The Spoon Villain Is Obsessed with the Hero Again Today - Chapter 61



Broken Spoon (2)

─Can’t you just… stay here….

I never imagined such words would come out of Choi So-eun’s mouth.

“Gasp…!”

Not only I, but Choi So-eun herself seemed to be shocked. As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly let go of my clothes.

“What did I just say….”

It seemed her mouth moved on its own without her realizing it. Choi So-eun brought her hand close to her mouth in disbelief.

Facing the dazed Choi So-eun, I decided to confirm the truth.

“What did you mean by that just now? Could it be that you’re saying this because you don’t want me to leave this school?”

When I pretended to be debating whether to join the guild or not, Choi So-eun had grabbed my clothes and asked me to stay here.

The situation just now looked like she was holding onto me.

“….”

Choi So-eun holding onto me? I couldn’t quite understand. She usually didn’t even look at someone like me. She always found me annoying.

But why is she acting like this now?

Could it be that she changed her mind in the middle? Did her thoughts about me change a bit?

“That’s not what I meant….”

But Choi So-eun denied it. She shook her head, saying it wasn’t like that.

“`

Afterwards, he explained the reason.

“That just now… it was just out of concern…”

“Concern?”

“Yeah… You always get hurt… What would happen if you joined the guild in that state…”

Surely, you’d get hurt even more. From the moment you join the guild, you’d be out hunting monsters every day.

Choi So-eun was worried about that. She meant that it would be safer to stay at school rather than getting hurt like that.

There didn’t seem to be any other meaning. It wasn’t out of regret either.

“The medication is done, so I’ll be going now.”

Choi So-eun quickly organized the medical cart with busy hands. Then she swiftly left the hospital room without showing her face to me.

She ran out as if she had done something wrong.

It was the first time I saw Choi So-eun like that.

*

After Choi So-eun left, I took out the spoon I had kept in the safe.

─── Andvari ───

-Error!

-Unable to activate the system window due to an error.

-Please reconnect through the normal route.

───

“Here we go again.”

Since the last battle with Marbas, the spoon had been like this. Whenever I tried to open the system window, an error window kept blocking me.

That’s not all. Besides the system issue, the appearance of the spoon was also severely damaged. During the last fight, it got engulfed in flames, and the head of the spoon was completely melted.

It wasn’t an A-rank monster for nothing. The once smooth surface of the spoon was now like a lunar crater.

“It needs repair…”

Maybe it’s for the best. I had been thinking of getting it serviced sometime. While I’m hospitalized and resting, I might as well get it repaired.

It’s a good time to take a break.

Knock, knock, knock.

While I was focused on the spoon, someone knocked on the door. Then, a female student entered the hospital room.

“Oh, hi. How are you feeling?”

It was the operator who had actively helped me during the last battle.

It was Kim Han-bit, a second-year student in the technical department.

“As you can see, there’s no major problem with moving.”

“That’s a relief. I was really shocked when I first heard the report that you had collapsed.”

Kim Hanbit sat down on a nearby chair.

On the other hand, I got up from the bed and headed towards the refrigerator.

“Would you like something to drink?”

“Oh, I’m fine.”

How could I just sit still when a guest had come all the way here? As a token of gratitude, I should at least offer something to drink.

I took out a can of soda and handed it to Kim Hanbit.

“What the…?”

But Kim Hanbit looked at the can once and tilted her head.

“This is Sol’s Eye. Don’t you have anything else?”

“Something else? I have Deja Tea and Ceylon Tea.”

“I’ll just drink this…”

After hearing the lineup of other drinks, Kim Hanbit sighed and gave up. She decided to drink the Sol’s Eye she had just received.

Chik─!

“Ugh…! It’s awful…!”

After taking a sip, Kim Hanbit grimaced. Then she tried to push the can away.

“If you’re going to throw it away like that, just give it to me.”

To think she would discard such a delicious drink after just one sip. She really has a picky taste.

I took the drink back from Kim Hanbit.

“So, what were you doing alone?”

Kim Hanbit sat back down on the chair and looked around the entire hospital room. She was asking what I was doing alone in such a cramped room.

“What else is there to do in a hospital room besides receiving treatment?”

I showed her the spoon I had been fiddling with earlier. In fact, it was now more like a lump of metal than a spoon.

“Wow, that’s really messed up. Shouldn’t you get it fixed quickly?”

That’s right.

Come to think of it, Kim Hanbit was here. There was no need to go far. I could just ask her to introduce me to a skilled mechanic right here.

She was also a student in the technical department. She would probably know a lot about this kind of thing. Let’s ask her.

“Do you have any engineers you could recommend?”

“Engineer?”

Hmm. Kim Han-bit crossed his arms and thought deeply.

“Ah!”

His face suddenly brightened as if someone had come to mind.

“Amazing! We have an incredible new student in our technical department!”

“Incredible new student?”

“Yeah, do you know Yoo Ji-woo by any chance?”

Yoo Ji-woo. It’s a name I’ve never heard before.

If it were a combat department student, I might know, but I don’t know many people in the technical department.

Moreover, since it’s a new student who just joined, the name is even more unfamiliar.

“I heard that any broken item can be fixed in no time if it goes through his hands?”

“Any item?”

“Yeah, I heard he can even fix artifacts.”

Artifacts are different from ordinary household appliances. They have a more complex structure and more intricate circuits because they are powered by magic.

Moreover, not all artifacts are the same. The forms of artifacts are endless. Once they break, it’s almost impossible to repair them. Because there’s no one who can fix them.

But.

He can even repair those artifacts.

He must be an incredible talent.

“Can you give me the number of that student, Yoo Ji-woo?”

“Uh… well….”

When I asked, holding my smartphone, Kim Han-bit made a slightly complicated expression.

“I’m not that close with him….”

“Then at least his Instagram ID.”

“Yoo Ji-woo doesn’t use Instagram, I think.”

“What.”

A kid who just turned 20, and even goes to college, doesn’t have an Instagram ID?

That made me trust him even more.

Isn’t he a real nerd among nerds?

“Then I guess I’ll have to visit him directly.”

“Ah, I can at least tell you the location of his lab.”

Kim Han-bit reached out his hand. It meant he wanted my smartphone.

I handed her the smartphone.

“If you go, you’ll be able to meet him right away. I heard he stays cooped up in the lab every day.”

Kim Hanbit turned on the school map app and set the location for me. It was the lab where Yoo Jiwoo worked.

“Hope it gets fixed well.”

“Thanks.”

I should visit there tomorrow morning. It wasn’t too far from here. Just a short walk and I could see the building.

“Oh, it’s almost class time. I have to go now.”

Kim Hanbit checked the time and suddenly stood up. It seemed like she came to visit me to kill some spare time.

Well, it’s nice that she came anyway.

“Take another drink with you on your way out.”

“No thanks. Who would drink that?”

Kim Hanbit stuck her tongue out at me and left the hospital room.

Even though this was our second meeting, I didn’t feel awkward talking to her. It felt comfortable, like we had known each other for a long time.

She was quite an interesting friend.

Screech─

Not even a minute after Kim Hanbit left the room, the door opened again.

It seemed like she had forgotten something.

“…”

But contrary to my expectation, it wasn’t Kim Hanbit who entered the room.

It was Choi Soeun.

Choi Soeun peeked her head in from outside the door and looked at me with a slightly sullen expression.

“What’s going on?”

There was no reason for Choi Soeun to visit the hospital room at this hour.

The medication time had passed. It wasn’t meal time either. And it definitely wasn’t cleaning time.

What could she be here for?

“Who was that person just now…?”

It turned out she was asking about the identity of Kim Hanbit, who had just left the room.

Was it because of the visitor list?

I told her the truth.

“Second-year technical sergeant, Kim Hanbit.”

“Technical Corps…? Why is someone from another corps coming to see you…?”

Isn’t that a remark ignoring me? Are they making fun of me for not having friends? Now they’re openly giving me the cold shoulder?

“I got to know them when the brake broke last time. They were active as an operator then.”

But what can I do? I’m already friends with Kim Hanbit. We even shared my favorite drink, Sol’s Eye.

At this point, we’re practically bosom buddies.

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“…”

At the news that I had made a new friend, Choi Soeun couldn’t say anything.

She just mumbled to herself with a displeased expression.

She was clearly in a bad mood.