How to Get on the Main Character’s Flower Path

 

“…You’re not going to stop them…?”

 

“I’m thinking about it. Should I just watch the teachers and their children suffer for the first time in a long time, or should I just take it right there now?”

 

Yggdrasil smirked at me.

 

Kangyoo answered with shining eyes.

 

“Master, I want to go there!”

 

“Hmm! Kangyoo wants to go! Then let’s go! Everyone, get ready to go!”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“Are you going to miss the chance to see my battle up close? My students? Let’s go!”

 

We looked at her, dumbfounded, without even trying to hide our bewilderment, but it was no use under Yggdrasil’s pressure.

 

She jumped over the window and fell down the building.

 

Everyone followed Yggdrasil as if it was natural, and went over the window and landed outside the building.

 

The problem is…

 

“Uh…”

 

This man with no answer, Na Yuhan. I stretched out my arms to him and carried him in one-person carrying mode.

 

“Let’s go, Yuhan!”

 

“Uh… Huh… HUH?!“

 

Na Yuhan clung to me tightly with a dumbfounded expression.

 

“Sister?!”

 

I heard Kang Yoo shouting something from below, but this time there was nothing I could do.

 

I jumped down while holding Na Yuhan, landed, and started running after Yggdrasil.

 

“Should I carry him instead?”

 

Park Siwoo, who had come next to me, suggested that, but I shook my head. I should earn some meta point while I’m at it.

 

Next to him, Kangyoo was occupied, staring at us with his lips sticking out as if he was pouting.

 

“…His gaze is stinging.”

 

“Haha…”

 

I felt Na Yuhan mutter like that and avoid Kangyoo’s gaze, and I broke out in a cold sweat.

 

Anyway, Kangyoo is too worried.

 

Calm down, Kangyoo! Before you came here, this sister explained this and that to you, didn’t I!

 

Yggdrasil, who was running excitedly at the front of the group regardless of me sweating inside, soon arrived at the place where the teachers were struggling.

 

“Miss Yggdrasil!”

 

“Welcome!”

 

“That student isn’t following the control at all!”

 

“I saw it all! You pathetic things!”

 

Yggdrasil shook her head and clicked her tongue lightly, then confidently walked in front of the shield.

 

<Oooh, look! Yoola! It’s Miss Yggdrasil!>

 

<Wow! Let’s quickly adjust to maximum output!>

 

And even after seeing that majestic appearance, the inventor duo seemed to have no intention of giving up on the robot.

 

Instead, they got even more excited and poured even more mana into the shield.

 

Yggdrasil snickered at that sight and soon turned to us.

 

“Hey, students!”

 

“Yes!”

 

“I probably talked about the skills that handle mana before.” 

 

I remembered what Yggdrasil had taught me about magic bullets before.

 

[Kang Nahyun! Your magic bullet skill level is high! The current level of your magic bullets is at a level where you can get a sense of when and what form of magic the bullet will take and what kind of power it will have.]

[I… It’s not that high yet, though…?]

[No, you can do it, do it!]

[…Yes!]

 

It seems like she taught similar things to the other children. Everyone had an expression on their face as if they had guessed something.

 

Yggdrasil clapped her fists together.

 

“This time, it’s the next level. It’s still too far for you to reach… but it’s a level you’ll have to reach someday. There’s a saying in the world that all flows eventually become one. The same goes for the skill of handling magic.”

 

Soon, a green mana that resembled the color of her eyes began to bloom from her fist. 

 

“Some use magic bullets, some use magic arrows… Most people can only manifest magic in specific forms in such limited forms at first. However, as the level of your magic skill increases and your proficiency increases, you will be able to use magic in forms that you want to create yourself, not forms that your skill forces you to use.”

 

Yggdrasil clenched her fist and took a stance as if she was about to swing it at the barrier.

 

Behind her, a huge green magic force in the shape of a fist appeared.

 

“Once you can truly freely use magic force, you will be able to imitate the skills of others with the same attribute of mana!”

 

The robot flinched as if nervous at the sight of her. Yggdrasil laughed heartily at the sight of the robot.

 

“Like this!”

 

And then, she lightly swung her fist.

 

The sight of the green magic force and the transparent barrier touching each other seemed like slow motion.

 

At the same time, the two magic forces collided violently, and the world rang.

 

BOOOOM—!

 

The shockwave became the wind and shook the green trees violently. The leaves were fluttering in the wind, blocking our view.

 

“Hmm! This is the ultimate point you must reach with your mana skills!”

 

In the meantime, Yggdrasil was smiling at us, her back turned to the shattered shield.

 

The robot’s body, visible through the shield, was dented as if it had been hit hard by the magical fist.

 

We just stared at the sight in a daze.

 

Yggdrasil’s occupation was an archer. Most of her skills were archer-related, as far as I could tell. Her representative attack skill would also be a skill that made arrows out of mana.

 

However, what she had just used was not an arrow, but a magical fist. It seemed to mimic a martial artist’s skill.

 

So if you can handle mana extremely skillfully, you can do something like that even if you’re not a wizard…

 

I was once again amazed at the realm Yggdrasil had achieved.

 

The voices of the invention duo broke the silence in the space.

 

<Wow… It seems that it won’t work for Miss Yggdrasil…>

 

<What a pity…>

 

As soon as they heard the two voices, the teachers came to their senses and shouted loudly.

 

“Come down!”

 

“Can’t you restore the walking path to its original state right away?”

 

<I understand—we’ve already found more improvements, so let’s go down now, Yoola!>

 

<Yes! … Huh? Huh?>

 

<What’s wrong?>

 

Fortunately, the young mad scientists seemed to listen obediently, so everyone was relieved.

 

However, everyone’s expressions hardened again as an urgent voice was heard from the robot.

 

<That… The command system is messed up! We can’t control it!>

 

<Ah…? This…! Yoola, I’m sorry! I adjusted it wrong! It’s going to explode! Everyone, get out of here!>

 

“What?!”

 

“Explosion?!”

 

“Wait, something that big is going to explode?”

 

“Students! Evacuate the students first!”

 

…By the way, can’t you hear what they’re saying through the speakers in the school?

 

I glanced at the school. As expected, chaos was brewing and everyone seemed to be panicking.

 

No, what was more urgent was us, who were right in front of the robot’s nose.

 

“How much time is left until the explosion?”

 

When I shouted, Park Yoola answered.

 

<3 minutes!>

 

“You guys get out first! Let’s evacuate!”

 

<Yes…!>

 

<Let’s go, Yoola! Escape button!>

 

Fortunately, the escape button worked well, as something like a capsule was ejected from near the robot’s heart. And it disappeared far into the sky.

 

<This must be broken too—!!>

 

<There’s too much to fix—!!>

 

For a moment, our group forgot about the urgency and stared blankly at the backs of the invention duo who had disappeared into the sky like stars.

 

…What the hell are those idiots?

 

“…T-They’ll be okay anyway, right?”

 

“Of course…?”

 

“Then let them be, well…”

 

I looked back at Yggdrasil while listening to the extremely kind closing comments of Na Yuri, Min Jaeyoon, and Shin Baran.

 

Yggdrasil was still smiling leisurely even amidst the teachers who were moving around in confusion.

 

When our eyes met, she smiled faintly.

 

“Don’t worry. You have your little brother, right? That guy’s mana is more than enough to cover the entire robot with it. Kangyoo! Do as I said just now!

 

“Yes!”

 

Kangyoo laughed cheerfully at Yggdrasil’s words and stretched out his hand.

 

As soon as he did, the ground shook again.

 

“Huh?! Earthquake?”

 

“No, this is…!”

 

“I can’t see ahead, Soojung!”

 

Choi Soojung held onto Lee Hana with her tail held stiffly. Park Siwoo looked at Kang Yoo with a stern expression.

 

Drrrrrr—

 

The shaking gradually became stronger. It felt as if something huge was right under the ground. Just as everyone’s expressions hardened, a torrent of water shot up from under the robot’s feet.

 

Booooom—!

 

“Water?! No way…!”

 

I heard Na Yuhan’s panicked voice, but that wasn’t what I was worried about right now.

 

I knew that his hyper-awakening had improved, but I was still worried. I couldn’t take my eyes off my little brother the whole time.

 

The surging water slowly began to surround the robot.

 

The robot, which was engulfed in water that seemed to inflate like a balloon, looked like a decoration in a transparent balloon.

 

However, it seemed that that wasn’t enough to stop the robot’s explosion, as the robot’s joints creaked ominously.

 

PSSSSHHHHH—

 

The water that touched the robot on the verge of exploding evaporated and released steam. However, Kangyoo immediately gathered a much larger amount of water and wrapped it again.

 

Not long afterwards,

 

BOOOOOM—!

 

The robot exploded.

 

However, we were able to watch the huge explosion right before our eyes very calmly. It was like watching aquatic life through a glass window at an aquarium. Kangyoo calmly placed the robot, which had lost its life and turned into a lump of scrap metal, on the ground using the water.

 

Everyone looked at him with astonishment, yet the one who actually did it ran to me with a bright smile.

 

“Sister! I did well, right?!”

 

Kangyoo ran over and hugged me tightly.

 

Yggdrasil nagged at him.

 

“I told you not to use what’s around you and to use your own strength, didn’t I?”

 

“I did it anyway!”

 

“What’s ‘anyway’, anyway!”

 

And everyone looked at the relationship between a teacher and student with eyes that seemed to be dumbfounded.

 

… Anyway, Kangyoo made his splendid debut in the new semester.