The first place prize disappeared imdiately after my performance, so I thought it was over without the other kids even tracking her down, but……Fortunately, the class didn't stop. In fact, it beca more active.
This is because Ji-hyun used her abilities to move around the academy.
Thanks to this, the number of children who took pictures of Ji-hyun was less than 7, and they worked hard to learn tracking skills.
Did Instructor Bear expect this?
The students were spread out all over the place, and chasing after Ji-hyun, who was fleeing, was a natural way to learn tracking.
"Is Jin-woo still there?"
"Yeah, I don't think he's taken a picture yet."
There was still a little ti left until lunch, so those who completed the mission first were gathered in the club room.
I ca to the club room first, and Se-ah and I are taking care of club business.
-Is she in there?
A familiar voice called out from outside.
"Whoa, who could that be at this hour? That doesn't sound like one of our club mbers."
Is there anyone who isn't a mber of Familia who would co at this hour?
I questioned myself but Se-ah is the first to stand up and go to open the door.
"Nae~ get out, huh, Vice President!”
“Hello, junior Se-Ah? Did you have a good vacation?”
When the door opened and I turned my head at the clearly audible voice, I saw Julie stroking Se-ah's head.
“…Senior Julie?”
"Ah, junior Eugene. You're here after all? I was on my way to your class to et you, but junior Jin-woo I t on the way told you'd be here."
"You t Jin-woo?"
"Yes. I don't know why, but he was running around the hallway so hard, and I saved him from getting a penalty point from the teacher.”
I wonder what the hell he's been up to, getting caught by the teacher…….
"And what are you doing here so early?"
"Oh, by the way. I heard so interesting information this ti, so I ca to tell you."
"Interesting information?"
Julie nodded at my words.
"Let's go inside, Se-ah, I'm going to talk to the senior for a while."
We went into my office.
I brewed the tea I always prepare for such occasions and set it in front of Julie.
"Mmm. Thank you."
She took a whiff of the tea and smiled.
"After all, you have the best tea in the academy."
"Well, I use expensive tea leaves, and the student council uses so pretty expensive stuff too, don't they?"
"The English tea brought by the president isn't bad, but……I prefer green tea."
After quenching her thirst with the tea, she looked at and told the information.
"The president has recently been severely disciplined by his family. Are you aware?"
Ray Pendragon was disciplined?
Several reasons imdiately raced through my head.
The first was that soone had robbed him of a piece of Excalibur.
The second was that the Pendragon family mansion in Korea had been ransacked by an unknown thief.
Well, each one was a reason for discipline. That's a lot of serious stuff in less than half a year……..
Huh? Wait a minute. I did all of these things, didn't I?
"Yeah, I think I heard that."
"Well, that makes it easier to talk. So, he’s been falling down the family pecking order lately, and he's trying to get sothing to make up for it."
"What kind of……."
"The Green Belt. It's an artifact that was once lost by the Pendragon."
"The Green Belt? Who has it?"
Item ‘Green Belt'.
Once belonging to Sir Gawain, the greatest knight of all ti, it was a mythical artifact that was said to amplify the user's power according to the height of the sun.
It's not supposed to appear at this point in the ga, but it's already appeared?
"From the way you're talking, it sounds like you're familiar with the artifact. I don't know the details, but it’s a prize in so kind of contest."
"A prize for a……contest?"
"Apparently there's a very famous board ga, and the organizers of the contest are giving it away as a prize to the winner."
"What does that even an?"
It's an artifact that would probably fetch an unimaginable price at auction, and they're just offering it as a prize for a board ga.
"Well, the organizer of the tournant is a big fan of the ga. It was made in Korea, so they're holding the tournant in Korea."
"That's another ridiculous reason."
"Yeah. It's hard to understand how people with money think, isn't it? Anyway, the president is thinking of getting the family's support again by winning this thing."
"……So he's trying to get rid of before he graduates."
"You'll be a big obstacle in his ‘graduation process' when he needs to hand over the presidency."
In other words, we need to keep this stuff from getting to the president.
The Green Belt was a precious and powerful treasure, enough to turn the hearts of the Pendragon family back to the side that had already turned away.
"This competition, do you know what it is?"
"Bush War Land? I think that's what it was called."
……Bush War Land?
"Ah, that sounds interesting."
"Huh? You know what it is?"
"Yeah. I played it a little bit back in the day."
‘Bush War Land it's one of CS's mini-gas, and I've already played it to death.’
"Okay! Then we have a plan! We'll enter the competition and stop the president's ambitions. We can't leave anything up in the air if we're going to implent the Student Council's ‘plan'."
"I agree and I think we need to bring in soone to make it more certain."
"Soone?"
"Yes. You can't play this ga alone. It's a 2v2 ga."
A "military master" to strategize on the board, and a "general" to listen to the orders and run around the field.
It's a ga that can't even be played without two people teaming up.
Hearing my words, Julie looks puzzled.
"Huh? Then, can we two go? Well, since I didn't know much, I should study from now on…….”
Surely soone of Julie's caliber would be able to understand the rules quickly.
She could probably breeze through the main draw, but would that be enough to beat Ray Pendragon?
I don't think so.
‘Ray Pendragon was also known for being a good NPC in the Bush War Land.’
I needed soone who was a regular player of the ga, soone who had a very good grasp of the rules, but also soone who could think on their feet.
And I knew soone who fit all of those boxes very well.
Not only was I coveting the Green Belt, but I had to decide who to ask.
* * *
The next day, right after lunch, I set out to woo soone to join in this competition.
A club room in the sa basent as our Familia club room.
As I walked, the bright lights grew dimr and dimr, and the air, which had been fresh, turned into a stale, moldy scent.
At the door of one of the club rooms.
[Board Ga Club]
I punched the code into the door lock and stepped inside.
The scene before was completely different from the last ti.
The room was once filled with random decks of cards and boxes of paper but now there were neatly organized packages, tables, and even an air purifier and air conditioner, as if it were a new board ga cafe.
"Definitely, a different environnt makes a different person."
A few months ago, the board ga club made a fortune when their hogrown board ga beca a hit.
They've already succeeded in moving up to the silver club with a number of accomplishnts.
Well, the conditions to move to the building directly above were t, but……I think they gave up because it was a bit difficult to move into a larger room than this ‘warehouse’ and the old gas could have been damaged during the move.
Instead, they used the money they had left over to upgrade the room.
He must have been influenced by our club room.
‘The upside of having money is that this basent room is bigger than the one upstairs.’
In short, the room is big, but the location is bad, so it feels like a cheap house.
"Who……Oh, Mr. Eugene, how did you end up in this shabby place?"
As I entered the room, the seniors, who were having an intense discussion about a board ga, glanced in my direction, then stood up and walked over.
"I'm looking for the head of the board ga club, is he inside?"
"Huh? Well, he's in his office as always. Do you want to call him?"
They were very happy to see , probably because of my recent help with the Board Ga Club and the case I solved against the student council.
"No, I'll go there myself."
"Really? Have fun~"
I walk past the display cases on either side and reach the innermost door.
-Tsk. Ding.
I knocked lightly and heard a voice from inside.
-What are you doing? Why are you doing sothing you don't usually do?
"It's Eugene Han. Senior."
-Eh? Eugene? Co in! Co in!
When I heard his answer, I walked in and saw him writing sothing down.
His na tag on his chest read ‘Jegal Hyunho'.
This man was the other partner I was going to take to the ‘Bush War Land'.
"Mr. Senior. Are you busy?"
"Huh? No, no, no. I'm just finishing up so work.”
After closing the notebook he'd been working so hard on, he wiped the sweat from his brow with a handkerchief and walked over to .
"Eugene, how long has it been since you've been in my office?"
"I haven't been here since vacation, so I guess you could say it's been a while. By the way, I think the club looks a lot better than the last ti I was here."
I already knew that the board ga club had made a lot of money from their hobrew gas, but I hadn't expected it to be this good.
"Right? It's still not enough. Look at how expensive limited edition board gas are these days. No matter how much money I make, it's just pouring water on the poison."
"Well, at least you look a lot better than you used to."
"Hahaha! That's true, but really, what's Eugene doing here?"
He must have been unnerved by my sudden arrival because he got straight to the point.
I look like a debtor in front of a collector.
"It's not really a big reason, but I'm going to compete in a board ga tournant, and I was hoping you could co with ."
"Huh? A tournant?"
Was it too out of the blue to co out of my mouth? He looks at , eyes narrowed as if he didn't expect that.
"A board ga tournant? What the hell kind of tournant is this that you want to go with you?"
"Bush War Land. I want you to join in a competition for that ga as a ‘soldier' and a ‘general'."
"What?"
He shakes his head, looking even more shocked than he did just now.
"Wait, Bush War Land, you want to team up with in a competition for that ga?"
"Yes."
"Seriously? I don't know, I think that's a little bit……off."
He threw his arms up in the air and put a hand on my shoulder.
"I'm afraid that's going to be a bit difficult, Eugene, you know, and that ga is──"
"Well, of course I'm not asking you to do this for free, I'll compensate you."
"Compensation? Are you talking about money or sothing? You know, we're not that needy anymore, Eugene and I can't let a little money break my club’s beliefs.”
"I'll give you this, not money."
Before he could refuse I pulled out my secret card from my pocket and showed it to him.
"Now, wait a minute. That's……."
"That's right."
Yes, this is one of my secret ‘cards'.
"It's a blue-eyed dragon hologram gold."
An ultra-rare card, said to have only 30 copies in the world and of those, only four are said to be holographic gold!
To the uninitiated, it's just a piece of paper, but to those in the know, it's different.
The rarity is incredible, and the stats to match.
It was a fantasy card that no matter how much money you wanted to spend, you couldn't get it because there were no sales.
h, it was a card I found in a drawer while cleaning out the other day…….I never thought I'd use it here.
"Gee, seriously, you're really going to give that to ? Do you know what kind of card it is?"
"Yes. I know more about the value of this card than anyone else, which is why I thought I should bring it to honor you."
How dare he compare the card in my hand to the Green Belt?
"If you can team up with and win the ‘Bush War Land', I'll give this card to you."
Jegal Hyunho was essential to my plan.
"Huh, if junior thinks that much of ……I can't help it. I've received too much grace so far to ignore your difficulties, huh!"
Jegal Hyunho will be my teammate because he was the founder of the ‘Bush War Land'.
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