Transfer Student Neon(3)

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In the third floor hallway of Gaeam High School, Sung-hwan glanced back at Neon, who was quietly following behind him.

“…”

After giving a simple explanation about the class location and school prohibitions in the teachers’ office, they were now walking down the third floor hallway in time for the morning assembly.

Watching Neon, who was still looking around as if everything was fascinating, Sung-hwan could roughly guess about her.

‘It’s not certain, but…’

Neon is probably a student who has never attended school before.

Sung-hwan thought this as he watched Neon looking around.

Of course, it could be that she’s so fascinated because Gaeam Hunter Training High School is a special school, but the school building itself shouldn’t be much different from other ordinary high schools.

So, seeing how she was so fascinated by the school building itself earlier and now, Sung-hwan couldn’t help but think this way.

‘Of course, I still don’t understand what the principal said.’

Although he still didn’t understand the meaning of the advice the principal had given earlier, if Neon was a child who had never experienced going to school before…

Even though he couldn’t be certain, if there was a possibility, there was one thing Sung-hwan had to do.

‘Help her adapt well!’

What was the reason Sung-hwan himself had switched from being an A-rank hunter fighting on the frontlines of gates to becoming a school teacher?

Wasn’t it because he wanted to guide children on the right path?

‘Since this is a hunter training high school, the children’s pride is quite strong…’

Of course, since many of the students here were from good families, they all had strong pride in many ways, but that’s why Sung-hwan himself had to exert his efforts.

Even if Neon was a child from a poor or unfortunate family, it was also Sung-hwan’s job to help her get along well with everyone and not shrink back too much.

Step–.

So Sung-hwan stopped in front of the front door of Class 1-5, which they had finally reached, and turned to look at Neon.

“We’ve arrived now, are you ready?”

“Ah, yes!”

“Alright, Neon, you might look like a foreigner at first glance, so the kids might feel a bit awkward at first, but you’ll be able to make friends quickly. So don’t worry.”

Perhaps his words had helped a little, Neon’s face looked determined as she nodded her head briefly.

Truly, looking at that face again, Sung-hwan couldn’t help but admire how pretty it was, but he soon turned his head again and placed his hand on the front door.

Slide—

The front door of the classroom opens immediately after.

Then the sound of students chattering noisily inside the classroom vividly reached Sung-hwan.

Glancing back, he could see Neon nervously swallowing.

At that, Sung-hwan gestured for Neon to wait for a moment, then lightly tapped the door with the life guidance book he was holding to focus everyone’s attention.

“Alright, everyone, pay attention!”

Now it was time for Sung-hwan himself to exert his efforts.

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Na Juri was not in a good mood recently.

“…Haah.”

The reason she was sighing with a sullen expression in the classroom right now was because of this.

Therefore, the students sitting around her were all keeping their mouths shut with uncomfortable expressions, but that wasn’t something Juri herself cared about.

And if asked why she was in a bad mood, the reason was because of an incident that happened last Friday.

No, it wouldn’t be accurate to express this as an incident.

To be more precise, it was because of the memory of last Friday that had disappeared, leaving an unpleasant blank.

“What on earth was it…”

For some unknown reason, her memory from the uniform store onwards had disappeared as if someone had cut it out.

She wondered if she had fainted, but if that were the case, there would have been something wrong with her body.

Moreover, the part after the missing memory was normally connected to the subsequent memories, so Juri felt like she had had a bad dream.

Even when she asked her father, Na Tae-hyun, who was with her at the time, the answer she got was silence.

‘And that wasn’t all.’

On top of that, Juri had even received advice from her father, Tae-hyun, to learn to be more humble, so the shock she received when she heard those words was indescribable.

Since Tae-hyun usually never said harsh words to her, if he said something like that, surely something must have happened.

Juri was certain about that one thing, but unfortunately, being certain about it didn’t change anything.

Of course, how could Juri alone know anything when there was no answer from her father, who was the only one with her?

However, the reason she was still recalling the memories of that day even in this hopeless situation was because there was one thing left for Juri.

“If I could at least see that girl who remains in my memory, I might be able to know something…”

The one girl who uniquely remained in her memory just before it was cut off.

If she could only remember that girl with white hair strangely dyed, Juri felt like she could know something, but it was uncertain when such an opportunity would come.

She couldn’t just sit at the uniform store all day waiting because she had seen that girl there, so Juri grabbed her head that was starting to ache.

“Since she seemed to be a student… should I try sending people to search the nearby schools?”

Although it didn’t seem like Tae-hyun would allow such a thing in the first place, Juri seriously considered trying to spread her information network to the maximum if possible.

And as Juri was pondering if there were any other methods besides that, a sudden sound rang out.

Bang bang—!

“Alright, everyone, pay attention!”

At that sound, she raised her head to find that the homeroom teacher, Sung-hwan, had entered the classroom holding a life guidance book, though she didn’t know when he had arrived.

Then Sung-hwan walked to the podium with steady steps.

After placing the life guidance book on the podium, Sung-hwan briefly scanned the classroom and then opened his mouth with a light cough.

“Ahem! Before the morning assembly, as some of you may already know from the rumors last week, we have a transfer student joining our class today.”

“Oh, a transfer student?”

“Wow, it was true?”

“Is she outside now?”

The children burst into exclamations as soon as Sung-hwan finished speaking, with a collective “Woah.”

And amidst the children’s reactions, Juri also let out a small exclamation as she remembered something she had forgotten.

‘Come to think of it, they did say a transfer student was coming, didn’t they?’

It had been several days since she heard about it, so she had completely forgotten without realizing it.

But even though she recalled it now, Juri wasn’t particularly interested in the transfer student due to the cut-off memory of Friday that was currently swirling in her mind.

She was curious about who it might be, but that was about it. Rather than wanting to know more, she felt a stronger desire to find the lost memory of Friday right away.

So when Juri was about to continue her interrupted contemplation while half-listening to Sung-hwan’s following words.

“Then, transfer student? Come in and introduce yourself.”

Step—

Suddenly, snow-white hair dyed in various colors fluttered into a corner of Juri’s view.

“…!”

Hair that felt somehow familiar.

Juri reflexively raised her head as soon as she felt that sensation.

And should it be called fate? The person who entered Juri’s view as she raised her head was, ridiculously enough, the very girl who was the only one Juri remembered.

“Umm, ahem!”

The white-haired girl, who was the reason for her current worries, enters the classroom with awkward movements and clears her throat next to Sung-hwan.

Then, after seeming to clench and unclench her fist a few times, the girl soon raised her hand and greeted the students in the classroom.

“Um, hello. My name is Neon… I get a lot of misunderstandings because of my appearance, but I’m Korean even though I look like this, so please don’t misunderstand.”

The girl begins her self-introduction with an awkward smile and a stiff introduction to match.

The girl who introduced herself as Neon continued her self-introduction while tightly holding her hands together, perhaps feeling burdened by the students’ gazes fixed on her.

Of course, no student mocked Neon’s appearance.

After all, if they were in that position themselves, they would have been more nervous, not less.

Therefore, while all the students focused quietly on her self-introduction, marveling at Neon’s appearance, unfortunately, Juri couldn’t do so.

No, she couldn’t.

Juri couldn’t focus on Neon’s self-introduction and compared Neon with the memory in her head several times, wondering if she had seen wrong.

But would there be another person with an appearance like Neon’s in this defense city?

Seeing Neon’s appearance, which was exactly the same as the girl in her memory without a millimeter of difference, Juri swallowed a bitter laugh and quietly muttered.

“…I found her.”

She had ridiculously found the key to recovering her memory that she had been trying to find by any means necessary.

It really made her want to laugh bitterly, but in this situation that was so welcome, Juri focused her attention on Neon standing in front of her.

“I found her.”

On the rooftop of a building not far from Gaeam High School.

The voice of an oni tilting a bottle of alcohol also resonated simultaneously there.