Episode 244
Episode 244
Logan asks cautiously.
“Hmm. “Are witches and humans much different?”
“Not many things are different. If there’s anything different… … “Like Teacher Jaina and Lord Yuhan, they lack the feelings of rational liking for each other.”
“It’s not that it’s lacking or little, it’s that it’s missing?”
“yes.”
Absence, for example.
It is a word that means that something that should be there is missing or lacking.
“Witches are biologically unable to become pregnant. “She cannot give birth to children through mating like animals, other races, or monsters.”
“Well, I see.”
Logan was embarrassed by the embarrassing story and ended up stuttering. However, Mayen did not understand his reaction and just tilted her head and continued speaking.
“What’s strange is that they have the same physical structure as humans. Even the genitals and internal uterus of a human woman are recreated. The same goes for the emotional part. However, biological pregnancy is impossible and the feeling of loving someone is completely absent. “It’s like a doll perfectly modeled after a human woman, with only unnecessary functions and emotions removed.”
“Hmm.”
“That’s why I sometimes get confused about the emotions I feel when Logan looks at me.”
“yes yes? “Do my eyes look strange?”
“It’s not strange. But sometimes I feel like I’m staring at someone I like.”
“… … .”
Logan’s mind went blank. I had no idea Mayen would notice. He wanted to make an excuse, but his lips were frozen and wouldn’t fall.
Just then Mayen said with a wry smile.
“I’m a witch, so I don’t deserve love.”
“What qualifications do you have other than receiving love?”
When Logan asked angrily, Mayen’s eyes widened. She didn’t understand why he was angry at her.
“If you need qualifications, I will give them to you. Because I know how beautiful and gentle Miss Mayen’s heart is! You deserve to be loved. To me, Ms. Mayen is a more beautiful person than anyone else in the world.”
“that word… … “Did you confess to me?”
Mayen asks, blinking.
“… … !”
Logan’s eyes shook violently as if there had been an earthquake. For a moment, heat rose to his head and he spit out the words he had been holding in his heart.
It was a huge mistake. No, even saying it was a mistake was not enough. I shouldn’t have been excited. I ruined everything.
‘What do we do?’
I tried my best, but no thoughts came to mind. She needs to say something, but her lips won’t move. Her mind went blank.
That was the moment Mayen, who was staring at that scene, parted her lips.
“Logan, you passed away a little while ago… … .”
“Miss Mayen?”
A large old man with waist-length white hair comes out of the faculty center and calls Mayen as if he is happy to see us. When she stopped talking and looked away, Logan sighed in relief. I don’t know the identity of the old man, but the timing of his appearance was good.
Mayen opened her eyes wide and smiled whitely.
“principal?”
“haha! I thought Teacher Jaina was joking, but it’s really Miss Mayen! nice to meet you. “Thank you for growing up so well.”
“I’m glad to see the principal looking healthy too.”
The old man, Abram, smiled warmly and stroked Mayen’s head. She immediately greeted Logan.
“My name is Abram, the academy principal.”
“I am Logan, a priest of the Church of the Sun.”
“Please come inside.”
Mayen and Logan did not refuse Abram’s invitation and went to the principal’s office.
When Abram brought out the drinks, we drank them and talked.
The conversation wasn’t long.
Although the academy was on vacation, teachers stayed to prepare for the next semester or had a lot of work to handle internally.
“Miss Mayen. I’m sorry.”
“no. “I came to you without telling you.”
Mayen left the academy with Logan, wishing Abram good health in the future.
“Is this the teacher you said you wanted to meet?”
“yes. I received a lot of help when I was young. So, I thought to myself that if I ever get out of the forest later, I’ll definitely come see you.”
If not this time, I didn’t know when the opportunity would come again.
Mayen thought in her heart that it was a good thing she came to the academy.
“May I ask what kind of help you received?”
“hmm. To make a long story short, the witch taught me how to understand humans.”
“How to understand?”
“yes. “It was hard to sympathize with it.”
If understanding means understanding and generously accepting the circumstances of others, empathy means feeling them as if they were your own.
Mayen learned from Abram how to understand others – humans. But he couldn’t sympathize. Because she did not fully understand the difference between witches and humans.
Now, I am learning little by little through Jeron and the others.
The moment they walked out onto the streets of the capital while talking on the way back to the hotel, Mayen grabbed Logan’s collar and naturally led him down a deserted road.
Logan was not embarrassed and asked what was going on with a glance.
Mayen pointed back from the corner of her eye without even turning her head. She meant that someone was following her.
“Since when?”
“It’s been since I left the hotel.”
The two people spoke in low voices. It wasn’t long before Mayen realized she was being followed. Because she thought the direction of the road was the same.
This was partly because the academy’s grounds were so large and spacious. So I didn’t think it was a big deal at first, but when he followed me to the entrance of the academy, I became convinced that he was being followed.
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“It looks like they’ve been waiting for you to come out of the academy.”
“Do you know anyone?”
“no. It’s a face I don’t know. “If they were people I knew while attending the academy, they would have approached me instead of hiding and following me.”
“hmm. “That makes sense.”
As we entered the deserted road, the number of people began to decrease.
Logan secretly used holy magic to surround his body with a shield. They were careful because the person following them might attack them by surprise.
Meanwhile, Mayen unleashed the witch’s secret magic, and just as she and Logan were about to disappear, she grabbed his wrist and entered the alley.
“… … !”
The person who was following the two people hurriedly followed them into the alley. However, Mayen and Logan were hidden by the witch’s secret magic, so it was impossible to check them with the naked eye.
furthermore.
Wow!
Chains sprouted from the ground and bound the feet of the pursuer.
“W-what is this!”
“Who are you?”
As Mayen asked quietly, the one who was following him turned his gaze to where the voice came from. But nothing was seen. It must be magical power. He drew his dagger and struck his chains.
Kang-!
“Tsk!”
My hand was tingling and painful. He thought it was impossible to cut with a dagger, so he threw the dagger in the direction from which Mayen’s voice was heard.
“It’s no use.”
Tongue.
The dagger flew away and fell weakly. Logan’s shield scattered the flying dagger law. If it had been imbued with powerful magic or an auror blade, the shield would have been broken, but there was no way such a strong person was just following him.
“shit!”
The person who was following him raised both his hands high, probably out of desperation.
Mayen tapped the floor with a broom and performed the witch’s secret magic. Her chains bound her entire body, preventing her from moving. She left her mouth and her eyes alone because she needed to hear an answer.
“What are you?”
“… … .”
“You have time to think about it.”
“Ugh!”
The chains tightened his body.
A scream came from the mouth of the person who was following him. However, he didn’t tighten it hard enough to make him scream, so I knew he made it loud on purpose so that anyone passing by would hear it and come running.
“I stopped the sound from escaping. The capital guards will feel the magic and come, but it will take at least 10 minutes. “Do you think you won’t be able to open your mouth in the meantime?”
Mayen spoke calmly and tightened the chain really tightly this time.
Ttuduk.
There was a sound of the body twisting. The eyes of the person following him widened.
“… … !”
His lips were wide open, as if he was in a lot of pain. But no screams came out. It was a silent scream, as if it were said that if the pain was too much, one could not even scream.
“I would like to ask you one last question. “Who is it?”
He asks, slightly loosening the chain.
The person who was following him answered obediently, perhaps because he had made the decision due to pain.
“what… … “I am a level 2 informant belonging to the Humga Guild.”
“am?”
“… … no see.”
“great. Now I think I’m ready to have a proper conversation. But you’d better not even think about running away. “The moment you show that kind of sign, you will not be able to return alive.”
“Oh, I understand.”
Mayen dismantled the witch’s secret arts. She saw herself and Logan appear, and the chains that had been binding her informant’s entire body disappeared.
“Why were you following us?”
“The request is B… … “Ugh!”
Before he could finish speaking, something invisible grabbed the informant by the throat. Its identity was Mayen’s familiar, made up of a transparent spirit body that was different from the undead Specter.
My throat was grabbed so hard that I had trouble breathing, and I let go just before my eyes rolled over.
The informant shouted, covered in tears.
“The provincial branch of the Eastern Continent has ordered an investigation!”
“Who?”
“I don’t know that either!”
It’s true.
The level 2 informant was not high enough to know the identity of the client.
“Did you know who we were and follow us?”
“I do not know! I really don’t know! All I heard was that the East Continent Adventurer’s Guild branch ordered an investigation and to monitor and report on your actions!”
“great. “In return for your cooperation, I will spare your life.”
“Thank you… … !”
The informant slumped down. At the same time, Mayen and Logan disappeared.
“… … “Are your ears ghosts?”
* * *
Mayen and Logan used spatial movement technology to move to the hotel room designated by coordinates.
“Whoa.”
“Are you okay?”
Logan carefully held Mayen’s staggering body.
Mayen nodded, saying it was okay.
A large amount of magical energy was depleted due to using space movement without even preparation. It wasn’t to the point of exhaustion, but I felt dizzy for a moment.
“Why is the Adventurer’s Guild investigating us?”
“Uhm. I have no idea either. But did they really not know our identity?”
“… … At least the so-called informant didn’t seem to know our identities. It may have been deliberately hidden from the upper echelons. “Sometimes what you don’t know is medicine.”
“A tail that can be cut off at any time… … “That’s what you’re saying.”
Logan smiled bitterly.
Then it suddenly occurred to me that, for a tail that could be cut off at any time, I opened my mouth too easily.
‘Has the Adventurer’s Guild made it known that they are not hostile to us?’
When I told this to Mayen, she was deep in thought.
