Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy - Chapter 263



262 – Bait_1

[Did you get in okay? Let me know if you got in.]

[Why haven’t you contacted me? Are you sleeping? Is that it?]

[I see. You were tired.]

[Then I’ll contact you later.]

[Is it time now?]

[Seonghyun?]

[Busy?]

[Ah, it’s time to be at the Academy.]

[sorry.]

[Is it break time now?]

[no?]

[I think that’s right.]

[But why are there no letters?]

[You don’t want to talk to me, do you?]

[No, there’s no way Seonghyeon would do that.]

[Is that kid bothering you?]

[Should my sister go to the academy?]

[I just came to the academy. Where are you?]

[Should I go to the student council room?]

[Seonghyun.]

[Seonghyun.]

[Seonghyun.]

[Seonghyun.]

[Seonghyun.]

[Seonghyun.]

[Seonghyun─]

The obsession that a woman over 40 who had never had a proper relationship, let alone a romantic one, showed when she finally got into a relationship was truly incredible.

At first, the phone rang every hour, but now it rang every minute.

‘You’ve held on well so far.’

That’s why I didn’t want to use that number.

But what can I do? If I don’t do it sequentially, there will be confusion in understanding the information, so I had no choice.

‘hmm.’

Still, what was annoying was annoying.

That’s why I thought about blocking him or just making him leave.

There was no need to be so harsh, as it seemed like it could be used as bait for a later sub-plan.

‘Well, I guess we still need to educate them.’

If you keep interfering like this, it will interfere with other things as well.

Anyway, as I was thinking about it for a moment, I heard a knock on the door.

If you were a member of the student council, you wouldn’t have knocked on the door when entering the student council room, so it means you weren’t a member of the student council.

Also, there was no one coming to see me for work at this time.

I had a rough idea of ​​who the person who knocked was.

A situation that makes you sigh.

“Yes, please come in.”

But since it was something I couldn’t just throw out, I cleared my throat and allowed him to come in.

“Seonghyun!”

Then the door suddenly opened and Han In-young came rushing in.

As expected, the identity of the shadow was Elizabeth, or rather, Amanda, the investigator at the Aksha Auction House.

‘You really came.’

What are the security guards doing?

How can an outsider without permission enter the Academy’s central student council room without being stopped?

‘Well, I guess there’s nothing I can do.’

Just because the appearance is different doesn’t mean the contents change.

She is a S-class hero.

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If she had wanted to, she could have broken through the tight security of a thousand guards.

“Why aren’t you looking at the text!!”

She looked around the room for a moment, then saw me and ran towards me, slamming both hands on the desk.

“Sister? A text?”

But I looked puzzled.

I know why she does that, but I feel like pretending not to know would just be more annoying, so I pretended not to know.

Of course I know that might make it burn even more fiercely.

I’ve prepared a suitable excuse, so if you use it appropriately, there won’t be a big problem.

“You’ve been texting me since last night. Do you hate me now? Is that so?”

Tears welled up in Elizabeth’s eyes.

I think I had another strange imagination.

‘Should I say he’s delusional or sentimental?’

Or maybe it’s because of my age.

“You hate me? Of course not. More importantly, I’ve never received a text message like that… Ah. I guess you didn’t notice because it was on silent mode.”

I still pretended not to know and showed that my phone was on silent mode.

“Silent? You don’t look at your phone all day? Lie!”

“You’re lying? No, I’m not. Why would I lie like that? It was also on silent mode, and you see, I was so busy that I had so many things to finish today.”

But when people still didn’t believe him, he pointed to the piles of documents on his desk.

“Oh, I see. I… in one day…”

Only then did they seem trustworthy, and Elizabeth sighed in relief.

‘That’s a lie, though.’

I had originally left everything to Han Yuri, but since it seemed like Elizabeth would come, I just quickly changed it.

Anyway, that’s it.

Elizabeth has come, and unless Yukina comes to interfere, there won’t be anyone coming to the student council room.

It didn’t seem like a bad idea to take some time to educate myself.

I lowered my voice.

“Sister. By the way, how did you get in here?”

“How did you get in? I just came in.”

“Are you saying that you didn’t have permission?”

“Permission?”

“Did you receive your academy pass and come in?”

“No. I’m coming to meet my boyfriend. Why do you need something like that?”

“ha…”

“Seonghyun…?”

Elizabeth began to notice the change in my expression.

“Sister, I told you last time that I was the student council president of Laplace Academy, right?”

“That’s right. But why?”

“Do you know what student body president means?”

“Roughly speaking. Isn’t it like a representative of the cadets elected by the cadets?”

“Yes, that’s right. The representative of the cadets. And the face representing the academy. That means I’m in a position to set an example for the cadets more than anyone else, right?”

“ah.”

As I explained slowly, a small sigh escaped her lips as if she had realized what I was trying to say.

“I’m not saying this because I don’t like it when my older sister comes to visit me. What boyfriend wouldn’t like his girlfriend coming to visit him? But please do what you have to do.”

“sorry.”

“And please understand that I made a mistake when I was at the academy.”

“Oh, I see.”

And it was Elizabeth who was sagging.

“I spoke too harshly. I’m sorry, Sister.”

I stood up from my seat, walked over to Elizabeth, and gave her a gentle pat. After a while, when she seemed to calm down, I took her hand and led her to the guest sofa.

“So what’s going on?”

“What’s going on?”

Elizabeth tilted her head at my question.

“You really can’t text, so you didn’t come all the way to the Academy Student Council room at this hour of the day, right?”

“Right, right? I came here because I couldn’t text.”

“…yes?”

“That… is strange?”

When I tilted my head, Elizabeth clasped her hands together and wiggled them.

“No, it’s not strange. Are you sure nothing happened?”

“Yeah, nothing happened.”

“Thank goodness. I was so surprised because I thought something might have happened to you, sister.”

“Oh, really? Hehe…”

She let out a small, strange laugh that she had never heard before, perhaps because she was embarrassed.

But since there was no other topic to continue the conversation with, the conversation quickly froze over, and an awkward atmosphere was created as everyone looked at each other and hid from embarrassment or annoyance.

After that, the minute hand draws a circle twice.

“Oh, by the way, sister.”

I broke the awkward atmosphere.

The idea was to hold onto Elizabeth a little longer, tear down some stuff, and lay the groundwork for the sub-plan.

“Uh, yeah, why? Seonghyun.”

“You said you belong to the Aksha Auction House, right?”

“That’s true, but why?”

“That’s because you know about the Laplace Academy Autumn Martial Arts Festival, right? We’re planning on holding an event for the cadets after that. So I’d like to talk to the Aksha Auction House about the event…”

If everything goes according to plan, I have a feeling this fall will be a fun season.

**

“He said he’d come back whenever he wanted to come back.”

Office of the Director of Defense of the Holy Empire of America.

Sitting at his desk, which was piled high with papers like a mountain, Defense Director Milton Ailes could not believe his ears when he heard his subordinate’s words.

“Is it true? If it’s false…”

“How could that be? The witch herself said it.”

“So is that true?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

But checking again didn’t change anything.

“under.”

Milton just couldn’t understand.

Are you saying that the country’s strategic assets can wander around as they please?

Of course, they are national assets, but they are also people, so it is understandable to some extent, but this was beyond common sense.

If it’s going to be like this, I’ll give up my S-class privileges.

And yet, you keep it that way and shirk your responsibilities like this.

“What should I do with the area?”

Even though there aren’t any guys committing gate terrorism these days.

Areas, gates above level 11 are unstable and could lead to catastrophe if done incorrectly.

So, isn’t that why they entrusted it to the S-class heroes to guard?

“That’s… for those who have the time…”

A leisurely S-class hero?

It’s not that it didn’t exist.

There was something.

Until about half a year ago, however, with the Sky Island crashing and Paladin missing, someone with some free time took over the area he was in charge of.

And the meaning of those words was that they no longer existed.

“How should I deal with it?”

There is still some room.

The witch also did her job well for over 10 years without going anywhere.

So, I can be somewhat lenient.

‘Up to a month.’

But anything more than that was impossible.

And that month has already passed a long time ago.

“I have to bring it.”

“That witch?”

The subordinate shook his head as if it was nonsense.

It was because she knew how much of a tantrum it would be if she ignored her words.

“Call Taylor.”

That’s why the move Milton chose was a short-term showdown.

Of course, this will leave two areas empty.

Even if you can sometimes beat an A-class, you can’t handle an S-class, so it was an eye for an eye.