Chapter 23 – 023 Upcoming Admissions
Hmm…
“Scared.”
Flinch.
For some reason, she felt Lily’s body shrink in my arms, but she continued her words with the feeling that it wouldn’t be a big deal.
“I’m so scared when I think that they can kill me, even though I think they’re not such children.”
Three times.
No, I don’t want to die twice, me too.
The thing I hate most in the world is dying, and the second thing I hate is betraying myself.
If someone asks me if I don’t hate dying, well.
I actually looked it up and know all too well how fucked up it is, so the density might be a bit different.
But in fact, Lia and Mimi are a little different.
“But more than that, I’m most afraid of the slightest possibility that they could destroy the slave seal themselves and betray me. I’ve grown to love them so much.”
Just imagining that possibility makes me nauseous and terrifying enough to make me dizzy.
I think I heard somewhere that you have to know hope in order to know despair, and that statement really resonates with me.
Let’s just say you really had a mind to kill me. Those two are
Then it was clear that I would really get a heartache that I couldn’t recover from.
Wouldn’t it be enough to cut ties with everything in the world and live in a mountain?
I’m glad that Lily and I are living happily together now.
“…But didn’t you say that they would not betray you?”
“That it might be is what matters.”
Who would have thought that a car that was running fine would suddenly break down and end up in a car accident?
Even my car was an electric car, so it caught fire quickly and I was burned alive.
Oh oh oh onna it really hurts.
With the vocabulary I have, I cannot express the pain of that time.
After all, when I opened my eyes again in this world, I was still standing in the middle of the street with the fuse blown in my head because the pain lingered even though I was no longer on fire.
Then, after being hit on the shoulder, I barely came to my senses from the pain I felt in my palm, so I said everything.
Bastards who were said to have burned people to death in a witch hunt long ago should be burned in a real hell for the rest of their lives.
But do you know that
That something funnier happened to me than that ridiculous car breakdown.
Whether reincarnated in another world or possessed, whatever.
Having gone through something like this, how do you just accept the words that you are so scared of such a small possibility?
If you ask me if I’m sick.
‘Huh. I’m just going to be an asshole.’
In a famous drama, to comfort my older brother who is undergoing heart surgery, he told me not to worry because the chance of surgery failure is only 3%.
The odds of getting heart disease as a child are less than 2%.
That’s why the line that the 3rd pro said was too scary now touches me very well.
Because of that, Lia, who had the power to destroy the seal, and Mimi, who would have it, were so afraid.
Now… Well I’m not sure.
‘Actually, I still want to believe it, but.’
I’m not sure. Even if I thought so, I really lack the courage to go see them.
I don’t want to die again, and that betrayal when I first fell here.
I don’t want to go through that again.
How much more could those two damn things be given to me by the people I love?
‘I can’t stand that.’
Really.
Really if.
What if you get hurt like that and open your eyes somewhere with a new body?
I’ve already experienced a different world trip once, where’s the guarantee that it won’t happen again?
Then, how should I deal with the despair I felt at that time?
Kwak.
“Master…”
“Oh sorry.”
Unknowingly, the hand that was touching my chest was full of strength.
Feeling sorry, he stroked Lily’s face once and kissed her lightly.
“I am a coward. I don’t have the courage to face each other and confidently break through, so I’ll be content with just living like this.”
“I-I!”
“Huh?”
“Because I will never leave… I will always be by your side.”
Oh my gosh, how can our Lily choose only pretty voices like this?
It was so lovely that I gave it a hug and then turned around so that Lily was sitting on top of me.
Is it the sound of my heart? Or is it Lily’s heartbeat?
Through her attached chest, the pounding of either heart was transmitted to our bodies.
“Let’s sleep like this today.”
Since most of her body was covered with lily, she felt mentally stable.
Huh. It’s an attachment doll that you cuddle with when you’re fully asleep.
“Yes…”
I fell asleep while cooling my heated body through Lily’s slightly cool body.
***
“That’s the city where the academy is located.”
“Huh. Can you see it!”
Fully recovered, Gloria and Mimi ran toward something visible at the edge of the horizon with their backs to the rising sun.
***
Professor Macal Bedrich.
As a history professor, he is not a great person to be called the best in academia, but he is a professor who is quite famous.
In particular, his thesis, which focuses on folk beliefs, is always watched by the academic world.
As it mainly deals with folk beliefs, the thesis itself does not always end with a hypothesis, but it is evaluated that his thesis is reliable in its own way, or at least his argument is always worth considering because he shows a fairly outstanding appearance in data collection and interpretation. Is being accepted
In particular, in the case of ‘Eastern Tribal Union: Their Values in the Relationship with Suman’, which he published last year, it was cited by many scholars as a reference for papers related to the Eastern Tribal Union, and it can be said that Professor McCall’s awareness in the field is quite prominent. You will be able to.
“Finally finished!”
Professor Mackal was currently teaching history at the academy, but there was only one reason why he came to the academy.
It was good to be at the academy in order to easily obtain data on a topic that I had been researching for a long time. It was just for one reason.
And finally, Professor McCall had just finished writing a thesis that contained all his efforts, sincerity, and aspirations.
Of course, he would have to go through a couple more edits to see if there was anything he missed, but he was sure.
That this thesis would be the best work of his entire scholarly career.
[Relationship between pink hair folk belief and Lilith]
At the top of the thesis written by him, the above letters were written in a beautiful handwriting.
“Okay! There is no such thing as an effect without a cause.”
A very simple folk belief that pink hair spread across the continent is a symbol of bad luck.
As it is a simple folk belief, the oral tradition that created such a folk belief also had to have an unknown number of roots.
It is a folk belief whose origins are unknown except for a one-sentence texture that strangely says, “Pink hair is a symbol of bad luck.”
Professor McCall had doubts there.
At the very least, if there is a human-sized rock at the entrance of a village with less than a hundred households, it is bound to be passed on to it, but there was no pink-haired folk belief floating around.
No, rather, the reasons were different for each region due to the moderate heating, and there was little value as a data because it was vague.
Of course, these facts are quite useful if you want to consider the perspective of looking at regional misfortune that can be seen as pink hair folk belief.
However, since Professor McCall wants to know the origin of the pink-haired folk belief, the content is just outside the point of the current research.
Therefore, Professor McCall had two hypotheses.
The first hypothesis is that someone is deliberately omitting and hiding information about the origin of folk beliefs.
However, if they tried to hide it, it seemed more reasonable to just try to hide the whole pink-haired story, so the claim was relegated to second place.
So the second hypothesis I thought of.
“When it’s hard to even guess why.”
Professor Mackal thought that information about the source was rather lost because no one even suspected it.
He asserted that he would not have come this far if he had not accidentally seen a document about Lilith that briefly appeared in the Old Books he had read in the Imperial Imperial Library.
It may have been one of the trivial traditions seen by others, but I started to question it from then on.
“Once this paper is published in the world, everyone will know now.”
The journey to find the intersection of data collection that seemed to drift as if swept away in the open sea and the intersection of data that was sloppy enough to remind you of conspiracy theories in the beginning, but now draws a blueprint as a valid montage, is the end of his pen today. I did.
“The reason why pink hair is a symbol of bad luck is because of the hair color that only Lilith has.”
It is not unlucky to have pink hair or to see it.
Since Lilith, the incarnation of uncleanness, has pink hair, pink hair has become a symbol of bad luck.
Thinking that the perceptions of people on all continents would be changed by just one person, a thrill ran down Professor McCalle’s spine and spread throughout his body.
‘I will continue to be a scholar in this taste.’
He had no doubt that as of today, he would become a full-fledged Professor Mackal, completely freed from the surname Bedrich.
“This. Has the time already been like this?”
He had been writing all night excitedly as the journey over the vast horizon had finally changed to a journey where he could see the destination within visual distance, and he realized that the first class of the semester was almost over.
Since it is the first class anyway, we are going to deal with only the main stems of the continent’s history, so there is nothing to prepare, so there is nothing urgent because we just need to move our bodies.
‘It would be okay to think a little more about how to say the conclusion.’
Professor McCall, who was tidying up his clothes while wearing a coat that he had casually draped on the sofa, decided to think about what kind of rhetoric he would use to express his conclusions in a luxurious and gorgeous way during class.
But he didn’t know.
The destination beyond the horizon is sometimes a phenomenon called a mirage, and that everything can become an illusion.
Also.
That Professor Mackal wasn’t the only person who found out about the conclusions Professor Mackal had reached.
