Ch 216
Became a swordsmanship instructor at the academy
Chapter 216
At first, I thought it was completely ruined.
The secretary's office staff clearly said it was the highest-performance radar used even by major domestic guilds, but there was no reaction at all.
Still, whether it was because there's no law saying I should die or because of the original story's corrective force, Kim Do-hyun fell behind.
I was glad I didn't just trust the radar and kept watching that guy, so I followed him, but I lost track of him due to the sudden rain and fog.
Fortunately, I soon saw the bushes moving and chased after him, discovering a white circle.
This was definitely the space where the opportunity from the original story lay dormant.
Do-hyun went forward, apparently not seeing it, but I didn't chase after him anymore and jumped into the portal.
Suddenly, dizziness hit me and I was startled.
Unlike the cool Mount Seorak, the air was swelteringly hot and humid.
A completely different, exotic environment.
Before the dizziness had even subsided, I ran straight forward.
If the original story's corrective force really exists, Kim Do-hyun would come here soon too.
Just as I had seen in the original story, I ran straight ahead and sure enough, a cave appeared.
I turned on my phone's flashlight and went in, and this was definitely the right place.
Chinese characters filling the cave walls.
Thanks to studying Chinese during vacation in preparation for this situation, I could tell immediately.
This was the internal energy manual that Kim Do-hyun was originally supposed to obtain.
I could interpret most of it, but there were a few characters I didn't know, so I took flash photos of everything without missing a single part.
Now I just had to get out of here before Kim Do-hyun arrived...
Wait, if I just leave like this, Kim Do-hyun will also get the same internal energy manual as me.
After thinking for a moment, I used telekinetic magic to damage some of the already faint characters in the middle, making them even more unreadable.
Of course, this was originally an opportunity that guy was supposed to get, and I have no intention of saving the world and becoming a hero in his place, so this might be wrong, but I can't help it.
My only purpose is Seong Eunseo.
Getting revenge on that girl who gave me unspeakable humiliation and shame.
My plan was to also obtain the opportunity that Do-hyun was supposed to get and crush Seong Eunseo at this martial arts tournament.
If the promising student who won not only last year's martial arts tournament but also the WHCU loses to a first-year delinquent, there would be no greater humiliation.
But what if Do-hyun meets Seong Eunseo before me at the tournament?
In the original story, Do-hyun, who obtained the opportunity, easily wins the martial arts tournament.
If that happens, my chance for revenge will vanish futilely.
Not only that, but what if I meet Do-hyun first before meeting Seong Eunseo?
I had already asked the secretary's office to look into wild ginseng to eat after obtaining the internal energy manual, but Kim Do-hyun is the protagonist of this world.
Even if I learn the same manual and eat wild ginseng, would I be able to beat that guy?
From what I heard from him last time, he said he defeated all the seniors in the supplementary class sparring.
Do-hyun said it wasn't that impressive because he couldn't spar with the ace third-year seniors, including most of the student council members and last year's winner Seong Eunseo, due to practical training...
Honestly, I'm not confident.
I don't have any particular ill feelings toward Do-hyun, but I can't help it.
After I finish my revenge on Seong Eunseo, I can teach him the proper manual again.
Even if the martial arts tournament doesn't end, I plan to tell him immediately once I meet Seong Eunseo and achieve my goal.
My purpose isn't winning the martial arts tournament, after all.
Of course, if the bracket luck doesn't follow and I end up meeting Seong Eunseo in the finals, I can't help that.
I organized my thoughts and was just about to exit the cave when, my goodness, I saw Do-hyun coming this way, so I quickly hid in the bushes next to the cave.
I saw him enter the cave too and thought about moving, but I might be discovered, so I held my breath and waited.
After about 10 minutes, he must have checked the internal energy manual because he came out of the cave.
I came out of the bushes after seeing him disappear far away.
I was trying to leave slowly without being noticed when... huh?
I saw something shining in the corner near the portal entrance, so I approached it and it was a chocolate bar wrapper.
I don't think I saw it when I came earlier, did Do-hyun eat it?
Well, it doesn't matter. I also immediately exited the portal.
***
After luring the two guys to the portal, I headed back toward the group of stragglers.
Because of the sudden rain, everyone was gathered under nearby tree shade for shelter, so I naturally joined them, pretending I had gone to urinate.
While waiting for the rain to stop, through the internal energy I had spread out, I could tell that Do-hyun had come back out of the portal.
He wandered around a bit but soon found his way and I could feel him coming toward us.
Lee Ji-sung had also just exited the portal.
Both of them must have obtained their opportunities well, right?
Last night, I had told Luciel and Master once more before going to sleep.
If by any chance the two tried to go to the wrong place, please guide them toward the cave.
Well, I'll be able to know for sure when I go ask this evening.
The rain had already stopped, but we were waiting after discovering that Do-hyun and Ji-sung had disappeared during the headcount, when first Do-hyun returned, and 5 minutes later Lee Ji-sung came back.
"You guys, if you're going to the bathroom, you should say so before going. And don't you know you can't relieve yourself just anywhere in a national park?"
"Sorry."
"Went to take a piss."
Both got scolded by Teacher Baek, but their expressions weren't too dark, so it seems they collected the internal energy manual well.
"Min Chan-seong, when did you get here?"
"Me? I was about to go up right after urinating, but it started raining so I was under a tree, and when it seemed like I'd get lost, I ran when the rain got lighter."
"Urinating my ass. Why would you go so far just to piss?"
"No, that's..."
"We waited for a long time and you didn't come, so we went looking for you. Be honest, did you take a dump?"
"Huh? Did Min Chan-seong take a dump? Hey, no matter how urgent it was, that's not right. How could you poop in a national park?"
Even Lee Ji-sung joined in teasing me from the side, and I'm really flabbergasted and speechless.
I went through all that trouble to spoon-feed them opportunities, and they're making me out to be a pooper?
Have I ever seen such ungrateful bastards?
"What, Chan-seong took a dump?"
"Ugh, the smell."
Other kids nearby heard and started teasing too.
"I was so worried about you. No matter how much I called, you didn't answer."
"I think I couldn't hear because of the rain sound. I was worried a lot too. When I came, you guys weren't there."
"You probably couldn't hear because you were straining."
That bastard Lee Ji-sung really wants to die.
"Lee Ji-sung, you came late too. Didn't you also take a dump?"
I can't be the only pooper.
It's a drowning man strategy.
"Am I you?"
"Chan-seong's words seem to make sense though?"
"Ji-sung, didn't you also take too long just for urinating?"
"Yeah, I didn't even see you disappear."
As the kids started ganging up on him, agreeing with my opinion, Lee Ji-sung's face turned bright red.
"That's not it."
"Not what. Wait, Lee Ji-sung, you're not even carrying your bag."
That guy definitely gave his bag to the teacher earlier, saying it was heavy.
"So... what about it?"
"How did you clean up? You wouldn't have had tissue. Don't tell me you used leaves..."
As I spoke while holding my nose and waving my hand dismissively, all the kids around Lee Ji-sung, including Do-hyun, distanced themselves from him.
"I said no!"
He ended up shouting, but nobody approached him.
Serves him right.
That's what you get for making someone out to be a pooper.
***
After finishing the talent show, everyone had gone to bed.
I checked the sleeping pattern of my opposite bunk bed mate on the same second floor and used teleportation magic to come to the portal.
Going inside, Master and Luciel were nowhere to be seen again today.
I told them that the kids who came during the day would only come once.
Originally, at Luciel and Master's level, they would know it was me, not those kids, so did something go wrong during the day?
I quickly went to the lakeside and found Master watching variety shows in the camper van as usual.
This old man, really.
"You're here?"
"Where's Luciel?"
"Isn't she outside?"
"I don't see her."
"Really? She was outside earlier, but I guess she hid when you came."
"Hiding? Why? Don't tell me something happened during the day?"
"It did happen. I was watching with Luciel, and that first guy who came in was quite a nasty fellow."
"What? I told you to do nothing and they'd leave on their own. What were you thinking, risking being discovered?"
Luciel will meet them anyway when she's a second-year later, so it doesn't matter much, but Master is different.
Of course, I know Master's skills well, but if they happened to encounter each other, I don't know what kind of aftermath might occur.
In the worst case, the Primordial Heavenly Honored One might take Master to the immortal realm, saying he extended his connections...
"There actually was a moment when it was almost dangerous."
"What?"
"I clearly told her to eat it later, but Luciel, that girl, didn't listen to me and dropped a chocolate bar wrapper while watching them and eating chocolate."
"So did you actually encounter them?"
"No. They found the wrapper but just ignored it and left."
PHEW, I can't live like this.
"You should have said that from the beginning."
I feel like I've aged 10 years in an instant.
"Why are you making such a fuss? Didn't I say it was almost dangerous?"
"That's not the point right now..."
"I didn't do anything wrong either, and the mistake was made by your junior sister, so why are you taking it out on me?"
"Yes, yes. So that's why Luciel is hiding."
"That must be it. Because she thought you'd scold her like this."
I came outside and deployed Absolute Domain.
Actually, spreading internal energy would be fine too, but Absolute Domain would be much faster.
I felt her presence under the lake right in front of me, so I sent a telepathic message.
―If you come out right now, I won't get angry or scold you.
As soon as I finished speaking, water sprayed up as Luciel jumped out.
"Our Shin-hyeok really won't get angry, right?"
Unlike her usual self, she spoke in a cute voice and even smiled with her eyes.
"Right. I won't get angry. I won't scold you either. Instead, chocolate bar confiscated for a week."
"What? How is that possible?!"
"I said I wouldn't get angry or scold you, but I didn't say I wouldn't confiscate your chocolate bars."
I glared at her fiercely.
"Hmph! I don't care. I'll just ask Se-jin to buy me some."
"I'm going to tell Se-jin not to buy you any either."
"Are you really going to do that? You haven't even given me today's yet."
She makes her big eyes teary and acts pitiful, and my heart almost softens... like hell.
I've been fooled by this kind of acting more than once or twice, so today I really can't let it slide.
"Then including today's, a week is... huh?"
She suddenly spread her wings and hugged me.
"Ciel is weally sowwy. It's not like Luciel did it on puwpose, Shin-hyeok told her not to and she didn't even meet them, Luciel gets weally weally sad without chocolate bars..."
She's speaking with a red face in baby talk... SIGH, I can't handle this.
Where on earth did she learn this?
"Please stop. I get it, but next time there's absolutely no mercy."
"Okway. Luciel woves Shin-hyeok the most!"
At first she seemed a bit embarrassed, but now that it's working well, she's excited and keeps going.
"Stop acting cute!"
"Luciel isn't acting cute, she's natuwalwy cute... ack!"
I felt goosebumps all over my body, so I gave her a knuckle sandwich and ran away to Master.
Even if it's her, she won't use that kind of speech in front of Master.
"Did you scold Luciel a lot?"
"I just talked to her nicely so she'd understand. More importantly, did the kids learn the internal energy manual well? You said you were watching them."
"Both of them took photos with their phones... but that first guy who came was quite a nasty fellow."
If it's the first one, that would be Lee Ji-sung.
"What did that guy do?"
"As you said, he went straight into the cave as if he'd been here before and filmed the manual with his phone."
"So?"
"I thought he was done filming and leaving, but then he damaged the manual I had written."
Master spoke with a quite serious face, but honestly I wasn't that surprised.
Lee Ji-sung was like that in the original story too.
"He seemed to know another kid would come later, and to prevent the other kid from seeing it, he used such a petty trick. You really have no eye for people."
"Haha... Well, I can fix it again for the kid who came later."
"That's not the problem, but that first kid's character seems quite poor. Giving martial arts to such a guy..."
Master is right.
"He's not that bad a kid. I'll educate him well."
I appeased Master and came back outside.
It proceeded just like the original story, but actually I had thought it might be a little different this time.
He had shown himself being friendly with Do-hyun until recently, and honestly, even though I let it slide, he had a history of making Do-hyun's family situation difficult in order to become friends with him.
If he had even a little guilt toward Do-hyun, I thought he wouldn't go this far...
I know he's selfish, but did he really have to go that far?
I defended him in front of Master, but I also feel a bit uncomfortable about it.