Raising A Hero – Chapter 77

Ch 77: Something more intense

The sun had almost sunk to the horizon. The clouds floating in the sky were tinged red, drifting aimlessly.

As the sun disappeared, the city that had been bathed in red turned black again. Silence settled on the busy streets. The air grew cool.

Aizel, who had been watching the sunset from the terrace for a long time, came back inside. She lit a candle, illuminating the dim room. A cozy atmosphere was created.

She changed into her pajamas and sat at the dressing table, brushing her hair. Her glossy hair slipped smoothly through the brush.

Sigh.

The fairy sighed deeply and placed the brush on the dressing table. The teacher thought of her disciple.

Today, he had been such a polite disciple. As if he had forgotten that kiss.

No, maybe he really did forget? Maybe that kiss was just one of many for him. Maybe it was only me who got my hopes up, only me who was excited.

The foolish teacher’s heart swayed like a reed at a single kiss from her disciple. …No, this shouldn’t have happened in the first place. For a teacher to not only condone her disciple’s transgression but to go along with it…

Her heart was heavy. The more she thought about how she shouldn’t have feelings for her disciple, the heavier her heart became.

Obstructing her disciple’s bright future was the worst thing a teacher could do. If he wanted to pretend it never happened, it was right to go along with it. She sincerely wished for him to soar even higher. Truly.

…But even though she understood it in her head, her heart wouldn’t listen. Once her heart had known affection, it kept crying out for it. Like a baby needing milk.

Her disciple had already left too deep an imprint on his teacher. She felt like she would never forget that kiss, even until death.

Ji-hyuk was both her disciple and like a son, and also like a lover. The time they had spent together wasn’t long, but he had taken up such a large place in her heart. To the point that she couldn’t understand it.

Why? How?

It seemed to be because it was her first time. She had opened her heart too unguardedly. He had come to occupy that empty space completely.

Kind, diligent, smart, and talented.

No matter how twisted her personality was, he was a disciple she could never hate.

That’s why, because he was her last disciple, she had decided to give him everything… truly everything she had. And in doing so, she had given him her heart as well.

…Then, maybe, she shouldn’t have kissed him….

The fairy slowly got up and flopped down on the bed. And buried her face in the blanket. She hadn’t known that liking someone would be so nerve-wracking. It was both good and painful. It was an emotion she couldn’t understand.

Ji-hyuk, Ji-hyuk….

The teacher desperately called out to her disciple in her heart.

Then, suddenly, someone knocked on the door. Aizel was startled and sat up straight, looking at the door.

There was only one person who would visit her at this late hour.

The teacher forgot all her worries from a moment ago and quickly got up, straightening her clothes in front of the dressing table mirror. And she cleared her throat and adjusted her expression.

“Who is it?”

━ It’s me, Teacher.

She slowly walked to the door and pulled the doorknob. Her disciple was standing there with a smile.

Ah.

All the pain from before disappeared, and a joyful feeling spread through the teacher’s heart.

“What is it?”

“I was wondering if you were comfortable in bed, Teacher. And to say goodnight.”

“Bed? I’m fine. It’s comfortable and nice. Thank you for your concern.”

“Is that so?”

The disciple briefly looked over his teacher’s shoulder into the room. Aizel, thinking he might want to come in, opened the door a little wider and stepped back slightly.

…But, the disciple did not enter his teacher’s room.

Ji-hyuk smiled politely and said.

“I’m glad to hear that. …Have a peaceful night, Teacher.”

“…Uh, yes…. You too, sleep well….”

The disciple bowed slightly and turned away. She couldn’t close the door until she heard the sound of his door opening and closing.

Is he really leaving just like that? Without doing anything? Just like that?

The teacher’s heart trembled. With an expression that seemed almost resentful, her eyelids fluttered and her lower lip quivered.

Is Ji-hyuk really trying to pretend it never happened? Like it was just a one-night fling? …After setting my heart on fire like this?

A great fire had already started in her heart. A fire that would only go out when everything had burned away.

The teacher slowly closed the door. And lightly bumped her head against it.

Her mind was blank.

It seems it really wasn’t meant to be.

That time, it must have been just pity for his crying teacher that made him impulsively give her sympathy.

It must have been all my misunderstanding.

Aizel felt strangely unbearable pain. She bit her lower lip tightly.

━ When I return next time, I will prepare something even deeper.

He had definitely said that then.

No, I, I told him to forget. Forget everything. Let’s pretend it never happened. …Could it be that he forgot because of that? Ji-hyuk is kind, so he might. He listens to his Teacher…. Because he’s kind. Because he’s a kind disciple.

The teacher deeply regretted why she had said that then. Because of that, her disciple was pretending to forget. To be considerate so that his Teacher wouldn’t be embarrassed.

Aizel was anxious. If that was true, she wanted to tell him he didn’t need to. It was entirely possible. Ji-hyuk was a kind kid. A kind disciple who listened well to his Teacher.

Finally, she opened the door again. And after taking a deep breath, she stepped out into the dark hallway. She walked slowly, very slowly, to his room. It was right next door, so it only took a few steps to arrive.

Her body trembled uncontrollably. Her limbs shook so much, she wondered if she had ever been this nervous. She had never trembled like this, even when she had been on countless battlefields.

She took several deep breaths. And she was about to raise her arm to knock, lightly clenching her fist, when the door suddenly burst open without warning.

Gasp!

The expression she had carefully composed was ruined. She quickly dropped her raised arm and pressed it against her body. The disciple asked with a slight smile.

“What is it? …Is there something bothering you?”

“Uh? Uh…, well…, that….”

Her words kept trailing off. Unable to watch any longer, Ji-hyuk interjected.

“If it’s something important, would you like to come in?”

“…Uh, yes….”

She slowly entered his bedchamber. The door closed behind her with a thud. She unconsciously wiggled her fingers and toes.

The valiant fairy instructor who had nurtured countless heroes at the Hero Academy and dominated an era was nowhere to be seen. There was only a shy fairy female.

“What brings you here? …Is it something important?”

The disciple still didn’t know. The teacher was a little resentful of that.

She had to ask. His true feelings.

If he really wanted to back down, the fairy was willing to do so. She had no desire to be an obstacle in his path. Of course, it would be painful, but that was a matter for later.

“Ji-hyuk.”

“Yes, Teacher.”

“That, you know….”

“Yes.”

“…Before.”

Aizel glanced at him sideways. But he was still listening attentively to her words, his mouth closed. …Even now, he doesn’t know? She felt a little uneasy.

“You know…, that.”

“That?”

“What you did to me. ……Kiss.”

At the word kiss, the fairy’s face flushed. Ugh. Her head lowered slightly, and the tips of her feet traced the floor.

Having spent her entire life in the struggle for survival, she was very innocent when it came to sex. It was natural that she didn’t know about males. She had never even kissed before. That’s why she still couldn’t forget the intensity of that first kiss and was floundering.

“Yes.”

“What did you mean…, by doing that…?”

Aizel looked up at Ji-hyuk. The smile on his face gradually deepened.

“…What do you think I meant by it?”

“I’m asking because I don’t know.”

“Because I like you.”

The teacher’s head shot up. Her eyes widened. She looked so surprised, it was incredibly pretty.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t.”

“No, there’s nothing to be sorry for. …Liking someone is, natural.”

Aizel couldn’t hide her joy and kept smiling. She couldn’t control her emotions, and her body twisted.

Until now, she hadn’t been able to express the sincere emotions in her heart, so she expressed her joy with her body.

“You told me to forget it. Teacher said that, didn’t she? To treat it like it never happened.”

“Ah, that’s….”

Teacher Aizel was restless. The disciple was really taking those words to heart and putting them into practice. The her who had misunderstood him until now was a b*tch who deserved to die.

I’m an idiot. It was all my fault. I needlessly doubted my kind disciple….

“I’m sorry. …I, actually…, I’m still thinking about what happened back then.”

Teacher Aizel took courage and confessed.

“I know it’s wrong. I know, but strangely, it keeps coming to mind.”

The disciple was just listening to Teacher Aizel’s story quietly. She was slowly telling her inner thoughts.

“If I do this…, it shouldn’t be allowed…. Right…?”

The disciple didn’t answer. Teacher Aizel was getting impatient.

“I put too much pressure on you. I’m sorry. Teacher is sorry. I should have thought about your feelings too. Sorry. …Anyway, I hope you’ve cleared up the misunderstanding. What Teacher said back then wasn’t my true feelings. I just wanted you to know that. Hmm?”

The disciple quietly nodded.

“Okay, I’ll go now. …Don’t dwell on it too much. Don’t feel pressured. Teacher made a mistake. So, don’t worry and sleep comfortably. Got it?”

Teacher Aizel said that and carefully examined the disciple’s face.

“…I’ll go? Our disciple, don’t be upset. …Sleep well.”

She slowly turned around and grabbed the doorknob. At that moment, she suddenly heard his voice.

“Teacher.”

Aizel turned her head and looked at Ji-hyuk.

“Weren’t you here because you wanted to kiss me?”

…Ah….

“You said you couldn’t forget me. Are you just going to leave?”

The fairy froze like a statue.

“I…, I want to.”

Her mouth gradually widened.

“What about Teacher?”

She had to speak.

Speak.

Say something, anything.

But her voice wouldn’t come out, as if her throat was blocked.

Ah, aㅡ.

She forced the sound out.

“I, also, want to….”

At the same time, he suddenly pulled her arm. Like a fragile creature, she was pulled into his arms.

His face came closer and closer to her face. She didn’t back away at all.

Their lips met. She felt a thrill there.

How long had she been waiting for this moment?

How much had she imagined this moment?

Kiss.

A sweet kiss with her beloved disciple.

The two passionately kissed. He wrapped his arms around her waist, and she wrapped her arms around his neck.

Soon, two moist and slippery pieces of flesh were intertwined. She accepted his. It was clumsy tongue play, but she struggled to taste his.

It was sweet. Had there ever been anything so sweet before? It was overwhelmingly sweet.

She stubbornly clung to him. Unaware that saliva was dripping from her chin.

His hand gently caressed her waist. And slowly went down.

The disciple touched Teacher Aizel’s petite and soft buttocks. And he began to gently knead it very carefully.

Ahㅡ.

Her mind slightly returned to her senses at his touch. Her buttocks, which had never been allowed to be touched by anyone before, were now slowly being crushed in her disciple’s hands.

…It’s okay, it’s okay for my disciple….

Her opened eyes closed again.

It was okay to give her disciple her buttocks.

She could give him anything. If he wanted to have it.

This kiss was that vow.

Now Teacher Aizel belonged to her disciple.

Her body and mind, everything, was taken by her disciple.

The two lips that had been connected for a long time slowly separated. She sucked on his lower lip until the very end before gently releasing it.

Her closed eyes slowly opened. They were moist and wet.

Teacher Aizel lovingly scanned her disciple’s face.

“Teacher.”

“Yes.”

“Shall we do something more intense…?”

The fairy shyly smiled and slightly nodded her head.

“I’ll do everything our disciple wants. Teacher will do everything. I’ll give you everything you want….”