Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
66. Another candidate (7)
Seeing the old tiger dressed in a flawless suit, doubts surged in me.
‘What are you doing here?’
If it was him, he could’ve come here to watch the fight, but I had no idea why did he come here in the appearance of chairman Hwang Myeong-ho.
No matter how I thought about it, it didn’t make sense at all that Eungwang School chairman came to see a fight of a mere student.
There was the Earthly Wings Council’s president here, but wasn’t it common for the representative of the autonomous organization to solve problems at Eungwang School?
‘Did you perhaps want to prevent too much of an audience to flock in?’
However, I didn’t think that was the case.
Because Yong Jegeon, who was showing regrets, saying he wanted to watch the spar record, was here.
‘If Yong Jegeon smiles like that, anyone will know to leave the place anyway.’
Weren’t even our kind children keeping distance from the vice homeroom teacher Yong Jegeon?
Hwang Jiho came in that appearance, but as if he still had enough of sense left, he didn’t say anything to me right away.
While I worried if I should greet him first, Hwang Jiho quietly left.
Well, that only made my doubts even stronger.
After saying goodbye to chairman Hwang Myeong-ho, Seong Siwan spoke up to me.
In Seong Siwan’s hand was a recovery item card.
“Uisin-ah, you worked hard. Idam-i?”
“He is inside.”
After I turned my back, Gye Idam immediately sprawled out on the floor.
Gye Idam crushed out, but I confirmed that his breathing and superpower wave were fine, so there wouldn’t be any particular problems.
To sprawl out like this after just a little punishment drill, the bastard really had no tenacity.
After Seong Siwan examined whether I was hurt anywhere, he worriedly looked towards the special gym.
Regretfully, the miserable sight of Gye Idam couldn’t be seen from outside.
“… Can I enter?”
“Yes.”
Seong Siwan entered the special gym, where a moment ago punishment drill was carried out.
But it wasn’t only Seong Siwan, who entered inside.
Following Yeom Junyeol, even Yong Jegeon entered inside.
Yeom Junyeol and Gye Idam were in the same grade, was he worried about him?
There was no way that my kind disciple didn’t know that ‘Gye’fucker, but I worried they might have a degree of good acquaintance.
“Idam-ah! Are you okay?… Just recovery items won’t do. I’ll only do first aid with the recovery item. Once you recover a bit, I’ll carry you to the infirmary on the transfer gear.”
Behind the door, Seong Siwan’s flustered voice was heard.
While Gye Idam was telling about the story of his past, that I wasn’t curious about, he especially brought up Seong Siwan’s name, so it seemed that Seong Siwan was so broad-minded that he even worried about that trash with no answer.
I expected Yeom Junyeol to also make a worried sound about Gye Idam, but instead I heard something unexpected.
“Idam-ah, I’m disappointed.”
The voice was so cold it was difficult to think they were words that came out of the tender Yeom Junyeol.
It was a tone where it wouldn’t be strange if he summoned Hongryong and straight up attacked Gye Idam.
Seong Siwan, who was caught in the middle, seemed to block Yeom Junyeol.
“Junyeol-ah, did you hear what happened between the two, perhaps?”
“No, I don’t know what happened.”
“Uh?”
“But there has to be a reason for Uisin-i to go that far. Idam-i must have done something so wrong it’s difficult to imagine.”
My disciple put such trust in me!
I, who worried that Yeom Junyeol got along with Gye Idam, felt like a fool.
Yeom Junyeol, an outstanding dragon, who was upright and sensible, and knew how to draw a line from the trashes like Gye Idam.
My disciple trusted me so deeply, but I, a master, didn’t believe in my disciple — I was a bad master.
“… I see.”
While I was reflecting on myself, Seong Siwan shortly expressed his complicated emotions.
As Seong Siwan was close with Gye Idam, it wouldn’t be strange if he said something to me, who turned ‘Gye’fucker into a mess, but he didn’t say anything.
After I showed I have no intention to reveal the reason for the spar, he didn’t ask what happened between me and Gye Idam.
Rather, Seong Siwan worried about me.
“We shouldn’t postpone our today’s appointment until the next time. You look fine, but if you’re hurt anywhere, head to the infirmary right away.”
Gye Idam was loaded on a transfer gear, and went to the infirmary with Seong Siwan.
Behind them, Yeom Junyeol, who appeared seriously agitated, and Yong Jegeon, whose mood seemed to pierce the sky in contrast to Yeom Junyeol.
Yeom Juneyol seemed to be in ill humor, but worthy of my kind disciple and cool senior, when saying goodbye to me and class children, he had a face worthy of a perfect Student Council’s president as usual.
“Uisin-ah, then see you tomorrow.”
After Yeom Junyeol and Yong Jegeon went home.
There were only our class children left around.
Our class children, who saw the hurt Gye Idam, were at a loss for words for a moment, then, when the surrounding became quiet, they opened their mouths again.
“He was covered by clothes, so I couldn’t see very well, but He seemed to be seriously hurt. I heard that the Earthly Wings Council’s president is strong, but I guess vice president is stronger, eh?”
“This will leave him sprawled out for a few days… Though, I don’t know about if he braces himself for side-effects and uses a recovery item.”
At the words of Mok Uram and Maeng Hyodon, who had a rich actual battle experience, the atmosphere became even more serious.
Did they not know how they should treat the class vice president, who came back from pounding and beating up a senior a moment ago?
‘It’s best if I say thank you for coming and just go back. I’ll buy snacks for the class children tomorrow and…’
Before I could say departing goodbyes.
Starting with Kwon Lena, the class children started to make excuses for me.
“There must be a reason why Uisin-i requested a spar with senior Gye Idam-nim. Uisin-i isn’t a person who thoughtlessly hurts others.”
“I agree with Lena’s opinion.” [1]
“Vice president isn’t a bastard who thoughtlessly beats people up.”
“Right! There is no way that Uisin-i did wrong, You know? Senior Gye Idam must have been very wrong.” [2]
“…. I’m glad Uisin-i isn’t hurt.”
It seemed like only Han Yi took a neutral stance.
I didn’t know if I should thank the class children for their absolute trust, or express worry about their lacking objectivity opinions.
But actually, it was all ‘Gye’fucker’s fault, so our class children’s judgment was right.
Listening to their story, it seemed it wasn’t just our dormitory class children, who were here.
“In fact, the commuting kids also waited, but it got really long, so… teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim sent them home, and only we remained.”
Not only the daily students, but even teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim came and went?
I felt simply sorry that though he was busy, he came and went because of Gye Idam’s matter or something.
“But teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim was busy, so he left teacher Yong Jegeon-nim with the rest. Do You want another cup of juice?” [3]
“Did you fight after eating dinner? Eat more snacks.”
While exchanging snacks and drinks brought by class children, we chatted among ourselves.
The class children were obviously curious about the ins and outs of my spar with Gye Idam, but after evading with ‘Something popped out’, they didn’t ask anymore.
Before we finished the short tea party and parted, Sawol Seeum said something ominous:
“I heard from class 0’s seniors-nim that the Earthly Wings Council didn’t have a good relationship with class 0 for generation! Ah, GeunChan&WangChan seniors said to contact them any time if we want to form an alliance…”
Sawol Seeum was still in contact with Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol?!
The ‘Gye’fucker was the Earthly Wings Council’s president, so we must be cautious of the Earthly Wings Council, but borrowing the power of GeunChan&WangChan was going a bit too far.
If we borrow the power of the 2nd year class 0, it seemed that the whole Earthly Wings Council would have a hard time.
I would welcome it if Gye Idam’s life became even more difficult, but it was too much to cause trouble for all Earthly Wings Council’s members, including Bak Seung-hyeon for that.
And there was another reason.
‘I want to screw with ‘Gye’fucker by myself.’
While I was walking, thinking such.
Wiii…
The window of the air limousine, which stopped right beside me, opened.
I saw the face of the Eungwang School’s chairman in the opened window.
“Student Uisin, where are you going? I happen to be leaving, so let’s go together.”
Hwang Jiho in the appearance of chairman Hwang Myeong-ho, appeared as if waiting.
It seemed that this geezer was going to quietly go back, so it seemed that he was going to contact me or hide and wait.
I was heading to the tiger mansion anyway, so I decided to move with him.
After I got into the air limousine, Hwang Jiho immediately changed his tone.
As he spoke in his usual tone with Hwang Myeong-ho’s face, I felt some sense of incongruity, but it didn’t bother me that much.
“Jo Uisin, you sparred for such a long time and now are going out again. Where are you going at this hour?”
“Your house[4].”
It seemed like Hwang Jiho couldn’t imagine I would obediently got in and say I was going to the tiger mansion.
He momentarily made a surprised face, and then spoke a beat late.
“… I guess you have something to say, eh? Got it.”
To be precise, I had something to say to Baek Ho-gun.
“What were you doing there a moment ago?”
“Came to see your spar. Aren’t you soft on Eungwang School’s students? You usually turn a blind eye even if something happens.”
There was no way that I would turn a blind eye to Gye Idam, and there is no way I would let that bastard roll over me.
Hwang Jiho had useless worries, but I decided to ask about something I was curious about in that coming over out of worry.
“Why did you come in the chairman’s appearance?”
“Hwang Jiho is doing outside activities. He could come over once he finished his schedule, but as Ham Geun-hyeong sent away all daily students, I judged it’s better to come as this one.”
The 17 years old highschool student appearance, and the appearance famous as Eungwang School’s lunatic, didn’t have many outside activities to do.
In the past, Hwang Jiho was sent on the events to assert himself as Hwang Myeong Group’s successor, so it probably was some outside activity in the same vein.
I wasn’t curious where Hwang Jiho’s appearance went, so I decided to change the topic.
“I have something to say.”
“Speak.”
I brought up the story of Mok Uram’s assassination attempt I heard about from Seodol.
The geezer held affection to the 1st year class 0, he wouldn’t leave those continuous assassination attempts alone and didn’t know about the ‘Pledge of Three Knights’ doing some ganging up in Eungwang School, right?
“I see…”
Thanks to the tiger mansion being close to Eungwang School, it wasn’t long before we arrived at our destination, while talking.
But Hwang Jiho sat in his seat with a face looking like his questions weren’t answered.
He was obviously waiting for me to say something more.
“What?”
“I thought you would talk about the spar with Gye Idam.”
It was my personal problem.
‘Gye’fucker’s case was seriously annoying and made me angry, but it had nothing to do with the Ho tribe.
If my own strength was insufficient to beat up ‘Gye’fucker, I might have borrowed Ho tribe’s power, even if that meant accumulating debt.
But I could deal with someone like Gye Idam on my now.
‘Is there anything else to say?’
Hwang Jiho asked, but I kept my mouth shut.
For a moment I worried if I should tell him that Gye Idam was a being that came from the same world as me, but that ‘Gye’fucker didn’t know anything and didn’t have any particular power anyway.
As he had no useful value, I didn’t want to involve him with the Ho tribe.
‘It looks like there is a problem with Gye Idam anyway, so he probably will look into it.’
Even if I don’t say anything, Hwang Jiho would draw a conclusion that there was a problem with Gye Idam.
Even if he digs into Gye Idam, nothing special will come out, but I decided to leave it alone.
“We finished talking, so are you going back? Eun-ho and the Divine Beast will be sad if you go back without at least a cup of tea.”
“I’ll visit the mansion and then go.”
“… What wind is blowing today? Welcome, Jo Uisin. Act like this in the future too.”
Hwang Jiho made a sound that I didn’t know if he was really welcoming or not.
As he promptly got off the air limousine and opened the mansion gate, it seemed to be the former.
When I arrived in front of the side building where Eun-ho stayed, following Hwang Jiho, I ran into Baek Ho-gun, who opportunely stepped outside.
*~*~*
[1] “I agree with Lena’s opinion.” — Mok Uram’s sentence.
[2] “Right! There is no way that Uisin-i did wrong, You know? Senior Gye Idam must have been very wrong.” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[3] “But teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim was busy, so he left teacher Yong Jegeon-nim with the rest. Do You want another cup of juice?” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[4] Your house — ‘your’ plural.
Translator’s note: Ah, Jo Uisin, your double standards are showing…
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