Interlude
Horn left the classroom, but Angeline didn’t follow after her immediately. Instead, she lowered her head respectfully to Professor Bihyak.
“I’m so terribly sorry for interrupting you while you’re busy.”
“This kind of behavior isn’t very becoming of you.”
“We were searching for the missing students at the headmistress’s behest.”
“Oh...? So that girl wasn’t a run-of-the-mill student, was she?”
“Horn is apparently an adventurer.”
“...It’s hard to tell a grasswalker’s age at a glance, but if she’s in the middle school branch, she’d be younger than fifteen,” Professor Bihyak murmured, almost to himself.
“But...I’m glad.” Angeline heaved a sigh of relief.
“Oh?”
“You really are innocent after all, Professor Bihyak!”
“You suspected me...?”
“My apologies... But I did think that it was impossible from the start.”
“Is that so?”
Angeline’s cheeks flushed over a bit. “I don’t know a single person who tries harder to do what is right, professor. I don’t just think your lectures are wonderful, but I highly respect you as a person in general.”
“Even though my lectures are overcomplicated and unfair?” Professor Bihyak shrugged.
“The students simply aren’t trying hard enough.”
“Heh...” He rose to his feet and walked over to her. He extended both his arms and wrapped them around the girl.
“Ah?!”
“Thank you. I’ve become too used to being suspected by others.”
The tips of Professor Bihyak’s fingers touched the nape of Angeline’s neck. Feeling his body heat filled her with emotion, and forced her breath to clog in her throat.
“P-Professor...?”
“When someone does believe in me, I’m moved all the more.”
“I...believe in you, Professor...”
Old as he may be, Professor Bihyak was still a man. And even as she thought that he was embracing a student like her, she couldn’t just reject him, not after she’d told him she believed in him... Even though things were completely different, the atmosphere didn’t allow that. The professor didn’t seem to be doing anything other than embracing her, so Angeline surrendered herself to him. With both of their bodies mingling, she’d grown a bit sweaty despite the winter cold.
“Professor...”
“Yes, it’s about time.”
She thought he’d let go of her, but his embrace grew even tighter.
“Ah?!”
Bihyak brought his mouth to Angeline’s ear, his lips brushing against her cheek.
“The touch of a human’s skin is a sensation I can grow used to...”
“Professor...?!”
“Hypno.”
Angeline’s consciousness sank into darkness. As the female student stood frozen in place, Bihyak revealed his true colors.
“Heheheh... A student council member not being able to resist a hypnosis spell is laughable. But, well, after such prolonged contact, that much is obvious...”
Angeline stood silent.
“And to think they brought an adventurer into the mix...” He clicked his tongue. “Damn headmistress, you’re better off staying focused on your petty research.”
Bihyak then reached his hand out to Angeline, who was standing as if she were asleep with her eyes open. He caressed her cheek and ran his fingers through her raven-colored hair.
“You said you believed in me, yes?”
“...I believe in you.”
“You are brilliant, yet stupid all the same. But that is good... I have need to hasten my plans. I’ll have you help me.”
“...Understood.”
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