Chapter 1047 – (Side Story)25. A Witch’s First Love (22)
The next morning.
Illyana immediately went to Aden as she said the day before.
As soon as she saw her student entering her lab, Aden couldn’t help but ask.
“Where on earth and what have you been doing?”
“… “Didn’t you look at the evaluations I submitted?”
“I saw it. That’s why I’m asking.”
“Just what… A little bit of this and that here and there…”
“Ha, this isn’t something that can be overlooked if you explain it in such a detailed way.”
Illyana frowned slightly.
“I did not commit fraud.”
“Embrace. Because I know very well that you are not that type of child.”
“… Then?”
“I’m fine, but the others won’t be able to get away with it.”
“…”
There is no way it will pass quietly and smoothly.
In particular, Aden was certain that there would be at least one person who would bite her tail and find fault with her.
“The materials of the demonic beasts you brought. “You didn’t collect them all yourself.”
“… That’s right.”
The part that Aden points out is not the result of submitting the evaluation.
It was about the process she went through to get that result.
“It’s going to hang around that part. She said, ‘If you didn’t collect it, can you really acknowledge it as an achievement?'”
All the materials of the demonic beasts that Illyana submitted for evaluation were neat and easy to preserve, as if they had gone through the skill of a veteran adventurer.
Other evaluators would also agree that it is not at a level that a rookie wizard who is new to subjugation can do.
Even Illyana herself agreed with this.
Eunhyeon took the lead in all material collection after the subjugation of the demon beast, and Illyana only assisted by her side and could not be said to have contributed much in this area.
“They could have hired a professional adventurer who is good at collecting materials and taken them with them.”
“Hmm.”
Aden glanced at Zeze’s face, who immediately refuted it.
“Why?”
“You sound like a third party. It’s not that you did it this way, it’s the assumption that you could have done it this way.”
She even countered right away, as if she had prepared it.
Her student is clearly a smart and brilliant child, but that only applies to the field of magic she has been studying.
Other than that, I was like a child who had no idea about the world.
Illyana responded to her own concerns as if she had prepared herself.
Aden immediately grasped the situation.
This is not Illyana’s opinion, but the opinion of someone who has been working with her student for the past few months.
“Who are you? “Did he say that to you?”
Illyana’s shoulders trembled as if she had hit the nail on the head.
She opened her eyes wide like a startled cat and looked at Aden for a moment, but then she slowly turned her head and avoided Aden’s gaze.
“… “I’m just an adventurer.”
“What? Adventurer?”
“Yes.”
“… No. “Wait a minute.”
Arden paused her question for a moment, lost in her thoughts.
I thought carefully about the words of her student, Illyana.
Not adventurers. The word adventurer means one person, not several.
It may be that one of the adventurer party gave her opinion, but Illyana’s attitude is somewhat strange.
“You can’t believe it… “Did it take just one adventurer and two to subdue so many demonic beasts?”
“Yes.”
Aden became furious after hearing Illyana’s answer.
“You’re crazy!”
“Eww… !”
Illyana frowned at her deafening roar.
“If something had happened, what would I have done!”
“… It was okay. “I went because I thought it was possible.”
“Why do you judge that the way you want! How dangerous those demonic beasts are!”
“…”
It’s a natural reaction.
The magical beasts that Illyana brought are monsters that even most veteran adventurers can barely subdue if they form a party and deal with them strategically.
It is a fact that even Illyana cannot deny that subduing not one, not two, but dozens of such demonic beasts was a dangerous act that could have cost her ten lives.
Illyana knew very well that the reason Aden was so angry was because she was worried about herself, her student.
She thought it was possible, so she did.
She knows how arrogant and idiotic that statement may sound from someone else’s point of view.
But even so, there was not a single lie mixed in with those words.
She had Eunhyeon, and she was gradually adapting to the magic power of Permanent Seol and rapidly developing her magician abilities.
She was able to defeat them quickly using Eunhyeon’s strategy, which she had used against numerous demon beasts, so she was confident that she would definitely succeed.
Of course, even if you are a teacher, it would be close to impossible to convince others of this.
“You’re a crazy adventurer. How could you do such a crazy thing… I’ll go to the adventurer’s guild right away and complain…”
“He, he did nothing wrong!”
“What?”
Arden looked surprised at his student’s sudden defense.
Rather than feeling disappointed or betrayed that her student had sided with an adventurer she didn’t know anything about, Illyana was embarrassed by the very act of trying to defend someone.
Who is Illyana?
With her blessed talent for magic, she was more arrogant than anyone else and had no idea how to think about others.
Even though he thought to himself that this was nonsense, it was quite embarrassing to see him so anxious and desperate that he might cause even the slightest harm to ‘that adventurer’.
“Hmm, hmm.”
Arden cleared her throat, shook off her embarrassment, and calmed her mind.
“Are you a man?”
“Yes?”
“An adventurer who worked with you. “I asked if he was a man.”
“So?”
“… Write it.”
Aden thought to himself.
Many thoughts passed through my head.
However, when she was a young girl, she was taken in and raised as if she were a daughter, but this student lived with a man for several months.
It often happens that a young adventurer and a man meet each other and develop a special relationship, but he never thought he would become his disciple.
“Did you two sleep together?”
“W-what are you talking about!”
Illyana blushed and screamed.
She was no longer a child either, so she understood right away that Arden’s question wasn’t just about whether they slept together in the same room.
“… That’s not true. Hmm.”
Arden thought more deeply about her and opened his mouth again a few seconds later.
“Make an appointment with that guy later.”
“Why is that?”
“I have to see in person what kind of guy he is.”
“Do we really have to do that?”
“Okay.”
Illyana had an uneasy expression on her face, worried that she might accidentally scratch it and cause a pimple, but Aden’s expression was just as firm.
“This is what I must do as your teacher or parent.”
“… Okay.”
After saying this, even Illyana could no longer stop her.
No matter how arrogant she was and how incapable of thinking about anything but herself, it was natural for Illyana to be polite and polite to the teacher who took her in and taught her magic from a young age.
“So? “Whatever he says?”
Perhaps the adventurer had warned Illyana about her future situation and advised her to prepare.
“He…”
Illyana obediently told Eunhyeon’s story in response to Aden’s questions.
After hearing all of Eunhyeon’s stories, Aden burst into laughter.
“Haha! “He’s such a thing!”
“Will he really do what he says? It’s a human thing…”
“Well, that’s fine. At least you seem to have completely believed and acted on what he said as if you were your boyfriend.”
I guess it’s because I’ve heard everything about her since she was in the snowy mountain.
As Aden consoled and comforted Illyana, which she herself could not do, she became more and more curious about the man named Eunhyeon, who treated her like his own subordinate.
“Who, who is your boyfriend! With him, I just…”
“Just?”
“Just, just…” . I’m a colleague! Colleague!”
“Kkkk.”
Arden burst out laughing at his student’s unexpected upheaval.
The arrogant attitude that made the students of the same Magic Tower look pitiful has disappeared, and there is no longer a girl with completely fresh love.
What on earth is this guy doing?
Strategy strategies and experience dealing with countless magical beasts.
The incredible amount of magical knowledge he possesses despite not being a wizard.
But what was more amazing than that was the way he captured the heart of an extremely arrogant disciple in just a few months.
“Uh, anyway… That’s what he said, but I doubt that’s really the case. He doesn’t know anything about magic tower wizards. “I said I’ve never even met the people of the Magic Tower, let alone talked to them.”
“I guess so. But still. The wizards in this magic tower are also people. At least that adventurous young man seems to have had a lot of experience being run over by many people. “I understand very well what it means to be human.”
Before I knew it, Eunhyeon’s title as an adventurer young man from Aden contained a bit of goodwill.
“…”
Illyana couldn’t deny it.
There were times when Gada Eunhyun could accurately guess her thoughts and intentions without her having to express them in words or actions.
Just like Aden, who has been taking care of him for a long time.
Even though the age difference was not that big, she treated her like a child and showed consideration beyond her years.
That was the Eunhyun that Illyana saw.
She is strangely dependable and dependable, and she relies on that consideration over and over again.
She understands people very well.
She thought she might be just like she said.
“It seems that the young adventurer named Eunhyeon accurately understands the situation inside the Magic Tower based on the fragmentary information he heard from you. “Hehe.”
“… Is that really possible?”
“Isn’t that actually true? And the more obvious their intentions and greed are, the easier it is to predict their actions.”
And as if to prove it, the situation came quickly.
Knock
“Aden! We’re in big trouble!”
As soon as I knocked, before I could say anything, the lab door opened and Aden’s assistant came into the room.
Even though he knew that he was receiving a report from a student who returned from an external evaluation after several months, the assistant couldn’t help but feel anxious due to the circumstances.
Above all, this was also related to Illyana.
“Several students began to post complaints to the evaluation committee after seeing the external evaluation grade list!”
Aden was also an evaluator who graded students’ evaluations, and this was a task that could not be easily overlooked.
But Arden was calm, as if she had expected it.
No. She had already expected that there would be some nitpicking.
And the adventurer’s advice was added as if to instill confidence in her predictions.
“Of course the protest is about Illyana’s score, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Rather, when he guessed right away, the assistant was puzzled as to how he knew.
I continued the story in detail, carefully observing Illyana’s feelings.
“Starting with the fact that the difference in scores between first and second place was too large, suspicions were raised that Illyana may have manipulated the scores through fraudulent means.”
Haha!”
“Ah, Lord Arden… ?”
A situation in which suspicions of dishonesty and corruption against a student broke out.
But still, Aden burst out laughing.
Even the person in question, Illyana, just stiffened her expression. Normally, she would have shown strong anger and swore, but she was strangely calm.
Only the assistant was embarrassed by the incomprehensible situation in the room.
Eventually, Aden stopped laughing and spoke to Illyana.
“Look at that. “Didn’t it turn out just as the young adventurer said?”
“…”
Illyana sighed softly.
