Chapter 17 – Volume 4 – The Elf Who Dreams of Having an Affair With an Orc Is Still Frustrated Today (2)
“I’m bored, I’m bored, I’m bored…”
“Is Rosaria-sama still the same even after the semester ends?”
“Hyria, I’m so dissatisfied. Why don’t you let this damn academy go outside?”
The girl called Hyria soothed Rosaria with a smile, saying that there was nothing she could do about it because it was such a rule.
‘I know,’ said Rosalia, but her hand smacked the cushion on her bed, killing her anger.
It feels like it’s been years since I haven’t met Carly, but I can’t believe that the first semester hasn’t even ended yet.
This really makes no sense.
“Kwaaang! I want to see Kali, I want to hug Kali and do this and that with my cheeks!”
“By the way, I’ve been curious about this since before. Carly-sama and Rosaria-sama have very different family personalities, but they’ve been close since childhood. Was there a reason?”
“…Well? We’ve been very close with each other since we were young. I didn’t think it was particularly strange.”
Well, in general, there are many cases where magic families and swordsman families become friends separately.
Most of your parents must have attended the academy, but even though the magic department and the swordsmanship department are in the same academy, it doesn’t feel like they get along well because the classes are different, right?
There are many cases where students from the same department are tied together in the dormitory.
“Maybe there was a trigger? Seeing that my grandfather wasn’t particularly interested in it, it seemed like a connection between my parents’ generation.”
“It’s a bit envious to have someone you like. Ah, I thought you’d bump into a lot of guys when you came to the academy. The Ministry of Magic is full of girls…”
“Then why don’t we go to the swordsmanship club and find her? As for Hyria, her face is pretty, so I think there’s a possibility.”
“No, don’t even joke about it! I’m pretty!”
“It’s like that again. It’s not empty words. I always support the love that Huria will have as long as the other person is not Kali.”
“Miss Rosaria is really…”
The two of them, who had been lying on their beds for a while, looked at the clock without much thought.
I slowly realized that it was time to leave and started preparing to leave.
At any other time, Rosaria would have been very bubbly, but today it was Professor Rondo’s Fundamentals of Magic class, which she liked, so she was extremely agile.
“Rosaria-sama really likes Professor Rondo’s class. Is it because you’re an acquaintance?”
“It won’t have much to do with that? Professor Rondo tells us additional things that we might not know well, right? I like that, and I like talking about drawing on a regular basis.”
“There are many cases where I don’t understand most of Rosaria-sama’s additional information… Ah, but it’s good that you talk about the pictures. If you feel like you’re getting sleepy, you’ll have fun solving them right away.”
Every time I listened to the old professors explain in a sleepy voice.
Hyria made a fuss about her, saying that if you listen to Professor Rondo’s class, you can feel his will not to watch us fall asleep.
Rosalia nodded her head in agreement with that.
“That’s right. But at least the younger professors seem to be trying to imitate similarly…”
“Hello everyone. I’ve been out of the academy for the first time in a while, and I’m in a good mood. Do you want me to raise your medicine? Yes, it’s true that you’re bragging.”
As soon as the lecture started, everyone burst into laughter at the sight of Professor Rondo starting with a playful tone.
Of course, a few of her students, including Rosa Ria, were looking at her sincerely and envying her.
Professor Rondo took out something as if he had expected it.
“Do you remember why I left the academy?”
“You’re submitting a new work…”
“Yes, that’s right. Do you remember the other day when I told you how paintings in museums are changing these days?”
From the beginning, it was flowing with content that had nothing to do with the title of the lecture, ‘Basics of Magic’.
None of the students in the classroom cared about it.
Rather, most of them just looked at Professor Rondo curiously, wondering what it was.
“This is a secret I’m giving you guys. I decided not to give it to the other grades.”
Then he started handing out something to the students one by one.
The children who received one book-like package for each child suddenly felt chills from wanting to give them a book.
Is this a new textbook?
But like the packaging, it feels like a gift.
“Oh, please don’t open the outer packaging just yet. It will be fun to hear and see my story.”
Usually, when I was lecturing and I was sleepy, I would bring up a story about painting.
Today, everyone’s eyes twinkled, wondering if there was something special when they took it out as soon as the lecture started.
Professor Rondo once again explained about the painting with strong deformation that I had told you about last time.
“And the painting that was at the forefront of the trend was the painting called ‘Subaekhwa’. And I was inspired by it and drew a picture called ‘Baegwang’, and I put it on display this time.”
However, he laughed, saying that there was something he could not have imagined in the exhibition hall he visited.
Since she did not properly explain the situation, most of the students clamored for a quick explanation.
Londo smiled mischievously and said that he could now open the packaging of the book he had handed out.
“Uh…?”
What Rosaria saw as soon as she opened her package was the naked body of a girl with her white hair.
However, before I was concerned about being naked, I didn’t even feel ashamed because I was more concerned about other parts.
As well as surprisingly exaggerated features, on the contrary, despite the fact that there are many features of the human body that are boldly omitted, it does not feel awkward at all.
The style of painting that seemed to hit her head just as she was by selecting only her beauty that the artist himself wanted to say started to shock her greatly.
“What is this…”
“The cover of the book I’m giving you now is the painting called ‘Subaekhwa,’ which I highly praised.”
“You said you praised this painting that doesn’t even look like a person? It sure is pretty, but this isn’t a person…”
“At the point when you said it wasn’t human, didn’t you recognize that it was human?”
“Uh…?”
In fact, I was going to tell them to go and see it in person, but I suddenly heard that they were selling copies, so I bought them in bulk without realizing it.
Of course, even if that is the case, there is nothing for the upper graders who don’t listen well these days.
While everyone was confused by the painting style they were seeing for the first time, Professor Rondo continued the story while making such a joke.
It is also surprising that the admirable painting started selling as a copy, and even the follow-up work was on display.
Professor Rondo said that the sequel is the inside of the book, so look inside.
“…Black and white? Is it a real book? A picture!?”
The book, which I opened without much thought, was in black and white like a normal book.
However, there was one thing that was very different from a normal book, and that was that there were pictures with shading inside.
I’m sure a book would not be able to express the contrast…
“Contrast with a single color…?”
“Ah, this is dotted!”
“Yes, that’s right.”
If you take a closer look, you can see that the parts that were taken for granted to be gray are made of unusual patterns.
And it naturally feels that part as gray, as if expressing the texture of a certain brush or paint.
Every time you turn the page of the book, a natural black and white picture fills your eyes.
“How about the follow-up ‘Hwasin Advent’? Everyone’s expressions are similar to the first time I saw this. Are you embarrassed?”
“Gyo, professor, this… Has letters? Is this a novel? But there are more pictures than that…”
“It’s surprising. This is a type of painting we’ve never experienced before. Right now, the painting world is facing a series of cataclysms because of one artist named ‘Siwoo’.”
Do you remember the first day of my Magic Basics lecture?
Fundamentals, in fact, are not about learning to do something theoretically.
It is a lecture that helps you build a foundation to become a stable wizard by building your skills.
Did you say that?
“Yes, I remember.”
“The example I showed you this time was in the world of drawing. But similar things often happen in the world of magic.”
Right now, you can make a good mage if you do well with fashionable results, but if a cataclysm as powerful as this occurs, the results are useless.
But even so, the foundation of the name of the skill that you have built while learning magic does not disappear.
Therefore, the foundation of magic is to learn the ‘method’ to build the foundation of one’s skills.
“Still, don’t believe in your narrow knowledge of magic skills, and focus on building your skills by following the method I lectured on. That’s all.”
And for the rest of the day, I proceeded to draw my own character sketch following the painting style of ‘Subaekhwa’.
Since it is a style of painting that I have never seen before, I literally have to learn it from scratch with basic skills in drawing.
Through this, they aimed to find out how much they had neglected ‘drawing’, one of the basics of magic.
“Rosaria-sama? That’s…?”
“Oh, isn’t it strange? It’s still not coming out the way I want it to. I think I need to do a little more.”
“Aren’t you missing too much?”
“For some reason, I thought it might be possible to go this far.”
The sketch that was being created at Rosaria’s fingertips, strangely, had a figure with a 2.5 head-to-body ratio.
