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Roanna looked for Ethan.

Ethan was not in the school building where his office was located. Of course, new teachers were not provided with offices.

She started from the faculty office and kept looking inside the academy, but Ethan was nowhere to be seen.

“This won’t do…”

Roanna unconsciously nibbled on her nails with an anxious face.

She closed her eyes in that spot.

“Wind’s tracking.”

Even with limited mana, if she used mana efficiently, she could still use intermediate magic.

Of course, it wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t too difficult for Roanna either.

The wind blew once, and Roanna, opening her eyes, ran quickly.

The magic began to reveal Ethan’s location.

She tracked Ethan’s footsteps here and there with the tracking spell.

How much time had passed?

“Found him.”

She succeeded in definitively tracking Ethan’s location.

But the problem was that the place was somewhere she never could have imagined.

“Why is he there?”

Strangely, Ethan was near the Knight Department’s office.

Ethan was a new teacher, so he shouldn’t have an office yet.

Thinking that, Roanna arrived in front of Room 5002 as the magic led her.

The tightly closed door.

She knocked.

Normally, the teachers’ nameplates would be attached to the office, but here, nothing was attached.

‘It seems like an empty office.’

But Ethan’s voice came from inside.

“Come in.”

When Roanna opened the door and went inside, Ethan was sitting there.

She didn’t say her name when knocking, but his expression was as if he knew she would come.

“Roanna du Prochet, what brings you here?”

With the installation of Hong Gil-dong’s safe, now called a fridge, and the Hawk Head Crown, the total aesthetic score rose by 2 points each.

Ethan’s current office aesthetic score was 5 points.

Thanks to that, he could also achieve an achievement.

-Achievement accomplished!

-[The Beginning of Housing] Achievement acquired Likes.

-Acquired ‘1’ Likes!

It was a small amount, but since it was likes that could be earned by placing a few items in the office, the cost-effectiveness could be considered very good.

Ethan sat in a chair and waited for Roanna.

With her skills, she would definitely be able to track and find his location.

After waiting about 10 minutes, a knock immediately sounded.

Since there was no nameplate, she probably thought it was an empty room. She didn’t introduce herself separately.

“Come in.”

When Ethan spoke, the door opened right away.

Soon, Roanna came in hesitantly.

‘Come to think of it, there are no extra chairs.’

He would probably need to equip sofas and chairs. Ethan first brought the Hawk Head Crown and placed it in front of the desk.

“Sit, Roanna.”

Roanna was surprised and looked at the Hawk Head Crown. Sit here? No matter how you looked at it, it was a huge crown, not a chair.

At least the decorated hawk shape was flat enough to sit on.

“I-Is this Teacher’s office?”

“Starting today, it became my office. It’s a bit empty for that reason.”

Roanna looked at the white frosted safe in the corner.

Ethan went in front of the safe and opened the door.

Shaaa-

Surprisingly, cold air spewed out from inside the safe.

Ethan took out two flasks with tea inside from the safe and handed one to Roanna before sitting in a chair.

“So, what brings you here? You’re the first guest to come to my office coincidentally.”

“That safe… What is it, just now?”

Roanna looked at the safe in confusion.

At a glance, it was clearly a safe. But cold air flowed out from inside the safe, and Ethan casually took out flasks from it.

Furthermore, the tea in the flasks was ice cold.

Extremely!

“Roanna.”

“Ah… I’m sorry, Teacher. But that… I couldn’t help but ask.”

Of course, Ethan understood.

But now was not the time to be wishy-washy.

“I came to apologize for that incident.”

She stood up and bowed at the waist.

“I’m really sorry, Teacher. Please forgive my rude behavior.”

“That’s enough. I’ve already finished your rudeness with demerits, so don’t dwell on it anymore.”

At those words, Roanna could clearly feel it.

This teacher does not give anyone special treatment.

And he doesn’t seem to take things to heart either.

“What’s decided cannot be changed. You know that, right?”

“Yes…”

“But if you simply came to apologize, well, I could not refuse to give you a chance.”

“A chance?”

At that moment her expression brightened as she looked at Ethan.

“Reason.”

Ethan asked briefly.

“What was your reason for trying to take my class?”

Roanna took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

“Because I felt Teacher’s class was different.”

“Different?”

“There were rumors. As Teacher has probably heard already, that, unlike other teachers, you teach classes that are helpful in the real world and practical.”

“The other teachers also teach classes that are helpful in the real world and practical. My class is not that special.”

“No, it’s different. Completely.”

She raised her voice a little as she spoke.

She strongly explained to Ethan how his classes were different from those of other teachers, and how the rumors were spreading.

While talking, she seemed to get excited as her cheeks flushed.

“…That’s how tremendous Teacher’s classes are. Among students, some even say it’s absolutely mandatory, that there’s no need to attend Ivecar if you don’t take it, and you should take time off or aim for readmission if you miss the timing.”

Ethan felt delighted inside at the embarrassing compliments.

It seemed his classes were receiving very good evaluations among students, as he intended.

There was a feeling it was a bit excessive, but from the position of a teacher pursuing unconventional methods, he felt very good about these evaluations.

Of course, his outward expression did not change at all.

Seeing there was no change in expression even after praising him this much, Roanna nodded thinking as expected, Teacher Ethan is different.

To be able to say his outstanding abilities are nothing special…

She felt like the values she had built up until now were crumbling.

The biggest thing that crumbled was the compliments she had received.

Even with less impressive compliments, she had often been unable to manage her expression and gotten happy.

There were times she had been arrogant.

I’m good enough, this much is good enough.

It wasn’t just once or twice she had thought that way.

But seeing Ethan, she could tell how arrogant that was.

“So you listened in on the class secretly?”

Ethan gestured for her to get to the point.

“Yes, I was curious about brüle.”

She nodded and continued.

What she had been most curious about was brüle.

“I did some research on brüle before entering the academy. It’s one of the equations for fireballs, but it seemed so underutilized. So I researched it, but at that time my skills were lacking, so I eventually gave up. But Teacher Ethan…”

Roanna talked about the brüle that Ethan had made lecture material.

“I didn’t know it could be utilized in that kind of way.”

Then she started talking on and on about brüle. She talked nonstop about Ethan’s lecture, and what kinds of things she had thought of with that utilization method.

“Roanna.”

“Ah, I’m sorry. I was talking to myself again.”

Ethan silently showed Roanna the brüle.

Roanna’s eyes grew wide at the beautiful line drawn before her eyes. Ethan showed her brüle in various ways.

He showed her basic brüle as well as various deformed brüles, and demonstrated applications of brüle using the tea in the flasks.

The tea, which had been cool enough to make her teeth hurt just before, was now bubbling and boiling.

Normally, the flask should have exploded outward.

“You intentionally left the equation incomplete. By leaving it incomplete, you changed the effect in a different direction!”

Roanna was staring at Ethan’s brüle with sparkling eyes.

It was tremendous concentration.

As if addicted, she examined the magical inscription, then raised her own hand and mimicked the brüle Ethan had created.

‘As expected.’

The real thing was different. Just showing her for a bit, and this was the level…

“Roanna.”

Ethan spoke looking at Roanna.

The light in Roanna’s eyes, who had been concentrated, returned.

“I’m sorry, I arbitrarily mimicked Teacher’s brüle…”

Ethan shook his head.

“Would you like to learn it?”

Now was the timing to lure her.

“The brüle just now. I explained it quite thoroughly during lecture time. The students couldn’t comprehend it at once. That’s natural. But you made it your own right away.”

Roanna smiled sheepishly.

“For you…”

Ethan had no intention of saying obvious things.

“You seem to have some talent.”

When was the last time she heard the word ‘some’ talent?

As soon as she heard those words, Roanna’s emotions shot up.

“Please teach me a little more.”

But Ethan spoke in a tone as if he was amused and continued imparting brüle to her.

“Oh ho, then what about this?”

He threw utilization methods at her one by one to check her current level.

‘She’s at a level where she can completely absorb brüle right now?’

There was a reason it was called the golden age.

Her magical talent was nothing short of shocking.

‘Just showing her is enough for her to analyze it herself and absorb it. There’s nothing left for the teacher to teach.’

And he realized for certain.

‘If she gains even a little experience, she absorbs it as is and grows immediately.’

If Roanna participated in the department representative decisive battle, the possibility of the Swordsmanship Department taking 1st place would be markedly lowered.

‘If there was a little more time, I could make Mason, Yuna, and Ron grow to be superior to Roanna.’

But that wasn’t the case right now.

‘Then the only choice is to lure her over.’

“Hmm!”

Ethan looked at Roanna with a satisfied expression.

Roanna realized once again that Ethan was an incredible mage. The teachers she had learned from so far were not lacking in skills either, but Ethan was on a different level.

Moreover, wasn’t this person a Swordsmanship Department teacher in the Knight Department?

Roanna said in an exasperated voice.

“To think your magic skills are this outstanding. But Teacher is a Knight Department teacher…”

Ethan answered as if it were no big deal.

“Magic is a hobby.”

“A hobby, and you’re at this level?”

“Why can’t I be good at a hobby? I have no intention of doing hobbies carelessly.”

Ethan smiled slightly.

“Rather, you have quite the skills, Roanna. Aside from me, you’re the first person I’ve seen who immediately understood and followed the brüle.”

The words ‘quite the skills’ pierced Roanna’s heart.

She had certainly received this kind of compliment countless times.

But for some reason, the feeling was strange.

Surely it was the same compliment, but just the person being different could make her feel this happy?

Her face felt hot as if blood was rushing to it.

It felt like that time when she first received a compliment about magic.

“Haha… Hehe, thank you for the compliment.”

So she ended up reacting like a fool, flustered.

“So there’s one proposal I’d like to make.”

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