Chapter 095
“I really have no intention of going out. But if that would put you at ease, I’d be happy to hear the information.”
Lee Han said with a serious expression.
When he said that with a chiseled face and without a hint of a joke, Salchow involuntarily became confused.
‘Have you really never gone out at night?’
Salcho looked at the other Black Turtle Tower friend next to him. Then the friend shook his head.
It was a word not to be fooled.
“……”
Salko’s expression became slightly stern. As expected, it was dangerous to trust the slick-looking aristocrats.
“…Follow me. I’ll explain.”
Then Salco whispered something to his friends in the Black Turtle Tower.
Lee Han became curious and asked a friend who had vegetable stew the other day.
“What did Tutanta say?”
The other party replied with an apologetic expression.
“…Tell me not to talk to you alone when you’re not there…”
“……”
* * *
Actually, Lee Han wasn’t the only one walking around at night. Quite a few students were slowly leaving the tower.
He realized that he would not be able to survive in this school if he just slept quietly at night.
Whether it was for food, assignments, or escape, I had to run around the school and search for anything.
Of course Salco did too.
“Sneaking around school at night and blaming me?”
“…I never criticized.”
Salcoe said as if it were absurd.
Come to think of it, there really wasn’t.
“Right. Go on.”
“…”
Salko continued.
The place Salko and friends continue to challenge these days is the third floor of the main building.
The main building, which is the largest and contains the most mysteries among the magic school buildings.
Rumor has it that even the principal doesn’t know what’s in the main building.
As if to prove the rumor, the third floor of the main building kept changing every time I visited.
Sometimes there are five hallways, sometimes there are no stairs leading to them at all, and other times I can’t even take a few steps, but I’m blocked by a wall… But Salko has
found a way to get in to some extent by clinging to it with the tenacity typical of a stonemason’s guild.
“How do I get in?”
“When the hours and minutes are odd, when the moon is cloudless, and when the staff is held in the left hand. Keeping this, the corridor on the third floor opens properly.”
“……”
For a moment, Lee Han wondered if Salko was making fun of him. But Salchow was very serious.
“That… that’s right.”
Well, it could have been if it was a magic school.
Lee Han was sufficiently grateful that the condition that the corridor on the third floor opened properly at night was not that he had to ride a unicycle and jump over a circle of fire while roasting peanuts with lightning.
“thanks. That’s useful information.”
It was Lee Han who had to visit the stable located on the upper floor of the main building. The information on the 3rd floor was quite useful.
“The information is not over yet. There is someone on the third floor who can help you.”
“Isn’t it the spirit of lightning?”
“?”
“no. Just kidding. What kind of existence are you?”
Lee Han became curious.
Even if it was a magical existence, the magic school was already full of all kinds of strange beings.
Lich trolls, half-breed vampires, lightning spirits, etc…
And probably not a good person to meet and talk to most. Lee Han could bet even a gold coin.
“I can’t say that.”
“……”
“Because I made an oath to go around without telling the identity of that existence.”
“Right. Do you want me to go and check it myself?”
“no. Finding that being is more complicated and difficult than entering the hallway on the third floor. I have to go with you. As you decide, I will go to the hallway on the third floor and guide you to the being.”
Salchow said so with a hard, rocky attitude. However, Lee Han heard his doubts.
‘Isn’t this a child trap?’
After receiving unfair attacks from other students, I first heard suspicions.
Didn’t the opponent hate nobles and knights anyway?
When I went to the hallway on the third floor, the Black Turtle Tower students could have been waiting wearing masks.
Or maybe the being in the hallway on the third floor wants to sacrifice one of the students, and Salchow chose Lee Han…
“Why?”
Salcho asked back, never dreaming that Lee Han had very rude suspicions.
“I swore an oath to that being, wouldn’t you hate it if you guided me?”
“no. He said it doesn’t matter if he brings in a new student as long as he doesn’t reveal his identity. Just in case, I checked it again in the < Basic Imperial Language and Logic > lecture.”
‘Tsk.’
The opponent was a student as diligent as Lee Han. It was not as easy to play with as Gainando.
“Do you really think it helps?”
“For the honor of my family, I think so. Of course, my judgment may not always be correct.”
Salko spoke earnestly, stroking his beard like a dwarf.
‘Anything is a situation that requires information.’
Lee Han, who was worried, nodded his head.
It was not the time to cover yourself with cold or hot water to find your way to the stable located on the upper floor of the main building.
“good. When are you planning to go?”
“Tonight.”
* * *
Saturday evening.
It was time for the other students to wrap themselves in blankets in the common room and warm up by the campfire.
Time to hold a steaming cup of tea or coffee in one hand and a quill or chess piece or cards in the other.
At that time, Lee Han and Salco were walking up the dark stairs of the main building.
‘It seems there are no other guys.’
Lee Han checked his surroundings, being wary of any possible ambush. The Black Turtle Tower students didn’t seem to follow.
Salcho wore a cane in one hand and a hammer slung around his waist.
To be honest, that hammer felt more threatening than the wooden swords the White Tiger Tower students were wearing.
“I asked other students. Wodanaz.”
Salko said in a low voice reminiscent of granite.
“What did you ask?”
“What kind of person are you?”
“……”
Lee Han checked his surroundings once again.
Salko said, ‘Die, Wodanaz. Your evil deed ends here!”
Fortunately, that didn’t happen.
“I heard that you feed the other students. All the students of the Blue Dragon Tower, as well as the students of other towers.”
“okay.”
“A good deed is something to be respected, but I want to stop it. People who have not worked to find food and clothing for themselves will not know the value of it even if someone takes care of it.”
Lee Han nodded his head involuntarily.
That was just too right.
“…?”
Salchow was taken aback when Yihan nodded.
It was not expected that Lee Han, a native of the Wodanaz family, would admit it like that without the slightest rebuttal.
“Do you understand…?”
“There is nothing wrong with that. Originally, those who did not work for themselves do not know the value.”
“yes. Do nobles know how sacred labor is? Or the knights? The kind of guys who only know how to do it are condescending, holding knives and showing off?”
“I think we should basically send the nobles and knights to the farm to plow the fields. You can learn swordsmanship as an education, so there’s no reason you can’t learn farming.”
The two young workers were passionately in agreement.
After the conversation, Lee Han and Salko looked at each other as if they were quite familiar. Salcho’s rocky face softened slightly.
“I guess I misunderstood you. I apologize. Wodanaz. Some of the White Tiger Tower students say that you are an evil archmage without blood or tears…”
“……”
“…That must have been a rumor from arrogant knights.”
“yes. Such rumors always blind our eyes, so we must always be careful. As a wizard.”
“That is correct.”
Salco shook his head with a look of reflection.
Lee Han thought to himself.
‘No matter what kind of rumor spreads in the future, I’ll be able to claim it as nonsense.’
Salko looked at Yihan’s hand. It was a hand that was hardened by gardening and various tasks. Nobles couldn’t have hands like that.
How people with the same hand know each other. Salchow fully acknowledged this.
Then Salco became rather curious.
Why would a student like Lee Han take care of other lazy junk?
“Wardanaz. I want to ask you something.”
“what?”
“Why are you taking care of students from the same tower?”
“……”
Lee Han was embarrassed.
That’s right…
‘It’s because of the money…’
They do it because they get paid, but they don’t even get paid.
Of course it was because of the money.
However, Lee Han thought that it was not very good to say that it was because of money when Salco was thinking highly of him.
Lee Han decided to answer in an ambiguous way.
“Because we are friends.”
“……”
The answer made a strong impression on Salchow.
I thought that there were students following Wodanaz because of his magical skills, but looking at it this way, it seems that it is not the only reason.
“I would never do that… but that’s why I think I know a little bit about what honor you nobles are talking about. It wasn’t completely absent.”
“……”
Lee Han put the ledger in his chest a little deeper.
If he gets caught, Salcho will never trust the nobles for the rest of his life.
Salko, who was walking in front of the corridor of the main building on the third floor, stopped suddenly. Then he pointed to a statue located in the hallway. It was a statue of an unknown wizard.
It was an old, faded and broken statue, but it was nonetheless breathtakingly beautiful.
He’s so handsome that it feels like he doesn’t even have a human appearance.
‘That’s strange. Why does it feel familiar?’
“Do you see this statue broken? Wodanaj?”
Salcho pulled out a hammer. Lee Han took a step back, put his hand on his waist and nodded.
“I repaired this statue the other day. I couldn’t just look at a broken stone statue like this.”
‘You’re a workaholic.’
But Lee Han also understood.
Just as Yoner wants to water plants when he sees them, Nilia wants to hunt game when he sees it, and Lee Han wants to bow down when he sees a professor…
Salcho has such an occupational disease.
“But it broke again like this?”
“okay. Even after fixing this statue, it continues to break. And that is the secret to opening this hidden door.”
Salko carefully repaired the broken statue.
Then, with the sound of stones rolling in the dark, the statue rotated once. At the same time, a hidden passage opened.
“Go inside. Wodanaz. From here on, I have to go alone.”
“Tutanta. … I trust you.”
“Know. So you must have come this far.”
“I really believe in you.”
“Why are you repeating it?”
Unaware that Lee Han was reading his reaction, Salko tilted his head.
* * *
Is there a new student?
“!”
Inside the aisle was a statue. It was a statue that looked like a mixture of several beasts.
nice to meet. I am a statue of a forgotten beast. I’ve been at this school for quite some time. Student who came in after repairing the statue. First, will you swear not to tell anyone about my true identity?
“…I swear.”
When Lee Han answered, the dog’s tail on the statue turned happily.
“Excuse me, what are you doing here?”
You’re just killing time. The room I was guarding was closed 187 years ago. Since then I’ve been roaming around the cool parts of this school.
“I wonder why I shouldn’t tell people around me, but…”
That’s because the professors can make me work again.
“You are indeed wise…!”
Thank you for your sympathy.
Lee Han could be sure that this statue was truly wise.
