When the camera briefly focused on Jo Eui-shin, who was sitting in the team seats, in line with Jang Nam-wook’s position, Jegal Jae-geol also turned his gaze and checked the surroundings.

Jo Eui-shin and Yoo Sang-hoon were standing next to each other in a prominent spot because they were both contestants in multiple events and were popular players.

You could see that PlayerZ, chess, and basketball representatives were around them, but one of them was missing.

‘Baekho was absent. He was also registered as a candidate for the team.’

Although the clan did not officially acknowledge or announce this to human society, there were rumors that Baekho, a clan of the mythical world, had become a beast of the divine realm around the time of the conflict between the two worlds.

Then it was unclear why he would be a representative when he could not even leave the divine realm, but common sense had already collapsed when the clan of the mythical world mixed in with the students and went to school.

Still, it seemed that the clan had prepared a countermeasure of its own, as if it had not just let it go.

In some of the events where popular players competed, there were many requests from outside to watch, but the Military Academy did not have many facilities large enough to accommodate outside spectators among the open venues.

Taking advantage of this, they decided to rent outside facilities for events that both teams had agreed on in advance.

As a result, the final round of PlayerZ and Chess was held publicly, accepting outside spectators who did not have invitations to Eun Kwang High School or the Military Academy.

Wow!

The mass games ended with the emblems of Eun Kwang High School and Player Military Academy being shaped into flags and the Eun-neung-pa.

Jang Nam-wook, dressed in a gorgeous cadet uniform with the colors of the Taegeukgi, was in the lead, but when he finished the mass games safely, his shoulders were noticeably relaxed.

Then, Yoo Sang-hoon imitated Jang Nam-wook's appearance while applauding, and Jo Ui-shin, standing next to him, smiled and clapped, which was captured on screen.

The sight of him looking like a high school student made him feel happy, but Jegal Jae-gyeol also felt complicated emotions.

After swallowing the poison that Eun-ho had given him, Jegal Jae-gyeol saw many things in a new light.

One of them was Jo Ui-shin.

‘I should have realized sooner that Ui-shin was making moves.’

Jegal Jae-gyeol realized this after seeing Jo Ui-shin’s moves during the chess representative selection.

The predictions and inferences he had made before turned into certainty the moment he saw the chess board.

The one who made a friendly move next to the powerful man was Jo Ui-shin.

There were ridiculous rumors that Jo Ui-shin, who had no support, was acting as Andain’s hanger-on because he had a weakness for the Hwangmyeong Group, but if you look closely at his relationship with the powerful man and Jo Ui-shin’s attitude toward Andain, you can immediately see that it is a false rumor.

After entering Eun Gwang High School, Jegal Jae-geol looked back at Jo Ui-shin’s actions one by one and felt something strange.

‘Why did Ui-shin join the newspaper club?’

If he had wanted to quickly recognize and respond to the existence targeting this school, it would have been better to join the student council or the leadership team, which would have given him a lot of information and authority and the right to control students and negotiate with teachers, or to give up club activities altogether and secure more free time.

Although the newspaper club did gather information, if he only needed information, there was no need for Jo Ui-shin to join.

At this point, the newspaper club’s biggest source of information was Moon Sae-ron, and Jo Ui-shin and Moon Sae-ron had a connection as vice-presidents of each class and as comrades who supported Andain and Ju Soo-hyeok.

He could have already established a connection with Moon Sae-ron through other channels and obtained information, so there was no need to invest time and remain in the newspaper club.

‘Regardless of the number, it is possible that he joined because he liked the newspaper club. But if Yisin simply chose the club activity he liked, he would have chosen Stalemate, a chess club.’

You could tell how much he loved chess by looking at Jo Yisin’s face as he faced the chessboard while feeling miserable.

Jegal Jaegeol guessed that Jo Yisin joined the newspaper club to achieve some goal.

While thinking about why someone might join the newspaper club, Jegal Jaegeol thought of Geum Chansol and Wang Chansol, who had handed in their membership applications, saying, ‘I want to do club activities with Teacher Jegal!’ and ‘Honestly, I’m not interested in the newspaper, but I’m interested in writing articles for Teacher Jegal!’

Then, Jo Yisin thought of his students who took good care of him.

When Jo Yisin went to a competition, Chansol and his group would grumble but go out to cheer him on, and his first student, Hong Gyubin, was like that.

‘It’s not like Gyubin is taking good care of him because he’s just a victim of a big incident. If you look at it that way, Hyodon got help from Gyubin because of the fight club thing, but it doesn’t seem like they’re that close to Uishin.’

In fact, the reason Hong Gyubin was so kind to Jo Uishin was because he used Jegal Jaegyeol’s photos, videos, and goods as carrots.

However, even considering that, it was true that Jegal Jaegyeol’s Geumjjok followed Jo Uishin well.

It wasn’t easy to look back on when the students became close to Jo Uishin and what happened at that time.

At that time, Jegal Jaegyeol was busy responding to the newspaper department merger attempt led by the school newspaper editorial department with the support of some of the directors, so he didn’t pay much attention to the children in his class or the newspaper department activities.

It was to the point that Geum Chansol and Wang Chansol planned to kidnap Jegal Jaegyeol at that time.

Fortunately or unfortunately, after the kidnapping incident, the cheating exam was discovered, the students in the school newspaper editorial department were expelled, the department with the missing members was closed down, and the directors and faculty members involved were dismissed, so Jegal Jae-geol had nothing to fight about.

‘The association also got involved because the ability was used to leak exam questions and to suppress the students who were trying to turn themselves in. Gyu-bin came to school often at that time. Also, the chairman was active at that time, so the directors didn’t have a chance to destroy ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) evidence, so the matter was resolved smoothly.’

Jegal Jae-geol read all the reports released by the association at that time.

At the time, when the crime was discovered, the students in the school newspaper editorial department were under a serious curse.

In other words, the faculty members who committed the crime had items that could be cursed, and they were prepared to do it to people.

If the regulation enforcement department hadn’t suppressed the scene with overwhelming force, the damage might have been greater.

The fact that the school newspaper editorial department was able to resolve the issue without much fuss or resistance was largely due to the active actions of the association and the chairman.

‘That day, I was out of school because I was kidnapped by children. If I had been there... ... .’

The faculty and staff who knew Jegal Jae-geol’s personality could easily guess that he would take students hostage.

Jegal Jae-geol would have granted any request if it was certain that the students’ safety was guaranteed.

As I thought about that, I suddenly remembered Jo Ui-shin’s eyes looking at me.

Jo Ui-shin would sometimes look at the other person with a very affectionate expression.

According to Moon Sae-ron, that’s usually the case when he sees Joo Soo-hyeok and Andain, but Jo Ui-shin sometimes did the same when he saw Jegal Jae-geol.

‘Did Eui-shin move to protect me and the newspaper club?’

If you make that assumption, everything fits.

The reason Jo Ui-shin joined the newspaper club.

The reason why Jegal Jae-geol’s disciples especially cherish Jo Ui-shin.

The reason why the beings that threatened the newspaper club disappeared at some point.

All of these were explained.

“Mr. Jegal Jae-geol, congratulations on the newspaper club.”

Jegal Jae-geol turned his head in surprise.

When he turned his head, Im Yeon-hwa, wearing bulletproof glasses, was looking this way.

Im Yeon-hwa, who graduated from the military academy, had many places to greet, so she sat down a little late, but it seemed that she had just arrived and congratulated Jegal Jae-geol with a greeting.

The timing was coincidental in terms of the flow of thought, but Jegal Jae-geol quickly realized what Im Yeon-hwa was talking about.

“Thank you. But it’s not me who should be congratulated, it’s the children.”

“The newspaper club kids kept mentioning your name while giving their acceptance speeches. I think Chan-sols are doing this and that because of that, saying they want to receive an award too.”

Eun Kwang-gwang’s newspaper club recently received a special award from the Korea Journalists Association.

Those who mobilized all the third-year members of the newspaper club to cover the events in Jeju Island in depth and exclusively wrote articles deserved awards.

In particular, there were newspaper club members who were in really dangerous situations due to drugs such as reckless driving, and their journalistic spirit of not letting go of their devices and recording them until the end deserved praise.

The special award, rather than the reporting award, was given because they were not members of the Korean Journalists Association but members of the high school newspaper club, not affiliated with an official media outlet.

‘... ... I really did nothing.’

The poison that Eun-ho had poured down settled bitterly in Jegal Jae-geol.

Jegal Jae-geol swallowed a bitter smile and recalled Im Yeon-hwa’s words.

It bothered him a little that Chan-sol was trying to make something up just because he wanted to say something about his acceptance speech.

Since graduation was coming soon, he wished they would focus on their exams and job hunting, but he decided to focus on the fact that the kids were doing something positive that deserved an award.

Rather, it was admirable that he didn’t rush to become the next class president of Jo Ui-shin’s class.

He also knew that Chan-sol was worrying about exerting influence at Eun-gwang High School, where Jegal Jae-geol was, even after graduation.

Jegal Jae-geol changed the subject.

“I heard that Hong Kyung-bok also went to greet us. How was it?”

“Yes, we finally got to shout the slogan of ‘Destroy the enemy’ after a long time. Nothing has changed.”

At first glance, it didn’t sound like a problem, but Jegal Jae-geol paid attention to the word ‘nothing has changed.’

Considering Im Yeon-hwa’s experiences in the military, saying that there was no change wasn’t such a good thing.

Im Yeon-hwa was a famous human weapon in the military, and she returned to the secular world after seeing the dark side of her.

It was almost like a curse to say that the place she left because she couldn’t bear it was still the same.

“Did they tell you to come back again?”

“I always say that. Every time the year changes, the star-shaped humans contact me. From my perspective as a civilian, it doesn’t matter whether there are stars or not. There’s something else that bothers me more......”

Lim Yeon-hwa stared at the hologram showing the process of preparing for the congratulatory flight.

The equipment moving from the hangar to the runway and the apron, and the students preparing for sortie, were shown.

Lim Yeon-hwa’s eyes were fixed on one student, and Jegal Jae-geol immediately recognized who it was.

Namgung Gyu-yeon.

He recognized her because she was the younger sister of Jegal Jae-geol’s first disciple, Hong Gyu-bin.

There was no choice.

Jegal Jae-geol felt an eerie feeling.

‘Why are you here? You were so against Gyu-bin becoming a player, and now you’re making Gyu-yeon a player soldier?’

Im Yeon-hwa glanced at Jegal Jae-geol, who was perplexed, and then said.

Im Yeon-hwa could solve most of the inconveniences in life with force, and she actually did, but that didn’t mean she lacked intelligence.

At some point, she was quick-witted and smart enough to set up a soundproof barrier and tell people about Namgung Gyu-yeon.

“I heard he’s from the Ministry of National Defense Research Institute. He’s not as strong as me, but I guess the people above are paying attention to him just like when I was a cadet. He must have some special power.”