Chapter 72 – Date Appointments
“Hey, after this final exam… Can you give me a day…… ?”
“Time? “Is there something I need you to do?”
I couldn’t help but tilt my head when Freyja suddenly asked me to take some time.
After the final exams were over…… Is it around the beginning of next month?
Final exams… Final exam…
Just when I was about to answer that I knew because there was nothing in particular to worry about, I burst into laughter as I had something to point out.
“Ah, are you… ….”
“Sigh… “
You got caught, right? This is the reaction of being caught and not knowing what to do. Freya held her breath and lowered her face. The reaction of breathing heavily and even the nape of the neck and earlobes turning red was so intuitive that even a child could easily recognize it. Extremely dictionary and classic embarrassment and shame. It’s good enough to be used as a teaching material.
I just grinned and made fun of Freya. She said nothing. That kind of reaction stimulated the urge to bully me.
On the other hand, Professor Aegis, who was quietly watching the two of us, looked on with a very anxious expression for some reason.
“Are you planning on giving me time to grade a test?”
“Uh… ? Huh… ? Stick… ? Dot?”
“No?”
“…………… “
Freya blinks her eyes. There was a moment when I felt anxious, wondering if this could be it. But soon Freya smiled awkwardly and nodded her head.
“Ahahahaha… Oh, right…….”
“No!”
Professor Aegis jumped up from his seat and shouted that. He must have not intended to do that from the beginning, so he belatedly cleared his throat and spoke calmly.
“Uh… Oh my, Professor Freya~ Are you really satisfied with that~♪”
“Professor Aegis… that… But…… Help me, help me….”
Freya pursed her lips and said, ‘Please help me, please help me.’ She cried out, holding on to the hem of Professor Aegis’s skirt while saying something incomprehensible. He looks like a lost child. However, Professor Aegis was a stricter man than he seemed.
“Oh my! Look at my mind! “I now remember that I forgot to mix up the oven temperature and the timer dial. At best, the baked cake will turn out to be a mess. Ah, what a waste.”
“… …. Hey, Professor Aegis?! Help me…… “
“Take courage. I will give in and support you just this once. “It’s just ‘just this time’~♪”
Professor Aegis leaves the room as soon as he finishes speaking.
Freya, left alone, couldn’t figure out what to do and fiddled with her fingers.
“Why are you so restless? Are you sick?”
“No… “
Freya held her breath, closed her eyes tightly, and asked this in a voice that seemed to break.
“… Eugene. You… “I heard you lost money at Eunwolje.”
When I found Freyja talking in front of the students, I wondered if it was possible, but I heard it. It would be meaningless for him to later regret talking thoughtlessly in class.
“Maybe it’s very difficult…” ?”
“Money?”
“Yes.”
“Well… Rather than being difficult… “I’m desperately saving it.”
“What about rice? The last time you ate a crystal ball, you had a hard time for a while. You’re not just starving this time, are you? I need to take something with me. You can’t starve. “Did you eat breakfast today?”
“Are you my mother? I’m eating pretty well. “When it’s really dangerous, I shamelessly put my spoon on Professor Aegis’ table.”
“…… Table… ? “The two of you?”
“Then there must be three?”
“Huh, huh. I see….”
Freya lowers her head poignantly, wondering what she doesn’t like so much. Today, my mood seems to go back and forth between heaven and earth.
I couldn’t understand why he was acting like this today, so I calmly observed his behavior.
It was a day when my physical condition was particularly bad and my emotions were fluctuating….
Freya is also a woman.
I was able to infer it without difficulty.
It’s not easy.
“It’s not grading.”
“…… Uh?”
“I’m not calling you to grade you.”
“Then?”
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“…………… …. Rice.”
“Hmm? “It’s rice.”
“Bob. I’ll buy it for you. Anything. “Whatever you like.”
Sageun Sageun, he lowers his head and mutters quietly.
I was worried that she was really sick somewhere, and I was obsessed with the idea that I should quickly end the conversation and send her to her Aegis professor. Besides, they buy me food. There was no option for me to say no.
“I’m fine.”
“Well, then, after the final exams… “How about the first day of the weekend?”
“Okay. See you then.”
I nodded without thinking.
***
As soon as I returned to the lab, I started off by doing the overdue laundry. It’s not like there’s a lot of laundry. There are clear limits to how much you can accumulate on your own. When I soaked it in water for a while, dissolved the detergent, and pounded it with a pat, the clothes just got rid of old stains and started to droop.
The problem came after the laundry dried. Due to the nature of my job, which requires me to stand in front of students, I most often have to wear a suit, and my closet has a high percentage of shirts that need to be ironed.
Ironing. Even after getting used to this, it was a very cumbersome task.
If nothing else, ironing has long been in the realm of the top class.
Wouldn’t it be possible to do this with your eyes closed?
“How should I finish dinner today so that word spreads around school that I ate well?”
I added useless tunes, hummed useless words, and forced myself to be happy. As I had just straightened my third shirt with a hot iron, I started to feel hungry.
Thinking about new menu items every day is also work. I cleverly used my brain and came up with a few menu items.
Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!
It was just as we had just added pineapple pizza with strawberry and mint chocolate topping to the menu that a knock on the door shook the lab.
It’s already been a long time since the sun went down. It was a time when it could be felt that the winter season was slowly approaching. I looked out the window, which would have still been bright in the middle of summer, but darkness had already fallen. There weren’t many people who would bother knocking so loudly to visit my lab at a time like this.
“Teacher, Seobangnim, teacher!”
I pulled the door handle without thinking, and sure enough, there was a ball of hair jumping up and down.
Shiny silver hair peeked out from between the floppy hat.
“Who is this?”
“hehehehe, this is Miss Undine, the pretty, elegant, and lovely bride-to-be.”
She smiled elegantly and covered her mouth with her hand, skillfully stealing her gaze with her eye smile.
This is her external mask. As someone who knew Undine’s true self, it was truly regrettable, but it was hard to deny the fact that in some cases, she had the aura of a truly well-bred noblewoman.
Of course, if it weren’t for the puffy teddy bear pajamas I was wearing right now.
“Someone told me that he was an ungrateful disciple who sold me for a collection I didn’t know what it was and then handcuffed me to the bed. That’s all our bond is….”
“The teacher is also cha-am. Do you think our bond was that strong~♡”
Is she planning to break the remaining bond, or is she not understanding that what she is saying could be interpreted in the opposite way to what she intended? Considering Undine’s usual personality, it would naturally be the latter, but if so, I felt a little sorry for her.
“So what’s going on? Anyone would have thought that a bear had appeared at the school. “I didn’t manage to get caught hunting.”
“Of course I came by teleportation! “There’s no way you’d show someone else dressed in such a vulgar and immodest outfit, right!”
Kyaaa, as I fluttered, my puffy teddy bear pajamas also fluttered. The dust was flying and he looked so excited that I couldn’t bear to point that out.
I looked closely and spoke briefly.
“No, I don’t know if it’s dirty.”
“Eh… “Isn’t it cute?!”
“It’s cute.”
“Uhehehe… Isn’t it cute? ♡”
Maybe you don’t really know the meaning of the word erotic. I feel like I can’t communicate. It wasn’t difficult to start a conversation with the rampaging Undine.
“So what happened?”
“Date! “A date!”
“…… Date?”
“Oh my, what are you telling a girl who is so embarrassed! Kya~& Be ashamed!”
“If you embarrass yourself twice, the world will turn upside down.”
I thought quietly. I asked it once, but I didn’t erase it from my memory.
“It’s a date… “Yes, that’s right.”
This is the promise made at Eunwolje. Instead of her playing as a mercenary on our team, I decided to grant one of her undine’s wishes, and the other day, I made it her wish to play with her.
…… But why didn’t you set a date then? … ….
Ah, that was the day Cecilia sprayed sleeping gas in my lab. There was no time to make an appointment or anything. Because I was tied up, covered up, and in pain, it wasn’t too much of a mess.
“Come on, come in. Cold… “I won’t lose, but still have a cup of tea.”
“Ehehehe… thank you.”
“Anyway, I’m a little sorry… “I was the one who brought it up first, but you made me invite you first, not once, but twice.”
“hehehe! “If it’s for a date, you can do it 20 times!”
“Really? “Then let’s do it twenty more times.”
“…… Eh?! Teacher… ?! “If you play with a girl’s heart, you will be punished, right?”