Chapter 58 – Midterm Exam (2)
Going on a date with Iris, hanging out with your sister without stepping out of the dorm, taking Daisy to meet Christina and playing with each other behind their backs…
After spending days like that, it became test day.
Looking at it, I think I’ve become a guy who only plays with people.
In reality, he was only playing with Hanryang.
Dating Iris would be work if it was work, but at least I tried not to have that kind of feeling when we were dating.
It would be very disrespectful to Iris.
“Brother.”
The day of the test of ‘ancient magic’.
Iris, whom I met at the test site, approached me.
Rumors didn’t spread as much as expected and were buried, but everyone in the know would have known at least that the relationship between Iris and I was unusual.
Especially the cadets who were with me that day.
So when Iris stood next to me, the eyes of the cadets subtly gathered.
It seems like I can’t look at this side openly.
“Iris.”
Suck.
I saw a cadet holding his breath.
I don’t think I’ve heard of Iris calling me brother.
Anyway, after that last day, Iris and I decided to stop being conscious of the surroundings when we called each other.
Should I say that the rumor spread even this much because I did that much?
If Iris wasn’t my opponent, or if my opponent wasn’t Iris, then everyone wouldn’t have tried to control their mouths to this extent.
It seemed that the delay was too high, so they kept their mouths shut.
“Did you prepare well?”
“Thanks to my older brother for letting me know.”
Iris smiled softly.
When I recall the first day when I stood on the podium as a freshman representative, it was a very different look from then.
What would have changed if someone I didn’t know saw it? I will.
Iris maintained the image of a ‘beloved and affectionate princess’ in front of others, but she did not try to forcefully maintain it in front of me.
She laughed more naturally, spoke more naturally, and acted more naturally.
In front of me
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like that.
Who in the world doesn’t like a girl who only shows her natural side that she doesn’t show to others, only in front of me.
“If the test results go well this time.”
Iris, who hesitated for a moment while speaking, whispered in my ear.
“I will grant you one wish.”
“… Aren’t you listening to me?”
Usually at times like this, don’t you ask for a wish because you did well on the test?
I looked at it curiously, and Iris laughed softly.
“It’s because my older brother taught me well.”
Hmm.
Is it.
I don’t know, but it must be because Iris is like that.
As she nodded, a professor accompanied by her teaching assistant entered the test room.
“I will start the exam.”
The teaching assistant handed out test papers to the cadets.
The theories of ancient magic he had learned so far were densely filling the pages of the exam paper.
I, who understands the formula itself of ancient magic through ’emotion’, knew what the formula meant as soon as I saw the complex formula.
I glanced at Iris, who had moved her seat farther away to keep her safe.
“Ugh…”
It seems a little difficult, but it seems to be working out well.
Where to look
Problem number one.
Express the magic formula drawn when the two formulas are combined.
He stretched out his hand over the answer box.
Since it was a formula for ‘sound’ and ‘amplification’, I decomposed and recombined the two expressions…
After confirming that the expression of ‘Amplification’ magic was coming out, the appearing magic array permeated the paper.
‘Is it easy because it’s problem number 1?’
No.
It would be an easy problem since I know what these two expressions mean.
Most of the ancient magic so far has been preserved without even being able to explain the meaning of the ceremony.
Perhaps even the magic formula for ‘affirmation’ in this question was discovered through countless trials and errors.
‘Then the purpose of the problem is not simply interpreting and solving magic formulas.’
In other words.
I mean, it’s not an undergraduate level problem.
It is the current ancient magic academy where numerous scholars put their heads into it without clues and uncover the meaning of a single magic formula, but there was no way that ordinary undergraduate students would be asked to interpret and combine the magic formula.
Then…
‘Is this a memorization test?’
What I could infer was that I had already taught this magic ceremony during the lecture, and it would be purely a matter of checking if I remembered the contents of the lecture.
In fact, from problem 2 onward, unlike problem 1, which asked to analyze and then combine the magic formula, it was a problem to ‘analyze’ the magic formula as much as possible.
Unlike problem 1, which requires the result of a combination, problem 2, which requires maximum effort…
It was easier for me.
The answer comes right away without any analysis.
After going through a series of processes and how to analyze to find the answer, it naturally came to my mind.
I felt like I was taking a test for no reason, and I projected the answer to number 2 onto the test paper…
*
After the exam, Iris and I left the exam hall side by side as if we had promised, and started walking around the garden as if we were taking a casual walk.
A wonderfully designed promenade as if it were not the best educational institution on the continent for nothing.
Originally, it was a place where quite a few cadets came and went, but when Iris and I went there, it was quiet.
Since I’ve never used my hand, Iris might have used her hand… To think that, when she came here with Christina, people used to be sparse as well.
So am I the problem?
He had never touched me personally, no, never even opened his mouth, let alone used his hand in the first place, so why was he avoiding me?
It wasn’t bad though.
Because you can be assured of personal time.
Considering that famous people have their privacy invaded by sasaengs chasing after them, wouldn’t it be an advantage that everyone avoids me and is guaranteed time alone?
“What are you thinking, brother?”
“Iris.”
“Yes.”
Chamberlain.
“I want to talk to the goddess.”
“With the goddess?”
Even things like this that can’t be said easily in front of anyone.
By spreading the shadows and scanning the surroundings, it blocked any eavesdropping ears that might have been there.
“… Here? It’s okay to go to my dorm…”
Hesitantly.
Iris looked me in the eye and said that. Secretly nestled in her eyes, expectations, worries, and vigilance.
I shook my head.
“Are you scared?”
“Yes.”
The relationship between Iris and I was quite far from the normal relationship between a man and a woman.
Apart from being sincere and sincere.
I understood that iris. Because she’s just catering to my circumstances. She thought it was right to give her a little more leeway.
“… Thank you.”
“What.”
Iris nodded her head obediently.
Soon, he wrapped his palm around his wrist and glanced up at me.
“What shall I convey… ?”
“Hmm.”
I put my hand on my chin and pondered.
What should I say?
“I lost my memory, but it’s been a while?”
Iris pursed her lips for a moment, as if the answer came back immediately.
“… Yes. Say it’s been a while.”
“I don’t remember, but please ask if there is anything else you need to know in a hurry.”
“… As Goddess remembers, there is nothing…”
Is it.
“What do you think about me dating Iris?”
“Eh.”
Iris’ face blushed, but she didn’t mean to ask.
She is a goddess who protects the empire, is served by the holy kingdom, and exerts her influence throughout the continent.
That means that if one day, as the true ancestor, I rise in status to the level of an existence comparable to the empire called the sun of the continent, the goddess who protected the empire and the imperial family might be in trouble.
Besides, what if I took Hero Iris, who is no different from the incarnation of a goddess before I became the princess, as her wife?
If I don’t know if I’m kind, the whole continent will fall into chaos if I’m wrong a little bit.
Although there are vampires among the Cardinals of the Holy Land, most of the vampires and other non-human species are favored by the moon.
Of course, he wouldn’t hit me in the back of the head even though I’d opened up the demon king and the soul’s mak-gora, and even lost my memory.
Anyway, I think I need to find out what the goddess thinks of my union with the hero Iris, who has the potential to awaken as the true ancestor and become the emperor who encompasses the greatest power on the continent.
When I asked with such an intention, Iris looked at me for a moment and then said.
“… She helped me so much, but she says she won’t let me go if I have an affair with Seluna.”
…
Out of the blue?
“Is it the wind?”
“‘The Grace of the Moon’… , Was it? It’s what my older brother used in an ancient magic lecture.”
“Why is that?”
“The goddess can give you that much, so I won’t use it in the future.”
“…”
I took a moment to choose my words.
“This might be a bit disrespectful.”
“Brother?”
“Ask the goddess if she likes me——”
Flash!
Light began to radiate wildly from Iris’s wrist.
“Aww! Wow! Goddess! My ears hurt! Ear! Crying! Even if you say that, my brother won’t listen!!”
I don’t think he said it because he likes me.
Why did you say that it was the wind?
