4 – So slow
After underlining a single line in yellow, the boy didn’t do anything.
‘Did you pretend to be proud but ended up bluffing?’
The moment he thought that, the boy smiled softly as if he had read his thoughts.
It’s more like laughing at something ridiculous. It seems that he is silently saying, “How dare you” To the spell written on the agora board.
‘Huh?’
Becky involuntarily opened her eyes wide.
There is not the slightest hint of displeasure in the chalk pounding on the blackboard and in the eyes that move busily here and there.
Rather, it seemed that he felt the utmost pleasure in dealing with the opponent in front of him.
Soon, his wrist moves greatly and draws another underline. Despite not being assisted by tools, the trajectory he drew was a straight line with no errors.
Now there are two underlines. Flan murmured.
“Is the value of the first spell still available?”
The girl was shocked as if she had been hit in the back of the head.
Come to think of it, she hadn’t remembered the boy’s words that he would only find vertices because she was fascinated by the sight.
At the same time, I have a question. No matter how pinpointed a vertex is, it takes a lot of concentration and mana to calculate each one.
What if this is a mistake?
But as soon as he quietly touched the spell, Becky felt his doubt melt away.
‘This… The apex must be correct.’
A wizard is a being who adds intuition to the path of pursuing the truth.
She felt her own intuition respond even though she had only just begun her calculations.
As if she found the dowsing she was looking for, this is the only kind among her malignant and obnoxious spells.
The whole part was strongly claiming that it was the core composition.
Becky immediately spread the paper out in the air and began to write.
This is definitely the apex. My heart beats at the thought that maybe I can really reach the right answer.
“There are only 64 of these spells that seem innumerable.”
“64 Things… “
Isn’t 64 things ridiculously many? Becky swallowed the words quietly.
Anyway. The derived value of the first formula was A1.
Quickly solve the next spell.
However, it is not easy either. Because it required such a long calculation, even if one mistake was made in the middle, it had to be done from the beginning, and concentration quickly ran out.
But somehow, it calculates three more after that: A8, H1, H8.
“Ah!”
Becky let out her exclamation. A1, A8, H1, H8 are all too familiar.
“This is a square! Eight squares horizontally, eight squares vertically! Like a chessboard!”
So she said that there are a total of 64 spells. Eight horizontally and eight vertically, there would be 64 coordinates.
Becky is proud, but Plan shakes his head in a pitiful way.
“I did a good job understanding it up to that point, but of course it doesn’t end there.”
“What? Then?”
“Now I just estimated the size of the canvas. I’ll start figuring out the picture now.”
“Ah… That’s it…”
She was Becky, confidently accepting her offer, but she was already exhausted by the fact that she had counted four.
‘Isn’t that difficult for him?’
Becky was wiping the sweat from her forehead at some point, but Plan calmly held her chin.
There is no indication that this process is difficult. He was still aloof.
Again, he underlines.
What should I do? Becky swallowed a scream inwardly as she proceeded to the next calculation.
The two are so engrossed in their respective tasks that they forget even the passage of time.
D4, D6, C3, E3, B4, F4…
This time Becky puts the chalk down.
“Correct answer!”
Flan secretly looks at the girl. She shouted confidently.
“This looks like a spade. Certainly, it is convenient because it selects only vertices and calculates them.”
Seungri stretches out all the time, but unexpectedly, the reaction that comes back is callous.
The boy tapped the blackboard with the chalk.
“Did you know that now? Calculate yourself.”
“I thought spades were the correct answer, but they count more?”
“Just do it.”
Becky mumbled her displeasure and reluctantly tried to calculate a new spell.
Then, the chin is nicely blocked.
“Over there. Hey.”
“What is it?”
The answer came back so confidently that I was cut off from what I was trying to say.
‘What is it? No matter how I think about it, it’s strange.’
However, Becky felt a great sense of incongruity.
I could feel that the coordinates I had received so far were the main core, with my whole intuition responding.
However, there was nothing like that in the coordinates I received this time.
A spell that looks like a trap to anyone. A very odd place. I can only feel that way when I touch it.
I kept thinking about solving it, but finally came up with my convictions and asked.
“Did you point this out correctly?”
“It’s not a correct answer, but I pointed it out as I intended.”
That means you got it wrong.
Nevertheless, Flanne confidently underlined her one more.
Looking at it with my eyes, this one is also a spell that feels like a trap.
“As you intended? What the hell are you talking about… ?”
Shouldn’t the problem be solved according to the intention of the presenter?
However, Eul’s feeling of having to solve the problem from the boy doesn’t exist at all.
“It’s not worth it to return only the correct answer, the spade picture. We’re not even minions.”
“Well… Then what else are you trying to give me?”
Then flan laughs.
“We have to return the problem in reverse. Let the presenter solve it.”
“What will come out if you unwrap the returned one?”
“A picture that has been accurately reversed upside down. Heart.”
“Upside down… No, you’re going to turn the picture upside down?”
“Yes.”
While others were contemplating the correct answer, the boy was contemplating the next dimension. The ‘correct answer’ was already a very obvious premise from the beginning.
“Why are you doing that? That’s wrong anyway Others don’t even know that we solved the problem.”
“That’s what’s fun.”
Short answer to come back. The boy continues
“Everyone else doesn’t know, and only this presenter knows. The fact that someone else completely saw through to your problem.”
Becky was sure. This guy isn’t normal.
At the same time, you’re insane.
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‘But… I think it’ll be fun?’
However, the heart that secretly rises from within was rather rebellious and outspoken.
Has she ever thought like a flan in her life?
When given a problem, she grunted and thought only of being praised, but she never thought of giving it back.
Are you the same freshman in the first place? The first impression of her looking like a sickly junior is erased from her head.
Tak-tak, he points to the newly underlined in chalk.
“The derived value is.”
“Ki, wait. Because I am doing it.”
Spells were poured one after another towards Becky.
The newly solved spells were much more difficult.
Of course. In order to overturn the picture, they are only releasing the magic of the coordinates, which is originally a trap.
‘…What kind of kids are there?’
Becky unknowingly stuck out his tongue while calculating.
They are the same age. If so, I couldn’t help but think that his talent was natural.
Who could suffocate Becky like this in the first place?
Becky prided herself on having followed the path of a wizard in her past life.
So, when I applied for Merhen Academy, I didn’t hesitate at all and passed as if it were natural.
Is that all she is? Even at her freshman welcome, some of her students recognized her.
‘He is… I don’t even remember seeing it at the freshman welcome party?’
Becky glanced to the side of him with bewildered eyes.
But the boy wasn’t looking at the blackboard this time. He stared at the girl with a slightly dissatisfied expression.
“Why is it so slow?”
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“Ahhhhh… “
It wasn’t until around the time the moon hung in the sky that Becky, having finished her calculations, lay down on the floor.
The correct answer to the question was, as expected, shaped like a spade, and Flan cleverly flipped it over, then detached his hilt and turned it into a heart shape.
The answer was written as a memo in the form of a question and pasted in a corner. The presenter will look into it.
If things go according to plan, it’s almost a joke. To be honest, if I said I had a little fun, would my personality be bad?
“hahahahaha…”
Nevertheless, laughter broke out first. It was fun. That one thing is certain.
“Do you like it?”
The boy asks.
That’s also a question. Becky nodded his head as she lay down.
I did not approach the problem purely on my own, but the sense of achievement that I did it was tremendous.
“Hey. You. That…”
Becky finally looked at the boy’s top. The business card, glistening in the moonlight, had “Flan” Written on it.
“Flan. Can I just call you by your first name?”
“Do it yourself. We won’t be meeting each other anyway.”
“Why can’t we meet? Aren’t you going to continue attending the academy?”
“Okay. I’m out of interest now.”
The girl jumped up from the floor where she was lying. And for a while she busily rolled her head.
‘Where have you been scouted already?’
Well, just looking at it, it didn’t seem particularly strange that he was getting scouting offers.
I can’t help it if it’s like that.
In the future, if we continued to go to the academy together, we were going to keep it as friends, but it turned out to be a pity.
I picked up the bag lying on the floor and held it out to the boy.
“Then why are you going home now?”
“Home…”
The boy thought for a moment.
Even if you fall to another world, you must have a place to stay. The time was already night.
This body desperately wanted to recover from fatigue. If there is a place to sleep, I should go and get some sleep.
Then all of a sudden.
“Come to think of it, why are you not going home?”
Looking back, I think girls of this age had a curfew as standard.
“Me? Me… I’m fine. You don’t have to go in yet.”
He nodded his head at Becky, who was hesitant to answer.
“Then take me there.”
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Becky shook his head.
“Your address is written on your student ID card, but why are you saying you can’t go there… ? I cannot understand.”
“Because I don’t know.”
“No, I mean. Why doesn’t a kid who knows all the complicated spells not know about the house?”
It was Becky who grumbled but complied with the request.
If he had felt selfishness or black feelings in his request to take him home, he would have refused like a knife, but he doesn’t really seem to know the house.
No, it’s not just the house I don’t know, it seems that I don’t know this area at all. It’s like looking at it strangely here and there.
“How much is left?”
“Since we are almost there… No, but am I right to hear this from the landlord? You should know better.”
“I don’t know.”
“Really dumbfounded… omg.”
Becky, who was walking while looking at the address and the surroundings, involuntarily let go of his arm.
And he opens his little mouth.
“Flan you… Live here?”
What unfolded before my eyes was a very huge mansion.