Chapter 67 – I Woke Up
Shivering from the extreme cold and losing consciousness, I,
At some point, I was able to recognize my surroundings.
I can’t say that I’m fully awake because my body doesn’t have power,
Because the eyelids are tightly closed, it cannot be seen directly with the naked eye.
I could clearly hear the voices of people raising their voices and talking.
By the way, why is your body so hot?
In my hazy mind, I noticed that my heart was beating very fast.
Besides, I feel like I’m going to fly right away.
The gloomy heart that I always lived with has disappeared without a trace,
Yes, I was shiny.
Glitter…
There was no way I didn’t know what this meant.
It is almost the only moment when I, who have been united by resentment toward the world and hatred toward myself, shake off them and get immersed in the happiness that came instead of the reasonless misfortune.
It was when I was injected with the medicine.
You’ve been given a feel-good drug.
I felt my rapidly beating heart throb.
I shouldn’t have done it, even if it wasn’t something I wanted to do, because I did something I shouldn’t have done.
I’m anxious, I’m anxious
The fact that I couldn’t keep my promise.
I’m sure you’ll be terribly upset. I don’t like being looked at with mean eyes. I hate being punished. Sorry. I won’t do that again, so please forgive me just once…
Aside from the sweetly wet and glistening body,
My restless spirit was gradually driven to a dead end.
I’m sure it feels good, but uhh, that’s what I promised, ah, what should I do…
I felt like I was going crazy over that gap,
I began to forcibly raise my subconscious consciousness.
The cold wave that raged as if in the middle of a cold winter had already disappeared,
I woke up from my winter sleep to the beating of my beating and sparkling heart.
“Yes…”
I lifted my upper body and blinked my stiff eyelids,
The noisy surroundings became quiet.
As if I had cast some kind of magic.
Eventually, when I fully opened my eyes, I saw a familiar face, and without knowing it, I smiled heartily.
And I unknowingly put his name in my mouth.
“Ian.”
There is something very awkward about spitting it out.
I always called him by titles such as junior, master, and so on.
It’s because I don’t want to call the name of the person I hate to death so friendly.
But now something, yes, I acted like that before I even thought about it,
In a similar vein to how a chick awakened from an egg recognizes the first thing it encounters as its mother, because her eyes were completely taken away from him, her heart was pounding.
Oh, I don’t know…
I was very embarrassed even after I did it, but my junior seemed more surprised than me.
Tearing your eyes, the size of your pupils increased, and you came to me in an instant and made a complicated expression.
“Eve…”
Where did you take the courtesy to your seniors?
I told you several times not to call me by my first name pretending to be friendly.
But this time, it was true that I had nothing to say.
Because I called his name first.
As I watched him,
I realized that I don’t hate him anymore.
Oh, actually, I felt that even before I collapsed.
When the heart that waited for you in the endless darkness was betrayed as it should be,
I remembered how I was so determined as if I was pouting.
But now, for some reason, the situation is different from then…
Uh, why is my heart beating so fast?
The closer I got to the handsome face, the more I couldn’t take my eyes off him as if I was under some spell.
I saw nothing but him in the whole world, and my glittering body was drawn towards him without my knowledge.
Why is the pensive face shown towards me like that?
“…”
This feeling, I don’t know.
I don’t know what it’s like to blink your eyes, twist your body around, and become restless just by looking at him.
… Oh, right. It’s because I hate it.
Is it so. You can’t feel any feelings for someone you hate overnight,
I thought about it, but it couldn’t be that easy.
That’s right, he really hated me to death all this time.
I ended up not knowing what was what.
Because it’s beating, because it’s twinkling, because it’s beating, because it’s blinking,
The drug-soaked body must have become incapable of distinguishing between hating and not hating.
If the body was like that, then the mind would have to find the opposite sex, and, yes, I had to hate him even forcibly.
So I said
“I hate you.”
My junior made a strange face at my words.
Oh, i’m mad
I was angry because I broke the promise that I would not take medicine, but since I came out saying that I was hungry, I wonder if the fever rose to the top of my head.
It was in the next moment that I realized that my expectations were completely wrong.
The junior stared at me for a long time, and after mumbling his mouth, he couldn’t say anything. Eventually, he made a face that looked like he was about to collapse, and finally hung his head.
Why?
I can’t figure out why.
Of course what he’s thinking.
But apart from that, I didn’t think those expressions really suited him.
I didn’t like this situation itself, where a neat, relaxed, calm and confident junior always made a face like that while looking at me.
So, instinctively, I acted as my heart led me.
Like a child, take him into your arms,
As I did the other day, I held his face to my chest and whispered in his ear as I hugged him tightly.
It’s okay, you’re not bad, you’ve done nothing wrong, you don’t have to make that kind of face, if you do that, you keep telling me that I’m upset.
I felt like I had to do that.
…
…
…
I woke up in Professor Diaren’s lab.
I think he was moved here right after he collapsed.
Oh, I don’t know why, but it’s completely flooded.
While I was hugging my junior and pouring out words that it was okay in my ear,
Professor Diaren was talking about something with Rohan’s brother.
I didn’t recognize it for a moment
Why are there so many eyes looking at you?
I threw my junior with a red face as if I was throwing it far away.
The junior who was pushed out with a loud gasp looked at me with bewildered eyes, but when I responded with a resentful look, I was taken aback.
Anyway, that’s it
The conversation between the professors must have ended around that time.
Professor Diaren, who looked at me with a slightly confused face after waking up,
She barely took her eyes off me and spoke to her junior.
“Ernest.”
“Yes.”
“Take this.”
What the professor gave to the junior was something I was familiar with.
A bunch of incredibly small vials of crimson gurgling liquid.
“Come find me when you fall. It will be easy to save through me. Of course, if you overdo it, the side effects are severe. You control It won’t be easy to determine whether mana is insufficient or excessive because he is a man with strong assertiveness.”
“… Yes.”
“This may sound like an excuse, but that was the method I chose. To make it come to you. You know your body best, and that was the surest signal. In the end, it was what led to this.”
“…”
“No, it’s okay. In any case, it should be enough to let them go one by one if they show any signs of wanting them.”
I realized at some point that Rohan’s brother was looking at me with affectionate eyes.
A face full of remorse, regret, and guilt.
Uh, should I hug my older brother? I’m not very attracted to… I inadvertently thought, uh, then why juniors, I thought,
I was really surprised and did it to my brother what I had done to my junior.
After the end of the hug, Rohan’s brother,
He apologized to me out of the blue.
“Eve. I’m sorry…”
“To. What?”
“No. Just. I wondered if the actions I’ve been doing for you so far weren’t just to gain my comfort.”
“… What are you talking about?”
“I’m sorry if I didn’t understand.”
Rohan’s brother stroked my hair, and finally,
You have returned to your usual self as I remember.
“Always be careful. Eve.”
“What is your body?”
“As well as the body… No. This brother will take care of everything.”
“… ?”
It was Rohan’s older brother who was talking incomprehensible words.
Anyway, besides that, I was talking about this and that with the professors,
Naturally, I decided to go back to his house following my junior who led my hand.
I had already decided to leave once, and I did that, and I wondered if I had no shame, but I couldn’t help it because my juniors would be very anxious if I showed that way.
On the contrary, on the way back home with my junior in my arms,
I was really embarrassed to the point that my face turned red, so I opened my mouth like a complainer.
“Hey, but, but this is a bit.”
“Stay still.”
“I can walk on my own!”
“With that foot?”
Yes,
Certainly, walking around with a completely sprained foot is a pain…
Even though,
It’s not like hugging a princess…