Episode 30 Midterm exam preparation period.(3)
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‘Come to my professor’s office for lunch.’
Alice left those words alone and went back to her cadets.
I know that my name has become quite famous due to the recent villain attack, but I didn’t have a great track record enough for someone like a U-class professor to find me, so my curiosity only grew.
While I was engrossed in curiosity and just thinking about it, it seemed that the other guys had been competing a few times.
Normally, I would have watched these guys fight quite carefully, but I couldn’t afford to do that today.
It was because he could not concentrate at all on the battles of the other guys at the thought of meeting with Alice.
That state continued even after the battle was over.
Even for lunch, I shoved it into my mouth so roughly that I didn’t even know what I was eating.
It’s not because I’m blind to eating.
Rather, it is closer to being important.
Nevertheless, the reason I left while I was eating is because my curiosity about the interview with Alice overcame my appetite.
So, shall we go and solve that curiosity?
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smart.
He lightly knocked on Alice’s classroom door.
“Come on in.”
Alice’s classroom was tidy.
It wasn’t cluttered, and everything seemed to be placed in ‘where it should be’.
“What do you think I called you for?”
“I do not know.”
how do i know that
I am also genuinely curious.
what was it called
“Well, not a big reason. I did it because I wanted to ask a cadet.”
“For me?”
“Yes, I heard that it was cadet Park Seong-jin who came up with a plan to prevent this villain’s attack.”
“It’s a bit of a chore with my mouth, but it is.”
It’s more embarrassing than I thought.
I would have been more proud if I had defeated the guy who wore the beast, but it seems natural to be ashamed because I did nothing and developed it.
“Don’t be so shy. It’s never been easier to do something like that at a cadet level.”
“thank you.”
“And, the reason I called is actually different, so you can rest assured, right? I don’t want to talk much about the villain’s raid. Oh, of course, I don’t mean to disparage that achievement. Obviously, it’s a great thing.”
“no. You can talk comfortably.”
Well, Alice is kinder than I thought.
Comparing him to Vincent is rude.
No, is it weird to compare him to Vincent?
“You have a more normal personality than you think.”
“Yeah, because until recently, I was just an ordinary person.”
Even if one day you suddenly have an unbelievable superpower, it is difficult to throw away your old way of thinking.
“Ah, you are in high school.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“But even with that in mind, it’s unique. Usually people get arrogant after awakening their ideological powers, but Seongjin Park doesn’t seem like that at all. He seems to be sincere.”
That seems like a different matter.
Until I possessed this body, the owner of this body must have had all of the very strong imaginative powers, but now my imaginative powers are staggering.
There’s no reason to be so arrogant.
Besides, I am in a hurry to remove the shadow of destruction that has been cast on this world, so even if I have awakened all my imaginative powers, I don’t have time to believe in them and bluff.
“Well, anyway, that’s one reason why I found cadet Park Seong-jin.”
“What is it?”
“I will give you the right to use my workshop for free.”
“What do you mean?”
Obviously, there are quite a few people who have their own workshops at Trinity Academy.
Of course, some are to provide suitable weapons to the Awakened, and some are simply because it is money.
However, the story of Alice having her own workshop is a rarity.
“You don’t seem to know about my workshop. My imaginative power is single ability and artifact creation. Artifacts crafted from it are being supplied to other Awakeneds.”
If so, my guess was correct that Alice’s strange mirror also belongs to this person.
But I wouldn’t be able to craft such an item arbitrarily.
There is no way that such a masterpiece would have been given to someone without any reason.
Is Professor Alice also a member of the Somnium Liberator?
“Artifacts are quite valuable, even for very low-level objects without a rating, so why are you allowing me to use them for free?”
“We are the harbingers who will awaken you from the bondage of a nightmare from which you cannot escape.”
… Greetings from the members of the Somnium Liberator.
Did you mean that the insider inside Trinity Academy was Alice, not Oscar?
No, there is nothing to know from this alone.
It is possible that both of them are introverts.
Whatever the case, things must have gone badly.
“The reaction, looking at it, makes me feel like I know what it is.”
well know
can’t know
“Professor… ”
“No, I am no longer a somnium liberator.”
“Now what?”
“It was a while ago.”
‘How long ago’ means that she was also a somnium liberator.
Why did you quit Somnium Liberator?
“Looking at you, you seem to be wondering why I quit. Actually, I was a very old member of the Somnium Liberator.”
“Then why did you quit?”
“Because they have changed. The Somnium Liberators were originally an ordinary occult research group. In fact, what does it mean to be a group? It’s easy to think of it as a club for interested researchers.”
Somnium Liberators were originally an ordinary occult research group?
This is also the first I’ve heard of it.
“But how did you come to join?”
“Actually, it was close to a coincidence that I joined. My twin sister, Marianne, was obsessed with the occult. So, Marianne joined the Somnium Liberator when she used the name of the World Mystic Research Society instead of her current name.”
“You joined because of your twin sister?”
“I can say that. It’s not the first time that group has mistaken Marianne and me. Naturally, I was encouraged to join if I was interested, and I also joined because I was curious about what Marianne does on a regular basis.”
A small club that was nothing more than an occult research group becomes a dangerous group that threatens the existence of the world.
Indeed, the world is a series of things that you may not even know about.
“So, while we were just looking for things like urban legends and monsters from ancient texts, we came across an unusual pattern in some ancient text. It looked like eight strands of tentacles sticking out around closed eyes.”
Ah, it seems similar to the sentence used by the Somnium Liberator.
It also had a prototype.
“Helge Heyerdahl, who was president of the World Academy of Mystic Studies, was fascinated with the pattern she found in Connecticut, USA, and began to study it deeply. It was from that day that Helge began to go wrong. The more he studied the patterns, the more strange it started to get. His docile personality became eccentric, and he began to talk nonsense, saying that the whole world was just a fake.”
“Are you saying that the name Somnium Liberator came to be used after that?”
“yes that’s right. But I was still in that group at the time. It’s true that Helge got weird, but he didn’t cause any other problems outwardly.”
A scholar who has turned into a madman after coming into contact with a strange ancient ruin.
It would be a very interesting topic if Indiana Jones existed.
Actually, I am also interested.
What was the identity of the pattern that made people change so much?
“The trouble started the day Helge said he had contact with the master of the world. After that, Helge started acting really strange, which was different from the abnormal behavior she had been doing until now. It made me wonder how a person could change in a single day, such as suddenly having seizures or getting into narcotic drugs that he had never touched.”
Whoops, was it that all the stories you just talked about were just intros?
I guess I’ll have to listen to more of this story next time.
It’s not that I’m not interested, but I think the story is going to be too long, so I needed to cut it off here.
Of course, the story of the Somnium Liberator is important, but it was more important to me to solve the problem of the midterm exam that was right before my eyes.
“Um, Professor, I’m sorry, but the story seems to be getting too long, so does that have anything to do with why I can use the workshop?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. It’s a bit difficult to tell someone casually, so I ended up talking about it with peace of mind. There is no reason to let me use my workshop. I heard that cadet Park Seong-jin sees the future.”
Well, it must have become a famous story that no one at Trinity Academy doesn’t know.
It must have already been well known to those who are interested in the Awakened outside.
“Knowing this oath of the Somnium Liberators, which is not yet a famous group, means that in the distant future, the Somnium Liberators will become famous enough to have a big impact on mankind. I already knew that my ability was to create artifacts, so it must have been the Somnium Liberator that targeted my artifacts in the dean’s office. The fact that he took the first step to prevent that may be evidence that cadet Park Seong-jin is wary of the Somnium Liberator.”
“… So?”
“I say it outright. I think the Somnium Liberator has a very dangerous ideology and will pose a great threat to humanity in the distant future. However, the Somnium Liberator has not caused any problems externally, and the actual organization of the organization is not known in detail. .”
I totally agree with everything you say.
Somnium Liberator is a dangerous organization.
It is still too early to contact the World Heroes Federation.
“So, I want to support cadet Park Seong-jin, who is the only one who knows the dangers of the somnium liberator at this point. The cadets need to be strong enough to think about fighting a dangerous group called the Somnium Liberators. To do that, the equipment must be great, right? So, I’m talking about providing artifacts as a sponsor. Simple, right?”
“… What do you believe in making such an overinvestment in me?”
To be honest, it was difficult to understand.
Her reasoning was good, but that doesn’t mean she should help me.
To be honest, it is true that the authenticity of giving me such a huge thing as an Artifact without any conditions is questionable.
“Because the president said it.”
What does Chloe Lumiel say about me?
“The person who will be the most outstanding hero in this jockey will most likely not be Jerome, Alfred, or Aina, but cadet Park Seong-jin.”
He was like that in the movie, but he’s a really hard-to-find character.
Of course, if I knew I was fully grown, I might be able to say that, but would that make me the strongest?
I think I may be expecting too much.
“For someone who will become the head of Trinity Academy in the future, this kind of investment is nothing. What is the opinion of cadet Park Seong-jin?”
“… Let’s think about it.”
“like. If we decide later, we’ll meet again in my professor’s room then.”
“yes.”
Apparently, she has already made up her mind.
It should have felt good to be supported by someone sitting in a teaching position at Trinity Academy, but when I left the teaching room, my mind was terrified.
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