I Become a Mafia in the Academy - Chapter 256

“Didn’t you say that the channel was doing well? You had a lot of subscribers before the vacation.”

As I sit down and ask why, Se-ah in front of me replies.

“From what I heard, the number of views has dropped a lot lately.”

I didn’t quite understand what she was talking about, so I went to the channel I had subscribed to the other day, the “Recipe Development Club” channel.

“……is it real?”

Despite having 180,000 subscribers, the latest video has less than 50,000 views.

I clicked on one of the videos and saw Isheri wearing a chef’s hat and a voice saying.

-Hello. Hello, everyone! I’m the head chef of Recipe Development Club, and I’m going to cook for you today!

The video starts with a very generic message.

I’m watching the video slowly and intently……..

-Hello!

I couldn’t concentrate on the video because I heard Jin-woo’s voice, who I didn’t know why he was watching a video next to me.

“Jin-woo.”

“Huh?”

“Put in your earphones or turn down the sound.”

“…Boss can also wear earphones.”

Unfortunately, I didn’t carry my own earphones.

Eventually, he put in his earphones and the neighborhood quieted down. After I refocused and watched the video, I realized what the problem was.

“I think it’s because of this…….”

“What? Do you think you know what it is?”

“Yeah. Kind of.”

I see all these elements, but I don’t know why this suddenly changed.

“Wow, the last video was last night, right?”

“Yeah, but I heard she’s still posting videos, how about you check it out?”

“… … That’s it for now. I have something to ask senior Lee Se-ri.”

TLN: I made a mistake. Isheri is actually Lee Se-ri.

I got the general idea of the problem.

I can’t wait to get over there to check out the elements, but I’ll have to see for myself.

“It’s been a while, everyone. So, did you guys have a fun summer vacation?”

I guess I should probably go after class.

Yes, we’re back to school and it was the start of classes.

* * *

“I hope none of you were late on the first day, right?”

The front door of the classroom opened and Ji-hyun, the teacher of class A, appeared.

With her sunglasses, tanned skin, and Hawaiian shirt, she looked like she had just returned from a vacation.

“Let’s take a headcount, shall we? One guy, two……Hmm. Guess no one died on vacation. You all missed me, didn’t you?”

Since we hadn’t seen each other for a long time, she tried to lighten the mood by bringing up light topics.

Se-ah turned her head gently and covered her mouth with her hand.

“She’s been traveling around the world for a week doing a vacation challenge, and she’s always showing off her photos to me.”

Surely someone of Ji-hyun’s caliber would have been busy the whole vacation?

As far as I remember, in the first vacation event, she didn’t even take a break to deal with events happening around the world.

As a result, I remember that she came back with a lot of dark circles.

So why on earth would…… ah!

‘Is that it?’

Maybe it has something to do with the things I did during my vacation.

Yeah, the Etna Volcano raid. There were a lot of villainous mercenaries there.

Even though I didn’t participate, I heard that the raid brought a lot of heroes to Europe and improved security.

I didn’t intend for this to happen, but……this is what happened?

“It’s the first day of school today, so it’s at the discretion of the instructor in charge…….”

This crazy teacher sent the whole class to a deserted island because she said that even the first day of school is at the discretion of the instructor.

I wasn’t the only one who thought that, and the other kids’ complexions changed drastically.

At this, Ji-hyun burst out laughing in disbelief.

“You guys are a little bored of deserted islands, right? I don’t want to go to a deserted island again because I’ve been looking at the sea all day, so…… Hmm. I got it.”

With that, she stuck her hand in the air and pulled out an object.

“We’re going to have a presentation of what you’ve accomplished over the summer vacation. And whoever comes out on top will get this.”

The object on the table was a carved wooden skull.

It’s made of wood and looks unnecessarily realistic for the subject matter. At first glance, it looked out of place.

“Instructor, what is that?”

Jin-woo asks, raising his hand first, since he couldn’t guess what it was by looking at it.

In response, Ji-hyun stroked the wooden skull and opened her mouth.

“This is something I got from Peru, and it has special powers. I’ll tell you more about it later, but you should get it first.”

I couldn’t help but be surprised.

‘You’re offering that as a prize?’

[Wooden skeleton from an ancient altar]

An item that can be used as a substitute in situations where sacrifices are required.

It was a kind of golden key artifact that could be used to fulfill the requirements of any sacrifice, no matter how horrible the conditions.

“So, who wants to come up and talk first?”

Jin-woo confidently raised his hand.

“I just came back from a really crazy experience.”

“Jin-woo Bevalt? Sure, come up and tell us about it.”

Ji-hyun smiles and beckons to Jin-woo.

Standing in front of the class, Jin-woo raised his head confidently and exclaimed.

“During my vacation, I had a fight with hundreds of fishmen armed with weapons in front of the Dragon King!!”

Jin-woo proudly puffed out his chest and waited expectantly for a response.

But,

“Shhhh!”

Ji-hyun burst out laughing from behind at the same time as Jin-woo’s exclamation.

“Hahahaha! Oh, I’m really sorry. I tried not to laugh, but really! Really! It’s so funny, really! Haha! Hahahaha!”

“No, it’s real. There are witnesses.”

Jin-woo protested in embarrassment as she began to giggle, belly laughing, but Ji-hyun’s laughter showed no signs of stopping.

“Hahaha, you’re hilarious, Jin-woo, you’re hilarious. Go back to your seat.”

“No, I haven’t even explained yet─ Instructor, I was kidnapped by a shark. Have you ever fought a trident-wielding red snapper?”

Jin-woo’s frustrated face was quite a sight to behold.

“I even did a dogeza in front of the dragon king to make sure I’d actually live……..”

“What? Dogeza?! Hahahahahaha! I’m going to die! I’m going to die!”

Ji-hyun probably knows about that incident.

Not only did her mentee Se-ah go through that incident, but Young Hoham and Ji-hyun are quite close.

Maybe she’s just laughing because it’s really funny.

“Haha…… Haha…… Now, who has a funnier story than Jin-woo Bevalt ‘1 vs 100 fishmen’? Anyone?”

No, it was definitely ‘achievement’, but somehow it turned into ‘funny’?

She asks, wiping a tear from the corner of her eye and looking back at us after sending Jin-woo away.

One by one, the other kids stood up and started to explain what happened during their vacation, but…….

‘I cleared that game that was so hard.’

‘I met a villain abroad and captured him.’

‘I helped shoot a movie.’

Clearly, Jin-woo’s story was a little weaker than what he said.

“You guys had a really boring vacation. If you keep this up, Jin-woo Bevalt will win.”

The ‘Wooden Skull of the Ancient Altar’ was a versatile item.

“Are you sure you don’t have any……Oh, right, Eugene Han. Are you going to talk too?”

Ji-hyun gave me an expectant look as I stood up.

In fact, I had a lot of stories to tell, but the problem was that I could hardly tell any of them properly.

‘Magical Rogue’ or the story of catching ‘Typhon’ in Italy, or the ‘scam’ against the Vatican.

‘It’s all so vague.’

Well, that’s the only story worth telling.

I opened my mouth slowly in front of the class.

“……I’m…”

──I became an Elder of the Aura Order during vacation.

“What!”

It was a bombshell but it didn’t matter.

This was information that would only work in my favor the more widely it was publicized.

This is the Seoul Hero Academy, a place where a Korean hero and a man with the title of ‘Aura Master’ is the instructor.

In such a place, I announce that I am an ‘Elder’ of the Aura Order?

What does that really mean?

‘It means that if you mess with me inside the Academy, you’ll now have to deal with the ‘Aura Punch’ of the entire Aura Order.

Is that all?

Absolute violence that would probably make even the most pretentious student council hesitate.

They don’t want to get into trouble with an aura school that has a strong culture of bullying.

Ah, it’s delightful to think about.

And, as expected, quite satisfying storytelling.

“Don’t… ! I’m dying… … ! Haha! On that face… … ! Ugh! Elder… … ! Hahahaha!”

Ji-hyun had gone beyond the laughing stage and was lying on the floor, shaking.

“Anyway, because of me, the eight elders became six. I became Elder ‘0.’ Well, if anyone needs help from the Aura Order, it would be quicker to contact me.”

I solidified my position by announcing to the entire class that I have this much influence and I’m sure the word will spread like wildfire through the Academy in no time.

‘No one will dare to mess with me.’

“Oh, and it’s true that Jin-woo went to catch the dragon king. It’s also true that he fought 1 to 100 with the fishmen, but I got the dragon king in the end.”

Finally, I returned to my seat and sat down, concluding the story by explaining the truth about the Dragon Palace Raid that Jin-woo had worked so hard to explain.

Ji-hyun stood up, still holding onto the table.

Her eyes were still puffy from laughing so hard.

“Ha…… really, it’s been a long time, why are you so funny? Yeah, this is our class.

She snaps her fingers as she says that. At the same time, pure white ballots appeared on the desk where we were sitting.

“Haha……. I was going to decide on my own, but there are more candidates than I could ever imagine, so I’m just going to use votes. Write down the name of the one who had the best story and pass it to the front. Go.”

In fact, it wasn’t too hard to predict the outcome of the poll.

[The entire class is in awe of you!]

──Who can handle the aftermath of not electing an Aura Order Elder.