3. The lump in the heart
** 3. The lump in the heart
“…..”
When I opened my eyes, it was a quiet hospital room.
The old memories that overflowed for a moment passed by as if they were reproduced.
There were few moments when I was living in the original world, and I was at least happy. For some reason, Simma, who had been bothering me so much, had very weak symptoms.
“…Ugh… “
At that time, I was surprised to hear a painful moan right in my ear.
As it turned out, Professor Sui was lying right next to my bedside. Her posture was very sloppy, but it seemed that she was swept along by Orien’s superpowers.
Did she see my past too? Intuition told me so.
Sui was shedding tears.
“Ugh… ?”
And the watery eyes gradually opened. At first, the transparent pupil, who had been dreamy, gradually began to regain its intelligent light.
“Huh? Why… “
Sui rubbed her moist cheek and our eyes met.
There was no back and forth between her and I felt understood by her. She saw what I saw, she also saw in the form of her dreams. It was a thrill that made her hair stand on end.
Sui, who had kept her mouth shut for a while, finally spoke.
“…..Can I ask what happened after that?”
“…..”
I shook my head quietly.
I don’t want to think about anything after that. At least now I don’t have the confidence to face that memory.
I don’t know what happened, but now that Orien’s bookmark took effect, I wanted to keep the moment when my symptoms miraculously improved.
Sui nodded.
“I see… But what happened?”
“Maybe because of this.”
I lifted the bookmark that was lying on my bedside.
The radiance of the pieces, which were originally bright golden, had faded slightly. Was it because he showed off his ability once? Seeing that the light still remains, I don’t know when it will activate again.
Sui asked after seeing the gold-framed bookmark.
“What is this?”
“This item was given to me by senior Orien, from the same Eros family. But I didn’t know it had such an effect.”
“If it’s Orien… “
The professor’s eyes widened.
“As expected, it’s amazing. I’ve heard a lot about it from the magic department professors, but… “
“Do you hear a lot?”
“In fact, even among professors, Orien is treated as out-of-standard. Rather, they say that professors learn a lot. It’s probably not an ordinary joke.”
I was dumbfounded by Sui’s words. Was it that much? However, I soon lost my mind.
Hey, what kind of dog house is it that allows you to share images with others with just one artifact? It was certain that he was a being with unprecedented skills among the wizards I had seen in my life.
Orien said to me that she was an elephant out of an anthill, but she was something more than that. It was like that when I saw it.
“Ah, it’s already time… “
Professor Sui, who belatedly looked at his watch, was startled. Half an hour had passed between the images being shared.
She got up and began to straighten her clothes, which had been messed up by the storm of the previous day.
When she woke up, she noticed several parts that she hadn’t noticed before. We were more naked than we thought, so we didn’t talk for a while.
“Keuheum, let’s go first. Get some rest.”
The impression that had changed like a savage soon returned to the calm academy professor. Sui, who had finally put on the scabbard, paused before leaving the hospital room and suddenly turned around.
Then she walked over and hugged me as I sat on the hospital bed. I felt the warmth that was neither too strong nor too weak, just enough to calm my tired and lonely heart.
“…..Professor Sui?”
“If it becomes difficult again, tell me anytime… Alem.”
With her words behind, she left.
**
‘What, what… ‘
Suddenly, Professor Sui got up from the bed.
It looks like they’re talking about something, but I can’t hear it that far. She wondered for a moment whether she should use magic to enhance her hearing, but since it was something that would eventually be discovered, Makia endured it with her patience.
In the end, all I could do was bring my eyes closer to the crack in the door.
Both of them had frizzy hair, and the bedspreads were so loosely wrinkled that they were about to come off.
“…..”
I tried to refrain from bad thoughts like demons in my head as much as possible, but it wasn’t easy.
Common sense makes no sense. To think that an academy professor and a freshman who had been summoned to the middle dimension for less than a week had a tryst.
Makia’s eyes narrowed.
‘No way brainwashing or hypnosis… ?’
It was not strange that the idea flowed in that direction. Because the heroes from Eros had already fought in the academy.
But Machia soon gave up her doubts.
She is a professor at the academy and no one else. Professors were people who could not be matched with the ability of a freshman who had just entered the school.
The rank and weight class they built as heroes was like a mountain, so even if the ant pushed them all day at the foot of the mountain, there was no way they would be pushed back. Even during the actual Eros incident, there was no one among the professors who directly suffered.
Yes, if so.
“Ahhh… “
Makia held on to her beating heart without notice and burned her longings.
“Then, isn’t that situation really like that…? “
I even thought that it would be better if Professor Sui had actually been brainwashed. If so, you can close the case neatly by reporting it or doing something.
“Mmm.”
However, when I listened to the voices of the men and women talking about each other across the hospital bed, she was very affectionate and nostalgic. As if they were lovers.
The delusion gradually began to materialize. Makia closed her mouth and smoked steam from the top of her head.
Her How open-minded does she have to be for a man and a woman who have just met for a few days to progress to that level (?).
What did Professor Sui see and fall in love with that man? What the hell are they like
“…..”
Her mind was complicated.
In the end, it was as if Professor Sui had officially recognized him by accepting him. That man is only from the Eros dimension, and is different from the vicious criminals who came before.
Professor Sui, who is famous for being wise and wise, recognized his innocence first.
Thinking so, her past self, who made a fuss about being scared of that man, felt like an idiot, so Makia set her coffee carrier down on the floor lonely.
‘…Should I just go today?’
Someday he’ll have to apologize for his attitude, but it didn’t seem like that today.
‘Coffee… It’s cold.’
I could feel the heat that had cooled down a bit at my fingertips. Makia managed to make the coffee in the cup hot again by using only weak mana to go unnoticed. And I was just about to get up.
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Then the door opened.
“Miss Makia… ?”
“Yes.”
Makia was stopped at her moment by a tall woman who blocked her and chewed her tongue. When she raised her head with her ominous heart, Professor Sui was looking down at her with a slightly bewildered expression.
“Why is Ms. Makia here?”
“Ah, that, that, that… “
Makia, her face reddened, quickly rolled her eyes, sweating profusely. Before she knew it, the door to her hospital room was open.
‘When I’m about to go back… !’
Nothing happens when you spy on her, but when she gets caught right after making up her mind to go back, Makia just resents her world.
My heart, which used to beat for other people’s romance, now beats for a different reason.
And that mentality was so plainly revealed in her expression that even Sui, who was not in a hurry, could tell.
“Hmm.”
Sui’s gaze turned to the coffee carrier on the floor.
“Did you come to visit me?”
“Ah…..! Ah, yes, yes! Rice, sick visit… !”
Makia hurriedly picked up Sui’s words like a ronin who found an oasis in the desert.
“I-I had something to say to that junior, but hey, he suddenly said he was hospitalized today… !”
Makia speaks gibberish while chewing on her tongue. Sui, who had only an embarrassing smile on her face, asked quietly.
“That person? Are you talking about Alem?”
“…Alem?”
Makia tilted her head.
Are you saying his name? Makia felt dumbfounded when his name, which no one had mentioned before, came out as if it were natural.
‘… No, Professor Sui is that person’s professor, so of course you know that right?’
I don’t know where I went wrong.
She really started to feel like she didn’t know the man’s name until now because she was indifferent to herself. Her embarrassment grew even more.
“Yes, ah, Alem. That’s right.”
“Is that so? But maybe-“
Professor Sui nodded, then suddenly lowered his voice and asked cautiously.
“ㅡSince when have you been here?”
“…..Ah.”
Makia, who almost inadvertently gave an honest answer, hurriedly shut her mouth after seeing Professor Sui’s expression. She pretended not to be like that, but had a slightly embarrassed face.
Now, in this situation, what are you trying to hide? In Makia’s mind, her hospital room, which was messy with her man and woman violently making love, came to mind.
And Makia’s consciousness returned to reality.
“…..”
In front of my eyes was Professor Sui, who had been in the same bed as the man just a few minutes ago, clearing his throat for no reason, fixing his hair or checking his disheveled clothes.
‘Hey… ‘
On the contrary, pretending that nothing happened was very irritating to Makia.
‘I did it unconditionally, these people… ‘
It was the moment when the ‘Secret affair between professor and student’, Which had existed in Machia’s atmosphere for a long time, was fully established.
Anyway, when I was caught in front of the hospital room, I was in a position where I couldn’t do anything. Makia quietly lifted the coffee carrier she had put down earlier.
“Ji, I was going to go in now. I just came.”
Makia answered with a teary face involuntarily.
It was a mustard-eating answer, almost crying.