Taking admission for nothing (226)
Lesson 45. Preparing for the Founding Festival – 1
Monday lectures at Union Academy are generally exhausted.
The reason is simple.
This is because most of the students have not completely relieved the fatigue caused by the tower exploration conducted until Sunday.
Therefore, Mondays are mainly organized around liberal arts classes that do not require vigorous movement of the body or head, and full-fledged lectures are conducted from Tuesday to Thursday.
“That’s how I thought I’d blow up the morning lecture.”
Ban Yu-won muttered incredulously and looked around.
In the auditorium of the academy’s main building, where the entrance ceremony was held, all students from the first to fifth years of the academy are gathered.
It’s Monday morning now.
There was a sense of incongruity just because it was not a classroom where normally professors in theory classes would radiate sleep waves to students who are dozing off the fatigue accumulated over the weekend.
“Because there is a good excuse called the founding festival.”
Mi-ra, who sat close to Ban Yu-won, spoke calmly.
Yes, the most disturbing thing is the presence of her sitting next to him… no, the position he is now.
Now, Ban Yu-won was sitting in the seat prepared on the podium with the student council executives, not the 1st grade class 11.
“It is an unusual sight that professors are all excluded from a position like this…”
“It is all the more so because it is a position like this. It’s a place where you have to respect the authority of the student council. It would be troublesome if Professor Jeong showed up and steals his attention.”
“So is he.”
It was the student council, not the professors, that hosted the all-school student assembly.
Usually, it is a pity that I get hit and run because I have to somehow make the academy work normally with little authority, but I was able to create this kind of place thanks to the student council being given a lot of authority when it comes to the union founding ceremony.
“Whoops.”
Mira suddenly burst into laughter as she followed the back of the student council president, Shati, who was standing in front of the podium preparing for her presentation.
“It’s a special class and the condescending things are looking up at me now, so I don’t feel bad.”
“Take care of your expression. You look so evil now.”
Maybe it’s because of her noble status, but Mira occasionally makes remarks that express her admiration for the special class.
It’s just that he was just lucky enough to be born in a world with a high mana density, but sometimes it feels like he’s pitiful because he doesn’t know the subject and says he’s going crazy.
However, if you look at it that way, I wonder if Mi-ra, who was born as a fairy princess of the A-1 dimension, was just lucky, but when she started arguing about it, Ban Yu-won himself was in no position to speak, so he decided to just keep his mouth shut.
‘If you look at it closely, it’s like all the new students here are fighting over gold spoons. Even Light and Ruchel, who are from the lower dimension, are royalty. I don’t know about Dokgo-yeon, but it seems to have a greater origin than the two…’
Is the only hope that spoons don’t absolutely work to determine the superiority and inferiority of the students gathered like that?
And the proof was Shati, standing proudly on the podium right now.
“To all students, I am Shati, the student council president. First of all, thank you for gathering here.”
Shati bows her head slightly with a polite introduction.
Come to think of it, Ban Yu-won turned his eyes to the seat of honor where the special class of each grade was located.
I was roughly expecting it, but unlike the 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders who were filling the seats, most of the 4th and 5th grade seats were vacant.
No matter how much Shati is a person who has influence even in the special class, those who are in a higher grade than her express their intention not to acknowledge her like that.
I don’t know if there are people who don’t have morning lectures, but those who do have them will be treated as absent, but since it’s a special class, they don’t even care about one or two absences.
“Then, from now on, I will announce the announcement of the student council executives for the second semester and the upcoming Union Founding Festival on the 37th. First of all, the vice president.”
Ban Yu-won was a little amazed.
It is not the original student council president, and it is not possible to bring all the students together in one place to the extent that another executive has been replaced.
However, to create a meeting to introduce the executives while gathering all the students under the good pretext of the union founding festival, Shati’s kang was not common either.
However, the fact that it is established is probably due to Aire, who was newly selected as vice president this time.
“….”
Again and again.
Aire, wearing sky blue transparent shoes resembling her eyes, headed to the podium at Shati’s call.
It was the same as usual, but the eyes of the whole school were focused on her appearance as she just walked forward.
“Your charisma is already approaching the president.”
“If it wasn’t for the special class, it would have been a really perfect lineup.”
Director Graham nodded his head in satisfaction, and Rika, director of external activities, licked her lips.
But Vegan Delawalker, the accountant, seemed to have a different idea.
“It could be even better because it’s a special class. You can’t just bite each other with the special class that comes out uncooperatively forever, can you?”
“Umm, I hope the current students can create a slightly different atmosphere around the freshmen, even if it’s too much.”
Rika nodded in agreement with Vegan’s words.
“under.”
Mira, who heard that, snorted and gently grabbed Banyuwon’s sleeve, not paying attention to what others were seeing.
“That is already happening. I don’t know?”
“Graham Mira is starting to brag about her boyfriend again. You do something.”
“Everyone please be quiet.”
While the executives were talking, Aire, who took the microphone, briefly introduced herself.
It was so simple that it made me panic, so I wondered if this was okay, but as soon as she finished her words, the applause from the first graders was so loud that it soon got better.
“Then next, let me introduce you to the head of the planning department, whom everyone should already know.”
But what was even more surprising was that after Aire’s turn was over, Shati, who took the microphone again, said that, and the entire venue was engulfed in terrifying cheers.
“Huh… did you see it?”
And for some reason, Mira, who was not the one who received the baptism of cheers, put on a proud expression while showing her best form.
The moment when the power of Rebellion, which boasts overwhelming recognition not only on the Union Net but also on the intranet within the Union Academy, was reaffirmed.
Rika, who was also the only senior among the executives, slightly slouched her shoulders.
“Originally, I was the mascot of the student council…”
“Forget those Hako (Hako Box = Shack) channels with less than 100 subscribers.”
“Don’t say hako!”
Ban Yu-won stepped forward from his seat, admiring that words of demeaning were everywhere while competing for the number of subscribers.
As he gets closer to the podium, Ban Yu-won recognizes the fact that the Rebellion channel has been a huge success.
‘But… what can I say? I don’t know if it’s outside the academy, but I think it’s actually a little strange that the students inside the academy are so crazy about me.’
The first thing he wanted was to build a comfortable space inside the academy where they wouldn’t be teased just because they were from a lower dimension.
It was to increase awareness through the Rebellion Channel and naturally melt their existence into the academy… The Rebellion Channel did not stop there, but made them popular stars representing the school.
Not only outside the academy, but even the students inside it were willing to accept it.
“As expected, the head of the planning department is special.”
“It’s special.”
“You conquered 30 rooms at once just with this exploration, right? Kyahaha, because that was all a chain room. I was overwhelmed, so what about other people?”
Standing on the podium like him, Shati said while holding out the microphone.
“Perhaps everyone notices a little bit. The fact that the head of the planning department is conducting an exploration that may change the history of the academy.”
To put it bluntly, it could be described as a loss of competitiveness, Shati added, but more than that, they are more like cheering for someone who is climbing an unattainable mountain.
“Kyaha, you realize it when you’re in the third grade. You can’t reach the top just by climbing the tower blindly like this.”
The vicious point of the tower is that you cannot guarantee that you can reach the top just because you climb high.
And the students who climbed the tower with a passion for the tower at first come to realize the fact sooner or later.
“But the seniors are still working hard to climb the tower.”
“I am not saying that my passion for the tower has cooled. It’s just that if I can’t reach the top of the tower, I’ll climb as high as I can, honestly, that’s how I feel right now.”
However, the semi-yuwon is different.
Well, now that the Rebellion party that has barely reached 160 rooms has conquered a room large enough to contain several chain rooms and a trick room empire… What will
students who have already abandoned their lingering attachment to the top of the tower think when they see it?
It is not strange to expect that maybe they will really reach the top of the tower.
“Even if the number of enemies increased by that much.”
Ban Yu-Won and Shati exchanged wry smiles as they glanced at the members of the special class who were still glaring at him amidst the endless cheering.
“Come on, Director of Planning.”
Shati tapped him on the shoulder.
“Turn over both the Tower and the Academy.”
Ban Yu-won did not respond to that and stood on the podium.
After hearing Shati’s words, I finally understood the way Union Academy students looked at him.
He was confident that he would be able to climb to the top of the Tower of Babel from the beginning, so he was able to take the miraculous things that happen inside the tower for granted.
The expectation that if he was not simply competitive, he might finally do what they couldn’t do.
That was the heart of the academy students looking at him now.
After all, the students here are the victims who got caught up in a false myth because their ancestors made rice cakes with pictures like the Tower of Babel.
At first, the academy professors as well as the students were treated like thieves, but when I changed my perspective, I felt sorry for them too.
‘I think I’ve become quite relaxed now. As a landlord, I’ll have to show some tolerance.’
He gripped the microphone he had received from Shati and opened his mouth with a grin.
The academy’s main building was greeted with cheers that seemed to collapse.
For some reason, Ayre seemed a little uneasy.
* * *
Several big events are held at the Union Founding Festival.
The same goes for the special competition held against clubs and the masquerade ball hosted by the academy.
Surprisingly, all of this is broadcast live under the authority of Union Net, and what is even more surprising is that outside guests can enter the academy only for the founding festival.
There are many special points, but if you look at them apart, it really is no different from a school festival held in a high school or university.
And on this day, the preliminary schedule for the Masquerade Tournament was revealed, and along with it, it was possible to apply for a ‘special match’.
“Ulike Prominence sunbae-nim, I want to ask you a favor. Is that okay?”
“Oh my. What’s the matter with you coming to see me?”
Of course, Banyuwon moved right away.
If possible, I hoped that it would not come true as I imagined, but unfortunately that did not happen.
Because it wasn’t just the anti-yuwon who were waiting for the special match for the masquerade ball.
