Chapter 63 : Chapter 63
Chapter 63: School Trip (3)
"Alright, get off slowly."
"Class A to the left!"
Twenty minutes by bus from the accommodation.
The students of Taewoon High arrived at their first school trip destination.
Half-collapsed buildings and sinkholes visible here and there.
The entire small village looked as if it had been hit by a bomb.
"This is the place where the first Dungeon Break occurred in our country."
Teacher Kang Hye-rin, wearing a white gown, was continuing her explanation right in front of the fence.
The children standing in the front row opened their mouths roundly and spat out exclamations as if fascinated.
The children in the back also moved their heads between the people in front to see as closely as possible.
"There are several types of Dungeon Breaks, but it turned out that this place was caused by a Gate that had been neglected for a long time causing a Dungeon Break."
Kang Hye-rin's hand, which was organizing her wind-blown blonde hair, moved to the center of the village.
"Like now, in a state where knowledge and equipment about Gates were lacking, it was a disaster caused by very small occurrences overlapping and overlapping in an abandoned house where no one lived."
The students moved their heads this way and that to capture the place where Kang Hye-rin's fingertip pointed.
As expected of a school trip.
Several students appeared many times more motivated than in the classroom.
It was partly because they left Academy City after a long time, and partly because of the feeling this place gave for the first time.
Being a prestigious school, no one was dozing off in the classroom, but seeing the students looking more bright-eyed than at school, small smiles spread across the lips of the teachers standing in the front.
"Okay, let's move sideways little by little and take it in. Since there are people in the back who couldn't see, move to the left starting from the front row."
At Teacher Kang Hye-rin's voice, the children started to move along the fence one by one.
Expressions that could not be seen at school were built on the children's faces.
A study with a different meaning from studying while sitting and training for practical experience.
Most of the children had bright expressions at the opportunity to directly see a place they had only seen in textbooks.
Except for just one person.
At the very back of the student group.
A shadow was deeply cast on Jin-ho's face.
His unfocused eyes seemed to lack even the strength to capture the village inside the fence.
Unlike such Jin-ho.
"Good, it seems he's well brainwashed at this rate."
"We didn't want to do this either. We won't forget your sacrifice, Jin-ho."
"Only now is the preparation perfectly finished, Teacher."
The twins and Seong-hyeon, who were surrounding Jin-ho, gave a thumbs up toward Yoo jin.
"Good, you guys worked hard."
At Yoo jin's voice, the twins and Seong-hyeon showed smiles revealing all their gums.
Lee Si-wang and Ye-na, who were watching that scene, shook their heads.
"Devils……."
"To repeat the same words from before departing until getting off the bus……."
From the accommodation to before getting on the bus, and inside the bus, and finally until arriving here.
During that long time.
Jin-ho was trapped in a prison made by the twins, Seong-hyeon, and Yoo jin.
Like bodyguards protecting a celebrity.
Positioned front, back, and both sides, they continuously pressured Jin-ho.
The result that came out like that was exactly…….
"……Overthrow…… Over…… throw……."
The image of Jin-ho muttering like a zombie.
Yoo jin, who captured the perfectly brainwashed Jin-ho in his eyes, nodded as if satisfied.
"Good, I can entrust him with the biggest mission. Then now……."
Yoo jin's gaze moved.
Toward Kang Tae-wook standing at the front of Class A.
Was it because he felt the gaze directed at him?
Kang Tae-wook's eyes passed through the air and intersected with Yoo jin's gaze.
"……Tsk!"
Lifting only one corner of his mouth, Kang Tae-wook, who made a fishy expression, turned his head leaving a cold gaze.
"That, that crooked jerk……!"
"Teacher, you must endure."
"Our plan is perfect."
"By tomorrow, he will be crying and begging."
Like retainers stopping a tyrant king, the twins and Seong-hyeon stopped Yoo jin.
"Phew……. Right, I must endure for the great cause."
The kids nodded.
"Then, let's check one last time."
At Yoo jin's voice, the twins and Seong-hyeon lightly curled their hands and took the attention stance.
Disciplined movements.
Anyone would think they were soldiers.
"There are two operations. Tonight and tomorrow night. Today is just a light warm-up with a feeling of a skirmish, and tomorrow night is the real main operation."
Gulp.
Like soldiers being deployed into an unknown dungeon, expressions full of determination were built on the faces of Seong-hyeon and the twins.
Yoo jin, who was taking that sight in, felt their sincerity well and took a deep breath as calmly as possible.
"Phew……."
Perhaps it could be an operation more difficult than a dungeon.
Because that's how impossible it was to control.
Enough that if we let our guard down for even a single moment, everything we prepared would go down the drain.
It was a high-difficulty task where tension was important and timing was crucial.
Yoo jin, hardening his eyes, slowly opened his mouth toward the students.
"Do not let your guard down. If the timing is off even for a moment, or if we get caught in advance. If you act sloppily…… instead of a test of courage, you'll become the ghost friend Casper."
"We will keep it in mind!"
The twins, Seong-hyeon, and Yoo jin.
The operation they planned to take revenge on Kang Tae-wook was exactly.
A Test of Courage.
To be precise, an operation to dress up as ghosts and make Kang Tae-wook fall over in surprise and cry and beg.
Named.
"The Great Operation to Make Kang Tae-wook, Who Pretends to be an Ice Prince, a Crybaby!"
"Woooo!"
"Divine punishment on Kang Tae-wook!"
"Ju-hee! Send some ghost friends from there!"
Yoo jin and the kids, who raised both hands high, had their lips stretched wide.
"Hehehehe."
Unpleasant laughter flowed.
"……."
"……."
Lee Si-wang and Ye-na, who were taking that sight in.
Tap.
Tap.
Patted Jin-ho's shoulder.
"Cheer up……."
"You go through a lot of trouble too……."
Jin-ho, who was making a soulless expression, realized reality and bowed his head with a sigh.
***
The first day's schedule ended quickly.
Seeing Korea's first Dungeon Break site and looking around the Jeju Branch Association Museum not far from there was all.
Because moving from Ilsan to Jeju Island already took up quite a bit of time.
Like that, the kids who finished the first day's schedule and returned to the accommodation ate dinner and all moved to their rooms.
The length of the day was distinctly longer than spring.
However, night came anyway.
Unlike the day, waves holding moonlight were swaying.
And the long-awaited first night of the school trip began.
6 rooms assigned per class.
5 people were assigned to one room each.
It certainly should have been so.
"What, why are you guys here."
Kang Tae-wook said coldly while looking at the kids who barged into his room.
Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins, Im Jong-sin and Im Jong-il, who were assigned to the next room, were standing right in front of Kang Tae-wook's eyes.
"Shall we have a pillow fight?"
While babbling nonsense.
"Are you elementary schoolers?"
"Where is the law that says only elementary schoolers do pillow fights!"
"Are you insulting pillow fights right now?"
"Where is the student who doesn't do a pillow fight on the first night of a school trip!"
"Hear, hear!"
At the unreasonable insistence, Kang Tae-wook sighed and shook his head.
"Even after being treated like that earlier, you still haven't come to your senses."
Not playing along is the best method.
Just ignoring them is enough.
But.
Twinkle!
Sparkle sparkle!
The eyes of the twins and Jo Seong-hyeon were giving assurance that they wouldn't back down with that method.
"If you fall, get out to your room without talking back."
At Kang Tae-wook's single remark, Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins shook their shoulders as if excited that things went according to their plan.
"Tae-wook, why are you dealing with them?"
"Just ignore them."
Chan-sol and Min-jun, the lackeys who were sharing the same room as Kang Tae-wook, said bluntly.
Kang Tae-wook, without answering their voices, slowly lifted the pillow that was on the floor.
Chan-sol and Min-jun, who knew Tae-wook's personality of hating to say things twice better than anyone, read the room and quietly picked up the pillows on the floor.
"Hey, you pick it up too. Since it's come to this, let's fight room vs room."
Chan-sol said toward Jin-ho who was standing in the corner.
Then Min-jun said.
"Then me and Chan-sol are on Tae-wook's side……."
"No! No! You guys come here too!"
Jo Seong-hyeon snatching Chan-sol and Min-jun's arms in an instant.
"Ah, no, why."
Chan-sol and Min-jun tried to shake off the arms, but Seong-hyeon was an A-Rank Awakened.
They, who were B-Rank, were not opponents they could beat with strength.
Like that.
The board was set too suddenly.
The target of this pillow fight was decided no matter who looked at it.
"It's now, Jin-ho."
After Seong-hyeon's voice was heard.
Jin-ho, who was standing blankly in the back, shut his eyes tightly.
"Don't tell me……."
In the shaking gazes of Chan-sol and Min-jun.
They saw Jin-ho's hand being placed on the light switch.
Click!
Darkness visited the room and.
"Get Kang Tae-wook!"
The privilege of youth.
A frenzied pillow fight began.
***
Pillow fight.
It is a plaything for students that has shared its history ever since school trips were created, and a privilege only for youth and students, possessing such influence that it is said one cannot become a proper adult without trying a pillow fight at least once.
And there is a legend that the winner of the pillow fight becomes the Pirate K…… no, the Room Leader who can possess all rights to the room and obtain the treasure of sleeping comfortably in a good bed more than anyone else during the school trip.
Exactly 2 minutes later.
Click!
The lights turned on in the accommodation.
And what was visible was.
"F*ck……."
"Ugh……."
"Damn it, the plan…… was perfect……."
The twins and Jo Seong-hyeon were sprawled on the floor.
Chan-sol and Min-jun were a bonus.
Tap.
Tap.
Kang Tae-wook, who was standing alone, dusted off his hands.
"Even elementary schoolers wouldn't be this childish."
At Kang Tae-wook's gaze looking down, Jo Seong-hyeon and the twins could not hold back their indignation.
"This resentment will last for 3 generations."
"It's humiliating……."
"I'm sorry, Ju-hee. I don't think I can keep the promise with you to become the Pillow King……."
Kang Tae-wook, watching the kids who were still babbling strange sounds, shook his head.
"Really…… I don't understand……."
Kang Tae-wook opened the door and went out with a crumpled expression.
"Damn it, to think we'd lose in the first battle……."
"Quickly, deliver the news of this defeat to Teacher……."
The twins sent a gaze to Jin-ho who was standing blankly.
However.
Even at their signal.
'Really…… I don't understand…….'
Kang Tae-wook's serious expression as he spat out those words filled Jin-ho's mind.
So.
Thud thud.
Jin-ho's feet moved quickly.
Following behind Kang Tae-wook, who had just left the door.
