Chapter 202 – Chapter 202 Hero Academy (3-9)
“Huh…Haha….”
Cho Seo-hyun, wearing a disheveled cadet uniform, was sitting at her desk.
Her left arm was shaking wildly, and her right arm was holding and calming her left arm.
But she couldn’t even calm her down with her right arm.
“Please….”
Three months after Cho Seo-hyun entered the consulate, she was branded as a nuisance in her class due to extreme tremor.
However, she was the only one who directly mentioned the word “A lump of nuisance” To Seohyun.
Hong Mi-sun….
However, Cho Seo-hyeon did not doubt her even in that situation.
‘There is a reason…. I’m sure this is something I’m doing wrong….’
Cho Seo-hyeon did not suspect Hong Mi-seon even though she was beaten countless times over the course of three months.
This is the Hero Academy.
She is….
‘He’s a hero….’
Cho Seo-hyeon wrapped her doubts she harbored into her admiration for her Hong Mi-seon.
She doesn’t know if it’s driving her to ruin….
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After her class was over, Seohyun was called to Hong Mi-sun.
She was being called every single day.
Hong Mi-seon was beating Cho Seo-hyeon as if it was only natural.
Chow! Chow ah!
“Turn it off… Whoops!”
“Great… I learned to keep her mouth shut. I’m glad I’m not a jerk at all.”
Chow! Chow!
“Huh… I’m sorry….”
“Are you laughing out of joy as soon as you praised it? It makes me laugh!!”
Hong Mi-seon strongly swung her whip with her hands that she hadn’t shown before.
Chow ah!
“Aagh!”
“Okay! You are!”
Since then, Hong Mi-seon has showered her with a tremendous whip.
It was impossible for Cho Seo-Hyun to even catch her eyes on the trajectory of her whip that her red mi-seon wielded, and the strength of her whip was strong enough to pierce her self-defense technique that her Super Seo-Hyeon possessed in one shot.
What Hong Mi-sun was doing now was no different from whipping ordinary people on the street.
Cho Seo-hyun rationalized inside her every time she was hit by Hong Mi-sun’s whip.
‘There is a reason! There must be a reason!’
If there was no rationalization within himself, Cho Seo-hyeon would have collapsed long ago.
However… Her unbrokenness was rather sinking her deeper and deeper into the swamp of despair.
Hong Mi-sun, who had been whipping for a long time, left with her light steps, smiling with a rotten smell.
“Put everything in here and go. Understand?”
“Huh… Yes… Today, too… Thank you….”
“… Huh.”
Hong Mi-sun, who snorted her snort, left her sparring room, and in her sparring room, a bloody Cho Seo-hyeon lay down without a slight reaction.
In the second, Seohyun thought for a moment.
She thought she might die.
But Seohyun, who had been quivering her lips, tenaciously lifted her bloody body and made her upper body stand up.
“I… Organize… I should….”
Three months later, Cho Seo-hyun had no one.
She has no friends, no close instructors, just Hong Mi-seon.
Rather afraid.
She began to fear that if she was left out of this situation, she would have spent three months learning nothing really.
She didn’t want to admit that she had wasted this critical period.
“Organize… Have to….”
Cho Seo-hyeon muttered that, but couldn’t move her body at all.
The entire body trembled as if paralyzed, but the body did not listen to her commands at all.
“Ah..Haha….”
For Cho Seo-hyun, everything seemed to collapse in an instant.
So far she hasn’t shed a tear, but her tear glands that don’t listen to her are starting to irritate slowly to her paralysis.
It was the moment when I was about to cry.
Shaaaaak.
But it wasn’t her tears that flowed.
What flowed down Cho Seo-hyeon’s face was a bitter red potion.
Her eyes went to the man pouring the potion towards her.
It was Seongsuho. But I was confused about who he was.
‘Assistant Instructor? … Assistant … Instructor? Now? No… Later?’
Seohyun, who was confused while watching Seongsuho in her dream, felt that the scars on her own face were gradually recovering.
But not only was she traumatized, she was already confounded with her internal injuries, so she couldn’t say anything out of her mouth.
Cho Seo-hyun looked at Seong Soo-ho with her blank eyes, and Seong Su-ho slowly stroked her cadet, Cho Seo-hyun’s head.
As she watched Seongsu-ho stroking her own hair, the pain that had been frozen like a diamond in her heart began to melt away.
And that melted bitterness was about to flow down in her super Seohyun tears.
‘No… No… I can’t….’
Second, Seohyun looked up at Seongsuho and let her cry.
***
I woke her up by shaking her candle.
“Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon?”
“Ha… Ha… Ha…. Where is it?”
As soon as Cho Seohyun woke up, she looked around and checked.
This was her teacher’s office, and Cho Seo-hyeon grasped her situation and immediately began wiping her tears with a T-shirt.
“Turn it off…. For a moment….”
“Write this.”
“Turn it off… Thanks….”
I handed the handkerchief to Cho Seo-hyeon and said via telecommunication.
‘Armonia, tell me about Hong Mi-seon.’
I felt like I had to hear about Hong Mi-seon, whom I hadn’t heard of because of constant interruptions.
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..
I looked at Cho Seo-hyeon, who was diligently explaining to the cadets in VR.
I knew roughly what kind of person Hong Mi-sun was.
However, I still don’t know why Cho Seo-hyeon was abused like that.
And to find out, I was looking for Hong Mi-sun’s whereabouts….
‘Missing?’
[Yes. It is said that it went missing 8 years ago, and no clues have been found so far.]
There was a reason why Armonia, who usually gave information in a tick-by-click manner, finally gave the information.
Personal records remain, but they are not particularly important, and since they have been missing for quite some time, they have been forgotten.
[However, according to the Zodiac side, there is a questionable part.]
It wasn’t that he went missing after entering a dungeon, and he wasn’t kidnapped by a monster.
The public speculates that he was kidnapped by a monster, but Zodiac says he has never been kidnapped.
[On the day of his disappearance, he said he had just finished serving at the consulate.]
‘That’s awful….’
In fact, the fact that I asked for an investigation on Hong Mi-seon was just a big question.
It was because he wanted to know why he did such a thing to Cho Seo-hyun.
I wondered if knowing that would help my relationship with Cho Seo-hyeon.
The trauma of Cho Seo-hyun is Mi-seon Hong. The problem was that Hong Mi-sun didn’t seem to have abused Cho Seo-hyeon like that for no reason.
‘… Would Cho Seo-hyeon know the reason?’
First of all, in order to find out about Hong Mi-seon, it was concluded that Cho Seo-hyeon had to keep dreaming.
If Cho Seo-hyeon didn’t know why Hong Mi-seon acted like that, she wouldn’t come out even in her dreams, but at least a hint was needed.
‘Next time, I’ll go into Twilight and do some manipulation.’
The only problem is that the situations in which she can dream are limited.
Early now, Seohyun’s dream was only possible while she was sleeping for a while in her office.
It should be much better than having no sleep timing at all like Sung Soo-ah, but….
‘But she can’t do crazy things like breaking into the dormitory….’
[I don’t recommend it at all at this point.]
The consulate is not a place where you can sneak in just because you know how to hide.
As soon as I get caught, various weapons and magics will come flying and split my body into atoms.
Even if you save your life, you will be published on the front page of the newspaper and face social annihilation.
〈 Scoop! Assistant Instructor Breaks Into Consulate Female Dormitory!〉
‘Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps….’
[First of all, it would be good to know more about Cho Seo-hyun’s lifestyle. For example, the pattern of the weekend… ]
So, while she was thinking about this and that about her future policy, Cho Seo-hyeon shouted at her students.
“Ruler! Rest!”
Each of the cadets huddled together with their friends and began to chat.
Maybe it’s because they’re in VR, but unlike their usual training, they didn’t show any signs of hardship at all.
Then, by chance, I overheard the conversation of the cadets resting near me.
“Hey, Instructor Seohyeon Cho, are you still that way?”
“I guess so. By the way… Instructor Cho Seo-hyun, isn’t she fucking pretty?”
“It’s pretty, but… I feel like I’m always being scolded by my brother….”
At those words, the cadets giggled and looked at Cho Seo-hyeon.
Perhaps because of the previous work, Cho Seohyun kept glancing at me from a distance.
The cadets started whispering again while wondering about Cho Seo-hyeon’s changed appearance.
“But Instructor Cho Seo-Hyun’s cadet uniform suits her really well.”
“I honestly look better in those than jeans and a t-shirt wrapped around the body.”
“I know that? Instructor Seohyeon Cho… Why do I wear long T-shirts and long jeans even in summer?”
Suddenly, I also started to have a tempting conversation.
Come to think of it, Seohyun’s outfit changed every day, but she was always wearing jeans and a T-shirt that covered her entire body.
To be honest, I didn’t think there would be any particular reason.
It just seemed like a personal preference.
“My aunt said that Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon and I were classmates at the consulate, but in the past….”
As I was listening and concentrating, someone suddenly tapped me on the shoulder.
I immediately turned my head to check the opponent.
It was Cho Seo-hyun.
“Oh! Uh, what’s going on?”
“… I have something to tell you.”
Cho Seo-hyun, wearing a cadet uniform, looked down at me sitting down with a serious expression and said she wanted to talk to me alone.
Thanks to that, I had to follow her without even hearing the story of her cadets.
Cho Seo-hyeon, who had brought her to a place quite far from the cadets, started talking cautiously.
“I’m sorry for showing off your ugly side earlier. I had a nightmare….”
“It’s okay. On the contrary, I’m sorry for being by your side.”
“… Don’t talk like that.”
Cho Seo-hyun was treating me with a different, heavier atmosphere than usual.
Cho Seo-hyeon, who was agonizing over me in front of me, looked up at me and asked.
“Perhaps… Is it okay after work today?”
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..
Cho Seo-hyun’s request was simple.
She asked me to enter the VR capsule and help her with the bow practice she had done in VR yesterday.
Naturally, I declined at first.
“Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon. There are many people who are much more skilled than me. Rather, they….”
“I am different from the cadets. You can ask other instructors to teach you, but from the standpoint… It’s a bit troublesome.”
Cho Seo-hyeon, who already uses a dagger as her main weapon, was not in a situation where she could ask an archery instructor for archery.
As I was putting on a worried expression for a moment, Seohyeon Cho opened her mouth while rustling her long hair.
“If you do me a favor, I’ll do a favor too.”
“Ah, then I can do it for you.”
Cho Seo-hyun smiled at my appearance and said.
“Aren’t you accepting right away like a snob?”
Haha… Where can I hang up Instructor Cho Seo-hyun’s request for the rest of my life?”
“It’s a testimony….”
The second Seohyeon started to smile at her, shaking off the gloomy mood she had shown her earlier.
A cadet uniform in her long hair.
Cho Seo-hyun gives a sense of separation from the present. Once I was given a chance to approach her.
Her original target was Seong Soo-ah, but she wasn’t in a situation where she could play her game with her for a while anyway.
‘Let’s focus on Cho Seo-hyun this week.’
[You are right.]
Thinking so, I formally accepted Seohyun’s request.
“Then, I’ll see you later at the VR training room after the schedule is over.”
Cho Seo-hyun said to me with a soft smile.
“… Thanks.”
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..
I came to the VR training room as promised right after I finished my day and had a meal.
There, Cho Seo-hyeon had already arrived and was waiting.
“I have everything set up. Go inside the capsule.”
“Yes.”
I went right into the capsule with familiar body movements, and Seohyun Cho started to manipulate things from the outside.
And in an instant, I was sucked into VR.
After entering VR, I immediately looked around.
It was a place I had seen many times.
“… Consulate?”
It was not the consulate now, but it was similar to the consulate at the time when Cho Seo-hyeon was a cadet.
Before I knew it, the long-haired Cho Seohyun was standing next to me in her cadet uniform.
“It’s the old consulate theme.”
“Aha….”
It was obviously different from the consulate now, but it was a theme that imitated the structure of the consulate very elaborately.
As we walked towards her shooting range, Seohyeon Cho told me this and that.
“Do you know why there is a consulate theme?”
“… I do not know?”
“It’s a theme I made in case a monster invades.”
“Ah… Is that really good?”
It is said that even the consulate, which is called the Thousand Fortress, sometimes allows monsters to invade.
And this consulate theme is said to have been created with such a situation in mind.
We arrived at the shooting range while Cho Seo-hyeon’s explanation continued.
After arriving at the shooting range, Cho Seo-hyeon said with an embarrassed expression.
“That… Thank you. It would be annoying….”
“Please. It’s nice to be with Instructor Cho Seo-hyun.”
“That, yes..Hehe….”
Cho Seo-hyeon snorted and entered the shooting range, and I followed him.
In that position, Cho Seohyeon picked up one of his bows.
“By the way… I’ve been thinking about it.”
“… ?”
“Now I am in a position to learn. Then accordingly… Me too… I think you need to change your attitude.”
“… ?”
I wondered what that meant, so I tilted my head and looked at her.
And Cho Seohyun sighed heavily, then looked up at me with her blushing face and murmured quietly.
“That… Instructor Seong Soo-ho… Archery Map… Take good care of me….”
