Became a Human Rights Advocate

70 – Episode 14. Bazaar, Day 2

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“By the way, Sihyuk-san, do you have something else you are looking for?”

“No. I’m just looking around.”

The item I’m looking for will be auctioned in the central district tomorrow.

Right now, I’m just looking to see if there’s anything worth buying.

The plan for the second day is to go around each district one lap at a time.

“Then I’m glad. I was worried that I might be wasting my time.”

“… Thank you for your consideration.”

If you look at that part, Suisei is a very kind and considerate guy.

It would be great if he didn’t lack common sense or sense.

Then he wouldn’t have made the ridiculous decision to bring Chloe to this position.

At least a little while ago, Chloe had been quiet, not showing hostility.

It seemed that he still wanted to somehow separate me from Suisei.

If I hadn’t had that kind of heart, I wouldn’t have intervened between Suisei and me.

I’d rather have Suisei in the middle.

Well, as long as I don’t get into a fight over this, I don’t care.

But…

I don’t like seeing Chloe’s face smirking while glancing at me from time to time.

He got angry when I told him that I would keep my distance from Suisei.

Why are you doing that now, that kid.

One day, Chloe, you will surely give me true education.

… I don’t know when that will be, but anyway, someday.

“By the way, Suisei. Are you okay at work? It’s your turn from noon.”

“It’s okay. When I go back, the president decided to help me.”

“Can you travel that distance in one go?”

It was something I was curious about from a long time ago.

There is an old rice cake that I used to roll whenever I had a chance in the Legend of Academia gallery, ‘if you had only one ability, who would you want to get?’.

In this rice cake, Chloe’s teleportation has always been a top-tier ability.

For reference, Lee Si-hyeok’s ability was always at the bottom. Most of the opinion is that he is of little use in his real life, as he is all about assisting others.

And I, too, agree with that opinion day by day.

If you’re going to get the ability, it would have been easier if you had a bit more dramatic ability.

“It’s impossible to do it all at once. Because there is a limit to the distance that can be moved. Especially if you take someone with you, not alone.”

“Oh…”

“… Is this something to admire?”

Chloe puts on an expression that she doesn’t understand when she hears my exclamations.

But as a loyal user of Legends of Academia, it was a very exciting part.

I can’t help but be excited about the detailed information on my abilities from myself.

“… If you move alone, you can move about 1 kilometer. As long as the distance is long, the recoil is great, so I don’t have to do that.”

“Awesome!”

There is no one who hates praise no matter what.

As I exclaimed every word, Chloe also talked about her abilities.

While listening to that explanation, I met eyes with Suisei, who was walking quietly beside me.

I can feel the strange motherhood in Suisei’s face with a warm smile.

The look on her mother’s face when she saw her daughter, who had a bad friendship, bring her friend and talk hard.

As I know the background story of the two, I could guess why Suisei reacted like that.

“-Well, this is all I can say publicly.”

“… After all, he is an S-class talent. It’s on a different level.”

“The president is the ace of our Edelweiss Academy. No wonder it’s great.”

After the conversation was over, Suisei opened his mouth.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a new wife who is excited about her children.

“You can skip the show like this, Suisei.”

“Oh, sorry, Chairman. Aren’t you mad?”

“… Suisei tends to look at me too childish sometimes.”

Seeing the two of them having a pleasant conversation, I also felt that my displeasure was relieved a little.

It feels like the story of a character or a scene from a memorial unfolds before your eyes.

Anyway, I can feel the eyes of the people around me from a while ago.

Since both Suisei and Chloe are quite famous in this Academy City, there must be people recognizing them.

Well, aside from being the student council president and vice president of Edelweiss Academy, the two of them have outstanding looks.

It means that even people who don’t know about the background of the two will turn their heads at least once.

And the eyes of the people who looked around the faces of the two naturally lead to me, who was walking next to me.

And all of them clicked their tongues with very displeased expressions.

… Am I so out of touch with these two?

Still, after cutting my hair, when I look in the mirror, I think, ‘This is enough… ‘, but it must have been my mistake.

“But at that time, the chairman was wrong, right? Even the chairman knows that unbalanced eating is not good for growth.”

“You are not old enough to grow up now!”

I feel like I suddenly became a squid. I also wanted to be handsome…

Looking at the two of them having an exciting conversation, somehow I feel miserable.

I looked around to shake off my gloomy mood, but I saw a familiar face somewhere.

A blonde boy who only looks like a junior high school student is waving his hand.

He’s a senior from the newspaper club who we ate lunch with every day.

But before I could reply, the senior’s eyes turned into a cat’s.

Then the senior immediately took out a camera and started taking pictures of this side in succession. She nodded her head in satisfaction and raised her thumb toward me, and the senior disappeared through the crowd.

Suddenly, a memory flashed through my mind.

‘I witnessed my aunt, who was recently promoted to a B-class ability, enjoying a date with a black-haired and silver-haired high-ranking beauty-‘

Of course, the black hair is Suise and the silver hair is white cow.

Because of that half-distorted article, I was distracted by a barrage of questions in the class for a while.

I couldn’t pinpoint who wrote the article because the reporter’s name was blank, but…

… No way?

“Why are you like this, Mr. Sihyuk? Your complexion is not good.”

“Did you pretend?”

Sisei and Chloe said with worried expressions.

Apart from Suisei, even Chloe?

Anyway, after playing with Suisei, he seemed to be in a good mood.

“… No, I have an ominous feeling.”

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There are many important facilities in the vicinity of Idea, the central tower that serves as the heart of Academy.

Of course, Edea could manage the entirety of Academia alone without those auxiliary facilities.

However, in order to prepare for an unexpected situation, Idea uses only half of its functions, and the rest is assisted by nearby facilities.

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As it is an important facility, the security was very thorough, although not as good as Idea.

However, even though it is thorough, it is a facility that is completely defended by people, unlike Ideaa, which is equipped with a lot of drones for defense.

Breaking into such a facility is, to Ross, like going in and out of his own home.

In the central control room of a waterworks management facility, Ross was standing in the middle of the staff concentrating on their work.

It was a new face, but no one thought it strange.

It’s because it’s ‘natural’ for that man to be here.

Of course, it is ‘natural’ for them to work under the man’s orders.

Naturally, such powerful mental manipulation takes quite a while.

Considering the usual output, it would have been impossible for Ross to break through the multiple layers of security and infiltrate the facility.

Ross played with Ast’s horn in his hand.

The opposite horn, which was cut off a long time ago, was used as a raw material for numerous boosters scattered throughout Academia.

A simple calculation means that these horns contain power comparable to that many boosters.

Of course, the side effects are not comparable to boosters.

“It’s over, boss.”

At that time, Leah and Ast, wet all over, returned to the control room.

Lea was using a normal tone, not her usual grotesque tone.

It wasn’t easy for Leah to keep the concept in front of Ross.

“… You are tired.”

However, Ast sighed in his usual tone.

Is it because he is not human? Or have you been educated the wrong way from the very beginning?

‘Anyway, that’s good.’

Said Ross, putting his horns in his pockets.

“You worked hard, Leah. Go back first and join the other two.”

“… What about Ast?”

“Leave it alone and go. That kid still has work to do.”

Ast looked at Leah with a desperate expression at Ross’ words.

“Les… ostrich… !”

“… Sorry, Ast.”

But Leia couldn’t help it even if she looked at her like that.

Now that she’s caught violating her last stand-by order, it’s clear that she’ll be punished for disappointing her boss even more.

Leah doesn’t know what the punishment is.

I just knew that it was a very scary punishment.

Of course, this was also a lie engraved in my head by Ross’ mental manipulation.

Ross stared at Leah’s back as she left the facility, looking at her own eyes with her empty eyes.

In fact, there is no need for Ross to rule by fear.

Paulo’s ability doesn’t work at all, but Jan and Leah had plenty of time to manipulate their minds.

If Ross said, it wouldn’t have been that difficult to make a doll that could even die.

But Ross didn’t do that.

“… There, human. Can’t I go back too?”

“Shut up, Irregular.”

“… I see.”

Ast is not included in the targets of Ross’ whims.

Knowing that fact well, Ast lowered her head and covered her mouth.

The control room became quiet.

Only the occasional sound of employees tapping on keyboards can be heard.

Ross looked at the watch on his wrist.

“It took a long time.”

It’s not long until noon.

Soon, it’s time to move.