Chapter 217 – Chapter 217 Hero Academy (3-24)
“What, what! Uh, when….”
Cho Seo-hyun hurriedly turned his head and began to wipe away the tears.
‘Armonia, a handkerchief.’
[All right.]
I said while handing the handkerchief that was generated in my hand to Cho Seohyun.
“Write this.”
“Ah… Ooh, not crying! Whoa, dust in your eyes….”
Haha….”
Seohyeon Cho took a handkerchief and wiped away her tears, then turned her head and looked at me intently.
“Is that you?”
“Sure.”
“… Where the hell are you from?”
Cho Seo-hyun made a completely different expression from the crying look earlier.
She was glaring at me with her anger on her face.
It was natural.
If your child disappears, you cry and search for it, but when you find it, it is affection to slap you on the cheek and punish you.
… Is not it?
“Let me explain.”
“….”
She escaped, chased by the sudden appearance of the assailants, and she managed to escape and now returned to the consulate, she explained.
It wasn’t weeks or months, it was a situation that could have happened in a day or so.
In addition, he explained that for some reason the smart watch was not working, so there was no way to contact him.
“I was busy running around in the mountains behind the consulate.”
“Ha….”
After hearing all of my words, Cho Seohyun grabbed both of my arms and chanted in a low voice with her head bowed.
“You were worried….”
“Sorry.”
So she grabbed my arm and lowered her head. Seohyun lifted her head and looked up at me while whispering in a low voice.
“I’m so glad.”
Cho Seohyun’s appearance was quite different from her usual appearance.
A strict instructor, an erratic colleague, and a sweet woman.
Her attitude toward each person is different, but Cho Seo-hyeon felt that she was firmly following her line.
And Cho Seohyun kept changing and showing her own image to me.
I didn’t want to miss Cho Seo-hyun.
“But it seems too late to eat together today.”
“Under… Does it matter?”
Cho Seo-hyun was looking up at me with a blank smile.
The sadness and anxiety had disappeared from her face.
She was only putting on a relieved expression.
But… Wasn’t it too late to eat when the person who had been missing so far suddenly appeared? I think it would look funny.
I smiled bitterly at Seohyun and opened her mouth.
“I will keep my promise next time. First of all, it’s late today, so I’ll go in soon….”
“For a moment….”
Of course, I was going to say let’s go back to the dormitory as time is time.
But Cho Seohyun cut me off and restrained me by gently holding the sleeve of my dress in her hand.
But after she restrained herself like that, she didn’t say anything special and just kept silent.
“… ? Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon?”
“That… Hour… It hasn’t passed yet.”
“But now….”
The night had already passed, and in a little while the time that should be called dawn was approaching.
At a time like this, it’s impossible to forget lunch here….
While I was scratching her head like that, Seohyun Cho said in a muffled voice.
“Yet… 12 o’clock… More… Go….”
“Yes? Sorry. I don’t hear….”
When I approached her to listen to her super Seohyun, I could see her face.
I saw Seohyun’s face in her fidgety second, and she clenched her fists and said so I could hear.
“Yet… It’s not past 12 o’clock…. Stay a little longer….”
“….”
It was basically something that co-workers could say to each other on a daily basis, such as having a meal and meeting each other.
However, asking to stay together in the middle of the night had a completely different meaning.
Her relationship with Cho Seohyun still seems to have a long way to go, but she continues to show me the way to go.
She believed in the path she had told her and just walked calmly.
I approached her super Seohyeon and stroked her hair with a soft smile.
“If cadet Cho Seo-hyeon wants it, you have to do it.”
“Wait a minute! That, that….”
“Yes? Shall we stop?”
“….”
The earthquake was so intense that the pupils of Seohyeon Cho could see tremors even in the middle of the night.
Cho Seo-hyun, who was hesitant like that, mumbled.
“No, whatever you want… Do it, please….”
Haha….”
After that, she spent time on the rooftop stroking Seohyun’s hair in her second.
***
Sung Soo-ah greeted the wizards from the tower while seeing them off.
“You really worked hard.”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be of any help.”
Time was looking at dawn before anyone knew it, and even those from the tower couldn’t afford to waste time at the consulate all day.
After seeing her off, Seong Soo-ah looked towards her rooftop.
“… Sister, you will still be there.”
Seong Soo-ah slowly started heading towards the roof of the building.
“Ha… Ha….”
As she slowly climbed the stairs, she began to feel weak and dizzy.
The incident that happened the day before left quite a lot of fatigue to Sung Soo-ah.
She ran out of mana, and on top of that, she wandered around in search of the Seongsuho without sleeping for about two days.
She had collapsed mentally and physically, and had to be taken to the hospital.
But, holding on to her mind and body as tenaciously as possible, she headed to the rooftop where Cho Seo-hyun was.
She could have explained her situation to her over the phone, but she didn’t call because she felt sorry for her because if she called, she would misunderstand her again.
“First… To my sister… Tell me the situation…. Ha… Ha….”
Seong Soo-ah was able to reach the rooftop with her exhausted body.
A cold wind was blowing through the open iron door.
“My sister outside….”
The moment she was about to go out to the roof, she heard a voice along with the wind.
“Wow, are you okay… Yo. This?”
“Yeah, that’s good.”
Seong Soo-ah was able to catch Cho Seo-hyun’s voice coming through her messy head.
‘What? Who’s with you?’
Seong Soo-ah gently stuck her head out the door and looked at her.
On the dark rooftop, there were two people with a clear difference in height.
With Cho Seo-hyun… It was Sung Soo-ho hugging her.
‘… What?’
Seong Soo-ah, as if her brain went paralyzed due to a situation she could not understand, she watched the actions of the two in a daze.
Seong Soo-ho, who thought she was hugging, was giving Cho Seo-hyun this and that instruction.
“Okay, your posture has definitely improved a lot.”
“Go, thank you….”
Cho Seohyeon held her bow and pulled her bowstring to hold her posture, while Seong Suho was watching her posture from behind.
‘Why… Two people….’
For Seong Soo-ah, everything was incomprehensible.
I found the missing Seong Soo-ho, but he appeared at some point and hugged Cho Seo-hyeon.
In addition, completely different from his usual attitude, Seohyeon Cho used honorifics, and Suho Seong was talking in short language.
On the surface, it resembled a conversation between an instructor and a cadet.
And while watching the affectionate appearance of the two, Sung Soo-ah began to feel something rising in the corner of her heart.
A splendid flower garden existed in her heart.
Even though her loneliness made her less energetic, it was like her hideout that always supported her.
And she could smile at people with such a flower garden.
A single black seed was being planted in such a flower garden.
Before she knew it, Seong-Soo-Ah had changed from the fresh smile she had shown to her to sharp, wild eyes.
‘I… I searched so hard…. Her sister is….’
If Seong Soo-ah was the only one who felt jealous, she was Cho Seo-hyeon.
She was mistaken that her fiancée, her Cho Kang-hyeon, was the reason her Cho Seo-hyun distanced herself.
Seong Soo-ah, who doesn’t know her super Seohyun’s position, couldn’t help but have such a misunderstanding.
Cho Seo-hyun always grumbled when she saw Seong-su-ah, and disapproved of her.
Seong Soo-ah was what she thought Cho and Seo-hyeon were doing the same thing this time.
Seong Soo-ah glared at the two and whispered her words, which she had never put in her mouth in her entire life.
“… Annoying.”
It was the moment when a black flower bloomed in the corner of Sung Soo-ah’s garden.
***
I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine and turned my head in amazement.
“Yes?”
It seemed like someone was watching from behind….
Seohyeon Cho, embarrassed by my behavior, hesitated and asked with respect.
“Why, why are you like that?”
“Ah… Nope.”
I finished the situational play with Cho Seo-hyun without easily forgetting that cool feeling.
..
..
‘Wow… Is this a bit harsh?’
I smiled dejectedly as I entered the dormitory.
[The position of the assistant instructor was a treat that could be guessed.]
“But don’t they still care if they show up after disappearing?”
I broke up with Cho Seo-hyeon and headed straight to the dormitory.
I was about to go in after telling the dormitory security about my situation….
(Fortunately, if I had gone missing by tomorrow, the dormitory would have been emptyhaha!)
(….)
I wanted to throw a punch at the shamelessly laughing guard, but I held back.
I don’t have the confidence to win close combat….
Still, the system worked well, so the guards heard me and immediately removed me from the list of missing persons.
However, if there was a problem, it was Sung Soo-ah.
According to Cho Seo-hyeon, Seong Soo-ah also searched for me all night long.
The problem was that, as an assistant instructor, I was not in a situation where I could search around the school at this late hour and find Sung Soo-ah.
Fortunately, Seongsu knew that she was heading to the dormitory, so I was able to return to the dormitory as well.
‘I’ll have to get up early tomorrow and visit him.’
[Song Soo-ah will not forget the grace she saved from the guardian and will definitely repay it.]
‘Heh… I’ll have to ask her to cook with her naked apron later~’
[….]
Why? How crap is that
First of all, it was important to put a noose on Sung Soo-ah.
The Seong Soo-ah I knew was never the type to forget the help she received.
She was definitely a woman who would do something in return.
I just need to meet Seong Soo-ah tomorrow… The problem is….
‘Armonia, show me a video of what happened yesterday.’
[All right.]
A screen popped up in front of my eyes with the answer.
The place is on the roof. Lena was next to me, and corpses piled up around her.
And the strange phenomena that follow….
Objects around them flew as if they had free will, and rust slowly seeped into Lena’s sword with an unbelievable weathering process, and then it crumbled and turned into orange iron powder and piled up on the floor.
In fact, I was able to guess the identity of the strange phenomenon while talking with Armonia on the ship.
‘Cho Kang-hyun… That’s right, right?’
[I think so, but… It seems difficult to be sure.]
It was too bizarre to be called ordinary magic.
However, it was impossible to unconditionally point out that it was bizarre.
Too little information….
‘That… Let’s move on.’
To be honest, it’s useless to force it to fit in the current state.
I brought up the most important subject.
‘What do you think about raising Lena’s exorcism?’
[I am thinking very positively.]
Lena’s body far surpassed me.
In addition, she was an existence that could fight on an equal footing with the so-called heroes here.
However, her fatal problem was exorcism.
There was little development of magic in Illunia, so there seemed to be no reason for anti-magic to be created in the first place.
[For reference, we….]
‘… ?’
Us what?
Armonia took a longer pause than she thought, then she spoke again via communication.
[NT… People belonging to the L Corporation can change their Enelro stats.]
‘….’
I still can’t pronounce the company name properly, tsk tsk….
‘Let’s put Lena’s exorcism on for now.’
[All right.]
It would be nice to raise it to 10 if possible, but the Enel we have now was about 50,000.
First of all, with the feeling that it would be better than nothing, I raised Lena’s exorcism to bloom and then raised it to 8.
The energy used was about 22,000.
There was no need to cast sleep or sleep magic on Lena anyway, so there was no hesitation in raising her anti-magic power.
From now on, not only me, but also Lena had to consider the circumstances that could put her on her mission.
‘After… Is it over for now?’
[It’s a pity that I couldn’t find out about the mysterious phenomenon on the roof, but I’ll have to find out step by step.]
‘Great… Then….’
VR headgear caught my eye.
‘Should I go in Wo Orena?’
I immediately put on the VR headgear and connected to the game.
