My brows furrowed as I became serious, just like him with his stern expression.
“The reason why Bendy was chosen….”
Finally, getting to the point.
“How am I supposed to know?”
“What?”
“My role is just to guard.”
Then why did you ask me?
He was nothing more than a useless tiger, except for his innocent face.
I nervously touched my nose, and in the end, I tightly closed my mouth.
The awkward silence became increasingly difficult to endure.
Trapped in a confined space with a carnivorous creature. As time passed, the fear that I had tried so hard to bury started to rise from my fingertips.
Moreover, that innocent tiger had been subtly observing me since yesterday.
“Did you sense something?”
In unnecessary anxiety, I checked my hair, but the strands in my hand were not pitch black, but a vivid crimson.
Anxiously, I ran my tongue over my lips.
“President.”
At that moment, Renen stroked his chin, and his colored eyes narrowed to a crescent shape. It was beautiful like a crescent, but strangely felt dangerous.
“Tell me, no, say it.”
“You know, that.”
“I know, what?”
“It’s a seductive act among carnivorous creatures.”
He lightly tapped near his lips with his index finger.
“…?”
“That thing with using your tongue on your lips.”
“Oh.”
How am I supposed to know about your carnivorous customs?
After that, I never used my tongue on my lips anywhere. Never.
In the deep dawn where even the birds were asleep, I quietly left the dormitory and arrived at the stable far from the main building.
“Happy, where are you?”
As I reached out with a lamp, the crimson light illuminated the stable.
When I spotted the brown deer in the darkness, I lost my words.
“It’s a deer, not a monster.”
The owner of the stable, the horses, were pushed aside, and look at the muscular deer taking over the spot.
Moreover, it had gained some weight since I last saw it. It looked like a stocky general.
“Can you survive here? I brought some snacks. Oops!”
With a snort, Happy took the nuts I had brought as a tribute before I had a chance to hand them over.
To think that such a monstrous deer was the only herbivorous companion in the academy.
While trembling with anger, I suddenly remembered something that I had completely forgotten. The memory of severing my father’s restraints with my magic on the day I met Happy.
“How could I have forgotten that?”
Running away from the deer territory and rushing to adapt to life in the Academy of Shapeshifters had made me forget.
Even though I had never actually implemented magic before.
Staring intently at my own hand, I clenched and relaxed my fist repeatedly.
I had enough knowledge of the theory, so maybe implementing magic wasn’t an impossible task. I was probably just weird for not having implemented it until now.
Whether it was a coincidence or a skill, it appeared at a crossroads of life and death.
“Alright.”
To determine, I reached out my hand, and Happy’s body suddenly stiffened. As a beast, it seemed to react swiftly to danger.
Concentrating my magic at my fingertips, a faint wind began to blow.
Starting from the tip of my toes, the wind quickly traveled through my body like a whirlwind.
A completely different sensation from before enveloped my whole body.
“Now.”
As I opened my eyes wide, I released the explosive magic at my fingertips.
At the same time, there was a poof, and a small whirlwind floated above my palm. It was smaller than the flame of a lamp.
Damn poof. Muttering Kim San’s name, gradually,
“Ah!”
I felt a sharp pain and was knocked back by Happy’s body slam. It was the result of trying to condemn myself for tension.
“Sorry, I’m sorry.”
As I wiped my hand, I suddenly stopped moving. The crimson strand of hair bitten by Happy was gradually fading from the tip.
“Oh.”
It seemed that the magic duration had ended, and it returned to its original state.
“It disappeared.”
The fang that had pierced my fingertips also soon returned to flatness.
Finally, the crimson hair that didn’t feel mine at all turned into pure black.
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