## Chapter 266 – (17)
“Are you… really okay?”
“I told you I’m fine!”
Nella, looking somewhat glossy, thumped Barden on the back.
Her strength was something else.
It was just a light tap, but Barden’s back bent sharply.
“Ugh…”
“Ah, sorry… I have trouble controlling my strength.”
She was a renowned adventurer, even with her battered body.
Now that her condition had returned to normal, she was definitely different.
It felt like she had evolved from a cat beastkin to a tiger beastkin.
If I told Baran that, he’d get furious, saying there’s no hierarchy among beastkin.
Nella, who had willingly walked into the tiger’s den, slowly walked out with Barden.
As she did, she glanced back at me.
Her eyes were half-closed.
‘See you again.’
She mouthed those two words.
It was somehow eerie.
Her favorability towards me had increased, so it should be fine.
I felt satisfied, but also a little disappointed.
Barden was too upright.
I thought he might peek at least once.
If he had, things wouldn’t have ended so peacefully.
I would have been even more excited.
I didn’t expect him to wait anxiously behind the partition, even with all the loud noises.
Suppressing the remaining lust, I checked the quest window.
There was a reward.
“The quest was completed.”
The quest was completed by having a relationship with a beastkin.
Quest Board.
The level of the most important skill had increased, so I should check its function later.
Knock, knock.
“Huh?”
No one else was supposed to come today.
My massage appointments were empty, so I opened the door, puzzled.
“Ugh…”
As I opened the door, a familiar elf with long ears stood there.
“Rebecca, what brings you here…”
“…Sniff, sniff, what’s that smell…”
Ah.
I smiled awkwardly and waved my hand.
I was used to the smell because I was in that space.
But for Rebecca, it would be quite a stimulating scent.
The smell of sweat, fluids, and even massage oils from me and Nella.
All mixed together, creating a rather unique aroma.
“Haha… I was just doing a little massage…”
“…Haa.”
Rebecca’s lips twitched as if she wanted to say something.
But in the end, she just sighed and gave up.
“I… I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow’s class is an outdoor lesson. Meet at the entrance of the Magic Tower by 10 o’clock.”
“Oh…”
So they did outdoor lessons too.
I thought it was perfect timing.
Staying inside the Magic Tower all the time wasn’t good for my body.
I wanted to stretch my limbs and soak up the sun, so I nodded happily.
It’s not like I particularly enjoyed outdoor activities.
But being cooped up in the Magic Tower was starting to make me feel stiff.
The main activity for the outdoor lesson was monster hunting, apparently.
“Monster hunting?”
“Yes, I know you were in the Black Knights, so you might find it boring, but it’s a necessary class.”
A necessary class.
It was a different perception from the country where Ethan and I used to be.
There, they didn’t feel much of a sense of crisis about monsters.
And the perception of the Black Knights, who were in charge of those monsters, wasn’t great either.
Sniff, sniff.
Rebecca suddenly leaned in slowly, her face close to mine.
Toward my chest.
“Rebecca?”
“Ugh… Ah, it’s nothing. Well, good night…”
Rebecca quickly walked away, her long ears flushed red.
Outdoor activity, huh.
I was sure Rebecca had an outdoor exposure kink.
I thought something interesting might happen, and then I went to sleep.
***
“Long time no see.”
“Yeah.”
I was outside with Ethan from the next room for the first time in a while.
Today was a joint class with the Earth faction.
I hadn’t heard about it yesterday, but Rebecca’s faction had a small number of students, so they always had joint classes for outdoor lessons.
“How’s your faction?”
“Everyone’s nice. They’re all good to me, and the magic is simpler than I thought.”
Ethan smiled brightly and nodded.
Magic is simple, huh.
The protagonist was different after all.
I glanced around.
Near the entrance of the Magic Tower.
Many students in robes were under the shade of the trees, avoiding the sunlight.
Most of them were faces I’d never seen before.
They must be students from the Earth faction.
Later, familiar faces came down from the Magic Tower.
Camille, Kai, Baran with animal fur growing on his body, and a gloomy girl who was swaying.
“…They’re unique.”
Ethan looked at the students in Rebecca’s faction.
After some thought, he said it as if he was trying to compliment them.
They were unique.
“Too unique.”
“…Sir Seunghan is also…”
“Huh?”
“It’s nothing…”
Ethan smiled awkwardly and swallowed his words.
I parted ways with Ethan and headed towards our faction.
We all slowly gathered silently.
Then, we lined up in a row behind Rebecca, as if we were going on a picnic.
Rebecca nodded as she looked at us.
Then, a loud voice came from the side.
“Attendance number one!”
“Two!”
The students from the Earth faction stood in two lines and called out their attendance numbers.
Us?
We didn’t need that.
“Everyone’s here.”
Rebecca quickly identified and checked everyone at a glance.
That was enough.
There were only four of us.
While they were calling attendance next to us, we listened to the lesson for today.
Near the Magic Tower, there were various animals, herbs, and plants.
And monsters.
I wondered why there were such things near the Magic Tower.
But the order was reversed.
The Magic Tower was built in a place full of those things.
That way, it was easier to make potions or get materials needed for magic.
Today, we would be collecting materials and hunting monsters in that place.
Through the safest course.
“Hehehe!”
Kai laughed and clenched his fists.
I glanced at Camille, and she explained why Kai was acting like that.
“It seems like he was running out of materials to make medicine.”
“Ah.”
Kai’s magic.
The magic to make medicine required materials.
He seemed excited to collect materials and take the class.
Hearing Kai’s laughter, the women from the Earth faction who were checking attendance in the distance flinched and trembled.
They looked scared.
I’m sorry.
He’s nice.
Looking closely, it seemed like they were trembling even when they looked at me.
Honestly, I wasn’t nice.
“It seems like they’re almost ready.”
After they finished preparing, we started walking towards the forest behind the Magic Tower.
Rustle, rustle.
I guess there were a lot of animals and monsters in the forest.
Every time we walked, the bushes shook and something ran away.
“Ugh…”
“Kyaa!”
Every time that happened, small screams erupted from the timid students.
Of course, that was the Earth faction.
Our faction was different.
“Hehe, hey, it’s a herb paradise…”
“Kai, your speech is getting weird again.”
“Animal? Is that an animal?”
Sometimes he seemed like the most normal one.
But when he was like this…
For the record, the gloomy girl in our faction closed her eyes tightly and grabbed Rebecca’s robe as she walked.
She didn’t see anything, so she didn’t scream in any situation.
I was worried that the meaning of the class was fading.
But Rebecca didn’t say anything to her.
‘Come to think of it, she didn’t take the test alone back then either.’
Being in Rebecca’s faction must mean she had a special magic.
I was a little curious.
What kind of magic did she have?
This was when I needed Camille.
“Hey, that girl over there…”
“Clara, you mean?”
“Clara.”
Her name was unique.
“Do you know Clara’s magic?”
“Hmm… No? But I have a guess.”
The answer that she didn’t know was unexpected.
They had been in the same faction for quite a long time, so had she never seen her use magic?
Even though they had taken classes together several times?
First, I asked what she was guessing.
“Isn’t it black magic?”
“Black magic.”
Camille whispered cautiously.
Black magic was a magic that wizards basically hated.
If it was black magic, it made sense that she didn’t take the test or show her magic to the other students in the faction.
“Black magic, huh…”
But somehow, I didn’t think so.
I don’t know.
If she was capable of using black magic, I didn’t think she would be so scared of monsters.
“Well, this place should be good.”
Rebecca stopped.
We had arrived at a small lake.
Rebecca said that slimes and wolves often appeared here.
Slimes were beings that could be easily defeated even without using magic.
And wolves were a bit dangerous, but they could be defeated if you used magic.
“The two of you will be excused from the lesson to help the other students…”
And Ethan and I were excluded from this outdoor lesson.
We were veterans with dungeon experience.
“The experience from the Black Knights is helpful.”
“Yeah.”
We watched the students from behind, skipping the class.
I glanced at the students for a moment, but mostly looked at Rebecca.
She was pretending to be calm, but she must be itching to move around outside.
I was a little like that too.
‘I did have sex with Nella yesterday, but…’
It was a bit of an incomplete combustion.
The remaining lust was still boiling.
“…Hiccup!”
“Huh?”
Then I heard a voice from the side.
It wasn’t from Ethan’s side.
I looked towards the voice and saw Clara with a red face looking at me.
Her eyes were shaking tremendously.
“Ah, it’s nothing. I didn’t hear anything.”
“…Sigh, what is it?”
Something was strange.
She didn’t hear anything?
I hadn’t said anything.
Just in case, I thought about what happened last night.
‘I left my handprints on Nella’s ass, which had become a female.’
Slapping her ass loudly with Barden next to her was quite arousing.
“Hng, hng… Such…”
Suddenly, Clara’s cheeks turned red and she sat down.
“Could it be…”
I was a little more sure now.
Just now, Clara read my mind.
