Chapter 262 – Chapter 262 Hero Academy (3-69)
With the help of Yeriel, Seong Soo-ah, Seo Ji-eun, and I were all able to get out of the dungeon safely.
Outside, it was already becoming evening.
But even though I came out of the dungeon like that, my heart wasn’t at ease.
‘A monstrous guy… No, it really is a monster. I didn’t expect you to escape like that alive there.’
The reason why the inside of the dungeon collapsed wasn’t purely because of the use of the 2nd level arrow.
It was because of the monster that deflected the arrow I shot with my bare hands.
He deflected that ridiculous attack with his ridiculous physical abilities, and thanks to that, the dungeon collapsed and he was buried there.
After that, I confirmed that I was crying on the other side, and I went to the back side with the desire to confirm and kill, but it was already after I ran away.
‘How should I deal with you next time we meet?’
For the first time, a situation occurred where my ability, which I thought was a special skill, failed to perform a special kill for the first time.
If it had been a head-to-head match from the beginning, it would have been inevitable.
[It’s important not to meet, but I think it’s better to raise your basic stats in preparation for the next meeting.]
‘Yeah, I’ll have to focus on raising my stats.’
Unless I’m learning a new skill, I’ll increase my chances of surviving by maximizing the level of my ability.
‘What… Because I’ve lived Good thing. But Seongsu-ah… Are you hugging me too much?”
While Yeriel lifted us up and moved, Sung Soo-ah kept whispering to me without falling.
And the murmur did not stop even when they arrived outside.
“Thank god… I’m so glad.”
“Sorry. Suddenly, the dungeon collapsed in a chaos, and I was evacuating for a while….”
It’s nice that Sung Soo-ah was so concerned about her, but she was too close.
Yeriel looked at Seongsu-ah and said as if she was scolding her.
“How about you stop? Anyone who sees them will think they are the parents who found their missing child.”
“… Yes.”
Even Yeriel, who had been smiling convincingly at the sight of her holy child earlier, seemed to find that her exaggerated behavior was starting to annoy her eyes.
In addition, there were crowds of people outside her dungeon, so Seong Soo-ah’s behavior was not always nice to see.
There’s no way that a woman with a famous fiancée would look good in the arms of another man.
Yeriel looked at Sung Soo-ah and Seo Ji-eun, she said.
“For now, the two of them go back to their original positions….”
“… ?”
Yeriel looked at me and made a meaningful expression, she said.
“Let’s stay a while and talk.”
“Yes.”
“Yeriel….”
Seong Soo-ah sensed something about her and came out and tried to stop Yeriel, but Yeriel quietly opened her mouth.
“Don’t worry. I’m not trying to talk about a problem.”
“… Yes.”
Seongsuah took a cautious step back at Yeriel’s words, and Yeriel took the lead again and started walking.
I followed her, and Yeriel, who had settled not far from her, quietly proceeded to tell her story.
“… To be honest, it’s full of things I don’t know.”
“Yes?”
“Magic is amazing too… The skill with the bow is also amazing… Plus, his personality is amazing.”
“….”
She started reciting a heavier topic than she thought, considering that she would not say it was a problem.
But that was all.
“What… There must be many things in the world that I don’t know. Just like the monsters.”
Yeriel looked up at me as she let go of her expression.
“I didn’t call you to talk about this…. The story to tell is about the bet that happened earlier.”
“Betting… Are you talking?”
“I’m going as you said earlier. I was able to run into Seong Soo-ah and Seo Ji-eun.”
“Ah….”
I began to remember that I had been told over the communication earlier that if the route was correct, compensation would be given.
I thought it was just a story to change the atmosphere, but it seems to be sincere.
However….
‘I don’t have any particular request.’
It was best to ask him to keep the matter a secret, but that only raised more suspicion.
And requests related to secrecy are meaningless requests in the first place.
Yeriel opened her mouth as she stared at me.
“Looks like it took a while. He seems to be contemplating on what to ask him to suck all the honeydew out of me.”
Haha….”
This was a test
To find out what kind of person I am asking for….
‘What request… Ah!’
[… ?]
I looked down at Yeriel and carefully opened her mouth.
“Yeriel-sama, then….”
***
“….”
Seong Soo-ah trembled with anxiety as she gathered her cadets together and bit her fingernails.
‘Isn’t it a strange misunderstanding?’
From Seong Soo-ah’s standards, Seong Soo-ho was definitely a person with enough skills to receive the title of hero.
However, he didn’t act as a hero, he just got a job as an assistant instructor at the consulate with an existence of 10000 or more.
Among those who were not officially registered as heroes in the Hero Association, there were definitely people who made a name for themselves.
In terms of percentages, it would be below the decimal point, but those people were even more famous than ordinary heroes.
And Sung Soo-ah classified Seong Su-ho as such a person.
Seong Soo-ah had been watching him constantly, and he believed in his character.
But what about Yeriel?
‘Enough to misunderstand….’
It was Yeriel who had previously entered the VR device and asked to measure Sung Soo-ho’s body.
It was a situation that was enough to make Sung Soo-ah anxious.
So while she waited with her cadets, Yeriel was walking slowly from afar.
Seong Soo-ah, seeing Yeriel walking alone without her Seong-su-ho, further amplified her anxiety, and ran to her to ask about her situation.
“Yeriel… Where is Instructor Seong Soo-ho….”
“Ah, I said I would do a favor, and he asked if I could finish the field trip early.”
“… Please?”
Yeriel told the truth about everything that happened with Sung Soo-ho without adding or subtracting.
“Whose birthday is it? He said he had to take care of that.”
“….”
Seong Soo-ah recalled the moment when she was riding on Seong Soo-ho’s back.
It was because I woke up in the middle of being carried on the back of Sung Soo-ho, and I was talking about my birthday with Ji-eun Seo at the timing of waking up.
The conversation between the two was unforgettable.
(What gifts do women like?)
(How much do you like it?)
(Fairly?)
(How about a music box?)
(Aha….)
Seong Soo-ah played the lines of the two in her head and thought with her cheeks flushed.
‘How did you know it was my birthday next week?’
And she thought
‘Are you going to buy my present in advance because it’s hard to go out for a while?’
Sung Soo-ah smiled and smiled without realizing it.
Then, seeing her sly smile, Yeriel frowned at her and said,
“… Where are you sick?”
“Oh, no…. Thinking differently for a moment….”
Yeriel frowned at her for a moment, then let out a quiet sigh at her.
At her sigh of Yeriel, Seongsuah immediately came to her senses and asked her.
“Yeriel? Why suddenly sigh….”
“… Even though it started with good intentions, it ended up like this, so I have no face with the cadets.”
The damage was not as great as expected.
It was because the wise men and current instructors were all accompanying them.
If it hadn’t been for the two beings, this incident would have caused a huge repercussion, and the tower would have been in trouble for a while.
But what she was worried about was not only the plight of the tower, but also about her students.
Yeriel began to fear that she might have instilled fear in the cadets.
“Am I getting old…. I wonder if I really have to step down now….”
“Yeriel-nim, absolutely not. Look at this.”
“….”
She looked in the direction Sung Soo-ah was pointing.
From Hyun-seong, who said that it was annoying that the cadets got stuck together….
“You were amazing!”
“Twist… Even if I look like this, if I wake up, I can catch those guys with my bare hands without magic.”
“Puhaha!”
“Are these twins laughing!?”
Even Hyun-seong, whom the cadets liked as being like their grandchildren….
“What kind of magic did you use then?”
“That is true. In my mind… If you think, ‘Fire!’, They come out.”
“… You don’t understand at all?”
“All you have to do is tryhehe….”
She blossomed into a story about what happened earlier with the cadets.
The flower showed no fear, no panic, not even the slightest anxiety.
And Yeriel was in charge, and her cadets who had saved her came flooding up to her and thanked her.
“Yeriel! Thank you!”
“If it wasn’t for Yeriel-sama, it would have been really big.”
“I will become strong like Yeriel someday!”
“….”
Yeriel looked up at Seong Soo-ah with a gentle smile, and Seong Soo-ah smiled lightly and whispered.
“How is it? What about the kids these days?”
Yeriel smiled and said to Sung Soo-ah.
“I must have underestimated the kids these days. Really… They are great kids.”
The two smiled together and entered the group of cadets.
***
Clap….
As the front door opened, she automatically lit up and greeted her owner.
However, the landlord came into her house with a heartbroken expression on her face, stamping her feet on the floor.
And it leaks on the table….
Widely!
Cake.
Cho Seo-hyeon put the cake she bought earlier on the table and sat down on the chair, grumbling.
“Bad guy… Field….’
It was ‘guys’ that meant plural, not ‘guys’ that meant singular.
Cho Seo-hyun did not pay attention to the cake, but buried her head in the table and stared at her smart watch.
It was her birthday, but nobody called.
But I didn’t pay much attention to that part.
I didn’t have many close friends anyway, and it’s enough to replace those who are awkwardly close through text messages.
But there were two reasons why she couldn’t take her eyes off her small screen.
One is a man’s contact, and the other is also a man’s contact.
And the first thing that came to her mind was the first man.
“Miss Lee… If you’re busy, how busy are you….”
Cho Seo-hyun was conflicted while looking at the contact information floating on the screen.
〈 Seongsuho 〉
Seong Soo-ho, who went to the tower, did not contact me after that.
Even now, I felt like I wanted to press the call button and at least have a conversation on my birthday.
But on the other hand, on her own birthday, she called herself and made her fingers immobilize as the female pride coagulated in her veins to speak to her.
“Ha… Let’s just meet tomorrow.”
She was too proud to say that it was her birthday, and even if she had bent her pride and called her, I wouldn’t be able to meet her in person.
“Yes, I understand this. By the way….”
On the other hand, what made me even more angry was the contact from my younger brother, Cho Kang-hyeon.
“Ha… What did I do wrong to him?”
She obviously knew it was her birthday, and in fact had already promised to meet her today.
However, there was no contact that day, and I even tried to contact him, but the phone was turned off at all.
If thinking about Seong Su-ho earlier was resentment filled with self-blame, thinking about Cho Kang-hyeon now was just annoyance.
“Now you just lost contact without a word….”
If he was as busy as Seong Su-ho, he would have understood.
But Saturday…. Even if the instructor’s work belongs to the busy side, Saturdays were rarely busy.
“… There must be some busy work in the church.”
It was the moment Seohyeon in the second put on a melancholy expression and gently closed her eyes.
Beep! Ding-dong!
“Huh! Wow, what a surprise!”
The smart watch and the interphone started ringing at the same time.
The smart watch provided by the consulate was linked to the dormitory interphone, and it was set up to ring when someone came to the dormitory room or a call came from the guard guarding the dormitory door.
She checked her smart watch just in case.
〈 Door guard room 〉
“Yes?”
No one had ever stopped by the dorm room, but it was rare to hear from the door guard.
She received a call coming from her smartwatch stretching her back.
“What happen?”
(Instructor Seohyeon Cho. A male instructor has visited. His name is….)
“Ah! I ask you to come in.”
After answering the security guard without asking who Seohyun was, she cut off contact and jumped up.
“Madam… If you are coming, please contact me.”
Cho Seo-hyun was convinced.
“As expected, only my family takes care of me.”
Laughing dejectedly, Cho Seohyun began to organize her surroundings.
The instructors’ dormitory was completely segregated for men and women, but instructors of different genders could enter if the entry and exit records were well written and the owner of the dormitory room allowed it.
In the first place, the instructor dormitory itself made a perfect private room like Cho Seo-hyun’s room, so in a sense, the dormitory hallway was just a school facility.
In the beginning, Seohyun began tidying up her room while humming.
“I’m glad you sorted it out beforehand.”
Aside from being angry, Seohyun smiled involuntarily when she thought of Kanghyun, who remembered her birthday.
And as soon as I finished organizing everything, one thing suddenly came to my mind.
“… Just wear loose clothes.”
No matter how much it was her birthday, her little brother was coming, she thought, and there was no need to dress well.
The moment you’ve been waiting for
Ding-dong.
The smart watch and the intercom rang at the same time.
Cho Seo-hyeon smiled brightly as she opened the door wide without checking who it was in anticipation.
“Hey! Now without any contact… Come… Ugh… What….”
“… Sorry.”
In front of the door, Sung Soo-ho was holding a gift box and looking down at him with a blank expression.
