Episode 186
‘Oops. The opponent was not Gainando.’
Lee Han realized it too late and regretted it.
No matter how bad the princess was at eating dessert, she wasn’t bad enough to eat poison cake.
But the hand had already moved. Lee Han knew the best way to do things like this.
“indeed. “It was an artifact endowed with poison detection and detoxification functions.”
The silver spoon that touched the poison cake created smoke just like when the detection spell was used earlier.
At the same time, the color of the smoke slowly changed. It was evidence that detoxification was progressing little by little.
The princess blinked a few times to get out of her panic, then fluttered her eyelids and tried to open her mouth.
I don’t know what will be said, but nothing good will come out.
“We have to get out quickly. “Let’s go out!”
Lee Han turned around and moved without giving the princess any time before her cold anger exploded.
The princess was a beat late in reacting to the sight of Lee Han dragging the conversation forward before the misunderstanding could be resolved.
“What now…”
“hurry!”
Lee Han pretended not to hear and hurriedly ran out.
The princess glared at his back as if she were dumbfounded.
* * *
When I came out of the tower, my friends who had gone in first were sitting in a mess.
Angago was covered in dust and dirt, and his clothes were almost tattered from who he had hit.
Salco was soaked from head to toe, as if he had just gone swimming.
Most of my other friends were in a similar mess.
Among those friends, Lee Han and the princess, who were alone and fine, definitely stood out.
…You picked the wrong challenge.
The skeleton principal muttered as if he was very disappointed.
Come to think of it, that kind of poison wouldn’t have had much effect on the boy from the Wardanaz family.
You’re lucky to have chosen something like that!
“Wardanaz. “What kind of challenge did you take to come out so fine?”
Angago asked in a voice mixed with envy and jealousy. Lee Han said calmly.
“It only looked fine on the outside, but the challenge I entered was also quite dangerous. “It was a challenge where I had to take poison.”
“!”
“…!”
At those words, the expressions of my friends changed.
It’s a challenge that requires you to take poison.
After hearing the words, the challenge they had entered suddenly felt better.
“I… I’m sorry. Wardanaz. “I said something rude.”
Angago said in a very apologetic voice. Lee Han nodded as if it was okay.
“This can be happen. I understand.”
“……”
……
The princess and the skeleton principal looked at Lee Han in bewilderment.
Such shameless…!
How about taking the challenge one step further? It might be possible for you.
“no. principal. “I’m just flattered that you evaluate me like that.”
‘Such an obnoxious bastard.’
‘I’m never going.’
* * *
A golden weekend afternoon.
Blue Dragon Tower students were spread out throughout the lounge, enjoying the long-awaited peace.
Even the princess was talking with her followers.
However, Lee Han got up after filling the basket with rice balls, rice cakes, and milk confections and several bottles of drinks.
“Where are you going? library?”
Yoner wondered.
I thought that the only way to bring food like that would be to go out to explore or go to the library.
Of course, going to the library on a day like today was strange enough, but it was possible for Lee Han.
“I’m going to give you a meal.”
“……”
Yoner was speechless.
That much…!?
“There’s no need to go that far, right?”
“The more expensive it is, the more you can get it.”
“Lee Han… I think you’re too kind.”
“Didn’t you hear what I just said?”
“Even taking that into account, he’s kind.”
Ihan was puzzled by Yoner’s words.
Why is this good?
Slowly!
The punishment room had a cool vibe from the entrance. Even though it was still spring, it was cold as if it were a different season.
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‘It’s a place I really don’t want to come to.’
It was clear that this resistance was felt not simply because it was a punishment room, but for some magical reason.
Otherwise, there was no way I could have heard such a strong ominous feeling.
‘Well, with the skeletal principal’s personality, there’s no way he’d let the students escape like that…’
Even if you were locked in a punishment cell, if you succeeded in escaping, you were acquitted, but that was not a rule for students.
It was a rule for the Skeleton Headmaster’s amusement.
Lee Han, who had been wandering around trying to escape from the depths of the punishment room to the ground, felt that the scale of this punishment room was considerable.
smart-
“Are you there?”
Silence.
smart-
“Are you there?”
“…Crrrrrrr. Crumbling. “Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr’
“I was very rude.”
Lee Han went straight to the next room.
Although he knocked on the door several times and searched for the trapped students, he soon realized that Lee Han would not be easy.
‘What a disaster. It seems to be quite deep.’
I knew that the punishment room was large, but I still thought that the new students who failed would be near the entrance.
But it didn’t seem to be the case.
‘There is too little information about the punishment room. Comparing it with what I recorded when I escaped last time… would be unreasonable. Per Kuntra called last time, so he won’t be able to sing for a while.’
As Lee Han went down the stairs down the hallway, he thought that if he couldn’t find it this time, he would have to think of another way.
smart-
“Are you there?”
“who is this?”
“!”
Surprisingly, a human voice was heard from inside. It was clearly the same student.
“Are you a student?”
“hey. “I don’t know what grade you are in, but if we meet later and don’t want to get cursed, don’t freak out… just wait.”
Delet paused.
The voice heard outside was quite familiar.
At that moment, a flash came to Delet’s mind.
“!”
The last time I entered the punishment room, a new student came into the next room and told a ridiculous story.
And a new student who came to Professor Mortum’s Dark Hall to learn black magic.
Lastly, a freshman who was deceived by professors’ coaxing during the midterm exam and blindly added lectures without realizing his own destruction.
These three freshmen were combined into one.
“…you! Is it you!? Is it you?!?”
‘Is this person crazy?’
Lee Han flinched.
As I said before, those locked in the punishment room could not necessarily be considered sane students.
Maybe it’s a monster imitating a student…
“You are a new student from the Wardanaz family, right? “Before the midterm exams, I already took the exam after choosing elemental magic, dark magic, summoning magic, and illusion magic, and in the first week, I was a freshman who escaped through an underground passage and was caught!”
“!”
This time it was Lee Han’s turn to be surprised.
The wizards at the magic school were truly amazing.
‘When you reach your senior year, do you gain the ability to see through your opponents even in the punishment room?’
“How on earth?”
“What should I do? “I know because I was in the room next to you last time and I participated to help Professor Mortum during the midterm exam.”
“ah…! Was it him?”
Lee Han thought of a senior in the room next to the punishment room whose face he did not yet know.
He was a kind person in many ways.
He also told me about the existence of the Spire Stables (although I accepted snacks as a bribe), gave me advice to listen to the lecture moderately (although I didn’t), and told me to take it easy…
That person was him.
“for a moment. Could it be that he has been locked up ever since?”
“it’s crazy? Of course, I went out and came back.”
There was an awkward silence.
For a moment, Lee Han thought, ‘What on earth is this senior doing, why is he always in the punishment room?’
And Direth saw through that thought.
“Junior. “Have you ever thought about what I’m doing and why I’m always in the punishment room?”
“Is that possible? Seniors.”
“Why are you suddenly treating me with respect?”
“Actually, I value courtesy.”
‘I don’t think so.’
Considering the skill with which he brought his knowledge into the punishment room last time, there was a high possibility that that junior was from Black Turtle Tower.
‘…huh? for a moment. I’m from the Wardanaz family, and I’m from the Black Turtle Tower?’
Delet tilted his head.
Something was strange.
“okay. If you’re learning black magic, it’s okay for you to treat me with respect as your senior. And you owe me. Junior.”
“The stables were appreciated.”
“Not that! During the midterm exam!”
“?”
Delet felt aggrieved when Lee Han failed to recognize his senior’s sacrifice.
Of course, it was Principal Skull who was at fault, but the human mind is not that clear-cut.
“wait for a sec. Come to think of it, junior, I warned you last time you were in the punishment room, right?!”
When Delet remembered the memory, he felt several times more resentful than before.
-If you have skills like yours, many professors will covet you, so it would be better to be careful in advance.
Wasn’t there a warning in advance in the punishment room?
If this junior had heeded that warning, Delet wouldn’t have been dragged to the punishment room like this.
“Ah… you mean that warning? “Of course I’m listening.”
“A junior who is listening attentively would do something like that?!”
Delet was even more dumbfounded.
If that’s what you listened to, what did you ignore? Attended all classes?
“no. Seniors. “Thank you for your concern, but I have made my own calculations and am listening rationally.”
“…Tell me that reasonable calculation. “Let’s listen.”
Lee Han calmly explained his field of choice to his senior.
First, I chose black magic because it suited my aptitude well, I chose summoning magic because it was useful in many ways, I also needed illusion magic, so I decided to learn it, and I was worried about enchantment magic, but it suited my aptitude well and Professor Garcia recommended it, so I decided to learn it. ..
“for a moment. Junior. Enchantment?? “Don’t you learn enchantment after midterms???”
“ah. “I met the professor first by chance.”
“Oh… aren’t you worried about accidentally dying from overwork?”
“You don’t have to worry. “I have everything under control.”
Despite Delet’s sarcasm, Lee Han answered confidently.
However, in Delet’s view, no matter how he looked at Lee Han, he was walking down the path of Professor Garcia.
Asura’s Path, where you learn all areas of magic from your freshman year!
First of all, new students who have basically normal thinking, even if it suits their aptitude, is useful, or is useful, they think, ‘Can I learn this well? hmm. no. ‘It’s going to be too hard’ and you put on the brakes.
But the junior in front of me thought, ‘Can I learn this well? hmm. However, since it fits my aptitude and is useful, I was reacting like, ‘Should I just learn this?’
“Junior. Be really careful. Be really, really careful. Really really really. okay?”
“Thank you for your concern. Seniors.”
‘I don’t think this kid will listen to me.’
For some reason, Delet had such a premonition.
“Seniors. “I brought you some food. Would you like to eat it?”
“what? Meal alone? …Are you really from the Wardanaz family??”
Delet could not help but be surprised by the skill of a first-year freshman visiting the punishment room with such knowledge.
And what was even more surprising was the quality of the food they brought.
This is not the hard black bread or hardened rice balls that freshmen usually eat.
Rice balls made from freshly cooked rice and soft red bean rice cakes. Even the crispy fruit juice.
how…?
‘Oops. You even gave me food to give to Gainan.’
Lee Han decided to make an excuse that he had been taken away by the skeleton principal while coming.
“…I don’t know anything else, but I think third graders will really like you.”
“Is that so?”
“okay. “I’ve seen many juniors, but I’ve never seen one like you.”
Delet took a bite of the rice cake, hesitated, then opened his mouth.
It was too generous and delicious to just send away.
The punishment room period could have been extended, but I couldn’t not tell them.
“Junior. “The midterms are over.”
“yes.”
“be careful.”
“I’m always careful.”
“…Great. Very good posture. But what I mean is, be a little more careful. “After midterms, school usually goes crazy.”
‘Could I go any crazier here?’
* * *
next day.
Lee Han got up from bed and opened the window of his private room.
‘It’s strangely cold?’
Pure white snow filled up to half of the first floor of the tower.
Lee Han nodded calmly.
“hmm. “I could have gone even crazier.”
