Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
36. Beginning of growing thread (2)
With the scene of good-looking people having a warm conversation in the background, Mun Saeron winked and held up a thumb.
Yu Sang-hun was also approaching us from behind in a careless manner as if he received a call from Mun Saeron.
“You came?”
“Yeah.”
It seemed that Yu Sang-hun’s greetings were becoming more absentminded as the days went by, but perhaps it was just my mood.
Yu Sang-hun, who threw the greeting that wasn’t a greeting, looked at Ju Su-hyeok and An Dain and then looked at Mun Saeron as if asking ‘What is it?’.
“I don’t know with just a random passerby, but if it’s you, they will feel uselessly shy or try to speak up to you, won’t they? So I called you to come this way, so you wouldn’t be noticed.”
“Good job, Saeron!”
As if Kim Yuri was also supporting the two people, she burst into cheers with a quiet voice together with Mun Saeron.
The two even exchanged device codes, while promising to cooperate in the future.
“Uh, so our class president is dating the class president next door?” [1]
“Not yet.”
“Not yet? Hey, the exams ended, so let’s invite Jang Namuk to play.”
As if Yu Sang-hun didn’t have a particular interest in making two geniuses date each other, he changed the topic.
It seemed that the conversation was about the basketball, but when the talk gradually got off-topic and changed to the ‘Tao Sihu deserves to be dunked on the head with a basketball’ and ‘Shouldn’t we also punch Jang Namuk at least once?’.
“Uisin.”
I heard Yu Sang-hui’s voice.
I didn’t know if she was contacted by Mun Saeron or was considerate from the beginning, Yu Sang-hui also appeared in the corridor from the backdoors.
“Hello.”
“Yeah, hi. I heard about Sihu. It seems I’m indebted to you again… And to Jang Namuk, teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim and teacher Hong Gyeongbok-nim.”
Yu Sang-hui and Tao Sihu knew each other?
But it seemed like Yu Sang-hun didn’t know Tao Sihu.
“I didn’t do anything. Do You and Sihu know each other?”
“Yep. I attended a meeting in the past because of the work I had in TC. Wonu introduced him at that time.”
Work at TC’s side? Meeting?
It wasn’t mentioned in the game, so I had no idea, but considering that Yu Sang-hun didn’t go there, it may have been related to her healing abilities.
‘Uh?’
As I stared at Yu Sang-hui, because I fell into thoughts for a moment, I saw she was a bit tired today.
Her eyes were a bit puffy and her lips were bloodless.
The exams ended, so why did she look so tired?
“Are You busy, because there is a lot of Student Council work?”
I spoke about the first and best guess I could come up with, but Yu Sang-hui shook her head.
“No… The Student Council workload isn’t particularly different from usual, but I’m looking into my career prospects these days.”
As Yu Sang-hui was a 3rd year, she probably would be looking into her career prospects, huh?
Player’s careers were more diverse than I thought, so it was worthy contemplating.
In addition, besides Yu Sang-hui possessing a rare superpower, she was also cherished by Acea, so even if we ignore the superpowers, she was outstanding.
‘Even if I know the content of the game and the future, I can’t give any suggestions, huh?’
The in-game Yu Sang-hui threw away her future career and everything else, and went after a revenge for Yu Sang-hun.
But the targets of her revenge were all demonic beast Enemies, so it was a revenge that was difficult to complete.
Besides, it was also because she ended up dying before she graduated.
“Ah, really.”
At that moment, Yu Sang-hun frowned without hiding it.
As I followed Yu Sang-hun’s gaze and turned around, I saw Tao Wonu sending me a corrupted gaze.
He was corrupt when he came close to me to bump into my shoulder, but him openly peeping through the door crack of the conference room from far away was also corrupt.
“Why is that crazy bastard like this?”
“Because Wonu was bothering me with the talk about the career prospects these days, I told him to not come close to me for a while.”
“Dog shit ‘for a while’. Tell him not to come close to you for eternity in the future.”
“What senior Tao Wonu-nim was bothering You about?”
I had a guess what it was about, but I asked.
“A story of the research institute on TC’s side came up, they said they would provide me tuition and scholarship on the condition of becoming a researcher of the research institute after I graduate. Wonu keeps strongly recommending that, so…”
While Yu Sang-hui spoke like this, her face darkened.
It didn’t seem it like it was because of the simple recommendation, so did something happen?
“Sanghui unnie, hello!”
“When did you come? Let’s enter quickly.”
But before I could ask more, the guys assumed to be Student Council’s juniors gathered.
As if it was the time for the meeting to start, Ju Su-hyeok and An Dain were also heading this way while chatting.
“Okay, kids. Let’s enter.”
Yu Sang-hui’s side-profile, who walked ahead while smiling softly, looked somewhat shadowed.
I was bothered by it, but it was not a situation to ask more questions, so I decided to also enter.
‘It seems like I was coming here for an extremely long time.’
Terrace seat conference room I was coming to for the past few months.
Each person found the seat with a sign listing their position and sat down.
Student Council, Guideline Club, Earthly Wings Council and each of the class representatives.
Everywhere I heard the sound of conversation of people preparing for the meeting.
“Junyeol’s expression isn’t good today. It’s not good, but it’s handsome. Because it’s handsome, even that expression is good to look at.”
“What happened?”
“Ah, today the grades were announced, remember? Is he like this because he lost to Dongha again?”
“What should we do… he turns on a messenger on the hologram and just looks at it. Isn’t he like this because he is worried how he should tell his family?”
The center of the conversation was Yeom Junyeol sitting at the Student Council’s side seats, making an expression which evoked sadness.
But second place was praiseworthy enough.
Should I send a message to my disciple first and congratulate him?
No, if you send a congratulatory message for a second place to a child, who said that they will aim for the first place, it may sound like you’re provoking them.
“Where did Ma Jinseung go? Let’s get rid of that fool before he scratches Junyeol’s insides.”
“Too late. That idiot Ma Jinseung shouted nonsense ‘Dongha beat you, and Dongha is in the Guideline Club, so it’s Guideline club’s victory. And I’m in the Guideline Club. So it’s my victory!’ to our Junyeol and was locked up in the fire prison.”
“Ah… It was that place where Junyeol’s fans ate grilled pork belly skewers, huh?”
I guess something like that happened in the 2nd year zone.
It seemed that he was ambushed by Yeom Junyeol’s fans, so Ma Jinseung will probably be forced to be absent today.
‘Besides Ma Jinseung, it seems that all other people will come… the class 0 is a problem.’
The class 0, which was seated in the most front row even this time, caught my eye.
The 3rd year class 0 was sitting in their seat like good kids as if they weren’t searching for the Energy of Universe today.
Woo Gihwan and a person assumed to be the vice class president.
They put straws in their protein supplement pouches and gulped them down with indifferent eyes.
In their hands they were holding dumbbells.
‘Are you still bulking up?’
I withdrew my gaze while thinking that it appears to be healthier when compared to searching for the Energy of Universe.
The problem were empty seats of the 2nd year class 0.
Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol had yet to appear.
‘No way, are they thinking of sticking to the ceiling again to appear?’
I reflexively looked at the ceiling.
As if I wasn’t the only one who thought like this, here and there people looked up at the ceiling.
But the only visible things were ceiling lights.
“Didn’t those guys use an invisibility item?”
“I’ll activate detection category skill… nothing?”
At that moment, Tao Wonu, who was sitting in the speaker seat, suddenly stood up.
He expressionlessly moved like a wind and took off the flag that was hanging behind him.
Paat!
“Ack!”
“Ah, you can’t!”
Behind the flag, a man and woman, wearing gym uniforms and stuck to the wall, screamed.
After everyone’s gazes poured down at them, Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol glared at Tao Wonu.
“Aauu! Student Council president, again!”
“Ruined! Ah, how did you find us again?!”
GeunChan&WangChan duo ground their teeth.
Tao Wonu filled his voice with superpower wave and spoke heavily.
“Get down.”
After that, the duo grumbled and jumped down.
The rough content of that was that they were hiding there for an hour to appear at the last moment and that they planned to launch lasers the instant they appeared for a colorful and cool entrance.
“It’s because that slug Ma Jinseung is late! Where is that bastard right now?”
“… Didn’t they say that he is in the fire prison right now? Ah, aren’t there frozen chicken skewers in our class snack storage~? Let’s tell our classmates to eat that for a grill.”
“Right! We should make snacks for teach Jegal-nim, right?”
The two spoke like this, while they operated their devices and sat down.
I felt sorry for Ma Jinseung who had to watch the eating show inside the fire prison, but he was asking for it, so I decided to pretend I don’t know anything about it.
“… We will start the 2/4 quarter student representative meeting now.”
After most of the noise settled, Tao Wonu held an opening speech and then the student representative meeting unfolded.
When class representatives of each class finished their reports,
“… Next, the announcement about the 1st year youth training camp planned during the summer break.”
The time I was waiting for the most came.
“The Player usable facilities that can be used by a group are currently limited, so we plan to divide the year before going to the youth training camp.”
The 1st year total of about 500 people.
Facilities that could be used by those outstanding, but still inexperienced, Players at the same time were extremely limited.
“We plan to set a youth training plan with the 1st year students with around 100 people each, or in other words, with two classes tied into one group. The 1st year class 0, which has a small number of students, will be with class 1 and class 2…”
Listening to the secretary Yu Sang-hui’s report, I meticulously checked the holographic materials, which were distributed beforehand.
Comparing with the incident in the game, the summary was largely the same.
‘The youth training camp’s plan itself is not really different from the game. Even so, there are big differences. Class 1’s homeroom teacher is not Choe Pyeondeuk and changed to Kim Sinrok. And there are no illegal admissions in the class 1 to mess things up. And…’
I looked at Kim Yuri who was sitting beside me.
She, who was wearing the long sleeve school uniform like before, even though the stamp of the Sealing Technique disappeared, was reading the hologram with an excited face.
“I hope that everyone in our class can go! Don’t you too? But wouldn’t many guys be busy? Uh…”
Kim Yuri’s face hardened.
It seemed that she read the same part as me.
The place allocated to the 1st year class 0, class 1 and class 2 was Teen Player Training Center on the Seongmo island.
It was an island located west from the Ganghwa Island.
‘Now that the Gwangrim Sealing disappeared, she probably is reluctant to go to sea.’
In the game Kim Yuri was also worrying if she should go or not until the last moment, but she decided to go to strengthen An Dain, who had many problems in the class because of ganging up of Choe Pyeondeuk and illegal admissions, who had now left the stage.
I didn’t know what kind of choice she may make now.
“Next, we will give You a report about the two school exchanges.”
Midst my worries, the topic of the meeting changed.
Two school exchanges?
There was something beside the school exchange with the Military Academy?
“The sport exchange with the Player Military Academy held in the first half of the 2nd semester. Currently, the number of clubs that revealed interest to participate in the General Club Council and Student Council is thirteen. The number of students is twenty-eight. We will hold a preliminary contest to select representative teams and athletes during the summer break and plan to support them so they can prepare for the school exchange in the 2nd semester.”
Yu Sang-hun, who before was chasing the dust floating in the air, listened to that explanation, overflowing with enthusiasm.
Yu Sang-hun, who didn’t even turn on the hologram and was blanking out, was suddenly even taking some kind of notes.
After the announcement about the sport exchange’s disciplines and the preliminary contest schedule ended.
“Next, we will talk about the Korea-China-Japan youth school exchange.”
Korea-China-Japan youth school exchange?
Thinking about it, Hwang Jiho commented that it was the exchange that Choe Pyeondeuk tried to put to rest, right?
In the game, as if that bastard’s plan was successful, there was no mention of the school exchange.
“Currently there are some difficulties adjusting the schedule, so there is an opinion that it would be difficult for 3rd years, who are just before the graduation, to take the role of school representatives. There is a possibility that the school exchange won’t be held this year. Therefore, we plan to select Eungwang School representatives mainly among the 2nd years.”
It would be difficult for the 3rd years, busy with the university entrance exams, job seeking and conquest of otherworlds, to prepare for the exchange with an uncertain schedule.
“First, we will announce the list of pre-selected students, chosen considering their otherworld conquest results, school grades and teachers recommendations. Later we plan to hold a preliminary contest for the candidates wishing to participate.”
After Yu Sang-hui unfolded a hologram, the list of students floated up on the wall.
Majority of it was filled with names of 2nd years, but there seemed to be a few people from the 1st year.
“We will reveal the 1st year nominees first. The 1st year class 1 An Dain, the 1st year class 2 Ju Su-hyeok… and 1st year class 0 Jo Uisin.”
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[1] “Uh, so our class president is dating the class president next door?” — Yu Sang-hun is using here ‘cute/reportive’ tone. But I can’t imagine him trying to sound cute, so I believe it’s to sound disinterested, reportive. So putting ‘~’ here would be weird, right?
[?] note about the tone used during the student representative meeting — they’re using formal tone when speaking, giving the entire meeting the air of professionalism… or cuteness. It is very normal to use a formal tone in such a setting, but from my, an outsider’s, not a native Korean speaker’s perspective that looks very cute. (Yes, you’re correct. I just wanted to say that because I felt one note is too little notes)
Translator’s note: Jo Uisin is hiding his grades from us!
Did you see a mistake? 🐞
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