I Became the Leader of Academy City - I Became the Leader of Academy City chapter 90

90 – Discipline 29. The Leader Does Not Tolerate Provocation (2)

─ ‘Why do you want to be taught by me so much?’

─ ‘Because I know you are strong.’

My teacher, Kim Man-seok, is a person between the old and new mankind.

To be exact, it was the old human race.

A time when mankind was carrying out ‘Canaan’, a project to build a city in a land blessed with the golden sheep.

He was a person who survived that period of rapid change.

If he were alive, he would have been over 50 by now.

Most people who were in a similar situation to their teacher became explorers. Just as heroes are born in difficult times, they threw themselves into the outside world. Was it because of a sense of duty?

No, there wasn’t just such a romantic reason. Probably because there was a lot of resentment towards the demonic beasts wandering the outside world.

Unlike the new humans who were born in a land blessed by the Golden Sheep and lead a safe life in their own way, they would have lost precious people such as family, friends, and colleagues to the demonic beasts.

He would have been angry simply because he had been shown an unreasonable hell.

That’s why they couldn’t give up their attachment to the outside world.

My teacher lost his son to the teeth of a demonic beast. That’s why he spent most of his life fighting against demonic beasts.

I recalled the original knowledge and remembered the time when Kim Man-seok briefly returned to the city, and I met him while waiting at the place where he would come. After that, he asked to be made his disciple.

At a time when the shock of losing Kim Dal-bi was still deep, I remember feeling quite harsh on myself.

Kim Man-seok refused. However, I persistently pursued him and asked him for help, and eventually he changed his mind to teach me.

I don’t know what made me change my mind. No matter how many times I asked him, he just kept repeating that he had changed his mind.

When I think back on how my son and I looked alike, I wonder if maybe I saw my son reflected in me.

Since my teacher had extensive experience in actual combat, he preferred combative training methods and did not regard me as young.

Moreover, since it was the 6th level, there was no shortage of teachings.

That’s how I endured a terribly difficult and painful time.

─ ‘Woojin.’

One day, a night filled with stars.

I lit a bonfire with my teacher and had a barbecue party with cultured meat.

As I was happily eating it, wondering why it was meat, the teacher put his hand on my head and smiled.

─ ‘You will probably become ridiculously strong. ‘He’s no match for someone like me.’

─ ‘I know. At least my magic power is that refined.’

At that time, I was full of confidence because I believed that the results of repeating magic exercises when I was young would clearly show.

The reason I came to think of myself as an ordinary person was later when I hit the wall of the 5th rank.

─ ‘Haha, this guy is so unlucky, it’s perfect to beat him up.’

─ ‘… Where are you going?’

─ ‘Where can I go and leave you?’

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Before dawn the next day, my teacher left my side without a word.

Unlike Dalbi, I had already guessed that my teacher would leave. It was because he often talked about his son, which he did not normally do.

If the lump in his heart resurfaced, it was easy to predict that his steps would head outside the city.

But that day, I was bruised all day long.

Breaking up with someone you were attached to was difficult to get used to.

“…”

Nestled among the pure white chrysanthemums was a portrait of a teacher I knew in his youth. Oh Baek-seo and I attended dressed in black, bowed and burned incense.

Since most citizens do not have parents, the chief mourner is usually a person close to them like family or an AI robot.

In the case of my teacher, his colleague Song Do-il became the chief resident. Doyle was someone I often encountered when I was a disciple.

He was also the one who told me the news of my teacher’s death. Even though he was about the same age as his teacher, he looked like an old man with white hair.

Like his teacher, he seemed to have aged very quickly as he lived a life full of resentment and stress, fighting endless battles in the outside world.

‘Bandage…’

Contrary to my memory, Doyle had a bandage around his left eye. He seemed to have recently suffered damage to his left eye.

“May the deceased rest in peace.”

Baek Seo and I bowed our heads as we expressed our condolences.

My eyes were focused on the portrait photo for a while.

I spent time in a daze.

The white paper waited patiently.

Even though I knew when my teacher, Kim Man-seok, would come to Neo Seoul through knowledge of the original work.

Because I had no idea he would return so quickly.

Meanwhile, there were only a few people eating.

Only rare elderly people.

They were an old race of people who chose to live a peaceful old age in the city. They came to see my teacher.

“I thought only Woojin would come, but a girl came too.”

Baek Seo and I sat side by side at the dinner table, and resident Song Do Il sat across from us and spoke. I could feel the gaze of other old humans.

Doyle didn’t seem too sad when his colleague, whom he had lived with for decades, left. He even seemed relaxed when smiling.

However, there were dark shadows under her eyes, as if she had not slept for several days.

The white paper greeted her kind face.

“I am the vice president of Asong High School’s leadership department. Since I am in a position to assist the manager, I accompanied him after hearing about the death of his teacher.”

“Ugh, okay. “The kid is smart.”

Doyle smiled happily, nodded his head, and looked at me.

“Woojin is the leader of Aseong High School… You grew up well without us. Still, a position like that must be quite difficult. The responsibility must be enormous.”

“Even if it’s hard, will you do it as well as your brother?”

“Is it? I don’t know because I have no responsibility for my work? Ah, Woojin. “Just a moment.”

Doyle motioned to me. He seemed to have something else to say. As I approached Doyle, he put his arm around my shoulder and turned my back on the white paper.

Doyle flirted and whispered.

“This guy even has a pretty girlfriend. Are you really fat?”

“Does it seem… ?”

“If you look at it, it’s fake. Congratulations, man.”

“Yeah, whatever. Thank you.”

Doyle was a very affectionate person.

I remember, when I was training under my teacher, Doyle would often come up to me and surprise me with a joke. He was quite funny, perhaps because of his hard training.

Even now, I could clearly see that he cared about my feelings.

‘The person who would be hurt the most would be you.’

Doyle must have carried his teacher

A teacher who is in a terrible state or has already died.

He must have endured a hellish time before returning to the city while traversing the outside world teeming with demonic beasts.

But my heart can’t be fine.

‘Who cares about whom?’

So, I decided to be considerate of this person for now.

“I wonder what you are talking about… ?”

“Nothing?”

Doyle made a fool of himself in response to Baek Seo’s question.

I returned to the seat next to the white paper.

“So Master… ?”

“It is not a special cause of death. Stupidly, he couldn’t gauge the gap between himself and his opponent and overexerted himself. Thanks to you, I ended up like this.”

Doyle spoke calmly and pointed to the bandaged area around his left eye.

“Well, it was planned. Still, we’ve lived a long time!”

I saw the presentation data last time, and it said that the explorer’s body recovery rate was 0.09%. Since it was accidentally brought by a colleague, it can be considered virtually impossible to retrieve.

Since the survival rate is not high, it is impossible to know whether explorers of whom there is no news are dead or alive, so a qualification renewal system is established every 10 years.

If he fails to renew his explorer status, he has a three-year grace period.

After three years, they are declared missing and pronounced dead.

The first day I visited my teacher was also the day he came to renew his qualifications.

“What is the hierarchy now?”

“It’s about the 6th level.”

“Kiya, I knew it would be like this. Woojin, this guy should have been the genius of the party. “I’ve never seen anyone with magic power as pure as yours!”

We talked normally about our current situation and about our teacher.

If it weren’t for the funeral, it would have been like a normal conversation between people who hadn’t seen each other for a long time.

It was a funny situation where we pretended not to know what each other felt and were considerate of each other even though we knew what each other was feeling.

“Really… “The unlucky guy is gone.”

It was a time when Doyle was swimming in the past.

A pair of mourners, a young man and woman, appeared.

All-white hair with flame-red hair.

A male student wearing sunglasses and walking majestically with a smile on his face. He put his hands in his pants pockets and walked like a sheep.

And a cool-faced female student with light blue twintail hair followed the male student.

“Who is it? “Just a moment.”

Doyle quickly returned to the mourning room. However, those mourners did not seem to be people I knew.

“… ?”

It was my first time seeing these students too.

Are they people who have a relationship with a teacher that I don’t know about?

They just stared at the portrait of their teacher in the mourning room and did not bow. Is it Protestant?

‘No… What is it?’

He doesn’t even bow his head.

Among the two men and women, the man quietly stared at the photo of his teacher’s portrait of him, then glanced at Doyle.

Eat. I laughed as if I was pathetic.

For a moment, I wondered if I had seen something wrong. Because the bad feelings were clearly revealed.

Doyle must have been feeling the same way as me, so he looked confused, but then his expression hardened.

“Who are you guys?”

“I just came here because Kim Man-seok said he was sick. In the end, this gentleman also passes away in vain like this.”

“… ?”

The man lifted his sunglasses up to his forehead and smiled heartily. He seemed like a bully.

“Ah, Yukgaejang! “Let’s go eat beef jerky.”

“Yes.”

They came to the dinner table, glanced at me and the white paper, then passed by.

I could feel that the atmosphere had become harsh due to the sounds coming from the mourning room. The white paper also seemed displeased.

The old mourners looked sideways at the new male and female mourners. Her eyes she was lifeless.

However, perhaps he was oblivious, or perhaps he just lived his life without paying attention to what others thought, the man just happily scooped up the beef stew.

It’s incredibly delicious to eat. It looks like they are filming a mukbang.

“Wow, come to the funeral for this taste!” “Jumo, one more bowl!”

The man shouted energetically as he lifted the bowl of beef soup towards the employee. The woman ate the cold cuts in silence.

Doyle looked at them with a puzzled expression.

The student who worked as an employee also felt the atmosphere and broke into a cold sweat.

The entire surroundings were filled with silence.

The employee brought the beef stew, and the man accepted it, saying “Thank you!” And then looked around.

“Huh?”

The man noticed that the murderous eyes of all the mourners were turned towards him.

The man’s face, which had been laughing heartily, looked irritated, and cross veins appeared on his forehead.

He said nervously.

“What are you looking at, you b*stards?”

Obvious provocation.

“Where is this young b*stard saying such nonsense!”

As one mourner shouted, the corners of the man’s mouth rose.

“I wanted to see this b*stard lose, right? I also came here for my own reasons. Are you guys just emotions? “I came to see it based on my feelings, so don’t worry.”

Sreung!

“Oh?”

Doyle quickly approached and held the knife to the man’s throat. The man was surprised, let out an exclamation and grinned.

“Oppa, it’s noisy so shut up.”

“Acha, are you sorry oppa?”

My brother responded softly to the urgings of the woman who was eating cold meat. They didn’t seem to care that Doyle had his sword drawn.

“You… , What on earth? What is your relationship with Manseok?”

When Doyle asked in a cruel voice, the man thought about it and answered.

“Specifically? “He’s just someone I know.”

“… ?”

“Kim Man-seok… You were once a guy who opposed Neo Seoul’s system, right? It was also famous.”

There are many problems with Neo Seoul’s system.

Like what I experienced at the factory when I was a child, there are problems that ignore human rights specified in the Constitution.

There was always criticism raised against him, and my teacher was one of those who maintained such criticism.

Perhaps because he was a person who had established himself as a strong figure among the old human race, the opinions expressed by my teacher were bound to carry weight.

“He was an adult who lived only with his mouth. It was annoying, that b*stard. But how could you die so significantly? “I thought I should take a look at this, right?”

The man pointed to the portrait photo with a spoon.

The faces of the mourners were severely distorted.

“What great progress this city is making for humanity! But isn’t it funny that someone who doesn’t know anything came forward!?”

“Oppa, my ears hurt, so be quiet…”

Before I knew it, my feet had moved.

Thump. I grabbed the man by the back of his head.

“Huh? Phew!”

Kwaang!!

Just like that, I hit the man’s head hard.

The man’s head was buried in the beef stew, breaking the table, and falling to the floor. A single scream erupted from the man.

One more time, he lifted his head and put it back on the floor.

Kwaang!!

“Have I said everything I wanted to say?”

As my emotions subsided, a somberness saw into my voice.

The woman, presumed to be her younger sister, only glanced at me and her brother, as she chewed her cold cuts.

“Kya! This guy makes it fun… !”

The man forced his head to turn, even though the skin on his head was torn by my grip.

He had considerable strength.

“What are you?”

As the man asked that question, he smiled crookedly, his face soaked in beef stew and the ingredients sticking together. He expressed his anger with his veins fully exposed.

It was fortunate that there seemed to be enough intention to resist.

Because my reason was already at its lowest point.

“It’s a leading team. We will suppress it with insults, disturbances in public places, and obstruction of business.”

If he provoked me regardless, I would just respond.