Cheongchuleoram (6)
“What do you misunderstand? Professor, isn’t it Class C? Isn’t it?”
Han Min-ha nodded as Yoo Hee-won turned around.
“That’s right. He said he retired as a C-class and has almost no record of his past activities. He was just an unpopular hero.”
“That’s right. Professor Hyeon is a C-class and specializes in defense, so he mainly played support. By the way.”
Regal Mite looked back at the children and asked.
“How much do you know about Professor Hyun’s past?”
“Well? Didn’t you work somewhere secret?”
Yoo Hee-won said that she didn’t know.
Actually, she knew everything because Professor Hyeon told her about Secret, but she deliberately pretended not to know, fearing that she would be harmed.
“Your hero was a colleague of the professor, right? Professor, what did you really do in the past?
“Why do you think so?”
“Where is the hero’s companion? Maybe it’s a sidekick. Then it’s clear that they worked as a team, but where the hell is an organization that works as a team?”
Regal Might must have been a little taken aback.
“You must be guessing to some degree.”
“We’ve been together for a year and a half already, and it’s natural to have doubts even if you don’t have to say it.”
Only Song Doyoon looked at the two as they were talking, wondering what the hell they were talking about.
“So what? Professor, what are you misunderstanding about being a C-class?”
Regal Might She pondered for a moment whether she could explain it to her children.
The history of activities in Secretto is a secret, so it is difficult to reveal it carelessly.
Of course, the children seemed to be very close to Professor Hyun, just like the last time they came to the field practice.
But if you can tell me that, it’s not.
There are many things that even family members do not know about working at Secreto.
At that time, Yoo Hee-won’s cell phone rang again. It was already the fifth.
“Wouldn’t it be better to just receive it? If you don’t, I think you’ll keep getting in touch.”
“Oh, this is a real secret from the professor.”
“I just came to say thank you for the field practice, why don’t you talk about it like this?”
“I see. Wait a minute?”
As soon as Yoo Hee-Won answered her phone, she took her phone away from her ear while frowning.
The sound of Professor Hyeon’s words quickly came over the phone.
“Surprised. I was busy so I didn’t answer the phone! Are you okay?”
After hearing something else, Yoo Hee-won smiled and asked.
“So you were worried about me? Maybe something happened? Huh?”
Walla walla walla.
“Aren’t you telling the truth? I was so worried that I was going crazy, I told you to come back immediately, and that it would be easier to stay at the faculty quarters on the weekends… Ah, okay, okay.”
Yoo Hee-won giggled and stopped teasing the professor.
“This is Regal Mite-sama’s office now. I came to say hello to you for the field training I did the other day. Didn’t I say it’s a safe place from Goshawks?”
Han Min-ha pushed away the entanglement and asked Yoo Hee-won to change himself too.
“So, even if I miss you, be patient. Then I’ll stop.”
After hanging up the phone, Yu Hee-won clicked his tongue as he flipped through the scroll on the screen.
“Aha, I sent a message too. There was an uproar because I didn’t answer the phone. There was an uproar. I wonder who isn’t a single parent. Did girls get horny because they can’t smell their flesh?”
“Heewon! What kind of habit are you talking to the professor! Cancel it, cancel it!”
Yoo Hee-won asked, ignoring Han Min-ha who was angry.
“So, Professor, what the hell is a C grade? Tell me.”
“Student Heewon. What does Goshawk mean?”
“That’s it? I fought Goshawk and Professor twice last time, and Goshawk lost both times. After that, for some reason, Goshawk was taken away by the Administration Bureau, but they said he escaped the prison today. Perhaps Goshawk took the place of the professor as a disciple. They must have been worried that they might harm us.”
Regal Mite, who roughly understood the situation, felt a strange feeling.
Did Professor Hyun really say that he was worried?
No matter how much you are an advisor, you called and sent messages like that to check the safety of others?
Graysteel? I really can’t believe it.
I wondered if it would be good to tell a little bit about Gyo Hyeon’s past if Gyo Hyeon took care of them that much.
But soon Regal Might changed her mind.
He is a hero who upholds justice and common sense and abides by the law.
Disclosure of the history of activities in Secreto is against the law and is absolutely unacceptable.
So, Regal Mite decided to tell you about the professor’s grade in a moderate tone.
“Professor Hyeon is a C-class, but not a C-class.”
“What do you mean, that?”
While Yoo Hee-won and Han Min-ha were confused, Song Do-yoon quietly opened his mouth.
“Have you ever been graded incorrectly or have you never been re-evaluated after receiving the initial grade?”
“That’s right. To be precise, I haven’t been re-examined since the C-level judgment.”
“Why is that?”
“It’s also because of the characteristics of the place where Professor Hyun and I worked, and since Professor Hyun didn’t pay much attention to grades. So, when I graduated, I came out with a D grade.”
“Ugh…”
Han Min-ha took a small breath.
A grade D is right above grade F, and it is a grade that is treated as a level of ‘heavy equipment that understands words’.
In other words, it’s a sarcastic joke that the level is too low to be active as a hero, so it’s better to replace heavy equipment at a construction site.
“No, it was Class D? That’s great. You’re such a jerk, Professor?”
Legal Mite chuckled at Yu Hee-won’s words.
“I don’t know how it was during my school days because I wasn’t from the same academy, but I think it was probably a bad thing. Anyway, that’s not the important thing. Even if Professor Hyun-hyung says he’s a C-class now, how can you take cooperative combat lessons from me? It’s not what you’re going to do.”
“Then, roughly what is your real grade?”
“What grade do you think it will be?”
“Grade A.”
Song Doyoon replied.
“You’ve beaten the A-class hero Goshawk twice. I know that even A-classes are subdivided into levels in detail. Goshawk is a top class there, right? If that’s the case, I think the professor is A-class no matter how bad he is.”
“You all know that I am the next S-class candidate.”
Without answering that right away, Regal Mite changed the topic.
“As student Do-yoon said, not all A-levels are the same. There are B-plus-levels who have just finished A-levels, and there are heroes like me who are classified as S-levels.”
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“So what?”
“So, if a hero beats me in a duel, is that hero A-class or S-class?”
The students looked at each other with puzzled expressions.
“I can’t believe that… The professor…”
“hahahaha. I don’t know. How do you think it was?”
* * * * *
One night many years ago.
A rundown entertainment district in a small town.
Legal Mite and Gray Steel entered this place in plain clothes to find someone.
The streets under the old cheap neon signs were quite crowded with people looking for cheap pleasures.
“It must have flowed into this place after all.”
Graysteel opened his mouth.
“I guess so.”
Regal Mite answered briefly.
At his disgruntled tone, Graysteel asked.
“Are you still dissatisfied with this mission?”
“You speak as if I were a little child complaining about not liking the dinner.”
“Then what should I say?”
Regal Mite stopped and looked straight at Graysteel.
“I don’t like this mission.”
“Aren’t you tired of saying the same thing every time you sortie? If that’s the case, then why did you come to Secreto? Surely you’re working in the dark and you’re still believing the words of the sun?”
“Of course I was prepared to risk getting my hands dirty to some extent.”
Regal Might opened her arms and looked around the decadent, grimy streets.
“But I never thought it would be such a dirty and nasty place.”
“Dirty and petty. You know very well how dangerous an out-of-control trait expresser can be.”
“I know that. If left alone, I’ll become a villain. But that’s not what I mean…”
“Yes, yes. It must be because of the manager’s instructions.”
Gray Steel cut him off with a gesture of boredom.
“Isn’t it because of the word to kill, right?”
As Regal Mite did not respond, Graysteel continued.
“The poor people who have expressed their traits but are not good enough to enter the academy, so they have no choice but to go to the 3rd training center. Even if this society can’t take care of them, they are killing them, so there must be a lot of dissatisfaction.”
“Even if escaping from the training center is a crime, I don’t think it’s a serious crime enough to be killed.”
“If that’s the case, you should have told us during the mission briefing before the sortie. You’ve already come this far and you want to go back? And the guy we’re hunting for doesn’t have the trivial trait of picking a lock with the snap of his fingers.”
Gray Steel paused before opening his mouth.
“That’s why I told the manager to kill him too. If we don’t kill him, we will die.”
“He won’t kill us unless we go to kill him.”
“And become a villain and kill innocent people.”
“In order to prevent that, it is right to arrest him according to the proper procedure and punish him only for the weight of the crime he has committed. That’s what I think. Going secretly and killing him like this is nothing more than private sanctions. This is the rule of law. Go, Graysteel. What if someone judged you dangerous and tried to kill you without any legal basis?”
“I’ll explain that he’s not dangerous.”
“What if that doesn’t work?”
“Then I must kill to not die.”
Regal Might stared at him without saying anything, and Gray Steel shook his head.
“The example is too extreme. First of all, I’m not a dangerous guy, and the guy we’re chasing right now must be a dangerous guy. And we can’t apprehend him anyway. Rather than risking unnecessary casualties in the process, we’ll do the same as we always did.” It’s better to be clean. That’s the definition you always say.”
“Your definition and my definition always cross each other.”
“Your definition is right. It’s because my definition is crooked. Is that enough?”
Looking at Graysteel, who gently smiled and tapped his shoulder, Regal Mite sighed lightly.
“Then let’s make a promise, Graysteel.”
“You mean arrest, not kill, if possible? Yes, good. My only teammate asks me that, and of course I have to.”
Gray Steel, who tapped his shoulder several times, chinned him.
“Enough? Let’s go.”
Legal Mite, who was watching the back of Graysteel, was moving ahead.
While being hit and run over by people, the two of them stood in front of the entrance to an old underground karaoke room where they obtained intelligence.