Chapter 13: Year 2 Class A (1)
The auditorium of Taewoon High.
The assembly that happens once a month ended.
Students were leaving the auditorium in lines to return to their classrooms.
“What is really going on?”
“Right. I never imagined it would end this early.”
“To greet the morning without listening to the Principal's self-boasting!”
“Is it God’s birthday today? Seems like He granted all the wishes of our school students?”
“The shortest time ever was 40 minutes, but 2 minutes! 2 minutes! I really still can’t feel it’s real!”
“But is it really because of that newly arrived teacher Yoo jin?”
“Wouldn’t it be? The Principal was reading the room immensely?”
“There must be something. The Principal ran away as soon as the assembly ended?”
“What is it? Although it is the beginning of the semester, suddenly arriving is also fascinating, but for Teacher Principal to walk on eggshells.”
“Just what is it?”
“What do you mean what is it? It’s a lucky day!”
Smiles were rampant on the faces of the students leaving the auditorium.
The 3rd years were bewildered because they still couldn’t believe the Principal’s instructional speech ended early.
The 2nd years could not hide their joy about not having to listen to the Principal’s self-boasting.
Finally, the 1st years were stroking their chests in relief as the Principal’s instructional speech time, which had been handed down like a ghost story, was different from expectation.
In a word.
“I’m happy! To think it’s free time!”
“I should take a nap before class time.”
“I’m going to the snack bar.”
“Shall we go eat shaved ice?”
To the students leaving the auditorium, today was a day completely different from the ordinary days that existed until now.
It was a present.
At the free time and composure they hadn’t even expected, laughter did not cease from the children’s faces.
And there was one thing that was firmly embedded in the children’s minds.
Yoo jin.
That the first impression of this teacher who newly arrived starting today was quite powerful.
However, unlike the picture called smiles stamped on the faces of the leaving children, completely dark expressions were built on the faces of the personnel standing at the front of the platform.
“What is that guy?”
“No matter if it is a Hunter Academy, can one be hired suddenly like this?”
“It must be a parachute without even looking, a parachute. He must have received a good Awakened rank and was plugged in from some other guild, or maybe sent from above.”
Gathered in front of the platform were teachers.
Among them, they were the homeroom teachers in charge of the 2nd years of Taewoon High.
“From above?”
“Then are you saying the Association or a top guild sent him directly, Teacher?”
“Ahem. It is strictly a conjecture, a conjecture.”
“Whatever it became, it means he didn’t enter through a general route. Something doesn’t sit right with me. I failed twice trying to enter here.”
“The children seemed to like him?”
At the voice of a blonde woman wearing a white gown, the gazes of other teachers headed toward her.
As if recalling the matter of the assembly time, silence flowed for a while.
“Students are originally bound to have curiosity toward a teacher they see for the first time.”
A firm voice broke the silence and flowed out.
A man with a cold impression.
At the voice of him who had silver hair shining long, the atmosphere sank once again.
“By the way, why did the Principal walk on eggshells so much?”
At the question of an exceptionally short woman who was stuck between the teachers, the other teachers fell into thought respectively.
Certainly, they were also feeling it.
That it was distinctly different from the appearance of the Principal until now.
What should one say.
Should one say he looked anxious?
Principal Ma Jae-min who lived for the taste of boasting about himself.
Republic of Korea A-class Ranking 5th place.
He considered that career as the greatest pride.
And he was a person who liked to clamor about that pride in front of many people.
Since they were teachers who watched him from the closest distance for the past 3 years, that was not a guess, but a clear fact.
However, such a Principal finished his self-boasting in just 2 minutes.
No, it was enough to make one think that running away without being able to finish was a closer expression.
If one synthesizes the situation until now.
The source regarding the abnormality and the Principal’s anxiety was clearly the teacher called Yoo jin.
“Why on earth did the Principal toward such a rookie teacher…….”
“It’s obvious without looking. Although I hate to admit it, the Principal’s martial arts are enough to work even on S-class monsters. Therefore, since there is no way the Principal would walk on eggshells because of power, the answer is one.”
The teachers’ gazes focused on the homeroom teacher of Class B who had long silver hair.
“There is power behind him that even the Principal cannot reach. For example…… the President.”
The teachers’ expressions turned pale.
“If it’s not that, it can’t be explained. Because that teacher called Yoo jin, smiling playfully, looks weak no matter who looks at him.”
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Clack clack clack clack!
Above the green blackboard, white chalk moves.
Mana and Magic.
Gates and Awakened.
Everything changed rapidly after those appeared.
Even faster than when electricity was invented, airplanes were invented, and smartphones were invented, accelerating the development of humanity.
Reversing existing common sense.
Reversing existing wealth and power too.
Monsters and Awakened made the world change in an instant like a manhwa.
Nevertheless.
“Fortunately, this is the same.”
White letters written on the green blackboard.
[Yoo jin]
Yoo jin smiled while putting down the chalk.
With the power of magic stones discovered in Gates, civilization obtained screens and electronic devices that seemed like they would come out in the 25th century, but.
Here.
That is, only the blackboard of the classroom where Yoo jin stood was the same.
Yoo jin, who smiled lightly, turned his body.
Yoo jin placed both hands on the wooden lecture desk.
The corners of his lips soared high toward the sky.
How much had he looked forward to this day.
While unable to sleep at the howling of wolves, running hurriedly at the attack of Orcs, and further, while fighting duels risking life and death with the strong of the continent and Demon Kings.
The reason he tried to survive.
Unifying Alkarthus, and guiding the 3 Gods by making them his students.
While giving up the eternal life obtained with the continent’s best treasures and Dragon’s blood.
The reason he returned to Earth.
‘Eun-ho.’
To keep that promise he wouldn’t exchange even if given the whole world.
It was Yoo jin who finally came to stand at the starting line.
“Hello. I am Yoo jin who came to take charge of Year 2 Class A as homeroom teacher starting today. Please take care of me.”
The students sitting in their seats read the room, then raised their hands and started to clap.
Clap clap clap―.
This situation must be unfamiliar to them too.
Since there was no reason for the homeroom teacher to change suddenly.
Nevertheless, the reason they did not have great suspicion and did not reveal great rejection was.
It must be thanks to the morning’s matter.
The event that had never happened once since Taewoon High became prestigious even in the Hunter Academy, and Principal Ma Jae-min, who was active most hotly on the front lines, arrived.
That very event of skipping the Principal’s long self-boasting time became a little help to Yoo jin’s first impression.
That does not mean everyone is favorable.
It just means the rejection is small.
Yoo jin’s gaze scanned the students who were sitting in their seats while clapping.
There were a few familiar faces, but most were new faces.
The total number of Year 2 Class A was 30.
20 males.
10 females.
Although their appearances were all different, Yoo jin could guess the ecosystem of this class just with the built expressions.
Taewoon High’s classes do not divide classes by rank.
Whether there was a precedent of living quarters by rank in the army before Gates appeared.
Or whether there was a rejection of dividing ranks itself.
The class assignment of students revealed superficially assigned classes evenly to everyone without caring about rank.
That is, like civil servants.
Anyway, the kin called humans.
If people gather in one place.
Something called hierarchy comes to exist always.
This is inevitable.
Whether it is humans with developed intelligence.
Or beasts with developed wild nature.
If they form a group, invisible classes become divided naturally.
Strong entities and weak entities.
From food distribution to living.
And leisure.
That difference is the providence of nature that has continued since life began.
And that was seen clearly even in Yoo jin’s eyes.
The end of the left window side.
Jin-ho, who is making an expression of sitting in a different space alone.
And the very back seat of the class.
Students glaring at Yoo jin with sharp eyes.
The trio who bullied Jin-ho not long ago and whom he gave a finger flick of love.
Kang Tae-wook, Kim Chan-sol, Kim Min-jun.
They are probably the guys reigning as the top predators in this class.
Up to here were students whose faces Yoo jin knew, although he took charge as homeroom teacher from today.
The rest.
A female student with orange eyes staring at him intently with large eyes, as if fascinated.
A male student with purple hair looking only outside the window, as if not interested in the appearance of a new teacher.
Twin male students with even the same hairstyle.
And…….
“Ho-oh.”
A male student of model student style, who decorated everything ordinarily so as not to stand out and seemed like he would exist anywhere, attracted Yoo jin’s interest.
Yoo jin nodded his head.
Thinking as expected, it was good that he came to this class.
The tie with Jin-ho.
The promise with Eun-ho.
The guidance of Kang Tae-wook and the gang.
Students with faces that seemed to each harbor worries and stories of their age.
And even the model student hiding something last.
“I think you must have been surprised because the homeroom teacher changed suddenly. It’s not that there was a problem with the previous homeroom teacher, but I suggested that I definitely wanted to take charge of this class. So the previous homeroom teacher accepted readily.”
The promise with the student he had kept only in his heart for 100 years.
“I have done teaching work for a long time. I will absolutely not hinder your studies or make unreasonable demands. And I won’t ask to become close forcibly either. Let’s get along well naturally, and joyfully for one year.”
He intends to keep that promise starting now.
“Instead, just one thing. There is a philosophy of the teacher. I waited for the day I could say these words since 10 years, no…… 100 years ago.”
To do that, the first thing Yoo jin has to do is.
“There is no outcast in my class.”
The expressions and minds of the students sitting in the classroom were crumbling down.
“Run to the sparring room right now, if you don't want to die.”