NOVEL NEXT chapter 79
79. Half smart. No. Are you half an idiot?
Chapter 79. Half smart. No. Are you half an idiot
Ennis opened her mouth with an expression ready to spit out curses.
“Anyway, you… ! Do it in moderation!”
“No, what did I do… ?”
Tale put on a sad expression.
“Because I don’t even get along with those two?”
Seeing that figure, Ennis let out a deep sigh and murmured softly.
“A half smart guy with selectively developed knowledge. No. Are you half an idiot?”
She giggled as Tails put her paper down beside her.
“I don’t understand that, but I think you are saying something a little harsh.”
“Listen to note.”
Ennis continued her words, glaring slightly at her tail.
“Because I can’t stand it if I don’t criticize anyone right now.”
Ennis’ black eyes shimmered intensely.
‘Chloe and Cecilia. They take a completely different approach now, right?’
For some reason, it felt like a bad feeling was entangling her whole body from the inside.
It was as if I was being controlled by this sensation I felt for the first time.
Dirty.
It’s sticky.
I want to break anything.
At this feeling, Ennis gritted his teeth.
Though they seemed to give up, these leeches never gave up on their tails.
‘I have to step on it properly.’
Ennis’s eyes were filled with life.
I don’t know what it was, but Tail let out a chuckle when he saw Ennis on fire.
“Why are you laughing?”
Tails smiled lightly at the sharp voice of Ennis and continued her words.
“Just. It feels like you are directly showing your feelings to me for the first time since entering school.”
At that, Ennis’s eyes widened slightly.
Yes.
Although I tend to explode in irritation and anger.
All of that was also light.
After all, all of this was a simple game.
By the way.
Has she ever been so sincerely offended?
No, has she ever been so swayed by emotions in the first place?
‘This is me…. Is it changing?’
You will feel emotions that you have not felt even after living for 3,000 years because of this insignificant human being?
“By the way.”
For some reason, Ennis felt that her head was getting complicated, and for no reason Ennis said coldly to Tail.
“It is troublesome for me to select the membership application form, so you should skip it first.”
“… What?”
“Nine times out of ten, you just throw it away.”
“Hey! For a moment!”
Ennis disappeared before Tail could say anything.
It was teleport magic.
‘What on earth is that human doing to use such high-difficulty magic?’
At the time I was looking at it curiously.
Someone approached from behind.
“Tail.”
I looked behind her and saw her pretty face with her blue hair flowing down.
It was Alice.
“You seem to be overburdened with work. I will help.”
At those words, Tail pondered a little before answering.
“Yes. Thanks for your help.”
If Alice had a knife-like personality, she would rather filter it out better than herself.
“Then shall we go to class?”
Alice pondered for a moment at Tail’s words before opening her mouth.
“There is a good spot on the garden side. How about going there?”
“What. Okay.”
So the two moved towards the academy garden.
* * *
‘It’s really easy to find a place like this.’
Tail glanced around.
Tall trees surrounded the surroundings, and colorful flowers bloomed everywhere.
It gives you a strange sense of stability, like being inside nature.
Tayl, who was sitting on the lawn, glanced at a woman who was most in tune with nature.
Long sky-blue hair glistening in the sunlight.
Pure white skin and a curvy body.
A cool look with a small face.
She was flipping through her membership application with a cold, expressionless expression.
It’s a sudden impression, but I heard that a bright expression makes people like you and looks pretty.
‘It is also a skill to look pretty even with such an expressionless face.’
Then, feeling Tail’s gaze, Alice lifted her head and met her eyes with him.
“Why are you watching?”
“It’s okay to read and filter properly, right?”
Alice shook her head at Tail’s question.
“Of course not.”
She took out and showed the two admission applications that she had just put in her rejection page.
“Of these two people I just saw, this one feels a lie in the writing.”
Alice continued, waving her membership application in her other hand.
“This person has seen many times that her class attitude is poor.”
It was a very clear and meticulous answer.
“Yes. That’s nice….”
Tale smiled awkwardly.
“No one has passed so far, has it?”
Alice hardened as it was.
That would be the case too.
Documents were piled up only in the admission rejection line.
Because I couldn’t see a single piece of paper on the other side, the admission approval side.
“Right. It’s all down.”
Seeing her nodding her head, Tails sighed for a moment, but held it back.
“Aren’t the standards too tight? At this rate, I won’t be able to get even 1/100, let alone 1/10.”
Alice was silent for a moment at Tail’s words.
Then, after much thought, she opened her mouth.
“The standard was the tail. Is it too tight?”
“….”
Tail was at a loss for words.
‘Really?’
Seeing the pure curiosity in Alice’s eyes, she seemed real.
Tail sighed inwardly.
‘It’s embarrassing to admit this. It’s ambiguous to say yes or no.’
No. Why did you hold me down?
Question marks filled his head, but Tail struggled to answer with a smile.
“Better than me… even if it’s a bit bad Just take it.”
I really wanted to go down a rat hole when I said this.
However, as if Alice understood, she answered right away.
“Let’s do that.”
Then she took out two of the twenty pieces of paper that had already been turned over to the rejection side and moved them.
Then she added her words.
“I feel very sorry for these compared to Tail, but they are a little better among them, so let’s pass.”
At those words, Tail thought to himself.
‘No, how the hell are you beating me up?’
I wondered.
She herself wasn’t as good or as great a person as Alice thought.
In my previous life, I was just a petit bourgeois who was pessimistic about life and tried to get out of that mold.
In this place, he is just a boy struggling to survive after being abandoned by two women.
Both of them were mediocre people struggling with life.
Yes. A person who puts in a lot of effort is right.
‘But can that really be called a decent person?’
While I was lost in thought, I came to my senses after feeling Alice’s gaze.
She was in front of her, staring straight into Tail’s eyes with an unwavering, straight gaze.
Tails caught her gaze as if possessed by her clear, clear eyes.
At that time, Alice slowly opened her mouth.
“Tale doesn’t seem to know what a good person she is.”
“What do you mean?”
Alice was silent for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth.
“Do you know what is the biggest reason why elves have a hard time and don’t trust humans?”
“… What?”
Alice’s mouth moved softly.
“Desire and. Lie.”
Desire and desire?
It was an ambiguous expression.
“The vast majority of people have desires that are beyond control and beyond a container. And to hide that desire, to deceive. Lie.”
Wheei-.
A warm wind blew between them.
Alice, feeling the wind for a moment, continued.
“So, as an elf who is unfamiliar with the two elements of humans, it is inevitable that it will be a burdensome existence.”
Have a desire that is too much for yourself and use lies to cover up that desire.
That was right.
To have more money.
To get a better seat.
To receive a stronger honor.
Humans were too vulnerable to desire.
At the same time, the desire to realize that desire must also be strong.
However, paradoxically, it is difficult for most of us to achieve a desire that exceeds what we have.
That’s why lies flowed out of that desire.
Cheating and being cheated on.
Betrayed and betrayed.
He became a scarecrow of desire and sowed lies.
“But I also have desires and tell lies.”
I want to make good money.
Or want to live a better future.
This kind of desire was common, and it was also a desire he had.
“Yes, there will be no human without desire. By the way, do you know what is the most important?”
Alice’s clear dark blue eyes sparkled.
“Tail neither turns away nor denies that desire. She doesn’t even fool herself.”
“!!!”
“She just does what she can to make that desire come true.”
Tale couldn’t say anything.
“The reason is that Tail’s desires exist within that bowl of you. It also means that he puts himself in control.”
At that, Tail laughed briefly.
“You can control yourself.”
The words were oddly bitter.
Perhaps the reason I had controllable desires was because I was worn out and cut countless times in my previous life.
In the moments of bumping and frustration, he learned himself.
What I can have if I work hard.
Something you can never have in your lifetime.
The former was ‘money’ to him.
The latter was a ‘family’ to him.
In other words, the part that Alice saw herself as good was that she never did it because she was good at herself.
Alice, who had been staring at Tail like that, opened her mouth.