01. A sword for you (4)

Early morning. I opened the classroom door.

Familiar scenery on the familiar road to school. Until I sat in my seat, nothing was different from usual.

Until the long hair blocked my view like a curtain.

“Hello, Ijin Kim.”

“… Yoon Seo-hee?”

As I absentmindedly lifted her head, her eyes met Yoon Seo-hee looking down at me.

“Poop. What expression is that?”

“No, just….”

Isn’t that the expression I didn’t expect that there would be someone who pretended to know me from the morning? I thought it would be possible to talk to him after school, when the classroom was empty.

Even now, I can feel the eyes of the classmates glancing at me, perhaps surprising that the two of us are stuck together.

However, Yoon Seo-hee didn’t seem to care about that at all, so she continued her words by raising her arm on my desk.

“Rather than that, listen. She listened to you and she thought about what kind of sword she should make last night?”

“Ugh.”

“But I had no idea.”

No, you can’t.

“Can’t you feel it even though it’s the sword you’re going to use?”

“Yes. No matter how much I thought about it, there was nothing I wanted. I just realized that I am not bound by the shape of the sword. So, do you think I can make something for you?”

Anything is fine. Do you know that it is the most difficult order for creators?

I crossed my arms and rested my chin on my head, lost in thought.

The sword Yoon Seo-hee used in the past was a standard direct sword. It is commonly referred to as a longsword.

The most easy and undemanding versatility is an advantage, but that ease is also a disadvantage. Because none of them are special.

“But I can’t really make anything. I think the form that makes the best use of your strengths would be better.”

“My strengths?”

“Uh. How did you win, Hyunwoo Lee?”

“Huh? Yeah… Hit me well… ?”

Yoon Seo-hee smiles awkwardly and blurs the end of her words vaguely. She said, revealing her expression of bewilderment.

“Don’t joke, seriously. He’s second in the combat department, so he wouldn’t have just won.”

“It’s true… I just dodged them all, approached them quickly, grabbed them, and won.”

That makes no sense. A student in the combat department who trained his abilities for many years before entering the academy, but a boy who just awakened beat him well and won? As long as the difference in stats isn’t overwhelming….

Wait. Stat difference?

Looking at Yoon Seo-hee, I wiggled my fingers as if to tell her to come closer. Although she had a puzzled face, she tilted her head slightly knowingly, and I whispered, lowering her voice as much as possible.

“Because I need it to make a sword, tell me honestly. What is your melee status?”

“B, B-, A, C+ in order of Stamina, Strength, Dexterity, Endurance.”

Crazy.

Chegeunmin BB-A? It was a jaw-dropping figure.

If your melee stat is an average B rank, it’s pretty much an active hunter level.

Of course, battles are not determined by status alone, and in order to use them properly, skill ranks appropriate to stats, how to use magic, knowledge and equipment, and numerous other complex factors are all required. Because stats and skill ranks don’t directly lead to hunter ranks.

Even with that said, if your melee stat average is B rank, even if you fight with just your body, you can’t fight against normal low-level monsters.

I thought it was a huge talent, but it wasn’t at the student level at all.

“Awesome. In particular, the agility stat is A… I think we should use this to our advantage.”

“Well, how?”

“Yoon Seo-hee, you are not a blunt or heavy sword style. You need a light and flexible sword to save your speed.”

Several designs quickly pass through my mind. How thick the sword should be, how to smelt the metal for strong elasticity, what materials will be needed for that, and how much time will be needed.

To make the most of the week, you need to plan in detail from now on.

“I have a few things on my mind right now….”

I tried to tell Yoon Seo-hee the ideas that popped into my head.

Smart.

I was distracted by the sound of knocking on the desk. Looking towards where the sound came from, for some reason, Teacher Song Ha was standing in front of the desk.

Everyone in the classroom was looking at the two of us.

“When did you two become so close? It’s good to be close, but it’s time for an assembly soon~”

“Oops, sorry!”

“I’m sorry~”

I threw my back in surprise. It was the same for Yoon Seo-hee.

‘We’ll talk about the rest later,’ she whispered softly through her mouth and hurried back to her place. I also opened the textbook while preparing for the morning class.

–

“Hyunwoo. Did you hear about that?”

“What are you talking about?”

1St grade, class 1.

It is a space where Lee Hyun-woo, the eldest son of the chairman of Serim Group, reigns as king.

When it’s lunchtime, Hyunwoo Lee and his gang take over the classroom as if it were their own. Ordinary students who couldn’t fit into the crowd, or a few students who hated Lee Hyun-woo, left the classroom as if they were always kicked out to avoid unnecessary swelling, and now the classroom was filled with only his followers.

“There is a kid you’ve been taking care of lately. The girl in class 3….”

“Yoon Seo-hee.”

Lee Hyun-woo muttered lowly with anger that seemed like he was going to chew on it at any moment. The students around him shrug their shoulders at that angry voice.

Lee Hyeon-woo is a tyrant in class 1 of the first year. And when he gets angry, they are always the first to suffer.

“Why is he?”

“I heard that Jiwon and the boy have been hanging out since yesterday? The kids saw us at the cafe together. But his major is sword making…..”

“What?”

Lee Hyun-woo grabbed whatever he could get his hands on and threw it at the male student in front of him. A thick notebook filled with assignments written by his followers hit his forehead, and despite the unreasonable violence, the student was unable to say anything.

“Fuck you, why did you say that now?”

“Mi-sorry! But Hyunwoo! When I found out, he said he would just fall! My major is sword making, but I haven’t been able to make a single sword so far, so there’s a rumor that the failure is almost certain!”

“… A failing student?”

At those words, Hyeonu Lee calmed down his anger just a little bit.

Failed student. Because I’m a failing student… Laughter was built up in verse.

“Looks like you’re getting along with a guy of your level.”

“It’s true, Hyeonu.”

“It’s perfect for his level. It seemed like they were playing with each other.”

At those words, the students around him smiled servilely and courted Lee Hyun-woo. Seeing that, Hyunwoo Lee smiled pleasantly.

Yes. This is normal

Lee Hyun-woo remembered what happened a few months ago.

Yoon Seo-hee showed overwhelming skills on the battlefield. The woman who dared me to suffer a humiliating defeat, coming at such a speed that she deflected every sword she wielded.

She was caught off guard. She was a couple with a light heart. If she had given her all in the first place, she would never have lost like that.

No, Seohee Yoon must have been cheating on something.

Since she was young, she only ate dishes with expensive ingredients that had magical powers, received billions of won private lessons from an incumbent hunter, and even possessed personal facilities and top-notch equipment worth tens of billions of won.

It is absurd that a transfer student who has only been awakened for a few months can win without doing any tricks behind the scenes against me, who is currently second in the academy battle because she is so talented.

She did it anyway, she was humiliated, and as much as she got, she should pay back.

“… ….”

It’s impossible. It’s something that should never happen. If one in a thousand, one in ten thousand, loses again to Yoon Seo-hee… ?

That shouldn’t have happened. Lee Hyun-woo preferred a fight where victory was already certain before the fight. So, he ordered her followers to bully her so that she could not concentrate on her lessons, and even stole her sword so that she could not bring it with her during her final exam.

As I found out, the situation in the family is insignificant, and if I had to get a new sword at that level, I would barely buy D-class trash.

If you come out with trash like that, you won’t be able to take a hit from ‘the weapon’ prepared with the help of the family.

But it was not enough. He could not even give one hundredth of the humiliation he had received. I wanted to give that cheeky woman more pain and despair, so I took away even that cheap sword and messed up Yoon Seo-hee’s things.

If Yoon Seo-hee can’t stand her temper and comes to visit her, she’s fine with that too. I can pick her up right in her face.

If she tries to use her violence on the spot, use that as a pretext to expel her. Private violence is strictly prohibited at the academy.

No one dared to go against him in this academy, and everything had to be done according to his will. Hyunwoo Lee sincerely thought so.

But to hear that Yoon Seo-hee is taking her Ji-won and her failed students.

It is obvious what poor people with no money and no background think. I’m sure he’s thinking of making something that’s not as good as a sword.

There’s no way I’m going to lose to an E- or D-grade weapon at most, but… I don’t like that woman holding out her hopes.

So there’s nothing wrong with just in case.

“Gather Jiwon and all the kids.”

“Hyunwoo, what are you trying to do?”

“Uh. From now on, do what I tell you to do.”

It will be useless no matter what the failed students do together, but Lee Hyun-woo likes things that are certain.

So it was easier for me to do everything I could.