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Therefore, we plan to provide private accommodation to Jin So-un, a student at the academy, this time.
weird.
No, something strange is happening.
If you need anything else, please feel free to let me know.
The scholar in front of me introduced himself as the personnel manager of Heukmugak.
But honestly, I didn’t really understand the things that were said after that.
“So… are you saying that if I apply to Heukmugak… there are such benefits?”
That’s right!
The bachelor clapped his hands in approval and was excited, but I wasn’t excited at all.
Because I still didn’t understand why this was happening.
“Hmm… hasn’t the application period for the dormitory already closed?”
Ah! You will receive a re-notification from the Jaein Party. To adjust personnel, two
aspiration and three
I’m telling you, we’re going to accept all the preferences as well.
“……
Why?
The Jaeindang of the Murim Alliance is not an easy department to deal with.
It is a place famous for being stricter than anyone else and making no compromises when it comes to personnel matters…
You mean they accept second and even third choices at a place like that?
“Hmm… how should I put it? Should I say it is for the smooth personnel assignments of the various departments of the Murim Alliance…?”
It seems the bachelor right in front of me finds the current situation just as difficult to understand.
It seems like he has absolutely no idea what he is saying.
Isn’t this person someone who has mainly only seen applicants lining up and pleading to join the Black Mage?
It is extremely strange that such a person has personally come to recruit dormitory students and is promoting welfare and benefits.
“Hmm… I understand. I’ll give it some thought.”
As soon as I sent out the person from Heukmugak to assess the situation in this unprecedented crisis, a maid informed me that a guest had arrived.
He says he is the personnel manager at Jeokryonggak.
“yes?”
Where did you say you came from?
As if he had already been out and about, beads of sweat formed on the forehead of the HR manager who had entered, even though the cold winter wind had not yet subsided.
“Nice to meet you. I am the HR manager at Jeokryonggak…….”
Yes, I heard the story. At Jaeingak, two
Three aspirations
“They are accepting applications again for the position.”
“Ah… by any chance, did someone come and go before?”
They came from Heukmugak and then left.
“Ha! You despicable bastard… Ah, I apologize. Anyway, the conversation will be quick then. If Student Jin So-un comes to our Red Dragon Pavilion….”
May I ask you one thing before that?
“Ah! Please tell me anything. I will gladly answer any questions you may have regarding the unique benefits of Jeokryonggak, as well as the number of vacation days and overnight passes.”
I honestly asked the HR manager at Jeokryonggak, whose face had regained its color.
“What on earth is going on?”
“Originally, don’t the Red Dragon Pavilion and the Blue Dragon Pavilion have to select candidates because they are overflowing with applicants?”
Haha. Well, uh, that’s true.
“But I don’t understand why people of the rank of HR manager are going around meeting with dormitory residents like this.”
Was it because the indoor temperature was hot?
The bachelor started sweating profusely once again.
“Hmm……! Actually, it is because Red Dragon Pavilion is sparing no expense in investing to recruit even more outstanding talent. Of course, due to the students who have applied right now, the gates are bustling……
“We do have it, but… um… how should I put it? I’d say I’d like to recruit some more elite personnel.”
“…….”
And among them, Jin So-un, a student and former student representative, is by far the top priority target for recruitment.
Saying that didn’t make the situation understandable.
That makes sense.
Don’t many members of the Baekdohoe traditionally go to Jeokryonggak?
The personnel officer began to panic as if caught off guard.
“Th-that is all a thing of the past. Discrimination based on sect has long since disappeared.”
“I-I really mean it……? Haha…….”
I don’t know why the way he wipes his sweat while speaking makes him seem so untrustworthy.
Well, I don’t think I’ll get a meaningful answer even if I ask any further.
I politely issued an order to dismiss the guest.
“Understood. I will think about it.”
“Oh! Then are you providing support?”
I told you I would think about it.
“Ah… that’s a bit of a problem…”
What do you mean by “difficult”?
Just then, the sound of someone knocking on the door was heard.
Then, the voice of a servant saying, “You must not enter,” was heard, but… … .
Soon, the door burst open and another student entered.
“this person……!”
The other scholar was glaring at the scholar of the Red Dragon Pavilion with a murderous look, as if he had witnessed the scene of a betrayal.
“You sneaky bastard…! How could you! How could you do this!”
The scholar of Jeokryonggak was taken aback by the sudden insult.
“I, I’m sorry. I couldn’t help it. You know our Grand Master’s personality, don’t you…? He said if I don’t bring Young Master Jin here, he won’t let me hold a brush ever again!”
“Even so! How can a gentleman speak with a double tongue and carelessly cast aside a promise!”
Listening to the two people’s serious argument, I thought to myself.
I don’t know what’s what, but…
I wish everyone would just go away.
“Why are you coming here and causing trouble?” #“To you too?”
At my question, Geumpyo’s face crumpled like a sheet of paper.
“Why are you so surprised? Can’t I come from Jeokryonggak?”
Ah… I guess I really couldn’t keep my facial expression in check.
I quickly got to work.
“Ah, no… that’s not it… Right! I was just so surprised that Blue Dragon Pavilion didn’t send anyone. Shouldn’t they have taken someone like you with them…?”
That’s enough. You don’t need to make excuses.
Haa… Seeing the priests’ manners growing more and more insolent day by day, I feel that I have been so magnanimous all this time…
“Anyway, Eun-ho and Dong-ryong both met with the HR manager. Oh, for Eun-ho, the head of the Public Communications Department came in person.”
“What on earth is going on?”
Eunho previously expressed his intention to apply to the Mantong Department.
I was so dumbfounded that I grabbed his pants leg and tried to stop him, but… [I… … am going to become damn cool.]
Eunho was firm in his resolve, even as he spouted incredibly stupid words.
I don’t know why he would go out of his way to enter that death trap, though.
Well, since the Mantongbu personnel would be heading to the battlefield anyway after the war began, and people were needed to fill the military roles of Baekranggak, I readily agreed.
However, since the exam was so brutal, I had decided to stay at Baekranggak for now, take the exam later, and then enter Mantongbu.
“The Department of Public Transportation said they would hold an exam to coincide with the graduation of the student dormitory students. It is clearly intended to select a few of them.”
Seeing the exam being held as if they had been waiting for it, I couldn’t understand a thing about how things were going on at all.
“Then what about the other students at the academy?”
The other students at the academy are probably meeting with their respective HR representatives right now as well.
“It has never happened before…….”
Just then, Geumpyo clapped his palms together with his fist as if remembering something.
– Hit.
“Ah! And seniors and adults from each sect have come around the dormitory and are scolding the students belonging to their respective sects.”
“why?”
“You’re saying the students at the dormitory applied as they pleased?”
“Do as you please…?”
Originally, after graduating from the academy, one is bound to go to a place where their seniors or the sect have strong influence.
Because walking the Silk Road paved by your predecessors is the fastest and surest way to get promoted.
But to think I’m getting scolded for applying on my own accord. What on earth…
“Where did you apply?”
It is Baekranggak.
I almost spat out the tea I was holding in my mouth.
What kind of nonsense is this?
Why would the academy students apply to Baekranggak? It’s a place you can only get into if you fail every other choice… … .
“Didn’t you know? This current situation is all because of the death penalty, isn’t it?”
Did I threaten the dormitory students with a knife without realizing it?
You want me to go to Baekranggak?
“what?”
Didn’t you really know? Since you insisted on Baekranggak, the other academy students followed suit and started applying to Baekranggak as well.
“No, I mean, why?!”
Because Senior Brother is leaving.
“This bastard… why has he been talking like such a beggar since earlier?”
As I raised my fist, Geumpyo flinched and stepped back slightly.
“Ahem, that’s not it. Death penalty.”
“Tell me straight before you get beaten up. What exactly happened?”
Geumpyo, who had been moving his lips, rolled his eyes as if choosing a word, and then began to speak cautiously.
“I suspect that perhaps the students, moved by the appearance of the senior they have always respected, applied to Baekranggak to be with him.”
I told you to speak clearly, but you’re talking nonsense.
“Anyway, because of that, every department is completely empty of applicants, and conversely, the Baekranggak are in a situation where they have to weed out candidates for the first time since their founding. That is why the Jaeindang has started asking for second and third choices.”
I had somewhat expected that taking a bold step would also drastically change my future, but…
I never imagined I would be competing with other academy students for an executive position at Baekranggak.
Still, I’m the top student. They wouldn’t reject me, would they?
Nah, no way…
While I was pondering the unexpected situation, Geumpyo cautiously asked.
“Brother, is there a reason you absolutely must go to Baekranggak?”
“huh?”
“To be honest, even though Red Dragon Pavilion asked me to come, I don’t have the confidence to hold out there. As my senior brother said, I think it is right to go to White Wolf Pavilion and secure a spot quickly.”
There was something like a yearning in Geumpyo’s eyes.
“But isn’t it different for you, Senior Brother? Even if you declined the Dragon Phoenix Assembly… couldn’t you easily go to the Blue Dragon Pavilion or the Red Dragon Pavilion? If it is for the children of the Taeeul Sect who will join later, Sa-ryeon and I alone can provide sufficient protection.”
“Could it be… are you planning to sacrifice yourself for us again? Are you still worried about us?”
It seemed like Geumpyo was greatly mistaken about something.
Or is there another reason why you absolutely must go in?
As he said, it doesn’t matter if I stay somewhere else and then go to Baekranggak.
As Seong Moran said, even if I wander the martial arts world with the Dragon Phoenix Society, enjoy everything there is to enjoy, and then return, I should still be able to get the position of leader of the Sojeong Squad.
but.
“I must go to Baekranggak.” If I go ‘now,’ I will be the direct superior of those Sojeongdae guys until the war.
That is why I must go.
No matter what happens, I must go ‘now’.
Because I have to go ‘now’ to have a blast working those guys to death until the war starts.
And that includes everything I suffered at the hands of those guys in my past life, all at once.
So, do not say anything more.
I absolutely, absolutely cannot miss this opportunity. #The thing I never thought would happen has finally happened.
What is this… … .”
Eunho, who was watching from the side, also let out a sigh, seemingly dumbfounded by the situation I was in.
“It seems there is someone in Baekranggak… with a good eye for people.”
I think I heard something wrong. Anyway, that’s not important right now.
this ……
Do you think this makes sense?
I showed the application I had received.
“Hmm… ultimately, doesn’t the choice depend on you?”
That’s right.
The application I sent to Baekranggak came back to me.
Along with a reply stating that they could not accept me.
“I’m the top student at Murim Academy! Being the top student gives you the right to enter wherever you want!!”
I see.
“What??? You’re saying the quota is full and you can’t accept any more? Then you should cut the guys whose grades are dropping. Why is the higher-ups cutting them? Don’t you agree?!”
That is true.
I sprang to my feet at the current absurd situation.
I, Jin So-un, cannot stand idly by in the face of this unreasonable situation.
Don’t stop me.
I won’t stop you.
huh?
I’m busy now because I have to prepare for my exams.
Is that so?
Leaving Eunho, who felt a bit distant for some reason, behind, I headed straight for Baekranggak.
Then, as soon as I arrived, I looked for the HR manager.
“What? Who?”
I have come to meet the HR manager.
We don’t have anyone like that.
You’re saying there isn’t one?
“The footnote handles everything for us. If you really want to meet, go find the footnote.”
What is this? The structure wasn’t this messed up in my past life.
Usually, it is difficult to meet the head of a department directly.
However, the warrior standing before me, presumably from Baekranggak, personally showed me the way to the office as if the head of the clan were just a neighborhood uncle.
Can I really go?
“What’s so hard about it? That bastard always joins our drinking parties, too.”
Now that I had heard all this, there was no need to delay any further.
I headed straight to the office of the Lord of Baekranggak.
As expected, no one stopped me on the way to the office, and even though it was the middle of winter, the entrance to the Baekranggak office was wide open.
And inside the office.
Yawn…….
There was a man yawning lazily with his feet up on the desk.
He spotted me and asked.
Did you bring any alcohol?
To think you would ask for alcohol from someone you just met, especially one who visited your office.
Is this person really a footnote?
“How could that be?”
If it’s not there, it’s not there. Why are you answering so cynically and acting like a jerk?
The man scratched his back vigorously, then looked inside a few empty bottles and spoke.
“Did you send this from Yanggaru? Or did you send it from Cheongbinru?”
Both are pubs famous for their affordable prices near Wuhan, so did you owe a debt there too?
It is neither of them. ……
Are you the Lord?
When I asked cautiously, a curt reply came back.
Can’t you tell just by looking?
I have absolutely no idea.
For some reason, I felt like my personality was the more annoying the more I talked, so I got straight to the point.
I am from the Murim Academy.
“Murim Academy? I really have no idea what’s going on there these days. Have they all lost their minds? They’re saying they want to join us!”
“Why you? Do you regret it? Rejecting applications is unacceptable. I just passed them all on to the Jaeindang because it was a hassle.”
Did that guy, who finds even sorting applications a hassle, really go out of his way to single out my application and send it back?
A fire rises in my heart at a companion whose reason is unknown.
I didn’t come because of that.
“then?”
You returned my application, so I have come to resubmit it.
Sending them back? ……
Are you that Black Flame Dragon?
“jin……
It is Soun.
The man yawned widely and nodded.
“Right, the Black Path Divine Black Flame Dragon.”
The man tilted the bottle, his face turning bright as if he had finally found it.
I’m sorry, but I can’t accept it.
If it were just grades, that would be enough…
Grades aren’t the problem.
The man who interrupted me roughly wiped the alcohol from the corner of his mouth.
And then.
“you.”
He stares at me with red eyes.
What is this? I don’t think the next leader of the Baekrang Pavilion in my memory was this messed up…
“Ugh…! This is so annoying. There are too many people trying to take you away.”
He waved his hand dismissively as if he had no further business with it.
“I absolutely hate anything troublesome. So go away. I’m not taking you in.”… …
Is this guy crazy?
