Chapter 15: Passed Like A Dog (1)
Two days after the admissions test.
While I was thinking about the general theory of ‘Flare’, it passed midnight. I felt nauseous at the thought of having to see Professor Hasfeldt’s face again tomorrow.
I shut the door to the lab and hurried to the shed. The outside was pitch black but it didn’t seem that dark because of the stardust that littered the sky.
Sometimes when I walked while looking up at the sky, it brought back old memories.
When we were young, my older sister (noona) would tell me the names of stars in the heavens as she recited, ‘Since I’m going to Mars–’. I had asked her if she wanted to become an astronaut but that wasn’t it; she just wanted to change the world.
I still didn’t understand her eccentric thought process. Still, there was no doubt that my sister had been the one to show me the path of science.
When I lowered my head, the memories melted away and reality took their place. Before me, my sweet home was awaiting its wretched owner.
I pulled the handle of the shed and went inside.
After taking out the crumpled admission ticket from my hip sack and tossing it onto the paulownia wood desk, I laid down on the straw. A magic paper with an incomplete Flare was in my hand.
[(Incomplete) Ultimate Fire Magic ─ Flare]
It wasn’t a magic that had been constructed yet based on the short script in the hardcover that had been with me since I fell into this world. Hence, I needed to independently research from this point on.