Translator: Wan ED/PR: Solarin
49. Sport Exchange (6)
On the hologram of a blackboard size, the Eungwang Highschool’s main building, Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building was shown[1].
Thanks to the sunlight reflected the golden pillars supporting the Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building and the glass covering its walls, the building seemed to be emitting light.
This Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building, which protected the center of Eungwang School, was currently on the brink of a terrorist attack.
“WangChan-ah, the chairman is inside, right?”
“Ye. I saw the secretary move the documents brought by the Head of Student Department teach-nim from the teacher’s room a moment ago.”
“Did you confirm the stamp on the envelope?”
“I confirmed it twice. That envelope goes to the chairman.”
The 2nd year class 0’s classroom.
The 2nd year class 0’s gang was staring at the Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building shown on the electronic board, as if staring at their archenemy.
In their hands were all kinds of sound equipment, cables, tools and alarm clocks.
“Woofer team, how long is the longest recording?”
“About 90 seconds? While the secretary leaves, we can finish setting it up.”
“Alarm clock team?”
“We checked the entire Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building’s map. We will hide them in places that are difficult to find, but will echo really well.”
The ace of the Theater Club, Yeon Garam smiled widely at Geun Chansol’s question and replied.
She smiled prettily, but in her hands was a bag with dozens of alarm clocks.
Their goal was to set up woofers and clocks around the chairman office to cause pain and annoyance.
“Let’s bring hell to the chairman, who overworks teach Jegal-nim!”
“Let’s bring it!”
While shouting a rallying cry with determined expressions, Geun Chansol, who strengthened their solidarity, ordered Wang Chansol.
“Did you bring hiding items? Start sharing them.”
“Uh! See, I brought them all!”
“… You brought one for all of the kids? It seems there are too few of them.”
“Look again! Here, there is enough!”
Geun Chansol, who counted the number of cards spread out by Wang Chansol, shirked.
“One is missing, you fool-ah!”
“What you mean?”
“It seems that you fool didn’t count your share.”
“Uh?…. Ah!”
Wang Chansol belatedly realized what one class kid comment meant, but it was already too late.
The class children each pick out one item card from Wang Chansol’s hands, finally leaving him empty-handed.
“… I’m going to have to attack the chairman without a hiding item?”
“Yeah, good luck.”
After Yeon Garam’s soulless encouragement, Geun Chansol commands continued.
“Attack on the chairman starts now. We have to move quietly now. After entering Silver Light (Eunhwi) Buil….”
“You can’t do that.”
But the 2nd year class 0’s classroom’s door opened without warning and a sonorous voice rang out.
The one who appeared in the classroom door was a teacher with an infinitely harmless impression.
Seeing that teacher, Geun Chansol was terrified.
“Ack!”
There were some teachers in this school who could never be sassed over with force.
The representative examples were the homeroom teachers of each class 0’s, Ham Geun-yeong, Jegal Jaegeol and Im Yeonhwa, and the Yong currently acting as the 1st year class 0’s vice homeroom teacher, Yong Jegeon.
Even so, the homeroom teachers of class 0s were extremely busy because of the head of departments work, and while Yong Jegeon had limited power inside of Eungwang School, he also would go along with the pranks if it was decent, so their threat level was low.
But there was a teacher, who while he was kind and had a soft personality, he couldn’t be overcome with force and would stop a prank, which crossed the line, like a knife.
That very teacher who just appeared was the user of kotodama skill, Jeongeum (Righteous Sound) Gong Cheonghwon.
“Hey, block your ears.”
“You’re too late.”
While they were engrossed in their meeting, Gong Cheonghwon’s superpower wave seized the classroom.
From the moment he entered, ready to fight, the caught off guard 2nd year class 0 couldn’t be his opponent.
Riding the superpower wave, the sonorous voice pierced their ears.
[Please take rest.]
At the ‘kotodama’ activation, half of the 2nd year class 0’s kids, who were late to defend, sunk to the ground.
Geun Chansol, who blocked her ears and fled, looked at the class children, who became incapable of fighting and was stopped in her tracks.
As if thinking she couldn’t abandon the class children, she changed her command.
“… Guys-ah, attack!”
“Attaaack!”
At Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol’s commands, the class children charged at Gong Cheonghwon, but they fell one after another to his Taehokwon.
It wasn’t just that, if just a little bit of superpower wave scatted, Gong Cheonghwon’s voice would turn into kotodama, pierce their ears and render the student incapable of fighting.
Yeon Garam pretended to be incapacitated and tried to ambush Gong Cheonghwon, but was overpowered, leaving only two people, Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol, standing in the classroom.
Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol exchanged glances with each other and then raised their hands with the meaning of surrender.
If it goes like this, they would be annihilated, and if they also collapse, there would be no room for negotiation, so it was a choice that couldn’t be helped.
“Then let’s go see the head-nim of school affairs, who is in the teacher’s room.”
At Gong Cheonghwon merciless comment, Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol screamed.
“Aack, please turn a blind eye and don’t tell our teach Jegal-nim!”
“Teacher Gong Cheonghwon-nim, we were wrong!”
Gong Cheonghwon shook his head without any thinking.
“I won’t turn a blind eye to it.”
Gong Cheonghwon was guessing the identity of chairman Hwang Myeong-ho.
No matter how one looked, Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol weren’t inferior in terms of wealth and connections, but the other party had a high chance of being a powerful Jin.
He didn’t know about another teacher, but attacking the chairman?
It was necessary to speak to Jegal Jaegeol and sternly scold them.
“Originally we decided to go with teach Jegal-nim to see the opening ceremony, but the chairman suddenly shifted work on Him, so we wanted to show the chairman some bitter taste!”
“Why when He is living quietly, He is suddenly ordered to work?”
“Even without it, He works too much!”
The 2nd year class 0’s students added their screams, but Gong Cheonghwon shook his head.
He tried to drag them with the kotodama, but at the words that he’ll take them in front of Jegal Jaegeol, the 2nd year class 0 started to fiercely resist again, so he finally overpowered them with force and called Jegal Jaegeol.
While waiting for Jegal Jaegeol, Yeon Garam, who tried to use a tear play and failed, asked with a crying face.
“… You aren’t going to see the opening ceremony?”
“I have administrative work to do.”
In fact, Gong Cheonghwon was also going to be absent at the opening ceremony, because of the work thrown at him by the chairman suddenly.
Thanks to finishing the work early, he patrolled the school while taking a walk, that’s when he discovered the 2nd year class 0’s grouping to attack.
‘Thinking about it, it’s strange. The work importance should be low. It seemed like I was given work to keep me at school.’
He knew well that chairman Hwang Myeong-ho was a fickle person, but after that one-on-one talk, his attitude towards Gong Cheonghwon became subtly considerate.
‘… But the head-nim of the school affairs also was suddenly given a work command by the chairman-nim?’
There was no point of connection between Gong Cheonghwon and Jegal Jaegeol.
But they had a point in common.
Both of them were kotodama skill users.
* * *
Since ‘that word’ came out, I had to prepare thoroughly.
If I responded awkwardly, there was a high chance I would raise suspicions.
“Yes, I know. The Newspaper Club used it for an article.”
“… Right.”
Yeom Junyeol examined my face, which pretending to be calm.
“I heard that you used a hiding ability, while filming Miro’s busking video for the Playlist death match. And that no one in your class saw through your ability.”
Hearing those words, I thought I knew why Yeom Junyeol used ‘that word’.
When holding a class with Yeom Junyeol at the old school building, and when shooting the video, I used Jeon Muyeong’s ability.
Considering Dokgo Miro’s amazing presence detection ability, he would guess it wasn’t an ordinary hiding ability.
And according to Yeom Junyeol’s words, it seemed that the fact that our class’s Myth category tiger couldn’t see through my sneaking was also passed to him.
“That ability, perhaps…”
Even while talking Yeom Junyeol seemed to be worrying.
At the end of his worries, he cautiously opened his mouth.
“… Did you learn it from someone?”
At those words, my mind unknowingly relaxed in relief.
I replied straight away, without showing signs of too much relief.
“No. I didn’t learn it from anybody.”
I didn’t lie to my disciple.
When Jeon Muyeong became possible to use as a Playable Character , it was after PMH concrete floor collapse.
In other words, there were no people posting on the conquest bulletin board and no rotting and stagnant waters playing the most recent content beside me in sight.
When raising Jeon Muyeong, I received no help from anyone and raised him with my own strength.
On the other side, Yeom Junyeol’s face bloomed at my words.
“So Uisin doesn’t have a master, who taught you hiding technique?”
“Yes.”
“Is that so, huh…! I’m sorry for suddenly stopping you.”
We looked at each other with relieved faces.
Each of us didn’t seem to be able to understand why the other party was relieved, but anyhow, my heart was comfortable and it seemed that my Playable Character’s worries were erased, so I was glad.
“Did You come for the Student Council’s work?”
“No, um… You will know soon.”
Yeom Junyeol was sparing with words.
Even so, I understood immediately why Yeom Junyeol was here.
Yeom Junyeol’s perfect appearance.
Work not related to the Student Council.
Looking at those two conditions, I was reminded of something.
‘It’s because of Playlist shooting, huh?’
It seemed that my sincere disciple was keeping an embargo rule.
I decided to pretend not to know.
“Then I’ll be going. Good luck gathering news. Ah, it’s difficult to talk about things related to Playlist, but I can accept an interview about my feelings seeing the sports exchange.”
I obtained a whooping interview with Yeom Junyeol.
The scene of the Newspaper Club members, including Mun Saeron, cheering, played automatically.
I decided to get a simple impression review through the device messages later, parted with Yeom Junyeol and headed to my destination.
* * *
Eungwang Stadium, central control room.
The priest of Avaritia checked the audience seats through the screen.
10 minutes left until the opening ceremony.
All the audience finished taking their seats and the entrance door were closed for the smooth progress of the event.
The priest of Avaritia, who heard the report that the staff, who had been helping with the seating, withdrew, quietly left.
The ordinary person and the student staff members, didn’t pay any attention to the person, who left, because people were busy coming and going.
Before the door closed, a conversation was heard.
“Ah, can we close the dome now?”
“Yes? Close the dome? There was no such instruction during the rehearsal….”
“Look, this instruction here in bold.”
“Uh, it really is…”
While the Broadcasting Club student, who confirmed the instructions late, was making a fuss, the facility management staff pressed the button to close the dome.
Kieeeeek…!
The stadium’s roof started to close and the sky above the sports ground was slowly covered.
* * *
Kieeek…!
The sound of the dome closing rang out in the distance.
‘It seems I’m just on time.’
I was a bit delayed because I ran into Yeom Juneyol and had a conversation with him, but I arrived at the promised location as planned.
After I ignored the sign ‘Maintenance[2]’, and entered inside, I saw the other party, who I promised to meet.
“You came, eh?”
This place was the waiting room around the entrance the farthest from the central door, which athletes planned to use among the corridors connecting to the sports grounds with Eungwang Stadium.
Currently, there were a few waiting rooms, which were emptied before the opening ceremony, but this waiting room was closed under the reason of air conditioning and communication facilities being under maintenance for a weekend, and there were no people here.
The air conditioning was functioning properly, but the communication in this space was completely blocked.
“Are you prepared?”
Baek Ho-gun, who dyed his hair black and was wearing Eungwang School’s fall uniform, nodded.
Because I only saw his adult version wearing casual clothes in this world, it was a bit unfamiliar, but as expected, worthy of my main Playable Character, he fit Eungwang School’s uniform very well.
“Then let’s go.”
⟨Using ‘Player’s Trajectory’ Gwangrim.⟩
Among numerous cards, which floated up, I selected the character I had in mind and prepared to activate Gwangrim.
Kiiek!
When I finished activating Gwangrim, the dome completely closed and the Eungwang Stadium was cut off from outside.
*~*~*
[1] shown — literally ‘illuminated’.
[2] Maintenance — literally ‘breakdown, defect, medical problem’.
Translator’s note: Yeom Junyeol, if you only knew your master is praising some guy’s appearance in the backrooms…
Wait. The air conditioning and communication failure? With Baek-ho and Jo Uisin meeting in secret? … Sorry, I’m going to go touch grass for a moment.
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