Chapter 120: Yu Household (2) (1/2)
“Would you like to order, miss?”
In a cafe at Lair, a green-haired female cadet was ordering drinks.
“I would like a strawberry smoothie. What about you, ahjussi?”
“I’m fine.”
“And one green grape ade as well please.”
“…”
While they were waiting for the two drinks, people stole glances at them. The bright sunlight of the dazzling sun entered through the window and made the cadet’s hair shine like polished emerald.
Resting her chin on her hand, she gently leaned her head onto the window. Her face – her eyes and her nose were so beautiful that it made people wonder whether they would be able to see something similar ever again.
As always, people either blankly stared at her face or stole glances.
“…”
One of the onlooking cadets had his ear pinched,
“Ah, ahh, ahhhkk…!”
By his girlfriend.
“Wh, why…?”
“What are you looking at.”
“Uh? I, it’s nothing. It’s just…”
“Whatever. Don’t say it. I thought your eyes were on fire.”
His girlfriend turned back to the coffee after letting go of his ear.
“Honey. You’re misunderstanding something. I wasn’t looking at her.”
“I see.”
“I’m serious.”
“Of course.”
“…Are you angry?”
“No, I’m not.”
She was 100% angry, thought the cadet as he sweated. He then whispered with a softer voice.
“No, I seriously wasn’t looking at Yu Bom. Did you not hear that yet?”
“…”
“The thing about how Yu Bom’s guardian smacked the director of the sentries.”
“…Nn?”
Only then did the shadow disappear faintly from his girlfriend’s expression.
Lair was a military academy, and the cadets were all reserve soldiers that had been sent from various countries for being talented superhumans. Due to that, almost every cadet was interested in the topic of the ‘strong’, regardless of age and gender.
“Apparently the sentry director was bashed up by that guardian over there near the education department yesterday. You see that person? He looks super scary.”
“…Does that make sense? Leo is in the top 50’s worldwide.”
“He’s 53rd. It’s not fake. My friend’s actually seen it and there’s quite a lot of guys that saw it as well. It should be pretty well-known by now.”
Strife between cadets sometimes correlated to conflicts between guardians, and feuds between households.
There were tons of current and previous rankers amongst the guardians. Whenever small conflicts escalated beyond control, their fights tended to leave immense aftereffects.
Whenever things escalated, the sentries always oppressed them with brute force. They crushed the arms of those who held swords and drove the heads of the violent to the ground. Some pointed fingers at them saying that they were too over the top, but that was the regulation and no-one complained about their existence itself.
“The sentries are all about physical power,” said the ‘Final Wall’, Sillardo Leo, as a joke during an interview. It had become a meme among the cadets.
And yet a giant like that had been bashed up by that man? Was it true? Or was it a gossip created by her boyfriend in hopes of explaining the lack of control he had over his eyes?
After glaring at her boyfriend from the side of her eyes, the cadet opened a messenger app with her watch and entered a group chat.
She was just in time for a conversation that was about the mentioned topic.
– Guys, look at this.
It was an image of a road in the middle of a city where the ground had crumbled. Around the crater were yellow police-lines and mages were using earth elemental magic to fill up the hole.
– They’re fixing it lol.
– Is that human shape in the middle Sillardo?
– Ye loool
– Ah, kekek, I was wondering what that was lol.
At the very centre of the crater was a hole shaped like a human with their arms and legs wide-open. It was the trace of a gigantic human taller than 3 metres.
– The Director was alive even after that?
– Lmao yeah.
– That’s insane lol.
– Use him as a cannon ball if we run out of them.
– Lololololol
– Cannon ball (Physical Power)
– Kekekek
– Lololololol
– ‘Final Cannon Ball’
– Ahkkkekekek crazy.
– Lolololol wtf
“…”
Blankly, the cadet stared at the group chat before raising her head back up. That famous ‘Yu Bom’ was handing a drink with a straw inside over to her guardian.
“Why? Do you not like green grapes? Green grape ades here are very nice.”
“I don’t like sweet stuff.”
“Still, just try it. Come on.”
Now that she looked around, the cadet realised that others were also throwing glances at the two of them. There were always such gazes wherever Yu Bom was, but there were more eyes staring at the guardian today.
“How is it?”
“…It’s not bad.”
“See? I knew it.”
With a hazy gaze and a slow body, the man slurped the drink and took Yu Bom out of the cafe. The cadet stared at their backs vacantly before asking her boyfriend.
“That person punched the director of the sentries, right.”
“Nn, yeah.”
“Then how is he just walking around like that…?”
*
“That’s also what I want to ask.”
Guardians of Level 4 society cadets had gathered.
After finishing the routine for the day, the guardians gathered at one place and chugged shots of alcohol. There were always various incidents and happenings at Lair, but the story that had spread today was about a slightly bigger incident than usual.
“10 hours of campus community service and 500 thousand dollars of fine, was it?”
“It was.”
“The community service thing is just for show… it’s always around 30 hours even if it’s just a fight between cadets. At least the fine is pretty high though.”
“No. That’s also close to nothing considering all the damage done to property.”
“Seriously. There’s not a single sign of equity…”
“That’s just how Lair is, I guess. Well, they are the big boss in this place after all.”
“But even Erfan and the Yong household wouldn’t be favoured like this…”
“Right? The Association wouldn’t stand still unless it’s the Brzenk Family or something.”
It was possible for the Brzenk Family, because they were the direct family members of the official Rank 1 worldwide. In other words, it was impossible unless one was at their level.
“Then what in the world is the Yu household? Mister Huangbo, do you know something about them?”
The guardian from the Huangbo household downed a shot of alcohol.
Yu household. Yu household…
Nothing rang a bell. Although he had a connection with most of the well-known households and guilds, it was the first time hearing such a name.
It was also hard to think of them as a secret organisation under the Korean government. The two cadets apart from Yu Yeorum didn’t even appear like soldiers.
As they became more and more intoxicated, the topic of their conversation gradually changed. They began putting subjective imaginations into the equation as they tried to backtrack the unidentified household.
“…Maybe it’s an organisation that’s being grown by the Association?”