#20
cold and dark
─Whew… …
Before he could barely lift his heavy eyelids as if he had placed a stone on them, he could feel the wind chilling the glistening drops of sweat.
“Uh… … ”
Involuntarily, he wrinkled his forehead and swallowed.
at that time.
“Car, I’ll close the window. wait.”
The voices were cut off and came into my ears.
—Druck, tak.
Someone passed by my side. Then, after a while, the wind that was rustling my bangs suddenly disappeared.
“It has passed again… … All right, I’ll wipe it off. Wait a moment… … ”
where is this
what am i doing
I don’t want to know anything.
quiet and serene I feel like I want to entrust myself to the soft bed like this. That gentle voice gently caressing my ear next to me, I want to sink to the bottom of the water again, even though I am slowly coming to my senses.
“How the heck did you overdo it to the point where you collapsed from exhaustion, Ezio… … ”
Whoops.
Once again, weight is added to my side.
It’s as comfortable as someone’s hand gently wiping the sweat drops from my face, forehead, neck, and collarbone with a wet towel.
“… … Hey, this is just wiping off the sweat. yes.”
However, as we went down, the speed gradually slowed down, though, in the end, only the bare skin was wiped away.
Still, the fact that it felt good didn’t change.
I don’t know what my situation is right now, and it took about thirty seconds for me to close my eyes and enjoy this little peace.
“Uhhh.”
A sigh was heard from the side.
“… … I hadn’t originally thought of this. Now, when you open your eyes, I don’t know what face to look at… … ”
The mellow murmuring flies through the air like my mother’s lullaby when I was young, trying to put my mind to rest.
“But if you are sick like this, you have no choice but to come to me because you are worried. Idiot.”
A voice mixed with scolding, as if swearing.
Until then, I hadn’t opened my eyes.
after a while.
“So… Don’t be sick… ”
As my hearing gradually returned, the clear voice became a low murmur in the midst of the silence, and reached my ears with certainty.
“So, senior, don’t get sick.”
At that moment, it must have been my misunderstanding that someone’s face seemed to pass by even though I hadn’t opened my eyes yet.
a little bit sad
The image of a girl looking back at me with her back on the bed with a face that looks like water drops will soon flow when I tap it… …
“Ugh, it’s been a lot longer than I thought. If I wake up, it will be in trouble as it is, so I have to go back now… … Whoa?!”
“… … ah.”
A thin, short scream hits the ceiling.
Slowly opening his eyes, he instinctively stretched out his hand, grabbing what he could grab at the end of it and preventing him from escaping.
The slender wrist that could have been completely covered with my hand was held tight, and the owner of the wrist was startled and screamed instead of getting up from the chair.
“Eh, Ezio? woke up… … uh?”
swish.
I rubbed the dark corner of my eyes with the other hand.
After blinking a few times, the afterimages that were blurry like illusions soon merged into one to create a clear image.
It is an unfamiliar but familiar ceiling. It’s because I’ve never been there, but I knew what a place with that kind of ceiling was functioning for.
I lifted my neck slightly and looked ahead.
A friendly girl with her face as red as the color of her hair, with her lips closed and the chin gulp, stood diagonally from me.
… … what.
Is it like that?
He brushed off the feeling of not knowing the reason or English in one breath, grasping the spirit that was about to slowly sag, and opened his mouth with dry lips.
“… hi. Rubia.”
As soon as you wake up, you say hello.
It wasn’t awkward, but it didn’t seem like a good start either. But my head was so stiff for a moment, I really didn’t know what to say.
“Oh, hello. Ezio. Now I’m a little conscious… … ?”
“… … yes.”
Once she let go of her hand, Rubia, while bewildered, gently touched the wrist that had been holding me, and bowed her head down.
#21
“Hey, would you like some water? I’ll bring it to you soon.”
“… … thank you.”
“Yes. Nope. Gee, I’m waiting… ”
My lips were very dry. My throat is burning and my voice is cracked. It’s just like a ghoul. Shall we recite the golden sang chant like this? Of course I don’t know anything.
Rubia got up from her chair and turned around.
Wearing a uniform, not plain clothes.
Her wavy, pale pink hair gently swayed. Looking at Rubia’s back, I quickly opened my mouth, grasping the surroundings.
“Wait, Rubia.”
“Yes?”
He pauses but doesn’t look back at me.
“why… ?”
“What time is it now?”
I didn’t ask where it was. white bed. white room. A place that looks very similar to the place where I was taken care of a while ago. Is there any more than the infirmary?
For some reason, I felt like I was losing my memory when I opened my eyes, but fortunately, I remember roughly what happened until I got here.
As a result of rolling my body to the limit without sleeping for more than two days, after the swordsmanship test was over, I lost my mind and collapsed with all my energy.
No matter how physically stronger than before, such a reckless thing should never have been done. But I couldn’t help it. Somehow I had to push my body and mind. It was definitely necessary.
“Um, so… … Oh, the clock is over there.”
Rubia looked at the clock on the wall and looked like she was trying to tell me the time, but I was looking out the window after asking a question.
dark.
At the same time as I put my forehead on the back of my hand and let out a sigh.
“10:12 p.m.… Will it?”
“… … I see.”
Rubia’s final blow hit.
I faced reality.
‘It’s George.’
cooked properly.
“What did you promise?”
“I had one test left.”
“… … ah.”
The extrasensory specialization test was scheduled after the swordsmanship. It was supposed to be the last one today, but it was gracefully absent.
Even asking for an additional test is a very difficult situation. Because it was an accident that happened because I couldn’t manage my own condition properly.
“Uh, uh, um. uh… … ”
“it’s okay. It’s my fault.”
“still… … not. I’ll bring you some water.”
Rubia paused for a moment, seemingly unresponsive, but as soon as I said that with a sigh, she walked outside to get the water.
#22
“Come on, here. Drink water.”
“thank you.”
To be honest, I was still exhausted, but not to the point where I couldn’t use my arms at all. If I had, I wouldn’t have been able to grab Rubia’s wrist as soon as I opened my eyes.
“Pooh woohoo.”
After drinking cold water, he lowered his head and let out a long sigh with a pounding sensation in his head.
What did you think when you saw my actions?
“that that… I also heard from Yuri and Stella, but they said that I took the exam today. But Stella said never to wake Ezio… … If you wake up in the middle, somehow stop them from leaving… … If you want to get some rest… … ”
Rubia hesitated and said so.
“… … Well, it is.”
My reaction to him was short and straightforward.
Because Yuri, Stella, and Gabriel were students in the same class as me. Did they pass the exam properly? That’s good.
It was Stella and Gabriel who brought me here, but I wondered what if there were any left. It was such a silly idea that I never thought of it like that.
“Are you alone here?”
“Yes? yes… for now. Stella and Gabriel? That friend and Yuri came and went for a while.”
“I see.”
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Did Yuri come too? That’s surprising.
“Who else?”
“… yes?”
“Isn’t there anyone other than them?”
I hesitated as I couldn’t understand the intent of my question, and Rubia answered while tilting her head to the side.
“No one but them came… … why?”
I knew it.
“… … Nope. That’s it.”
“… … ?”
“More than that, Rubia, how long have you been here? So far, I know who came and went.”
“Ahh… ! that… Because I didn’t have much to do today! The exam was over in the morning, yes, so… … ”
He twisted his hair with his hands and lengthened the tip of the horse.
When I don’t put more pressure on him there, he starts talking to me again, smiling clumsily, as if trying to change the topic.
“Mom, how’s your body… ?”
“it’s okay. Also, it’s better to sleep well. You can get out of bed like this.”
“That’s not allowed.”
He quickly blocks me with a resolute throw.
“Ah oh… … that is.”
That momentum disappeared very quickly.
“Wake up, you just woke up. Wouldn’t it be better to rest a little more… I want to.”
“… … Indeed, it is.”
There are no more exams to take today.
Extrasensory Specialism was originally the last test.
It’s very disappointing that the last test of the first midterm exam of the first semester ended due to exhaustion, but… … what to do I don’t even have the ability to go back to the past.
‘I can’t even lie down for too long.’
The room is much more comfortable than here.
Above all else, you can move enough, but if you don’t move, it’s a loss. There are less than two hours left until the end of the day, but I have not yet achieved today’s amount of exercise. It was truly intolerable.
and.
When everything is completed by Friday’s schedule, the most important practice in this evaluation will begin soon.
Before that, you need to awaken your senses a little more.
“Okay, then, take a good rest here. Don’t move in bed for a while. I’m going now… … ”
After I pondered for a moment and there was a gap in the conversation, Rubia got up from her chair and started moving back to her dorm.
I don’t know if I would have tried to stay longer than usual.
Now is… …
‘… … ‘
Come to think of it.
Is this the first time you’ve talked to Rubia since then?
Even though we exchanged greetings for a while during the magic test and mana control test, there was no ordinary conversation other than that.
Now is… … It happened unexpectedly and naturally, but it was possible because neither of them wanted to mention it for nothing.
It is a fact that even me cannot deny that Rubia’s complexion seems to have gotten better than before.
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Did someone help you?
Or did it happen on its own?
Either way is a good thing.
It must have never been easy for me to meet again, but I did not intend to make Rubia, who had cared for me until now, more uncomfortable here.
so that.
“Yeah, good bye. Thank you.”
“… … Yes, get some rest. Ezio. I hope you recover quickly.”
She raised her hand for a moment at Rubia’s back, with her back turned, then gently put it down and laid her head on the pillow.
#23
“Professor Robert. How are the preparations going?”
“We are almost done with safety device inspection, summoning circle construction and installation, and artifact creation. It seems that the guests who are scheduled to visit this practice will also arrive in the capital soon.”
Frontier professors gather in a large communal area to discuss upcoming mock labs. Among them were professors who had nothing to do with the Epic class.
“Did you say that the theme of this lab is all the same?”
“That’s right. We will evaluate the abilities of our students within the virtual world that Neviros, the Archmage of Jaya, has built.”
“Hmm, in the third year, the students must show excellent grades. Year 2 needs to be watched a little more. 1st year… … ”
“Most of them are students who have never experienced real battles, so I don’t think you should expect too much. All first graders are like that.”
The mock practice of the Epic Class is only conducted until the 3rd grade. This is because from the fourth grade onwards, educational courses such as ‘mock practice’ are no longer needed.
Of course, that may be a thing of the past. This is because the need for repeated ‘actual battles’ has become very low as the human race ended with human victory.
So, in the end, in actual combat, it would be nothing but release the demon that had been restrained on an artificially made plate.
A mock practice held once per semester. In the first semester of the first year, the practice starts early to see the fragment of the talent, and then the practice starts after the final exams are taken from the second semester of the first year to the second semester of the third year.
In other words, this first-year mock practice is an important opportunity to get a glimpse of the true potential of each student.
The first graders of the Epic Class would soon prove themselves whether they were worthy of the title of the future of the empire.
“By the way, it’s really well made. how precise is that Among the myriad of magic, space-based magic is an alternative… … ”
A professor said, tapping the common exterior wall.
The place where the professors are currently located is a huge communion–inside the imaginary world of Nebiros. Among them, it was the place where one ‘high-ranking beast’ would be finally summoned.
“That’s right. In my fifty years of life, I have never seen a wizard who created such a huge labyrinth in such a short time. Nebiros, that author’s magic has no limits at all.”
“With that skill, I don’t know if I would have been able to surpass the position of Master Ma Thap. If he had a desire for power, the balance of domination in the central tower would have been tighter than it is now.”
“He had the ability to look down on the sins of any high-ranking wizard, but he had no greed and was a mysterious writer. I didn’t even get a call from this side, and the other side would contact me first, the headquarters didn’t even know it. He must have been a person who didn’t want to reveal himself to the outside like that.”
“Lord of Nebiros… … No, Nebiros-sama was a very veiled person. It was truly an honor to meet you this time as a supervisor. You look much younger than you know.”
“exactly? That yangban seems to have existed before I was even born… … Even if I knew they were Archmage, I wouldn’t know.”
The professors chatted like that, and when they wanted to take a look around the labyrinth, they slowly got ready to go back.
“Professor Robert.”
at that time.
A professor called someone.
“Why?”
Robert turned back to his call.
after a while.
“Your complexion is pale. What’s wrong?”
“Yes, it is… … ”
I swallow my saliva, but the situation doesn’t change.
“Hmm… … ”
“… … ”
The professor stroked his chin and narrowed his brow.
He moved slowly and approached Robert.
bruises, bruises.
bruise.
widely.
and.
-Chin.
“It’s a lot of work to be the supervisor. Still, the burden is less than last year, so don’t overdo it. We just have to put the safety of our students first.”
“Yes, yes. I know.”
Robert nodded quickly,
The professor just smiled.
“Then, let’s all go back.”
The professors start heading towards the pre-installed portal.
Robert walked slowly behind them.
“… … ”
I habitually put my hand on my chest.
Robert’s heart was not beating.
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