Translator: Wan ED/PR: Solarin
45. If it doesn’t rain during Chushu (8)
Worthy of the Player Special High School, which actively encourages students’ outside activities, the Eungwang’s summer break was long.
Unlike the ordinary high schools, which started their 2nd semester at the beginning of August if early, or in the middle of August if late, Eungwang School’s vacation period still continued.
Today, at the end of August, Chushu, the heat wave stopped, but the warmth still somewhat remained.
The moment I woke up in the morning, I looked through the window.
Outside the dormitory window, I saw Heavenly Wings (Cheon-ik) Mountain under the clear sky.
‘The weather is clear. It didn’t rain.’
And unlike in the game, it didn’t rain on Chushu.
Was it because numerous people survived, so the number of higher beings, who took out their anger through the weather, was small?
I recalled the weathercaster’s comment that because the recent weather was good and there was a lot of sunlight, a bumper year was expected.
Ding.
When I was thinking about the weather, a message arrived.
It was a message sent by my kind disciple, every morning without missing a day, informing me about the weather forecast and sending his regards.
[Yeom Junyeol] Master-nim, hello. Today is Chushu. The entire day is expected to be clear without a single cloud. The heat wave had ended, but the diurnal temperature range will take time to grow bigger.
[Yeom Junyeol] Hongryong is in the best condition! If master-nim is okay with it, I wanted to see You and take a lesson.
Not long ago, Yeom Junyeol succeeded in ‘Hiding Presence’ for the first time.
As if my deeply ambitious disciple was happy about the growth, he couldn’t hide the excitement even in the messages.
Though he couldn’t perfectly hide his presence yet, and as the Yong tribe stubbornly looked for Yeom Junyeol, the success rate didn’t seem very high.
After I put off the class in consideration of Yeom Junyeol being busy with filming for the ‘Playlist’ and with summer homework, he sent a Hongryong stamp with dropping fiery whiskers.
While promising to prepare to hold a class after school starts instead, I read the next message.
‘The next message is also from Yeom Junyeol.’
This time it’s not a message from the kind disciple Yeom Junyeol, but from the Hongryong Yeom Junyeol senior-nim.
[Yeom Junyeol] Uisin-ah, hi. Is your summer break going well?
[Yeom Junyeol] I wanted to make a request related to the student of class 0. Please contact me when you can reply.
Even though I didn’t see the Hongryong stamps he so often used, a character of a school senior was visible in my eyes.
As expected, my Playable Character was a perfect disciple and senior.
‘If it’s related to the class 0, was it perhaps because of Dokgo Miro?’
Dokgo Miro succeeded in advancing to the Playlist finals and would be filming her student life.
Hwang Jiho showed great interest in Dokgo Miro, who crushed the Gwangli Police Station and was Han Yi’s elementary school classmate and readily permitted filming at Eungwang School.
‘Dokgo Miro appeared that day to save our class children, right?’
The titles of ‘alley maniac’ and ‘king’ were a bit concerning, but what about it?
I was indebted to my Playable Character, and my disciple requested it, so I naturally had to accept it.
I revealed to Yeom Junyeol my intention to actively help.
[Yeom Junyeol] Okay, thanks. When can we meet?
[Yeom Juneyol] I think it would be good to introduce you to each other before the 2nd semester starts.
Yeom Junyeol thanked me for my work and made a plan.
The message exchange became slow, perhaps because the Yong tribe members invaded in the meantime and bothered him again, and Yeom Junyeol apologized for it, but anyhow, I would be meeting with Dokgo Miro.
‘… I have to solve the Dragon King God’s maidens scenario with those bastards, will it be okay?’
I had a lot of worries about how to interfere with the Dragon King God’s maidens scenario, but Yong Jegeon’s suggestion ended up solving them.
The day I returned to the dormitory from Ju-Oh Island, Yong Jegeon revealed his intention to invite me to the Dragon Palace.
— Uisin-ah, do you want to go together to the Dragon Palace someday?
Yong Jegeon spoke like it was simple, but the Dragon Palace wasn’t a place you could just simply enter.
At the basic, the only ones who could enter the Dragon Palace were the Yong tribe members, the Yong tribe’s descendants, the Yong tribe members’ kin and Dragon King God’s maidens.
‘There are exceptions, but they’re pretty complicated. Ju Su-hyeok and An Dain went through enormous trouble to go to the Dragon Palace.’
Simply speaking, there were only two exceptional cases when outsiders were permitted to enter.
The first exception was to receive Cheongryong and Hwangryong’s dragon seals.
The head of the Yong tribe’s Cheongryong.
The one protecting the Dragon Palace and maidens, Hwangryong.
A person, who had the dragon seals made personally by the two dragons from their scales, in both of their hands could enter the Dragon Place.
‘In the game, Hwangryong come out to participate in Yong Jegeon’s funeral. Through that, he made a bond with Ju Su-hyeok and An Dain, but…’
It seemed pretty difficult to obtain permission to enter the Dragon Palace from Hwangryong, who didn’t come out from the Dragon Palace very often.
As if Yong Jegeon also thought that it would be complicated and difficult to go receive Hwangryeong’s permission, it seemed he planned to use the second solution.
— The next time Dragon King God-nim gives a divine revelation, I’ll bring up your story.
— I’ll say that there was a human I want to invite, so I wish He allow you in.
The other exception was the ‘permission received from Dragon King God’.
Strictly speaking, it’s impossible for the Dragon King God’s maiden candidates to enter the Dragon Place as they’re only candidates.
So when Dragon King God gave a divine revelation and bestowed a permission to enter the Dragon Palace, it would become possible for the candidates to enter.
‘Can I so simply receive the Dragon King God’s permission, which is received by the maiden candidates?’
I thought like this, but Yong Jegeon showed pretty optimistic reaction.
— I think He will just give it.
— Because usually what I find fun, Dragon King God-nim also finds fun.
What they ‘found fun’ seemed to be me.
I didn’t know if Dragon King God would indeed give me his permission to enter the Dragon Palace, but I decided to leave that case to Yong Jegeon.
“Hello! I’ll be going first!”
As I opened the dormitory door, Mok Uram, who seemed to be just leaving, greeted me and ran to enter the elevator first.
These days Mok Uram was a constant visitor to the workshop given to him by the Hwang Myeong Foundation.
The sole disciple left by the superpower artisan lost everything he had and became poor thanks to being hogu[1], who transcends imagination.
‘In the end, Mok Uram couldn’t even get back the Enemy subjugation rewards…’
It wasn’t that he couldn’t get them back, but the amount which was successfully retrieved wasn’t even 10% of that.
Moreover, the hogu Mok Uram wasted that money buying materials from a suspicious foreign mail-order site.
I couldn’t forget the purely innocent expression Mok Uram made while staring at the mail-ordering site that shut down just after he made a deposit several days ago.
In the 17th floor central lounge, Mok Uram showed me a hologram while speaking brightly.
— It seems that Eungwang School’s connection isn’t very good! After making an order, nothing appeared on the screen for 3 days.
Like this Mok Uram ended up completely penniless.
Even though after such struggles, he got inspiration from Kwon Lena, he didn’t have anything like materials and tools to make superpower violins.
Mok Uram, who realized the fact he was scammed late, wandered around the Heavenly Wings (Cheon-ik) Mountain to pick up branches that fell to the ground and made carpentry works using the cutting knife supplied by the Earthly Wings Council, making his appearance extremely pitiful.
‘If that bastard makes good violins, all violinists around the world like Kwon Lena will be happy.’
When I passed the words with such key points to Hwang Jiho, he gave him a workshop without any complaint.
In the workshop, there were materials for all kinds of violins from pine wood and maple wood[2], to even chrome steel and iron wires from otherwordly metals.
It seemed he prepared it before I even talked about it.
— There are many among the Ho tribe members who go crazy for sounds, and I thought I should invest to this degree.
That geezer was crazily spending money in a desirable way.
After the trip to the Ju-Oh Island, among the actions Hwang Jiho showed were many desirable things besides that.
When it was revealed that the newly released music was a duo performance, a rumor started to circulate that Kwon Jane had a disciple, but Hwang Jiho mobilized the power of the Hwang Myeong Group and suppressed it.
‘The name of Kwon Lena wasn’t revealed yet.’
There were also fans of Kwon Lena’s performance in the piece performed and released by Kwon Jane, but the fact that the disciple attends Eungwang School became public at some point.
Because of many negative comments directed at Kwon Jane, there were many people, who worried if Kwon Lena wouldn’t be hurt.
Soon, I occasionally saw a negative comment full of ill will direct at Kwon Lena, whose name wasn’t known.
The claim of toxic fans was that Kwon Jane’s music talent can be only revealed when she is alone.
‘I have to be contentious so nothing happens to Kwon Lena.’
While making such promise, I left the dormitory.
Before the vacation ends, there was a problem I had to solve.
* * *
Private study cafe in front of the main gates of Eungwang School.
As it was the place I visited once before, I didn’t wander and was able to find the booked study room.
“Hello.”
Cheon Dongha arrived before me and was reviewing the game we played before.
I saw Cheon Dongha reenact the game played before on the wooden chess board that he seemed to prefer, and a few wrappers and an empty paper cup as if like before he was drinking mixed coffee, instead of capsule coffee.
“My apologies for calling You when You’re busy.”
“No. I can’t work every day. And I also wanted to play chess.”
“Are You working even during the school break?”
“Yeah. Research institute work.”
Cheon Dongha took out a paper business card and handed it to me.
Cheon Dongha the guest researcher of the research institute, engraved with the Hwang Myeong Group logo.
Those were specs worthy of my Playable Character and the genius Eungwang School boasted about, Cheon Dongha.
‘I knew he was a researcher, but I didn’t expect he was affiliated with the Hwang Myeong Research Institute.’
I had no idea because even in the game there were no mentions regarding that research.
As Cheon Dongha had a pretty heavy mouth, he was trusted by the surroundings, but as worthy of that, there was not a lot known about him.
“You should have a lot of requests for a game, any reason you chose me?”
The reason was simple.
Because in this world only two were able to win against me in chess, Baek Ho-gun and Cheon Dongha.
I was still angry when I thought about Baek Ho-gun’s overwhelming victory.
It was a necessary part to raise my abilities to fight back against Baek Ho-gun.
“There were many things I wanted to learn from senior-nim’s game.”
I expressed it pretty simply, avoiding things, but Cheon Dongha read the inside story straight away.
“I guess I’m not your opponent.”
I didn’t reply, but Cheon Dongha didn’t press any further.
When each of us took 2 fierce victories.
When we were about to settle it with one last round.
“Let’s stop here.”
Cheon Dong-ha’s gaze fixed on my hand when he shook with me.
It seemed that he discovered my cold hands.
Thanks to concentrating a lot on the superpower wave control, there was no problem until the fourth game, but it seemed it still wasn’t perfect.
“My dongsaeng is your fan, you know? If he found out that I played more with you even when knowing the condition of your body, he would be furious.”
Cheon Dongha’s dongsaeng was mentioned again.
Thanks to being swept in the big incident during the school admission, I was a Player about whom articles were sometimes published, but a fan?
My inner mood was complicated.
“How old is Your dongsaeng?”
“He is a year younger than you.”
If he was a year younger than me of this world, then wouldn’t he be in the 3rd year of middle school?
“If so, he will become a high schooler next year. Is he a Player?”
“Yeah.”
“I hope he can come to Eungwang School.”
“… Yeah, I hope he will be able to take the entrance exam.”
Cheon Dongha’s words trailed off.
Was the dongsaeng, unlike Cheon Dongha, not good at studying and didn’t have grades to enter Eungwang School?
I had a feeling I made a slip of the tongue.
I changed the topic to solve it.
“Do You want to go eat lunch?”
“Yeah, let’s go.”
While saying that, Cheon Dongha let go of my hand and called a hologram of the menu served at the study cafe.
The fee for Cheon Dongha’s study room included meal serving.
After we ate lunch, I headed to the Eungwang School after parting with Cheon Dongha.
I spotted a being in front of the main gates.
‘… Pink hair!’
The King Dokgo Miro was standing in front of the Eungwang School’s main gates.
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[1] hogu — pushover, very easily manipulated person.
[2] pine wood and maple wood — Picea jezoensis and Acer palmatum
Translator’s note: Hahaha! Oh, not a tongue but a slip of thoughts is what you did Jo Uisin, ahahahaha! Cheon Dongha’s dongsaeng being not good at studying is a very funny thought.
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