Chapter 150: The Angel Who Meets His Junior (7)

Episode 150: The Angel Who Meets His Junior (7)

The atmosphere was intense.

Klein’s cold blue eyes burned with disdain, the Magical Studies Department assistant teachers couldn’t hide their contempt, their faces openly twisted with scorn.

As befitting the true successors of the old magic tower, they despised the Mooncat Tribe, known for being thieves and robbers.

“Ah, what the hell are those looks.”

And Hongwol wasn’t the kind of timid girl to just take such contempt lying down.

“It looks like you want to have a go at it? Professor and teachers of the Magical Studies Department?”

“…Let me make it clear, so there’s no misunderstanding. We’re not just wary because Miss Hongwol is from the Mooncat Tribe.”

Klein continued to speak, still looking at Hongwol with cold eyes.

“We’re wary of you because we don’t know how you managed to break through the barrier and infiltrate this exam site.”

“Ah, what am I supposed to do about the fact that your barrier’s so weak? It was a piece of cake getting through.”

Hongwol didn’t back down at all, never one to yield. She stretched as if bored and muttered.

(TL Note: Ah I was confused on how to translate this, but there is an idiom called ‘강강약강’ or ‘strong-strong-weak-weak’ It means being strong against the strong and also strong against the weak. In essence, what the text meant was that Hongwol is a person with a strong self-assertion. Someone who wouldn’t hesitate to call the police on a person that’s stealing, even if that person has a lot of power or if that person is just really poor. Sorry for the long note…)

“To begin with, your blood relative is participating in this exam, and for you to be sneaking into the exam site like this…”

“Ah, that one? Just disqualify her.”

“Eonni-nim!”

Klein was finally at a loss for words at Hongwol’s unbelievably brazen attitude.

“Miss Hongwol, you should be careful.”

“I’ll take care of myself. Yeah, yeah.”

“No, I’m not talking about your safety. I’m talking about the nature of your relationship (with Leffrey).”

Klein’s voice was cold. But there was a slightly twisted smile on his lips.

“The way a feline predator tracks its prey. In some ways, it’s similar to ‘stalking’.”

“…What are you spouting about all of a sudden?”

“Casually appearing whenever Leffrey is in trouble.”

Hongwol’s expression paled. Klein, finding that change in expression amusing, took a step closer and whispered,

So that only Hongwol could hear.

“To spend most of your day watching someone is a very abnormal behavior. Miss Hongwol. It’s something to be despised, to be feared.”

“I don’t… understand… what you’re… talking about…”

“I believe you know very well.”

Leffrey looked on at Klein and Hongwol’s conversation with an expression that said he didn’t understand anything.

‘It’ll be troublesome if these two start fighting… Hongwol has a lot of pride, so she won’t back down. And Professor Klein, as a professor, can’t back down either since he has to discipline the student.’

If that happened, he would just have to send Hongwol away and apologize to Professor Klein on her behalf. Leffrey had even made that kind of plan.

And then Klein’s voice was heard.

“Now, then, you’ll need to sincerely apologize for sneaking into this exam site and for making such insulting remarks toward our department.”

“…S-Sorry.”

Leffrey was surprised.

To think that Hongwol actually apologized.

“Your words are too short and informal.”

“I apologize…”

“Good. Very well. I’ll let it slide this time.”

After accepting Hongwol’s apology, Klein looked at Leffrey with eyes that seemed to hold some pity.

“Leffrey, you must be having a hard time.”

“Ahahaha…”

“There are so many who seek you. So many…”

Klein’s gaze shifted to the examinees who were lying down with their hands behind their back, doing a no hand push-ups. His eyes were cold once again.

“Using children who aren’t even adults yet to atone for their own sins.”

But on his lips,

A twisted smile remained.

“Just when will those old monsters who rule the secular world realize how truly disgusting they are?”

Looking at the examinees who flinched at those words, Klein continued as if it were nothing,

“Just what kind of sins have they committed in their life, to be so terrified of Heaven’s judgment and hell…..”

Professor Klein turned around,

And asked Leffrey with a friendly smile.

“Leffrey, you decide.”

“D-Decide what?”

“Whether to give these young agents another chance to take the next test, or to send them all back to their masters.”

Young agents.

Somewhat shocked by those words, Leffrey looked again at the children being punished.

“Agents..…”

“They purchase children with the best superhuman talent from all over the world and raise them to be their pawns.”

“…That process must be cruel?”

“It’s cruel and miserable. They say it leaves behind scars that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, children who can’t sleep because of such nightmares.”

Nightmares that can never be forgotten. Children who can’t sleep because of those nightmares.

Leffrey parted his lips, searching for the right words, then managed to ask one more question.

“And if they fail…”

“That’s not something for you to worry about.”

“Still, please tell me. What usually happens?”

Klein heaved a deep sigh and,

Then continued in a quiet voice.

“To fail the exam means they lack talent. And to lack talent means that they’ve outlived their usefulness. And to outlive their usefulness means…”

Hearing this, Leffrey suddenly remembered something.

‘Come to think of it, that’s right. Even in the entrance exam I took, there were children who were desperately trying to pass the test.’

The Silver Shoes, which he was wearing, were silently warning him.

[The Silver Shoes are tracking the flow of karma.]

That if these children were to be accepted to the Central Superhuman Academy, then there’s a chance that the world’s karma would rapidly darken.

‘…I have a hunch why.’

In the future that Leffrey had experienced, these children all fell to corruption. Perhaps the Silver Shoes had sensed the possibility of them being corrupted by Helki.

And these children were the pawns of those who ruled the world. As far as Leffrey knew, those powerful rulers are monsters, villains who have lost their human hearts.

And these children were those who obeyed the orders of such villains.

If they entered as students of the Central Superhuman Academy, who knows what evil deeds they might commit under their orders.

If these children were allowed to pass, the world would surely become closer to darkness. It meant moving closer to destruction.

The lives of dozens of children versus the survival of this world. Naturally, an angel had to choose the survival of the world.

But even so…

“But I’m their senior.”

Leffrey looked at the boys and girls who seemed to have given up.

“Leffrey, this… is a decision you’ll regret.”

“They haven’t failed the exam yet. Let them all take the final test. Fairly.”

“But.”

Klein tried to stop him, his voice desperate. But Leffrey just shook his head.

Because he was their senior.

It didn’t matter if it was the Central Superhuman Academy.

He had suffered unimaginable wounds in his dark past, wounds that could never heal, and he had learned how to live with them, and in that sense, he was a senior to those children.

“I am their Senior Leffrey.”

Leffrey looked at them and smiled brightly. The boys and girls looked at Leffrey’s angelic smile in disbelief, then began to stand up hesitantly.

“Juniors, I’ll see you all at the entrance ceremony.”

Thus, the angel met his juniors.

* * *

“Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!”

Nibble nibble nibble—This time Leffrey screamed because he was bitten by Hongwol.

“Boy! You’re an idiot! Why didn’t you disqualify those lots!”

“If they go back after failing, those kids could get seriously hurt…! ”

“Just for such sympathy…”

Hongwol, knowing that he had saved a cat that was about to be killed because of that same foolish compassion, let Leffrey go with a purr.

“…Sorry, did it hurt? ”

“It did.”

Lick—lick—Hongwol licked the back of Leffrey’s hand. They say ‘Giving with one hand and taking with the other’ is used in situations like this. But it felt a little weird for a grown girl to be licking his hand…

(TL Note: I translated it to an English idiom. However, the original Korean proverb translates to ‘Giving sickness and then giving medicine. (병주고 약주고 하는)’ that means to scold someone and then offer comfort.)

“St-stop it.”

Leffrey had no choice but to gently push her away.

“Oh, your cheeks are warm. Do you have a fever?”

Hongwol realized that Leffrey was embarrassed. The corners of her eyes curved slightly.

“I don’t have a fever.”

“I don’t think so? Let me check.”

And with that, she pressed her forehead against his. However, since Hongwol was a little taller than Leffrey, it ended up with Leffrey in a position that looked like he was being hugged by her.

“Wol, Wol… I can’t breathe…!”

“Hmm? What’s that? I can’t hear you well.”

Leffrey was once again on the verge of becoming Leffrey, the Fallen Angel. And as always, the one who saves him from this situation is…

“…Are you in heat again? Honestly, it’s unsightly.”

…Another girl.

It was Soya, who was trying to push Hongwol away. She was a friend who lived in the same cathedral as Leffrey.

Soya tried to push Hongwol away with all her might, but due to the difference in their physique, Hongwol didn’t budge at all.

“You brute, with nothing but muscles…”

“Nothing but muscles? Actually, there’s quite a big difference between you and me.”

“Different? Different…?”

“Boobs, that is.”

“B-boobs??”

Leffrey, listening to the two girls bicker, finally realized how he had been resolving these situations.

‘Come to think of it, the reason I couldn’t stop my juniors from fighting was right here.’

How did Leffrey stop these situations?

When he thought about it, there was only one way.

Angel’s Secret Technique, Chapter 3. Leffrey, the Tearful Angel.

However, as a senior, he needed to show a cool image, so there was no way he could use Tearful Angel Leffrey.

‘I have to find another way.’

He had to stop using Leffrey, the Tearful Angel. It might work a few times, but it wasn’t a method that would work forever.

“Boobs, what exactly are you implying? I don’t know what you meant by that, but it really sounds like a black magic hating comment.” There could be a black mage who has… amazing boobs. Unlike someone.

“I’d be pretty disappointed if you misunderstood it like that. There could be a black mage who has amazing boobs. Unlike someone.”

Soya just looked at Hongwol without saying anything.

Her expression was frozen cold.

“You’re a being that shouldn’t even exist…!”

Just as another fight was about to break out between the two girls, Leffrey muttered in a quiet voice.

“Are you two fighting again?”

An ice-cold voice. And a hard, expressionless face. A side of Leffrey that he had never shown to the girls before.

Seeing this, the two girls were literally shocked.

‘Acting Angel’s secret technique: The Half-dragon Angel, Leffrey…!’

A new technique that mimicked the expression of a certain girl who wasn’t here, the half-dragon Yumari.

“…I’m tired of this now.”

Leffrey, in a sullen voice, turned around. And to make it obvious that he was sulking, he didn’t even look at them.

“L-Leffrey?”

“It’s all your fault!”

Only when he turned into Leffrey, the Sulking Angel, did the two girls stop fighting.

Leffrey sighed inwardly, then looked at the girls and said,

“Don’t fight, it makes me sad…”

“But, she made fun of me first…”

“I just stated a fact, how is that making fun of her.”

“Hmph.”

“Hiss.”

“Then don’t follow me if you’re just going to keep fighting.”

Seeing the two girls anxiously following him, it seemed that the Sulking Angel was quite an effective method.

‘But this method won’t always work. Why aren’t they getting along even though we defeated the Demon King’s avatar last time?’

Still, seeing them bicker like that…

He felt like they had become a little closer.

If it had been before, they would have been radiating killing intent, but now they were just bickering like frenemies.

‘But it’s not enough…’

Leffrey, feeling a little guilty, led the two girls back to the cathedral.

And as he looked around, he noticed that the snow had stopped falling and new buds were starting to sprout. Spring was beginning to arrive.