NOVEL NEXT chapter 58
58 – Climbing Unbeknownst to Anyone
“Ugh…”
As soon as I woke up in the morning, I felt tremendous dizziness and heaviness in my body.
“Damn…”
The next sensation was a headache. Feeling as if my bones were being crushed, I unconsciously cursed.
After a few minutes, I could objectively assess my situation.
When I tried to sit up, I felt something soft on both sides of my lower body.
The next sensation was the arms and legs entwined around my body.
“Huh?”
I quickly looked around. I saw the faces of the sleeping Professor Cordelia and Ceris.
“What the hell…”
I quickly raised my upper body. As I did, Ceris and Professor Cordelia also opened their eyes.
However, without taking the time to scrutinize them, I turned around to look at myself. My clothes were on properly, and there were no visible traces of this and that.
Only then could I breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed I hadn’t completely lost my mind.
Nevertheless, seeing the sight of two beautiful women entwined with a sturdy man did have an odd and awkward appearance. So, I helped Ceris and Professor Cordelia stand up.
“Ugh… thirsty….”
Professor Cordelia held her throat and said so. I went out of the room to fetch some cold water.
And… when the mansion staff, mostly female servants, saw me, they mumbled something.
No. It’s not what you think. Don’t look at me like that.
I deliberately ignored those embarrassing glances and received cold water from a maid.
“…You must have used a lot of fluids, so… well….”
I bit my lip and said.
“…It’s not like that.”
The maid didn’t seem to believe it at all but lowered her head and said, “Oh, okay.”
I closed my eyes tightly and moved my body. It felt like my insides were burning, and if I wanted to compose Professor Cordelia’s stomach, I had to get cold water.
As I brought cold water, Professor Cordelia and even Ceris, who always showed a quiet demeanor in front of me, gulped down the water noisily. They seemed to be suffering from hangovers as much as I was.
“Ugh, I survived.”
Professor Cordelia said, wiping her chest. The problem was that due to the strange sensation felt since morning, even that gesture felt oddly peculiar.
Whether she knew my feelings or not, Professor Cordelia casually said, “It must be because the alcohol was old; the hangover is harsh. Ah… but it tasted good.”
Ceris, who usually didn’t drink much, looked at Professor Cordelia with a pale face and said, “…To say that now…?”
Looking at Ceris, Professor Cordelia said, “If it tasted good, then it tasted good. Rather than eating something tasteless and ending up like this, it’s better to enjoy something delicious and end up like this.”
Then Ceris smirked.
“Something feels definitely wrong, but you keep avoiding it in your words….”
I looked at the two of them and said, “…Let’s sober up first, and as we sober up, let’s eat something from lunch onwards.”
“Oh, you should have told the kitchen to prepare something good for hangovers…”
“The sun is already high up; what are you talking about? They’re probably preparing it already.”
“Ah, thank goodness….”
With that, after we woke up from our hangover, we headed to the restaurant.
And as I looked at the table, I couldn’t help but be bewildered. Because…not only were there foods known to help with hangovers, but there were also foods known to be good for stamina on the table.
Seeing that, Professor Codelia pursed her lips and Ceris lowered her head, clearly realizing how they appeared in this situation.
“No, this…uh….”
“I, I’ll make it clear in the kitchen that I’m not responsible for this….”
Trying to say something, they soon fell silent. Of course, I was in the same boat.
“No…uh…let’s just eat for now.”
With my words, we started picking at the food. Of course, it felt like the servants were closely monitoring us as we ate, so we didn’t touch the foods known to be good for stamina.
Still, there were clearly many foods that were good for hangovers, and the three of us were experts in manipulating magic power more than anyone else, so we were able to quickly circulate our magic power and get rid of our hangovers.
The problem was that we couldn’t do anything about the awkward atmosphere.
Ceris, her face still flushed, cautiously asked me.
“…When you woke up this morning, what was the situation…?”
Professor Codelia also looked at me, seemingly demanding an explanation, so I had no choice but to tell the truth. And then,
“Ughhhh!”
Ceris let out a scream, unable to contain her embarrassment and shame, and,
“…”
Professor Codelia’s face also turned red.
“No, I mean…on your body, our…our chests…I mean….no….”
Ceris stammered as if something had gone wrong. I also thought to myself.
Fuck, even if I didn’t do anything about it, people would still believe it from the way we were acting since morning.
But there was nothing I could do. What could I do when it was the truth? The three of us were really just lying in bed, completely drunk on alcohol.
I closed my eyes tightly and sighed.
…
Unlike Iden, who was thinking like that, Codelia and Ceris had different thoughts.
To be precise, it was because their memories of what happened at night came back when their hangover cleared up.
Those two stayed awake a little longer than Iden.
After lying down on the bed with Iden, Ceris suddenly felt a small annoyance that Codelia was next to Iden.
And so, Codelia, for some reason ignited by a sense of competition, tightly held Iden’s arm.
They gradually got closer to Idun like that. At that moment, Idun was having a nightmare where she was being crushed by two giant slimes.
And that was the result. Ceris and Cordelia attached a chest to Idun’s body that was of a size that would make any woman jealous, and their arms and legs restrained Idun’s body.
And then, while they were visiting the room where they were sleeping for cleaning, two young maids who were at the perfect age for blooming flowers and had an interest in such things, they received a gaze that said, ‘They did it. They did.’
The communication system among the servants in the mansion was very fast. As a result, from dawn, news about “Edun Kainus, who is dealing with both the master and the beautiful sorceress at once” spread like wildfire in the mansion of the Darin Viscount.
The rumors gradually grew in size, and when three people who were completely drunk couldn’t get up until it became daytime, a logical judgment that said they probably won’t be able to get up until now even if they ask them to stop was made, and finally the rumor reached ‘Edun Kainus, who is a stubborn and energetic monster and won’t listen to even two people even if they begged him to stop.’
And thanks to that, the image of Edun Kainus was already crossing the river for the servants in the mansion, and even if Edun criticized them, they didn’t hear it.
And only Codelia and Ceris remembered it.
They were able to silently reach a dramatic agreement that this incident never happened just by looking into each other’s eyes.
…
So some time passed, and it was already afternoon even though they hadn’t done anything. Of course, it was fine since they were returning to the island with the academy tomorrow, but….
Ah, let’s not think about it anymore. Thinking about it any further will only mentally exhaust me. To me like that, Ceris approached.
Still unable to shake off her embarrassment, Ceris had a flushed face but said while looking at me.
“There…someone wants to meet Lord Idun.”
I blinked at those words.
“Huh? Why? They want to meet me?”
In response, Ceris scratched her cheek.
“…Well, I think you’ll understand once you see for yourself.”
I nodded my head at her words.
“…Well, alright. Let’s meet for now.”
In response to my words, Ceris replied.
“Yes. Then shall we do that?”
So the people I met… were unexpectedly wearing unique clothing.
“We are from the Ovolas United Kingdom.”
The Ovolas United Kingdom. It was a union of small pharmacies from the Ovolas region.
“Ah… yes… What brings you here?”
When I asked them, they bowed their heads and said to me.
“If possible, could you teach us that magic?”
As soon as I heard those words, a smile formed on my lips.
The value of my body was increasing even outside of the empire.