Genius Swordsman In Reverse Game

I checked the articles that had gone up on my phone as I walked down the long corridor.

"Wow, this... It turned out better than I originally thought..."

The reaction was quite different from the articles that had exploded in the original work.

The sudden explosion of Gates across South Korea.

The sudden intrusion of Demons during the mid-term evaluation.

Two huge incidents had occurred at the same time, so the public opinion and media at this time should have been in chaos.

In the mudslinging between those who praised the Emperor for her heroic decision to prioritize rescuing civilians, and those who blamed her for neglecting the students and putting them in danger.

In any case, the death of the students was still a death, so the reputation of Velvet Academy, which had been solidifying, was expected to be greatly shaken.

But now.

None of the students had died, and thanks to Sophia's video, the Demons had also become a part of the mid-term evaluation.

There were occasional comments saying that it was too harsh a test for the young students, but most of the comments praised Velvet Hunter Academy for showing its class by including the Demons as an element of the mid-term evaluation.

"It's probably Se-hee's work."

I had only planned to the extent that the Academy would not be shaken, but Se-hee's intervention had somehow raised the Academy's status even higher.

And she had meticulously taken care of my reputation as the leader of Utopia.

I realized anew that it had been a godsend to include Se-hee in the party in the first place.

As I scrolled through the articles and comments, I soon arrived at my destination.

A tall door that made me tilt my head to look up.

It was probably too high a doorknob for the owner of this room.

Well, she'd just use psychokinesis to open it anyway.

I chuckled and knocked on the door.

Knock knock knock-

Then.

Kiiiiik-

The heavy door split open on both sides.

"...…Jin Yuha."

Chairman Lina sat at the desk across from the door, her expression complex as she glared at me with her fingers intertwined.

"Yes."

"Is this what you were aiming for?"

"What do you mean?"

As I tilted my head in confusion, the Chairman shuddered and jumped up from her seat, pointing her finger at me.

"The articles!!! Did you do all this!?"

"Ah, that. Hmm- Thank you, but you don't have to give me a separate thank you."

"Who, who would! Who would ask me to do this──!!"

Lina, who had originally maintained a serious atmosphere, suddenly shouted like a spoiled Jammin who had her toy taken away.

"Chairman Lina."

I interrupted Lina's words and called her in a serious tone.

"I believe that the Academy should not be shaken."

"...…Huh? The Academy, shouldn't be shaken?"

"Yes, I know that you want to show the students and the public the truth, but Velvet Hunter Academy is humanity's hope."

"...…

"When hope begins to waver, people start to feel anxious. And the enemies won't just sit back and watch the cracks."

"Ha, but...!"

"I truly respect you, Chairman. But separate from that, you're human too, and you can make mistakes."

"...…!"

Thud thud-

I nodded and slowly walked towards Lina.

Lina glared at me.

"But there are some things that are not permitted at your level."

She bit her lip.

"Are you telling me to lie and pretend that I did something I didn't do!?"

"Yes, do it."

"...…Huh?"

I shrugged my shoulders as I stood right in front of her.

"How much have you sacrificed and worked for the world all this time, and who would blame you for taking a little credit from a first-year student? Especially when that first-year student is willing to allow it."

But Lina still looked unconvinced.

"And the reason you founded this Academy in the first place... Wasn't it to reduce that burden from the start?"

At that moment, Lina's purple eyes widened.

"I'll share that burden with you."

"...."

"So just hold on until then."

Hmm.

'I think I went a bit too far with that one.'

As I spoke, feeling the same frustration I felt watching the crumbling Lina in the game, it somehow turned into a first-year student lecturing the high and mighty Emperor.

I scratched my cheek, feeling awkward, and the Mage looked at me with a bewildered expression before letting out a hollow laugh.

"Hah. What the hell are you talking about, a first-year student who's only been here for a year..."

But the heavy burden that had been on her face from the beginning seemed to have eased a little.

"That's right."

I smiled awkwardly and affirmed her words.

"...."

Lina returned to her usual Jammin face, staring blankly at me.

And then she blurted out.

"What do you want?"

"...."

Lina turned away and said in a surly voice.

"Huh, what do you want! Of course, I did this because you wanted it!!! Hurry up and say what you want! Get out of my sight right now!!!"

At Lina's words, I pulled up the corners of my lips.

'You want me to say what I want? And when you give me this much, I can't help myself...'

...

A heavy silence fell over the Chairman's office.

Lina, sitting in a large chair, tapped her lips with her fingers, deep in thought.

-That burden, I'll share it with you.

Suddenly, Jin Yuha's words popped into her head.

Haa-

The more I thought about it, the more absurd it seemed.

A first-year student, no matter how disrespectfully he looked at her, had just declared that he would share her burden.

No matter how blunt he was, he couldn't be unaware of what those words meant.

But his audacity had honestly brought her a measure of comfort, and she couldn't deny it.

After all, the reason she founded the Academy.

It was exactly what Jin Yuha had said.

'How did he know that...'

When those words came out of his mouth, how surprised was she.

The true intention that she had never spoken aloud.

In fact, while the reason Lina founded Velvet Hunter Academy was to get Korea back on its feet in the face of the Gate crisis, her true intention was to train a Hunter to replace herself and step down from her current position.

A first-year male student declaring that he would do it himself.

'Quota system, huh...'

To be honest, since founding the Academy, she had been in this position for a long time, but this was the first time she had encountered a student like him.

Everyone else looked at her with admiration and reverence, or with fear, as if they were looking at a monster.

-I truly respect you, Chairman. But separate from that, you're human too, and you can make mistakes.

The sense that he saw her as a fellow human was so unfamiliar.

Pshh-

Lina got up from her seat and walked towards the window.

Through the large window, she could see the back of the black-haired boy's head as he walked away.

'He's still disrespectful.'

-Then, what do I want? Hmm, then, a healer named Sophia has just joined our party. Can you give her the extra-dimensional tattoo as well?

-Again.

-Again? Hmm, can you increase the size of the extra-dimensional tattoos for all the members of my party? It's fine as it is, but it's a bit too small...

-Again.

-Then, something our Utopia Party needs...

-Not Utopia! You! Tell me what you personally want!

-Huh? Hmm? Me, me? Hmm, let me think... Ah! I got it! Then, can you... find me a cheap and good place to live...?

She had to ask for what he wanted three times.

And she had to ask directly.

Finally, the boy had spoken of what he personally needed.

The first two things were actually not for Jin Yuha, but for his party members.

If she hadn't asked directly, he probably would have just rattled off a list of things his party needed.

'What the hell, I asked what he needed because I was curios, and all he wanted was a place to live...'

When asked why he needed a place to live when there were dormitories, Jin Yuha hesitated, quite unlike his previous demands.

-That, that's... I canceled my room contract when I came here... So it's summer vacation from today, and I don't have a place to sleep. Well, I could stay in a hotel or something, but I thought it would be nice to have a place to stay...

She was the Emperor.

She was one the most influent hunter in the country, if not the world.

Invitations poured in from countries every day.

In other words, if Jin Yuha wanted, he could have power, money, or rare artifacts bestowed upon him.

He had been consistently bold in asking for what he needed for his companions, but what he wanted for himself was just a place to live...

He was truly an absurd boy.

The black back of his head was now almost out of sight.

Lina's lips curled up.

She stared at his retreating back for a while, then took out a communication magic tool and pressed the switch.

Click-

"Yeah, it's been a while since we last spoke. Hmm, I have a request. I want to transfer ownership of one of my buildings, the best one I have..."