Became an Academy Villain 99

Chapter 99 – 16. Time for Each Person (1)

A month and a week after the incident, I finally got a call from Sianna.
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– Jihoo, the principal has woken up. Please do not inform anyone else and come to the address written in the text by yourself.
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“Okay. I’ll be right there.”

– Oh, and… Knock only twice. Please…!

Considering that there are no articles related to Sanya on the Internet, it is likely that Sanya’s injury has not been officially announced yet.
Just like the last time I heard it at Sianna’s house, there could be a traitor, so maybe only someone you can trust will tell you about Sanya’s current condition.
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In my case, I saw Sanja fall with her own two eyes, and since I was able to trust Sianna enough, it seemed that she was part of it.
She didn’t think she would need other women to go see Sanya, so she left her house with Seol-ah around her.
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“Let’s see. The address is… Inside Arbadelin.”

She presented her special pass given to Shiana and headed past her restricted access line to the address written on her text.
As she stepped into the interior space, which was still off-limits to the general public, a desolate interior and gray dust greeted me.

The Awakened Training Facility, which was built over 70 years ago, is full of secrets that ordinary students do not know about until they graduate.
Right now, I didn’t even know that the principal’s office would be full of CCTV like that, and it was only then that I knew that there was a hidden secret room.

Of course, a school with so many secrets must have at least a room that is not visible to unauthorized people.
Because right now, in front of my eyes, a golden door that hadn’t been there before was quietly shining.

[Room 308, Hall 17, Arbadelin. A large golden door. Knock twice when entering.]

I’ve always felt it from the way I put the code on the door of the principal’s office, but the author of this novel must have been overly inspired by Harry Potter.
It’s actually a novel that can be said to be the origin of an academy, so it doesn’t matter much that there is an element of homage.

“Uh… I’m going in?”

Smart.
As written in the text, I knocked twice, and the door opened on its own, even though I didn’t hold the handle.
I was able to figure out what kind of facility this place was at once from the strong smell of alcohol from inside.

“Jihoo-kun, you’re here.”

As if sensing her presence, Siana appeared at the end of the long aisle.
The corners of her mouth went up, as if she was happy that Sanya had woken up.
You look so much better when you smile

“Hello. How are you?”

“Yes. I’m still very busy… But the principal woke up and let me go. Oh, you can go inside.”

As I walked along the hallway with bookshelves filled with books with antique decorations, a wide space soon appeared.
Two women with unfamiliar faces were talking next to the bed, and on the spacious bed… Sanja Dominas was lying.

“Ah, it’s Jihoo-kun. Come home. I feel like I want to get up and hug you, but as you can see, my body is a bit like this… Haha.”

“Sanya, I told you not to move as much as possible.”

Sanya struggled to raise her upper body to greet me, but she was forced to lie down again because her woman, standing next to her, gently pressed her head to restrain her.

Sanya had been remarkably emaciated in a month.
Aside from her originally small physique, her arms, which had become so skinny that her bones were visible, and the magical hole still pierced in her chest, as if it had not been fully healed, made her condition unpredictable. Revealed

“Well, but now that she’s awake, she won’t have much time to go back if she gets a little more treatment… Cool! Ugh… Ugh…”

She stopped talking playfully and she started coughing violently.
Seeing her face watered with her pain, she and I automatically felt her mood subside.

Her blue-haired woman hurriedly placed her hand on Sanya’s chest and muttered something from her, only then did Sanya’s breathing calm down.
She was an Awakener with healing powers.

“Jihoo-kun. If it’s okay, can we go inside and talk for a while?”

“Yes, I like it.”

She felt that if I continued to watch her gloomy sight, I would have a hole in her heart, so she accepted Cianna’s proposal right away.
Siana led me to a drawing room with a small table on the other side of the room where the bed was.

“I’m sorry if I called you too soon. I didn’t mean to show you this…”

“No. But it’s a little relieved to see you alive.”

“It’s nice then… Actually, I originally made a separate seat in the isolation ward and was receiving treatment there, but I was constantly threatened there, so I had no choice but to come here.”

It’s been about 3 weeks since Sianna invited me, so maybe that means she moved Sanya here in the meantime.

“By the way, speaking of threats… By any chance, is it related to spies?”

“Yes. I don’t know what kind of scumbag it is… He tried to assassinate Sanya by disguising a life-absorbing monster as an ornamental plant. Apparently, even though he thoroughly inspected his belongings and access control, that happened… !”

“Ah…”

To be honest, it was a bit shocking.
If the person who revived the sea dragon was related to the spy in the practical evaluation, it means that he took a risk and came to Sanya’s hospital room to complete the failed plan with the sea dragon.

Then, suddenly, an alarm sounded on my cell phone saying that a text message had arrived.
I asked for forgiveness and opened the screen in a hurry, wondering if some quest had occurred due to encountering an important fact, but when I checked the sender of the text, the steam leaked.

[Jihoo. I’m Ryushin. Can I come home now? I have something I want to talk about seriously.]

[Yes, outside now]

He hasn’t contacted me for over a month, so why is he finally contacting me now?
I’m sorry, but this conversation seems more serious, so it’s a rejection.

“Anyway, so, first of all, school will resume soon. Sanya will have to carefully decide whether or not to return after watching the progress of her treatment, but fortunately, the government says they will send support personnel.”

“Is there any possibility that there are people in the government who are in communication with the demons?”

“It’s a reasonable suspicion. I was worried about that, so I discussed it with the team conducting the investigation, but according to a person with ties to the government, there is no room for the demons to intervene because support personnel who are isolated from society and thoroughly trained come. They said there wouldn’t be any.”

So, Sianna meant that her absent principal’s original role of maintaining safety and identifying hazards would be taken over by temporary government personnel.

Honestly, I’m not sure if the government’s intervention is in a positive direction, but I think it’s a reasonable solution since I can’t wait for Sanya to return after a month off.

“Is the professor coming back too? Or are you going to stay here…?”

“Of course I have to protect Jihoo. Hehe, I’m kidding… My team took turns protecting the principal, so I think I’ll probably stay at the academy while classes are in session. I’m a first-year homeroom teacher, so I have to pay more attention to the students. There are parts of it.”

Phew, good luck
I thought I finally had the background of Siana, but in a situation where a new force called the government had invaded the school, without Siana, the road ahead was almost blocked.

I don’t know what kind of people will come to school, but I don’t think they will be very friendly.
It feels like Hogwarts being ruled by death eaters… If not to the point, it feels similar anyway.

Maybe I’ve already fallen in love with the academy without even realizing it…
It’s been more than two months, so I think it’s enough.
Anyway, I thought I should keep my head up when school resumes.

“The school start date will probably be sent as a text message. Jihoo-kun, go in carefully.”

“Professor Siana, get some sleep too. See you later in the classroom.”

After that, we talked more about this and that, and when the visitation time was over, I said goodbye and left the room.
When they came out completely, the golden door disappeared as if it had never happened.

“It’s really amazing…”

I thought about going home, but decided to do a few more things since I came to the academy after a long time.
Since there are no students, I think I can take care of one more hidden piece hidden in the school without needing to notice today.

If what I got last time was [Critical Shield] In charge of defense, what I got this time was ‘Little Pixie’, an artifact that acts as an auxiliary attack.

Little Pixie isn’t too careless.
I slowly moved to where the Hidden Peace was located.
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A long sword cuts through the air.
As if slicing through the floating air, each time the sword full of wit was swung, it made a loud sound.

A series of attacks that accurately understands the logic of the sword, not just mere chopping.
A beautiful silver sword dance unfolds against an imaginary enemy.

“Whoa… I think I can use this movement now.”
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Goryushin put his sword in the scabbard with a satisfied expression.
The tingling sensation that still lingered in his palms revealed how hard he had practiced.
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Over the past month, he has constantly looked back on himself.
He was so helpless in front of the six walls of tentacles that regenerated even if he was cut off, and he was overwhelmed by the mysterious monster he encountered on the island and had no choice but to stand by.
He was still weak for a while, so he had to develop the strength to stand up to the monsters.

The tattoo on his back helped him in his training.
It is felt that it induces the flow of magical power to be stabilized naturally, and balances the body so that there is no useless power consumed.

‘I thought it was just a big dot, but I didn’t know it would have this kind of power…’

I can’t remember when the tattoo first appeared.
All I know is that one day a small mole that appeared on his back gradually increased in size until it covered almost half of his back.

As a child, he was teased a lot by his peers.
I gave up because the skin couldn’t come off even though I tried to erase it with magical treatment, but there were all kinds of reasons why it couldn’t be erased now.

Perhaps the fact that the tattoo was so annoying and itchy a few months ago was a precursor to the potential power of the tattoo.
Although it is an unknown power of unknown origin, there is no unpleasant energy felt from unclean magic, so after his awakening, Goryushin actively cultivated his strength by actively using tattoos in his training.

“It’s still not enough…”

Goryushin looked down at the sword hanging from his right waist.

An artifact obtained by chance during the archeology club’s recent museum visit.
Even after passing the [Qualifications] Test and being recognized for ownership of the artifact, he still did not know what potential the sword had.

When the handle was slightly lifted, the silver blade emitted a sharp light with a cool sound.
It was a famous sword that could cut through anything in the hands of a master.

But that was all. The current sword is simply a little higher in anticipation and strength than other swords, and even though it was recognized as an artifact, the effect given to the sword was not being exerted at all.

‘Couldn’t the artifact’s effect simply enhance the sword’s own specs?’

No, absolutely not.
There was no way that a masterpiece that an Awakener could create only once in a lifetime had this much power.
It’s probably because he hasn’t found specific conditions to wake up the sword, or he’s just at a level where he can’t handle the power of the sword properly yet.

“In case you don’t know, let’s get counseling… It looks like Jihoo has a few.”

I don’t know where it came from, but the bracelet Jihoo Lee was wearing on his wrist was emitting strange magical powers, unlike its simple appearance.
Assuming that it is an artifact, maybe Lee Ji-hoo knows how to draw out the power of the artifact.

Goryushin left the training ground wiping the sweat from his brow.
She’s not going to school anyway, and that doesn’t mean Lee Ji-hoo isn’t the type to go out often, so she’s probably at home.

“Should I buy a present when I go…?”

He made the impromptu decision to visit her at Izzy Hu’s house.
She also has a purpose to seek counseling, but in fact, she has hardly met anyone properly in the past month, so she needs someone to talk to.

Of course, it’s not polite to just visit them, so you should text them.
The expression housewarming gift doesn’t suit it, but if you bring a few rolls of toilet paper, wouldn’t it be enough to have an assortment?

[Jihoo. I’m Ryushin. Can I come home now? I have something I want to talk about seriously.]

[Yes, outside now]

Oh, it’s out.
Upon seeing the reply, Goryushin immediately became sullen and trudged home.

Maybe someday we’ll talk… Maybe?
It’s not so important that I have to say it now.
…But I’ll have to ask next time.