Chapter 143 – Chapter 143 Hero Academy (2-10)
‘Ha… Suddenly today, such a dream….’
As soon as Cho Seo-hyeon woke up, she couldn’t come to her senses and led Seong Soo-ho to her classroom.
With each step she took, her trembling legs informed her of her current condition.
‘Ha… I wondered if I was okay because I didn’t come out these days….’
The dream she had earlier sleeping on her desk began to forcefully flow into her memory.
An indescribable whip.
A voice burning with contempt and hatred.
Although it had already been 10 years, Seohyeon Cho’s body remembered her whipping, and Seohyeon Cho’s mind was mixed with her curse.
Seohyun was afraid that the wounds and curses in her heart that she thought would have been erased would be cast again.
‘… But why did that person appear in my dream?’
Second, Seohyun was able to put her thoughts on Hong Mi-seon aside for a moment at the sound of her Seongsu-ho’s footsteps following her own.
A man who stood idly next to the church.
The scene where such a man stares at himself being whipped.
‘Is it because the assistant instructors at that time changed every time, so I can’t remember….’
No assistant instructor has ever had more than two months.
In the beginning, Seohyun remembered hearing that it was so difficult for her to find an assistant instructor who would match Hong Mi-sun’s personality.
As she opened the door to her classroom, Cho Seohyun was relieved.
‘Thank god. Because today is a field training in the back mountain. I just need to worry about the safety of the children and the grading.’
Seohyun stood on her podium as she relaxed, then glanced at Seongsuho.
‘… Would you like to catch up today?’
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Actual combat training to hunt the monsters released in the back mountain.
It is a format in which two groups battle while hiking on a fixed route.
Cho Seo-hyeon and Seong Su-ho are in charge of each group, and they are responsible for safety and scoring.
Groups 5 and 6, which are currently in progress, met at the central point and had a break.
Seohyun Cho thought as she looked at Seongsuho, who was bending over and breathing heavily from a distance.
‘If you raise your stamina, you’re a really good person….’
In the beginning, Seohyun also knew that his stamina did not improve in a day or two, so he had no intention of nagging Seong Suho.
In addition, since Cho Seo-hyun received help from Seong Su-ho, he was not in a position to criticize.
Cho Seo-hyun approached Sung Soo-ho, who was out of breath, laughing and trying to comfort her while playing a joke.
‘Well, if you’re good at archery, your stamina is… Yes?’
Just as Cho Seo-hyeon was about to approach, someone approached Seong Su-ho.
“Sam…. Are you okay?”
“Ha… Ha… It’s okay, it’s okay. You too go and rest…. Ha….”
“It’s okay if I don’t rest….”
There was Song A-ra looking at Seong Su-ho with pity.
Cho Seo-hyeon laughed while watching Song A-ra.
‘He seems like the type to lose money if he joins a guild later with that kind of personality….’
Cho Seo-hyun continued to look at the two of them.
It was just a normal conversation between a cadet and an instructor, and it was something that happened in everyday life without anything special.
However, she looked different to Cho Seo-hyun, who had a nightmare today.
‘If I had an instructor with whom I could have normal conversations like that, would it be different….’
When Cho Seo-hyeon attended the consulate as a cadet, she couldn’t get close to any instructor.
Most of the assistant instructors paid no attention to the cadets outside of class time, and the regular instructors abused themselves for three years.
As she was looking at the two of them with her envious eyes, Cho Seo-hyun’s ears pricked up and moved at Song A-ra’s words.
“Sir, can you watch the archery posture today?”
At Song Ara’s words, Seong Soo-ho barely caught his breath and opened his mouth.
“Whew…. I’m fine, but I’m not good enough to teach.”
“Ah, it’s okay because I’m practicing personally!”
Hearing the conversation between the two, Seohyeon Cho recalled the first time he met Suho Seong.
‘Come to think of it, when I was given the weapon, I gave Song A-ra a bow as a matter of course, right?’
At the time of the weapon distribution, Song A-ra was the only person Seong Su-ho handed over to him by mistake.
Seong Su-ho, who gave Song A-ra a bow as a matter of course, whose main weapon was a sword, refuted that he had given it to her by mistake at the time, and remembered looking at Song A-ra with an incomprehensible expression.
‘Hmm… Ah, it’s time for the break.’
By the time Seong Su-ho was breathing, the break was coming to an end.
Seong Su-ho stood up before his cadets and said while looking at Song A-ra.
“There are many better people than me. If you want to learn properly, go see the official instructor instead of me.”
“….”
Cho Seo-hyeon was disappointed in Seong Soo-ho as he listened to him.
‘Will it be better if I teach you a little in my spare time? That person seems to be bothered by that too…. It’s no different from other instructors.’
Cho Seo-hyeon felt that the gratitude she had harbored for him disappeared in an instant.
She could feel a very bad memory creeping up in her as she spurned her cadet who was approaching her passionately.
While Cho Seo-hyeon was glaring at Seong Soo-ho, Seong Soo-ho grabbed Song A-ra by the shoulder and said.
“I am an assistant instructor. I’ve never formally learned a bow, I just learned to survive.”
After saying that, Seong Soo-ho stretched his body and opened his mouth.
“If I teach you and you end up with strange habits, Instructor Cho Seo-hyun might be harmed. Then it would be a very sorry act.”
“Ah, that’s my responsibility~ Just look at the posture. Yeah? The other instructors don’t take good care of me because they’re busy….”
Seong Su-ho smiled dejectedly while looking at Song A-ra.
“I get it. After dinner, whenever I have time, I will help you wherever I can.”
“Wow~”
Watching the two stand up and talk, Cho Seo-hyeon smiled with her mouth raised without realizing it.
***
After the engineering class, I headed to the restaurant with my shoulders drooping.
‘Gosh… I died….’
My whole body ached after walking all the way.
If both morning and afternoon were in charge of engineering classes, I would have been taken to the hospital long ago.
After barely arriving at the restaurant, I lifted my head with difficulty and looked over the menu for the day.
“It’s Chinese food… It’s my favorite menu.”
As I hummed pleasantly, a disgruntled voice came from behind me.
“Ha…. The day I go is market day, so it must be lunch.”
“Yes?”
I turned around and looked around, but I didn’t see anyone… If I said that, I would probably be killed right now.
It was Cho Seo-hyun.
Super Seohyun looked up at me and nodded her head.
“Come on, let’s go in quickly.”
“Ah yes.”
It was the moment I gave a short answer and was about to enter the restaurant.
From inside the entrance of the restaurant, Seong-soo, waving her hand softly toward me, was coming with a refreshing smile.
“You are here. Today is Instructor Seong Su-ho’s favorite lunch.”
Haha….”
While I was laughing awkwardly, I heard Cho Seo-hyun’s voice behind me.
“What?”
“Uh… Sister….”
Seong Soo-ah was perplexed while looking at Cho Seo-hyeon.
Returning to my side, Cho Seo-hyeon frowned and asked while looking at me and Seong Soo-ah.
“Do you two know each other?”
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‘Wow… This is how it feels when rice goes into your nose.’
[You don’t have to worry. The spoon is pointing towards the mouth normally.]
‘….’
Seriously?
I kept glancing at Cho Seo-hyun and Seong Soo-ah every time I scooped up the jjajang fried rice and took a bite.
Even though it was meal time, Cho Seo-hyun crossed her arms as she put down her chopsticks and spoon.
Sung Soo-ah, who can’t hold a spoon properly while watching Cho Seo-hyun’s notice.
Cho Seohyun, who had been arranging infinite silence, finally opened her mouth.
“No way… I never dreamed that you two were in charge of the same class.”
“Uh… It was Instructor Seohyeon Cho who told me to go to class 7 on the first day….”
“I didn’t know he was in the 7th class of the Magic Department, right? Do I really need to know where he is in charge?”
Anya?
Suddenly, he was showing the childlike behavior he showed on the first day without hesitation.
Cho Seo-hyeon was a person with a multifaceted personality.
Sometimes a strict instructor, sometimes a kid, sometimes an enthusiastic student.
Super Seohyun looked at me and opened her mouth with a dissatisfied expression.
“By the way, do you two usually eat together? Seeing you earlier, did you eat often?”
“Ah… Yes. Since we work together, we eat together whenever possible.”
“Under…. I work together, but you didn’t want to eat with me, did you?”
“Yes?”
Seohyun put a heartbroken expression on her small face and glared at me.
How do you eat with a woman who doesn’t usually come to eat?
“Please. Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon, I don’t usually see her at the cafeteria….”
“Isn’t it necessary to do a recommendation?”
“… Sorry.”
What is it, there is no hole to escape?
If you asked me to eat on the first day, I think I would have said it right away….
(Why do I have to eat with them?)
I’m sure he would have said that.
While I was grumbling with Cho Seo-hyeon, Seong Soo-ah stayed quiet, paying attention.
I said while looking at Sung Soo-ah with a worried heart.
“Instructor Seong Soo-ah, please eat. It will cool down.”
Haha… Yes.”
And Cho Seo-hyun who interrupts the conversation between the two of us.
“No, don’t you ask me to eat? Is my food not going cold?”
“That…. I guess you don’t like Chinese food….”
“Can I cool off if I don’t like it?”
“… Sorry.”
Gomennasai… Gomen nasai to eat together.
‘This is embarrassing….’
[I didn’t know Cho Seo-hyun would come out so recklessly.]
‘No, what… It’s cute when it’s just the two of us….’
To be honest, getting closer to Cho Seo-hyun was a good phenomenon for me, both for my mission and for my personal self-interest.
Because grumbling like that doesn’t mean your pretty face will fly away.
But the problem is that Sung Soo-ah is with him. It’s a bonus to bet something else there.
‘… Couldn’t this be something that keeps interrupting me every time I eat?’
[My personal expectation is that now I will see Cho Seo-hyun’s face at every meal.]
‘Shit….’
It’s so strange… Yesterday, when it really helped me, was silent, and today it didn’t help at all.
It was only after we had such a cold lunch that Seong Soo-ah and I were able to escape Cho Seo-hyeon’s grasp.
***
Seohyeon Cho entered the classroom, sat down on a chair, and sighed while lying on her back.
“Ha… Mistress, this is not….”
Cho Seo-hyeon followed him to the restaurant, wanting to build a friendship with Seong Su-ho.
Even Cho Seo-hyeon knew that most people felt uncomfortable eating with their boss at work.
Most of the regular instructors and assistant instructors are in that position….
That’s why he thought to talk in a way that let’s do well in the future with the best words and compliments.
Until Sung Soo-ah appears….
“No, why do you have to do it with Sung Soo-ah…. Ha….”
Cho Seo-hyeon was not particularly jealous or vigilant as a member of the opposite sex.
She only had a strong desire to position Seong Su-ho as her good ally.
However, when she saw her with Seong Soo-ah, her judgment was twisted and she interfered with the two of them eating.
Even Seohyun didn’t come to dislike Seongsuah from the beginning.
I didn’t attach much importance to the story that her brother was dating.
However, the problem was the younger brother’s attitude after dating.
“… No matter how much you think… It seems like Kang Hyun-yi has changed strangely after meeting him.”
As Cho Seo-hyun’s memory, her younger brother, Cho Kang-hyun, took good care of and helped her, her only family, until she entered the consulate.
The two of them, whose parents died, were so close that it was hard to think of them as siblings.
However, the younger brother, who is always upright and bright, at some point started to be consistent with a cold expression and blunt tone.
And at that time, it was a time when they were dating.
“Was it a year after I graduated? That’s when she said they started dating….”
After Cho Seo-hyun graduated, Sung Soo-ah entered the school.
And she found out a year later that they were dating.
It was a fact that she heard from the mouth of others, not her own.
If her brother was in a relationship, she was naturally willing to actively support him.
However, her brother lost contact with her after her relationship, and she was only saddened by the cold attitude she treated her even if she met her occasionally.
Both of them, whose parents died, were each other’s only family.
It didn’t feel like a family like that.
In the second, Seohyun caught her eye on a piece of paper lying on her desk.
– Hee hee hee. It’s my birthday next month! Eat something delicious with Kanghyun (〉_〈)-
Looking at the letters written on her paper, Cho Seo-hyeon muttered.
“… You’re not going to forget it again, are you?”
If others in her saw this sentence, they would see her super Seohyeon as strange, but she told her that her superganghyun was her only family and a being with whom she could communicate.
Yes, she was. 10 years ago….
Because her younger brother, who communicated with her like that, changed while dating, Cho Seo-hyeon couldn’t like her Seong-soo-ah at all.
“What about that guy’s love….”
Cho Seohyun smiled bitterly, turned her paper over and looked out the window at her.
And she thought
“… What would he like to say?”
Cho Seo-hyeon started simulating in her head the conversation she would have with Sung Soo-ho later in the evening.
