Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
59. True nature (6)
The expressions of the children, who were returning to the school dormitory or home from the broadcasting station, weren’t very bright.
Some of the 1st year class 0’s children had tears in their eyes, but Dokgo Miro’s homema Jeong Haeon and the 2nd year class 0’s students started to openly cry when the results were announced.
When Dokgo Miro said goodbye to the camera and the audience for the last time, they almost wailed loudly, and they continued to cry until Jegal Jaegeol finished talking with the Association and came to soothe them.
They stopped immediately when Jegal Jaegeol soothed them, so it seemed they planned to continue to cry until Jegal Jaegeol soothed them from the beginning.
“Why are there so many reporters at this time?”
When they headed to the broadcasting station 1st floor lobby to go home, they tried to use the stairs and go down, but Maeng Hyodon, who saw the reporters crowding behind the window, clicked his tongue.
Sawol Seeum and Kim Yuri hid Min Geurin behind them, while answering his words.
“Ah, I heard about it when talking about the press in the ‘Players in society and culture’ class. At each broadcasting station’s news department, there is an ‘otherworld department’ which works in 24 hours shifts.”
“Statistically, the otherworlds usually come out during the day, but they also appear at night. As the otherworlds don’t differentiate between night and day, the press also needs to respond 24/7.”
Excluding Maeng Hyodon, all children nodded, as if they knew about it.
Though Hwang-ho was left hanging alone in the group, because he was ‘being in contact with somewhere without using the device’.
“The Player’s Association’s Media and PR team will take care of the reporters. We will slip through a different way. I confirmed there is a different exit where reporters don’t lie in wait, come.”
At Ham Geun-hyeong’s words, Maeng Hyodon recalled the man with the impression of someone who was slyly avoiding work, who he met in the past.
A few days after he escaped Choe Pyeondeuk’s Fight Club, he met a person from the Association together with Ham Geun-hyeong.
The title written on the business card handed by that Association’s person was so extremely long, Maeng Hyodon couldn’t remember it clearly.
Even so, he roughly remembered that it was Hong Gyubin of PR something.
‘That person was said to have dealt with the reporters at that time too. Did that person come again?’
At that moment, that sly Association’s employee, Hong Gyubin, was caught in Maeng Hyodon’s vision.
Hong Gyubin looked more haggard than when he saw him in the past, but just like before, it seemed he paid attention to his clothes, his looks were neat enough that he wouldn’t be out of place as an MC of the current affairs program or member of the panel.
‘He is together with that subordinate or something, who suddenly asked about my name and for an autograph at that time… and the person, who seems like a superior, who beat that subordinate. Should I go say hello? Uh?’
The feeling like he should greet them, as they helped him.
The worry that he would be interrupting them in the middle of work.
While Maeng Hyodon hesitated between the two, one more person was added.
Maeng Hyodon, who saw that someone’s face, was puzzled.
‘Isn’t that the 3rd place, the company employee candidate?’
He changed from the stage costume to daily clothes, but because he was a person, who was on the stage a moment ago, he was able to recognize him right away.
That company employee trembled, perhaps out of fear, and tried to say something to Hong Gyubin, but Hong Gyubin raised his hand and stopped him.
It seemed like a gesture to stop, because there were many ears around.
‘It seems that person knew something about that incident.’
Maeng Hyodon tried to reason that out, but his head didn’t work at all besides when in a fight, so he gave up in the end.
Instead, his head was occupied by trivial thoughts and thoughts about fighting.
In his mind, Maeng Hyodon returned to the moment when he activated his Gwangrim and tied the Enemies and Jegal Jaegeol’s feet.
When he used his Gwangrim, his physical abilities and superpower wave temporarily increased, but he had a vivid sensation of the time when he used the Fight skill at that moment.
‘If I fought a bit longer, I think I would catch the sense of that derivative skill or deadly technique that ascetic was talking about.’
While Maeng Hyodon forgot about Hong Gyubin’s existence, and repeated the fight in his head, Ham Geun-hyeong returned and Hong Gyubin disappeared together with the company employee candidate.
After that, the Eungwng School’s group headed on the road home.
Ham Geun-hyeong and Jegal Jaegeol were staying in the Eungwang School’s residential zone’s school staff residence, but because not all children were from the dormitory, they naturally decided to divide into two.
“Teacher Jegal Jaegeol-nim, I’ll see off the children, who commute to school. Can I ask You to take care of the children from the dormitory.”
“Yes, understood. Haeon-ah, are you going to the dormitory today?”
The 2nd year class 0’s student mostly lived at the dormitory.
In Jeong Haeon’s case, she belonged to the dormitory in fact, but because she refused to attend school and did her homema activities, she spent more time staying at home or at hotels around the broadcasting station than the dormitory.
Jeong Haeon thought with swollen eyes, and then said:
“… Yes, I’ll go back to the dormitory.”
Jeong Haeon, who replied like that, glanced at Han Yi for a very short moment.
And just after boarding the air taxi to head to the dormitory, Jeong Haeon wrote Han Yi a note, avoiding the teachers’ eyes.
In the note a request ‘There is something I want to talk about regarding Dokgo Miro, make some time for me’, and the device code.
Han Yi quietly looked down at the note, and then typed Jeong Haeon’s device code into her device contact book.
* * *
I couldn’t think at about what, where to start, and how to talk with Yeom Junyeol.
Even so, I couldn’t let my disciple, who worked hard on the filming, stand outside, so I answered right way.
“Yes, I’m awake. Please come in.”
After replying, I jumped from the bed, and searched around the tea table in the center of the guest room.
I was told that simple snacks were prepared, but because I didn’t see any tea, I was worried where I should be looking.
Click.
While I worried, the door opened and Yeom Junyeol entered.
As if he came back right away the moment the broadcast ended, Yeom Junyeol was still wearing the clothes and make-up he had in the Playlist broadcast.
His appearance matched well with the expression of a being from TV walking out of the screen.
I tried to greet Yeom Junyeol like a junior should senior, but Yeom Junyeol spoke up first.
“Sit down. You’re our benefactor and a guest.”
Yeom Junyeol took out a chair and waited for me to sit down.
After I, unable to ignore the favor, sat down, Yeom Junyeol opened a sliding cabinet and checked it.
Inside of it was a tea service and individually wrapped triangle tea bags.
They were tea bags, but from the logo brand of the companies supplying the air hotel on the triangle tea bags labels, they seemed like high grade goods even at a glance.
But Yeom Junyeol cast his eyelashes down with a disappointed face.
“Because not many guests come here, there are only simple things. I’m sorry.”
“No. There is tea I wanted to drink among them, so…”
I pointed right away at one of the triangular tea bags and lied that it was tea I wanted to drink.
Yeom Junyeol brewed the persimmon tea with a brightened face and served it to me.
After the smell of tea filled the room, the atmosphere became more relaxed.
“You have worked hard today. Did You come back from the wrap-up party?”
“The wrap-up party was postponed. A lot had happened today, and the settlement didn’t end yet. Some people among the staff and participants went to the Player’s Association for the investigation.”
There were three Playlist’s participants.
There was no way that Yeo Raehun or Dokgo Miro were the target of the investigation, so there was only one left.
‘The third candidate, the company employee under the Namkung Products was summoned to the Association, huh?’
The timing when that company employee candidate warned us to evacuate was somewhat strange.
At that timing, a few otherworlds appeared without warning phenomena, and an unidentified Jin attacked the broadcasting station.
‘It wouldn’t be strange if he was arrested right away.’
From the Player’s Association’s standpoint, even waiting until the live broadcast finished, would be yielding a lot of things.
The incident occurred in the broadcasting station.
The incident involved the Namkung Products, or in other words, Namkung Group.
When looking at those two things together, there was a big chance that the employee dispatched by the Association would be Hong Gyubin.
‘I should talk with Hong Gyubin before leaving the country.’
I thought how I should speak up with Hong Gyubin, but my thinking didn’t progress easily.
I thought that drinking persimmon tea brewed by my disciple, my mind would become a bit clearer, but I guess it didn’t.
“… Uisin-ah?”
My thinking slowly continued, as I drank a few more sips of tea.
Thanks to the warm tea, I felt my body becoming languid.
“Master-nim.”
My dim mind became clear.
It was the first time I was called ‘master-nim’ in Jo Uisin’s form.
Yeom Junyeol’s words felt as if they were covered in tea.
“…”
Yeom Junyeol was sitting across from me and staring at me.
Only then did I realize that I was avoiding meeting Yeom Junyeol’s eyes all along.
In the eyes of Yeom Junyeol, who stared at me hard, there wasn’t any anger.
Instead, they contained concern and feeling of sorriness.
And I felt a sense of incongruity.
‘Something is different from usual. I feel Hongryong’s energy from his pupils, but… it’s strange. Those eyes are different from the time when they turned vertical, because he used too much power during the lesson.’
I observed Yeom Junyeol’s eyes in detail.
For a moment, Yeom Junyeol’s eyes flickered like flames.
‘It’s not the level of holding Hongryong’s energy, they’re just similar to Hongryong’s eyes. No, wait…!’
I was astonished when my thoughts reached this far.
Yeom Junyeol was a descendant, but he was a being, who possessed a Gwangrim summoning a dragon.
By all accounts, Hongryong was summoned as a separate entity from Yeom Junyeol, but it wasn’t Yeom Junyeol’s true power.
Yeom Junyeol’s hidden power awakens in a form of runaway when he learns that Cheon Dongha and Ma Jinseung died to save him.
The result was not ‘Hongryong Summoning’ but that Yeom Junyeol underwent ‘Hongryonglization’.
‘Jin people and descendants can transform into the appearances of animal manifestations. Yeom Junyeol can also turn into the form of a dragon, but as he is young, the size of his body is not very big. At best, he is just a bit bigger than a human.’
In PMH sub story event, there was a scene where Yeom Junyeol turned into his dragon form.
I was sorry for Yeom Junyeol, but that appearance matched the alias ‘Little Hongryong’.
‘’Hongryonglization’ is completely different from simply changing into a dragon.’
In PMH, the moment runaway Yeom Junyeol ‘Hongryonglizated’.
The sky seen through the smartphone was completely dyed by flames.
The runaway Yeom Junyeol shrouded the sky and became a dragon of flames, Hongryong, big enough to cover the sun, and burned both the sky and earth and their surrounding.
Right now those eyes that were similar to Hongryong may be the signs of awakening the ‘Hongryonglization’.
‘No way, what happened again during the Playlist’s filming?!’
Yeom Junyeol’s ‘Hongryonglization’ was a runaway that occurred because of the shock of losing close friends.
In other words, Yeom Junyeol might have been involved in something that dealt him a great amount of shock.
Perhaps because Yeom Junyeol called me ‘master-nim’ a moment ago, and I thought about the past lessons, I unknowingly spoke up using the tone I used when using ‘that word’ appearance.
“Did something happen when you were filming Playlist?”
“… Yes?”
“After I left, did you battle Enemies, or was there something that gave you great shock, or….”
I couldn’t complete my words.
Because the flames in Yeom Junyeol’s eyes grew more powerful.
“Yes, something big happened.” [1]
Yeom Junyeol’s beautiful voice sunk low.
“My revered master-nim suffered a penetration injury in the shoulder and stomach to save me and my family. In that injured state, He used a powerful superpower to attack. But I couldn’t do anything, and had to just follow master-nim’s teachings to hide my presence and watch.”
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[1] “Yes, something big happened.” — matching Jo Uisin, Yeom Junyeol switches to the polite tone here. He was using a casual tone before.
Translator’s note: Yes, Yeom Junyeol, your master-nim was wrong. Do not forgive him.
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