Faculty Wing

@☥ Kang Seulgi "Sounds...very interesting." Perhaps it was because she herself had lived for so many years now, living and experiencing the history that so many schools were teaching that she didn't have much of an interest in it anymore. Not that she couldn't sit there, listening to Seulgi talk about it for hours on end, but it rarely ever had anything to do about the historical events and more with how she enjoyed hearing the other speak about anything really. "Mmh, or we could wait for winter break. Wouldn't have to get permission for a little vacation and I wouldn't miss any of my classes. Which I'm sure the headmistress and you would both prefer." Carefully placing the eating utensils on top of the empty bento box, Minjeong eventuall rose from her seat, playfully rolling her eyes when the older vampire rushed her to go back to her class. "Yes, ma'am. I'll be out of your sight in a minute." Grabbing her bag, she rummaged through its content for a moment before placing a small bag with cookies on Seulgi's desk. "I went to Wolford with a classmate last weekend. Consider it a thank you for lunch." Grinning at the older woman, she hoisted her bag over her shoulder before heading over to the door, turning back to wave at her mentor. "Goodbye, professor Kang. See you tomorrow!" And with that Minjeong was already out of the room, quickly heading back to the lecture halls.

@Kim Minjeong Seulgi leaned against her chair before sighing, "History, always the same." She responded with crossed arms. "However, it is different from our own kind, since most of us lived over a century, I'm teaching the origins of vampires and some events that vampires would remember." She explained, "I'll make an excuse to the headmistress about our little 'vacation'." She grinned, she sometimes excuses Minjeong for training. When the bell rang, it is already over for lunch break. "Come now, go back to your classroom. Chop chop!" She stood up from her chair and prepares some books for her next class.

@Kang Seulgi Letting the older woman pat her head, she eventually moved back, one hand reaching up to fix her hair with the tiniest little pout on her lips. Perhaps it was because she had to grow up so quickly that whenever Minjeong was treated like a little child, it felt a little weird. "Alright, you better not go back on your words, Seul." Picking up the cutlery again, she continued with the lunch. "Ice creatures....like small ones?" With a simple twirl of her index finger a small snowman the size of a water bottle appeared on the wooden table. "Probably a hundred of them at the same time. The really big ones, maybe two or three of them? I haven't tried one supersized one yet." Following her professor's eyes, she glanced over at the clock as well, slowly nodding. "Yes, ma'am." Despite the other urging her to hurry, Minjeong continued at a leisure pace, making sure to finish every last bit and crumble since the older woman had gone out of her way to cook for her. "What's your next class?"

@Kim Minjeong Seulgi smiled at her before patting her head, "I can definitely show it to you when we train at the Alrose Depths." She finished her lunch before watching her student enjoying her food. "After our tranation training, we can go ahead with the conjuring training. How many ice creatures can you create?" She asked younger vampire before looking at the grandfather clock by the door, "It's almost end of the lunch time, you better hurry up eating." She winked before she grinned at her.

@Kang Seulgi Sighing softly, Minjeong eventually caved. "Yes, ma'am. I promise I'm not going to go around alone." Though she really didn't understand why Seulgi seemed so adamant on her making friends at Castlebay. At most, she would spend a couple of years studying there before moving on to the next thing in life, the people she would meet there would soon forget about her. What was the use of having many friends, when there was no true connection? While there had been times in her life when she had been alone, never had she felt lonely before.

Putting her cutlery down, Minjeong looks as Seulgi with a quirked brow, a curious look in her eyes before she faintly shakes her head. "You haven't." Did this mean that the professor wanted to show her or was she simply stating a fact? "Will you show me one day?" Of course she had to blurt out the question, curiosity getting the better of her. After all it didn't happen all too often for her to see Seulgi put her actual powers to use.

@Kim Minjeong She shook her head, "I will but promise me you're not going to go around alone." She said as she acted motherly towards her. When it comes to the other being introvert, Seulgi looked at the other before looking at her food, "Alright, I won't tell you about it." She said as she noticed the other is getting tired of being told to make friends with anyone except her. When it comes to her training she seemed to getting hang of it. "I haven't showed you mine, no?" She smiled as she continued eating.

@Kang Seulgi "How would they find out, though? As long as I don't disappear for a longer period of time or cause any troubles that might reflect badly on the family's reputation, my parents don't really care about what I do. Or else they would have already sent someone here to spy on me and report back to them. And if they had done that, then...well, your family would already know about you being alive. So, seeing how we're both still here, eating lunch together everyday, I think it's safe to say that yours don't know and mine don't care. So next time you go out for a trip, take me with you. Please?" She once again pleaded, looking up at the older woman with big puppy eyes.

Though she is quick to drop the act when Seulgi mentions how everything has and end, lips curling into a small pout. Of course Minjeong knew that the other only meant well with her advice and that she wasn't wrong, but at the same time she wasn't doing any harm to anyone or herself by being this way, not to mention that she felt comfortable with who she was, so was it really that bad to be a loner? Not wanting to dwell on this subject any longer though, the blonde simply nodded her head, making a small sound of acknowledgement, hoping that Seulgi would pick up her cue and drop the matter.

Playfully rolling her eyes at the professor, Minjeong took her arm back, the icy structures soon turning opaque before returning to their original state, leaving only the tiny littlest feeling of numbness in her fingertips due to the cold. "You always treat me like a little child. I'm a grown woman, you know. At least reward me with something nicer....like candy." Nevertheless, she accepted the piece of meat, pulling her bento box a little closer just in case the older one decided to be petty and take it back.

@Kim Minjeong "Take you with me? And your family will know you're with me and they will let my family know I'm still living and the next thing I will know is my family going to chase me." Seulgi sighed at the other's reaction towards a scenario she had told her, she gently patted the other's head before ruffling it a little. "Hey, Minjeong-ah. The reason why I'm telling you this is because it is for your personal growth." She looked at her directly in her eyes, "Just because we're vampires doesn't mean you can be just the way you are forever, everything has an end, even for us." She told her an advice before she continue to eat again.

She watched the other doing the training that she had been told, seeing the limitation Minjeong has, it is certain that she improved. Seulgi smiled and gives her an extra meat, "A reward for your hard work." She winked.

@Kang Seulgi "No way. You're even older than my grandmother, it only makes sense for me to call you granny as well. Or maybe great great great grandmother would be even more fitting. At this point you're like an ancient being." She continued to tease the older woman. Perhaps to other people her words seemed rather impudent, mean even, but in some odd kind of way, teasing the other vampire had become her way to show affection. Eating another mouthful of rice with meat, the smile on her lips soon faltered though. If Seulgi left for a few days....She had never really thought about it, somehow just assuming that the older woman would always be in her office during lunch breaks, waiting for her.

Obviously, she would be a little sad, but then again, it wasn't as if Minjeong hadn't been alone before. She was capable of living on her own. Still, in front of Seulgi she would often revert to the spoiled little girl that she was deep down, a soft whine leaving her lips as she looked up at her mentor with big pleading eyes. "Can't you just take me with you?" It was a childish request, one Minjeong was sure the other would never agree to, one she herself wasn't too serious about actually since she still had classes to attend, but still, it was nice to sometimes let go of the prim and proper image she had so carefully crafted over centuries and just be a normal girl without any big worries in the world.

"You mean tranation training?" Putting the cutlery down for a moment, Minjeong lifted her right hand, eyes fully focused as slowly her fingertips began to turn translucent, the organic matter of her body turning into ice. Once the ice reached her elbow, she stopped though, carefully wiggling the icy digits. "That's about as far as I can go right now....it's not much, but I'm making some progress I think."

@Kim Minjeong "Oh come on, just let me call you daughter." She pouted before she eats a cherry tomatoes, it was a good choice for Seulgi to picked a fresh tomatoes from the market before she cooks some meat and rice on it. "Well, I was hoping you can interact with people a bit more-- what if I went somewhere for days and you're still studying and not find me in my office?" She asked her while slowly eating her food.

Seulgi looked at Minjeong, she was reminded of her younger self where she used to be introverted, studious and usually locked herself inside her room because of her father wanting to carry the burden of their family's name. "You know, it took me ten years before I decided to leave our home and discover new things and also befriending people." She tells her, "But... it's always your decision whether you want to interact or not." Seulgi smiles, "You can always get out of your comfort zone and it is up to you to figure out yourself."

"Anyway... How is your training? Still struggling?" She asked the other.

@Kang Seulgi "Granddaughter", she quickly corrected the older woman with a chuckle. Though, if going by age difference alone, Seulgi could be even more generations ahead. "Of course, just now. Only with me, right? In front of everyone else you're our perfect and humble and...very much clumsy yet beloved professor Kang. So...should I feel honoured? That you feel comfortable enough around me to be bragging like that?" As she mentor, Minjeong craned her neck to get a better view at the two lunch boxes, their content neatly decorated.

Compared to the elaborated meals served at the Kim estate, it really was just a simple lunch box, but seeing Seulgi's proud little smile, Minjeong didn't have the heart to tell her, knowing how much time and effort the other had put into creating the two bento boxes. "It looks cute. Definitely much better than the jumbled up box you offered me the first time." A teasing smirk appeared on her visage, a spark of mischief in her eyes. "Thank you for the meal, Seul." Accepting the offered cutlery, she waited for the older woman to take a bite first before she too started to eat. "Tastes pretty good, actually. I like the mushrooms." Making sure to praise Seulgi for her efforts, a little frown soon started to form on her pretty face. "Hey...I'm not that socially inept. I know how to befriend people. I just don't really want to. The people in my class.....no one really seems that interesting. They're rather dull. I don't want to have to force a friendship where i pretend to be interested in someone when I really am not."

@Kim Minjeong "You don't have to tell me about arrogance and cockiness, dear daughter." Seulgi smirked, "I don't really brag things, but I rarely do... Just now." She winked before opening the two boxes. The meal was perfectly arranged, but the same meal as the other box. She has been living for a millennia and human foods keeps getting better and better every year and Seulgi adapting to the way the world works, knows all about cooking and preparing meals, especially in lunch boxes.

The meal is already cold but the preparations of the meal is perfect and still satisfying to eat. Seulgi mastered the art of food designing, "Tada~" She smiled widely as she presented the foods in front of her. "You don't mind not having a hot food but it is still taste delicious~" She told the other. Then she gave the other some cutleries for it to eat, "Come on, you can always start befriending by saying hi and introduce yourself, that's easy you know?" She chuckled and started eating the food she prepared.

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@Kang Seulgi "Careful, granny. Arrogance and cockiness is known to lead to people's downfall. But then again, you're not normal people, so who knows? Maybe you really are almighty, untouchable, undefeatable?" Minjeong mused for a moment, wondering if there was anyone more powerful than Kang Seulgi that she knew of. Perhaps one of the other elders, but unfortunately or maybe luckily, she had never seen any of them in action yet, only heard of their great powers from stories.

Her dark eyes followed the older vampire as she got up from her seat, tracing along the small frame as she watched her cross the room over to the wooden cabinet. A soft chuckle escaped her lips, the teasing glint returning to her eyes. "As if. Just admit you wanted to have lunch with me and that's the real reason why you have two lunch boxes." By now it has somewhat become a tradition for them. Minjeong skipping lunch break at the dining halls to come over to Seulgi's office instead and them sharing whatever the older one had prepared for lunch. On some days, the blonde would just sit in the office and watch the other eat, her appetite fluctuating depending on her mood. Not that it mattered that much. Eating human food was a luxury, not a necessity.

As soon as the topic moved to classes, Minjeong's smile dropped, a small little pout forming on her rosy lips. "Why ask if you already know the answer?" It was a sensitive topic for the younger vampire. Of course she knew that if she just put in a little more effort she could easily make some new friends. That, she had already proven to herself throughout the many past lives she had lived in the past century. But what was the use of it? Most humans were fickle, oftentimes just vain little existences. Meanwhile supernatural beings tended to be arrogant, competitive. Especially when they learned about who her father was. "I don't need any companions, Seul. Only you." For a moment she paused, a wide smile soon blooming on her lips. "Cause you're plenty enough to deal with. I really don't need more. Now hush, no more talking about no fun things. What's for today's lunch?"

@Kim Minjeong "And here I thought you know me better." Seulgi grinned, "Even when my eyes are closed, I know how to settle someone with less pure intentions, my dear." She picked up the book she was reading which eventually she slept on it, she looked at the title of the book: 'Life of a Vampire'

Seulgi smirked as she read the title before putting it down to her desk before pushing herself up from the chair, "Good thing I brought two meals with me-- in case I skipped my break time." She smiled at Winter before walking to her wooden cabinet made from mahogany, she opened the large one to see her clothes and favorite books inside and she gets two lunch boxes.

As she closed the cabinet and went back to her seat, "How was your class so far?" Seulgi asked Minjeong of her day, "Let me guess... still have no companions?" She teased a bit.

@Kang Seulgi One of Minjeong's many special talents were that she could easily fall asleep anywhere and anytime, her favorite way to spend her free time probably being cozied up on her bed with a good book, flipping through pages until she fell asleep. So it came to no surprise that the moment she had allowed herself to relax and close her eyes, the young vampire had quickly fallen asleep on her professor's desk.

Unfortunately for the blonde, the nap didn't last too long though, a thudding noise pulling her out of her light slumber, before a familiar voice called out to her. Still, it was not enough to make her lift her head, only enough for her eyelids to flutter open, a soft sigh leaving her lips as her surroundings slowly came back into focus. "Mmh...it's lunch break." Her voice came out in a quiet mutter, still sleepy from the short nap. "You were sleeping so peacefully, I didn't want to wake you up."

Finally pushing herself up to sit properly, Minjeong turned to face the older woman, lips curled into a teasing smile. "You're lucky I was the one to find you sleeping like this. What if someone else, someone with less pure intentions had come in while you had been sleeping so deeply? Really, for such an old, experienced and powerful entity, you're sometimes rather careless, letting yourself be so defenseless." Not that she really expected anyone to do anything to the professor, who seemed rather popular and beloved among students and staff alike. "Next time you take a nap, make sure to lock the door so no one can catch you drooling while you're sleeping, okay?"

@Kim Minjeong It has been months now since Seulgi's acceptance to Castlebay. Knowing full well about the history, Seulgi was assigned to teach history, not just vampire history but the history of the world. Day by day, she kept her positive and optimistic personality towards her students. They thought Seulgi is a young professor but ger actual age is way more different but she doesn't shy away her actual age being shared by the students.

Seulgi cared for her students, but she cares more about her own student, Kim Minjeong. She was the first student who asked for her mentorship, knowing full well that Seulgi possesses vast knowledge of everything as she is a millennia old vampire, a living relic of the past.

Now, Seulgi was sleeping in her office, not knowing Minjeong sneaked in as usual. They always hang out during lunch. But this day was different, Seulgi hadn't slept properly because of the piles of papers she worked on and finished at first dawn. Whenever she sleeps, she starts to think of her first love, she missed the moments she had with her... although, her face is already been blurred as Seulgi is starting to forget what her lover's fave looked like until--

As the booked dropped on the floor, Seulgi jolted a bit from her chair before she woke up and looked around and saw her student sleeping across the desk in front of her. "A-ah, Minjeong-ah... Is it lunch already?" She asked the other.

@Kang Seulgi Walking along the empty halls of the faculty wing, Minjeong let her eyes wander along the familiar walls, the portraits in wooden frames lining the hallway, the decorative stone tiles forming intricate patterns underneath her feet. Rounding a corner, a faint smile appeared on the blonde's lips, heart and mind feeling more and more at ease the closer she got to her destination. 52 more steps down the hall, 52 more steps until she would reach her own little safe haven.

It wasn't like she wasn't able to make any friends. As much of a shy and reclusive introvert as Minjeong was, over the years she had learned to somewhat approach people. Still, even after weeks of being in the same class with her new classmates, she just felt no particular connection with anyone. At least none that was as strong as the one she had build with Kang Seulgi, professor of History of Vampires at Castlebay. Although wary of her at first, Minjeong had soon grown used to the older woman, drawn to the calm and warm aura despite her occasional clumsy mishaps.

Reaching the wooden door to her office, Minjeong made sure to knock. Thrice, then another two times. A secret signal that would alert the older woman that it was her. Yet still, no response. Had Seulgi perhaps stepped out of her office for a moment? Possibly. Had she been any other student, Minjeong would have probably left, trying her luck another time. Unfortunately for the professor though, the blonde wasn't so easily deterred. If she went out, she'd just wait at the office until her return. Pushing the door open, she quickly slipped into the cozy office, already heading over to her usual spot on a small leather couch in one corner of the room when her eyes caught sight of one familiar head of dark locks, now slumped onto the work desk that had been set up at the other side of the room.

A soft, melodic chuckle slipped past Minjeong's lips, light footsteps leading her to the sleeping woman. "So defenseless....". Quietly, she pulled another chair closer, settling down on the other side of the desk before laying down as well, the smooth wood of the tabletop feeling almost warm against the cold skin of her cheek. Just for a moment, she silently watched the professor's sleeping form, noticing how peaceful and calm she looked. Part of her really wanted to wake the older woman up, to have their usual routine of having lunch together while talking about mundane things, but knowing how tired the other had been these past days, Minjeong decided against it, her own eyes soon falling shut.