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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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Soon, the dishes arrived.
They weren’t served all at once; starting with soup, it seemed to be a course meal.
“By the way, student Hee-won. When can I meet with your parents?”
“Mom and Dad aren’t here. Mom is on an overseas business trip and won’t be back this month, and Dad said he already met with you, Professor.”
“That’s true. Alright… I understand then. Anyway… suddenly staying over. If you had told me beforehand, I would have been less flustered.”
“Hee-won must have wanted to be with you, Professor. Hehe.”
At that, Yoo Hee-won, who was eating her soup, glared at Han Min-ha with a murderous look.
“Sorry… Hee-won.”
“Stop talking nonsense and eat. And don’t eat too much. We’re going swimming in the afternoon.”
“Swimming…?”
“You can’t swim if you’re full. By the way, do you even know how to swim?”
Han Min-ha’s eyes widened as she looked at Yoo Hee-won and shook her head.
“I can’t. And I don’t have a swimsuit either.”
“It’s summer and you don’t have a single swimsuit? I don’t get it, really.”
“No… It’s not that I don’t have one, I have one at home, but I didn’t expect to go swimming, so I didn’t bring it.”
“Can’t be helped. I’ll lend you a swimsuit, so anyway, don’t eat too much. Professor, you know how to swim, right?”
Of course, I knew how.
It was part of the basic training course you received when you went to Secreto.
They’d put you in a rubber boat, throw you into the middle of the ocean, and make you swim back on your own.
However, I had no intention whatsoever of swimming with the kids.
“I don’t know how.”
“Really? That’s strange… Are you really a former hero?”
“If I fell in, I could just fly out, so I never felt the need to learn.”
“Really strange… How can a hero not know how to swim…”
Yoo Hee-won muttered something and tilted her head.
The food kept coming, one dish after another.
Yoo Hee-won said boastfully that her ‘house’ chef was a graduate of some hard-to-pronounce culinary school in Europe.
He was the head chef of a certain luxury hotel, and she had brought him over.
Perhaps because of that, the food was truly delicious.
Han Min-ha, forgetting Yoo Hee-won’s warning to eat moderately, devoured the dishes as they came out.
“It’s so delicious!”
“Is this your first time eating something like this?”
“Yeah. It’s the same as you trying spicy fire stir-fried pork for the first time. Oh my gosh. It’s really delicious.”
“How about you, Professor?”
Yoo Hee-won asked, observing my expression, and I nodded as well.
“It’s delicious. I’m glad I came.”
“Good. I’m glad you like it.”
Yoo Hee-won smiled with satisfaction, watching Han Min-ha and me eat deliciously.
She knew how to make that kind of expression just from watching others eat—surprising.
Yoo Hee-won, after taking a sip of water, brought up a different topic.
“By the way, isn’t there an internship next semester?”
“There is.”
“Do students from the same class go to the same place?”
“No. The agencies and the Administration that observed the interpersonal combat evaluation last semester will nominate students separately. You choose from there, so you might go together or be scattered.”
Han Min-ha, who was eavesdropping while munching, asked with a very worried expression.
“What if… I don’t get nominated…? Can’t I do the internship…?”
“No. In that case, you’ll be sent to a place affiliated with the academy. But don’t worry about that. Student Min-ha was the most talked-about person in this evaluation.”
“Heek?! Me…?! But I just kept getting hit in the beginning and fainted at the end…”
“That’s why. Heroes are celebrities. Attracting public popularity is more important than fighting silently. In that sense, student Min-ha drew a lot of attention in this evaluation.”
“Haaah…”
Han Min-ha let out a deep sigh as if burdened.
“Is it that much…? I was too scared to even look it up online… Ah… I really hate it…”
Her dislike of receiving attention was similar to mine.
“What are you talking about, you fat pig? There’s a truckload of kids who wouldn’t get attention even if they desperately tried, and you’re complaining about being full?”
Han Min-ha shook her head at Yoo Hee-won’s words.
“But if I get this much attention, then even a small mistake will become a big deal.”
“Then don’t make mistakes, are you stupid? And why are you whining already when nothing has even started?”
However, Han Min-ha still looked worried and asked me,
“What if I end up at a scary hero’s agency?”
“A scary hero?”
“For example, people like Goshawk… It seems like it would be really tough under someone like that…”
“You can just say you won’t go. It’s not like you’re being dragged there.”
Yoo Hee-won, who clicked her tongue while looking at Han Min-ha as if she were a fool, asked.
“Please recommend a good place to go. I’m sure many places will nominate me.”
“Well. If you want to see how the field operates with a broad perspective, going to the Administration would be good. There will likely be more to learn in terms of institutional and legal aspects than at a private agency.”
“What if I go to a private agency?”
“If it’s a private agency, heroes who haven’t caused moral problems outside of their hero activities are good. Someone who possesses great power but doesn’t use it recklessly is a true hero. Though there aren’t many such heroes.”
“For example?”
“There are heroes like Legalmite.”
“Hmm. Legalmite…”
Yoo Hee-won said no more and mulled over my words.
Han Min-ha, who had been watching Yoo Hee-won and me, soon resumed her delicious meal.
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After finishing the meal, Yoo Hee-won dragged Han Min-ha and disappeared into her room.
I changed into comfortable clothes in the guest room and headed straight to the swimming pool.
I had no intention of splashing around and playing with the kids, but it also felt a bit off to come all this way just to stand on the sidelines with my hands behind my back, maintaining my dignity.
So, I planned to lie on a sunbed, enjoy a cool drink, and sunbathe.
Having spent the whole winter looking gloomy, my face had become so pale it looked sallow, so I thought I needed some sun.
Naturally, the swimming pool was outdoors, right behind the house.
It would be absurd for a rich person’s house like this not to have a swimming pool.
A few staff members were at the pool, doing some simple setup so we could use it.
I grabbed a sunbed under a parasol in the corner and lay down comfortably.
Then, a staff member glided over and offered me a drink.
It was a yellow drink in a cool-looking glass, and when I tasted it, it was a cocktail.
Malibu Orange? Anyway, it was delicious.
“Ah, Hee-won…! Wait a minute…!”
“Hurry up and come out!”
Just then, a noisy commotion came from the other side of the building.
Looking back, I saw Yoo Hee-won and Han Min-ha, with large towels draped over their shoulders, coming out to the pool.
For some reason, Han Min-ha was resisting coming, and Yoo Hee-won was mercilessly dragging Han Min-ha by the wrist.
“I’ll just rest inside… Can’t you go swimming by yourself…?”
“What are you talking about! Hurry up! Professor Kyo is over there too!”
“Heek! That’s why I hate it even more…!”
But Han Min-ha was no match for Yoo Hee-won’s strength.
Dragged helplessly, Han Min-ha saw me, blushed, and clutched her towel tighter.
“Hello, Professor… Could you please talk to Hee-won? I don’t feel like swimming right now…”
However, Yoo Hee-won mercilessly threw Han Min-ha into the pool.
Han Min-ha flew, whoosh, and landed in the middle of the pool with a rough splash.
“Puek?! Hee-won!”
“You should have just come in quietly, you talk too much.”
Yoo Hee-won, who followed her into the water, smiled wickedly.
Han Min-ha stared with despairing eyes at the towel that had fallen off her body and was floating away.
Looking at Han Min-ha, I could understand why she had adamantly refused to swim.
Right now, Han Min-ha was wearing a bikini Yoo Hee-won had lent her, but the bust size didn’t fit, and her flesh was overflowing to the sides.
“Oh my? Miss Min-ha has a really nice figure, doesn’t she?”
The head manager, who had approached my side at some point, looked at the children in the pool with a pleased expression.
“Hee-won seems to be in a really good mood too. She hasn’t played in the pool even once since she was little.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. She suddenly said her friends were coming and told us to prepare the pool, so we hastily filled it with water and cleaned it.”
So that was it…
I thought, watching Yoo Hee-won climb onto Han Min-ha’s back and torment her.
I was glad I hadn’t refused the invitation.
If I hadn’t come after she had prepared so much, she would have been greatly disappointed.
“Professor, you come in too! Don’t just lie there damply!”
When Yoo Hee-won shouted, I raised my hand.
“I can’t swim. I’ll rest here.”
At that, Yoo Hee-won activated her Aura and shot a considerable amount of water at me, and I lightly deployed a semicircular defensive barrier.
Like water strongly shot into a cup gushing back out, Yoo Hee-won’s water cannon attack poured back down onto Yoo Hee-won and Han Min-ha’s heads.
“Ah, no fun!”
Yoo Hee-won shrieked, and Han Min-ha, clutching the bikini top that had almost come undone, blushed furiously.
Kuuuuuooooooooooooooh-!!
At the sudden sound, everyone simultaneously looked up.
High in the sky, three heroes could be seen flying at high speed towards somewhere, trailing Aura tails.
“Oh? They’re heroes. Where could they be going?”
The head manager placed her hand on her forehead to shield her eyes from the sun and looked up at the heroes.
Three heroes at once…?
And in a fighter jet-like formation flight…?
Just then, two more heroes who had flown in from another direction turned towards where the first three heroes had flown.
Five heroes flying in the same direction?
What on earth was happening?
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