Avoid Former Co-Workers

38 – 38. Distrust and Hatred (1)

Inevitably, Professor Meuniher had to take a step back from the evaluation at the beginning of this semester.

However, even if I backed down after seeing the backlash from such nerds or Professor Nurbel’s black heart, I don’t regret it very much.

Because the fakes in the thick skin will be completely covered this time.

Professor Meuniher is still immersed in the afterglow of a test paper, unable to take his eyes off it, raising one corner of his mouth.

‘It’s not good to be hurt by this guy in particular.’

It is the same in both the Empire and the Principality. Not a single one could satisfy him.

Even for Goden, who was said to have a promising future, Professor Meuniher resolutely averted his eyes, and even looking at Rhenias or Ronelion from the Arkab Party, who were called the divinities of Lebrand, did not arouse interest.

Why? Even though they are excellent talents that cannot be ignored, his eyes do not go there.

If it was simply out of sympathy, you could say yes, but it’s not.

If you look at the way he is always strict and clearly points out the shortcomings of approaching students, he is not a person who moves out of sympathy for the weak.

But only one satisfied the picky man.

As much as Junon, the main character of this test paper.

Two guests come to Professor Meuniher while looking at the exam papers.

-Jumping.

“Hmm?”

“Sister, walk straight ahead. We’re here!”

“Ugh… Motion sickness…”

“Oops, you must be seasick. I’ll help you, so you can rest on the couch.”

“I never thought I would be carrying my older sister on my back at this age.”

“No… I’m sorry…”

If you came in without knocking, you would be angry if you were a picky person, but the two arrived after receiving a job offer from the Artena Empire.

Denis Plaubel Beryl, who pursues studies based on the nature of unique magic and magical powers.

Dahlia Maybelle Emerald, who has devoted herself to the realm of humans, medicine and alchemy, which cannot be solved with absolute magic alone.

Any student would easily exclaim when he hears the name.

These are people who won’t move over trivial matters, and who have justifications for voluntarily rejecting a job offer.

The reason why Denis and Dahlia stepped into the principality was actually Meuniher’s wife and execution.

In short, since the power was used from the other side, what Meuniher used was personal connections.

“How did your execution come to this?”

“As you can see, De Nice said she wouldn’t take her medicine even if she died, so this is what happened.”

“It’s okay… I feel like I’m going to die… I’m never going to ride a boat again…”

“It must have been very tight. Stay as it is. Loosen it a little more.”

“Oh, thank you.”

Her sister’s sister’s younger brother, who clearly looked tired, touched her shoulder, which was packed together from carrying her sister on her back, and Meuniher came over and rubbed her shoulder.

Denise, who was watching it while lying on the large three-person sofa, replies dissatisfiedly.

“Brother-in-law. Are you only taking care of your wife at a time like this? I don’t even care?”

“Shall I call your husband, Jake, right away?”

“Ugh… That’s it.”

“It’s self-sufficient. If I had taken motion sickness medicine right away, I would have been as fine as I was.”

“Ugh. Don’t nag me, Dahlia, it sounds like your head is ringing.”

A long-awaited visitor, but the story doesn’t progress because of motion sickness.

Dahlia smiles as she sees her sister whining because of her motion sickness.

Denise, who struggled with seasickness, finally got to the point when the symptoms subsided over time.

“More than that, Meuniher. How did you even invite me? I heard you asked me to come?”

“That’s right. Wouldn’t he know if I called him? Why did he call my sister?”

Some of the positions of professors were vacant according to job offer requests, and it was Meuniher’s intention to fill the positions with imperials.

However, while Dahlia can fulfill her duties as a professor, Denis is not.

“There’s someone I want you to teach me.”

“What? There’s no way I could teach anyone? I’ve devoted my whole life to researching magic.”

“That’s right. You know my older sister’s personality, too, right? I’m sure she’ll get away with it in the middle.”

“That’s…”

As Dahlia said, Denis is a bit hot-tempered and sharp-tempered, so he’s not good enough to teach students.

Denice stared at Dahlia for a while with the tendons slightly standing around her eyes, but even that was true, so she had nothing to refute.

“You can see that Dahlia speaks like that. It’s not just that I have high eyes like you, it’s because of my personality that I can’t teach.”

“Jake was like that at first too. But now he’s surrounded by a lot of students. It’s possible.”

“You can’t figure it out after 20 years? Jake, he married me and became gentle after having a baby, but I’m not.”

“I agree with you. If she was really frustrated, she would say that she didn’t even like her researchers and would have done the research herself.”

I can never take on the job of teaching students. Her sister was answering that.

‘I can’t.’

Professor Meuniher uses a last resort against the stubborn sisters.

“Will you say that even though I’m the guy you teach?”

“Eh? Honey? You…”

“The one who teaches…?”

“”What???””

The word that he made a disciple, who had never tried to teach anyone, makes my ears suspicious.

Denise, who had been lying in bed answering because of her motion sickness, jumped up and Dahlia looked at her husband as if he were looking at someone else.

“Oh my sister… I must have heard it wrong, didn’t I?”

“Yes. Dahlia. It looks like we’ve been dreaming. This can’t be real.”

“Yeah. Sister. But why does my cheek hurt? It’s a bit strange…”

“It hurts? Really? Even like this?”

“Oh, sister! It hurts!!”

“Isn’t this a dream…? Really…?”

“…Stop it. Not even the kids.”

How shocking are these words.

You can see how unconventional it is that Meuniher, who seemed to never have a pupil in his entire life, has a pupil.

“No, that’s how it is. Then Meuniher can teach it himself. Why me?”

Dahlia, who was touching her swollen cheeks, also agreed with Denise’s question, saying, ‘That’s it too’.

“I want you to look at this first.”

The eyes of the sisters with their eyes wide open reached two sheets of paper.

“A test using the Talbrut arc… It’s the same evaluation method that was common in Hardia.”

“There’s no subject for the test, so I’m assuming you should answer with doubts? By your standards, it was surprisingly normal. There doesn’t seem to be anything else to fault.”

“But…You’re not satisfied with this, so I’m sure you gave it a lower score.”

Sisters Denis and Dahlia, who had known each other for 20 years for no reason, had studied Meuniher.

“You seem to know me well, so I’d like you to look at this.”

As if Meuniher had expected it, he was positive and showed one report card.

“…”

“…”

Then the two kept their mouths shut as if they had hardened.

Until now, the appearance of Meuniher’s apprentice or chattering while predicting the progress of the evaluation with a cramped personality is nowhere to be found.

As if I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it with my own eyes, the serious faces of the sisters showed no sign of falling off the test paper.

“This boy really… Got you grades like that?”

“Impossible… A student with an A+ in your standards…”

Professor Meuniher, who had been making black tea, sat down on the sofa and gave his personal information to the bewildered two.

“It’s Junon. His taijutsu is mediocre, but he’s developing well.”

“It’s meager in terms of numbers, but nothing special. Other than that…”

“Wait a minute. Focus and be quiet for a moment.”

Seeing her sister concentrate, Dahlia nods her head and shuts her mouth tightly.

It was because Denis’ gaze was directed to one of the personal details of Den Junon, who had cut off Dahlia with the lights on.

After finishing the calculations, Denis pointed to a part of Junon’s magical power and said. With an unremarkably serious face.

“This figure… Are you sure?”

“Yes. The student himself confirmed it recently.”

“It doesn’t make sense. Being so poor is what’s hidden inside…”

“Unfortunately, there was nothing. I saw that with my own two eyes.”

He was a student without any talent.

It doesn’t seem like it’s blessed in any way, and all it has is the attack vehicle phase’s unique magic.

It means that he got all the scores with his bare body even though he has that ability that is useless in the test.

“After the end-of-semester evaluation was over, I came to ask for guidance. Then something interesting happened.”

“”Funny thing?””

That didn’t just pique Meuniher’s interest, it did.

The corners of his mouth, which did not go up due to his personality, went up, which was vividly visible in the eyes of the two sisters.

A sip of black tea goes over, the teacup makes a rattling sound, and then Professor Meuniher opens his mouth.

“He put his hand on the magic circle, channeled mana in the opposite direction, and performed an attack that suppressed the opponent’s magic. What do you think, Denise?”

Anti-cast.

That was about it.

***

[ Announcement on early semester assessment ]

[ Giant Kud Rats invaded the Tvesar lowland joint practice for class assignment. ]

[ Although Kud Rats are inhabited, they are of an unusual size, and there were situations that were not considered in this exercise. ]

[ Class assignment can be completed by excluding the evaluation grades at the beginning of the semester, but most of the students of this academy did not agree. ]

[ In addition, it is difficult to assign classes as they are because there is denial or suspicion about the end-of-semester evaluation. ]

[ Faculty members have determined that there is a risk of adversely affecting students’ grades, and the evaluation grades at the beginning of the semester have been temporarily put on hold. ]

[ After all, it was necessary to add an additional item worth considering to the important agenda of class assignment. ]

[ Therefore, in order to check additional items, I adopt couplets that I have used often before. ]

[ 1St to 3rd grade students who took the assessment test at the beginning of the semester at Tvesar Lowland can gather at the meeting room of Mizar Hall on the designated date. ]

[ Details will be announced again at the test site on the day. ]

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[ Posted by all faculty members. ]

“This is how it ended up.”

She came out of the bathroom wiping off her wet hair with a towel and found an urgent notice.

Perhaps, it was delivered to everyone from freshmen to 3rd year students.

“Yeah. There’s nothing good about me if I go to class A or something. I’d rather this.”

Won’t you meet Michelle, who always lived in class A, as well as Senia, who will soon be promoted, to Charlotte, and Erica to Goden?

As I initially thought, it’s best not to run into them. I don’t really want to be obsessed with s*xuality.

From my point of view, nothing has changed.

In the academic field, you will be in a lower class anyway, and there is no way you will be able to take the lectures you want.

It’s better for me to supplement my lack of knowledge in the library because I won’t run into them.

“It’s kind of painful not being able to visit Professor Meuniher instead.”

Since there is an exam called Dalian, contact between professors and students is prohibited during this period.

This is because Archduke Ardelion boasted that he would thoroughly supervise cheating, such as handing over information about opponents who compete against test takers.

“I have to do what I used to do, what can I do?”

To train one’s body by going to the physical training room to make the body capable of dealing with monsters as much as possible.

The best option I could do right now was self-management.

My feet naturally headed for the Mizar Hall, where the fitness room is located.

Today, I’m just about to finish my determination to grow this weak body to the fullest.

“It’s usually time to come by now… But, oh, you just got there. Junon student?”

The front desk clerk in charge of administrative duties suddenly called my name.

In front of the staff member who stands up while calling my name, there is a little girl whom I last saw in the hospital room.

Originally, I wouldn’t have met you.

“I came because he said he always stopped by the gym. Are you feeling better?”

“Because the baron in front of me, who could easily pay for the hospital bills, made me enjoy the luxury of packing an entire top, so it’s only natural.”

“Hick. Oh, you figured it out…”

It would be better to talk about what happened back then.

***

“Whoa… Whoa!”

A month after Junon returned, the muscles in various places began to stick little by little.

I am working on a tight training schedule while building my body, but my head is still full of thoughts.

-‘If you do this, the interest will be sufficient. Now, take it.’

-‘I didn’t ask for interest. I am…’

-‘I don’t really want to leave debts to other people. Or is there something you’re trying to do with me?’

-‘That’s right… It’s only natural that he didn’t get help and even hurt him.’

-‘I never asked for that. As I said at the time, I couldn’t help it, so I told them to shake it off.’

Then, Charlotte’s tiny body trembled and became her tear-stained face, and she burst into tears embarrassingly.

-‘Isn’t it too much to make you not pay this much…? Rather, it’s frustrating because I can’t do anything more for you!’

Dengrang.

“Oops…”

Remembering Charlotte’s last words, Junon inadvertently lost her posture and lost her exercise equipment.

At the sound resonating in the middle of the gym, he loses his will to continue training.

“This is why I didn’t want to meet you.”

Muttering that, I leaned back on the chair to take a break and sort out my complex thoughts.

Recalling himself before the regression, Junon realized that he had too much affection.

“He’s a completely different person…But it’s okay to be wary.”

But when I see the tears of that young child, my heart is moved.

It’s just childish, but Charlotte’s words that she wants to pay for the hospital bills are probably sincere.

She even said that it was frustrating to stop him from handing it over, so it wasn’t easy to shake off.

Besides, even though she is the only one who remembers her, she is also a companion who once shared her life and death.

“But… I don’t think Charlotte will show any ill will toward me…”

That’s why Junon often thinks like that.

I wondered if this would be okay.

Originally, the intention was to pay off the hospital bills and separate them completely. It could be related to the members of the Tembris party.

But hasn’t the future changed many times? While doing this and that, the situation has changed slightly from then.

As expected, the biggest change is not joining Thembris party.

Is it really bad to keep this distance unless a life-threatening situation arises?

‘Yes. It won’t matter if it’s this distance.’

Life as a member of the Thambris party could be seen as the most important fragment of life after falling to the continent of Kempreton.

I had a hard time even just to cut Charlotte openly, and I thought about it for a long time while thinking about it.

Why is that?

As long as Junon still has memories of the past, it was a memory that was difficult to shake off easily.

Perhaps, since the future has changed to some extent, I even think that it will be okay.

‘The reason I made them hold grudges was because I went to a party…’

As long as you don’t go to the Thambris party, it won’t be a problem to meet people as people.

Rationalizing that, Junon stopped using his gym and began to organize it. That moment.

“Here you are. Just a minute… Can I hear you?”

The woman I always tried to avoid came to me without fail.

“No matter what other people say about you… No, this isn’t it. I’m just going to get down to business. I want you to come to our party.”

With an offer to join the party.

And then, someone else intervenes right away.

“Wait a minute, Michelle. I want to talk to her first, just the two of us.”

“…!”

The person who intervened was a person who hadn’t even been contacted yet, and who could never be involved at this point.

‘Why is that guy…!’

“Erika…?”