I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 68

[Festival Eve (3)]

We were told to save citizens or escort them to a safe area, but this… is basically a battle royale.

Over a thousand students escorting a limited number of stone citizens to score points?

“Why should I do that? It’s so much easier to eliminate others?”

“As expected, boss!”

“You have great foresight!”

“Hahahahaha…!”

The three of us first absorbed all the students around us. In name, let’s join forces and clear the selection competition.

At the same time, there are only 16 students, so let’s eliminate as many students as possible.

So I didn’t do anything to find a safe area. Rather, they absorbed as many citizens as possible and used them as shields.

“Wipe it away with magic!”

“You idiot, stop! Citizens will be destroyed too!”

“Ugh…! You cowards! If you do this, you can’t attack!”

The stone citizens served as excellent shields. Yes, plus 1 point if you move the stone citizen to the safe area. But if you destroy it, you get minus 2 points.

“Hahaha…! Try it! Are you scared or not?”

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…

“It’s hand-to-hand combat! Get those bastards out of the stone citizens!”

The opposing side gives up magic warfare and prepares for close combat. Lark drooled next to my stone throne.

“Hehehe boss. I’ve been holding back a lot. Can I commit this?”

“Ah, of course.”

“Hahahaha fireball…!”

-bang!

-Kwaouk!

“Ah…! You…! There are stone citizens here too!”

“Oh, we have a lot of citizens. We just need to catch you and make up for it.”

This is the decisive difference between us and our opponents. Unlike us, who increased our size in the beginning and secured a large number of stone citizens, the opposing team was slow to gather and once they secured citizens, they immediately went to the safe area.

Compared to us who use the stone citizens as a shield, the opponent is afraid that the stone citizens may be destroyed, so they are cautious.

“Hahaha…! Kill all the ones bigger than the cart wheel!”

“Yay boss!”

“Get rid of it!”

‘Ah… honestly, it’s fun.’

We went into full fun mode.

We took the dye that made up the formation, applied it to our faces, treated the stone citizens like slaves, and made them into horseback horses to support us.

Should we say they are hip villains in movies?

“Mr. Corinne?”

We eliminated about 30 people, and when our group of bandits had just passed the 10-member mark, we met Arisha.

“It’s not Corrin.”

“yes?”

“I am the almighty ‘Immortan Locke.’ When you address me, call me Oh~ Mighty Immortan!”

“…What are you doing again?”

Alicia didn’t bother to say ‘what a crazy thing’ as a prefix.

“Arisha Aden. I give you a chance to join our Mandragora bandits.”

“……yes?”

Alisha tilted her head as if asking if this was nonsense again.

“Take off the epaulettes of your comrades! Then I’ll give you the position of deputy leader of our bandit group!”

“…No, no need.”

“By the way! Anyone who takes Arisha’s epaulettes will be accepted into our bandit group!”

“Mr. Corrin?!”

Just when Alisha was about to point out what kind of nonsense this was, she sensed a change in the atmosphere.

The colleagues who had been fighting together a while ago began to surround Arisha, pointing their weapons at her.

“Um… everyone?”

“I’m sorry, Alisha. Honestly, rather than going against Corin, who is a first-class knight…” “

……You, a semi-first-class knight, are more forgiving.”

“everyone?!”

Ah, the cruelty of human society.

When things are peaceful, they pretend to be civilized people and act calmly, but when things get a little difficult, they eat each other like squids trapped in a basin.

“This can’t be right… I can’t…!

Inside the corpses of my fallen comrades. The betrayed girl cried out.

………

……

…

The idea of forming a team was similar to everyone.

The second-year ace, Marie Dunareff, was also similar.

Marie basically has many friends and a wide network. It was a natural flow that she naturally became the center of the party.

In fact, their party . Gathered the stone citizens in a friendly manner, and Marie’s friends, including Isabelle, willingly became Marie’s party members.

They believed that their friendship would last forever. In any case, friendships made in middle and high school are bound to end once one enters society.

Friendship I was a little overconfident. At least this time it was.

“Ko Corin…”

The Mandragora bandits made up 14 of their own. They faced off against Marie’s party of 6.

“There are more over there, but I’ll give it a try. Manhae. The average rating is much higher this way.”

Isabelle coolly analyzed the opponent’s and their own strengths.

Although there are Corin Locke and Arisha Arden over there, there are many second-level second years on this side, including Marie.

It’s worth a try! Friendship With the power of , it is possible to overcome this level of power difference!

“Sister… are you going to hit me?”

“Uh uh…”

Isabelle didn’t notice. The friendship she built for two years… ..

“This Immortan Locke…!”

“Marie?”

……Compared to love, it is worthless.

“Long live…!”

-Quaaaagh!

-Ma Marie Huh!?

-Marie goes crazy!

“Ah… ah…”

Isabelle realized.

The value of friendship and friendship is easily broken in front of a man.

“Ah~ This is me. Is it food…”

Genius is a person who works hard, and a person who works hard cannot defeat someone who enjoys it.

“Kiyoooooooooooot…!!”

-Immortan Locke! Immortan Locke!

-Immortan Locke! Immortal Tan

Locke

!

_

_ This is the Paljindo’s Palmungeumseujin.

Since it was a group test, the entrance was deliberately left open and the principles of the Eight Gates were not included, but was that the cause of the problem? Why did the

crazy person go on a rampage?

“Chief Professor Josephine… That student named Immortan Locke is What the hell……”

“…………It’s just Corin Locke. A little… He’s just that kind of friend. We don’t teach that kind of thing.”

Josephine seemed embarrassed and slightly denied that Corinne was her student.

“… Within the eight gates, we must help each other and move forward together.” ”

. ……”

Wouldn’t that also be seen as a form of cooperation? Josephine struggled to swallow those words in her throat. There were

only 16 people. The extremely bizarre bandit group consisted of 16 more people than the 16 people who met the limit for the selection process. No number was called.

‘Are you really trying to get everyone in your gang to pass?’

It’s not impossible. A bandit group that attacks students at random and steals stone citizens. The

immediate leader is Corin Locke, a first-class knight,

Arisha Arden, a semi-first-class knight, and the second-year strongest Marie, who chose love between friendship and love. Dunareff.

The group battle cannot be cleared simply by strength, but the members are competitive.

Moreover, even when the bandits discovered the safe zone escorting the Stone Citizens, they just ignored it and wandered around inside the formation. Wiping out all the students in the safe zone. With the intention of throwing it away.

“Hmm… I guess I’ll have to hurry up and settle the accounts.”

“Huh? What is that…”

“Those ruthless groups are recklessly tampering with the pieces inside the formation.”

The core of Paljindo is the location and symbolism of the pieces placed in the east, west, north, south… and the pieces inside.

Each piece, such as the carpet with a yellow dragon on it and the Xianxian White Tiger’s Claw Necklace, a stringed instrument made of snake skin, has meaning and is used as a device to operate the formation. Of course, spares were placed for fear of damage during the battle. However

. ……

“I never would have thought that they would commit such a shameless act as plundering on sight…….” ”

……I feel sorry for our student.”

A group of thieves who were obsessed with concept-mongering took over Paljin Island. He was destroying or tearing out the items inside and using them for his own concept.

If things continued like this, it was only a matter of time before the formation stopped. Kang Ryun decided to end the preliminary round as quickly as possible while maintaining the formation as much as possible.

“No, it was a good study . cow. Humans are capable of doing truly useless things without hesitation. From now on, I will have to focus on the outside rather than the inside.”

Although he would have to prepare the items separately, Kang Ryun witnessed the crazy things students did when they were young. He realized as an

old man that life does not go according to reason and calculation. That’s what I got.

* * * *

Ren and Ron, the beggars of the back alley, were abandoned by their parents at birth. As soon as they

were born, they awakened as werewolves and had ears and tails that were not human’s. Unfortunately, their parents were afraid of demons and hated them. The

reason they were able to survive even though they were abandoned at birth was because of their natural physical abilities as werewolves.

At just three years old, they already had physical strength comparable to that of an adult, and their skill at stealing apples and running away was like that of a professional pickpocket. The two siblings survived

by relying on each other as they wandered through the shadows.

However, was it because they were mentally stuck at a young age due to lack of social skills or education? Even

though they were sixteen, they still could not escape the image of nine-year-old children. But

there are benefits in their own way. As they got older, they were able to hide their tails and ears unless they were Manwol, and the overly young beggar brother and sister were able to receive some sympathy. Of course, even as the years passed, people around them continued to be suspicious of the two children as they were children

. When he started, he wandered towards another dark place, but that was the problem. He

ended up being discovered by the Black Star faction’s thugs who committed human trafficking.

“Ren… Ren. Look at this.”

Ron. Twin younger brother. The younger brother, with big emerald eyes shining, jumped up and down wearing ‘new clothes’ for the first time in his life.

“Babu. Those are women’s clothes.”

“What? “They’re pants?”

“They have pretty decorations on them.”

“Isn’t that tight?”

“…….”

Ren looked at his younger brother who was the same age as him. Unlike Ren, who was somewhat precocious, Ron was still innocent. It was worth it. I wonder when he will ‘grow up’

like that. Of course, he also failed to grow up.

“But that brother is our master now?”

“He’s not my master. Hey man. Just call me uncle.”

“Isn’t it my brother?”

“It’s uncle.”

After wiping away the grime from his body, tidying up his hair, and even dressing up for the first time in his life, Ron completely lost his guard towards the boy who saved him.

However, Corin He hasn’t lost his guard against them. All adults are like that. They try to take advantage of children at any time.

Now, they clothe and feed them, but you never know when they might change…!

At that time, with his ‘fable’ ability, he was able to kill them all at once. Oh…!

‘No, is it too harsh? It looks like it’s going to hurt. No, I’m biting you to make it hurt! My leg… Let’s bite your leg.’

As Ren came to his senses and couldn’t let down his guard, he recalled the conversation at that time:

“It’s okay. No one will hit you now. You are safe now.” This

was the first time he had heard such words from an adult. Someone had his back. The refreshing experience of being patted and reassured was so intensely embedded in my mind.

“Ssi… I don’t know.”

Ren threw himself on the bed in the inn room prepared for them.

He wiped away the grime from the soft bed mattress, allowing his golden hair to fall into the bed.

“…It’s soft.”

There was a lot in that man’s arms. It was hard. But the warmth in that embrace seemed to have felt better than a soft bed.

-Knock, knock!

At that moment, there was a knock on the door announcing the door. The siblings thought it was the bar clerk who had brought them in, but an unexpected person came in.

“Can I come in?”

For a moment, After silence, the boy opens the door and comes in. The boy, who had a characteristic wild look, whistled as he saw his brother and sister dressed up. “It’s much better after I

washed it and put it on.”

“Hello, brother.”

“…….”

Nodded . Ron bowed in greeting. Unable to bear the weight of his head, he cried out! When he hit his head on the floor, a crying sound was heard. “Are you okay?

”

Corinne hugged Ron and placed him on the bed, then knelt down on one knee to level the gaze with his siblings. I guessed right.

“So, is there anything inconvenient?”

“It’s perfect! “Brother!

” “… Let’s not say ‘hyung-ah’.”

“Ugh?”

“Brother… I’m a little traumatized by the sound you make. So, when you call me, call me brother.”

“Nph. Brother Corin.”

“You’re right. You’re right.”

He patted Ron’s head and took out a sausage from his pocket and handed it to him. Ron said he liked it and took the sausage.

“…What are you planning to do to us?”

Ren gave him a green-colored gaze. He raised his eyes sharply and stared at Corin.

Among werewolves, he is a wolf with a special golden bloodline. Each entity that is closer to a ‘spirit’ than a monster or beast has its own characteristics.

Ren’s emerald magical eyes penetrate the truth of the opponent.

To be precise, the truth. It is an additional function that senses such things with animalistic instinct, but this ability is what helped the beggar brother and sister survive in the shadows with nothing. “Honestly, I wanted to borrow

some of your strength.”

Truth.

“But you guys are bigger than I thought. He was very young. So I thought it wouldn’t be a good idea to involve them in something dangerous.”

Truth.

“But it’s also a good idea to throw them away, so if you want, I’ll take you to a place where people like you are gathered.”

Truth.

“Is it important?”

“It’s not something you should care about. It’s okay without you.”

Lie.

Ren quickly put the situation in order.

This boy wants something from them. It’s important and he needs our strength.

But because he’s a child, he’s lying to reassure them. .

“…….”

A useless person. He calculates his own profit, but if he does good work and there is no margin left, he is a good person who is okay with it. “Do you have a lot of

money?”

“…. ..Can’t you just call me oppa? My brother is a little different, but he’s okay. No, I actually like it.”

Ren ignored the murmurings about why everyone calls me old man and why do I look so cool.

“Please hire us. If you give me money, I will work.”

What a huge advancement that was. It was literally the greatest favor shown to a beggar girl who had always been accustomed to stealing.

“Is there anything even children can do? Do you want to clean at the inn?”

“No, that’s not it…!”

“Aren’t you hungry more than that? Do you want to eat it?”

“Don’t treat me like a child!”

“Just draw it. “Our Ren is not a child, he is an adult. He is an adult.”

False.

Although Ren was grinning, he couldn’t defeat Corin by force. Not yet.

* * * *

A newly built inn on the outskirts of the city has been a hot topic recently.

Students’ A newly built inn that was said to have been built with investment. Due to the appearance of typhoon bats, it seemed that the inn that had been built was blown away, let alone completed, but it was finally completed, and an unusual rumor arose. All 100 people from Boramae Academy participating in this festival will be staying

here

. Does this… make sense?’

Foreign academies usually visit once every two years.

Since more than 100 students and professors enter the country at a time, where they stay is a very big concern for lodging operators. Even if we

assume about 100 people, the accommodation fee is enormous. However, the additional industries such as accommodation throughout the peak season of the festival, revitalization of surrounding commerce, and food costs alone are worth a platinum amount. How many

lodging companies are bidding to seize this sweet opportunity?

Even at Merkava Academy, contracts are rotated for the sake of fairness. But who would have guessed that they would snatch it up from a newly built inn!

The merchants were shocked and had to find the next best solution.

If they couldn’t secure a long-term stay, they would have to win a bid even for food from street vendors. Mr. Bae, who runs a food service business in the city, also said, This is just an example.

“This is Bright Bae of Bright Company.”

“This is Corin Locke of Happy Inn. Please take a seat.”

The inn’s office was shiny and shiny, probably because it had just been built. He bowed to the young student with a pale face and sat down.

“You want to do business at our inn?”

“Oh yes…! Our company has a high hygiene score and has always received excellence awards…” ”

But in addition to the boss, CEO Spencer also came and went.”

“Spencer…!”

What can I say? He is a competitor of Bright Bae. Recently. Food rations were also taken away from the newly opened kindergarten in the city.

“We definitely want to do this!” We have a high hygiene score and are older and have more experience!”

“Ah, I see.”

The young CEO glanced over the company’s proposal as if he was just looking at it. It took less than two seconds to flip through one page, to the point of wondering if this was okay.

“Are you… are you reading?”

“Oh yeah, whatever. It’s a quick read.”

It’s not at the level of speed reading, right? But what Corin said next is meaningful.

“No matter who takes charge of the work, they say it’s all the same….”

What is it? What does this mean? It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the food distribution business. The Bright ship’s touch reacted sensitively.

Are you asking this out loud? But is it okay? If not? While the Bright ship was worrying, Corin asked.

“The boss is from the Eastern Continent, right?”

“Ah… eh. ”

“There is a saying in the Eastern Continent called ‘Guanxi’. We help each other and become one family… Yes? “You know that well because you’re mixed race, right?”

“Ah…”

“I think I could have a family-like relationship with CEO Bright Bae…” “

I think so too,”

Bright replied . Corin closed the proposal he was reading and placed his hands on both of his shoulders.

“That’s right, boss. Come to think of it, you are also supplying imported goods to the festival this time, right?”

“Yes… from Boramae…”

“I see! I’m also close to Professor Josephine at the Academy!”

“Is that so?”

“How is it? While you’re at it, what about me? “Can I ask you a small favor?”

“What is that? No, more than that, really, with Head Professor Josephine…”

The doubts about that part could be resolved through the glorious moment when Bright Bae had a one-on-one meeting with Professor Josephine.

He had a hunch. Ah! This student is a gilt-bronze string. !

“How do you feel? Would you please do me a small favor?”

“Of course! I really didn’t know that you would even allow me to supply daily necessities to the Academy…! “Say anything, boss!”

“Hey~ This is Boss Bae, a person who understands! Let’s get along well from now on! Brother Bae!”

Corin offered his hand. Bright quickly grabbed the rope.

The next morning, a mysterious box of apples was delivered to the Happy Inn, and the distribution business was taken over by Bright Company. A

round-trip carriage driver to the academy. An errand business tour guide. It’s an unseasonable apple harvest for some, as traders and others have flocked in.

“It’s sweet.”

The hero who saves the world has no selflessness.

“I’ll use it all for good.”

It’s true. Probably.