I Became a Swordsmanship Instructor at the Academy 38

Became a swordsmanship instructor at the academy

Chapter 38

After having breakfast, I came to the beach with the children.

It wasn’t far from the pension so we walked, and as soon as we arrived, two large horse statues were visible.

One was red and one white, so I thought they might be sculptures, but they were lighthouses.

“Isn’t that unique?”

“Yeah.”

Is it because this is Jeju Island that even the lighthouses are in the shape of horses?

It seems like a photo spot, I should go there later and take a picture.

By the way, it’s not even 10 o’clock yet but there are quite a lot of people.

There were many couples and families who came to play, but why am I with students…

I was starting to feel a little melancholy, but looking at the open sea makes me feel better.

We secured a spot by renting a parasol.

“Teacher, let’s go right now, shall we?”

At the same time as he spoke, Jinsu suddenly took off his pants which startled me, but he was already wearing swimming trunks underneath.

“I’m not going in.”

“What?”

“Someone needs to watch our stuff. I’ll stay here, so go play with the kids.”

I like the summer beach itself, but I don’t like swimming.

I have a memory of struggling in water when I was young.

It’s not that I have aquaphobia or anything, and I learned how to swim, but… It’s just bothersome.

I don’t have spare clothes either, so I’m just planning to dip my feet in later.

“You can put your phone or valuables in a coin locker.”

“I don’t have clothes and I’m fine… Oh? There are the kids coming. Go play together.”

Minhee, Eunseo, and Eunsu, who had gone to the changing room, returned.

They all tried to persuade me to play together, but I was able to refuse with the excuse of watching our belongings.

After sending the children off, I sit under the parasol drinking a beverage and watching people, and sigh… Here and there, everyone is wearing rash guards.

There weren’t many before, but still when you came to the beach there were occasionally pretty older girls in bikinis, but since rash guards came out, it seems difficult to find such girls.

Come to think of it, earlier Jinsu was wearing ordinary shorts with his top off, but all the other kids were wearing rash guards.

From the beginning, I don’t care what the kids wear.

I wonder which bastard invented such a terrible thing…

While I’m grumbling about how it’s the enemy of all men, I feel a vibration in my pants.

I take it out to check, and it’s an unregistered number.

After contemplating briefly, since I have nothing else to do anyway, I pressed the call button.

—Hello. This is Jung Man-soo, the director of the Disaster Response Department at Jeju Provincial Office. Is this Hunter Kang Shin-hyeok?

If it’s the Disaster Response Department, is this about yesterday’s incident?

“Yes, that’s right.”

—I’m calling about the Brave Citizen Award. You heard about it from the governor yesterday, right? He personally directed us to process it as quickly as possible, so I had to call you from early on the weekend. I apologize. Is it okay to talk for a moment?

“That’s fine.”

“Thank you. The governor will personally present the award at the city hall, but when would be a convenient date for you?”

“Ah, well… I don’t really want to receive a citizen award, is it difficult to decline?”

—What? Why?

Why, you ask. It’s all because of Antas.

Whew, I can’t help but sigh.

“I don’t like my name going up and down in the media, so I asked about this yesterday too. As a hunter, I was just doing what I had to do. And I’m planning to leave Jeju Island sometime next week. Is there no way to decline?”

—Well, but this is something the governor personally directed… When are you leaving Jeju Island? We’ll adjust the schedule so you can receive the award before you leave.

No, I already said I don’t want it, why are they being so persistent…

I was thinking about what to do when a good idea came to mind.

“If you absolutely must give an award, I think it should go to our student rather than me.”

—Our student?

“I work at a hunter school. Didn’t my explanation about our student get passed on yesterday?”

—It was written in the report that there was a female student with an injured leg at the scene, so she was with your party. Besides the fact that she went straight to the hospital, nothing else was mentioned.

I definitely explained it, but it seems that since I was the one who caught the monster, only my part was focused on and communicated.

“Our student had a cold and missed the evacuation broadcast while sleeping. After checking in late, she was heading to the shelter when she met some children who, like her, hadn’t heard the evacuation broadcast. As she was trying to take them to the shelter together, the monster happened to appear in front of the house where the children were and targeted them, so our student risked her life to lure the monster away to save the children.”

—Huh? Is that really true?

“Yes. I’m the one who caught the monster, but our student is the one who deserves the Brave Citizen Award for having the courage to lure the monster despite knowing it was an opponent she couldn’t face, in order to save the children.”

—If that’s what you think, teacher, can I check into this and get back to you?

“Yes. Any time as long as it’s not too late is fine. It’s Sunday, and you’re working hard from the morning.”

Being a public servant myself, I feel sorry for this person who is working on Sunday.

—This is the governor’s special directive, so what can I do? Thank you. I will contact you later.

Fortunately, it seems like I managed to get through this well, but I’m worried they might decide to give awards to both of us.

That would be troublesome, I thought, when the kids who had gone to the sea returned.

“Why are you back already instead of playing more?”

“Teacher, aren’t you bored being alone all this time?”

“Let’s play together. They’ll sell swimsuits at the snack bar.”

“They sell shorts too. I bought mine there…”

“Things bought at places like this are expensive. I spent all my money on meat yesterday, so I’m poor now.”

“Come on, that’s a lie. Then I’ll buy it for you?”

“How could I let a student buy me something? It’s fine, go play.”

“Teacher, don’t be like that, let’s play together.”

Eunseo and Eunsu grab my arms from both sides.

“What are you two doing? Your clothes are getting wet.”

“Hehe. Teacher, you shouldn’t just sit here when you’re at the beach.”

Jinsu says with a mischievous face, then suddenly bends down with Minhee and they each grab one of my legs.

Don’t tell me these kids are planning to forcibly dunk me?

HAHA… I can’t help but laugh in disbelief.

Immediately, I released my internal energy and sealed the blood points of Jinsu and Minhee.

“Jinsu, Minhee, what are you doing? Grab him quickly.”

“Suddenly, my body won’t move.”

“Mine neither.”

“Trying to dunk me? You’re 100 years too early, you little brats.”

“Did you do this, teacher? Teacher, I was just doing what Jinsu said…”

Eunsu quickly removed her hands from my arm and cut ties with them, but since Eunsu is no less of a troublemaker than Jinsu, I don’t trust her and seal her blood points too.

“Teacher! I’m really wronged here. Jinsu was the one who suggested it first!”

“I bet my wrist and my entire fortune that you agreed to it enthusiastically. And even if you didn’t, how could you sell out your friend? Eunseo, if you don’t let go of my arm soon, you’ll end up like the others, are you okay with that?”

“I don’t mind… Do you want to keep sticking with me?”

“Huh?”

Unusually, the usually timid Eunseo is still holding onto my arm and threatening me.

“We came all the way to the beach, can’t we play together?”

The other kids are normally mischievous, so I can understand their behavior, but when even someone who isn’t usually like this acts this way, I wonder if I’ve been too harsh.

“Alright, just let go.”

“Really?”

Only then does she smile and let go of my arm. Well… I was just thinking about at least dipping my feet in anyway.

“Wow, teacher! Are you playing favorites with Eunseo now?”

“BOO! Biased teachers should step down!”

“Shall I make it so you can’t speak?”

“Freedom of the pre… MMF!”

I sealed even Jinsu’s speech point so he couldn’t speak.

“Teacher, please release me since I didn’t say anything.”

“Oh my, Seong Eunsu. All your friends are being punished, and you’re abandoning them?”

“No, when did I abandon my friends?”

“I said it during class. Collective responsibility.”

“What about Eunseo?”

“Eunseo must have been forced by you guys. I’m going to the snack bar with Eunseo, so you can watch the stuff.”

I heard them grumbling about how they’re supposed to watch the stuff when they can’t move, but I ignored them and headed to the snack bar with Eunseo.

“Teacher, you’re not really going to leave them like that all day, right?”

“I’ll release them when we get back, don’t worry. I brought you separately like this because I have something to tell you.”

It doesn’t seem like it would be a problem to tell everyone when receiving an award isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not confirmed yet.

It would be troublesome if I got their hopes up by telling them, and then ended up receiving it myself.

“What? Something to tell me?”

Her face seems to have reddened a bit… What is this kid thinking?

“Well, teacher, I actually like you too, but I’m not mentally prepared yet… I’m still a student. If you suddenly do this…”

“Uh… Huh? No, what are you thinking? I got a call from the provincial office earlier because of yesterday. So I was going to tell you that you might receive the Brave Citizen Award.”

I didn’t know because she’s usually so quiet, but it seems Eunseo is also the type to jump to conclusions.

“What? No… Teacher!”

Before she was just a little red, but now she’s completely turned into a radish.

“If, if it was that, you could have just said it in front of everyone earlier. Making people confused for no reason… You’re too much.”

“They originally wanted to give it to me, so I recommended you instead of me. But it’s not confirmed yet, so I didn’t want to say it in front of everyone and then end up receiving it myself, which would be awkward.”

“Oh… I understand. In return, please pretend you didn’t hear what I said earlier.”

I was about to say how could I not hear what I’d already heard, but looking at Eunseo’s face, I felt like she might explode if I said that, so I agreed.

When we returned from the snack bar with shorts and ice cream, everyone was still unable to move, so they were sweating profusely.

“Have you all reflected on your actions?”

“We were wrong.”

“We won’t act up again.”

They all sound so dejected that I wonder if I was too harsh, but when I release them, it turns out it was an act as they bombard me with questions about how I did it and if I can use magic.

“Can we do this too if we become hunters?”

“I heard even the magic class students can’t do this.”

“It’s not magic… Kids, if you’re that curious, should we stop playing and go back to have a lesson? First, let’s run back to the pension…”

“No, sir.”

“I’m not curious at all.”

“Wow! Is that ice cream? Thank you for the food.”

They change the subject as soon as they hear the word ‘lesson’.

“Right. Don’t try to uncover others’ secrets and just eat your ice cream nicely.”

“Eunseo, why is your face so red?”

“Huh? I’m just a little hot…”

“Did you get heatstroke?”

Hmm, she seems to still be thinking about what happened earlier.

I was going to tell her not to worry about it, but saying that might make her even more self-conscious.

She might be misunderstood by the kids, should I give her some space?

“Jinsu, which way is the changing room?”

“Oh? You really bought clothes? I’ll go with you.”

I changed clothes in the changing room while eating ice cream with Jinsu, and when we returned, there were three unfamiliar men standing by our parasol.

“I said no, why do you keep insisting?”

“Hey, we’re not going to eat you or anything. The numbers match at 3:3, we’re just asking to play together.”

“I told you we have more people in our party.”

“Come on, it looks like there are only three of you, don’t be so reluctant. Let’s play together. Are you 20? 21? I’ll buy you beer later in the evening.”

“We’re minors? We don’t drink.”

“Oh? So you’re high school students? Seems like you came with friends during vacation. It’s okay. Everyone has a drink or two when they come out like this.”

“Yeah, we’re not that much older.”

Not that much older… Anyone would think they’re in their mid to late twenties. It’s ridiculous.

Are they trying to hit on my students right now?