Academy Ankle Reaper

42. Unexpected Inspection

“…….”

As soon as he found out that I was a sponsor of the research fund… A member of the Titan family, Professor Prague’s face turned pale.

“Yes… Yes… Please wait.”

I stumbled into the reference room, unaware that my oversized glasses were slipping down my nose.

The door closed and a rattling sound was heard from inside.

I heard the sound of paper turning over, the sound of thick books coming out of the bookshelf, various sounds, and finally the sound of a bolt opening.

‘No way?’

Not a window or other back door, but something like a storage room with samples in it.

Couldn’t it be that the elf who holds the position of professor at the academy came from a prestigious family to see and hear the story?

It looked very uneasy, but no sane person could do that.

After a few faint footsteps, the archives went silent.

“…If it’s a human…”

The silence was so absurd that I crossed my arms, tapped my arms with my fingers, and grabbed the doorknob of the library.

The door is locked.

With a little force, the doorknob was ripped off, revealing the inside of the archive.

“Can’t you see?”

Professor Niko Prague was not visible in the archives.

As if something was missing, piles of thick books and papers bound with string are messy as if they had just been messed up.

It looks like he really ran away.

I made a mistake thinking of myself as a person.

That wasn’t a human, it was an elf.

I grabbed my pounding head and looked around.

I’m sure I heard the sound of the bolt opening earlier, but there are no windows or doors in the archives.

‘Is it a hidden passage or room…’

I don’t know why there is such a thing in the lab, but I need to find it.

The family’s… No, my brother’s money went into it.

I never imagined that an academy professor who was at least 100 years old and had no social experience would do this.

Simplely, destroy all the walls and floors around here and you’ll find it in no time.

As a master, I can do it without weapons.

But then all the data piled up here will be lost… I haven’t heard of the research results yet.

Then I have no choice but to look for it.

A thin layer of dust was visible in the data room, which seemed to be unmanaged.

A room that is not cleaned properly leaves traces like this.

That kind of mark, as if something heavy had been swept forward in front of the third bookcase from the left.

Fortunately, it seems that Niko Prague did not always live with the thought of escaping prudently.

If that were the case, I wouldn’t be so clumsy.

When I pulled or pushed the bookshelf from side to side or front to back, the bookshelf opened smoothly like a large door.

It seems that there is a mechanical device inside.

When the bookshelf was opened, a thick iron door appeared inside.

Anyway, the sound of the bolt opening seems to have come from here.

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I thought I’d cut it with an aura blade if I didn’t open the door, but when I politely asked him if he understood what he was doing, he quickly opened the door.

When she realized what she had impulsively done, her face turned pale as if she was very frightened.

“What guts did you run away with?”

“I got scared while looking for it… I’m really sorry… I didn’t mean to run away with money.”

Professor Nico can’t even make eye contact with me.

It is only natural that he be surprised since he showed up for an unannounced inspection without prior notice.

But isn’t it absurd to try to run away right in front of you?

“Looking at the thesis, it seems that research has been done… Are there really no results that can be shown?”

It is not an empty word to say that he did everything he could to grow taller.

I really thought there was something wrong with my body, so I studied enough to understand these biology papers.

Professor Niko Prague’s dissertation is not a dissertation made roughly for fraudulent purposes.

As long as I was eating the money of the titans, I also gave regular progress reports in between, so I continued to apply.

“Ah…No. There is… But all results are different from what was intended…”

“Then I have to show you what I’m doing.”

“Yes…”

Professor Prague went back to the laboratory and opened the door of a large piece of furniture that looked like a refrigerator.

It’s a very expensive item that automatically has preservation magic inside it.

Couldn’t that be bought with research funds?

I’d like to think it’s something the academy gave me.

Professor Prague, who was rummaging around inside, brought out a bottle containing a greenish liquid.

It’s slimy and green, and it feels like green juice.

“I really… Worked really hard… But I’m getting behind the wall.”

The Prague professor who came out with the liquid said with a teary face.

I wonder how insignificant things came out to be like that.

“What I… Made is, at best, a trivial medicine that will make your height grow to about 180…”

“Ummm yes.. Growing the height to about 180…”

I think I heard something strange.

A drug that increases height to 180?

“Of course, the growth promotion method is written in the project goal, but in the end, the core goal is

The goal was to build a strong body, but strengthening the skeleton and increasing muscle mass… I’m still struggling with increasing immunity…

This.. Making such a trivial medicine that will only make you taller at best…!!

I just grew taller without any enhancement and ended up becoming a hollow gangjeong… I’m sorry, I’ll scrap it!!!!”

Professor Niko Prague held up the bottle he was holding high as if he were going to strike it down at any moment.

“Discard what?!! Give it away right away!!!”

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The original purpose of the project that Professor Prague was researching was how to make a strong body.

A strong body in this world was a project that was being carried out for patients who could only become weak if they trained hard, but could not move properly due to congenital diseases or other reasons.

“Even among elves, there are very few elves who have encountered such a situation. Elves live for a long time, so when faced with such a situation… They are worse off than dead. They just live like plants.”

“When did your research start?”

“I started in earnest after getting my doctor’s license… I haven’t completed 100 years yet.”

I also studied for a long time.

It may be a hectic moment for the elves, but 100 years is enough time for the emperor to change twice.

Is it for people who suffer from congenital reasons… Professor Prague’s research was a pretty solid reason.

“I understand the situation… But are you sure this drug makes you taller?”

“Yes.. Because it was completed first… If you look here, a former undergraduate student of mine climbed the experimental table himself.”

Professor Prague took out a thick album and showed pictures of undergraduates with hard expressions on their faces.

He said he climbed the test bench himself, but was it voluntarily or unwillingly?

In the faded photos, there were many slaves… No, undergraduates.

Now I think I know why her lab is so spacious and empty.

Unlike such an inhumane story, the before and after comparison photos that remain as photographs are quite normal.

“If you look at the pictures, you’ve grown to about 180. Is it constant?”

“There are individual differences. Still, I think men grow up to at least the late 170’s.”

A drug that consistently grows to at least the late 170’s… It’s a great invention.

I break out in a cold sweat when I think that this potion in front of me can fulfill the goal of life that I have devoted most of my life to.

I didn’t feel this way when I took any elixir.

“That’s good. Does the effect come out immediately after eating?”

“Yes.. If you eat it together with this auxiliary potion, it replenishes the ingredients necessary for rapid growth, so it will be over in 5 minutes.”

I want to drink that right now.

Things I had experienced in this life passed through my mind.

From the moment it was confirmed that he was no longer growing taller, the pressure from his family continued, and various trashes ignored due to his small body.

The days passed by one by one as they silently developed their skills while receiving scorn and contempt and cutting them off.

If you drink that potion… That’s all.

Professor Prague confirmed that my eyes did not fall off the potion, and he asked cautiously.

“By the way… Do you want to eat this right away? No matter how many times it’s been through clinical trials, wouldn’t it be safer to perfect it a bit more…?”

“Would you rather die?”

I snatched the bottles from Professor Prague’s hands, one by one.

“Sponsor???”

If you look at my current actions from the perspective of a third person, it would look very foolish.

Will you believe in a few photos and inhale something you don’t even know what it’s made of?

But I can’t help it.

How could he endure it when the thing he wanted so much was right in front of his eyes.

There are not many specimens, but there are several photos showing evidence that the human experiment has already been completed.

But I didn’t even think about whether I should die, I drank two bottles of potion in turn.

“Suck..!!”

As soon as I drank, I felt a reaction.

I feel a tingling sensation all over my body.

Is this the feeling of forcibly stimulating the growth plates?

I saved the mana flowing through my body and prepared for the rapid change that would follow.

Several minutes passed just like that.

“This is garbage too!!!!!”

There was nothing wrong with my body this time either.

Nothing has changed.

Growth suffered again.