Translator: Wan ED/PR: Solarin
47. Loser Resurrection Match (5)
Hwang Jiho had been very busy lately.
As he operated his alter-egos to manage the group and school work while at the same time attending school, it seemed it sometimes caused a load on him.
Because of that, there were many times in the classroom when he suddenly shut his mouth and stared blankly, the kind class 0’s children worried if the lunatic got bipolar disorder.
When during the break Hwang Jiho shut his mouth pressing his temples and sat down.
“… Are you okay?”
Even Han Yi, who openly shunned Hwang Jiho, asked like that.
As Han Yi talked to him, his eyes lit up like a lightbulb.
“Hahahaha! Of course. My old childhood friend[1] is affectionate, huh!”
Han Yi’s expression instantly hardened as she regretted saying anything.
Hwang Jiho acted friendly and laughed, and Han Yi turned her head away from Hwang Jiho, trying not to hear the nonsense he was spewing.
Song Daeseok, who was the only one bothered by the two, watched this scene and mumbled something alone.
“Both of them are harsh towards that lunatic, so I can’t hang off it, but… If that’s old childhood friend…”
I heard that Song Daeseok substituted all his afternoon classes with reports because he was busy with the Research Institute work, but I worried if the stress was too extreme.
As my Playable Character was too competent, it couldn’t be helped that he was doing a lot of work, but I hoped Song Daeseok also enjoyed high school life.
“Uh! Geurin came up in the news!”
“What?! Where?!”
Song Daeseok stopped mumbling straight away and ran towards Sawol Seeum.
He sat in the farthest corner, but Song Daeseok moved at a surprising speed.
I thought it was fortunate Song Daeseok looked healthy, even though he had a lot of work.
Sawol Seeum opened a hologram with a well-visible headline.
[Prodigy Min Geurin decorated the ‘Playlist’ death match stage of Dokgo Miro]
Kwon Lena looked at the headline and guessed the situation.
“Ah, in the videos published as a bonus, the stage was clearly filmed, remember? Because of that and the well-known fact it was the 1st year class 0, it seems that the people guessed it was something Geurin painted.”
Thanks to the post impressions of Eungwang School’s students, it was a well-known fact that Dokgo Miro sang several versions during the death match busking at the main gate that day.
Requests to publish other videos poured in, so I uploaded all the videos I took.
The videos were uploaded on Dokgo Miro’s newly created channel, and the reaction to all published videos was good.
The main character was Dokgo Miro, but as they watched the videos several times, the people, who paid attention to other points multiplied, and it seemed they finally discovered Min Geurin’s existence.
“What happened to the stage decorations we used that day?”
“The people from the Art Club took them… I heard that they’re drawing lots to choose the people who will take them.”
“Ah…”
The children, worried about potential malicious comments, checked the comments first, instead of Min Geurin and Song Daeseok.
Song Daeseok might throw a fit if he discovered curses directed at Min Geurin, so he was excluded, and we decided to read the comments first.
Luckily, there were no eye-catching malicious comments.
After the children said that from the looks of it, it’s okay, Min Guerin and Song Daeseok read the comments.
Because there weren’t that many comments, a comment which received about ten likes, was selected as the best and rose to the top.
[Why aren’t you painting[2]?]
Min Geurin read the top comment and mumbled.
“Painting…”
Min Geurin never stopped painting.
When she wasn’t attending school, she couldn’t use good materials but didn’t put down the brush.
It was just that she stopped showing her paintings to the world.
Kim Yuri, who judged there were some circumstances, quickly changed the topic.
“Um… ah, soon new limited desserts are coming out in MITRON!”
“Wow, really?”
“Uh, the patissier was originally specializing in winter desserts, so the menu becomes more diverse as the day grew colder.”
When the topic changed, Sawol Seeum and Han Yi immediately started the enthusiastic conversation.
Min Geurin, who read all the comments, had a thoughtful face, but the atmosphere didn’t exactly look dark.
* * *
Weekend, Hwang Myeong-ho’s great mansion.
When I regained my senses, I was in the drawing room.
“… I guess you’re back to your senses now, eh?”
In front of me, an over five thousand years old elementary school student was looking at me with a pathetic face.
Besides the immature five thousand years old, Jeok-ho and Baek Ho-gun were also in the drawing room.
My arms were holding Snare, who received beauty treatment.
‘Ah, I lost my mind while praising Snare.’
Tigers shed fur two times, in March and September, and dogs also do it at similar times.
I had no idea which form Snare was following, its original or outer, but after shedding fur became difficult, Baek Ho-gun was said to personally give it a fur treatment.
Even when looking like a fluffy cotton ball, it was cute, but looking like a well-groomed cotton ball, it was cute and perfect.
“Hear me out before you lose your senses again.”
The elementary student version of Hwang Jiho stretched out an ice cream crape towards me.
If it was like the usual, I would ignore him or think about it a bit, but young-looking Hwang Jiho offered it with his small hand, I couldn’t help but receive it straight away.
‘It’s delicious.’
The orange syrup with white chocolate and vanilla ice creams were a sublime combination.
Even young-looking Hwang Jiho already ate two portions of ice cream crapes.
“You look tired, eh? Is the elementary school infiltration not finished yet?” [3]
“It’s going to end soon. The matters there are almost finished. Because we caught all the trash connected through that teacher. As he had been my homeroom teacher for over a month, I planned to make him slowly socially crumble and then send him to Hyangrok. Opportunely, he was asking for more human test subjects.”
The elementary school student, who wiped his mouth covered in ice cream with a napkin, spoke roughly.
It was probably what it meant for a tiger to play with the prey they captured.
Jeok-ho made a satisfied face at Hwang Jiho words, as he hated what Han Yi went through, and Baek Ho-gun didn’t say a word like usual, but he looked to be in a good mood.
“The problem is the schoolwork. I didn’t expect the superpower specialized schools’ exchange procedures to be this complicated.”
“Eungwang School never had exchanges with other schools, correct? My son also seemed to be very busy.”
“It was difficult from beginning, but there are many strange points. I even had a thought ‘Isn’t someone trying to isolate Eungwang School?’.”
At Hwang Jiho’s words, I recalled the words I heard before.
The day after I rescued Maeng Hyodon, Hwang Jiho, who was waiting at the entrance leading to class 0, said this:
— Do you know that Choe Pyeondeuk was in charge of the Korea-China-Japan youth Player Exchange organization committee? That guy tried to cancel it. We have to start it all over again from the planning stages.
If Eungwang School became isolated, Dark Mastermind would naturally profit from it.
The scenario called PMH concrete collapse didn’t occur out of nowhere, but seemed to be the result of incidents exploding, because of the unseen moves after moves of Dark Mastermind pilling up.
After that, Jeok-ho briefed about related unfortunate incidents.
It seemed that the majority of teachers disappearing and then being found in the sewers was the work of Cheong-ho’s disciples.
“After seeing that teacher getting ruined, this one will also go through the transfer procedure. Then I should get more or less time to spare, eh?”
The elementary school student Hwang Jiho, who following ice cream crapes ate waffles with apple mint gelato, looked towards me.
“Jo Uisin, do you know Jeon Muyeong?”
An unexpected question dropped.
Naturally, there is no way I didn’t know my Playable Character Jeon Muyeong.
I even personally met him in this world.
“Ye.”
“How do you know him? Jeon Muyeong graduated from Eungwang School, but it was the past.”
“I met Him when having a meal with senior Seong Siwan. I also ran into Him in Hongcheon before.”
“Is that so?”
The eyes of the elementary school student Hwang Jiho sparkled ominously.
I had no idea why the atmosphere was exactly like that, even though he was young.
Regretfully I didn’t dare to call him a ruined geezer.
“Jeon Muyeong recently infiltrated the Gwangli Elementary School’s classroom where I was enrolled.”
The assemblyman’s chief aid in the elementary school’s classroom?
Did Seong Gukeon thought about something related to that case and order an investigation?
No, it was obvious that Seong Gukeon said he would step up and Jeon Muyeong went instead.
I vividly felt the sense of guilt Jeon Muyeong felt.
“When Jeon Muyeong judged I discovered him, he immediately used a certain ability and hid his body.”
The situation didn’t look very good.
I should have changed the topic, but it seemed it was too late for that.
“You and Jeon Muyeong used the same ability.”
All the tigers in the drawing room looked at me.
* * *
Yeom Junyeol read the reviews of the viewers for the uploaded Playlist and made a satisfied face.
There were many worries about how the public would receive the program about Players unfolding their dreams on stage.
At first, there were a lot of negative comments, but gradually the TV ratings grew and as the talented Players showed cool performances, the controversy came to an end.
He was also glad that his Eungwang School’s junior Dokgo Miro, who was in bad condition at first, was showing a good appearance.
“Senior-nim! Hello!”
Ahead of recording, Dokgo Miro greeted him brightly.
Even though he was using ‘Hide the Presence’, this outstanding junior quickly discovered Yeom Junyeol and greeted him.
Recently, even Yeom Junyeol’s small goal became to deceive Dokgo Miro’s eyes.
“That… Thank You for introducing me to the class children, if senior-nim didn’t build a bridge, I wouldn’t be able to receive help with the death match.”
Dokgo Miro confirmed that there were no people around and spoke with a small voice.
After the death match result announcement, she couldn’t find an opportunity to have a face-to-face talk with Yeom Juneyol, so her thanks were late, but Dokgo Miro kept being thankful to Yeom Juneyol.
“I didn’t have anything to do with helping you to film the busking.”
“No! If not for senior-nim, I wouldn’t know any of their names. Excluding one elementary school’s classmate, I didn’t know anyone.”
Yeom Junyeol and Dokgo Miro shared a conversation about the 1st year class 0’s children for a while.
Yeom Juneyeol was relieved that his junior seemed to get along with the class children well.
More than that, he was relieved about the recent change in Dokgo Miro.
“You seemed nervous every time you saw camera. You look fine now. During the previous recording your expression looked relaxed.”
“Ah… In fact, I was very afraid of cameras. Even now it’s a bit like that, but…”
“You don’t have to talk about it if it’s difficult.”
“No, It will be all revealed one day. It’s not a problem.”
Dokgo Miro felt embarrassed but then spoke honestly.
Dokgo Miro predicted that that fact would be revealed someday because of the change in her attitude in front of cameras, or because of the classmates who harassed her during the elementary school days.
Instead, she made up her mind that it was better to tell people close to her before it was distorted and widespread.
“You looked fine during the busking video.”
“Ahaha… In fact I wasn’t fine during that time. One of the kids used a skill or a Gwangrim to hide from my senses and recorded it.”
“Hide from your senses?”
Yeom Junyeol made a surprised face.
Dokgo Miro’s senses were amazing enough to find Yeom Junyeol, who hid his presence, every time.
Yeom Junyeol sometimes even escaped the Yong tribe members, but Dokgo Miro didn’t miss Yeom Junyeol even once.
As such, Dokgo Miro had amazing detection ability, but someone deceived her senses and even hid the existence of the camera she was scared of?!
“Can I ask who took that video?”
Dokgo Miro thought about it for a moment.
Jo Uisin wasn’t exactly hiding the fact that it was him who recorded a video.
As Eungwang School’s students as the audience saw Jo Uisin appear there, holding a camera, she judged it was okay.
“Class vice president recorded it.”
“Class vice president? You’re talking about Jo Uisin?”
“Yes, even all the class children were deceived.”
Yeom Junyeol recalled the members of 1st year class 0.
There was a very powerful Jin in class 0.
According to Yong Jegeon’s words, that junior was a whooping Myth category Ho tribe member.
‘That Ho tribe’s identity is the chairman. You mean to say that even the chairman’s eyes were deceived?’
Yeom Junyeol recalled Jo Uisin, who drove him into checkmate with icy hands.
He was a junior who left a deep impression on him, as his smile made him think about his master-nim.
‘Master-nim ability to hide his presence is also pretty amazing.’
He recalled the existence of the Red Wall Thief, who disappeared like a wind every time their lesson ended.
*~*~*
[1] old childhood friend — I didn’t mention it before, but the word used is ‘죽마고우 (jungmagou)’ and part ‘죽 (juk)’ can mean to die… Every time I see this particular word coming out of Hwang-ho’s mouth I suffer mental damage, hahaha! But 죽 here stands for bamboo. The word translated literally means an old friend you rode a bamboo horse with (a type of child toy).
[2] painting — literally translates to ‘produce work of art’ or ‘work actively’. Jo Uisin uses just ‘to paint’ in his narration.
[3] “You look tired, eh? Is the elementary school infiltration not finished yet?” — Jeok-ho’s sentence!!
Translator’s note: … Wait. This title. Part 5. Hwang-ho, Eungwang and Player’s Trajectory… Perhaps?!
Patron thank you note
Thank you patron, Nobody, please accept this Adenodolichos acutifoliolatus’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Thank you patron, Al, please accept this Aspalathus linearis’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Thank you patron, Luca, please accept this Indigastrum burkeanum’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Thank you patron, Amy Peters, please accept this Macroptilium lathyroides’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Thank you patron, Dust, please accept this Oxylobium ellipticum’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Thank you patron, Maru, please accept this Ornithopus perpusillus’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Thank you patron, kamisonk, please accept this Pueraria phaseoloides’s flower as a token of my sincere gratitude.
Links to support this translation and acess to 5 advanced chapter (Patreon & Kofi)
> Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LibraryKeyTranslations
> Kofi-Euro: https://ko-fi.com/wanthetranslator
> Kofi-USD: https://ko-fi.com/wanthetranslatorusd
Did you see a mistake? 🐞
Leave a Reply