Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy - Chapter 175



174 – Guild Internship_5

“Just a moment. Lee Seong-hyeon, please listen to my story for a moment─”

“If you come to our guild, we will marry you to the five most precious jewels that the guild master cherishes. The youngest girl is only five years old, but in 15 more years…”

“We’ll just set up a harem for you. Just give us the word. Black, yellow, or red are all possible!!!”

It was hard to do anything because the guild scouts were saying ridiculous things, such as imagining strange things when they heard that there were many women around me, and now they were even trying to come into my dorm room.

Of course, there were teleportation and skills when the time came, and the immediate goal was the student council president election, so it wasn’t a problem.

It was always a risk to have someone following me around.

“Please call all guild scouts.”

So I asked Baek Seol-ha.

If this incident occurred because I was not sure, then this was a declaration of my intention to make it certain.

“You asked me to call you… What are you going to do?”

“I will make a decision. I appreciate your interest, but I am afraid that if this continues, it will affect not only my studies but also the other cadets’ studies. So, may I ask you a favor?”

To begin with, this kind of thing is happening within the academy.

Are you saying that Snow White is leisurely without even directing traffic?

As if I had decided that it was better for me to be in this situation.

‘Hmm.’

No, I don’t think so.

If that’s true…

“I see… It wouldn’t be good to interfere with the other students’ studies.”

“thank you.”

That’s why he used other cadets as an excuse.

After a moment of hesitation, Snow White nodded.

So, three days later, a grand guild meeting was held.

**

It was expected that Saeul Abi or Shinwha might give a special invitation to Lee Seong-hyeon.

Not only Seo Ji-ah, but also Kim Ho-sik of Fighting Dad and Yoo Chae-ah of Shinhwa saw his performance that day, so if they hadn’t been blind, they would have easily noticed that he might have a special ability.

‘If it’s only showing up in your early 20s, it’s probably not that great of a talent.’

Since it was not in the investigation or history, it meant that it was not detected in the national talent test conducted on children.

What this means is that the innate ability was weak from birth, and it was only gaining strength as the body grew.

‘I’ve heard that there are cases like that occasionally, but this is the first time I’ve seen it like this.’

Surely it is not possible for someone to have acquired a supernatural ability later in life.

That would be the case, since if you took the elixir of awakening, you would know, and awakening was a miracle given to warriors who had overcome countless near-death experiences.

The odds of something like that happening to an ordinary cadet are at best less than 0.00001%.

No, there was no chance of awakening for a cadet who was enjoying his normal academy life rather than being on a battlefield where life and death were at stake.

Therefore, Lee Seong-hyeon was certain to be an unknown, later ability detector.

Anyway, the unknown’s abilities were rarely strong.

This was because it was a common belief in the world that strong abilities would produce strong powers from the beginning, and it was a fact proven by many cases.

‘Although leaps and awakenings are different, they are still abilities.’

Still, a talent is a talent.

If you keep at it, you will find at least one useful corner somewhere, that is the power.

If a mana ability user loses a limb, their fighting power will usually drop drastically and they will become useless, but as long as the ability user is alive, they can still use their ability.

‘The bass isn’t bad either.’

Lee Seong-hyeon was a good-looking guy, and despite being a junior, he was a top prospect who won second place in the individual event at a martial arts competition.

Didn’t they say that the character there wasn’t bad either?

Considering those things, he was worthy of a special invitation.

So it makes sense why Saul’s father and Shinhwa gave him a special invitation.

But Labyrinth or Hwarang probably wouldn’t have seen it. I was just wondering why they had included a special invitation.

On the surface, he may have won second place in the individual event at the martial arts tournament and performed well in the LA incident, but when you really look at it, that’s about all he does.

Getting second place in a martial arts competition in the first year was impressive, but it wasn’t winning, and that kind of thing happens occasionally.

It is a well-known fact that the story of the LA incident was used as a signboard to make a mask.

Surely it is not true that he used his wit to lure the villains and fight them, as the interview said.

‘Not Ines of any place.’

Even the now dead special villain Ines won the championship by beating up all the fourth-year students in her first year, and as if that wasn’t enough, she also won the pairs competition on her own.

And that’s not all.

During her school days, she caught dozens of A-class villains and took down hundreds of villain organizations.

There was a time when he went to another academy alone and beat up everyone.

It wasn’t a famous academy, but it was still a medium-sized academy.

‘That’s when I realized what an S-class seed was.’

I often thought of Ines, who was still fighting hundreds to one.

The wound I received back then still hurt so much that it would often hurt when it rained.

There was no way to hear now why he had gone crazy and committed terrorism.

To that extent, it was worth admitting.

Anyway, I know that he was involved in several other incidents, but the only thing he was active in at the time was relief work.

No matter how much I think about it, if you don’t know that he has a special ability, it would have been better to deal with him later with a regular invitation rather than a special invitation.

Unlike Lotus, who just entered the top 5 guilds and have 3 full tickets, or Shinhwa and Ssaul Abi, who also have plenty of tickets, Hwarang and Labyrinth are having their last of their 3 tickets.

If you make a mistake here, you’ll just get kicked out and have to suck your thumb for five years.

Once you use a ticket, it disappears even if it doesn’t work out.

Well then, there were only a few things to think about.

‘Did any information leak out?’

And among them, information was the most powerful.

‘Is it Hosik oppa? Or Chae-ah?’

In the lotus flower, only Seo Ji-ah and Seo Yeon-hwa knew about this matter.

No one else knows.

If so, then the place it escaped from was not a lotus flower.

There’s no way that the guild leader, Seo Yeon-hwa, would have leaked the information.

‘Be careful.’

Originally, this story wouldn’t have become a hot topic to this extent.

Of course, since three out of the five major guilds made contact, there must have been quite a bit of noise.

That happens often, so it would have died down soon.

‘The problem is that if all five places show interest at once, people will think it’s a lottery.’

The lotus flower has not contributed to such an act.

It was just annoying.

“We have arrived.”

While I was thinking about this and that, quite some time passed.

The sheet that had been rippling slightly stopped.

“Thank you, then please wait for just 3 hours.”

After giving orders to the driver, Seo Ji-ah opened the door and got out.

Then what you see is a huge building.

It was the main building of Laplace Academy.

It was really annoying that they told me to go to the top five guilds like this and called all the other guilds.

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But what can we do?

The special invitation had already been written, and if I didn’t move, the ticket would go to waste.

‘I’ll have to scold him later.’

There’s no way I could turn down a lotus flower.

“Then, shall we go and negotiate?”

Seo Ji-ah smiled confidently.

**

Three days passed quickly.

Now the battlefield.

I stood in front of the main auditorium of Laplace Academy’s main building where the grand guild meeting was being held.

Then a loud commotion was heard from inside the door.

That meant that quite a few people had gathered.

It’s not impossible that one or two people would make noise, but it’s not like that would happen without being crazy.

“You seem very nervous.”

Anyway, instead of going in right away, I stood in front of the door and felt a slight tickle in my ear.

When I turned my head, Baek Seol-ha was smiling slightly.

“Because this is the first time something like this has happened.”

“I see. But don’t worry. I’ll help you. Seonghyeon, just tell me what you think.”

Even though I’m saying that, I remember that you had no intention of coming forward until I said so.

‘It’s a funny play.’

Both Snow White and I were full of drama.

“thank you.”

“Don’t worry. It’s about time. Should we go now?”

At the same time, Snow White quietly opened the door.

Then light poured in from inside the door, and hundreds of eyes were fixed on it.

‘How are you?’

Among them, I saw some that I had planted in advance.

Snow White and I calmly headed towards the desks placed on the podium located on the north side of the auditorium, and we arrived shortly thereafter and sat down.

“Thank you for gathering here.”

And after taking a moment to catch his breath, he began to open his mouth while maintaining eye contact.

“I’m so surprised that you’re taking such interest in me, despite my shortcomings.”

But I had no intention of continuing the conversation.

This was just a show for my own purposes.

That’s why.

“I can’t just sit there and do nothing, so I’ll keep it simple.”

To put it very simply:

“I will do an internship at that guild if you promise to grant me one condition.”

Yeah, just the internship.

I have no intention of going in.

Because everything will be over before then.

Still, they took the internship as a sign that they would soon be joining the guild, and since that was also the social norm, these words were enough.

“One thing?”

“Conditions…”

“Cadet Lee Seong-hyeon, what are the conditions?”

The area under the stage started to get noisy.

“It’s simple. Just let me do whatever I want within the guild. For example, if I want to leave the guild, I can leave without saying anything.”

It was an absurd condition.