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[Chapter 091] [A Promise That Can't Be Kept (2)]

Han Seo-hyun was a person whose mere presence exuded looks and an atmosphere that drew the attention of those around her.

Her appearance, which until a few years ago was simply evaluated as pretty by people, transformed anew as she entered puberty.

Not just a pretty evaluation.

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"...Hey, did you see?"

"...I think I need to look one more time. Let's go back that way and look again."

"She doesn't seem to be an academy student, where did she come from?"

"It's a shame. If she were a Player, she could have become a new symbol for the public... She might have even been able to change the image of Players that the public has..."

"I think she could become a new symbol for the public whether they make her a celebrity from a Player background or just a regular celebrity..."

"Should I close my eyes and ask for her number?"

"Give it up. A girl like that wouldn't be interested in a guy like you." "But isn't her aura no joke?"

Ordinary people who came to see the academy.

Students looking around the cultural festival.

Clans trying to make contact with promising talents.

They were all whispering among themselves looking at Han Seo-hyun standing in front of the gun-mandu booth.

But no one approached her.

An atmosphere as if detached from somewhere.

She who exuded an atmosphere like someone who came down from the moon seemed to be distancing herself from beings other than herself.

As if approaching would make one's own existence feel insignificant.

In short, she was someone who unconsciously made people deny themselves.

"What brings you here?" "Didn't you tell me to come play sometime when I had time? Don't you remember?"

But she was speaking looking only at Eun-ha.

As if the people watching weren't even in her eyes.

Moreover, Eun-ha was also exchanging words with her so naturally, so it was natural for people to focus on the conversation between the two.

Even though the conversation between the two was nothing special.

"If you said it as an empty promise..."

"...I just thought you wouldn't be able to come because someone living somewhere said they're always busy."

"...It wasn't a lie?"

"When have you ever seen me lie?"

"This is a lie."

Eun-ha forgot about grilling gun-mandu and had a conversation with her after a long time.

Although they had exchanged recent news via messages or calls, talking face to face made him feel newly glad.

Moreover, when they met last time, she was with her fiancé.

The two didn't exchange many words then.

So it felt like meeting after a long time for both of them.

"Want to eat a gun-mandu?"

"...Okay, just give me one."

Eun-ha suddenly recalled the memory of when he first met her.

The year-end party of a Sirius Group affiliate.

At that time, she followed him around exploring various foods.

Looking back, from that time.

The two enjoyed delicious food.

"But are you really not busy? Didn't you have school classes today?" "...There was an external field trip today. It ended early, and the academy happened to be nearby so I came to look around."

"What's the occasion." "...You told me to come."

"You came at a good time. But did you come alone without bodyguards? Is it okay for you to wander around like this?"

Eun-ha pointed at the people gathered around with his spatula.

She who received the gun-mandu finally glanced around.

Then she answered indifferently.

"Of course not. With people gathered from various circles... I can't wander around alone, can I?"

"Then what are you going to do?"

"..."

Eun-ha who asked reflexively.

A blank stare came back.

Yet when he just kept staring blankly, she sighed and opened her mouth.

"...Time." "Huh?"

"When do you have time? You said before. That you'd show me around the academy."

"Uh... did I?" "Do that now."

What's up with this noona today?

Eun-ha closed his mouth.

Strangely, Han Seo-hyun seemed especially spontaneous today.

The her he knew wasn't someone who suddenly came like this.

Whatever.

But he decided not to think deeply about it.

Moreover, she was the direct descendant of Sirius Group that he was sponsored by.

It was right to do as she wished.

"Hey, president."

"Uh, uh-uh, what?"

"I'm taking a break from now. Is that okay?"

Orders were backed up.

More people had gathered than before because of Han Seo-hyun.

Nevertheless, he took off the apron he was wearing.

Even though the Class 6 president who reflexively caught the apron he threw had a flustered face.

"Anyway, the people who were taken to the hospital returned from yesterday. I just happened to keep helping somehow."

"T-That's true... But the booth won't run without you, Eun-ha..."

"I don't know, the president can figure that out."

"E-Eun-ha! Wait...!"

The president tried to grab Eun-ha with the spirit of self-sacrifice.

Eun-ha pushed aside the president trying to stop him and jumped onto the griddle in one breath.

Screams rang out from among the people.

But the situation people were worried about didn't happen.

Because he safely landed outside the booth after jumping over the hot griddle.

"Let's go, quickly." "You startled me."

"What's the big deal about this? Let's go. We need to get away from here before they chase after us."

Eun-ha held out his hand.

She who was about to scold him placed her hand on his saying it couldn't be helped.

When Eun-ha pulled her hand, Seo-hyun took a step.

Strangely, the crowd parted left and right wherever the two walked.

Conversely, the president chasing after Eun-ha was swept up by the crowd that became waves again and couldn't chase after the two.

The two who turned their backs burst into light laughter seeing that.

"Don't I smell like gun-mandu now?"

"A lot? I should have walked a bit apart."

"...When did I say to walk apart. There are a lot of people so stay close."

Seo-hyun put strength into the hand she was holding.

Eun-ha who nodded pulled her hand vigorously.

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Class 1-5 was a cosplay cafe.

And it was cosplay where male students wore maid outfits and female students wore butler outfits.

It might sound absurd to hear, but people who visited the cosplay cafe were delighted by the lively scene.

Above all, it was being done by students trying to become Players, so it could feel friendly to ordinary people.

As a result, Class 1-5's booth was in full swing.

"Ha-yang! Take milk tea to table 2!"

"Wet wipes here!"

"Hey! Stop trying to pull down your skirt. Do you know how uncool that looks!"

"...Air keeps passing between my legs so I can't take it anymore! What is this! It feels weird! It's so cold!" "Endure it! You need to know how to endure for the sake of beauty even if it's cold! Hey!? Don't rub your face there! It'll be a big problem if your makeup smears!"

The Class 1-5 students were busy.

Especially on the third day.

All the students were taking orders and carrying food without even being able to rest.

Even Ha-yang who was originally planning to look around the festival was busy serving without time to change clothes.

"Your butler's snack set is ready, miss!"

Ha-yang who had her hair tied up with a pink ribbon unlike usual showed a customer service smile.

Her job was to act with a butler's heart to make customers feel like they had become real masters until the end.

She who had read related books since childhood was better at acting as a butler than anyone among the Class 5 students.

Of course, her popularity was high too.

As a result, she was working like this without even being able to rest properly.

─Huh?

Then Ha-yang who was taking orders from new customers turned her gaze to the window.

Although they quickly blended into the crowd, she saw clearly.

The sight of Eun-ha and Seo-hyun passing by.

...So she's planning to tell him today.

Ha-yang intuitively realized.

So she couldn't hide the bitter emotion seeing Han Seo-hyun who disappeared while smiling.

"Aren't you going to take our order here?"

"...I apologize, miss. I was momentarily entranced because you are so beautiful." "...Oh my."

Ha-yang who lived in the same world as Han Seo-hyun and belonged to Han Seo-hyun's faction was the first to hear the information.

Of course, from her.

So Ha-yang didn't try to tell Eun-ha about that information.

Surely if she were Han Seo-hyun, she would want to tell him directly.

So she waited for her to tell Eun-ha.

Eun-ha and Seo-hyun unni...

I hope they don't have too hard a time.

There was nothing she could do.

That was the same for Seo-hyun and Eun-ha.

So Ha-yang just prayed the two wouldn't have a hard time.

"Welcome back, miss."

Ha-yang moved busily once again.

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"...What? Say that again!"

"W-Well, that is..."

Class 1-6 president.

He who was grilling gun-mandu in place of Eun-ha asked again to the student who came back from the central headquarters.

He must have misheard.

He should have misheard.

There were problems from the first day of the cultural festival, but there shouldn't be problems on the third day too.

At least he wanted to safely finish his remaining term.

But the president had to hear words he didn't want to hear.

"Some of the kids participating in the division competition lost consciousness now..."

"No, why? I even asked them earlier if they were managing their condition well..." "Well... It seems they poked around a few cultural festival booths saying they would play a bit."

Several students who were planning to participate in the division competition fainted and collapsed.

It was a maddening situation for the president.

Especially after hearing the reason they collapsed.

"─Kim Min-ji did it again!?"

"I-It seems so..."

The president was dumbfounded.

Today the president gave convenience to students participating in the division competition to spend time freely, telling them to manage their condition well.

So the excited students went around enjoying the cultural festival.

Then they visited Class 1-5's cosplay cafe that was becoming a hot topic among ordinary people.

"Does Kim Min-ji have some kind of grudge against us... Why on earth is she doing this to me!?"

Class 1-5 was so busy that students couldn't rest.

So Min-ji stepped up to help the students.

Secretly in the kitchen, without the Class 1-5 students knowing.

And the result was predictable.

Unfortunately, the Class 6 students were unlucky and fainted after eating the food Min-ji made.

At this point, suspicions even arose that Kim Min-ji planned this to make Class 5 win first place in the division competition.

What is it about food Kim Min-ji makes!

Why does everyone who eats it faint!

Is the food she makes really so delicious that people faint?

The president could only sigh at the rumors spreading around the school after the Class 6 students were taken away.

The water was already spilled.

It couldn't be picked up again.

"The booth is busy now but... The division competition is most important. So which divisions are short on people?"

"Fortunately, I can go for the Guardian division. It seems the kids working over there can go for the Dealer and Sniper divisions too..."

To think they have to suffer from manpower shortage again even though the students cooking gun-mandu returned.

The president wanted to cry but tried to solve this problem somehow while holding back tears.

"But there's one more problem."

"What kind of problem?" "Who should we send for the Hunter division?"

At those words, the president fell into thought.

He looked around the gun-mandu booth.

As luck would have it, most of the students currently grilling gun-mandu were aspiring Hunters.

They couldn't run the gun-mandu booth if they sent those kids out.

But if they sent out a student who wasn't even aspiring to be a Hunter, they would be booed by people.

"We should send someone with decent skills..."

There was no one with decent skills.

The president was troubled.

There was no suitable person to send.

"...Ah...!"

Then one person came to mind.

Someone who doesn't aspire to be a Hunter but easily beats students aspiring to be Hunters.

"Remember the 1st semester closing party?"

"That? I remember. Eun-ha won overwhelmingly there... Don't tell me...?"

Eun-ha fit the conditions.

He had the skills of a Hunter while aspiring to be a Dealer.

If Eun-ha participated in the division competition, victory in the Hunter division was already a sure thing.

"But will Eun-ha want to do it? He finds that kind of thing super annoying."

"...Eun-ha will do it. If you think about why Eun-ha has been grilling gun-mandu until now..."

"...That's true."

The president lifted his glasses that were reflecting light so his eyes couldn't be seen.

The cause of this incident was ultimately Kim Min-ji.

So they're reaching out to Eun-ha, Kim Min-ji's friend, for help.

"─Eun-ha! Hurry and find Noh Eun-ha! We don't have much time!"

The president instructed the students participating in the division competition in place of the fainted students to find Eun-ha.

And so, the third day of the cultural festival was passing by in full swing.

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