The Academy’s Deceased Ate It All Chapter 146

"Sorry, sothing urgent suddenly ca up. I'm really sorry, but this ti, you and Hyun-Woo eat together."

A grumbling voice ca from the other end of the phone.

― If I don't eat with you, I'll just starve.

“…don't do that. You have to eat on ti.”

At my words, I heard Han Soo-Young muttering sothing in a small voice and grumbling.

― Oh, what is it? No, I don't want to. Hey, wait...! Give the phone, I'm on the phone with Ji-Hyuk right now!

― Hello? Ji-Hyuk, it's .

“Oh.”

Choi Hyun-Woo, who took the phone from Han Soo-Young, let out a small breath.

― Don't worry too much, I'll see you later in the evening. Since today's class is the advisor's class... we'll see each other later today.

"Okay, thanks. Please tell Soo-Young properly.”

― Don't worry...ack! Hey, don't pinch , it really hurts...!

The phone hung up with a loud noise.

After looking at the phone for a while, I quickly made my way to the reception room where I could talk to outsiders.

Inside, Jin Ye-Jeong, whom I had t at the party before, was sitting in a rather modest posture.

"Hello."

Will Jin Ye-Seul look like that when she becos more mature and calm?

Wearing large glasses and her hair tied back in a simple knot, she rose from her seat and bowed to .

She was wearing a won's suit, and after confirming I was sitting across from her, she also sat down.

“Thank you for coming. I ca all the way to the academy because of work, and suddenly it occurred to .”

She said so and looked at with calm eyes.

“I'll introduce myself again. I'm Jin Ye-Jeong, and although I'm lacking, I'm a professor at Urea. Even though I am a professor, I am an apprentice assistant."

“I'm Yoo Ji-Hyuk.”

After exchanging a short greeting with her, I straightened my posture.

"So, you wanted to see , can you tell why?"

“…… .”

At my question, she turned her head and looked out the window.

Then, staring out the window, she opened her mouth.

"The wind is blowing, it looks like it's going to rain."

"Yes?"

“Do you know how and why it rains?”

“…I don’t know.”

She nodded slightly, as if sowhat satisfied with my answer.

“There are many reasons. It looks like there's going to be a shower now, but in the case of a shower, the heat on the surface heats the air and rises it, and the cold air cos down from the upper layer to balance it out. This is called convection. And as the heated air rises, clouds form and it rains.”

I couldn't help but just nod at her sudden words.

“Ah, yes… .”

"Umm."

And Jin Ye-Jeong, seeing this reaction of mine, gave a small sigh this ti.

"I heard that when you et soone for the first ti and want to relieve the nerves, small talk is a good idea, but it didn't work out well."

She wrinkled her nose slightly as if it was really difficult.

“I heard that eliciting empathy with those around you in trivial, everyday situations is the first step in getting close, but… I guess it wasn't."

She sighed once more here.

"Should I just get to the point?"

"That would be great for ."

“Then let explain a few things first. Ye-Seul, there's sothing you need to know first before we talk about that child.”

I nodded.

Here, for the first ti, Jin Ye-Jeong muttered while fixing her glasses as if she were tired.

"First of all, our mother is quite extre. As soon as she found out that you... are a mber of the World Tree clan, she imdiately contacted Ye-Seul.”

“Contacted her?”

“To seduce you. Simply put, it was to use the beauty realm to create a fait accompli, or sothing like that."

“…… .”

When I didn't say anything, she added.

“Actually, she said it in a rather low-grade language, but I think it’s a bit too much to convey as it is, so I refined it moderately. Most of all, I didn’t want you to think our mother is soone who instigates her child to commit felonies."

“Ah, yes… .”

“And when Ye-Seul ignored her, she even told . If you can, go and seduce him. Because you and that child have a pretty face. And if you can, bring up your engagent... .”

While she was saying that, she looked at as if she had just rembered.

“Oh, it’s a bit off topic, but did you know that Ye-Seul had a fiancé?”

“Fiancé?”

It was the first ti I heard it.

She added imdiately, as if saying, don't worry.

“It beca sothing that never happened after Ye-Seul kicked him and crushed his thigh in less than five days later. Oh, did she also break his ribs and made a dent in his skull?"

As I listened to her, I was certain that she, like Jin Ye-Seul, was missing a screw sowhere.

I was wondering if there was sothing strange about the whole family.

“Well, I'll cut the other little details out. And to start with sothing that might help... we are now preparing to print money from the World Tree clan with the Association, various families, and guilds. Specifically, an evil energy has been detected... .”

Her family was involved, too.

I knew it, but I pretended not to know and listened to her.

However, after a while, Jin Ye-Jeong, who was staring at , stopped talking.

“Looks like I got sidetracked.”

She nodded her head.

“Shall we just get to the point?”

She had a completely different atmosphere from Jin Ye-Seul, but she was definitely her biological sister in that she was sowhat unpredictable and difficult to talk to.

In addition, as she said herself, she seed to be quite poor at conversing with people.

‘In the original story, she only appeared as an older sister who cherishes Jin Ye-Seul and helps her from behind, but… .'

I nodded, thinking so.

"To start with the story of our family… I don't know if you know this, but we are a family famous for magic. People in our family are born with enormous mana from the beginning. In return, it runs in our family that we are born lacking sothing."

She shrugged her shoulders.

“In Ye-Seul's case, it was especially large.”

She muttered quietly, with eyes not telling what she was thinking.

“It's hard to say exactly that child lacks morals. It's also quite different from what's commonly known as a psychopath.”

While talking, she stared at .

“Because of that child, I studied in many ways.”

I didn't have anything to say in reply, so I just nodded.

"That child committed her first murder when she was 10 years old."

She muttered in a voice that seed to regret sowhere.

“He was a person who had a bad heart toward our family. He attacked Ye-Seul with a sword, but instead, his head was crushed on the spot and he died instantly."

And then we were perfectly able to realize that sothing was strange.

At her words, I tilted my head.

“We?”

“Yes, we.”

She nodded her head.

Then she held out her palm toward .

Her small palm had sothing written densely on it.

“I can wield magic that works on the human psyche.”

“…… .”

“And that fact was well known to and Ye-Seul when we were young.”

She slowly withdrew her palm.

Then she let out a sigh, and I wondered how many tis it was.

“… that child noticed that she was strange. It was unbearable at a young age. So she asked a favor. She asked to put a ban on her.”

“Ban?”

Jin Ye-Jeong placed a ban on Jin Ye-Seul.

This is the first ti I'm hearing about this.

Now, I wondered if this world was really the world I knew.

"Yes. I put a ban on that child as she wanted, and thanks to that, that child managed to grow up with a stable self without denying her ideality.”

“I’m sorry, but what on earth does the story so far have to do with ?"

“… I'm sorry, it was quite a frantic story and difficult to understand, right?"

She apologized to and continued.

“To sum it up, it's this. I just recently realized that what I thought was best was actually having an adverse effect on that child."

“… yes?"

I was at a loss for a mont and looked at her.

She, the person who had been boasting until now that she had used magic that she applied to the psyche since she was a child, looked at calmly.

“What the hell, then, Ye-Seul’s conscience or good heart. Did you seal sothing like this?”

"Yes? No. No way. I suppressed the anti-social tendencies or anything like that I thought would cause real trouble if she kept it.”

She stared at as if asking, what are you talking about?

Then she tilted her head as if contemplating for a mont.

“Simply put, I've locked sothing like hydrochloric acid in the child’s mind, and what’s left is lye.”

… how on earth could she co up with an analogy like that?

I replied, staring at her dumbfoundedly for a mont.

“Then there is no problem, right? Why would that be a problem?”

“If you drink hydrochloric acid or lye, you die, but if you mix the two, it becos brine. When a strong acid and a strong base et, they purify each other as if becoming water. That's the way it works."

She muttered.

“… instead of forcing restrictions, I had to take care of her, correct her, and support her from the side. Anyway, it was part of Ye-Seul. It also took up a pretty big position. There's no way a building can be intact without the pillars. Thanks to that, the child is now... in a very dangerous condition.”

The last ti I saw her at a party, I beca convinced.

It's really dangerous if it goes on like this.

"Please. Please help my sister.”

She bowed her head deeply.

I thought for a mont and said to her.

"From what you've told , it seems like it will be resolved if we lift the restrictions, correct?”

"Yes. But the problem is that now I can't get rid of the restrictions on that child.”

“… why?”

“Because at that ti, that child trusted the most, but not now.”

She said so and looked at .

“I have never seen that child smile like that in my life. It ans that she trusts and relies on you more than her family, , or the parents who gave birth to her.”

“…umm, actually.”

I told her what had happened with Jin Ye-Seul with so dramatization.

That I had done sothing very wrong to her, which made her declare she was going to sever our relationship.

I also added that she was sincerely trying to kill , and she nodded as she listened with a serious expression on her face.

“At least you’re in a much better situation than I am.”

“… are you serious?”

“If that child had really been so hurt that she declared she was going to sever the relationship and tried to kill you for that, we wouldn't even be eting like this right now. I would have been in a situation where I was offering condolences to you, or looking at the person who killed my sister."

“…… .”

Co to think of it, she was right.

I didn't know because she didn't show much sign of it, but if it was Jin Ye-Seul in the original story....

“At least, you still have a big place in that child's heart.… I envy you. I couldn't get a corner of her heart no matter what I do."

With those words, she handed a small bracelet.

“This is the key. If you wear it, infuse it with mana, and trace the mana towards the head while in contact with that child, you will feel sothing sticking to it."

“…may I ask you one thing?”

“As much as you want.”

“Why do you care about Ye-Seul so much? As you said, Ye-Seul doesn’t care about you at all.”

"Well. It can't be helped that Sister hates the ugly older sister."

Then she smiled for the first ti.

Well, what can I do?

“That child is my sister from birth.”

“…….”

I couldn't say anything to that appearance.

It was because I felt a sense of unity in her appearance.

Looking at her, a face I miss seed to co to mind.

It was then.

My phone rang and Jin Ye-Seul's na appeared on the screen.

“Speak of the devil, that child.”

She rose from her seat with a smile.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you. I will be included in the faculty of urea that will be visiting around next week. If we et on the way, could you at least say hello?"

“Yes, okay.”

"I'll see you later, then. Thank you."

She bowed politely, looked at , and said as if saying, you should go.

“You should have had lunch, but I’m sorry I kept you for so long.”

“… since you're all the way here, why don't you see her once before you leave?"

“That child hates so much. If she knew that you were with , she'd be very unhappy."

She shook her head.

“I’ll see you later if circumstances allow.”

* * *

Jin Ye-Jeong muttered quietly as she walked out of the academy.

I don't think the circumstances will allow us to et again, though.

“…… .”

If I die, I don't even know where the body will lie.

With a bitter smile, she glanced up at the darkened sky.

“Jin Ye-Jeong.”

Then she turned her head to the voice calling her.

There stood a man.

A Slav with a stocky physique and a cool impression.

“I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Dmitry-ssi.”

At her apology, Dmitry responded with an expressionless face.

“It was the professor’s order, you don't have to be sorry.”

“Still.”

“Rather, may I ask who you t?”

“Dong-saeng.” [Note: Dongsaeng - Gender neutral: brother, sister.]

"Oh. Co to think of it, you ntioned your dong-saeng goes here?”

She nodded.

It wasn't a lie.

In any case, he was younger than herself.

The two began to walk together, and Jin Ye-Jeong asked him in a still quiet voice.

"So what should we do now?”

“First of all, as the professor ordered, we should investigate this area and set up a base.”

He took a deep breath and muttered in his characteristic lancholy voice.

“It’s what we, his disciples, should do… Well, I don't an to make you work. You'll be the fifth disciple soon, but at least not now. You just have to watch and learn.”

"That's a relief."

“Ah, co to think of it… .”

Dmitry took sothing out of his inner pocket and showed it to her.

A photo.

The photo showed Yoo Ji-Hyuk, whom she just t.

“Rember this boy.”

“…who is it?”

"The owner who has the artifact.”

He gave a brief answer.

“I asked for a transfer or loan, but he refused on the grounds that it was lost. Later, you will have to use your ability to dig into his mory and verify whether it is true or not. It doesn’t matter if he becos an idiot or not.”

“…….”

She didn't say anything.

He asked back at that appearance.

“What, do you know each other?”

Jin-Ye-Jeong shook her head.

"No."

I'm seeing him for the first ti.

Saying so, she disappeared into the crowd with him.