Surviving as the Heavenly Demon’s Concubine - Chapter 54

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“Lin. Come sit here.”

 

Jegal Lin flinched, then cautiously approached.

 

“What… is it…?”

 

At least she didn’t call her Miss Jegal, so she probably wasn’t angry, and the last time they talked, the atmosphere wasn’t that bad either.

 

‘Was it perhaps a bit much to leave the rhubarb there?’

 

After going to the bathroom, there was no word from her, and even after waiting and waiting, she didn’t return.

 

She was worried that Riser’s digestive health might be in trouble.

 

It would have been better if she had prepared it as a decoction, but unfortunately Jegal Lin didn’t know how to brew medicine.

 

From Riser’s perspective, it would be less frustrating and easier to brew it herself… but still, just leaving the medicinal herbs there and going might have seemed too heartless.

 

“Let’s talk about what happened yesterday. And have lunch together.”

 

“Oh. Should we?”

 

Jegal Lin felt relieved and giggled.

 

If it was about yesterday, it would surely be good content. Talk about the martial arts they practiced together would be nice, and talk about studies she’d like to try next time would be good too.

 

“Riser. What do you want for lunch? The weather’s nice, so should we ask the servant to pack a lunch box and eat outside?”

 

“That’s a good idea. But let’s go another day, not today.”

 

Huh.

 

‘Riser’s voice. It’s gentle but somehow cold.’

 

She instinctively felt that something was going wrong.

 

“I… I suddenly don’t feel well.”

 

“Really? Should I give you some Pyeongwisan?”

 

Jegal Lin shook her head vigorously.

 

Even when trying to fake illness, there was nowhere to escape since Riser was a pharmacist.

 

“…”

 

Like a mouse before a cat, the thoroughly frightened Jegal Lin kept glancing at Riser nervously.

 

Usually in situations like this, she would give some kind of hint. But today, Riser said nothing at all.

 

After fidgeting for a long while, Jegal Lin carefully opened her mouth.

 

“The, the rhubarb was… really with good intentions…”

 

“Rhubarb?”

 

“That’s not it?”

 

Riser sighed.

 

‘This isn’t easy.’

 

Despite appearances, Riser hadn’t arranged this meeting to pressure Jegal Lin.

 

She thought that if she confronted an introverted person like Jegal Lin directly with ‘Why aren’t you coming to morning training? Do you want to fail?’, it would backfire, so she tried to create a comfortable atmosphere for her to speak freely.

 

‘It seemed to work well when the Third Young Master did it.’

 

Riser had tried to follow Mujin’s method in her own way, but it felt like only disastrous results came out. She thought it would be the best way to get her to bring up intimate topics.

 

“Should I have thrown a stone after all…”

 

“A, a stone?”

 

Riser waved her hand as if to forget about it.

 

It seemed she had done something pointless. A pine caterpillar should eat pine needles to survive.

 

“Don’t mind it. It’s an unrelated story. Anyway, why aren’t you coming to morning training? Do you want to fail?”

 

“…!!”

 

Jegal Lin collapsed like a deer caught in an ambush.

 

“For reference, I’m on the moderate side.”

 

Despite Jegal Lin’s dramatic reaction, Riser spoke calmly without being swayed.

 

“Namgung Yeonhwa and her minions are planning to stuff you in an empty liquor barrel, tie you up tightly with rope, and bring you to the training ground every class period.”

 

“Why does everyone think of such cruel things?”

 

Jegal Lin appealed desperately with an aggrieved expression.

 

“Skipping class isn’t a crime!”

 

Saying it that way makes it feel even more guilty.

 

Riser scratched her temple with a troubled expression, then got down from her chair and sat on the floor to meet Jegal Lin’s eyes.

 

“There’s some reason, right?”

 

“…”

 

Jegal Lin slowly nodded her head.

 

Riser hesitated for a moment as if having an internal conflict, then soon embraced Jegal Lin’s shoulders with a look of great determination.

 

“Sob! Riser!”

 

Jegal Lin threw herself into Riser’s arms as if she had been waiting for it.

 

“There, there.”

 

She says she has no friends, but how can she hug so freely without hesitation?

 

Riser patted the sniffling Jegal Lin for a moment, then asked as gently as possible.

 

“Don’t you want to talk about it?”

 

“Yeah…”

 

“Then I’ll try to guess.”

 

“Huh?”

 

Jegal Lin was bewildered by the unexpected direction the situation was taking, but Riser didn’t mind.

 

“I thought about the common points of the lectures you don’t want to attend. 【The Mysteries of Defying Heaven – Introduction】, 【Understanding Bedroom Arts and Conception through the Harmony of Yin-Yang and Five Elements】, and 【A Refreshing Morning to Start a Healthy Myne’s Day】.”

 

“That was the name of morning training…?”

 

“Look at this girl. You didn’t even look at the syllabus. You completely ignored it thinking it was just a lecture where you only need to show up, right?”

 

Jegal Lin nodded, slightly deflated.

 

In fact, morning training was one of the lectures Jegal Lin paid the least attention to.

 

‘It’s strange to call that a lecture in the first place.’

 

Just coming out at a set time every morning and moving your body without purpose.

 

There was no new content to learn, and nothing to distinguish between doing well or poorly.

 

By Jegal Lin’s standards, 【A Refreshing Morning to Start a Healthy Myne’s Day】 seemed more like a social gathering than a lecture.

 

“That dismissive attitude is the problem. Read the syllabus now, even if it’s late.”

 

“Okay…”

 

Even though Jegal Lin truly thought it was a meaningless task, she didn’t refuse since Riser told her to do it and read the syllabus.

 

“Look. Here. At the very top.”

 

Riser pointed with her finger at the stamp at the top right of the syllabus.

 

 

 

“…! Re, required …? It was a required subject?”

 

“That’s right. Now you understand what the problem is.”

 

The subjects offered at Cheonryeon Palace are divided into required subjects and elective subjects.

 

Required subjects cover comprehensive content that all mynes should naturally learn, like morning training or doctrine classes, while elective subjects consist of more specific career-oriented courses.

 

Since Cheonryeon Palace’s fundamental purpose is social adaptation training and vocational education for prospective converts, required subjects are generally easy and kind.

 

On the other hand, elective subjects were professional and practical enough to be immediately usable in the field if properly learned.

 

However, when it comes to ‘graduation’, the opposite situation occurs.

 

For elective subjects, it’s okay to fail, and if your grades are poor, you can repeat them until you’re satisfied without affecting graduation.

 

But if you fail a required subject…

 

“Failure.”

 

“…!”

 

If a prospective convert who normally graduates from Cheonryeon Palace is someone who starts a new life as a respectable myne, then someone who fails a required subject receives the label of ‘myne disqualification’, forever losing the chance to become a myne and never being able to set foot on Cheonryeon Mountain again.

 

Jegal Lin’s lips turned pale as she recognized the seriousness.

 

“Don’t tell me 【The Mysteries of Defying Heaven – Introduction】 and 【Understanding Bedroom Arts and Conception through the Harmony of Yin-Yang and Five Elements】 are also…?”

 

“Those are elective subjects. You saw the syllabus.”

 

Jegal Lin nodded in relief.

 

In her panic, she had gotten confused about facts she already knew, but the other two subjects didn’t require her to struggle to attend them.

 

“You’ve missed nine times already. If you’re absent one more time, you’ll be eliminated. You know what that means, right?”

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