Chapter 456 – The Spring Feast.
“Keep it off! Haaaaa.”
Sulsien raised both arms straight up and stretched. While sorting and sorting various papers and experiment tools for a long time, I looked out the window to see the sunset over the city.
As I watched the sight of a city with regularly spaced buildings of similar size and shape casting shadows in the waning sunset, Usher came to mind.
‘What is Mr. Usher doing?’
She thought he would do well, but having lived with Usher for some time, she knew he wasn’t very sociable.
Usher wouldn’t just start a fight, but he was an outsider who didn’t know the laws or culture of Paciphenia.
“Are you very tired?”
“Oh, thank you.”
Maybe that’s why I’m going to get into a fight? When I was worried, Professor Martia came over and handed me a cochet.
“You must be tired because you just got back yesterday. I’m sorry I left you with the job.”
“Oh, no! I said I wanted to do it, right?”
Sulsien was helping her with her work now. If it was like before, I would have refused, no matter how much Martia asked.
“I also missed the cochet the professor rode for the first time in a while.”
“Oh, so what?”
Martia’s palate is picky without knowing it, so the cochet she rides was famous for its luxurious variety and fragrance.
“Huh, I’m happy that I did this with Seolsien after a long time. It feels like I went back 2 years ago.”
In addition, thanks to Martia’s good looks, there were many male students who helped her with her work to see her smile like that.
‘That kid named Yura. Are you going to keep following me?’
It was because a student of the same age as her, who had been abused by her dean, had been following her everywhere she went.
‘Because of that, I took all the other classes…’
At this rate, the momentum seemed to follow her to her own house, so Sulshien had no choice but to rush into unnecessary classes and help Martia with her work.
Because of her, her professors were happy to see her returning after a long time, and as soon as she returned, she said that she was really sincere in taking her class, and even received her praise unintentionally.
When I recalled the faces of the students who were looking at such a seolshien with bizarre expressions as if they had seen something strange, she felt that her face was burning even now.
“By the way, what about the kids who used to go out with me?”
However, no matter how much she looked around the students, there were only unfamiliar faces. She had already expected it, but when she asked just in case, Martia nodded her head.
“Most of them left the conference a year ago.”
Before she went to investigate, she was correct, as she had about a year left until graduation.
“Ugh, I’m two years behind.”
“I don’t think so?”
Martia stroked her hair as she felt depressed remembering her classmates who laughed at her.
“But by now everyone is an alchemist…”
“There are only a handful of kids who have become formal alchemists as far as I know. Most of them do other things.”
Thinking about it, she belatedly remembered that just because she completed the education course of the society, she did not become an alchemist. Few people can become an alchemist.
She had been told that if she was lucky, she could be a mechanic, builder, or doctor, but if the ratings weren’t very good, she would often farm or do chores.
“Yeah, it was.”
The basic course offered by the society was about 4 years. There are very few people who graduate from there.
Fortunately, even after 4 years, the opportunity to graduate did not disappear, but to extend the period, the same amount of tuition as when first enrolled was required.
It is said that those who can pay such tuition are rare, so most of them leave with only a certificate of completion, not a diploma. She forgot because she was on a scholarship as her chief.
“That’s right. Besides, it’s not just achievements, you’ve learned a lot, right? If the thesis is successful, you’ll definitely be able to graduate.”
“…Thank you.”
Sulshien felt relieved by Martia’s comfort, but she grew anxious.
‘Will the dean pass my thesis smoothly?’
He was a person who harassed and abused students as if it was not a falsehood that he was a Maenades, even if no one else knew. It is all the more problematic because the thesis was very important to Sulsien.
“What should I do…”
In the end, by the time I came out to help Martia, it was already night in the hallway. It was when I was about to return home.
“Hey, hold on!”
“Ugh, you.”
Sulshien was taken aback by the figure of her woman leaping out in front of her and blocking her. She was the very student that made her worry about her dean.
“You said Yura? What’s going on?”
She knew it wasn’t her fault, but she was so shocked by the sight that she was reluctant to step back, Yura said.
“Dean, you called.”
“The dean…”
I don’t like to go. She really didn’t want to go, but her thesis came to mind. I wonder if the pod will be caught with something like this, but she did it anyway, so she couldn’t help but nod her head just in case.
– Again and again
The only sound echoing through the hallway was the sound of the shoes of two people. By now, most of the professors, as well as the students, would have gone home, so it would be natural, but I couldn’t help but worry.
‘What happened to the dean…’
“Kyaa?!”
While walking, thinking about her dean, Xue Xian suddenly slipped and fell.
“Ugh, what is this?”
She slammed her ass on the floor, feeling her tears welling up, and as she searched for her cause, she realized that there was a pool of water on her floor.
Seeing the moonlight seeping in from outside her window and creating a small moon, I wondered if the janitor hadn’t cleaned the water properly, but at the moment, I realized that it wasn’t just water because of the lukewarm yet sticky feel on my fingertips.
“Yu, Yura? This is…”
She also finds the water droplets dripping down Yura’s skirt and realizes where they came from and is freaking out.
“Poem, actually, I called because I wanted to say something.”
“Then the dean called.”
Shaking her head, she looked around at her figure and realized that now she was going in a different direction to the dean’s office.
“Two years ago, you were a senior scholarship student, right?”
“How could you… No way?!”
When Seol Sien realized something about her and opened her eyes wide, Yura smiled awkwardly and continued her words.
“You may not remember. Yes, your motive.”
“Oh my god.”
She didn’t know that she still had the same motive as her in her studies. Seolshien didn’t remember the name Yura, but it was clear that she didn’t have very good grades.
At least Sulshien had remembered the names of those who did well in her grades and had reminded her of her alertness.
“It must have cost a lot of money.”
Extending the education of the society does not usually cost a lot of money. Even if you extend it, it will not be extended for 4 years like the first time, but it will be extended for 1 year even if you pay the same tuition.
Like Seol Sien, she had paid her tuition three times, unless she had taken a leave of absence for some reason. But after hearing her story, Yura shook her head, trembling her lips.
“Oh, no. I didn’t need tuition.”
“Yes? Then how, crab…”
Sulsien couldn’t keep up with her words. Because she realized how Yura had been extending her academic class. She nodded and slowly lifted her skirt.
“If anything, I’ll give you some advice, at least as a motive. Don’t worry about diplomas and run away from here.”
At the sight of her fully lifted skirt underneath, Yen was speechless. There was a strange object whose outline was clearly visible on top of Yura’s wet underwear.
I could intuit that it was longer and taller than its apparent shape, even without seeing it. Also, her astonishment was all the greater because she could see the object not only from the front, but also from behind her.
“Before you become like me. Quickly…”
The story I heard afterwards was also a series of shocks. It is said that she did not graduate because her grades were narrowly lacking. She had personal reasons to graduate, but when she was about to give up because the tuition was too expensive, she was offered a new dean.
She’ll pay for the tuition, so just listen to me, she says. But after that, she was really treated like a slave. Since she was not even given time to study, her grades naturally fell, and she was caught up with the same offer afterwards.
“I’m thinking of quitting…”
“He told me to pay my tuition if I didn’t intend to graduate.”
It was already too much for her to repay, and she ended up in the current situation.
“Then run away. Hurry up.”
After those words, Yura disappeared with a staggering step. Just like that, Seol Sien returned to her house with complicated worries swirling in her head.
“Does Mr. Usher know what to do?”
Perhaps if it were Usher, she would lightly solve her troubles. She entered the house with vague expectations.
“Mr. Usher! I’m here! What happened while I was gone…?”
Sulshien smiled all over Usher and tried to take him into his arms, but her face was distorted by the unfamiliar eyes that met her at that moment.
“Witch?!”
Yes, because something unclean entered her house and stood on her feet. She had to run straight into the kitchen and pull out her cleaver.
