81 – Grade Assessment (1)

after returning to the mansion.

‘It feels like I’m back for the first time.’

I took a 12-hour break, but my body is still languid.

The languor that the body feels now is not due to the burden of the soul.

The price I should have paid for this incident in the first place was borne by the futility sleeping inside me again, so it would be safe to say that there was no damage to me.

However, the reason why I feel drowsy is because the energy of the guy I’ve been confined to has spread all over my body as the emptiness awakens.

‘Is that even thanks to greed?’

If other living beings had been engulfed in the same concentration of nothingness as I was, they would have collapsed in helplessness and been forgotten by the people around them and would have died as they were.

If you make up your mind, this can also be solved without difficulty, but this time I will carry this drowsiness for a little longer. To balance the scales as much as possible.

‘I’ll have to cut down on sleeping too.’

Previously, I did not know the side effects of greed, so I tried to recover, but I could not prioritize recovery because I experienced a fatal side effect once.

It’s cumbersome, but you have no choice but to balance your body appropriately as needed according to the plan.

-Beep, beep… .

“It’s a big deal.”

The guy who used to ride on my chest when I lay in bed is curled up in my nest today for some reason.

‘I think it will work out somehow by next summer.’

A weak but diminishing presence.

I left the bedroom leaving the guy who would be the fertilizer for my plans.

You can feel Claire’s magic in the kitchen.

I walked there and found Claire sleeping soundly on her stomach on the kitchen table.

‘It must have been affected by nothingness.’

Unlike the past, when you only had to close your cracked eyes, now the remnants of futility are spread all over your body, and that seems to have had an effect.

If it weren’t for that, there would be no reason for her to be asleep like this, who hasn’t eaten or rested for a month.

“Claire.”

I called your name right next to you.

Whoa, whoa… .

She didn’t react and continued to exhale evenly.

I checked the time on the wall clock and hugged her as she slept soundly.

“It’s just like back then.”

In the summer of five years ago, I once hugged and threw her in the pool installed in the yard. She hasn’t changed a bit since then.

I went back to the bedroom and put her on my bed.

“It sure seems to be balanced.”

her face sleeping peacefully.

If you were your former self, you would have thought of wanting to monopolize it, but now you just think it’s beautiful.

Lastly, I covered her with a blanket and left the mansion to head to the old building where the two were confined.

Arriving at the alchemy workshop, I took out my smartphone and sent two emails while stepping on the stairs.

One to Claire, who is still asleep.

The other was for Hana Baek, who had just woken up.

After sending both emails, I stepped into the cracks.

“Bring it.”

It floated in the same spot as yesterday, and as soon as it received my instruction, it began emitting an intense blue light.

Two-way

Yoon Do-sik and Jayden fell from the ceiling with a sound as if someone were spitting.

Kuung-!!

“Keugh?!”

Yoon Do-sik suffered as he hit his butt on the floor, and Jayden landed safely by using his magic without difficulty.

“I didn’t resist just in case, but the professor called me.”

At Jayden’s question, I nodded and retrieved the notebook they were holding in their hands.

“How far has the work progressed?”

“Once I figured out the overall structure.”

As the guy said, the first page of the notebook had a structure without major errors, as if the topography I had drawn was viewed from above.

“First of all, the selection of monsters suitable for the level of the first year students was finished, and we were about to discuss the location and traps to place. In terms of numbers, it seems to have progressed by about 20%.”

“Not bad.”

If we finished the topography in just 12 hours, and the work rate was 20%, it seems that the two of us could finish it within the time even if I didn’t interfere.

“Let’s continue the rest from this afternoon.”

“Yes.”

“… … what is it?”

Unlike Jaden, who answered steadily, Yoon Do-shik, who got up from his seat rubbing his butt, glared at me and asked.

“This afternoon? What do you mean?”

“Is a watch a decoration?”

Although the scenery here only repeatedly shows what I specified, only the communication with the outside is cut off, but the electronic devices I brought in work normally as long as there is power left.

In other words, if you have a smart phone and a smart watch, you can check the time as much as you like.

‘This space must have been quite interesting.’

Yoon Do-shik wrinkled his brow and operated the smart watch on my wrist.

“… … ?”

The guy blinked as if Moore had misjudged him, then grabbed Jayden’s wrist and manipulated his smart watch to check the screen. And.

“… What crazy?!”

Surprised enough to make his eyes pop out, Yoon Do-sik shouted as he approached me.

“Chu, exit!! Where is the exit?!”

At that urge, I gave Crystal instructions and made an exit right next to it.

“Damn it… … !! I haven’t even finished writing my notes!!”

Yoon Do-sik flew straight toward the exit.

Jayden watched it for a moment, then checked the time again and approached me.

“I also have a joint lecture for 3rd and 4th graders, so I will stop going.”

“The two of you are free to come in and out, so don’t bother asking for my permission and go in and out freely.”

“… … thank you!!”

From my point of view, it was nothing more than sharing my work, but the guy with a great desire to explore this space itself expressed his gratitude and bowed toward me, saying he was grateful for even that.

“Whoa, maybe it’s because I checked the time… You seem to be suddenly tired. It looks like I’m getting older too. hahahaha.”

“Jaden.”

“Yes?”

I said with a little force to the guy who stopped in front of the exit.

“Tell it straight to your master.”

“… … Yes.”

When I nodded, he swallowed once and disappeared toward the exit.

‘It has more influence on the people around me than I thought.’

“Bice.”

【Yes. master.】

The girl who had been hiding in the ring appeared in front of me.

Unlike the others, she greeted me with the same upright attitude as yesterday.

“Status.”

【It’s okay.】

“i get it. Please go back in.”

She lowered her head and hid herself back into the ring.

I don’t know the exact reason, but I think it’s because the elements that make up her existence with a high probability are made up of my own magical power.

I left the two notebooks I was holding on the desk and came out through the exit that hadn’t disappeared yet.

– Tiring.

Baek Hana set a notification sound from her arms.

I stepped down the stairs without bothering to take it out of my arms and check it out.

“ah… … .”

When the locked door opened, Hana Baek, who was standing in front of it, opened her eyes wide and quickly looked around.

“I am alone.”

“… … Woojin!!”

Then he smiled brightly and jumped at me.

“Get away.”

“no… … .”

As if they were sloths, they hugged me tightly with their arms and legs and swarmed me.

Leaving behind the closed door, I moved to a place without windows and tidied up the clinging guy’s hair.

“I should have told you not to come in a hurry.”

“Bye, I didn’t come in too much of a hurry… .”

There is still water in my hair, but that’s a lie.

Laughter comes out at the appearance that has not changed even a little.

‘Yes it was.’

He is the only one who stimulates my dry emotions even before my greed runs out of control.

“… Something feels old.”

The guy who was burying his face in the nape of my neck lifted his head and looked straight at me.

“Something… … great. No, I liked it originally, but I like it even more… Whoops.”

“Stop talking nonsense and come down.”

“Uh~”

Hana Baek lets go of her hand that was holding my neck and slides down my chest.

I finally grabbed the left hand of the guy who was standing on the floor with both feet.

“… … Why?”

“Stay still.”

Pay attention to the guy who is wiggling his fingers.

‘Vice body.’

Suagh-

She hid herself in my ring and moved into the silver ring I gave to Hana Baek.

I said as I let go of his hand.

“Stop going back.”

“… already?”

“Soon it will be 7 o’clock.”

“It’s okay if you don’t eat breakfast… ?”

He slowly reached out and wrapped his arms around my waist.

“Can’t we stay like this for a little while longer?”

“Can not be done.”

“Why~!!”

When I pushed my forehead with my hand, he started to complain. I responded by gently pressing his lips with my index finger.

“I would have promised you to be pampered only at home.”

“Ugh… … .”

“And.”

“crying!!”

I just lightly hit the bridge of the nose, but the guy still makes a child-like sound and swears.

“To think that you didn’t contact me even once after having an accident like that.”

“ah… … .”

The stern guy opens his eyes wide and rolls his round pupils to avoid looking at me and mumbles.

“That, of course, my sister… … .”

“One hundred and one.”

“… Sin, I’m sorry.”

Then, with that grown-up figure, he wiggles his fingers and lowers his head.

I said, putting my hand through my white hair.

“Please write a letter of reflection before you come home.”

“… One sheet?”

I replied in response to the reaction of the guy who rubbed his head on my palm.

“tome.”

“… … to?”

He lifted the man who was blankly raising his head, wrapped in magical power.

“Ha, one book?! That, where is that!!”

“Don’t even think about coming back until you’re done.”

“Aww!!”

He shouted loudly and kicked the guy out and closed the door.

I slowly stepped on the stairs, watching for a moment how he sprinted through the ring.

‘Considering that I don’t use it sparingly, it will take a little more than a month.’

It wasn’t because Baek Ha-na demanded a copy of a letter of self-reflection because she was particularly harassed or offended. It just took me a little bit of time.

It was because I needed time to test and find out how the power of emptiness spread through my body affects those around me.

The contents of the e-mail sent to Claire were also about this. I’ll be away from home for a while in preparation for grade evaluation, so don’t worry too much.

“Three weeks should be enough.”

Since 20% of the work was completed in just 12 hours, even if the changes caused by the effects of nihilism were included as variables, 3 weeks would be enough to complete it.

At the same time as I was working, I stepped into the rift, waiting for the two to be my test subjects to return.