Chapter 237 – Chapter 237 Hero Academy (3-44)
“Today we are going to leave without breakfast. Hurry up and get ready.”
The cadets and guards heard Jinho’s words and started to prepare in haste.
And one of the guards was missing.
‘Yes? Where are you?’
I wanted to see the condition, so I looked around, but I couldn’t see Go Chung-sin.
One of the guards saw me looking around and came up to talk to me.
“Manager, Ko Min-hyeok, who had problems on the first day, seems to be in bad shape again.”
“Ah… I can’t help it. I’ll go. Please prepare.”
“Yes.”
After giving a word to the cadets in advance, I headed to Go Chung-sin’s room alone.
Once there, one thing was certain.
‘Is it because I pushed the output too hard yesterday? He seems to be losing his mind.’
[I’m not sure how to unlock the skill, but it seems that the possessed target will definitely suffer the pain right before death.]
‘It would be nice if I could learn some unique magic instead of dismantling.’
Later, when I go to Stra, I was thinking of going through the types of magic circles.
It’s because it’s enough to memorize a magic circle that’s better to use in practice than in theory, and combine it with alchemy.
While making plans like that, I arrived at the room where Go Chung-sin was staying.
‘Scent… Isn’t the attached door unusual?’
I don’t know what level of facilities the guards live in at the consulate, so I couldn’t get a sense of whether it was good or bad for them.
But one thing is certain.
‘I think the treatment he’s received so far has been pretty good, but living in a place like this must be annoying.’
I laughed and knocked on the door of Go Chung-shin and went into his room.
Go Chung-sin looked at me and opened his mouth in a trembling voice as he was startled.
“That, that….”
“Ah, it’s comfortable. Are you sick?”
“… Yes.”
Go Chung-sin answered with difficulty and showed hostility towards me.
As expected, our Go Chung-shin, who can’t easily hide his expression today.
However, while I was living with such a grievance, I intended to remain as a careless boss.
‘Because I enjoy this~’
I looked around the room and said to Go Chung-sin.
“For now, take a break today.”
“Eh, even now….”
“Don’t notice and rest. If you go in that state and get hurt, it’s a bigger problem.”
“… Yes.”
Hearing my words, Go Chung-sin let out a sigh of relief.
People told me to rest, but no one would hate it.
However, the real reason I came to this room wasn’t Go Chung-sin’s resting problem.
“I have a question for you.”
“Yes.”
“You broke up with Yoon Ji-ah, right?”
“… Yes?”
Goh Chung-shin looked at me with an expression that was missing an idiot, and I continued talking.
“I already know. But you broke up, right? If you haven’t broken up….”
“Hey, it’s true that we broke up! That, that… Let’s just say it’s a thing of the past….”
“Hmm….”
I looked at the grievance with a suspicious look in my eyes.
Go Chung-sin continued to speak gibberish while restless with a bewildered expression.
“Uh, I happened to work in the same place by chance… That, so….”
“I see. I will believe you.”
“….”
I should be relieved, but Ko Chung-shin was making a disapproving expression after hearing my words.
“I believe….”
“… ?”
I looked around the room and went to Go Chungshin’s bed, rubbing his shoulders and letting out a voice filled with pressure.
“If I see any suspicious circumstances, I will immediately report it to the principal.”
“… Yes, I will keep that in mind.”
“I have no right to fire you. If Instructor Jiah Yoon felt sorry for her and helped her, it would be possible to cover it. By the way….”
“It’s great….”
I muttered, rubbing his shoulders hard and tilting his head to the side.
“This break-in… Cadets were killed and injured because of it. In order to make sure this never happens again, I made up my mind to completely exclude the person in question.”
Go Chung-sin received my massage and quietly chanted while biting his molars.
“I will keep that in mind. It will never happen.”
“Like!”
Said with a smile, removing his hand from his shoulder.
“Then take a break today. I don’t know what the schedule will be tomorrow, but I’ll decide whether or not to do it tomorrow depending on my physical condition.”
“… Yes.”
“Then stop~”
After finishing the conversation, I left the room with the grievance, who was clenching his molars and making an annoyed expression.
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I really didn’t know that I would leave without eating breakfast.
Right before departure, Oh Jin-ho ordered them to eat with the food provided in the car.
More than anything, what he said bothered me.
‘If I said it would take 4 hours to get there, how far would I go?’
[Recently, Oh Jin-ho and Park Hee-yeon’s expressions are unusual. I think you should be nervous.]
‘Well, you don’t know what the two guys are up to anyway. I just need to come to my senses then.’
So relieved, I looked at Yoon Ji-ah sitting next to her.
She had a dream for several days, but Ji-ah Yun’s attitude towards me did not show much difference except for the feeling that her likability increased on the first day.
The reason is simple.
I guess it was because she entered Yoon Ji-ah’s dream and she didn’t show me or anything.
What I did after entering the dream was to raise my distrust of Gochungsin.
Having entered her dream of Ji-Ah Yun and turned into her grievance god, I treated her almost like an object.
And in the process, I didn’t do anything that could mix affection.
It’s worth trying something, whether it’s a phone call or something, but Ji-ah Yoon doesn’t seem to be dealing with it.
If it weren’t for that, there would be no way Go Chungshin would turn into a fly every night and come to my room to spy on me.
‘I have to go into the dream of the grieving god….’
But I didn’t want to force myself to sleep next to him or in the room where the guards were staying.
He’s a troublesome guy anyway.
As I was thinking inwardly, Jiah Yun rummaged through the interior of her vehicle and she pulled out something and handed it to me.
“Eat~”
“Oh, thank you.’
What Yoon Ji-ah handed over were bread and milk.
I knew that she allowed her to eat inside.
The problem was that the items in the car were so luxurious that I wondered if I could touch them, so I didn’t touch anything other than the seat.
“I’m just telling you, eat whatever you want. This is provided by the church, so you don’t have to notice.”
“… Really?”
“Puhuh…. It seemed like it was because I didn’t touch it too much for some reason.”
Even when I first used the vehicle, I roughly listened to the explanation, but I didn’t carelessly touch it with the thought that it could be a veneer.
I checked inside by opening the space next to me that radiated the colorful LED lights.
“Five….”
“Not only snacks, but also quite a few necessities.”
As Yoon Ji-ah said, the space where I was was equipped with other things besides food.
“… Is it alcohol?”
“Yes, I have alcohol too.”
It wasn’t just ordinary alcohol sold at the local mart.
From wine to whiskey, there was a list of guys who looked very expensive at first glance.
“Can I drink alcohol on duty?”
“Well… Most of them will be drinking after their mission.”
Occasionally, some people said they had a drink or two before a mission.
He explained that there are some cases in which such people do their jobs better by drinking, so the church does not touch on drinking.
“If you drink like that instead and make a mistake… Will you get scolded a bit?”
Even Yoon Ji-ah, she said, she had never heard of anyone who made such a mistake until now.
Of course, I never took out a drink.
After sifting through it, I closed the partition displaying the liquor and began to eat the bread.
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By the time we arrived, it was already past lunchtime.
We got out of the car and gathered in front of the dungeon, and Oh Jin-ho and Park Hee-yeon stood facing us with their backs to the dungeon entrance and proceeded with the story.
“I’m sorry for rushing you all of a sudden in the morning. Sometimes I have to go on a mission in such a hurry, so I did it on purpose.”
“Sometimes I go to bed at dawn, but sometimes I wake up.”
“Ah….”
Listening to the two of them and watching the cadets trying to relax, Jinho Oh opened his mouth in a low voice.
“But coming here means it’s not normal, right?”
After looking around at each other, the cadets continued to listen to Oh Jin-ho’s explanation.
He said that the dungeon right in front of him was a dungeon that hadn’t been completely broken through yet.
However, the advance team went in and checked, and explained that they were guessing it was a low-mid-level dungeon.
If the dungeons we’ve entered so far are low-level, this is a place where the intensity of the miasma is one step higher, and the monsters are just as strong.
That, too, is speculation based on the advance team.
“I’m sure there are some of you joining the advance party, right? Think of it as a rehearsal.”
“Above all, dungeons aren’t structured to go in in the morning and come out in the afternoon.”
It was said that there were many cases of spending several days inside a poisonous dungeon.
Like the last time, they might be caught in a gimmick and scattered, and there were also times when they lost their way and delayed time.
In the first place, commuting to and from the inside of the dungeon like an office worker would be inefficient.
Especially if you have to go back and forth for 4 hours like this….
Jinho Oh finished explaining everything and opened his mouth as he turned toward the entrance of the dungeon.
“Come on, let’s go.”
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‘This literally has different grades?’
Lower and middle class.
Even though both were treated as inferior, it made a huge difference to the cadets who had just started fighting.
From the strength of the monsters to the miasma of the dungeon, it was clearly visible that the cadets were still too much to bear.
But even without my support, there were no major problems.
“Haaaaa!”
“Hmm!”
With a roaring shout, Park Hee-yeon subdued the monsters at once with swordsmanship, and Oh Jin-ho burned the monsters that were sparsely apart with magic.
After coming here, the two people who had been rough in the lower dungeons were showing off their tremendous skills.
‘A hero is not a hero for nothing.’
Compared to the fluttering in the past, I was showing off my skills today.
But I didn’t understand.
I even wondered if the meaning of the field trip would fade if most of them were to be handled like that.
I wondered if it was necessary to come here.
‘What the hell are you thinking….’
However, from my point of view, I was not in a position to raise objections to their tour schedule.
While watching the condition of the cadets as my top priority, I focused on protecting them in case of a dangerous situation.
It was only 30 minutes after entering the dungeon that the cadets’ miasma accumulated.
As soon as the battle was over, Jiah Yun used the Abnormal Status Cancellation skill on the cadets.
While the others were finishing up the battle, I was in the state of dispelling miasma with Status Abnormality Cancellation.
‘After… It was good to learn.’
[Certainly, continuing to use Enel in the same situation would have been ineffective.]
It was an advantage that mana was consumed less because it was combined with the wind attribute magic circle to create an individual magic circle.
In addition, it is enough to write to the cadets if necessary.
In terms of effectiveness, it is a very helpful skill.
“Okay, let’s start again.”
After finishing the situation, I entered the dungeon again.
Throughout the entirety of entering the dungeon, Oh Jin-ho and Park Hee-yeon occasionally looked at me with meaningful eyes.
‘Stop looking at these.’
I mumbled to myself and followed from behind.
While doing so, several students were caught in the gimmick and suffered from abnormal conditions such as paralysis or obstruction of vision.
And immediately after that, Yoon Ji-ah treated me right away.
As I watched it, a hypothesis came to mind.
‘Isn’t this what made me come to a dungeon full of status abnormalities?’
[Or there is a high possibility that there are more gimmicks because the dungeon has not yet been explored.]
‘Five… Do you think that’s right?’
It was said that the dungeon gimmick was somewhat random.
However, in the end, there was a high possibility that many gimmicks such as traps would still remain in dungeons that had not been completed.
And the hypothesis I had in mind had no choice but to be convinced the further I proceeded.
‘I’m guessing he’s deliberately giving the kids a lot of status ailments to embed an image of a recovery history in their heads?’
Other than that, I couldn’t think of anything else.
The problem was that there was nothing I could do about it just because I knew it.
‘Well, whether it’s showing the power of the church or whatever, it’s as long as the kids are safe.’
To be honest, it was annoying, but it had nothing to do with me.
Whatever it is that makes the church’s image good is good as long as the kids are safe.
It was when I was grumbling like that.
The interior of the cave began to shake.
Drooling….
I’ve heard it somewhere before, where was it?
“Ah, this….”
“Everyone be careful!”
When I remembered that fact along with Oh Jin-ho’s cry, I was already heading somewhere in the dungeon.
