I Became an Unknown Professor at the Academy

A few days after the start of the vacation.

“Ugh…”

Baek Hana, who had been dragging her body like a heavy lead weight, collapsed onto the bed. For the first three days, she didn’t feel much fatigue thanks to Maria’s healing, but that didn’t last long.

First of all, Maria’s fatigue had accumulated, and instead of resting during the time she should have been resting, she had played with the fairy.

‘I really can’t last more than a few days like this…’

With each passing day, Maria’s divine power was diminishing. Unlike magic, divine power requires prayer for recovery, and Maria spent most of that time playing with the fairy. So it was natural that her divine power would continue to decrease.

Tinkle.

Baek Hana, who was about to succumb to the weight of her heavy eyelids, suddenly heard the door to the dormitory open.

“Hana…!!!”

Baek Hana, who was staggering out of bed, opened her half-closed eyes wide at the sound of Lee Nayoung’s voice, which clearly revealed her excitement.

“Did you finish it?”
“For now!! But I don’t know if it was successful because I haven’t tried it yet…”

A dark shadow fell over Lee Nayoung’s excited face.

“Come here.”
“Huh.”

Baek Hana reached out and hugged Lee Nayoung, who was rummaging through her bag in front of her.

“Sniff, smells like herbs.”
“Huh, itchy…”

Lee Nayoung’s shoulders shook every time Baek Hana’s hot breath touched the back of her head and neck.

“Is the medicine in there?”
“Huh? Oh, yes. I brought everything.”
“Did you tell Edyn?”
“Not yet… I came here right away, afraid that someone might steal it.”
“Good job. And you can’t come here today anyway, so let’s contact each other tomorrow.”
“Okay. I understand. But Hana?”
“Why?”
“Why are you rummaging through the bag…?”

Lee Nayoung blinked as she watched Baek Hana’s hand, which was holding the bag across her lap and opening the bag’s mouth.

“I’m just checking to see if it worked properly.”
“…”

Clink.

Baek Hana’s hand came out of the bag, holding a small bottle about the length of her finger.

“Is this it?”
“Hmm.”
“It’s transparent. If you don’t look closely, it looks like an empty bottle.”
“But that’s Edyn’s…”

Lee Nayoung watched as Baek Hana naturally tried to open the lid of the potion bottle and asked.

“Isn’t it better to know the result before telling me?”
“That, that’s true, but…”
“And if the result is not good, you can buy some time to prepare yourself.”
“Hick…”
“It’s okay. I trust you.”

Baek Hana slowly opened the lid of the potion bottle.

“So this is our little secret.”
“Hmm.”
“Okay.”

Baek Hana confirmed that Lee Nayoung was nodding and brought the bottle’s mouth to her lips.

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The next morning.

“This is the potion I’ve been waiting for…”!!

Edyn, who received a text from Lee Nayoung early in the morning, visited the dormitory and held up a small potion bottle, her eyes sparkling. Lee Nayoung, who was watching from the bed, cautiously opened her mouth.

“I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t know if it worked…”
“But you said there’s a 97% chance of success, right?”
“That’s true.”
“Then it must have worked.”

Finally, Edyn was happy that she could finally be free from the muscle pain that had plagued her every night, and she put the potion bottle back into her bag. Maria, who was sitting next to Edyn, asked.

“Why don’t you drink it now?”
“Why waste it now? We’ll still be training today. Let’s drink it after the training is over.”
“Why is your mind so sharp only in things like this?”
“What? Don’t you want to drink it?”

Edyn shook her heavy bag, and Maria’s left eyebrow twitched.

“Hoho, you’re so~? Can’t you take a joke? I’ve always known that our Edyn has a brilliant mind.”

Pat pat.

Maria, with a bright smile, stuck close to Edyn and lightly patted the slightly protruding upper part of her buttocks with her palm.

“Il’ll Give it to you, so stop it.”
“Okay.”

Maria’s lips, which had been raised high, returned to a flat horizontal line. Edyn lightly clicked her tongue at her friend’s quick change of attitude and asked Lee Nayoung.

“Are you busy today?”
“No…”

Lee Nayoung shook her head, rubbing her sleepy eyes.

“I’m going to visit Hana’s house today to check if the potion really worked…”
“That’s good.”

Edyn stood up from her seat, with her bag slung over her shoulder.

“I was going to give it to you if you were busy, but now we can drink it together after our training. Okay?”
“Hmm?”
“Why? Don’t you want to drink it?”
“No, it’s not that. It’s just… it’s yours…”

Lee Nayoung asked with wide eyes, and Edyn snorted and answered.

“Hey, I’m a priest too, you know? I know you’ve been working on this for days, and even though the ingredients are mine, I’m not going to just keep quiet about it.”

-Cough.

“……?”

BaeK Hana, who had been quiet all this time, coughed lightly, and Edyn chuckled.

“You don’t have to be so subtle about it, I was going to give you one too.”

“Th-thank you……”

“Haha!! Why are you so shy about this?”

Baek Hana rarely averted her gaze as she replied, and Edyn laughed as if she found it amusing.

“I don’t think that’s it……”

“Huh? What did you say?”

As Edyn stopped laughing and asked, Maria shook her head slightly and stood up from her seat.

“Let’s go eat breakfast.”

Her skin was more vibrant than yesterday.

Maria found it fascinating that Edyn didn’t notice such an obvious change.

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The clock on the desk pointed to nine o’clock.

At the same time, the creatures that had been waiting in front of the entrance since a while ago opened the door and stepped into the mansion.

Then, the children’s voices greeting Claire could be heard.

“Woo-jin~?”

Baek Hana poked her head out of the study door.

Seeing that I was sitting at the desk, she slowly pushed the half-open door and came inside.

“I’m going to be in your debt again today~”

“S-sir, I’m going to be in your debt too…!!”

Maria and Edyn bowed slightly to me. I hadn’t forced Claire to do this, and I didn’t need to force these two to do it either, but these two, who were so similar to their superior, were still bowing to me as a sign of respect.

I nodded once to them, then shifted my gaze to the child who was sticking close to Baek Hana.

“Ah, er, ah, ah, hello, ha, hello……”

“She’s Lee Nayoung. My roommate.”

I already knew that.

But there was no need to tell Baek Hana, so I finished by nodding once again.

“Where’s the kid?”

“She has something else to do first.”

“Chee……”

Baek Hana, who had been slowly trying to slip into the bedroom, pouted and turned around at my words.

“Nayoung, do you want to stay here? You don’t have to be outside -”

“No! I, I like the outside!! I, I need to get some, some sunlight too!!”

“Oh, really? Then let’s go together.”

“Yeah!!”

Baek Hana probably meant her own room, but Lee Nayoung seemed to have misunderstood and thought she was being told to wait here.

“See you later.”

After the children left the study, Baek Hana smiled at me and quietly closed the door.

‘The thing in the bag…… is it a potion?’

The heavy bag hanging from Edyn’s waist.

It was slightly altered, but the energy I felt from it was definitely that of a fairy.

Baek Hana’s energy was extremely well-contained, probably because she had drunk a potion made with fairy time as an ingredient.

‘To make it into a potion like that.’

An unexpected use.

It was probably because they didn’t know how valuable the ingredient was that they could come up with such an eccentric and bold idea and put it into action.

‘It’s quite interesting.’

It had changed from lifespan to time, and then to a potion, and its nature had been altered once again. But from Baek Hana’s changes, it was clear that it still retained the concept of time.

If this altered potion also worked on its original owner.

‘…It might be worth trying to modify it.’

I thought that the results might be even better than what I had originally planned.

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-Piiiaang~

As noon approached, a little rascal yawned and flew towards me through the open bedroom door.

-Piiang.

“Someone might think you’re the one who left it here.”

-Pii?

I lightly pressed the head of the creature, who was tilting its head in confusion, and took out the essence of the Slime Queen from the drawer in the study.

-Piiiaang~

The creature took the black jelly in its hand and flew to the windowsill, where it sat on its haunches in a sunny spot. It then began to chew on the jelly diligently while watching the sparring session that was about to end.

‘It’s a relief that it’s working.’

Just as Maria, Edyn, and Claire had predicted, the creature had given its time to those two children. As a result, its sleep pattern, which had just stabilized, underwent a significant change.

The creature, which used to fall asleep with Claire and wake up when breakfast was ready, now barely managed to get out of its basket as noon approached. Its sleep schedule had also changed drastically, and it would fly straight to its nest as soon as the evening meal was over and Baek-Hana’s group left the mansion.

I had been consistently purchasing the essence of the Slime Queen through Lee Yesol, and I had also received a few from Yoon Do-sik and Jaeden recently.

The creature was able to wake up and move around energetically thanks to the essence of the Slime Queen.

-Piiang!!

…Ppok! Ppok!

…Ppok! Ppok!

After finishing the jelly cleanly, the creature knocked on the window with its small hands as if asking to be let out.

Since the children’s training was also over, I used my magic to open the closed window.

-Ppuuu!!

“Waaah…?!”

The fairy, which had gone out to the yard, started to cause trouble on Lee Nayoung’s head, who was sitting at a distance from Baek-Hana, who was lying on the ground.

“No.”

-Ppiit……

At that moment, Claire, who was about to enter the mansion, witnessed this and went over to Lee Nayoung to remove the fairy. The fairy, seeing Claire’s stern expression for the first time in a long time, looked very gloomy and lowered its head.

“I, Nayoung……”

“Ahh!!”

At Edyn’s call, which sounded like the scream of an undead, Lee Nayoung took out a small glass bottle from the bag she was holding.

‘It’s a potion, as expected.’

Edyn took the potion from Lee Nayoung, opened the lid, and drank it in one go.

“Oh, oooh……?”

The scratches and swellings on Edyn’s body quickly disappeared.

As more time passed, not only did the wounded skin become clean as if by magic, but it also started to emit a subtle glow.

Unlike the tattered clothes, I was certain that Edyn’s body had been restored to its original state.

‘It still has the property of making time flow.’

However, unlike Baek-Hana, whose hair had noticeably grown, Edyn’s physical changes were not as significant. It seemed that while they had succeeded in making the potion, they had failed to divide its properties in the same proportion.

‘It’s natural that it’s still too difficult.’

When I had a good understanding of the potion, the little rascal, who had been sitting on Claire’s palm, flew towards Edyn.

-Piiiaang~!

“Huh? Do you want some too?”

-Piiii!!

“Yes. You should drink it too. You gave it to me, so you have the right to drink it. Nayoung!!”

“Ah, yes!!”

Lee Nayoung took out another potion from her bag and handed it to Edyn. But.

“Edyn.”

“Hic……”

Claire, who had silently closed the distance between them, snatched the potion and glared at Edyn, who was sitting on the floor, with a cold stare.

“You and I will have a separate meeting later.”

“W-why……?!”

“Shut up.”

Claire glared at Edyn once more and then returned the potion she had taken.

“Ugh… I’m going to play to my heart’s content before I die…!!”

Pop!!

Edyn opened the lid of the potion and held it out to the fairy, who was looking up at her from below.

-Piiiaang~!

“Here, I’ll feed it to you. Good job.”

The fairy took the bottle with its small hands and brought it to its mouth, and Edyn slowly tilted the bottle.

As the bottle tilted, the clear liquid inside flowed down and entered the fairy’s small mouth, then down its throat.

Gulp.

Gulp.

Gulp.

When it had swallowed half of the potion, which was about the size of its own body.

“……!!”

“Hic?!”

Claire, who was watching from the side, released her magic and snatched the potion from Edyn’s hand.

‘G, executor, sir……?’

The faint aura that emanated from Claire caused Edyn’s face to turn pale.

Everyone in the room, except for me, was stunned by the sudden turn of events and stood there with their mouths agape.

-Tch!
A muffled child’s voice filled the garden.