02. A visitor from the future (1)

A few days have passed since the final exam.

Since then, nothing in particular has passed.

I got a pretty high score in the final practical test, probably because teacher Na Yurim liked the sword I made.

But there were too many subjects I had already skipped before, so my grades didn’t rise like an exponential function.

I only narrowly avoided failing.

My goal from the beginning was to avoid failure, so I am satisfied with my grades now.

But the case of Yoon Seo-hee was a little different.

She received a huge bonus for her transfer student’s victory over the battle and the second-in-command, and for voluntarily pulling out her aura sword.

It was being said that Yoon Seo-hee would of course take the senior seat, let alone the second seat in the battle department next semester, so I could roughly guess how much of a topic the test had become within the academy.

As soon as her exams were over, Yoon Seo-hee received active love calls from all kinds of guilds and companies, among which there was a guild that promised to support her with all her tuition and living expenses and immediately provide equipment equivalent to an A rank.

But she said that Yoon Seo-hee rejected all those proposals with her single word.

She regretfully asked why she turned it all down.

“It’s nice to have money, but it’s not too bad, and I don’t need any equipment because I have Jin Lee.”

He said.

It means that the sword I made is better than the A-rank equipment, so it was burdensome, but I didn’t feel bad.

But since when did I start making equipment for Yoon Seo-hee? No, it’s not that I don’t particularly like it.

And there is one more thing that is different from usual, albeit a small thing.

“Are you Lee Jin Kim?”

A timid male student caught me in the hallway.

Since we had never talked to each other, I had no idea what he was talking to.

“Uh. What’s the matter?”

“… I want to say thank you.”

“What?”

“Just thank you. Then I’m done.”

I turned my back and stared blankly at the boy leaving.

I shrugged her shoulders once and entered the classroom, and this time the children of Class 3 greeted me.

“Hello Kim Yi-jin.”

“Is Lee Jin here? Good morning~”

He has a crush on me out of the blue these days… Is your crush a little strange? The number of people who showed goodwill increased.

It was a completely unknown change to me.

“Hello. Good morning.”

I briefly greeted everyone I met and sat down in my seat as usual.

‘What the hell is going on?’

It was my personality not to pay much attention to others, so I just passed it off as if it was the case, but no matter how much it lasted for several days, I was definitely concerned about the reason.

Then the male student sitting next to me started talking to me.

“It’s because of Lee Hyeon-woo.”

“Huh?”

“The boy who talked to you in the hallway earlier is a student in class 1.”

The boy’s name is Lee Byung-jun, who has a dwarfed physique and a dark impression due to the long bangs that hide his eyebrows.

In the past, when Yoon Seo-hee got into a fight with Lee Hyeon-woo’s gang and her front door became noisy, she was the one who told me not to go in.

Even after the exam, for some reason, he sometimes talks to me like now.

“Yesterday, the disciplinary committee decided to expel Lee Hyun-woo from the academy, right? Most of the gang that voluntarily sympathized under him were suspended.”

I looked at him with a completely new expression.

I actually heard it for the first time now.

“… It looks like you didn’t know at all. Since Kim Yi-jin had some stake in you, why don’t you take an interest in it?”

“Sorry. I’ve been a bit busy lately.”

These days, with a new mindset, I was busy trying to make a different weapon than before.

And in the future, if I can afford to pay attention, I plan to use it to make weapons.

“I heard you threw a sword at Yoon Seo-hee during the battle and exam. Thanks to that performance, it seemed like your name was a little known.”

“You said that?”

“Uh. It’s not to the extent of Yoon Seo-hee. Isn’t that why you wanted to say thank you? Until now, because of Lee Hyeon-woo, the atmosphere in first grade wasn’t a joke.”

I had no idea.

I couldn’t feel it even though it was almost August.

I wonder if I wasn’t a freshman who didn’t even know the name Lee Hyun-woo.

“… Well, it could be because you always went to the support department alone. Since I’m in the same combat department as him, I couldn’t help but not know the atmosphere.”

“Hmm. I guess the atmosphere wasn’t very good?”

Lee Byung-jun shook his head as if to stop talking.

“It was no joke. It’s already over, but I have to say it in detail, and the kids in class 1 must have been on thin ice. Because in front of Lee Hyun-woo, I had to be careful about breathing.”

“Um….”

“Wasn’t Yoon Seo-hee living alone as soon as she transferred to school because she was paying attention to that kid? So, honestly, I felt refreshed during my final performance. It’s not just me, everyone else did it, right?”

That’s right.

Actually, it was strange that a pretty and good-natured girl like Yoon Seo-hee would be alone without any friends.

You don’t have a low social personality like me, and you said something with a nuance that you had a lot of friends at school before you transferred.

At that moment, she said that even the tiger would come when she spoke, and the back door opened and Yoon Seo-hee entered her classroom.

As soon as she entered her classroom, the attention of her class was focused on Seo-hee.

Students, smiling brightly, flock to the back door of the classroom.

“Seohee, welcome!”

“Good morning! Are you late today?”

“Seo-hee. I brought some snacks, let’s eat together!”

“… Oh, hello~? Thanks?”

Yes. After the final practical exam, I had a slight increase in the number of students who were kind to me.

Yoon Seo-hee is the school idol… She doesn’t add a single exaggeration and she almost became the first grader’s hero.

Having suffered from Lee Hyeon-woo’s bullying and the neglect of her classmates, she was a bit shy at first, but she soon decided to accept their change, saying that good is good.

It was not a result that was easily achieved.

I heard later, but it is said that some classmates along with teacher Lee Song-ha personally delivered a sincere apology to Yoon Seo-hee.

“Sorry, I’m sorry Seohee… ! Teacher, I had no idea that Seohee was going through such a difficult situation… !”

In particular, teacher Song Ha hugged Seo Hee and cried.

I knew that Lee Hyeon-woo was a bad guy, but I thought he had done such a vicious thing, I thought Seo-hee transferred and was just a little out of the way.

That must mean that Lee Hyun-woo and his gang’s bullying was shady and subtle.

Anyway, Yoon Seo-hee decided to forgive them out of her generous heart.

In the first place, it wasn’t their fault, and he said it was okay now that he had paid back enough.

“… ….”

All of these things were directly told to me by Yoon Seo-hee.

We exchanged contact information again, saying that we had bought a new smartphone, but from that day on, we have been calling every day for strange reasons.

One day, I was wondering if the contact information was exchanged successfully.

One day, I was curious about the speaker performance of my new smartphone.

Another day… Done. Let’s not talk I wondered why he would call again today.

Since they’re friends, you can just call them comfortably.

“It’s only been a few days, but you’ve become the center of the whole class.”

Lee Byung-jun, who was listening to my words, nodded.

“Of course not. She’s pretty, has a great personality, and is so talented that she draws a sword for aura. Can’t be popular And you, Kim Ijin… In other words, the helper who delivered the weapon to such a hero?”

I see. Is that what it feels like?

Surrounded by her classmates, Yoon Seo-hee was so buried in the crowd that she couldn’t even see her face.

“Ah.”

“… ?”

In the middle of the crowd, Yoon Seo-hee’s eyes met for a very short time.

She looked at me for a moment with a dazed expression, then she smiled brightly, closed one eye, and winked.

“… ….”

Did you say hello to me?

There was no reason to ignore her, so she waved her hand with a shy expression.

However, I didn’t know if Yoon Seo-hee, surrounded by the crowd, saw my greeting, and Lee Byung-jun, who was sitting next to her, was the only one who looked at me, asking me what I was doing.

–

Afternoon. Major class hours.

To say it was a class for my major, it was just self-study at this time.

This is because the students’ motivation to learn has gone downhill since the final practical examination is over and vacation is coming soon after a few days.

Originally, the combat and support departments were supposed to split up to take classes, but now that the exams are over, they didn’t have to go that far.

In fact, it felt like we were forced to stay inside the academy because of compulsory education, so the students did what they wanted to do.

Even at times like this, the diligent students who train non-stop go to the training room for their major, and the other kids watch movies or chat in the classroom.

In my case, I headed to my major class first.

Yoon Seo-hee also came and said that she would get a feel for her sword, and she ran away to the gym, and there was nothing special for her to do in her classroom alone.

If you knock on iron at the smelting workshop, time will pass quickly.

As I headed toward the first year workshop, I saw a strange commotion in a corner of the hallway.

“…… ?”

A disturbing atmosphere that can be understood at a glance.

Students who joined late raised their voices out of curiosity as if asking what was going on.

“Someone suddenly fell down!”

“I heard you had a seizure while screaming?”

This is bad news… What happened all of a sudden?

I hoped that the student who had suddenly collapsed would be safe and stayed away from the crowd for a bit. Teacher Song Ha ran out through the crowd with an urgent expression on his back carrying the girl in an unusual condition.

“Jisoo! Wake up, Jisoo!”

“Yeah, hahahaha… !!”

“Don’t lose your mind!”

A white-haired girl with a painful expression and full of cold sweat.

I just stared at her back as she headed towards the health room.