Chapter 281

Chapter 281

The first place prize disappeared immediately after my performance, so I thought it was over without the other kids even tracking her down, but......Fortunately, the class didn't stop. In fact, it became more active.

This is because Ji-hyun used her abilities to move around the academy.

Thanks to this, the number of children who took pictures of Ji-hyun was less than 7, and they worked hard to learn tracking skills.

Did Instructor Bear expect this?

The students were spread out all over the place, and chasing after Ji-hyun, who was fleeing, was a natural way to learn tracking.

"Is Jin-woo still there?"

"Yeah, I don't think he's taken a picture yet."

There was still a little time left until lunch, so those who completed the mission first were gathered in the club room.

I came to the club room first, and Se-ah and I are taking care of club business.

-Is she in there?

A familiar voice called out from outside.

"Whoa, who could that be at this hour? That doesn't sound like one of our club members."

Is there anyone who isn't a member of Familia who would come at this hour?

I questioned myself but Se-ah is the first to stand up and go to open the door.

"Nae~ get out, huh, Vice President!”

“Hello, junior Se-Ah? Did you have a good vacation?”

When the door opened and I turned my head at the clearly audible voice, I saw Julie stroking Se-ah's head.

“...Senior Julie?”

"Ah, junior Eugene. You're here after all? I was on my way to your class to meet you, but junior Jin-woo I met on the way told me you'd be here."

"You met Jin-woo?"

"Yes. I don't know why, but he was running around the hallway so hard, and I saved him from getting a penalty point from the teacher.”

I wonder what the hell he's been up to, getting caught by the teacher.......

"And what are you doing here so early?"

"Oh, by the way. I heard some interesting information this time, so I came to tell you."

"Interesting information?"

Julie nodded at my words.

"Let's go inside, Se-ah, I'm going to talk to the senior for a while."

We went into my office.

I brewed the tea I always prepare for such occasions and set it in front of Julie.

"Mmm. Thank you."

She took a whiff of the tea and smiled.

"After all, you have the best tea in the academy."

"Well, I use expensive tea leaves, and the student council uses some pretty expensive stuff too, don't they?"

"The English tea brought by the president isn't bad, but......I prefer green tea."

After quenching her thirst with the tea, she looked at me and told me the information.

"The president has recently been severely disciplined by his family. Are you aware?"

Ray Pendragon was disciplined?

Several reasons immediately raced through my head.

The first was that someone had robbed him of a piece of Excalibur.

The second was that the Pendragon family mansion in Korea had been ransacked by an unknown thief.

Well, each one was a reason for discipline. That's a lot of serious stuff in less than half a year........

Huh? Wait a minute. I did all of these things, didn't I?

"Yeah, I think I heard that."

"Well, that makes it easier to talk. So, he’s been falling down the family pecking order lately, and he's trying to get something to make up for it."

"What kind of......."

"The Green Belt. It's an artifact that was once lost by the Pendragon."

"The Green Belt? Who has it?"

Item ‘Green Belt'.

Once belonging to Sir Gawain, the greatest knight of all time, it was a mythical artifact that was said to amplify the user's power according to the height of the sun.

It's not supposed to appear at this point in the game, but it's already appeared?

"From the way you're talking, it sounds like you're familiar with the artifact. I don't know the details, but it’s a prize in some kind of contest."

"A prize for a......contest?"

"Apparently there's a very famous board game, and the organizers of the contest are giving it away as a prize to the winner."

"Really? Have fun~"

I walk past the display cases on either side and reach the innermost door.

-Tsk. Ding.

I knocked lightly and heard a voice from inside.

-What are you doing? Why are you doing something you don't usually do?

"It's Eugene Han. Senior."

-Eh? Eugene? Come in! Come in!

When I heard his answer, I walked in and saw him writing something down.

His name tag on his chest read ‘Jegal Hyunho'.

This man was the other partner I was going to take to the ‘Bush War Land'.

"Mr. Senior. Are you busy?"

"Huh? No, no, no. I'm just finishing up some work.”

After closing the notebook he'd been working so hard on, he wiped the sweat from his brow with a handkerchief and walked over to me.

"Eugene, how long has it been since you've been in my office?"

"I haven't been here since vacation, so I guess you could say it's been a while. By the way, I think the club looks a lot better than the last time I was here."

I already knew that the board game club had made a lot of money from their homebrew games, but I hadn't expected it to be this good.

"Right? It's still not enough. Look at how expensive limited edition board games are these days. No matter how much money I make, it's just pouring water on the poison."

"Well, at least you look a lot better than you used to."

"Hahaha! That's true, but really, what's Eugene doing here?"

He must have been unnerved by my sudden arrival because he got straight to the point.

I look like a debtor in front of a collector.

"It's not really a big reason, but I'm going to compete in a board game tournament, and I was hoping you could come with me."

"Huh? A tournament?"

Was it too out of the blue to come out of my mouth? He looks at me, eyes narrowed as if he didn't expect that.

"A board game tournament? What the hell kind of tournament is this that you want me to go with you?"

"Bush War Land. I want you to join me in a competition for that game as a ‘soldier' and a ‘general'."

"What?"

He shakes his head, looking even more shocked than he did just now.

"Wait, Bush War Land, you want to team up with me in a competition for that game?"

"Yes."

"Seriously? I don't know, I think that's a little bit......off."

He threw his arms up in the air and put a hand on my shoulder.

"I'm afraid that's going to be a bit difficult, Eugene, you know, and that game is──"

"Well, of course I'm not asking you to do this for free, I'll compensate you."

"Compensation? Are you talking about money or something? You know, we're not that needy anymore, Eugene and I can't let a little money break my club’s beliefs.”

"I'll give you this, not money."

Before he could refuse I pulled out my secret card from my pocket and showed it to him.

"Now, wait a minute. That's......."

"That's right."

Yes, this is one of my secret ‘cards'.

"It's a blue-eyed dragon hologram gold."

An ultra-rare card, said to have only 30 copies in the world and of those, only four are said to be holographic gold!

To the uninitiated, it's just a piece of paper, but to those in the know, it's different.

The rarity is incredible, and the stats to match.

It was a fantasy card that no matter how much money you wanted to spend, you couldn't get it because there were no sales.

Meh, it was a card I found in a drawer while cleaning out the other day.......I never thought I'd use it here.

"Gee, seriously, you're really going to give that to me? Do you know what kind of card it is?"

"Yes. I know more about the value of this card than anyone else, which is why I thought I should bring it to honor you."

How dare he compare the card in my hand to the Green Belt?

"If you can team up with me and win the ‘Bush War Land', I'll give this card to you."

Jegal Hyunho was essential to my plan.

"Huh, if junior thinks that much of me......I can't help it. I've received too much grace so far to ignore your difficulties, huh!"

Jegal Hyunho will be my teammate because he was the founder of the ‘Bush War Land'.