chapter 14
“How to put an elephant in a pot?”
Hearing my question, the fat professor frowned and rolled his eyes as if looking at me as if he were a strange person.
Yes, you’ve never heard of it.
This is a problem that has been floating around on the Internet and has caused a lot of suffering to many graduate students and students.
There was no way that professor could have answered this question correctly.
A problem close to a difficult one.
How to put an elephant that is close to 8m in length and weighs 6,000kg in just a small pot.
When you first hear it, you might be wondering what the hell it means, but the answer to this question is surprisingly simple.
“Are you making fun of Professor Bon now?”
“No, I never thought of that.”
“Anyway, there is a solution to every problem. There is no answer to your half-pun problem! Do you think putting an elephant in a pot makes sense!”
The professor’s voice begins to rise.
Maybe he didn’t want to be embarrassed in front of Louis, who wanted to look good, so the professor raised his voice and started shooting at me.
“How do you put an elephant in a pot?”
“Isn’t it possible to use the reduction magic…?”
“You don’t know that shrinking magic doesn’t work on living creatures, do you?”
“Oh, sir, there is no answer then?”
hand cuff.
After the professor, the students’ voices start to grow louder.
It is natural to be confused when a student who has always been quiet in the classroom suddenly comes up with a problem that is close to a difficult one.
“It makes sense, Professor. It is one of the problems that can be solved surprisingly easily if you change your mind a little.”
” what? “
“Take a guess, too, what is the answer to this problem? Think about it and think about it constantly.”
murmur murmur.
The students began to ponder the answers to their problems face to face.
The fat professor was angry that he had lost control of the class, so he grabbed a cane and started stroking my chest.
“Now this class is me! It’s Professor Roosevelt’s class time! You are a student and I’m a professor! Know the subject!”
It’s not painful, but it makes me feel really bad when I’m touched by that disgusting fat professor.
“Isn’t it the professor who called me to the front of the stage?”
” …No.”
A professor who sinks while touching my bushy beard.
“What the hell is the correct answer?!”
“I really don’t know? Please tell me the correct answer!”
“I’ve never seen anything like this in a problem book.”
The craving for the right answer, which begins to grow, engulfs the class.
I passed the fat professor who showed an uncomfortable feeling, climbed the podium, looked at the students, and slowly began to open my mouth.
“The answer to the problem is simple, just put the elephant in the pot.”
” what? “
“What nonsense bullshit…”
“Do you think that makes sense?”
After hearing the unexpected answer, the students and professor’s faces were stunned for a moment.
“Fuhahahaha! It’s a childish idea! Are you calling it a problem now? A half-penny student?”
“Were you really crazy? Hahahaha!”
Soon he started laughing out loud.
” …. “
As things started to get worse, Louis grabbed his magic wand and tried to get up.
I looked at Louis and shook my head.
” ..Dr. Rommel.”
Having seated Louie, who looked at me worriedly, I continued speaking once more to reveal the true meaning behind this matter.
yeah, that’s nonsensical bullshit.
In the first place, this problem was created by mixing appropriate humor and gag, and the purpose itself was to make people laugh.
But there is one lesson this issue teaches us.
“Why do you think it doesn’t make sense?”
proudly.
break through the paradox
There is one lesson from this issue.
“What you just put in.”
A lesson to break stereotypes and see the world differently.
At that moment, everyone in the classroom turned to me.
Silence that lasted for a while.
After a while, someone in the classroom raises their hand and speaks frankly about their opinion.
“Then, isn’t it just a matter of making the pot bigger than the elephant?”
“That’s correct.”
Again, another student raises his hand and shares his/her opinion.
“But what about slaughtering and putting elephants in?”
“That’s also the answer.”
right.
Everything the students said now is correct.
Because it was a problem that could be easily solved by letting go of the prejudice about elephants and pots.
“What…? If this is the correct answer, and that is also the correct answer, I think the problem is inconsistent.”
“Oh, surprisingly, that’s the correct answer.”
“Are you going to play puns with us now?”
A few resentful students stood up, but I did not respond and began to speak.
“The pot isn’t big enough to put an elephant in. You probably thought of this as soon as you first heard the problem.”
Some nod their heads at my words.
“The pot is small, the elephant is big. Do you think that’s the law of this world?”
“Isn’t that normal?”
“Have you seen the whole world?”
” …. “
I throw a thesis to them.
Have you ever seen an elephant smaller than a pot?
Have you ever seen a pot bigger than an elephant?
Don’t judge the whole world by looking at only a part of it. There are things in the world that you can’t even imagine.
Let go of stereotypes and see the world from a new perspective.
sent such a message.
Those who have not even seen the whole of the Western Continent wear blindfolds called the Empire and try not to look ahead.
“The pot is small and the elephant is big. If you cast away this stereotype, the problem will start to appear new, and the solution will be divided into several branches and appear before your eyes.”
I turned my head to look at the professor whose expression was distorted like a monstrous demon and smiled.
The ashes of an old age, ridiculed and stereotyped and forcing the students he teaches to enter the prison of the Empire.
His youthful image, as intense as an eruption of a volcano, disappeared all over the place, and what remained of the professor was that of an old man.
“It’s the same as what the professor just said.”
Slowly approaching the professor, making eye contact, and bringing the atmosphere here.
“There’s no reason why you have to be good at magic just because you’re an imperial person. I think the most ideal way is to use your talents to the full and contribute to the empire.”
“Hey, hey..! Dare..!”
I slowly descended from the stage, looking at the professor who was shaking his neck and dropping his body violently.
Everyone in the class felt uncomfortable, but as if nothing had happened, he turned to return to his place.
“How dare you criticize the professor’s teaching methods in class?! You’ll be handed over to the disciplinary committee, so be prepared!”
The professor had the momentum to swing his staff and fire attack magic at me at any moment.
In principle, all citizens of the Empire are to be judged by the law if they inflict damage on others with attack magic without prior consent.
If the professor fires attack magic at me right now, even the professor’s position could be in danger.
Twist and fire, and you’ll have to step down as professor instead.
“Dare…! Dare…!”
He was a professor who couldn’t hold his wand any more and struggled to the end, but the board was already overturned.
In this situation, the professor has two options.
Continue the class in this chilled atmosphere.
Just close the classroom door and leave the class.
“Today’s class ends here!”
Druck.
Boom!
Goodbye, Professor.
I will not send you off.
In the end, the professor shuts the door hard and walks out.
It seems that he was very upset that he had just been hit by a student in the failing class.
“Prince Rommel…!”
As I sat down, Louis rushed to me and patted me in the back.
Of course, it was at the level of a cat nyang nyang punch, so it didn’t hurt at all.
“Why are you being so reckless! You could have gotten an academic warning if you did something wrong!”
“If you get it, you get it.”
Academic warning?
All you need to do is not receive the academic warning from Professor Anderse’s class.
The professor was really going to make me do 100 laps around the playground, so I thought it would be more convenient for me to drop out on the day I got even an academic warning.
“Is that what you call a horse?! That slug professor, there are rumors that his back end is as bad as a fairy! If there is any disadvantage to Prince Rommel…”
“At that time, there was nothing I could do.”
If the professor came out like that, there was a way too.
It felt like the last secret weapon, so what did I do to write it?
“Hey, why is Prince Rommel so insensitive to the approaching threat? Something seems to be lacking somewhere.”
“Don’t make a human psychopath.”
With a small sigh, Louis begins to divulge conspiracies against me.
I pressed down on Louis’ witch hat, who was spreading conspiracy theories, to prevent further harm.
Thanks to that, Louis ran around, but it was fortunate that he closed his mouth with this.
“Gyaak…! Don’t press down on your hat! It’s crumpled!”
“So, who wears such a big hat?”
“My..my..no, don’t press it..!”
I managed to subdue Louis, who rushed at me with fangs exposed, with one hand.
I’m playing with Louie like that.
“Hey, you’re really cool.”
Someone came up to me and reached out and greeted me.