72 – Madmen (2)

early Sunday morning.

another angle, another angle.

The sound of shoe heels resounding in the large study room.

Jayden, a middle-aged man with gorgeous blonde hair, wandered around his lab, turning his wrist several times to check the time.

“It’s time to get in touch soon if you want to arrive by evening… .”

Following Baek Woo-jin’s instructions, Jayden contacted his teacher last night for the first time in five years. And what Baek Woo-jin said was conveyed intact without missing a piece.

When he heard that the owner of the barrier, the only one he could not interpret, was calling, the master left the word that he would come right away without asking anything else and cut off contact.

And time has passed now.

Thinking about the various procedures to use the teleport portal installed in the Magic Association of Japan and come over to Korea, I had to get a call saying that I would leave soon.

‘… The person who created the barrier.’

If someone else had said that, he would have immediately shown bitterness, but since the other person was the other person, he believed in it to the extent of being strange.

Above all, the chairman, who was unswayed by any power and judged people only by his ability, was the one who gave him equal authority.

Of course, at the first meeting, I forgot about that fact for a while and showed a bit of an excessive side.

“Kuhm.”

As he recalled the incident, Jayden let out a small cough to dispel the heat rising from his face.

Piri-Rik-

“This is Jaden Martel.”

– We are leaving now.

“All right. And as I told you yesterday, you must not come alone.”

-I’m taking us as useful kids, so come and meet me.

Took.

Jaden frowned at the teacher’s actions, who just said what he had to say and hung up the phone. And he is trying to operate his smartphone to inform Baek Woo-jin that his teacher is leaving.

– Beep!

A sharp warning sound coming from the ceiling.

“… … no way.”

Jaden gulped at the ominous approach.

Then the beeping stopped and the broadcast continued.

– An anomaly occurs where the space in front of the current checkpoint is twisted. Combat professors who remain at the academy, please come to the checkpoint as soon as possible.

-yet again… … .

“Master, I’m here!!”

Jayden ran out of the lab with his teeth clenched and a suppressed scream.

Concentrating his magic on his two legs, Jaden quickly crossed the academy grounds like a well-trained Awakener and arrived in front of the checkpoint in an instant.

– This, Ian McKellen?!

-It’s the real Robert!!

– Who is that kid? Are you a disciple?

Outside the checkpoint, it was so hot that the loud warning sound was overshadowed.

Jayden swept his face wide in an excited mood and quickly jumped over the barrier and went outside.

“stop!! Everyone back!!”

The students who came out to go out were pushed back with the magic they released, and they made a way little by little.

The upperclassmen, who usually knew Jaden’s personality, quickly came to their senses and opened their own path, and Jaden headed to the center of the turmoil on the path that was created.

“Ah, professor… … .”

“sorry.”

Jayden lightly apologized to the guard team leader, who was at a loss for what to do with his embarrassment, and turned his gaze to where he was looking.

Slender height in neat uniform. And his unique appearance that anyone can see that he is a Westerner.

At the center of the commotion were two middle-aged men and a boy who seemed to have finally taken off his youth.

Jayden glared at the boy staring at him and said to the security team leader.

“… Since you are my guest, I will take you inside.”

**

Sean Connery.

Jaden’s teacher and an Awakener who has blossomed his ‘analysis’ ability.

He took the form of a boy and sat down on the sofa in the seat of honor.

“Hey. You asked me to come quickly, so you came as quickly as possible. What are you so dissatisfied with?”

“Does it seem like I have no complaints?!”

Jayden said as if shouting with a red face.

“No, if you’ve grown enough to be old, isn’t it about time you got a little more gentle?! How do you think of creating a portal in another country, in front of the academy where the students attend!!”

“What’s wrong with portals?”

“It’s nothing!! I can clearly see that he must have summoned the awakened people he was researching and squeezed out not a single drop of magical power!!”

In response to the disciple’s progress, the teacher, Sean, responded with a sad expression.

“I wish I had taken these moldy bastards out of the lab for the first time in a while and let them bask in the sun.”

“What about the sunlight, all the magic circles are drawn underground.”

Sean cleared his ears and turned around.

“therefore? When can I see the guy who called me?”

“… … Sigh. I will try to contact you now, so please wait.”

Jayden left my lab with his smartphone. And it came back after a minute or so.

“yes. When can I go see you?”

“I am sending people this way. If you follow his instructions carefully, he will give you a chance to meet… … .”

“hahahaha.”

Sean chuckled at the student’s answer, then brushed his bare chin down. Like touching a well-groomed beard.

“My disciple.”

“Yes.”

Blue eyes lit up in the boy’s eyes.

“Otherwise, I will extract your core.”

It was an obvious threat, but Jayden answered with a very plain expression.

“When you heard that it was a barrier, you died, but what… … .”

“… … .”

“… … .”

At Jayden’s answer, the two middle-aged men who had come with Sean looked at Sean with cold eyes.

Sean, who had received three stares at once, smacked his lips shyly.

“Kuhmm, I can’t remember because I’m old.”

**

-Look at this, it’s the real Ian McAllen!!

-Wow, Professor Jayden’s networking is no joke.

-I heard Robert came with you?

The academy is in an uproar due to the alarm that happened earlier.

“Oh, hello!!”

“hello!!”

The students, who enjoyed the sudden release of gossip, greeted Claire walking down the street, and Claire quietly passed them by without even looking at them.

Originally, she did not accept greetings, so the students started to continue the story that had been cut off again.

However, unlike the students’ thoughts, Claire, who was walking down the street now, was a little different from usual.

– Please be careful.

The face of the person who was standing at the entrance to see her off as she left the mansion lingered in her mind as if it were broken.

It was so unexpected and it kept tickling my chest. I couldn’t relax my body because I thought that if I lost my guard even a little, I would make an unfamiliar expression like the one I saw yesterday.

“Kuhm!!”

After making sure no one was around, Claire coughed briefly. Even so, I think I can get rid of this excitement right now.

-Show it and pamper it as much as you want.

Before leaving the front door, he handed over the storage type artifact he had brought with him that day and said that.

I didn’t know what was inside, nor did I know who was waiting where I was headed.

It was a situation I could never tolerate if I was my former self.

Yoo Hee-sin’s child, who should be most sensitive to information, moves without any information. It was absolutely impossible and should not have happened.

However, now he was moving based solely on trust in that person, not information.

– Special to me… … .

“Kuhm!! greatness!!”

Claire was taken aback by the memory of yesterday that suddenly came to her mind, and she lightly released her mana to shake off the inappropriate body temperature.

I don’t know if it’s in front of that person, but I never wanted to show my disheveled appearance to others.

Tteing-

A research wing in the Magic Department, a little away from the main building.

The door of the elevator stopped on the top floor there opened and Claire got out.

[ Jaden Martel ]

A large signpost.

Claire opened the door right away without knocking.

“Well?”

“bailiff?”

Claire sat on the sofa and scanned the faces of those who turned around.

‘Ian McKellen, Robert, Jayden. And… … .’

A boy with a strange atmosphere sitting at the highest table.

It was a face he certainly did not remember, but the magical nature of the boy had a feeling that he had experienced it once before.

‘As expected, Professor… .’

Claire, who took her eyes off the boy, admired the greatness of Baek Woo-jin once again as she looked at the middle-aged and middle-aged people sitting left and right.

One was the only Awoken who had the ability to manipulate time, and the other was the ‘former’ chief investigator of the International Awoken Crime Investigation Organization.

“Heh heh, could it be that the bailiff was an errand boy?”

“Anyway, Asen, you are still young.”

Claire approached the place where the four were gathered, lightly ignoring Ian and Robert’s words. Then he opened the pocket he was wearing at his waist.

The black darkness where nothing could be seen.

She put her hand into it, grabbed something that was lying in a large space, and pulled it out.

Whoaaah

A beautiful blue light flowed from Claire’s left hand as if it were not too much and would take away the viewer’s heart.

bright blue light.

A gemstone slightly smaller than an adult’s head.

Everyone in the space was distracted by the brilliant crystal that appeared.

An unknown gemstone full of disparate magical powers that cannot be hidden.

It must have been the nucleus of a rift.

“What is this!?”

“Huh!!”

“K-Krystal, how… ?”

Jayden, Ian, and Robert opened their mouths as they looked at the crystal in Claire’s hand with astonished eyes.

Claire was just as embarrassed and surprised as the three of them, but quickly regained her cool and returned the crystal back to the artifact.

“Huh… .”

“What did I just see?”

“Boo, Associate Professor, did it again—”

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Quiet.

A hoarse voice engulfed the entire laboratory.

Everyone’s eyes turned to the boy who was sitting in the seat of honor.

Sean Connery, the teacher of the boy Jaden and the owner of the clock tower, opened his mouth wide.

“Do anything. If you wish, I will even cut off the breath of the royal family.”