episode_0071

Another official notice was posted to Ellada.

Of course, it wasn’t surprising because it happened often.

Although we have long since moved into the digital age, news from the Academy is not sent through text messages or group chats on mobile phones, but rather in analog format.

People these days have long since lost the habit of looking at bulletin boards, so it can be a bit annoying.

As expected, there are some students who say something cliché such as ” the Dean is a medieval land character ” or ” it is natural that he hates machines since he is a wizard “.

Anyway, anything that happens if you don’t check the bulletin board is all your fault, so it can be said that it’s a place you have to go to every time, even if it’s annoying.

If I were to point out a positive function, I would say that the main hall on the first floor of Elada, where the bulletin board is located, has become almost like a meeting plaza.

I came to check the bulletin board and happened to meet a friend, so I went to the soft sofa or chair in front of the Northmund statue and chatted.

As the place became so crowded, a small cafe also opened inside the hall. As expected, the headquarters of the world’s heroes also operates in a capitalist manner.

After finishing all of today’s lectures, Han Se-jun went to the main building hall to check the bulletin board as a habit.

You can go straight to the dormitory by using the skybridge from the second floor of the main building, but it was common for most students, not just Sejun, to go down to the first floor first to check the bulletin board.

“Han. Hello.”

“Ah, hello.”

Several students around him say hello to him. When it became known that Sejun was improving his skills and receiving a lot of attention from the dean, everyone approached him to become friends.

It was a little burdensome at first, but isn’t this atmosphere itself good?

There are some disapproving looks, but it’s nothing to worry about.

When I went down the stairs and stood on the first floor, the bulletin board was crowded with people, as always. Seeing more than usual, I guess something else is stuck.

As I stood on the first floor, nodding slightly, I felt something different in the atmosphere.

“Mr. Sejun.”

Han Se-jun turned his head left and right when he heard a girl’s voice that seemed to come from somewhere. But I can’t see anyone.

“It’s here… Why do you keep looking at something strange?”

When Sejun looked back, making a child-like noise due to the stinging pain he felt in his back, there was a girl there.

The hair around my ears was straight, as if someone had cut it with scissors. If you do it in real life, it’s a straight hair style that would turn into a trident and be grotesque, but the child still has a style that suits him quite well… .

“Nakaji… No, Yue.”

He unconsciously tried to call her by her last name, but stopped talking and looked at the female student from Himecut, who was looking at him with her hand on her waist and her mouth humming far below his eye level.

“Well, I’m sorry, but I’ll understand since you probably haven’t heard it yet. Have you seen the official document? I guess I’m about to start the Hunter Qualification Test.”

“Really?”

“Yes, look! They usually start with a grade of D or E, but I think you can gradually go up. If the professor had said before, I thought I would start after graduation.”

“Yes.”

“Our group will be able to move up to C level or higher right away, right? I hope so.”

“That’s right.”

“… Mr. Sejun.”

evil! Sejun shouts loudly again, then looks around and glares at Yue.

This was because he felt burdened by the sudden scream and the gaze suddenly turned towards him.

You might not know if it was an empty space, but now this place is full of people.

“No, I did that while reading the official document. Oh, didn’t you pinch me too hard? You have magical power.”

“Yes. Is there a problem?”

The other person spoke in a voice that did not match his appearance at all. He looks at himself and moves his mouth, feeling quite slurred. I think he was probably trying to imitate Sejun’s own way of speaking, but it doesn’t resemble him at all and it just makes me sick.

I was momentarily a little excited by the stinging pain, but it was still hard to say anything to the girl in front of me, so I just looked away and continued reading the official document.

The general content is the same as what Yue said. Originally, official documents themselves were usually simple words written 10 times over in text format, so I read them one by one.

‘Hunter.’

The story is finally starting to come out. So Sejun thought.

That’s probably it. Now they become ranked hunters.

The hunter’s grading system is said to evaluate skill, judgment, and personality. Actually, this part was a bit ambiguous. How do you judge personality?

The evaluator there was Dean Elm Northmund. Sejun felt a little uneasy at that fact.

Last time, I was scolded by the dean for hanging out with women, so I thought he might have been a little bit mean to me.

If you think about it, that seems a bit unfair. It’s not like we’re together and we’re not officially dating anyone.

To be honest, he doesn’t know why he ended up in that position, but Sejun guesses that it might be because of his unique points.

Sejun is poor.

My father is such a poor person that he has always been responsible for his own livelihood, and he is quite capable of doing various chores. Because of this, I couldn’t go to school well, so my interpersonal relationships were poor.

That’s why I think this may have happened because people around him were paying attention to him, like picking up an unfortunate puppy.

Well, I think he is quite handsome in his own way. So, I don’t know if training together as colleagues and crossing the line of fire in actual combat may have had a little more impact on the progress of the relationship, but that was a question for Sejun himself.

Anyway, if we were to analyze the dating style that goes around and around, it is clear that a man named Han Se-jun is more of a defensive person who is always on the receiving end rather than a leading attacker.

“Now that I think about it, I see that it is a personality issue, so she cannot participate.”

“Who? you? Or the leader?”

“… Can I tell the leader everything?”

“No, I’m sorry. Just that, please.”

Sejun desperately clings to her when he suddenly frowns at his joke and places her hand on her waist again.

The leader was in a really bad mood these days, so I was truly afraid that if these words reached my ears, a bullet would fly in the back of my head.

Now that I think about it, it seems like the dean has become very abrasive these days. Is there something wrong? There were many times when they looked at themselves sharply and clicked their tongues.

Maybe that’s why Jang A-hyeon was in a bad mood.

It seemed like there had been some trouble before, but once she was back in her proper place at Taesung Group, her momentum was almost sky-high, so if she was in a bad mood, people around her had no choice but to criticize her.

“Yun Sia… That kid.”

“Of course. The girl who was suspended from school. Honestly, I feel a little refreshed. that… I don’t mean to gossip, but I was a little scared.”

“Um… .”

He was definitely a kid who had a lot of trouble before. And a child who was suspended from school indefinitely for his arbitrary action of killing a previous prisoner.

Normally in Korea, indefinite suspension would be the same as expulsion, but she has not left this academy yet.

According to information that Jang Ah-hyun brought from somewhere, I heard that she often visits the infirmary and receives psychiatric treatment. They said it was probably a suspension until the mental and physical disorders were fully treated.

‘Plus, there are assaults on civilians.’

Sejun clenched his molars. I still get shivers when I think about that time. Yoon Sia’s sudden act of leaving home was an action that made even Sejun, who had previously thought of him as a pitiful child, quit school.

Of course, due to the incident that followed, it was known that she made a mistake by mistaking it to be a circular cultist approaching, and on the other hand, her catching the circular cultist’s RPG warhead became a popular figure after it spread on the Internet, so it may have been further buried.

─It’s natural to become sensitive after being attacked by an RPG. I can understand ㅇㅇ

─I heard Northmund almost died there too? Even if it were me, I think it would have been a situation where I would have been criticized? It’s a bodhisattva that he didn’t just blow his head.

─Insensitivity to safety was the problem in the first place. The gate has appeared, so does it make sense to go out on the street to see psykers? It’s a good thing to be self-employed.

Most of the reactions on community sites that Sejun often visits are like this.

Well, anyway, it looks like an academy official visited and apologized and provided appropriate compensation.

Looking at what was posted on Facenote, it ended well with the person in question accepting the apology and leaving a video letter saying that it was his fault because he had approached him without knowing the situation at the time.

Therefore, she is praised as a popular person in society, but Sejun knows. I know Jang A-hyeon and Tania and Yu, who were there together.

It was not because she misunderstood her as a pilgrim, but that she assaulted citizens out of her own will.

He attacked with murderous intent for the absurd reason that the only person who could touch him was the dean.

“But it’s good that you’re receiving treatment. Anyway, as a fellow student, I hope she gets better.”

“… okay. To be honest, I feel a bit favoritized.”

“Hehe. Sejun also looks like Tania. I think Tania feels very uncomfortable just looking at that dragon horned woman. It may be because you are just.”

Sejun knows too. That there is nothing we can do about it.

A woman named Yoon Shia has already become a symbol of the academy thanks to her special ability called Yonghwa. That’s probably why even the dean couldn’t kick it out.

Although he is a popular person externally and a symbol of the Academy, Elada is actually a person that everyone hates within the Academy. That’s Yoon Shia.

Sejun sighed heavily again at this malicious asymmetry.

“Yue, let’s stop talking about this. Anyway, I won’t be seeing anyone for a while now.”

“Yes. The important thing is the hunter exam that is coming soon.”

What is important is not Yun Shia now, but the hunter exam that will take place some time later.

A situation where it is clear that everyone in your group will probably receive high scores. Sejun himself also needs to work hard. Because if you’re the only one with a low rating, you won’t be able to see the leader.

Gao wouldn’t survive if he didn’t receive a higher level than Himecut, a non-combat ability.

I don’t know why, but Sejun, who saw Yue’s smile full of kindness, twisted its meaning and smiled along with her.

*

The playground of Elm Talent Development Academy.

The man, who was wearing clothes that seemed fashionably deformed, giving the impression of a red leather vest over a red shirt, frowned.

He fired an explosive fireball from his hand, but the opponent blocked it.

“Oh, he’s good at fighting even though he has bad legs.”

Li Jiyuan.

Although he lost one leg, he is fighting back against Jimmy with a prosthetic leg. However, unlike someone who values dignity, his expression was not very good, and it seemed like the loss of one leg was still holding him back.

The prosthetic leg he is wearing is an expensive, customized product that is enough to buy five or six sports cars, but even so, a prosthetic leg is a prosthetic leg. It can’t be better than a real bridge.

In addition, in a battle like this, the gap will be felt even more greatly.

” That dragon bird, or something like that, is incredibly hard. It even blocks fireballs filled with power. Is it for nothing that he is not the first awakened person?”

“It’s noisy. You, the one-legged guy, should be rather humiliated.”

“Hoo. Then go with more power. Are you okay?”

Hearing Li Jiyuan’s words breathlessly, Jimmy frowns and then suddenly grins and responds to his words.

Of course, swearing is his style, and just looking at his current smiling face, you can see that he didn’t say it with malicious intent.

However, because a bad joke is a bad joke, I needed some time to think about the sincerity of Jimmy’s words.

‘no. But not like this. A little deduction for Jimmy Ramirez.’

I know how much it hurts to make fun of people with hair loss because of their hair loss, so this was something I couldn’t help but feel.

My hand moves quickly over the evaluation sheet and I write down 1 point in Jimmy’s grade box.

The playground was full of students dueling with each other. On the other side, Han Sejun and Gideon were fighting with their swords, and beyond them were other children.

Almost a year had passed since the entrance ceremony, and most of the students had already reached their peak, so the duel itself was very fierce and spectacular.

The first and second evaluations have already been completed. Basic measurements such as physical strength, vision, reaction speed, and total horsepower have already been completed.

You may wonder why it was a sudden hunter exam, but this is the story that came out of the meeting after going through many trials and errors.

Each student’s skills are different. Even if you learn the same thing, your skills are not the same. That’s obvious.

That is why the decision was made to at least go with a small group of elites. If you force those who lack skills into the battlefield in order to be at the top of the entire list, you will only end up dead.

Therefore, it can be said that grading that allows each person’s skills to be objective is quite important.

Rather than simply dispatching the top 50, it would be much more efficient to dispatch hunters by grade depending on the severity of the gate or dungeon situation.

Previously, we followed GDO’s requests, but there is no reason to do so anymore. We had already notified Rashford that we were going to change our methods.

I will no longer be dragged along by the demands of those who do not know the real battlefield.

“Stop!”

“Stop. All stop.”

Beep!

When I announce the end of the duel, the red-hatted instructors repeat my words and blow their whistles.

The excitement of the duel gradually subsides and they both swallow their excited breaths and glare at their opponents. There were some guys who still had the spirit of winning, and there were also guys who were moaning while caressing the painful parts.

It looked like he still wanted to fight, but the evaluation was over. All he can do is clenched his fighting fists and glare at his opponent.

“Thank you all for your hard work. As of today, all evaluations have been completed.”

As I announced the end of the exam, I blew air through my mouth. Although it is a small breath, the air gradually becomes huge and becomes a gust of wind that sweeps between them.

Sometimes it is necessary to notify again like this. I am Elm Northmund. This level of air flow is said to be a monster that can be controlled at will.

And that monster is your principal.

“Some people will be embarrassed by the sudden hunter exam, and others will be dissatisfied with the lack of preparation time. However, the purpose of this test is to evaluate your regular condition, not what you have prepared for. It’s not like monsters and circular cultists are attacking you after you were given permission to do so. And there are probably some people who are curious as to why the main exam was held so suddenly.”

I looked at them all one by one and opened my mouth. Because of my excitement, their excitement has subsided and they are looking at me.

My eyes capture their faces as they look forward to the words that will come out of my mouth.

“The reason is that it is for nominal reasons. And that name creates morale and induces public response. Symbolism. That’s what’s important. Because it is the symbol that changes the banner of negativity into positivity.”

Yes. Even if they have the symbolism of being Elada’s students, they are just people with special abilities.

Rather, they can be seen as having already been symbolically eaten by Elm, the principal of Ellada.

If you ask me what I remember about Elada, I would usually mention me, the principal, first, rather than the people with special abilities.

“Now humanity is at the edge of a cliff. The ring bridge that was alive in the darkness has bared its teeth again, and the monsters are still targeting this world. There is only one reason you are gathered here. To save the world. However, it is also true that it was difficult to see that method as efficient.”

I raised my gaze and looked into the distance. Looking down from Ellada, located on a high hill, you can see downtown Seoul. It was a familiar sight, but it seemed different from usual.

Maybe it’s because my emotions have changed significantly over the past few days. That’s what I thought.

“So, you will be evaluated on your objective skills and see the results. That will be your symbol, a very objectified symbol of shame that proves you. There are probably only a few people who get high grades from the beginning. So, keep evolving and changing. and… ”

I paused for a moment and took a deep breath.

People have this temperament. This is the basic nature of everyone, including you and me.

If it is a situation that has nothing to do with you, you often just leave it alone or pretend not to notice it. We instinctively avoid things that are unwanted and tiring, and even if someone makes fun of us, we try our best to ignore them and find peace.

Even if your neighbor dies, as long as you are safe, that is enough. Therefore, it can be seen as the most perfect condition for pigs in a huge breeding farm.

But still, some stand up. Some stand up and resist, trying to save everyone.

Clearly, the path he will take will be a thorny one and will be fraught with great hardships. The same goes for those who will be with him.

But to all the foolish people who, despite suffering such suffering and facing great hardships, are willing to stand under my banner.

At that last moment, you will be granted glory commensurate with your ignorance.

“… Never betray the world. No matter what temptation may come, do not turn your eyes from your roots. Don’t forsake the world just to become a warden manager.”

You won’t understand. I don’t think you will understand.

They will just clenched their fists and look in my direction in this solemn atmosphere.

okay. You will never know in the future. Because I will make it happen.

If the reason they betrayed humanity was ultimately to survive.

All you have to do is create a situation where you have to choose between death and survival.

“The results will come out tomorrow afternoon. If you have any objections, you can come and ask. That’s it then.”

After saying that, I grabbed the folder and left the place.