Chapter 12 – 04. Your Eyes Looking at Me (1)
A week has passed since then.
She became close with her classmates before she knew it, and they were able to share small stories, and the practice, which was difficult to follow at first, was in the process of getting used to it little by little after getting the beads.
Although the plan to meet Seo Joo-ha failed due to the constant pouring of assignments, at this rate of growth, even if it’s not at the top, I think by the end of this semester, I’ll be at a level where I can protect myself.
At first, everything I did was creaky, but now the track has risen to the top to some extent.
I used to think that if I just pick the next heroine and repeat the process of attacking slowly, I won’t be taking too much of a risk.
However, crises always come from unexpected situations.
* * *
Today was one of the main events of the academy, the class president election and club promotion day.
Even in the early morning, the classroom was noisy, probably because the students who would normally stretch out to catch up on sleep were awake talking to their friends.
“Jihoo, what are you going to do with the club?”
“Me?
The name of the man who was sitting at my desk and quietly looking at the electronic panel came up to me and asked me a question.
Sang-ho, similar to me, with slightly light, silk-colored hair, was the first person in this world that I could regard as a ‘friend I could treat comfortably’.
Among the 25 students in Class A, there were only two male students who had a mental relationship with me, so we naturally exchanged greetings during class classification time, and since we had quite a common interest, we spontaneously developed into friends.
In fact, Sang-ho was just an extra whose name didn’t even appear in the original work, but it seems that there was no resistance to him.
“Honestly, I’m thinking of the student council? I heard from a senior I know, that if you join the student council, they’ll give you almost all of your tuition fees. They say working is a bit strenuous, but I’ll save money and buy equipment later.”
Among Arbadelin’s clubs, some of the larger clubs have the nature of self-governing associations, and among them, the student council feels like a kind of school institution that officially receives support from the academy, so appropriate benefits are given to members of the student council.
It’s a student council…
Actually, it’s not that I haven’t thought about it, but even in reality, class president, vice-captain, and I, who haven’t been exaggerated once, have doubts about whether I’ll be able to do well, and I’m reluctant to do it because I’m worried that the intense work will interfere with targeting the heroines.
And most of all, since the last time I checked the amount written on my bank account, I had vowed not to bother with making money.
“Hmm… To be honest, I’ve only heard the name yet, but I don’t know what the clubs are doing in detail. I’ll have to see everything they promote later and decide.”
“If you don’t come, I think I’ll be bored and look around… If you change your mind later, come join the student council.
After saying that, he went back to his seat.
As class time approached, students who had been outside began to enter the classroom.
Ryushin sat down on the chair panting as if he had been doing some light exercise, and Ha-yul came in belatedly and sat in the seat behind me.
Soon after, the professor came in and checked whether the students were in attendance, and the boring theoretical class started again for more than two hours.
Today’s first lecture is ‘History of Power’, a liberal arts course, but it is a very important subject because it is designated as a required course and is closely related to the history of the academy.
“Eh… Last time, we even looked into the appearance of monsters, right? , You know that it is divided into demons, right? Since this belongs to common sense, I believe that everyone knows it, and let’s start with what the exact concept of demons is…”
I tried to ignore Ha Yul, who stretched out her feet in stockings and gently touched my exposed thigh between the desks, as if my body was getting hot in the morning, and focused on the professor’s voice as much as possible.
* * *
Today, after lunch, there are no more lectures, but instead there is a class president election and a club promotion event, so after playing with Ha Yul, we moved to the classroom assigned to our class.
Perhaps it was just the right time, candidates started to stand up and come to the front of the lecture hall, and among them, I saw some familiar faces.
No, Sang-ho, why are you out there?
If I became the class president and even the student council, I would be really busy and die… What kind of Hermione are you?
According to the original story, of course, in the election, Ryu Shin-yi would be elected class president with an overwhelming majority of votes.
However, unlike the original, I could confirm that the back of Ryu Shin-yi’s neck was red and swollen while giving a brief candidate speech at the church.
“If I become the class president of class A, the students this year… Oh, I’m sorry. All the students…”
While giving a presentation, I watched Ryu Xin carefully as she kept putting her hand on her tattooed back to see if she was having trouble concentrating.
As expected, it seems that the hypnosis that I practiced is getting stronger little by little over time.
I used all the 3 integer points I got after the short but long incident with Ha Yul to increase the limit of hypnosis.
As a result of examining the skill tree of the ‘Ability Development’ app, there were a total of three directions for hypnosis enhancement, ‘Enhancement of duration’, ‘Enhancement of application limit’, and ‘Enhancement of wave range’. Those were necessary things.
But now, above all else, it was urgent to increase the application limit that could penetrate the barrier of high mental power.
It’s Ha-yul, since the attack has already been completed, increasing the duration of Suggestion isn’t much help anymore, and since the wave range enhancement was a necessary ability only when dealing with large crowds, I gave 3 points to the application limit enhancement that was deemed necessary first. It has been invested and raised to level 2.
“…I will finish my presentation with this. Thank you.”
It’s a fact that I’ve come to know now, but even if I raise the skill level belatedly, it seems that the strengthened effect is applied retroactively.
As evidence of that, it was because after raising the skill level, Ryu Xin’s condition gradually deteriorated.
Seeing Ryu Shin-yi return to her seat with a stunned expression, as if she thought she had completely ruined the presentation, her heart weakened for a moment, but she soon turned her head and tried to think about something else.
After all the candidates gave their speeches, Professor Shiana conducted the election in a very classic way for an Awakened school, called a ballot, and the results of the counting were as follows.
16 votes, 5 votes, 2 votes, 1 vote, and 1 invalid vote for each of the four candidates.
…In conclusion, somehow the causality of the original work worked, and Ryu Xin became the class president.
Despite how positively she was seen by other students throughout the week, and despite stuttering her words during her candidacy speech, she managed to get a vote similar to her original.
Fortunately, the variable that could have prevented Ryu Xin from becoming class president had disappeared, and it was a pretty good harvest for her to gain one clear evidence that her hypnosis was being applied well.
* * *
After the class president election, I moved to the main building to attend the club promotion meeting.
Arbadelin’s club promotion event is conducted by renting 1 or 2 classrooms for each club, hanging up exhibits suitable for the activities of each club, or explaining to students.
Since it is an event that happens once a year, most clubs gather members as much as they can to prepare for a publicity meeting and make it look as attractive as possible to new students.
Of course, in the original work, places with a small number of people, such as the ‘Archaeology Club’ to which Ryu Shin and Ha Yul belonged, are not very popular even if they prepare diligently, so they prepare moderately and only accept 1-2 new members every year…
First of all, with the idea that I should take a sneak peek at the student council and explore other clubs, I took the information booklet for the public relations club and slowly moved toward the student council publicity space.
“Wow… What kind of special purpose room did you rent…”
In the original work, Ryu Shin-yi came across the archeology club’s promotion by chance, and because she was interested in history and artifacts, she immediately joined the archeology club.
That’s why I could dare to say that the publicity space of the largest club in the school, which I saw for the first time, is a level that overwhelms the scale I had imagined.
The document recording the history and traditions of the student council was so large that it completely occupied one side of the special purpose room, and the floor and walls were covered with antique patterns carefully carved using luminescent powder.
Among the departments, the research department developed various equipment exclusively for the student council, and even made a separate facility on one side so that students who came to experience it could freely try it on.
Despite such a huge scale, unexpectedly, the number of new students visiting this space did not seem to be as large as expected.
The last time the two classes had a joint class, there were about 50 people… Now it’s about 30?
I lean against the entrance and quietly look around, wondering if there is something unnoticeable, but a female student wearing a student council badge approaches me as if confirming that I have entered.
“Hello, did you come to see the student council? If you don’t mind, I think you can register at the desk over there and look around slowly.”
I don’t know who it is just by looking at her face, but her smile is pretty, so I nodded her head involuntarily.
As she was leading her by the hand and accidentally writing a name on her visit list, she suddenly felt an uneasy feeling behind her back, similar to the gaze she had felt the other day.
Thinking that I wouldn’t miss it this time, I quickly turned her head, and the person who came into sight,
It was Yu Seol-ah, the sophomore heroine of the original work, who looked at me coldly with pale sky-blue eyes.
