I’m Not Doing This With A Friend

I reflexively looked up at the sky.

As soon as I look up at the sky, raindrops hit my body.

As I had a feeling that the rain would get stronger, I wrapped the herbs I had gathered well in a cloth. There were a lot of herbs that needed to be dried, but it would be difficult if they got wet in the rain.

“Kaon. “Let’s go down before the rain gets stronger.”

I decided to go down and looked around to find Carsion. But somewhere in the meantime, Carsion was no longer around.

Considering his personality, there’s no way he would have gone down first.

“Kaon?”

I called his name again just in case, and Carsion suddenly appeared in front of me.

“Did you call me, Lien? sorry. “I was a little late.”

I blinked in surprise. Because I didn’t know that just by calling his name once, he would actually appear in front of me right away.

Now that I think about it, I haven’t had the feeling of rain since Carsion appeared.

When I glanced over, I saw that a transparent film had formed around me and him.

The ability is also good.

“Where have you been, Kaon?”

Instead of answering, he handed me a pink rose. Seeing that it didn’t sting, it seemed like he had removed the thorn beforehand.

“I was trying to find a flower of the same color as you, but I couldn’t find it even after searching all over the mountain… … . So I picked roses that were the same color as me.”

Carsion blushes slightly and smiles.

“What do you think, we look alike…” … ?”

I suddenly accepted the rose and was overcome by a strange feeling.

Does Carsion know that the flower language of pink roses means passionate love?

I looked at the pink rose from a distance, and eventually had no choice but to admit it.

“Yeah, it looks a lot like you.”

He looks so much like this rose.

* * *

After completing all of the group assignments alone, I received some unexpected news on Monday, the day the assignment was submitted.

From Hans, who made me grind my teeth.

“Therefore… … “Your grandfather’s ex-lover was actually your biological grandmother?”

“huh.”

Hans shook his head as if what he heard was correct.

Then why do you talk like that?

Isn’t that immoral?

I kept my mouth shut, but Hans, who saw my rotten expression, scratched his cheek sheepishly. Even if I thought about it, the words must have been strange.

“I was so anxious that my words came out in vain. Well, her grandfather divorced her grandmother, so in a way, it’s not wrong.”

“How can something go wrong like that?” … .”

“Haha. Rather, I guess I got lost and did the group work together. One person… … “Because I said the quality was good.”

“Oh, about that… … .”

“Sorry. And of course, as I said before, please submit without my name.”

“No, that’s not it. I did the group work alone.”

“What?”

Hans looked at the empty seats of the team members who were not yet there with embarrassed eyes.

“That’s one person, but why Amilla?”

That girl’s name was Amilla.

“Malgam didn’t even show up at the agreed-upon location. “I waited for over 40 minutes, so I guess I waited long enough.”

“Oh, he is like that. “You must have had a hard time.”

I raised one eyebrow.

He knows that I had a hard time.

Hans missed the group assignment due to unavoidable circumstances and apologized for it.

Moreover, they even said that it was okay to leave out the name as if it were obvious.

I think he’s a better guy than I thought.

As I was mentally revising my evaluation of Hans to a positive one, I heard his questioning voice.

“More than that… … Malgam? “I understand potatoes, but what is ‘horse’?”

“Talking Potato.”

“Does Amilla look like a potato?”

“No, it’s not because of her appearance, but because Malgam’s brain looks similar to a potato.”

“huh? What are you talking about?”

“It resembles a round shape without wrinkles.”

“Fuha! It’s hard to refute that part. “Everyone admits that Amilla speaks without thinking.”

I lightly shrugged my shoulders and looked at him. Then Hans bursts out laughing and slaps my back.

“Are you a funnier kid than I thought? “I wondered if he had any emotions because he always had no facial expression.”

You can just say it with words. Why on earth are you hitting someone who is still?

Thanks to that, I flinched for a moment without realizing it. I sighed and took his hand away.

“I tend to smile when I’m with people I’m close to. There’s no need to smile during herbalism class. “There’s nothing to laugh about.”

Hans spoke in that same awkward posture as if he was embarrassed by the separated hand.

“ah! Now that I think about it, I’m talking about the kid who’s always next to you… … .”

“Jane?”

“A lively kid with short, wheat-colored hair.”

“… … I think you’re right Jane. why? “Are you interested?”

“How did you know? Jane. Wow, the name is pretty too. “She was absolutely my ideal type.”

I quickly looked up at him blushing shyly.

“You get out of my sight right now.”

Cancel the good guy.

How dare you target the angelic Jane?

Jane must meet someone who is ‘young and rich, tall and handsome’. A topic that only satisfies ‘spirit’. Cheeky.

“Eh, suddenly? “No, did I do something wrong?”

Hans asked with an aggrieved expression, but I ignored him as if I couldn’t hear anything he said.

* * *

“Professor George. “I’m here to submit my assignment.”

“Come in.”

With Professor George’s permission, Lien calmly opened the door and entered Professor George’s laboratory.

Perhaps because he was studying herbs, Professor George was wearing glasses that he did not normally wear. His tired appearance reminds me of a half-dead person.

Now that I think about it, I think I saw corpses walking around before entering the lab, and I think they were people who came out of this lab.

People who write that they are students and read that they are the professor’s slaves.

Lien thought naturally.

‘I shouldn’t pursue a master’s or doctoral degree in the future. never.’

“Give it to me.”

Professor George reached out his hand and took almost half of the assignment Lien was holding.

The professor soon took his eyes off Lien’s assignment.

“The grading is over, so take it. “Your group is F.”

He told her to take it and threw Lien’s assignment on the floor.

It was an action that clearly showed that if you wanted to take something, you should bend over and pick it up.

Lien looked down at the assignments scattered on the floor and made eye contact with Professor George.

She swallowed her anger welling up and calmly opened her mouth.

“Why?”

Professor George quietly placed the glasses he was wearing on the desk with a loud thud.

“Are you asking because you don’t know that? You did something very interesting. “It would have been better in terms of scores to pull up the weeds that were scattered along the roadside.”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t understand.”

Professor George wrinkled his face. Originally, he didn’t have a very good impression, so he had an unpleasant atmosphere.

“You don’t understand what I’m talking about.”

“I deliberately chose only uncommon herbs to write about. “Unless it’s a medicinal herb found in the mountains, it’s mandatory to enter the monster’s habitat, so didn’t the professor make it a group assignment?”

“Yes, I did. “But I told you to solve the task on your own, and I didn’t say you could get help from a third party.”

third person?

I happened to enter the monster habitat with Carsion, but all the herbs were harvested by Lien himself.

He even refused Carsion’s offer to magically extract all the herbs at once. To collect without hurting.

“I think there’s some misunderstanding, but I didn’t get help from anyone else.”

“Then how are you going to explain that ridiculous level of information?”

“yes?”

“Ranunculus on page 3.”

Lien was a little surprised that Professor George remembered every page in detail.

I didn’t expect to read it properly since I only watched it for such a short period of time.

“The tension-relieving properties of the herb you wrote about were discovered only a week ago. “There’s no way that first-year seniors like you knew and wrote it down.”

‘It was something I knew before.’

As Lien stood at a distance in silence, bewildered, Professor George clicked his tongue. He thought Lien was embarrassed to have been caught lying.

“Actually, that’s not the only thing that’s suspicious. As well as asphodel, how did you get medicinal herbs such as horse chestnut and raspberry? “It’s just herbs that I can’t believe were collected by a first-year senior.”

‘I heard you’ll grow up well there.’

Well, even if he were Professor George, it would have been somewhat difficult to believe.

Those herbs were of a type that was difficult to even find the habitat of unless you were a highly skilled herbalist.

Lien quickly lost his temper after realizing that Professor George had made a strange misunderstanding. Then she picked up the homework scattered on the floor.

Lien looked the professor directly in the eyes.

“A nerd who has just discovered the tension-relieving effects of ranunculus… … No, I didn’t know that was a fact that was revealed a while ago. “It’s something I’ve taken for granted since I was young.”

“Of course you knew this?”

Professor George’s frown deepened even further. Because he thought it was ridiculous.

Ranunculus was a medicinal herb that was classified as an ornamental flower.

Taking such a flower and studying its efficacy in the first place is something that only a geek would normally do.

Just like myself.

Lien opened his mouth without paying attention to Professor George’s crumpled expression.

“It’s true that all the herbs you mentioned were collected from the mountain behind the academy. Even if you keep raising questions about that, I have nothing more to say. “It’s true that I drank it there.”

Professor George was once again taken aback by Lien’s words. This is because it was rare to see a student who showed confidence even after seeing my frowning expression.

Now that I think about it, the student in front of me has passed the mid-term transfer exam, which is known to be difficult.

I received a score close to perfect.

However, contrary to initial expectations, Lien slept during class every day.

Even if she’s up, she just listens with a blank face or doesn’t listen.

Seeing that, Professor George thought that his damn fellow professors had even leaked the test questions.

There were some strange corners.

Lien said that sometimes when he mentioned valuable information, he knew like a ghost and was scribbling something down.

Even though it’s clear that you don’t know whether what I said is valuable information or not.

At that moment, an assumption crossed Professor George’s mind.

no way.

‘I guess I just didn’t listen to it because I already knew it all.’