“Are you not going to meet him?”
At Zeronin’s question, Nigel was unable to give any answer.
The desire to see Nix was great, but she was afraid. Afraid that the expectations that had bloomed on their own would be betrayed once again, and that she would have to face bad results.
Zeronin looked at Nigel’s trembling hands and let out a small sigh.
“I put some ointment in the basket.”
After finishing his words, Zeronin immediately left the cave. Nigel felt powerless as she watched Zeronin’s back as he left without hesitation.
‘…What good is it to be good at studying?’
Nigel’s current state was that of a troublemaker who couldn’t even treat her own injured palm and failed the promotion exam due to her own stubbornness.
Nigel knew that she couldn’t just stay still like this.
But.
She was terribly afraid of leaving this small cave. Both facing the reality that wouldn’t change and facing the future that she would ruin.
Rather than plunging someone into unhappiness, she just wanted to be buried here and quietly forgotten.
Nigel curled up as much as possible without opening the basket.
[This is the timeline separator]“So, what should we do?”
Allen’s impolite question made the face of Heres, the professor in charge, turn sour.
“Allen.”
At Heres’s voice filled with various emotions, Allen belatedly blinked his eyes.
“I, I’m sorry, Dean. I got impatient.”
“Noah, don’t try to blend in. You too. The Dean is here, you should greet him first.”
When Roneh nudged Noah’s side, Noah bowed lifelessly.
“Don’t be like that. It’s understandable to be worried about a friend.”
Widrun smiled warmly at Allen and Noah, then looked at the magic door.
“As I said, Nigel Ars’s body and mind are beyond this door, so we cannot forcibly bring her out. That’s why until now, we’ve only been using the method of inputting magic into the magic door to send signals.”
At those words, Heres’s face noticeably darkened.
“However. After talking with Professor Nubilus and other professors from the magic department for several days, we’ve discovered a new possibility.”
After finishing his words, Widrun touched the magic door with his finger.
“Dean…!”
Since people couldn’t enter anyway, no one had dared to touch the door until now, fearing that the design of the magic door might be damaged.
However, surprisingly, the magic door that had been quiet until now violently shook as if trying to block Widrun’s entry, pushing away his finger.
“That’s right.”
Widrun withdrew his hand from the magic door and opened his mouth.
“Just because the magic door blocks others’ entry doesn’t mean it doesn’t react to others. As a result of experiments with other professors, the magic door shows slightly different reactions depending on who approaches.”
Widrun slowly approached Allen, who still looked anxious, and put his hand on his shoulder.
Realizing the meaning, Allen nodded and touched the magic door.
“…!”
Strangely, unlike before, the magic door showed no reaction. Following Allen, Noah quickly approached the door as well, but likewise, the magic door remained quiet.
Noah and Allen looked at each other in bewilderment before becoming dejected.
“Haha. It seems I’ve incurred Ars’s displeasure, as it shows a strong reaction to me.”
At those words, Heres’s face darkened even more. But now wasn’t the time to worry about performance evaluations.
“Based on these reactions, my colleagues and I thoroughly examined Professor Heres’s magic door design and were able to draw a new conclusion.”
Everyone held their breath, waiting for Widrun to open his mouth.
“Just as the magic door pushes me away, conversely, there exists a way to enter the magic door. That’s why we called Noah and Allen.”
“But, but the door showed no reaction to me at all!”
“Same for me.”
“But it didn’t block you like it pushed me away.”
Noah and Allen’s eyes widened simultaneously.
“There was a unique point in Professor Heres’s magic door design. It only blocked people’s entry, not the entry of magic. That’s why it strongly lit up accepting Professor Heres’s magic, and Nigel pushed away my magic when she detected it.”
“And, Nigel’s magic door showed no resistance only to you two. When I and Heres made contact, it clearly resisted, albeit weakly.”
“Thank you for the explanation, Professor Roneh.”
Widrun then looked at Heres.
“Professor Heres, how is the entry design of the magic door?”
“Only the magic of the person who first entered the door can pass through it.”
“That’s right. The only ones who can enter this magic door are you two, and what you absolutely need to enter the magic door is a medium. That is, Nigel Ars’s magic.”
And, Noah and Allen thought of the same object at the same time.
[This is the timeline separator]When Nigel opened her eyes, it was early dawn.
It was the day Nix was leaving, but Nigel’s divine power had not manifested.
Whether it was due to a lack of desperate desire to save someone, or because of herself who caused misfortune. It was no longer important to determine the truth.
If a miracle didn’t happen, she now had to accept reality and go see Nix while there was still precious time left.
Guilt with one step, fear with another, clung persistently.
Still, the desire to see the young friend one last time forcibly moved Nigel’s limbs.
The servants, no longer showing any enthusiasm or hope, turned a blind eye to Nigel’s comings and goings.
Eventually, Nigel’s footsteps stopped.
And at the end were Nix, lying quietly with a pale face as if in deep sleep, and the magic door still shining beautifully.
All of these were things Nigel had been avoiding.
Nigel clenched her palm, still hoping for the miracle she couldn’t let go of. Her heart beat rapidly, pumping blood towards her hand.
But no matter how many times, dozens of times she tried, Nigel’s palm couldn’t create a miracle.
At the denied miracle, Nigel’s eyes grew hot.
Nigel bit her lip hard, but a moan escaped through it.
Tears that burned wherever they touched fell drop by drop onto the floor from her small face. At the same time, a sense of powerlessness spread.
Rather, she should have touched the magic door and come out right away when she first came to this room. Then she wouldn’t have harbored vain expectations that Nix would be cured.
Meanwhile, the magic door was cruelly emitting brilliant five-colored light.
Nigel knew too. That this light was a signal calling her, that she was misinterpreting it.
Nevertheless, with nothing left to resent but the door, Nigel could only glare at it.
That’s when it happened.
The magic door started shining brightly, unlike ever before. That light grew even bigger, shining so brightly that Nigel’s eyes might go blind, and Nigel tightly closed her eyes.
After a while, when the light subsided, Nigel slowly opened her eyes.
And.
“…You, you were here?”
“Nigel…!”
As if by miracle, two familiar faces appeared through the light in the narrow field of vision. Noah and Allen smiled brightly at Nigel, then pounced on her without hesitation.
‘Am I dreaming because it’s too hard?’
Even when she rubbed her eyes hard, the two people smiling broadly didn’t disappear and only the warmth surrounding her became clearer, so Nigel pinched her cheek hard.
“Wh, what? What are you doing?”
Before Allen could finish speaking, Noah grabbed Nigel’s small hand to stop her.
“You’ll get hurt if you pull so hard, Nigel.”
“Did you really… come here?”
“Of course, all thanks to you!”
Allen proudly held out his hand.
In that hand was the amulet that Nigel had given Noah as a reconciliation gift in the Eliferum Forest. The blue jewel of the amulet that had contained Nigel’s divine power was now broken and had lost its light.
“Thanks to this amulet, we were able to find Nigel.”
Noah carefully wrapped the broken amulet in a handkerchief and put it in his chest.
“No, that’s not important… Why are you here? It could be dangerous!”
“That’s what I should be asking! You went into the door and haven’t thought about coming back for over a week.”
“So we came to rescue you.”
“We’re really the best friends. Right, Noah?”
The casual tone as if asking to do homework together in the lounge. But looking closely, both of them had puffy eyes and sunken cheeks as if they had been crying all day. Seeing this, Nigel’s mind cleared.
“…Get out of here quickly. It could be dangerous for you to be here too.”
Nigel pushed the two with her small hands.
“Dangerous? You look more dangerous now that you’ve shrunk.”
Allen, no longer pushed back by Nigel, stood his ground and said proudly.
“Besides, we’re in the same boat now.”
“What?”
Nigel was surprised and stopped putting force in her hands.
“We only have the magic to enter the magic door, not the magic to leave.”
“So you mean…”
“Mine and Allen’s lives depend on Nigel now.”
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
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