Chapter 61 : Chapter 61
Chapter 61: School Trip (1)
When Yoo jin left the classroom door, Lee Si-wang, who was waiting at the end of the hallway, approached.
"Why did you pretend to be excited on purpose?"
"……."
"You didn't seem that hyped up."
Yoo jin, who was listening quietly, opened his mouth.
"Anyway. You're too quick on the uptake."
Lee Si-wang remained silent for a moment at Yoo jin's voice.
"It's because I was a bit concerned about two people, why."
I could tell who he was talking about without asking.
The faces of Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho flashed through Lee Si-wang's mind.
At that moment, Yoo jin suddenly thrust his face close and grinned.
"But you got one thing wrong. I really am excited?"
Lee Si-wang was momentarily flustered and lost his words.
"More importantly, you have nothing to do, right?"
"Why would I have nothing to do."
"Your tailing is over."
"Right……?"
"Did the Guild Master order you to do something?"
"There were no special instructions……."
"See. You don't. Stop talking and follow me."
"Where are we suddenly going……."
Yoo jin said as he passed Lee Si-wang.
"Grocery shopping."
***
A large mart near Taewoon High.
"Where do you plan to use all of this……."
Lee Si-wang's expression was stiff.
Inside the cart he was holding, food ingredients were piled up like a mountain.
"For a picnic, it has to be Seaweed rice!"
Yoo jin gave a thumbs up, smiling brightly like in an 80s commercial.
Lee Si-wang let out a deep sigh.
"It is not a picnic, it is a school trip."
"This or that."
"They are strictly different……."
"You've only improved at talking back."
Yoo jin, shaking his head, laughed lightly and threw fruit onto the cart.
The ingredients were piled up precariously, looking like they would collapse at any moment.
Lee Si-wang, who was putting them in with a blank expression, scratched his head.
"……."
Lee Si-wang, who pondered for a moment, looked at Yoo jin with serious eyes.
"Why are you going this far?"
Yoo jin's movement, who was humming, stopped.
"What?"
"All of your actions, Teacher. I thought it was fascinating since before, but honestly, I do not understand. Why on earth are you so obsessed with the students……."
Yoo jin's gaze shifted slightly aside.
"Just because."
Lie.
Lee Si-wang knew.
Because he had watched from closer than anyone else since the moment he returned.
Yoo jin's actions and sincerity toward the students.
That was not something just anyone could do.
And it was certainly not something to be glossed over with the words 'just because'.
Therefore.
Today's Lee Si-wang was more talkative than ever.
"Do you know what they call Teacher Yoo jin outside these days?"
"Hmm……. Was it Devil?"
"It's Demon King, Demon King!"
"Why are you yelling, I'm not deaf."
Lee Si-wang, furrowing his brow, opened his mouth again.
"A nonsensical existence who defeated an S-Rank Transcendent. Of course, they do not know Teacher's true identity yet, but the general public has now come to know the power Teacher Yoo jin possesses. Someone who plays with a chosen Transcendent called a god with one hand."
"Ah, what does that matter……."
Lee Si-wang, with his eyebrows hardened in a straight line, exhaled deeply through his nose.
"Actually, I was curious too. Why a being with such power, someone who could possess wealth and honor more than anyone else, someone who could stand above, is showing such incomprehensible obsession with…… students."
"Just because."
"That is the answer you gave earlier, isn't……."
"Because I wanted there to be at least one person like this."
Lee Si-wang's eyes trembled.
That was partly because Yoo jin gave an answer unlike before, but the reason his eyes trembled greatly was.
"Even if it's just one person. I wanted there to be a teacher who looks at the students sincerely without expecting anything in return."
Although he was wearing a smile as bright as a child, for some reason, the saddest eyes in the world were hanging there.
"Because I regretted it for a hundred years. That I wasn't that kind of teacher."
Lee Si-wang could not say anything more and bowed his head.
***
Taewoon High Faculty Dormitory.
Yoo jin's room.
"After saying all those cool things!"
Glare!
4 AM.
Lee Si-wang was looking at the sleeping Yoo jin with veins popping out on his forehead.
"Zzzzz…… Grrr……."
Yoo jin was sprawled out, snoring happily.
"I'm crazy, I'm crazy!"
Seaweed rice made by Lee Si-wang was piled up like a mountain on the table.
One.
"Have I only rolled fifty so far……."
Next to the finished Seaweed rice, even more ingredients caught his eye.
"He acted all cool alone, doing everything. Why am I the one wrapping it all."
Lee Si-wang, clutching his throbbing head, let out a sigh.
Glare!
Lee Si-wang's eyes turned like arrowheads and aimed at Yoo jin.
"Kuh-uh-uhk! Grrr……."
He saw Yoo jin sprawled out so well that he wondered if it was possible to sleep that soundly.
"No, does he think I'm a pushover. I'm the number 1 A-Rank. I'm within the top five in Korea……. Ha, this won't do. I can't just let it slide today!"
Just as Lee Si-wang was about to take a step toward Yoo jin in rising anger.
"Mumble!"
"Kyaaaack!!"
Lee Si-wang jumped in surprise at Yoo jin's sleep-talking.
Lee Si-wang curled his body up tight and hid under the table.
After a little time passed.
Lee Si-wang slowly peeked his head out.
"What, was it sleep-talking?"
When he confirmed that Yoo jin was still passed out, embarrassment rushed in along with the realization of reality.
And when those emotions simultaneously washed over Lee Si-wang.
He was able to make a decision.
"Damn it. It can't go on like this."
Lee Si-wang picked himself up and looked at the table.
Seaweed Rice that wasn't even half wrapped.
Side dishes that hadn't even been prepped, and fruits still in their packaging.
"It's impossible even if I do it all night. In that case……."
Lee Si-wang's eyes changed in an instant.
He took his phone out of his pocket.
"How dare he treat me…… I will surely let him know how great a person I am this time."
A sharp smile was built on Lee Si-wang's face toward Yoo jin.
***
D―DAY.
Morning of the school trip.
"Wow……."
"What is that??"
Exclamations flowed from the mouths of the children entering the school.
Because the pile of luxuriously packed lunch boxes and the mark of the Ignis Guild caught their eyes first.
And in front of that, Lee Si-wang was standing.
Fiddling with his trademark sunglasses several times with a stylish expression.
"This is the killer move of a successful person."
Lee Si-wang started happily handing out lunch boxes to the Year 2 Class A students.
"Whoaaaa!"
Exclamations burst forth from the mouths of Class A students receiving the lunch boxes.
"Jackpot! It's a sushi lunch box."
"There's fried meat too."
"This can't even be compared to Han-soot?"
"As expected of Lee Si-wang! It's my first time eating a rich person's lunch box."
Unlike the excited Class A kids.
The expressions of the children from other Year 2 classes watching from afar began to darken gradually.
Some of the teachers from other classes standing at the front of the line were frowning.
"What kind of absurd situation is this from the morning……."
"No, is he showing off that he's a parachute hire, or what."
"I think the kids will feel discriminated against……."
Backbiting.
No, front-biting.
Their voices entered Yoo jin's ears accurately.
"Hmm……."
Yoo jin, who quickly read the room, approached Lee Si-wang.
"Hey, don't tell me you only [prepared] our class's…."
Lee Si-wang's hand stopped in front of Yoo jin's mouth.
"Ey, who am I! Korea's number 1 A-Rank, Ignis Vice Guild Master…… the symbol of success."
Ta-da!
As Lee Si-wang's hand moved.
More piles of lunch boxes that were hidden behind became visible.
"I prepared enough for the exact number of Year 2 students going on the school trip today!"
Yoo jin smirked and said.
"Cool. But, take off the sunglasses. I told you they don't suit you."
Lee Si-wang bowed his head deeply.
"Do you know how hard I worked……."
Yoo jin, laughing at that sight, turned his body and gestured toward the teachers of other classes.
"Teachers, please distribute this."
The teachers from other classes looked at Yoo jin with surprised eyes.
Teacher Kang Hye-rin of Class E asked with a smile.
"Is there some for us too?"
"Of course. Since there probably aren't any guys who ate breakfast, feed them. Since they say we're eating lunch after getting off the plane anyway."
"Oh my, thank you. Teacher Yoo jin!"
Kang Hye-rin smiled brightly, and the reluctant Teacher Jin Tae-jin also had no choice but to accept the lunch box.
"Whoaaaaa!"
"Sushi!!"
The entire Year 2 student body cheered.
All the gazes directed at Yoo jin sparkled, and several finger hearts were aimed at Yoo jin.
Then.
"Tch, I did all the hard work……."
Lee Si-wang stuck his lips out like a goldfish.
Yoo jin, who was taking that sight in, smiled softly and patted Lee Si-wang's shoulder.
"Hey hey, I'm sincerely thankful. Instead of Vice Guild Master, do you want to be the assistant homeroom teacher?"
"Hah. Trying to brush it off with just one word……. Do you think I did this just to hear a compliment."
Although he was speaking bluntly, the corners of Lee Si-wang's mouth were ascending as if to pierce the sky.
Yoo jin and the Class A kids who were watching that scene showed smiles full on their faces.
"Okay, then, if you've all received it, let's depart quickly!"
Like that, the entire Year 2 departed for Jeju Island with excited hearts.
***
At that moment when Yoo jin and the Taewoon High Year 2 students were boarding the plane to Jeju Island.
Men in black suits were lined up on the top floor of the hospital managed by the Hunter Association.
A man cutting across the center of the black path made by the men.
Light, yet heavy steps passed the hallway and stopped in front of a hospital room.
Click…….
Then the door to the VIP room opened.
A single room reminiscent of a penthouse.
The splendid appearance that unfolded as soon as the door opened was enough to make one forget that this was a hospital.
The person whose face was hidden by the bright light shooting from the ceiling slowly passed the door and entered the room.
Thud thud, small footsteps echoed and then quickly died down.
In the gaze of the person who stopped, the S-Rank Awakened Kang Si-wook lying on the single room bed was captured.
Before coming here, according to what he heard from the nurse, he was in a state of being put to sleep with drugs with the family's consent due to seizure symptoms and uncontrollable violence.
"It looks as if he is dead."
A husky voice resonated low.
"I wonder how long it has been since I saw you this quiet."
Behind the restrained voice where the pitch of emotion was not revealed, the light that covered the face gradually cleared away.
Gold frames crossing above thin eyebrows.
A middle-aged man wearing glasses that made his cold impression look even colder.
It was the President of the Republic of Korea.
"Still, disgraceful behavior cannot be forgiven. Furthermore, since it was discovered that you lined up behind my son, not me."
The President's hand moved over Kang Si-wook's upper body.
Shim-mer.
Green energy began to shimmer near Kang Si-wook's chest.
And then.
Zzzzing―.
Two small stone fragments were piercing through his chest and coming out.
Snap!
As the President snapped his finger.
The two Runes that came out piercing the chest made a cracking sound and started to split, and soon.
Saaar―.
They became small crystals and started to disappear.
"I didn't leave you be because I didn't know. Both you, and your son."
The President turned coldly.
The President, having finished his business, was leaving the hospital room but stopped his steps in front of the door.
"A teacher who beats an S-Rank who inserted two Runes……."
The Association executives, the Ignis Guild Master, and his son came to the President's mind.
"Has one more appeared, a human aiming for my neck."