episode_0059

“Fuck….”

“Hey, Mr. Kim! Shut up and hurry up and get some food!!”

“Hey!!! Stop playing around and fill up the soup quickly!!!”

“Student! Don’t be so picky. All the side dishes are gone. Get them from the back! ”

“Mr. Kim!!!! Drag that wild boar out!!!”

“Student!! Before you go, give Nureongi some food!!!”

[……You’re out of your mind.]

‘I really want to throw it all away.’

What kind of place is the kitchen?

For guests, the kitchen is simply a space where food is prepared.

A space where you combine ingredients and cook them to make food.

But for the people working in the kitchen, it means something different.

Each kitchen utensil is a weapon given to each person.

Food and spices are consumables that must be used differently at each moment.

They must complete their mission safely as fire, water, and ice rage across the land.

A mission called Order from a Customer.

As soon as one mission is completed, another one is given without a break, and the same intense process from before must be repeated.

Yes, that’s right.

The kitchen is a battlefield for them.

And now I, who thought I had nothing to do with it, am standing in the middle of that battlefield.

To explain this, we have to go back a day.

***

[So what should we do?]

‘What is it?’

The last day of vacation.

I was cleaning the dormitory right now.

Since there is no change in rank anyway, moving to a good dormitory is impossible.

You might wonder who would eat in a dormitory of the same class, but just in case, they were cleaning diligently.

[The question is what to do in the future.]

‘Should I choose the dormitory again? If I’m going to do it, I’ll do it here again.’

[Other than that, let’s talk about future goals. First of all, didn’t Ryu Kang-hyeok’s head break?]

‘Oh, that’s right. The build-up was really long.’

I even took a certification shot.

With this, the goal of the prologue is achieved early.

Since I had recently completed the registration of my abilities, there was nothing that could stand in my way.

‘First, let’s start with graduation. If I repeat a paycheck here, the work will be over.’

[Yeah. Since I’ve already started, I guess I should see it through to graduation.]

After graduation, you have two options.

Or join a guild run by hunters.

Apply to the military that has been reorganized into a volunteer system.

Since it is an academy run by the state, only the above options are possible.

Any other option is not possible unless there is a serious disqualification.

‘I’m good at frying chicken.’

[What a pity. You are a supernova of getting on and off.]

‘I can’t do both, so if it comes down to it, I’ll go as a cook.’

[Okay. Let’s use Hyeji’s father’s connections.]

You can create a specific goal after you graduate anyway.

I went to the store without any particular intention.

To buy alcohol and snacks to set the table for the last day of vacation.

I drank it yesterday to celebrate my return.

So today is the last day to commemorate.

I heard someone say, “You’re making up another excuse to drink alcohol,” but I just ignored it.

‘It’s actually closer to a mart than a convenience store, right?’

[There is also a separate convenience store. What is the difference?]

‘It’s regular work here. The convenience store has shifts.’

[That’s stupid. Why don’t you just get rid of the convenience stores and have the researchers run the stores?]

As the saying goes, if you look into an abyss, you too will be dyed by the abyss, and Peace is gradually becoming dyed by the professors.

What should I do? Should I handle it here? Should I kill him, Master?

Hold on. The Professor Slayer inside me and HAL.

The moment when you bring the items you want to buy to the checkout counter while appeasing your inner monsters and are about to pay.

“Student! This card doesn’t work?”

“…Huh?”

The card didn’t work.

I thought I had misheard, but the store owner swiped the card again as if it were real.

“…Just a moment.”

Suddenly, a notification rang in my eardrums that my card had been suspended.

I handed him another card, doubting my ears.

What I hear is the same cold mechanical sound as before.

I couldn’t understand it at all.

‘What??? I didn’t commit a crime this time???’

[……This time????]

Ignoring the floating piece of hook ripping, I handed over the cash I had been keeping in my wallet as emergency funds.

Only after I handed over all the cash did the store owner, who had been giving me a cold stare, start to smile warmly, a capitalist smile.

Of course, that smile quickly disappeared when I asked for the envelope as a service.

***

‘Can you give me a 20 won envelope?’

[That’s right. You? Hold on tight! You’re going to fall again!]

After a brief struggle, I finally received a box of torn paper.

To put it nicely, it’s a box.

It was essentially a paper pedestal.

I managed to build a tower of items on a small piece of paper and barely managed to get it back to the dormitory.

As if an acrobat was maintaining a precarious balance.

While setting the table, Peace began to question the phenomenon he had seen earlier.

[You. But why didn’t the card really work?]

‘Yes, I see. There is nothing suspicious about it.’

[……On the other hand, isn’t it because there are too many of them that it’s impossible to specify them?]

I took a big bite of the cooked chicken leg and drank the entire bottle of soju to moisten my throat.

Even though it was oven-baked, I answered with satisfaction as the fat seeped out between the roughly bitten pieces of meat.

‘Well, I’ll just transfer money to my bank account for a while. I can release the card later.’

[Yeah. I feel a bit uneasy, but I think it’ll be okay.]

The new semester starts tomorrow, Monday.

On the other hand, it was on Saturday that I heard from the Academy that my ability registration was complete.

And Sunday started with a hangover.

Anyway, I felt a little proud because we all had a fulfilling time with alcohol.

But at that time, I didn’t know yet.

What was happening to me.

***

The second semester started, but nothing much changed.

However, the only good thing is that the first day is the day to choose a dormitory, so there is no class.

I tried to apply to use the dormitory as is through the Academy app, but the server crashed again.

‘Platform or app or something real.’

[But hasn’t it decreased a bit recently?]

After roughly completing the application, I contacted Hyeji and met her.

Then, someone came running towards me from afar, making a noise.

“Sir!!! This is really too much!!!!!!”

It was Elsia.

It looked like she was about to jump right in and hug me.

Hyeji, whose number above her head went up by one, pushed me away slightly.

Thanks to that, Elsia hugged me instead.

I ended up in a deep embrace with the ground.

Hyeji started to laugh at that.

“I guess my sister got older during the vacation? Because she’s getting presbyopia and can’t see properly?”

“Oh my, Hyeji! Why are you stuck on the floor? Are you dead? I can’t hear your heartbeat!”

“You son of a bitch!”

Of course, that laughter didn’t last long.

[This time, Hyeji lost.]

‘I guess you received elf-style attribute training.’

[Is there a daily instructor in Daesurim?]

‘In this world, there are daily instructors at the Matop Entrance Exam Academy, so what?’

We all had lunch together while admiring the skills of Daesurim’s daily instructors.

I could also see Jeong A-yeon in the distance.

A scene of talking about something while eating with my sister.

Then, our eyes met and we ended the greeting with a simple wave.

We had already finished lunch and were moving to leave the restaurant.

During lunch and dinner hours, payment was possible not only at the kiosk but also directly at the checkout counter.

After Hyeji and Elsia each paid their bills, they left first and it was finally my turn.

“Oh, I’ll do it by bank transfer.”

“Yes, you can send it here.”

Since my card wasn’t working and I didn’t have any cash, I was planning on doing a wire transfer.

But the moment I opened the banking app to transfer money.

incomprehensible.

No, I can understand the letters themselves.

There were clear words floating around in my head that I absolutely could not understand.

‘…What the fuck.’

[…..What is it?..]

As I read the letters, a thousand thoughts came to mind.

Why? Why? Who? For what purpose?

What have I done? What am I aiming for?

But above all those thoughts, there is one thing that should take priority.

I looked more miserable and pitiful than ever.

“Is it possible to pay on credit?”

***

The second semester is already summer.

In anime, it’s already the time to go to the beach and play, saying, “It’s the beach–!! (It’s the beach–!!)”

And now I.

“Fuck, Mom, it’s a sea of water.”

“Student! Stop talking nonsense and quickly unclog the drain!!”

I started working hard to unclog the drain in the kitchen.

Every time I put my hand in to try to clear the clogged drain due to food debris, it was extremely painful.

Originally, I would have just worked for an hour and finished.

However, the problem was that he ran away right after he was told that he would not be injured and was caught.

Eventually, we agreed to work for 5 hours.

‘We usually call sticking sashimi on the side a threat.’

[…Wasn’t that what you were doing with the chainsaw a conversation?]

I don’t remember the past when I used to talk to a nerd with a chainsaw.

The only thing that matters now is that I was threatened.

After a while of unclogging the drain, Elsia and the escort elf appeared in the kitchen.

“Huh? Elsia? What’s going on here?”

“Sir!”

“Are you here to save me?”

The spark of hope in my heart instantly burned and became a huge forest fire.

Two emotions that arose simultaneously.

Sorry. And thank you.

After hearing what I said, she started to smile really beautifully.

Elsia’s mouth opens immediately.

“No! I was caught too!”

As soon as the campfire started, it started raining.

The huge fire extinguished itself in my heart without leaving even a speck of ashes.