Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
28. Boat party under the moonlight (1)
The Don tribe’s head, Zhu Ganglie, was in a bad mood.
Though he finished the deal with Demons, it was because their attitude was terribly arrogant by Zhu Ganglie’s standards.
“I tell you, they don’t know who I am, yeah! I have to quickly handle that matter after getting that technique from those Demon bastards, tsk!”
As Zhu Ganglie’s anger skyrocketed, he carelessly swung the rake he was holding in his hand, venting out his anger.
Recently, it seemed that the Nine Iron Teeth Rake’s nine teeth became dull.
On the subject of the weapon that didn’t work as he wanted, it made Zhu Ganglie lose his temper.
When he thought that because of the blunt Nine Iron Teeth Rake, he lost that invisible intruder and ‘Their’ affection[1] dimmed, his mood became even worse.
‘I’m telling you, I had a feeling of piercing something. But there was no scent of blood and no audible scream, right?’
Zhu Ganglie stopped thinking as the answer didn’t come and recalled the order he received to regain ‘Their’ affection.
The quiet assassination didn’t match with Zhu Ganglie, but the stage was on sea.
It was Zhu Ganglie’s solo stage.
In addition, even the conditions weren’t that complex.
“They said that even if I can’t kill them, it will be a success if I seriously injure them, enough for them to withdraw from the front lines, right? Ehem! Should I ask for the butterfly that stays by that bastard’s side as a reward?”
The Minor Creature, the Jeop, was currently at the other 12 Zodiac’s head’s side, but if ‘They’ gave an order, there was no way she wouldn’t follow.
The Jeop always knew her place as the Minor Creature and bowed down, generously treating Zhu Ganglie who was a Divine Creature.
Besides its outstanding information gathering abilities and wide understanding of different topics, it was a beautiful Jeop.
Zhu Ganglie wanted to lay his hand on that Jeop.
Paaa…
Zhu Ganglie couldn’t notice it, but as his thoughts progressed, the sharpness of Nine Iron Teeth Rake was declining each time very slightly.
***
My dormitory room, to which I returned again after leaving Hwang Myeong-ho’s mansion.
There was still a bit of time left before the start of the boat party.
‘The host side said they will send an air taxi for me and Maeng Hyodon, so… first, let’s wait.’
In the time I waited, I decided to make a final check.
‘I’ll need this item for this case, right?’
‘Weight of Life and Fortune’ I used to erase the superpowers of illegally admitted students on April Fool’s Day.
Person standing on the scales, covered in the white bear’s skin, which appeared when using that item.
The item that person gave to me and which Acea mentioned had an expiration date.
I took out the ‘Change[2]’ from the item window.
‹Reading item data.›
[Item name] Eraser’s Change
[Type] Consumable
[Rarity] SSR+++
[Effect] Erases a possibility[3] below a certain rarity.
[Description]
Byproduct of ‘Weight of Life and Fortune’.
Appears to be a favor of the ‘Eraser’ on the scale.
Period of possible usage: One week forward.
Thinking in simple terms, this item is a lighter and downgraded version of ‘Weight of Life and Fortune’.
There is also an expiration date. It’s ambiguous to compare it to the effects of UR– rank Weight of Life and Fortune.
‘Even so, among the cards I possess, it’s the best suited for this situation. And there is also an expiration date.’
Next, there was a matter I had to contact about.
As I opened the message window and looked, I saw the person I had to contact sent me a message just in time.
[Hong Gyubin] Uisin, congratulations on winning the chess tournament! You didn’t get involved with the weird Jin, right? ^^;
Weird Jin…
Hong Gyubin would be probably talking about the Seo tribe’s head Cunning, but if we simply think in the scope of Jin people, then it was already too late.
Because there is a weird Ho tribe’s head acting as a student in the same class.
Let’s roughly evade this topic.
[Me] Thank you.
[Me] I have a request.
The read mark came up, informing me that Hong Gyubin read my message, but the reply didn’t come for a few seconds.
After some time, a long message came flying at once.
[Hong Gyubin] Uisin, today is Saturday. There are no clouds, the weather forecast is good, and even the frequency of otherworld outbreaks is stable. It’s an excellent day to play and rest, right? Recently, there was a lot of work, so I couldn’t sleep and was constantly overworked. There are still many issues to deal with, so I went to work, but today I planned to leave work early and rest ^^!
[Hong Gyubin] Uisin… Please tell me that your request is just something like buying you a meal or an item…!
Hong Gyubin immediately sensed the approaching weekend overwork and was frantically writing messages.
However, if I didn’t tell him now, the Association would have more trouble settling it, and Hong Gyubin’s overwork would increase even more.
Even just for Hong Gyubin’s sake, I firmly said:
[Me] It seems that if you can adjust the timing, it would be better to sleep now and go to work during the night.
[Hong Gyubin]
Is it a message error?
Hong Gyubin’s message appeared blank.
After a few seconds passed, Hong Gyubin typed in new messages.
[Hong Gyubin]… Okay
[Hong Gyubin] ㅠㅠ
Hong Gyubin listened to my explanation and agreed, but he didn’t seem to have any energy.
Before Hong Gyubin started grumbling, I fled the message window and wrote the next message.
[Me] Hello, do you have a moment?
I thought it may take a moment, but the reply came quickly.
[Ok Toyeon] Uh? That’s the benefactor, isn’t it! Hi!
The target of the message I sent was Ok Toyeon, who I had exchanged device codes with at the Seokchon Lake.
[Me] Were you informed by the Ho tribe?
[Ok Toyeon] I was informed but… I was all ready to watch the TC Knights match today, so I’m not so motivated! What to do?
What what to do?
No way, you’re not thinking of really going to see the baseball match, right?
No, if it was Ok Toyeon, it would be like that.
Do I have to contact Hwang Jiho to beat her up to go?
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor, why won’t you just say you can’t go and skip it and go see baseball? If I go together with you, even Toyun unnie… Ack! Unnie! Wait, that’s not.
I guess Ok Toyeon used voice input to type messages.
Somehow, the image of Ok Toyeon laying down on the sofa while eating rice cakes and talking nonsense, and then getting beaten up, was brought to my mind.
[Ok Toyeon] Benefactor-nim, we plan to move according to the Ho tribe’s suggestion. Is it okay if we contact You with currently used device code later? [4]
Suddenly the manner of speaking changed.
Perhaps it was the To called Toyun unnie who was currently typing?
[Me] Yes, I’ll request it.
[Ok Toyeon] Stay strong, benefactor-nim.
With that, I sent all the messages I had to send.
I decided it was time for me to check the congratulatory messages which piled up yesterday.
When I was replying thank you to numerous messages, a message caught my eyes.
The sender was the Wings Council president Seong Siwan.
[Seong Siwan] Congratulations on winning, Uisin!
[Seong Siwan] I wanted to go cheer you on, but at that time the 3rd year class 0 caused an incident, so the Wings Council was called…
[Seong Siwan] The 3rd year class 0’s president wasn’t like that originally, why is he like that ㅎㅎㅎ; [5]
3rd year class 0 again.
The Newspaper Club also said they couldn’t come to cheer because they had to go cover the 3rd year class 0’s floating public garden.
It would be good to hear the full account of this during club activities on Monday next week.
After that, what caught my eyes was a message sent by Ju Su-hyeok.
After congratulations, one more request was added.
[Ju Su-hyeok] After you arrive at the berth, please stop the air taxi for about 5 minutes and wait, please!
[Maeng Hyodon] got it
Worthy of Maeng Hyodon, he didn’t ask for the context and accepted it immediately.
I also sent a reply.
[Me] Okay.
[Ju Su-hyeok] Thanks ㅎㅎㅎ
Did he want to eat the pretzels sold in the air taxi?
Next was a message sent by our class’ painter Min Geurin.
[Min Geurin] Congrats, I want to go cheer you on personally next time.
I wished that during the next chess tournament, Song Daeseok and Min Geurin, both of them, would come to cheer me on.
After that, if I point out some congratulatory messages I received, Yu Sang-hun sent two letters ‘cg’.
Several lines long congratulations mixed with nagging from Jang Namuk.
The 2nd year class 0’s GeunChan&WangChan duo sent supernatural fireworks stamps.
Bak Seung-hyeon’s concise congratulatory message.
Yeom Junyeol’s congratulations mixed with a request for a chess match.
My disciple’s mindset and desire for improvement was outstanding.
‘Let’s do our best.’
After reading all the messages and organizing my belongings, I headed towards the dormitory lobby.
Dormitory lobby where I decided to meet with Maeng Hyodon.
As it was the weekend, there was a small number of people, and I was able to find Maeng Hyodon immediately.
Maeng Hyodon, wearing clothes and shoes assembled in Neuru.
It was eye-catching as his appearance was different from usual, but more than clothes, his hair drew my gaze.
‘It’s set perfectly, you know?’
His always disheveled in every direction, short hair was neatly tidied.
Are you saying that Maeng Hyodon did that?
There is no way that Maeng Hyodon went to the hair salon.
But it’s lucky, because if his state was very serious, I planned to roughly apply the wax I prepared.
“Uisin is also surprised, right?”
“He seems surprised.”
Someone spoke up behind me.
It was Kwon Lena and Han Yi.
“An hour ago, I was going out with Lena to buy snacks to eat and then we ran into each other.”
“Hyodon was standing dressed in an amazingly suiting him tuxedo, but as his head was a bit of a mess…”
Was Maeng Hyodon waiting for an hour?
But however I looked at it or not, he was probably like that because he was nervous about the party.
Kwon Lena continued her words with a wide smile.
“So I brought the hairdryer and wax to lightly dry him. When seniors were going to a performance, I personally hair dried for them a few times. It turned out better than I thought, so we’re lucky.”
“Lena is good with her hands.”
“…”
Maeng Hyodon was making a tired expression.
Maeng Hyodon who said it was fine even though it wasn’t, Han Yi who expressionlessly blocked his way and Kwon Lena who handled his hair with a smiling face appeared in my mind.
“He said Uisin is also going to the party, so we waited. If Uisin’s head was also a mess, we planned to catch you. Um, it looks fine!”
In the previous world, there were also situations where I had to take care of my appearance in preparation for face-to-face meetings.
But I completely didn’t have the abilities worthy of a hairdresser.
“The back of the head is a bit crooked.’
“Uh, true. Uisin, sit down!”
Thanks to Han Yi’s comment, I also ended up sitting on the dormitory lobby’s sofa and received Kwon Lena’s styling.
Soon the time for the air taxi to arrive drew closer, so we parted with the two people.
“Then both of you stay safe and come back!”
“See you at school.”
“Okay, thank you.”
“… bye.”
As we climbed into the air taxi which stopped at the main gates, I asked Maeng Hyodon.
“Did you say thank you?”
“I did.”
Looked like the male highschooler Maeng Hyodon was slowly adjusting to our class.
***
Berth.
In front of the terminal exclusively used by private ships.
It was a scene of anchored passenger ships, ferries and cruise ships in various designs.
As I admired the sight from the sky, the air taxi already stopped above the ground.
After landing, we waited a bit as we promised Ju Su-hyeok.
“Hi, Uisin, Hyodon. I’m glad you came.”
After about a minute passed, Ju Su-hyeok appeared.
Ju Su-hyeok in the light tailored jacket worn over a tuxedo.
A sand pink tie visible under the jacket caught my eye.
“Uh, those aren’t clothes you assembled at that time, right?”
“Hahaha. There was a situation.”
After Ju Su-hyeok climbed into the air taxi while laughing, he pulled a coffee from the automatic seller machine.
“What? Did you say to stop the air taxi so you could drink coffee?”
Without a word, Ju Su-hyeok took off his jacket and poured the coffee on the tuxedo he was wearing.
“Are you crazy!?”
Maeng Hyodon shouted with a surprised voice, but Ju Su-hyeok smiled innocently while evenly spilling coffee, making big stains over the entire tuxedo.
“Hahaha! I spilled coffee by mistake! I’ll have to change. Please step back a bit for a moment.”
“Did you get hit somewhere, Ju Su-hyeok?”
Maeng Hyodon had an expression saying this was ridiculous, but Ju Su-hyeok looked to be infinitely happy.
I guess there was a hateful situation making Ju Su-hyeok wear that tuxedo.
‘Ju Su-hyeok was worried about a strange rumor about him and Oh Hyeji spreading at the boat party. Is it related?’
Ju Su-hyeok’s actions, which simply looked like that of a madman.
Maeng Hyodon who observed that, even though he seemed to be worried if he really didn’t go mad, stepped away.
Ju Su-hyeok pulled the air taxi’s blinds, changed his clothes and then came out.
The new clothes were the tuxedo he assembled together with us at the Neuru.
“I have no idea what it was about. Did you spill coffee to wear those clothes?”
“Something similar.”
Ju Su-hyeok poured all the remaining coffee on the clothes in the shopping bag as he spoke.
Thanks to that, the white shirt and sand-pink tie were completely dyed in coffee color.
In particular, he was aiming towards the tie to dye it completely.
‘… Is the problem the sand-pink color?’
The shopping bag was water-proof so the coffee didn’t spill out.
As expected, worthy of the title hero, Ju Su-hyeok prepared perfectly.
“Let’s drop by here for a moment, and then let’s go!”
“Automatic mailbox? Why here?”
“Hahaha, what if I attend while carrying it with me? When I entrust it to other people, there may be someone who washes it and then comes back or restores it.”
“You really hate wearing that, huh?”
Ju Su-hyeok thought it through perfectly, even up to where to deliver the shopping bag with the coffee soaked tuxedo from the automatic mailbox.
The shipping address was in front of the Eungwang School’s Guideline Club room.
Ju Su-hyeok, who even settled the delivery fee, spoke with a refreshed voice as he took the lead.
“There, let’s go!”
The sun started to set.
In it, illuminated by the light, the cruise ship owned by TC was shining brilliantly.
The ship was named after a daughter of Poseidon and the nymph of sea and waves, ‘Cymopoleia’.
The super passenger ship of the tonnage of about 50 thousand tons, the lengths of about 200m and 30m of depths.
It was the place where today’s boat party would be held.
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[1] affection – in the meaning of someone exceptionally loving and adoring someone. Or love of god (the dictionary tells me it’s a christian term).
[2] Change – reminder, change here refers to remaining money received after a price is paid.
[3] possibility – or chances.
[4] Benefactor-nim, we plan to move according to the Ho tribe’s suggestion… – Ok Toyun uses a formal (highly polite in other words) tone towards Jo Uisin here.
[5] ㅎㅎㅎ; – Hahaha;
Translator’s note: That ‘Change’ description… It’s not how a description usually feels or looks like… And why ‹, not ⟨ ? Suspicious.
Did you see a mistake? 🐞
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