Book 1 Chapter 363

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A beautiful golden liquid flowed into Leo's mouth.

The faces of the surrounding female students who were watching the scene stiffened.

Gulp-

Leo's neck moved smoothly.

A refreshing scent spread in his mouth.

Along with that, he felt his body, exhausted from training, recovering.

As Leo felt his body becoming even more refreshed and was about to open his mouth.

"Don't look! Don't look at other people!"

Celia, startled, covered Leo's eyes with her hands.

"Hey! All of you, go away! Don't even think about making eye contact with Leo!"

Celia was famous for never showing any weaknesses in anything.

It was Celia's motto that, as a descendant of Jerdinger, she must always be a perfect honor student.

Such a Celia was showing tremendous emotional turmoil.

"Leo oppa! What do we do if you drink that!"

Chelsea also approached Leo with a very flustered expression.

"Go away, shoo! Shoo!"

Celia swung her legs while covering Leo's eyes with both hands.

Chelsea frowned slightly at Celia's actions, which resembled chasing away harmful animals, but because Leo was the priority now, she took a step back as Celia had said.

"Aren't you making too much of a fuss?"

"What fuss! You're a direct descendant of Jerdinger and our school's student council president, you know? You shouldn't do strange things!"

Celia spoke firmly at Leo's attempt to remove her hands.

Eliza, who had stopped her argument with Chloe, watched the scene and curled up the corner of her mouth.

"This looks quite interesting, doesn't it? Since it seems fun, let's see how effective that love potion or whatever it is."

"Oh my?"

At Eliza's words, Chen Xia covered her mouth and gasped.

An action full of grace, like an elegant young lady.

But her gaze was chilling.

"Is this fun right now, Miss Eliza?"

At Chen Xia's question, Eliza looked away.

"Karl, quickly make an antidote."

At Chloe's words, Karl awkwardly scratched his head.

"There isn't a specific antidote. Wouldn't it be alright if we just keep an eye on him for a day?"

As Chloe looked at him with cold eyes, Karl hurriedly added.

"How about this? Anyway, among the people here, there wouldn't be anyone who would do strange things to Leo, except for Eliza, right?"

Karl grinned.

"Since things have come to this, wouldn't it be enough if just one person sticks with Leo all day?"

"What?"

"I think Chloe would be good. She's also the dorm leader of the same Glory House. And they've been close since first year."

At Karl's cheeky words, Chloe's face turned red.

"Wh-what are you talking about!"

"Anyway, I know the effect of the medicine lasts for about a day."

"I can take good care of young master Leo too."

"I was in the same class as Leo oppa for a year, you know?"

Chen Xia and Chelsea also stepped forward.

Watching the scene, Celia said.

"Don't even dream about it!"

"Hmph, if you're so dissatisfied, Celia Jerdinger. Why don't you take care of him yourself?"

At Eliza's words, Celia said.

"Don't say something that would cause big trouble. Leo and I are cousins, you know?"

"Celia."

At that moment, Leo spoke.

"I'll keep my eyes closed, so take your hands off."

At his words, Celia nodded and removed her hands.

Afterward, they discussed what to do with Leo.

"Leo oppa, why on earth did you drink something like that?"

During their conversation, at Leo's request for water, Chelsea approached him to pour some water.

"Chelsea."

"Huh?"

Chelsea, who turned her head to look at Leo, felt her heart sink with a thud.

It was because beautiful red eyes were looking directly at her.

"Wh-wh-wh-what."

Chelsea was so completely flustered that she couldn't even speak properly.

"Leo and Chelsea made eye contact!"

Karl, who discovered the sight, was terrified.

"Hey! Chelsea Rualin!"

As Celia, with fire in both her eyes, shouted, Chelsea spoke with a completely flustered expression.

"Oh, no! It's not that I did that, but Leo oppa looked at me… Argh! Seriously!"

Chelsea stomped her feet, not knowing what to do.

And that's when she was glancing sideways at Leo, her face completely flushed.

Seeing Chelsea's appearance, Leo chuckled and patted her head.

At that action, no different from usual, Chelsea's eyes opened wide.

"There's no particular effect."

At Leo's words, everyone made surprised expressions.

"Young master Leo, are you completely fine?"

"Yeah. I'm perfectly fine."

"That's a relief."

Watching Leo calmly shrug his shoulders, Chloe let out a deep sigh of relief.

"So, in the end, you made a failure?"

Celia, with her arms crossed, squinted her eyes.

Karl scratched his cheek.

"It seems so."

"Hmph, I feel pathetic for being swayed even for a moment."

Eliza scoffed and walked away.

As the incident concluded, Karl burst into boisterous laughter and said.

"Wow~ I'm really glad it was a failure! Hahahahaha! Now, let's go mediate with the others."

Chloe stretched out her hand towards Karl, who was trying to naturally gloss over the situation.

"Ow ow ow ow ow!"

"You. Do you think you can shamelessly get away with it even after causing such an incident?"

Chloe pulled Karl's ear, and Celia, seeing that, swept back her hair.

"How are you going to take responsibility for this commotion?"

Chelsea, making chilling joint-cracking sounds from her small hands, squinted her eyes.

"You're ready, aren't you?"

"Hey! I didn't know! I really didn't know things would get this big!"

Karl protested with a pale face.

Chen Xia, who was watching the scene, smiled faintly.

"Everyone, don't scold him too much. We can't punish Student Karl on an individual level, can we?"

"Ch-Chen Xia!"

"I'll put it on the agenda and the student council will handle it. Student Karl, you were caught by the student council previously for illegal drug manufacturing and sales, weren't you? At that time, I believe you were told that if you caused such a commotion one more time, you wouldn't be left alone?"

Karl's face turned pale white.

"Karl made it and definitely intended to report it to the student council. Even if Karl started this commotion, you can't say he's the primary culprit. Don't scold him too much."

"Leo! As expected, there's no one but you!"

Karl, watching his friend defending him, made an expression as if about to shed tears.

At Leo's words, the female students also made expressions that seemed to say, "If that's the case…"

"By the way, why was it made a failure?"

"Because it's Karl."

As Chloe tilted her head as if puzzled, Chelsea replied, crossing her arms.

Thus, the incident concluded.

Leo muttered as he returned to his room.

'Karl made it properly.'

Leo looked down at the potion bottle.

'Whether 5000 years ago or now, what people think is the same. To think they'd consider it something to drink.'

Leo chuckled.

Dweno's love potion.

It wasn't something to drink.

Leo recalled an event from 5000 years ago.

***

Click-

That day was after the meeting about future matters had ended in Gardsron.

As only the five Great Heroes sat in the meeting room, Dweno placed a small bottle containing a golden liquid on the table.

"What is this?"

Lysinass asked with a puzzled expression.

"It's a love potion."

Lysinass, Arion, and Kyle looked at Dweno with dumbfounded expressions.

"Some fool kept pestering me to make it, so I tried. The duration is only a day, but the effect is certain."

At Dweno's serious words, Arion's eyes opened wide as he asked Kyle.

"Who on earth would have done that?"

"You tell me. Who on earth came up with such a foolish idea? If you like someone, you should just confess it."

"Kyle, I completely agree with your thoughts, but since you, an idiot, are saying it, I cannot tolerate it."

"Why is this damn dwarf suddenly picking a fight?"

Kyle frowned.

Lysinass stared intently at Luna.

Luna looked somewhere else and feigned ignorance.

"For you to put effort into making such a strange thing. That's unexpected."

At Lysinass's words, Dweno said.

"I had no intention of making it. But when I thought about it, isn't love truly a beautiful emotion? As a worshipper of beauty, it's an emotion I cannot overlook. Therefore, I tried making it."

"I'm not even curious how perversely you must have interpreted it."

At Kyle's words, Luna jumped up from her seat.

"Since things have come to this, let's experiment, Kyle."

"Why."

"Drink it."

"……"

Kyle scrunched up his face and looked at Luna.

"Why should I drink this strange, incomprehensible medicine?"

"Because you're perfect for it."

Luna grinned, holding the bottle, and approached Kyle.

"Now, say 'Ah!'"

"Aren't you going to put that away? You idiot."

"I said drink it!"

"As a leader, I can't let a party member drink such a strange thing. Luna, throw it away right now."

"Hmph!"

Luna opened the bottle and tried to force Kyle to drink it.

Kyle snatched the bottle from Luna's hand and forcibly put it into Luna's mouth.

"Ugh? Ugh?"

He tightly embraced Luna's back with his hand, who was struggling with wide eyes trying to shake him off, and pressed down with his hand.

Luna, embraced in Kyle's arms, struggled at first. But soon, with even her ears turning red, she relaxed.

Lysinass mouthed words, and Arion's eyes opened wide.

"You drink it. Don't try to make others drink it."

"Hmph-!"

Luna, making a peculiar groan, tightly closed her eyes and broke free from Kyle.

"What do we do if you make Luna drink something like that!"

"Then she would have tried to forcibly make me drink it with magic, so should I have just meekly let it happen?"

"That's true, but……"

While Lysinass and Kyle were bickering, Luna's eyelashes trembled as she cautiously looked at Kyle.

With a subtly tense expression.

But Luna, who looked at Kyle with a slightly flushed face.

Kyle approached such a Luna and pushed his face close.

"How is it? Do you think you'll fall for me?"

"Kyle……"

"Luna! Wait a minute……"

It was when Lysinass was hastily trying to stop Luna.

"What are you doing! You damn bastard!"

Thwack-!

Luna headbutted Kyle in the face.

"This tomboy, seriously……"

Kyle clutched his face and let out a groan.

Leaving such a Kyle behind, Luna confronted Dweno.

"What! Nothing's happening! It's a complete failure!"

At Luna's words, Dweno made a pathetic expression.

"In my dictionary, failures do not exist. Especially not if it's for art."

"What?"

"To think of making someone drink that. That's quite unsophisticated. Of course, drinking it does have the effect of recovering a tired body, but there's a separate, true way to use the love potion I created."

"What is that?"

As Luna squinted her eyes, Dweno glared back.

"It's for spraying! The moment you spray that medicine on your body, you return to your appearance at birth!"

"……"

For a moment, Luna, who couldn't understand, was flabbergasted, and Lysinass also made an expression wondering what kind of nonsense this was.

Arion, who was listening to the story, reddened his face and asked.

"If you spray that medicine, do all your clothes melt?"

"You got it right! Arion!"

"What kind of love potion is such a perverted medicine!"

Luna, with even her ears red, shouted as if screaming.

"You don't understand! Just imagine a fine couple seeing each other's beautiful forms in one room! And that, in a state where everything they're wearing on their bodies melts away all day long! Wouldn't love naturally blossom?"

"You made such a vulgar medicine and called it a love potion! You perverted dwarf!"

Luna shouted as if screaming.

"As expected, you truly don't understand art at all."

Lysinass clutched his head and let out a deep sigh.

"And these are the ones who are supposed to save the world."

***

'Well, I'm the only one who knows about the effect.'

Leo shrugged his shoulders.

'Karl won't try to make it again either.'