142. Palace Academy
Now that summer has passed, the time to get cooler is naturally coming. Coincidentally, there were a lot of clouds today, so the bodies of the students who were training in the giant playground seemed light.
“I haven’t lived that long in the world, though.”
The freshness of the cool lemonade coming through the straw stimulates the tongue with a flick.
“I don’t think there is anything more enjoyable than taking a break alone when others are having a hard time.”
At my words, Ha-yun, who had come to rest for a while and was wiping her sweat with a towel, naturally twisted her eyes. I had a feeling that there were all these guys, but what can I do?
My right hand is broken, so I have no choice but to sit in a shady seat and rest.
‘Ah, I like this because it’s comfortable.’
To be honest, I was a shaman from a time I didn’t like from number one to ten, but thanks to the right hand he broke, I stopped being involved in the children’s games for nothing.
No matter how much we lost 13 years in a row, it’s not that I’m stuck and kicking the ball together. I don’t want to traumatize children who are growing well because they are alien species to the ecosystem.
Of course, the dean was really sad and insisted that he could win even if he broke his right hand.
“More than that, he said he had gone to the royal family this time.”
I thought I was going to go as I was getting annoyed, but Ha-yoon sat down next to me. Instead of the smell of sweat, the scent of flowers lingers on the bridge of my nose.
“Well, I went and did some work on this and that.”
“Have you seen the uncle?”
Are you talking about Heven Len? I remember it wasn’t there at the banquet hall.
“why not?”
Since she had already disowned her family, she hadn’t shown any interest in her family, so why did she ask about her uncle, Hevon Wren, but her expression looked serious.
“I heard that the trend of the Ren family is strange these days. Even if I try not to pay attention, they naturally talk to me.”
“Is the trend strange?”
“I heard that all the servants who worked for the family were fired. Among them, there was someone who took care of me since I was little, so I met him.”
In addition, the uncle’s safe, which was never opened except for urgent matters, became empty, and strange decorations were placed in the garden and inside.
It sounds like you’ve had an unusual change of heart just by listening to it.
I wondered if Ha-yoon still had a bit of family love for her uncle.
“Please don’t just throw sparks at me. I mean, I’m going to be self-made.”
It didn’t seem to matter to her what happened to Heven Len. Rather, it is an atmosphere that wants you to live without being involved with yourself if possible.
“Don’t worry too much. You just need to find a way for you to live.”
“Yeah, that’s how it should be.”
To Hayoon, the representative flower beggar of AOS Academy, the cost of living was a more realistic and immediate problem to face than family issues.
Of course, now there are many regular customers, so money was not urgent as if it was on fire, but wasn’t the wallet lacking no matter how hard it was originally put in?
“How are you with Eris-sama?”
Ha-yoon naturally changed the subject. My hand, which had placed the lemonade beside me, hovered in the air, lost in where to go.
“How is it? Since we decided to keep our distance, we haven’t had any contact at all. Well, that would be natural.”
He didn’t tell Hayoon about things like “I saw the future” and just explained it in a vague way, asking him to think about it while keeping his distance.
“Hmm, let me change the question a bit. How about you?”
“……what?”
Ha-yun quenches thirst by snatching the lemonade I was drinking. Because she is a flower beggar girl, she uses straws that others use without any hesitation.
“Eris-sama felt something and told you to keep your distance. I can’t say anything complicated, but from my point of view, something inside of you looks like you need some sort of tidying up?”
That’s right.
I had to accept and admit that I couldn’t see the Eris before the return and the Eris today as the same.
“……”
To be honest, I didn’t like it.
To me, Eris, who was still smiling and proposing in the forest of the demon realm, seems to be in front of me like a mirage. What I had to do now was to reach out and confirm and admit that it was an illusion.
‘it’s tough.’
But I couldn’t.
Eris is still alive. If you move to meet right now, you can go to meet. It is clearly alive, smiling, and rejoicing.
But isn’t she?
The Eris I remembered and the Eris now are different?
It was all the more difficult because I knew that it was true and it was the truth that I had no choice but to understand.
Even though Eris exists, she must be let go.
It was crueler than I could have imagined, and the sadness beyond resentment was sinking me like sea water and eroding my heart.
“it’s okay.”
As he sat still without saying a word, Hayun patted his shoulder and comforted him. It didn’t matter what I was worrying about.
I just realized that I was having a hard time, so she just stayed by my side.
“Thank you.”
When it comes to dating, I feel lucky whenever we talk about having Hayun. Even so, he doesn’t seem particularly interested in the men around him.
I wanted to be of some help to Ha-yun, so I tried to ask if there was a man she liked, but an uninvited guest broke in.
“Daniel, are your hands okay?”
The white-haired assassin girl, Sen. Up until last year, she had been agitated, but at the request of Hayoon and Eve, she was properly preparing for the contest.
“It’s a surprise.”
I’ve felt it since the last time, but I’ve been soaked in the warm atmosphere of the academy more than I thought. Even though Sen has grown up, I can’t believe he’s losing his mind just because he’s relaxed.
‘Ha, but this isn’t a problem that can be solved overnight.’
It is unlikely that a powerful enemy like the shaman of time will appear again soon, but the blunted senses could definitely have a fatal effect in dealing with such beings.
However, this part was not trained because I wanted to train it. What would be different if you felt your presence alone in an empty place and expanded your senses?
Like the forest of the demon realm, you can only properly develop your senses in situations where your life is at risk anytime, anywhere.
‘I’d rather go back in a few days.’
It’s a vacation right after the competition is over, so I wanted to go and build a villa and live my life.
“I decided to play mana volleyball. Look at this.”
Sen suddenly jumps out of front of the seat and shows a spike-striking pose. It is naturally reminiscent of a mermaid jumping out of the sea.
I didn’t know anything about volleyball, but I could tell that her form was quite neat.
“Are you covering short ones with your jumping power?”
“Yeah, the volleyball team captain liked it as a secret weapon.”
Seeing them smiling slightly and satisfied with them made me feel moved without knowing it. Is it the assassin who died of emotion due to drug addiction?
This brother is proud of you.
The students get up and pat Sen’s head, and as soon as they sit back down, the students enter the playground.
It was a similar number to our academy students, but the uniforms they were wearing were different, and the professors who led them were people I had never met.
“It’s the Palace Academy.”
“I heard you were coming today.”
At Sen and Hayun’s words, I sat down quietly and stretched out my neck to scan them all. Even from a distance, there seemed to be a lot of guys who looked quite temperamental.
Even though the Aios side should have known the information that they had come to Byrn to train one step ahead, Palace Academy arrived as planned without being impatient.
It meant that they were confident, and that they were looking down on us.
Amanda, the professor in charge of class E and who was teaching running, came forward and exchanged something with the professor on the other side, then turned around hysterically and told the kids to go back.
“what? Did you finish early today?”
I had only practiced in the morning, but I wondered if it was already over, but Ha-yoon, who has already experienced two contests, explains.
“Because the large playground in Bayrn is expensive to rent, the two academies split it in half. So, at this point, we divide the time and use it.”
Oh, that’s right.
We who used to use it now had no choice but to give it up.
The only thing I brought was lemonade anyway, so I took the remaining drinks and drank a side dish and joined the party.
Eve and Tana, who are sweating profusely, approach me as they are and say proudly.
“Daniel! I placed second in the run! The hell dawn run is paying off!”
“I’m also a cricket candidate! The workout I thought Daniel was doing because he wanted to see a girl exhaling hot and gasping is working!”
“Yeah, you should know how to say something better, but when I see you say something sarcastic, I really hate it.”
Next time, make it harder.
So, I go out to the playground while talking with the kids. In the middle, he passes by the children of the Palace Academy, and he stares at him quite bloodily.
‘It feels like they’re on the hard side of something.’
About half of the students, like Mei, were glaring at this side with their eyes wide open.
About half of them looked down on this side as if they were pathetic, with a face like a schoolboy who was tired of studying.
“Aeos are assholes, but girls are pretty.”
“Kwp, the guys with empty goals are pretty.”
“Is that blue-haired girl crazy over her body? The chest……”
“Have you seen a black-haired girl before? I didn’t see it last year, was it really crazy? She is a goddess.”
“Oh, why don’t we have kids like that?”
Low-key conversations are heard. It’s not a sound that is forced to leak out, but it’s talking openly to listen to.
While drinking lemonade, I glanced at Eve and Tana and asked.
“Are you going to slap me?”
“No, Daniel’s right hand is hurt, but it’s okay.”
“Right! If we fight here, only words come out.”
“Hmm? OK got it.”
I nodded and tossed the remaining bottle of lemonade at the guy who had been whispering about Eve earlier.
“ah! what!”
Like Tana and Elise, a guy with artificial yellow hair, not natural blonde, but with dye or magic, rushes at me excitedly.
“it’s crazy? Why are you throwing this all of a sudden! It’s all wet, it’s a dog! ”
The bad-mouthed guy grabbed the water bottle I threw and was ready to throw it.
Agitated students gather around me and him at the center. Tana and Eve were surprised and tried to stop me, but the two had nothing to do with it.
“Ai, why are you drinking someone else’s lemonade without permission?”
“……What?”
He rolled his eyes saying what kind of bullsh*t he was talking about, but I had already reached out with my hand first and grabbed his chin with my middle finger and thumb.
“Oh, hey!”
A guy whose waist is bent with a type without realizing that he must have been surprised by the sudden grip.
I was just talking to Ares, but I didn’t expect to show you here that you can kill people with two fingers.
“What do you do when you drink the lemonade that I have saved until the end, my friend? What is your name?”
“Ugh, woah!”
I put my thumb under my chin and my middle finger on my tongue and press it up and down. When he starts crying, he tries to take my hand off, but it doesn’t work.
His friends next to him clung to him, but I, who was possessed by Yggdrasil, did not budge from the spot and continued to press him down.
“If there is a kleptomaniac, say so. Or is your throat too dry? Is that why you drank my drink on your own?”
“Ahhh! Alas!”
Looking down at the guy who was about to say something, he whispered softly.
“Think carefully and say it again.”
When I smiled and removed my hand, the boy covered his mouth with both hands and wept.
“Sorry, sorry…!”
Wow!
The cry of the guy who was trying to apologize goes away. One of the molar teeth of the guy who rolled on the floor came out and decorated the playground.
Short cropped hair. Although not as big or taller than the other students, well-toned muscles like those of wild horses in the grasslands that can be felt even outside the school uniform.
A ripped eye and a rough look that looks like it’s about to run into it at any moment.
The one who had beaten the face of the same academy student as if he were practicing kicking it, put his hand in his pocket and glared at me.
“Are you apologizing for being scared of an asshole who will let Gao fall?”
Although it was a situation full of tension in the eyes of the students around me.
“Put.”
I unknowingly let out a laugh.
But couldn’t it be helped?
Humans are animals of comparison.
Are you better or am I better?
Is the land he owns good, or the horses I have better?
Is the mad fanatic you fought last time a threat, or is the frog in the well crying at the academy more terrifying?
“Smile?”
I’m sorry for that guy, but compared to the woman who rushed at me with the hour hand and minute hand. The bad boy felt so pure and cute.