Chapter 299
I seriously pondered whether there was a way to relay the Sword Saint’s answer without mentioning my name, but the conclusion I reached was simple—there wasn’t.
I believed that the biggest reason this world had deviated from the original storyline was me. And the Sword Saint’s response was deeply intertwined with that very reason.
If I were to explain the situation while deliberately omitting the reason, I wouldn’t be able to answer the fundamental question: Why did the Sword Saint decide to apply for a teaching position?
That was probably why he had smiled at me.
He must have known from the start that I would end up in this predicament. That’s why he had guided the conversation in that direction, half-mocking me in the process.
In the end, I had walked right into the trap of my own accord.
And since I had no one to blame but myself, it made the situation even more frustrating.
For the next few days, I wavered back and forth, unable to decide what to do. I was truly grateful that Jennifer wasn’t my homeroom teacher. If she had been, I wouldn’t have even been able to escape to my dormitory right after class.
For some reason, Jennifer neither sent students to call for me nor came to find me herself. I wasn’t sure if she was giving me time or if the academy faculty had reached some conclusion on their own.
But for me... Well, it wasn’t exactly a good thing, but at the very least, it bought me some time.
Even so, there was a limit. Even I knew that I couldn’t put this off indefinitely. And with each passing day, my anxiety only grew.
By the fourth day after my conversation with the Sword Saint, Alice began giving me suspicious looks. Since she had always been able to see through my emotions, even when I tried to mask them while rewinding time, my current expressions—unfiltered—must have been even easier for her to read.