Chapter 477
Kettle couldn’t stand it anymore, so she cursed.
Professor Verdus protested against his student’s rude behavior.
“How rude!”
“You are the one who is rude! What reward is that!”
“It’s a reward!”
“Strictly speaking, it’s not a reward…”
Lee Han muttered next to him, and Professor Verdus exclaimed in surprise.
“Isn’t that a reward?! why!?”
“Uh… Um…”
Lee Han pondered over how to explain it.
It would have been easy if it were a normal person (if it was true, there was no need to explain), but Professor Verdus was a person who would never understand if he was a normal person.
“Compensation is originally divided into whether the recipient is necessary or not. No matter how good a thing is, if it is useless to the recipient, it is not rewarded.”
“But everyone likes the opportunity to work in my workshop, right?”
I saw Kettle grab the back of my neck and collapse.
However, Lee Han’s natural patience was not shaken by Professor Verdus’ words like that. Lee Han replied calmly.
“Even if I work in a professor’s studio, it’s not easy to use it because my skills are lacking right now.”
“ah! I bet!”
Professor Verdus was immediately convinced.
In fact, Lee Han was a little better than the other stupid students, but compared to Professor Verdus, he was still a pitiful disciple with a lot to learn.
Even if he lent such a student the workbench used by Professor Verdus, he would not be able to use even one hundredth of it.
“I forgot you were stupid.”
“it’s okay.”
At Professor Verdus’ answer, Kettle frothed.
Is that what he would say in front of the disciple who came to the underground punishment room to save him?
‘Why is the world happier with wicked people? People like the principal and Professor Verdus live happily, but why do the ancestors suffer so much?’
Kettle was heartbroken to see the good first-year junior suffering.
“Can you take care of something else?”
“Anything else… well, what can a fool do?”
Kettle hurriedly exclaimed as Professor Verdus was about to get lost in thought.
“Seonggakgwan basement storage! Ask for the key to the storage room in the basement of Seonggak Hall!”
Professor Verdus had a very blatant expression of disapproval. When Lee Han saw it, he suddenly became interested.
“Where is it?”
“A place where Professor Verdus has collected his favorite reagents and materials!! This is the place where my friend would never open it even if he got down on his knees and grabbed his ankles like that!!”
“It’s a waste.”
Professor Verdus grumbled as if it were natural.
Kettle cried out in anger.
I was so scared that Lee Han would just open it.
“hey! If you can’t get that key, don’t pretend you know me. Don’t go anywhere and call me senior! Don’t even say that Ein Rogard came out! Hogu like you are not needed in Ein Lorgard!!”
‘It’s really strange to hear that he’s like Hogu.’
Lee Han only hangs out with his friends, but when he hears from his senior, ‘Why are you so nice and like a hogu?’, he felt very awkward.
If I had friends, I might have doubted my ears.
“sorry. professor. Senior told me that I must get the key.”
“It’s a pity…”
“But as a junior, I can’t not listen to my senior. Then you can’t open it. The professor is still locked up here.”
“It’s still a waste…”
Professor Verdus groaned in agony, but Lee Han stood firm by selling his senior’s name.
In the end, Professor Verdus gave in.
“okay. I’ll give.”
“thank you. I will write well.”
“for a moment!!”
Kettle yelled again.
Even though I received the key, there was a sense of urgency that I could never leave it alone.
“If you work outside of lecture time, swear that those hours will be yours to choose! And if you work separately, make sure to specify exactly what you will be paid for!”
“Work is fun, but do you need a separate salary?”
Kettle ignored Professor Verdus’s question and said what he had to say.
“Did you hear that!? Think carefully now! Do you think there will be an opportunity in the future for Professor Verdus to yield and swear!? How much you pluck today will determine your future life in Einrogard!”
Tears welled up in Kettle’s eyes as she remembered the friends she had learned under Professor Verdus.
All good and caring friends fell away, and only a few mad geniuses could survive under them.
I couldn’t stay still at the thought that this hunk-like freshman would end up like that.
“I swear to you! Even with a knife pointed at his throat!”
“sorry. professor. Senior told me to swear.”
“Why is he doing that?”
Professor Verdus grumbled.
I couldn’t figure out why these oaths and contracts were necessary.
Passion for magic and respect for each other were enough to make Einrogard’s school of enchantment magic run well.
“I swear, in the future, when ordering my student Lee Han from the Wardanaz family to work, I will give him a choice first…”
Professor Verdus, who had sworn, looked at Lee Han and asked.
“But doesn’t it mean nothing? You like to work.”
“Yes. professor. Actually it doesn’t make any sense. I just swear to satisfy my senior. If I had a choice, would I say no? haha.”
Lee Han internally thanked Kettle and said.
Thanks to that senior trapped in the punishment room, Lee Han was getting rid of the things he wanted one by one without even touching them.
“…If anyone orders me to do so, I’ll pay him a decent salary… I’ll negotiate the pay before ordering him, and not myself, but my student…” Kettle took
out a handkerchief and wiped his eyes. Lee Han asked in bewilderment.
“Are you crying?”
“You’re mistaken because the air is damp from the Elemental Flood!”
“What nonsense…”
“Focus on your oath! Don’t miss what Professor Verdus is saying! And don’t trust the professor!”
“Mmm.”
Lee Han was sad.
If it weren’t for Professor Verdus’ ear, I wanted to say, ‘senpai, would you believe that I’m crazy?’
However, as he was in front of Professor Verdus, Lee Han had no choice but to act as a good disciple.
“Professor probably didn’t have any bad intentions…
”
Kettle almost collapsed again.
* * *
Still, thanks to the kettle, Lee Han was able to make a few more vows.
After making an oath not to visit without permission during vacation, Lee Han looked at Kettle with eyes dripping with respect.
‘As expected, I’m not a senior for nothing!’
It was Kettle’s first time meeting an Einrogarde graduate, but I never thought they would be so reassuring.
Lee Han now seemed to understand why Ein Lorgard was considered the best educational institution in the empire.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. Okay… go now. Never trust a professor.”
Kettle beckoned with a tired face.
“Can’t you help me escape too?”
“I can’t. Professor Verdus, at best, was caught stealing from the principal, but…”
“I didn’t steal!”
Professor Verdus jumped up and protested, but Kettle ignored him.
“…I was caught having an accident outside. If you escape, they’ll come after you right away. And if they get caught…”
Kettle trembled.
He didn’t say anything behind his back, but it was a gesture that gave you an idea of how afraid he was.
“Should I tell the principal?”
“You make good jokes.”
Kettle laughed.
The jokes made by juniors in the first year were bolder and funnier than I thought.
How dare you make such a joke with the sky-like skeleton headmaster.
“While talking, tell them to improve the environment inside.”
“yes. All right. older than that. I brought the lunch I promised outside.”
Lee Han opened his backpack and began to take out groceries from inside.
I brought plenty of preserved food, such as canned beef and canned fruit, and even favorite items such as sugar, tea leaves, and coffee powder to make it easy to eat in the cell.
“This is the bread I baked this morning, so you should eat it right away. I also brought some honey.”
“…Where are you going?!”
Kettle asked in surprise.
No matter how much I thought about it, it wasn’t something that a freshman could get.
If they got something like that, they wouldn’t even be able to eat it, so they brought it here.
Even if you’re nice, isn’t this too harsh?
“hey. What will your friends say if you give me something like this! Just take it back.”
“yes? It’s fine anyway.”
“…???”
Kettle was confused.
Are you full?
‘I don’t think he’s lying, but what is it?’
It made me wonder if the first year students robbed the kitchen as a group.
But even if that was the case, it wouldn’t be this much…
“Senior. As you promised, please let us know what you left behind at school.”
“ah. It did.”
Confused, Kettle came to her senses.
Come to think of it, this junior had been in contact with Kettle since the character education lecture.
At that time, I never thought that I would break through to the punishment room here and make a successful deal…
“You are such a thorough guy, why on earth do you believe the professor so much? Professor, I can’t believe it.”
“haha. You are still a professor.”
Behind him, Professor Verdus nodded in agreement.
Kettle let out a short sigh.
No one can be perfect.
This junior had great magical talent, but he also had a very fatal weakness in Einrogard.
Trusting the professor like that…
“Take this. This is the location of the room me and my friends used to have. There will be some useful ones left.”
Yihan bowed his head and accepted the map that Kettle had given him.
It was a worthwhile reward for coming this far.
“thank you!”
“I have to thank you. Thank you for eating. don’t eat well I need to stay here for a while…”
Kettle licked his lips and looked at Lee Han.
“You don’t become like me.”
“All right. I will be careful when using magic outside.”
“no. You can buy it with magic outside, but don’t get caught. I was caught and caught.”
“……”
‘I don’t think you’ve reflected…’
Lee Han thought to himself. Professor Verdus, who was listening next to him, said.
“You have to transform.”
“yes?”
“You have to transform. you promised If you come to rescue me, I will stay as a goat for a week.”
“……”
Kettle cast magic while spitting out profanity from Professor Verdus.
pop!
“Then let’s go!”
Mee-!
‘If the principal comes, I’ll give it back to the author unconditionally!’
The goat, no kettle, glared at the back of Professor Verdus, who was leaving with a vengeance.
If the skeleton headmaster comes and asks, ‘Why did the punishment room look like this?’, ‘It is because of Professor Verdus! Meeh!’
* * *
“Everyone. The flood is over.”
Ah… Then release me… When
Lee Han returned to the library and declared with a tired face, all the students were surprised.
“No way…!”
“Wardanas, did you solve it?!”
“hey. Don’t you even remember what Wardanaj said last time? You kept telling me not to mess with you.”
Anrago scolded the students of the Black Turtle Tower.
“I solved this problem.”
“……”
Anrago glared at Lee Han.
The other day, this kid said, ‘Do you think I solved everything in Einrogard? Don’t keep tying it up’ and scolding me!
“How did you solve it!?”
Can’t you… release me and make a noise… Wizards…
“Wait!”
Salko looked around.
Then, as if he knew, he made a look of admiration.
“I respect you. Wodanaz. Did you sacrifice the prince?”
“It’s not.”
“It was a heartbreaking choice, but it was an inevitable sacrifice. You will be fine soon.”
“I didn’t give it.”
Let it go… even if you let it go and make noise…
“Yeah. If you say that, respect…”
Guinando, who secretly ate a snack from behind, glared at Salko.
Who do you want to sacrifice?
“no!?”
“What are you surprised about? what?”
“Then who did you sacrifice…?”
Lee Han said in a tired voice.
“I just bumped into it with a straight attack method. I went to the spirits and persuaded them.”
Tanjueo,
who was trying to complain to be released, shut his mouth in disgust at Lee Han’s words.
What a crazy wizard!?
