Chapter 30. Magic Engineering Item: Elimian’s Consideration

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ㅡMen do not wear accessories.

Such a saying was common in the world of the Royal High Academy.

An era where men don’t wear accessories. Even as time passed and values changed, because the worldview itself was like that, men almost never bought accessories.

So, accessories have been the exclusive domain of women for generations. All accessories existed as if flaunting their beauty for women. Moreover, even when men bought accessories, it was mostly for the purpose of giving them to lovers, wives, or women.

And because this was so natural…

Kali too, naturally thought so.

That Student Han Chunsung as well.
Wouldn’t know how to wear earrings.

So…
It would be better if she did it herself.

…

Rustle.

She gently brushed aside his black hair, revealing the student’s ear. As her hand touched his body, she felt strange seeing the student momentarily flinch.

It was clearly nothing special.
A strange feeling that made her hesitate and pause for no reason.

Still, pretending to be calm, she carefully brought the earring in her hand to his ear.

Then suddenly, she wondered how it had come to this.

‘I didn’t intend to go this far.’

Stopping Student Han Chunsung, who was about to leave, was an unintended action.

Just… an action close to instinct.

So I didn’t know what words to say afterwards. After saying anything, I ended up revealing my personal training room, which I would never show to an ordinary student.

Now I was trying to put on a priceless magic engineering item for a student.

Even to me, it felt…
Too strange.

“…”

As the student’s very small breath touched my ear, I felt a little ticklish while gently caressing the student’s ear in return.

“I’ll tell you in advance. It might hurt a little.”

“…It’s fine.”

At the student’s awkward response, I smiled gently and put on the earring without hesitation.

Click.

As the sound of the earring being fastened rang out, I could see the student flinch for a moment.

I gently moved my head away and slowly moved to fasten the other earring on the opposite side, but Han Chunsung just stood still.

“…”

Exhaling softly, as if not knowing where to look. He looked perplexed, which I found curious.

‘He’s not asking anything.’

I thought he might show a negative reaction to my sudden approach, or have a strange reaction to me trying to put on earrings, but Han Chunsung quietly accepted my actions.

He could express doubts, ask why I’m trying to put on earrings, but he’s silently accepting it as if trusting me.

It was as if… it was okay for me to do anything to the student.

…When I had that thought for a moment, it felt too strange.

‘What am I thinking.’

Han Chunsung and I… were just in the position of ‘instructor and student’.

‘Yes. That’s all we are.’

Maybe it wasn’t so strange that Han Chunsung was accepting my touch now…
I carefully fastened the other earring on the opposite ear.

Click.

As the earring clicked into place, Han Chunsung flinched again, and I found it oddly cute.

Seen this close, he was clearly taller than me. His body was lithe, with fine muscles visible here and there.

Just from that, faint traces were visible of how much effort the student had put in and trained his body over the short period of two months.

Even if it wasn’t complete yet… my thoughts suddenly seemed ridiculous.

‘To think I found such a student cute.’

I gently shook my head and then opened my mouth.

“Student Han Chunsung. Don’t do anything and just stay still for a moment.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Looking at the student calmly answering, I carefully examined his appearance.

I had to thoroughly observe for a while to see if there were any rejection reactions or abnormal phenomena after wearing the magic engineering item.

ㅡMagic Engineering Item.

Generally, all magic engineering items were special. They were amazing items, to the extent that one could say there were no magic engineering items that weren’t special. Only a very small number of craftsmen born with magical characteristics could make them, and there weren’t even ten such craftsmen in the empire. That’s why some people referred to magic engineering items as treasures outright.

Treasures that were hard to obtain even with money.

As items with such special power, they sometimes cause rejection reactions with the wearer.

I was now checking if that reaction was occurring in Student Han Chunsung.

“…”
“…”

About 5 minutes passed like that, with us exchanging glances without saying anything.

Han Chunsung, receiving my gaze, seemed not to know where to look, his gaze wandering constantly.

I could feel somewhat relieved.

“This should be fine. There’s no rejection reaction, Student Han Chunsung, you can move now.”

At my words, he exhaled deeply and moved his arms and legs, and I kept smiling watching him.

Other students would probably listen to my words well too, but he listens too well.

The student seemed somewhat naive.

“The earrings I just put on you are one of the magic engineering items called ‘Elimian’s Consideration’.”

“Elimian’s Consideration.”

As he repeated my words as if hearing them for the first time, I nodded and added a detailed explanation.

“It’s one of the items made by ‘Elimian’, a magic craftsman with a Unique-grade magic engineering Talent. As the name includes the word consideration, it has a special power to increase the wearer’s natural recovery ability. When wearing the earrings, you won’t get tired easily, and you’ll have more vitality in daily life, which has many advantages.”

I met the student’s eyes as I explained.

The surprise and curiosity in his characteristic black eyes.

Yet I also felt a bit of arrogance, as if asking ‘Is that all?’

In fact, even this effect alone made it a treasure that many people would seek, but I understood Han Chunsung’s look.

The reason I said this magic engineering item specifically suited Han Chunsung wasn’t just that.

“And if the user wants, they can conversely maintain a more difficult state.”

“By difficult state, do you mean… it can make the body experience a greater burden?”

As he answered as if almost understanding, I nodded with a smile.

Han Chunsung immediately grasped why I had given this to him.

“That’s right. As much as the name implies consideration, you can live a more comfortable and easier life, but the opposite is also possible. It can make daily life more uncomfortable and difficult too. For example, even breathing comfortably can become difficult to the point where you’re conscious of it.”

At my words, Han Chunsung touched the earrings with a blank expression.

As if it felt strange and unfamiliar to suddenly have such accessories on his ears. Yet his eyes had a strangely testing look.

‘…Testing?’

Just as I was wondering why the student’s eyes looked testing.

“Ugh!”

Han Chunsung suddenly let out a pained groan and fell to one knee.

…Seeing that, I was greatly surprised.

‘I didn’t even tell him the proper usage method. How…’

I had only explained the effects of Elimian’s Consideration.

But now. Han Chunsung seemed to have skipped several steps that should have been in between, and used Elimian’s Consideration outright.

As if he had made it extremely difficult for himself.

“Haa… Haa…”

As he breathed heavily and even bit his lips, I felt more dumbfounded the more I looked at Han Chunsung.

I had also worn Elimian’s Consideration directly and used it in training several times.

So I fully understood how difficult it could become if you earnestly wished to make it difficult for yourself.

How many days it took for me to get used to that usage method…

But.

Not long after putting it on, Han Chunsung had not only manifested the effect of the magic engineering item… he was now ‘adapting’ to it.

Heavy breathing, unstable posture.

These gradually stabilized as if returning to their original state.

“Phew…”

Even the way he seemed to adjust his condition while slowly taking deep breaths was impressive.

Even when I first wore it and manifested it with difficulty. I failed to control the intensity and had to struggle in that state for almost half a day.

‘He did that alone…’

How is this possible?

Han Chunsung just manifested it on his own and even adjusted the intensity right away.

At an unbelievable speed…

“Instructor Kali, I’m sorry. I showed an unsightly appearance.”

As he regained stability and carefully apologized, I blankly shook my head.

“It’s okay. There’s no need to call it unsightly. But Student Han Chunsung. How did you use the magic engineering item and adapt to it right away? That shouldn’t be… so easy.”

On average, it takes a long time just to grasp magic engineering items without understanding.

“As you said, Instructor, when I thought about it, the burden was immediately applied to my body. I think I’ll need time to properly handle this magic engineering item, but…”

“Of course. So, you’re saying it worked just by thinking about it?”

“Yes. Perhaps… Instructor Kali. Is my answer strange?”

Was I making too strange an expression at the student’s answer?

As he asked very carefully, a laugh escaped me involuntarily.

“No. It’s not strange or anything like that. Just… a bit surprising. There aren’t many people who adapt to magic engineering items this quickly. Even I struggled a bit at first.”

“Then I guess I was lucky.”

As he awkwardly smiled and answered to my words, my gaze was drawn anew.

ㅡHan Chunsung.

His Talent is Common, but. No matter how I looked at him, this student was not ordinary.

His thinking. His actions. His mindset. His values. And even this appearance now, not a single thing could be considered ordinary.

To the point where I wondered why the world had given such a low-grade Talent as Common to this student…

“Student Han Chunsung?”

“Yes, Instructor.”

“Um, I’m sorry but… that doesn’t mean I can arbitrarily give those earrings to you. I’d like you to think about that a bit.”

I felt awkward even as I spoke.

He was such an admirable and impressive student, but the value of the magic engineering item was too great to just give away.

“I understand that too, of course. How could I just receive such an item?”

Even as I looked at the student smiling as if he understood… my feelings were strange. For some reason, I felt like I wanted to take care of this student a bit more.

Yet now, I felt certain.

No matter how I looked at this student…

‘He seems like a genius.’

In terms of talent, he was no different from a genius.

Even now, without directly confirming the student’s skills,
I was already feeling that way.