An awkward atmosphere swept through the break room.


    ‘What do you want me to take off?’


    I rolled my eyes reflexively. The words in my ear sounded rather obscene.


    It’s not that the atmosphere was strange.


    As I entered, the door was locked, and Baek A-rin took off the thin outerwear she was wearing, and told me to take off my clothes…


    ‘No, that can’t be.’


    I had a strange thought because of the situation, but I quickly changed my mind.


    If it was someone else I didn’t know, Baek A-rin wouldn’t be the type to suddenly say something like that…


    ‘Isn’t that so?’


    I tilted my head.


    Baek A-rin is a person with many strange corners. On the surface, she always looks bright and sociable, but underneath, she also shows a cold personality.


    People can’t bepletely t, but Baek A-rin was the type with strong contrasts.


    I forgot because he treated me so kindly these days, but in the original, he even stabbed the yer in the back to death.


    When I thought about that, I unconsciously stepped back.@@novelbin@@


    “Ha-yul? Come here. The lecture will start soon, so I don’t have time.”


    Baek A-rin, who had just taken off her outerwear, tilted her head and gestured to me. The curve of herrge chest, which was covered by her outerwear, was clearly visible.


    She sat in the middle of the long sofa, ced her outerwear on one side, and patted the seat next to her, urging me on.


    [Why… clothes all of a sudden…?]


    “Huh? Oh~ Did I say something strange?”


    [Yes]


    When I asked hesitantly, Baek A-rin let out an exmation. Then she smiled strangely mischievously.


    “Don’t worry, I didn’t mean anything bad. It''s just that I felt the energy of the sea from Ha-yul."


    [Sea?]


    "Yes, did you use the sea before you came?"


    Yes, you did. I came here after calming the raging fire from the sea.


    [How did you know that?]


    What surprised me was something else.


    Unlikest time, I didn''t directly witness the manifestation, but I noticed the traces left after the manifestation. I, who has magical affinity, erased the traces. Even a person with sensing ability wouldn''t notice it?


    [Does Baek A-rin have sensing ability?]


    "No? I just felt it with magical affinity."


    [How could I do that with normal sensing ability...]


    "I can do that too... Oh, right."


    As I felt puzzled, Baek A-rin, who had also tilted her head, suddenly pped her hands.


    "It didn''t happen to other people, but I could sense Ha-yul''s sea."


    [My Changhae?]


    “Yes, yes, is it because I feel a sense of simrity? If you look closely, you can feel it clearly.”


    ‘Sameness… homogenization?’


    I managed my expression that was about to change without me knowing. It was just a guess, but I guessed the reason at first nce.


    The Changhae I use is an imitation through homogenization. While the fear has settled in and be my own uniqueness, Changhae is clearly a temporary imitation.


    Imitation means imitating something else.


    The Changhae I implement is based on Baek A-rin’s Changhae.


    ‘Can the original feel the imitation better…?’


    It’s an unexpected problem. It’s just a guess, but it seems right. Of course, the imitation derived from me will have simrities.


    “I’ll clean it up. It’s a trace so faint that even I can’t detect it, but if I get caught outside, what kind of trouble will it cause?”


    [I can handle it.]


    “So you’re just dribbling around like that? Come on. The lecture will start soon, so I’ll do it right away.”


    [But…]


    “Oh, my… ‘Baek Ha-yool’ keeps hitting you? Isn’t he nice?”


    [I’m not Baek…]


    I tossed and turned for a while.


    In the end, I slowly headed toward Baek A-rin because the lecture was about to start and because of the small threat about Baek Ha-yul.


    Baek A-rin, who sat me down, smiled and grabbed the bottom of my shirt, pulling it up.


    Then she ced her palm on my stomach. Her cool, smooth palm covered my belly button and rubbed it.


    - Shh…


    My body shuddered. Baek A-rin’s magic, which had entered through my stomach, began to calmly organize the energy of the sea by tapping it.


    [Do I really have to put my hand on my stomach like this?]


    “It’s because the chest and stomach are more efficient. It’s also easier to inject and manipte magic. Didn’t you hear an exnation from Yeonhwa?”


    [I heard it, but it tickles…]


    “It’ll be over soon, so just hold on for a bit, Baek Ha-yul?”


    [Not Mr. Baek…]


    [Heh]


    [T-Don’t press like that…]


    “Huh? Did it hurt? Um… Can I put something in your hand for a moment?”


    [Back!]


    [Don’t stick that out!]


    .


    .


    .


    - Wiiing


    As I entered the ssroom with Baek A-rin, I was met with a barrage of nces.


    The gazes were a little different than before.


    The awkwardness was strong when I first entered, but now the gazes that alternately looked at me and Baek A-rin were clearly filled with curiosity.


    - What were you two doing just now?


    - I don’t know, when I saw Diriaing, she said she went into the break room? She even locked the door…


    - Huh


    As I sat down quietly, the conversations around me continued.


    It was a small voice that made the onomatopoeia “whisper whisper”e to mind. Even for a superhuman, it was at a level that you wouldn’t be able to hear unless you put your ear right next to it.


    But I could hear it well. Even if you couldn’t hear it, you could still read it with lip-reading through observation.


    ‘The rumors are like this…’


    My expression became unknowingly cold. The rumors spread one by one like that. Of course.


    Of course, since there were people like Hong Yeon-hwa and Baek A-rin among the people involved in the rumor, no one would dare speak carelessly.


    You wouldn’t want to receive mail in your mailbox saying, “We are from such-and-such family, so if you don’t want to get lost,e find us.”


    However, since the scene of the rumor is happening right next to you, it feels strange.


    But you can’t just go up to them and tell them to shut up.


    I kept my expressions and quietly downloaded the lecture materials.


    .


    .


    .


    “This is the first 『Practical Workshop Writing』 lecture of this semester. Due to various circumstances, we started a littleter than the other lectures, but I will conduct the lecture so that there are no disruptions to the progress, so don’t worry.”


    『Practical Workshop Writing』 lecture.


    As the name suggests, it is a lecture about a wizard’s workshop.


    “You probably already read the outline, but let me exin again. My name is Friedrich Hermann. Before retirement, he was active in the African Magic Front as a high-ranking hero. Although he is now retired, he came to the stage to teach the knowledge and experience he had umted at that time.”


    The professor standing on the stage was a man with a fierce look.


    He had a stiff expression and speech like a soldier, and his thick muscr body could not be hidden even by the robe he was wearing.


    He was trying to keep himself in check, but the aura he observed showed that his history of activity in the Magic Front was not a lie.


    “This subject will be conducted mainly with practice. The evaluation is also the same. Since there are many other excellent lectures on the theoretical aspect, I n to teach the construction of attacks and tactics that can be used in actualbat.”


    Attacks and defenses were also taught in the first semester’s 『Basic Magic Theory (Ⅰ)』 lecture, but that lecture was more theoretical. Since it was a basic theory subject that simply covered the theory, the proportion of practice was very small.


    This lecture, on the contrary, focuses on practice rather than theory. So, it wasn’t a theoretical professor likest time, but a professor who retired after rolling around in the field.


    ‘There may be a lot of knowledge about the Tower of Knowledge, but… It’s better to learn the basics.’


    For any magician, the workshop is an indispensable skill in any way. However, I’ve never made a big workshop.


    At the beginning of the first semester, I didn’t even have the basic skills to build a workshop.


    Later, when I had the skills to try making a workshop… For various reasons, I didn’t have the conditions to make one.


    Rather than spending time and effort to make a shabby workshop, I could have just used the power of space to get the effect of the workshop.


    Even if I made it, the output would be weaker than hitting a fear or white night, and the speed and fuel efficiency would be lower than spirit magic…


    Above all, there was no situation where I could use it.


    In the first ce, I had no situation where I could make a workshop and defend it.


    However, there’s no reason to not do that in the future. I’m going to learn magic, but it’s stupid not to learn how to create a workshop.


    “Then let’s start the lecture.”


    The professor said that while making eye contact with the students inside the ssroom.


    He flinched slightly when he saw my eyes closed, but he didn’t point it out much, perhaps because the rumor that I could recognize up, down, left, and right was already well-spread.


    At the beginning of the semester, I was called by many professors with this and asked if it was okay… but now I didn’t hear any such words. I was deeply moved.


    - Woohoo…


    The desk in front of the students started to operate.


    Magic flowed through the desk. The engraved spell activated. Soon, a hologram suddenly appeared on the desk.


    It wasn’t a shape that printed letters like a ckboard. It was a square, translucent hologram.


    “This time,


    In this time, we will cover the simple method of creating a workshop foundation. This hologram is an auxiliary device that helps you create a workshop. Please note that this is a function that is only used in the beginning when you are not familiar with creating a workshop.”


    That is how the lecture began.


    As the advance notice of ‘practical’ suggests, we started creating a workshop at the same time as the theory.


    When I nced around, everyone was waving their hands that had been inserted into the hologram. Their fingertips were filled with magic. The hands were scribbled and filled in various spells.


    ‘Hmm…’


    Magic is activated by inserting magic into a spell. Different magic is manifested depending on the spell, and the higher the level of magic, the more extraordinary andplex the spell bes.


    A workshop is a technique that requires fitting together such various spells like a puzzle. And it is not about inserting one or two, but rather, hundreds of them must be inserted easily.


    You can’t just insert them randomly. Hundreds of spells must fit together properly.


    Otherwise…


    - Crunch


    “Ahhh…”


    It suddenly copsed like that.


    A cadet’s hologram turned red. And Crunch- With a mechanical sound, part of the spell he had painstakingly constructed came crashing down. The cadet’s face crumpled. He was a first-year cadet who had already destroyed several defenses.


    In fact, most first-year cadets were simr to him. More than half of them had a look of confusion on their faces, unable to find the foundation.


    On the other hand, the second-year cadets and above were designing their defenses in a familiar manner.


    “The axis of the foundation was set incorrectly. If you set it to that location, it could sh with the protective spell and cause the defense to copse in an emergency.”


    “Yes, thank you.”


    “The location of the axis depends on the area of ??the defense you are setting…”


    The professor pointed out the cadet’s problems and solutions.


    The professor’s next target, who had been teaching the cadets who were having trouble finding the foundation, was me.


    “Hmm… ”


    Ttukbukttukbuk- The professor who approached me carefully scanned my hologram. The professor’s eyes, which seemed to be focused for a moment, moved around.


    “The axis and the outer perimeter, the tuning and the protection spells are all working perfectly, and the counterattack settings are also well-made. Excellent.”


    [Thank you]


    I nodded indifferently at the professor’s praise.


    I am also the owner of magic affinity. Of course, I should be able to do it. Of course, with my current magic, I couldn’t inflict any significant damage on the twin-headed dragon or the second round…


    A momentter. In any case, all the cadets formed a simple attack and defense.


    There were many crooked and sloppy corners, but for now, a small attack and defense was established.


    “Then, we will proceed with the attack and defense performance test. Please choose a partner to take charge of defense and attack.”


    At the professor’s words, the cadets looked around and looked for a partner. Many of the eyes flew at me, and they were people who wanted to be friends for the purpose of friendship.


    Most of them were pairing up with people they were already familiar with.


    Some were rolling their eyes and looking around. It seemed like there weren’t any students who had be friends with anyone who had taken the ss.


    “Tsk…”


    The person next to me was the same. He looked like he couldn’t find a partner.


    A male student with hair neatly swept back. A face as hard as a statue.


    I nced at his nametag.


    He was a green first-year student, the same grade as me.


    ‘Baize Dietrich.’


    I know his name. It’s not because I’m observing him now, but because I knew him from the original.


    Well, he’s a main character. He’s not as good as Hong Yeon-hwa or Baek A-rin, but he has the potential to be a great student in the future.


    In the 5th episode, he’s deeply intertwined with ‘Stupid Reverse Horse’.


    He is the ‘wise magician’ who willter be a certified magician of the Magic Circle.


    Dreureuk- He pushed the chair and stood up. He approached him and tapped his shoulder.


    [Hey, do you want to do it with me?]


    "... Yes? Uh, with me?"


    Baije asked with a nk expression.


    - Thump


    As that voice echoed, the surroundings became quiet for a moment.


    When I looked around wondering what was going on, everyone who had been pretending not to notice and ncing at me was staring at me.


    “Huh.”


    A strange sound rang out. Baek A-rin, who had been sneaking up on me, opened her eyes wide and covered her mouth with both hands.


    “No, are you already tired of standing up to me?”


    [Gyaaaaaaah!]


    "Ah, ahh~ Don''t hit me~ This is domestic violence~"


    He swung the staff he took out from the subspace and chased away Baek A-rin who was giggling nonchntly


    [Unique ability "Magic Affinity" grows]


    ...


    [yer Correction System: Favorability]


    Lee Ha-yul → Baek A-rin


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    "Cold" "Cool" "Favorable" "Questionable" "Confusion" "Milk Cow?" "Mischievous"