129 – Academy Competition_16
Morning of the 5th day of Academy Competition.
The front of the cave halfway up the northern mountain area of Ella, the island in the sky, has been noisy since morning.
There was only one reason, because of Eve, a female student at Michael Academy, whom I brought.
“So the cadets from Leiden Academy in Japan and Pedro Academy in Brazil did that?”
Yuchan Kang looked at her Eve and asked back as if it were nonsense.
It was because he couldn’t believe that the cadets, who would understand if they were united and attacked, were turning into villains and killing and kidnapping people.
Why would they do that?
Of course, the competition method and rules are a mix of survival and battle royale, but this is just an event.
It’s real, but not real.
The academy’s pride seemed to be at stake, but it was ridiculous to kill and kidnap cadets because of that pride.
“And such an incident happened, and I missed you so easily, who knew about it. Didn’t the academy or the referee say anything or do anything?”
If that happened in the first place, the referee or the academy would have taken action in some way.
“It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? Isn’t this a ploy to trick us?”
“Is that what you think?”
“There’s no way that would happen in the first place.”
“Hmm, I heard…”
That’s why Yuchan Kang and the other cadets couldn’t believe Eve’s words.
In addition to that, I was harassed by other academies for several days and couldn’t even eat properly.
As a result, the hostility towards other academy cadets was piercing the sky.
‘It’s a reasonable doubt.’
Kang Yoo-chan’s doubts were natural.
It was obvious, but the problem was that it didn’t work in this situation.
Last night I succeeded in taking most of the cadets hostage, except for Laplace Academy.
The next thing we did was to transmit in real time the scene where the cadets were gathered and held hostage to the surveillance camera in the forest that was still running smoothly, and to disable all the cameras in Ella except for that one.
The reason was simple.
Only then will the enemies be driven to one place.
‘It was successful.’
And the plan worked wonderfully.
The enemies rushed straight into the forest as if they had reached an agreement sooner than expected.
But the forest is a space of traps.
Most of the main roads and routes leading to the hostages were covered with bombs and poison, making it impossible to move.
Of course, there were some heroes that were above A rank among the enemies, so I ran while ignoring them.
‘Sal… Please save me…’
‘I’m fine now. I’m here to save you.’
‘Sal…aaah!!!’
‘What, what aaa!!’
‘No Thompson!!! Damn, do you think a villain can do something like this!!!’
I used a cadet I made as a member of my group to do a suicide bombing, and the enemies retreated and there was a lull for a while.
At the same time, since he took the form of trying to negotiate with me, there was no room for them to write to the Laplace Academy cadets, who may or may not be here.
Since neither Kang Yoo-chan nor anyone else here could know such a fact, doubt was natural.
“It’s true.”
Despite such doubts, Eve looked straight into Kang Yoo-chan’s eyes and opened her mouth.
“Then, instead of asking us for help, call the referee with your watch or go to the shelter in the central area and talk…”
Eve’s eyes made Kang Yoo-chan even more suspicious.
“I went there, but it was already a mess. The watch is lost. You know what no watch means…”
Eve showed her wrists as if to prove that she didn’t have a watch.
“It doesn’t sound like a dropout. But you might have hidden it somewhere else, right? Like somewhere in the body.”
“…”
Eve was silent.
The inner meaning of her words was hard for a woman to accept.
She said, “Looks like you hit her right in the middle. She’s a cheat too.”
“I knew it, honestly, does that make sense?”
“That’s right…”
Then the other cadets started reacting like that.
“…I can show you everything if you want.”
At that response, Eve muttered softly.
She seemed to have said something she wouldn’t have said if Eve had seen her the other day, but she seemed to have decided that she had no time to delay, since she knew that her brother and other academy cadets were in danger.
“Do you think we would at least refuse to say that?”
Yuchan Kang accepted her words as if he was laughing, and Eve clenched her fists as if she was determined.
Eve is wearing a uniform…
“Senior, no matter what…”
“No, I didn’t mean to say it here…”
Lee Siah, who was worse than Kang Yuchan, argued.
In response, Kang Yu-chan tried to protest her as if he didn’t mean it that way.
‘That’s funny.’
In addition to skill, before this place was prepared, she tried to induce Kang Yu-chan to distrust her Eve, but she did not know that she would do it this far.
However, it was a very good timing.
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“I will believe.”
I restrained Eve’s actions.
Even if I don’t trust Kang Yoo-chan, I can trust Eve.
In the first place, this incident was part of a very trivial plan being carried out under my leadership, so if I don’t believe in me, who will believe in me?
“Seonghyun…”
Eve looked at me.
A white eye that doesn’t know if it has something.
It was very intrusive, but judging by the breathing and expression, both of them, Eve was thanking me.
He saved me at the right timing, and when I met him before, maybe it was thanks to the mask.
Of course, if the other person approached me with malice, they could have treated me like a pet, but it didn’t seem like that, so it was clear that it was a sign of gratitude and liking.
“Seong Hyun-ah, isn’t that a hasty idea? That could be a trap too.”
Kang Yoo-chan whispered to me.
It seemed that he still had no doubts about Eve.
It was a natural reaction since there was no evidence.
“But, as I said earlier, it is also true that Eve was being chased by a man in a Raiden Academy uniform.”
“That could also have been concocted. Lets think. Did you forget that other academies united and attacked us until yesterday? Even if there is no watch there, the professor said the other day that there have been many times when those who were eliminated in the competition played tricks. Wouldn’t it be better to banish them for now and look at the trend?”
“That’s the norm.”
That’s not wrong.
If the competition was still in progress, Kang Yoo-chan’s reaction was standard.
But now it’s wrong.
“If so…”
“Still, I will believe. Obviously, as you said, there is no proper evidence or physical evidence, but…”
That’s why I said it calmly.
“Still, it’s a little hard to see that figure is lying.”
I couldn’t say Eve’s appearance was good.
It was normal for her to get hurt and bleed here and there, and her clothes were torn and dirty in several places, so the top I handed her was covering her.
Is that all?
My hands trembled slightly because of the doubts being done, and there were faint tears in the corners of my eyes.
“I know that, but…”
“And I don’t mind if it’s a trap, just win it head-on. I believe in the senior who beat me.”
“Yes…”
Kang Yoo-chan pressed his forehead with his painful hand.
“If you say so.”
He nodded his head helplessly.
“If Seonghyun says so…”
“After hearing it, it seems to be true.”
“Then…”
Then the opinions of the other cadets changed from negative to positive as if flipping their palms.
“I will prove it.”
At that moment, Eve opened her mouth again.
“You don’t have to.”
I answered as if I was okay.
But Eve shook her head.
“No, this is Sunghyun’s trust in you, not me. I can’t leave you feeling like this.”
“That is…”
“So let me prove it.”
I couldn’t break Eve’s stubbornness.
“If so.”
Kang Yoo-chan looked at Lee Si-ah and Tara and looked towards the cave.
It means to take a look.
So Isia and Tara went into the cave with Eve.
That too for a while.
Isia and Tara Eve got out of the cave.
“No matter how much I search, I can’t find it.”
“I don’t have a watch.”
As the testimony was added, Kang Yoo-chan’s face finally proved that Eve’s words might not be lies.
“Okay… then… let’s call the referee with the watch.”
And the atmosphere changed in an instant.
To say that Eve’s words were not lies meant that what Eve said could be true.
So Kang Yoo-chan ordered the cadets to call the referee through the watch.
“Eh…?”
“Why doesn’t this work?”
However, the watch did not work properly.
The cadets looked puzzled and tried sending out rescue signals with the watches on their wrists, but the watches showed no signs of moving.
‘Can it be possible?’
I broke them one by one using teleportation.
“…Really.”
“Really…”
The faces of the cadets continued to darken.
My expression became serious like them.
Of course, it wasn’t for the same reasons as these.
[Brother, I came back to negotiate. What should I do?]
[Who came? Are you on the list of people I gave you?]
[Yeah, maybe the name is Pal… Paladin?]
“I should be prepared.”
A giant appeared.