NOVEL NEXT chapter 30
30 – Double Reunion (3)
“…… Yes, that happened.”
I briefly explained why I avoided Justina.
When she heard the story, Justina didn’t resent me or curse at me. Rather, she showed an embarrassed attitude.
“I never thought that a dagger would have such a function…….”
“I guess ancient magic is amazing. You wouldn’t know either.”
“Kkeuh, by the way, that kind of look was filmed. Turn it off…….”
Now was the time for compromise.
No matter how much it was 500 years ago, Justina, who she saw in the memory of the dagger, never seemed to be complacent. She
She said that even after 500 years, not 1,000 years, she didn’t seem to change her mind.
Since we were truly reunited, we needed to clearly tell each other about this.
“Think then, um, overemotion.”
“You mean not now?”
“Compared to 500 years ago, there are some parts that are a little diluted, but on the other hand, there are feelings that have become stronger over time.”
“Then…… Are you letting me out?”
Justina made a very ambiguous expression and shook her head.
“As you said, I won’t lock you in a small room and keep you as a pet. But if you talk about going to a dangerous place or try to do something strange again, then I have no choice but to stop it.”
“Ughhhhh… ….”
“Since you said it honestly, she is also speaking honestly. Denbergen Academy is the best hideout to protect you, Dane. It is safe to say that it is a small world.”
“What are you trying to protect me from?”
“…… Outside, everything.”
Justina’s answer was still a bit ambiguous to me.
That word sounded like he would do anything to stop me from leaving the school to find Elfin or Leewin.
But I think I’ll be at school for at least three years when I graduate from the academy, and since I’m no longer a student after graduation, Justina’s justification for holding me down doesn’t disappear.
‘Can’t you just drop out midway without graduating?’
As a result, there was nothing I could come up with other than the answer, ‘Let’s go and think about that at that time’.
‘I’m sure they won’t be tied down to things like graduate students or professors.’
I don’t know how to do it, but if it’s Justina, I think she’ll really do it.
“Okay. But now, call me Deneb. By the way, do you know what happened to this serpent?”
“Okay.”
Meanwhile, the Serpent Witchbeast that was put off for a while due to the reunion with Justina.
To be precise, the serpent witch picked up the leash she was wearing using magic engineering technology and showed it to Justina.
Justina stared at the leash, then calmed down the confused serpent beast and sent it back to the depths of the forest.
“Whew, what the hell happened.”
“Does this happen often?”
“That can’t be. If the same thing happened in class just a moment ago, it would be a catastrophe. There is no way that an ordinary student alone could face such a monster.”
I nodded in agreement with her.
I’m not proud of it, but it was something I was able to do because it was me.
Besides, if it was a situation where I had to kill the man rather than just cut the leash, I might have needed a sharp knife.
“At a glance, there seems to be something on this leash, uhm… ….”
“Give me this.”
“Do you understand something?”
“…… I don’t know.”
When I looked at it with an uncertain gaze, Justina screamed.
“It’s unfair! Eh, it’s been a while since the magic engineering technology was created! Does she have to know every single one of these trivial studies?”
“I understand. It’s hard to learn these days when you get older.”
“It’s not like that! Really not?! Stop teasing me!”
While giggling and teasing Justina, my nerves were still on edge, searching for any possible enemies around me.
There is no law that there won’t be more than one Demonic Beast out of control.
Besides, if someone intentionally put this leash on the serpent beast, that darkness might be lurking nearby.
‘Surely, around here… ….’
I found it.
My hunch came true.
In the bushes, there was someone walking at the same pace as the two of us.
If it were a Witchbeast, it wouldn’t have been so carefully followed and would have rushed at it greedily for blood and flesh, so it wasn’t a Witchbeast.
Then, what remains is the person who pulled the leash earlier, in other words, the darkness.
‘I think he said he was camouflaging himself. What’s wrong?’
I don’t know who taught it to me, but it seems that the teacher taught me the wrong way.
If it were me, I would have been able to silence my footsteps and hide my existence.
There were things I noticed because of my excellent senses, but the opponent’s skills in shamanism and camouflage were not good either.
If it’s not that my skills are bad, it means that even though I killed my presence, I still feel that much pressure, but that’s a bit much.
‘No way, if it’s really like that, it’s equivalent to Justina.’
It was impossible for a normal human being to do that.
I held her breath and signaled Justina to stop her.
Justina, unaware of anything, stopped with her eyes wide open, and as the two of us stopped, the stranger in the bush followed suit and stopped.
In the midst of such a meaningless confrontation, the moment I was contemplating whether to throw a dagger or not, someone came out of the bush with arms raised high.
“Surrender, surrender. Knowing this, is it okay?”
“Why did you follow us? Does it have something to do with the leash the beast was wearing?”
I looked closely at the woman who had come out of the bush.
‘Elf?’
Blonde hair and pointy ears must have been an elf.
However, elves were more distinctive in their clothing than their racial characteristics.
I would have been embarrassed to stare openly in front of Justina.
Her upper body was not wearing anything, only the bandage was wrapped around her chest, revealing her toned stomach and navel.
Still, he was wearing a cloak over it, but strangely, he didn’t put his arm through the arm hole again.
‘Is it for fashion?’
On the other hand, the lower body was wearing long pants that were just a bit big for ease of movement.
The biggest feature was that there were many scars on every corner of the upper body, which seemed to have been completely removed except for the bandage wrapped around the chest.
Wounds from knives, wounds from arrows… It was varied.
There were traces all over her body that made her naturally curious about what kind of life she had lived.
‘Do you want to stay in your pants?’
The moment her pure curiosity rose in her heart, Justina patted me on the shoulder from behind and whispered.
“It is not a target of alert. You can rest assured.”
“What do you believe in? Just looking at it, it looks nasty. Dangerous!”
“No, you can believe it. Deneb, please believe in her original daughter….”
“…… Who is it?”
I looked at Justina, who was hesitant and unable to answer openly, with her suspicious eyes.
Is this how Justina felt after being tricked by me?
She deliberately won’t tell you, so you’re trying to get revenge?!
When her thoughts reached that point, her blonde elf opened her mouth instead of Justina.
“It’s been a while, Justina. Are you a student at Denbergen Academy?”
“…… Yes.”
“Then speak more comfortably. I am a professor at the Denbergen Academy.”
“Professor?”
I looked back at Justina with her suspicious look on her face.
She still kept her mouth shut, but she nodded.
She said, “I don’t know if you’ve heard about it. Haven’t you heard that an outside guest professor is coming to the academy?”
“I’ve heard of it, but… Ah, could it be that elf professor?”
“Yes. Is your name Deneb? I think I saw it on my list of students to teach. And the girl next to him was Justina, no… Yuz Denbergen? Fuhahahahaha!”
“… ….”
Justina said nothing, her face flushed red.
It’s getting to the point where you don’t know how things are going.
But since Justina had verified it, it was certain that the blonde elf was the professor in charge of the special class.
She was said to be Joseph’s older sister’s best friend and a loyal knight of the imperial family.
‘But I’m not sure why he’s here.’
He even seemed to know that Yuzu was Justina’s student.
She initially thought that she might be friendly with Justina, who is the same long-lived species, given that she is an elf, but this is unexpected…….
‘Wait.’
At that moment, a shocking idea passed through my head.
‘An elf friendly with Justina, a knight with excellent skills?’
Ah, no way.
Isn’t it?
But the blonde elf immediately confirmed my guess.
“Anyway, nice to meet you. Special class students. Somehow, I stumbled across it in an unsightly place like this. Oh, by the way, I’m the professor in charge of the special class who was dispatched directly from the imperial family…….”
That too, with a very bright smile.
“It is called Elfin. I wish you well in the future.”
***
After coming down from the mountain, the sky has already turned dark.
Having forcibly stopped Deneb, who had already half-understood the situation, and sent her to the dormitory, Justina and Elfin headed for the chairman’s office.
For these two to talk, it was because they needed at least the level of security at Denbergen Academy’s director’s office.
Kikik-
And, as soon as the door closed, Elfin burst into laughter.
“Wahhahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aha! Whoop!”
“…… There’s no reason to laugh like that!”
“How can you not laugh at this? The president of the academy, who must be at least five hundred years old, has intervened among the students pretending to be a seventeen-year-old girl?”
“Ugh, ugh…” ….”
“And what about that boy next to you? Justina, what are you trying to do with a 17-year-old boy?”
Even Justina couldn’t bear to refute Elfin’s words.
The only regret is that the boy next to him is not an ordinary academy freshman, but a Dane with a mental age of about 50.
Of course, even though she was 50 years old, she was less than 1/10 of Justina.
“Never mind that.”
“How are you? After 500 years of webbing, it can be a bit unbearable. I understand, Justina.”
“What, what a vulgar vocabulary! If you put it like that, Elfin, isn’t it the same for you as a spider web!”
Justina blushes and screams at her.
Seeing Justina like that, Elfin happily shrugged her shoulders.
“I was busy. Because like Justina, she didn’t just sit and wait with her heavy duck bottom pressed against her chair. Don’t you know that s*xual desire can be quenched by exercise?”
“Dragon is different! And waiting is not easy!”
“Ah, yes.”
Justina glared at her elfin and snapped her finger to pull out one of her chairs stuck in the corner of her.
Elfin frowned at her as soon as he sat down in her chair.
“What, why is the chair so small? Is Justina your size?”
“Yes, but.”
“It’s inconvenient. Anyway, since we haven’t seen each other in a while, let’s ask how we’re doing.”
Justina didn’t bother to tell me that her hips were too big for her chair.
Instead, I was contemplating whether or not to tell Elfin about Deneb’s reincarnation.
“I will ask her first daughter. Has there been any progress in the search for the flower garden?”
“Unfortunately, not at all. She hasn’t even got a clue yet.”
“Is that so, but it deserves to be so. There’s no way something she hasn’t been looking for for hundreds of years will suddenly appear.”
“The reason for coming here is that Justina and you must have heard about it through documents, so let’s skip that story, did your plan go ahead?”
Both Justina and Elfin want to find Dane again.
However, there was a clear difference between the two.
First of all, Justina believed that Dane would be reincarnated, and she set up an academy and waited for him to be dragged in.
On the other hand, Elfin built a cooperative relationship with the imperial family by visiting the flower garden where the flower of resurrection blooms in order to directly revive the Dane.
In other words, what Elfin is asking Justina right now.
“Did you find the reincarnated master?”
“If you found it, what would you do?”
At Justina’s plain reply, Elfin snorted at her.
“You say there is no such thing as reincarnation?”
If there was another difference, it was this.
Justina believes in the existence of the flowers of resurrection and flower gardens that Elfin claims.
She couldn’t help but believe that there was evidence that the flower garden actually existed.
However, Elfin did not believe in Justina’s reincarnation at all.
I just denied that it was an absurd story in a fairy tale.
“There can be no reincarnation. If all the people in the world were reincarnated, they would start a new life while continuing to accumulate memories. But have you ever seen someone like that in real life?”
“No.”
“Then let’s assume that we are reincarnated without memories. Is that really the Master we know?”
“Okay.”
“In the end, Justina is saying this. Even in all of history, reincarnation has never been discovered so far, but anyway, the first human to reincarnate with memories will be our teacher.”
Justina just smiled and didn’t answer.
Contrary to his relaxed appearance, there was actually no room for refutation of Elfin’s logic.
The last time we met, she was Justina, who was unable to respond to Elfin’s rapid-fire-like attack and only trembled at her.
Nevertheless, she waited without losing her faith.
As a result, she found the reincarnated Dane, namely Deneb.
Since her victory was almost the same, the current Justina, unlike before, was full of composure, but she did not dare to show off.
‘To monopolize Dane?’
Of course there is, but it wasn’t necessarily like that.
Because Elfin was a woman standing in the complete opposite of Justina.
“Still, let’s just assume that reincarnation really exists.”
“I said no, tell me how many times.”
“Okay. Let’s say you make a hundred concessions and a reincarnation, or at least a man with Dane’s memories intact, appears in front of you. Elfin, what are you going to do?”
Elfin frowned at her, asking if she had to assume that.
But she couldn’t win over Justina’s serious face, and took out her little bundle from the pocket of her coat over her shoulder.
Elfin opened the mouth of her bundle to reveal what was inside.
It was obviously a fist-sized package, but the inside was wider than most large backpacks, perhaps because of the magic.
Justina frowned at the rotten smell that wafted through her office.
“I have to show you this.”
“Kuh, this is… ….”
“That’s right, Master’s ashes. I got it back If anyone claims to have been reincarnated, Master’s bones are all here, but you’ll ask what the hell.”
“After that?”
Elfin closed her bundle and put it back in her pocket.
“I have to take him.”
“To where?”
“To the flower garden. Until now, I thought that if I resurrected Master’s corpse, the soul would return along with it, but if that’s not the case, I’ll have to personally take her to that place and find out if there’s another way to transfer the soul.”
Yusnita forcibly raised the corners of his mouth.
“Are you not satisfied with the return of Dane’s soul?”
“Of course.”
Elfin replied firmly.
“Warriors know. If the soul is half, the body is half. Even if someone who claims to be Master’s reincarnation appears, unless his body returns, it can only be said that he is half Master.”
“Warrior, do you mean warrior? Anyway, it’s difficult…….”
Justina tries to trap Deneb inside the academy.
Conversely, an elfin who insists on taking Deneb out of the academy if she learns her true identity.
She didn’t bother to tell Elfin that Deneb was Dane’s reincarnation, as it would have been an annoyance to her.
‘In the first place, she’s a girl who wouldn’t believe it unless she saw it herself.’
Above all, she didn’t feel the need to speak directly.
Anyway, as long as Deneb doesn’t hide his true identity, Elfin will soon realize it too.
The only thing I was worried about was the moment when Deneb declared that he would one day follow Elfin and leave the academy.
‘All-out war with Elfin is a specification, but… ….’
Hoping that day would never come, Justina gently closed her eyes.