Chapter 364 – Chapter 364 Hero Academy (4-5)
“… You are here.”
“….”
In the magic classroom, there were Seong Soo-ah, Gi Cheol-ho, and two tall men wearing black suits.
Ki Cheol-ho looked at me while tilting his head sideways with a grim expression, and the bodyguards looked at me with sunglasses from the side.
They were people who didn’t fit in this class at all.
I stood in front of Ki Cheol-ho, who sat down slowly and looked up at me crookedly, looking down at him and saying hello.
“Hello.”
“Hello….”
Chulho Gi smiled at my greeting, twisting his lips in an unpleasant way, then he looked up at me and opened his mouth.
“I’m in no situation to say goodbye, but I should be polite. Hello.”
“….”
It was an obvious sarcasm.
I could see why this guy came out like this at once.
Seo Ji-eun.
There was no way he would have come to me like this unless it was about the cadet.
At Ki Cheol-ho’s words, Seong Soo-ah said with a determined expression.
“I don’t think such sarcasm is good.”
Haha… The person who suffered the damage is polite, but the person who caused the damage makes a loud noise.”
“It’s not like that. I understand how you feel, but please keep in mind that Instructor Seong Soo-ho is the one who saved Cadet Seo Ji-eun.”
“Save?”
Ki Chul-ho opened his mouth while turning the expression he had shown me to Seong Soo-ah.
“Hello… That you saved me…. Instructors are very strange people who choose words.”
“….”
“The ones who didn’t say goodbye at all and put the lady in danger?”
Ki Chul-ho erased the smile from his lips and began to glare at the two of us, twisting his eyebrows.
First of all, a change of atmosphere was necessary.
I bowed my head toward Gi-cheol-ho and began to apologize.
“I apologize for that part.”
“….”
“I am sorry for giving the cadets a bad experience because of my immaturity, which is responsible for the safety of the cadets.”
When I lowered my head like that and put the last period, the classroom became quiet as if a rat died, and silence began to continue.
After such a long silence passed, one person finally opened his mouth and the fog of silence began to slowly dissipate.
“Good. At least you have the ability to communicate that humans should have.”
“….”
It was Seong Soo-ah, not me, who reacted to Ki Cheol-ho’s words with facial expressions.
She frowned her unusual expression and began chewing on her lips.
Even if she put up with the sarcasm that came to her, it was hard to hear the sarcasm from someone close to her.
If I had heard such a sound while in the form of a child in VR, there was a high possibility that I would have taken action right away.
As I raised my head, Ki Cheol-ho spread her palms and reached out to the seat next to Seong Soo-ah, who was sitting across from her.
“Please sit down.”
“Yes.”
I asked as soon as I sat down next to Sung Soo-ah.
“What did you come for?”
“What… Now that the two of you are together, let’s get down to business and talk.”
Ki Cheol-ho took a wad of paper out of his bag, put it on the desk, and began holding it out with his long arm so that we could see it.
Seong Soo-ah looked at it moderately, then lifted up the wad of paperheheld out to her and began to read it slowly.
“This… ?”
“This is a medical certificate from the attending physician in charge of the young lady.”
Was not the attending physician. It was the attending physician’s.
In other words, it meant that it was not a diagnosis written by one or two people.
Despite the large amount, Seong Su-ah started reading as quickly as possible.
However, without giving her time to read, Ki Chul-ho began to rapidly advance her story.
“As you will see later, the young lady controls her powers… No, it is a situation that cannot be controlled.”
The biggest reason Seo Ji-eun can’t do her school life.
She was in a dangerous situation where her abilities were aiming for her own life.
The more you try to control it, the more you fall into a swamp.
She once entered as the top class and ranked first among her students, but for that reason, she had to tremble in fear every time she lay in her bed, let alone her school life.
The next day, without even being guaranteed to open her eyes….
Gi Cheol-ho continued to explain her abilities to Seo Ji-eun and then began to explain exactly why he had visited.
“I will tell you directly. Please do your best so that the young lady can graduate normally.”
“Yes? What does that mean… ?”
Like Seong Soo-ah’s question, I also had a question.
Graduation was not something that could be done normally just by going to school.
You have to take an exam, and if your test score is too low, you have to retake it during the vacation.
There is no concept of retention, so if a student does not pass one grade, he or she will be expelled in the next year.
And in the case of graduation, there was also a graduation exam, but I didn’t know exactly about that.
However, Seo Ji-eun said that she would definitely be able to graduate if she still took the minimum amount of exams while taking the minimum attendance.
In such a situation, the story of graduation suddenly came up, so I had no choice but to question it.
Seeing the puzzled expressions on our faces, he shook his head, took out several sheets of paper, pushed them to the desk, and handed them to us.
It was A4 paper earlier, but the paper handed over now was paper the size of a bill.
Seong Soo-ah narrowed her eyes and, without reaching for her paper, just stared at it, then opened her mouth.
“… This?”
“If the lady graduates safely, I will take more care.”
Silence began to prevail.
The identity of the paper could be known without looking closely.
After listening to Armonia, I was able to figure out the exact number.
[100 million per chapter.]
‘Iyol…. If you see that they will give you more later, it won’t just be 200-300 million won, right?’
[It seems that she will give a much larger amount as it is a check aimed at Seongsuah.]
As for Seong Soo-ah, who was officially on the list of heroes, she couldn’t say that she had a lot of money, although 1 to 200 million was not money.
However, as Armonia said, if you hand over the amount at the same time as graduation, the story will be different.
It was because Sung Soo-ah was always a hero, not a conglomerate.
But even so, I couldn’t understand her silence now.
‘What? Are you worried?’
[Considering Seong Soo-ah’s wealth, it’s probably not because of money.]
‘Then?’
[Probably because Suho is also with us.]
Because of Seong Soo-ah’s personality, I knew better that she wasn’t the type to be paid that kind of money.
However, Armonia guessed that the reason she was worried was because I was by her side.
She was not a lot of money to Sung Soo-ah, but she was a lot of money to me.
‘Then I can’t help it.’
Then there was only one thing I had to do.
I slowly started reaching for my desk.
Seong Soo-ah, surprised by my behavior, and Gi Cheol-ho, looking at me with a twisted mouth.
I didn’t care about the two of you and did what I had to do.
Right away….
“It looks like you took out the wrong thing by mistake.”
He pushed the stack of checks and pushed them toward Gi-cheol-ho.
“….”
“Instructor Seong Soo-ho….”
Ki Cheol-ho smiles happily and frowns again, and Seong Soo-ah looks surprised.
After I completely pushed the check towards Ki Chul-ho, I raised my head and began to stare endlessly at Ki-cheol-ho.
Until now, it felt like I was barely managing my facial expressions, but I started to feel like I couldn’t manage my facial expressions.
“This is not your place. It wasn’t given to you….”
“Then apologize.”
“… What?”
Gi Chul-ho now completely unlocked his expression and began to look at me like a bug.
I ignored Gi Cheol-ho, who was looking at me like that, and continued talking.
“I hope you apologize to Instructor Seong Soo-ah for acting like that.”
“You… This bird….”
It was the moment Ki Cheol-ho stood up and was about to shout at me.
Seongsuah lowered her head and opened her mouth.
“Thank you for your consideration.”
“….”
“But I want to tell you that what you did just now is not considerate, but rude.”
Haha….”
Ki Chul-ho turned his head to look out of his window, cleared his throat, then sat back down in his chair and began to nod as he put his check back in his bag.
“Sorry for being rude.”
“I’ll pretend I haven’t seen this.”
“Good. Then I believe that you will solve the lady’s problem well.”
It was the moment Ki Cheol-ho stood up as if he had given up.
I threw a word at him.
“By the way, was that diagnosis written by a doctor?”
“… It was written by your doctor.”
When I saw the answer, I judged that it was still possible to have a conversation, and continued the conversation.
“Then that diagnosis is not a helpful diagnosis.”
“… What do you mean?”
He began to kindly answer his question, which was filled with irritation rather than doubt.
“The research on magic is still too weak. The reality is that even the Tower, which prides itself as the best mage guild, has yet to fully understand the principles.”
Unlike the world of Stra, it could be seen that there was little knowledge about magic here.
It was only that those who had the talent could skillfully use unknown magic.
Even Seong Soo-ah, who is praised as a high-ranking hero, teaches students by giving abstract explanations….
Research continues, but the fact that it is primitive in the end has not changed.
However, in such a situation, he is trying to go beyond the doctor’s diagnosis, not the proper ability?
It’s nonsense.
“I don’t mean to disparage the attending physicians, but they are not experts. From my point of view, the best expert is Instructor Seong Soo-ah right next to me. I think it would be much better to go to school steadily without being lazy.”
Haha….”
Ki Chul-ho listened to all of my words without any restraint, lowered his head, and began muttering to himself.
However, the muttering was so low that even me and Sung Soo-ah, who were right in front of me, couldn’t hear it.
Seeing such an unstable appearance, Seongsu-a opened her mouth.
“I want to hear the opinion of Cadet Seo Ji-eun.”
“I have already conveyed the lady’s opinion….”
“No.”
Seong Soo-ah shook her head from side to side and opened her mouth with a determined expression.
“Cadet Seo Ji-eun, your opinion is important. If cadet Seo Ji-eun refuses to come out, I won’t stop him. However….”
“….”
“If I want to come out, I want to help cadet Seo Ji-eun until the end.”
With Seong Soo-ah’s words, Gi Cheol-ho stopped muttering unsteadily and just glared at us with an expressionless expression.
And he said to Ki Cheol-ho, who was glaring at him.
“I think it would be better to make a decision after at least a phone call with Cadet Seo Ji-eun.”
“… The lady is not in a situation to talk on the phone right now.”
“Then set up a schedule and we will visit you again….”
“I’m going crazy.”
Ki Chul-ho laughed dejectedly, then he began to open his mouth with a rotten smile at us.
“I didn’t expect Instructor Seong Soo-ah to come out like this.”
“… I didn’t even know Sehyung would come out like this.”
Haha!”
Ki Chul-ho laughed for a while, then shook his head and opened his mouth.
“I thought he was a communicative person, but I was very mistaken. We have no choice but to go directly to the headmaster.”
“This is on our line….”
“It is irrelevant now.”
Gi Cheol-ho looked down at Sung-su-ah as if he were looking at me, and he said to her.
“There will be no more visits. Enough….”
It was the moment when I was about to open the classroom door and leave with the bodyguards who had accompanied me on both sides after leaving such a brief word.
Drooling.
But on the other side of the slowly opened door….
“Sehyung, you’re here too.”
“Ah… Miss! Hey, what’s going on here….”
Seo Ji-eun was standing there in her cadet uniform.
She looked up at Ki Chul-ho and began to explain the situation to him with a light smile.
“I came because I thought it would be better to leave school.”
“Miss… Don’t you remember what your doctor said? The situation where you are complaining right now….”
“It’s not a complaint.”
Seo Ji-eun looked at me and Seong-su-ah, who were sitting on opposite sides of Gi-cheol-ho, with a smile on her face, and she said to him.
“I came because I thought the instructors would know me better.”
“However….”
“And my parents always said.”
“… ?”
Seo Ji-eun was looking this way with her ambiguous eyes.
I was confused whether she was looking at Seong Soo-ah or me, but she opened her mouth with a smile along with her ambiguous gaze.
“It is said that school days are worth 10 years after becoming an adult. I don’t want to just let that valuable life go in vain.”
“….”
Ki Cheol-ho lowered her head and pondered, then smiled at her and said.
“All right. Then, I will see you off in time for the evening.”
“Thanks.”
Seo Ji-eun greeted Gi-cheol-ho with her smile, then she passed him and entered her classroom and began to greet us.
“Sorry for being late.”
***
As soon as Ki Cheol-ho returned to his home, he immediately called Seo Ji-eun’s exclusive maid and asked him questions.
“Why is the lady at school?”
“That is… My wife’s exclusive secretary gave permission….”
“She said that she came to her parents’ house?”
All the staff at the bookshelf tended to faithfully follow Gi Cheol-ho’s orders.
Even more so than Seo Ji-eun, who can be said to be the current owner of the main house….
The reason was that Seo Ji-eun was still young and Ki Cheol-ho had been leading the family for a long time.
However, there was a woman in the family who was against him.
Seo Ji-eun is her real mother’s secretary.
Seo Ji-eun’s biological mother was unconscious and living in a vegetative state at the hospital, and of course her secretary was watching over her.
She was the sudden appearance of a woman whom she had thought would not return for a while.
“Now is?”
“Ah, he went with the young lady to school.”
“Did we break up after seeing each other….”
Ki Cheol-ho began to frown as he recalled the secretary’s face.
‘It’s annoying. I can’t even kill it….’
He was chewing on the words that he would kill without attaching a subject.
Ki Cheol-ho went into his room right after the conversation with the maid and started putting books in and taking them out of his bookshelf in perfect order.
And it was the moment when everything was in order.
Awesome….
A wooden plank protruded slightly from the side of the floor where Gi Cheol-ho stood, and then, turning to the side, he began to show a small space.
In the small space covered in blue, cold air began to escape in the form of mist, as if indicating the temperature inside.
And a long syringe visible inside.
Gi Cheol-ho looked at the well-sealed syringe calmly and then opened his mouth.
“The last one left… He tried to write to that assistant instructor but… After all, I have to organize it from the inside first.”
As if responding to his words, the black liquid inside the syringe started moving around inside the syringe, shaking as if it were alive.
