Teacher’s post-breakup depression

As Loya spoke, Timos watched her teacher with the same seriousness she usually had when listening to math and science lectures.

Only the corner of her eye was subtly glancing at the wedding invitation on the table.

Kalandria, that mindless woman, said she was getting married?

When did that happen?

How come she hadn’t heard her mention it at all?

She buried her doubts in her heart and pondered them silently,

Loya didn’t notice anything, and just continued to give his good student advice:

“…As for whether she’ll continue adventuring after marriage, that’s still unknown.

After all, I’m not in a position to ask too much.

Just in case, Timos, you should also consider the path you might take in the future… That’s what I wanted to say.”

“Mm…”

Timos nodded, pretending to be deep in thought.

If it was just marriage, then where Kalandria got married, when and who she walked into the hall of marriage with, had nothing to do with Timos, and Timos didn’t care at all.

But, it has to be said, this is a good opportunity.

It wasn’t important whether she had heard the news of her marriage, the key was that the teacher felt that the team might not be able to continue.

So why not take this opportunity-

“Teacher, what do you think I should do if ‘Swan Lake’ disbands in the end?”

Timos’s voice was delicate, natural, and without any contrived disharmony.

She pressed her hands together to her chest, portraying the image of an elf girl whose fragile little heart couldn’t bear the anxiety of worrying about the future.

Come on, Teacher Loya, take this opportunity to say your lines.

You should reach out, generously, and say again the words you once said to me when we first met——”You can come with me.”

Loya didn’t hesitate:

“This is your own future path, and you have to decide it yourself, Timos.”

Huh… why doesn’t the script match?

In the past, before Loya’s Adam’s apple even moved, Timos knew that her teacher would say what she wanted to hear.

The protagonist of the story must speak and act according to the script’s lines, how can he say other words?

She felt a little restless:

“But teacher, I don’t know, that’s why I want to ask you.

At every crossroads of choices, didn’t the teacher tell Timos what to choose? Just like now…”

“People always have to grow, Timos.”

Loya had a kind smile, giving the feeling of being more weathered than the oldest spirit clan elder in the world.

“No one can always lead the way for you. So what the teacher taught you is to learn how to discover problems, solve problems, and find how to make choices yourself.”

“I… I understand…”

Timos nodded, raising her hand to cup her tears with her fingertips, replacing the “but” that she didn’t say.

But this time, even a small sob could no longer shake the teacher’s expression.

Loya lightly jumped off the windowsill and walked to the side of the elf girl.

He wanted to pat her on the shoulder as a sign of comfort, but in the end his hand only landed on the back of the chair.

“Okay, Timos. Looking at the confusion about the unknown from another perspective is also an expectation for the future.

Do what you want to do, walk forward boldly, the teacher is willing to always be your support, and you can always come to the teacher again if you have any questions.”

“Okay…”

My ass.

What people want to do is be with you!

Who wants the teacher to support them from behind, what I want is you by my side.

Timos could only suppress her bulging dissatisfaction in her small chest.

The sense of distance that came from repeated rejections made her unable to understand the teacher’s sudden change.

It was like he had changed actors.

The lazy and casual temperament on Loya’s body was completely different from the teacher she knew.

His whole person was covered with a gray gauze, exuding a melancholy and sad beauty.

A flash of inspiration, Timos seemed to realize something, brewed her emotions a little, and slowly opened her mouth tentatively:

“By the way, teacher…”

“Is there anything else?”

“Speaking of which, I haven’t heard Kalandria-sensei mention the engagement. I only just found out when you told me here.”

That’s right, thinking about it carefully after calming down, it was indeed strange.

Who that woman marries is her freedom to notify, Timos was too lazy to pay attention to it, and she would make excuses to refuse even if she was invited.

But… not telling the teammates around her, but telling the teacher alone first, what does that mean?

Timos quietly waited for the teacher’s reaction.

“Oh.”

——How perfunctory!

Doesn’t the teacher think it’s strange?

Looking at the indifferent Loya, Timos suddenly felt that she had captured the key to the problem.

What made the teacher become like this?

It must be related to Kalandria, and it was this engagement.

Her expression was still smiling, her attitude was still so gentle, and she was still consistent in her gentleness towards herself,

but she rejected her student again and again and again…

The reason why Loya-sensei became completely unlike Loya-sensei was found.

Because he was affected by Kalandria’s engagement, he became uninterested in everything.

It was obviously a symptom of depression from unrequited love.

Moreover, the teacher still had a heavy smell of alcohol on his body today.

He went to “Duran River’s Side” to get drunk, he must have been drowning his sorrows!

Thinking of this, Timos secretly stomped on the wooden floor.

Calming down her thoughts, she showed concern in her eyes again:

“Then teacher, are you planning to attend Kalandria-sensei’s engagement ceremony?”

“I… haven’t decided yet.”

See! Although he looked free and easy in places where he could be perfunctory, he hesitated when it came to key issues.

What is this? This is a manifestation of not being able to let go in his heart.

Especially seeing Loya unconsciously pick up the invitation and carefully caress the envelope while speaking, it was like stroking the face of a deceased lover, immersed in nostalgia and unable to extricate himself.

Timos didn’t know how Kalandria felt about Loya;

but Loya was in “Swan Lake” for Kalandria, serving her daily life and taking on all the complicated and trivial matters on his own…

A man who even remembers the time of her aunt’s period clearly and can always prepare brown sugar water and hot compresses in a timely manner, how is it possible to say that he has no feelings in his heart?

Therefore, Timos was even more convinced of her judgment.

“So, the teacher is struggling, right?”

“Huh?”

Loya looked up, his eyebrows raised in surprise.

He had no idea how complicated the gaze his student had been giving him was.

“Struggling is not exactly the right word, if I really have to go… well, just to join in the fun, it’s not impossible.

After all, they invited me too——from a friend’s standpoint.”

Actually, just out of curiosity, Loya was quite curious to know which unlucky guy had committed such a great sin in his previous life to be reduced to marrying Kalandria as his wife.

As a fellow male and a victim who had experienced the torment beforehand, he couldn’t help but express his sympathy and condolences to the bridegroom in his heart.