Chapter 924 – Side Story – Teacher’s Grace (2)

Time has passed since those memories of the distant past, and now.

About five years have passed since I graduated from Hunter Training High School, and I am now standing in front of the old high school health room with a slightly swollen heart.

‘… It’s been a while since I’ve seen you again, so I’m a little excited.’

It’s not like you were transferred to another school or anything like that.

First, I confirmed on the school website that I was still working. However, on such websites, the reflected results are usually delayed by 1 to 2 years.

‘I didn’t even contact you in advance because I wanted to surprise you with a surprise visit.’

… If you have gone somewhere else, you can contact me and come visit me from then on.

With that in mind, I carefully knocked on the door of the health room, followed the voice coming from inside, opened the door, and went inside.

-Knock, knock.

“Who is this? Come in first.”

-Drur.

As I followed the familiar voice, opened the sliding door, and entered, there was a health teacher sitting on a chair in the health room wearing familiar clothes that I had seen in my school days. As soon as I saw the face I missed after so many years, various emotions welled up in my heart.

“Uh? Seong Tae-kyung?”

“… “Do you remember?”

“If my memory is bad enough to not remember you, I should stop working as a teacher.”

That is true. Probably not many students from Hunter Training High School in Gangdong-gu were as impressed by her as I was.

Especially recently, I have been frequently appearing in the media for various reasons, so there was no way my health teacher, who had a close relationship with me in many ways, would not remember me.

“Hey, it’s been a while. “Has it been two years since I graduated?”

“It’s been about two years since my supplementary graduation, and about four years since my official graduation.”

“A really long time has passed. “I’m just asking in case, but you’re not here because you’re hurt today, are you?”

“It can’t be. And now I know how to use recovery spells, so it’s okay.”

“You said you are a multiple awakener, but you also have recovery awakening abilities? “Holy power is a power in a slightly different direction from energy or magic power, so it wouldn’t be compatible, right?”

“If you find it hard to believe, may I show you? Here, I cut my palm slightly with a knife like this…”

-Tub.

“… No, I will believe it, so don’t do it.”

As a joke, I pretended to take the box cutter that was on the desk in my palm, but like a health teacher, he immediately grabbed my wrist and stopped me.

“I’m kidding. “Would you still cut yourself and see blood in front of the teacher?”

“If you’re joking, say it with a joking expression. “If you say something like that with an expressionless expression, anyone will get cold feet.”

“And actually, if you’re a teacher, it doesn’t really matter whether you believe me or not.”

“Hmm, why? “Now that I’ve graduated, I guess I’m no longer a stranger, right?”

“It can’t be. It’s just that you are the teacher I respect the most in my heart, past and present.”

“… She said she became a guild leader, and her mouth became very good.”

Still, seeing as she smiled at what I said, it seemed like it was something she liked quite a bit by her standards.

“Oh, this is a gift. “Teacher’s Day is coming soon, so it was a bit awkward to come empty-handed.”

“What is it, red ginseng? Anyway, as you’ve gotten older, your gift-giving sense has become a bit old. Anyway, red ginseng comes from all over the place, so I’m not very impressed…”

“That’s wild ginseng. 2 million won for four roots.”

“… The fact that your gift sense has grown older also means that you have learned how to spend money. “I was already tired these days, but it worked out well.”

With those words, the health teacher quickly hid the gift-wrapped cloth under the desk. She was afraid that someone might ask her to take it back, so she quickly corrected her words and put them away.

I thought she might feel a little uncomfortable because it was an expensive gift, but I’m glad she liked it.

“Okay. “There must be a purpose for coming to see you with such an expensive item, right?”

“Yes?”

“Shall I guess? Hmm, Seong Tae-kyung, considering that you created a guild not long ago, it is obvious that it is a concern that a new guild leader would have to worry about. “Are you worried because your affiliated hunters aren’t being recruited well?”

“…”

“I stopped by because I was thinking about working at a hunter training high school. Also, I happen to be a public health teacher, so I tend to get involved with students a lot, so I’ll be especially good at picking out kids who are so passionate and resourceful that they often get hurt. What do you think, am I right?”

“You are completely wrong.”

“Yes, yes. I thought so… Ugh?”

“I came not with any particular purpose, but because I just wanted to see Teacher Yang Mi-yeon.”

“…”

From the beginning, I never thought about visiting the school to ask my high school teacher for an inconvenient favor.

It’s just that the help of the health teacher played a huge role in helping me successfully graduate from Hunter Training High School for three years and I came here to express my gratitude.

“A gift is just a gift. “I’m not expecting anything in return, but it’s a gift I give to the teacher out of gratitude.”

“… “Kuhm, really?”

“If it weren’t for Teacher Yang Mi-yeon at that time, I might have been bullied more severely among the animal hunter girls, and in the end, I might have chosen to transfer schools or drop out because I felt skeptical about my purpose of becoming a hunter.

Thanks to the knowledge you gave me at that time, I was able to graduate safely, and now I am a well-established hunter and have risen to the level of guild leader of a guild, so I have to come say thank you at least once.”

“… I guess I only told you a few things. Ah, anyway, it’s a good thing that you became the guild leader.”

Teacher Yang Mi-yeon smiled shyly, as if she had never thought that I had come to express my genuine gratitude.

Maybe it’s because she’s still on active duty using her recovery awakening abilities, but even after several years, her beautiful smile still makes my heart flutter.

“So, how is the guild running these days?”

“I think we still have to wait and see. It is still operated by a few elites without any public recruitment. Among the members, there are a few people you might know.”

“Of course Kang Hye-eun, who is your friend, will be in.”

“… Well, that’s right. And other than Hye-eun, Han Min-ah and her younger sisters Han Jin-ah and Han Seon-ah are now in our guild.”

“It’s amazing that Kang Hye-eun, who woke up so early, is still active. And Seong Tae-kyung, you seem to have had some bad memories with the animal world awakeners. How did you select only the animal world awakeners and recruit three?”

“It just so happened that it happened like that.”

It’s something that can’t be helped. First, in Minah’s case, her first experience was an unavoidable situation for many reasons.

And Jin-ah and Sun-ah were children who naturally became closer as they got closer to Min-ah.

“Have you completely overcome the trauma of your school days, then?”

“Actually, it wasn’t particularly traumatic at that time. I was just getting impatient because I wasn’t able to become a hunter, and I didn’t like the girls who kept bothering me. It wouldn’t be difficult to just touch your body and relieve the child from heat, but once you start doing that, you have to do it for all the students. “I didn’t like it, so I avoided it at all costs.”

“… By the time she said it wasn’t difficult to give it once… No, no. It’s a bit weird to nag a kid who has already graduated. Forget what just happened.”

“If you nag me, teacher, I will listen to you. “I don’t know if I’ll put it into practice.”

“If you can’t speak at all. Still, seeing as Han Min-ah and the twins are all in your guild, I guess they are all dating after graduation?”

“… Yeah, whatever. That’s right.”

I didn’t bother to tell you that the love interest of all three of them was me, and that I regularly relieved them of their heat.

Even though Yang Mi-yeon is my teacher, I don’t think there is a need to tell her all my personal information. Even as a teacher, it’s probably information she doesn’t really want to hear.

“You know that those kids all liked you during their school days, right? Still, they were good kids. I knew that it would be more difficult to endure if you were an animal awakened, so I deliberately stayed away from you during my school days. “I’m afraid they might do strange things to you because they are in heat.”

“I know that too. “Because I know that, we are still close friends like this.”

“Anyway, it’s good to see that it’s going so well. To be honest, you were the most anxious among the graduates of our school.”

“Because he’s an aspiring hunter who’s obsessed with being a hunter even though he’s not even awakened?”

“Of course. After you graduated, for a while, whenever I saw news about a male hunter dying on the news, I wondered if it was about you, so I looked for the article. Looking at you now, I don’t think that’s the case.”

“… Well, of course. “I don’t point my finger at places that might be dangerous.”

… In fact, while she was a hunter, she almost died two or three times.

It’s been a while since we last met, and she didn’t think there was any need to worry about this by telling the teacher.