episode_0067

I decided to step forward as a goblin.

However, I just said that I was going around secretly as an individual, and I wasn’t trying to go around as an event for academy students.

So, as soon as I got to work in the morning, I immediately scanned the official documents.

Document number: 2AILL-1DS0KCH

[2025 Ability Development March Outdoor Training Plan].

It was an official document that people would probably call a ‘treasure hunt’, and fortunately, anyone on the faculty could view the official document.

“Tsk.”

What I learned from the plan was nonsense.

Even I, as an ordinary librarian, had access to it, and there was just enough information to infer the entire process by simply searching news about the previous year’s treasure hunt.

In other words, it was not a conversation that took place in an official document.

It’s definitely one of those conversations that occur during drinks, company dinners, or tea time before work.

‘Use students to find goblins.’

I don’t know whose brain it came from, but it’s quite unpleasant and valid.

Goblins do not kill students.

When a student attacks a goblin, it counterattacks, but does not actually kill it.

If I were the president of the Academy, I would say this.

-Students are the ones who will become heroes anyway. Even if you start a fight with a goblin, the goblin won’t touch the students. Do you know anything? If you really look for it like that, will you find the goblin? LOL!

If it works, it’s great, if it doesn’t, no.

Feeling like scratching a lottery ticket that someone else bought you, the ‘special rule’ of a treasure hunt is to report immediately if you find a goblin, or you will receive some benefit just by finding a goblin and passing on the correct information.

There are a lot of people targeting goblins right now.

“It’s a loan.”

“…Ah. Student Lee Seon, it’s been a while.”

Before I knew it, student council president Yoon I-seon appeared in front of me with quite a few books waiting to be borrowed.

“What are you thinking, why are you so blank? Well, did you think that my seat broke while eating with me?”

“If you were wondering where to go to eat next time?”

“Where are you going?”

“Shall we go eat beef?”

“Someone I know said that the reason men buy beef is because they have ulterior motives.”

“We are lobbying in advance to ask for a good look at Yoon Yi-seon when she becomes a hero in the future.”

“With Korean beef?”

“Korean beef is good.”

I received Yoon Iseon’s book and placed it on the scanner.

“…Huh?”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Student Lee Seon, isn’t the research topic about mana this time?”

“Yes. This time, I’m going to research something different.”

The books that Yun I-seon brought to be loaned were all about our music, or ‘Korean traditional music.’

“Is it because you are interested in Korean traditional music, or is it because you are trying to develop some new ability through it?”

“Both. There’s one more thing.”

Yi-seon Yoon took out her smartphone and showed me a video.

“Iseon Lee a student?”

“My parents majored in Korean traditional music, so I also learned a lot of Korean traditional music.”

“Do you know how to play a traditional Korean instrument?”

“I specialize in gayageum. …Teacher, do you like Korean traditional music?”

“Me? Um…”

When it comes to Korean traditional music, all I remember is not being able to pass the exam because I couldn’t play the danso when I was young.

Or, I just remember going to a Korean traditional music performance for a liberal arts class report and dozing off in the middle.

“I specialize in Western music. Acoustic guitar.”

“…unexpected.”

“What is surprising? Isn’t every man capable of playing an acoustic guitar?”

“Don’t you usually play the harp rather than the acoustic guitar?”

Also, this damn Gukbong light novel.

“Because I like classics. If you look at things like old college song festivals, bands come out and play guitars and synths.”

“That was a really long time ago. It seems like you don’t really listen to music. Or foreign rock?”

“…I don’t know the lyrics well, but for now. Do you know this song?”

I took out the earphones from my bag, plugged them into my smartphone, and played some music.

“What is this? Hip hop?”

“No. Rock ballad. It’s a song by a famous American singer. Do you know it?”

“Um… I’m sorry. I’ve never heard a song like this before.”

“Then what are you listening to these days?”

“It’s the Jwibulnori of the Obanggaksi troupe.”

“……Please search for a moment.”

It played right away.

And I was shocked.

‘What kind of K-POP idol did I know?’

All five idols were dancing while wearing hanbok.

If the psychological impact was less, it was fortunate that it was an idol-like outfit made based on hanbok, not traditional hanbok or everyday hanbok.

Still, it’s a bit weird for an idol to dance to the sound of several drums instead of the sound of a drum.

‘Let’s not take music with us.’

When I return to my world, if anyone asks me about music, I think it would be best to just keep quiet.

“How do you feel? He’s my favorite idol.”

“The song is good, but the costumes are a bit…very sublime.”

“Isn’t this pretty good? I’m also wearing stockings. If you see these guys in hip-hop outfits, you’ll be very shocked, right?”

“Is this an outfit that awakens the scholar inside me?”

“Yes.”

Yoon I-seon showed the Obangaksi troupe doing hip-hop while holding the microphone while wearing almost 17+ outfits.

That outfit.

It was a torn hanbok.

“Not all sins can be forgiven just because of the hanbok.”

“Actually, it got caught in review because of that. However, some people say it is a reinterpretation of Hanbok.”

“Wait a minute, is the song…?”

I feel a familiar rhythm and beat somewhere.

As I traced the beat with my fingers and tried to remember it, it was a beat I felt like I had heard before.

“Is this a song?”

“Yes. Hwimori.”

“…I know the Hwimori rhythm.”

“This is a rap created with that theme. It is also a song that has become more controversial in the hip-hop scene because it contains full English for the first time in almost 10 years.”

“English is included in hip-hop?”

“Yes. Since around 2010, there has been a wave of change in the hip-hop scene. I rapped with words made up of Korean words and just did that. Although I am a lot freer now.”

“Huh….”

The more I listen, the more my hands and feet shrink and it feels like something is stabbing my lungs.

‘A world where the Hwimori rhythm dominates the world’s hip-hop scene. ‘This world is crazy, but it’s still crazy.’

Throw away the music.

If we take the music of this world back to the original world, the paradigm of the Korean traditional music world will definitely change, but for that to happen, we cannot see five curmudgeonly grandmothers from the eight provinces of the country disrupting American concert halls.

-Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the Hell-Encounter-Say! Dis, is, do—————nem–!!

-You damn forsythia and ten longevity bastards!

…I’ll see it at least once.

‘As expected, I like the story.’

It’s a good story to go back and say it’s a trip to another world, Godhanminguk, but it’s much better to just keep various stories in your head.

“Why are you doing that?”

“…No. I felt dizzy for a moment. So what kind of research are you going to do with Korean traditional music?”

“Um… that’s a secret.”

Yun I-sun seemed to have something in mind, and I didn’t have to delve too deeply into it.

“Thank you. Do you have time this weekend? Would you like to eat together on Sunday?”

“Sunday? Oh, I have annual leave on Saturday. Is that okay then?”

“Hmm… Saturday is a little difficult. The student council also has to support the event on Friday.”

“Does the student council have to go to school events like this?”

“Yes. A little… because I felt insulted.”

Yun Yi-seon’s voice lowered slightly.

She looked around once or twice, then took a deep sigh and picked up her book.

“The president told us to prepare a surprise event for the student council. In fact, they should prepare everything for the event and announce it under the name of the student council.”

“What is it?”

“There is. …teacher. Teacher, where can’t we talk?”

“I don’t know who was talking, but I’m the kind of person who quietly lends books here.”

“This is it.”

Iseon Yun carefully took out something that looked like a poster from her bag.

“…….”

The content is ‘Goblin Hunting’, which I knew about yesterday through Baek Seol-hee and before talking to Yoon I-seon.

“Anyone who finds a goblin during a treasure hunt will receive all prizes for first place in each area’s treasure hunt?”

“100 million won, five days of holidays, and a free pass for the midterm exam.”

“……They say a goblin is coming?”

“Not at all. Honestly, isn’t this thoughtless and without a solution? What should I do if an accident occurs?”

Yun Yi-seon’s voice was a mixture of irritation and contempt.

“Doing it as if Lee Seon had presented it, and being hosted by the student council…”

“It means to be insulted. Young people held events without thinking. If the academy officially holds an event like this, it will be criticized, but if it is held by the student council, the higher-ups in the academy will not be criticized.”

“And what if the goblin really appears?”

“That’s right. If they show up, there’s a fuss, and if they don’t, there’s a fuss. But…”

Yi-seon Yoon put the books into her bag with a helpless smile.

“Personally, I hope the goblin appears, but I hope he doesn’t appear.”

“What does that mean?”

“When a goblin appears, it means that a heinous crime has occurred somewhere, such as a person dying or a devil appearing.”

“…….”

“There is one thing I want to ask the goblin personally when I meet him, but I don’t want to meet him when he is executing a villain.”

“What do you want to ask when we meet?”

“……That.”

After Yoon Yi-seon finished packing her bag, she narrowed her eyes at me and put her index finger to her lips.

“Keep it a secret, even from the teacher!”

“…….”