Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
62. Way back home (10)
In the chaotic atmosphere, the first one to speak up was Yong Jegeon.
As Hwang Jiho said it so openly, it seemed he thought it wasn’t necessary to be sparing with his words.
“How does Dongha know?”
“…”
Cheon Dongha was silent.
How could Cheon Dongha explain that his hidden half-brother was in fact a Ho, and then he got involved with Hwang Jiho.
Instead of Cheon Dongha, Hwang Jiho laughed and replied:
“Hahahaha! Things happened for that. Are you curious?”
“I’m curious, can I ask? What happened?”
“I’m not telling you.”
If you’re going to reply that you’re not telling him, why say that?
Even though he heard such a ridiculous reply, Yong Jegeon wasn’t annoyed and continued to ask, while Hwang Jiho laughed without holding back.
As the two Jin people, whose ages if combined were over ten thousands years, shared a frivolous conversation, Cheon Dongha, Yeom Junyeol and I were left alone.
As if Yeom Junyeol’s vision was tuning dark seeing that sight, he stared off into the distance and said:
“Jegeon hyung… No, teacher Yong Jegeon-nim is the 1st year class 0’s vice homeroom teacher. And the one He is having a conversation with is a Jin from the 1st year class 0…”
The sound of laughter ‘Hahahaha!’ rang out and spread.
Hearing that sound, the Student Council’s president and senior Yeom Junyeol asked me once again, as if he was worried about me.
“Uisin-ah, tell me if there is anything difficult. Jegeon hyung is a good dragon, perhaps because he is from Game category, there are times when he puts people in helpless situation when he gets involved.”
Yong Jegeon was a good dragon, but he was a Game category dragon.
I fully agreed with Yeom Junyeol’s words.
As if an alarm rang in his device earring at that time, Cheon Dongha opened a hologram and checked messages for a moment, and then said:
“… How about we leave those two Jin people and do our work? Jinseung-i just now found a reporter near the west gate.”
“I know there were no coverage cooperation requests made beforehand. It’s a reporter without Eungwang School’s entrance permit, right?”
“Ye. Perhaps they have a poor understanding of the school barrier, they seem to think they can enter together with a student that has a permit. They’re persistently talking to students.”
It seemed that as teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim and the Guideline Club was worried, the reporters were causing annoyance ahead of Dokgo Miro’s first day attending school.
The report continued.
In each corner of Eungwang School, reporters and insensible fans started to show omens of a raid.
“There are many more than expected. They are all gathering around Eungwang School like this…”
“Eungwang School’s reaction to those things is soft, you know? The Foundation side almost doesn’t raise their hand. There was the case of Playlist PD, but it was just one person, right?”
By any possibility, this current state right now seemed to be connected to Hwang Jiho’s laziness.
It would be that, as everyone who somewhat crossed a line at Eungwang School until now had no big problems.
I stared at Hwang Jiho, who was laughing like before, while conversing with Yong Jegeon, to give Hwang Jiho a hint.
Cheon Dongha’s words continued.
“Junyeol, during your first year there were also many annoying reporters and fans. Thanks to your fan club in Eungwang School and Red Lion making a good job responding, it was settled.”
“That’s true… The school was damaged because of me at that time.”
At Cheon Dongha’s frank fact attack, Yeom Junyeol made an apologetic face.
However, that was just a moment, perhaps because they focused on students’ safety, the two made faces worthy of the Eungwang School’s Student Council’s president and the Guideline Club’s president right away.
Yeom Junyeol and Cheon Dongha calmly discussed countermeasures and decided on the dispatched manpower.
Unlike Yong Jegeon and Hwang Jiho’s conversation, which didn’t befit their age, I cocked my ears to the serious and overflowing with nutritious value, and reflexively asked.
“Can I help?”
Though at best I could make a dummy to lure the reporters and fans.
I suggested it, while thinking about what I can do, but the two people refused right away.
“Thank you for offering, but please leave it to us. We can’t possibly shift work onto a 1st year junior.”
It seemed that Yeom Junyeol decided to thoroughly treat me as a junior right now.
After Yeom Junyeol, Cheon Dongha said a bit jokingly.
“If You really want to help, join the Guideline Club.”
I guess Cheon Dongha still didn’t give up on inviting me to the Guideline Club.
But just thinking about suggesting the research institute internship wasn’t enough?
I was choosing good words to refuse, when Yeom Junyeol cut in with a surprised voice.
“Guideline Club? You’re trying to bring Uisin-i into the Guideline Club?”
“Yea, even in a 2nd semester[1], if the executives and advisor agrees, it’s possible to join in the middle.”
“… Why didn’t I think of that!?”
Yeom Junyeol hastily turned to me and said:
“Uisin-ah, do you have no plans on joining the Student Council?”
Don’t they say that friends resemble each other? Yeom Junyeol and Cheon Dongha made the same suggestion.
Yeom Junyeol briefly introduced the Student Council’s strengths and vision, and the Eungwang School’s Student Council presented personally by the Student Council’s president was endlessly cool.
However, I couldn’t accept that offer.
I was thankful for the two’s offers, but wouldn’t it be difficult considering the future developments?
When I rejected them, the two’s faces were dyed with regret.
As I even rejected them like this, it became even more difficult for me to speak up about helping the two.
‘It’s difficult to directly help by joining forces with Yeom Junyeol and Cheon Dongha, but wouldn’t it be okay to go pick her up like with Min Geurin?’
Thinking such, I decided to leave first.
Before I headed to the 1st year class 0’s classroom, Yeom Junyeol and Cheon Dongha wished me happy birthday one more time.
“Uisin-ah, happy birthday.”
“Happy birthday.”
Cheon Dongha sent a message yesterday, but he matched Yeom Junyeol and congratulated me again.
As I accepted seniors’ congratulations, my footsteps became lighter.
“Did you finish your conversation? Let’s head to class.”
As if Hwang Jiho finished his quarrel with Yong Jegeon, he joined up with me.
The geezer seemed to be in a very good mood, so it looked like he liked to have strange meetings in the morning.
“Uh, Uisin and Jiho came early! Uisin-ah, aren’t you tired?”
When we arrived in the morning, almost all our class children already came to school.
Under Kim Yuri’s lead, class children were decorating the classroom and were arranging the cake and cookie boxes with the MITRON’s logo.
Looking at the decorations with pink base and Dokgo Miro’s name on the holograms, I guessed what was going on here.
‘Are they’re planning to hold Dokgo Miro’s welcome party?’
It seemed that our class children were preparing a party to cheer up Dokgo Miro, who missed the victory, and to welcome her as she was starting to attend the school.
‘It probably will be difficult to go pick her up together. Because they’re preparing the surprise party together.’
But no one contacted me about it.
Our class children weren’t kids who would leave me out of the party preparations without a reason.
So I decided to indirectly ask for a reason.
“If you had contacted me, I would have come to help.”
The one who answered that was Min Guerin, who was drawing Dokgo Miro’s portrait on the electric board.
“Uisin-i worked hard to find my painting. So we hoped you would rest a bit more. If we told you beforehand, you would come to help without resting, right?”
That’s true, but I felt sorry because it seemed like I was thrusting party preparation to the class children.
Officially, I was the class vice president, so shouldn’t I do something for the welcome party for the class kid?
“Geurin-i was being considerate of you, so you should be thank… ack!”
Song Daeseok added a word, but was kicked in the side by Min Guerin.
The situation where Song Daeseok says something useless and is cut off in the middle was taken for granted now, so it didn’t receive particular attention.
“… It seems like you knew.”
When I asked Hwang Jiho, who didn’t show any particular surprise to the situation before us, he answered as I expected.
“Hahahaha! Obviously I knew. The cakes from here to there are chosen and bought by me.”
It appeared that Hwang Jiho also knew everything, but said nothing.
Perhaps because it was good that I didn’t ask at all, the geezer was very excited.
It looked like the geezer’s mood was going to pierce the sky since morning.
“This fucker came to only choose the flavors.”
“I believe that if You eat in the order Jiho designated, You won’t over-sweeten or get a lump in Your throat. The arrangement of cakes and drinks is marvelous!”
Maeng Hyodon and Sawol Seeum, who were carrying the plates and drinks, each added a word.
Just looking at the arrangement of thé noir et vanille and red tea[2], I could guess how much thought was put into it.
It seemed that while I didn’t know anything, the geezer was thorough in preparing for Dokgo Miro’s welcome party.
On the other hand, there were also children, who couldn’t focus on party preparations.
“Lena? Did something happen?” [3]
“… Ah, no, nothing.”
As if she was waiting for someone to contact her, Kwon Lena was blankly staring at the message reception screen on the hologram, and then urgently closed the window.
Moreover, Han Yi, who talked much less than usual, was looking towards the school gate with a complicated face.
It seemed she was waiting for Dokgo Miro to come.
“Looking at the posts published on the general bulletin board, it seems that things got a bit messy in front of the school gate. But thanks to the efforts of the Student Council and Guideline Club, it was immediately organized.” [4]
“Miro should be coming soon. Let’s finish it!”
The class children each hold a firecracker and looked towards the door.
At that moment, Hwang Jiho detected a presence and stared beyond the door.
“Looks like someone is coming to the classroom’s door, eh?”
“Which direction? Front door? Back door?”
“Hmm….”
Hwang Jiho didn’t reply right away.
As his eyes were sparkling, it seemed that something the geezer liked was about to happen again.
The children, who saw Hwang Jiho’s face, stopped asking Hwang Jiho and started to discuss it.
“It does seem like someone is coming.”
“It isn’t teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim. He is guiding at the school gate right now.” [5]
“The classroom door are locked right now, so the only people who can enter is the 1st year class 0 and teachers-nim. Let’s wait!”
And after a moment.
Someone approached close enough that the class children, including me, could detect them.
But as Hwang Jiho said, there was something strange.
Soon that sense of incongruity became reality and the door opened.
Wiiiii!
“I have come! Luis Perenna’s first day at school, first appearance, done!”
“Merlin’s disciple, the outstanding druidess starts attending school today!”
The attention seekers from the 1st year class 0 appeared in the front and back door.
I guess that as the attention seekers approached secretively and fast, they didn’t notice each other’s existences.
‘The one who appeared at the front door, the one calling himself Luis Perenna, is Phantom Thief Neon, and the one, who appeared at the back door is Gu Seulbi, huh?’
It was clear that Luis Perenna adopted by Phantom Thief Neon was a pseudonym.
Because Luis Perenna was a fake name created by rearranging the letters of Arsene Lupin, the phantom thief Phantom Thief Neon adopted the motif of.
The attention seekers, who belatedly recognized each other, looked at each other with faces of abhorrence, and then looked at the board and made shocked faces.
“Dokgo Miro’s welcome party…? Not me?”
“Ah, I guess another kid is coming to school today! I chose a wrong day!”
Wiiii!
After the two attention seekers screamed, they shuffled, quickly closed the door and fled.
After Phantom Thief Neon and Gu Seulbi disappeared, the classroom turned quiet.
While feeling for no reason ashamed at my Playable Character’s attention seeking power, I worked hard to unfold my curled up hands.
After a moment.
As if teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim went to personally pick up Dokgo Miro, the two people appeared in the classroom together.
Teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim looked around the classroom with a face of searching for something, and then asked disappointed.
“I heard that two more people are going to attend school today. Did they still not come?”
“They came, but, um…”
Kim Yuri had to explain the situation of two more people who attended the school, but disappeared.
*~*~*
[1] 2nd semester — raws say ‘2nd grade’ but I think it’s a typo?
[2] red tea — 홍차 (hong-cha) refers to black tea, but thé noir et vanille (if I got this correct) is also black tea, so I’m a bit confused here. But ‘hong’ is part of the word for pink 분홍(bun-hong).
[3] “Lena? Did something happen?” — Mok Uram’s sentence.
[4] “Looking at the posts published on the general bulletin board, it seems that things got a bit messy in front of the school gate. But thanks to the efforts of the Student Council and Guideline Club, it was immediately organized.” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[5] “It isn’t teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim. He is guiding at the school gate right now.” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
Translator’s note: *pulls Hwang Jiho to the side* So about the reason you’ve chosen thé noir et vanille…
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