112 – 2. ■■’S Summoner (59)
#112
“So, you want to legally skip class?”
I nodded my head proudly without hesitation at her words, which summarized the plan for the four days in one line, which took 30 minutes to explain.
Squeeze…
No matter how cool she was, she couldn’t bear it. After drinking it all, she inhaled the straw of iced americano and let out her saliva.
“…Shinwoo’s younger brother was much more brazen than I thought, right? Ah, is it okay if I call you CNU’s younger brother?”
After confirming it with a nod, she licked her lips and chewed on the straw a few times before letting out her first sigh with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“Yeah, Shinwoo’s younger brother? It looks like this, but I’m the chairman of the Discipline Committee? I am the head of a group that corrects students’ duties.”
“So what?”
What does that have to do with my plans? Wouldn’t that be enough if we did what each other needed?
“Anyway, seniors don’t have high expectations for ‘something like compensation’. Are you planning to join the family business guild right after graduation? Wouldn’t there be enough time for each other?”
“Oops, I never thought I would have known that far.”
The expression on her face, which had been smiling bitterly, became serious.
Shirogane Combination.
It is quite a famous company in Japan.
It is a so-called ‘production guild’ company that focuses on producing equipment, artifacts, and magic scrolls rather than attacking dungeons, even though it has an S-rank guild [Hot Hammer] Under its affiliation.
Do you just leave the manpower of the S rank guild unattended? Not even that. They are warriors, but they are also artisans.
Go around the dungeon and hit the hammer based on self-sufficient materials. Repeated research, made equipment again, and headed to the dungeon again with the finished base.
Those who pursue self-sufficiency in hunting, gathering, and production to the limit can be seen as those who have captured both romance and reality in a certain sense.
… Is the overall evaluation of the Shirogane Association in Japan.
However, that is only a story in Japan.
Ironically, the reason why they are so popular in Japan is the same reason why they cannot become a global company.
It is impossible to do everything at the same time with very few things.
Where are those who fell down trying to catch both rabbits? In that respect, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Shirogane combination has a rather deformed form.
If you look at the work of the Shirogane Association, you would think that modern companies have survived to this day with a system that only pursued the romance of the old days.
Someone would say you’re lucky, but I know. That cannot be maintained simply by being lucky.
Because they are under the meticulous calculations of an excellent leader, they can light the furnace and pound the mange with peace of mind.
But that momentum is now receding. This is because none other than Ichiro Shirogane, the current president and president of the Shirogane Guild, fell ill shortly after returning from an expedition.
In other words, the person who should lead the company is absent.
I heard from Se-Rin Lee that I don’t know how it will be maintained right now, but it will become more precarious as time goes on. Moving on, he said that he would swallow the company that collapsed like that.
Since the president of the Dragonia Group, Se-Rin Lee, directly affirmed that he would have it, it is correct to assume that there is something in the Shirogane combination. It probably has a lot to do with the ‘Majang’ I planned this time.
Therefore, the time given to this woman, Rui Shirogane, is limited. She will be scrambling to fill the gap in the corporation created by her own father.
Serine Lee is taking advantage of that opportunity, and she intends to earnestly prepare to take her group into her own hands, so it is inevitable that her Shirogane Rui will be busy.
And there is no way that the company’s eldest daughter or the person concerned is unaware of that fact.
“Brother Shinwoo, do you know what our family credo is?”
When she suddenly rhymed, I shook my head at her words. Find out something Rui Shirogane held her accusation at my sullen expression, which clearly showed such thoughts.
“No matter what happens, don’t deviate from ‘humanity’. Furthermore, be proud of your own choices.”
The expression on her face when she said that was confident and without a hint of shame. She means that she is practicing a pseudonym.
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“The ‘humanity’ I have established is that the duty of a human being is to go straight no matter what happens.”
“It’s a mindset that suits the Public Discipline Committee.”
It seems like it will break if it hits the wind and waves of society. I also noticed, so I only remembered the words after that, but I didn’t say them separately.
I got tired of people of her kind. And what were they saying?
“Yeah, but living in this world didn’t always go my way. I had felt it little by little before, but I really felt it when I came here. Ah, at this rate, I’m going to break first.”
The story seemed to be counting down different paths. I just listened to her without any inspiration. I didn’t agree or deny it, just calmly closed my eyes. I was tired.
“So I thought about it. Iron that is only hard is easily broken, so let’s rather be soft iron from the beginning. It’s such a soft iron that doesn’t get tired no matter how hard it is quenched, and it gradually hardens.”
Dalgrak!
The remaining ice in her cup melted as she finished drinking, echoing her noise. The cool air is instantly replaced by hot, muggy heat. I slowly opened my eyes and looked at the person in front of me.
The light and sad woman from before has disappeared. What was in front of me was serious and hot, like steel that had just been pulled out of the mouth of a furnace.
The longing that shimmers inside the jet-black eyes, the heat encroaches on the surroundings.
“It was forged that way to become a sharp sword that no one could easily ignore.”
I did. It was a word in the past tense.
I went round and round, but in the end, the sword is a tool that is being used. In other words, until now, she was just being used. But now she couldn’t be satisfied with that.
What could have changed her mind? It’s simple. All her circumstances, her environment, which constituted her, changed her.
‘…Being a nuisance.’
She’s talking to me now. If she had been herself before, she would have accepted my offer. But she says she is different now.
She’s only revealing that she can’t satisfy herself with such a petty plan. She decided to stand on her own as a person. Then it would be right for me to change her treatment accordingly.
“What is the purpose?”
“Admission of the Great Library.”
“You’re looking for clues about your father’s illness.”
Rui Shirogane flinched for an instant at my cold reply, which even disappeared, but she agreed with a nod of her head.
“You may not be able to find the answer you are looking for with a simple registration, right?”
“I never thought I could get rid of it in a day or two anyway.”
“…It doesn’t seem like a simple disease.”
There was no information about what kind of disease Shirogane Ichiro had. This is because he completely disappeared from the official statue after the last expedition.
Since the people around him also shut up as if it were natural, it is virtually impossible to find the answer in an ordinary way.
But Lee Se-rin must know the answer. Because that woman is like that.
“That’s a secret. If you want to know… What is your sister going to do, can you help me?”
Perhaps she felt hopeful for me lost in her thoughts, and immediately changed her mood, and she returned to her sad expression again.
Seeing her like that, I snorted and closed my eyes in reverse. I quickly calculated the profit and loss, but no matter how much I thought about it, there was not much benefit to me.
Even if she manages to solve this problem anyway, there is no guarantee that she will uncover Ichiro Shirogane’s illness. Furthermore, even if left unattended, her company will fall into Lee Se-rin’s hands.
Everything is consequential. No matter what the process is, it is meaningless if the result is not good.
Thus, I work in pursuit of the best possible results. If the process is good, it is better, and even if it is not, as long as it can produce good results in the end, you can endure it.
Talk, talk, talk
I flick my fingers and knock on the desk.
In the past, it was used as a ploy to accelerate the other person’s impatience. Now it has completely become a habit, and whenever I am at a crossroads of choice, my fingers move on their own.
Took!
I stopped flicking my fingers. At the same time, I opened her eyes and looked at her.
“Which is better, education or practice?”
The tone of voice has changed. Rui Shirogane’s expression brightened when he heard that he would do his duty as an academy student.
“Of course it’s a real battle!”
She I immediately stood up from her seat at the sound of her laughter, her signature relaxed yet bright smile.
Ugh!
At that moment, my device responded by ringing.
I immediately checked the contents, and sure enough, there was a reply from a person who had watched all of this conversation. It was only natural that I frowned upon confirming that.
“What’s up?”
Rui Shirogane stuck her head in, perhaps feeling something strange about my stiff appearance, standing up as if to leave at any moment.
“No big deal.”
I sighed as I pushed it away with my hand.
“…I just heard some swearing about going around things that are easy to get to.”
[As expected, you have a strong M tendency. Byun~Tae♡]
[Are you sure you want to delete the message?]
[Yes / No]
I immediately clicked Yes to erase the undesirable things, and I put the device in roughly.
Rui Shirogane tilted her head at my nervous appearance, and eventually, perhaps instinctively realizing that she shouldn’t get entangled, she just shut her mouth and followed me.
She is a wise woman in many ways. So it’s more annoying.
So if I can use that woman as a tool again, it will definitely be of great help. A knife that moves freely while possessing an ego is nothing more than a risk factor.
But it’s a waste to kill that temper. So let’s save it. It follows the master’s words with will. It’s not much different from my summons. The difference is that this woman has the potential to betray me.
Then it’s enough to make the possibility converge to zero. Recalling that, I manipulated the device and applied for the dungeon.
She opened her mouth after confirming that a confirmation alarm had arrived because she applied for her party.
“Sister Shinwoo, in the first year, the 3rd and 4th periods were subject classes, so wouldn’t it be a big deal if I applied like this?”
“Is there a problem?”
“No? My older sister is in her senior year, but she got most of her credits. You just have to focus on this class, but you’re not my younger brother, are you?”
Subject classes. The ones I chose were [Summoning], [Mamulology], And finally [Exploration].
This week’s class is [Summoning], But I didn’t really like it. After realizing that my summoning and normal summoning were different in the first place, that feeling became stronger.
In order to know information about monsters I haven’t discovered yet, I’ll have to keep going to [Mamulology] And [Exploration], But at least for [Summoning], Rather than learning from that cat professor, [Book of Summoning] And [Combination] It would be more effective to quarrel with [Seo].
“…It doesn’t matter.”
“So it doesn’t matter~”
I let out a snort at the sight of her diligently pressing confirmation on the application while smiling bitterly with a troubled expression.
The head of an organization that needs to correct mistakes more than anyone else is aiding and abetting them. I just said that, but in fact, it’s not different from sympathy.
Corruption, very big corruption. The morale committee has also collapsed. If this fact is known to the school, something very funny will happen.
“Sister Shinwoo~ Didn’t you hear that your insides are black?”
“Come soon. There is no time.”
“Oops, are you talking about it here?”
It’s embarrassing, it’s embarrassing~ I didn’t like the way she talked about it and smiled as if she knew everything.
Ignoring Rui Shirogane, who repeatedly greeted me with an insincere expression in order to ease my mood, I moved toward the entrance of the dungeon.
The destination is the B rank dungeon [Cold Land of Sighs].