Academy Retirement Diary of the Student Council President

"Oh, Seol-hwa, you're here?"

Just like he greeted me in the living room, Yun Seong-ho welcomed her.

However, what returned to Yun Seong-ho, who had treated her warmly, was...

"Get lost. Don't show me that disgusting face."

It was quite a cold reply from her.

The woman ignored Yun Seong-ho with a frighteningly low voice, turning her head as if looking for something.

Behind her, a young woman who looked like a healing-type Hero followed, holding a staff.

"Are you looking for Sea?"

"If you know, tell me quickly. Before I freeze that mouth shut."

"Oh dear, what a pity."

-Crack-kle...!

In an instant, the woman before him. Cold energy radiating from Lee Seol-hwa's body began to slowly freeze the floor of the house.

'Amazing, just as expected from a top-tier active A-Rank Hero.'

As expected from Lee Seol-hwa, who would later become S-Rank, her abilities were indeed formidable.

'Anyway... did she come looking for me?'

"Tell me right now, where did Sea go?"

"...Look behind you."

'Yun Seong-ho, that bastard?'

I just came out into the hallway to check what was going on, and he just tattled on me like that.

"..Sea!"

But, as if that didn't matter, Lee Seol-hwa flew towards me in an instant.

'Ah, it'll be trouble if I get dragged out of here.'

There wasn't much I could do other than roughly tell her to leave. If I used the Eye of Suggestion here, Yun Seong-ho might notice.

"Why did you come looking for me?"

"What are you talking about? I came to get you..."

"...I don't want to. This is my home."

"........."

As I looked at her with an expression asking 'What did you even come here for?', Lee Seol-hwa's face seemed to harden instantly, and she instinctively looked at Yun Seong-ho.

-CRASH!

"Release the Hypnosis."

"Hmm... I haven't done anything, though?"

Seeing me stand still, Lee Seol-hwa, believing I was being brainwashed by Yun Seong-ho, launched an ice spear close enough to graze his cheek.

Because of that, a small drop of red blood trickled from Yun Seong-ho's cheek, and the house began to grow cold enough for his breath to fog near his mouth.

'Serves him right.'

"Sea, snap out of it. You're being deceived by that man."

'Anyway... this is annoying.'

Lee Seol-hwa kept shaking my shoulders, telling me to snap out of it, which was quite irritating.

-Thump thump thump!

"Ms. Seol-hwa! What is this sudden behavior!"

Meanwhile, the healer she brought along was trying to stop Lee Seol-hwa, panting as if she knew this situation was wrong.

'Of course, from her perspective, they suddenly barged into a perfectly fine person's house, grabbed someone, and she's being told to use a purification spell.'

"You came just in time! Quickly, use the purification spell on this child...!"

"You know that's not possible! The purification spell is still in the testing phase, requires the subject's consent, and if that's impossible, requires permission from a guardian..."

"I am this child's guardian, so hurry u-"

"Wait, that's not right, Seol-hwa."

Yun Seong-ho and his bodyguards, who had arrived in an instant, blocked Lee Seol-hwa as she tried to abruptly use the purification spell on me.

If she were alone, she might be able to escape this place instantly... but I am here too, and she wouldn't be able to overcome the numerical disadvantage.

'Even if Yun Seong-ho is around high C-Rank level, most of his bodyguards were B-Rank or higher.'

Breaking through them all at once would be difficult. Escaping without me, right in front of her, getting hurt would be completely impossible.

"Sea, it doesn't hurt, so please...!"

As about five bodyguards firmly restrained Lee Seol-hwa, she looked at me with desperate eyes, pleading for me to accept the purification spell.

'...She's a hindrance.'

Lee Seol-hwa is a Hero, a character who becomes a great help to the Protagonist's party later on.

And such a being getting tainted would be problematic.

Who would think of letting a murderer join the Protagonist's party?

'I just wish she would leave... Is there a way?'

Slowly turning my thoughts, a good idea came to mind.

"...While saying that, you poured hot water on my head, didn't you."

"...........!!"

It was the plan: dredge up the contents related to Lee Seol-hwa's abuse remaining in my memory and trigger Lee Seol-hwa's trauma.

'Please just fall for this and get lost.'

"What right do you have to call yourself my guardian?"

With each word I spat out, Lee Seol-hwa's body began to tremble slightly.

"I endured it when you poured garbage on my face, saying 'This suits trash like you'. I clenched my teeth and endured the beatings disguised as training. Do you know why? Because you were the successor of the Yuseong Group, trusted by Father."

"................Se..."

"I naturally expected you would take the role of Guild Leader for the Yuseong Guild that the Yuseong Group planned to create. That's why I endured it; Father trusted you so much. If someone like me, with mediocre abilities, complained about hardship, Father would have just told me to shut up."

"......"

"From the moment you suddenly changed your surname, packed your bags, and ran away, you already lost any right to say anything to me."

"Th-that's..."

"Why? Are you perhaps jealous now that I've awakened my abilities and seem likely to inherit Yuseong?"

As if that one sentence was decisive, Lee Seol-hwa's eyes began to tremble violently.

"Se-Ms. Seol-hwa. What is all this talk..."

'As expected, the person behind her didn't know anything.'

Good, now is the time to deliver the final blow.

'Because getting involved with a Hero like Lee Seol-hwa would be troublesome for me...'

"Get out. Don't ever show that disgusting face before my eyes again."

Saying that, I moved my body towards the railing. Precariously close, enough to fall with just a slight movement.

"Young Miss! That area is dangerous...!"

Just then, I even used the driver I had brainwashed to further accelerate the atmosphere of the situation.

"Sea! What are you doing there..!?"

"It's been a while. Back then, Unni pushed me from this exact spot, saying you were testing my natural healing ability, didn't you?"

In Yun Sea's memories, Yun Seol-hwa was truly a distorted person.

She tried hard to gain recognition from their only father, but always, late at night, he would lead Yun Sea, not her, down to somewhere in the basement.

Even if she asked Yun Seong-ho what they went down there for, he would only offer excuses like 'For Sea's training'. So, Lee Seol-hwa became jealous.

The very fact that Father gave attention to such an inferior being must have been disgusting to her.

'Yun Seong-ho's Brainwashing probably had an influence too.'

Anyway, that seemed to be why she treated Yun Sea more harshly.

There's a saying about giving an extra rice cake to the disliked child, but... Lee Seol-hwa was such a greedy child, thirsty for parental attention, trust, and love, that she couldn't even tolerate that metaphorical rice cake being given to Yun Sea.

Because she was accustomed to isolating and subjugating competitors to gain parental recognition.

At that time, Yun Seol-hwa was strong, and Yun Sea was just incredibly weak and easy to push around.

Being stabbed in the hand with a fork, beaten without rest, even having garbage poured on her.

And among all that torment, what Yun Sea suffered from the most... was indeed this. Being pushed off the railing.

'According to memory, she enjoyed watching my body writhe during the recovery process after my neck bone broke, saying it suited me, right?'

It seemed she said something like that in the memory.

Leaning my back against the railing, a strange floating sensation began to arise.

"N-No..!"

"Go back. This is not a place for outsiders. If Unni, who casually pushed me off from here, has returned to Yuseong... I won't say anything about you staying here, but if not... leave. If you don't want to see me fall."

...

...

...

Fortunately, I did not fall.

"Ugh, hha, uuk..."

"Ms. Seol-hwa, you're hyperventilating! Look at me and take slow, deep breaths...!"

Because before that could happen, Lee Seol-hwa collapsed, hyperventilating as if having a seizure.

After that, I don't really know what happened to Lee Seol-hwa. Because I used Psychokinesis to float up slightly and then flew towards Yun Seong-ho.

"Father, I apologize for showing such an unsightly scene."

"Not at all. Thanks to you, we dealt with a troublesome guest, so perhaps I should call it fortunate."

This was the conversation I had with Yun Seong-ho while eating dinner.

According to what I heard from a secretly brainwashed bodyguard, she fainted immediately and was carried out piggyback by the healer who came with her, but she kept muttering my name until the very moment she left the door, or so they said.

'...After tormenting her like that, did she really think I'd accept if she came asking for reconciliation now?'

The users who played the game and I might just know Lee Seol-hwa as an attractive A-Rank Hero, but how disgusted must Yun Sea have felt.

The older sister who tormented her to the point of wanting death ran away from home like an escapee and became a successful Hero, while she remained a test subject.

No matter the circumstances, the things done to Yun Sea, so terrible they are hard to even speak of, cannot be erased.

'If it had been done to me, maybe it would be different.'

She can't receive forgiveness from the already gone Yun Sea. But what right do I have to accept Lee Seol-hwa's apology on behalf of Yun Sea, who suffered for so long?

'So, it's probably best to just help the Protagonist grow.'

Because the path I walk is not one suited for her kind.