Chapter 202 – Chapter 202 Confession
After coming out of Helios’ bath, I looked at myself in the mirror while wiping myself.
His body, which was much stronger than when he was playing active duty, with more scars and thick muscles, wriggled whenever he moved.
“It has become much stronger.”
It has become so strong that it cannot be compared to the past.
The change in stats was great, but the biggest thing was that he had skills he hadn’t had in his entire life.
Not one, but seven.
Except for Kim Hyun-jung, who is not a student, they are all students who gave me skills.
Having a variety of skills meant that it could lead to fighting in many ways.
‘It means that I can fight so that the opponent can’t expect it at all.’
It was certain that it would become a great weapon for me in the fight against Daesung in the future.
“Hmm…”
I stared at myself in the mirror.
Unlike the shadow mask that covered his face every day, now his face is revealed to everyone.
If this time fails, there will be no next time.
I risked everything and even decided to run into Daesung.
‘I also told the students.’
Just one thing.
They didn’t know why I was angry with Daesung.
“Should I tell you?”
The fact that I’m a shadow mask?
“Or should I hide it to the end?”
I looked at myself in the mirror and asked, but there was no answer.
I thought about it several times while mixing with the students.
While making them happy, I thought endlessly and hesitated.
“It is also a matter for me to decide.”
I asked for help in the upcoming fight.
They said they were willing to help.
If so, I wondered if it would be right to be honest with them at least.
‘I can’t hide it forever.’
If they fight Daesung in earnest, they will know about it too.
Rather than being known to others, I would rather speak first.
‘It’s a way not to break trust.’
After leaving the bathhouse and looking around Helios’ palace, I made up my mind.
Sitting outside the palace, watching the rising sun, I waited for them to wake up again.
“Teacher?”
The first person to get up and leave the palace was Yuara.
“Did you wash everything?”
“Yes, I just washed up and came out. She changed her clothes and came out to find her teacher. Why are you here?”
“I have something to think about.”
“Are you thinking?”
“Okay. When everyone wakes up, invite them to talk one more time before leaving the dungeon.”
Instead of answering her, Yuara sat next to me.
“Can I ask why?”
I saw Yuara sitting next to me.
“Do you want to hear it first?”
“Well, rather than that… I just saw the teacher’s expression as I came down. I saw it for the first time. Like that, soaked in melancholy and immersed in worries.”
“Okay?”
“Yes. To me, the teacher was always unstoppable, and she was someone who had no worries. She was the one who always taught me something new and taught me things I didn’t know.”
“Is it.”
I sighed and said to Yuara.
“Today I am going to reveal to you a secret I have been hiding.”
“Is it a bigger secret than that you’re going to be with Daesung and Chuck?”
“… Perhaps? Actually, it was a secret that Daesung and I had to pretend to be.”
Hearing those words, Yooara came closer to me.
“Are you afraid to tell the secret?”
“Do you think I am afraid?”
“Yes. I could feel hesitating from the look on his face.”
“…”
Was it that teasing?
Enough to be noticed by the students he teaches?
“Of course I could be wrong, but it still looks that way to me? You learned from the teacher for a year in your own way, and your eyesight improved, right?”
“… Yes.”
If Yuara saw it that way, she wouldn’t be wrong.
She was at least one of the people who got to know Kim Si-woo well while learning from me.
“Then, teacher, what are you afraid of and hesitating?”
After looking at her for a moment, I turned her head to look at the rising sun.
“I am afraid that you will be disappointed after hearing my confession. I am afraid of that.”
The moment I said that, I realized.
Why couldn’t I tell them my secret?
They are my precious strength, but at the same time they were students.
Just like the students did to me, I also depended on them.
I’m afraid that the girls I depend on will be disappointed in me.
I was afraid of it.
Because you can’t get revenge if they leave?
Well.
I don’t know what the additional reasons are.
However, it was clear that he did not want to disappoint them.
“Ah.”
“Has your problem been resolved?”
“Thanks to you, I found out why.”
That’s why I hesitated.
“Then you’ve found the impetus to move.”
“Okay. I found the driving force.”
“Is it because of me?”
Yuara asked with her eyes twinkling.
“Yes. Ara, thanks to you, I found the way.”
“Doesn’t a good student need a prize?”
She asked me with her anticipation, her young eyes glowing.
Prize
“Are you okay? The other students will wake up soon.”
“You know it’s not like that.”
“…”
“It only takes one stroke and one kiss.”
When she finished speaking, her face turned red.
When I looked at her with her dumbfounded face at her unexpected suggestion, Yuara cleared her throat and opened her mouth.
“Uh, how long are you going to embarrass me?”
She closed her eyes and pursed her lips slightly.
The way she looked was cute.
It was an action that felt the unique freshness of a college student.
It seemed that I was a little taken aback by the half-cooked girl’s dash.
She couldn’t act right away, and looked at Yuara.
“Sir, sir?”
She was cute when she opened one of her eyes and looked at me.
I stroked Yuara’s hair and kissed her lightly.
Not a deep kiss that mixes her tongue with her saliva, but a kiss where her lips simply collide.
But involuntarily, I bit her lower lip into her mouth, slowly sticking out her tongue and pushing it into her mouth.
“Hmm, teacher…”
“Wait for a sec.”
It was just a kiss.
A casual kiss without touching the breasts or having sex.
However, Yuara’s face felt hotter than ever.
He touched her red-hot ears and gently stroked her hair.
“Haaa…”
There was moisture in the sound of his anxious breathing.
She ran her hand all over her face and hair and kissed her intensely for about five minutes.
After the warm and gentle touch, I pulled Yuara’s face away from hers.
“Ah.”
Her eyes met as she slightly stuck out her tongue and bowed her head forward after me.
Haha.”
Yua Ra, who smiled and turned her head, sweated profusely.
“Bah, I just washed, but I need to wash again. Lol.”
With her tongue sticking out and her shy smile, she rose from her seat and hurried into her palace.
“Anyway, don’t worry, you can do whatever you want, teacher. I will trust you.”
As she ran with her gun gun, she left her last words as if asking me to.
I don’t know if she knows that that one word gave me a lot of strength.
***
“I have one last confession to tell you before leaving the dungeon.”
“A confession?”
“Isn’t it too early for the wedding?”
“Is there a bigger secret than becoming Daesung’s enemy?”
Everyone paid attention to me.
Most of them looked at me with questions.
Chungha noona was the only one with a subtle smile as if she knew what to say.
“Everyone is curious. Why am I so knowledgeable about school and good at teaching people. Where did you get such rich experience?”
Someone would have investigated my background, and someone would have searched in various ways because they could not hold back their curiosity.
Chae Seon-hwa and Kim Hyun-jung avoided my eyes with cold faces.
“Originally, I tried to hide it until the end. However, considering the future journey, I concluded that it is right for you to be honest.”
The moment he said that, Yuara grinned.
Everyone waited for my words with their mouths shut.
Some people wondered about my true identity, while others did not consider it important.
I intended to reveal my true identity to them today.
“I am the shadow mask.”
The students revealed to them a long-hidden secret.
I took out the mask, which was the signature equipment that the shadow mask always used, and showed it in front of them.
The unique mask of the Shadow Mask that no one can counterfeit.
He pulled out a black mask in front of them that gave off a gloomy energy just by looking at it.
“Fellow Murderer Shadow Mask… So Daesung…”
Hyeonjeong Kim, who had been talking softly without realizing it, realized her mistake and covered her mouth with her hand.
“Are you okay. Because everyone knows that. If you look at it, it’s not wrong.”
I was the one who led Shin Seo-ah to the party, and I was the one who didn’t realize the deaths of my colleagues.
It was all my fault
It was my mistake.
“My colleagues died because of my poor choices. Shinseo, that woman killed my colleague and laid the blame on me. That’s why I’m taking revenge on Daesung.”
Everyone kept silent.
“Wait a minute, then I chose this dungeon…”
Chungha noona looked at me and said.
“It was to overcome the trauma of the past on my own.”
And thanks to the students, I overcame it properly.
I caught the boss monster that I thought I would never be able to kill, and I cleaned up the terrible past.
Of course, there was no evidence left in this dungeon that I wasn’t the culprit, but that didn’t matter.
If other people find out what Daesung did, if Shin Seo-ah is caught and it is revealed that she is the chief of the cult.
‘Because my stigma will naturally be washed away.’
Hearing this, Lee Hye-ri asked.
“Can you say that the reason you are saying this is that you trust us that much?”
“Okay. Before being a teacher and disciple, we are comrades-in-arms who will fight the enemy together in the future.”
“That is good.”
“Is that all?”
“Do you need more? Hopefully, oh my! What if the teacher is a shadow? Please sign! You didn’t want this reaction, did you?”
“It’s not like that, but…”
Lee Hye-ri grinned.
“Then it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if the teacher is a shadow mask or a light mask. The person who made me who I am today is Teacher Kim Si-woo.”
“…”
That was the beginning.
“Me too! I don’t think the teacher is wrong! I don’t know much about the case… I can’t believe that the teacher killed her colleagues like that!”
Hanmi too.
“God has spoken. The teacher is not guilty. I believe too. The teacher couldn’t have sinned.”
Jo Sung Joo.
“The newspaper said that Shadow Mask was the one who killed her comrades for her own desires. But when I experienced it myself, it was different. I don’t think the guild leader is that kind of person either. If I was that kind of person, I would have already been killed by the teacher. Ah, although I have died several times in a different sense.”
“I don’t think he did such a thing in Gangneung just to avenge Daesung.”
Jeong Su-ryun and Chae Seon-hwa also took my side and believed in my words.
Yooara and Kim Hyeon-jeong nodded.
I mean everyone believes in me.
And finally.
“As I said before, I am always on your side. So don’t worry.”
Chungha noona took a period.
“I will be busier when classes begin, so I need to prepare well for classes.”
It was my own way of expressing my gratitude to them.
Making a platform so that the girls who believe in me can grow further.
That was the best I could do as a private tutor.
“I hope to go along well. Students.”
“We really ask you to take good care of us. Teacher.”
So, a new school year has begun.
***
“What is this…”
Director Choi Woo-seok, the grandson of Chairman Choi Woo-sung, wrinkled his brow while looking at a confidential document sent by someone.
“Chairman and Shin Seo-ah… ?”
In the confidential document he received, there was a picture of Shin Seo-ah and Choi Woo-sung sharing a deep kiss through the window.
