Admission is a Waste of Time Chapter 86

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Admission is a waste of time (86)

Lesson 19. Changeling – 1

In Changeling, change means, as everyone knows, ‘to change’.

So what is ling? It is mostly correct to think of it as something attached to the end of a word such as a noun or adjective to indicate ‘something younger or smaller than ~~’.

A word similar to ‘-aji’, which is attached to the end of Korean nouns such as cow and dog to indicate young animals such as calves and puppies.

So― the word changeling means ‘switched child’.

It is a famous word in Europe, and there are various theories about it… … .

The most dominant theory is that it came from the absurd complaint that “a fairy switched our pretty baby with an ugly one” when the child they gave birth to was ugly, weak, or did not resemble the parents enough to warrant suspicion of infidelity.

And it didn’t seem all that different across cultures, or even across dimensions.

“This is just too much. How can you insult both our Fairy Tribe and the child at the same time when the child was born without any fault of his own?”

Saturday morning.

Sitting across from Ronika at a table in the back alley cafe where she had brought her previous partner, Ketra muttered as such.

Ban Yu-won took a sip of the drink in front of him and smiled as he replied.

“It’s a word that was created after the abilities of the elves were made known to other races, who would make fun of the elves for switching children.”

“Of course it’s a lie. Our fairies are superior to other races in terms of both appearance and ability. Why would we trade them for the children of other, lesser races? But the word changeling became so famous that the word itself gained power. So our fairies’ unique power was simply called changeling. How is that, really bad?”

“I think your tone of speech is the same, senior.”

When Ban Yu-won responded in disbelief, Ketra laughed and waved her hand.

“I wasn’t dissing the human race just now. Compared to other newly formed races, the human race is on average quite handsome. The younger half-human, in particular… … Ahem.”

So, I’m telling you not to stick your face in there for no reason.

Anyway, the problem with popular kids, regardless of gender, is that they keep a very close distance from people.

Since entering Union Academy, Ban Yu-won had spent time with friends who were all nerds compared to him, but never popular. As a result, his basic mindset was closer to that of an nerd, so he felt slightly uncomfortable dealing with Ketra.

“Junior Ban Yu-won, what do you think the women passing by on the street will think when they see the two of us together? With two such handsome men together, they’re desperate to at least talk to each other―”

“I’m a student at Union Academy. If I succeed in seducing her, won’t my life be easy? Don’t you think so?”

“You’re so dry.”

Huh, Ban Yu-won snorted.

He wasn’t unpopular to begin with, but he’ll never forget the time when, in his third year of middle school, it was discovered by chance that his family was rich, and girls started approaching him more and more unnaturally.

Because of the lesson I learned back then, I became a bit suspicious and ended up not being able to have a proper relationship throughout high school, which is a bitter memory.

Maybe the reason I did that to try to seduce people abroad was because I thought I could talk more comfortably with foreigners who didn’t know anything about it… … No, was that just me talking nonsense?

“Even if there is some calculation involved, it is a man’s quality to transform a woman into a lovely person. If you burn one night with such splendidness that you can bring out her inner sincerity… … .”

“Senior, you didn’t ask me to meet you on the street to pick up some girls, did you?”

“It’s a shame, but let’s do that next time. If the two of us tag along, we can seduce every woman in this city.”

“There will be no next time.”

The second coming of Bansunova will never happen again.

More than anything, the members who are on the same team as him do not welcome it.

Although Ruchel says she is a slave to Ban Yoo-won and such, she frowns whenever he gets involved with another woman (but she never blames him. It’s more burdensome).

Dokgo Yeon tends to view the relationship between men and women negatively.

Finally, Light will curse physical relationships like one-night stands as impure because his mind is completely that of a virgin.

‘… … What the heck? Are all my team members just annoying and annoying?’

Ban Yu-won, who realized it too late, still didn’t realize that he himself was quite the annoying person.

On the other hand, the 4th year senior, who realized the fact a little earlier, gave up on black coffee and smiled warmly while looking at the 1st year junior, who was drinking milk tea.

With the terribly disturbing thought that maybe it was his job to make this brat a man.

“Let’s talk about that another time. By the way, have you now satisfied your curiosity about the power of the fairies?”

“Yes, to some extent.”

Ban Yu-won asked Ketra, who had called him today to express his gratitude, for detailed information about the power of the Fairy Tribe.

By hearing more about it, you can develop coping strategies and perhaps even recreate it with your own power.

Even Ketra, who is not the type to go around talking about her race’s unique powers, explained the power, ‘Changeling’, to him without much resistance because it was so clear that she had received help from him this time.

“The power to change things, from small objects to large entities and concepts. However, it usually requires a medium, and the chances of success increase only when conditions are as similar as possible. Right?”

“That’s right. Swapping liquids like we did in the cafeteria yesterday has a high probability of success, but if you want to swap memories, common sense, or perceptions—for example, if you want someone to think of you as a half-human, you need to make sure that our conditions are similar beforehand. Race, appearance, height, soul level, abilities, or even clothing.”

In reality, these are the conditions needed to change the existence of Ban-yu-won and Ketra, at most changing their perception.

To put it bluntly, it is impossible.

“But why did you specifically ask about that part? Even for our species that wields power, it’s hard to come up with such an idea.”

“It overlaps with the magic I’m researching these days. To be honest, it was a very interesting topic.”

Of course.

That’s a lie.

“I had fun too. I guess it’s fun to talk to smart guys. It would be nice if my juniors could join the student council. Besides Mira, there’s also a really pretty student council president, right?”

“uh…….”

I really hate to say this at this time.

Ban Yu-won emptied his glass of milk tea, pretended to be a little embarrassed, and asked his senior, who still misunderstood him.

“I would like to hear more about Senior Mira. Mainly about their relationship.”

“Ah, junior. I told you, you don’t have to worry about me?”

As expected, Ketra chuckled and patted his shoulder.

“There’s zero chance that Mira and I will develop in that direction, zero. Okay, then I’ll spend the remaining time giving my junior all the information he needs to attack Mira.”

After finishing speaking, Ketra checked her watch, drank her coffee in one gulp, and stood up.

“Sitting still is a bit tiresome, so let’s change seats. First, let’s prepare a fashion that Mira would like.”

“Fashion?”

“let’s go.”

The place Ketra took Ban Yu-won after leaving the cafe was none other than the high-end clothing section of a department store.

Ban Yu-won didn’t want to go to a place like this with his son, but he held back, thinking that this was all to get information.

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Although she knew it, Ketra’s fashion sense was superior to that of Ban Yu-won, who had been forced to go to her older sister’s house every holiday and had learned a sense of fashion.

He filtered out half of the clothes and accessories recommended by Ketra, tried on the other half, filtered out another 20%, and bought all the rest.

“Junior… … You have a lot of money, don’t you?”

“Ah, I’ll buy that too! … … Rather than that, please tell me about your first meeting with Mira-senpai.”

“It probably doesn’t mean much. Hmm, but I still want to know more about the person I like. Okay.”

While enjoying a pleasant shopping trip in many ways, he steadily extracted information about Mira from Ketra.

Mira, who entered the academy as a freshman from the fairy tribe, one of the few in the academy, caught the attention of many people with her looks and abilities.

The rude men from the special class made low-level advances at her in an attempt to make her their woman, but were stopped by the student council officers, including Ketra, and that led to her joining the student council.

Although his magical skills are outstanding, his alchemy abilities are particularly outstanding, and he quickly caught the attention of Campanella, the professor in charge of artifact creation.

The team centered around her was annihilated on the tower several times, but eventually, after a strict examination, she was granted the right to explore alone and quickly began to climb the tower, and has now reached ‘the same level as Ketra’.

Because his standards for judging people are too high, he can’t find friends he can get along with, and in the student council, he only talks to Ketra, who are of the same race as him.

Despite being perfect in terms of ability, he had a strangely unrelated affinity with the constellations, which made him quite anxious at one point.

Likes mischievous pranks that don’t match his cool appearance, likes extremely spicy food, dislikes vulgar speech, dislikes people who don’t put in effort, and has a strong desire to improve.

‘Is this true?’

Ban Yu-won, who had been completely transformed before entering the department store by Ketra’s hands and had acquired a dignity similar to that of a modern aristocrat, was astonished as he made an expression that did not match the clothes he was wearing.

‘No matter how much I listen to it, I’m in love with Ketra-senpai, but at the same time… … .’

Ban Yu-won asked again, feeling about 90% sure of his hypothesis.

“How are you these days?”

“I don’t know much about what she’s doing these days. But we do meet regularly. As I said before, it’s definitely not a relationship between a man and a woman―”

“Ketra?”

The two turned their heads together at the voice calling Ketra’s name.

The sight of the girl with hair as bright as gold was so striking that she could be spotted right away even on the crowded streets of Ronica.

She looked a little bit anxious and a little bit distressed for some reason.

“Mira? What, did you find us?”

“We… … ah.”

Mira, who finally realized that Ketra was with someone else at the word “us,” looked at Ban Yu-won and opened her eyes slightly wide in surprise at his appearance, then frowned slightly.

As her rapid breathing began to calm down, the two moved closer to her.

“Are you okay? What’s going on? We were just about to go out for dinner. Do you want to come with us?”

“No… … No, it’s okay. I guess so.”

The strongly negative Mira tightly closed her eyes and opened them.

He pursed and opened his lips several times, as if something inside him would overflow if he wasn’t careful.

“Freshman, you’ve dressed up nicely.”

He praised Ban Yu-won’s appearance as if he was speaking reluctantly.

“That’s right. What do you think? Isn’t it your taste? I knew that the original version of Ban Yu-won was good, but no matter what you put on, it looks great―.”

“I see, definitely my type. He must be a descendant of royalty, right?”

“Actually, I thought so too.”

The royal family is freezing to death.

By the way, what do you want to know?

Ban Yu-won narrowed his eyes and faced her.

“……after.”

Mira met his eyes and looked slightly surprised, then soon twisted one corner of her lips into a smile and turned her gaze away from him.

“Ketra, I’ll go and see.”

“Huh? What is it? That’s why you came running in such a hurry… .”

“―Sorry, bye.”

Mira, who had touched the student ID, disappeared from that spot.

“What’s wrong? Why are you like that? Are you stressed out from the exams and losing your appetite?”