Chapter 76 – Cranky Tang Tang E-Class Gate Subjugation Operation (1)
Gate practice continued today. Ichie, who couldn’t forget the heat last weekend, was staring at me with eyes full of enthusiasm. Yujeong sunbae looked at Ichie and slightly frowned, then looked at me with a smile.
Today was the day I accepted the gate subjugation mission. According to the difficulty index calculated by the academy itself, it was written that two apprentice hunters and one D-class hunter had enough magic power to defeat them. Yujeong senior said while singing her hum.
“Today, the three of us are together. If it’s a subjugation, it will take a while, but in case you don’t know, please report in advance that you won’t be able to come to the academy tomorrow. Even if it’s an E-level gate, if it’s a subjugation, you might have to spend a whole day.”
“It’s subjugation. I’m a little nervous.”
I had never done a subjugation mission before. Until now, the missions the academy had given in practice were only about collecting certain minerals or collecting specific monster skins. I couldn’t help but be nervous when the gate ‘subjugation’ mission was suddenly given.
The gate subjugation was a strategy to close the gate by defeating the boss who maintained the gate inside the gate.
In the safety education video, the mission in which three D-class hunters, including senior Yoo Jeong, were wiped out was also a gate subjugation mission. I shuddered as I remembered the images of the Hunters helplessly dying by the Jungle Cats. Senior Yoo Jung said.
“That means that the academy recognizes the abilities of Suhyeon and Ichie. In fact, subjugating the E-class gate is the final stage for apprentice hunters.”
“Is it very dangerous?”
Ichie asked. Senior Yoojeong shook her head.
“It’s not that dangerous. The safety training video is also a bit exaggerated. As long as you have the right gear and be vigilant, catastrophes like the one we saw in the video are unlikely. However, subjugation also means defeating monsters between E and D ranks that are slightly stronger than normal, so you shouldn’t be vigilant.”
We met each other’s eyes. When Ichie nodded her head, senior Yoojeong said.
“Ichie-san is a bit weak, so please hide behind me. I will protect you as a senior.”
“Are you okay.”
Ichie shook his head and said. Senior Yoojeong asked softly with a smile on her face.
“Miss Ichie. You can’t build your self-esteem like that. Does Yang Ichie have the least defensive skills like Mr. Suhyeon? Or, will you pack powerful protective gear like a shield? I’m not saying this to make fun of or look down on Ichie-chan. I still have the auto-recovery ability, so I’m saying it’s a good shield for reason.”
Ichie blinked his eyes as if he was surprised by those words. And she lowered her head slightly and said.
“Sorry.”
“I can’t help it. It’s because Ichie-chan is weak.”
Ichie raised her head again at those words and slightly narrowed her eyes. Senior Yoojeong sticks out her tongue and she laughs. She tilted her head slightly at the figure, then she loosened her expression again and nodded her head. The two looked into each other’s eyes and laughed. They seemed really good.
Senior Yujeong took her bag and said,
“Go and say that you may not be able to come out tomorrow, so go ahead and go through the procedures. The staff there will give you a rough idea.”
Me and Ichie nodded and turned around. Senior Yoojung took the keys to his car, got into the driver’s seat, leaned his head against the seat and closed his eyes.
Belt ring.
We hadn’t even walked a few steps before a text message arrived. I turned my head to check the text.
[What happened with Miss Ichie?]
Belt ring.
[Flirt.]
I put my cell phone in and opened the door with the student. A tired employee was tapping the computer keyboard with dry fingers. I put my hand on his desk and said.
“I can’t go to school tomorrow because of the academy subjugation mission. That’s why the student department has to go through the procedures.”
“Go to the kiosk over there, enter your student number and nickname, and follow the procedure.”
The staff ended the guidance simply with a businesslike tone. I nodded and walked to the kiosk. Ichie stood behind me and took a step. I stood next to her so she could see. The registration process itself was as simple as ordering a hamburger at a burger joint.
Ichie followed me and pressed the kiosk button in the same way, and I heard a clear notification sound from the employee’s computer. A paper was pulled out with the printer, and the employee handed out two sheets of paper to us and said,
“Yes. Here’s the confirmation certificate. This isn’t for you, it’s for identification purposes. Since this year, it has been changed to be able to pick up a certificate of attendance with the application designated for the pad. Please use the app next time.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
The employee shook his head once with a lifeless face, then immersed himself in work again. Ichie flipped through the paper and put it in his pocket. I also put the paper in my pocket and told Ichie.
“I’m going to the bathroom for a second.”
Then, I went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet, and sent a text message to senior Yoojung.
[There was an unavoidable situation. Sorry. Senior.]
It was a bit like saying, ‘Ichie tied me up, drugged me, and then forced me on her.’ To my simple and standard flirt reply, senior Yoo Jung simply replied via text message.
[It was good.]
I couldn’t answer Because it was really good. She says beauty likes me, but what kind of man would refuse to say no to her? I had nothing to answer. While I was tapping on the screen of my cell phone, senior Yoojung texted me once more.
[Soohyun. Do you have free time this weekend?]
I nodded her head and sent her a reply, even though Yoojung-senpai was not there.
[Yes.]
[Then let’s meet. I’ll show you who is a really good woman.]
A shy character emoticon is attached. I grabbed my phone and opened the door again. Ichie stood leaning against the door of the men’s bathroom. I said.
“Song.”
“Aren’t you washing your hands?”
“Oh, I need to wash. Sorry.”
I was startled and laughed awkwardly, washed my hands, and left. And she told her
“I usually wash.”
“Of course. Mr. Suhyun. He is a very neat and nice person.”
Ichie nodded her head and she said so. I laughed at her remarks. Senior Yu-jeong was waving at her at the exit of the parking lot, holding onto the steering wheel with one hand. We saw her waiting and hurried over. As I got into the passenger seat and her ichi went behind her, Yu-jeong suddenly looked back at her ichi.
Ichie asked, tilting her head.
“What’s wrong?”
“No. It’s nothing.”
Senior Yoo-jeong said that and took the steering wheel of her again. I told you about something I had experienced in the student department a while ago. Senior Yoo-jeong was a bit surprised to hear that a kiosk had been installed and that these days everything could be solved with an app.
“Is it so? The app has such a feature. I didn’t know that academy function had been touched for a long time.”
“I also found out about it for the first time today. It definitely makes the world more convenient.”
“He looks like Mr. Suhyeon-sang.”
In terms of age, wouldn’t he be right? I put on a slightly depressed expression in a mysterious mood. Ichie said with a slightly embarrassed face when I was hit harder than expected.
“Just joke.”
“It makes sense. You can’t tell a guy in his mid-to-late 20s that he’s like a man. It’s an age I really care about. Even my seniors in the Black Dragon Guild got angry when they heard the same song [Around 30] From the age of Suhyeon, and hated it when they called him uncle.”
“You did? Soo Hyun Sang. Are you very sick?”
“Are you okay. Please stop.”
Because it really hurts It was enough to hear the word uncle from someone in another unit in the army. Senior Yoo Jung said.
“Miss Ichie, are you going to use that sword as a weapon? The collection team hasn’t come out yet, so we have some time to spare.”
“Are you a collector?”
“You know, there are missions we have been working on in the past. Mining ore from inside or gathering E-class monster skins. It’s the collection team that does that. When the collection team missions for that E-level gate are finished, our subjugation team will go in and defeat the boss.”
“Then I guess there are very few incidents like safety education videos?”
“The odds of that are really slim, right? The collection team would have swept it once, and the terrain data would have been recorded.”
I nodded. Ichi also was looking at Yoo-jung with an interesting face as if he had learned something new. Senior Yu-jeong shrugged her shoulders and said.
“Isn’t it cool? Am I very smart?”
“Sister is smart.”
“Thank you. Ichigo is cute.”
The two of them laughed amicably. Yu-jeong looked at me again and asked.
“This time, you’ll have to pack a little harder equipment, Mr. Suhyeon. What did you decide to do with the spear and shield?”
So far, the gate practice has been a relatively simple mission, so I would just wear protective gear and jump in with my bare hands, or buy cheap wooden weapons and shields and use them. However, this subjugation mission was quite difficult, so a stronger and longer-lasting weapon was needed.
“Ah yes. So, I ordered it yesterday. They should have arrived at the gate site.”
“Where did you buy it?”
“They said EDF weapons were good, so I bought them there. There was surprisingly no demand for shields and spears.”
“Oh, that’s nice. Suhyeon, are you doing well by yourself now?”
She stopped the car at the traffic light as Ichie showed it and tapped her on my butt. Now that she knew they were dating, she seemed to have no distance. She didn’t react much to Ichie, she nodded her head and looked across her. In the distance, I could see the gate control area tape wrapped around it.
In the center of the tape, the entrance to the gate was visible. As if clumsy CG was pasted, a heterogeneous space was floating in the air. The site with the gate was destroyed in half as if it was originally a store.
Small groups of soldiers were roaming around, and tiny electronic devices were sparking around the swinging gates as if they had been glued to the air. From what I heard during the theory class, that device plays a role in fixing the coordinates of an unstable gate.
Senior Yoo Jung said.
“Still, I’m glad it happened on the outskirts of the city. When it happens in downtown, there are a lot of onlookers.”
There was a faint smoke from the broken shop. We drove the car with a little nervous face.
