The Academy’s Deceased Ate It All Chapter 94

To be honest, the relationship between Ahn Do-Hoon and was so poor that it was embarrassing to even call it a bad relationship.

That's because he and I have only been involved a handful of tis, and not even directly.In the past, once for the Na Il-Jun incident, and at the ti of the guild invitational when he had designated , but it had been withdrawn after the attack.That was only twice.

Since then, there had been nothing special to face each other and nothing to get involved with.

If I had to pick one person who has been involved with Ahn Do-Hoon the most, it would be Choi Hyun-Woo.However, since they were rival gimmicks in the original story, they have been steadily building a relationship of confrontation and competition.In fact, Choi Hyun-Woo was the one who competed with Ahn Do-Hoon the most.

And yet.Why the hell are you asking to fight you out of the blue like this?

"I'm telling you just in case, but I'm not doing it with a strange intention. I really just want to fight with you purely."

Ahn Do-Hoon was still looking at with a cautious attitude as if he had guessed my thoughts.

"Can I ask you why first?"

"Because you are stronger than Choi Hyun-Woo."

For a mont, I wondered what nonsense he was talking about.When I turned to took at Choi Hyun-Woo as if to ask what nonsense is this guy talking about right now, to my surprise, he had a look on his face that said it was obvious.And when I stared at him, he looked at as if to say, what's the problem?

"Why? It's true."

"… Don't tell you said that?"

"Huh? Oh, yes. I was asked out of the blue. Truth be told, Ji-Hyuk, you said you were stronger than ."

"…… ."

As I was staring at him at a loss for words, Ahn Do-Hoon fixed the lance with a rattling sound.Then he said to as if he already knew.

"… I'm well aware that you're lagging behind Choi Hyun-Woo in close combat. Naturally, you will be pushed by as well. I'll be the worst match for you, wearing armor."

"You know well. If I fight with you, I will lose 100% of the ti, so do I really need to fight you? What, are you trying to humiliate ?"

"It's not because of such a poor reason."

Ahn Do-Hoon showed a fierce montum for a mont as if he had been insulted.

"But Choi Hyun-Woo, he assured that you are stronger than him…… I just thought that if a guy, who I've now admitted is stronger than , would go so far as to say so, then surely I could learn sothing from him. There is no other aning."

Ahn Do-Hoon said so and fixed the lance once more.

"…… ."

It was as Choi Hyun Woo had said, he's definitely changed from before.His eyes showed a pure fighting spirit, not to mock and trample soone as he once showed.Did the continued confrontation and competition with Choi Hyun-Woo bring sothing out of him?I don't know exactly what it was, but at least I knew it was leading him in the right direction.And his growth was also what I wanted.

It was when I tried to get into position because I thought I couldn't help it.

"Wait a minute."

Jin Ye-Seul gently slipped her body in front of .And she moved her body as if blocking and tilted her head toward Ahn Do-Hoon.

"I going to do it with Ji-Hyuk first, okay? You have to keep the order."

"… You haven't done it yet. And since you're in the sa class, you'll have more chances than . Could you give the chance this ti?"

At Ahn Do-hoon's request, Jin Ye-Seul pretended to be thinking for a while and replied.

"Well, I don't want to?"

Saying so, she gently raised her one-handed sword.

"If you want to decide, try defeating first."

"There's not much ti left for class now, so I don't think I'll have enough ti to compete with you."

Then, Jin Ye-Seul smiled brightly at him.

"If you don't like it, go away."

"Haa…… ."

Ahn Do-Hoon let out a small sigh.Anyone could see that it was a sigh of barely holding in his anger.I carefully grabbed Jin Ye-Seul's shoulder.

"It's okay, move out. I'll do it with you later whenever you want."

"No, it's okay. Ji-Hyuk. I'll finish it soon."

"No, I'm fine."

Even when I said that, Jin Ye-Seul remained the sa.In the anti, the wound on the back of my neck was tingling.

"…… ."

I let out a small sigh, and I felt annoyance creeping up in .I was just beginning to feel that I needed to make a change in my relationship with her.If I just go haphazardly like this, maybe really...… .

"Jin Ye-Seul."

As I called her na in her low voice, she shivered and trembled.She turned around, squirming, and then looked at with trembling eyes for so reason.

"Uh, yes… ?"

"I said I was fine."

"Oh, uh. th, that...… ."

Looking aggressively at her, who was flustered, I just gestured to her with my chin.

"Move out now."

"Uh, yes……Sorry…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul hurriedly moved out of the front of and ran to Choi Hyun-Woo's side.Then, she let out a small breath.She looked at with a sowhat restless look and mumbled sothing.

… For so reason, Jin Ye-Seul's face seed a little red, but I wanted to believe that it was just my imagination.

"Thank you for accepting the request."

Ahn Do-hoon looked at standing in front of him and bowed his head briefly.Then he lowered his body while holding the lance and looked at , taking a typical posture.I could at least tell that it was not an assault, but a posture to check the skill of the opponent.

"Go easy on , easy, okay. Because I'm a piece of glass in close combat."

As I said so, I carefully gripped my two daggers.As she said, the match between him and was terrible.If so, the first thing I had to do was to find the opponent's gap.

"Heueup!"

The first move is the winner.I was the one who rushed in first.Seeing that, Ahn Do-Hoon eyes tit up a little and he gently swung his lance.

I avoided that by the thinnest of margins, as if I was performing a stunt, and seeing that Ahn Do-Hoon looked surprised for a mont.Imdiately after, he smiled a very belligerent smile.

* * *

"Ouch."

"I'm, I'm sorry! Did it hurt a lot?"

Jin Ye-Seul asked , more surprised than usual, as she applied paste to my back.I gestured that I was fine and began to button up the clothes I had half taken off.

"That's why I said that…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul muttered as if upset.

The match against Ahn Do-hoon ended more easily than expected.It was good until I exploited his gaps and managed to hit him a few tis with my attacks, but there was no way I could pierce his armor without even using mana on my supply dagger with the protector.And knowing this, Ahn Do-Hoon did not panic, calmly and skillfully checked , and gave effective hits several tis.It was ti for the two of us to get entangled and exchange blows.

As long as I can narrow the distance once, I'll be at an advantage.And it was a fact that both of us knew well.

So, in order to increase the distance between us, Ahn Do-Hoon threw his lance at and my body flew away.That in itself was not a problem.The problem was that soone had accidentally bumped into as I was holding my posture in the air.A student who had been competing in another area had accidentally moved into our area.Thanks to that, I couldn't properly hold my posture in the air and fell straight down on my back and shoulders.

It wasn't a big wound, but I couldn't help but feel a bitter taste in my mouth.Ahn Do-Hoon and Choi Hyeon-Woo took to the infirmary together, and left to take classes again after hearing that it was not a big wound.

‘Thank you for today. And that…… I'd appreciate it if we could do it again next ti.'

Ahn Do-Hoon said it as if he were throwing it and left after saying, take care of yourself.And in the anti, the way he naturally talked to Choi Hyun-Woo, I just felt that he had really changed a lot.

And Jin Ye-Seul, for so reason, said and pretended to be sick and stayed in the infirmary with .When they left the large infirmary room and we were alone, she quietly approached .

"Um, Ji-hyuk."

"Why?"

"Uh, I've prepared almost everything you asked for."

To be honest, I couldn't help but be surprised by that.As I looked at her with surprised eyes, she gave an easy smile.

"Tha, honestly, I'm still choosing soone, but I got all the rest. Do you want to send you to your room later?"

"I'd appreciate it if you did. But you already got them in a day? Aren't you pushing yourself too hard?"

"Ah, it's not like that…… ."

She muttered in a shy voice, as if embarrassed.

"I've spent a little bit of my pocket money, but I've saved up a lot so it's okay."

"… Well, of course, I was going to pay for it."

"Uh…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul hesitated for a mont, and then ca a little closer to .When I flinched at her, she shook her head slightly and whispered.

"I won't do that anymore."

Then she whispered in my ear how much it had cost, and when I heard the amount, I had no choice but to freak out.

"Wait, what…… Did it cost that much?"

"Yeah, apparently it's hard to get soone.…… and it's not sothing you can get just because you thoughtlessly want it."

"Huh."

It was an amount beyond imagination.It was when I was dazed at the amount that was not enough to just say a thank you.

"Well, I won't tell you to pay back, so you don't have to worry."

"No, it's not an amount that can be passed on like that."

"Then…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul's eyes lit up slightly.

"In return, what about…… You tell one of your secrets, Ji-Hyuk?"

"A secret?"

"Yes."

Jin Ye-Seul nodded.As I was naturally wary of the word secret, she shook her head as if it wasn't such a grandiose thing.

"Anything is fine. Just tell one secret that only you know and no one else knows."

After staring at her for a mont, I told her one thing that happened in the original world.

"Do you know when I'm under a lot of stress, I eat ice cream? I would walk around the room with it and eat a whole box by myself."

Jin Ye-Seul nodded curiously at those words.

"No one knows about that, right?"

"Yes."

Because even my sister didn't know.As I thought so, Ji Ye-Seul looked genuinely satisfied.Then, as if she had forgotten, she took a candy out of her pocket and showed it to .

"What?"

"Look carefully."

She grabbed the candy with both hands.After a while, she closed her eyes and when she opened her eyes and took her hands away, to my surprise, there were two candies.I knew exactly what this was.

A skill that can be obtained with Mirage Gloves.It was a simple yet highly useful skill that could replicate things semi-permanently.

"I've been working all night."

Jin Ye-Seul said so and she handed one of the candies.She looked at as if she was expecting a complint, and I nodded as if she had done well.

"Good job. … After all, trusting you was the right answer."

When I unwrapped the candy with the words, Jin Ye-Seul suddenly opened her mouth with an ah.As I looked at her wondering what she was doing, Jin Ye-Seul plumply touched her lips with her fingers.

"Ahh."

"…… ."

I tried to pretend I didn't know, but when I saw the veins in Jin Ye-Seul's eyes, I let out a small sigh.After hearing that, her face was sohow more dry than usual, and she definitely looked tired.

Without saying anything, when I put the candy in her mouth, she looked blank, as if she didn't expect to actually do it.

"What's wrong?"

"Ah, no…… ."

She covered her cheeks with both hands with a sound like the wind blowing out.Then she began to squirm and carefully lick the candy, and when I saw it, I thought this was the ti, so I took the pendant out of the shadow.

"Can you replicate this too?"

"Yes?"

Jin Ye-Seul, who was carefully licking the candy, accepted the pendant I showed her.Then she grabbed it with both hands as if she was going to try, and closed her eyes.

I could even see the mana rising around Jin Ye-Seul, who grabbed it without saying a word.At so point, Jin Ye-Seul, who was sweating in a cold sweat, opened her mouth and a weak moan ca out.

"Oh, uh-oh…… Ma, Mana...… ."

With the words, she stumbled as it was and collapsed helplessly to the floor.I reflexively reached out and managed to catch Jin Ye-Seul, who was about to slam her head into the floor.

"What, hey. Are you okay?"

"Th, the mana…… A little…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul struggled to speak, but I wondered if this was the mana exhaustion I had only heard of.In the midst of supporting her, I found that only a fraction of the pendant had been replicated.

… I know that the amount of mana required for each item to be replicated is different, but I didn't realize that it to such extent that even after Jin Ye-Seul poured all her mana to the point of exhaustion, only this much would be replicated.

The first thing I did was to lay the exhausted and limp Jin Ye-Seul on the bed.In that brief mont, her body was drenched in a cold sweat, and even her lips were pale.I was so taken aback that I said without realizing it.

"No, you can stop on the way. How could you pour out your mana until you're exhausted?"

"That's not it…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul mumbled as if making an excuse.

"Ji-Hyuk, you asked to do it…… ."

Then she imdiately began to sniffle and cry.I thought I should wipe her sweat off her forehead first, and I was about to go to find a towel.

"My candyyy……uaaaaaaa...… ."

Candy?When I turned my head and looked at the floor, a candy was rolling around on the floor as if she had unintentionally spit it out earlier.

"Unwrap, uaaaaaa. Even fed ...… ."

"… Haa."

I picked up the candy that had fallen out of her pocket, who seed really sad and was crying, and tore the wrapping paper.As I waved in front of her eyes full of tears, Jin Ye-Seul imdiately stopped crying and looked at it.

"Co on, open your mouth. Aah."

"Uaaaa, aah…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul did as she was told and opened her mouth again and took it with a bite.Then she mumbled, licking the candy in her mouth and sobbing.

"Delicious…… ."

"There was no case of temporary infantile regression among the symptoms of mana exhaustion…… ."

I muttered as if it was absurd, but for now, I carefully wiped her forehead with a towel because it was because of .Then, with a thud, the door to the infirmary opened.

"Ji-Hyuk, I heard you got hurt… ?"

Han Soo-Young, who was panting and catching her breath as if she had run her without a break, tilted her head when she saw us.

"… Why are you nursing her?"

"I want to ask that to myself."

Han Soo-Young took a few breaths and ca over here.On the way she ca next to , stopped for a mont in the middle, sniffed her own clothes, and then turned around and went to her.

"You look really sick?"

Han Soo-Young, who looked at Jin Ye-Seul, muttered as if it was surprising.Then she looked a little more and tilted her head.

"Is it mana exhaustion?"

"That's right."

At my answer, Han Soo-Young reached out her hand and carefully placed it on Jin Ye-Seul's heart.And after a while, her hands began to glow brightly, and Jin Ye-Seul's complexion began to soften little by little.Han Soo-Young, who simply did what was known as advanced art, nodded.

"Okay…… That should do it, for now. But why were you guys the only ones here?"

"She isn't here from the beginning."

"Hmmm…… ."

Han Soo-Young nodded and she held out her hand to .

"I'll take care of Ye-Seul. So you can go now."

"Oh, I'm fine. Aren't you the one who's busy?"

"I'm fine. It's hard to go back to class anyway."

Saying that, Han Soo-Young slightly narrowed her eyes and looked at .

"I need to wipe Ye-Seul's body, are you going to do it for her?"

I raised my hands as if I understood and walked up to her and handed her the towel.Then, instead of taking the towel, Han Soo-Young reached out and carefully grabbed my wrist.

"… Did sothing happen?"

"What?"

"You're not going to do sothing alone, are you?"

Han Soo-Young said so and looked at worriedly.

"Don't forget your promise."

"Of course."

Saying that, I handed her the towel and withdrew my hand.I thought I couldn't tell her anything else, not this ti.

"Hey…… ."

anwhile, Jin Ye-Seul, who was lying on the bed, muttered quietly.

"What are you two doing…… Euup!"

"Oh my, Ye-Seul. What did you say?"

Jin Ye-Seul was about to say sothing, but Han Soo-Young covered her mouth with the towel.I stood up as I saw her holding her flailing body.

"Okay. I'll get going now."

"Yeah, bye, Ji-Hyuk."

"Whoop! Uup!"

"… And don't bother her too much. Since she's a patient."

The way Han Soo-Young sent mana to Jin Ye-Seul earlier.And as I pondered how she could constantly supply Jin Ye-Seul with her mana, I opened the door and went out.

* * *

"…… ."

As Yoo Ji-Hyuk closed the door and left, Jin Ye-Seul, who was struggling, and Han Soo-Young, who was holding her down, stopped moving almost at the sa ti, as if they had agreed before.

"Can you put this away? I'm suffocating."

"Oh, okay."

When Jin Ye-Seul asked in a calm voice, Han Soo-Young nodded as if she understood and lifted the towel.

It was true that Jin Ye-Seul was exhausted due to mana exhaustion, but it wasn't to the extent she would lose all her strength.However, it was true that she was drowsy, so she looked at Han Soo-Young lying down without raising herself.

"Can I ask you sothing?"

"What is it?"

At Han Soo-Young's question, Jin Ye-Seul tilted her head.

"Ji-Hyuk, what happened?"

In response to her confident question, Jin Ye-Seul rolled the candy in her mouth with her tongue without saying a word.There was a rattling sound, as her teeth and the candy collided.

"Well…… ."

Jin Ye-Seul smiled slightly, showed her the candy held tightly in her teeth, and said.In the anti, she leaned forward and the necklace around her neck glittered in the light.

"I don't know?"

Han Soo-Young just smiled at those words.