EP.222 The nightmare is back (1)
Something is wrong.
I sensed that things were going strangely and that I was running into a completely unexpected problem. I was lost in thought with my chin resting on my clasped hands.
‘Kelhalm has a better reputation than I thought.’
No, beyond being good, it is monopolizing the popularity of students. Even after leaving the dean’s office, I observed Kelhalm from afar, and as a result, I was able to learn one thing.
‘Even if you just stay still, students will gather…!’
Kelhalm is just sitting on a bench, but students are gathering around him. Some students ask questions about assignments, while others have casual conversations with Kelhalm, and sometimes even buy him coffee and offer it to him.
‘···Have I ever received coffee from students?’
It seemed like it was there.
‘But, not a single student even bought me a cake.’
I remembered Kelhalm eating the cake the students had brought him. I felt sick to my stomach without knowing why. Not only did my stomach hurt, but my mouth also felt a little sore.
“Sseu-eup…”
I was craving something sweet, so I took a sip of coffee with a lot of syrup. The coffee is overly syrupy… but it just feels bitter today.
“I hope Professor Letia will continue teaching.”
“Do well in class and answer questions well.”
“The assignment is appropriate! “This is the best.”
“If Professor Rania returns, will you be leaving again? ah······.”
Even as I was savoring my coffee, the voices of the students I heard a moment ago lingered in my ears. A voice that seemed to be regretful, and a voice that seemed to hope Kelhalm would not leave.
‘therefore.’
He spoke as if he hoped I wouldn’t come.
“No, why???”
widely!
I put down my coffee cup and frowned.
Am I… worse than Kelhalm? No, of course, I may fall behind in terms of class completion. That point can be readily acknowledged.
Who is Kelhalm?
He was the president of Artia, a famous academic city. In education, it was difficult to find a person with experience surpassing Kelhalm.
‘I am… wheat… Lizzy.’ Yeah, yeah. ‘Pushed.’
You can’t win with education.
There is no way that I, who has been teaching for only about a year, can beat an educator who has been teaching for 100 years.
‘The level of the class is not much different, but being behind is still being behind…’
I could admit it up to that point.
I was able to coolly admit it and admit defeat.
“But, this is a separate issue.”
Kelhalm dominated the popularity.
Kelhalm shortened the distance between me and the students that I had shortened for nearly half a year in just a moment.
‘This is a matter of network.’
Network of people.
I never thought there was anything wrong with my personality or personality. Really, not once. Compared to Sarah and Remia…
‘No, they are not people, so they cannot be compared.’
Compared to Princess Leruel…
No, that person is a little like that too.
‘Khalt?’
“Hound’s spiritual pillar.”
“A respectable, proud knight.”
No, he is also evaluated as good…
‘Master, of course you are better than me. Blacktop owner? No, that person too…’
In my head, the options decrease one by one.
When comparing achievements in the realm of limited network, there were only people better than me.
“Uhm…”
I suffered like that for a long time.
As the coffee was getting cold, I mumbled without thinking.
“My evaluation is worse than I thought… am I?”
therefore.
“Is there a problem with my personality?”
No, that can’t be true.
I am normal. There is no problem with my personality. I shook my head and stood up.
‘First, let’s watch a little more.’
Observation, tracking, and investigation.
I needed to understand this situation in a little more detail.
2.
‘There is a need to investigate not only the evaluations of students, but also professors.’
With that in mind, Rania began to wander around the academy and research Kelhalm’s reputation.
“Professor Rutia? Ah, you are a good person. He may be a bit blunt, but he is neat in class and behaves like a gentleman… and above all, he’s handsome, right?”
“Anyway, Professor Rania, I guess you’re back from vacation? She could have come back a little slower…”
It has a very good reputation among female professors.
However, it is clear that appearance played a role as a variable. Interpreting her material from such a narrow perspective, Rania continues to wander around her academic circles.
“You mean Professor Rutia? “He’s a good professor.”
“There is a lot to see and learn. In particular, there is nothing more to say about the neatness of that class. In just one class, everything can be completed in that short period of time. From what I heard, it seemed like there were almost no assignments.”
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No, still.
“huh? Network instead of class? tenacity?”
“No, is there a problem with personality? “Not only do you have a good reputation among students, but I see that you get along well with other professors despite being blunt… It doesn’t seem like there is a big problem with your reputation, right?”
······.
“To be honest, more than you…”
“Well, something? Why do you look at me like that?”
···Reputation among professors is also good.
Rania grits her teeth and admits that fact as well.
“Ah, Professor Rania is back…?”
“Did the class stutter because the professor was absent? vacancy? No, I don’t think I’ve ever felt anything like that…”
Rania listens carefully to what the students say.
However, no matter who you ask, ‘I missed my professor!’ There is no student who gives the answer. Rania swallows her bitter saliva and continues walking.
“Why did you bring me a cake?”
“Hmm, do you want to give me something?”
A professor so good that I wanted to give him something.
“I’m so sorry you’re leaving…”
“By any chance, do you know when you are leaving? This is a story we discussed between ourselves, but I thought it would be a good idea to at least hold a farewell party…”
I would like to throw a farewell party.
I’m so sorry you’re leaving.
He’s a good professor, but it’s a pity.
Such reactions are common. Rania was no longer tired of holding on to students and asking them questions or listening to their stories, so her steps became heavy.
‘···You’re very popular, Kelhalm.’
dump.
She sits down in a corner of the garden.
The seat where Kelhalm sits in the distance looks full of warmth, but the bench he sits on is extremely cold. Rania looks at Kelhalm from a distance.
He is still surrounded by students.
Even though Rania returns from a month-long vacation, no student recognizes her and approaches her. Really, there isn’t one. My heart aches without knowing why.
“Tsk…”
For some reason, even the sunlight seems to shine better there.
‘No, it’s a good thing…’
It’s good that Kelhalm conducted the class perfectly and was helpful to the students while he was away. This is also what Rania intended.
‘But, what is this?’
Why does my stomach hurt?
Why does my stomach feel itchy?
It felt very strange. Rania frowned at the emotion she was experiencing for the first time. Even though she faced good things, she couldn’t figure out why she felt sick.
“Ummmm…”
A very, very stimulating emotion rises up. Raniel lowers her head and is lost in her anguish. Why didn’t her students miss her?
‘···Did I be a little harsh?’
Maybe I should have been a little gentler.
No, but if you think about getting a job at a magic tower or battlefield later, you have to do that much. The teacher also told me to give my homework hard, and at this level, I was acting within a very humane range…
‘Still, I should have been a little gentler.’
The first emotion that comes to mind is regret.
Rania looks at the seat where Kelhalm was sitting, wondering if she should have done better. At first, the gaze is filled with regret, but it gradually becomes heated.
Students chattering haha.
Kelhalm splitting and eating the cake given to him by the students.
The petty wizard who couldn’t be part of that warm scenery muttered, biting his lip.
“It’s my place…”
That seat over there is mine.
This is where I should be sitting.
I deserve coffee and cake…
Emotions gradually move from regret to obsession. Regret and obsession, and what follows next, must generally be ‘exhaustion’. The average person would be devastated by regret and obsession, blaming himself for not doing better at the time.
‘No shit, now that I think about it, it’s embarrassing?’
But not Rania.
She never becomes exhausted.
She is far from ordinary and glares at the students sitting next to Kelhalm with her eyes wide open. When I thought about it, I thought it was a shame. Anyway, shouldn’t at least one person recognize you and come visit you?
There wasn’t enough homework.
It wasn’t about giving me time to rest.
Shouldn’t they have ventilated me periodically so that they wouldn’t forget me?
All kinds of plans come and go in her head over and over again. It was truly her own idea, in that each and every one of them was a plan to elicit screams from her students.
‘It would be better to separate the mid-term term into assignments and field tests over several days…’
Although she has regrets and obsessions, the devastation is not hers.
The devastation must be suffered by the students who forgot her.
It was around this time that Rania was concretizing her plan.
“Ah, Professor Rania is back?”
Someone called her name.
Rania’s head jerked back. She looked at the student standing behind her.
“It feels like it’s been a long time since I last saw you. “Did you have a good vacation?”
A girl smiling brightly.
“Professor Rania, would you like some of this too?”
In her hand is a muffin that looks like she just bought it at a cafe. Handing it over, the girl sits down next to Rania. Rania looked at her muffin in her own hands.
It was warm.
And, it looks fluffy.
Rania then turns her head and looks at the girl sitting next to her. The girl smiled brightly and opened her mouth.
“I learned a lot of things over the course of a month, but I still missed Professor Rania. “It was tough, but what I learned back then helped me a lot.”
There was one person who missed him.
Rania wiped the corners of her eyes at that fact. She folded up all the plans she had in her head and put them in a corner.
‘I went crazy for a moment.’
It was clear that he had been affected for a moment. Rania smiled brightly and tapped Chloe on the shoulder.
“Chloe…”
“yes?”
“You’re the best, just.”
“yes? “Suddenly?”
A new student stopped a professor who was on the verge of corruption. Chloe, who had accomplished the feat without even realizing it, could only blink.
3.
“Ah, senior, are you back?”
“ok. How have you been?”
“What am I?”
Kalt scratched the eyepatch covering one eye.
“I think I’m slowly getting used to having one eye now. “It was worth seeing with one eye.”
Although it is difficult to measure the distance, it is probably something you will gradually get used to. As Kalt joked like that, Raniel smiled faintly.
“okay?”
She stopped in front of Kalt, who was sitting on a chair in his office. Leaning slightly at her waist, looking down at her sword, Ran El opened her mouth.
“That won’t be necessary.”
“…There’s no need for that?”
“How much time has it been since you felt the wall?”
It’s a random question.
It was unexpected, but it wasn’t even a day or two that my senior was unexpected, so Kalt answered the question.
“I think it’s been about three or four years. “It seems like it was even older.”
“okay?”
“yes. But why are you suddenly asking that?”
Raniel took something out from within his arms.
“It’s time to go.”
“What. “The afterlife?”
“No, you superhuman bastard. superman.”
Raniel hit Kalt on the head with the glass in his hand. Kalt rubbed the top of his head and blinked his eyes. superman? Did he hear wrong?
“What is that…”
Kalt closed his mouth without speaking.
The glass that my senior is holding in his hand. Kalt’s gaze wavered as he looked at the glass that hit his head a moment ago.
“···What is that?”
A glass filled with platinum-colored starlight.
Kalt asked a question while looking at an object in front of him that was far from ordinary, and Raniel answered the question.
“Holy Grail.”
she laughed
“It is a miraculous relic that allows one to reach the level of superhumanity without losing it.”
A word from the author (author review)
Regret, obsession, exhaustion(?)
Rania will never forget this incident.
The plan was only put on hold for a while, but not abandoned…!
