Heaven's Greatest Professor

He refrained from immediately calling June after taking his monthly leave, worried that he was unsure if he still felt as strongly about her as he did before coming to the frontlines.

Letting out a breath, he didn't stay indecisive for long and connected their private Longread. Soon, an illusory figure appeared in his mind, the light twisting into a form he was so familiar with. She had just come out of a fresh bath, a soft white nightgown draped over her full figure.

Just looking at her, his heart shook, and he put all his doubts to rest.

"Hey," he was the first to break the silence.

June said nothing for a long moment, examining him. "You look different," she said.

"You look beautiful," he replied.

Her ears turned red from the compliment. "It's been four days since you called," she said. "So it's forty-eight days for you... Took some time to remember, huh..."

"It's actually far longer than that," he said, doing a rough mental calculation. "It's close to five months for me. At some point, I was dying to return to you..."

"What happened?"

"A long story... Do you remember the Inheritance ground I told you about? I entered that, and it turns out it had higher time dilation than any place around. So what felt like a day here was close to five months for me..."

June gasped. "Are you alright?" she asked. "Time dilation usually impacts one's spirit, body, and mind if you spend a long time there, especially at such a high rate."

"I am..." he paused, "actually in better shape than I thought I would be. Oh, you probably can't sense through the call, but I hit Silver..."

"You did? Really?" Her eyes widened. "I guess it's a pretty normal thing for you... Congratulations! Hopefully, there was no complication during your advancement?"

"The advancement was seamless," he said. "But it wasn't without complications... For one thing, my chest glows like a bulb whenever I draw in essence, and I seem to have put one foot into transcendence..."

"You did what?!"

"It's a long story to explain over a call," he said, letting out a breath. "I really wish I could talk about it all with you, sitting on the couch."

"Give me a gist at least..." she urged. "You can't just stop after saying you've almost transcended... Wait, did you say your chest glows like a bulb?"

"Crazy business," he sighed. "I'll try to explain in short, to the best of my abilities... Do not interrupt in the middle... You know how much I like to go off on tangents..."

With that, he took a deep breath and began from when he entered the inheritance ground. June's expression changed when he got to the Elysian part and his whole experience with Ariha.

"Wait, you said Warden isn't your real name," she cried. "What should I call you then?"

"I don't know," he shrugged, trying to act as if it was nothing not to know his own name. "It could be Joe, for all I think..."

June shot him a look that said, "Really?"

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June drew in a deep breath. "What are you not telling me?" she asked.

"Like a lot," he said. "It's literally impossible for me to unload it all over this call."

She shook her head. "You tell all this like it's a fun adventurous story, but I can tell that's not it." She paused and met his gaze unwaveringly. "So tell me, how are you really feeling?"

"..." He closed his eyes, unsure what to say... Even if she asked for his true feelings, it was hard to explain his feelings when he himself didn't understand them.

Someone tugged on his arm, pulling him out of his reverie. "Excuse me," a feminine voice said.

"Give me a moment," he told her without paying her any attention. His gaze lingered on June as he took a deep breath. "I haven't managed to fall asleep lately... The last time was when I fell unconscious from exhaustion..."

June bit her lip. "I wish I could be there for you... Help you."

"The worst of it all is that I don't understand anything," he continued. "My whole life seems to have revolved around these matters, yet I have no clue about anything. I feel like I'm starving, swimming in a mad sea as the waves take me... Like I said, nothing makes sense."

"I really want to embrace you now," she said. "This is similar to the loneliness I felt after waking up from my coma after a couple of decades."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He nodded, biting his lip. "How did you cope..."

"Badly," she sighed. "But later I learned that..."

"Hey, can you wait a second," he cut in before she could finish. "There seems to be some ruckus going on around me."

He pulled his mind out of the crystal and found it was really an annoying sort of trouble. A group of four guys seemed to have surrounded a timid girl. What was worse was that they were unable to make up their minds whether to keep hitting on her or molest her—whatever they were doing was bad enough. Not to mention, these guys were part of some regiment in the military.

The girl's face had paled, white as a sheet... She had an aura of a weak Silver rank, so it shouldn't have been a problem for her to rescue herself from them. Yet she seemed to have some trouble speaking.

"S-sir Gale~" she called.

He found she was looking at him.

"Sir, I'm~"

"Lass, when the captain is talking," one of the hoodlums clutched her thin arm, "you should put your full attention on him."

"Now, now, Ben, is this how you talk to a lady?" the prodigious captain said, a smile tucked on his lips. "Let me show you how to treat..."

The Warden sighed. "Alright, kids, playtime is over," he said, assaulting the captain with a coercive aura, freezing him in his place. "Go on with whatever business you came here to do..."

"And who might you be?" said another guy.

He let go of the aura pressure over the captain so that he could take away his minions and leave.

Instead, the guy fell to his knees, causing him to worry if he had pulled more of his aura than needed.

"Sir, I apologise, I did not know—" the captain rasped, bowing. "I did not intend to offend..."

"I'll take offence if you guys do not leave my sight immediately..." he said, flaring a little of his aura, this time on everyone but the timid-looking girl with silver hair.

They all bowed and sprinted out as if given a command by their superior officer.

He was prepared to return to the call but turned his gaze to the girl. A frown appeared on his brows... She seemed familiar in an obtrusive way.

"Thank you, Sir Gale," she said, stammering a short bow before coming closer to him.

"It's nothing," he said. "But why are you calling me Sir Gale? I'm no..."

"Because that's your name," the silver-haired girl said. "I'm Dawn, you don't recognize me?"

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END OF VOLUME II : ALL REMEMBRANCE LOST