episode_0016

To be honest, I was a little surprised.

This is because the newly constructed academy building was much more amazing than I expected.

The huge Renaissance-style main building was reminiscent of the Duomo Cathedral in Florence.

Next to the main building of the academy was a tan-colored building that looked like a Schönbrunn palace. Is that a dormitory?

In the past, when I visited the academy under construction to look around the site, I didn’t think much of it, but when I looked around the place after it was completed, I was overwhelmed by its grandeur.

“Amazing.”

“It was built to give a feeling as similar as possible to the architecture of Grandis, Northmund’s hometown.”

“I see. GDO must have spent some budget.”

“Haha. This is a space where the history of mankind will begin anew, so we shouldn’t skimp on budget.”

As I walked into the building, listening to Lee Deok-jae laughing and talking, I saw a huge sign installed at the entrance.

[Ellum Ability Development Academy] A signboard that reads ELADA (Ellum Ability Development Academy).

“… .”

Come to think of it, in the original work, it was named ” Private Sejong Hunter Academy” after Sejong City, the main setting.

But now because of my intervention. Sejong Academy became Elada.

I felt a little embarrassed seeing my name included in the academy name.

When I looked around, I saw a small sign under the signboard that said, “Established with GDO support.”

GDO (Global Defense Organization) also refers to the international defense organization.

In the two years since the day of the cataclysm, the world has undergone great changes. Countless countries collapsed, gates sporadically appeared, pushing monsters into this world, and gunshots and gunfire echoed through the streets every day.

Meanwhile, GDO is a global national organization established to protect humanity from attacks by monsters.

It sounds good at first glance, but at first glance, it seems like it was established to control me, or more accurately, to prevent me from belonging to any one country.

An organization created in each country to recognize the value of the awakened people with special abilities that are gradually appearing and to prevent the people who will educate and control the awakened people from being influenced by any one country.

Therefore, all people with special abilities belong to this international defense organization, not to the state.

It is a mechanism that did not exist in the original, but it can be said to be one of the things that were changed due to my intervention.

I also became a member of GDO and was in a position to receive salary from the organization, but it was not a particularly bad condition for me because I did not want to be tied to one country. In addition, this academy also belongs to GDO.

Still, I was very fortunate to be able to establish an academy near Seoul, Korea. To be honest, setting up an academy here almost failed.

This is because the United States, China, Russia, and Europe all wanted to host academies in their territories.

It’s a natural reaction. Establishing an academy in their territory is symbolic and means that awakened people can quickly mobilize from a short distance in the event of an emergency, which is something that is absolutely difficult to give up in terms of national security.

In addition, the enormous response from the people that their government will receive if their country hosts the country is a bonus.

Due to the strong influence of the United States, which was giving a large budget to GDO, the establishment of an academy in Korea almost failed, but through compromise and compromise, the original setting was barely maintained.

It was a goal that was barely achieved after each country promised to quickly respond to emergencies by installing a teleportation magic circle inside the academy.

Politics is difficult, really.

Now that I think about it, Lee Deok-jae and Lee Min-ha, who are behind me, were also part of GDO.

As if the Korean government was secretly moving behind the scenes, its affiliation was transferred from the National Intelligence Service to the International Defense Organization.

On the good side, you could say that I filled my inner circle with people I know, and on the bad side, you could say that I’m still under surveillance.

But it doesn’t really matter now. I’m not trying to do anything particularly strange, and my actions won’t cause any problems.

There is probably nothing more than a rumor that a student intentionally harasses a student by bombarding him with penalty points if he does not like it.

“Um… .”

As I stepped inside, the light passing through the colorful stained glass caught my eye.

A huge, high arched ceiling that looks as if it could have been painted on Michelangelo’s Creation. Antique stone stairs made of marble, and crystal lights like chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.

It was a grand lobby that could easily be called Hogwarts.

But there was something that caught my eye more than those things.

The reason why you feel like scratching the back of your head as soon as you see it is because it stands proudly in the center of this huge lobby.

“… .”

It was a huge dragon statue that seemed to be five meters tall. A dragon statue holding a staff in one hand and a huge great sword raised high in the sky.

My mouth dropped open at the sight and I ended up clearing my throat.

“Hahaha do you like it?”

Murderous intent bloomed in me and I felt the urge to hit Deokjae Lee on the head. Isn’t this… putting too much gold on your face?

Moreover, the appearance of the stone statue was very different from that of my dragon. Rather than looking like a lizard, isn’t this a Western-style dragon with full wings?

Today I learned for the first time that when the level of putting people on airplanes goes too far, it is not just shameful or shameful, it is truly upsetting.

Besides, I think the academy students who see this statue will be very disappointed when they see my true appearance.

─A. I am disappointed in the principal. It’s so different from the stone statue. It’s a complete fraud.

─Isn’t it just a lizard, not a dragon? I will drop out. I can’t get an education in a place like this.

“… .”

No, this went too far.

I shook my head vigorously to shake off the strange delusion in my mind.

“… Who planned this statue? The person who proposed the idea of erecting a stone statue in this main hall.”

“Yes? Don’t like it? We made it much bigger and grander than what stands in New York’s Central Park and London’s Piccadilly Station.”

“It’s not a problem at that level… .”

ha… .

Come to think of it, my statues were erected all over the world. For nearly two years, I traveled around the world hunting monsters, and citizens from each country expressed their gratitude and raised donations to erect statues here and there.

I had such a busy life that I didn’t have time to pay much attention to it, but now that I’ve heard it, it’s starting to bother me.

“… No, it’s okay. Let’s keep looking.”

Okay, let’s be shameless about coming this far. If you think about it, there is nothing wrong with the fact that people all over the world worship and admire me.

Isn’t this something I was determined to do from the moment I thought I would credit my awakening to this ability? Let’s be shameless. If you offer to paint your face with gold, just accept it willingly.

I cleared my throat and looked around the academy.

“This is the auditorium. Two weeks later, on the day of the entrance ceremony, Mr. Northmund will give a speech from that podium. Oh, I’ve already prepared the speech paper, so I’ll give it to you later.”

“… .”

“This is a gym. The walls are made of special materials so that they can be used for physical education and skill training, so they are not easily broken. The wall alone is over 2.5 meters thick and will not collapse even if it is attacked by a missile from the outside.”

“… .”

“This is a restaurant. It is designed to accommodate up to 450 people at a time, so cadets can eat there. The diet was prepared by renowned nutritionists dispatched from GDO… .”

“… .”

“This is a dormitory… .”

“This is a cafeteria… .”

“This place… .”

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After the academy tour, which lasted about four hours, I was finally able to get into the car on the way home.

At first, I was a little excited as I was guided through the academy’s magnificent historic site-like appearance, as if I was on a field trip, but I gradually became tired.

This academy is too wide. Wouldn’t the ship be larger than the site of a famous, prestigious university that everyone would know just by hearing its name?

Additionally, it was a bit of a maze-like structure, so first-time visitors felt lost and wandering.

“So, how many students will be admitted to Elada for the first time? It would be nice to be able to see a list or something.”

I lay down in the backseat of the luxury sedan and muttered to myself while doing some simple stretching to relieve the stiffness.

Unlike when he had the body of a dragon, polymorphing into a human had the disadvantage that his physical abilities also followed that of a human.

My job is to be the principal of this academy. Therefore, he was a polymorph with a somewhat experienced and dignified appearance, but his flaw was that he got tired more easily than when he was a Yongin.

“Yes. Here it is.”

As I was relieving fatigue by circulating mana through my body, Lee Min-ha took out a file album from her briefcase and held it out to me.

I took out the documents from the file and looked at the paper. The long-awaited number of first enrollees is… .

“There are 127 enrolled students. I think the academy is too big compared to the numbers.”

I also felt that the number of people with special abilities that had arisen over the past two years was too small. Is it because it’s still early days?

Considering that the number of students enrolled at Sejong Academy in 『Ki.Si.S.E.』 was around 300 per year, the number was too small.

“Yes. As of now, this is the number of awakened psychics discovered in GDO. To be exact, there are 131 students, but those 4 were not yet ready for admission and were not admitted as freshmen this year.”

what. Won’t he come in next semester? Deokjae Lee adds,

“In addition, Ellada is also the most important facility in GDO. When the semester starts, there will probably be far more organization officials than students. From what I heard, there is also discussion about moving the organization’s headquarters here.”

“I refuse that. I will absolutely refuse.”

This academy should be mine. The headquarters of the International Defense Organization is coming here? It is an absolute refusal.

As I felt the car start with the exhaust sound and go down the Academy hill, I flipped through the pages of the document Lee Min-ha had given me.

The first name listed is China’s Li Jiyuan. He is a Chinese person with extraordinary abilities who has the honor of being the first awakened person.

This is a guy I met in person in China, where I was invited while I was busy traveling around the world exterminating monsters.

‘Obviously, in the original novel, Korea’s Han Se-jun, not this guy, was the first awakened person… . It doesn’t really matter, but it’s not important either.’

The manifested ability is Dragon Hand. It was a transformation-type ability that transformed both arms into dragon hands. The nails are sharp and long, and sturdy scales cover both arms.

The last time we met, he mentioned that he saw me on TV and thought he wanted to be like me, and that night he woke up.

‘Well, it was said that the special ability in this work is greatly influenced by the state of mind at the time of manifestation.’

In short, it is like this. If a child looks at the blue sky and says, “I want to fly in that sky!”, and his or her special ability is awakened at that moment, there is a high probability that the child will awaken his or her flight-related ability.

On the other hand, if the manifestation of this ability comes at the moment when the person thinks, “, I’m starving, is there anything to eat?

You really become a useless trash awakener. Won’t I probably end up being made fun of for being someone else’s drink snack for the rest of my life?

Therefore, in order to give children the best ability possible, an educational method that is close to child abuse, forcing children to think only about related things 24 hours a day, has become popular around the world.

However, since the awakening rate of this ability is so low, I don’t know how many people will actually benefit from the training… .

In general, it often awoke while sleeping, so ordinary body strengthening abilities were the most common.

With that in mind, I looked down and searched for a familiar name.

‘Han Sejun. found.’

Sejun Han. He is the person who later becomes the president of the Korea Hunter Association and is one of Korea’s S-class hunters.

The awakening ability releases magical power. It was the ability to emit red magic power from the body and use that magic power to strengthen the body or weapons.

An extremely versatile and useful ability as it can strengthen any substance that comes into contact with the body.

‘Besides, this guy is the father of Jang Soo-ri, the heroine of 『Kisi.Sen』.’

This guy later goes by the nickname Jeokgwi, marries Jang Ah-hyun of Taesung Group, and has Jang Su-ri, the heroine of the story, as his daughter.

I know him to have a just and confrontational personality, so it would be a good idea to contact him first when the semester starts.

With that in mind, I turned the page.

‘Ahyeon Jang. He also had an awakening just like the original. But the abilities are different from the original?’

In the original novel, Jang A-hyeon had ordinary physical enhancement abilities, but Jang A-hyeon’s ability described in this document was a light bullet. The ability to shoot beads of light using magical power.

I thought maybe I was awakened after watching [Grand Flash Rain] in Seoul.

Along with Han Se-jun, he was a talented person with a promising future. She is a Jaewon (才媛) who rose to the rank of S-class hunter along with Han Se-jun thanks to her common physical enhancement abilities.

Since she has a good ability called Gwangtan and a huge power called Taesung Group, she will be able to become much stronger in this world.

‘rest of it…’

In the original work, the names of the first generation hunters are not mentioned much and they do not appear in the story except for Han Se-jun and Jang A-hyeon, so I focused on their interesting abilities.

‘Jimmy Ramirez. A person with the ability to speak.’

‘Alexander Ivanovich. Lightning ability.’

‘Muriel Müller. Shadow control.’

‘Nakajima Yue. Psychopathy. ‘I’ve heard of this name.’

In the story, when the relationship between Han Si-woo and Jang Soo-ri became distant for a while, Han Se-jun Inakajima, who was at a loss after seeing Jang Soo-ri crying alone, called in and asked Jang A-hyeon if she should erase her memories of him, and then got slapped on the back. That was just the mention.

The rest of the list was of ordinary ability and I kept flipping through the papers looking for one name.

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“Why isn’t there one?”

“Yes? What do you mean?”

“No, I’m just talking to myself.”

As I drove, I nodded to Deokjae Lee, who was looking at me through the rearview mirror, and continued to look through the documents.

Even though I looked all the way to the end of the list, the name I was looking for didn’t exist.

‘Yoon Shia is missing.’

The name of Yoon Sia, the mother of Han Si-woo, the main character of 『Kiss: A Sense』, was not on the list.

What were the reasons for not being able to enroll this semester? Or maybe he hasn’t awakened this ability yet? However, it was mentioned in the story that he was a classmate with Han Se-jun and Jang A-hyeon… .

Her ability is future vision. He possesses the ability to see the future, but there is no way that the owner of such deceptive abilities would not have caught the attention of GDO.

Could something else have happened? I felt a little anxious.

Because of my intervention, this world has already changed greatly from the original. Could it be that she suffered another unfortunate accident due to the butterfly effect? Maybe you’re not from this world anymore… .

Or maybe GDO is intentionally hiding her identity from me. The value of the ability to see the future would be enormous.

“The name Yoon Sia is not on the list. Have you ever heard of it?”

“Do you know someone? First of all, there is a list of enrolled students, but let’s contact the headquarters and look for it. What is your relationship with him?”

“That’s… .”

I closed my mouth for a moment. How should I explain it?

Of course, it is not okay to reveal the original story like she is a character. In that case, it would be better to do it smoothly.

I think it would be okay if it was just a general statement that the energy was similar. Although we have never actually met.

“It’s nothing special, I once met a child named Yoon Si-ah, and her energy is similar to mine, so I expected her to awaken, but she doesn’t appear on the list.”

“Ah. If that’s the case, please wait a moment.”

Lee Min-ha makes a call on her cell phone on behalf of Deok-jae Lee, who is driving.

Future vision was an ability I really wanted to acquire, so I was making her my top priority for securing it, but something went wrong.

As I looked at the scenery outside the window and thought about various things for a while, Lee Min-ha finally opened her mouth with a slightly dark expression, as if the contact had ended.

” As Mr. Northmund said, a person named Yoon Si-ah also had an awakening of her abilities, but I received an answer that she was judged unsuitable for admission due to her abilities bordering on incompetence.”

“What?”

“It is said that there is no particular change in Ms. Yoon Shia’s abilities other than red blood cells being deformed and their number increasing, similar to that of floating polycythemia. Do you want to enroll this person in Ellada? Anyway, since I’m an awakened person, it’s possible if you say so… .”

“No… that… .”

What happened? Yoon Shia is not a future poem? Plus, it has red blood cell-related abilities. Did this child suffer from some kind of chronic illness?

So what should I do then… ?

Out of frustration, I folded my arms and fell into trouble.

“Still, I heard that a person named Sia Yoon is quite a nuisance at the GDO Seoul branch.”

“… ?”

*

In a room that resembles an interrogation room.

A woman was lying face down on the table in the room.

There was a sandwich and orange juice on the table that appeared to be hers, but she just lay face down without even touching it.

How long had she been completely deprived of food and drink? Her face, visible between her prone arms, was very thin, and her messy hair was shining dully, reflecting the light on the ceiling.

Tap tap… .

The sound of footsteps echoed through the hallway, and an agent wearing an International Defense Organization badge walked toward the interrogation room where she was holding a thick folder.

The agent looked inside through the interrogation room’s magic mirror, and when his eyes fell on the untouched sandwich, he sighed, opened the door, and went inside.

As soon as she heard the squeak, she jumped up and ran towards the agent standing at the entrance.

“Please let me meet you! please! Please!”

He grabbed the agent’s arm and shook it so hard that he dropped the folder.

Shuffle. The documents fell and scattered on the floor.

“First of all… Calm down and sit down.”

The agent said in a slightly annoyed voice. But she just begged him as if she couldn’t hear anything.

“Please Mr. .”

“We can meet up, so just sit down!”

She flinched for a moment at the firm voice, then returned to her seat and sat down weakly on the metal chair.

The agent who was watching the scene sighed heavily again, picked up the fallen documents, and sat down on the chair across from her.

The agent suddenly held out a filed folder in front of her.

Her name, Yoon Sia, was written on the front of the yellow folder, and she looked down at the document with trembling eyes and raised her hand to turn the folder.

Inside was a document that looked like a self-introduction with her identification photo attached, and a red stamp that said [Admission Permission] stamped on top of it.

As she looked down at the seal, her shoulders began to tremble slightly.

“That… then… Now I can meet you. Ehehe… . We can really meet… .”

Something runs down her cheek and pools on her chin.

‘Are you crying?’

The agent felt a feeling close to fear for a moment. This was the kind of fear one feels when encountering something difficult to understand.

There is something not normal about this woman.

Her notoriety was very famous in the GDO Seoul branch. Didn’t he come to the GDO branch and make a fuss, asking to be allowed to meet Elm Northmund? Aren’t they breaking into Elada while it’s under construction?

Even the employees who initially responded well were experiencing difficulties as her obsession became more severe.

She was very famous around here because she kept coming and begging to be allowed to see her uncle.

Her eccentricity, which had calmed down a few times after being detained at the police station, began to resume recently, saying she seemed to have awakened.

I asked him to take a magic power test to see what was going on, and it was true that he had awakened. The only problem was that he was close to incompetent.

Because of his obsession, he was deemed unsuitable for group living, and even his admission to Ellada was rejected.

‘Yoon Sia, 20 years old. Two years ago, he lost his entire family during the Seoul Gate incident and was transferred to a nearby daycare facility. It is presumed that he became obsessed with being saved by Northmund in the past.’

It was a common occurrence. In fact, things like Yoon Sia’s were occurring frequently around the world.

When someone comes and saves your life in the midst of despair after losing everything, it is only natural to have feelings of admiration for that savior.

However, if you start to become obsessed with something beyond admiration or love, it becomes a problem.

In the case of Yoon Sia, it can be seen that she began to become obsessed with Northmund, who was her only savior in a desperate situation where she lost her entire family.

“Originally, you were not in a position to enter Ellada. But there was a call from Mr. Northmund not long ago. I’d better say thank you to him when I see him later.”

“Ah… Did you remember me?”

“Isn’t that so? I see you mentioned your name. Admission is in two weeks, so prepare properly.”

You can go home now. With these words, the agent handed her additional documents and a voucher that looked like an admission guide and stood up.

As she walked out the door of the interrogation room, what she saw was her sobbing and hugging the documents he had handed over.

“… You also remembered me. I also thought about you every day. All day long, both when I was sleeping and when I was awake, I only thought about you. lol… And not long ago, when I wanted to become like you, you gave me strength. thank you so much. I just wanted to say that I’m really grateful to that guy… .”

‘I thought I wanted to become Northmund, but it’s a pity that my awakened abilities are only like that.’

With that in mind, the agent left the interrogation room and walked down the hallway.

In the empty hallway, the sound of her whimpering continued for a long time behind the sound of his footsteps.