Four days after the entrance ceremony, on Thursday.
Fitting my assigned role, I spent my ti as the librarian in the library, reading novels borrowed from the upper floor during work and enjoying comics after work.
There was no deadline for the given task.
At least on the surface.
The task the chairwoman gave was to woo a capable woman, and such tasks were typically long-term projects.
It had been less than a month since I entered Sejong Academy, so I couldn’t possibly hook a woman and tell her to join the organization in that ti fra.
I should make my move on those with potential — the so-called ‘heroines’—- after calmly observing them for a year and recruiting them to join us.
Even if they were not the heroines, it was also good to get people like Yumir, who were extras—or future supporting characters with promising futures on our side.
In that sense, I was slowly checking the list of freshn through the library’s book rental program.
But then.
‘What’s this.’
I kept checking the student list registered in the database.
At first, I let it slide, but when I checked for the second ti, I thought sothing was seriously wrong.
There was no protagonist.
Among the new male students, there was no one who could be considered a protagonist.
The protagonist’s na that I rembered was not there!!
Even though I thought they might have changed their na or used a pseudonym, I manually copied down each na that appeared in the library’s loan program and did overti at ho searching for hero information. I also registered with the Hero Association and private internet hero wiki. Still, there was no one who could be considered a protagonist.
‘A Korean man living abroad with a suitable E-level power, why can’t I find him!’
Most of the people I investigated had clean pasts, and no one matched the protagonist’s background setting.
‘This is driving crazy.’
Did the original setting change?
Had the setting of being a Korean from abroad changed from the country I knew to another country?
Or maybe he would be enrolling next year, not this year?
Or perhaps he did not enroll in the Academy at all this year?
My head started to ache from the absence of the target that should have been there from the beginning.
I infiltrated where the target was supposed to co for an assassination operation that held the world’s fate, but the target himself didn’t even appear where he should have.
‘This is really driving crazy.’
How could sothing like this happen?
‘Does it make sense for the Academy’s protagonist not to appear in an Academy light novel!’
I felt like crying.
Even though I investigated the protagonist while my conjured-up chicken grew cold, there was no result in the end.
I thought I should check out all the guys individually, but when I counted, the number was quite significant.
The number of male freshn who entered the Academy this year was about 100.
The number was supposed to be less originally, but the number of enrollees increased more than average due to the appearance of a certain woman.
[I ca to the Academy to see Ms. Snow White! I don’t care about anything else!]
It was not only the won who enrolled for Snow White.
Many of the n also chose to enroll to see Snow White, and actually, sothing like a secret fan club for Snow White has already started operating in the Sejong Island community.
The mbership already exceeded 1,000, and all sorts of photos and videos of Snow White were being posted under the na of ‘fandom’.
[Guys, Ms. Snow White coming out of the dormitory looks so prettyㅠㅠ]
[Did you see her back while she was holding a piece of chalk on the podium? Oh my, that waistline….]
[The Seven Dwarfs are watching^^]
[It seems like Ms. Snow White is having a company dinner at this restaurant tonight? A full-professor dinnerㄷㄷ]
Thanks to this, I knew about Snow White’s every move without having to investigate it.
‘I wish I could know the protagonist’s movents like this.’
How nice would it be if, like Snow White, soone told every single action that the protagonist took from dawn to dusk?
Assassination wasn’t an easy task.
Even when you attempted assassination based on accurate information, it was difficult.
And here I was, unable to even confirm the assassination target’s existence, the first step of assassination, so I couldn’t help but feel rushed.
‘Keep calm.’
It hadn’t even been a week since the first sester started in March.
Whether it was mid-term or sumr sester admission, he would eventually appear in the Academy in whatever form.
[‘What’s your purpose in coming to the Academy?]
[I can’t tell you that.]
[Why? You didn’t co here just to study. Aside from the superficial reason, tell the real reason.]
[That… I’ll tell you when the ti cos. The reason I ca to Sejong Island.]
Because he must have a purpose to accomplish sothing in the Academy.
‘But the novel abruptly ended before that was revealed.’
If the foreshadowing was not revealed and the story ended, people would admire it as a MacGuffin, but a MacGuffin was only a MacGuffin when it beca a masterpiece.
The foreshadowing that ended abruptly like this was just unresolved foreshadowing.
It did not help at all now.
What could be the reason for the protagonist to enter the Academy with that power?
To pretend to be weak after enrolling as a low-ability person or even a near-abilityless person?
To attract any woman in the Academy and aim to beco a pillar?
Or maybe he really wanted to learn sothing at the Academy?
As long as there was a real purpose, not an outwardly advertised superficial purpose, the protagonist would definitely appear in the Academy.
But what if even that purpose could be achieved sowhere other than the Academy. What if there was no need to achieve it in the Academy?
“……Ha.”
My thoughts were getting complicated.
There were too many elents to consider just because the person who should be here wasn’t.
The only variable to speak of in the last six months was my activities as Goblin. Because of those activities, did the protagonist give up coming to the Academy?
That would be a ridiculous butterfly effect.
It would be more plausible if the protagonist died in an accident while I was acting as a villain or committed suicide due to the snowball effect of my villainous activities.
If things continued like this, I wouldn’t be able to figure out where the protagonist was.
‘Should I just tell the leader everything and ask for help?’
I feared that might increase the uncertain elents, but the leader would surely help .
But then, my life would be beholden to the leader.
Although my life was already half controlled by the leader, if I revealed that I was a possessor, the leader would definitely seize and turn into a ‘writer’.
[You should throw out all the creations from your world. Hurry up!]
[You were a reader in your previous life? Don’t you know that every reader is a potential writer?!]
[Spit out the synopsis, plot, or whatever right now! Stories that unfold in a world without superpowers, which don’t exist in this world!]
[I brought a novel writing guide. From now on, you just need to write 30,000 characters of a novel a day. What? How do you write 30,000 characters? Ah, if you can write 300 characters a minute, 100 minutes a day will allow you to write 30,000 characters! Why would you say that without even trying? I’m telling you to try it first!]
And so, she would force to spit out all kinds of creations from my original world.
Like Scheherazade, who had to tell stories for a thousand and one nights, I might have to recite the stories of my original world for her.
Stories that did not exist in this world.
‘If I can’t find him by sumr, I’ll ask for help then.’
The deadline was the second sester.
If I couldn’t find the protagonist by the end of the ‘sumr camp’ when the goblins would start to run amok in earnest, and the Four Heavenly Kings of Darkness started seriously attacking?
I would humbly admit my incompetence and ask for help from the leader.
‘Why is the protagonist not appearing?’
It would be really great if he just suddenly popped up and said, ‘I am the protagonist.’
“…Huh?”
“Hello?”
Beyond the desk, a familiar woman was smiling at warmly.
“You’re working here, Mr. Do.”
“I told you I worked in the library, but I didn’t expect you to co to find , student Yumir.”
Yumir had co.
Setting aside my complicated thoughts about the protagonist for a mont, I greeted Yumir with a friendly smile as a librarian.
“Did you co to borrow a book?”
“No, I ca to see you.”
“…?”
“Yes. You said you paid the restaurant bill on my behalf.”
She ca out of guilt, it seed.
“Well, it’s sothing I should do. No matter how much chaos ensues, if soone suddenly disappears, soone else is bound to search for them, right?”
“…Oh.”
Yumir’s expression hardened montarily.
She probably understood what I, as the Goblin, wanted to say.
[A hero who hides his identity might reveal it if he suddenly appears and disappears from the scene.]
If Yumir was smart, she would understand my point even in a conversation like this one, which seed so casual and everyday.
“… I’ll keep that in mind, teacher.”
“No need for that.”
I substituted a response by shrugging my shoulders lightly.
“So, you really ca to see ?”
“Yes.”
Yumir pulled sothing out of her bag.
“Would you like a cup of coffee? I brought it from the convenience store.”
Although it was convenience store coffee…
……A bottled Starbucks Latte (500ml)?
‘What’s her intention?’
This was too generous to be a re favor.
“Thank you. I’ll enjoy it. And don’t worry about the restaurant bill.”
“Um, if you’re not busy, I’d like to ask sothing.”
“What is it?”
“……Do you have any books on clothing?”
“Clothing?”
“Yes.”
Yumir’s expression, for so reason, seed sincere.
“Um, it would be even better if it’s about hero costus.”
As expected.
She seed to want to discard the Female Knight concept.
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