111 – events are always concurrent(1)

The scent of lavender that brushed through my nose made me know that Elena was nearby. The scent wasn’t exclusively Elena’s, but I know it was hers.

In fact, after she revealed her presence, Elena’s existence continued to be caught up in the senses, but this was only in the shallow realm of being aware of it, but that alone was not enough to satisfy me. It was the same for the second one.

Humans basically have five senses.

The sense of smell and the sense of smell, which are called sixth senses, have passed, but four senses still remain. The absence of her, which was felt in more than half of the senses, was rather like thirst, so I quickly moved my feet to fill the remaining lacking part.

A friend of the opposite sex in a corner of my head asked if I was acting a little excessively, but my head casually finished the question and self-justification for it at the same time.

‘I couldn’t meet you in the morning.’

This one word was enough to bury reason in my head again.

I haven’t been to the academy for more than a day. On the contrary, that also meant that I hadn’t been living without Elena for a few hours.

The meeting with Elena wasn’t set like a routine, but a day was too short to not feel the vacancy of things that were taken for granted. Of course, on the contrary, since it’s only been one day, I think this kind of behavior feels excessive even when I think about it myself, but originally, self-justification was like this. If I am, so be it.

Like a smoker who quickly gets withdrawal symptoms even if he tries to quit smoking, I developed withdrawal symptoms in the existence of Elena. If you say that this is an addiction, you can call it an addiction, but since it was a beneficial addiction with nothing harmful, there is nothing wrong with it.

But it was only in the absence of Elena’s eyes that she showed off like this.

“Whoa… Calm down. Counting prime numbers.”

As I climbed the stairs one step at a time towards the seats where Elena was to be, I calmed my excitement as if pouring cold water into my insides. Paradoxically, as the distance with her got closer, his hair, which had been hot because of her, gradually returned to its usual appearance.

He was still like a hot potato inside, but he couldn’t show Elena that.

‘Because it’s embarrassing.’

Of course, I’m sure Elena would prefer to see me do it…

If it was just the shame of showing that side of me to Elena, I wouldn’t have tried to cool my head like this. There is one more reason.

Over time, like me, Elena was getting used to me.

He’s still shy, but these days he doesn’t just get hurt, he sometimes attacks. Even if it’s not, it’s a situation where I’m going to hit the mood, but if I face Elena with the same expression as before, I can see how the elated Elena will act.

I don’t hate Elena’s pranks.

Rather, I can see her various sides, so I tend to think that it would be nice if she always mustered up courage and did more. It’s just because I don’t know how to act if I show the same image as before and add a joke to it.

I don’t know if I can think rationally and control my body, but if it’s a situation where emotions have overcome rationality like before, you probably won’t be able to do it with a prank. Boom like a balloon pricked by a needle! I’ll explode and lose control of myself.

Normally, when you assume that you end up in that state, the thing that worries you the most is sexual desire, but in my case it was a little different.

If that happens, the madness that has now subsided can wake up again, so it’s a very if event that I don’t know if this will happen or not. I will not be able to escape the self-hatred of myself.

Although I haven’t experienced anything in the past few months, I need to be careful about this because I know how my hair changes when madness strikes.

To my shame, I still don’t have 100% faith in myself.

I felt relieved and convinced that I was dealing with myself as reason, which had returned to normal to some extent, held my spirit tight. I thought about pinching my thighs and grabbing my cheeks like in the past, but I decided to stop when I started to see the end of the stairs.

When I climbed the stairs and went up to the audience, I immediately met Elena’s eyes. It must have been waiting for when it would come up, and it must have been looking at the entrance.

It was Elena who moved first.

Standing in front of me, she carefully scanned my body, confirmed that there was nothing wrong, and buried herself in my chest with a satisfied face. Even when I was in the family, I always did it after sparring, so I naturally accepted Elena.

“Isn’t it class time now?”

“Then Damian. Damian is here during class too.”

“My professor sent me early.”

“I am the same.”

I turned my head around to see if Orcus was there.

As I checked before coming up, Orcus wasn’t here and I couldn’t feel the presence of the others. As I tilted my head at this, Elena gave me an answer.

“The 2nd period was an exam. The professor said that I could leave as long as I solved all the questions, so I was able to come out this early.”

As she said that, Elena held out her index finger and let me know that she came in first place.

Solving the problem quickly and getting the correct answer are two different things, but I couldn’t think of a situation where Elena wrote down the answer to the problem incorrectly. Maybe she thinks the same as me. Well, in reality, Elena wouldn’t have been wrong in a single matter.

I don’t say anything, but I can see that you are asking for praise. I couldn’t help but notice that I had a puppy waiting to be petted in front of me.

As requested, I patted her hair a few times instead of complimenting her. It was just petting without saying anything, but Elena seemed to be satisfied with it.

“Hi-Hi…”

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***

“Did you see your grandfather?”

When I told Reinhardt about the things I had experienced on the way to meet Elena, he asked me with a surprised face. Well, I didn’t know that the sword castle would suddenly appear there. As a swordsman who has reached the level of a transcendental sword called the first sword of the empire, it is impossible for me to read that sign.

I was confident in reading the signs, but the sword castle was like… it felt like I was facing an inanimate object. To be precise, it should be said that it seems to have become one with nature. It is difficult to perceive as a separate existence as a human being because it naturally melts into things that are already recognized.

It was a little different from my father, but it felt the same, but maybe with time, I’ll get used to this too.

“He suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared. Are you the one who disappears like that in the first place?”

“Originally, he wasn’t like that, but it seems he became like that after he retired. You seem to have enjoyed watching me and my father being surprised, but if you were very uncomfortable, I’ll apologize instead.”

Was it like that You were more fun than I thought.

Reinhardt and I were now in my dorm room. Currently, the only students who have returned to the dormitory are first-year students from the Faculty of Engineering, so the overall atmosphere is quiet. It was the same in my room.

Originally, as I said in the morning, I was invited to meet Reinhardt and Richard, but later I found out that the class at the Faculty of Magic was not over, so it became the current picture.

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Most of the classes in the knight department were similar to the sparring in the swordsmanship department.

Even if the department changed, it did not change that I had to go to the gymnasium and practice sparring. It’s just my personal opinion, but I’d say there’s no difference from the previous class except for the change in the weapons handled. Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten used to the way I handle various weapons from before.

Of course, unlike me, there were some children who showed changes in their capabilities as weapons changed depending on the department. I can take Reinhardt as a representative example, but unlike when he held a sword, when he held a spear, he couldn’t show such overwhelming insolence as before.

It was judged based on me, so I was still exceptional among my peers, but it is true that I was worse than when I held the sword.

Well, I don’t know where the modifier genius goes. By doing sparring, you will instantly improve your skills, so after a while, you will no longer feel this appreciation.

Anyway, because of this undergraduate tradition, the timetable was just different in name, but it was like sparring all day long.

It’s the first day, so it’s similar to the orientation and the classes are spacious. Dalyeon, which moves the body vigorously, and Otti, which spends time sitting still, are not the same, but this schedule had the advantage of being tired but ending early.

Because of that, classes in the Faculty of Knights ended earlier than in other faculties.

“Looks like something’s running out of time.”

Even if you follow the original timetable, it’s very spacious compared to when you were living with your family. At that time, I was also working as a Sogaju at the same time, so there is a considerable difference from now that I became a student. There is a timetable set in advance before admission, but the class ends so quickly that the daily routine written there has already been completed.

“Um, that’s right.”

Reinhardt received my self-talk.

He was in the same situation as me, so he was staring blankly at the ceiling with a face that he didn’t know what to do.

We talked about topics that popped into my head from time to time, but it wasn’t a long conversation either. Reinhardt wasn’t that talkative, and I wasn’t one to force a conversation either.

Even though the sound was very empty, the atmosphere was not awkward, probably because both Reinhardt and I were enjoying this silence.

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Was it because they were locked in silence and put their minds at ease? Neither of us noticed that someone was coming here until there was a knock on the door. I was lying on the bed, and Reinhardt was closer by the street, so I and Reinhardt had a brief snowball fight, and eventually Reinhardt, who blinked first, went to open the door.

“I’ll talk to Damian for a minute… Aww! It’s a surprise!!”

“Hello, Your Highness.”

“Uh, uh, yes. But wasn’t this Damian’s room?”

“Hey, I’m here.”

Orcus came into the room, looked at me lying on the bed, and put on an expression that he saw something he couldn’t see. Why are you looking at people like that?

“What are you doing…?”

“What are you doing? I’m resting. What’s going on in my room? Did you come here because you’re bored?”

“…Well, let’s do something like that.”

“What is he saying now?”

Orcus interrupted vaguely, but I didn’t ask any further. The fact that he came to see me must have been because he had some business, but he seemed to be careful because Reinhardt was there. But was this guy bored too? Orcus didn’t go back right away, looked around the room a few times before sitting down in a chair.

The room was quiet again.

From the outside, nothing seems to have changed from before, but the atmosphere is different from when it was just me and Reinhardt, maybe because Orcus came.

Before, it seemed like it would be nice to stay silent, but now it feels like you have to say something? should I say I felt an air current that would make it awkward if I stayed still like before. It seems that it was because of Orcus and Reinhardt, but Orcus must have known about it, so he himself stepped forward and opened his mouth.

“Do you want to play a game?”