The Academy’s Time Stop Player

“Are you leaving now?”

After the king of giants died, all the dwarves gathered in the town square and looked at Hajun.

Hajun smiled and nodded to Zelnov, who was in the lead.

“I have to go now.”

“okay… … .”

Soon after, Zelnof knelt down, and all the dwarves in turn knelt toward Hajun.

When they all began to politely bow to Hajun, Zelnof spoke on behalf of them.

“Your Majesty, everyone here is grateful to you. Please call us anytime. I will answer the king’s call.”

“yes.”

Rather, it was the opposite.

Because Hajun was feeling more and more grateful to them.

Until now, I had been fighting while stopping time alone, but it was the first time I had such a fun time like now.

Without them, Ha-joon would have fought a lonely battle for years alone.

Because there were Dwarves gathered here, I was able to spend a year happily in a long and short time.

“When the time comes, I will come to play.”

At those words, Zelnoff looked at Hajun and smiled warmly.

“My king.”

At that time, Pilaten approached Hajun.

It was a look that seemed to have a lot to say.

I understood roughly what he was thinking, so Ha-joon looked at Pilaten and smiled.

Hajun looked at Pilaten and said.

“Pilaten.”

“… … Yes.”

“Good work so far.”

She opened her mouth in surprise for a moment, but after a while, she responded to Ha-joon’s words with a soft smile.

“You can come here anytime, I will be waiting for you.”

Now she did not have to remain in the Maharaj.

He would be happier living with the dwarves here than being with Hajun.

“Now then… … .”

It was time to leave soon.

Hajun stretched out his hand toward the air.

This place was no longer Ha-jun’s world of imagination.

Another separate world.

So, the only way to get back was to create a gate and get out, not unlocking the world of imagination.

Ha-Jun raised the magic of creation and opened the gate to Korea.

The magical power to create everything was easily created just by thinking about what Hajun wanted.

“Then see you next time.”

With those words, the moment Hajun turned around, the dwarves shouted loudly from behind Hajun.

“I hope you come again!!”

“I will be waiting for you anytime!!”

Hearing that voice, Hajun smiled lightly before crossing the gate.

The time of one year made Ha-jun become attached to this place.

“Goodbye.”

With those words, Hajun waved at them and disappeared beyond the gate.

Hajun also started to miss Korea.

And when he crossed the gate and arrived in Korea, Ha-jun couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.

“… … ?”

[The funeral of the late Kim Ha-jun, a hero called Irregular in the past, began this morning.]

A female anchor was announcing this morning’s news on a huge monitor attached to a high-rise building.

Ha-joon’s mouth was wide open.

It was because Ha-joon’s face was clearly exposed on the screen.

“What is it, SiX?”

* * *

After the dimensional dungeon crisis ended a year ago, many people searched for the whereabouts of the great hero who ended the situation, the Irregular.

However, after a week and a month, they could not be found, so the associations of each country, including the Korean Hero Association, had no choice but to accept Ha Jun’s death.

However, at the request of Ha-jun’s younger sister, Elaine, the search for Ha-jun’s whereabouts took place for a year, and only after a year had passed, Elaine accepted the situation and decided to hold Ha-jun’s funeral.

So, a funeral home near Seoul.

Many condolences visited the place where reporters were crowded at the entrance.

Starting with the head of the National Hero Association, where the dimensional dungeon incident occurred a year ago, they were Korean and American heroes who were acquainted with Ha-jun, and children who were close to Ha-jun at the academy.

“I really have no face… … .”

Kim Jeong-yong, the president of the association, said to Elaine, who was sitting helplessly in mourning clothes and staring blankly at the portrait.

Elaine, who weakly turned her head at those words and looked at Kim Jeong-yong, shook her head slowly.

“It’s okay, I’ve already made up my mind.”

A year was enough time for Elaine to accept her brother’s passing and to organize her mind.

On the other hand, Leela Hanis opened her mouth as she looked at the portrait of Ha-jun as if she was really sorry.

“under… … , No way, I thought that child would go first… … .”

“I put too much burden on him. I want to find the body, but I want to know where it is… … .”

The great hero Drian, who was in front of her, answered.

He, too, only let out a sigh with a gloomy, sunken face.

“A child who had great power at such a young age, in the end, he couldn’t handle the power and reached his limit.”

It was Liella’s guess.

A 17-year-old boy with powers that were not suitable for his young age.

Perhaps Kim Ha-jun could not handle such power and reached its limit, and he thought that he would have faced it in the large-scale dimensional dungeon incident a year ago.

It was Riella who cried when she thought of Ha-joon, who must have died bitterly alone.

When you sigh with those thoughts.

“What, that’s bullshit.”

A nonsensical voice came from the back of Liella’s head.

Drian, who was sitting across from him, began to groan with his mouth open and his eyes wide open for his age.

It wasn’t just Drian.

Everyone gathered here was dumbfounded with their mouths open and their eyes wide open.

Soon after, Riella turned around and made a similar expression.

“Hey, Kim Ha-joon?”

“No, were you alive?”

Looking at their expressions, Ha Jun also made a foolish expression on the contrary.

For reference, Hajun still did not understand the situation.

“I just came back, so what, are you holding a funeral?”

After working hard, he came back and was greeted at a funeral, so Ha-jun couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

“Oh, brother!!”

At that time, it was Elaine who shed tears and hugged Ha-jun.

Accordingly, friends from the academy, including Lian, rushed toward Ha-joon and began to hug him.

“Oh, no, where have you been for a year!”

“I thought you were really dead!”

At that time, Ha-jun’s expression was dumbfounded.

huh? 1 year?

At first, it was Hajun who said something, but gradually he understood the situation.

‘Could it be that time has passed?’

There was one thing Ha-joon didn’t expect.

image world.

Ha-jun’s image world has become another world completely separated from the earth.

It was Ha-jun, who had been in a time stop for a year in such a world, but because it was another world completely separated from the earth, the earth’s time continued to flow.

Thinking of such reasoning, Hajun finally understood the situation.

So, after the large-scale dimensional dungeon incident was over, a year had passed with Ha-joon missing.

“Ahhh!! Why are you back now! brother.”

“Okay, let’s hear it first, where have you been and what have you been doing for the past year?”

Liella’s words spoke for the hearts of everyone present.

In such a concentrated gaze, Hajun thought.

‘For 1 year… … .’

Hajun recalled what had happened in the past year in his mind.

-Ha ha ha ha ha!! The King eats absolutely anything!

-Dance, dance! wahahahahaha!!

I could never say that I enjoyed the banquet every day with the dwarves and laughed and chatted happily.

Hajun sighed and brought a chair and sat down.

Fortunately, though, it was an excuse.

While everyone’s eyes were focused.

Hiding what had happened over the past year, Hajun somehow made up a story about a magnificent fight with a giant and a mysterious race of dwarves, and opened his mouth with a serious face.

“What did I do in one year?”

* * *

People went crazy.

It was because the news that the hero who made the most contribution to the large-scale dimensional dungeon incident a year ago, the hero who saved the world from crisis, the irregular, had returned alive and spread quickly.

However, if there was a downside here, it was that Hajun’s face was sold all over the world, and now there is no one who doesn’t know Hajun’s face.

Regarding this point, the president of the association, Kim Jeong-yong, made an excuse saying that he could not forgive his conscience to hold a funeral quietly without knowing the face of the hero who died in the line of duty after saving the world… … .

“Did I ever tell you?”

Meanwhile, after Ha-jun’s funeral, the children gathered on the roof of the academy as time passed.

Anna looked at Hajun and said with a soft smile.

“Ha-jun’s face will be known and he will become famous like us.”

“… … .”

Ha Joon had nothing to say about that.

As she said in the past, things ended up like this.

“Eh… … .”

I thought I would be able to hide it, but the situation turned out to be this way.

I was worried before thinking that troublesome things would come from now on.

“So are you really going?”

Then Siyoung Han asked Hajun.

Ha-joon looked at Han Si-young and smiled, then nodded.

“yes.”

I had already given permission to Liella, the principal of Rokia Academy.

While Ha-jun was in the dimensional dungeon, the children were now full-fledged third-year students.

Once the freshman entrance ceremony is over, we are gathering like this.

“Well, if Ha-jun is here, he must be having a hard time.”

Ha Jun, known as the world’s strongest hero, made the freshman entrance ceremony a breeze.

Everyone raised a fan to Hajun and asked for an autograph… … , there were a lot of minor annoying things. Therefore, Hajun decided to leave the academy for a while while maintaining his status as a cadet.

Of course, such an annoying situation is not the main cause, and I have been thinking about this for a long time in the first place.

“Yeah, I worked hard, so I’m going to play a bit now.”

All the children smiled and nodded as if agreeing with that statement.

There was something that Hajun had been thinking about and dreaming of for a long time.

This world, exactly the dream I had in my mind before entering the world in the game.

What I wanted to do if the quest was over.

It was a world tour.

“Then please ask for Elaine while I’m away.”

By the way, while Hajun was gone, Elaine had already entered Rokia Academy and was in her second year.

When I told them I was going on a trip, they cried and fussed and tried to follow me, so I fed them chestnuts to study hard.

Elaine pouted her lips like a duck and opened her mouth.

“Brother, don’t get hurt and have a good trip.”

“yes.”

With those words, Hajun stretched out his hand toward the air.

The preparations for the trip had already been completed.

Hajun stretched out his hand toward the air, and a white gate opened there.

It was a new ability created by the magic of creation.

“Well, I’m not surprised anymore.”

“Aren’t you really omnipotent now?”

The children who had been looking at Hajun at such a scene were now not surprised, but just thought it was like that.

Hajun waved his hand lightly at the children and said.

“Then see you at the graduation ceremony.”

* * *

Time passed really quickly like a stream.

A year has passed since Ha-Jun went on a trip.

Hajun, who had been communicating with the children from time to time, smiled at the thought that it was time.

‘Is this really the end… … .’

Hajun’s eyes turned to the red quest that opened in the air.

[Main Quest]

Quest available characters: Hajun Kim (River Lafilton Phil Erman)

Description: Successfully graduate from Rokia Academy with your friends.

● Siyoung Han (Completed)

● Anna Elisabeth Hartel (Completed)

● Harnaruel (Complete)

● Liam Martel (Completed)

fail: die

A red quest received a long time ago.

It was a quest that could be completed only by graduating from Rokia Academy with the children.

Hajun looked at the only remaining main quest and felt friendly.

I thought that the suffering I suffered because of this system was now a memory.

“Now, shall we go?”

I thoroughly enjoyed it for a year.

It was because he went back to the mental world from time to time to check on the safety of Pilaten and the dwarves, and toured all over the world.

Hajun remembered the promise he made with the children before he left.

Well, it’s nothing special, it was a promise to go on a trip together after the graduation ceremony.

“Well then… … .”

Hajun stretched out his hand toward the air.

Immediately opening the gate leading to Rokia Academy, Ha-jun moved toward the gate thinking about the faces of the children he hadn’t seen in a long time.

* * *

In front of the entrance of Rokia Academy.

There, Anna, who is now the cadet president and is about to graduate, was waiting for someone.

“Chairman Anna, he really is.”

At that time, the 2nd grade clerk standing next to Anna cautiously asked Anna.

At that, Anna nodded and replied.

“Yes, I said I would definitely come to the graduation ceremony.”

“I’m looking forward to meeting you after a long time.”

Elaine, standing next to Anna, opened her mouth.

Incidentally, after being promoted to third year as the vice president of Rokia Academy, Elaine was preparing to become the next cadet president.

To Elaine’s words, Anna responded with a hearty smile.

“Yeah, sure.”

“ah! there!”

At that time, Elaine pointed in one direction in front of her.

At the place Elaine pointed out, the air swirled and the gate opened.

There, a boy with a familiar face was stretching and coming out.

As soon as Elaine saw Ha-joon, she immediately ran to him and brought him into his arms.

“brother!”

“yes?”

Hajun looked at Elaine who was being held with a puzzled face.

Anna put a smile on the face of a classmate she hadn’t seen in a long time.

“came?”

“Oh, were you waiting?”

“Hajun, if you left him alone, people would have come.”

“Is that so? Yes, there are quite a few people.”

I looked around and saw that there were many people.

From heroes to journalists.

Soon, people started flocking to Ha Jun after seeing his face.

“Hey, over there! Irregular!”

“The Irregular is really here.”

“Come on, let’s go before the reporters rush in. The graduation ceremony has already started.”

As if prepared for this situation, several student council members blocked the reporters and made a path.

Hajun nodded with a calm face and headed for the building where the graduation ceremony was held along the road the cadets had made.

“Does it look familiar now?”

At that time, Elaine asked Ha-jun with a playful face.

Ha-joon answered such a question with a smile.

“Because I’ve experienced enough to get tired of it.”

It was a really boring experience.

There were not one or two people who recognized Hajun’s face while traveling around the world.

Still, it was a satisfying trip because I saw everything to see while hiding my face.

Hajun, Elaine, and Anna followed the path made by the cadets and entered the venue where the graduation ceremony was held.

Perhaps the graduation ceremony was already underway, and in a quiet atmosphere, Ha-jun’s appearance caused a commotion for a moment.

It was because the children I hadn’t seen in a long time welcomed Hajun.

“Five! Kim Ha-joon.”

“You are late.”

“Hajun-san, are you here?”

“uh? Ha Jun-ah!”

“Wow… … , It’s Hajun.”

At the words of such children, the eyes of the cadets gathered at the graduation ceremony turned to Hajun.

Liella, who was on the podium right before the graduation ceremony became noisy with Hajun’s appearance, opened her mouth while looking at everyone with a cough.

“now. I know you’re happy, but once the graduation ceremony is over, we’ll have plenty of time to talk.”

At Liella’s words, all the children started looking at the platform in front of them again.

Hajun also quietly entered the seat following Liella’s words.

Soon after, the graduation ceremony was held again.

“Okay then, before we start training. I brought someone to replace me.”

At those words, everyone’s eyes turned to Riella and they made a puzzled expression.

Hajun also looked at Liella with a puzzled face for a moment.

It was then.

What kind of magical power was felt in Hajun’s senses?

Familiar yet nostalgic magic.

“long time no see… … .”

It was a very faint and small energy of magic, but Hajun couldn’t be aware of it.

Perhaps other children have noticed this magic as well.

That’s why I was surprised and opened my mouth wide.

Hajun quietly looked at the podium and smiled.

ding-

[Main Quest]

Quest available characters: Hajun Kim (River Lafilton Phil Erman)

Description: Successfully graduate from Rokia Academy with your friends.

● Siyoung Han (Completed)

● Anna Elisabeth Hartel (Completed)

● Harnaruel (Complete)

● Liam Martel (Completed)

fail: die

[success!]

At that time, I saw an old man walking out to the side of the podium with the quest I heard.

When the old man appeared and all the graduates gathered here started to panic.

“Heh heh heh, it’s been a very long time, everyone.”

The sage Choi Joong-won opened his mouth with a benevolent smile.

* * *

“When did you wake up?”

“I woke up the day before graduation. I asked Liella to keep it a secret, because I wanted to surprise you.”

After the graduation ceremony, Ha Jun and Choi Jung-won sat on a bench and talked to each other.

Choi Jung-won looked at Ha-joon and replied with a happy smile.

“really… … , You made a great hero while I was sleeping, but you.”

At that, Ha-joon smiled and replied.

“Can I rest now?”

“hehehehe, after all that hardship, who can say what? It was really hard.”

“Yes, I really suffered a lot.”

Hajun smiled as he recalled the many things that had happened.

It was now a memory.

“Are you going to take over as principal again?”

Hajun asked Choi Joongwon.

At such a question, Choi Jung-won thought for a moment and just shook his head.

“I have no intention of taking over the principalship again. I just need to stay by Liella’s side and help her. Since I rested too long, shouldn’t I also work soon?”

“I think Liella-sama will like it.”

“Whoa, well, from what I hear, she seems to enjoy being the principal. Wouldn’t you be sorry to take it away again?”

“That is also true.”

At those words, Ha Joon smiled and nodded his head.

Choi Joong-won, who had been looking at Ha-joon with a benevolent smile for a while, looked at Ha-joon and said.

“Thank you very much. For keeping your promise.”

“It’s okay, I plan to play enough as much as I work.”

“hehehehe, is that so… … .”

It was Choi Joong-won, who was staring at the sky for a moment and thinking about something blankly.

After the quiet silence, Choi Jung-won looked at Ha-joon with a benevolent smile and said.

“Gee, the old man is taking up too much of your time, but the kids over there seem to be calling, so go ahead.”

With that, it was Choi Joong-won pointing to the place where the children were.

Hajun nodded and stood up from the bench.

“Then, see you later.”

It was Ha-joon who approached the children with those words.

The children were getting together and getting ready to take graduation photos.

“Now, since the graduation ceremony is over, are you ready to keep your promise?”

“What, do you want to go on a trip together?”

“Where did you go, so you must have known?”

“Do you have a place set? Mr. Hajun?”

At those words, Ha Joon made a subtle expression.

I don’t have any specific plans… … .

Well, you can go wherever you think is fine.

“Okay, then I’ll take a picture. Everyone get ready.”

Anna, who placed the camera in the air with magic, opened her mouth to everyone.

“One, two, three!”

“””kimchi!”””

“Cheese.”

click-

＜End of main story＞