3. Nineveh – 02

Although Nineveh is called ‘Academy’ externally, it is an institution that can be compared to a comprehensive educational institution in reality.

In Korea, it feels like elementary school, middle school, high school, and university are all gathered in one educational facility.

Of course, that kind of educational facility does not exist on Earth. In the aristocratic-looking schools that the upper classes attend on Earth, elementary, middle, and high school are sometimes done on an escalator.

The only difference was that Earth’s schools were, at best, schools, but Nineveh was an extra-legal institution teeming with ‘real nobles’.

“… It’s really filthy wide.”

– Didn’t I say that earlier? It’s much more convenient to take a tour bus.

The size of Nineveh was enormous beyond what Jin had thought.

It’s already been 10 minutes since I ignored Erekaya’s words that I had to take the bus and walked from the front gate without thinking. There were only several auxiliary facilities.

– The total area of Nineveh is much larger than most small and medium-sized cities. It allows as many as 10,000 students to live without lacking anything, prepares auxiliary facilities for their education, and even the faculty and staff to support them are living together in Nineveh. It would probably take about an hour to reach the destination walking at that speed.

“… Shouldn’t you have told me that first?”

– Since the weather is sunny, you were the one who told me to take a walk and walk to the destination.

Jin couldn’t bear to say anything to Erekaya who said that with a snort.

Jin was able to reach his destination only after walking non-stop for an hour.

A building that is larger than most luxury hotels in Seoul and has an overall splendor that makes people feel intimidated by itself.

The identity of the building, which seemed to be a building where a great aristocrat somewhere could have been murdered, was none other than a high school dormitory building in Nineveh.

And right in front of the main gate of the dormitory, there was a woman staring at Jin as if she had been waiting for him until now.

Wearing a female school uniform that symbolizes belonging to Nineveh’s high school, her true identity is no different…

“This is Nineveh’s student council president, Erekaya del Pendragon.”

He was a classmate in the same grade as Jin, and at the same time the student council president of Nineveh, Erekaya Del Pendragon himself.

“… ah.”

In an instant, Jin stopped breathing without realizing it.

It couldn’t have been a very unrealistic sight.

An expressionless face, but at the same time a well-groomed face that somehow retains a sense of gentleness.

Beautiful red eyes that look like they were inlaid with jewels.

Waist-length purple hair, drenched in spear light, flutters in the wind.

Could this be the form in which the Creator created the concept of beauty itself in the form of a human being with all his might?

Even though they are facing each other directly with their own eyes, the very fact that a woman with such a figure exists in the world feels very unrealistic.

… No, it’s not an unreal sight at all.

It’s just that she possessed enough beauty to change the environment around her unrealistically.

‘… I can’t get used to that face at all.’

During the past nine recurrences, I have never met Erekaya del Pendragon face-to-face, but to put that experience to shame, every time I come face to face with her, I look at her in awe like this.

Well, that face is a face you can get used to if you want to get used to it.

Before the return, it was nothing more than a face that I hated and hated so much, but seeing it again like this, what is the reason for my heart sinking and sinking?

It’s as if time has stopped. A fleeting moment becomes an eternity, and it settles quietly and lightly around you.

Unable to breathe properly, Jin just stared blankly at her face.

– Hmmm… .

But that was the time. In the corner of her head, Erekaya started laughing with a meaningful smile.

‘… Wait, why the hell are you laughing like that?’

– No, what. No big deal. How do you feel about meeting the past me, no matter how hard it is, can you seduce the past me… Well, I wanted to ask these things, but I just thought that there was no need to ask, seeing how you are.

‘… Ugh.’

I was momentarily embarrassed and tried to deny it, but the fact that I had such a reaction in itself was no different from a sign of affirmation.

“Jin is you, the subject of special admission. Seeing that there is no last name… Are you a commoner?”

“Ah, yes. What.”

When Jin manages to respond to Erekaya’s words and barely nods, she looks at him with something strange in her eyes.

“… Me, why are you like that? Are you experiencing any discomfort? Or is there something you want to say to me?”

– There are many things I want to say. For example, falling in love with my face, or wanting to confess to my past…

‘… please be quiet It’s crazy.’

Jin let out a sigh in his heart, shook his head and opened his mouth.

“It’s nothing. It’s just that I was a little concerned about the color of Erekaya-san’s hair.”

“Ah, you mean the color of my hair.”

As if he had heard such words once or twice, Erekaya did not seem to doubt Jin’s excuses very much.

“Purple hair does not occur naturally on the continent. Only those of Pendragon blood are born with purple hair, so other people are always amazed at my hair.”

This is a fact that Jin is also well aware of. The fact that the hair inherited by the descendants of Pendragon is one of the proofs that they inherited the blood of the transcendent.

– Actually, that’s a prank. I knew from time immemorial that other people admired my face, not my hair.

‘I think you’d better be a little shy.’

By the time Erekaya and Jin, who are holding a fair about themselves, are bickering in their heads, this time, Erekaya is staring at Jin.

“… Do you have anything you want to say to me?”

“Jin, this is a male-only dormitory. No matter how much I hold the title of student council president, it’s a space that I can’t go in and out. And since you will have to spend a very busy time tomorrow morning doing the admissions procedures, I would like to tell you about the various rules that you must be familiar with in Nineveh right now.”

“… Rules?”

What kind of rules are there for the school that gopiri go to at most?

“First of all, the teaching staff at Nineveh basically do not interfere in matters between students. If a student’s life is in danger or if a murder occurs, of course we will intervene, but on the contrary, it means that we are taking a stand-by-side stance unless such a thing happens.”

“So, in any way, students should solve their problems among themselves?”

At Jin’s words, Erekaya quietly nodded her head.

Well, in a way, it couldn’t have been an obvious rule.

Although Nineveh nominally calls itself an “educational institution,” it was no different from a military academy if considered fundamentally. In other words, rather than playing the role of embracing, hugging, and talking to each other, the focus was only on improving the students’ ability itself.

As such, it could be said that in Nineveh, students run in groups, form cliques, bully someone, or beat a bad guy like a dog.

You feel bad because you got hit by someone else? you can’t live? Then wouldn’t it be okay if you grow stronger and defeat the same? Why are you whining at us?

Well, in a sense, it was no different from having a very egalitarian ideology as an educational institution. It’s like they’re only pursuing strong self-respect without considering external power or personal connections at all.

To be honest, Jin liked this rule. Because it was a story that if there was someone who made a mistake, he could stab him in the head right away.

“Second, dating of the opposite sex is not permitted. I don’t even need to tell you why.”

“Yeah, what is that… .”

From the parents’ point of view, they paid expensive money to educate their children and sent them to the academy, not because they enrolled them in the academy to contribute to the Empire’s recently sluggish birth rate.

“Of course, it doesn’t stop heterosexuality per se. It’s a story about never crossing the line.”

Anyway, as I was quietly listening to Erekaya’s request for trust, I suddenly became curious. Does Erekaya herself, who is saying this, have experience of dating with the opposite sex or not?

– do not worry. Because at this time, I was fanatical about school rules. Well, it was more decisive than that that there was no one who caught my eye.

‘… Hmm.’

For some reason, I felt like I was looking into my heart, so I was embarrassed.

– What, now you don’t have to pretend to be clean. Isn’t that the way all male creatures are originally like that?

In order to get Erekaya’s giggling voice out of his head, Jin deliberately quickly changed the subject.

“So, is there a third?”

“The third is that we do not allow respect among classmates. Classmates must use the standard table unconditionally, and regardless of their social status, if they are older than themselves, they must use respect. There are no exceptions, even if one’s status is aristocrats or even royalty. At least in Nineveh, everyone should be faithful to their status as students.”

It is not to give fair teaching to all students without any discrimination.

It’s just that, if you don’t study to be this guy and that guy and play ranking games with your identity, it’s because Nineveh will become a piece of shit.

I took a bath and sauna with your father, but why don’t you listen to me? I don’t want to be treated like a senior…

Roughly, if these complaints are accepted endlessly, Nineveh will not become an academy, but will become the 2nd Yeouido National Assembly building. Then it’s education, classes, nabal, and nothing.

And, at least His Majesty the Emperor wouldn’t like it very much for such a situation to happen. Because Nineveh is an educational institution run with national prestige, Nineveh’s face is no different from that of the imperial family.

“By the way, I have a question, but no.”

Since he was told to use a flat table, Jin quickly changed his tone. I didn’t know anything else, but I was more confident than anyone else when it came to asking others to spit out nonsense.

In fact, as a Confucian man from an eastern country of courtesy, my heart hurts a little, but isn’t it the law that you have to follow Roman law when you go to Rome?

“What is it?”

“Ereka, aren’t you also my classmate? As far as I know, they are in the same class.”

“you’re right.”

“But why do you not use polite language with me and use respectful language? Didn’t you just say that in Nineveh, it was a rule of thumb among classmates?”

At those words, Erekaya stared blankly at Jin without saying anything. I was literally just looking at it, so to be honest, I was very embarrassed.

“Because you are not my classmate yet. Also, I only use short words with close friends. ”

In Erekaya’s expression as she said that, the feeling that she didn’t want to be close to him was overflowing.

– That’s the truth. Right now, it seems that I don’t like you.

‘… why?’

– How do I know that? I guess I just don’t like your face.

At the moment when Jin’s face was distorted by Erekaya’s careless words in his head, the little Erekaya in front of him also spoke bluntly to him.

“So, please don’t force me to speak rudely. To be honest, it’s a bit embarrassing.”

– Did you hear that? Don’t speak half-heartedly. Is this the situation where he was dumped before he even confessed?

‘… stop messing around It’s crazy.’

Like Erekaya said, it felt like I was lost before I confessed, so I felt very… It was complicated.

It was a day when, for some reason, I wanted to have a drink.