I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 43
[Group Task (3)]
From that day on, Hwaran did not appear in group meetings.
No, I kind of understand why it doesn’t show up, but you’re reacting so rudely? Are you a kid?
“Ah…”
That’s right, a kid.
This is a fact that is easily forgotten because it looks like a halter, but it is true that Hwaran is a baby who is only three years old.
Just like me, he shared the original’s memories, and it hasn’t been long since he entered the original’s body.
“What should I do? Corrin?”
“…….”
“Well… what should we do? We have to do it ourselves.”
“Is it a principle for everyone to participate in group tasks?”
Yes, this is the problem.
It was the same when I was in college on Earth, but what is a group project?
Because everyone’s cooperation is important, if even one person is missing, the grade will be deducted. This academy… I left out K-university in this frustrating part.
I am a team leader of 7 years, but since I am only human, there was an incident where a trolling college student mercilessly left out my name.
What was the professor’s reaction then?
Yes, lack of cooperation. Deducted points!
Professors tend to make group assignment evaluations in a different way, saying that it is not for them to do.
“There is nothing we can do when it comes to this.”
“Mr. Corrin?”
“For the sake of our results and endless glory, we must bring Hwaran in!”
“how?”
Punch Alisha’s shoulder as she asks a question! I hold her and look into her eyes.
“Commissioner Arisha.”
“Yes? Yes? Captain?”
“As it happens, I have no idea how to deal with sulky girls.”
“…I guess you can just carry on as usual?”
“I’ll trust you, Agent Alisha! Girls are better at things like this! They have empathy skills and things like that. Girls communicate with each other, huh? Anyway, things like that.”
Alicia stared at me with a distrustful expression.
“If you think about it, this is all because Corin made fun of Miss Hwaran…”
“I trust you, Alisha! I will be doing the group report.”
“Uhm… if that’s the case.”
Alisha stood up quickly and looked determined. It looks like organizing this group project report was already tiring.
“I’ll be back, Captain!”
“I believe it!”
Alisha saluted and quickly ran to the special dormitory where Hwaran would be.
“Can I do well?”
Yeager’s natural question. He has been hanging out with Arisha recently, so he is a friend who is fully aware of her antics.
“There’s nothing to worry about. Arisha is the strongest counter attacker, but she plays a great tank role in the early stages.”
“What do you mean?”
After a while……
“Huh… I didn’t even open the door.”
“You’re right?”
“Oh no? A fork flew through the door.”
“Hmm, good. I’m not at the level of murderous intent yet.”
Because Arisha came back with all four limbs intact.
“Mr. Corrin?”
Arisha’s eyes opened softly, as if she had read my impure intentions.
“It looks like Hwaran’s anger level is still around 2 or 3. Okay, let’s solve it right away.”
“Mr. Corin, you didn’t send me first to see how angry Ms. Hwaran was, right?”
Alisha’s sharp question was easily ignored.
* * * *
Hwaran has been leading a lazy life for the past few days.
This is because he was annoyed by him making fun of him after suffering a humiliating loss to Corin Locke in the group stage.
“Hmph… I just got lucky.”
Was it really luck?
It’s not that such questions didn’t arise, but Hwaran did his best to ignore them. Because if you admit it, you really lose.
She was born strong.
A beast born from a dead mountain. For her, training has no meaning.
Because his fists were stronger than his spears and magic.
Countless martial artists, soldiers, and generals have fallen before me, and even a mere knight…
“Wouldn’t I be better suited to be strong than you, who ignores small matters?” ”
… ”
If I am not a strong person… If I am not a beast of destruction that can overturn all irrationality… What value is there to me, who was born to eat that child?
~~~~~~~~~~~
“What?”
Hwaran inadvertently opened the window and looked in the direction of the sound.
“…….”
It’s Corin. He was playing an acoustic guitar on a tree branch that extended outside the dormitory wall.
“I shouldn’t have done something like that, but I didn’t know that. If I regret it now, I’ve become a fool.”
“…….”
Hwaran’s gaze coldly turns towards Corin. As if satisfied with attracting attention, Corin walked up a tree branch while playing the guitar.
“I was wrong! I want to correct my mistake!”
Hwaran doesn’t seem to know how to react to the bizarre appearance of Corin apologizing while playing an acoustic guitar.
“In order to date a true friend, all you need is a sincere heart!!”
“shut up.”
“I didn’t mean to tease you!”
Actually, it’s true that I was making fun of it.
“I’m not good at conveying my feelings! Give me another chance!”
“……”
“And…! Strictly speaking, it was your fault too, Hwaran? We were unfaithful to each other. Please be with me again!”
Hwaran tried to close the window with a cold gaze. At that moment, Corin urgently stops him with a hand gesture.
“Are you serious?! Are you really going to come out like this? Oh! I’ll give you a chance! If you make up your mind for everyone’s sake and come down, I’ll forgive you and hug you with a big heart!”
The window slides shut.
“Hey Hwaran!”
Hwaran hesitates while trying to close the window.
“You know what? Society is a little more ruthless! I understand that it was embarrassing to be attacked by a level 5 knight who ignored me, but in life, you never know what might happen! Sometimes embarrassing and uncomfortable facts are pushed out to you. “There are times! Those kind of feelings and inconveniences accumulate and accumulate until you become an adult!”
“go away.”
-Park!
The thick tree branches broke like cornmeal due to the wind pressure exerted by the hand gesture. Corinne, who was defenseless, fell flat on her butt.
“Khaak!”
“idiot.”
With those words, Hwaran closed the curtain and returned to his place.
“……Corin, are you okay?”
Alisha is hanging over the wall of the special dormitory, looking worried.
“Ha…does puberty occur even in infancy?”
“I heard you’re confident you can convince me.”
“I tried to persuade with enough reason and logic! I also seasoned the emotions in my heart!”
“I think that sensibility is wrong…”
“I think it’s more surprising that you didn’t get hit.”
Yeager, who was watching, made a valid point.
“What are you going to do? I don’t think this will be resolved in a day or two.”
“Well, this is a good response.”
“Where are you looking?”
“You didn’t get hit. He’s a good kid.”
“Good kids don’t escape from group tasks, my friend.”
“And I don’t hit people just because I’m a little angry.”
“Relatively. Relatively.”
Despite the two people’s criticism, Corinne stood up and shook her butt.
“Now that things are like this, we have no choice but to execute our secret plan.”
* * * *
The sun had already set and lights were turned on here and there to brighten the dark interior.
Hwaran, who came from the east and stayed in this dormitory for half a year, slowly realized that it was time.
-smart!
Judging by the faint smell of blood left on his lips, the person who knocked on the door was a new housemate who had recently moved into this dormitory.
“Hwaran junior~ Eat~”
“…….”
Hwaran closed the notebook he was scratching as if he was used to it and stood up from the chair.
When I open the door, a fresh-faced second-year senior with light-colored hair smiles brightly.
“It’s a special dinner tonight!”
“……potato?”
“Potatoes are always a special dish, but today is a little different!”
Hwaran had some expectations after hearing Marie say that the chef had come separately.
In this dormitory, cooking was usually done by Josephine or Marie or brought from the student cafeteria.
As I headed down to the restaurant, I realized what food was being prepared when I smelled it coming from the restaurant.
“……mackerel.”
A familiar blue-backed fish. Now that I think about it, the first time I ate this was because of Corin.
I feel jealous when I think of Corin, but I think it’s good that he taught me about the mackerel alum. It would be Dutch pride not to even acknowledge gratitude.
Hwaran went down to the restaurant with a rare sense of anticipation without showing it.
In any case, it is not common to eat fish at this restaurant.
Josephine preferred a vegetarian diet, and Marie preferred to eat heavy meals with chunks of meat from unknown sources.
I couldn’t say anything because I was ‘confident’ that my mental age was not low enough to complain about side dishes like a child.
That’s how we arrived at the restaurant. When I opened the door, the smell became stronger.
-Clap clap!
“Irasshaimashe!”
The warm welcome I received was also the greeting I received at the sushi restaurant I went to with Corinne. The only problem is that the main voice…
“Hello~”
was Corin Locke.
“I’m not going to eat.”
slap! Hwaran turns her back. Corin shouted urgently.
“Would you regret it if you didn’t eat this?”
-Stop.
Corin smiles kindly while showing the fish that is about to be cooked to Hwaran, who turns around.
“…….”
I’m hesitant to go back like this. Anyway, it’s true that I’m starting to get hungry.
Even though Corin Locke is obnoxious and makes me want to punch him, there is no logical fallacy to deny that he prepares food to fill an empty stomach.
“joy.”
Hwaran sits down. She believed that her attitude towards Corinne was still firm.
In fact, the moment he sat down to eat the food prepared by the person he was angry with, he got angry and went to sleep, but it is impossible for a three-year-old Kangsi who has no social life to know.
“Wait! I’ll do it right away!”
In the end, Hwaran decided to tolerate his actions without much restraint.
“…If it doesn’t taste good, I won’t eat it.”
I muttered in a voice so low that the person next to me couldn’t hear.
Hwaran had been angry ever since Corin won the bet and defeated him.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it anger, but anyway, the fact that the winning opponent ran away without giving him a rematch is a very irritating situation for the loser.
Not participating in the group project is also a small revenge to express that frustration.
Although he tried to persuade himself in a comical way, his will did not change. I am angry. I will never let you go.
This is expressed with the whole body.
I repeat, this story is already over when you sit down to eat the food prepared by the angry person.
Hwaran didn’t know that fact yet. I’ve already fallen into the dilemma of ‘If I like it, I might forgive it…’
Corinne, who may or may not know Hwaran’s intentions, continues to cook in the kitchen.
Chi-ik! I took a moment to savor the smell of boiling fish. Corinne soon puts down the entire wok containing the food on the table.
‘The whole thing?’
The large iron wok contained something dark brown.
“……what?”
“Stewed mackerel.”
A stew made with chopped mackerel, potatoes, and radish simmered with seasoning.
“It’s delicious. It’s something we eat consistently in the military… no, even in camp. If you fillet the fish and mix it with the sauce, it’s great~ This is a rice thief.”
Corin kindly placed chopped mackerel and boiled radish potatoes in the bowl she had prepared.
“…….”
Hwaran ate this food in silence . I looked down. It was food that I didn’t know what to do with the red sauce that looked like something from an active volcano had exploded.
Corin came up behind the helpless Hwaran holding chopsticks.
“Now.”
He held two chopsticks in both hands and shook his spine. Smoothly cut it from the beginning. When the large backbone and small bones are separated, the white flesh is revealed.
Using a spoon, scoop up a lot of the seasoning in the wok and sprinkle it generously on the white flesh.
“Chop it.”
Carefully cut the stewed mackerel into bite-sized pieces. In your mouth. The taste of mackerel translated into….
‘It’s not so bad that I can’t eat it.’
If I had to judge it, it was rough and poor compared to the high-end restaurants in the city, but it was still decent.
Hwaran kept moving his chopsticks, saying it wasn’t to the point where he couldn’t finish
the meal .
* * * * After the meal, I was in Hwaran’s room.
The bed and It’s a rather bleak room with only a desk and a bunch of bookshelves.
“It’s not
that good.” “I ate well.”
Cooking skills are something that a man inevitably develops after spending several years living on his own.
The menu is limited, but he manages to make fried rice and stewed mackerel. “Next time,
I’ll make fried rice or stewed cutlassfish.”
“…….”
He says he won’t eat it if it doesn’t taste good, but his eyes are filled with anticipation.
By the time he accepts the dinner I’m serving him, reconciliation has already been decided. That’s right.
It’s a bit harsh, but this guy is also a child who doesn’t know how to get angry.
“I’d rather buy it and eat it. It tastes better.”
“Compared to restaurant chefs, it’s not enough.”
The question, “What if you buy every meal, what will your living expenses be?” is a bit of a question.
Last time, I poured out my gold coins, and I willingly paid to invest in an inn in preparation for the festival. By the way… this guy has more money than I thought.
Since he doesn’t have much concept of making money, this wealth is probably a legacy from his ‘father’.
Yes, two keywords that run through Hwaran’s scenario. ‘Father’ and ‘original’. ‘.
I know why this guy pretends to be strong. Strength is the value he places on himself. “How long do you think it takes
chefs to make one dish?” ”
It took less than 30 minutes.”
” 10 years.”
“???”
“From finding good ingredients to preparing and preparing them. They say it usually takes chefs 10 years to present their dishes to customers. Well, there are many people who don’t.”
“…….”
“The old man at the fish restaurant you like drinks only water for the sake of taste and always wears gloves to prevent his hands from getting swollen in the heat of summer or the chill of winter. .”
“……What do you want to say?”
“It took me three years. “Until I learn martial arts enough to kneel before you.”
I reminisce about my desperate days. First, I started with Bagua. Reason? Nothing special. I was looking for martial arts books at the library, and that was the first thing that came out
. I learned it and practiced it until I met my teacher.
My skills must have been truly shabby among my colleagues who were handling fancy things like Aden-style swords, sword techniques, earth elemental techniques, etc. “
Teacher. Aside from these basic things, I don’t know anything about special moves or secret techniques. When will you tell me? How long will it take to catch monsters like this…”
So when I met my teacher, I begged him to teach me his special moves first. I wanted to try using those amazing special moves too.
“You’re a weakling even if you’ve practiced spear techniques . I said it was weak.”
“…….”
I stretched out both hands to the silent Hwaran.
“Hold it.”
“What?”
“Now, touch your palms together.”
Hwaran hesitated a little at my words. Then, I carefully put both my hands on my palms. I held the small hands of the Hwaran that I had touched. “
From now on, I will do my best to escape, so you too, hold on to my palms tightly so that they do not escape.”
– Ugh! Hold
my hands . There was a lot of force in Hwaran’s hand that he was holding. It felt like his bones would be crushed if he made a mistake, but he held back and tried to get away from Hwaran by pulling his body with all his might. “Keuung…!” I tried to pull with all the strength I had, but I couldn’t
escape
. .
-Sloof!
With the added strength of my legs, my balance collapsed and the two of us fell on the bed.
Hwaran was on top of me, but he still didn’t let go of his hand, as if he didn’t want to lose the game. “I lost,
I lost!”
At the declaration of defeat, the corners of Hwaran’s mouth slightly turned up. As if he had won.
But at the same time, he would also have this question. He was so weak, so much weaker than himself… How could he win then?
“Isn’t it amazing? Because compared to you, I am weak. Why did you lose that time when you could have won so easily?”
“……I didn’t lose.”
“Yes, yes, but you were on your knees.”
“…….”
“From what I see, the thing that blocked your fist was Did it seem like such an amazing technique?”
Hwaran did not answer. He silently affirmed. In fact, the technique that brought Hwaran to his knees was blocking, pulling, and pressing. I
just used this simple trick at the right time and unexpectedly.
“Your favorite fish or I. It’s similar to learning martial arts. From choosing the ingredients to the posture of raising your fist.”
– It starts small.
“You have to do your best in small things.”
“If you do your best in small things, you will become sincere.
If you do it sincerely, it will seep out on the outside, and
if it will seep out on the outside, it
will be revealed to
the outside, and if it is shown outwardly, it will become brighter, and as it becomes brighter
, it will move others, and if you move others, you will change,
and if you change… you will become mature.”
“So, only people who put in their utmost sincerity can change the world . “There is.”
Hwaran, who was sitting quietly listening to me, suddenly spoke up.
“What changes if you practice something like that?”
“Working hard on the ingredients and repeating one spear technique? This might not change anything. Still…”
This isn’t a maxim that guarantees success. It’s ‘my’ life attitude. It’s an ideal maxim, and it’s not something that can necessarily be accomplished. “At least
you won’t be fooled by me twice, right?
” …….”
“It’s better to try and be confident than not to try and complain. I want you to try it first.”
“…You just talk loudly.”
“Hahaha…! That’s right! Encouraging people to work hard is something anyone can do.”
Hwaran began to look closely at my palm.
Turning it over, she found calluses here and there, and played with her tiny fingers as if curious
. It was a while before I let go of my hand.
“Are we reconciled?”
“Hmph.”
“Alright, high five!”
I spread my palm out, but Hwaran’s expression is still cold.
I thought I might have overdone it a bit, so I awkwardly took my hand back, but Hwaran He went to this desk and picked up a notebook and threw it away.
“This?”
When I opened the notebook, it was a report containing the principles of spear fighting posture prepared for this assignment. This was the data research that Hwaran should have been in charge of.
“You’ve done everything?”
Hwa-ran looks away and pretends not to hear. You were doing all this while she was escaping, right?
“You cute guy!”
He was randomly shaking Hwaran’s neatly organized hair. Hwaran’s tangled hair was a sight to behold.
“Clean it up.”
“Yes.”
He took the material book Hwaran threw and left her room.
“That’s right, the next meeting is tomorrow at 4:30. See you at the place we always meet.”
Hwaran didn’t answer, but I know. Even though that guy is ticking, he will eventually come out.
As I expected, Hwaran came to the group meeting with a cold expression as always.