Chapter 51 – Entrance Ceremony ( 2 )
It’s not long before the academy entrance ceremony.
‘Have an entrance ceremony…’
Cheols was in deep trouble.
‘Why did our Hiro also ask us to come?’
The reason is that Hiro’s request to attend the entrance ceremony has arrived.
In the original unplayed game, Hiro.. The main character Baek Shin-hyeok does not attend the entrance ceremony.
After the entrance exam has already been taken, the admission was made through Iron Mask’s personal recommendation, so as a special admission, you will enter the academy at the beginning of the semester.
‘By the way, since Hiro was selected as co-chief at the entrance ceremony, he should go out as a representative..?’
“I’ll turn.”
At the unexpected entrance ceremony, Cheols got a headache. I would like to skip the entrance ceremony, but the entrance ceremony of Shinsung International Academy is not an ordinary entrance ceremony.
When the demon king summoned from Europe 100 years ago was sent back to the demon realm in the middle of Seoul, it was selected as Victory Day to commemorate the victory, and a victory ceremony was held every year at Shinsung International Academy.
The date always coincided with the first year entrance ceremony, so…
It was impossible not to participate in such a meaningful event, the entrance ceremony.
‘There, Hiro is stamped by the principal. But if he says he doesn’t participate, he might cancel the admission altogether, right?’
Anticipating that point, Cheols put down his glasses and turned his chair to look at the transparent glass wall.
Contrary to my mind, I see vehicles and people busily moving under the blue sky.
“Still, I can’t have you participate in the entrance ceremony.”
During the entrance ceremony, ‘the incident’ takes place.
At the beginning of the story, with the appearance of the main villain, the leader, many people are killed or injured.
Sending his precious daughter, Hiro, to such an entrance ceremony was out of the question for Cheols. Even if he could not attend the entrance ceremony, his admission to the school would be revoked.
“At times like this, just catching Hwang Hee-yeol makes things easier.”
Didn’t he say that even a tiger would come if I told him?
Wriggle-..!
– Dummy number 13. Notified that the leader has been found.
“..!”
Hearing the transmission of consciousness through the tentacles, Cheols spurred on and stood up.
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“Hey-! Hwang-a! Bring a simple elevator over there!”
“Yeep!”
Mess up— Clap..
Wow—!
A space filled with green smoke with the sound of metal clashing.
It looks like the inside of a factory somewhere, but it also looks like the inside of a research laboratory where people dressed in astronaut-like costumes often wander around to research chemicals.
“Whoa… Whoa…”
I’m going to have a good time…!!
The name of this place is ‘Demon Dismantling Station’.
It was literally a facility where hunters dismantled the monsters they hunted.
From small monsters smaller than a person to medium-sized beasts larger than a car, it is dismantled.
Hunters, who are high-end manpower, focus only on hunting monsters and are not involved in dismantling monsters into salesable by-products.
“Go up! Lock it!”
“Yes! Starting with the legs, right?”
“Then head first? We have to go from the legs upwards step by step.”
I’m going to go to the middle of the day–!
Chores such as dismantling are performed by contract workers at countless beast dismantling plants in Korea.
“Whoop… Whoop…”
In fact, this was never an easy task, and it was not something a person could do.
Pushy..–!
After death, the insides of demon beasts decay and gas is released as a result.
Whoa—
The gas is imbued with the tainted mana unique to the Witchbeast, resulting in deadly poison to living things.
That’s why human rights groups argued that the work of the dismantling station should be replaced by machines instead of humans.
Chi profit…!
No matter what kind of machine it was, it was bound to corrode quickly from the toxic magic of the Beast, so it was common for people in protective suits to dismantle it for the purpose of cost reduction.
Booooong– Booooong–
The only safety device given to these workers and dismantlers is a ventilator for air flow control and a pair of protective clothing.
Kiki-Ik–
Break–! Break–!
And there were only disposable mechanical devices, cutters, and shredding tools that had to be moved in various old-fashioned ways.
“Whoa…”
“Whoop… Whoop…”
Due to the blurry work site due to the gas emitted in real time and the deadly toxic gas that stings the skin even though wearing protective clothing, the nerves of everyone working here were sharp.
Booooong–… Kiki. Crunches–
“Uh…! That stopped!”
“What?! Fuck? Sudden stop?”
In a situation where even a small accident made people swear, all the busy workers stopped at once and panicked when the ventilation fan, which could be said to be the only life support device, stopped working.
If the ventilation fan does not work, the poisonous gas will be stagnant, and as a result, the level of toxicity inside the dismantling plant will rise, and even the protective clothing will be useless.
In a crisis situation where you have to stop work immediately and open the barrier to get out..
“Hwang! Put down the elevator and fix the ventilation fan!”
The foreman who has worked here the longest calls a person by name and shouts.
“All right!”
“Hwangi said he’ll fix it, so everyone is back to work, what are you doing?”
And the dismantling work begins again amid some kind of anxiety.
That buck that buck…
“Whoa…”
Only a young man called ‘Hwang-a’ approached the huge fan blades.
Squeak– clap-
Open the control unit next to the wing.
Chic.. Chic..
There are crystals of all kinds of colors.
The ventilation fan operating here is not an ordinary mechanical device.
It could be said to be a kind of artifact using magic crystals. That’s why only professional artifact makers can repair this device…
Of course, there was no one who could fix such a device among contract dismantlers, who were all incompetent and not socially intelligent.
“There’s a problem with the magic circulation system…”
Except for one person, Hwang Hee-yeol, who is called Hwang.
He graduated from a university related to artifact device interpretation.
I mean Hankuk University, which can be said to be the best university in the new Korea.
It was unusual for an incompetent person. It was because it was not possible to enter Korea University, which is considered right below Shinsung Academy, unless you were from a wealthy family and had great potential.
However, he was neither rich nor talented.
Rather, he was born in an orphanage and had an unfortunate childhood.
– You guys were abandoned by your parents because you are incompetent! If the state subsidy didn’t come out, I have no reason to have trash like you.
The head of the orphanage, which specializes in the incompetent, always spat out such abusive language to the orphans, including Hwang Hee-yeol.
You’ll only know if that’s true when you meet the parents who abandoned them at the orphanage, but…
It was very difficult to meet the parents who once left their children in an orphanage.
– Get out of my orphanage when you’re all grown up.
From very young to adulthood, none of the orphans were ever adopted by another person.
Incompetent people are trash. Garbage abandoned by parents who gave birth to them. Garbage nobody wants.
‘I didn’t like that, so I studied until I died…’
Nowhere in society do people write incompetent people.
Doctors, scientists, or many other technical jobs that have nothing to do with ability.
Even in jobs that have little to do with ability, people with supernatural abilities are selected even slightly more than those without abilities.
‘Replace fuse #1. If you turn the fuse number 2 and use it, it will be used again..’
Chijik–!
‘Ah! Go back.’
It was also because of such a social background that Hwang Hee-yeol, the head of Korea University, worked at a dismantling plant that could be called the lowest job.
Booung– Booung–
The fan blades started to turn again, and Hwang Hee-yeol closed the open device cover and returned to the original work rail.
Male voice male voice–
However, as I got closer to the rail, I felt something strange.
Workers who should have spread out and dismantled were gathering in one place and talking about something.
“No! You’re saying that’s impossible?! This is a medium-sized decommissioning facility! Large-sized ones are…! Ha! Are you saying that’s what you’re insisting on? A gas explosion could happen from a large-sized one! A gas explosion… Oh, it’s frustrating!!”
In the center of such a group of people, the work foreman, whom he had always been friendly with, was running around in a feverish state holding a walkie-talkie.
“Captain? What’s wrong?”
Hee-yeol approaches and asks.
“No..! Didn’t they tell you to dismantle the formation? This is a medium-sized dismantling center.. Does this make sense?”
“Her.”
Why he was so angry came back with an understandable answer at once.
The poisonous gas emitted from the corpse of the beast is dangerous in terms of toxicity, but the magic component remaining in the gas itself is also dangerous. Even if only a dust explosion that exceeds a certain line occurs, a tremendous chemical reaction occurs and blows the area away. Then I had to see it as a dead life heard by the dismantling that was being dismantled.
“Absolutely impossible. Let’s open the barrier right away and leave. Even if it’s not here, there are many other dismantling centers. Even if you pay a penalty, cancel the contract and find another dismantling center..”
[If you made a contract, you have to fulfill it, right? ]
At that moment, the employer’s voice resonated through the loudspeaker attached to the ceiling.
Profit..
“Oh, shit.”
The foreman realized belatedly that the radio he was holding in his hand was turned on.
Geek—
The secondary opening and closing curtain comes down to make the inside of the dismantling plant a completely airtight place-
[The demon is sent in. If you can’t dismantle it, nobody will be able to get out of here today! ]
Geek —-…
From the rails that transported the monsters, a large demon was entering the size of a building that was on a different level from the monsters so far.
Up to medium-sized monsters, animal-type monsters.
From the large size, most of them are insect-type monsters.
Coo…
The demonic beast that had just entered was in the form of a red rhinoceros beetle.
It can be said that it is the most dangerous as a subject of demon dismantling. Due to the hard upper, the gas inside is compressed and lumped together, so an explosion can occur even if you remove it incorrectly.
“Oh shit! Open it right now! People die like this!!”
[Who do you think cares if incompetent bastards like you die? It’s enough to just deal with the accident. So don’t talk nonsense… 100 million!? Who! ]
Pop—
After shouting vigorously, the sound from the loudspeaker cuts off with a sudden scream.
“What..?”
“..?”
When everyone is bewildered after realizing that something has happened on the other side…
Thud–! Thud—!
Something starts to hit the metal barrier…
Break–!
A hand broke through the barrier into the green smoke.
Swoop.
I clenched my fist a few times and then opened my hand…
Wriggle—!
Whoa!
It instantly begins to absorb the concentrated deadly poisonous gas that has accumulated inside.
Kwak.
By the time the smoke that was blocking the inner vision was sucked into the hand, the hand that had collected the gray slime escaped again through the hole through which it had penetrated.
I’m going to go to the middle of the day —!
The barrier went up and the blocked entrance opened.
“It’s a first-class explosive! Take over the dismantlers and handle it calmly!”
Right after that, the first man to jump in, wearing a black helmet and a special forces suit, raised a sword enchanted with blue magic and shouted.
“…Perform.”
“Perform.”
Tadak–!
Dozens of people dressed in the same clothes penetrated in an instant.
P.N (Princess Knight).
Those words were written on their chests.
Jerk… Jerk…
And in the center, unlike the others in full-length combat uniforms, there was a giant walking with his hands in his pockets wearing a black suit…
“Are you Hwang Hee-yeol?”
“.. Huh? Me?”
“Nice to meet you.”
A bald man, keeping an eye on Hwang Hee-yeol, approached him and spoke with a grin while holding out his thick forearms and wide palms.
“I am Cheols Kim, who runs Cheols Pharmaceuticals.”
He was Cheols who came to pick up Hwang Hee-yeol, the future leader.
