Chapter 2- Something’s wrong with this development (2)
She already knows about me.
A bold and clear voice.
Relaxed eyes and corners of her mouth. Her confidence reaches the sky.
Back there, Yu Hee-won’s father was watching us.
Plus all those broadcasting station cameras.
That part is a bit burdensome.
But without showing any sign of it, I answered with a faint smile.
“Yes, I am Professor Gyo.”
“Basic Defense Studies, right?”
“That’s right. You seem to know about me.”
“It’s the academy I’ll be attending. Isn’t this level of background research natural?”
Yu Hee-won showed a smile that didn’t match her age.
“I know you’ve never been an academic advisor before. Is there a reason?”
“I judged that I wasn’t yet capable enough to take on such an important responsibility.”
“Hmm…”
Yu Hee-won looked me up and down.
Like a child choosing a toy they like in a toy store.
“Could it be that you haven’t met a student worth teaching yet? This year might be different.”
It was an extremely direct way of speaking.
She showed her intention to choose me as her advisor first, seemingly not even considering the possibility of rejection.
Well, from my perspective, this is actually good.
Connecting with the heroine is a perfectly natural process for me to escape this world.
“Of course, I’ll teach you anytime if that’s what you want.”
“If you do, my parents would be pleased as well.”
I glanced at the Management Bureau Advisory Committee Chairman over her shoulder.
So becoming her advisor means I can receive various personal benefits, is that it?
Yes, that must be it.
But… I’ve encountered the heroine, yet no quest or anything similar has appeared.
Is there a prerequisite task like raising intimacy?
Or perhaps after gaining advisor qualification?
Hmm… I don’t know.
Having said what she wanted to say, Yu Hee-won gave me a smile and turned away without delay.
Instead of following her, the broadcast station reporters approached me.
Of course they’d be curious about someone who was approached first by the only daughter of such a huge figure as the Management Bureau Advisory Committee Chairman.
The reporters crowded around me, holding out their microphones and asking.
“Excuse me, are you an academy professor?”
“Yes.”
“What is your relationship with Yu Hee-won?”
“I just met her today.”
“We saw you talking earlier, what did you discuss?”
“Nothing special.”
“Come on, please tell us something!”
The reporters bombarded me with even more intense questions.
Most were about my relationship with Yu Hee-won, and some were about me.
“I can’t answer any more questions. Academy professors cannot give interviews to the press without prior approval.”
I’d already been in the cold wind too long, and the incoming new students were nearly finished arriving.
I turned away from the reporters and walked toward the auditorium.
“Was there perhaps some behind-the-scenes dealing regarding the basic evaluation?”
At those words, Professor Jin Se-young stepped forward, emanating a terrifying Aura.
Professor Jin Se-young was a former flight specialist hero who boasted superior physical abilities accustomed to gravity several to dozens of times stronger.
The ordinary reporters couldn’t dare approach any closer and retreated hesitantly at the pressure she emanated.
“Listen here! I told you! No unauthorized interviews!”
‘Aura’ – a force that only heroes can utilize.
Professor Jin Se-young’s aura was so powerful that even I felt overwhelmed.
The force was so ominous that the pavement where the professor stood was slowly sinking.
“Don’t make trouble and everyone go to the auditorium!”
As the reporters scattered in panic, Professor Jin approached my side.
“Are you alright, Professor Gyo?”
“I’m fine. Thank you.”
“No need for thanks. But…”
Professor Jin clicked her tongue while looking at the new students entering the auditorium.
“Yu Hee-won, that kid. She really seems to have no manners.”
“Indeed.”
“Weren’t you upset?”
“Not particularly.”
I truly wasn’t upset.
Because I confirmed that the original story’s plot of me becoming the Heroine’s advisory professor was proceeding as intended.
It’s obviously more stable and advantageous for me to move according to what I already know about the future.
I wonder what I should do with Yu Hee-won as my advisory student.
It’s probably going to be a typical development like ‘Make Yu Hee-won into an S-rank’ or something.
And once I achieve the goal, I can return to my original world.
In most novels, those who possess others’ bodies just stay in that world and get a happy ending.
I have absolutely no intention of doing that.
Because my body is currently in an extremely weak state.
An unknown lung disease with no identifiable cause despite visiting various hospitals.
How happy could a happy ending be with a body like this?
It’s better to just return to my original healthy self.
By the way… even the possession timing is off.
It seems our rookie author is clumsy even at causing possessions…
I smirked, but unfortunately made eye contact with Professor Jin.
Thinking I was smiling at her, Professor Jin gave a bright wink.
* * * *
The auditorium was packed with new students, current students, and professors, leaving no room to step.
Fortunately, professors had seats behind the podium, otherwise we might have been crushed to death by the students.
Sitting in my chair, I looked around at the new students in the center of the auditorium.
Yu Hee-won must have been watching me since earlier, as our eyes met repeatedly whenever I shifted my gaze toward her.
Soon the dean came up to the podium and our academy’s entrance ceremony commenced.
The dean’s typical bland greeting ended, and the administrative director recited the academy’s history and such.
I wasn’t particularly interested since I already knew all this information from the original work.
Soon it was time to introduce the professors from the teaching faculty who would soon be teaching the new students.
The professors seated behind the podium came forward one by one to give brief greetings as they were called.
Recovery and regeneration and healing, super strength, information acquisition and operations, electronic warfare, basic military studies, international conventions and administration bureau current laws, various equipment and facility operation, etc.
Enormous subjects that students must learn not only to fight villains but to maintain world peace and tranquility.
And
“Next is Professor Gyo Su-hyeon from Basic Defense Studies.”
As I slowly stood up and walked forward, the new students began murmuring.
Murmurs like that person from the main gate, handsome, looks sick, didn’t know he was a professor.
“Hello. I am Professor Gyo Su-hyeon, teaching Basic Defense Studies.”
I slightly frowned as the broadcasting station cameras in the back of the new students all flashed at once.
Then I faintly heard what seemed to be comments that ‘he looks even more handsome when he frowns’.
“Basic Defense Studies probably feels quite unfamiliar to you. You can think of it as the technique of creating barriers that block physical attacks. However, since everyone here will be able to block even bullets with their bare bodies by graduation, it’s not a particularly useful skill.”
This is true. This is exactly why my specialty, Basic Defense Studies, became non-mainstream.
“So after graduation, you’ll probably refer to me more as ‘there was that gloomy grey professor at the academy. What was his name again?’ Rather than by my name. Of course, this is assuming you remember me until then.”
Laughter erupted from the audience at my words.
“However, even though I teach an unpopular subject, I absolutely won’t neglect… cough,… sorry. Won’t neglect the classes.”
Of course I start coughing in this situation.
I cleared my throat and opened my mouth again.
“If ever you find yourselves backed into a corner with nowhere else to retreat… cough! When Basic Defense Studies becomes the final… cough!”
After coughing several more times, I continued speaking.
“The final… fortress, I will devote all my effort to… cough, cough!”
Dizzy from the intense coughing, I staggered and grabbed the podium.
People began murmuring at my sudden behavior and the broadcasting station cameras frantically pressed their shutters.
I tried to straighten up again but…
“Cough, cough!”
This won’t work at all.
Covering my mouth, I shook my head at the host.
Flustered by the sudden situation, the host hurriedly grabbed the microphone.
“N-next is Professor Jin Se-young from Flight and Guidance Studies…!”
I need to go back to the lab right now and lie down on the sofa.
However, far from going to the research building, as soon as I came out behind the auditorium, I leaned against the wall and coughed repeatedly.
Strange… It’s never been this bad before…
Professor Jin Se-young quickly got up, passed by me, and went up to the platform.
“Hello everyone! I’m Jin Se-young who will make you fly like bees and sting like butterflies!”
It should fly like butterflies and sting like bees, Professor Jin…
But I don’t have the leisure to correct that.
I stumbled down the podium, passing by the concerned professors.
There’s a back door next to the podium that leads to the back of the auditorium, and if I go through there, I can go straight to the research building.
What is this even?
After going through the trouble of transmigrating me, are they trying to kill me like this?
As I was barely catching my breath after another violent fit of coughing, suddenly I heard a voice.
“Um… Are you okay…?”
When I painfully lifted my head, a girl with black hair and glasses was looking at me, clearly intimidated.
It’s that girl who bumped into me at the main entrance earlier.
Why is she here and not in the auditorium when she’s a freshman?
“This… I haven’t used it…”
The girl hesitantly held out a handkerchief with teddy bear patterns.
“Thank you… cough!”
The moment our fingertips slightly touched as I received the handkerchief.
The chest pain that felt like it was about to tear apart until just now started to rapidly subside.
What is this…?
As I froze at this unbelievable situation, the girl who touched my hand stepped back in surprise as if burned.
“W-well then, take care…!”
I blankly stared at the girl’s retreating back while my hand holding the handkerchief remained suspended in the air.
At that moment, letters began to appear frantically in the air.
[Make Han Min-ha into S-rank]
What… is this…?
I stood there blankly, staring at the letters filling my vision.
Han Min-ha…? S-rank…?
Who is Han Min-ha? Could it be?
“Wait, student!”
But the girl had already gone too far to hear my voice.
As the girl disappeared from view, the letters in the air slowly vanished as well.
Soon after coming to my senses, I quickly assessed the situation.
The brief physical contact when receiving the handkerchief from that freshman.
After that, the chest pain and coughing rapidly subsided, and simultaneously the letters appeared.
The first thing to do is confirm who this ‘Han Min-ha’ is.
Although it’s highly likely that girl is Han Min-ha, I still need to be certain.
This is the first quest that has appeared after months of possession.
I can’t act on mere assumptions.
I stuffed the handkerchief the girl gave me into my pocket and hurried toward the research building.
