Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy - Chapter 270



269 – Tailbiting_5

“Ugh.”

A one-on-one meeting with Lee Seong-hyeon is also a lunch affair.

After finishing her academy schedule and returning to the dormitory, Rie Tachibana lay on her bed, burying her face in her pillow and shivering.

It was because the insult from earlier kept lingering in my mind.

‘I want you to help me out until I graduate. You may be dumb, but you look half-as-half.’

Are you dumb?

Are their appearances half and half?

I’m not treating anyone like a bum.

No, even leaving that aside, she is the daughter of the Guanbaek, the leader of the Donggun Alliance.

The five great Yamato families.

Honorary Vice-Guild Master of the Ikatsuchi Guild.

He was asked to act as a servant who was the next successor to the Tachibana family.

“Lee Seong-hyeon!!”

An orphan with no foundation.

A monkey topic that doesn’t even know the topic.

A topic that uses mean and cowardly numbers.

A subject that was fortunately involved in an incident and created a connection through luck.

‘You want to see blood?’

Even now, if I wanted to, I could tear his limbs to pieces.

Although he is said to be very talented for a cadet, that only means that he is outstanding among the cadets.

In other words, it means that it is a skill that can only be used at that age.

If you send a professional hero or an experienced mana ability user, he will fall without even being able to fight back.

And then he will go and regret his mistake.

He will also be able to taste the sweetness of revenge.

therefore…

“under.”

embrace.

I know.

It’s easy to commit, but it won’t be easy to cover it up.

If something happens, you will be the number one suspect.

Even if you somehow manage to come up with an alibi, destroy evidence, and use various means to cover it up, this time, you will be followed by suspicions that you not only drove a classmate to suicide, but that you ordered the murder of an annoying classmate.

And that’s not all.

Taylor Mabille, who provides his background, can investigate.

Of course, he wasn’t his biological grandson, but rather his step-grandson. Even if we put aside the question of how much effort he could put in for him, it wasn’t easy for an S-class hero to make a move.

No, even leaving them all aside.

If you do something like that, your father, the government official, will find out.

Because my father was the master of everything.

Then what will happen?

What if the daughter who ordered self-reflection doesn’t listen to me and does something that could cause such a big stir?

Even though she didn’t know, it was clear that she wouldn’t treat me like a daughter, even though she had disappointed me so many times.

So it is right to exercise self-restraint.

Didn’t you decide to have a consultation?

It’s not like I’ve been sleeping on firewood for years like a side job, or even tasting the gall bladder.

Bone-headed girl. I had to endure the humiliation of being a servant.

Can’t you just ignore the future and do something you did because you couldn’t overcome your anger for a moment?

Tachibana deceived himself like that and calmed down his anger.

It was around that time.

“miss.”

A familiar voice was heard.

Tachibana lifted his face from the pillow and turned his head in the direction where the sound came from.

“It’s you.”

Then, there, a man in a black ninja costume was lying prostrate.

“I have returned after completing what you commanded.”

What is clear?

That… Oh, by the way, I heard about the relationship between Taylor Marvel and Lee Seong-hyeon, and I ordered a reinvestigation of Lee Seong-hyeon from beginning to end.

“Oh, I see.”

Tachibana Rie’s reaction was lukewarm.

Honestly, what more information could there be now?

Of course, it’s not like there weren’t any, but at the time, I couldn’t believe it, so I was just being unreasonable.

If that wasn’t the case in the first place, Taylor Marvel would have denied it.

Because of Tailer Mabil’s personality, he absolutely hated false rumors or gossip about himself.

Also, judging from Lee Seong-hyeon’s attitude at lunch, it was something that could only be done with confidence.

Would he have lied to me and insulted me like that using a background that wasn’t even true?

“You’ve worked hard. But now that it’s over, go back to where you were.”

That’s why Rie Tachibana waved her hand slightly as the man tried to take out the document containing the information she had researched from her bosom.

There was no reason to look at information I already knew, and I didn’t want to see information about that Lee Seong-hyeon.

Is there anything more that makes you angry just by looking at it?

“But…”

“Okay, then.”

“Miss. However, according to our investigation…”

“Please step back.”

A servant who doesn’t back down even when you beckon him.

He was already in a heated state, and when he thought that even a servant was ignoring him, his voice gradually grew louder.

“Taylor Marvel and Lee Sung Hyun are not related…”

“Don’t make me say it again and again. With such trivial information…”

And the final critical point.

Tachibana Rie finally tried to express her anger.

But that anger quickly subsided.

It was because of a piece of information that came to my ear.

“The reinvestigation revealed that Taylor Marvel and Lee Seong-hyeon were not related.”

If that’s true.

Lee Seong-hyeon…

**

A time when Tachibana Rie gains new information about Lee Seong-hyeon.

Yukina Ishihara, who was watching Tachibana Rie’s actions through clairvoyance in a different room in the same dormitory, shook her head.

“I told you not to.”

You’re going to walk into hell yourself.

What can I do?

Of course, I could have used my weaknesses to threaten him again, to prevent him from acting rashly.

I had no obligation to go that far for someone who didn’t listen even after being warned once.

Originally, that weakness wasn’t a move for Tachibana, but a move to shake up her father.

Tachibana Rie was just a side branch anyway.

And his goal is to defeat his senior and make it his own.

It’s not about ruining your senior’s plans.

If it was going to be ruined in the first place.

If only I had exposed what my senior had done from the beginning.

If not, you could just hide all the keys or break other key components.

Because there is no ability in the world that can see into someone’s inner thoughts.

How do you find hidden regressors among over 8 billion people?

And that’s for someone who only has four years at most.

‘This episode is progressing faster than that.’

I’m not saying it’s bad.

That means that the senior’s preparations were also reduced.

And the faster the progress, the faster the trap you placed at the end would activate.

In other words, it was in line with the saying that the day when he would beat his senior and the day when his senior would become his was approaching faster.

If that happens…

‘Well, you’ll forget what I said. But I’ll still say thank you. Thank you, Yukina. You’re the one who ─’

“huh?”

Yukina Ishihara, who had been imagining the future ahead of her after defeating her senior, tilted her head.

It was because I had a fleeting feeling that I had forgotten something important that I shouldn’t forget.

“Something…”

But I just thought it was important and couldn’t remember what it was anymore.

yearning?

love?

adhesion?

no.

heartbreak.

anger.

And the feeling of betrayal.

No, this is…

that…

‘thank you.’

A ringing in Yukina Ishihara’s ears.

**

A land that once housed an independent kingdom called the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The southernmost territory of the Eastern Alliance.

Okinawa’s summer weather was hot.

Even though it is late June, the average low temperature is close to 30 degrees.

As soon as I left the airport, I was sweating profusely even when I was still.

Moreover, as Okinawa is an island, the humidity in the air is high, which creates a sticky, unpleasant feeling.

“It’s hot.”

And it seems that the same applies to S-class heroes who are known to have transcended humanity.

Taylor Marville, a middle-aged man in an Aloha shirt, waved the fan he was holding in his hand.

“It’s hot. It’s hot. I wish there was something cool.”

He continued to fan himself while looking at Elizabeth.

It’s not that I didn’t know what it meant.

“Then come back…”

And Elizabeth knew what that meant, too, so she glared at Taylor Marvel.

“Grandson, Miss Amanda told me to go back. As a grandfather, I can’t stand the thought of my grandson being connected to a child who behaves like this…”

“Don’t go. I’ll get you some cool water. Please wait here.”

“Not water, but coffee. Oh, and ice is the same.”

“…Yes. Coffee, not water. And ice cubes. Okay.”

But it was a joke to Taylor Marville, who had been playing the grandfather role for over a week and had become adept at teasing Elizabeth.

Elizabeth couldn’t even have a proper argument, so she gritted her teeth and went off to buy coffee.

“haha.”

Taylor Mabille laughed as he watched her back.

“Please do it in moderation.”

“Just enough? Considering what they’re trying to do here, this is just enough.”

“yes?”

“No. You don’t have to know. Just know that you have to be grateful to me.”

Then he just looked at me and made an expression that said ignorance was bliss.

“There are no more reporters than that.”

Taylor Marvell looked around and opened his mouth with a puzzled tone.

It’s not like I came to Okinawa hiding my identity.

He seemed curious because the reporters who would normally flock there did not show up.

“Oh, that’s…”

The reason was simple.

But what I mean is, I couldn’t break it.

This was because a voice came out in the middle and intervened between Taylor Marvel.

“Let me explain that matter.”

Then Taylor Mabille and I turned our heads towards the place where the sound came from.

“Oh, I’m late in introducing myself. My name is Rie Tachibana. I will support you in your future schedule, Taylor Marvel. I know I’m lacking, but I ask for your help.”

Rie Tachibana.

She was smiling brightly.