Festival Eve (3)
There were things like saving citizens or escorting them to a safe zone, but this… is basically a battle royale.
Over a thousand students chasing scores by escorting a limited number of stone citizens?
“Why? It’s so much easier to eliminate others?”
“As expected, the boss!”
“You are a great foreknowledge!”
“Hahahahahaha…!”
The three of us absorbed the students around us at random. Nominally, let’s work together to clear the tournament.
At the same time, the quota is 16, so let’s eliminate students other than us as much as possible.
That’s why I didn’t do anything to find a safe area. Rather, it absorbed as many citizens as possible and used it as a shield.
“Sweep away with magic!”
“You idiot, stop it! Citizens will be destroyed as well!”
“Keuugh…! Cowardly bastards! If you do this, you can attack!”
The stone citizens served as a very good shield. Yes, plus 1 point for moving a stone citizen to a safe zone. But if you destroy it, it’s minus 2 points.
“Hahahaha…! Try it! Are you scared or scared?”
“Keuugh… you coward! Now that it’s like this…!”
“It’s hand-to-hand combat! Get them out of the stone citizens!”
Opponent giving up magic warfare and preparing for hand-to-hand combat. Lark drools beside my stone throne.
“Hehehe, boss. I’ve been holding back a lot. Can I do it?”
“Ah, of course.”
“Hahahaha, Fireball…!”
-bang!
– Kwak!
“Oops…! You, you…! There are stone citizens here too!”
“Uh, we have a lot of citizens. We can catch you and replenish them.”
This is the crucial difference between us and the other person. Unlike us, who swelled up in the beginning and secured a large number of stone citizens, the other side was slow to assemble, and once they secured citizens, they immediately found a safe area.
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Compared to us, who use the stone citizens as our shield wall, the other side is afraid that the stone citizens will be destroyed.
“Hahahaha…! kiII all the guys bigger than a wheel!”
“Yeah, boss!”
“Do it!”
‘Ah… honestly, it’s fun.’
We’re totally in enjoyment mode.
I took the dye that made up the camp and applied it to my face, and treated the stone citizens like slaves, turning them into horses to support us.
Shall we call them the hip villains in the movie?
“Co, Mr. Corinne?”
After eliminating about 30 people like that, I met Arisha just after our bandits had passed 10 people.
“It’s not Corinne.”
“yes?”
“I am the almighty ‘Immortan Locke’. Call me Oh~ Mighty Immortan!”
“······What are you doing again?”
Arisha didn’t bother to say ‘something else crazy’ as a prefix.
“Arisha Arden. I’ll give you a chance to join our Mandragora bandits.”
“······yes?”
Arisha tilted her head as if she was talking nonsense again.
“Take off your comrades’ epaulettes! Then I’ll give you a place as the underboss of our bandits!”
“······No, there is no need.”
“By the way! The guy who takes off Arisha’s epaulettes will be accepted by our bandits!”
“Mr. Corinne?!”
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Just as Arisha was about to point out that this was nonsense, she sensed a different atmosphere.
The comrades who fought together a while ago began to surround Arisha with weapons pointed at her.
“Me… everyone?”
“I’m sorry, Arisha. To be honest, rather than go against Corinne, a first-class knight…”
“······As a semi-1st level, you are more easygoing.”
“everyone?!”
Alas, the cruelty of human society.
When it’s peaceful, they pretend to be civilized people, but when things get a little tough, they eat each other like squid trapped in a basin.
“This, this can’t be… no!
in the corpses of fallen comrades. The betrayed girl cried.
·········
······
…
Even the idea of forming a team was similar to everyone.
Sophomore ace, Marie Dunareff, was also similar.
Marie basically has a lot of friends and a wide network. It was a natural flow that naturally became the center of the party.
In fact, their party amicably collected stone citizens, and Marie’s friends, including Isabelle, willingly became Marie’s party members.
They believed their friendship would last forever. After all, most friendships in middle and high school are cut off once you leave society.
I was a little overconfident in friendship. At least this time it is.
“Nose, Corinne…”
The Mandragora Bandit, who picked and picked and filled 14 people. They confronted the six members of Marie’s party.
“There’s more that way, but it’s worth a try. The average rating is much higher this way.”
Isabelle calmly analyzed the opponent and their own strength.
Although there are Corinne Locke and Arisha Arden over there, there are many second-class second-years, including Marie, on this side.
Worth a try! With the power of friendship, this level of power gap can be overcome!
“Sister… are you going to hit me?”
“Uh, uh…”
Isabelle didn’t notice. Friendships built over two years…
“This, this, Immortan Locke…!”
“Marie?”
······Compared to love, it is insignificant at all.
“Hooray!”
– Aaah!
-Eh, Marie!?
-Marie is going crazy!
“Ahhh······.”
Isabelle realized.
Friendship, the value of a friend, is easily broken in front of a man.
“Ah~ Is this eating me…”
Did you know that turtles can’t do push-ups? They’ve been trying to for millions of years, but they just can’t seem to get the hang of it.
Geniuses cannot overcome those who strive, and those who strive cannot overcome those who enjoy.
“Kiyo oh oh oh oh oh oh…!!”
– Immortan Locke! Immortan Locke!
– Immortan Locke! Immortan Locke!
* * * *
“·········What is that.”
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Jiang Lun was stunned while watching the magic video that displayed the video inside the camp.
This test is the Palmun Geumsojin of Paljindo, which he formed by arranging the equipment he prepared with great care.
As it was a team competition test, the entrance was intentionally left open and the logic of the eight gates was not included, but was that the root of the problem?
What kind of madman was running amok.
“Head Professor Josephine… that student named Immortan Locke is…”
“············Just Corinne Locke. A little bit… just that kind of fellow. We don’t teach that.”
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Josephine shyly denied that Corinne was one of her students.
“······It is a law to help each other and move forward together in all eight gates.”
“·······.”
Wouldn’t that also be seen as a form of cooperation? Josephine struggled to swallow the words down her throat.
only 16 people. The bizarre gangsters were no longer called out of the sixteen who had filled the limit for the preliminary round.
‘Are you really trying to get everyone in your gang to pass?’
It’s not impossible. A group of bandits who attack students at random and take away stone citizens, making their fortunes.
Starting with the current boss, Corinne Locke, a first-class knight.
Arisha Aden, a junior first-class knight, and Marie Dunaref, the strongest second-year student, chose love between friendship and love.
It’s not that you can clear the group exhibition simply by being strong, but the members are outstanding.
In addition, the bandits found a safe zone to escort stone citizens, but ignored it and roamed around the camp. With the intention of wiping out all the students in the safe zone.
“Hmm… I guess I’ll have to hurry up with the settlement.”
“Yes? What is that…”
“Those reckless gangs are messing with the items inside the camp at random.”
The core of Paljindo is the location and symbolism of the objects placed in the north, south, east, west, and interior objects.
Each piece of equipment, such as a carpet with a picture of a yellow dragon, a stringed instrument made of snakeskin, and a necklace of claws of a white tiger, has a meaning and is used as a device that activates the jinbeop.
Of course, I was worried that it would be damaged during the battle, so I placed a spare. but······.
“I never thought I’d commit an outrageous act of plundering the sins of the visible tribe…”
“······Our student is sorry.”
The thieves, who were obsessed with concept quality, were destroying or ripping off objects inside Paljin Island and using them for their own concept quality.
It’s just a matter of time before the camp will stop if it continues like this. Kang Ryun came to the conclusion that he had to finish the preliminary round quickly while maintaining the formation as much as possible.
“No, it was a good study. Human beings do really useless things without hesitation. From now on, we should focus on the outside rather than the inside.”
He had to prepare a separate piece of equipment, but Kang Lun witnessed what crazy things the students were doing when they were young.
It was the elderly realization that life does not flow only according to reason and calculation.
* * * *
Ren and Ron, the big boys of the back alley, were abandoned by their parents from birth.
As soon as they were born, they awakened as werewolves, and they had ears and tails that were not human, and unfortunately, their parents were afraid of demons and hated them.
The reason they were able to survive even after being abandoned as soon as they were born is because of their innate physical abilities as werewolves.
At just three years of age, he already possessed strength comparable to that of adults, and his ability to steal apples and run away made the tongues of professional pickpockets stick out.
The two siblings ran through the shadows, relied on each other, and survived.
However, is it because the mind is still at a young age due to lack of social skills or education?
Even though they were 16, they still couldn’t get out of their 9-year-old childish image.
But it has its own benefits. As they got older, they could hide their tails and ears unless it was Manwol, and the overly young beggar brother and sister could get their own sympathy.
Of course, even after a few years, when they started to doubt the two children around them, they wandered toward other shadows, but that was the problem.
His identity was discovered by the black star gangsters who commit human trafficking.
“Ren…Ren. Look at this.”
theory. twin brother. The younger brother, who had big emerald eyes shining, jumped up and down wearing ‘new clothes’ for the first time in his life.
“Babu. Those are women’s clothes.”
“What? Pants?”
“Let’s have pretty decorations.”
“Isn’t that sweet?”
“·······.”
Ren looked at his younger brother, who was the same age as himself. Unlike the rather precocious Ren, Ron was still innocent. That way, when will you ‘grow up’.
Of course, it’s not like he didn’t grow up either.
“But is that brother now our master?”
“It’s not master. It’s mister. Just call me mister.”
“Aren’t you my brother?”
“Uncle.”
After wiping off the stains on his body, tidying up his hair, and even dressing up for the first time in his life, Ron’s wariness toward the boy who saved him was completely released.
However, Ren did not lose his guard against Corinne. All adults do. They always try to use themselves as children.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Now they dress me like this and give me something to eat, but I don’t know when it will change…!
At that time, with his ‘fable’ ability, he cut the nape of his neck at once…!
‘No, is it too harsh? I think it hurts. No, you’re biting because it hurts! The bridge… the bridge.’
Recalling the conversation at that time, Ren couldn’t let go of his guard, saying, “Let’s wake up.”
“are you okay. Nobody’s going to hit you anymore. You guys are safe now.”
It’s the first time I’ve heard such a thing from an adult. The bland experience of someone patting you on the back and reassuring you was too intensely embedded in your brain.
“Chi… I don’t know.”
Ren threw himself onto the bed in the inn room prepared for them.
I wiped the grime from the soft bed mattress, and the golden hair ran down the bed.
“······ Fluffy.”
The inside of that uncle’s arms was very hard. However, the warmth in his arms seemed to be better than a soft bed.
-smart!
Then, a knock sounded announcing a visit. The siblings thought it was the bar clerk who brought them, but an unexpected person came in.
“Can I come in?”
After a moment of silence, the boy opens the door and enters. The boy, who had a wild look, whistled at the brother and sister dressed up.
“It’s much better after washing and putting it on.”
“Hello, brother.”
“·······.”
Ron bowed his head and said hello. I can’t bear the weight of my head, so I’m bakong! As I hit my head on the floor, I heard a cry.
“Are you okay?”
Corinne hugged Ron, put him on the bed, and got down on one knee to level her eyes with the siblings.
“Okay, is there anything inconvenient?”
“It’s perfect! Brother!”
“Let’s not say ‘brother’.”
“Ugh?”
“Hyung hyung is a little traumatized by the hyung’s voice. So when you call me, call me hyung.”
“Nup. Brother Corinne.”
“Right, well done.”
Patting Ron’s head, he took out a sausage from his pocket and handed it to him. Ron liked it. He got the sausage.
“What do you plan to do with us?”
Ren stared at Corrin with his green eyes sharpened.
A wolf of special golden blood among werewolves. Individuals closer to ‘spirits’ than monsters or beasts each have their own characteristics.
Ren’s emerald-colored demonic eye penetrates the truth of the opponent.
To be precise, it is an additional ability to notice such things with beastly instincts, whether they are serious or not, but this ability is the eye that helped the beggar brother and sister with nothing survive in the dark.
“Honestly, I wanted to borrow some of your strength.”
truth.
“But you guys are a lot younger than I thought. So I thought it was not a good idea to involve them in dangerous things.”
truth.
“I don’t mind throwing it away, so if you want, I’ll take you to a place where people like you are gathered.”
truth.
“Is it important?”
“It’s nothing you guys care about. It’s okay without you guys.”
lie.
Ren quickly sorted things out.
These boys want something from themselves. It’s important and we need our strength.
However, they are trying to reassure themselves by lying to them because they are children.
“·······.”
A favor that can’t be used. He is a good person who calculates his own profit, but if he does a good job and there is no margin left, he will say that it is okay as it is.
“Do you have a lot of money, uncle?”
“······Can’t you just call me older brother? Hyung is a bit like that, but oppa is fine. No, I rather like it.”
Why is everyone looking at me and calling me uncle? Do I look so skinny? Ren skipped over the murmuring.
“Hire us. Give us money and we’ll work.”
What a great development that was. For the beggar girl, who was always made to steal, it was literally doing the utmost favor.
“Is there anything even the kids can do? Do you want to clean at the inn?”
“No, that’s not it…!”
“Aren’t you more hungry than that? Do you want to eat something?”
“Don’t treat me like a kid!”
“Wujjujju, draw it. Our Ren is not a child, he is an adult.”
lie.
Ren grumbled, but couldn’t defeat Corinne with brute force. Not yet.
* * * *
A newly built inn in the outskirts of the city is driving a hot issue recently.
A newly built inn that was built with students’ investment. With the appearance of the typhoon bats, it seemed that the inn that had been completed, let alone completed, was blown away, but it was finally completed and unusual rumors spread.
All 100 members of the Boramae Academy participating in the festival will stay here.
‘Does this… make sense?’
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Visits from foreign academies are usually once every two years.
Since more than 100 students and professors enter the country at a time, it is of great interest to lodging companies where they stay.
Accommodation fees for approximately 100 people are exorbitant, but they stay throughout the peak season of the festival, and additional industries such as activation of nearby commerce and food distribution costs are in platinum units.
How many lodging operators were bidding on this honey opportunity?
Merkava Academy also tends to take turns making contracts for fairness, but I never thought they would snatch them from the newly built inn!
Merchants were shocked, but had to find the next best solution.
If long-term stays were not taken, even street stalls, stores, and food distribution would have to win bids. Mr. Bae, who runs a food service business in the city, is an example of this.
“It’s called Bright Bae from Bright Company.”
“This is Corinne Locke from Happiness Inn. Have a seat.”
The inn’s office looks shiny, probably because it’s just newly built. He sat down, bowing down to the young student.
“You want to do business at our inn?”
“Ah, yes…! Our company has a high hygiene score, and has always won awards for excellence…”
“But besides the boss, Spencer also came and went.”
“S, Spencer…!”
tell me what to do It is Bright Bae’s competitor. Meals were also taken away from a newly opened kindergarten in the city.
“Kko, we definitely want to do it! We have a high hygiene score, and we have a lot of experience because we are older!”
“Ah, that’s right.”
The young president handed over the business proposal as if he were looking at it. It took less than 2 seconds to turn one page to the point where I wondered if this was okay.
“Are you… are you reading?”
“Ah, yes~ What. Speed reading.”
Isn’t that the level of speed reading? But what Corinne said next is significant.
“No matter who is in charge of the work, they all do it the same way…”
what? What does this mean? The touch of Bright Bae, which has been in the food distribution business for a long time, reacted sensitively.
Are you asking this outright? But can I? If not? While Bright Bae was struggling, Corinne floated her luck.
“Isn’t the boss from the Eastern Continent?”
“Ah… eh.”
“In the Eastern Continent, there is a word called ‘Guanxi.’ Helping each other and being like a family… Yes?
“iced coffee······.”
“I think I can have a family-like relationship with CEO Bright Bae…”
“I-I think so too.”
In response to Bright’s reply, Corinne closed the proposal she was reading and placed her hands on his shoulders.
“That’s right, boss. Come to think of it, do you deliver imported goods to the festival this time?”
“Yes… from Boramae…”
“I see! I’m also close with Professor Josephine from the academy!”
“Is that so?”
“How about it? How about me? Can I ask you a small favor?”
“Th-what is that? No, more than that, with Head Professor Josephine…”
The question of that part could be resolved with the glorious moment when Bright Bae had a one-on-one interview with Professor Josephine.
he felt it ah! This student is a golden copper thread!
“How about it? Would you like to do me a small favor?”
“Muh, of course! I really didn’t think you would even allow me to deliver daily necessities to the academy…! Well, tell me anything, boss!”
“Hey~ This is a person who can communicate with President Bae! Let’s get along well from now on! Brother Bae!”
Corinne holding out her hand. Bright quickly grabbed the rope.
The next morning, a box of mysterious apples was delivered to the Happy Inn, and the distribution business was taken over by Bright.
Carriage operators to and from the academy, errand operators, tour guides, etc. have gathered, so it is an untimely apple harvest for some.
“It’s sweet.”
A hero who saves the world has no selfishness.
“Dah~ I’ll use it for something good.”
It’s real. maybe.