Chapter 594 – Chapter 594 Hero Academy (5)
I sent other servants to Lee So-hyun and the injured servants, and headed to Ki Cheol-ho’s room, guided by Shi-ho.
Ki Cheol-ho’s room itself was easily accessible.
The mansion itself was in a chaotic situation, so I didn’t pay much attention when I entered.
However….
“Where did you go?”
In Gi Cheol-ho’s room, not to mention Ki Cheol-ho, Seo Ji-eun was nowhere to be seen.
According to Shiho, after Ki Chulho took Seo Jieun into the room, he saw that Ki Chulho’s temperament window had moved to a unique place.
However, Shiho also said that he did not go directly into the room to check.
‘In other words, I have to find the secret passage myself….’
The moment I was about to look around Ki Cheol-ho’s room, I heard Armonia’s voice.
[Considering the location where the temperament window was moved earlier, this is the place where the large picture frame is hanging from the front.]
‘That picture?’
I started heading towards the picture frame Armonia explained.
At the place where I arrived, there was a huge picture frame that seemed to be about 5 meters high.
In the framed picture, two men stood side by side, staring at me.
At first, I thought I knew who it was.
‘Hey, he was tall when he was young.’
It was Gi Cheol-ho in his youth.
No matter how bad it was, it looked the same as it did 10 years ago.
‘And next to….’
The man standing next to Ki Cheol-ho.
It was confusing at first, but I remembered who I had seen before, and I was able to figure out who it was.
‘This person looks like Seo Joo-ho.’
He was the father of Seo Ju-ho and Seo Ji-eun.
Ki Cheol-ho looked like a strict model student, while Seo Ju-ho felt like a troublemaker full of energy.
‘Ah, now is not the time to appreciate it.’
I hurriedly inspected the frame to see if there was a secret passage.
But the frame was completely attached to the wall, and of course I couldn’t figure out how to get through it.
‘What do we do?’
[Because it seems to lead underground. Why don’t we send a signal and take the coordinates, then move to the warp?]
‘Ah, that sounds like a good idea.’
The reason Shiho can’t enter is Ki Cheolho’s room, not the secret passage he entered.
It was the moment he tried to move Shiho.
“Yes?”
Suddenly, the picture frame containing Ki Cheol-ho and Seo Ju-ho began to deform.
Cheer up!
The space between Ki Cheol-ho and Seo Ju-ho was constantly separated and combined like Lego blocks, and then the painting opened on both sides and the aisle welcomed me.
Ki Cheol-ho and Seo Ju-ho were separated on both sides of the aisle created in this way, as if they were taking different pictures.
‘What can I say… Did you deliberately express it that way? I am not an artist….’
I shook my head and checked the aisle.
Clearly, it was the morning when the sun was rising, but the passageway was completely dark.
It’s like seeing another dimension….
I spoke through the communication while looking through the same passageway in that other dimension.
‘… It must be a trap, right?’
[The trap is certain.]
Confidence, not speculation.
I haven’t touched anything, but the fact that it opens automatically like this means that someone inside intentionally opened it.
I know I can’t go in.
If you go in, you’ll get into trouble.
However….
‘What can I do~ Saving the cadets is the instructor’s duty~’
I hummed to myself and entered the dark passageway.
As soon as I entered the aisle, the back door closed and my vision began to darken.
..
..
I muttered through the communication as I moved through the dark hallways.
‘He built this kind of facility inside the mansion by himself?’
The hallway I was walking through was far from a fancy facility, but it was undoubtedly an elaborate facility.
The story of yes becomes a story that costs and manpower go in quite a lot.
If Gi Cheol-ho uses his identity, money will not be a problem.
But the biggest problem is manpower.
It’s impossible to create such a secret space alone….
Ironically, however, my doubts were resolved by Kang Han Na.
[It is surprisingly easy. If you give the workers a lot of money, you can make it right away.]
‘Yes? No, then it becomes a story that those people know this place. Well, it’s not a secret place….’
[… If you remove it right after that, it will become a secret.]
‘….’
If you think about it, strong railways have made excellent facilities that cannot be compared to this place.
In the end, it means that the facility was built like Kang Han-na said.
[However, in order to completely remove it, you need that much control.]
‘Control? Are you talking about ability?’
[Yes. But it doesn’t just mean strength. That kind of ability is needed to prevent information from leaking out.]
In the case of Kang Han-cheol, he was a guy who could control everything with a remote control.
Probably, after the facility was built, the guys created using the facility would have been eliminated in an instant.
I would have completely erased the records of the guys who built the facility….
[Look out. It’s not as good as strong iron, but there must be a security facility with control.]
I nodded and went forward.
After advancing through such a narrow hallway, I was able to arrive at a spacious space.
It didn’t feel that wide, but the range of the lights was so narrow that the darkness seemed to stretch endlessly.
I muttered in frustration and annoyance.
“I want to see your face sooner or later….”
And as if in response to my words, a bright spotlight suddenly shone on me.
Pod!
“Ah, my eyes….”
I did my best to secure my sight, opening my eyes in the sudden intense light.
As I looked around and was alert, a man’s voice echoed in the room.
〈 I have no fear. I didn’t expect you to come in even though you opened the door.〉
The owner of the howling voice was quickly identified.
It was Ki Cheol-ho.
“Well, it’s because I can’t stand being curious.”
I grumbled, but I didn’t let my guard down.
The most dangerous moments don’t appear when there is silence.
The most dangerous moment comes when my nerves are focused elsewhere.
〈Looking at you, I realized that my human eyes were blurry.〉
“… ?”
〈 Your skills and judgment… And responsibility. That’s great. 〉
What a bullshit
Why does the guy who has been bothering me until now come out so meek?
When I was so puzzled, Ki Cheol-ho made a suggestion to me with a faint laugh.
〈Are you willing to work for me?〉
“Ha….”
I wanted to say some bullshit.
I wondered if that was the reason why it bothered me since yesterday….
But that wasn’t it.
〈To be honest, I wasn’t interested in you until this morning. However….〉
“… Yes?”
Papa papapat!
〈 I changed my mind after seeing your skills earlier.〉
The spotlight that had been shining only on me until now disappeared, and the lights throughout the room turned on.
The surroundings that were shrouded in darkness until just now….
Haha… He’s a real madman.’
Strange creatures were trapped inside the glass tubes where the liquid flowed.
Inside the glass tube, which can be seen beyond the 30s, strange creatures floated in the liquid and fell asleep.
Anyone who has ever faced and fought a monstrous creature would have been horrified.
But I threw away such a sense of crisis and opened my mouth in annoyance.
“I’m not interested in you, so take care of yourself… Where is student Seo Ji-eun?”
〈… Courage isn’t bad either.〉
“Ha….”
As I continued to speak, I started to get annoyed.
Until now, the reason I put up with Gi Cheol-ho’s provocations wasn’t because he was a hogu.
I endured it because I had eyes to see.
But now?
‘Armonia. Locate.’
[Based on the location of the temperament window, this is the distance you can meet if you pass the room now.]
You never know what obstacles are in your way.
But there was something else just as important.
‘Where is Seo Ji-eun?’
[Seo Ji-eun is not in the exploration category.]
The important thing right now was Seo Ji-eun.
Because she came all the way here to save her in the first place.
If I stir up a sense of crisis in Ki Cheol-ho and cause trouble to Seo Ji-eun, it will be really difficult.
But that part was resolved sooner than expected.
[I found Seo Ji-eun.]
‘Yes?’
[She sent Shiho in advance to explore it, but it’s lying in a place not farther away than I thought.]
‘Then Seo Ji-eun is solved….’
Now, all he had to do was deal with Ki Cheol-ho.
Gi Cheol-ho annoyed me again in such a situation.
〈 Curious. How long will you last, and….〉
Pacan! Pacan! Pacan!
Before Gi Chul-ho could finish his words, several glass tubes opened, and the monster, soaked in liquid, spewed out and sprang out.
“Keeeeek!”
“Queueek!”
Along with the mysterious creature glaring at me, I heard Gi Cheol-ho’s voice.
〈I wonder how good the results will be if you use your bodyhaha!〉
I spoke softly over the communication as I watched the monstrous creature approaching me erratically.
‘Armonia.’
[Yes.]
I said while grinding my teeth while gripping the sword tightly.
‘Lena, summon me. Let’s just break through quickly.’
Now is the time to really finish it.
***
It was Gi Cheol-ho who had a smile on his face when Seong Soo-ho said he was going to visit.
Ki Cheol-ho, who originally hated Sung Soo-ho, had no reason to like his visit.
But there is a reason.
It was because of the secretary, Lee So-hyun.
Even though she is in the prime of her age, she is a woman who does not give up her gaps thanks to her strict and thorough personality.
In particular, it was a situation where even Ki-cheol-ho could be suspected if there was a problem with her in the mansion where her security was tight.
She could have slandered the people inside the mansion, but she couldn’t move recklessly because she herself could eventually become the suspect.
In such a situation, Seongsuho came to visit.
An outsider suitable to lay the blame on.
If an incident occurred at this timing, it was a visit from an outsider who could overturn everything.
Gi Cheol-ho did not want to miss the opportunity that came like that.
Then, unlike usual, I began to force myself to work.
But he wasn’t worried at all.
The opponent is, at best, an assistant instructor at the consulate.
Wealth, power and honor.
In all respects, he lived a different life from Seong Su-ho and was Gi Cheol-ho.
It was bound to become complacent.
Thinking it was a deviation from the day, he pushed ahead with the work by force.
But the deviation of the day….
Cacan! Wow!
“What!”
It changed his life forever.
Ki Cheol-ho shouted as he stepped backwards from the iron gate, whereheheard a roar.
“What, what! What the hell are you doing?!”
Even when he first brought Seongsuho here, he was confident.
No matter how good he was, he thought it would be impossible to deal with dozens of monstrous creatures that even heroes struggle with.
But that was an illusion.
“Nonsense! That bastard is an assistant instructor!?”
Together with the pink-haired woman who suddenly appeared, he quickly slaughtered the secret weapons he had secretly hidden.
In line with Ki Cheol-ho’s scream, the iron door he was looking at was smashed with a roar.
Kwaaaaang!!
And at the same time as the iron door was smashed, a man appeared through the thick smoke.
The calm expression he usually showed was gone, but he tilted his head and lowered his voice as he looked at Ki-cheol.
“Ha… We are finally alone.”
“Hey!”
Ki Cheol-ho has been manipulating people all his life.
He was the one who took pride in not forgetting his coolness even in dangerous situations.
Didn’t he say that he would live in the tiger’s den as long as he came to his senses?
Ki Cheol-ho glared at him and reached out to Seong Soo-ho, who slowly approached, and tried to talk.
“Seo, Instructor Seong Su-ho! Let’s talk for now.”
“… Conversation?”
Hearing his low voice, Ki Cheol-ho decided that the conversation would work for now, and opened his mouth in relief.
“Ah, earlier I was rude. I’ll give you all I have, let’s join hands with me! I’ll give you anything you want… Yes?”
Seong Soo-ho, who was listening to Gi Cheol-ho, held out his unarmed hand with his outstretched hand.
‘That, yes. At best, an assistant instructor at the consulate… He seems to like it since he came in with a low posture.’
Ki Cheol-ho let out a sigh of relief and stretched out his hand with Sung Soo-ho’s outstretched hand.
Handshake.
I thought.
Kwaaaaagh
“Kwaaaaa!!”
Ki Cheol-ho collapsed and screamed at the sudden grip.
An intense pain dominated his brain so much that he couldn’t get out of the bathtub.
Unfortunately, his brain managed to catch Seong Soo-ho’s voice.
“Fuck, you got behind. It’s a dog. “
