chapter 10
(10)
Was I actually a member of an evil organization?
“Choi Seo-ra?”
“Did you find out now? Well, it’s very different from when I saw it before, right? At school, I still do it because I am a teacher.”
Except for the guild, Kang Shin-hyeok’s junior Seo-ra, who was the only one stored on his phone, is this Choi Seo-ra… .
Choi Seo-ra was a person that Kang Shin-hyeok knew even if it wasn’t his memory.
Originally, he was a middle school martial arts instructor, but when the main character came up to the high school, he was transferred to the high school and became the main character’s homeroom teacher.
In addition, Choi Seo-ra is a member of the ‘Antagonist’, an international criminal organization that appears in the middle of the second volume, rather than a simple supporting role as a homeroom teacher.
Most of them are called ‘Antas’ for short, but they are a terrifying group that attacks and kills hunters with the claim of ‘anti-hunterism’.
All countries and international hunter federations also designate them as terrorist organizations and turn on the lights in their eyes to catch them, but they are so new and thoroughly made up of point organizations that there is little achievement.
Sigh… But how can this be?
“Senior, why are you making that face? Are you okay here?”
According to the memory that came to my mind after hearing Seora’s name, I am also a member of Antas.
I’m so embarrassed.
I didn’t dig thoroughly with the intention of doing an analysis, but I read it with concentration until the end, but I don’t remember seeing Kang Shin-hyeok as a member of Antas.
Wait a minute, could it be?
In an interview with a writer who had read all the novels, there was a content that he was working on a side story.
A lot of settings that were not revealed in the original work will be revealed, so look forward to it.
Sigh… Going crazy.
New memories emerge in real time.
I thought I was active alone in the guild from the beginning, but according to the memory that came to my mind a little while ago, there were colleagues in the beginning.
Now out of this world… .
Two years ago, while hunting with a colleague as usual in the Gwanaksan portal, monsters suddenly came pouring out.
We immediately requested support from the guild, but other teams also had accidents at the time and we did not receive support.
In the end, Kang Shin-hyeok lived, but his colleague died.
My colleague’s name is Kim Chang-soo, and he’s three years older than Kang Shin-hyuk, and we were pretty close.
We had known each other since childhood from the same orphanage, and the guild was also introduced through Changsoo.
The guild said they couldn’t afford to apply because other places were also in a mess.
At that time, there were many monsters in the city, so they made excuses saying that they had no choice but to sacrifice a cow for the sake of the generation, but in the end it was a matter of faction.
Because Kang Shin-hyeok and Chang-soo both came from non-hunter schools and were not treated very well in the guild.
Kang Shin-hyeok, knowing the real cause and feeling skeptical about the guild, applied for an overseas dispatch.
As soon as he was thinking about leaving the guild after returning from a one-year dispatch in China, he was offered to join Antas by Choi Seo-ra, who had contacted him as a senior intern.
In other words, this guy is the one who tricked me into joining a criminal organization.
“What kind of surprised expression is that? I’m surprised.”
Wouldn’t it be surprising if it were like you?
I wondered if spring was coming, but to say that I was a member of a criminal organization would really drive me crazy.
“uh? What, what.”
“When my senior said he would quit the guild and come to school, I thought it would take two years. I know the skills of the seniors, but it is very difficult to get hired at the Hunter School.”
“That… is it?”
Kang Shin-hyeok was attached at once.
“Singy. How is your school life? Is it worth it?”
“uh? Well, just like that.”
“It would have been difficult for me to adapt if I had the personality of a senior… Do you have any close friends?”
I was going to do that, but the words that everything was ruined because of you came up to my throat, but I barely endured it.
“no… .”
“It seemed so. Then, are you going to eat alone?”
“what… right. It’s still early in the semester, so you’re busy, and it hasn’t even been a month.”
“It’s almost a month, but it’s a period of time for all the people I’m already close with. There must be some clubs for teachers in high school too, how about joining one?”
I can’t even get off work on time right now, but what kind of club is the club?
I heard that there was such a thing, but the priority was to adapt to work.
“Because I’m busy adjusting.”
“If you are busy, how busy are you? Come to think of it, why haven’t you contacted me in a while?”
I was busy looking for a gig, and I didn’t save the phone number on my cell phone.
It’s the only number saved, so it must be a very close person, but if you contact me for no reason and say something, you might get into trouble.
I didn’t even get in touch, so I thought there was no need to contact him first.
If I had known this was going to happen, I would have prepared for it in advance… .
“sorry. I’m out of my mind.”
“No. What must have happened to the senior? By the way, did you stop the donation?”
When I hear the sound of donations, memories come to mind again… this crazy
Kang Shin-hyeok, this bastard is obviously out of his mind.
Since joining Antas, he has been sending half of his income to Choi Seo-ra as Antas sponsorship.
If you join Antas, you don’t have to pay unconditionally, but if you want to voluntarily pay, you don’t have to.
“Ah, that… I’m going to stop sponsoring now.”
“Well, my seniors have been paying a lot in the meantime. It’s not compulsory anyway. Besides, even if there is nowhere to spend money, the teacher’s salary is not much.”
I was worried about what he would say if I kept asking him to pay, but he gave me an excuse and I’m glad he said it was okay.
“That… right.”
“Why are you stuttering like a senior?”
“Ah, that… .”
“Is it because you’re sorry that you cut off the donation? As I said last time, it’s okay because Antas never forces sponsorship.”
Uh, Kang Shin -hyuk is a hogu cub.
Fever rises.
“yes.”
“There is nothing to worry about because the organization knows everything about the situation of the seniors. Rather, since the senior passed the school recruitment at once, the evaluation must have gone up, right?”
No, wait. Then the school is also in Antas… . Memories came back again.
The reason Kang Shin-hyeok took the Hunter School appointment test in the first place was because of Choi Seo-ra.
I told Seora that I was going to quit the guild, but then I came here because I was offered to come to the Hunter School to help with my mission.
There is no such thing as a complete puppet.
Anyway, if it’s the mission content, that’s it, right?
Usually, in academies, the purpose of criminal organizations hiding on campus is terrorism.
However, even though Antas is a criminal organization that opposes and even kills hunters, they do not kill for no reason.
Even in the bylaws, there is a content that hunter school students who are not official hunters should not be touched unless there are special circumstances.
Choi Seo-ra’s role is to attract prospective hunters with potential to Antas with a catch-up plan.
This is not Kang Shin-hyeok’s memory, but a fact that I know because I read the novel, but it seems that Kang Shin-hyeok has not been informed of the mission yet.
“Hey. So, what am I supposed to do in the future?”
“For the time being, just focus on adjusting to school life. Make some close friends.”
“I’ll take care of that, so can you give me a rough idea? I need to know what to do so I can make a plan.”
“This doesn’t happen in a short period of time, and it’s okay because there are only seniors in high school. If you need senior help, get in touch… We meet regularly. I can meet you here.”
“uh?”
“It’s better to meet and talk in person than record-breaking contact. Is this your first time here?”
“no. I come almost every day when I have nothing else to do after work… .”
I haven’t been able to come these days because I’ve been drinking a lot, but I usually come every day and exercise for an hour or two.
“Every day? It’s like a senior. I come from time to time, but every time I come, there are no people.”
“Still, if you look at it on the weekends, sometimes there are one or two people.”
“Will there be any progress if you train only on the weekends? This place is also made with tax like our blood. Anyway, the senior said he would come every day, so we just need to set a time.”
“You want to come every day too?”
If that’s the case, I’m thinking of skipping training for a while.
“Ah, that’s not it. I have a personal life and a job… Not too often, maybe once a month is fine. How about 9:00 on the last Tuesday of every month?”
“Last Tuesday?”
“There are very few dinner parties on Tuesdays. Seniors may not be able to come if they have a party or other business. Then see you often.”
There were many things I wanted to ask, but Choi Seo-ra left the training ground with those words.
* * *
I came back to the dorm earlier than usual because I was worried that Kang Shin-hyeok was a member of Antas.
I washed up and lay down on the bed, but I couldn’t sleep, so I opened my notebook.
On the first day I came to this world, I made notes of the original work as I remembered it.
I read it through again, but there is no information that Kang Shin-hyeok is a member of Antas.
Shall we hit them all right now and run away?
If you write your resignation and go down to the countryside and live in hiding… It doesn’t make any sense.
No, it seems more dangerous.
The reason why he quit his guild job and joined the school was because of the suggestion of Seora, a member of the Antas organization.
But suddenly quit?
There’s no way Antas will leave me alone.
The problem isn’t just Antas.
Unlike the original, the possessed protagonist will think it’s strange without me.
If, by any chance, a connection point with Antas is captured in such a process, my life will end that day.
I thought about how it would be better to reveal to the main character that I was possessed just like you, but that doesn’t work.
The possessed protagonist is a typical modern web novel protagonist.
These days, the main character, Trend, is, to put it mildly, a person who is faithful to his desires, but if you look at it differently, he is no different from a character trash who only knows himself.
Of course, if there are people like that around you in real life, you would lose 100 if you were in a hundred, but that’s not the case in novels.
The biggest reason people read web novels is for vicarious satisfaction.
Unlike reality, where you have no choice but to worry and think about a lot of things, the main character in the novel is not indecisive and gets through it coolly and eats it all by himself.
Considering the character of such a protagonist, revealing that he possessed is never a good choice.
Perhaps, instead, he might say that it was good and send me off with Antas.
There is no way that the main character, who has a strong desire for exclusivity, would look favorably on me, who knows the future besides himself.
In the end, you have to solve it yourself… .
Sigh.
It’s a desperate situation, so I can’t help but sigh.
What, is there a star?
There is an old saying that even if you enter a tiger’s den, you will live as long as you stay alert.
Realistically, there’s no way a tiger will save you if you come to your senses, but if you don’t want to die, you have to struggle.
Kang Shin-hyeok, not me, is a lot of sh*t, but now that I’m Kang Shin-hyeok, I have no choice but to clean it up.
* * *
“I see you on the last Tuesday of every month, so why did you contact me after 3 days?”
“I have something to tell you.”
I’ve been preparing myself for the past three days.
“What is it?”
“Can I quit Antas?”
Choi Seo-ra’s expression changed in an instant.
I expected it, but it feels like a completely north wind blowing cold snow.
“What do you mean by that?”
I feel a bit intimidated by the cold tone, which is completely different from a while ago, but due to the nature of Antas, which values security, if I even know Choi Seo-ra’s mission, it will be more difficult to escape after that.
“The reason I joined Antas was because of discrimination against non-hunter school graduates. But now… .”
“Do you think the Hunters will recognize you because you won a duel once?”
It must have hurt my feelings so much that now I cut off the end and shoot at them.