[56] Gauge symmetry (2)
“Aren’t you wearing them today?”
“uh. Stretch your back a little more.”
“like this?”
“Oh like that. Raise your legs slightly. Yes it is.”
The three faces turned red. Of course, since they are adults, affection between men and women is something that can work. But it was an affair. Shiina’s career as a teacher was over when it became known to the school.
“Then shall we begin? You can’t move.”
“don’t worry. You’ve held up well until now.”
Nade looked back at his friends with an angry face. Sirone and Iruki, guessing what he was trying to do, also nodded.
Love has no borders, but considering the feelings of a wife who had her husband taken away, it was right to end it here.
Nade’s hand on the doorknob was shaking. If I wait a little longer, I will be able to verify the site perfectly, but I didn’t want to see the teacher I respected like that.
The doorknob turned wildly and the three of them stormed into the room without saying who was first.
“You bastard! Shiina-sensei! What a disappointment!”
Nade’s cry was buried in the silence.
Shirone and Iruki, who were preparing to close their eyes, looked blankly at the scenery in the room, which was completely different from what they had imagined.
Shiina, who was sitting on the bed, turned to the door. Opposite her stood a large canvas.
“uh? uh?”
Sirone and the others only opened their mouths like fish. A thought crossed everyone’s mind. It was an event in which great misunderstandings, misunderstandings, and distortions occurred at the same time.
“what? How are you guys…?”
Even Shiina was surprised. His face turned red when the disciples suddenly entered the private place. But the shame was short-lived, and he frowned.
“Are you following me?”
“yes? no that’s it What happened was that we were just sitting in the park and idly by. But Shiina-sensei suddenly passed by. So…”
“It’s not like I followed you after all!”
“Hee! sorry!”
Sirone and the others shrank their heads at the same time. According to her personality, it wouldn’t end with just a fire order. However, contrary to expectations, no more sparks fell. When I gently opened my eyes, I saw Shiina who was lost in thought.
‘How the hell did you follow me?’
I paid as much attention as possible and was wary of my surroundings. Although she didn’t enter the Spirit Zone, her eyes weren’t clumsy enough to be followed by students at best.
“What are you hiding behind? Give it here.”
Nade shook his head with a frightened expression. However, when something like murder came out of Shiina’s eyes, she hurriedly held out the cloak she was holding. Fiercely snatching it up, Shiina made an absurd expression when she saw her missing arm. When I wrapped it around my waist like a skirt, this time it looked like it was cut off from the waist.
“Nade. Is this the patented product you are proud of?”
“yes.”
“You mean you really made it?”
“Ha, but I didn’t put it on the black market! I have that kind of conscience.”
“Whoa.”
At Shiina’s sigh, the three of them’ shoulders trembled. But she didn’t nag anymore. Being followed as a certified 6th-class magician was more due to his own immaturity than his disciples’ fault.
“Then why did you come into this room? Knowing you’d be caught out? What else did you mean by disappointment?”
Sirone said in a trembling voice.
“At first, I followed him as a joke, but when I saw the teacher hugging a man, I followed him. Stop overhearing conversations outside the door and thinking you’re having an affair…”
“What? Bu affair?”
Shiina’s face turned red like a carrot. It was the first time she had been seen so flustered.
“Affair! How do you look at me and say that!”
Ned did not hesitate to accept it.
“But it is! How can you not be misunderstood after hearing such a conversation? Telling me to take off my clothes or try to pose like this. Who the hell is that person?”
Nade pointed to the man still hiding behind the canvas.
“You mean that?”
A warm voice followed by a squeaking sound from the chair. After a while, a man appeared over the canvas.
Sirone and the others put on a blank expression. He was a handsome man in his late 20s, with blonde hair up to his waist. But the reason I was really surprised wasn’t because I was good looking. I saw that the man’s eyes were wrapped in shabby rags. was blind He’s angry too.
‘what?’
Sirone’s face turned pale. The paranormal feeling that I felt every night began to wrap my whole body again.
‘Why are you doing this? When it’s like this. I’ve never been like this during the day.’
The fluff stood up and the bones seemed to freeze. As I grabbed my trembling wrist and took a long, deep breath, Ned, who felt a sense of responsibility, patted his back and said,
“Hey Sirone? are you okay? don’t worry too much Could it be that the teacher has to kill us?”
“huh? uh no I’m fine now.”
Sirone gradually regained a comfortable appearance. It was a tremendous chill that was incomparable to the usual portrait, but it also disappeared quickly.
“Stop Shiina and forgive me. I don’t know what’s going on, but they look like the students you teach.”
“What are you talking about? So I can’t be more forgiving. It’s tailing. Even so, he said he trespassed on someone else’s house. Anyway, I only learned the bad things.”
The man smiled benevolently.
“But he is your disciple. I would have thought it was okay since the teacher was at home.”
Seizing an opportunity for conversion, Nade intervened.
“haha! We actually thought so too. It’s real. Sirone doesn’t lie, so ask him. If it was someone else’s house, I would never have entered it. We are not petty thieves.”
Sirone also nodded his head.
“that’s right. Nade really told me that. I definitely heard.”
Shiina shook her head as if she was in trouble. It was even disgusting to see her naive eyes flashing, saying that she would try to live somehow.
‘How could such naive bastards do such a thing? Anyway, clever things…’
It was absolutely not something to say when you followed the teacher while hiding in an invisibility cloak, opened the lock on someone else’s house, and came in.
Despite the situation, the man was only smiling. More than anything, it felt good to see Shiina’s pupil.
“My name is Armin. Shiinawa and I have been like brother and sister since we were little. I also studied at the Olipher School.”
When Armin held out his hand, Nade quickly took it.
“Aha, that’s right. We apologize for our stupid misunderstanding. I’m sorry for suddenly visiting without any notice.”
Shiina shouted ferociously.
“It’s trespassing! Are you trying to turn this into a sneaky visit?”
“lol. That’s why I said I’m sorry. To be honest, we are also happy that the misunderstanding about Shiina-sensei has been resolved.”
“I’m sorry, sir. I made a strange misunderstanding.”
Shiina put her hand on her hip and sighed. It was awkward for her to run into the situation with her students in a private setting, so silence continued for a while.
“Let’s sit down and talk. I’ll get out of the car.”
Armin quickly moved away. When the blind man walked out of the door with a precise gait, Sirone and the others couldn’t help but be surprised again.
“Teacher, who is that? And what do you mean by taking off your clothes? You just misunderstood because of that.”
Shiina shook her head as if her suspicions were unfounded.
“Armin oppa is my classmate. He is also the one who was expected to be the greatest genius in the history of the Olipher School. I am a painter now, but since I was young, my talent has been far superior to mine.”
“You were a great person. But I don’t know if it’s okay to ask this question, but why are the eyes…?”
As Shiina’s face darkened, Nade frowned as if he had asked a pointless question. Fortunately, however, she quickly relaxed her expression and spoke calmly.
“My brother lost an eye to save me.”
“yes? Is it because of the teacher?”
“Around the age of 9, I fell into an overflow. As I vaguely came to know the logic of the world, I became afraid of everything. I think I cried every day. Even thinking about it now, it was a terrible pain.”
Shiina smiled bitterly.
“The person who saved me was Armin oppa. You led me out of the darkness into the light. At that time, Armin oppa was 11 years old.”
Even though I was 11 years old, I was still a child. Still, the fact that he saved Shiina from the overflow was a testament to how talented Armin was.
“I guess you overcame the overflow with Armin’s advice.”
Shiina shook her head.
“no. I wasn’t that strong a kid. He was a arrogant little boy who enjoyed privileges just because he belonged to the Olifer family. I hated my brother at the time. He always used to talk to me like a habit. Whatever comes your way, don’t turn your eyes away from it. I got annoyed every time that happened. You close your eyes because you’re scared. I can’t stand it, so I have no choice but to run away. Whoops. Come to think of it, I was such an idiot back then.”
Sirone couldn’t imagine Shiina, a certified 6th-class magician, crying in fear.
“Then how did you overcome the overflow?”
“I didn’t like seeing Armin oppa, so I used to go out to the mountains or the riverside. Armin found me easily, but each time I ran away again. One day, while playing hide and seek like that… an incident broke out.”
Shiina frowned in pain.
“Because it was the rainy season, it rained for several days. Even on such a bad day, I was walking around the river. If you think about it, maybe it just happened that way. Unfortunately, the dam blocking the upstream collapsed. I, who was downstream, was swept away by the river without knowing anything. It was a huge flood that submerged half of the village.”
Shiina recalled what happened 17 years ago.
He couldn’t even scream and drowned in the river. It was a completely different scene from the riverside she was already at when she struggled to survive. Building debris and livestock floated upstream, and sharp broken trees floated downstream.
For the first time in her life, Shiina tasted the fear of death.
‘Save me. Someone please…!’
I know no one is coming. This place, far from the School, was somewhere between a stream and a swamp, where no one ventured. It is now a river, but no one would have thought that a little girl would be here.
The water washed away quickly. The land seemed so far away that it was impossible to cross the river. The stream, which had been used to pick up pebbles, had turned into a large torrent with a width of 25 meters. The color of the water was dark, and numerous swirls were created as the current split against the rocks.
“Save people! Someone please save me!”
For the first time in her life, Shiina showed her servility. The pride of being the only daughter of Olifer, one of the 10 greatest schools of the continent, lost her authority in front of the power of Mother Nature. Even natural talent could not overcome the raging river. All she could do was cry out for help.
“Shina!”
As if hearing a revelation from God, Shiina raised her head with all her might. Armin was waiting for him on a tree branch that bent precariously over the river.
“brother! brother!”
“Reach out your hand!”
Armin held out his hand near the surface. As soon as Shiina tried to hold her hand, she was swept away by a sudden wave of rocks and plunged into the water.
“Shina!”
When Shiina reappeared, it was not her face, but her two legs. Armin got it without delay. I rode the rapids and quickly submerged, grabbed Shiina and pulled her face to the surface. Shiina, who drank the water, was insane.
“Puha! Pooh!”
“Shina! Wake! We have to get out of the river!”
“Buy and live! help me!”
The vortex zone was out of the way, but tougher obstacles awaited. Armin expanded his spirit zone to avoid obstacles. It was the only thing the 11-year-old could do.
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