Chapter 25: Year 2 Class A Park Ye-na (1)
Although it was a bit coercive, Jin-ho gained a new goal.
Something that surpasses current common sense.
Something that would make anyone snort if they heard it.
However, Yoo jin was trying to make that absurd, bluff-like story into truth.
And Jin-ho too.
Although his head couldn't understand and it was unbelievable.
Because it was a story told by the person who saved him, not anyone else.
He decided to trust.
Not his head, but his heart.
Jin-ho, who clenched his fist tight, showed firm will looking at the sunset.
At that resolute expression, Yoo jin smiled lightly and placed his hand on Jin-ho's head.
"Rascal. You know how to make a manly expression too."
"Teach......."
Jin-ho's face turned red at Yoo jin's playful voice.
Yoo jin captured the appearance of such a disciple in his eyes for a long time without a word because it was so cute.
He will change.
Little by little.
Little by little.
The most ignored child will become the most shining one.
And due to that, the class children will also notice his change one by one.
It may not be a huge event that changes the world.
It may not cause a significant matter to the nation.
To Yoo jin, this was the most valuable thing.
Because sometimes the smallest thing in the world brings the biggest change.
'Watch over him from the sky. Eun-ho.'
Yoo jin took his hand off the head and turned his body.
"Then let's go back."
"Yes!"
Just as Jin-ho was about to move his steps following Yoo jin behind his loud voice.
Whoosh!
A shadow covering the sunset light.
Someone blocked the front of Jin-ho and Yoo jin.
"......You are?"
Yoo jin, who was checking the figure blocking the path ahead, hardened his eyes into a straight line.
A familiar face.
It was only natural because she was a student he faced even during the homeroom time before coming up to the rooftop.
"Park Ye-na?"
At Jin-ho's voice, the color of the shadow blocking the front was painted.
Above the white school uniform top, peculiar orange eyes caught the gaze.
Orange eyes contrasting with pure white skin.
Among Awakeners, a very small number, those whose body parts transform due to trait manifestation, were increasing.
Park Ye-na was one of those people.
Her characteristic orange eyes were staring intently at Yoo jin.
She gave so much strength to her brow that three wrinkles stood between her eyebrows like a trident.
At the appearance of the disciple blocking the front without a word, Yoo jin looked at Jin-ho with a side glance.
As if feeling the same mind, Jin-ho also fixed his neck stiffly and looked at Yoo jin only by moving his eyes.
'Just where did this kid appear from?'
'From where did she hear?'
Although they harbored different thoughts, anyway, the two's minds were similar.
How should I react?
In the first place, the one who blocked the front was Ye-na.
Looking at her expression, it seems she has something to say.
Stare―.
She only stared piercingly while blocking the front, Park Ye-na was not taking any action.
A heavy atmosphere and pressure filled the rooftop.
Surprisingly, it was Jin-ho who couldn't bear the silence continuing without progress.
Jin-ho, who was reading the atmosphere, spoke to Ye-na who was staring intently at his teacher.
"Excuse me, Ye-na, do you have something to say? We, that is, Teacher and I have something to talk about briefly......."
"Me too......."
"Huh?"
Jin-ho's eyes became round like beads.
Because the lips of the female student who had been hardened like a statue until now were moving, albeit slightly.
"What did you say? The voice was small so I couldn't well......."
"Me too!!"
At Ye-na's loud voice that came out like a sudden outburst, Jin-ho was surprised and stepped back.
Although not as much as Jin-ho was surprised, Yoo jin standing next to him also had his eyes shaking at the appearance of the female student suddenly shouting loudly.
Ye-na, who clenched both fists tight enough for veins to show.
Snap!
Ye-na, who clenched both fists tight enough for veins to show, bent her waist 90 degrees toward Yoo jin.
"I also want to become strong!"
"......."
"......."
At the unexpected action, both Jin-ho and Yoo jin became lost for words.
Ye-na, who was bowing her waist, raised only her head slightly.
Ye-na's orange eyes, more lucid than the sunset light, filled Yoo jin's vision.
"Please train me together with Jin-ho too!"
It seems this punk heard everything.
Same time.
At that time when the sun that brightened the day covered itself with a blanket and the time of night was gradually approaching.
"Haa―, really doing something I didn't even do when I was the youngest."
Lee Si-wang, who hid half his body at the corner of a building, was sighing.
Taewoon High where all classes ended.
For some reason, Academy City looked more overflowing with vitality now than in the morning.
Free time before sleep.
Children wearing school uniforms were gathering in threes and fives walking the streets.
There were students heading to dessert shops to relieve study stress, and children moving their steps to private academies within Academy City for the future.
Where else would there be a street overflowing with vitality like this in an era where monsters appeared.
"Ha......."
Lee Si-wang, who spat out annoyance mixed in a deep exhalation, adjusted his sunglasses.
"It's sad enough tailing for a background check at this rank, why doesn't he know that doing this in a place like this can cause unnecessary misunderstandings......."
Students walking the street felt the gaze and presence and moved their heads.
"Why? Is there something?"
"No....... I felt like someone was looking."
"Let's go quickly. They say a new parfait came out."
The children left on their way again.
The spot the children left.
A face peeked out again from the corner.
"Is it because it's an Awakener school, the kids have good senses."
Although the children were not the target, when tailing unavoidably as paths overlapped, situations that could cause misunderstandings like just now often occurred.
Every time that happened, Lee Si-wang repeated hiding his body quickly at the corner.
Even if he is the Vice Guild Master of the Republic of Korea's Top 3 Guild and the number 1 ranked A-Rank Hunter.
If misunderstood in a situation like a moment ago, his position becomes awkward.
Even if he tries to excuse that the biggest reason was a misunderstanding in the first place.
Since the excuse was already tailing, the situation was quite uncomfortable.
'Return....... No, getting hit by Teacher Yoo jin, getting hit by the Guild Master.'
"I want to go on vacation to a deserted island."
While lamenting, Lee Si-wang's gaze was continuously watching one certain place.
A man wearing a brown suit whose ironing lines stood out even from afar.
It was Teacher Lee, a teacher at Taewoon High, whom Teacher Yoo jin asked to monitor.
The figure who took total responsibility for lifting the barrier during the monster terror incident of Year 2 Class A a while ago.
And.......
Because Yoo jin suspected that person was related to the mastermind who cast the barrier during the terror incident, Lee Si-wang was tailing him.
That is, he is doing a background check based solely on Yoo jin's hunch, not certainty.
'Don't take your eyes off him for a moment. Except when sleeping. No. Monitor the faculty dormitory even when sleeping.'
'If he is definitely a henchman, he will meet the guy who ordered him. Within a short time.'
Because of an order that wasn't quite an order, Lee Si-wang couldn't sleep properly for several days and was monitoring Teacher Lee's every move within Academy City.
"With this level of tailing, can't I just order the kids under me instead of me doing it? This is really, no matter how I look at it, a waste of manpower."
While saying that, Lee Si-wang moved to the next building using a stealth skill to maintain an appropriate distance.
While hiding his body at the corner of the building again, he did not lose Teacher Lee from his view from afar.
Although he grumbled continuously, the reason he did not neglect tailing for a single moment.
After following for several days, he began to understand Yoo jin's suspicion a little.
The sharp-angled suit Teacher Lee is wearing.
That brand was a brand Lee Si-wang also knew.
Although defense power doesn't come out as much as combat armor, a suit made using Magic Stones and materials extracted from monsters while being everyday wear.
A masterpiece among masterpieces satisfying both practicality and safety.
Even if he didn't know the exact model, he knew that a similar suit from that brand was priced at a ridiculous amount of at least several hundred million won.
No matter how much Awakeners are revered and Hunters are a profession that earns a lot of money.
"How can he wear only that brand's clothes without missing a single day. And with different ones every day. When he is a teacher."
Naturally, since it isn't a regular school but a Hunter training high school.
Among them, if he is a teacher at a prestigious high school, he would receive quite a high salary.
Well, or he might really like clothes.
Or if not that, maybe the only place he spends money is clothes.
Right.
That could be possible.
However.
Lee Si-wang's vision headed downwards.
Teacher Lee's hand walking far away.
A water bottle held in his hand.
"He changes those expensive clothes every day but doesn't buy and drink a single cup of coffee?"
Not just concluding with coffee, but beverages, snacks, desserts.
Teacher Lee did not spend money on any of those.
At first, he thought it could be for health.
However.
That expression he saw when he ate a snack given by another teacher alone on the rooftop.
He came to know it was absolutely not because of health.
He is saving.
No, it is thoroughly ingrained in his body.
How to win against temptation.
And save.
Even if he tries to change in a short time, it doesn't change.
Because it has been ingrained in his body for a long time.
He was always filling the water in the water bottle at school and leaving work.
'Is he a new rich or something like that?'
If money suddenly arises, what would a person do first?
Naturally, they would want to show it off.
What is next?
Teacher Lee, who was walking the street, stopped his steps.
Then, looking around the surroundings, he moved to a corner and answered a phone call.
"Ah, yes. Did a seller appear? Then since tomorrow happens to be the weekend, I will visit once. Should I go to the real estate agency?"
A small voice, but Teacher Lee's voice heard clearly.
Teacher Lee, having finished the short call, moved his steps hopping like a happy deer.
Lee Si-wang, who was watching that appearance from afar, took off his sunglasses and spoke.
"Well, I suppose I can follow him around a little more."
Although he can't stop grumbling.
Lee Si-wang was feeling anew that the hunch of Yoo jin who rolled in the other world for 100 years was amazing.