On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 220
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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 220
The Approaching New Semester (2)
Students began returning to the Academy one by one.
Though it had only been a year, the Academy Main Gate scene had already become familiar.
Exactly one year ago, as freshmen, it was filled with excitement and novelty rather than familiarity.
“To think we’re Second Years now…”
“That means we’re Seniors now too!”
“Right! New students are coming in!”
“Let’s make sure to treat them well. Not bully them like other Seniors do.”
The Second Years who had rediscovered the excitement they thought had disappeared.
But it wasn’t just excitement they felt.
“…Those are them, right?”
“Uh… I, I think so… Yeah, today was supposed to be camp discharge day.”
“My goodness… What’s with everyone’s eyes…”
There was also a murderous aura.
Some First Years who had been discharged from the Knight Order Camp had returned to the Academy.
This vacation.
They hadn’t returned to their families and had devoted themselves solely to swordsmanship.
Thanks to that, they all looked somehow different.
“What kind of training did they receive in there…”
“Some of them seem to have grown taller too?”
“Quantus looks like he’s gotten bigger.”
“Do you see that scar on Delev’s cheek?”
It was frightening.
The atmosphere they all gave off was no joke.
It felt like looking at people who had experienced a terrible hell and emerged from it.
“They must have grown tremendously, right? I’m jealous…”
“They’ll be way ahead when they’re Second Years too…”
But the camp participants were thinking about something else entirely right now.
‘Something sweet!’
‘Something refreshing!’
‘Something maddeningly sweet and soft!’
It was snacks.
Cruelly, the Knight Order Camp provided meals but no snacks.
In other words.
They were desperately lacking sugar.
“Where should we go? Where?”
“District 15! There’s a new waffle place there that’s supposed to be amazing!”
“I’m going to District 17!”
“I’m going to District 25! They say fried bread is available there too!”
It was complete chaos.
They had held back since Knight Order Members accompanied them even during the return process to the Academy, but now that they were back, there was no need to be considerate anymore.
“What’s with them…”
Other students were dumbfounded seeing them rush out just as they had entered.
“Where are they going?”
Those who hadn’t experienced it couldn’t understand the craving of those who had.
‘It was hell.’
Celia ran faster than anyone while shuddering at those terrible memories.
Intense training!
That was all fine.
Because it meant growth.
Because they had received opportunities others couldn’t get!
But not being able to eat the sweet snacks they had daily was truly agonizing.
How much had they craved sweetness that they secretly picked flowers to taste their stems.
Their starved taste buds felt even the faint sweetness as incredibly sweet!
“Found it.”
Celia finally found dessert in District 11.
Pastries baked while brushing with honey!
This was it.
“Mister!”
“Ah geez, you startled me!”
“Give me all of these! All 20 of them!”
Celia huffed and swept up all the pastries.
And the moment she took a bite-
“It’s melting…”
She collapsed with a thud.
It was intense emotion.
The sweetness spreading gently in her mouth!
She already loved desserts, but the sweetness of dessert tasted after enduring for nearly two months!
Nom nom.
Celia forgot all about dignity, background, and family as she devoured all 20 pastries on the street in an instant.
She finally felt like she could live.
“This is it… This is what we live for…”
Around the same time.
Rumors spread on the streets that Academy students had suddenly appeared and swept up all the desserts.
Meanwhile, Quantus took a more direct approach.
“Mister! Do you have sugar?”
“Oh, I do?”
“Give me a whole sack!”
He bought sugar by the sack and started eating it straight.
Sweetness was truly terrifying.
On the other hand.
“What should I eat.”
Delev pondered carefully.
He had endured for so long.
So he had to taste the finest dessert.
‘Should I target the dessert that comes out last at a fancy restaurant.’
There would be no finer dessert than that.
Since it had come to this, it seemed perfect to whet his appetite with delicious food and finish with that.
“Good. Let’s go.”
The place Delev decided on was none other than Regades!
The Capital’s finest restaurant that Professor Elcanto had promised to take Ziel to in exchange for the next lesson!
The dessert that came out at the very end of the course was famous for its heavenly taste.
Delev walked and walked until he reached District 20, then turned direction toward Leganes.
And not long after, he discovered a strange sight.
“Huh?”
It was a destroyed inn.
He could also see the inn owner’s dejected expression.
‘Did a fight break out or something.’
It looked exactly like that to anyone who saw it.
So he was about to just pass by when a strange conversation caught his attention.
“Is this the place where that Big Sword Kelvin and the Garet mercenary group had their showdown?”
“That’s right. I heard Garet’s guys got completely destroyed.”
The Garet mercenary group was a name Delev knew.
But that story wasn’t what made Delev stop in his tracks.
“Did you hear? That Big Sword is apparently a disciple of an Academy teacher?”
“What? So that guy was actually an Academy student? With that face?”
“No, no. Not that, just a ‘disciple.’ I heard he called him master. You know, that guy Ziel Steelheart, the one famous for being handsome.”
Delev urgently asked.
“Teacher Ziel has disciples other than us?”
The two men who were talking were startled.
“Wh, who are you?”
“I’m asking if Teacher Ziel had disciples?”
“If you’re talking about that Ziel Steelheart person… that’s what they say? From what I heard the security guards talking about.”
Delev was shocked.
‘Teacher had other disciples?’
I thought it was just us!
And to think a famous western mercenary whose name he’d vaguely heard was the teacher’s disciple!
It wasn’t something Delev should worry about, but for some reason it bothered him.
“But why are you asking…?”
“Because I’m also a disciple…”
Delev answered gloomily and walked past the two men full of question marks, trudging along.
His appetite had disappeared.
‘To think Teacher had disciples other than us.’
It wasn’t something to be disappointed about, but why did his heart feel this way!
It felt like something that was theirs alone had been taken away.
In truth, Delev wanted to monopolize Ziel’s teachings for himself.
It had been that way from before.
Delev was thinking whether he should let go now!
“Hmm.”
“Huh?”
After walking for a while, something felt strange, so he looked up to find Ziel standing in front of him.
“T, Teacher Ziel?”
“The camp is over. Did you come out for an outing?”
“Th… Yes. It ended so I came to buy some sweets…”
“I see.”
Ziel looked at Delev once and nodded.
“You’ve gotten stronger than before entering.”
“You can see that?”
“Yes. You’ve grown a bit more. You seem a little taller too, and your body’s balance has improved. It looks like you trained hard.”
In fact, it was an environment where he had to grow or else.
The hellish training that continued while enduring all those things and being deprived of even freedom!
Without Ziel’s teachings, it would have been such a vicious difficulty that he would have given up and withdrawn long ago.
“What did you feel you learned the most?”
“Um… how to endure in extreme situations?”
Like waiting for withdrawal in an environment without snacks.
“Yes, you learned well. I’m looking forward to seeing how it shows when the next semester starts.”
With praise pouring in after so long, Delev couldn’t collect himself.
‘Did I really grow?’
He couldn’t really feel it yet.
As Ziel said, he’d feel it when the new semester started, but he’d only faced the same opponents for two months.
Plus, whenever his skills seemed to improve a bit, Relio would raise the difficulty even more, so there was no chance to feel it.
Anyway, that wasn’t what was important.
“Um, Teacher.”
“Speak.”
“I heard you have… disciples.”
“Disciples?”
Ziel tilted his head and pointed at Delev.
“Are you talking about you? Or Student Celia Rihart?”
“N, not us, but someone called Big Sword…”
“Ah, you mean that person who’s less inefficient than before lately.”
“…?”
“Yes, he’s my disciple. We agreed on 2,000 cel per hour, but now I’ve decided to teach him for free.”
Delev couldn’t understand
the incomprehensible story and asked for now.
“Why, why?”
“Well, because he’s become a subordinate now.”
“Ah…”
Ziel glanced behind Delev.
“He’s coming over there.”
Not far away.
There was a large man walking down a path where people had split to left and right.
Delev felt an instinctive sense of intimidation.
‘That person is… Big Sword Kelvin?’
“M, Master!”
Kelvin, spotting Ziel, quickly ran over.
A height that was a full head taller than Ziel.
Plus shoulders and build that looked even broader than Quantus overwhelmed Delev.
“H, hello.”
“…”
Kelvin froze at the unfamiliar person.
Delev misunderstood that reaction.
‘Do, does he not like me?’
Kelvin’s inner thoughts were like this.
‘Wh, who is this person I’m seeing for the first time?’
The extreme of timidity.
It was natural to react this way when a stranger spoke to him.
“Kelvin, this is my disciple Student Delev Kundel. He’s one of the students you’ll need to meet as an assistant instructor going forward, so make sure to remember his face.”
Assistant instructor?
“…”
It took quite a long time for Kelvin’s greeting to come out.
“Ni, nice to… meet you.”
This was exactly why Ziel couldn’t think of Kelvin as more than an assistant instructor.
Of course, Delev was misunderstanding without knowing the situation.
‘He doesn’t like me.’
It was understandable to misunderstand that way.
Kelvin’s appearance with his mouth shut was menacing and emanated intimidation.
“Well then, we’ll be going in. Student Delev Kundel, have a safe trip back.”
“Huh? Where are you stopping by, Teacher?”
You should know he’s returning to the Academy, so why are you saying you’re going separately.
“The Faculty Dormitory is currently under renovation. So for the time being, I’m staying temporarily at an external inn. I plan to return before the vacation ends.”
“Ah.”
“I’ll be preparing for classes and training while staying there, so if you need me, come find me at an inn called Hoggers Inn.”
Delev pondered for a moment before carefully asking.
“Um, would it be alright if I came to visit now?”
“Do you have a reason?”
“Well… I’d like to test what I learned at camp, and I want to check my skills…”
Ziel glanced at Kelvin and nodded.
“That would be a good opportunity. Understood. Follow me.”
‘A good opportunity?’
“Teaching Assistant Gilbert is currently training. Join him there. Kelvin, you join as soon as you finish memorizing the student files.”
“M-Master. Understood!”
Delev was bewildered by the mention that training was already in progress.
Following him to Hoggers Inn.
Going inside, passing through the door to the backyard, he saw one person who looked half-dead.
The person who had been sprawled out sensed their presence and lifted his gaunt face…
“Dele…v?”
It was Gilbert.
“…”
A haggard appearance.
Torn clothing.
A body drenched in sweat.
“Uh…”
Delev turned around.
Kelvin and Ziel were standing there.
“From now on, spar with Gilbert. I’ll observe and check directly from the side.”
There was no way to escape.
‘I should have just bought some sweets to eat.’
Today was the long-awaited camp discharge day.
It hadn’t even been an hour since he was discharged, but…
Delev had walked with his own feet into a hellish camp that was even worse.
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