The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

47 – Latecomer

It was even worse than I expected to see a man, especially a man wearing shabby clothes and threatening me with a phlegmatic voice, suddenly change and become obsessed with me as if he had never done that. .

“Let’s be my disciples!”

“No, I don’t.”

While returning to the statue, Lawton suddenly started clinging to me, asking me to become his disciple.

“With your skills, you can quickly find the materials and it will be of great help to my research!”

“That’s not a student, isn’t it usually called a teaching assistant?”

“Wouldn’t it be plausible that the disciple pampered him more?”

I shook my head in amazement at Lawton’s proud question.

“And as I said, I am a combat unit. I don’t have any knowledge about sorcery.”

“It’s okay, I’m a wizard too.”

I was dumbfounded by Lawton’s voice, as if it was not a big deal, so I stopped and stared at it. Lawton smiled unpleasantly.

“So, disciple. It’s because you’re still young and don’t know, it’s not easy to find a teacher like me.”

Lawton added his words as he fixed the bag containing the Platinum flowers.

“Once you go to my house and discuss the details, you will change your mind.”

As if I had already become his disciple, Lawton patted me on the shoulder, so I swept his face once and continued down the mountain.

“But why were you researching about stone prickly pear? No one is interested these days, and the number of stone thorn plants has decreased significantly compared to before, and everyone is forgetting about it.”

To Lawton’s out-of-the-box question, I couldn’t say that if I didn’t find a cure for stone thorn disease, I would die from the witch’s curse, so I covered it up.

“Just… I have personal circumstances.”

I returned to the place where the statue was and retrieved the spear of destruction that was wrapped in vines. As he let out a sigh of relief as he inserted the Spear of Destruction into the Space Storage, Lawton asked with his eyes shining.

“Hey, I’ve been wondering since a while ago, what kind of magic is that?”

I explained kindly to Lawton, who asked such a question with a curious face like a wizard.

“That…. It is a secret.”

“Damn! Tell me! Can’t you tell that it’s the family’s vision?”

I shook my head at Lawton’s reasoning.

“I am a commoner?”

“What?! How can a commoner know such great magic!!!”

I shrugged my shoulders at Lawton’s words, which sounded like he was resentful.

“I learned magic by accident. Well, I was suspicious because a commoner knew this kind of magic, but thanks to that, I got it notarized by Principal Nelson.”

At my explanation, Lawton nodded his head as if he finally understood.

“Now it makes sense. So you said you were notarized….”

Pretending not to know Lawton’s gaze, which was more burdensome than before, asked insinuatingly on the way down the mountain.

“How far has research on stone thorn disease progressed?”

“You mean research? You saw it with your own eyes. A live boar turned into a stone statue.”

At Lawton’s grunting voice, I said grumpily.

“You failed?”

To my words, Lawton hurriedly added his words as he looked contemplating whether to pull out his wand.

“Still, a cure for Stone Thorn’s disease will be found soon.”

As if he had decided not to take out his wand at my words, Lawton replied with a snort.

“Hmph, recent research on stone thorn disease has been getting good results…. If I could get a lot of stone thorn plants, I would be able to continue researching, and the time would be shortened.”

Seeing Lawton looking at me again with greedy eyes, I felt a sense of déjà vu, as if I hadn’t received such a look from Lacar someday.

“Do you really not intend to become my disciple?”

“The reason I say that is not because I have magical talents, but because I dig flowers easily, right?”

I laughed and said it as a joke, but there was a little silence between Lawton and me.

As I looked at Lawton, narrowing my eyes at the strange silence, Lawton asked as if changing the subject.

“But is it okay if you don’t go back to the academy?”

I realized that Lawton’s words had passed much longer than planned, so I hurriedly shouted.

“I’ll come back later!”

I wanted to ask you a lot, but it was too late. Even if he left for the capital right away, he would always be late.

After saying goodbye to Lawton, I hurriedly returned to the village, stopped at a tavern, gave gold coins to a villager with a wagon, and set off for the capital.

I arrived in the capital and hurriedly ran to the academy, but it was already late and the door was firmly closed.

When I knocked on the small barred door next to the main gate, a person who appeared to be a security guard approached.

“It’s been a while since the time to go out, what are you doing now?”

“Sorry. I didn’t notice the time passing.”

The knight who grumbled at my uniform and approached to open the door suddenly saw my face, stopped his steps and called another knight. The guard knights, who were whispering something to the approaching knight, smiled mockingly at my face.

“Are you Ross? The one who watered us with water guards in the sewers.”

“Hey, a freshman going out and even being late. They say that Transcendence has changed a lot lately, so it’s completely screwed up.”

Through the iron cage door, the guards began to chase me. Perhaps because of the work in the sewerage, the guards left a remnant on me.

“Really, when I was in the academy, if I had a guy like you, I would have killed half of them.”

“I don’t know how you got out, but always remember that the academy guards are keeping an eye on you. If you catch anything, I’ll arrest you right away.”

For some reason, despite their grudge, I felt that the figure was funny. Maybe it’s because I’ve experienced an entire army of possessions, or maybe it’s because my nervous breakdown has disappeared and my indomitable courage is protecting the opposite s*x. It really didn’t matter.

“Is that why you went out to contact the black magic love?”

As I was sighing at the sight of the guards asking mockingly, someone appeared behind the guards.

“What are you doing?”

I couldn’t see her figure because it was covered by the knights, but I could guess it was Professor Leora from the severity in her voice.

“Ah, professor. I am a latecomer.”

“I was checking for a while.”

As I was scratching the back of my head at the sight of the knights ignoring what they were mocking and swearing at, I heard Professor Leora’s hard voice.

“Then, shouldn’t we first let the students in and then proceed with the inspection or notify the dormitory superintendent? Are you supposed to leave the student outside the door like that?”

The knights panicked at Professor Leora’s question and tried to make an excuse, but Professor Leora took out the school rules and started robbing the knights, pointing out the mistakes of the guard knights one by one.

Seeing the contemplative knights with their heavy heads bowed and their eyes fixed on their toes, only repeating the words ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I will correct it,’ briefly reminded me of my military life.

When you are having a hard time because of the reason for the match, the father’s military number appears and seems to shake off the match… !

When I was rooting for Professor Leora and asking for more, someone approached, perhaps overhearing the commotion.

“What’s going on?”

The person who approached was the leader of the guard knights. Maybe his name was Luke? He was quite famous even within the academy, so I remembered his name.

After hearing Professor Leora’s kind explanation, Luke glared at the knights with a cool face.

“Sorry. It’s my lack of care. They were still freshmen, so they lacked training. To ensure that this never happens again, I will thoroughly teach all the guards again.”

When the leader of the guard knights bowed down and apologized, Professor Leora responded politely to protect the knight commander’s pride.

“I can trust the words of the knight commander. All right.”

As Professor Leora took a step back, Luke put on a grateful expression and opened the iron cage door on behalf of the knights who were still bowing their heads.

“I’m sorry. It will never happen again.”

I nodded my head at Luke’s sincere apology.

“Follow me.”

I sighed at Professor Leora’s stern voice and took my stride.

As we walked to the combat unit dormitory, there was only awkward silence between us.

“Why are you late?”

Breaking the silence, I hurriedly searched for an excuse for the question that came out of nowhere.

“Help an elderly person…. It took a little bit longer. Forgive me for being late.”

Lawton is also an old man, so I’m not going to lie… ?

At that, Leora stopped her steps and sighed and turned her body towards her.

“Ross, what begins with good intentions does not necessarily result in good intentions.”

I couldn’t find anything to reply to Professor Leora’s words, so I just scratched my cheek.

“The sewer work was something Ross told me in good faith, but as a result, the academy’s defense was lax and Ross was misunderstood unintentionally.”

Are you blaming the past? I had nothing to say, so I hung my head.

Then the unexpected happened. Professor Leora suddenly reached out and grabbed her chin and met her gaze.

Despite her stern voice and expression, Professor Leora’s orange eyes felt warm for some reason.

“Don’t bow your head like a criminal. Whatever the outcome, it is true that Ross was trying to do good for the academy students.”

There was no expression on Professor Leora’s face when she said that, but for some reason, her usual sense of strictness had disappeared a little.

“It’s too late, but I really wanted to tell you.”

She said.

“Good job. Loss.”

Professor Leora grabbed my chin and said that without any change in expression, but…. For some reason, a strange feeling welled up in my heart.

My nose itches for no reason, and I have a strange feeling of wanting to scratch the back of my head.

Leora removed his hand from my chin and started walking again.

“And as punishment for being late, I am not allowed to go out this week. Of course, including weekends.”

“Huh?! No, that’s….”

I was changing my image of Professor Leora in my mind… ! As soon as I was able to talk to Lawton after an effort, the curfew was too harsh.

“If you discipline according to the school rules, you will be deprived of the right to go out.”

As I said that, I turned my head with a stern face, and I hurriedly nodded my head at Professor Leora’s gaze, as if asking if it would be better to do so.

“Yes! No going out this week! Being late, I think it is a deserved punishment.”

I got the feeling that Professor Leora, who turned her head forward again at those words, smiled at first glance.

Of course, Professor Leora’s face, which I looked at from the corner of my eye, was as stern as always.