Ch 209
Became a swordsmanship instructor at the academy
Chapter 209
I finished breakfast as usual and came to the classroom.
It's always quite noisy, but today it seems even more so than usual.
"Oh? Chan-seong, you're just getting here? Did you hear about that?"
"About what?"
Did some girl group the kids like get into a scandal or something?
"They moved up our training camp schedule."
"Huh? What do you mean the training camp got moved up?"
The Hunter school academic schedule is similar every year.
The days of the week change as the year changes, so there might be a day or two difference, but other than that, there's no way it would change...
"We originally went to training camp at the end of October or early November, but this time we're going to training camp right after midterm exams."
The midterm exam period is from September 30th to October 2nd.
The 3rd is National Foundation Day so we rest, the 4th and 5th are weekends, and the 6th is a substitute holiday.
So they're saying the training camp period is from the 7th to the 10th, which means it's been moved up by almost a month.
"If we just get through midterms safely, we won't have classes for almost a week. That's totally awesome."
Everyone's really excited... Well, for kids this age, not having classes is the best thing.
But...
"Aren't you looking forward to the training camp? They said we're going to Mount Seorak, and the seniors said it's really fun."
Which senior told them that?
I know well that the training camp is tight and difficult, contrary to the students' expectations.
No, wait a minute. Setting that aside, I don't think the training camp schedule was moved up in the original work... Yeah, definitely they went normally in early November.
Isn't this quite a big problem?
Kim Do-hyun and Lee Ji-sung obtain opportunities during the training camp.
Specifically, Kim Do-hyun helps a friend who falls behind during the Mount Seorak trekking on the second day of training camp, falls behind together with them, and discovers the portal where his master left martial arts.
Lee Ji-sung watches Kim Do-hyun and searches the area to discover the portal first.
But if the schedule changed and Do-hyun doesn't fall behind this time?
Both Lee Ji-sung and Kim Do-hyun won't be able to obtain their opportunities.
Of course, it might proceed according to the original work, but I can't be certain.
I know better than anyone that the future can change sufficiently even from the trivial things I've done so far, having experienced it directly.
It's not just a day or two, or 1-2 weeks, but a whole month earlier, so even more so.
Why on earth did it change?
"Chan-seong, aren't you excited?"
"Ah... I just, well, I don't really have any particular thoughts."
The teachers would know the reason.
I should ask Se-jin to look into it.
She has many close teacher friends, so if she asks casually, she should be able to find out sufficiently.
I was about to contact her right away, but the classroom front door opened and Choi Seo-ra came in.
"Why is it so noisy? Everyone quickly take your seats."
"Teacher, are we really going to training camp right after midterm exams?"
"It was posted on the school website like that today."
"I wondered why you were making more noise than usual, it was because of the training camp. Yes, that's right. You'll go to training camp right after midterm exams."
If even Choi Seo-ra is saying this, it's definitely changed.
Wait, rather than bothering Se-jin with a request, couldn't I just ask myself?
Would they think it's strange?
"By the way, we won't be collecting separate fees for this training camp."
"What?"
"Why not?"
"Even in middle school, we paid separately for training camps and school trips."
"This first-year training camp, Ji-sung's father from our class has agreed to provide the training center rental costs and even the bus completely free of charge."
Lee Ji-sung's father?
"Ooh."
"Ji-sung's father is awesome."
"As expected of Hwasin Group."
"Lee Ji-sung! Lee Ji-sung!"
Everyone's cheering and happy, but I still don't understand.
As soon as homeroom ended, the kids flocked to Lee Ji-sung.
"Ji-sung, did you ask your father for this?"
"Yeah. I heard from the seniors that the training center facilities aren't very good."
"Oh? I think I heard that too. The facilities are really old and there are tons of bugs."
"I happened to remember that my father's company has a training center near Mount Seorak. I went there once before and the facilities were clean and nice. So I asked if we could go there instead, and he said he'd coordinate with the school."
"So the training camp being moved up is also because of that?"
"Yeah... I talked with my father on the phone yesterday evening, and he said the original time period is difficult because there's staff training, but if we change the dates, he'd provide both the training center costs and buses completely, so the school said they'd move up the schedule."
"Wow, chaebol young master swag."
"So cool."
"What's that?"
What on earth is that guy thinking?
I think the excuse about the facilities being poor is just a public pretext.
It's not the Lee Ji-sung from before his possession, and the current Lee Ji-sung wasn't originally a chaebol either, so there's no reason he'd care about such things.
Moreover, Lee Ji-sung said his father coordinated with the school to move up the schedule, but it's definitely his will that was reflected.
If Lee Ji-sung hadn't made such a request in the first place, this change wouldn't have happened.
Looking at how they're going completely free without taking any money, it seems like there might be an image improvement purpose, but is there really a need to go through all this trouble?
At the beginning of the semester, many people avoided Lee Ji-sung due to the accumulated bad deeds, and everyone shunned him, but now there are hardly any kids like that.
He caught the hidden camera culprit, hasn't caused a single incident since then, and even does student council activities, so his image has improved a lot.
Most importantly, that guy also knows that Kim Do-hyun obtains an opportunity during this training camp, so he'll definitely try to get ahead, but why...
Does he think the future won't change with such a small change?
That can't be.
Lee Ji-sung has also experienced it, though not as much as me.
Since I helped Kim Do-hyun, Lee Ji-sung had difficulty becoming close with Do-hyun.
He ultimately succeeded in becoming close with Do-hyun by even hiring a con artist, but this matter can't be solved in that way.
If Do-hyun doesn't fall behind, that guy won't be able to discover the portal either.
***
Everyone's really excited.
Image improvement wasn't the goal of this matter, but it seems like it will help considerably with image improvement too.
Moving up the training camp this time is all for my revenge.
Vice Student Council President Seong Eunseo, who humiliated me, is strong.
Like during the summer MT last time, and she's also last year's WHCU winner.
The source of that bitch's strength originated from another possessor who isn't me, Kang Shin-hyeok, who has now left this world.
Kang Shin-hyeok taught many students, but Kim Se-jin, who is currently the youngest S-rank hunter, and Vice Student Council President Seong Eunseo—these two are special.
Especially Kim Se-jin, I'm certain she inherited everything from Kang Shin-hyeok.
She became an S-rank hunter at the ridiculously young age of twenty-one, and internal energy cultivation methods are essential to use magic and swords together.
But the other disciple, Vice Student Council President Seong Eunseo, is not like that.
Of course, she's superior compared to other students.
But she's not comparable to Kim Se-jin.
Moreover, Seong Eunseo doesn't use swords and magic together like Kim Se-jin.
In other words, unlike Kim Se-jin, Kang Shin-hyeok didn't teach Seong Eunseo everything.
If that bitch had been as strong as Kim Se-jin from the beginning, I would have postponed my revenge.
It would have been somewhat inconvenient since she's a third-year this year and won't be at school next year, but she wouldn't be a match.
But if that's not the case, there's no need to postpone at all.
If I follow Kim Do-hyun's trail during this training camp, I can also obtain an opportunity.
Although Seong Eunseo learned a year before me, since Kang Shin-hyeok didn't teach her everything, I thought I had sufficient chances of winning against her.
Looking at the academic schedule, the martial arts tournament is held in December and the training camp was scheduled for late October to early November, so I was a bit worried about only having a month.
Still, in the original work, the protagonist Kim Do-hyun obtains an opportunity, wins the martial arts tournament, and goes on to claim WHCU victory.
Kim Do-hyun is the protagonist, so I can't become as strong as that guy as quickly, but that can be solved by obtaining and eating wild ginseng.
But the problem was separate.
The martial arts tournament is held in December, but the martial arts tournament preliminaries are on October 15th.
It's true that the opportunity played a huge role in Kim Do-hyun's victory in the original work, but it means he passed the preliminaries with his original skills.
But I can't do that.
Kim Do-hyun was originally an excellent student, but I'm not.
Moreover, what if I encounter the vice president in the preliminaries?
I'd be humiliated again.
Of course, I heard that most people fight students from other schools in the first preliminaries, but I heard there are also second and third preliminaries depending on the number of participants...
So I used my father and Secretary Kim to move up the training camp.
To obtain the opportunity even a day sooner.
There's also a possibility that moving up the deadline might prevent Kim Do-hyun from discovering the opportunity.
But that part doesn't matter.
It shows when that guy falls behind in the original work.
I said that while providing the training center and bus this time, only the location would change but the schedule should proceed exactly the same, and yesterday I heard from Secretary Kim that the school agreed to do so.
Even if that guy doesn't fall behind, I can just fall behind at that time and search the vicinity.
I also asked Secretary Kim to obtain the portal energy detection radar used by Hunter guilds.
***
Tomorrow is already midterm exams, time really flies.
I'm not particularly worried about the exams, but I still haven't grasped Lee Ji-sung's intentions.
It's impossible to postpone the training camp again at this point, so if Do-hyun doesn't fall behind, I've decided to lure Do-hyun toward the portal.
First, there's something I need to handle before that.
After dinner, I came into the dormitory and went to the bathroom.
I locked the door and used teleportation magic to move near the portal.
It's still autumn, but maybe because it's a mountain and nighttime, it's quite chilly.
Since I have Hanseobulchim, I'm not particularly cold, but the wind is really harsh.
As soon as I entered the portal, warm—no, sticky air enveloped me.
This place is midsummer.
By the way, no one came to greet me today either.
These days, since I've been busy with supplementary classes and Se-jin has taken over both chocolate bar and food procurement duties, I'm treated like cold rice.
When I went to the camping car, Luciel was sitting in a chair looking at a laptop.
It looks like the same documentary-like thing she was watching before, and she's completely absorbed in it.
"You're here?"
"You didn't know I came?"
"No, I knew."
"But you didn't even come out to greet me, that's too much."
"It was an important scene... Well, I'm not the only one who didn't come out."
"...What's Master doing?"
"He was eating dumplings and watching a movie."
When I went into the camping car, just as Luciel said, he was sipping beer with dumplings.
"Master, I'm here."
"When is Se-jin coming?"
"She has a lot of work today, so it seems her getting off work will be a bit late. What did you make her do again?"
"I told her to buy chicken when she comes."
"I'll buy chicken for you, so please come out for now."
"Come out?"
"We're moving."
"Moving? What moving?"
"I've been telling you since before. We're moving near the lakeside."
"But why? The cave is here too."
"You sleep in the camping car now anyway, so there's no need to stay here, right? Being near the waterside is much more..."
"It's bothersome. I wash my face and shower in the camping car anyway, don't I? Siel fills the water anyway."
"Two students will come here in a few days."
"What? Shin-hyeok, have you already forgotten Sambong's warning? Didn't he tell you not to increase connections anymore?"
Of course I remember.
That's why I haven't introduced Eunseo yet either.
"It's not like asking Master to teach them like Se-jin. They'll just stop by briefly, so if Master and Luciel don't encounter them, it should be fine."
I don't know if it'll really be fine, but this time it can't be helped.
If Kim Do-hyun and Lee Ji-sung can't obtain the internal energy cultivation methods, everything will be twisted.