Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

In Europe (1)

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The short but eventful trip to America had ended.

Kim Chae-eun, as if trying to make the most of her remaining time, poured out all the travel plans she had prepared in advance.

Starting with the performance and cruise date recommended by Camilla, visiting various famous places and restaurants in New York, going to the Holders’ date dungeon in New York, and so on…

They definitely filled up the time they had lacked together until now.

Especially on the night before returning to Seoul.

The line Kim Chae-eun delivered at the last hotel was the highlight.

“Hehe. Welcome, Jae-hyun. Do you want to take a bath first? Or have a meal? Or…”

Seeing her finally use her finishing move, I surrendered without resistance.

The colorful New York trip, its end was somehow both dazzling and passionate.

Back in Seoul like that.

I was at the clan tower of <Evil Hunter> for the first time in a while.

As I entered the master room, the familiar secretary team leader spoke in a businesslike manner.

“I see, it’s the master.”

“It’s been a while, Hye-young. Have you been well?”

“We’re always the same. However, master’s face looks quite tired.”

“…I have a girlfriend who used her finishing move.”

After being tormented several times last night, the fatigue remained on my face.

From now on, I will never fall for that line again.

Making this small resolution, I sat down in the central seat of the master room and received a brief report on the clan situation from the secretary team leader.

“While the master was away, the scout team moved quite busily.”

“Ah, right. We had recruitment plans.”

While progressing through the <Room of the Deserter>, I keenly felt that the number of clan members was insufficient.

So as soon as the conquest was over, I immediately declared reinforcement.

However, we didn’t just accept anyone, but aimed to recruit capable and skilled Holders under the strict selection of the scout team.

“This is the report recorded by Scout Team Leader Yoon Jae-ho and Vice Master Yoo Eun-seol. Both of them gave evaluations strongly recommending the recruitment of three student Holders.”

And among them, the representative figures were the ‘Freshman Trio’.

First-year Holders Song Hyun-a, Park Yoon-seo, and Choi Arin.

I had entrusted clan members with recruitment proposals and simple tests, and it seems that the Master had helped and given positive evaluations.

‘Bringing in Choi Arin is definitely good.’

In fact, Choi Arin was a character who grew into one of the best in the special category along with Choi Yoo-min in the original work, but I had postponed recruitment considering that she was still a young student.

However, that thought completely changed after the previous [Remote Magic Compass].

She was already an alchemist with fully bloomed talent.

It would be a huge loss to leave her just as a student, who could create incredibly helpful magical tools for the clan.

Therefore, I had asked Yoon Jae-ho, the scout team leader, to prioritize her recruitment.

Of course, Song Hyun-a and Park Yoon-seo were also promising talents with the highest potential in their respective categories, but due to the characteristics of the special category with high scarcity, their priority had to be slightly lower.

Anyway, it was positive news that the recruitment of these three promising individuals was within reach.

“But can we really recruit Holder Song Hyun-a? I think there might be some talk from Dragon Sword.”

Song Hyun-a, the younger sister of Song Do-hyuk, the master of the <Dragon Sword> clan.

While her skills were undoubtedly excellent, trying to recruit her could cause a big backlash from the friendly clan <Dragon Sword>.

I had doubts about this point when first making the recruitment plan, but approved it based on Team Leader Yoon Jae-ho’s assurance that it would be fine.

“Holder Song Hyun-a reportedly showed the most active willingness after receiving the recruitment offer.”

“…Really?”

That’s unexpected news.

Song Hyun-a’s personality was quite blunt and rigid.

As someone born into a prestigious family, she was a woman who valued etiquette, and was famous for not even mixing words with her classmates except for the trio she hung out with.

It was a bit strange that such a person would show active interest in a particular clan.

‘…Come to think of it, she was unusually friendly to me last time too.’

Thinking about it, she had shown a friendly attitude towards me in the <Room of the Deserter> as well, and had even expressed her gratitude for saving Choi Arin.

“She had declared several times that she had no intention of joining the Dragon Sword clan from the moment she became a Holder.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes. She said she wanted to prove herself in a place other than her family clan. So you don’t need to worry about friction with the Dragon Sword clan.”

In other words, the recruitment of the Freshman Trio is successful.

I felt relieved at those words from Secretary Team Leader Lim Hye-young.

I had been a bit worried when planning because it seemed like we were trying to bring in too famous and capable promising talents, but it looked like we could proceed without any problems.

“The master’s approval is needed for the final recruitment confirmation.”

“Ah, give it to me. I’ll stamp it right away.”

I immediately signed the contract handed over by Lim Hye-young and then continued speaking.

“Set up a meeting with the three of them sometime. I should have a talk with them over a meal or something before they join the clan.”

“Yes, understood.”

“Ah. Should we just meet today or tomorrow? I wonder if the juniors will be available.”

The sooner the better for joining.

I wanted to set up a schedule quickly as I had many things I wanted to discuss with these good talents.

However, Lim Hye-young shook her head as if it was out of the question.

“That won’t work.”

“Right? No matter what, they’ll all have their own schedules, so suddenly asking to meet today-“

“It’s not that, the master’s schedule doesn’t allow it. You have to leave Seoul today.”

“…What?”

What kind of bolt from the blue is this?

It hasn’t even been a full day since I returned to Seoul?

Lim Hye-young simply handed me a schedule.

“You seem to have forgotten. Master, you have a 5-day European trip scheduled from today with the two madams. Since you mentioned last time that you had a personal conquest schedule in Europe, we moved up the travel schedule with the madams to minimize empty time as much as possible. Both of them have approved this.”

“Ma…dams?”

I asked back, feeling like it wasn’t a word I should be hearing, but Lim Hye-young said without changing her expression.

“I’m referring to Holder Kang Juyeon and Holder Moon Ga-eun… Is there any problem?”

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Ippotranslation

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…And so I ended up on a European trip with the madams.

“Ahaha. Sister Hye-young is really funny. We never told her to call us that. Really.”

In a hotel room in Paris.

Moon Ga-eun laughed for a while after hearing my story while casually unpacking.

Kang Juyeon, who had become more expressive lately, also swallowed her laughter bit by bit next to her.

The word ‘madam’ that Secretary Team Leader Lim Hye-young had used seemed to be that funny to them.

“I didn’t know my schedule was set up like this on its own.”

Of course, I had left the travel plans to Moon Ga-eun and Kang Juyeon.

Just like I had entrusted the New York travel plans to Kim Chae-eun, I wanted to let the two lovers do everything they wanted on the European trip as well.

It’s just that the schedule was set so quickly that I ended up on another trip before I could even recover from the previous one.

“Ahaha. Sorry, sorry.”

When I lamented with a dejected face, Moon Ga-eun hugged me from behind and pressed her cheek against mine.

Kang Juyeon also quickly leaned her face against my empty waist.

“We coordinated the schedule with Sister Hye-young in advance because we were worried you might be busy, but we didn’t know the news would be delivered so late.”

“…Jae-hyun is too busy.”

“Right. I was surprised when I saw you made a friendly agreement with Wings of Freedom.”

The events that happened in America in a short time.

Suppression of the arena terror attack.

Friendly agreement with <Wings of Freedom>.

Due to these major events happening one after another, our clan and my dedicated secretary team were bombarded with calls.

…I don’t know why they’re tormenting the already busy secretary team like that.

“And you said you had scheduled a personal dungeon conquest in Europe. So we deliberately matched it with that time.”

“…That was well done.”

I nod at Moon Ga-eun’s additional words.

In fact, the European schedule wasn’t just about travel.

The <Beltane> conquest I had previously promised with the contractor, Ripley.

Since I learned through Ripley that the dungeon was in ‘England’, I was planning to do the conquest along with this trip.

Above all, the information I learned while catching Caroline in New York.

The correlation between vampires and Termen and Ludenark…

I needed to hurry the <Beltane> conquest to find clues about that as well.

“Jae-hyun. But Beltane? Who are you going to conquer it with? From what I’ve heard, it seems like a dungeon you need to go as a clan.”

Suddenly, Moon Ga-eun asks curiously, pulling her face away.

The land of vampires, <Beltane>.

As you can tell from its name and reputation, it’s a dungeon that can’t even be attempted by an average level conquest team.

It was clear that powerful monsters and various magic traps would be swarming to a degree comparable to the <Room of the Deserter>.

But I had already made my decision.

“I’m going alone this time.”

“Eh? Really?”

“……?”

Moon Ga-eun is surprised and Kang Juyeon’s eyes widen.

High-ranking Holders confident in their skills often do solo plays when conquering dungeons, but that’s only for dungeons below a certain level.

From mid-high level dungeons, most Holders attempt conquests by forming ‘parties’ or ‘raid groups’.

That’s because there are difficulties in terms of conquest difficulty and efficiency when going solo.

I also can’t remember when was the last time I did a solo play.

Was it <Hobgoblin Village>…?

“Yeah. I think I’ll probably go alone for this dungeon.”

But for this dungeon, I’m going alone without any other party members.

On my face as I say this…

There was an inexplicable certainty.

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