A Wild Man Has Entered the Academy - Chapter 456



455 – Birds and Mice (1)

In the past, pigeons were often used to send and receive various types of information.

This world is no different. There are means of communication such as crystal balls, but they are highly susceptible to wiretapping.

On the other hand, there is no risk of wiretapping in the West and the likelihood of being suspected by anyone is significantly lower.

That doesn’t mean there are no drawbacks at all, but you have to train until you awaken your homing instinct.

Since they are animals, there is a risk that a ‘predator’ may appear in the middle and cause great harm to the pigeons.

For this reason, homing birds tend to use higher birds of prey, such as hawks, eagles, and owls, rather than pigeons.

However, these birds of prey are often rejected because they may be harmful to Academy students.

Porrori was able to enter the academy because he was only a ‘squirrel’ on the outside, but taming wild beasts was outside the rules.

So, using pigeons as carriers is inevitable and although the training process may be complicated, it has definite advantages.

“Gulp······ Gulp······ Gulp······”

The problem is, as I said before, that you could die from a ‘predator’. It would be great if you could somehow avoid that.

I stared blankly at the white dove fluttering its feathers as it fell. I knew what kind of dove it was.

This is the telescope that Lee Yeon-hwa just sent. And it’s falling after being hit by the rock I threw.

-Flap! Flap!

Judging from the way it flaps its wings, however difficult, it seems that it still has some consciousness left. That’s because it is a well-trained individual.

I guess I should say that I have a sense of mission to complete the mission somehow. I know that he is a specially trained messenger from the Hwan Empire.

For the time being, I guess I’ll have to go to a nursing home, no, a hospital, or a vet. But since I threw it gently, it won’t die.

“What the hell are you doing!!”

It was when I caught a fluttering white dove. Lee Yeon-hwa, who had jumped out of the window, ran towards me.

A very excited expression, trembling lips, and finally a voice that was full of fear, unlike the angry shout.

It’s so different from her usual calm appearance. In common parlance, it’s a look of ‘what’s the matter?’

I looked back and forth between the pigeon that was foaming at the mouth and the very angry Yeonhwa, then answered absentmindedly.

“why?”

“Why, why······! Phew······”

Lee Yeon-hwa is comforting her chest, perhaps realizing that she is excited. However, she cannot take back the emotions she has poured out.

She looked at the fainting Jeon Seo-gu with trembling eyes, then smiled and looked at me.

I felt really sorry for him trying so hard to smile.

“Hey, first of all, would you like to bring this guy? He’s my pet.”

“It’s a bird, so why don’t you raise it in a cage?”

“Sometimes you just need to let loose. I trained to only fly within the academy.”

Perhaps because he is a spy, his ability to create plausible lies on the spot is extraordinary.

From my perspective, knowing the whole truth, I just laughed. Fortunately, my facial expression didn’t change much, so it didn’t show.

After that, she returned to her lab with a pigeon with all its feathers out. As soon as she returned to the lab, she checked the pigeon’s condition.

There will be some damage as it was hit by a rock. Even if it was a good carrier pigeon, it was still a pigeon.

“Fortunately, there was no internal injury······ It wasn’t just a simple hit from a rock, it was more like a bump wound······”

As Lee Yeon-hwa muttered, I had no intention of harming Jeon Seo-gu. Why would I harm an innocent life?

I did this just to get Lee Yeon-hwa’s attention. I also did it to relieve the stress I got from studying.

If Lee Yeon-hwa had known about this idea, she would have been extremely angry. But now, she would recognize this situation as an ‘accident’.

“Huh······ Student Shibar?”

“yes.”

“You don’t throw rocks at every animal you see at the Academy, do you?”

Lee Yeon-hwa asked me a question with a serious face. Her words gave off a subtle sense of pressure.

You probably think I’m a potential animal abuser. It’s not unreasonable to think that.

Because I was living in the Forest of Chaos right now, harming countless animals and monsters, and even eating them.

During the training, there were many instances of eating bugs or animals, and Lee Yeon-hwa watched it with her own eyes.

“What about when you’re hungry?”

“Are you hungry?”

“no.”

“Then why?”

Lee Yeon-hwa asked as if she couldn’t understand. My answer to her was very simple.

“poop.”

“······poop?”

“He pooped on my head. I dodged.”

You can just make excuses like you took a shit on my head. My story goes like this.

As soon as I heard the sound of a bird flying, I raised my head and it was flying towards me. Then it pooped really coolly and left.

I barely avoided it, but I was so angry that I threw a rock. Honestly, who wouldn’t feel bad?

Lee Yeon-hwa had a dumbfounded expression on her face, as if she had been completely fooled by my smooth lies. It was a reaction that she had never thought of.

“Oh, I see. But throwing stones was wrong. Don’t do it again.”

“yes.”

“great.”

“Don’t throw stones, I’ll catch them.”

“That won’t do either!”

In the end, after all the scolding, Lee Yeon-hwa sent me out. I guess she’ll be careful for the time being.

I was kicked out of the lab. I had to concentrate to treat the jeonseogu or something.

It will take a week for the pigeon to fully recover, and it will suffer from symptoms similar to a concussion.

‘But it’s not really that important.’

That’s a means of contacting the Hwan Empire anyway. And the means of being a spy is scheduled to appear at night.

I’m going to go around and look for it that night. It’s a fairly difficult task and requires the pretense of ‘coincidence’.

‘Isn’t there any better way?’

How to track down the night-time squirrel. How to find a way to communicate other than through the squirrel cage.

The best way is to sneak into her house, but there is a very high chance that this will be discovered in no time.

As I’ve mentioned many times, Lee Yeon-hwa is a very cautious person. She must have set traps all over her house.

Even though it’s called a trap, it’s not really a trap, it’s just for crime prevention and confirmation. It’s an ordinary but reliable crime prevention device.

‘Maybe it’s better to put this on hold?’

There is still plenty of time. I will find the time when I can completely master the language of Cho-han, that is, Han-language.

I guess I should meet with Lee Yeon-hwa often and get hints from her. It’s okay if I don’t get any.

‘It’s not really necessary.’

Before I went back home, I headed to Lord’s residence. Today, when I caught a bird, I suddenly thought of the pied terrestrial.

As time goes by, this guy is starting to take on the appearance of an adult. Soon, he will be able to carry people and fly into the sky.

Lord seems to be expecting that a lot too. Honestly, how can a man endure that?

‘······If I ask for a ride, you’ll give me one, right?’

I was really looking forward to it because I can’t fly either.

*****

If Lee Yeon-hwa’s day is ordinary, it’s ordinary, and if it’s tiring, it’s tiring.

It was a situation where he had to provide information to Jo Han while engaging in a tense tug-of-war with the Huan Empire.

On top of that, something unpleasant (shivar) happened today. She couldn’t help but feel stressed.

‘······The pen moved.’

And in the evening, when the sun had set and darkness had fallen, she narrowed her eyes as she looked at the desk.

The pens that were originally neatly placed have moved down by about 10 cm. The arrangement of other writing instruments has also changed subtly.

There are signs that someone has broken into his room. They have probably dug through his desk extensively.

‘Isn’t it too obvious, little brother?’

She sighed and shook her head. It was obvious who had done this.

It must be Lee Yeon-ju, his younger sister and one of the Korean independence fighters. His younger sister, who shows outstanding talent for infiltration.

Lee Yeon-ju will be paying special attention to her as she is being treated as a traitor. Lee Yeon-hwa also knows this.

‘Fortunately, I don’t know the most important thing.’

The desk is empty. At best, there are books published by the Huan Empire. Occasionally, there are books from the Zhao Han Dynasty mixed in.

Lee Yeon-ju left her desk and walked to another place. There was a cage there.

Inside, there was a cute little hamster running on a wheel. It was a really plump pig hamster.

The Academy has a rule that all pets can be kept, as long as they are not carnivores. Lee Yeon-hwa is one of those who keeps a pet.

But this is no ordinary pig hamster. She reached out to the hamster that was spinning on the wheel.

Then, the hamster stopped turning on the wheel. The hamster moved its chubby body and climbed onto Yeonhwa Lee’s palm.

-Tuk, tuk.

“Ouch.”

When Lee Yeon-hwa patted its back, the hamster vomited out a rolled-up piece of paper from its mouth.

This is paper that is not taken out of the stomach but put into the cheek pouch for storage. Hamsters usually have the habit of storing food in their cheek pouches.

Using this cleverly as an information network. That is one of the reasons why Lee Yeon-hwa raised hamsters.

‘I guess I should tell them not to fly the messenger just in case.’

Lee Yeon-hwa wrote down what happened today on a piece of paper. The incident where Shivar shot down Jeonseo-gu.

I wrote a message to be careful, as you might get shot down by a red-eyed wild man.

After writing down various confidential information, he handed it back to the hamster. The hamster put the paper in his mouth as soon as he received it.

-Tododododo!

Let’s put it on the floor. The hamster moves quickly somewhere. It will soon contact the contact network from Chohan.

They’ve been trained well, so they won’t be threatened by wild beasts. It might be different if a red-eyed wild man catches them.

‘Birds hear what’s said during the day, and mice hear what’s said at night.’

That was the code that Lee Yeon-hwa had been given in Jo Han. She let out a deep breath.

‘For my hometown.’

She made up her mind and prayed for independence for her hometown.

“professor.”

“Yes. Go ahead.”

“Birds hear what’s said during the day, and mice hear what’s said at night. What does this mean?”

“··· ···”

Today I was teaching the red-eyed wild man again.