Secretary Kim Yu-shin thought about it for a while, and then made a preemptive proposal.
“After graduation, getting a job at the association as a special hire… .”
“That’s not a very tempting proposition.”
“It sounds like you did it once. It’s the gates of hell Converting it into money… I can give you this much as compensation.”
He said, holding out the terminal with the calculator app turned on.
The numbers written on the calculator might not have been the case for me at the beginning of school, but for me now, they weren’t very satisfactory.
“It’s smaller than I thought.”
“It’s the money going out of the association. If it’s not enough, I can add my own expenses, and I can match up to twice this.”
More money is better, but money isn’t everything.
Moreover, Secretary Kim Yu-shin in front of you is in fact the real power of the association.
There’s nothing wrong with opening up connections to the association.
For me now, making a good impression on him is more valuable than receiving a few pennies in compensation.
“It’s a joke. You’re taking it to do something good. You should be willing to hand it over.”
“okay?”
At my words, Yushin Kim’s expression brightened.
On the contrary, principal Kim Chul’s expression was dark enough to contrast.
“You shouldn’t try to spoil such a good boy.”
“You’re eating your back. Of course, in addition to the association’s bounty, I wanted to express my personal appreciation.”
“really?”
“It’s something I got while doing other work recently. It will be more helpful to my juniors than me.”
He took something out of his pocket that seemed to be connected to the subspace and put it on the table.
It was a wooden box the size of two palms.
I felt an unusual energy inside the box.
“Snow ginseng. It is also a 300-year-old bastard.”
A new elixir is always welcome.
* * *
The devil worshiper case has been turned over to the Society.
As long as he handed over the gates of hell in exchange for the compensation money from Seolsam and the Association, there was nothing more Hanzo had to do.
“Then let’s go.”
“Yeah, you look tired. Do you want to get some rest?”
After Hanjo left, Kim Cheol and Kim Yushin continued their conversation in the principal’s office.
Principal Kim Chul said in a blunt tone.
“Do you always carry something like that?”
“If you’re talking about seolsam, I’m saving it for later.”
“You said you were a 300-year-old guy, but from my point of view, you seem like a 800-year-old guy?”
“They said he was at least 300 years old. It could be 400 or 500 years. As you said, it could be 800 years.”
“There’s no way that a dark-hearted guy like you was really impressed with Hanzo’s attitude. Do you want to apply saliva?”
It wasn’t to exaggerate the value of the elixir, and there was no reason to shorten it.
If it is 800 years old seolsam, it is actually a thousand years seolsam (千年雪蔘) that only appears in legends.
Although it was not as good as the one ever found in an S-class dungeon, it was an elixir of life and a gift of heaven.
It was something that would have been of great help even if Yushin Kim himself had eaten it instead of handing it over to Hanjo.
“I meant to test it out, so I deliberately shortened it. He seemed to have noticed that he wasn’t even 300 years old.”
“It seems like a big expense for you too, considering that it was used for testing purposes?”
At Kim Cheol’s words, Kim Yoo-shin covered his mouth with the palm of his hand and smiled.
“I think I understood and passed it off as empty words, but he is a person I want to bring in as a special hire after graduation.”
“What do you think? Is it the association’s idea?”
“That is my opinion. And my thoughts are the thoughts of the Association.”
“You’ve grown a lot. Our Yushin.”
“Are you calling me ‘us’?”
Kim Cheol hated Kim Yu-shin’s smirk.
I don’t think it was like this when I was a student.
As the days went by, he became more and more incomprehensible.
“Damn bastard. The serpent is done. If you have nothing more to say, go now.”
“All right.”
Kim Yu-shin got up from his seat while tidying up his clothes.
“As for the devil worshipers, we’ll take care of everything. Don’t worry.”
“Are you going to move yourself?”
“It should be.”
“If you are a devil, you are the one who trembles. I thought so.”
“I will take the gates of hell right away.”
“If that’s what got the bugs around, it’s best to get rid of them.”
A statue of a door large enough for three or four men to pass through appeared in the principal’s office.
It was brought from another place using space magic.
The Gates of Hell were decorated with delicate and elegant pieces that wouldn’t be strange to have on display in a museum.
I couldn’t feel the demon’s power, but the blood stains and scent that permeated deeply added to the ominous feeling.
“… This is the artifact the Church of Jealousy had, the Gate of Hell.”
Kim Yu-shin’s hand swept down the gates of hell.
When I touched it, I felt a warm feeling as if I was alive.
A special stone material, not a stone material such as marble commonly used for sculpture.
It was clear that it did not belong to this world, but was made by processing materials.
Kim Yu-shin used the subspace pouch he used when he took out Seolsam to store the gate of hell.
“If possible, I would like other denominations besides Gluttony to move, if possible, from the original owner, the Jealousy Church.”
“I lost a lot of power because of that. They will refrain from their actions for a while.”
“It’s a pity.”
Kim Yu-shin was sincerely sorry.
He’s a devil and a devil worshiper. Principal Kim Cheol is also well aware that there is a bad relationship with the Jealous Church.
Even after many years had passed, the anger he harbored did not seem to be quenched.
Kim Chul asked Kim Yu-shin, who was about to leave, one last time.
“Jegal Min-woo, is that guy also bound for forced labor?”
“We will be crossing the sea before the year is over. If you serve faithfully, you should be able to leave the prison as usual.”
“Okay, tell me that you’ll visit me once before that.”
“All right.”
Kim Yu-shin left, and Kim Cheol monologued alone.
“It is ironic. even if it wasn’t for that He wouldn’t have hanged himself like this, and Jegal Min-wu wouldn’t have done anything stupid either.”
Kim Yu-shin showed clear hostility to the devil and Instructor Jegal Min-woo helped the devil worshipers.
In both cases, an incident in the past became the starting point.
“That incident happened already… .”
The moment Kim Chul tried to recall the past.
The door to the principal’s office burst open without his permission, and a female student entered.
“principal!”
It was Selena, the student council president and Kim Cheol’s granddaughter.
Even if it was a granddaughter, it wasn’t common for her to come into his room blindly like now.
When he saw the urgent-looking face, Kim Chul knew right away that it was not an ordinary job.
“What’s going on?”
“There are spectators who suddenly lose consciousness.”
“You don’t know why?”
“I suspected the effects of poison or drugs. It is the way to come after receiving confirmation that it is not.”
“Did you just lose consciousness? Will it affect your life?”
“Right now, it is not life-threatening, but it is getting weaker and weaker. I tried to wake him up, but no one has regained consciousness.”
“How many victims have been identified?”
“We are still in the process of estimating, but what we know now is… .”
There was no time for peace in this school.
Kim Chul immediately moved to come up with a countermeasure.
However, that this incident would have been just the beginning of his hellish day.
no one… No, only Hanzo knew.
* * *
“Ah, I slept well.”
I took a deep breath and woke up.
I definitely felt that my condition improved both physically and mentally.
‘The amount of mana consumed has been recovered by 70%, and the condition is not bad at this level.’
Sleep is also a medicine.
I checked the text piled up on the terminal.
“As expected, Shin Sung-ah won the championship.”
It was Shin Sung-ah who won the individual competition.
It flowed the same as the original, even the fact that Kang Min-hyuk, the opponent in the finals, withdrew and won the championship by default.
The reason why Kang Min-hyeok abstained must also be the same as the original.
Instead of the finals, he would have been busy helping the student council president, Selena, deal with the incidents that happened throughout the school.
“If there had been a match for 3rd or 4th place, I would have watched it. If Yuri Baek and Hyeonhwa Yoo fought, which one would win?”
Anton and Namgungik only advanced to the quarterfinals.
Daejin had bad luck.
Namgung-ik was against Shin Seong-ah, and Anton was against Kang Min-hyuk.
Other than that, Kiron Einar, who had beaten Eve Ataraxia in the round of 16, was defeated by Kang Mi-hyeok and was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Lim Jin-wook, who Anton wanted to fight in the individual match, met Kang Min-hyeok in the round of 32 and was defeated in a panic.
“There was no change.”
At least it was for me.
But not so for others.
In the novel, this competition also served as an opportunity for Kang Min-hyeok’s name to become known.
The appearance of a supernova named Kang Min-hyuk must have been the biggest surprise of this tournament.
“Actually, Kang Min-hyuk must be fighting hard against the conspiracy targeting the festival even now.”
[Woke up. dear.]
He spoke to me with his eyes focused on the screen where the drama was playing.
In the drama, an old man who appears to be the chairman of a large company is holding onto the back of his neck with his face stained red.
I asked Mae-gu, who is obsessed with the drama.
“Are you having fun?”
[Don’t talk to me. Now is the moment when the secret of birth is about to be revealed.]
Maegu’s taste in drama is the last drama.
Among them, I enjoyed watching morning dramas.
The episode ended with the chairman, who was holding on to the back of his neck, eventually collapsing and losing consciousness.
The next episode was about to be broadcast one after another without advertisements because it was not a live broadcast, but was watched using an OTT service.
I hit the pause button.
At this, Maegoo glared at me and sighed.
[Quickly bring out your next anger.]
“I am addicted to drama.”
[This is the moment when it was about to be revealed that the heroine is the chairman’s illegitimate child.]
“You were supposed to watch it until I woke up, right? Go and see the next episode.”
[Tsk, why didn’t you wake up a little later?]
Maegu was addicted to the last drama.
I didn’t expect to see a drama until I entered the world of novels, but.
It’s funny how a fox youkai that has lived for thousands of years likes it.
I’m sure you’ve experienced more than the last drama several times.
191 chapters released on kakao. Please, update this one.
I caught up 😭