65 – Chapter 3. Transformation isn’t just for riders! (2)

The academy is a training center for talented people.

It is also where you hone how, where, and when to use this ability.

In other words, the academy claims to be a ‘specialized institution for fostering heroes’.

It is a place that teaches you how to fight against villains while equipping yourself with the skills you learned at the academy and hoping not to become a villain.

Depending on the point of view, it can be quite controversial, but someone calls Sejong Academy ‘a military academy’.

A training camp for combatants to deal with villains or demons.

If you talk like that, the person with the ability or their family will show considerable displeasure, but if you look at the actual curriculum, practical training takes up a lot of time.

The first key episode in the original work, ‘Treasure Hunt’, is also the same.

In this treasure hunt commotion, which can be said to be the end of one volume, the main task is to become a pair of two to find the goal given to them.

The field is the entire Sejong Island.

However, since each group has a designated area and the main purpose is to find objects within that area, there is no need to investigate the entire Sejong Island.

– Isn’t it fun to just do research? So let’s reduce the number of treasures rather than the number of Joes.

– Do we really have to fight each other like that?

– Children should also provide opportunities to show off their abilities.

– Make them fight each other legally?

-of course. Wouldn’t it be nice to have them bring the treasure to the finish line? What happens in the process…if it doesn’t cause serious damage, it should be okay.

In case anyone thinks it’s not an era of infinite competition, the professors and teachers at the academy openly turned treasure hunting into a competition.

– Cut the number of students appropriately. And it is to place students in a balanced way in each district.

-Then does each district get first place?

-yes. No. 1s become conscious of each other again, and while competing with each other, they grow. Isn’t that how kids grow up fighting? hahahaha.

-It would be difficult to become a demon.

-If you become a devil in this kind of competition, then you will become a devil later. Moldy shoots should be pruned long ago. Before going out into society, you should break your hair. That way other sprouts can grow well. isn’t it?

The professors of the academy, the core of the teachers, have this idea.

-Raising people with special abilities is like growing fruits. Among the many fruits, select the top-notch and high-grade fruits and make them the ‘heroes’ of this era, put the intermediate and low-grade ones on the market, and filter out all those that have no product value. In particular, those with mold or germs must be removed in advance.

-It’s not common enough to compare a person with this ability to a fruit, right?

– Oh, that. Compared to the Middle East or Africa over there, we are fruit. If we are fruit, aren’t there elephants?

– It’s nice to have an elephant. Whoops. I agree with what the professor said. Those who will become villains and demons must nip their buds in advance.

An era where only the able survive.

After the cataclysm, the era of omnipotent abilities had arrived.

-But what if we ask the students to participate in an exercise just in the name of treasure hunting?

– It’s a showdown with credits, prize money, and a public decision. For students, there is nothing more meritorious than this, right?

Whoever finds the treasure will get his points.

Those who find the treasure will receive a prize named Condolence.

The one who finds the treasure will receive the ‘gong-gyeol’ allowed by the academy.

-What?! If you find the treasure, you can get test scores, money, and holidays?!

-Ah, it’s a treasure trove, keke.

-The word is treasure. Isn’t the reward after just getting the treasure a treasure?

The response from the academy students was enthusiastic.

Even if you’re not interested in competition, you want one of the three rewards.

-So you’re saying that if you get the treasure, you’ll pass the exam even if you don’t take the midterm this time?

– That’s right, student. You’ve already proven your skills in the treasure hunt, so what’s the point of the test? Of course, you can take the test if you want.

-Ah, then of course I won’t take the midterm exam and find the treasure!

A test score that a person who hates studying can get without taking the test.

-How much money? Are you going to scrape 5,000 won for condolences? hahahaha.

-1 million won?

-…Isn’t 1 million won just a pittance for someone with special abilities?

– At least 1 million won.

-Wow, it wasn’t condolences, was it a check?

-Even the prize money for first place is 100 million won.

– Wow, crazy. Does this academy have any money left?

– It won’t stay.

-ah.

Huge amounts of money for students who lack pocket money.

-miss. Join us.

-That’s Okay. I don’t need money, and I can get 100 points on my own. So, why do I have to search every nook and cranny of the island as a pair with a partner I don’t like?

– Depending on the time to acquire the treasure, it is said that a public holiday is granted. First place… you can rest for five days.

-…Then you’ll be able to study for those five days! I want to leave right now!

-It’s a holiday.

– Studying by myself is a break! Oh ho ho!

Autonomous time for those who want to use their time more efficiently.

This treasure hunt, which is one of the main events, has not had such a big accident every year, but this year when the main character entered the school is different.

As it is the climax of the light novel volume 1, a huge accident breaks out.

And I attended the event-

“Chief Do, what are you doing writing a love story for me on a treasure hunt?”

“I’m going to read a fantasy novel at home.”

“……I thought I’d participate in something.”

“What? Housekeeper. I’m a librarian. Why is a librarian involved in such training?”

do not participate

“I’m neither a student nor an academy teacher. I’m a librarian.”

“…Then what about goblins?”

“Dokkaebi is different.”

Do Ji-hwan does not participate.

“Wouldn’t people misunderstand if I wrote a love story and ran amok as a goblin? If the goblin appears, my alibi will go missing.”

“So, I’ll have to make up an alibi.”

I pointed outside to the housekeeper.

“Would you like to take a walk at night with me?”

“walk?”

“Yes. To make an alibi for Do Ji-hwan.”

* * *

Late at night, close to dawn.

“goodbye.”

Choi Ki-woo, the owner of Sunrise 24 ‘Nara Store’ in Sejong Island, lamented seeing people staggering out of the convenience store.

“I also want to become a person with special abilities.”

He is not a leaning talent.

However, the reason he works as the owner of a convenience store on Sejong Island, especially the Sunrise 24 chain, is because his younger sister is a person with special abilities.

There is a 10 year difference in age with my younger sister.

In between, there are about 4 siblings.

The younger sister, who is 10 years old this year, is working at the Sejong Island Academy, and Ki-woo, who has just become an adult, has come to Sejong Island to work as a ‘family’ for her younger sister’s legal guardian and mental care.

In fact, thanks to her younger sister, she is working as a salaryman at a convenience store.

It wasn’t a bad environment for Ki-woo, except for the fact that the monthly salary was 6 million won, E-D grade students worked part-time during the week, and only worked at night.

If there’s just one annoying thing, it’s that many things happen at night when he’s guarding the convenience store stand.

daughter and daughter.

The door opened and a tall man in jeans, a gray hoodie and a black baseball cap walked inside.

Seeing that he even wore a mask, he was worried for a moment that it might be a robbery, but a robbery on Sejong Island must be the same as saying that a goblin resides on Sejong Island.

“welcome.”

Ki-woo was about to say hello, but when he saw the woman following the man, he gulped down his saliva.

The woman was also wearing a mask on her hat, but she was following the man wearing only a tight-fitting tank top and dolphin pants.

no way.

Maybe for ‘patriotic’?

“Baby, can I buy some melon milk?”

“buy.”

“Shall we buy some beef jerky? We’re out of snacks.”

“Jerky? Okay. But didn’t you say you don’t like getting it on your teeth?”

“If it gets stuck in your teeth, you can take it off yourself.”

wow

Ki-woo tried to suppress the nagging inside.

‘I know you guys are patriots, so go home and do your patriotism!’

Why did you come to the convenience store and talk like that?

There is no truth like that.

Over there on the mainland, there are a lot of drunken men and old people wearing fishing vests and begging for cigarettes to be served, but in Sejong Island, there are many truths in a different sense at night convenience stores like this.

“ha.”

Ki-woo let out a sigh at the sight of a flying insect clinging to the glass wall.

‘Those flying insects also breed, what am I?’

“It’s a calculation.”

While Ki-woo was lamenting, the man and woman bought various things and put them on the shelf.

“Give me the envelope, too.”

“Ah yes.”

Ki-woo immediately took pictures of the barcodes of the items, and the man put the Taegeuk watch on the sensor.

“Baby, I have this.”

“…Hey.”

When the woman brought something in her hands, the man openly rebuked her.

Ki-woo looked at it because he wanted to know what it was-

“Leave it where it is.”

“Ah, why?”

“What are you getting a headache for?”

“One bottle isn’t enough. I’m going to buy two of these now. Huh?”

Ki-woo finished the calculation in his head.

12 in one, 24 in two?

“When are you going to use it all?”

“It’s Friday’s annual leave, so you can do it all weekend.”

“Last time you said you couldn’t do it anymore, so you couldn’t write it all.”

“This time! It’s different! Honey, huh?”

what?

Could it be that a woman can’t keep up with a man’s tempo?

“…Ha. Sorry. Please count this as well.”

“Ah, yes. Yes.”

take

Ki-woo scanned the two barrels with barcodes.

The two men and women took the envelope and left the convenience store immediately, and Ki-woo looked up.

“Friday…annual vacation…weekend. Ha.”

Shaking my head.

“Traitors. Make a hole and do something patriotic.”

Ki-woo went outside and chased away the flying insects that were clinging to the wall one by one with a broom.

“All couples say to cry!”