105 – Numbers_1
“Not much, but…”
It was during a short break after the lecture, around the time when I was chatting with Anten, Han Yu-ri, and Yeon Eun-ryeong in the classroom.
The female student, whose name I can’t remember, held out a small box wrapped in plain wrapping paper and ribbon with a nervous face.
“This?”
“Ah, this… It solved my troubles the other day. It’s a return gift for that, yes.”
When I asked with a question, the student whose name I did not know was slightly taken aback and explained as if making an excuse.
“I didn’t expect something like this.”
“I’m grateful though…”
“Really? Then I will be grateful.”
“Yeah, that’s right, then I’ll go.”
Upon accepting her gift, the cadet ran out of the classroom, slightly covering her face with her hands.
Then, the voices of the female students could be heard briefly.
“I envy you.”
“What?”
“To be honest, I’m not the kind of person who gets bullied anywhere, so why am I not getting a confession? hehehe…”
Anten, who was staring at her, shook her head and expressed her dissatisfaction as if her world was unfair.
I looked at Anten.
Anten said that she had a cool-looking Honam face that could have been quite popular.
“That doesn’t mean that. This is just a gift in return for listening to my concerns.”
“Do you really think so? Huh?”
No.
I know that the fact that the female student gave me this kind of gift not only means that she has solved her superficial concerns, but also contains some similar romantic feelings.
There is no way I don’t notice that much, whether it’s the feeling that came from solving my troubles really well, or whether it’s because I approached my appearance superficially by looking at my face.
But I didn’t bother to show it.
“What else could there be?”
“Ha… If that’s you, then that’s it. The guy who came earlier than that seems to be class E, and the guy who left now looks like class C. Did you really have other classes giving you trouble counseling?
“Somehow it happened.”
It is only part of the work of building awareness, maintaining reputation, using skills to narrow the distance, gaining weaknesses, and creating people who will become a shield in case of emergency.
Of course, it hasn’t been long since last fall, but starting from last fall’s Mutuje, my face became known and I secretly spread my good deeds for awareness, so other classes heard about it and often came to visit me.
Although most of them were female students.
‘Is it okay?’
Because anything becomes easier when you hold onto even a certain half rather than an unstable whole.
Don’t think about holding all of them, just keep as many as you can win.
In addition, in the original work, there was no such event before the next event, the academy competition, so it was also a matter of concentrating on it.
Even so, I did not underestimate the butterfly effect, so I prepared for it.
“How come? Haa…Are you really a good person or a hogu…”
Anten looked at me like she was dumbfounded.
On the one hand, she seemed to be admiring it.
“Of course you are kind. Don’t you know that too?”
“Yeah, Seonghyun is nice.”
Han Yu-ri and Yeon Eun-ryeong, who were listening to her story, intervened and put pressure on An-ten.
“Who is bad? Still, judging from his attitude, he doesn’t seem to get paid, but it seems like he does it several times a day, so isn’t it a bit like wasting time like that?”
Couldn’t I have done something like that?
It’s all because it’s necessary, and it’s all a distribution of time under strict supervision.
I didn’t need others to know about it, so I just didn’t say it.
That’s why she was worried about Anten, who considers me her friend, so she must have brought up the story in a playful way.
“Because it’s Seonghyeon.””
Otherwise, Han Yu-ri and Yeon Eun-ryeong were the ones I would trust even if I made fermented soybean paste with red beans, so they only infinitely affirmed my actions.
“Okay…let’s just say I’m nice.”
As if the thought of continuing the conversation had disappeared due to the attitude of the two, Anten overcame her concerns and affirmed.
“hahahaha…”
Those scenes were just funny, but I just acted with a shy expression on my face.
Every little thing determines the overall quality.
Anyway, since the conversation was appropriate, the break time was over, the professor came in, and the lecture started. It was just an ordinary day.
**
“…Strange?”
Astra’s Number 12 Hozmi Ray, who was gathering information to catch her clues after settling in the vicinity of Laplace Academy, where a guy who claimed to be impersonating himself frequently haunted her following Astra’s orders, tilted her head.
That was also because the contents of the report posted by the assistants sent to gather information a step ahead were strange.
“There’s no way it could be this clean?”
Hozumi Rei, did she read the report wrong? She wanted to. She looked back and forth several times.
Still, the strangeness did not go away.
No, it was strange.
“…”
Astra is a group of villains.
Therefore, it is not possible for investigators to conduct inquiries and find out information by cooperating with agencies there, as in any national agency.
That’s why Astra, no, most villain organizations tended to contact local collaborators in the area, that is, the villains, and pay a price to seek information when collecting information.
Because what happened there is well known to those who work there.
But… There is no proper villain organization around Laplace Academy as well as the surrounding cities?
No, it’s not just the villain organization. Didn’t you see a single thing about the people living in the back alleys and the outcasts?
If it was only a villain organization, it could have been because it could have been an issue that the heroes or national institutions that managed this place could have exerted their strength, but it didn’t make sense that there was no human being who had a bad back from such a trivial petty criminal.
When people gather, interests arise, and desire arises, it is the law of the villain and the evil to rule at any time.
Like the shepherds that naturally occur in that meadow over there.
But you don’t have it?
This was obviously a strange situation.
So, Rei Hozumi, who had been reading the report while lying on the sofa, jumped up and called in the assistant who had uploaded the report.
“Did you research this properly?”
Then I asked the man in the black suit who quickly came in and prostrated himself.
“It is true. I couldn’t find a tramp, let alone a villain, in this place or in the surroundings.”
“There was no investigation by the state agency about him?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
A black suit that speaks as if there is no lie.
Hozumi Rei made a grimace on her face.
‘What is it…’
It’s not like the villain organizations all died because of a massive uprising.
It’s not like a dictatorship anywhere in the country where a government agency has run a back alley sweeper.
If that was the case, there would have been gossip on the news or on the Internet.
Then it was a story that neither the media nor the state agencies here knew about this situation.
‘Does that make sense?’
Anyway, it is a national institution.
Does it make sense that they are not an alley organization run by petty criminals and they don’t know about the disappearance of at least thousands of units?
‘Unless it is related to a national institution…’
That was nonsense.
However, there was no other possibility.
Then, the impersonation of Astra’s name and the incidents related to the S class have occurred several times…
‘No way?’
I didn’t think that was possible, but the more I thought about it, the more I got that bizarre certainty.
If that’s not the case, it’s a story that reports are being omitted in the middle, or that national agencies are committing ridiculous sabotage. It was hard to believe that this would have happened.
Rei Hozumi realized that something unusual was happening here.
However, I couldn’t figure out the whole story.
The reason was very simple.
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It was because there was no information.
‘Is it a trap?’
So Hozumi Rei thought it was a trap, but shook his head and denied it.
Because I couldn’t think of any good reason to do a massive clean-up of the villains and her bum, etc., To trap Astra and herself into her trap.
The state agencies were not stupid, and they decided that there was no need to create such a sense of incongruity just to not give out information.
If you’re going to do it, you’d rather use disinformation.
‘Emm…’
My head was dizzy.
National Agency, Villains and Outcasts, Clean, Astra, Impersonation, S-Class, Terror, Civilian.
Puzzle pieces that seemed to fit but didn’t fit were floating around.
Even if I fit one or two pieces together, I couldn’t fit the whole thing.
It was because of the lack of information.
As Hozumi Rei pondered for a while, her black suit, which was lying on her stomach, made a small voice.
“Come to think of it, there is something unusual that came in after I wrote the report. Is it okay if I report it now?”
Special?
“What is it?”
“That’s… there are no such gangs or vagrants, but there are rumors that drugs are circulating on a large scale and civilians addicted to drugs are seen.”
Drugs?
Civilians?
There was nothing wrong with taking drugs, civilian or otherwise.
But drugs are circulating on a large scale?
Drugs didn’t grow naturally in this place, so someone was bringing them in from somewhere.
There is no way that civilians will be smuggling drugs on a large scale.
‘But you said you can’t see the villain gangs or the back alley guys…’
“How?”
“It is not accurate as it is under our understanding, but as a result of catching and interrogating the drug dealers, it is said that an unknown entity that they do not know is selling drugs.”
“Unidentified…”
It was a natural consequence that if I returned empty-handed like this, I would be broken by the gunman.
There was also curiosity about what was going on here and why he was impersonating himself.
So, Hozumi Rei was anxious and strange, but she thought that in order to get information and investigate, she had to share the story with the unknown.
It would be possible to obtain information by trading or raiding government agencies, but that is the last resort if things go wrong.
First of all, if there was a guy who might know something, it was right to rob him first.
‘Because I can just run away if I have to.’
It doesn’t matter if there’s a trap or something, just run away.
Her own ability is teleportation.
Depending on the distance, the mana consumption increases, but if you make up your mind and run away, no one will catch you.
That’s why she sent herself here from the organization.
“Catch me.”
Just like when the black suit came in at Hozumi Rei’s command, she quickly moved her body and soon there was no shadow left.