She took a monocle out of her bosom and put it on, observing the liquid dripping inside the metal bottle.
Despite my warning, she opened the lid of the mana potion and took out the contents to examine it carefully.
“uh… !”
Soon after she started observing, all the liquid in the bottle evaporated.
Han So-yul had a very embarrassed expression on her face.
I had warned her not to open it in advance, but her personality allowed me to open it.
“Didn’t you say that if you break it, you’ll make any number of the same thing?”
“that… .”
“How long do you think it will take? 2 years? 3 years?”
“Okay. I have research notes and I have seen the real thing in person. It won’t take that long.”
“Then one year?”
“Half a year is enough.”
“Yes, I will be looking forward to it.”
I lost one mana restorer that I could use right away.
After half a year, you will be able to receive and use as much as you want.
It wasn’t that much of a loss.
“Did you know?”
“You warned me in advance. Don’t open it.”
“Don’t just say it, if I tried to open it, you should have stopped it.”
There’s no way Han So-yul won’t use up all six remaining bottles before he can make mana potion.
Han So-yul looked at me with a resentful expression, then turned around and walked toward the dormitory without saying a word.
There are only a couple of things I would like to ask for in the future, but it went well.
If there was something to be asked of Han So-yul, it was more certain to use gains and losses of interest rather than relying on something vague like friendship.
That’s the right way to deal with an alchemist.
‘Because it seems like you’ve looked back at all the festivals. Shall I go and help with the student council?’
The moment I thought so.
A girl’s figure caught my eye.
I don’t know why she’s here, but there’s nothing good about leaving her alone.
I approached a female student wearing a deep hood and whispered quietly.
“Senior, can’t we have a guerrilla concert today?”
“Did you find out?”
“Because I don’t tend to forget the presence of people I’ve met once.”
Even though there were so many visitors to the festival.
No one recognized Yerin Cho, who hid her brilliant presence.
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Joyerin didn’t show it, but she was very embarrassed.
It was not uncommon for her to hide her presence and hang out.
However, there has never been a case where he recognized himself who had made up his mind and hid his presence.
Hanzo was the first.
“How did you really find out?”
So she had no choice but to ask how Hanzo was able to recognize her.
Hanzo said as if it was natural.
“Should I say that my stomach has the ability to become more sensitive to the presence of others than others?”
Because Hanzo himself was good at hiding or killing his presence.
Conversely, he was also sensitive to finding hidden signs.
In addition, ＜mind’s eye＞ that maximizes synesthesia is added.
It was not difficult to find Yerin Cho, who hid her presence well enough to be a skilled first-class assassin.
“I was pretty confident. Now I’m afraid I’ll be caught by someone I’ve only met for the second time.”
There was nothing quite like this as a diversion, but it was only when there was an instance of recognizing it.
I couldn’t even do it with peace of mind.
“Is there any song you want? As a reward for finding out, would you like to sing at least one song?”
“I think I said at the beginning that I would like you to refrain from guerrilla concerts.”
“Oh right. I said so.”
“How did you enjoy the festival?”
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Joyerin was not on the side of enjoying the festival, but on the side of having fun.
It’s not the first time I’ve visited the festival while hiding my presence, but it’s still one of the few.
It wasn’t to the extent that I could completely change my mood, but I was satisfied with it.
“It wasn’t too bad. If no one noticed, I think I would have looked around a bit more.”
“I guess I just talked to you.”
“no. I didn’t just come here to play. Because I was just about to go. it’s okay.”
I didn’t come here to enjoy the school festival, simply to change my mood.
“Regarding the performance tomorrow, it looks like you have some other adjustments to make.”
“If you pretend, you pretend and notice. Do you want to become my manager later?”
“I appreciate Scouts, but they aren’t very interested in that.”
“By the way, my manager now has this kind of salary.”
“Well… Are you making more than you think?”
“Are you interested?”
“I was just surprised that there were more than I thought. With this salary, you can earn it by clearing two or three C-rank dungeons.”
Although Hanzo was briefly surprised at the larger amount than he had expected.
Considering the rewards for closing the dungeon and the by-products from the raid process, it wasn’t a huge amount.
“It is presented at the highest level in this industry. It must have been a small amount to offer to a promising hero.”
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of a prospect.”
“I didn’t see it live, but I saw the video of the team match. You seem to have hidden the way you fight on purpose, but you fight well, right?”
“It looks like you saw the original, not the edited version.”
“Originally, I would have fought there too. It was regrettable, so I deliberately looked for the original.”
Hanzo also checked the edited version to see how the fights in other places went.
The magic tool for shooting couldn’t shoot in the forest and in the water.
It seems that they couldn’t even broadcast the fight between the same team.
In the edited video, he was barely seen fighting.
‘As much as it’s different from the original, I wanted to confirm it.’
In the grassland area, which can be called the main base of the first year, Namgung-Ik and Shin Seong-ah fought against the elite second-year students led by Baek Yu-ri.
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Just as Anton wanted, he had a revenge match with Lim Jin-wook.
‘Both sides, though it ended in a draw.’
Although it was a draw, the ending of the two fights was close to opposite.
Baek Yu-ri’s side deliberately dragged out time and made it a forced draw by holding out until the time limit.
Anton’s side was a draw because the strongest blow they could deliver fatally wounded each other.
‘If it were me, without power control. I must have knocked down the careless Lim Jin-wook with the first blow.’
Anton did not.
At the same time as showing his grown skills, he wanted to fight against Lim Jin-wook, who showed his full potential.
‘As a result, 1 draw and 1 loss. Totally, Anton is still out of line.’
But if they fought again, Hanzo could be sure that it would be Anton who would win.
There is only one moon that Anton drew as an image while fighting Lim Jin-wook.
The frequency of success in drawing two moons was increasing.
Even if you succeed in that alone, you will have the power of a higher rank among A-class heroes.
‘Depending on the match luck, I can expect good results in the individual exhibition tomorrow.’
Hanjo thought that the later he met Shin Sung-ah and Kang Min-hyuk, the higher his grades would be.
Like Hanzo, Yerin Cho was thinking about the group exhibition that took place today.
“Come to think of it, there was one more great kid in the first year.”
“Are you talking about Kang Min-hyuk?”
“There were some great kids among the other freshmen, but I thought he was the top among the freshmen.”
Yerin Cho was also a strong player with considerable skills.
If you ask me if I can do the same thing as Kang Min-hyuk, I can only answer that it is close to impossible.
Besides that, there were a lot of talented people among the 1st graders.
Sungah Shin, Hyeonhwa Yoo, Gungik Nam, Ben Gibraltar, and Anton Ivanov. Finally, to Hanzo next to her.
It’s not for nothing that this year’s first graders are called the golden generation.
“But if I were to ask who I would hate to fight with in the first year, I think I would pick you.”
“Me?”
“If we fight in a match like a team match, I think we can win. Should I say that if I were to risk my life to fight, I would never be able to win?”
Rare Trait ＜Understand Essence＞.
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Joyerin had an excellent ability to read the atmosphere around people.
It was a very helpful ability for her, who has to meet various people due to the nature of her job.
From the conversation she had had so far, she was able to understand, at least roughly, the nature of Hanzo.
‘But I don’t think I can understand it more deeply than this.’
It was different in depth from others.
On the other hand, there are people who can understand the essence without difficulty even if they have not exchanged a few words.
Even after spending a long time, there was a person who could barely get a blurry outline.
‘Most of those who rose to the ranks of the strong were like that.’
It becomes difficult to read from A grade and above, and beyond S grade, it takes a long time to understand, albeit vaguely.
and beyond.
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Just like Instructor Chun Yu-ran, it was impossible to understand the essence of those who are called transcendentalists.
‘Other than that, even people who are good at hiding their feelings, like politicians and businessmen, or who hold a lot of secrets, are on the side of this hard to read.’
Is Hanzo really the former? is it the latter?
So far, in the case of the latter, there has never been a case where the source is not visible even after a long conversation like Hanzo.
Naturally, she came to think that Hanzo belonged to the former.
‘S-class at this age… . It’s not without precedent, though.’
In the past, before Chun Yu-ran was promoted to the second year, he single-handedly defeated the boss of an S-class dungeon.
As a special case, there was a case where he became an S-class hero.
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Joyerin gave up on understanding Hanzo’s true nature any longer.
Instead, I asked questions out of curiosity.
“Are you thinking of winning the individual competition tomorrow?”
“Am I winning? It would be nice if I didn’t get eliminated in the preliminary round.”
“I don’t think that will happen. Since you have the right to seed in the first place, you don’t have to go through the preliminaries.”
“It is. Shall we correct it by being eliminated in the first round?”
One of the exceptions to admission in the second place was the provision of seed rights for tomorrow’s individual exhibition.
In addition to Hanjo, seed rights were given to Shin Seong-ah, the top student, and Yoo Hyeon-hwa, the third-ranked student.
Hanzo was paying attention to other things than the solo exhibition tomorrow.
It didn’t matter if they had seed rights or not.
“Senior, aren’t you leaving?”
“I left my schedule completely empty for tomorrow. I took a long break, and I plan to hide and watch.”
“If I feel the same way, I’d also like to return the seed ticket and rest.”
“You don’t seem to like being noticed very much.”
“There is a saying that angular stones are right, and there is nothing good about standing out.”
Hanzo didn’t like being overrated like he is now.
Although the plan was twisted from the moment he entered the Hero Academy as the second-ranked student.
It was because I wanted to spend my school life quietly without standing out if possible.
“Like seniors sometimes want to live a quiet life like a pebble on the street, not a glamorous star on stage.”
Yerin Joy felt as if she had been stabbed to the point by Hanzo’s words.
She felt as if her true nature had been grasped by him, as opposed to her trying to grasp Hanzo’s true nature.