81 – Nayeon Park – 2

‘As expected, there are no reported cases.’

Nayeon sat in her study and searched for various journals, theses and articles, turned off her computer, leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes.

Taejin’s appearance is still clearly drawn.

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Just thinking about those reddish eyes makes the hairs on your body stand on end.

When I was hospitalized in the same hospital room as Taejin, I wondered if I could find a clue to the current goosebumps.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a single thread.

“Huh… .”

Nayeon let out a strange nasal sound and tapped the armrest of the chair with her index finger.

A red aura that is clearly drawn beyond the black field of vision.

When I close my eyes, the image of my exclusive disciple that comes to mind is strangely like bringing out something forgotten in the past.

What makes the common color of red mana feel special even though it feels familiar?

Is it simply because he is an exclusive disciple?

“Nope… . There is something more.”

At first, he tried to make Choi Do-han his exclusive disciple.

However, I felt the unusual and familiar grain of mana in Han Tae-jin, who was just weak without any resolution, and I reaped that thought.

and chose him

He made Han Tae-jin his first exclusive disciple.

I must have seen Han Tae-jin for the first time a few months ago.

When he was invited as a temporary professor for the academy’s graduating class.

At the time, I definitely didn’t feel anything special.

However, as he grew up, he felt a strange familiarity, and after being accepted as an exclusive disciple, that familiarity deepened.

In addition.

It wasn’t long before I met Taejin because of a personal relationship, but strangely, when I was having a conversation with him or training, I felt ‘it’s been a while’.

It feels like we’ve known each other for a long time.

It was really strange.

I saw him for the first time after coming to the academy, but why did the texture of the mana he emits look familiar, and why does it feel familiar when we talk to him?

I did a background check to see if he was the person I was desperately looking for, but I couldn’t find anything special about him.

‘Well, the one year I’ve been there is only one day here, so there’s no way the situation will appear.’

The time of one year when I was suddenly taken to another world and had to defeat the mighty enemy called ‘Black Dragon Velokas’.

Thanks to that world that shared the same mana as Earth, he was able to grow into a powerful ‘all-rounder’ when he returned from a mission.

Even after returning, the skills and magic accumulated in that world were intact.

And Nayeon met a wonderful colleague and man in that world.

You don’t know how big of a will he became when he said he came from Earth like himself.

When I got homesick, I talked to him to solve it, and when I talked to him, I didn’t know how time had passed, and the times I had adventures with him were still clearly in my mind.

So I tried to find it after returning.

But unfortunately, I couldn’t remember the information to find him, as if memory distortion or disappearance had occurred upon his return.

Things like names, appearances, and ages on Earth.

Even so, I searched for it while retracing my vague memories.

If he had performed an overwhelming feat on the continent of Pangea, he would surely have become a hunter comparable to himself on Earth.

That’s why she didn’t join the guild.

You’ll have to run raids with various hunters to find him.

However, there was no Hunter who showed the same mana.

Or maybe he lost his power during his return, just as he partially lost his memory.

There were enough possibilities, and I was upset because there were enough possibilities, but I was anxious.

He is desperately looking for himself, but is he looking for himself?

Maybe he forgot the hot love affair they shared then.

Years passed like that, and Nayeon, tired of searching without a single clue, eventually gave up.

It was impossible in the first place.

Even the texture of mana, which is the only clue, is the Awoken.

However, Han Tae-jin appeared in front of her.

At first, I thought it was just a vague familiarity for no reason.

It’s like a strange sense of kinship with his black hair and red pupils.

In life, such a sense of kinship, or a feeling of gladness as if we met a long time ago, is something everyone can feel, so they did not find a reason.

However, Nayeon had a different opinion after that day.

Ever since the day she faced the familiar red eyes she had met at the gym, the mana that she had forgotten for a while, now folded into her memory, she had an expectation that this vague sense of identity and reluctance might have a reason. to have had

So, during the month of the school closure, I decided to do a special training to look at Taejin in more depth.

However.

“I’m going to visit the Taebaek Mountains for a bit as a training trip.”

Taejin suddenly said he would go on a training trip.

However, Nayeon could feel it.

Even without saying anything, I could sense that something had happened to him.

Isn’t that a strange thing indeed?

That means you can tell without saying anything.

So she didn’t ask why, instead.

“Talk to Manager Kim Ki-seok and tell him to prepare for a long-term trip. as lightly as possible. Because I will go alone.”

I came up with an answer to follow.

There was nothing to do anyway because of the one-month school closure order.

As a visiting professor, I didn’t have to do any research or preparation.

Above all, it is natural to help as an exclusive teacher if there is a situation that cannot be said.

I’m trying to check if my intuition is correct.

“Yes… ? Master, will you go too?”

“why? Got a problem?”

“Oh, no. No problem.”

“The departure was two days later at noon, right?”

“yes. by the way. that… .”

Taejin hesitated.

The journey to find the power left behind by Han Chang-ho carries risks.

If you catch the eyes of the executives of Illusion, you may not be able to guarantee a safe return.

But, of course, Nayeon’s eyes were firm.

“Tell me. What.”

It would be too much to hide the secret if they were together.

He should have told the truth now, but Taejin couldn’t reveal the truth hastily.

I believe in Park Na-yeon more than anyone else, but it is because many people are intertwined to reveal this truth with an arbitrary judgment.

And among those many people, I had to get Kim Hye-seo Holder’s permission.

That’s why Taejin.

“… It can be very dangerous.”

He replied with a warning that was no different from the truth.

The warning was to inform that the current path was not a simple training trip.

However, it was only a laughable warning to Nayeon, who had already overlooked it.

Nayeon responded to the warning with a smile.

“Then should I go even more?”

“… .”

And Taejin is at a loss for words at that joke.

Soon after, he laughed along with Nayeon.

How can I repay Master’s grace to help me on a dangerous journey without asking why?

All I could do was smile.

“Funny. Stop smirking and follow me.”

Well, it was a stupid smile that was nice to hear from a picky teacher.

“Yes?”

“Is it very dangerous?”

“Yes?”

“Then you should take care of your equipment. Follow. I’ll show you around.”

“But the low-level equipment is already ready?”

Nayeon clicks her tongue.

“Are you going on a very dangerous journey with low-grade equipment?”

“What… . Because there is no way?”

As I said before, as a cadet, I couldn’t even buy advanced equipment, let alone use it.

And it was impossible to secretly wear the equipment.

This is because the guards guarding the barrier thoroughly inspected it, and the guards guarding the dungeon entrance inspected it again.

To strictly control the use of equipment.

Because of that, Taejin had stored low-level equipment in his mana pocket. Looking back now, I can realize that it was a foolish idea.

How complacent and foolish it is to go on a journey without any proper equipment in the yard where life is at stake.

However, it was unreasonable to borrow Park Na-yeon’s equipment because of the owner’s record recorded for each equipment.

You’ll be hooked straight from the barrier entrance.

of course.

If Nayeon goes with me, the story will be different.

“When you pass through the barrier, it is enough to say that it is mine, and after passing through the barrier, what do you know?”

“I see… Do you?”

“Looks like it’s not like going to a dungeon raid.”

Taejin, who thought Master must be Master, simply nodded his head at the insight that saw through me.

It was Nayeon’s words.

As long as you don’t enter the dungeon after passing through the barrier, the association has no way to know who uses the high-grade equipment.

so that.

“Follow.”

Taejin quickly started following Nayeon.

He was the one who gained a strong army and ten thousand horses.

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‘It’s a complete treasure trove.’

Following Nayeon, Taejin, who arrived at the building where the high-grade equipment was enshrined (?), was enjoying the splendid equipment.

Most of them were masterpieces of blacksmiths who had worked in blacksmiths, and were equipment that was insufficient for cadets to operate.

However, Nayeon was convinced.

Taejin now would be able to handle the equipment here, as well as the [Cheongang Yonggung] that he hadn’t been able to deal with before.

Taejin, who is growing day by day, will now have A-level magical power.

And, the reason Nayeon came here was for a different reason.

Taking care of equipment was the second priority.

That’s why Nayeon, who passed by the place where high-grade equipment was displayed, led Taejin into a rather empty space.

“How many pieces of equipment are missing here?”

“I have something to show you first.”

Before long, Nayeon stopped walking.

The reason Taejin was brought here, the reason was standing under the soft LED lights.

Right away.

“… uh? This… ?”

It was a bronze statue wearing the equipment that was summoned to the continent of Pangea to subdue the black dragon Velokas.

Crude yet sturdy armor, and in his hand was a sword with a dazzling white blade that could be called a holy sword.

“Perhaps… What do you think of when you see this?”

Nayeon’s cautious question.

It was a question that I sincerely hoped that the grain of mana I felt in the gym was not an illusion.

Taejin, who was staring at it with his eyes wide open, suddenly collapsed.

– Fluffy.

It was a sudden fainting without any warning.

“uh? hey! Taejin Han!”

“uh?! Tae, Taejin! The shock still hasn’t gone away… !”

Surprised Lesha runs up, and Nayeon also shows a look of bewilderment for the first time.

The man who was desperately looking for him… Was it really Han Tae-jin?

The strange familiarity, friendliness, and mana that was like that were really… Wasn’t it an illusion?

Nayeon couldn’t give any answer, she had no choice but to wait for Taejin to wake up.

Indeed, it was an anxious, yet heartbreaking time.