chapter 33
33 – New Elf Professor (2)
I barely recovered my body with Justina’s magic and followed the elfin without hesitation.
Elfin strode in front of me, but as if he couldn’t believe it, he would occasionally look back and blink at me behind me.
Meanwhile, looking at Elfin’s back, she felt that she had grown both as a warrior and as a woman, at least in terms of her body, compared to 500 years ago.
It was difficult to control the gaze that kept trying to go down.
‘This isn’t it, Dane… Deneb Rehinar… !’
I closed my eyes while alternately calling out my old name and my current name.
Then, remembering Elfin as a teenage girl, I forcibly averted my gaze and took a deep breath to maintain my composure.
My mind is clearly in my 50s, but my body is that of a 17-year-old boy with strong blood.
Anyway, it was an adolescent boy.
“The body… Are you okay?”
“Oh, yes. Thanks to Yuzu for healing me.”
“I see.”
Even though the question and answer with Elfin was very short, her breath caught in her throat.
First of all, Elfin’s feelings were different from when she reunited with Justina.
Even though 500 years have passed, Justina was Justina.
From the first time I saw him in the basic magic class, his way of speaking, his appearance… Her personality did develop some scary corners, but it remained largely the same.
‘By the way, Elfin has changed a bit, hasn’t it?’
First of all, there was a clear change in appearance.
It’s safe to say that Elfin’s lively aura, her golden hair, and her unique beauty haven’t changed much.
But she seemed a little blunt, probably because there were many things going on in the imperial family.
Besides, the most notable thing is the numerous scars.
There were also several types of scars, and as you can tell from their shape, they seemed to have been stabbed and cut with all kinds of weapons, such as knives, spears, and arrows.
How many times have you fought for such scars? How many times have you crossed the line between life and death?
I couldn’t even imagine the long and eventful 500 years Elfin must have been through.
“You should have come this far, Deneb Rehinar.”
“Yes?”
“To you… There is something I want to ask you.”
Even though Elfin spoke in her serious tone, I was most concerned about her tone.
Apparently, the elfin of 500 years ago, she used the so-called ‘pissed off’ tone.
Even if I had her by my side, she would babble and strain my eardrums.
However, the current Elfin was no different from a veteran soldier who had gone through all sorts of battles.
‘No matter how much she is a professor, she is maintaining her concept… The elfin I know doesn’t fit in a place like the royal family.’
In the end, is it not time that changes people, but the world?
Even after the same amount of time had passed, Justina, who had locked herself in her own castle and waited for me, remained the same, while her imperial family and the elves who toured the world had changed a lot.
Then, I suddenly thought about what would have happened to Liwin.
Now was the time to clear up the misunderstanding with Elfin.
“Deneve Rehinar, from whom did you learn swordsmanship?”
“Ever since I was young, I have been taught by great knights in my family. However, my sister and I are very talented, so I learned more on my own than I learned.”
I dared to say from the start, ‘I am a Dane! I didn’t hit it off like, ‘Let’s meet like this!’.
I thought that Elfin would notice it naturally if we talked anyway.
If I go ahead and appeal, it might look rather strange.
“I woke up myself, uhm… Were there any assassins among those knights?”
“It can’t be. All of Rehinar’s knights are real knights who have honed their sword skills throughout their lives.”
“Oh, I see. Article… Because they have so much pride. But Deneb, I have a different reason for asking you this question.”
Elfin continued his words surprisingly calmly.
“The sword and foot techniques you showed me just now, all of those fighting styles are those of an assassin. However, I wanted to know whether you knew this and wrote it, or whether you learned it from your teacher without knowing it at all.”
“Shouldn’t the assassin’s method be used?”
“Huh? No, that’s not it but… Among the people I know, there is someone who feels similar to you to the point where you get goosebumps….”
It seemed that the timing had come.
I sighed when I saw Elfin caressing her dry lips.
“…… Dane?”
“Yes, yes! Dane! Master, how can you…….”
“Can you believe the story I am about to tell you?”
Elfin stared at me with a slightly frightened face from embarrassment.
Well, it would be surprising if a 17-year-old boy from a noble family knew the man who was his teacher 500 years ago.
“What, what happened?! Master’s descendants? Could the Rehinar family be Master’s bloodline? Wait, but there’s no way Master ever had a wife and a child?!”
“…… That’s a bit harsh.”
“You don’t mean that! How do you know a nobleman who would have died after living with the three of us for 10 years in the first place?!”
Wait, this flow is dangerous.
If I keep going like this, I won’t be an assassin who spent 10 years with Leewin, Elfin, and Justina and dedicated myself to a kingdom coup and oxidized, but I’ll become a trash who abandoned my children and met a woman and started a new family.
“Quickly reveal your identity, Deneb Rehinar! How do you know Dane?”
“…… Because I am a Dane.”
In the end, the words I put in my mouth.
How long have you been waiting for this day to come?
Justina had an unintended accident and she was vaguely distorted, so this was actually the first time she directly revealed it in a situation that the other person couldn’t even guess.
“You are a Dane? Master? The master who died 500 years ago?”
“…… Okay. I don’t know why, but when I came to my senses after I died that day in the capital of Delin Kingdom, I was born as the youngest son of Count Rehinar.”
“Nonsense. Rebirth? Seriously, reincarnation exists…… ?”
An elfin with wide eyes and shaking body.
I decided to wait a bit for her to calm down.
But the uninvited visitor seemed unwilling to wait.
Just then, someone seemed to be following us, and the bush swayed and someone trudged this way.
“Didn’t the bonnyeo tell you that she has reincarnation?”
“Who are you?!”
Elfin immediately shouted, but the opponent didn’t care.
The expression “Toddle” Rather than “Trudge” Seemed more appropriate for the girl who came out of the bush.
A small physique that barely touches my knees.
Anyway, the most embarrassing thing was that the short girl who looked like a rather large doll, not a person, clearly had the appearance of Justina.
“…… Justina?”
“Why are you so small?”
Me and Elfin forgot the shock of our reunion and stared blankly at Justina, who had turned into her doll.
Justina, who received two gazes at the same time, hiccupped as if she was startled.
“Hiccup! Go, why are you suddenly looking at me like that! Aren’t you embarrassed!”
“I’m sorry, but we’re more embarrassed. Why are you smaller?”
“No, before that… I told the students to wait there, but what if you come here alone, you old woman! Everyone will think that something is wrong!”
Me and Elfin are a smaller Justina, no… Doll Justina? Anyway, I vomited my doubts toward something that seemed to be a mini Justina.
Mini Justina shook her head, unable to regain her senses at the numerous questions.
“One by one! Ask one question at a time!”
“Then start with me! What is that body Why did you suddenly change like that?”
At Elfin’s impatient question, Mini Justina finally nodded her head.
“It’s not that I’ve become smaller, it’s just that I’ve used a kind of alter ego. So she doesn’t have to worry about the other students just because she came here. Even in the place where everyone is gathered together, the original woman is intact.”
“I haven’t seen it often lately, but I didn’t know they developed such strange magic…….”
“I usually have nothing to write about. Incidentally, this body is because the consumption of mana is reduced as much as possible. Didn’t you say that if you increase the output, the Demon Brothers and Sisters might find out?”
Mini Justina’s well-reasoned words made Elfin and I feel like fools, and she blankly nodded her head at the same time.
But Elfin didn’t seem to have finished his questions.
“By the way, boy… what the hell is You say you’re Dane? Are you saying that Justina, who said that Master will be reincarnated someday, was true?”
“Huhuhu, are you finally believing what the original woman said?”
“Nonsense. She said it was real nonsense. It’s like something out of a fairy tale. Then what the hell am I going to do with a ‘flower garden’ for 500 years… ….”
What do you mean by flower garden?
When I tilted my head, Mini Justina explained instead.
“In De Elin, Dane, after you died, Bonnyeo retrieved your dagger from her. Elfin, meanwhile, secured your corpse.”
“My corpse?”
At that moment, Elfin had a talent for black magic, so she doubted whether she was trying to revive me with the magic of a necromancer, but it didn’t seem like that.
“As you know, it is impossible to completely revive necromancy. However, if there is an incomplete resurrection called necromancy, there will also be a complete resurrection, Elfin thought.”
“So… ….”
“Yeah, I got information that there is a flower of resurrection that achieves complete resurrection in a place called a flower garden. After that, you, Elfin, speak for yourself.”
Elfin, who had been in a panic for a while, managed to catch her spirit and spoke her words in a trembling voice.
“So she carried Master’s ashes for 500 years and searched for a flower garden where there was a flower of resurrection. Cooperating with the imperial family was all in order to revive Master. But reincarnation? You want me to believe that?”
Elfin seemed to have mixed emotions.
I want to believe that I am a Dane and that I am back by her side.
On the other hand, she is frustrated that her efforts to travel all over the continent for 500 years to revive Dane have gone in vain.
The moment she realized that in the end she had to wait like Justina, it was natural for her to feel helpless confusion.
“Denev Rehinar, you are the real teacher… Dane would know everything I ask from now on.”
“Anything.”
Elfin began to verify her memories of 500 years ago one after another.
The longer the conversation lasted, the more likely the other special class students would think it was strange, she doubted.
How we met, about Dane, about Elfin, about Leewin and Justina, and how they ended up.
Elfin wanted to hear it all through my mouth, even if it took her time.
“…… You know everything, a real Dane, a real Master?”
“I guess so. But why didn’t I ask about your adolescence? If you bring up the story then, we can talk all night.”
“That, don’t talk about that again! It’s embarrassing!”
“Cook-cuck-cuck… ….”
As Minnie Justina muted her voice and laughed quietly, Elfin eventually admitted that I was the real Dane reincarnated.
With Dane’s way of speaking and tone, memories of the past 500 years ago are brought back to the present without any error, so there was no way to doubt even if you tried to doubt it.
Even I was wondering if I could remember everything or not, but once I opened the water, the testimonies of memories flowed out.
“…… OK, I’ll admit it. Deneb Rehinar, you are Master’s reincarnation…… At least, he was the one who received all of Master’s memories from that time.”
“It’s frustrating, Elfin. Are you saying you still won’t accept it?”
“Accept, accept. But is this a complete resurrection?”
Elfin pursed her lips and pulled out her little bundle from the pocket of her coat over her shoulder.
Her entrance was firmly sealed, but at the touch of the elfin’s calloused fingers, she opened her mouth, revealing a much larger interior space than she appeared on the outside.
“Wait a minute, Elfin. You, are you really trying to show that to Dane?”
“I do as I say.”
It contained the ashes of someone.
She seemed to know the owner of the remains without even asking.
“Denev Rehinar, you are definitely a being whose soul has been resurrected.”
“…… Is that right?”
“However, this is not a complete resurrection. Master’s body hasn’t been revived yet, and it’s in my bag.”
“Do you always carry this with you?”
“Of course not. After finding the flower garden and picking the flower of resurrection, I would not hesitate to bring Master back to life.”
Elfin glared at me as if she was determined to do something.
“Let’s go find a flower garden with me.”
“…… What?”
“100% Perfect master, resurrect as a perfect Dane. If you find a way to transfer your soul, you will be able to revive your body with the flower of resurrection and transfer your soul.”
“It is possible to transfer the soul…… ?”
Even while talking with Elfin, I was extremely conscious of Mini Justina standing behind me.
Justina, who vowed to stop me from leaving the academy.
Will she really let go of the journey to find the flower garden along with Elfin?
At least I thought it would never happen.
“That… I’ll have to figure it out slowly. And Master doesn’t like that body right now, right? I just felt it while sparring. It’s physical garbage!”
“Kup! Ugh, ugh, that’s… That’s right, but….”
“Anyway! Answer me Are you going to visit the garden with me?”
Elfin reached out to me with a hand full of scars.
On the other hand, Justina gently grabs my collar with her small hand behind me.
‘…… What should I do with this?’
A cold sweat ran down his forehead.