122 – Academy Competition_9
Entering the hotel room, I unpacked my luggage and went to the window to look at Ella, an island in the sky filling the air.
Then, I measured the distance between the hotel room and Ella, an island in the sky, by eye guessing.
‘About 12 km in a straight line?’
It is not accurate, but even if there is an error, it is around 1 km.
‘Shall we go?’
I felt like I had to go on a field trip to Ella, an island in the sky.
Even if the plan was carefully planned, unforeseen variables could pop up on the set.
Ella, the Island in the Sky, says that some kind of action is taking place that hinders the power unit. It was because he felt the need to test whether teleportation was also inhibited.
Besides, they said it was free time until dinner, so there was no one looking for me or doing anything until then. The present Ella, an island in the sky, was in a situation where there was no one and no one could go up because of the academy competition that would start tomorrow.
The best timing to do something.
So I grabbed the coordinates of Ella, the sky island with my eyes, gathered mana, and teleported the objects in the room.
It was an unexpected test.
‘It doesn’t feel distorted or hindered.’
It was a simple test, but I didn’t find anything wrong with it.
After confirming safety, I gathered mana again.
[I activate Teleportation Lv.???]
Then, she felt the mana that filled her body drain like the ebb tide.
At the same time, the vision became blurry for a moment, then brightened again.
-Hui Yiing
The wind blew past my ears.
I was falling vertically from the sky.
What you see below is Ella, an island in the sky.
I wonder if there was an error.
Fortunately, however, the distance didn’t widen, so I gathered mana again, grabbed her coordinates, and moved and landed on the ground.
– Kung.
Even if it moved instantly, the kinetic energy did not completely dissipate, so a small sound resonated as it settled on the ground.
That’s how I arrived at Ella, the island in the sky, faster than anyone else.
**
The main auditorium was quite noisy with people.
That’s also true, even if there are 10 cadets participating in one academy, there are 10 participating academies.
Therefore, the number basically exceeded 100, and it was only natural that there were not only cadets, but also academy officials and people from Ella, an island in the sky.
In addition, the academy competition is also a place where academy cadets, who are said to be famous in the world, come.
As if it was not as popular as the championship, which is an entertainment game played by regular heroes or hunters, it seemed to have its own popularity, but it was because reporters from newspapers and broadcasting stations flocked to cover the rookies, and the number of people gathered in the main auditorium exceeded hundreds.
Since it was such a situation, it was noisy and annoying, so I sat in a moderately secluded place and erased my presence by using an unknown name.
Though I thought that if I was interviewed, I might be able to raise the awareness needed for the next student council president election. I didn’t feel the need to clown.
The competition won’t go well anyway, and awareness will automatically increase with this incident.
“This time at Cheonghwa Academy—”
“As expected, the spirit of Cheonghwa, the first academy of the 17th Commonwealth of China, is revealed.”
“Winning Raiden Academy.”
“mmm, that’s right. Thank you for the ambitious interview.”
“Hmph, Laplace Academy is nothing.”
“What?”
That’s why I moderately watched what others were covering or making a fuss about.
Among them, there was a quarrel with Laplace Academy, but it wasn’t my concern.
“What are you doing here?”
It was around the time we waited for the explanation ceremony.
I heard a voice mixed with doubt.
However, I decided that he was not talking to me.
That’s right, I’m activating a skill.
The skill wasn’t all-powerful, but I thought it wouldn’t be easy to notice at the level of those here.
“Hey?”
But it didn’t take long to realize that it was an illusion.
A small shadow cast in front of me.
And when I saw the small flow of eyes looking at me, the woman in white in front of me was accurately recognizing me.
“Can’t you hear me? Hey~?”
I was not obligated to answer just because I called, but I was interested in how they found me when I was using the skill.
Any famous A-class or S-class would understand it, but the momentum I felt was about B-class.
That’s why I stared at the woman in white.
The uniform of Michael Academy is white.
It was the Michael Academy cadet who responded when she shook her hand earlier.
‘Hmm.’
I went through the list of participating cadets at Michael Academy in my head.
Then I immediately recognized who the woman in white was.
His last name is hidden in a secret, but his name is Eve.
A third-year cadet at Michael Academy and a rare mana healer, he was the key player in leading Michael Academy to victory in last year’s academy competition.
“Oh, who are you?”
But I didn’t pretend to know.
It was because I didn’t have to reveal that I had information about the other side.
“Whew, I’m glad I thought I was talking to a ghost. I don’t think so.”
“There is something I have been thinking about for a while. Who are you more than that?”
“Ah, the introduction is late. My name is Eve. She is one of Michael Academy’s Academy Competition contestants. Nice to meet you.”
“I see. I’m from Laplace Academy…”
“Are you Seonghyun Lee, a freshman cadet? The runner-up in the Laplace Academy Fall Mutuje individual event.”
Eve whispered information about me as if I didn’t even need to introduce myself.
“How is that…”
I put on a puzzled expression.
The question was how do you know about me?
“There is a way to know everything. By the way, he looked better when he saw it up close. Do you have a girlfriend? If not, can I apply for it?”
“That…”
“Maybe. It’s a joke. Are you excited?”
Eve lumped my questions together.
Then, with twinkling eyes, a small smile, he spat out words at his own pace.
She was simply Eve, who looked like a beautiful and benevolent nun just by looking at her appearance, but her behavior was the exact opposite of her appearance, like a tomboyish late-teenage girl.
“What’s more than that?”
I didn’t want to be attracted to that kind of my own pace.
So she asked Eve why she talked to me.
“You were thrilled. Yes?”
Either way or not, Eve was still at her own pace.
“I knew it. It’s easy for everyone to mistakenly think that if you have a good-looking face, you’ll have a girlfriend, but the hurdles are too high, and there are many cases where you don’t have a girlfriend…”
“So what are you going to do?”
But if that side is my pace, in a way I’m like floating, so I cut off Eve’s words and asked the reason again.
“That’s not fun.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. Very much At times like this, you have to hang out in moderation so that your affection will sprout and your relationship will develop.”
At my reaction, Eve pouted as if it wasn’t funny.
Okay, I just stared at Eve.
“So…”
“For superficial reasons, being alone seems lonely, and if you are a bit famous, but no one seems to approach you, so I came because it was strange. Actually, I just came for no reason.”
“It’s famous. Not really.”
“Are you humble? Or do you really think so?”
“I really think so…”
At my reaction, Eve told me the reason for approaching me.
I can’t tell if it’s true or not, but judging from the expression and tone of voice, it didn’t seem like it was completely false right away.
That’s why I thought about what Eve said earlier while receiving the conversation in moderation.
‘I saw it…’
That sound saw right through me while I was using the skill.
It was said that it was not something that depended on coincidence.
‘Is there something?’
Did you see it with your own eyes?
I wonder if you realized it.
I wonder if he felt it in some other way.
I couldn’t figure it out, but there seemed to be something about the woman named Eve that I didn’t know.
‘It’s fun.’
I didn’t pay much attention to the confrontation because it was just a side branch of my future plan anyway.
It seems that I suddenly have something to eat.
Of course, you have to try it to know if it’s a proper side dish or not.
It wasn’t bad just to feel the now unknown taste.
“By the way. I’ve never seen a case where the real thing looks better than the picture. You look really good. Is there a fan club or something within the academy?”
“I don’t have one.”
“Then…”
It was around the time that Eve, who was sitting next to her, was appropriately following her words.
“I thought the rotten smell came from somewhere, but it came from here.”
A fierce-looking man with dark red hair stood mockingly in front of Eve, covering her nose with one of her hands.
The man was wearing the uniform of Raiden Academy.
Her face was also familiar.
It was a cadet who was on the third floor earlier.
‘The name must have been Tamura Hayato.’
The up-and-coming star of Raiden Academy.
It must have been a cadet who had fought Eve in the last academy match.
Perhaps the quarrel was because of the remnants of that time.
Then it’s none of my business, and if the two of them fight, I think I might be able to see Eve’s ability, so I took a step back and looked at the two after using not only Unidentified but also other skills.
“It must be your face that is rotten. If I had that face, I think I would have committed suicide every time I looked in the mirror.”
“What?”
Eve looked at Hayato and sneered.
Then Hayato crumpled his face.
“Please don’t frown. My eyes are rotting away.”
“A prostitute.”
“A prostitute. Ah… They say that the more ugly your face is and the more you can’t date, the more hostile you are to the opposite s*x. Well, it deserves it.”
Eve clicked her tongue in pity and shook his head.
“Four years. Shall I kill you?”
“It must have been a hit song. Would you please stop pretending to be stronger than that? The other day, you couldn’t use your hands or feet.”
“Speaking bullsh*t about the subject who stabbed her in the back when fighting with her!!!”
“Because people have to be able to use their brains. Are you the head of a monkey by any chance?”
An imminent situation.
Hayato assumed the appearance that he could pull out the sword hanging from his waist at any time.
Eve, on the other hand, was only laughing.
As a result, the eyes of the people around them turned to the two of them.
Eve and Hayato were quite famous, so it was only natural.
“Stop it.”
“Eve.”
How many seconds had passed like that?
Two voices cut in between them.
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One was Hwang Bo-rin, the granddaughter of Kwon Seong, a woman in the uniform of Cheonghwa Academy, who looked down at me from the 7th floor.
The other was Adam, Eve’s older brother, a man in white who looked like Eve.
“Don’t you know that this is not a place to fight?”
“What can I do?”
Hayato growled at Hwangbo Rin’s words.
“You should know manners. If you don’t know manners, can you say that there is a difference between man and beast?”
“Your bastard is making a lot of noise. If you twist it, will it stick? Don’t run away like last time.”
“… For mad dogs, fists are the medicine since ancient times.”
However, Hayato’s continued provocation raised Hwang Bo-rin’s eyebrows slightly.
Now, the fight between Hwangbo Rin and Hayato has come to a standstill.
Otherwise, Adam approached Eve and opened his mouth.
“I thought I told you not to make a fuss?”
“I didn’t smoke. I just came and made a fuss.”
“Don’t talk.”
Adam shook his head.
“Sooner than that, the explanatory ceremony will begin. Please follow me.”
“But…”
“Follow me.”
Then, Adam turned his body and moved toward the designated seat for Michael Academy, which was prepared on one side of the auditorium.
Then Eve looked around, and before long her eyes met mine, who was hiding her body.
Eve came up to me and whispered softly.
“I couldn’t talk properly because there was an interruption. I’m sorry. By the way, I thought she would help such a delicate woman when she was persecuted, but she was more indifferent than she seemed…”
“Eve.”
“Okay. Brother. I’m going, so don’t look at me. Because my brother is extreme. We will talk about it next time we meet.”
Then I followed Adam and moved on.
So, where is Hayato going, who was confronting Hwangbo Rin? I made a noise, but Eve ignored it and left, and then a man came up to the podium in the auditorium.
“Then, let’s begin the explanation ceremony for the academy competition. All cadets and staff, please move to your reserved seat.”
Then the explanatory ceremony began.