I Became The Academy's Narrow-Eyes

89 – Operations Conference

“First of all, it’s too late today. Shall we meet again tomorrow at the place we just decided to finish talking?”

After midnight, an empty lot deep in a remote forest.

It was perfect for activating the artifact, but it was too late to talk.

“You’re just going like this?”

Miss Huivien said with a somewhat disappointed face.

“Yes? Just going like this, what is that-“

“Yes? Oh, no- no… Yes! I mean! Didn’t you even apologize for calling someone out to this remote place at this late hour?”

“hahahaha, as I said, it was to activate the artifact. Please excuse me.”

When I bowed politely, Miss Huivien pondered for a moment, then ha! He laughed provocatively.

“To come to such a remote place at such a late hour? That’s very persuasive. In fact, isn’t it just a flimsy excuse and that you had other ulterior motives?”

“Yes? What other plans are you saying…?”

“…Ah, that’s it! Just shut up!”

What the hell have I done wrong?

Miss Huivien turned her back to me, her face distorted by ‘stiffness’.

And I stare at the forest with the intention of escaping the forest right away-

“…”

Miss Huivien turned her back and looked at me.

“Lead the lead.”

“Hmm? I thought you’d die alone… Ah! Are you afraid of the midnight forest? Hey~ Ms. Whitjolbo looks like a big boss on the outside, but she has a surprisingly delicate side? Doesn’t it suit her?”

– Whii-yi-ying!

At that moment, as if I was approaching a fan that had been turned on with strong winds, the wind blew only in my face.

***

“Miss Huivien, how is my hair now?”

“It suits you much better than your original hair. You look crazy.”

With my hair stretched out from Miss Huivien’s wind bath, I was leading the way across the forest.

“By the way, you remember the road correctly, right?”

Miss Hwibien grumbled with an unreliable face.

“Am I not trusting you?”

“A nonsensical question. Of course.”

“You have a sharp eye for people. You’re accurate. I don’t know about anything else, but don’t trust me when it comes to memories.”

“Wow… Huh? Wait. What, that- doesn’t that mean you don’t remember?

“hahahahaha. How can I remember this dark forest road with my memory? Even if it was morning, my memory would have no choice.”

“No, why are you so proud of saying that you can’t remember from a while ago!? What is it!? Then we’re lost now!?”

“If I were walking by memory, I would. But don’t worry. I’m walking by my senses.”

“What the-“

It was then that Miss Huivien was about to express her dissatisfaction in earnest.

Etch!

A cute cough interrupted Miss Huivien.

“…!”

I looked around in bewilderment.

“Miss Hwichim, it looks like someone is following us…! None of us will make that cute cough sound! Isn’t that right!?”

“…”

Miss Huivien avoided her gaze.

“Ms. Whichimi?”

“Oh, shut up! Shut up, shut up! Yes! I did! What to say!”

“Heo-eok…! That cute and lively cough just now was Ms. Hui-chung’s cough!? Unbelievable…!”

“Shall I kill…?”

“hahahahaha, kidding. Just kidding.”

Feeling really alive, I stopped at that point and approached Miss Huivien.

“What else?”

Miss Huivien glared at me as I approached.

I took off my blazer jacket, the top of my school uniform, and hung it over my shoulder.

“As Miss Huivien said, I think I was very lacking in consideration. On this cold night, in the woods- it’s new, but thank you. It must have been sudden, but you listened to my story.”

“…What? Suddenly. Pretending to be kind.”

Even as Miss Huivien said that, she wrapped herself in the jacket I had slung over her shoulder.

I was in the middle of leaving the forest again, with me in the lead and Miss Hwibien following about three steps behind.

“Evil~”

I turned around at the awkward screaming sound.

Miss Huivien was sitting on the floor as if she had stumbled on something.

I hurriedly approached and held out my arm to Miss Huivien.

“Are you all right?”

“Keuheum. It’s dark, so I can’t see the floor well, so it’s hard to walk.”

Is it because I’m upset?

Miss Huivien’s voice was unnatural, like reading a script.

After raising Miss Huivien, I offered my left arm and said,

“If it’s okay with Miss Huivien, can I help you?”

“Ha… I can’t help it. Don’t think strangely.”

Was it extremely uncomfortable?

Miss Huivien, though disgusted, took my arm very quickly.

‘If I knew it would be like this, I would have helped them earlier.’

As Miss Huivien leaned on my arm and walked together, the warmth of Miss Huivien felt on my arm was strangely hot.

‘I just coughed…’

I earnestly prayed that Miss Huivien did not catch a cold because of me.

As we walked while thinking about so many things, before I knew it, Miss Huivien and I had the exit to the forest right in front of us.

that buck

The wooden wall disappears and the foreground opens up.

An empty lot, the meeting place, came into sight.

“It’s all here.”

“ah…”

Miss Huivien let out a sigh of relief that sounded like something was missing.

Looking back now, Miss Hwibien was hanging from her arm almost like a sloth.

“Miss Twisted Sloth?”

When I called, Miss Huivien shuddered.

It falls off my arm as if shaking off dirt.

“It’s a reaction to being hurt.”

“Heh, heh! Anyway, it’s because you called me out at such an ambitious time. It’s all your fault, you know!?”

“Ah, yes. Is there a question? By the way, Ms. Huiweak, are you feeling okay?”

“Yes? The body? Suddenly, why?”

“A while ago, when you grabbed my arm. You seemed to have a little fever. You must have sweated a lot, a little damp, and your pulse was beating fast-“

“…!”

That was the moment.

A gale arose.

It was a gale filled with magical power created by Miss Huivien.

Miss Huivien gave herself over to the gale and became the wind.

Awesome!

As if I heard that sound effect, I left the place at a tremendous speed.

“ah.”

I murmured as I stared at Miss Huivien’s back, who had gone far away in an instant.

“My jacket.”

***

Dungeon.

Dictionary definition aside, in this world, a dungeon usually means a magical space concealed by mana and magical powers.

According to the setting, it is filthy difficult to conceal a place with the power of mana and magic.

To put it in an analogy, it’s like making an entire place into an artifact.

It can be said that it is the king of the end of time and space.

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Therefore, dungeons are bound to arouse curiosity among ordinary people.

Why the hell did he hide the place while mobilizing mana and magic like that?

in that case.

What people reach was largely similar.

-Hidden treasure.

People tended to regard the dungeon as a huge warehouse.

It wasn’t quite the wrong approach.

the dungeon.

Sometimes it was the tomb of the powerful.

Sometimes it was the secret warehouse of the rich.

Sometimes it was the dwelling place of a particular group.

Sometimes it was someone’s lab.

In most cases, if you completely dig a place called a dungeon, huge profits followed.

And according to the world’s logic and order, people naturally flock to places that make money-

There were experts who specialized in dungeons.

okay.

expert.

Likewise, discovering dungeons, exploring and attacking them were tasks that required specialized skills.

“I’ll have to hire experts. If it’s a level 5 dungeon, it would be impossible for us to clear it by ourselves.”

the next morning.

Miss Huivien and I were sitting on the terrace of the meeting place, a cafe located on Academy Street.

“Stir? Miss Bien?”

“what.”

“I have a question for you.”

“If it’s not related to the dungeon, I’m just keeping my mouth shut.”

“It’s an important story.”

“What is it?”

“Why are we sitting like this?”

Miss Huivien and I were sitting close to each other.

Still, they couldn’t see each other.

It was because they were sitting with their backs to each other in adjacent seats with a slight distance between them.

‘It’s not some kind of secret tangent.’

It reminds me of a scene I once saw in a crime drama.

There, when criminals and brokers make contact at fast-food restaurants, they sit just like this.

“Are you asking because you don’t know?”

“Please, can you heal this poor fellow?”

“Obviously, ‘in case other people think I’m sitting with you'”

“Isn’t that a misunderstanding?”

“No, that’s a misunderstanding.”

“What if other people misunderstand that Miss Huivien and I are sitting together?”

“I feel bad.”

“What a cruel woman, Ms. Hwichanso. It hurts so much. You can’t see it because we’re back to back, but the dagger is stuck in my chest and blood is flowing.”

“That’s great news. It’s sweeter than dessert.”

slurp.

One week after the entrance ceremony.

The academy’s full-fledged curriculum begins.

Academy freshmen have time to adapt to the academy during the week.

how?

While exploring the many attractions of Academy Street, another specialty of the academy.

The red bricks were carefully embroidered to form the road.

On both sides of it – from my point of view – exotic-shaped buildings were lined up in a row.

The scenery of Academy Street, reminiscent of European shopping streets, was indisputably beautiful and lively.

Sitting at a cafe terrace seat a little far from the street, I looked around the town.

Maybe it was because Academy Street was open to outsiders, so many people were mingling with each other.

Many of them were queuing up to enter the same cafe as us.

With so many people waiting, is it okay to take a seat like this?

‘Well, since Miss Huivien is a noble, it’s okay.’

I shook off my guilt and took a sip of coffee with the way I thought I would be like as a modern person.

“Hmm~ Drinking coffee on the terrace of a cafe on a street like this makes me feel like a New Yorker.”

“What else is a New Yorker? Anyway, back to the point. You. Anyone know?”

“Are you a dungeon strategy expert?”

“Since you knew about this necklace, of course you had the dungeon raid in mind, right?

“I know one amazing guy.”

“What are you doing?”

He is said to be the true head of Harasin and his right-hand man as an assassin.

I can’t go with you.

You’d be horrified to see your assassin.

In other words, all plans are ruined because of you, so don’t say anything to me.

I can’t say it like that.

“Let’s just say he’s a reliable player. But, I won’t be able to go with him this time.”

“why.”

“Because I’m a shy person. When I told her that a high-ranking lady from Leolian, the great family, would accompany me and take care of me like a mother-in-law, she got scared and refused.”

“Are you holding coffee right now?”

“No, bare hands.”

thud!

The moment I answered, a shock came and shook my body.

Miss Huivien had thrown her elbow all the way back and hit my chair.

“Aren’t you crazy? What the hell are you talking about?”

“Wheeoheung. Three letters were enough.”

“Ha. Look, it’s just made up. You didn’t think about raiding the dungeon, right?”

“It’s unfair. Has anyone else thought of such a whimsical sheep?”

“Among the adventurers belonging to our family, there are those who specialize in dungeon-related work.”

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t borrow the family’s power?”

“Yes. But I’ve said it once. Just like you mentioned the invisible friend. The difference from you is that the ones I mentioned are definitely real people.”

“Ehh… If only the clumsy sheep hadn’t insisted on participating in the dungeon raid…”

“Stop whining. Tell me what you’re going to do. Are there other options besides him?”

“Of course there is. Where are we now? Academy Street. Then where is Academy Street? It’s in the Academy. And where is the Academy? That’s the city of Hurrien.”

“Hwirien? Ah. You’re not crazy, really? What’s the person’s name-“

“As Miss Avian knows, aren’t there two adventurers’ guilds only here in Hwirien? If I put my feet up a bit, maybe I can find a suitable person- I thought of the next best thing.”

“Will it be that easy to find an adventurer who can clear a level 5 dungeon?”

“So, what is Miss Huivien’s plan?”

“You. You said you would hire an adventurer, right?”

“Yes.”

“Do you have the money to hire that adventurer?”

“No.”

slap.

The bag flew onto my table and settled down.

“While the noble Miss Gobian leisurely has a cup of tea. As a commoner, I just have to work hard and sell my feet.”

“Would you like to talk like that? Copy it. Role distribution. The right place.”

“By the way, Miss Huivien. Didn’t you say you wouldn’t accept help from the family?”

“What else. What.”

“Did Miss Huivien earn this money herself? Or-“

“Are you kidding me? What do you look at people as? Of course, it’s the money I earned myself. So, did you think this was my allowance?”

“Then where did the money come from?”

“Proceeds from a business in my name. All right?”

“…”

Excitedly teasing Miss Huivien, I felt a sudden sage time.

It reminded me of something I had forgotten for a moment.

The person who is having a conversation with me is a golden spoon-

No, the fact that it’s a diamond spoon.

‘What kind of business.’

In my heart, I thought, ‘That, that, that, that business isn’t something your parents inherited, it’s this diamond spoon! Pueueeng!!!’, and wanted to cast a reasonable heat blast with a clay spoon.

I decided to quit because doing so would only make me miserable.

“Boo, I will do as you command, lady…”

“What are you talking about again. Anyway, that’s how it is. I’ll leave this task up to you. How long do you think it will last?”

“No matter what happens. I will make sure to finish clearing the dungeon before the first class begins.”

“Yes? First class- So it’s not like we’re looking for people until next week, but we’re going to finish the dungeon raid? How? No, more than that. Why are you in such a hurry? Is there a problem?”

Quest must be completed.

“hahahaha~ It’s a problem. There’s no such thing. I’m trying to take measures so that you can focus on your studies.”

“Seeing that you’re saying something special, it seems like you’re hiding something?”

“Hot!”

“If you ask me what it is, they’ll be talking nonsense again about secrets and whatnot. Ehh. Yes. Let me finish well before the semester starts so I can focus on my studies.”

“hahahaha, is there a question? Just trust me. By the way, Miss Whistle?”

“what.”

“What did you do with my jacket?”

I was wearing only my school uniform shirt and vest in mid-winter weather.

It was a price that went wrong with the expectation of ‘of course I will bring the jacket I took yesterday’.

rattle!

At that time, Miss Huivien startled and trembled through the sound of the chair shaking.

“… Three, I’m doing the laundry.”

“Laundry? Heh heh, you don’t have to go that far. Then, when can you return it? If this happens, I’m afraid I’ll do it.”

“I never said anything like that!? Anyway- I’ll return it as soon as possible. Ah! No. There, I paid for it.”

“hmm?”

“Use that money to buy a jacket and wear it. That’ll do.”

“yes?”

“What, is there a problem?”

Miss Hwibien asked in a somewhat embarrassed tone.

“No, it’s not a problem… I just thought…? Didn’t you say you washed it? Just go with me now and give it to me-“

“Oh no!”

rattle!

“I, I, no way! Don’t even think about coming to my room! It’s disgusting! It’s disgusting!”

“What… A school uniform jacket doesn’t cost a dime or two. Isn’t it a waste? If you do what Miss Huivien says, it’s actually like Miss Huivien is buying my own jacket. Miss Huivien has nothing to do with that jacket, right? “

Rumbling!

“What, what do I do! What do I do with it!? Isn’t it crazy, really?”

“…yes?”

“Anyway, I know that! This story ends here! I feel really bad…”

“Heh heh… what is this?”

slurp.

I heard Miss Huivien taking a sip of coffee, followed by the sound of her getting up from her seat.

“Have you eaten?”

“Yes? Ah. Yes.”

Hearing that, I poured the remaining cold coffee and bread into my mouth.

“As you said, the bread and coffee here are great.

“What’s my taste? What else to say nonsense.”

“Miss Whissuger’s taste is different from mine – what should I say. Nobility? I think you will.”

“You’re talking about nobleness. Well, it’s definitely worse than our mansion patissier. Well, it still has its own flavor.”

“You know Bienne, Miss Whipungryu. Either way- I ate well. I’m going to go now.”

“Are you going? Where are you going?”

“Yes? Where are you going, of course-“

-Challangchalang

I shook the pouch Miss Huivien gave me and made a noise.

I was thinking of going to the Adventurer’s Guild from now on.

It was because there were a few adventurers in mind.

“Do it later, follow me.”

“Yes? Where are you talking about?”

“Because there are still a few restaurants and cafes to go to. Grab something I bought for you and eat while you wait.

“Miss Whitman. Do you think I’m a servant of some kind?”

“I’ll give you money on time.”

“You saw it correctly.”

It was at that time when I was trying to find a part-time job and follow the boss.

“Huh? Stupid?”

“Hey~”

Miss Aedrin and Miss Miz recognized me as I passed by and greeted me.

rattle!

Miss Huivien’s chair swayed.