty, so I quickly shut my mouth.

But the Dark Spirit and Stella looked at me with a tilt, as if they felt it was strange.

[Why?]

[Is there a problem?]

“…… No, nothing.”

Let’s shake our heads and answer. The two look puzzled but move on for now.

After roughly finishing the adjustment of the right hand and hearing the precautions from Fer. Professor Ferr has been cautious but out of the blue with a request.

“By the way, can I ask you a favor?”

“Of course.”

They did it without charge, even the prosthetic arm on my right hand, but I wondered what they would not do.

Professor Perr uttered a somewhat unexpected request.

* * *

“Hmm, hmm.”

Erika clears her throat because it’s awkward.

I was told that I was going back to my room for a while, and I changed my clothes and came back in a white blouse and a black skirt that came down to my ankles, not the suit I usually wear for lectures.

The corset on her blouse was tight, revealing her hidden figure.

“I’m going to go get some dessert.”

“Oh, I know.”

Erica sneaks up next to her and keeps her arm’s reach away.

Professor Ferrer asked me to go downtown to test run the prosthetic arm and buy dessert for him.

In the past, she had been bought by Erica for her lab a few times, and she seemed to like her quite a bit back then.

Since only Erica knew the location of her store, she naturally accompanied me and Erica.

“Ho, is there a dark spirit lover, Saint Stella, nearby?”

I shook my head at her carefully asking her.

“The Dark Spirit must be guiding Stella to her academy.”

Because it was Stella’s first time at Robern Academy, the Dark Spirit was guiding her while shrugging her shoulders.

I thought she was flattered by strange things, but I remember laughing at her saying that Stella was cute and just let her go.

“What about Finden Eye?”

She felt like she was asking a question as if checking something one by one, but for now, she continued to answer.

“The room is being cleaned.”

“You do that too?”

She’s still a maid, but shouldn’t she? She said she grumbled, of course why she had to do this to herself.

Since she doesn’t have any children, she’ll take her to Owen and pamper him.

The wind around is cool.

I thought it might be too cold to wear a blouse yet, so I glanced back at Erica, but a golden butterfly was sitting on her shoulder.

I wondered if she had settled down at some point, but there was a vague yet warm energy secretly wafting from inside.

“Is it a spirit?”

“Ah, yes. As you said, I and the Spirit got along well.”

In the latter half of the game, as Erica deals with her elemental magic, she becomes a pretty good helper.

I knew that, so I just told her a little earlier.

“… ….”

“… ….”

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A few minutes of walking without saying anything.

She didn’t feel particularly awkward, but the expression on Erica’s face next to her was hidden by her hair, so I couldn’t tell what she was thinking.

However, the backs of each other’s hands are just passing by as if they are constantly maintaining an appropriate distance.

“Come to think of it, during the lecture, I had a question.”

Come to think of it, as her professor, there were a few things I wanted to ask her while lecturing.

She hadn’t had time to think about trivial things like this for a while, so when she had time to spare, she came up with it naturally.

Erica hesitates for a moment, then she replies without looking this way.

“Can I ask you later?”

“It’s not that great. I have time, so I can listen to that much.”

Isn’t it time to spare anyway?

I don’t know how long it takes to get to the dessert shop, but I thought it would be nice to use the time efficiently.

“…… I don’t like to talk about work on a date.”

Dude.

Involuntarily, her steps stopped and after a few more steps, Erica stopped too.

She tried to say out loud that she didn’t think that way at all.

I couldn’t help but keep my mouth shut when I saw Erica, who was forced to hide her blushing face with shame on her knees.

“There was no consideration.”

Since I don’t know much about this part, she apologized honestly.

“I know you have feelings for someone else.”

“… ….”

“But aren’t you sure about that yet?”

Like tapping on the stone bridge of the first stream.

I needed a firm establishment of the emotions that came to me.

Because.

The feelings I have for Finden Eye.

The feelings he has for Erica.

My feelings for Stella.

Because everything was different.

I couldn’t help but be confused, and although they each had a dark temper, I wasn’t sure what romance was.

I was slowly checking my feelings using the love Illuania left behind by Deius Verdi as an indicator.

“Right now, it is impossible for me to choose one person or another.”

“… ….”

“Also, in order to prepare for the future, I have no intention of having a relationship with anyone more than four years even if I find the answer.”

“Four years… ….”

Erika muttered as though she was thinking over my words. Now, a year has passed and the first graders have become second graders.

In order to prevent the destruction of the continent, it was necessary to set aside personal feelings.

“I won’t make excuses even if I think it’s unsightly. If you want to break off the engagement, I will send you a breakup letter right away.”

Erica gave me back the letter of dissolution at her last festival.

“Because I am a lacking person, I need emotional confidence.”

“If I said I didn’t like you, would you really just let me go?”

Erika slowly reached out and tugged at my collar. Normally, she wouldn’t know, but for some reason, she seemed to understand the meaning of this gesture.

Sorry.

Is that why?

“The feeling I had fun with Finden I, I think it could be love.”

“… ….”

“That’s why I was thinking of keeping my distance from others. I didn’t want to hurt him by acting as if I was giving him a chance.”

I came up with a little, unanswered answer.

“But.”

“… ….”

“The warm time I am with you right now. I think it might be love.”

“…… !”

“I’m sorry.”

I had no choice but to apologize because I knew it could hurt me.

But it wasn’t a lie.

In Deus’ feelings toward Illuania, there were the things I felt for Findenai and the things I felt for Erica.

“If it hurts you, it’s okay to leave me anytime.”

“And then.”

One step.

Erika approached.

Her hand was still gripping my collar.

“What if I left and realized it was love?”

If.

Actually, I realized that I was in love with Erica.

If she had already made another lover while forgetting about me.

After thinking about her for a while, I looked at her gently and answered.

“I heard in a book that her unrequited love is like a sparrow.”

“A sparrow? It’s out of the blue.”

“I heard that you can see it if you walk down the street, but you can’t catch it.”

“… ….”

“I probably thought of you suddenly and regretted not being able to catch you.”

It wasn’t hard to imagine.

Because if Erica got away from me, it really seemed like there would be such a future.

“Looking at the sky, I hope you are flying beautifully.”

“… ….”

“Whatever you choose, I want you to be happy.”

An honest answer.

This is the only affirmation I can make right now.

Erika took another step closer to my answer that I would spread her hand and send her away at any time, even if she spreads her wings and flies away.

Erica, who was close to me, took a deep breath and then glared at me coldly.

“Can I hit you once?”

“As much as you like.”

I thought it deserved it, so I slowly closed my eyes.

Poof!

Her neck is grabbed and Erica pulls me hard.

Awkward.

Hard teeth with soft touch on the nape of her neck.

I don’t know why, but I realize Erica has left her mark as she kisses the nape of my neck.

“Does it hurt?”

“Only bitter.”

“But the scars remain.”

That was right.

When I put my hand on the nape of her neck, it was raised as if it were swollen.

“I don’t know what the outcome will be. You can realize your heart and go to someone else, not me.”

I didn’t deny it because it wasn’t wrong.

Erica’s eyes watered as if she pictured the situation in her mind, but she kept smiling nonetheless.

Then she grabs my jacket with both hands. As if she wouldn’t let her escape anywhere.

“The scars from that time will remain inside me bitterly, but that too is proof that I loved you.”

“… ….”

“Deius, if anyone has to hurt even a little bit.”

Putting her forehead on my chest, Erica whispered softly.

“I will be sick.”

“Erika.”

“So you find the answer. Don’t hesitate, don’t be afraid to hurt.”

There was a mixture of sobs, but not a tearful voice.

I couldn’t see her expression, but I felt that it contained determination that overcame her sorrow.

“No matter what answer you give, you will be happy.”