“Forgive me for being late. For arriving late I…”
“It’s okay, Student Nathan.”
“Are you already here?”
There were two people in the room. The first person to open his mouth was a gentleman. He was the owner of the voice he heard from outside the door. And Nathan knew who it was. Because he was exactly as he was described in the novel.
Professor Michael. A person with the title of Archmage as the dean of the Magic Department of Aurora Academy. The man had a very attractive face. Once you saw him, you would never forget his face. In particular, it was difficult to see his golden eyes like those of a human being. It was because he had longitudinally diverged pupils resembling reptiles. He had long, lemon-coloured hair that fell down to his waist and hung loosely in a sloppy tie, and he wore a thick, colourfully embroidered navy blue robe. In his right hand was a staff woven from branches and set on his head with a yellow jewel the size of a child’s face, and in his left-hand something like a root of grass.
And the person leaning at an angle on the table next to it was also vaguely familiar to Nathan. With his short red hair, beautifully tanned skin, and slightly drooping, greenery glittered eyes. Muscles were placed on the tall body without excessive muscle mass. And he was wearing a sword around his waist.
“It’s Student Finver’s (핀버) fault that he didn’t do his job properly. Obviously, I was telling him about it. When Student Nathan arrives by train, I told him to bring him along.”
“Th, that was it.”
“Hey, Michael. But why are you scared?”
“Ha, Pavan (파반). What did I do?”
Nathan clasped his hands in front of him. After all, Professor Pavan was right…! Both Michael and Pavan appeared from the very beginning of <Hazard>. Pavan was an excellent swordsman and was in charge of the Swordsmanship Department. He was also the teacher who taught Hazard there. As a result, Pavan appeared more frequently than expected even after the academy episode.
He was a ferocious and just knight. After becoming a knight in the royal family with a female body, he decided to retire early at a young age (여성의 몸으로 왕실의 내로라하는 기사가되었던 그가 젊은 나이에 빠른 은퇴를 결심하고, I’m not sure Pavan is a ‘he’ or a ‘she’…) and became a professor at Aurora Academy. Of course, the author mentioned the incident insignificantly, but the author used to indirectly convey the nuance that Hazard was involved in the cause.
“Yes, I heard the news.”
Pavan spoke suddenly, and Nathan flinched in surprise. Nathan looked at Pavan with trembling eyes. Once again, even though he had the same red hair as his and green eyes, but the feeling was different.
What more news…? Wasn’t it Michael who called him? He glanced at Michael to see that he had his back turned and was doing something else.
“I was also very surprised to hear the news. Of course, others were surprised. I was startled by the news of Melchieldog under the world… (천하의 멜키엘도그 소식엔 놀라고 말았으니, what’s this meaning again? It looks like name area?)”
“It was. It was in the article, and it was noisy for a while.”
“Is that so…?”
Nathan frowned and replied. Because of the tension, the end of the speech was raised without him knowing, but it seemed that the two of them did not notice. Or maybe they were pretending to be like that. Pavan grabbed Nathan’s hand. His scarred hands were about the same size as Nathan’s, but in many ways, they were compared to Nathan’s thin and fragile hands. A warm hand wrapped around his cold hand.
“The work of Baron Norbert was very unfortunate. God is too much… How heartache did you feel because of this…”
His casual pat was gentle. His words were full of worry and regret. But still, Nathan couldn’t keep up with the conversation. Not knowing anything, his head was already pure white, but as he listened to conversations he couldn’t even keep up with the flow, he became more and more a blank slate. Didn’t know what the silent Nathan thinking about, Pavan held Nathan’s hand strongly.
“Nevertheless, Nathan, you are safe, so just let it go.”
‘Are you?’ Nathan read unknown anxiety in the context of the conversation. His heart was pounding and his stomach felt nauseous.
“Yeah, did your family’s funeral go well?”
“Ah…”
Nathan closed his eyes and opened them slowly. At that moment, the sentences of the conversation he had heard so far were entangled in his mind.
Baron Norbert.
Nathan Norbert was the first name he had ever heard of, but Baron Norbert had been mentioned in the novel before. Also for bad reasons.
In all things, there was always a sign that it would happen before it happened. For example, let’s say that one day, the railing that had been in good shape suddenly broke. But it probably didn’t really break all of a sudden. Maybe it was due to ageing little by little over a long period of time, or it could be that small incontinence occurred due to some strong impact before that, and it was broken by even a small force.
This was the case with Baron Norbert. It was the first sign to hint at future events in the world of <Hazard>. Baron Norbert was located a bit far from the rest of the central city. The population was small, the economy was not affluent, and it was underdeveloped, so it took three days to get to the neighbour village.
The incident took place after Aurora Academy was on winter break. Every year around this time, subjugation of monsters took place everywhere, and that was no different in Baron Norbert. In the original case, the usual number of people would have been sufficient. Although it was a small estate, it was still baronial in its own way, so there were quite a few skilled knights. However, somehow, the number of monsters that appeared this year was greater than ever before, and they were strangely strong.
It didn’t take long for the little baron to become a waste. The baron’s only son went to the Viscount Lasilla (라실라 자작령) in the neighbour village to ask for help, but when they arrived at Baron Norbert with reinforcements, only a few people survived there. The main character, Hazard, heard the news through a newspaper article. But that was it. Hazard only realized much later that what happened in Baron Norbert was the beginning of an ominous omen.
…that’s how it was going. The work of Baron Norbert was just a story that had to happen for what was to come. A story that was only mentioned in a few lines. But for the owner of this body, it was not a story that would end in just a few lines.
Nathan remembered the dreary gloom he had seen in the train. He remembered the wrinkled corners of his eyes and the bites across his cheek. When he woke up, ‘Nathan’ was crying silently.
Somehow, his heart was pounding.
“I thought it would be okay for you to rest a little longer. The academy is a problem that can be solved on your own terms, so if you want to take a leave of absence right now, you can tell me.”
“Oh, no, no.”
Nathan hurriedly shook his head. He himself had to be here. He knew nothing and had no one to turn to. He really had nowhere to go once he left this academy. Even if he knew the contents of the novel, there was no way he could survive on his own.
Let’s bury the ‘Nathan’ thing for a moment. He didn’t know if ‘he’ had a good funeral for ‘his’ family. ‘He’ returned to the academy, and ‘he’ wasn’t himself, even though ‘he’ actually thought he was going to quit the academy.
“I want to be in the academy.”
His voice trembled involuntarily. His eyes are contorted as if crying. But no more tears flowed from the corners of his dry eyes. Nathan wanted to cry in many ways. He didn’t know how he got to this place. He wanted someone to let me know. He just had the train journey he had been longing for. He was just travelling in the form of escapism!
“…right. I know.”
Pavan said in a calm tone. Then he squeezed the hand he had been holding tight once more and released it.
“Come on, drink this. It is a herbal tea with a calming effect.”
“…thank you.”
He took the teacup that Michael had offered. A pleasant scent tickled the tip of his nose. The three of them drank tea for a while. No words were spoken, but Nathan guessed that the two of them were only talking to each other without him knowing it. It was written in the original novel that if two people were capable of using their magical powers, they could also use electric tones, so maybe it was.
The tea was sweet. It felt really relaxing. It was then that Nathan began to feel a little more comfortable looking around. The inside of the room was really shaped like a wizard would use it. Various herbs and flowers were hanging from the ceiling. It wasn’t electricity that lit the room, but a light that could be turned on and off by magic. Various medicine bottles were lined up, and thick books were piled up. On one side of the desk, a quill was moving alone and writing down.
There was a blackboard right in front of where Nathan was standing, full of incomprehensible symbols and letters. What looked like a magic circle was drawn between the dense letters without any spaces, and the sentence below it was barely readable.
“Forgive me for being late. For arriving late I…”
“It’s okay, Student Nathan.”
“Are you already here?”
There were two people in the room. The first person to open his mouth was a gentleman. He was the owner of the voice he heard from outside the door. And Nathan knew who it was. Because he was exactly as he was described in the novel.
Professor Michael. A person with the title of Archmage as the dean of the Magic Department of Aurora Academy. The man had a very attractive face. Once you saw him, you would never forget his face. In particular, it was difficult to see his golden eyes like those of a human being. It was because he had longitudinally diverged pupils resembling reptiles. He had long, lemon-coloured hair that fell down to his waist and hung loosely in a sloppy tie, and he wore a thick, colourfully embroidered navy blue robe. In his right hand was a staff woven from branches and set on his head with a yellow jewel the size of a child’s face, and in his left-hand something like a root of grass.
And the person leaning at an angle on the table next to it was also vaguely familiar to Nathan. With his short red hair, beautifully tanned skin, and slightly drooping, greenery glittered eyes. Muscles were placed on the tall body without excessive muscle mass. And he was wearing a sword around his waist.
“It’s Student Finver’s (핀버) fault that he didn’t do his job properly. Obviously, I was telling him about it. When Student Nathan arrives by train, I told him to bring him along.”
“Th, that was it.”
“Hey, Michael. But why are you scared?”
“Ha, Pavan (파반). What did I do?”
Nathan clasped his hands in front of him. After all, Professor Pavan was right…! Both Michael and Pavan appeared from the very beginning of <Hazard>. Pavan was an excellent swordsman and was in charge of the Swordsmanship Department. He was also the teacher who taught Hazard there. As a result, Pavan appeared more frequently than expected even after the academy episode.
He was a ferocious and just knight. After becoming a knight in the royal family with a female body, he decided to retire early at a young age (여성의 몸으로 왕실의 내로라하는 기사가되었던 그가 젊은 나이에 빠른 은퇴를 결심하고, I’m not sure Pavan is a ‘he’ or a ‘she’…) and became a professor at Aurora Academy. Of course, the author mentioned the incident insignificantly, but the author used to indirectly convey the nuance that Hazard was involved in the cause.
“Yes, I heard the news.”
Pavan spoke suddenly, and Nathan flinched in surprise. Nathan looked at Pavan with trembling eyes. Once again, even though he had the same red hair as his and green eyes, but the feeling was different.
What more news…? Wasn’t it Michael who called him? He glanced at Michael to see that he had his back turned and was doing something else.
“I was also very surprised to hear the news. Of course, others were surprised. I was startled by the news of Melchieldog under the world… (천하의 멜키엘도그 소식엔 놀라고 말았으니, what’s this meaning again? It looks like name area?)”
“It was. It was in the article, and it was noisy for a while.”
“Is that so…?”
Nathan frowned and replied. Because of the tension, the end of the speech was raised without him knowing, but it seemed that the two of them did not notice. Or maybe they were pretending to be like that. Pavan grabbed Nathan’s hand. His scarred hands were about the same size as Nathan’s, but in many ways, they were compared to Nathan’s thin and fragile hands. A warm hand wrapped around his cold hand.
“The work of Baron Norbert was very unfortunate. God is too much… How heartache did you feel because of this…”
His casual pat was gentle. His words were full of worry and regret. But still, Nathan couldn’t keep up with the conversation. Not knowing anything, his head was already pure white, but as he listened to conversations he couldn’t even keep up with the flow, he became more and more a blank slate. Didn’t know what the silent Nathan thinking about, Pavan held Nathan’s hand strongly.
“Nevertheless, Nathan, you are safe, so just let it go.”
‘Are you?’ Nathan read unknown anxiety in the context of the conversation. His heart was pounding and his stomach felt nauseous.
“Yeah, did your family’s funeral go well?”
“Ah…”
Nathan closed his eyes and opened them slowly. At that moment, the sentences of the conversation he had heard so far were entangled in his mind.
Baron Norbert.
Nathan Norbert was the first name he had ever heard of, but Baron Norbert had been mentioned in the novel before. Also for bad reasons.
In all things, there was always a sign that it would happen before it happened. For example, let’s say that one day, the railing that had been in good shape suddenly broke. But it probably didn’t really break all of a sudden. Maybe it was due to ageing little by little over a long period of time, or it could be that small incontinence occurred due to some strong impact before that, and it was broken by even a small force.
This was the case with Baron Norbert. It was the first sign to hint at future events in the world of <Hazard>. Baron Norbert was located a bit far from the rest of the central city. The population was small, the economy was not affluent, and it was underdeveloped, so it took three days to get to the neighbour village.
The incident took place after Aurora Academy was on winter break. Every year around this time, subjugation of monsters took place everywhere, and that was no different in Baron Norbert. In the original case, the usual number of people would have been sufficient. Although it was a small estate, it was still baronial in its own way, so there were quite a few skilled knights. However, somehow, the number of monsters that appeared this year was greater than ever before, and they were strangely strong.
It didn’t take long for the little baron to become a waste. The baron’s only son went to the Viscount Lasilla (라실라 자작령) in the neighbour village to ask for help, but when they arrived at Baron Norbert with reinforcements, only a few people survived there. The main character, Hazard, heard the news through a newspaper article. But that was it. Hazard only realized much later that what happened in Baron Norbert was the beginning of an ominous omen.
…that’s how it was going. The work of Baron Norbert was just a story that had to happen for what was to come. A story that was only mentioned in a few lines. But for the owner of this body, it was not a story that would end in just a few lines.
Nathan remembered the dreary gloom he had seen in the train. He remembered the wrinkled corners of his eyes and the bites across his cheek. When he woke up, ‘Nathan’ was crying silently.
Somehow, his heart was pounding.
“I thought it would be okay for you to rest a little longer. The academy is a problem that can be solved on your own terms, so if you want to take a leave of absence right now, you can tell me.”
“Oh, no, no.”
Nathan hurriedly shook his head. He himself had to be here. He knew nothing and had no one to turn to. He really had nowhere to go once he left this academy. Even if he knew the contents of the novel, there was no way he could survive on his own.
Let’s bury the ‘Nathan’ thing for a moment. He didn’t know if ‘he’ had a good funeral for ‘his’ family. ‘He’ returned to the academy, and ‘he’ wasn’t himself, even though ‘he’ actually thought he was going to quit the academy.
“I want to be in the academy.”
His voice trembled involuntarily. His eyes are contorted as if crying. But no more tears flowed from the corners of his dry eyes. Nathan wanted to cry in many ways. He didn’t know how he got to this place. He wanted someone to let me know. He just had the train journey he had been longing for. He was just travelling in the form of escapism!
“…right. I know.”
Pavan said in a calm tone. Then he squeezed the hand he had been holding tight once more and released it.
“Come on, drink this. It is a herbal tea with a calming effect.”
“…thank you.”
He took the teacup that Michael had offered. A pleasant scent tickled the tip of his nose. The three of them drank tea for a while. No words were spoken, but Nathan guessed that the two of them were only talking to each other without him knowing it. It was written in the original novel that if two people were capable of using their magical powers, they could also use electric tones, so maybe it was.
The tea was sweet. It felt really relaxing. It was then that Nathan began to feel a little more comfortable looking around. The inside of the room was really shaped like a wizard would use it. Various herbs and flowers were hanging from the ceiling. It wasn’t electricity that lit the room, but a light that could be turned on and off by magic. Various medicine bottles were lined up, and thick books were piled up. On one side of the desk, a quill was moving alone and writing down.
There was a blackboard right in front of where Nathan was standing, full of incomprehensible symbols and letters. What looked like a magic circle was drawn between the dense letters without any spaces, and the sentence below it was barely readable.
