Chapter 213 – Chapter 213 Hero Academy (3-20)
Only two people remained in the principal’s office without the headmaster, the tower, and the representatives of the three guilds.
“Shit… Every time Yeriel-nim and Shin Seok-kwon meet, it seems like I get older by one year.”
“Unfortunately, there is news that she will grow one year older.”
“… Did Erica contact you?”
“Yes. I got a call from the company saying they would lend me as much as the stolen capsules.”
“What?”
It was an absurd story.
The items rented by the Erica Company were stolen, but instead, they would lend more as much as they were stolen.
“The management has contacted me that it is more important to contribute even a little to the future of the consulate cadets.”
“I need to do a few more years as principal…. But why is that news about getting older?”
That was good news for everyone.
Even if the church arranged all parts, the capsule was not a common equipment that could be obtained anywhere.
Even the church that was praised as the best guild did not have a capsule.
In addition, it was to the extent that the movement of the capsule was strictly suggested without Erica’s permission.
From the secretary’s mouth came the news that the principal’s age would increase by one year.
“Instead, I have requested the return of the stolen capsule within a year.”
“… Can’t we just get rid of the principal right now?”
“I think it’s prudent to take responsibility while still being principal. If you take responsibility for being unemployed, you will suffer just like that.”
“Shit.”
The principal grumbled in a low voice that did not match his appearance and tore his hair.
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At the same time as the church’s support came, the incident was dealt with swiftly.
All of the strange creatures were retrieved and taken away from the church, and generously supported the cadets and instructors who suffered damage.
Treatment, rescue… And even the burial of the corpse….
By the time the incident seemed to have calmed down to some extent, the consulate instructors and the principal met and held a meeting.
“I didn’t even ring the alarm… Expenses are gone… There… Even the capsules were stolen….”
“There is an insider.”
Everyone was silent about that.
In fact, it was what all the instructors here thought, but when it came out directly, the weight felt different.
“As for the guards, I checked, and not all of them were gone. Most… It was found dead.”
“The alert… It was completely wired and cut. Then I cut out exactly what was needed.”
“Have you got something like the ability to manage wires now?”
Everyone was laughing at that.
Except for two people….
Seohyun placed her chin on her hand and made a serious expression while biting her lip.
Seong Soo-ah also had a serious expression on her face, and she couldn’t melt into the surroundings at all.
In the minds of the two of them, there was only one person at the moment.
Seong Soo-ho.
He’s gone
While saving Sung Soo-ah and Cho Seo-hyeon with great success on the rooftop, he disappeared.
Leaving a huge amount of blood….
‘It’s not the amount of blood shed by one or two people….’
‘That means there must have been a great fight…. By the way….’
Cho Seo-hyeon and Seong Su-ah searched for Seong Su-ho all morning without sleeping.
However, they couldn’t find any clues about Seong Soo-ho’s disappearance.
The principal opened his mouth to the two people who couldn’t match the surrounding atmosphere at all.
“Yesterday, thanks to Instructor Seong Soo-ah and Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon, we were able to greatly reduce the damage. Thank you.”
“… I just did what I had to do.”
“….”
At least Seong Soo-ah came to her senses and answered, but Cho Seo-hyeon was lost in her thoughts and did not give any answer.
When the instructor next to Cho Seo-hyeon tapped, he finally came to his senses and said,
“Yes? What? Why?”
“The principal….”
The principal laughed again and repeated it over and over again.
“Yesterday, thanks to Instructor Seong Soo-ah and Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon, we were able to greatly reduce the damage. Thank you.”
“Ah… I was lucky. There is someone who helped….”
Cho Seo-hyeon only wanted to run out right now and find Seong-su-ho again.
It was the same with Sung Soo-ah. She quietly raised her hand and opened her mouth.
“That… Any news about the missing people yet?”
“Well… For now, the church is also searching… There is no word that it was found.”
“… Yes.”
As Seongsuah lowered her hand in disappointment, one of her magic instructors opened her mouth.
“What… From what I’ve seen, it’s like a missing person security guard and an assistant instructor.’
Everyone looked at him.
He was a slender, bespectacled man with a bobbing head and a bad attitude.
Cho Seo-hyun looked at him with her eyebrows wriggling, and Seong-soo-ah opened her mouth as calmly as possible while looking at him.
“They are also employees here.”
“Right… Staff…. But what….”
The man shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth in a sneer.
“A guard or an assistant instructor… Aren’t they the ones who were chosen to do that?”
“What!?”
At those words, Cho Seo-hyun jumped up and glared at him.
The man, weighed down by her momentum, flinched for a moment, then began to speak gibberish, not wanting to lose.
Haha… No… Do you want the cadets or instructors to be kidnapped?”
“You don’t have to say that, though.”
It was Sung Soo-ah who brought up her words on behalf of Cho Seo-hyun.
Silence began to flow, as if the atmosphere that had been relaxed until now announced the calm before the storm.
Fortunately, thanks to one person, we were able to avoid the storm.
“Now… We are doing our best to search for the missing person, so don’t worry too much.”
“… Yes.”
“….”
With that in mind, the meeting came to an end.
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“Where the hell did you go….”
“Look around again. Sure to find….”
It was when Seong Soo-ah was walking down the hallway reading Cho Seo-hyeon.
A low voice whispered to the ears of the two women.
“Long time no see. Two people.”
A short kid greeted the two with an expressionless expression.
“Oh… Yeriel.”
“Ugh… What are you doing here?”
Looking at Yeri-el, compared to Seong-soo-ah, who was welcome, Seo-hyeon frowned at her and showed a puzzled expression.
Yeriel pointed with her dainty hand at her super Seohyeon and opened her mouth expressionlessly.
“Well… Is it over now?”
“Damn….”
“Seeing that I haven’t grown at all in three years…. You, like me, must be finished now.”
“Ah!”
Even as Cho Seo-hyun frowned, she didn’t have a special retort.
Yeriel teased her every time she met Seohyun with her expressionless expression and said that her mischief would permeate her, but she was also the only person who could pull such a prank on her super Seohyun.
The opponent is a woman who has stopped growing from an elementary school student.
The reason Seohyun didn’t get angry with Yeriel’s prank was because she felt guilty about something if she got angry with her.
In the second, Seohyun opened her mouth in a voice of lamentation.
“I am busy right now. Then….”
At the same time as Cho Seo-hyeon said that, she quickly left the spot.
Yeriel opened her mouth as she watched Seohyun run away from her.
“Even running away is still the same.”
Haha….”
Yeriel took her eyes off Seohyun, who had already disappeared, and looked at her Seongsuah and said in an emotionless tone.
“Are you injured anywhere? See, she was told that the magic didn’t work.”
“No. It had absolutely no effect on her outer shell, but I was able to deal with it with a direct hit to the weak spot in her chest.”
“I’m glad.”
In Yeriel’s expressionless expression, her voice was subtly mixed with relief.
Meanwhile, Yeriel read her expression and tilted her head as she asked.
“Is something urgent? You seem restless.”
“That… Because her colleague is missing.”
“Okay…. I will go to the tower and send someone good at tracking magic.”
“Ah! Thank you!”
Yeriel opened her mouth while seeing Seongsuah’s relieved smile.
“You have changed a lot too.”
“… Me?”
Seong Soo-ah couldn’t help but wonder. I thought she was just showing her usual attitude.
However, Yeriel answered her question calmly.
“Yeah, I think a lot has changed.”
“….”
“I thought she was always just a flowy guy, but now I’m glad she seems like she’s at least swimming. Then I’ll go, have a good time.”
“Yes….”
Yariel finally said that, and started to toddling with her in small strides.
Seong Soo-ah tilted her head while looking at Yeri-el’s back.
‘What do you mean? What has changed for me?’
While Seong Soo-ah was thinking to herself, her thoughts about Seong Soo-ho came to her mind again.
‘Ah! Time for this… I have to find them quickly!’
Thinking so, she went out of the building to search her surroundings again.
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Time passed and it became night.
Cho Seohyun stood on the corner of the rooftop and leaned against the railing with her head bowed and wept.
“Where did you go….”
She searched the surroundings all day, but she couldn’t find a single clue about Seongsuho.
Even more so, among the people who were in the same building, there were only those who saw him go up on the roof, and there was no story that he saw him come down.
With tears in her eyes, she looked around the campus.
The inside of the consulate had already been cleared of traces of the battle.
Even more so, if people who had been here for years didn’t know about yesterday’s incident, they would have walked around the campus today saying it was peaceful.
To that extent, everything had disappeared without a trace.
Above all, the fresh blood on the roof had already disappeared.
Rather, it was to clean up all the parts that could be evidence.
“Please… Please….”
When Cho Seo-hyun was crying and lowering her head again, she received a call on her smart watch.
It was Sung Soo-ah.
The moment Seohyun identified her caller, she hurriedly answered the call.
“What? I found it!?”
(…No. I couldn’t find the people who came from the tower just now.)
“… Okay.”
In the second, Seohyun put on a sullen expression again and was about to cut off her communication.
(Sister… Rest first. You haven’t slept for two days now….)
“Quit. Call me when you find it.”
In the beginning, Seohyun cut off Seongsuah and ended her call, then bowed her head again.
She threw her arms over her railing and buried her head.
While doing so, her thoughts about Seongsuho came to mind.
The one who said she was like a child when she first came.
She was the one who accepted her complaints, nagging, and even contempt.
But what he did to himself was not a petty act like retaliation.
Rather, her super Seohyeon saved her from a crisis and acknowledged her from her invisible place.
And further… He became the pillar of Cho Seo-hyun.
She was still awkward, but it was her greatest comfort as she walked on her lonely and lonely road.
Cho Seohyun wept as she buried her head in the railing.
“I promise… I promised to meet you today….”
The two had agreed to meet for dinner on Saturday.
And after eating like that, I decided to watch archery practice in real life, not in VR.
But it’s already 11pm.
It was already too late to eat together and talk.
Her heart whispered that Seong Soo-ho was dead, and her head filled with hope that somehow he would be alive.
The collision between the two eventually began to gnaw away at Cho Seo-hyeon’s spirit.
Super Seohyeon went beyond her weeping and tears began to form in her eyes.
She whispered softly.
“Because I don’t have to keep my promise… Just come back….”
With those words, tears dripped down the sleeves of her clothes, and at the same time a voice wet her eardrums.
“That’s fortunate. She was worried because she broke her promise.”
“… Uh?”
As Seohyun turned her head, Seongsuho was smiling as she leaned against the railing and looked at herself.
