Translator: Wan ED/PR: Solarin
51. Student representative general election (8)
At the news of midterm exams, the children’s reactions varied greatly.
Kim Yuri, who spoke up first, and Hwang Jiho, who was expected to get 40 points in all subjects, didn’t show any particular damage taken.
“This one has no problems, no matter when the test is.”
“Let’s make a plan! I also want to hold a study group this time. But because dad is recovering at home, it seems difficult to do this at our house this time.”
Besides those two, the children with outstanding grades, also seemed to feel like midterm exams were just one of the events at school.
“Midterm exams already? The Art Club will take a break for a while. There are still paintings I haven’t finish, what should I do?”
“… I couldn’t go to the Association’s research institute these days because I was watching matches, so I don’t think I will be able to go study. Geurin-ah, you should skip studying too!”
“I hate it.”
“I heard that seniors-nim, who listened to the same Enemy Studies class are planning to hold a study party this time. The scope is a bit big, so I’m thinking of studying with them. If it’s possible to participate only partly, I think I would do it simultaneously with the class study.”
Min Geurin, Song Daeseok, Han Yi’s tones felt relaxed.
The opposite to that, there were children who were a bit anxious.
“I usually listen to the classes well, but I don’t diligently review them. It seems I’ll have to study every day now…” [1]
“Thinking about it, there was also such event, eh? I forgot every time, and then stayed up all night before the exam to prepare. As there is a Person I want to look well for this time, so I’ll prepare longer than the previous exam and get good grades.”
From the looks of it, Mok Uram was going to get good grades to look good for Kwon Lena.
But if he wanted to look good for Kwon Lena, it would be better if he didn’t say that he merely prepared for a day for the subject the classes he didn’t listen and avoided falling.
The topic turned to Mok Uram for a while.
“Uram was abroad during the 1st semester, correct? How did You take the exam?”
“If taking an exam remotely, you have to wear headgear with anti-cheating enchantments. The exam would be held after that is delivered, right?”
“The remote exams is also held matching the school’s schedule, so the exam would be held over the span of several days. Did you eat?”
“The exams were held in the designated Association office or an embassy. I was sleeping on the street in front of the building a day before the exam, and thankfully they offered me meals and lodging, so I wasn’t cold or hungry during the exam period.”
The staff took pity on the hogu without a home or money and showed mercy to him, huh?
The atmosphere became somehow better thanks to that warm story, but there were two dying kids.
“What? Crazy, what exams are so soon? It wasn’t long since the school started!”
“… Midterm exams? Right, it’s midterm exams soon. Why did I forget?”
Maeng Hyodon and Kwon Lena, the two who were candidates for failing in the 1st year class 0, seemed to be agonizing.
We decided to stop by a cafe near the school and make study plans for the two.
It was difficult to borrow Kim Yuri’s house, and there were children whom it was difficult to participate in the study group due to individual circumstances, so it wasn’t an ordinary challenge to reserve a place and match the schedules.
“I made a reservation for the study room for dormitory students, but the daily students are banned from using it as a rule. So first of all, it’s a place for those among dormitory students, who will study at night.”
“Well done, vice class president.”
“… I think I’ll study starting today.”
It seemed that the two, Maeng Hyodon and Kwon Lena were planning to study late into the night in the study room every day starting today.
“I want to study together for the common subjects. Especially we have to hold practices as a team.”
“The practical will probably be maze type Otherworld simulation, right?”
“I also made a reservation for the simulator room.”
“Then during the weekdays we will use the multipurpose room in the 1st year building, and on the weekend we meet in the study café?”
“It seems that study cafés around the school are all almost full.”
At the end of a long conversation, we had a group study plan.
The goal of this midterm exam was the same as always, the class children safely passing without failing.
* * *
Next day, morning.
Under the excuse of a weekend starting, I woke up later today than usual.
Last night we made study plans and I visited the Earthly Wings Hall’s study room together with the dormitory students, but because Maeng Hyodon’s and Kwon Lena’s states were worse than expected, I stayed with them late to help study.
Maeng Hyodon was doing his best, but with that stone head, following the math lessons of Korea’s most prestigious highschool was beyond his abilities.
The problem was Kwon Lena.
‘There are almost no notes from the recent classes. She probably wasn’t able to concentrate at all.’
When Mok Uram, who was taking the same classes as Kwon Lena, saw those notes, he said nonsense ‘It seems that Lena-nim puts everything into her head, eh! I’ll also emulate and refrain from notes taking in the future!’.
Kwon Lena face turned pale and mustered to reply ‘Uram-ah, please show me your notes…’ with a crawling voice.
But looking at Mok Uram’s notes, they were a dog-shit mess.
As a pre-master craftsman, who lived for a long time abroad, his notes were a free mix of English cursive and drawings, so Kwon Lena couldn’t understand the notes content to the point she couldn’t distinguish what subject those notes were for.
‘I can also help the subject based on highschool grade’s music class and classical music’s history, but I don’t know much about subjects combining music and superpowers…’
As even without signing up for a class, one could watch the video lectures published on the Eungwang School’s homepage, there was a way for me to teach her while studying it along.
But if I did that, the time for helping Maeng Hyodon, who stood at the edge of a cliff, would decrease.
Currently, among the dormitory members, Maeng Hyodon was the only one who chose math, so there was no one, who he could ask for help.
For Kwon Lena’s case, I decided to trust in Mok Uram’s teaching abilities.
‘But first of all, wouldn’t it be better for Kwon Lena to study alone. No, if she did that, other dormitory kids would think it’s strange and Kwon Lena may be worried even more.’
Her complexion turned bad, when Sawol Seeum worried about Kwon Lena and said that he can help her with common subjects.
I agonized how to gather the dormitory students to study so it wouldn’t become a poison for Kwon Lena.
Ding.
As I fell into thoughts while looking at the device screen, a notification for new message came up.
‘It’s a message from the Newspaper Club’s group chatroom.’
Because of the aftermath of yesterday’s closing ceremony, I left it with over thousands of unchecked messages and attachment files.
Because of the big number, I was reluctant to enter, but I decided to check it before I postpone even more messages.
It took me a long time to enter the chatroom, but in fact, once I glanced at it, it was difficult to take my eyes off the uploaded pictures from the angles that couldn’t be checked from the audience seats.
As I saved Jang Namuk and Yu Sang-hun’s pictures to sent them later and scrolled down, I saw a message Mun Saeron sent to me.
[Mun Saeron] Suspicious vice class president-nim is acquainted with the Military School’s 1st year flag bearer Jang Namuk-nim?
[Mun Saeron] Please ask for an interview, sir!
I gladly responded to those words.
If we do an interview with Jang Namuk, he would give pretty long answers, so the process of summarizing that would be a bit cumbersome, but if I do that, it would also be comfortable for Jang Namuk.
There weren’t so many messages pilled up in the chatroom with Jang Namuk and Yu Sang-hun, but because Jang Namuk sent extremely long messages, the amount was no joke.
Especially praising Yu Sang-hun and congratulating on Eungwang School’s victory in the last basketball match, even though Jang Namuk, who was on the cheering squad position, felt regretful.
[Jang Namuk] Sanghun-ah, the match was really cool. Eungwang School’s cheering was also good, and Eungwang School’s basketball team’s teamplay and your shoot play that made you into MVP, all left a deep impression on me. Sang-hun, when you were about to throw a free shot, you closed your eyes and shoot, right? I heard it’s difficult for even a pro basketball athlete to successfully shoot with eyes closed, so it’s really amazing. Sihu said that if he closed his eyes and shoot, he probably wouldn’t even hit the board. Besides Sihu, other seniors also said that you had to do enormous amount of training.
[Yu Sang-hun] thx
[Me] Jang Namuk, interview please
[Jang Namuk] … okay.
As Yu Sang-hun and I gave an extremely short answers, Jang Namuk was noticeably sad, but as if he got accustomed to it now, he recovered straight away.
[Jang Namuk] Uisin is in the Newspaper Club, right? The midterm exams are soon, so let’s meet and talk as quickly as possible. I’m still in Eungwang District, because of the after-party at the training center close to the Eungwang School last night. I should be okay if I return on Sunday’s afternoon, so let’s meet in person.
[Yu Sang-hun] can I go too?
[Me] y
[Yu Sang-hun] k
[Jang Namuk] Then see you later, guys! What should we eat? Do you want to eat meat?
[Yu Sang-hun] k
Before we entered the midterm exam preparation mode in the full-swing, I decided to meet with the two to do an interview and to play.
Jang Namuk asked where we should meet and what to eat, but because he had more information about Eungwang District’s infrastructure than Yu Sang-hun and me, we decided to leave it all to him.
I matched the plan made by Jang Namuk, promised to meet early afternoon tomorrow, and then closed the chatroom.
‘Then let’s go to meet that kid.’
Besides Yu Sang-hun and Jang Namuk, there was another party I had to meet before next week.
* * *
Off-limit zone, old school’s classroom.
My kind disciple came on time.
“Master-nim! Have You been well?”
“Yeah.”
Yeom Junyeol gave a polite greeting.
I didn’t have an opportunity to meet with Yeom Junyeol as a master and disciple after the 2nd semester started.
As Yeom Junyeol would start the election period, preparations for the midterm exams and Playlist shooting from the next week, I had to meet him now.
“Let’s check your homework.”
“Yes! Master-nim, please give me advice after checking!”
At my words, Yeom Junyeol showed his presence hiding.
The presence hiding displayed by Yeom Junyeol outwardly looked as if his flame-like superpower wave was disappearing layer by layer.
When superpower wave’s trace meticulously disappeared, I felt Yeom Junyeol’s abilities anew.
‘With this much, he would be able to fool even the Yong tribe’s members’ eyes for a moment. Though he wouldn’t be able to fool Yong tribe members on the level of Cheongryong or Yong Jegeon.’
Yeom Junyeol’s presence was so weak, that if I closed my eyes, it was difficult to tell where he was standing.
If he can maintain this state while moving, it would be a great help to him in surviving major scenarios.
“Well done.”
“Thank You! It’s thanks to opportunely having a junior sensitive to presence around. I think I became much better, as I checked that child’s reaction and worked hard to deceive her senses.”
Yeom Junyeol replied, seriously happy about the praise.
By the junior sensitive to presence, you mean Dokgo Miro?
As he would run into Dokgo Miro many times during the Playlist shooting, it seemed she was a great help in my disciple’s training.
“Steadily practice presence hiding. And hide the fact that you can hide your presence to this point from other people. It’s okay to ask that junior for help.”
“Uh? Do You perhaps know who this junior is?”
I nodded.
I expected him to dig into how I knew, but Yeom Junyeol didn’t ask and was just amazed.
“As expected, there is nothing master-nim doesn’t know!”
After that, we continued to the lesson conversation straight away.
At Yeom Junyeol’s question if we’re going to practice the presence hiding, I shook my head.
“Let’s practice something that can only be practiced with me.”
“If it’s something that can only be practiced with master-nim… Are we doing Superpower Swallowing today?”
“We will do Superpower Swallowing next.”
My disciple made a dubious expression for a moment, and then promptly smiled brightly.
It seemed that he was happy at the mention of doing a new training.
“As you did your best with your homework and grew, we will do something else today.”
I raised my hand into the air.
⟨Using the target character’s Gwangrim ‘Hongryong Summoning’.⟩
Paat!
A subspace crack opened above my hand and Hongryong appeared.
At the appearance of Hongryong coiled in the flames of the superpower wave much bigger and stronger than the Hongryong used by the current Yeom Junyeol, my disciple opened his eyes wide.
“Let’s train Hongryong’s usage today.”
*~*~*
[1] “I usually listen to the classes well, but I don’t diligently review them. It seems I’ll have to study every day now…” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
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