Jennifer Smith
Stories
12
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?The darkness just came over me. No... it enveloped the whole street, trapped it in itself. But I didn't stand still while it was happening. Yes, I might have been stiff. I might have been too strong to fight back. But that didn't mean that I would gladly give my life to someone. I quickly took out my spear from my bracelet. Before it had even finished materializing, I grabbed it with my right hand and swung it at the figure in front of me. But... something happened that I had never seen or…-
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?The things Lucia had told me felt like things I should have dwelled on more. It made me feel like I should think more, like I should be faster. But as she had said, we were here to have some fun, not to talk about the future and make plans. So, I put that on the back burner. When Lucia, Sue, and I finally entered the store, I shopped with them for a while. But... I also soon realized something. There was something I had heard several times since the day I arrived at the Academy. I mean, I could…
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?After I left the library... I didn't have much to do, to be honest. Lithoa had told me that I would probably meet a family that would try to kill me, and I did. But... he also said that they would give me something, and it hadn't happened. When I think back over the events of the past few hours, I can't tell if I failed or succeeded, and trying to think about it is becoming exhausting. I sighed lightly, focused my eyes in front of me, and looked at the busy city. Traffic was moving fast, people…
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?I passed through a hallway lined with white walls, just like the rest of my house. But with every step I took, I couldn't stop looking at the countless paintings on the walls. I had seen each of these paintings thousands of times. I had studied them all, memorized almost all of them. Some of the paintings were bad ones that children could only draw half-assedly. But when I looked at another, I could see that the person who drew the paintings had improved. The paintings were getting more and more…
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?As Chris Laergas, with his magical ocean-blue eyes and slightly upturned lips, looked into my eyes, I replayed in my mind the question he had asked me. The trace of his great-grandfather... Laergas... The connection is really easy to make. But 'he' told me not to let his name even cross my mind. So... I can't make a single mistake. Now... I have to think. The man before me, Chris Laergas, doesn't seem to be able to read my thoughts or tell if I'm lying. If he could, he wouldn't have let me…
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?I felt like I was at the bottom of an ocean, literally at the bottom, where the pressure was a thousand times greater. That's what I felt when the wall between me and all that mana in the hall was lifted. It was surrounding me so intensely that I didn't feel like I could move my body. It was seeping in through every part of my body, even trying to force its way into my own mana flow. Not only that, it was reaching even further inside. It was making its way into my organs, into my blood vessels, and…
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?I looked at the notification in front of me and at Paul's face, still asleep. Time seemed to literally stand still, I couldn't hear anything, but... eventually, I involuntarily stepped back and away from Paul. I almost lost my balance and fell to the floor, but at the last moment, I managed to regain my balance and quickly threw myself out of the room. No matter how fast I was, I still did it quietly. Even as I closed the door to the room where Paul was sleeping again, I managed not to make a sound…
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?As I looked at the six people standing not far away from me, I felt something strange inside me, as if... the people in front of me were not simply 'humans'. I couldn't make sense of it, but for some reason, it felt like these people were out of my reach, even though they were standing right in front of me. The children standing behind the adults, with the exception of the eldest, who looked like a high schooler, ran backward. In the awkward silence of the hallway, I tried to focus on their…
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?When I looked at the staff standing in front of me, waiting to hear what I was going to say, I came to my senses. I may not know what to do, but there's no need to look suspicious. "Oh, I was lost in my thoughts... sorry. I'll just go upstairs and look at some books." He bowed his head slightly without changing the smile on his face. Then he turned around and headed toward another person he saw. As he left, I slowly made my way up the spiral staircase to the first floor and began to wander…
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?For a moment, the inside of the laboratory was bathed in the brightest light I had ever seen. Not only that, a high-pitched sound that strained my eardrums echoed painfully in my ears. However, not even a second after this happened, the inside of the same laboratory suddenly froze. The light that dazzled my eyes and the sound that made my ears feel like they were about to explode disappeared as quickly as they had come. I slowly opened my eyes, which I had reflexively closed, and removed my hands…
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