NOVEL NEXT Chapter 33.3
Saturday morning, in the academy boardroom…
“I’m tired...”
Soniel muttered as she reclined lazily on the sofa and took a sip of coffee.
The meeting, which had lasted all night, ended only after sunrise.
In fact, Soniel knew exactly who the intruder was.
She just didn’t know that the day ‘she’ would break into the ecliptic would be yesterday.
If she had known, she would have been preparing herself for the all-nighter beforehand.
Soniel wanted to go back to bed right away, but her duties at the academy were beckoning her.
Since the new school year had just started and she had taken over as the director, Soniel found herself in a paperwork hell.
Until she finally conquered all the paperwork of the job, late-night shifts and weekend shifts were the norm.
“……”
As the brown liquid seeped into her mouth, the bitter aroma and taste jolted awake her weary brain.
Currently, though, Soniel’s heart felt more bitter than her mouth.
Right after the meeting, her sister had come to her with a request.
“Unnie, do you have any magic tools that mitigate the side effects of my attributes?”
Amer had asked for help, conveying that the side effects had suddenly gotten worse.
She blushed and panicked when asked why her side effects had gotten worse or what the symptoms were.
Embarrassed, she just stood there and couldn’t open her mouth.
It was a natural reaction.
Such an obscene side effect would be too embarrassing for her to relay.
Soniel couldn’t help but feel guilty in a corner of her heart as she looked at her sister like that.
This was because Amer’s side effects had been aggravated by her.
It was she who had deliberately stimulated her attributes by creating a peephole.
Soniel replied to Amer that preparing the tool would take some time as special materials were needed.
A tool that could alleviate the side effects of continental class attributes—
‘If such a thing exists, I would like to have it too.’
The [Star Cluster] And [Beauty] Attributes were both continental level, so ordinary tools would not work for them.
Soniel had also suffered from her own attribute’s side effects for a while.
No, she was still going through it.
As soon as she awakened, she got psychosis.
It was a compulsive disorder.
“You have a mate determined by fate, so you must maintain your chastity. You shouldn’t be interested in men. Contact with men should be minimized. Men must stay away.”
For the past four years, Soniel had been half forcibly locked away and isolated.
She did not show her face at banquets or at church unless she was compelled to attend.
Her palace became a forbidden man’s zone.
Just like that, the curious girl grew up to become a chaste young lady.
And on the first day of the year, at the attribute inspection centre she had visited to watch the awakening of Amer, her precious little sister—
There, Soniel, who faced the [Heaven] Attribute, acquired a new side effect.
“Jeong Jihoo is your destiny. Give him your virginity. Devote yourself to him. Obey him. Love him.”
Wherever she was, the voice of destiny whispered to her.
It was some other kind of mental illness.
She had also seen the future timelines.
When she made the wrong choices, she saw what would happen to her and those around her.
What was the most desirable scenario?
What were the worst possibilities?
What was her own role?
Soniel entangled her body with his as her fate had ordained.
He was the first ever man she truly mingled with that day, but she felt ecstatic as if she had achieved her goal in life.
She felt like she would become addicted if she let herself go.
She did her best for him, and he cared for her.
Now, Soniel’s side effects were not truly side effects.
A side effect was a term used to describe an unintended or unacceptable reaction.
But her side effects had already conquered her body, and now they creeping into her mind.
Besides Soniel, who was gradually falling into the swamp that was Jihoo, there was still Amer who was suffering.
Soniel knew…
There was no way to eliminate the side effects.
The only solution was to embrace it.
It was a resignation to fate.
She intended to create a tool for Amer that would help her become one with the side effects.
Soniel felt guilty because she knew that Amer had a crush on Park Minho.
But Soniel had no regrets.
In any case, that one-sided love would never come true.
Being the woman of Jung Ji-hoo was the best future for everyone.
It was the smart choice.
“Come on in.”
The door opened and a female professor whom Soniel had summoned entered.
Her teaching subject was ‘Sex Education’.
They enjoyed some refreshments and chatted for a while before Soniel brought up the main topic for having called her.
“‘Sex Education’ is a group class where two people must work together, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Put Jung Ji-hoo and Amer in one group, and Jeon Ji-hye and Min Hye-rin in another group.”
‘100% random group formation.’
Soniel had used her own powers to manipulate the groups.
“······Yes, I understand.”
A mere professor had no veto in the matter.
Directors, and members of the royal family, were absolute authorities in the academy.
The professor walked out of the office, leaving Soniel alone.
She looked down at the academy from the huge windows.
Her two pupils stared at the dazzling buildings, but her head recalled a completely different scene.
“Unnie, thank you!”
It was her sister’s smile as she thanked herself for providing her with a magic tool.
“……”
Tomorrow, Soniel would be meeting up with Jeong Ji-hoo.
With the ‘special material’ she obtained from him, she would make a tool for Amer.
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