Chapter 4 – First Hour (3)
“Ah, here, here!”
Entering the library, I was startled by the voice coming from the entrance and looked around. A round table and chairs were placed in a large space in the middle of the library. Around it, there were low bookshelves made like a fence, but if you look closely at the books, most of them are self-help books or books like Hunter’s autobiography, which are popular these days.
There was a novel corner behind her, and in a corner a little further away were major books. I thought of a reading room when I heard it was a library, but it seems that a library here is called a library. It was definitely too small to be called a library.
Senior Kim Yu-jeong covered her mouth and laughed as I recognized her and cringed toward her. She had her brown bobbed hair flowing coolly and had a beautiful smile. She was wearing a light blue coat and a white shirt, and she was wearing a skirt that was a bit short, exposing her thighs. I sat down, trying not to look at my legs.
She held out a drink that seemed to have been prepared beforehand.
“Did you have a hard time coming?”
“No. It was right next door, so it was easy to come.”
“Is it so? That, Ichigaya Ichie student? I heard you two are a team.”
Senior Yu-jeong nodded at my words and then asked how she was doing. I shook my head and replied.
“I heard that Ms. Ichie won’t be able to come for about a week because her work in Japan isn’t over yet.”
“Is it so?”
Senior Yoo-jeong seemed very embarrassed by those words. Her brow furrowed, her lips twitching did not match her lively expression so much that I flinched. She thought for a moment, then nodded her head, and she looked at me, who was giving me a blank look. When I met Yu-jeong’s eyes, I was startled and turned her head away, and she smiled again.
“Ah yes. Excuse me. This is that… Actually, I belong to a guild. Have you heard of the Black Dragon Room?”
“Ah, yes, I heard.”
Class A Guild Black Dragon Room. It was one of the guilds with a very good image, as it often showed its face in big gate incidents and was enthusiastic about lifesaving and donation activities. At the academy, there are also trainees who have been trained in the guild beforehand and have awakened, and I thought senior Yoojeong was the case.
“The Black Dragon Room pays a lot of attention to student Ichigaya Ichie. So, she asked me, the mentor, to find out what kind of child that child was, so she became a mentor like this. I’m not good at teaching others.”
Senior Yoojeong grumbled cutely and smiled. I laughed like an idiot at her laugh and nodded her head. And she bowed her head once more.
“Ah yes. Thank you again.”
“Yes. I wish you well. ‘Kim Yoo-jung’ I am Kim Yoo-jung.”
“Yes, that…”
I tried to say my nickname, but my mouth froze. His mouth did not move, as if he had been cursed. I just twitched and laughed awkwardly. Seeing her stop while introducing herself, Senior Yu-jeong looked at me with her puzzled face, then opened her electronic pad and she looked up my name.
“Why do you stop introducing yourself?”
“Yes? Oh that… A little nickname…”
“How about this nickname? I am also ‘Kim Yoo-jung’ Kim Yoo-jung. People make fun of me when I go out. “
She muttered those words as she picked up the pad. It seemed that she was going to do some research on her own. Seeing the mischievous look on her face, I couldn’t stop it. Instead, I started making excuses for her before she found my nickname.
“Well, please don’t misunderstand. This is not a nickname because I usually think or act like that. Just drunk, without thinking! It was a name that I had no choice but to come up with when I was in a weak state of mind and body, something similar to force majeure. I am also regretting it.”
Senior Yoojeong raised her head again while lowering the pad. And she grinned at my desperate face. She seemed to be a person with a lot of laughs as her first impression.
“You are cute.”
At her words, I felt my heart race. She took a deep breath and I hoped she wouldn’t be too disappointed.
“Where…”
Her smiling face brightened even more when she discovered the name ‘Jung Soo-hyun’. And the moment her eyes moved to the side, the bright light faded in an instant. A subtle and awkward expression remained on her face as an afterimage of a smile. Her feeble trembling fingertips and her disoriented eyes were so clear.
After.
Fuck.
Silence came.
“Uh…”
After breaking the silence for quite a long time, the first words she uttered did not deviate from my expectations. He was smiling awkwardly with his eyes directed into the air, and his head was nodding, not knowing who he was affirming.
“No, what. It can be. I think it can. A name isn’t everything to live for, right? Yes?”
She was trying to cheer up. I’m trying to believe that I wrote it because I was drunk. I nodded with an awkward expression.
The friendly atmosphere a little while ago was shattered with one shot of my nickname. She said to me, still with a laid-back smile on her face, scanning her electronic pad.
“I think it can. Give me a nickname, what should I say? I want to build something different. You think that way a lot. I did too. By any chance, do you know why my nickname is ‘Kim Yoo-jung’?”
There was no way to know. Is the Black Dragon Room a real-name guild? I shook my head and answered.
“I do not know.”
“Black Dragon Room gives nicknames to Awakeners who first join the guild. My classmate was the Iron Blood Fist King, and I was the ‘Mimok Yeohwa’. This is, but I felt good when I first entered the guild, but thinking about having to live the rest of my hunter life as Kim Yoo-jung, ‘Beautiful Mok’, isn’t there something terrible?”
It wasn’t something I would say, but the nickname Sense of the people of the Black Dragon Room seemed to have stayed around 30 years ago. Forcing a martial arts nickname for a young man in his 20s. Somehow, interviews with the Black Dragon Room are always done by old men.
“So that… Did you do it in your own name?”
“And I made an excuse that I wrote down the name because I thought it was a place where I wrote down my name by mistake.”
Senior Yu-jeong said that and playfully stuck out her tongue. I laughed involuntarily at the sight of her. Senior Yoojung saw me smiling and naturally changed the subject.
“Well, now that we met. Should I keep it simple? I brought a Japanese conversation book on purpose, but I don’t think you need it.”
She peeked out a Japanese conversation book from her bag. She said, and she put her hand on her chest.
“I haven’t been able to practice Japanese much, but I’m glad I did.”
I laughed again. It seemed like he laughed a lot when he was talking with senior Yoojung.
“Ah yes. I look forward to.”
“Don’t be too nervous. Mentoring doesn’t do anything weird. Briefly guide the school. Give me some advice about tomorrow’s class. This much?”
“Ah yes.”
Let me answer Senior Yu-jeong said while narrowing her eyes.
“It is too rigid. Okay~. I will do it like this~, uh. Please make it a little brighter than that. Brightly. All right. Seniors. A little warm like this.”
I couldn’t help but scratch my head at her question. You want me to talk to a woman like that? Isn’t that too difficult? If you think differently, it could have been my last chance to be nice to a woman while I was wearing the nickname ‘Ada Bomber’. I said with a smile.
“Ah, okay. Seniors.”
Haha!”
She laughed like someone who had heard a really good joke. Even her eyes were round like the moon, and I could see that she was really enjoying herself. Pushing her hair back behind her, she covered her slightly open mouth. Even, white teeth entered her eyes.
“Oh cute.”
Then she murmured in such a low voice. She started manipulating the electronic pad.
“First of all, I will teach you how to read our school map. Did you get the electronic pad?”
“Ah, yes I got it.”
Just as I was about to leave, teacher Jung-ah told me that I had to take an electronic pad and leave. Thanks to that, I now have an electronic pad with [Ada Bomber] Written on the top right of the screen in my bag.
Fuck.
“From there, if you look at the facilities section in the capacity building program now, you can see the map. I will explain based on this map. Did you turn on the map?”
“Yes.”
I frantically followed her and unfolded her map. Virtual graphics created in 3D floated inside the pad. It was a more sensuous and colorful guide than I thought, so I had no choice but to open my eyes wide while looking at the map. Senior Yu-jeong saw my eyes shaking and laughed again.
“Everyone who sees the map for the first time is like this. That’s why you mentor.”
As she said that, she turned the map around and began explaining the important areas one by one. The main building of the Hunter Academy consisted of a single large building that looked like a lunch box, but the facilities inside were more complicated than expected.
“The restaurant on the first floor is a cafeteria, but outsiders can also use it, so if you can afford it, eat on the second floor. Reporters show up very often on the first floor. Eat on the second floor because you are the only one hurting yourself if you ask strange questions. Okay? In particular, should we never eat on the first floor after an incident involving Hunter?”
“Infirmary. This is a very important place, so memorize the location. You will probably go to the infirmary often. A separate health checkup is also free, so take it before you graduate.”
“The training room is a reservation system, but in the first year, you won’t have enough time to reserve a training room. When I have free time, I’ll go and learn what it looks like, and I’ll give you a rough idea of how to make a reservation later. No. Would you like to start with the training room? It’s going to be hard to see for a while anyway. Go now we.”
“Yes?”
She suggested that I go to the training room as I was frantically catching up on her explanation.
And as if asking me to quickly agree, she was nodding her head and winking at me alone.
My first mentor was such a windy person.
