Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy - Chapter 259



258 – Kyoto Samgul_11

The hospital VIP room was quiet.

It was so quiet that if you concentrated hard you could hear the elevators on the outskirts of the VIP floor going up and down, or the nurses walking down the hallway to do their regular checkups.

In order to create a comfortable environment for VIPs to truly feel like they were receiving treatment, unlike the floors below, there were only three single rooms per floor, and even then, all but one of them were empty because there were no patients.

In addition, on the floor where the VIP room is located, medical personnel are always on standby, so that even in a dangerous situation, they can respond within 30 seconds, and even if the patient is motionless, they can issue orders to nurses or other personnel using the intercom or remote control in the VIP room.

If you were to describe this place to anyone passing by, I’m sure a hundred out of ten would say it was pleasant.

Also, if they were to get hurt, wouldn’t they want to be hospitalized and receive treatment at a place like this?

In a place like this, if hundreds or thousands of people break down every day, I would wave my hand.

Still, you have to be envious of this place.

But I had no envy.

There could have been a better place if one had put one’s mind to it, and above all, there was a certain smell to it.

It doesn’t smell physically or chemically.

The reason I said it smelled was because the entire floor where the VIP room was was surrounded by some kind of gloomy, dark, and dull stuff.

‘It feels like a morgue, or rather a morgue.’

Of course, this is just my personal opinion.

A blonde woman who turns her head in the opposite direction rather than expressing joy at seeing a familiar face that she hasn’t seen in a long time.

A very personal feeling I had when I saw a woman working as a nurse, who was either smiling or not, and whose expression was hard to describe.

A younger sibling who doesn’t recognize the family he draws next to him, and an older sister who can’t tell her younger sibling that she’s there and can only look at him and say cold words.

Also, I thought that a mannequin that cannot move without someone’s help and a mannequin that is acting while hoping for someone else’s help would be similar if they were corpses, or even dead.

Anyway, that’s it.

I took a deep breath and asked Olivia how she was doing in a moderate tone.

“How are you? Are you okay?”

“…”

But nothing came back.

Even though I adjusted it appropriately with the hints I had planted, it was only to the extent of slightly distorting the memories, and it wasn’t like I was manipulating the memories as I pleased like some hypnosis app.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t dilute it, but Olivia still thought I was related to her sister’s disappearance.

I winked at Eve.

Then Eve stood up and left the VIP room, and I sat down where Eve had been sitting.

Then he grabbed Olivia’s hand, which was still motionless.

“Olivia.”

A low, gentle voice. As it rang in my ears, the hand holding it trembled slightly.

He didn’t try to meet my gaze, but judging from the way the muscles on one side of his face were moving, I figured he might be frowning, biting the corner of his mouth.

I continued talking to myself even though there was no answer, since I knew what it meant.

“You don’t want to talk to me anymore?”

“…”

“Yeah, I see.”

“…”

“But I want to talk to Olivia. I’ll say whatever I want.”

Even if I spoke alone, there was someone who listened.

“So what did Marie say then…”

“Anten, he…”

“Oh, by the way, I’m about to take the hero license test…”

She continued to tell stories that she had made up, and stories about the trivial things that had happened at the academy when she was away, again and again, very appropriately.

“…”

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Of course, no matter what, there was no answer.

This time, unlike last time, I didn’t close my eyes tightly and I didn’t even try to shake my hands off.

‘Not bad.’

Step by step, when I wrote Olivia, it wasn’t far, but it wasn’t close either.

If you could just make peace according to plan and listen to what I have to say, that would be enough.

Yukina’s room is always under investigation, so we have to keep a close eye on it.

Anyway, as I kept talking to myself like that, the repertoire I brought started to wear out and it was almost time to go.

I stood up from my seat and looked at Olivia.

“Then I guess I’ll call it a day for today.”

“…”

There was no word, but I could see his body flinching.

That will be the answer soon.

The answer is that the relationship with Olivia is slowly recovering.

As I left the hospital room, Eve, who had been waiting next to the door, approached me.

I whispered softly next to Eve’s ear.

“Please take good care of him. He’s my little brother.”

“yes…”

“You’re good at answering. You’re secretly harassing me when I’m not looking.”

“that…”

Eve’s expression hardened.

Then he looked at me for a moment.

It was a silent answer that it was something I had asked you to do.

“You’re doing it with your own hands. You can’t make excuses. Or should I really step forward?”

“no.”

“Is that so? So you want to torment your younger brother with your own hands?”

“…yes.”

That’s fortunate.

I wondered if I had been bullying him without him knowing.

It was never Olivia who bothered me and picked on me.

“Then I ask you. You will know if I disturb you, right?”

I lightly patted Eve’s shoulder.

“All right.”

Eve bowed her head.

**

“B-By the way, Seonghyeon, why did you go to the auction house? Did that… no, did that guy take you there by force?”

Asking that now, I thought it might be a bit slow of a reaction.

It seemed like there wouldn’t be a problem, since it was progressing slowly but according to plan.

I looked at Elizabeth, who was fidgeting and sipping her teacup across from me.

“Oh, that’s not it. I said I wanted to go to that auction first.”

“okay?”

“yes.”

“why?”

“It’s nothing special. I just went because I heard that something I’ve always wanted was up for auction. Of course, I knew I wouldn’t be able to buy it because I didn’t have the money. But I’ve been having a hard time lately, so I thought that if I could see it up close, I’d be able to work a little harder, so I went. That’s what you call motivation.”

“Motivation. Oh, I see.”

Elizabeth nodded as if she understood what I was saying.

Then he lowered his head slightly and thought about something, then suddenly raised his head as if a good idea had occurred to him.

“Could you please tell me what that thing is?”

At first glance, it looked like he was trying to buy it for me instead.

There may be many reasons for this, but if I were to summarize the main ones, it would be to work on my favorability rating.

It seemed like he wanted to lighten the debt a little by hiding his identity.

Also, isn’t it possible that they’re trying to use it as a shock absorber when the truth comes out later?

“Why is that?”

“Oh, I was wondering what Seonghyeon is interested in. Oh, no? That’s too much…”

“No, that’s too much to ask. No, I can tell you. But it’s not like it’s something as trivial as your real dream car.”

“But it doesn’t matter.”

“Then don’t laugh.”

“Because I won’t laugh.”

“…a sword.”

“knife?”

Elizabeth tilted her head.

I spoke a little softly, and it seemed like even the S-rank couldn’t hear me.

So I turned my mana, blushed slightly, and opened my mouth again.

“It’s a dragon sword.”

“Dragon sword?”

“yes.”

“Are you talking about the sword I know?”

Elizabeth was surprised when she heard the name of the item she wanted.

That was because the meaning of the Dragon Sword was known best to the S-class hero, Elizabeth.

A magical tool forged from dragon bones that came out of a level 11 gate that she had dealt with in the past along with other S-class heroes and hunters.

Although it is less popular than the Awakening Potion, it is a dragon series of which there are only 33 in the world that anyone with mana abilities, regardless of whether they are a martial artist or a magician, would want.

“…yes.”

I turned my face towards the mana, blushing slightly, then lowered my head as if embarrassed.

“…”

Elizabeth paused for a moment, as if pondering something.

Even if you have a crush on me, we’ve only known each other for about a month.

It wasn’t even an item worth 10 to 20 billion won, and it seemed like they decided that it would be difficult to give an item worth over 100 billion won, even to an S-class hero.

‘It’s so annoying.’

Are you saying that even though I’m a S-class hero, I can’t afford to buy something like this?

“As expected… isn’t it funny? For someone like me to dream of a dragon series…”

That’s why I lowered my head even more ashamedly to shake her heart.

“No, that’s funny. That can’t be true.”

Elizabeth began to comfort me as if she was ashamed of my actions.

“It’s okay. Actually, I knew that. No matter how hard I tried, someone like me would never be able to buy something like that.”

no.

If you spend the money you’ve saved in the dark, you can buy a few elixirs of awakening.

Of course, if you spend it, there will be problems, and the money cannot be spent because it has to be saved for later planning and economic attacks on specific countries.

And I never intended to have a dragon sword in the first place.

This was done to make the big thing look small in comparison to what was wanted.

“No. You can survive. There’s a saying that goes, ‘dream big.’”

“Is that so…? But still…”

“But even so, what’s that… what… no… that… Ah! What if you win the lottery or something and suddenly have a dragon sword!?”

“Lottery. It would be impossible if it weren’t for that, right?”

“ah.”

Elizabeth covered her mouth urgently.

It was because I realized later that, rather than comforting her, I had told her to rely on luck.

“It’s okay. It was just a dream. Thank you for comforting me, sis.”

Checkmate, either way.

I held Elizabeth’s hand and smiled faintly.