Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
66. Another candidate (10)
Can I receive two gifts?
I was slightly worried, but at the end, I couldn’t ignore the generosity of the good senior and kind disciple Yeom Junyeol, so I accepted.
“Thank you.”
“It’s me who is eternally thankful, master-nim!”
Even though it wasn’t some great thank you, Yeom Junyeol replied with a bright smile.
If other people saw that face, they might have mistakenly thought that it was Yeom Junyeol, who received the gift.
‘What kind of gift did my disciple prepare?’
Could there be a better gift than the Hongryong cheering stick made by the Yong tribe?
With a nervous heart, I checked the card.
My feelings of nervousness and excitement soon changed to embarrassment.
‘… It’s a crow mask!’
Drawn on the card was a crow mask!
On the side of the crow mask were expressions of flames resembling Hongryong — looking at it, it was clear it was made personally — personally! — by Yeom Junyeol.
Why did Yeom Junyeol use his precious talent on such things!?
It seemed that the teenagers, who like Jang Namuk, wasted their talent and time making useless things, were increasing.
“I was thinking of the last time when master-nim called me. I had many crow masks for myself, but I didn’t have a mask I personally made and brought for master-nim.”
… If you speak with such a guilty voice, I won’t be able to say anything.
No, from the beginning there was no way that I could say anything to my Playable Character and only disciple.
When I reluctantly held the card in my hand, Yeom Junyeol spoke.
“This mask has a special set up. When You pour superpower wave into it, it will be covered in flames.”
Crow mask Hongryong edition had a special function, huh?
Frankly, it wasn’t necessary, but considering it was a mask made by Hongryong Yeom Junyeol, I felt its value was enormous.
If I activated the function Yeom Junyeol spoke of, it seemed more appropriate to call it a fire bird mask, not a crow mask, but my disciple called it a crow mask, so this item was a crow mask.
While touched by my disciple’s heart, I listened to the explanation about the crow mask Hongryong edition.
When the explanation ended I quite praised the mask’s intricacies and design.
At that, Yeom Junyeol shyly gave a striking reply.
“In fact I made many masks through trial and error until I got one I thought I could give master-nim. Thanks to that, the spare masks increased.”
There were quite a few crow mask even at the time we infiltrated the TC Research Institute, but they multiplied even more?!
Thinking that the number of the crow masks around was increasing, I felt dizzy.
The problem weren’t the crow masks themselves, the problem was tied with ‘that word’.
‘… it isn’t widely known that ‘that word’ uses a crow mask. It should be fine.’
After I told myself that it was fine a few times, my heart returned to peace.
As I shut my mouth for a moment, Yeom Junyeol seemed to carefully check me.
“… Master-nim, have You heard news from Saeron, perhaps?”
From Mun Saeron?
I wasn’t sure what news Yeom Junyeol was talking about, but I decided to answer this question as a junior Jo Uisin.
Because the 1st year class 0’s Jo Uisin belonged to the Newspaper Club with Mun Saeron.
“I didn’t hear any particular news besides that she was gathering information overseas.”
Mun Saeron was absent from school since the weekend.
There were many club members, who were worried whether she was swept up in some incident overseas, but looking at the messages she was sending, it seemed it was just because of news-gathering.
As I replied as a junior Jo Uisin, Yeom Junyeol returned to the tone of a senior.
“Saeron-i said that she by chance met my master-nim overseas. She was away for a while, but She said She planned to soon return home.”
The ‘Person you can’t imagine’ Mun Saeron met overseas was Yeom Junyeol’s master-nim, huh?
Looks like there was a reason why Mun Saeron showed such excitement.
‘All Yeom Junyeol’s masters are big shots. Except for me.’
The public knew about two of Yeom Junyeol’s masters.
One of them was Yeom Junyeol’s biological father, Ruler of Red Flames, Yeom Bangyeol.
The other was a dragon with wanderlust.
As Yeom Bangyeol was in the country, Yeom Junyeol’s master that Mun Saeron met must have been the dragon.
‘Because of wanderlust, she can’t really stay in one place, but she is a figure powerful enough to become Yeom Junyeol’s master.’
Except from the occasional mentions from Yeom Junyeol, that dragon almost didn’t appear in PMH.
That dragon first appeared after Yeom Junyeol’s death and the Red Lion and the Yong tribe decided to argue against the Korean government.
Even that dragon, who couldn’t be much contacted, seemed to realize her disciple’s death right away.
That dragon came back to the Korean Peninsula and stood side by side with Cheonryong at the front lines.
‘… That’s when Cadmus appeared.’
Cadmus immediately used the Dragon Tooth on Cheongryong and Yeom Junyeol’s master, who stood on the front lines.
The Dragon Tooth summoned by Cadmus couldn’t be blocked by dragon power.
Cheongryong survived by pulling on the Power of Earth, but the neck of Yeom Junyeol’s master was pierced by the tooth, and she died.
It was an empty death, but thanks to her sacrifice, Cadmus’ existence was recognized and they started to put on countermeasures.
‘Because the frequency of her appearances was small and in fact, with her awful and quick leave after just appearing, I have no idea at all what kind of dragon she is.’
While thinking about Yeom Junyeol’s master, Yeom Junyeol started to explain about his masters.
“Father and Her have many disciples besides me. Everyone recommended People with much experiences, so…”
Listening to the explanation, I felt that something wasn’t right.
Why was Yeom Junyeol introducing his masters as if making excuses?
‘Ah, no way… is he worried about that?’
I had only one disciple, Yeom Junyeol, but Yeom Junyeol had three masters, including me.
I guess my kind disciple, who felt guilty for not telling Sawol Seeum about me, now felt guilt for another trivial matter.
I worried what I should say, and then decided to just change the topic.
It seemed like nothing good would come out from dragging this conversation on, and if I pushed the wrong button, the situation may become very uncomfortable.
I roughly ended this conversation with the words that I’ll look forward to the article written by Mun Saeron.
Whether understanding my intentions or deciding to just pass on, Yeom Junyeol naturally responded to the topic change.
“I guess this restaurant serves to a lot of Jin people and descendants. Because movement paths are kept well separate, we didn’t run into anyone while moving.”
As Yeom Junyeol said, after we came in, we didn’t run into anyone besides staff who guided us and took our orders and hotel porters who brought the dishes.
I felt a presence here and there on this floor, so it’s not that the number of guests was small, but it seemed that the movement routes were very well organized.
As it was the good restaurant to be used without drawing attention, the Jin people and descendants, who didn’t want to draw attention, would regularly use it.
“Do You come here often with Yong tribe Members?”
“Only once. We don’t often eat out…”
Indeed, very like the secluded Yong tribe.
As Yeom Junyeol did a lot of outside activities, the Yong tribe members were also exposed little by little with him as a medium, but it seemed that the Yong tribe still showed seclusive tendencies.
“I met Jin people other than us here two times before. One was the Jin in a red dress I ran into in a lounge, and…”
At the words ‘Jin in a red dress’ I suddenly recalled the conversation I had with Yeom Junyeol in the past.
— A day before Cymopoleia boat party, I met a Jin, who seemed to know master-nim. I wanted to inform master-nim straight away, but because I didn’t have a method to contact you…
— It was a Jin wearing a red dress. She said She had something she wanted to speak about and to follow Her. However, I followed master-nim’s words. I didn’t go with people I don’t know.
It was the place where Yeom Junyeol met with Ungnyeo of Grief?
Then, if it was a day before the Cymopoleia’s boat party, wasn’t it the day the chess tournament ended?
That day Yeom Junyeol moved with the Red Lion members and the Yong tribe members, who played the active role in the Jamsil Baseball Stadium’s incident.
In other words, Cheongryong and Yeom Bangyeol were here.
The security standards of this air hotel aren’t bad, but she even deceived the eyes of Cheongryong and Yeom Bangyeol?
I had no idea how Ungnyeo of Grief managed to come into contact with Yeom Junyeol.
“The other time, I met the Head of the Sa tribe[1].”
What? Who did you meet?
Meeting Ungnyeo of Grief was already amazing, but I guess Yeom Junyeol met another big shot.
And from all people, it was the head of the Sa tribe, who could be the Long Tail, who betrayed the 12 Zodiac Alliance.
‘This restaurant structure makes it difficult to meet anyone. If she didn’t approach Yeom Junyeol intentionally like Ungnyeo of Grief…’
Yeom Junyeol talked about the Sa tribe’s head.
The Sa tribe’s head said she was on her way back from meeting someone from the TC group.
According to the results of Hwang Jiho’s investigation, the Sa tribe attempted to contact the TC group and Namkung group, and I guess it was a part of that.
The head of the Sa tribe, who finished the appointment with someone from the TC group, seemed to approach Yeom Junyeol.
“She knew I was visiting and requested that we sit together through a porter. The Yong tribe and Sa tribe are in the 12 Zodiac Alliance together. So I agreed.”
“… What did You talk with Her about?”
Yeom Junyeol said with a bright voice.
“Stories about school life. The Head of Sa tribe seemed really interested in Eungwang School.”
* * *
The priest of the Demon God Invidious recently was looking around the Eungwang District every day.
Invidious’s priest abandoned eating and drinking all together and was absorbed in searching the Eungwang District.
Other Demons thought that the priest of Invidious was acting like this to find the priest of Avaritia, who he was close with, but the truth was different.
The priest of Invidious had no plans of searching or rescuing the priest of Avaritia.
He got his hands on everything he saw, so he had no reason to trouble himself like this.
The priest of Invidious preciously held the purple eyeball left by priest of Avaritia and activated ‘Eyes’ to check Eungwang District.
‘I have to find a gap to penetrate.’
The priest of Invidious had one goal.
The Eungwang District’s Ho tribe and the kotodama user in a crow mask that was on their side.
‘It’s difficult to directly move with the kotodama users around. The Eungwang School already had two teachers using kotodama, so I have to capture that crow mask!’
He was not only a kotodama user, he was a kotodama user, who held hands with the freaking head of the Ho tribe.
It was obvious just at a glance that it wouldn’t be an easy hunt.
But he wanted to get his hands on the kotodama-using crow by any means.
‘I have to find a medium for my familiars to possess. Someone from Eungwang School, with low mental strength and without a strong background, but if they had a connection with Eungwang School’s big shot, it would be even better. If the acquaintance crumbles, the pain will be even greater.’
Invidious’ existence symbolized ‘Envy’.
The food of the Demon God Invidious were people who had low mental strength, strong jealously and inferiority complex.
Currently, the priest of Invidious was searching for such prey.
‘As it’s the peak of the competitive society, there are many students who harbor jealousy towards their opponents at the Eungwang School, but… it’s rare for the students’ mental power to be weak.’
There were many people who harbored strong envy, but because they all had powerful mental strength, they weren’t satisfactory.
How many times did he observe one person that was a worthy candidate, only to stop and switch to observing another target?
The priest of Invidious found a good prey candidate with much difficulty.
‘… Wouldn’t this one be fine?’
In the Demon’s eyes was a male student holding an unlit cigarette in his mouth.
On the nametag worn by the male student with a grim face was written a name ‘Bang Yunseop’.
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[1] Sa tribe — ‘snake’ tribe.
Translator’s note: Yeom Junyeol, you’re worrying about the wrong thing. The actual problem is that your master doesn’t think he is a big shot.
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