episode_0170

With the return of the third graders, the cradle was filled with a chaotic atmosphere. Although there was still quite a bit of time left until the social period, the students were already talking as if something would happen tomorrow.

“This isn’t Young… This is… ”

“He’s seeing someone. In class B… ”

“He looks okay, but… ”

At the entrance to the classroom. Five or six female students were putting their heads together and whispering something.

As they searched for candidates, they continued a heated discussion while looking at a table-like table listing the names and other details of the male students currently attending the school.

After rummaging around for a while, one of the female students sighed deeply and said.

“Why is it all… ”

The person next to her shook his head.

“It won’t work. I failed the second year.”

“Then what about the freshmen?”

When another female student spoke, many people showed interest. This year’s freshmen were quite excellent, and there were already quite a few who stood out.

“… She has a fiance.”

“Guk Jae-ryong. What do you think of him? They say he’s Hwang Seong’s second son.”

“The family is good, but the people are a bit… My younger brother said that it’s a daily routine to get in trouble for being a jerk.”

“Shin Mu-young…? What do you think of him?”

“He’s from the outskirts. And I hate him. Last time I saw him in the hallway, I suddenly felt nauseous… ”

The schoolgirl said, shuddering.

“Choi Woo-jin of Seongsan. He’s okay too. And next is… Black Lotus… ”

“Mask?”

“I think he’s okay too. He’s good, tall, and… ”

“What did you say? At the beginning of the semester, they were swearing at me saying that Gihaengjong was ruining the academy.”

“That, that was back then…! Well, the family is Black Lotus, so what? And just in case. There’s something pretty good under the mask… ”

A female student was giving a passionate speech when a chilling voice came from behind her and she shivered.

“Can you move a little?”

“Hehehe… ”

The schoolgirl who had screamed turned her head.

An arrogant yet fresh-faced schoolgirl was looking down at her with shining red eyes.

“Min, Min-ha… Hello… ”

“Can’t you hear? Get out of my way.”

Yeonmin-ha cut him off as if she had no intention of receiving a greeting. The female students quickly got out of the way as she looked even more uncomfortable today.

She disappeared down the hallway without even looking at me. The gathered female students each breathed a sigh of relief, but each let out a complaint.

“Why are you like that? You could have just told him to get out of the way. Anyway, he’s so arrogant… ”

“Still, to that extent, his personality is really dead. When I was a freshman, really… ugh.”

The female student, who was recalling something, trembled her shoulders.

“But the shadow banquet is well prepared, right… ”

Meanwhile.

As one female student spoke, another person hastily covered her mouth.

She whispered, looking around.

“Hey! What if I tell that story here? What if the leaders or professors hear it? ”

The female student finally let out a sigh of relief when she saw that there was no sign of human presence. Then she added quietly with a sinister smile.

“… Yuri said she prepared well. We just… have fun. ”

***

I was walking down the hallway with my brow furrowed in pity.

“Why the student council settlement… ”

It was just a shame that I couldn’t go because the student council meeting and the ranking match drawing ceremony overlapped in time.

In addition, the gossip that the other female students were whispering in the classroom earlier was also one of the reasons she was upset.

“How dare those vulgar things… speak of someone so carelessly… ”

She cried out with full anger.

“Ahem. Hey, pity junior?”

As I was walking down the hallway, I suddenly heard an oily voice.

At this, Yeonmin-ha turned her head away without even hiding her displeasure.

A boy was walking toward her with a faint smile on his face. The unfamiliar badge on his jacket lapel indicated that he was a third-year student who had returned to the cradle.

“Sigh… ”

Yeonmin-ha let out an annoyed sigh.

Students are excited and chaotic. The temporary return of third-year students who are almost like active students.

The circumstances meant one thing: the social season was approaching again.

So, it wasn’t hard to guess the intention of the man in front of me to flirt with me.

“What’s going on?”

Even though Yeonmin-ha openly showed her disgust and contempt, the man paid no attention. It was unclear whether he was thick-skinned or oblivious.

“Ahem. It’s been a while. It’s been a few months since I’ve seen you, but somehow you look prettier… ”

“Sorry, I’m a little busy.”

“Sleep, wait a minute… !”

The man hurriedly stopped Yeonmin-ha, who was about to turn away without even listening to the rest of the story. His name tag had Cheonsu-ho written on it.

He is a descendant of the Madou 27th Clan and a member of the Yoran Student Council Executive Committee. He is the older brother of Cheon Yu-rin, with whom she has been fiercely at odds.

Yeonmin-ha was also someone I knew well. I just didn’t pay much attention to her.

‘That brat with no balls. To the one who did that to my little sister…’

Yeonminha muttered coldly to herself. She had once cut off Cheon Yurin’s little finger, which had been creeping up on her arrogantly, during a duel when she took advantage of an opening.

Rather than showing hostility to such an opponent, you should just pant like a dog.

It was such an embarrassing sight that I couldn’t even laugh.

“I called you this because… Could you please give me a moment… ”

In fact, if you are from a prestigious family but don’t have a partner until your third year, you are usually one of two things. You are either too good. Or you are a loser who can’t match up.

And Yeonminha’s judgment was that the man in front of her was clearly closer to the latter.

‘Of course you’re in a hurry. This social period will be your last chance.’

However, that did not mean that Yeonmin had any intention of listening to the man’s circumstances.

Instead, she felt only extreme discomfort. She was not a very patient person.

‘… Report to the student council? No. Rather than that… ‘

Yeonmin-ha ignored the man’s plea and glanced around. A secluded passageway with no signs of life. A place where there would be no witnesses to testify even if she accidentally caused harm with magic.

“Don’t do that too much… Just this once… ”

Yeonmin-ha, whose patience had finally run out at the man’s words, snapped her fingers. A small magic formula was engraved under her palm, and soon a crackling flame appeared.

“What’s going on?”

But the next moment, someone’s voice is heard, low and heavy, yet full of trust.

At this, Yeonmin-ha turns her head with a bright smile on her face without realizing it.

A masked boy appeared on the stairs and was walking briskly toward her.

“You… ”

A third-year boy who saw him muttered in an unpleasant tone. Unlike the cowardly way he had clung to him just now, his tone was openly contemptuous. However, judging from the fact that he was calmly responding to the sight of that smooth white mask, it seemed that he had heard about the rumored strange species.

“Is there something you need to ask Senior Min-ha?”

“… Senior Min-ha?”

Not only was the way he spoke arrogantly unpleasant, but he also didn’t like the way he was addressed. The third-year student turned to him with his eyebrows furrowed and expressed his hostility.

“Get out of the way. The seniors are talking amongst themselves, so how dare a freshman… ”

“I’m sorry, but I have to go. Senior Min-ha has a prior engagement with me.”

“What are you doing… Don’t stand there!”

The masked boy walked towards Yeonmin-ha without even pretending to hear her words. Then he grabbed her shoulder and turned around.

“Senior. Are you okay?”

“Huh, huh? Yeah… ”

The eyes of Yeonmin-ha, who was looking at him, seemed to drip with honey. Her face was flushed and like a shy girl, she couldn’t even answer properly.

What was even more infuriating was that the arrogant and cocky Yeonmin-ha was following him obediently as if nothing had happened.

“This is so cheeky… !”

The third-year student, unable to control his anger, turned around and ran towards him, but the freshman was already grabbing his wrist as if he had eyes in the back of his head.

“Kyaak!”

-Wood thud!

The man screamed in agony as his jaw tightened.

‘What power…!’

No matter how hard I struggled, my arm did not come off as if it was stuck.

“Keuuu… Keuaaaak!!”

“How dare you… touch someone so carelessly… ”

“Sleep, wait a minute… !”

The freshman paid no attention to his pleas. Instead of letting go of his arm, he tightened his grip. It was as if he was determined to break it.

“Hey, stop it!”

But the voice of compassion is heard. The evil force that was holding his wrist disappears in an instant.

“Ugh… Ugh… !”

Cheon Su-ho sat down on the floor, breathing heavily.

“You… How dare you… Senior… Eek… !”

He tried to open his eyes, but then met my intimidating gaze again and I unconsciously flinched. I watched him with a smile on my face the whole time, as if I found his pitiful appearance amusing.

“Ahem. I’m sorry, senior.”

She had been enjoying the delicious food for a while, but then she coughed and stepped forward. Her voice was full of mockery.

“My junior is following me too much. Please forgive him with generosity. Or maybe… ”

She glanced at the boy lying on the floor in a comical manner.

“You wouldn’t report to the student council that a third-year student got into a fistfight with a freshman, would you?”

“Ugh… ”

A groan filled with fear was as good as an answer. Yeonmin-ha turned around and urged the masked boy in a voice full of joy.

“Hey. Let’s go.”

The two of them disappeared down the hallway without paying any attention to the fallen man.

***

“Oh, kid. I told you last time. You shouldn’t fight carelessly at school.”

Yeonmin-ha, who was walking alongside the masked boy, pretended to scold him.

“What would have happened if I hadn’t stopped you?”

I continued the conversation with him, teasing him with pity.

“And even though he looks like that, he’s still a third-year senior. A first-year student shouldn’t treat him like that.”

“What does it matter? Whether you’re a third-year student or a professor.”

“Oh my… ”

Yeonminha’s sighing voice was rather filled with happiness. It was because he could clearly feel the man’s discontented tone and the possessive desire underlying it.

On the one hand, I felt a bit of regret. I wished that he, who I felt pity for, would be more aware of his own desires.

Of course, it wasn’t a bad feeling to be treated with care.

“Okay. Don’t do that again. You don’t have to worry about it. I can take care of those idiots myself. Got it? ”

“… Yes.”

When the boy reluctantly nodded, she felt pity and only then changed the subject.

“That… It’s almost social time. You know that?”

It had been a long time since I had called the female students vulgar.

But unlike Yeonmin-ha’s voice, which seemed to have a hint of anticipation, the boy’s voice was calm.

“That’s what they said. Thanks to that, I’ve been out of my mind lately. Wherever I go, they keep saying that, and even the third-year students came back and… ”

Yeonmin-ha pouts without realizing it in response to the indifferent answer.

“… ”

But he soon shook his head in pity. Didn’t he expect her to react like this? It was all up to her anyway.

“Why are you like that?”

“… No. But you were coming from the ranking match draw, right? ”

“Yes. I went to the student council room first, but the door was already locked. So I went to look for it… ”

“Ahem… I see… ”

Yeonmin-ha nodded her head. Then she asked in a lively voice.

“So who was decided as the opponent?”

The man hesitated for a moment and answered in a slightly embarrassed tone.

“… It’s true.”