Chapter 61: Romantic Idiot (2/2)

After she finished the day's lesson, we had a short Q&A session but no one really had any questions to ask out of fear that class would never finish Eventually, Professor Drywell released us and I trudged on to my last class, Spell Formations I

Most of the students in this class were conjurers but soain benefits to their skills by taking this class Our teacher, Professor Mayner, was a scholarly-looking man with a monocle and his hair parted down the middle His own

"Welcome, students I was notified by Director Goodsky that a student na us for class, alare froht in the classroouide ave a small bow as he nodded in approval

"Very well! You did notover the different types of spell forroup spell formations Care to tell us what you know about spell formations?" He adjusted his ht

"Toand/or altering of basic spells and skills in order to produce a different phenomenon, whether that be to the user himself, or the specific point in space the spell was invoked," I answered

"A ood" He clapped his hands once before he went back to the front of the class where he began the lesson

"I would first like you all to iine a world where everyone could read everyone's hts that can make even the purest man seem perverse or the nicest woman seem cruel are all laid out in the open for others to read I believe that that world would house the best es ever known" The class waited, confused, for the professor to make his point but he moved on

"I'll come back to this later, but for nohy do conjurers and even augmenters chant spells? It is not the words that invoke the spell or technique Instead, the words influence the caster's consciousness, filling his estion', if you will, that molds the mana into the desired spell" The sound of everyone furiously scribbling in their notebooks filled the rooreat speaker and he kept the class engaged with the ive a rather huirl that liked me, 'I have always loved you,' you can bet that there will be soirl I say this to The 'incantation,' which was 'I have always loved you,' triggers the response, or the 'spell,' fro, a shter at the metaphor, but I couldn't help but wince

"All in all, if the caster can control his consciousness to mold the reatly shortened or theyis because the spells they use al their own body Conjurers, on the other hand, have to cast much more precise and complicated spells, which require these incantations so that their spells don't becoht That is why I said that if there was a world where everyone could read each other's icians Why? Because they would have absolute control over their thoughts"

The class went on and while the professor was a great lecturer, I wasn't able to focus aswords as she left

Hiding my insecurities with ? Was I using the fact that I was a lot better atwhat I was actually bad at?

Perhaps I was being a hypocrite I was going on about how I couldn't see Tess as anything row up, at least in a certain sense Getting stronger in ths didn't exactly fill in my weak points, it just made them thatShe was also innocent, but that didn't norant one

"Class is over! Have a great night, students I shall see you all to back toover ed directions to where the student council dor as fast asthat was much fancier than my dorm hall

I'm here How do I meet Tess? It's not like I can just shout out and call for her…

'Papa, Mama is over there' Sylvie pointed east with her paw and without questioning, I ran in that direction

"I'o, Clive" I heard Tess's voice in the courtyard near the fountain

"No! How dare that brat make you cry I kneould only cause trouble! His poor upbringing is definitely the cause I can't iine why Director Goodsky even allowed that peasant in this prestigious academy, and as a disciplinary couely make out Clive's thin frame as he held Tess by her wrist

Clive noticedand his face contorted into a scowl "What the hell do you think you're doing here? You dare try and meet Princess Tessia after you've ht now!"

Ignoring the thin, stern-looking vice president, I looked at Tess, who turned away "Tess, can I have so rabbedaround rowled, bo him witha bit toointo a nearby tree

"Y-You! Wh-What…" Too flustered, Clive was unable to produce anything aze never left hi a scene over" Tess got in between Clive and I and tookme out of the courtyard

As I tried to keep up with her quick steps, I nearly tripped,too fast I'ed to say in between breaths

"Oh, I' for just a second before hardening again

We were in an alley between the director's office and the student council's doro of my hand, she took a step back and waited for me to catch my breath

"Well? What do you want?" Tess asked, her gaze fierce

"…"

"Tess There were a lot of truths in what you said to me earlier To a certain extent, I think I did kno you felt aboutare so et, and the better outcome you see Emotions like this don't work that way, especially for e

"Maybe you think I was , but that's really how I feel Maybe you think you're ready and maybe you are, but I know I'e but everyoneto co Tess that I didn't feel right going out with her when I had a e over thirty "I care about you and I missed you when I came back home—I should've said this earlier and I'm sorry I didn't, but I hope you don't hatearound the bush," Tess responded, her expression softening

"I can't have a relationshi+p with you right now," I said firht now?"

"Maybe e're older?" I said,my statement sound more like a question

My childhood friend clicked her tongue, crossing her ar to wait for you Anyway, I bet you're just saying that to irl"

Myare as my mother and I i anyone anytime soon," I reassured

"How do you kno ao and fall for someone else even if I do wait for you? I'm not sure you've noticed but I can be really selfish If you say all of this now and then go out and frolic with soan to tre other than a friend then—"

For one second, I shut off ht peck on her lips I suppressed the inner voice that screa, truly feeling like a twelve-year-old boy in this moment

"I hope this will buy me some time because that's about the limit of what I can do," I said as I quickly wiped my mouth with my sleeve, unable to look Tess in the eye

There was no sound so I took a peek up only to see Tess in a daze, her eyes glossed over as her ers touched her lips

"Tess?" I whispered

My childhood friend blinked and quickly reers froh—I', so to take me!"

"Deal" I ss out with Tess when she suddenly went up on her toes and kissed me on the cheek

I iht I said—"

"Don't worry, stupid That was just a thank you for saving ue before turning around and running off into her dor fro out a deep breath, I walked back toto wait a few years… or even a decade, but I chose not to think about it any longer

Tomorrow's problems will be solved by tomorrow's me