Chapter 13 – I Think My Juniors Will Be Bullied
Come to think of it, there was something I didn’t talk about.
About why I had to meet my junior at the academy.
6th week of the new semester.
The academy started conducting liberal arts classes this week.
My junior and I coincidentally chose the same liberal arts.
An introductory lecture on alchemy, why don’t we meet on the way?
At the end of an accidental talk during dinner…
I had to go through such humiliation at the meeting square.
Somehow, by chance, I got to the lecture hall in a straight line across the plaza, and people stared at me so much.
If the gaze had physical force, my face would already be worn and worn.
Even now, the students in the classroom, that is to say, the students sitting in their seats to listen to the introduction to alchemy, are looking at me and my juniors as if they were spectacles,
I became very shy.
“Hey, I don’t have to worry about getting lost, so please take your hand off…”
At those words, the firm hand that had been holding me up until now simply left.
Just like the last time I made a mistake, I was very careful not to show regret.
I feel like I wasted a bit of time with the incident at the plaza,
Even though I had plenty of time when I started, it was time for the lecture to start soon.
I tend to prefer a seat in the back, as far away from people and professors as possible, so I went for it.
But I felt that my juniors were following me, so I asked.
“Why are you following me?”
“Yes?”
“You have to sit in the front to listen to the class properly.”
“A senior.”
“It’s okay because I already know everything.”
I was a student at the Faculty of Alchemy, with alchemy as my major.
It’s been a long time since I’ve taken an introductory class, and if it wasn’t for the professor’s earnest request, I wouldn’t have even listened to this lecture.
But the case of my juniors was different.
I must have applied for the alchemy lecture with my own interest,
Sitting in the back with me, it’s as if I’m interfering with his studies.
The junior colleague had a slightly dismayed face.
“We came all the way here together…”
“Coming together means coming, and studying is studying.”
“…”
I don’t know if it’s for other subjects, but I’m serious about alchemy.
Then the junior became very sullen, not suitable for his big size.
“Your senior will tell you anyway, right?”
“I can’t use it, if you think like that.”
“Still.”
“Do you know how great the professor in charge of this introduction is? He is a well-known figure in alchemy circles. He’s a very famous person, so if I don’t take this opportunity properly, I’m sure you’ll regret it.”
“Senior, your eyes twinkle again. It’s nonsense.”
“Don’t change the subject…”
But in the end, I couldn’t break my junior’s stubbornness.
Because, um, I’m not good at saying no…
I really want to sit next to you, but can’t I? It was because I couldn’t ignore the request of my junior who said so earnestly.
It was also something that I didn’t feel like interfering with anymore.
In the end, sitting side by side,
The professor came in.
And the moment the professor came in, some of the female students made a sound of admiration.
Why are there so many good-looking people in the academy? I really don’t know.
I tuk-tuk, hit my junior with my forearm and talked.
“Isn’t the professor very cool?”
“Yes?”
“It’s kind of strange that you have a face like that even though you’re over 40. Normally, it doesn’t seem like you’re taking care of it at all.”
“… Do you usually see each other?”
“Ah. Somehow, um, there are a lot of times when I see you up close.”
“…”
And attendance started.
The professor, who called out all the students by name one by one,
He smiled contentedly when I called my name and when I answered and confirmed my presence.
A few discerning students seemed to notice the difference.
I’m not the kind of person who puts out a tee like this in the first place.
Something felt burdensome, and I wondered if I wouldn’t have come if I had known this was going to happen…
That solemn person begged me so earnestly to please, please, listen to his introductory lecture, and I couldn’t help but come.
Anyway, that’s how the lecture started.
Nice to meet you, professor. Starting with a simple greeting, he revealed his name and went straight to the main topic without hesitation.
“First of all, we will learn about the definition of alchemy, what is alchemy. Students there.”
“Yes, yes?”
“What do you think alchemy is?”
“… Isn’t that the study of turning something else into gold?”
“You’re right.”
“Whew…”
“Then why gold? Not silver, not copper or lead.”
“Gold is expensive.”
“I’m sure there are plenty of more valuable metals.”
“Maybe it’s because they’re harder to make than gold?”
“Unfortunately, you are wrong.”
The professor’s lectures were always exciting to listen to, but there was a heavy feeling to listen to them with light culture.
He always explains the most fundamental things first.
“Does anyone know why alchemy is called the study of making alchemy or gold?”
“…”
“…”
“…”
“… That’s because gold is the perfect metal. It may be a little questionable, but at least the founder of alchemy, who tried to change metals and substances into something else, succeeded, and named the practice alchemy, thought so.”
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The introductory alchemy lecture was two hours in total.
After an hour had passed since the lecture started, Professor Carl gave me a break of about 10 minutes.
I was worried about my junior, who had a somewhat hardened expression as if he didn’t like something, so I tried to talk to him.
But there was someone faster than me.
“Ian!”
When four female students rushed to me and called my junior by name, I had no choice but to sneak back, swallowing my fear even though I wasn’t being called.
Even though it’s a little sluggish for what came rushing in like that,
The one who spoke to the junior was the one who seemed to be the representative.
“Ian. Do you have time in the evening?”
“No.”
“They say you don’t have it every day.”
“Not really.”
“We were supposed to meet today, but won’t you come?”
“I’m not going.”
“You didn’t even come to the welcome party. You have to show your face once in a while.”
“Even if you don’t go.”
I don’t know if I’m mistaken or not,
Unlike when my juniors usually treat me, I was a bit harsh.
I thought that these kids might be a bit distasteful to juniors.
Why?
It’s so pretty.
As I was watching, my eyes met with the girl I was talking to with my juniors.
It felt a bit pitiful to see his slightly ferocious eyes sunk sullenly under the iron wall of his juniors.
This is a slightly different story, but I was very weak to pretty girls.
Is it because I have memories of my previous life?
Or is it because I long for such pretty looks?
I don’t know why, but I was sure it was weak.
I unknowingly messed around.
“How about going?”
“… Senior?”
“Ah.”
It was only after I had already poured out the words that I realized that I had been meddling.
I thought it wasn’t a little bit for me to decide the behavior of my juniors just because I felt sorry for the girl, but I already spilled it.
In my mind, ah, I don’t think this is. Is it because I’m thinking
The only things that came out of my mouth were trivial words.
“… Friends, it would be nice to make many friends.”
“There are already many.”
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have more? Hey, this is rude to say, but they’re all pretty… ?”
“What does that have to do with it? Rather, we want to go out for a drink.”
“Yes. Drink, that’s good I’m an adult, so I can drink as much as I want… I like it too.”
“… You can’t even cook dinner?”
“I can’t use seniors if they treat them like children…”
I felt a little subtle because he said that he would starve if he didn’t prepare food for me.
“It must be difficult to study every day. Mood change… Shouldn’t you?”
“You can’t do it.”
“Write. It’s in front of me, uhm, you don’t have to take it off like that.”
“Ha…”
Because I happen to
In an instant, I became on the side of the girls.
It might have been because the girl who was representing earlier, the prettiest girl among the girls, was crying, please help me just once, because she was asking please.
I also had a personality that was hard to refuse when asked,
Senior is cool And the fact that the girls were looking at me with their bright eyes made me feel good…
“What if I keep taking it out like that and end up being bullied?”
“… Experiences?”
“… Are you scolded… ?”
“No, um. Ah. It was a mistake. Sorry.”
“Anyway, don’t regret later, go. If I don’t get along with her friends now, I’m sure I’ll get lonely.”
“A senior.”
“To? Me?”
“I hear you suffer from loneliness.”
“Ha, it’s okay for about a day.”
“Really?”
“Of course… ?”
I feel very lonely.
My junior muttered like that.
What does he see me as… It is also true to say that it is a story of experience.
I wondered if I had looked down on him that much, and I involuntarily became a little hot-tempered.
“That much, yea, I can solve it as much as I want.”
“How?”
“…”
“Can’t you?”
“… No? Can you?”
“How?”
The junior seemed to not like this situation very much.
The junior who was so kind, now has something sharp to say.
I don’t know if I’ve done something wrong, I’m so embarrassed,
Like a habit, I spit out anything.
“Me, with my boyfriend, hanging out… ?”
“Yes?”
According to my words, the juniors hardened as if they had been struck by lightning in the dry sky.
The girls, who were watching our conversation with delicate eyes, became bright as if they were very relieved.
Even though I didn’t know what it was, I continued to say it, thinking that I should finish what I said.
“I’m not lonely at all… If you ever get lonely and cold, your boyfriend… Rang, kokok, because you can do it.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Because I can do it… ?”
“No, before that.”
“I’m not lonely at all… ?”
“… I am doing it on purpose.”
“To?”
I had to tilt my head, not knowing what the junior’s words meant.
The junior looks very angry or a little depressed… ? He was trying to say something to me with a face that I couldn’t understand at all.
“Okay, enough rest. Everyone, please be quiet and have a seat. Let the lecture begin.”
Ah, while we were talking, the break time must have already ended.
I put my index finger to the corner of my mouth shhh, as if to stop my junior from speaking.
Small talk is forbidden during the golden lecture.
And throughout the course,
My juniors shot me a lot.
