Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
62. Way back home (12)
After returning home, Seong Gukeon was busy with dealing with schedules.
Majority of it were matters that were unplanned, the meetings with pro Player team’s masters of executives, who were personally close with Seong Gukeon.
Given this situation, Seong Gukeon’s chief aid Jeon Mu-yeong made such an assessment.
“I’m glad that we returned early that day. Assemblyman-nim seems to have profited from class 0 junior.”
“Hahee! I’m a person followed by luck.”
When staying in England, the two people heard through painter Hong Gyeonbok that the 1st year class 0’s students wanted to celebrate Jo Uisin’s birthday.
As such, the two made up their minds to advance the schedule and return early for the sake of their juniors.
After they returned, they were suddenly swarmed with calls, and the busy schedule continued.
This situation continued past weekend, until the working week.
Even though Monday was just one day, Seong Gukeon split his time between several luncheons, and Seong Gukeon’s lunch today ended only in late afternoon.
It was called ‘lunch’, but the time was closer to dinner time.
“The Pro Players teams moving their bases to Korean increased, eh? Looking at those big numbers, it won’t be easy to get even one meal.”
“It’ll be even more busy in the future.”
Currently, there was only one Player among the assemblymen of Korea, Seong Gukeon.
Moreover, there were not a one or two senior and junior Players from Eungwang School, who he was personally close with, regardless of his Assembly’s seat.
It was a natural process that Seong Gukeon became busy with certifying the pro Player teams that were setting their bases in Korea.
“I should finish the British matter before I became even more busy, eh?”
“Are you speaking of the Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven or Fomori Demons?”
Jeon Mu-yeong thought about ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’ which was left to Jo Uisin and Fomori Demons, who tried to make some kind of request to Seong Gukeon, and asked.
“The latter. Strictly speaking, ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’ can’t be called British matter. From the beginning it was a matter of this country, and it was related to clues coming out of Eungwang School.”
“That’s true. I’ll check.”
Jeon Mu-yeong took out a device from the briefcase, and read the new message.
When the time Jeon Mu-yeong spent looking at the hologram prolonged, Seong Gukeon asked:
“Fomori Demons made contact?”
“Yes. A message arrived on the borrowed name device.”
“I thought that Danu gods tribe would step out, but I guess they failed to retrieve the stone, eh?”
Jeon Mu-yeong opened the Fomori Demons’ message on the holograms transmitting to Seong Gukeon.
The Fomori Demons were once again asking Seong Gukeon to destroy Lia Fáil, and be it word choice or tone, they were all polite.
Even while reading the message with unmoved eyes, Seong Gukeon thought it was despicable.
There was no way he could see the Jin people trying to coax a human into destroying a divine treasure as pretty.
“… Assemblyman-nim?”
When Jeon Mu-yeong called out, Seong Gukeon organized his emotions and cool-head returned.
Seong Gukeon put aside his idle thoughts, while he sound out his thoughts.
“Even if ‘Lia Fáil’ which proves legitimacy of a king has no direct uses, its symbolism is ahead of other treasures. There is no way that Danu gods tribe simply gave up on it.”
“I agree. If they attempted to recapture it and failed, it would take them a moment to retry.”
After Jeon Mu-yeong expressed agreement, the conversation was briefly cut off.
Seong Gukeon held back his words for a second, and then opened his mouth.
“No, let’s change our thinking. There is a chance that Danu gods tribe has prepared other arrangements, instead of retrieving the stone.”
“What kind of other arrangement it would be…”
“I would have to meet Fomori Demons to get that clue. However, it doesn’t seem necessary for us to get involved in the matter between Fomori Demons and Danu gods tribe any further. For now.”
Bothered by the expression ‘for now’, Jeon Mu-yeong asked back.
“… Do You plan to get involved if necessary?”
“Of course.”
After saying that, Seong Gukeon unfolded a hologram and started to read materials.
The content of materials were Celtic myths and its inheritance.
Among those, there were things involving Fomori Demons and Danu gods tribe.
‘You must be tired, but…’
Because he got almost not sleep recently, Seong Gukeon’s eyes, when he read the materials, were bloodshot.
Jeon Mu-yeong handed him mineral water, while saying:
“Assemblyman, please leave it for today and go rest.”
“Hahee, the sun hasn’t set yet, so how can I sleep? Ah, should I go do this week’s otherworld conquest?”
Seong Gukeon seemed to have no thoughts of resting.
This time he opened the Player’s Association’s otherworld warning page.
‘… I hoped he would rest.’
Jeon Mu-yeong came up with a scheme to make Seong Gukeon rest.
If Seong Gukeon had no thoughts of resting, then he would adjust his schedule to something less burdensome, even if a little.
The matter that was at least less energy consuming and simpler than reading materials about Celtic myths’ inheritance in original language or conquering otherworld.
Jeon Mu-yeong browsed the schedule targets and found something suiting.
‘Opportunely, it seems that elementary school student returned from the relative’s house, eh?’
At the time he carried out an absurd mission of infiltrating the Gwangli elementary school, there was an elementary school student, who saw through his hiding skill.
Because that elementary student belongs to the class whose homeroom teacher disappeared, and possesses uncommon potential, he reported it to Seong Gukeon and Seong Gukeon showed interest.
Seong Gukeon tried to personally meet that elementary school student, but it was difficult to meet him, as he kept being absent, perhaps staying at the house of a relative.
And today, he received a report that elementary student came to school from the place he was registered under.
‘Rather than conquering otherworld, it would be much less mentally and physically burdensome to meet a talented elementary school student.’
Jeon Mu-yeong, who judged like this, suggested:
“Assemblyman-nim, it seems that the Gwangli Elementary School’s student I mentioned before returned home today.”
“That child? It’s not too late to go now?”
“Yes, there is still time. Today he has afternoon classes.”
Luckily, Seong Gukeon happily accepted that suggestion.
Under Jeon Mu-yeong’s guidance, Seong Gukeon was able to take a break until the Gwangli Elementary School’s classes ended.
And after Gwangli Elementary School’s end-of-day meeting.
The hour was pretty late, but the student they wanted to meet was nowhere to be seen.
“Didn’t most of the elementary students already return home? It’s later than expected. Did something happen?”
“… I’ll go check.”
Because of that, Jeon Mu-yeong ended up infiltrating the elementary school again.
Luckily, this infiltration didn’t take very long.
After checking on the whereabouts of the target, ‘Hwang Yuho’, Jeon Mu-yeong quickly came back.
“I heard that today a relative is picking up student Hwang Yuho. They said he is waiting until He comes to pick him up.”
“Pick him up?”
“I heard that there is a pretty big age gap between him and his cousin hyung.”
“Counsin hyung… It doesn’t seem He was in materials. We should check it later.”
It wasn’t long before the identity of the cousin hyung was revealed.
Walking side by side with the elementary student with pretty eyes was a person both of them knew very well.
Jeon Mu-yeong said with a bright face.
“I guess teacher Kim Sinrok-nim and student Hwang Yuho are relatives.”
“… There seems to be quite an age gap.”
“Genealogy could get twisted. What a small world. There is no need to disguise it as coincidence.”
While talking, Seong Gukeon looked towards the two, who were walking in their direction and fell silent for a moment.
It wasn’t right even considering the difference in features and age, and even if he dug into his background, there was no relation, but he kept reminiscing on his old master.
Kim Sinrok covered his left eye a bit with longer hair, so that sight could make him think of his old master.
There were also other things that overlapped besides the hair.
‘… Yong Jegeon bothered teacher-nim. Is it because of that?’
Seong Gukeon suppressed the sense of déjà vu, as he followed after Jeon Mu-yeong.
Perhaps he wanted to go to quickly greet Kim Sinrok, Jeon Mu-yeong’s steps were quicker than usual.
Jeon Mu-yeong stood in front of Kim Sinrok and very politely greeted him.
“Teacher-nim, we meet again.”
“… Hello.”
“Teacher-nim, You can speak comfortably.”
Kim Sinrok looked at Jeon Mu-yeong with a somewhat nervous face.
Because it was difficult to think of it as a master meeting his old disciple, Seong Gukeon observed that sight with deep attention.
On the other hand, the elementary student beside him, greeted them with sparkling eyes.
After Jeon Mu-yeong, he also bowed slightly, greeting Seong Gukeon — his appearance was so bright it was difficult to think it was a child, who was harassed at the elementary school.
“Hello?” [1]
This child looked strangely excited.
Seong Gukeon was bothered by it, but he couldn’t ignore the greetings of a young child, and greeted him back.
After the elementary school student, Seong Gukeon naturally spoke towards Kim Sinrok.
“Hello, we meet again. Teacher Kim Sinrok-nim.”
Seong Gukeon greeted him in a friendly manner, but with an attitude he would have towards someone he met not a long time ago.
“There must be a reason[2] we meet like this, how about we have a cup of tea? What do you want to eat?”
“I like ice cream.”
“Hahee, alright. Let’s go eat them!”
While naturally talking with the elementary school student, Seong Gukeon was busy contemplating.
Kim Sinrok looked at this disciple, who grew in a blink of an eye and became an adult, with bitterness.
Looking from the side at the Ho tribe’s head, Hwang-ho, who faced Seong Gukeon as a casual elementary school student, that feeling of bitterness grew even more.
* * *
Hwang Myeong-ho’s great mansion’s side building.
Hwang Jiho, that geezer, just laughed excitedly, and didn’t say any proper words.
It seemed that he had no plans on saying anything properly until we moved to the side building.
“So, how did it turn out?”
“Well, nothing particular. We had a meal together today. Seong Gukeon bought me ice cream. Green tea[3] and chocolate mix isn’t bad.”
“I didn’t ask.”
Even after we finished dinner, the geezer kept spilling information that wasn’t very nutritious.
No, I guess that geezer was shamelessly getting ice cream from my Playable Character with this elementary school student appearance.
“I know that Seong Gukeon has an ability to differentiate between Jin people and humans. Did he use that ability?”
Eun-ho, who throughout the meal only pushed forward side-dishes and chatted about trivial things, without opening his mouth at all about the matters I was curious about, brought up the related story for the first time.
Hwang Jiho, that geezer, freaking obediently replied to Eun-ho.
“Rather than not using it, it seems he can’t catch a timing to use it. Jeon Mu-yeong completely trusts Kim Sinrok, so he probably doesn’t dare to use it.”
It seemed that Kim Sinrok’s old disciple Jeon Mu-yeong’s trust was quite thick.
Hwang Jiho added one more word.
“Even so, this opportunity created a chance for the four to meet again. The two seem to be curious about that teacher from Gwangli Elementary School. We can have a more detailed conversation at that time.”
Even though I understood Hwang Jiho’s words, I was a bit angry.
No, there was nothing particular, so why was he dragging it out like there was something?
It was suffocating, but I suppressed my feelings and decided to bring up another topic.
Because it was a story I came here to tell.
“As we’ve finished the meal, I want to talk about the reason I went to Britain.”
Luckily, this time neither Eun-ho, nor Hwang Jiho tried to block my mouth.
“Then let’s hear it. Though I already heard on the plane that it was to retrieve the ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’.”
The geezer added useless addendum, but I explained what happened in the United Kingdom in detail.
After I finished speaking, I took out the ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’.
“There is a high chance that this painting has clues related to the ‘Frozen Otherworlds’.”
Instead of speaking, it was quicker to directly show them.
While speaking, I took out ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’ from the item window and materialized it.
After pouring out superpower wave, the card with special colors of UR rank item, started to change into a painting.
Paaat!
With the painting appeared, the dignity of Imoogi that was about to try to rise into heavens among the clouds was revealed.
“Amazing, eh…! This is the work painted by the best painter of Korea?”
While Hwang Jiho spat out in admiration, Eun-ho quietly observed the painting.
Eun-ho didn’t speak for a while.
“What’s the matter?”
At Hwang Jiho’s question, Eun-ho belatedly replied.
Eun-ho’s eyes were filled with superpower wave, as he looked at the ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’.
“To my eyes, this panting… looks like a map.”
*~*~*
[1] Hello? — polite tone, so it should be Hwang Yuho’s sentence.
[2] reason — a ‘connection’, ‘relationship’, a ‘cause of people meeting’.
[3] green tea — 녹차(nok-cha) can also mean ‘a title of a person nominated to become a leader / root for the word ‘to rise to the position of a leader’’. I tried to crack chocolate (pun unintended), but it’s an English word so it’s hard to find how it would connect to Jeon Mu-yeong (besides personality I guess).
[?] Title’s hanja — 귀(kwi) can mean ‘to be exhausted’ or ‘to offer a meal, to give someone food’.
Translator’s note: No, no, Jo Uisin, Hwang Jiho’s ice cream reviews are very important.
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