Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
45. If it doesn’t rain during Chushu (2)
Late night, Ju-Oh Island’s beach.
The sandy beach raided by Woo Gihwan’s gang was cleaned up tidily.
On the beach that spread wide there was no trace of the barbecue party or people taking a walk.
Yu Sang-hun walked alongside the waves.
The weather was sultry as before, but the wind blowing from the night sea was a bit cold.
“Let’s sit down.”
Yu Sang-hun took off the cap of the soda’s plastic bottle he took out of the refrigerator in the resort lobby, while he sank down on the sandy beach.
If Yu Sang-hui or Jang Namuk saw it, they would nag him that he would have sand in his clothes if he just sat down like this.
Regretfully, I wasn’t in position to nag him right now.
I left about a foot of distance between me and Yu Sang-hun and also sat down beside him.
“…”
“…”
It seemed that Yu Sang-hun was waiting for me to speak, but I couldn’t come up with what to say.
Should I say I’m sorry for making him dream a nightmare?
Then wouldn’t I also have to talk about the content of the nightmare?
Have to explain why ‘I’ didn’t appear in the nightmare I made him dream?
‘I can’t talk about the game or Exclusive Menu skill…!’
I thought it would be the best to avoid it, but it would make my attitude on the subject of the nightmare I made them dream insincere.
Seeing that attitude, Yu Sang-hun and Jang Namuk wouldn’t think particularly highly of that.
“Why are you making such a face?”
Yu Sang-hun turned his face to look at me and spat out.
It seemed that as Hwang Jiho commented during the morning tea time, I wasn’t able to hide my expression well if I wasn’t fighting.
“I and Jang Namuk decided not to bother anymore about that dream.”
“… Uh?”
“You said we won’t see that dream again so it’s done.”
After I let out a stupid sound, Yu Sang-hun giggled.
“Even if we dreamed that dog-shit dream because of you, it’s not a problem. Thanks to you that dog-shit dream didn’t become a reality, you know?”
Not a problem.
It seemed that was the conclusion that Jang Namuk and Yu Sang-hun drew.
Suddenly my heart was lighter.
After I realized the identity of the ‘Replay’ function, I often felt like my breathing was blocked, but perhaps thanks to my heart becoming lighter, it felt as if I could breathe much more comfortably.
Seeing Yu Sang-hun treat me with an attitude as if nothing happened, an apologetic feeling surged in me.
“… Sorry.”
“It’s done. I said already, there is no problem.”
Yu Sang-hun spoke with a tone as if he really wasn’t bothered.
While starting to drink the soda that he was only holding in his hand before, Yu Sang-hun asked.
“Did you use some kind of skill? Are there side-effects? Jang Namuk is worried.”
“I’m not sure about side-effects.”
“You didn’t have a nightmare?”
“I don’t dream to begin with.”
“Envy. You know that because the superpower wave influences brain waves, it’s easy for Players to dream, right? I hate to sometimes wake up in the morning because I couldn’t sleep soundly.”
After that, we had a trivial conversation like the ones we always had when we ran into each other on the school’s corridor.
The conversation’s topic changed to the sport exchange with the Military Academy, which would be held sometime during the 2nd semester.
Knowing that among the 1st year students chosen as representatives of the Military academy’s Basketball club was Tao Sihu, he seemed to burn with enthusiasm.
“I won’t lose to a 1st year like me.”
“I’ll cheer for you.”
“Cheer all three matches.”
If one team won two matches in a row, they would only play two matches.
I guess Yu Sang-hun predicted they would play all three matches.
When I replied I got it, and we were about to slowly return to the resort.
I sensed something with enormous power coming towards us from the pitch-black sea.
I immediately stood up, as I spoke:
“Something is coming.”
“What?”
Yu Sang-hun didn’t seem to be able to detect it yet, but following after me, he took out a weapon item card.
I took out a rod and activated a skill.
⟨Skill ‘Brilliant Gaze’ activated.⟩
With the sensation of superpower wave pouring into my eyes, my vision brightened.
The Ho tribe’s eyes’ performance improves the darker it is, so I clearly saw through the superpower wave’s flow and movement in the darkness.
And I started to see something approaching from the sea.
That something was running on the surface of the sea!
‘Are they’re using an item? If not, a skill or Gwangrim? If not even that, are they controlling the superpower wave to make a footstep?’
I didn’t know their identity, but when considering the output of the power I felt, the other party obviously had a power on par with Jin people.
I doubted if I could face them.
‘Should I call Hwang Jiho? … Uh? That person…’
When they approached enough that I could recognize the other party’s face with the Brilliant Gaze skill.
I turned the rod into a card, put it back into an item window and activated a device.
“What are you doing?”
“I have a place to contact.”
While Yu Sang-hun was confused, someone running on the sea surface, approaching with frightening speed.
The someone was running on the sea surface with bare feet, holding slippers in one hand, it looked as if someone came out on a leisure walk on a beach.
“Hello? Teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim, can You talk?”
[Yeah, what happened?]
“The Person You’re searching for has just been found.”
Teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim, who was conducting a search even in the middle of the night, replied immediately.
In the meantime, the person, who just arrived, spoke up to Yu Sang-hun.
“Hi, did you see our class kids?”
The identity of the enormous power that crossed the sea was the strong homeroom teacher Im Yeonhwa.
Unlike her disciples, who became wild zombies, Im Yeonhwa looked neat and tidy.
* * *
The teachers knew very well how strong Im Yeonhwa was.
But the teachers who were bothered that the contact was cut off immediately after the conquest of the unidentified otherworld decided to search the sea and uninhabited islands in the vicinity.
There was no one on the uninhibited island where the 3rd year class 0’s student’s boot camp was held, and as Woo Gihwan reported, there was nothing left but remains of destroyed food storage.
The teachers, who formed groups of two made up from a homeroom teacher and a vice homeroom teacher of each class to deal with the accident and search the nearby islands and sea, heard the good news.
Ham Geunhyeong, who received Jo Uisin’s call, informing him that Im Yeonhwa was found, spoke to Yong Jegeon, who was floating in the air using the Flight skill.
“Teacher Yong Jegeon-nim, let’s come back.”
“Ok, let’s go.”
He was somewhat bothered by Yong Jegeon who replied brightly.
He showed signs of serious annoyance when he couldn’t play until late night and had to search for Im Yeonhwa, but from a certain point he looked very excited.
‘Since when?’
When an hour had yet to pass since they began the search.
Yong Jegeon seemed to discover something and flew somewhere alone.
But a few minutes didn’t pass when he returned empty-handed.
‘Did something happen?’
While Ham Geun-hyeong was thinking, Yong Jegeon lightly flicked his finger.
Tak! Paaat!
After Yong Jegeon made a space for one person to climb on with the Space Art, he gestured towards Ham Geun-hyeong.
“Let’s get moving. Ride this space.”
“Thank You.”
Ham Geun-hyeong, who swiftly climbed the foothold made by Yong Jegeon, halted for a second.
Because Yong Jegeon was making his special ecstatic expression.
‘… Why is teacher Yong Jegeon-nim making that expression?’
That special expression of ecstasy was highly infamous even among the teachers.
Yong Jegeon, who was a Game category Yong, was getting along and played with the children well, but there were times when that playing went too far.
When Yong Jegeon was about to commit something this extreme, he would always make that ecstatic expression.
Ham Geun-hyeong, who from years of work experience knew it very well, promised himself to devote more attention to children’s safety.
* * *
Im Yeonhwa, who appeared neat and tidy, after taking a shower and changing clothes in an empty guest room was even more neat and tidy.
That appearance was incomparable to the 3rd year class 0’s primitive bastards, who had still no idea that the strong homeroom teacher had been found and were sleeping soundly.
Im Yeonhwa, who took out a watermelon juice to drink from the refrigerator located in the lobby, was overflowing with energy.
“Teacher Im Yeonhwa-nim, where were You?”
“Uh? I told you, I was searching for runaways.”
“Teachers-nim said They couldn’t contact You….”
“I guess the solar panel broke during the otherworld conquest. I was completely out of battery. It was suffocating that I couldn’t take pictures or use SNS, but most of all I couldn’t see my cute disciples!”
Cute disciples?
I decided to take this expression with a grain of salt.
No Yeongmi, who was the first to arrive among the teachers, asked:
“… Yeonhwa, you lost the students you were training? How unexpected. I guess student Woo Gihwan also grew a lot.”
I was also bothered by it.
How did Woo Gihwan’s gang slipped the grasp of that strong homeroom teacher?
“Ah, those kids still have a long way to go! How did I lose them? After I conquered the otherworld, my body was strangely heavy, I couldn’t use my strength very well. But after resting a bit, I got better!”
I guess she was influenced when conquering the Frozen Otherworld.
Even Im Yeonhwa wasn’t all-powerful, huh?
But even though she was poisoned by the Superpower Poison, she rested for a bit and got better just like that?
It was described as a poison status that could be solved with a Player or a Jin’s regeneration abilities, but Im Yeonhwa looked extremely fine.
“Then I’ll be going first.”
“Okay, if you sleep too little, you become weak. Sleep early!”
Perhaps Im Yeonhwa, who was in charge of the ‘Understanding of Jin people 1’, recognized me as a student attending her class as she gave me worried goodbyes.
It seemed that she was worried about me becoming weaker, because a majority of the humankind was weaker than Im Yeonhwa.
I and Yu Sang-hun headed to the floors allocated to us.
I heard the conversation of No Yeongmi and Im Yeonhwa behind us.
“… So what are you thinking of doing when you catch the class 0’s students?”
“Uh? I was thinking of going on as planned.”
“As planned?”
Im Yeonhwa spoke brightly.
“We should continue training until the end of summer, right? To make up for the parts we missed when the kids deserted.”
If the dreaming sweetly Woo Gihwan’s gang heard that sound, they would go crazy.
* * *
The resort safely welcomed the morning.
While the majority of children similar to me stayed up all night to play, the 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards slept soundly and woke up right on time for breakfast.
The starving primitive men stormed the cafeteria with scary eyes as if they only waited to eat, but then the chief of the primitive men faced the strong homeroom teacher there.
After locking eyes with Im Yeonhwa, the 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards let out grotesque screams and attempted to run away but were captured in the instant.
As Im Yeonhwa wanted to continue the boot camp, the group of the primitive men was in danger of being dragged to the uninhabited island again.
The ones to stop it were other teachers.
“There is not much time remaining until exams, so let them rest while they’re on a trip.”
“The kids were so pitiful when they cried yesterday. I guess it was difficult for them.”
“Yeonhwa, you too come play for a bit.”
When in addition to teacher Ham Geunhyeong-nim and Kim Sinrok, No Yeongmi, who seemed to be close with Im Yeonhwa, actively spoke up, Im Yeonhwa relented.
“Hm, I think Jihwa unnie would also say to stop, so I’ll rest for a bit!”
After Im Yeonhwa, who called Im Jihwa with a newly bought device, decided to take a break, the 3rd year class 0’s bastards let out a sigh of relief.
Midst of that, Woo Gihwan’s eyes were quietly sinking, seemingly thinking of taking this opportunity to escape.
Of course, I wasn’t alone in noticing it.
“In exchange, you won’t try to flee the Ju-Oh Island and play. You’ll be punished if I catch you on that.”
Even though he might have not known how he would be punished, Woo Gihwan closed his eyes straight away and showed an attitude of submitting to the strong.
It seemed that the 3rd year class 0 was a primitive society, which dominated the groups with the logic of power.
“While they’re doing that boot camp thing, it would be difficult to figure out their schedules and secretly meet them, right? I think I’ll make sure to get the stories straight while they stay here.”
After the situation drew to a conclusion, Hwang Jiho added this.
He would do the necessary work of blocking the mouths of people who witnessed and conquered the Frozen Otherworld.
‘From the looks of it, if we talk well with Im Yeonhwa, Woo Gihwan will follow well.’
On the other hand, our class children, who witnessed that series of events, became serious.
“… The 3rd year class 0’s People get along well, I’m envious.”
“It seems they were doing an amazingly difficult training, but not even one person backed out!” [1]
“I guess they were together the entire summer.”
“It would be fun if we all trained together.”
The class children envied the 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards!
But when looking objectively, they were envious of nothing more than the attendance rate.
The 3rd year class 0’s senior bastards weren’t bastards to be envious of.
“… Envious of that?”
“I’m satisfied even now. I have much more happiness than I deserve.”
Song Daeseok and Mok Uram each glanced at Min Geurin and Kwon Lena.
It seemed that the two of them would be satisfied with just those two.
“What are the other kids doing?”
After Kim Yuri mumbled as if to herself, Hwang Jiho replied.
“I certainly know the whereabouts of one. It’s possible you also saw that one’s face.”
“Uh? Really? Who? What is that kid doing?”
“Please tell us!”
Kwon Lena and Sawol Seeum stopped to eat the coconut pitbingsu[2] that was for dessert and asked.
Hwang Jiho floated up a hologram.
In the hologram, he opened a homepage of the Player targeted audition program ‘Playlist’.
Then, Hwang Jiho played a video.
“It seems that a 1st year class 0’s student passed the evaluation and entered the finals, eh? The preliminaries still weren’t broadcasted, but they called beforehand saying they want to shoot her everyday life at school.”
In the video played by Hwang Jiho a pink-haired king, Dokgo Miro, was dancing.
*~*~*
[1] “It seems they were doing an amazingly difficult training, but not even one person backed out!” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[2] pitbingsu — shaved ice with red bean topping.
Translator’s note: … A lot of mouth blocking in this chapter.
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