Episode 147: An angel meets a junior (4)
“What on earth is that?”
“Like a guy with no roots, he does something baseless… … .”
A white boy who lifts up students with a warm glow. Looking at the boy like that, the teaching assistants were filled with bewilderment and said one thing at a time.
“How dare you invade the Department of Magic’s event… … .”
“If you think about it, it was. “Wouldn’t you like to get the dirty warlock out of the dormitory of the Department of Magic?”
“You are interfering with the entrance exam as a student.”
The teaching assistants were busy criticizing the boy, ignoring the fact that they had saved students who were almost victims of the test.
And their superior, Professor Klein, was also busy recalling memories of a mana dive he once experienced.
The days when I participated in the UN’s wizard training program as the young son of the murdered tower owner and the representative of the refuged magic tower.
Memories of those days,
It struck Klein in the head.
‘I thought I’d forgotten it by now.’
Klein still did not realize that the thought of forgetting was itself a contradiction.
‘Now it’s all… … .’
In the early days when mana was discovered on Earth and superhumans began to awaken, there were many projects at the United Nations to research magic, one of the advanced technologies of the other world.
One of them is the wizard training plan, which involves using the knowledge of the other world to develop wizards on Earth.
The Magic Tower and its disciples, who had abandoned the world fallen by the Demon King and were seeking refuge, had no choice but to obey the orders of the now-defunct United Nations.
This is how the wizard training plan was accomplished.
Mentors are made up of high-ranking executives from the Magic Tower, and mentees are made up of Earth children who show talent for magic. The mentor teaches and guides the mentee and develops him or her into a magician. And by leaving a video of that, the Earth also gains the technology to raise wizards.
A simple diagram that is not difficult.
And it was a simple deal.
In this way, Klein, who became a mentor as the son of Matapju, Kansas, USA, met children selected by the UN as mentees.
‘Most of the children were orphans. Or was it a boy head of the household?’
Scholars from the Magic Tower warned UN officials. Raising a superhuman requires a lot of sacrifice.
It is said that trials make a superman, so if you cannot withstand trials, death is a common occurrence.
How did the UN officials react when they heard that? Now I can’t remember the expression on his face. What I remember is how they were embarrassed and erased the names of their own children and the children of high-ranking people. That’s the only thing I remember clearly.
When Klein met his first students, he realized that most of them were similar in age to him, so he wore a monocle to avoid looking down on them.
It was my father’s keepsake.
“Ahaha, what is that monocle? “It doesn’t suit me!”
“W-what?”
And a boy there laughed at it. A playful expression, dark skin, and gray hair. And blue eyes sparkling with curiosity.
While everyone was dragged away by adults and crying, only the boy was smiling.
“A young person like you is a mentor? “It’s fun.”
“That’s a rude tone to your teacher. “I will discipline you.”
Klein didn’t like that.
And so the wizard training plan began.
Magic Tower and his people needed refuge. In order to obtain refuge, Klein and the professors at the Magic Tower had to show quick results, and in order to show quick results, they had to undergo somewhat harsh training.
This means that the safety of the children selected by the UN was not a matter of much consideration.
Even if children become addicted to magic, the magic circle is distorted and an accident occurs, and the mana heart collapses and disappears into dust from the tip of the body… … .
The magic tower did not stop growing.
‘I couldn’t help it.’
Because there were things in this world that could not be helped.
So, when I think about that time, there were many unknown things. Why did the boy not lose his smile even in such harsh circumstances? Why did that boy always approach me so warmly?
Even though he was making the training so difficult, why did the boy approach to share snacks without the other professors knowing?
Even Klein, who is said to be the genius of the Magic Tower century, has yet to come up with an answer to that foolish act.
Just thinking about that time… … .
‘I was young, I didn’t have any friends my age.’
I always had to be formal, act like an adult, and do everything I eat and sleep to show off as the next owner of the Magic Tower.
“That’s right. As a future tower owner… … .”
“You sound like a tower owner again. A tower owner is nothing more than a building owner? “These days, there are so many buildings that fail because tenants don’t come in.”
“Wow, the Magic Tower is just like that… Don’t compare it to buildings for worldly profit! “Don’t ignore the Magic Tower!”
“Ahaha, there is no way I would ignore the future building owner. “This is a world where the owner of the building is above the creator.”
But when she was with that boy, she felt younger too.
The intense snacks the boy secretly brought with him were more delicious than the simple food he always ate with professors.
Rather than discussing magic with the professors at the Magic Tower, the stories the boy told me about games and novels were much more interesting.
Perhaps Klein,
I think I enjoyed that time.
“Hmm, after this week, I think about half of them will fully awaken their mana sense.”
“then… When you have just awakened your sense of mana, you need to give a strong shock to develop magic resistance… … .”
“I guess I should prepare for mana diving.”
Mana dive. A traditional training method from the Magic Tower that submerges practitioners in high-density mana to develop their mana sensitivity and magic resistance.
“But that is so dangerous that it has been banned ever since… … .”
Although it is highly effective, it is a very dangerous training method, so the previous magic tower lord banned mana diving.
“Your predecessor is no longer with you.”
“If we had given Mana Diving to the top disciples of the Magic Tower, we might not have been defeated so vainly.”
“You can’t repeat the same mistake. “Now this world has become one where nothing can be gained without sacrifice.”
“so.”
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“I can’t help it.”
However, the thoughts of the Magic Tower professors were firm. Young Klein couldn’t stop it.
The deep, deep diving pool was filled with liquefied, high-density mana, and the children hesitated and waited for orders from their mentors.
The boy was smiling even then. I think Klein also secretly smiled when he saw that smile.
“Then, today we will begin training, mana diving.”
I think it was probably like that.
* * *
The training so far has been like that.
The professor demonstrates first. Afterwards, the mentees follow the demonstration given by the professor.
However, regarding mana diving,
I couldn’t show such a demonstration.
It was a very dangerous test, and it was a training that no one except older professors had ever done before.
“So, are you saying that we will proceed without a demonstration this time?”
“That’s right.”
“There are already many practitioners who are hesitant about training, but if we don’t even demonstrate… … .”
“but… … .”
When the professors, who were always talkative, stopped talking, young Klein looked at them and confidently shouted.
“Let me demonstrate.”
“Small pagoda lord!”
Klein had a plan. He is a magical genius so great that he is called the greatest genius in the Magic Tower, so there is a high possibility that he will pass safely.
And he is the owner of Sotap. If it is a mana dive that the small tower owner will personally demonstrate, they will not make it really harsh.
If so, it will also help the mentees survive.
Klein thought so,
I rejected everything the professors said to dissuade me.
On the day of the Mana dive.
Klein fearlessly dived into a diving pool full of liquefied mana.
‘What, it’s no big deal.’
Is it the foolishness of a child to not know fear?
‘It’s nothing special, but why did you look so worried when I told you I was going to show you a demonstration? Always don’t fool around like a fool.’
Or is it proof of innocence, not knowing how cold the night is?
And at that moment,
Klein saw darkness.
Actually, yes. There was also a power struggle at Magic Tower, a research and education institution. Tower owner was a position that all wizards envied, and was also a title with great authority in the magic world.
People coveted envy and authority.
And wizards were people after all.
So, if a young tower master volunteered for such training, which is a practice so dangerous that the squadron tower master banned it… There could be people with bad intentions.
By making the pool deeper than planned.
But the good thing is,
Klein had forgotten all about the trap.
Klein forgot.
The endless pressure, the darkness deepening to the point where you can’t see the light. The whispers of demons whispering in my ears, and the image of the demon king glimmering in the distance. His mother’s hand holding his feet and his father’s voice commanding him not to go.
‘cold.’
The blood pouring out of my eyes and nose, and the dizzying feeling of dizziness that came with it.
‘cold… … .’
And the loneliness and fear that made it all seem like nothing.
‘It’s cold… … !’
Deep inside the mana, I only remembered the cold that seemed to freeze my bones.
Klein forgot everything.
The fact that there was a hand reaching out towards him.
Those blue eyes.
Silver thread-like hair that sparkles in the light.
He even forgot that the hand reaching out towards him was really warm.
‘You forgot this… … .’
Trials make heroes.
Klein, who passed the mana dive, realized that he was just a chick that had not yet hatched an egg.
Of course, since it was an egg, it was an egg equivalent to the professors of the Magic Tower.
When Klein woke up, he forgot everything. In this way, Klein became a transcendental person, and mana diving became a training method that created a transcendental person and became popular on Earth.
‘Interference is impossible during mana diving. No, then what on earth did I see?’
The moment one enters the high-density mana, there is no way to interfere with the practitioner who is separated into each barrier and unable to escape.
So what exactly was it that you saw?
What kind of warm touch is that?
“what? “She fell in to save me?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Why didn’t you stop me?!”
“It happened so suddenly… … .”
Shaking – Klein, who returned from his flashback, stumbled.
“professor?”
“You must be so angry at that boy’s actions… … .”
“It looks like your blood pressure has risen.”
The teaching assistants hurriedly approached Klein, hiding their laughter.
“We will begin disciplinary proceedings.”
“You’re interfering with the entrance exam when you don’t have any qualifications? “It goes without saying that it is cheating.”
“It is time to set an example for the Department of Magic.”
It goes without saying, but the referee hates the Department of Magic. However, Klein was simply favoring the referee.
“To that rootless delinquent, what is true justice?” … .”
The trainers were excited to get rid of such a thorn in their eyes. Looking at those teaching assistants, Klein said with a smile.
“haha.”
“professor.”
“Everyone, shut up.”
Klein, who silenced all the trainers with a single word, watched the referee once again.
With an expression of concern for people,
That boy who extends a hand that is warmer than anyone else’s.
When a boy’s arm rose out of the dark mana, the referee gently grabbed his hand and dragged it.
At that moment, the referee became a smiling boy with silver hair, and the boy who was pulled out became a nerd wearing a monocle to look like an adult.
A foolish nerd who forgot everything,
The silver boy said in his arms.
“It’s warm… … .”
Beomsaeng muttered again.
“Really, warm… … .”
Klein couldn’t hold back his tears any longer.
fantasy,
