The Academy’s Time Limit in a Novel Written by a Friend

87 – Episode 87 Exciting love affair. (完)

After thinking about it calmly, there was no reason for me to be scared.

Yes, if I had yelled at Lilac and Cheonyuhak, ‘Lee Yu-na and Ju-ri-ri love you, you idiots!’ It would have made a fuss, but I am innocent.

I think I would have liked it if it was a bit later, but I haven’t done it yet…!

“Hmm?”

“Sorry.”

“…Why are you suddenly apologizing? I just want us to be part of the story.”

Ah, that’s right. But I just reflexively apologized because I was scared. It’s like a conditioned reflex, what should I do?

I was most afraid of Lee Yu-na in this novel.

“So? Whose love story, what were you talking about?”

Ga-geul naturally returned the story to the starting point.

“Bona, it must be Professor Cathy and Sohyeon. Weren’t you two hugging each other so hard?”

And Hani, who was sulking somewhere, tic-tick-ticked.

…Isn’t that jealous? Wouldn’t it be

“Yes, if it’s a love story, maybe we can be of some help, so can we join? What type do you like?”

It’s Lira. What could be of help? I know you want to put on a poker face, but did you know you sweat a lot? I need to calm down.

Anyway, it’s a bit difficult.

In fact, it is not uncommon for kids of this age to have a conversation about who has a crush on whom and who is the prettiest.

Rather, Lilac and Cheonyuhak are opponents, so I came out moderately, but when I see the other guys, it’s common to have a rather high-level conversation.

However, it gets a bit awkward when the scene is caught by a member of the opposite sex, and a close member of the opposite sex.

Even if you don’t have anything specific to hold on to, there’s something you don’t like.

“You must be wrong. We teased Sohyeon a little bit, but Sohyeon just said what kind of meddling we were soloing as well.”

“Yeah, I didn’t really have that kind of relationship with the professor. He just said that all he did was help reassure him because his emotions were running high.”

And fortunately, Lilac and Cheonyuhak also had the same perception.

“Hmm, I see.”

Lee Yu-na smiled and looked at me quietly.

Why? Please don’t laugh like that. Scary. Please make it more straight.

“Doesn’t the professor seem like that?”

Excuse me. Ms. Yuna. Didn’t we build a lot of inner intimacy…? Were we good…? Why would you suddenly attack?

Lee Yu-na, who suddenly turned her arrow at me, smiled and looked at Kim Ga-eul’s reaction.

Uh, are you saying that you’re trying to help me out of jealousy?

Thank you for using your heart, but isn’t it because I really like Gae-gaeul?

“Well, Professor Cathy is not like that. A relationship with any student is a romance.”

Unexpectedly, it was Hani, not Autumn, who cut those words with a single knife.

She looked at Lee Yu-na and Hani somewhat puzzled, but then she nodded her head as if she understood something.

“Yes, Professor Cathy is not like that.”

Yuna, isn’t that right? Well, suddenly, Han-hee was actually Hani! It would be more natural for Hanhee to say that she had a crush on Professor Cathy.

This time, Gae-gae, who had been watching him, clenched his fists and looked this way.

Personally, as a reader who likes misunderstandings as much as academy stuff, I enjoy intuition, but since this is also a party to the incident, I felt a bit strange.

…Be a party.

Lilac laughed.

It seemed that the fact that everyone gathered together was more important to him than the content of the conversation.

Chun Yu-hak is also smiling slightly pretending not to be.

The boy who always pursued loftiness was learning that this kind of atmosphere was not bad either.

Yuna Lee smiled as if she was troubled when she saw Ka-eul and Hani.

Hani and Ga-gae didn’t seem to be in a good mood at first, but when they started talking, they giggled and the atmosphere wasn’t too bad.

Ju Ri-ra secretly tried to sit next to Chun Yu-hak, but when Chun Yu-hak looked at her, she pretended not to and sat next to Yuna.

And ‘I’ was looking at all of this from Kang So-hyun’s point of view.

It felt good to see the kids talking, who would normally not be able to bite each other and spend their youth like youth.

-I’m glad.

For a moment, the noise in my head disappeared and the stale water in my heart wriggled.

“Guys, is Sohyeon looking at us with a fatherly smile?”

Thanks to the warrior who couldn’t read the atmosphere, he quickly sank.

“Uh, it’s like a friend’s son. Why?”

The kids burst into laughter as if they thought it was a joke. I’m serious.

*

Lee Yu-na’s intuition is not that good.

To be more precise, she has good senses, but it would be more accurate to say that she doesn’t care much about her surroundings.

The cases where her senses moved sharply were mainly when she sensed a crush on someone.

This was partly due to her sensitive sixth sense due to her birth, and partly because she often cared about her gaze towards the lilac, so it was also a sense that was trained.

She had a very embarrassing experience today.

I knew well that Ga-eul liked Kang So-hyun.

It’s just that Professor Cathy wasn’t aware of her, but she seems to have feelings for Kang So-hyun? Of course she knew.

In the first place, he favored him, but it was unreasonable to see it as a simple bond between a teacher and a teacher.

However, the crush she felt for him today was felt by a fairly unexpected person.

Kang Han-hee.

A strange color began to circulate in his emotions, which had been the color of deep friendship until recently.

What?

She was so surprised that her expression showed that she was a little startled as she was basically unfazed.

“Oh, oh, oh.”

That didn’t change anything.

Basically, she was quite open about the direction of sexuality.

She wondered if Illak was a woman, wouldn’t she have fallen for herself? Absolutely not. Who likes whom, what does gender matter?

And actually, depending on the point of view, it wasn’t bad.

They’re both a bit too pretty for a guy, and they’re roommates sharing the same room.

However, this was her own position, and it was unknown whether Kang So-hyun would feel the same way.

As a result of thinking about it, I called him because I thought it would be good to give him a small word before an accident like this happened.

She knew very well that affection is an emotion that can sometimes change more sharply than you think.

“He didn’t really say anything. Of course, you may have doubts, but how dare I?”

“…What are you talking about?”

However, Kang So-hyun, who was summoned, poured out another apology as if the thief had numb his feet.

‘Just looking at it, it seems like they’re only afraid of me?’

*

After breaking up with the kids, I suddenly called them by text message, so I apologized out of the blue because I thought they were finally going to screw me up, but apparently that wasn’t the purpose.

No, if it’s a shock, this one is more shocking.

“…I think Hanhee likes me?”

Ah, I thought I was mistaken that I liked Professor Cathy, but I was the one who was mistaken lol.

“Well, even if you don’t like it, you might have a strange crush on it.”

“You know that Hanhee is a man, right?”

She looked up in case she noticed her gender, but Yuna didn’t even change her expression.

“Who likes who, but I don’t think gender is a very important factor.”

Ah, fortunately you didn’t notice that it was a woman.

I wonder if it’s a relief that it’s not a secret, but I found Lee Yu-na to assert that Hani has a crush on me.

“…Don’t get me wrong. Originally, I don’t have a hobby of spreading other people’s love stories. It’s just that you guys always stay together in the dormitory, so if an accident happens, it’ll be troublesome, so I’m just saying this just in case.”

He thinks it’s between men, but what kind of accident…? He’s talking downright scary.

“Well, yes. Thank you for once.”

“Well, it seems that you were trying to intervene unnecessarily by saying that Illak and I would support each other, but that’s about it.”

“Oh no. You reflexively apologized, but you didn’t really say anything?”

“I know. I was joking, wasn’t it funny?”

The slightly smiling face is still cute.

“Hey.”

So I casually asked.

About the ending she will face in the original future of this novel.

“Huh?”

“If Lilac says he likes other girls…”

The light disappeared from her eyes as she enjoyed cherry ade with a soft expression.

“Excuse me. If. If the. I didn’t say that before, so calm down.”

“Oh, if. Yes, you can. Huh. I really don’t know.”

“…You said you don’t know after that kind of reaction?”

“No, it is natural to be angry, and it means that I do not know how far I will be broken.”

…I see.

Okay. Decided.

For the sake of world peace, I’ll tell Illak to quickly run away if Snow White tries to get close.

“Aren’t you surprised by that anyway?”

“What?”

“I mean Hanhee. Isn’t that calm for what you’ve heard that a guy might like you?”

Oh, sharp?

Actually, from the point of view of knowing that Hani is a woman, I think it could be something like that.

“No, it’s not like it’s confirmed that you like something? It could be just a favor. How popular can a kid like me be in the first place?”

I kind of laughed it off, but Lee Yu-na looked at me dumbfounded.

“How are you?”

“… Huh?”

“It’s not as bad as you, but you should be more self-aware.”

“I appreciate the high rating, but to be honest, I just have to be careful with women, and that’s not enough. It’s not even Cheonyuhak.”

If the professor and Hani are forced to do more, three until autumn? It’s a bit much, but why can’t there be more here?

“…Illak is also seriously ill, but are you more similar than I thought?”

…Why are you saying such harsh things when you’re suddenly doing well? Siri to hurt people.

*

Aram Park, a magic science professor at the academy, was visiting an orphanage.

“Was everyone a good kid?”

“Ah~ Aram is my older sister!”

I didn’t think I was too old to be called “Noona,” But because of this little change in my appearance, children still called me noona or noona.

“Yes, yes, Aram, whom you like, is your older sister. Today, I bought candy and sweets that are really bad for my body.”

“Sister~”

“hahahaha, although it’s not usually the case, her voice changes because she has a present in her hand! It’s so nice to be honest with your desires!”

Of course, she said it as a joke, and she didn’t care if the kids got used to it being her own expression of affection.

“Hee hee!”

When he used his magic power to levitate the running children into the air, the children trembled.

“Um, where is the director?”

“Go to sleep, director!”

“It’s nap time!”

“…It’s difficult. Why are you all awake during nap time and the director is sleeping?”

“I hate you!”

“Right. I want to play soccer, but always tell me to sleep.”

“If you don’t sleep a lot when you are young, will you regret it later? He doesn’t grow very tall either.”

“…Did you sleep a lot, sister?”

“Yes? I guess I slept a lot.”

“Huh~?”

“Then we won’t sleep. It’s no use what.”

“hahahaha, you little bastards. Don’t cross the line You know I’m scared when I’m angry, right?”

“Wow~ run away!”

A middle-aged man walked out, perhaps making a noise while playing with the floundering children floating in the air.

“Ah, our director abandoned his duties. Shouldn’t everyone be that tall?”

“Yes!”

“…Don’t say something big. The subsidy has also decreased.”

“hahahaha, so I’m not here to give you some support in the name of donation. Receive it with a grateful bow.”

“…Sorry.”

“Shh. The kids are listening. Hurry up and reply as usual. Don’t be gross.”

“But…”

“I’m an academy professor, but since I’m a high-ranking hero, the money I get is pretty good, right? Do not worry. If it was a burden, I would have run away right away.”

An old orphanage.

It’s a bit difficult for a middle-aged man to handle alone, so of course manpower was needed, including the cost of hiring manpower, children’s meals and snacks, and toys.

It was true that the salary of an academy professor who did not specifically participate in dungeon raids or subjugation was difficult to afford, but she did not show it in particular.

Because she was the place where she let her know that she was human, and it was the place where she remembered the first time she laughed with someone.

“By the way, he was quite a nice guy when I first met him, but years are sad.”

“That’s right. Awakeners don’t age well, so will they live in sorrow? One.”

She knew very well that being burned by fire was not a blessing, but she did not show it.

Because it was not a concept that could be understood in words.

“hahahaha, is everything okay?”

“You keep saying that these days, Aram, what’s wrong with you?”

“What can I do? I’m just asking out of curiosity. I guess I’m old too.”

“You are saying that you have grown old in front of me.”

“Originally, there is a saying that wrinkles should be caught in front of the chrysalis, right?”

“I am hearing this for the first time in my life. This.”

In fact, she has been monitoring the orphanage’s movements every week since she was warned by the ghostly man.

It was because the fact that the people dear to her might be harmed came more stressful than she thought.

“Anyway, it’s good if nothing happens. I’m going to play with the kids, so don’t worry too much and go to sleep!”

Fortunately, nothing seemed to have happened.

The man with the face must have been talking nonsense to deceive himself.

For what purpose would you harm such a small orphanage?

She really thought so.

And she didn’t notice.

As much as she cares about them, they don’t want her to worry about her either.

The director’s expression did not brighten even after receiving the support fund.