Episode 19 The eye of the storm. (One)
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The long-awaited 4th of April.
It is the day corresponding to Qingming, the fifth of the twenty four solar terms.
The weather was not very good for the name ‘clear sky’.
Of course, the concept devised in China in Northeast Asia could not be applied to Ainir in the South Pacific, 10,000 km away, so it was natural.
Still, I think this is a bit overkill.
A gust of wind was making huge splashes over the sea, and the pouring rain and lightning was roaring all over Ainir.
Of course, it didn’t have a big impact on the Trinity Academy where the barrier was surrounded.
However, a cyclone is not a cyclone for nothing.
It’s the first time I’ve ever seen weather like this.
However, the weather must be perfect for villains to run rampant.
So, there must be a raid today.
Let’s see what the class talk atmosphere is like.
I even warned in advance that a cyclone would strike today, so there must be a riot.
I immediately launched the Trinity Academy app.
[James Fitzgerald]
▶ Was that crazy bastard horse? It was actually a shaman king.
[Chun Hyun-woo]
▶ I told you it was real
[Alfred Eisner]
▶ Then the villain is attacking today?
[Jade Cromwell]
▶ Weather forecast performance sucks.
[Olivia Teixeira]
▶ But, isn’t our bet losing like this?
[Катарина Беляева]
▶ Probably it will be
[Baek Seong-yeon]
▶ I’m not confident…
Unsurprisingly, Tok was full of the Cyclone story I was talking about.
Normally, I would have been busy enjoying this reaction, but unfortunately I couldn’t afford to do that today, so I decided to go straight to the point.
[Park Seong-jin]
▶ So what are we going to do now?
[Park Seong-jin]
▶ Anyway, whether you follow my words or not, I will take care of myself, so it would be better if you tell me in advance.
[Park Seong-jin]
▶ Those who will move with you, come to the classroom now.
After throwing only a short exit ticket, I immediately quit the app.
There must be a series of questions about whether or not you should at least give an explanation on the Talk.
Of course, I know that it is better to explain in detail if possible.
However, I couldn’t afford to do that right now, and even if I had to explain it, it was much better to meet in person, so I decided not to answer any questions.
Really, how many people will come?
I wish I had come as many times as possible.
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Quiet classroom.
The only sound he could hear was the howling of the sky.
As I sat still and waited for the participants in the roaring silence, I heard the sound of the classroom door opening from behind.
Unexpectedly, Aina was the first to appear.
I thought it would never come.
However, it seemed as if he had no interest in this case.
Because he didn’t even ask any questions about the incident, he just sat quietly in his seat.
Well, I guess that’s because I have my own thoughts.
After all, the more people there are, the more comfortable I am, so there is no reason to argue.
As I was there, all the S-class cadets came to gather in the lecture hall.
I didn’t expect that there would be this many gatherings, but what kind of wind had suddenly arisen?
“I wish I could give you a more detailed explanation.”
“So, do you believe what I said?”
“To some extent. Hyeonu Chun has a guarantee, and what you said actually happened. Most of all, since you’re a freshman and you don’t feel any qualms about life inside the academy, I think there’s a good chance it’s true that you know the future.”
“Isn’t that supposed to be the case if you have a blunt personality?”
“It would be a little bit. However, it’s different from casually pretending to know something you shouldn’t know and have a blunt personality. It’s the same as knowing the ideological powers of people who didn’t tell you, and the fact that he doesn’t seem to have any thoughts about the S-Class position.”
“I don’t quite understand.”
“Most of them are proud. Or, if you have a special ability like you, you may be dissatisfied that it is only an S class. But, you didn’t feel like that at all. I acted naturally, as if this was where I was supposed to be. If it wasn’t that they had accepted it from the beginning, it would be absurd.”
Everyone started adding their own opinions one by one.
After that, I started to understand why they could believe my story to be true.
If we group the peculiarities that each of us felt one by one, even if we weren’t sure, it was full of things that we thought had no choice but to act because we had information about something beforehand.
“Now, what are you going to do? I don’t think he said that without a plan, and he must have prepared his own thoughts.”
“First of all, there were a total of four villains who attacked. They are all C level.”
“If it’s C-level, wouldn’t it be difficult at our level? As you know, level and class are not identical grades. Actual ratings and estimates are different. Besides, did we forget that we have serial cards implanted in our bodies?”
“It won’t be easy to win. However, we have more pages. It wasn’t even the guys who learned combat professionally in the first place. They probably have greater significance in reconnaissance or stealing information.”
If it was at a level that would be too heavy for these guys, I wouldn’t have even talked about it.
No matter how deeply I am a gambler, I do not act so recklessly.
If it was only my job, I wouldn’t know, but this is a job that works with other people.
“I think it’s worth a try. There’s nothing you can’t do if you’re at level C. Also, Park Seong-jin’s words usually flowed as he had judged them. I think it can be trusted.”
“Well, it will never be easy. Still, it’s something we’ll have to do someday. I think it might be fun.”
As Katarina and Chun Hyeon-woo stepped forward, others began to show their approval one by one.
Of course, there were some who did not like it, but they also did not say that they would not attend.
All that was left was Aina who did not express her will.
“Aina, what are you going to do? If you don’t like it, you don’t have to.”
“No, I will.”
“Okay, so let’s first divide the number of people. The villain is going to attack three places at the same time.”
“Where?”
“West Gate, North Gate, Inner Hospital.”
“How do you plan to divide the number of people?”
There is an entry that I had in mind in advance, but there is a feeling that it became a little more subtle after Aina participated.
Still, I thought it would be better to proceed as planned, so I started to allocate the number of people according to the region.
“I think it would be better for Alfred and Olivia to go to the front door. The guy in the preface is pretty strong. Those of you who are proficient in battle are the best at your opponents, I think.”
“Isn’t it a strong opponent to be dangerous?”
“It won’t be that much.”
“What… I’ll tell you to do it for now, but if it’s dangerous, I’ll take it out right away, you know?”
Unlike Alfred, who showed even the slightest bit of motivation, Olivia responded with a sobbing movement and saying that she would run away if she could.
Still, that’s not really going to happen.
Even though I am strong, I am not strong enough to be an opponent.
Alfred Olivia, would lose in the first place is also absurd.
“Anyway. James and Jade can go through the North Gate. The guy at the North Gate seemed to be strong in close combat.”
“Why are you this bastard?”
“Shut up, because if you keep yelling, I’ll smash your guitar again like the last time.”
“Yes, yes. You do the rest.”
There’s no combination that’s as easy to deal with as the Fighter Awakens as James and Jade.
Jade is difficult to stick to, but when approached, he is as strong as Alfred, and James is a magical type of ability, so he is the most effective against Awakeners who specialize in close-quarters combat with few ways to destroy them.
“Chun Hyun-woo and Baek Seong-yeon, lastly, Aina, go to the internal hospital.”
“Our composition certainly looks good.”
“But, I don’t know if I can do it well… ”
The hospital is bound to be the main stage of Hyeon-woo Chun, who uses the resource of blood, but the guy who attacks the hospital still has stealth-type ideology, so it will be difficult to deal with without Baek Seong-yeon, who is specialized in assisting allies.
If it becomes a disadvantage, Aina will take care of sweeping it away.
“So, what are you going to do? Now only you and Beatrix are left.”
“Me and Beatrix will be the last one to enter the dean’s office.”
“The dean is not a person to be attacked by anyone, so protect the dean’s office. Is this bastard trying to suck honey on his own? Beatrix, it’s still immature, so you can put it there, but you shouldn’t, you bastard.”
“No, I have something to find out about him.”
I’m curious as to why you have to go into the dean’s office.
Of course, there’s no way I’ll just confess to myself, but it’d be nice if I could extract even a little bit of information.
It would be better if he could steal even the night vision equipment he had.
It will come in handy during the midterm exam that is going to be held in the field.
“No, let me do this.”
Aina, who had been sitting still without saying a word, suddenly opened her mouth.
“Switch seats with Beatrix. I still can’t believe you If I’m watching, I’ll never do nonsense.”
“That one looks good too. If what you say is true, there won’t be a big deal on the side of Chun Hyeon-woo to the extent of swapping positions between Beatrix and Aina, and she’ll be proud even if Aina’s monitoring follows.”
“Do whatever you feel like. I do not care. I.”
It’s not something I can’t understand, so I decided to move on.
Like me, you must have been skeptical.
Whether I followed them or not, nothing changed for me, so there was no reason to refuse.
“Then, can we go to the designated location now?”
“No, now that the staffing is over, we need to know who to look for and how to communicate. First of all, communication will be carried out through the built-in communication of the serial card linked with the Toka app. The channel is my channel, doesn’t it matter?”
“There is no other way to communicate other than that, right?”
“It is not.”
There seemed to be no disagreement about the means of communication.
Because you can’t look at your phone every time something happens.
The only way left is this.
Alfred Olivia Joe finds the bearded man in the janitor’s outfit. We’ll be heading towards the clock tower in the middle of the square, so it wouldn’t hurt to wait in the alley along the way.”
“A man with a beard in a janitor’s outfit is coming towards the square. okay.”
Alfred continued to ask if there was anything else to note, but Olivia seemed to have enough, and went straight to the West Gate Square.
Alfred, noticing this only later, belatedly started running towards Olivia.
Well, you’ll be fine, you know.
Olivia is a pretty good-natured guy.
Besides, Alfred barely listened to the rest of the story.
“James Jade Joe, look for the guy in his raincoat walking through North Gate Square. Even if there is a barrier, there aren’t that many guys walking around in this weather, so you should be able to find them easily.”
“How can such idiots exist? What’s the difference between asking them to hold you openly?”
“How do I know? Rather, he’s an asshole, so he might be acting like a villain.”
“That’s not wrong either.”
There are not one or two idiots in the world, and if there are smart people, there are also people who are not good enough.
No need to bother, if you say that you crawl out on your own feet, we just need to catch you easily.
“Chun Hyun-woo, Baek Baek-yeon, Beatrix Joe is going to be a little difficult. He is a guy who does camouflage according to his surroundings. Baek Sung-yeon, I need you to find me with a ghost painting.”
“I’m not confident, but I’ll try my best.”
In that way, everyone, including myself, began to find their place.
Yes, into the eye of the whirlwind.
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I already completely hate 99% of the characters