Ch 201
Became a swordsmanship instructor at the academy
Chapter 201
Ow, my head.
Yesterday I hung out with Master and Zhang Sambong, and both of them drank alcohol like there was no tomorrow.
Soju, beer, wine, whiskey, rice wine... They drank everything without discrimination, so my subspace is completely empty.
It wasn't originally that much, but still, all together it would have been close to a hundred bottles.
Does alcohol tolerance correlate with martial arts skills?
I tried to drive out the alcohol with my internal energy while drinking, but Zhang Sambong jeered that if I drank that way, I wouldn't be a real man, so I drank with pure willpower.
Did I show off unnecessarily?
My head feels like it's going to split.
I think I should just be a fake man from now on, and I circulated my internal energy to drive out the alcohol.
I can see Luciel sitting in a camping chair looking at a laptop.
Usually when sleeping, she always comes to my side and bothers me before sleeping together, but since she's not beside me, it seems she didn't come yesterday because of the alcohol smell.
"Did you sleep well?"
"I think I can live now. What are you watching?"
"A documentary."
"A documentary? Did I bring you something like that?"
I mostly brought entertainment shows that Master watches, but Luciel says it's not her taste and rarely watches them.
"Se-jin brought it for me."
Going next to Luciel, I could see it was a documentary about portals.
There aren't even animals in it, is this kind of thing interesting?
"I'm going to go to the lake for a bit."
I went to the lakeside, washed up briefly, and was doing one round of Meditation and Breathing when I felt someone's presence and stopped.
When I opened my eyes, it was Zhang Sambong.
"Let's start morning training. This time of day is the best time for training."
I didn't even look for him, but he came first to recommend training like this - it was worth emptying my subspace yesterday to serve him alcohol.
But breakfast comes first.
Even though I drove out the alcohol with internal energy, I still need to cure my hangover.
"Let's go eat breakfast first."
"Immortals don't need to eat."
He drank alcohol just fine yesterday though.
"I'm not an immortal."
"At your level, you won't die from skipping one meal. As I said earlier, this is the best time for training."
Did Master say something to him separately yesterday?
He seems too motivated...
I wanted to cure my hangover first, but Zhang Sambong reminded me that I said I would work hard, and told me to train for just one shichen and then eat, so I had no choice but to start training.
Just like yesterday, Zhang Sambong disappears and I look for him like that. It's slightly different from yesterday.
"So will you find me?"
"I told you internal energy is useless, didn't I?"
"Can I take a nap and come back?"
This time, as if to prove he didn't go anywhere else, he sends telepathic messages at random times, which makes it even harder to concentrate.
He should give some advice at least.
Teasing and provoking...
I'm starting to think that teaching diligently was just an excuse and he wanted to bother me from the morning.
In the end, I returned to the camping car after a shichen of training without much gain.
"Are you coming back from training in the morning?"
"Yes. Have you had breakfast?"
"No. We were going to eat together. I put water on, but how many instant noodles will you eat?"
"I'll just eat one pack of noodles. But make the broth plentiful. Please beat an egg in it too."
"Alright. Sambong, will you eat too? I'm really amazing at making instant noodles."
"Instant noodles? Is that like thin noodles? I don't really like thin noodles. Don't you have more of that alcohol?"
Doesn't that man get tired of it after drinking so much yesterday?
"Zhang my friend, you have to eat and then go train again, but you're talking about alcohol now?"
"Well, I can just drive it out before training anyway. In the first place, even if I drink and hide, you probably can't find me."
That man really...
"There's no alcohol because we drank it all yesterday."
Nice.
"Aw, then I'll just go lie down."
"Go inside and open the refrigerator, there's plenty of cola, so drink that at least."
"Cola? What's that?"
"It's black water that's sweet and has a fizzy taste. It's somewhat similar to the champagne we drank yesterday."
As soon as he hears it's similar to champagne, he runs straight to the camping car.
"How's the training going?"
"I can't get the hang of it at all. He says don't use internal energy and if I become one with the world I'll be able to find him easily, but that's completely like grasping at clouds."
"Hmm, think about when you first learned Mental Focus. Mental Focus is also a technique that doesn't use internal energy, but you use it well."
"He said it's different from Mental Focus."
"It's certainly different, but isn't the concept of 'world' common?"
It's still like grasping at clouds, but still, he's giving me advice thinking of me... Master is indeed Master.
"Um, then..."
"The water is boiling. You have to handle it yourself."
Is... is instant noodles more important than his disciple?
I take back what I thought positively.
I was going to play with Luciel until the noodles were ready, but she's still watching the laptop in that spot.
"Still watching the documentary?"
"Yeah."
"Is it that interesting?"
"Much more interesting than variety shows. Oh, I have something I'm curious about."
"What is it?"
"The documentary said portals appear randomly anywhere."
"Yeah. They're random. But there's a radar surveillance system in place so they can be found quickly."
"I saw that too, but what if a portal appears high in the sky up there?"
"Well... I haven't heard of portals appearing in the sky so far."
"Aw, you don't know either?"
"Hmm, if it's discovered by radar, wouldn't they enter by helicopter? Mainly with magicians who have learned flight magic."
"Then what if it appears at a position too high for radar to detect?"
"What can you do? If they can't detect it, they can't. Even so, if it appears at such a high position, the moment it opens, everything would fall to the ground and die."
"Ooh, that's right. Shin-hyeok is smart."
"I'm a school teacher who teaches kids, so this much is basic."
"Then are there no portals that appear in the sea? Do they also drown and die?"
"They would."
"What about portals with monsters that live in water?"
It's a fairly sharp point, but I know this part for sure.
"There aren't many monsters that live in water. Besides, they're all freshwater creatures, so they can't survive long in salt water, I learned."
"Then what if a portal appears in shallow sea? In this case, even monsters that don't live in water could swim out."
"If it's shallow sea, it would be discovered before Portal Liberation. Beaches and ports are required to have radar facilities."
"Really? Humans are more prepared than I thought. Good, then give me today's portion of chocolate bars."
I opened the subspace and took out two boxes.
"Don't you have Twix instead of Cool Break and Free Time?"
"Twix is all gone... I'll go buy some later."
"I want to eat it now."
"Yu-ryang, how is this similar to champagne? This just has a fizzy taste and nothing else."
"I told you it's not alcohol."
"Didn't you definitely say it was similar?"
Zhang Sambong seems greatly disappointed as his lips are protruding.
Luciel also keeps singing the Twix, Twix song.
SIGH, there's no choice.
I guess I have to go out briefly.
"Master, did you put in the noodles?"
"I did."
"You can eat all of that by yourself, right?"
"I can, but why? It'll be ready in just 2 minutes."
"I want to buy some alcohol for Zhang Sanbong and some snacks for Luciel."
Master's expression doesn't look good, perhaps because I'm saying I won't eat after he went to the trouble of cooking.
"Are only those two mouths? What about mine?"
It... it wasn't that he was angry because I said I wouldn't eat the noodles?
I would naturally take care of it, really Master too...
"Of course I'll buy yours too, Master. Is there anything special you want to eat?"
"Dongpo pork and cold braised pig's feet? They were delicious. Oh, Mapo tofu too. And can you get Juknyeopchung and Geumjonchung alcohol?"
"What's Geumjonchung?"
Zhang Sambong, whose lips were protruding, hurriedly ran toward us.
"That Sambong guy's taste is still the same. Originally, if it was Geumjonchung, he was the type to wake up even from sleep."
"Geumjonchung... I'll try to get it."
I was thinking of just stopping by a nearby mart, but it looks like I'll have to go to Chinatown once.
It's a bit bothersome, but there's also what happened yesterday, and if I treat him well, he'll teach me better.
I exited the portal.
I changed my appearance appropriately and was about to use teleportation magic when I felt vibration from inside my pocket.
I took it out and it was Eunseo.
"Yeah, Eunseo. What's wrong?"
—I don't know who you are, but I'm not Eunseo, I'm Eunseo's older sister Eunsu.
Huh? Not Eunseo but Eunsu?
I definitely asked to keep my identity secret and Eunseo said she understood, but suddenly why is Eunsu...
"Uh, well..."
—Eunseo told me to call number 1, so I'm contacting you... Eunseo is in danger right now. Please help.
Eunseo is in danger?
***
Jinsu's face as he shouted was extremely serious.
"What's wrong, Jinsu? Why are you like that?"
"Mon... Monster!"
A monster suddenly from the sea?
I thought he was joking, but right behind Jinsu, four water columns shot up and monsters with huge green bodies revealed themselves.
"Wh-what is that?"
"Everyone run away quickly!"
They looked similar to frogs but were about the size of large trucks with bright red tongues flicking out.
KUROARARARAT!
Even with bizarre cries. That's definitely a Giant Frog.
A monster that very occasionally comes out of B-grade portals, with smooth yet tough skin like trolls that makes both magic and swords ineffective - quite a troublesome creature.
No, how could such creatures come from the sea... Could there have been a portal underwater?
"Get out quickly!"
Fortunately, all the kids got out of the water, but all the Giant Frogs are coming toward us.
"Everyone quickly go to the villa!"
My sister shouted and made the kids run, but I didn't run and pulled out the pole from a nearby parasol.
"Seong Eunseo, what are you doing! Run quickly."
"I'll buy time."
"What?"
There's no point in running away like this.
Giant Frogs look similar to frogs, but they're much faster on land than in water.
They say they jump dozens of meters in one jump, so someone has to draw those creatures' attention.
I looked around for something to use as a weapon and saw the parasol pole next to a sunbed, so I pulled it out and sent internal energy to my knee to strengthen it and broke it in half.
"Those guys are faster on land. I'll stay and draw their attention."
"Those are B-grade monsters. Not just one but four, how can you alone..."
"Don't worry. Even if I can't defeat them, I can at least hold them."
"Even if we report to the Hunter Management Bureau right now, it'll take over an hour to get here, can you hold out alone?"
Ah... this was an island.
Actually, if it were one, I might be able to hold out, but with four and not even a sword but this crude pole, an hour is absolutely impossible.
"It's okay. I'm the WHCU winner."
The one at the front reached the beach.
Now there's really no time.
"Then I'll stay too..."
"I don't have the luxury to hold out while taking care of you too, sister. Same for the other kids, so sister, take care of everyone and take them away. And here."
I took out my phone from my pocket and handed it to my sister.
"Why the phone suddenly?"
"Press 1 and call to ask for help. Even if they don't answer, keep calling until they do. The password is our birthday."
I'm not certain, but somehow I feel like if it's Teacher, he'll come quickly using some method.
Because he's Teacher.
"Got it. Don't overdo it. If you take shelter somewhere like underground, it'll work out somehow. Deal with them moderately and then..."
If I don't overdo it, we'll all die... I swallowed my words and smiled at my sister, then charged toward the Giant Frog that was about to jump.