Club time after all morning classes.

Unlike usual, Yuli came not through the window, but through the front door of the room.

“Brother? The club manager wants to meet you?”

“Looks like things worked out better than I thought.”

Yuli leans back on the sofa in the manager’s office as if she’s used to it now.

“Yes, and congratulations.”

“Yes?”

As I made a puzzled expression at the sudden congratulations, she put the paper bag on the table from her bosom.

“What is this?”

“Club promotion certificate. Is it a silver club now?”

She laughs and talks.

When I opened the envelope and checked the contents, I was able to confirm that there was a paper and a certificate indicating that I had actually been promoted to the silver club.

“… … Are you working faster than you think? I thought it would take a little longer.”

For now, even if you’re fighting with the student council, it won’t be enough.

Considering the twisted personality of the student council president, I thought I would be rejected once or twice, but I thought it was easier than I thought.

Then, Yuli looked at me as if she was dumbfounded.

“Brother. Are you talking about what kind of people your junior brought to the academy recently?”

“ah.”

Are you talking about the time when old man Kwak Chun-sik and Geom-seon were messing around?

Old Man took his place as an academy instructor, and even Han Yeo-eun came recently, right?

Certainly, we couldn’t openly ignore our club, which was protected by such people.

“… … If I was rejected, I tried to visit the elders right away, but I’m glad I did.”

“what? really… … You’re brazen enough to say that you’re cheating.”

“Wouldn’t that be if you didn’t do anything to be snitched on?”

I know who wants to

So, it should be operated fairly.

“It is, but… … anyway! Things have been clearly conveyed, and if you go back to the main topic. The club manager asked me to meet him at the cafe later.”

“Which cafe are you talking about?”

“Are there any other cafes in the academy besides the new one?”

“ah.”

The business seems to be doing really well.

* * *

Even though it must have been an afternoon class, the cafe was literally packed with students.

Apparently, there were people who came out during break time or were involved in club activities.

Suddenly, I felt something different from yesterday.

no wait. Hasn’t the hamster grown a bit?

“Latte.”

“Yes, guest. About cafe latte—— Huh? young master?”

The latte that was about to take my order looked at me in amazement, as if she had completely adapted to the cafe now, as if she was very used to it.

“Latte. The hamsters seem to have grown a bit, have any changes?”

No, it wasn’t a little bit bigger. A situation where hamsters, which have grown almost several times, move the tray with their chubby bodies.

At this, Latte laughed single-singly as if it was nothing.

“Ahh. That. Since there are a lot of people, the hamsters can’t move a lot at once, so I recruited additional guinea pig staff.”

“… … guinea pig?”

Somehow, I thought it was too big.

If you look closely, you can see the hamsters roaming around the cafe cleaning.

“Are you sure you’re okay? It seems to have gotten a little faster.”

“Yes?”

I also thought it was a good idea to give Latte discretion over sales.

It would be nice to make the cafe more prosperous with these good ideas.

“By the way, what are you doing at this time, Bocchan? First of all, I recorded everything I thought was important information.”

“No no, not that. There’s someone I’m supposed to meet here. I stopped by for a while.”

“Ah, is that so? I thought you came to check if I was doing well. Ha ha ha ha ha.”

Latte scratches her head with a cheeky smile.

What kind of person am I in Latte’s head?

I decided not to say anything, realizing that I was definitely fighting in her presence all the time.

Well. It’s definitely something to be afraid of.

“Then suffer.”

“Yes! thank you!”

When I left her behind and went upstairs, I saw a huge number of people sitting and looking at the guinea pigs as if they were cute.

and that corner.

“There he is.”

There was someone I was looking for.

A hamster posing on a table and a woman diligently capturing it on her phone.

“Sorry for making you wait so long.”

Startled by my voice, she puts her phone in her pocket.

“You came earlier than expected.”

Then, as if nothing had happened, I lifted my coffee cup and quenched my thirst.

“Because I wanted to meet you.”

I said that and sat down, and she looked at me with sharp eyes.

“I wish I could tell you what you called me for.”

Could it be because of what happened when the student council audit was kicked out a while ago? Her expression towards me was not very good.

“I won’t stand still if it’s a useless story.”

The hand holding her phone trembles.

… … Surely, you’re not mad at me for interfering with the hamster filming?

Still, I decided to talk about the main topic.

“First of all, I am glad that you seem to like the cafe. I am also happy that so many people like it.”

“… … What are you talking about?”

She looks like she doesn’t understand.

“Did you not know? this cafe. It’s mine.”

“what?”

She is really surprised as if it was the first time in a while.

“Did you not hear anything else?”

“All I heard was that Hanwol Group obtained business rights… … Come to think of it, you were also a member of the Hanwol Group.”

As if she finally understood, she nodded and looked at the hamster sitting on my shoulder before I knew it.

“The business item was groundbreaking. To create a cafe that doesn’t exist in the academy, and hire Awoken staff to turn rodents into labor. I’ve heard rumors that there’s something similar overseas, but… … It was my first time seeing it like this, so I was quite surprised.”

Overseas was definitely a cat, right?

Cats don’t listen well, so it seems like I’ve heard somewhere that people are going crazy even though it’s embarrassing.

“By the way, why did I ask to see you?”

While talking like that, she ate the cake on the table with a spoon.

Perhaps he liked the taste so much, he had already eaten most of the piece of cake, which was supposed to be quite large.

“I am thinking of the next business item, but I think I need the opinion and consent of the head of the club.”

“… … Next business?”

“ah. The cake you just ate. Do you like it?”

At my sudden question, she tilts her head, looks at the cake again, and opens her mouth.

“yes. it’s a good cake The texture of the sponge is great, and the basic ingredients are good, so the taste itself is excellent. I think it would have been successful even if it was sold in the market.”

“That cake. It was made by the patissier club.”

“… … huh? this?”

But it doesn’t end here.

“The coffee you are drinking right now is also made with beans roasted by the barista club.”

The beans themselves were something I personally selected and selected, but as a result, the beans were roasted through that side.

“In other words, more than half of the food sold below is not ready-made food, but purchased wholesale through club activities. Do you know what this means?”

“Well, your business can coexist with the academy’s clubs. It won’t be that obvious.”

“Similar but… … no. The really important thing is that the products made in the club work well enough in the market.”

The quality of the items and food made by the academy clubs is very good.

Yes, it is the Seoul Hero Academy that has gathered the nation’s leading students.

It is certain that the basic ideology of this place is an institution to nurture future talent for combat.

But that’s not all.

There are those who get tired of fighting and give up, and there are also those whose talents or inclinations lie in crafting, not in combat.

Above all, the society of the Awoken does not work only for those who fight.

The suppliers to support them must also be solid. Like the plants and herbivores that support the bottom of the ecosystem pyramid.

But, what is the current academy’s tone?

“As you know, the structure of the current club is absolutely advantageous to the combat group. Compared to that, you can fight or hunt, or even take requests from outside, the production side is only participating in festivals and school events.”

That’s why the weak clubs can’t survive for long.

The recipe development club, which is recognized for its achievements by creating amazing recipes, was rather a special case.

I get a grant from the academy, but that’s literally the bare minimum to keep up.

In order to grow, you have to invest money, and in order to do that, you have to put out new results.

And for that new result, ‘money’ is needed after all.

Truly a vicious cycle.

That’s why many clubs degenerate into small groups.

Like the board game club with a huge debt, it is really consumed only as a ‘hobby’.

“That’s why I want to sell their products through the business rights I got from the academy. It means to become a kind of distributor.”

I proudly declared that and put down the paper envelope I had tucked away in front of her.

“This is a business plan I made up.”

The content itself was very simple.

They buy things from production clubs. And after selling it outside, return the proceeds to the club.

After checking the contents, Seo Yeon-soo lets out a laugh.

“Do you think we didn’t do this simple thing because we didn’t know? We also tried last year. And the result is——”

“——It must have been ruined miserably.”

“Are you going to do it knowing that?”

As she said, last year’s student council made the same attempt as mine.

But the result was a complete failure.

The reason was simple.

“Failure to secure a distribution network and lack of publicity. In the first place, the only thing to be promoted was ‘Seoul Hero Academy Production’, so isn’t it a natural result? And isn’t that the biggest reason for failure?”

fees.

This goddamn student council took a lot of dirty fees.

“For accessibility, we had to lower the distribution price, and that was how much we took the loss and reduced the commission as much as possible. But what else did you have to do here?”

“No. That’s not enough.”

This is one of the downsides of the academy student council.

Accidents are so rigid.

“If it were me, I would have used the advanced strategy. Don’t buy it if it’s expensive in the market? This has long since become a thing of the past. People don’t like cheap and nice things. I want something special that no one else can have.”

A method called the so-called gentrification strategy.

“I’m going to sell things at the academy out there very ‘high’. We will use the fantasy of the academy that the world has. And.”

──I have the power to circulate and thoroughly decorate it.

She gulped at my words.

“Now, you just have to tell me that the manager inspected and executed it. then… … Congratulations. This will be the chief’s achievement.”

I slowly began to gain strength in my voice.

[Attribute: [Speaker] is activated.]

“If this plan succeeds, there will be a possibility of getting out of the deficit of the lesser clubs. The headaches of the accounting department will be gone. In the future, I will call you here. It’s the first and best era in Academy history! How is it? If it were me, I could make everyone coexist.”

I can see her eyes are disoriented and tremble violently.

It is an important thing that cannot be given up for the sake of reputation, achievements, and future.

But that’s not all.

Perhaps she would understand perfectly what I mean.

Before becoming a student council member, she belonged to a club that collapsed due to the bondage of ‘money’.

That was the reason why I found the club manager and no one else.

“please. Please use good judgment.”

Saying that for the last time, I lowered my head and stood up.

She was still looking at the business plan with quivering pupils.

You are probably thinking this by now. If only there had been a story like this back then.

If, if, if… … .

As she turns around, she hears a small voice from behind.

“… … As long as it goes according to this plan. I will review it positively.”

“Yes. please.”

I too was serious about this plan.

If this plan goes through, it will really help a lot of people.

And–

──The clubs will start relying on me, not the student council.