Chapter 1067 – 1067. Magic School Shutra (7)
I left Shutra early in the morning and waited in silence at the meeting place.
As I waited, I couldn’t bear the boredom and muttered to myself.
“Did I come out too early?”
I was supposed to meet Ariel in the morning, but I hurriedly got ready and left school at dawn, when the sun was over the mountain.
The reason it came out so early was to avoid causing misunderstanding.
If you go out at the right time, there is a high possibility that you will run into Ariel, and if you meet her like that and go out together, she will definitely attract attention.
Then, if even a rumor spreads, the plan goes awry.
Furthermore, Hanelone, Milena, and… If Lewis catches the eye, the chances of the plan being foiled will increase exponentially.
So I left school earlier than my scheduled time.
Being bored wasn’t really a problem.
The problem was the sprout of anxiety that emerged from the seed of boredom.
“… “It’s definitely not going to come out, right?”
I somehow made a date with Ariel, but the process didn’t seem natural.
Since this is a promise made by taking advantage of Ariel’s sense of responsibility, the promise itself may be broken due to her whim.
The moment I was so worried, a comforting voice was heard over the phone.
[You know. I am not a woman who will break a promise once she has made it.]
‘But…’
As I strongly said, Ariel was not a woman who would irresponsibly break a promise.
Even if you have the intention to refuse, she is a woman who will come to the appointment and politely refuse.
‘Once… Once you meet once, the next one is easy.’
After plucking out the sprouts of anxiety that had sprouted from the ground, I pressed down and planted the seeds of confidence.
Let’s wait like that…
‘Oh, come…’ Is that right?’
Presumed to be Ariel from afar… A man was walking.
Her face was clearly Ariel, but underneath her body she looked like a man.
However, as we got closer, that feeling of heterogeneity gradually disappeared.
‘When seen from a distance, she looked like a cross-dressing woman, but up close, it wasn’t that bad.’
Ariel’s outfit extremely emphasizes her masculinity, but her curvaceous body embraces that masculinity well.
Her thin arms, slender shoulders, small but protruding breasts, narrow waist, and hips that flares out to the side.
Ariel’s lower body was very gentle as she approached me, but her hips slightly swaying from side to side stimulated my lower abdomen.
‘Oh, oh… If you do this, the story will be different.’
Seeing Ariel getting closer and closer, I got excited about her and gave her a greeting as she approached.
“Ah, Chairman, you are here.”
“…”
“… ?”
Ariel didn’t respond to my greeting. She just looked at me blankly.
Ariel, who had remained silent, quickly came to her senses and accepted my greeting with a confident smile.
“I thought she showed up early, but I didn’t know she would show up this early.”
“I just came here too. Then shall we leave first?”
“Good.”
I started walking towards the downtown area with Ariel.
Although Shutra School was located in the center of Shutra city, there were no buildings around Shutra School.
The distance from Shutra School to the downtown area where the building is built is 5 minutes by carriage.
However, if you walk like this, it will take at least 30 minutes.
But the reason I walked like this was because of Ariel.
If the other woman had been another woman, she would have used the carriage waiting near Shutra School and headed to the downtown area.
But the opponent is Ariel.
‘She is a woman who values practicality over luxury, so she would prefer to walk.’
Although I guessed that, I asked Ariel a question to find out her true feelings.
“I’m sorry for making an appointment so early in the morning. If you’re tired, would you like to take a carriage?”
“Hmm? I’m fine. Rather, it’s nice to take a walk like this and see the outside scenery.”
“Haha, that’s a relief.”
Fortunately, I got the reaction I expected.
So I headed to the downtown area, chatting with Ariel as if I was taking a walk.
However, we faced a crisis before we even arrived at the downtown area.
“At what age did you realize your talent for magic?”
“I was ten years old.”
“Wow, magic at the age of ten…” That’s an incredible talent. Her family must have been extremely happy.”
“Hmm…”
“Are your parents wizards?”
“No.”
“Or on my grandparents’ side…” ?”
“No.”
Short answer.
Because of Ariel’s short answer, the flow of her conversation was completely interrupted.
If I kept talking to him, he would have understood that he was acting that way out of discomfort.
However, ever since Ariel first greeted me, she has continued to give short answers like this.
So I wondered if he didn’t want to talk to me…
“I’m keeping my distance from Hanelone-senpai and Milena-senpai… How are you two doing these days?”
“There doesn’t seem to be any major problems yet. But… I feel like my nerves have become a little sharper. Still, it’s not a problem…”
When the story of the two members of the student council came up, Ariel began pouring out her words without stopping.
Only then did I realize the problem.
‘And… Come to think of it, she’s never had a private conversation with Ariel before.’
Until now, I have had countless conversations with Ariel, but there was no personal content in those conversations.
Encouragement to join, introduction of colleagues, accounting, clerk, love triangle with Hanelone and Milena, and even problem-solving…
It was all related to the student council.
Not only did I not know Ariel’s main and secondary attributes, I didn’t even know where her classroom was.
‘You seem reluctant to talk about things before admission, so let’s talk about the inside of the school.’
After waiting for Ariel to finish answering, I naturally asked her a question about her magic.
But the answer that came back was…
“Fire attribute and wind attribute.”
It was also a short answer type.
This makes it clear.
‘It seems like you don’t want to talk about anything other than the student council.’
It was an expression of reluctance rather than dislike.
And at the same time, it also meant that they were still wary of me.
Thanks to Ariel’s short answer, I started to feel a little worried.
‘Hmm… I think I’ll have to walk for about 20 more minutes.’
If you lead the conversation to something related to the student council, you will be able to survive for about 20 minutes.
But now, this walk is the start of a date.
If you brush away all the hidden cards from the beginning, this date might end with just having breakfast.
‘I don’t know anything else, but I need to create a good atmosphere until I arrive at the first location…’
It was a moment I was so worried about.
[I found a good topic for conversation.]
‘Oh!’
Armonia started to give me advice.
However, after hearing Armonia’s advice, I tilted my head.
‘Suddenly… ?’
[I think it might be a good idea to give it a try. Above all, there is a temperament related to that.]
‘Uh… It’s true. Let’s give it a try.’
After looking curiously at her Ariel’s temperament window, I asked her carefully.
“Chairman, have you learned the brain attribute?”
“Huh? Brain attribute?”
Ariel, who had been giving vague answers until now, was filled with a variety of emotions in her short question.
There was a reason why I unexpectedly brought up the attribute of her brain and that she was surprised to hear that it was her brain attribute.
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This was because among Ariel’s magic attributes, the brain attribute had the highest level.
I was satisfied with her appearance and continued speaking.
“Yes. What can I say… “I think you are the best at dealing with brain properties.”
“Uh… Her… Haha…”
Ariel continued to show embarrassment, emptiness, and despair…
Haha… “I knew she had great skills, but I didn’t know she had this good of an eye.”
She smiled bitterly and began to laugh helplessly.
“You’re right. Until last year, I was learning brain attribute as the main attribute.”
“Ah…”
When I heard the words “Until last year,” I sighed.
That means Ariel was learning brain properties well until last year.
And I also found out why she couldn’t take the brain attribute class anymore.
“It’s because there are no classes.”
“… Yes.”
The only brain attribute professor at Shutra School.
It was because the professor died in an accident last year.
Ariel answered with a sad expression, and then she suddenly asked me with a puzzled expression.
“But how do you know that? “I thought first-graders wouldn’t know because it happened last year.”
I answered with a gloomy expression that matched her sadness.
“My appendage right now is brain attribute.”
“… “What?”
Ariel looked surprised by my story and suddenly started pouring out her words.
“The brain attribute class is gone, right? There is no professor to teach you, and more than anything… No, aren’t there just no classes? Could it be that another professor created a new brain attribute lecture for first-year students? ? But, I haven’t heard anything like that?”
Ariel, who usually listened calmly to other people’s stories, started asking me questions as if she was letting out her talkative nature that she had been holding back.
When I saw Ariel like that, I felt her sigh of relief.
‘Phew… Lived Armonia, thank you for the advice.’
[I’m glad it helped.]
‘Good. First, it piqued my interest. But if I give a rough answer here, it won’t last even 10 minutes.’
Thanks to Armonia, I found drawing paper.
Now all I have to do is draw a beautiful picture on that white drawing paper.
A picture so beautiful that it dazzled Ariel’s eyes…
“I’ll explain it to you one by one. After I entered school…”
I began to captivate Ariel’s ears by dramatizing a story that could have been ended with just one word, ‘Starting this year, I will be taking self-guided brain classes.’
.
.
My story didn’t end until I reached the downtown area.
When I arrived at the downtown area, I stopped talking and headed straight to the restaurant.
It was to have breakfast.
For reference, the restaurant was an ordinary restaurant that did not require reservations.
It was a decision made because we thought that, given Ariel’s tendency, being extravagant could actually be a point deduction factor.
And the decision was wise.
Ariel was rather satisfied with the atmosphere of the inexpensive restaurant.
But Ariel didn’t seem to care about her sense of smell or her desire to eat the food inside the restaurant.
“I heard about the Lightning Research Club back then… Now, tell me the next story quickly.”
I just begged for my next story to reach my ears.
Haha, I understand.”
I continued the story in line with Ariel’s earnest plea.
During the story, food was served, and while Ariel was eating, her eyes were on my mouth.
And the story didn’t end until all the food was eaten.
“Even a Shutra student would hate it if we were just hanging out at a table on the weekend, right?”
“Ah… Right. Let’s get out first. Calculation…”
“I did it. “Let’s go out.”
“Ah… “Yes.”
As I was leaving the restaurant, I spoke to Ariel in her joking tone.
“Can I ask the chairman for lunch?”
“Of course.”
At first glance, it was an act of clearing a debt, but in fact, it was a ploy to create a justification for going with the next meal.
Given Ariel’s personality, she would have hated it if she had been in debt at a high-end restaurant, but she didn’t seem to be very uncomfortable with being in debt at a place like this.
And as much as it’s not uncomfortable…
“Even though Professor Sonya said so… You ultimately chose to study on your own… ?”
She openly expressed her desire to hear my story.
“Yes.”
I nodded and naturally moved slowly.
And when Ariel moved, she stayed next to me and listened to my story as if it was natural.
But if there is a beginning, there is an end.
The story that made Ariel’s ears perk up finally reached its conclusion.
“The moment you worry that you might be taking a different attribute test because there is no professor to create the test for you…”
“…”
Gulp.
Ariel stared at me and swallowed her saliva, and I finished the story just in time.
“I was barely able to take the test because the dean personally gave it to me.”
“… The Dean… Directly… Test…”
I thought it became a famous anecdote because the dean himself came forward, but looking at Ariel’s reaction, it seemed like it was unexpectedly buried.
Ariel continued to look at me with a surprised expression.
The reason she was surprised was simpler than expected.
‘Now that I think about it… I don’t know if the dean and I are close friends other than the person who went with us to Levin’s trip.’
Although I occasionally went to the dean’s home, I never spoke to him openly within the Straw School.
Surely, if you visit the dean’s mansion often, rumors will spread…
‘No one would monitor the dean’s mansion unless he was crazy.’
Unless you have a hundred lives.
In other words, except for Luna, Louise, Sonya, and Karl, there is virtually no one in Stra who knows about the dean’s relationship with me.
While Ariel was looking at me with surprised eyes…
“Huh? What a smell…”
Ariel, who had been distracted by my story, came to his senses due to the terrible smell and began to look around him.
But Ariel, who was frowning at his smell…
“Uh… Here is…”
His expression immediately changed to a flushed expression, and at that moment, the sound of loud hooves was heard from far away.
And at the sound of those hooves, a bright smile appeared on Ariel’s face.
“Equestrian center?”
