Chapter 253 – Chapter 253 Hero Academy (3-60)
“Seed… The old woman suddenly appears….”
Cho Seo-hyeon grumbled and headed for the dormitory.
As soon as she woke up in the morning, she waited for Seongsuho to come, and since he was unable to contact him, she even went directly to his dormitory.
However, he was only able to meet in the evening, and after hearing the circumstances, we managed to have dinner together.
Cho Seo-hyeon was able to realize that she was eating with Seong Su-ho.
She feels energized just by eating with someone she has a crush on….
She, and she tried to put a promise that would serve as her licorice in her vitality as a finishing touch.
However, as Yeri-L appeared, Cho Seo-Hyeon couldn’t get her words out about her birthday.
‘Ha… Because I think about it. Her return from the field trip is on Sunday, and her birthday is on Saturday….’
She didn’t want to meet and play all day.
But it was true that she wanted to go out with her and talk outside.
Using the last promise as an excuse….
But as she missed her timing like this, she started to become more urgent.
‘Madam… If she had spoken sooner, she wouldn’t have looked strange.’
In the beginning, Seohyun had been thinking countless times about whether she should speak or not even before the field trip.
However, the more she worried, the more time came, and as time approached, her burden increased.
As a result, she reached the worst.
She was in a state where she couldn’t even talk about her birthday, let alone talk about meeting together.
By the time Seohyun arrives at her dormitory, she has exhausted all of her vitality she had gained when she was with Seong Suho.
As Cho Seohyun was lying on the bed so weakly, another person just started to come to mind.
‘Kanghyun doesn’t have an answer at all….’
I already knew that she wasn’t good at reading texts and wasn’t good at answering.
Cho Seohyun looked at her smartwatch and sighed.
“What is this? … Doesn’t everyone want to be with me?”
Cho Seo-hyun started to fall into a sense of self-doubt.
No matter how much she pursued Ikkidangcheon and lived in the world, the super Seohyeon, when she felt lonely enough to feel the cold, her bones began to ache because there was no one by her side.
She then pulled up her long-sleeved T-shirt and checked the countless cuts on her arms.
“… Yes, if you see something like this, you will be frightened and run away.”
In the beginning, Seohyun’s self-reproach, gloominess, and her sadness began to surround her whole body.
Until now, she had been keeping away from men because she was afraid that she might fall in love with someone.
Showing these scars to someone she loved was something she didn’t even want to imagine.
As Seohyun looked at the countless scars on her forearms, she wept and whispered.
“You should have killed me….”
It was at this moment that tears welled up in her eyes.
Tiriri….
“… Yes?”
All she could tell from her blurry vision was that someone was calling, the screen of the smartwatch wrapped around her wrist glowing.
Wiping away her tears with her other sleeve, she was able to identify the caller.
Seohyun carefully answered the call and opened her mouth.
“… Hello?”
(Instructor Cho Seo-hyun?)
“Big… Yes, that’s me.”
As soon as Cho Seohyun heard her voice, she smiled involuntarily and began to smile.
However, apart from her mood, her voice was leaking because she had been crying earlier.
And the opponent caught it right away.
(Is something wrong? Did you cry…)
“Oh no! Who is crying? Bar, it was because my toe got hit on a shelf and it hurt!”
(…Isn’t that also a cry?)
“Huh! What happen! Say something….”
Cho Seo-hyeon grumbled with a heartbroken face, but listened to the smart watch and waited for the other person’s next words.
Silence flowed, making Cho Seo-hyeon nervous, and a calm voice flowed from the smart watch.
(As she said before, she called because she was bored.)
“Huh, huh….”
(…?)
“Hey, hey! What… I can’t help it when I’m bored!”
After that, unlike the conversation that was awkward for a while in the beginning, there was no sign of stopping Cho Seo-hyun’s cubic calm once it started.
She smiled as she talked about all the events that had happened during the week in a clear manner.
The main point was that she pushed the cadets who looked lazy.
And when all the stories were over, three hours had already passed.
“Ah… It’s already time… Sorry. Did I hold on too much?”
(Huh? No way. It was fun.)
“….”
Seohyun closed her eyes and began to smile endlessly.
She obviously had something in her heart, but she couldn’t express it with words.
‘I didn’t understand people who liked things like this….’
While Cho Seohyun thought so, she made a determined expression and opened her trembling lips as far as they could.
“That… That….”
“… ?”
“Well, sleep well then.”
“Yes, Instructor Cho Seo-hyeon should also sleep. Then….”
Pop.
〈Caller: Seong Su-ho Assistant Instructor -Call time: 3 hours 12 minutes-〉
In the second, Seohyun looked at the call log with Seong Suho and the wound on her own arm floating on her smart watch, she murmured.
“This is enough…. If I become closer to you for no reason, I will go far away.”
She muttered that and fell asleep clutching the smart watch tightly in her hand.
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“That’s the Ivory Tower, the base of the Tower.”
“Wow!!”
By the way, I was included in that exclamation of ‘Wow!!’.
Ivory Tower.
Just hearing the name, it seemed that the old-fashioned and gothic elements would unite together to give off the atmosphere of an old castle, but it wasn’t at all.
Glass walls and white walls in a modern style.
The tip of the ivory tower was as high as reaching the sky, and the first floor, driven down to the ground to support the height, was as wide as a large park.
This was passing and she said she wanted to pretend she didn’t see it, so it wasn’t to the point where she couldn’t see it.
When I was in the middle of getting out of the car and admiring the Ivory Tower, Seong Soo-ah, who was next to me, smiled and tapped me.
“Are you seeing it for the first time?”
“Yes. It’s the first time I’ve seen it like this.”
The cadets were also giving out exclamations of their own, but not as much as me.
Guys, you’ve probably already seen it on TV or on the Internet, but it was because I was really new to it.
‘Certainly, the site of the church is wide, and there are many places I haven’t seen, so the facility looks grand.’
If you had looked around all the grounds of the church, you might have another evaluation, but in my eyes now, it was the victory of the tower.
Following her guidance, we were assigned our own rooms, and then we followed her around with her cadets and started receiving information about her facilities.
“When you officially join the tower, you will each receive a room and a lab.”
It was a story that each of them was provided with their own room and laboratory, and depending on their performance, they would receive better facilities as they went upstairs in the tower.
It would be the same for the church, but the treatment of mages would have to be better in the Tower.
The cadets followed Seong Soo-ah with a smile while creating a picnic atmosphere.
I was included in the picnic mood.
A picnic with Instructor Sung Soo-ah.
However, among them, there was the only one who calmly followed with a calm expression and gentle gestures.
‘At that age, you should have a bit of a taste….’
[If you have parents who are that famous, it is highly likely that you have visited these facilities often.]
‘But… Seo Joo-ho? He was really famous.’
After talking with Cho Seo-hyeon, I looked up various things about Seo Joo-ho, and he was such a great person that even heroes praised him as a hero.
A man with a lot of money, talent in management, and even overwhelming skills as a hero.
In addition, rumors spread that her wife also excelled in her skills as a hero and her domestic help as a wife.
However….
‘Dad is dead, and mom is a vegetative person in a hospital bed…. It’s a pity.’
Seo Joo-ho went missing while trying to save lives, and his wife suddenly lost her mind a few years ago and became a vegetative state.
A disadvantaged child who seemed to have everything, but on the other hand, lost everything.
In addition, there is a situation where he can’t control his own ability.
There were rumors around her that her mentality had become unstable and that her abilities were in full swing.
The tower actively offered to help with treatment, but Seoga (徐家) refused resolutely.
And as a result of checking through the search, it was Lee Se-hyung and Gi Cheol-ho who were in charge of the bookstore and temporarily running it.
In other words, it can be said that it was not Seo Ji-eun who refused, but Gi Cheol-ho’s will.
‘… That butler seems to have something going on.’
After Seo Joo-ho died, his wife suddenly became a vegetative person while maintaining the group.
People around her speculated that it might have been because her husband had died and she was pushing her body harshly in a situation where she was suffering psychologically.
But I was thinking differently.
‘If I hadn’t looked at my temperament, I would have been fooled too.’
Cheolho Ki.
It’s not going to be solved just because I doubt it, but it bothered me because there were strange people around the cadet I was in charge of.
When I searched for the name Lee Se-hyeon, he was described as a very competent person, like a pillar in a bookstore.
Seo Ji-eun wondered if she knew that such a guy was wearing a mask next to her.
While staring at Seo Ji-eun like that, Seo Ji-eun gently turned her head and started looking at me.
“….”
“….”
I awkwardly turned her head and smiled.
“Wow…. The ivory tower is cool.”
“….”
Why? Isn’t it cool
I thought so and started following Seong Soo-ah again.
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After sending all the cadets to their rooms, I went into my assigned room and immediately lay down on the bed.
“The first day is comfortable after all.”
The first day of the magic department tour was no different from the church.
While touring the tower, he showed the cadets as many facilities as possible and explained what the tower was like.
In terms of overall public facilities, the church was a landslide victory.
However, the ivory tower boasting an enormous height was focused on research and private rooms.
So, I thought it would be wiser to go to the top if you want to focus on your own skills and growth.
However, in the end, there was a big wall between the church and the tower, and there were definitely some students who wanted to go to the church.
Treatment is important, but the influence of the group you stay in cannot be ignored.
At least this time, one of the better situations in the tower was the fact that all the cadets in Magwa came to the tower for a field trip.
The cadets also said that the wise men were coming directly, so they clamored to go to the tower.
Above all, thanks to the incident that occurred in the church, the consulate also quietly excluded the church from the field trip to the magic department.
Perhaps there was some discussion….
I had no way of knowing exactly what that part was.
And most of all, I was in no position to care about the church or the consulate.
‘It’s annoying, no wonder she’s of the same age as me….’
[I think you should be careful. As much as I have the temperament to see through people, I wonder if something has been raised.]
The Hyeonseongs decided to take charge of one class of the Mao department and lead them, but Yeriel was in charge of the 7th class of the Ma department, which Seong Sua and I were in charge of.
I was so anxious that I didn’t want to get close to him, but once I was suspicious, I couldn’t get out easily.
‘I just need to not be noticed that I belong to a monster….’
[First of all, Suho is a human being, and as long as he is careful with his words, there is no fear of being caught.]
At this point, a curious fact came to mind.
‘But if we get caught, is it just the end of our mission?’
The original mission is to destroy Cho Kang-hyeon’s mentality so that he cannot play the role of the main character.
However, I couldn’t see a single hair on my head, let alone the face of Cho Kang-hyun.
[If it is judged that reaching the final goal is impossible, throwing it away is one way.]
It was a story that if it was impossible to get caught or to break Cho Kang-hyeon’s mentality, it would be better to do it quickly.
There are many missions, and even if I make a mistake, the world won’t suddenly turn upside down.
‘… I still want to go all the way.’
I’ve already fallen in love with two women, and it’s not my style to throw them away.
It was when I was thinking of Seong Soo-ah and Cho Seo-hyeon.
Ding-dong!
“Yes? Who is it?”
She opened the door nervously, wondering if it was Yeriel.
At that place….
“Do you have a moment?”
Seongsu-ah was smiling at me.
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“It was still noisy before, but it’s quiet at night.”
“At this time, everyone tends to focus on research quietly, so I don’t go around.”
Seong Soo-ah walked around the facilities of the Ivory Tower, which were not shown to the cadets, and talked with me.
It felt like only me and Seong Soo-ah were in the huge castle.
But when she came out like this and walked around, she started to have doubts.
‘Did I really just ask to have a conversation?’
Seong Soo-ah took me and headed somewhere.
And I could see that the place she was heading to was an unusual place.
‘… How many doors are you going through now?’
[It doesn’t seem like going anywhere normal, seeing as it goes through tough security procedures.]
Receive identity verification from the security guard, use the card key to enter, enter the password in the door again, and perform iris recognition inside….
Before the last door, Sung Soo-ah looked at me and said.
“Sorry to bother you in the middle of the night.”
“No. It’s okay. But where is this place?”
“Whoops… I will show you.”
As Sung Soo-ah opened her final door, she showed the inside.
Inside….
“Capsule?”
There was a VR capsule.
