Chapter 53 – 11. The Spirit of Delusion (3)
“Wow… It’s done.”
Is it true that there is only one week left for the exam?
After eating some food and having sex a few times, it always turns into dinner, so I feel a sense of crisis.
I’m not sure if Einstein existed in this world, but I was feeling the theory of relativity desperately right now…
Even when I was in college, I didn’t study that hard, but to be honest, it wasn’t such an easy decision to go into the novel and study.
“But I have to do it today.”
Today, in preparation for the exam, we decided to gather together in a quiet cafe to study.
As soon as Ha-yul heard my story, he replied that he would understand, and Joo-ha reluctantly refused, saying that it would be difficult to meet people he did not know well.
And senior Seol-ah… Forced her to stay at home.
Yu Seol-ah, who was walking alongside me, looked at me with her troubled eyes and said,
“Ugh…Why do you have to come out. She can do it at home.”
“I can’t study if I stay at home, so I’m trying to change the environment. It’s nice to come out and get some fresh air, isn’t it?”
“Not really…”
Yu Seol-ah said with a grunt, but she did, but when she came out, she seemed not to be in a bad mood, and put her arms around mine.
Wearing a white boxy tee and a tennis skirt, she felt more like a pure girl today.
“Senior, what kind of exams do you take? I take a total of 4 theory tests, including ability control, magic manipulation and its application, combat tactics, and the history of superpowers.”
“I didn’t study, so I don’t know.”
“Yes?”
No, even senior Seol-ah was talented?
It wasn’t once or twice that I was surprised by Ha-yul’s problem-solving speed, but now that I think about it, even though she’s a prodigy, she’s a former student council member, so I think she must be smart.
“If you look at a problem once, all the answers come to mind…”
“No, I just slept without unlocking it. In the past, I used to earn money while studying.”
Ah. Such a sad story.
Feeling embarrassed, I tousled her hair.
“…Pat your neck, not your head.”
Yoo Seol-ah seemed to like my touch and grabbed her wrist and led her to the nape of her neck.
When I touched her cold and soft skin, I felt erotic again, so I accidentally shook off her hand.
Then, she teased me with a smile as if Yoo Seol-ah, who was closely watching my reaction with narrow eyes, could barely see it.
“Huh, last night I hugged you with both hands, don’t you like today?”
“No, there are people around! Shh!”
There’s nothing a grown adult can’t say in a place where everyone is around.
Saying that to her face makes her face feel hot.
After playing around with Yu Seol-ah, I arrived at the cafe before I knew it.
Ha-yul said she would come a little late because she had something else to prepare, so she would probably arrive if she was studying moderately.
We moderately ordered two drinks and went into a separate room to unpack.
While she was taking out her major books and notebooks, Seolah Yoo was just sucking her drink from her side, so I asked her.
“But what are you going to do, senior?”
“Me…? I just want to watch you. I can’t raise my grades after studying for a week anyway.”
“No, but… I think the senior is smart enough to talk well and logical. Wouldn’t it be worth trying in about a week?”
“Anyway, even if I get good grades, I’m going to go under the government… It’s better to be taken by a professor for 4 years, pay attention, and then enter a private company after graduating. There are many places where Arbadellin graduates are selected regardless of grades.”
He said he wasn’t studying, so I wondered if he was just trying to make money, but surprisingly, Seolah Yoo was thinking a lot by herself.
However, you can understand her intention to avoid the dangerous mission assigned by government agents, but unfortunately, in the cataclysm that will occur two years later, most Awakeners will be recruited on a compulsory basis.
The reason why I also want to receive good grades is because I give priority to the right to action after considering the overall grades later.
Rather than being forcibly assigned to a dangerous unit, she aims to take care of the heroine first by obtaining the authority to lead even a small group of people.
Of course, in the process, it would be better if he could suck the honey while keeping a reasonable distance from the team Ryu Shin-yi will lead.
The chances of an incompetent Awakener like me being active in actual combat are almost zero, so it would be easiest to survive by attacking only small groups of monsters while avoiding sudden breaks as much as possible.
“Whoa… I get it. If you’re going to continue living with your seniors anyway, I’ll have to take responsibility.”
She still hadn’t heard that her demons had been captured, so she half-jokingly half-seriously told Seol-ah Yoo, but her face suddenly turned red when she heard me, and she stammered.
“I-I didn’t even think of that… Can I live with you?”
“Anyway, we’re still sleeping in the same bed. What?”
I suddenly feel very cold around me.
Thinking that someone turned on the air conditioner by mistake, I looked around and found out that it was Yu Seol-ah’s frost fog.
I can see you’re confused…
She cast a slight glance at her face, red as her blush, and spoke quietly in a voice only audible to me.
“Heh, hehe… Only when it’s like this is cool… Jihoo is bad.”
“It’s cool, but what else is bad?”
I stroked Seolah Yoo’s head a few times and started studying.
Today, I’m thinking of taking it slow, starting with the most difficult subject, ‘Magic Manipulation and Its Application’.
For me, who memorized the world view of the original work, the history of superpowers was as easy as eating rice cakes while lying down, and for combat tactics, questions such as tactical concepts and grasping monster habits would be the main questions, but at that level, I was able to cover enough from what I originally knew.
Yu Seol-ah took out a collection of past problems that she had obtained by searching and carefully looked at her first problem.
[11. The following is a specific magic attribute distribution described by the Schrödinger equation. Find the eigenvalue of the Hamiltonian operator, and describe in detail what type of ability the distribution of magic attribute means. (4 points)]
Uh… Why is Schrödinger out here?
It seems that you managed to survive when the second catastrophe erupted in 1950.
He is known as the person who laid the foundation for quantum mechanics, which is called the final king of physics, but it seems that the study of quantum mechanics exists in this world, and somehow it is fused with the concept of magical power.
Frankly, having majored in chemistry in college, I can confidently say I know almost nothing about physics.
In fact, there are many fields that are closely related to chemistry, such as the Schrödinger equation and quantum mechanics, so I don’t know that much…
Still, since she was her senior, I pushed her problem to her, wondering if she would know something if it was Yu Seol-ah.
“What do you mean by this? You speak Korean right?”
“What, it’s not that difficult for number 11… First of all, after analyzing what shape the wave function is, isn’t it enough to calculate and find the eigenvalue, substitute the energy, and compare it with the ability eigenvalue?”
“…”
That’s right.
For the first time, I felt a little inferior to Yoo Seol-ah.
* * *
Just as we were thinking about a few problems, Ha-yul came into our room carrying a lot of things in both hands.
“Hello, Jihoo! Last time I saw it, it seemed like they were struggling a lot with physical magic, so I made a separate note.”
“Wow… All of this? Aren’t you tired?”
In her hand, in addition to the books she was studying, she was holding a notebook with densely written letters.
I’m sure it would take more than a full day just to transcribe all of that, but I was slightly moved by his sincerity for me.
“Yeah, I’m going to study one more time while writing anyway. You don’t have to worry about it!”
“Thank you so much… I love you.”
I felt a cold gaze glaring at me from behind, but I ignored it and opened the notebook Ha Yul gave me.
Her handwriting was also straight, and for some reason it seemed to be imbued with her scent, so I inadvertently buried her face in her notebook and took a deep breath.
“Hayul smells so good…”
“Eh…? Other than that, she could just hold me and smell it…”
“If both of you are here to study, study.”
When Ha Yul opened her arms as if to hug her, I tried to run to her, but I was stopped on the way by her Yu Seol Ah’s restraint.
Isn’t this an ironic situation to be told by a talented person to study quickly?
“Seniors don’t study.”
“You said you were responsible for me… Why are you teasing me after you just said that?”
“What…? Responsibility? Come to think of it, it’s almost been a week, and the two of you still live together? Jihoo, can you return the notebook?”
“No, wait… This is all because it can’t be helped…”
Just as he was flustered by Ha Yul’s words and tried to make an excuse for her, the building suddenly started to shake as if an earthquake had occurred.
I don’t think the scale is that big, so I’m going to hide inside the table, but I hear an urgent notification sound from my phone, as if I’m going to quickly look at the screen.
– Tiri-ri-ring! Tiri-ri-ring!
As soon as you open the phone, you see a single message.
The sender was… [Sender Unknown].
[Run as fast as you can. Towards the academy.]
“What…”
I don’t know who it is, but I felt like something wouldn’t work if I didn’t follow the words of the text.
Fortunately, it was a quiet cafe, so there were no customers except for one employee. After sending all the employees outside, the three of us started running toward Arbadelin.
First of all, citizens have been trained to prepare for disaster situations, so most of them are moving to the academy in line, but I don’t think we should slow down.
When I finally reached the front gate of Arbadelin, Ha Yul, who was breathing heavily, asked me with a questioning expression.
“What, heo-eok. Why are you running so fast all of a sudden?”
“…Look over there. It’s coming.”
I feel a tingling sensation as if something is holding my breath.
Is everyone feeling that way, or am I the only one who didn’t originally belong to the novel and can clearly feel it?
I don’t know the details, but I think I know one thing for sure.
“What is that…?”
That the time of catastrophe has come one step ahead.
Huge tentacles rose from the ground, and the building was mercilessly collapsing.
