I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 326

Declaration of Revenge (2)

Yangseong High School classes start at 9 AM.

The current time is 8:13 AM.

It takes about 40 minutes to get from home to school, and I’m halfway there now.

I’m not cold-blooded enough to send an eighteen-year-old who just got a new home in Korea straight to a boarding school, even though she just had a short vacation with her sister in Hawaii.

He said it was okay for him to commute to school from home just for this week. He lives in the house across the street anyway, and Wooirok goes to his house every morning to eat, so I can just take him to work.

Well, yeah… I also calculated that after being in a closed space like a car for about 40 minutes, we would be able to talk about various things.

I wanted to ask Kang Tae-woo if it was true that he lived in the United States when he was young and if he remembered anything, and I also wanted to check on his mental state.

What I realized while teaching children at Yangseong High School is that children are much stronger than we think.

The same goes for Kang Tae-woo. There was a time when I didn’t like Kang Tae-woo, the third person in the lab. To be honest, I still don’t feel comfortable looking at Kang Tae-woo’s face.

Just because it reminds me of a dark and stuffy lab.

But at the same time, Kang Tae-woo was also evidence of a changed future, just like the children of the model high school who had to die in Myeongdong. I don’t know what happened to No. 3, but at least he didn’t seem to laugh freely with children his age. He probably didn’t have a younger sister, and the same goes for his grandfather and grandmother.

“… … .”

I turned on the emergency lights and slowly pulled the car over to the shoulder.

Let’s be thankful that Hong Seok-young set up his model school in a remote place. I still feel a sense of accomplishment in not hitting the brakes hard but rather looking around and stopping the car slowly.

Still, I want to check on Kang Tae-woo’s condition. The boy who had been depressed and quiet after his sister died became a little brighter after the incident with Lee Seung-yeon. When Lee Seung-yeon started making a fuss about clubs and guilds, he seemed like a normal high school student. I thought it was because he had other things to worry about besides his sister. That’s why people need to have hobbies.

After finding out that her sister was alive… Yeah, she did seem a little off. But she could meet her family that she thought was dead, so maybe that’s possible. I understood her foolish behavior, fluttering around like a butterfly. Compared to those gloomy beginnings, she seemed much more human.

So I never expected that Kang Tae-woo would say something like this. If someone like Oh Hyun-wook had said, “I want to kill my old guild master,” I would have been prepared.

… Wait, did I say something similar?

Anyway, this is why quiet kids are scary. You can’t guess what they are like just by looking at them.

“… … .”

“… … .”

I grabbed the steering wheel and took a deep breath.

Remember, the kid sitting in the passenger seat right now is a student. He’s a minor. He might have thought that the word revenge sounded cool and wanted to try it.

While I was trying to catch my breath so as not to get excited, Kang Tae-woo seemed to have no thoughts. He even took his phone out of his pocket and calmly checked his messages.

This kid, for real.

“that is….”

The voice cracks.

I cleared my throat and cleared my throat, trying to make the sound as soft as possible without grinding my teeth.

“What are you talking about?”

I tried. I won’t say that my efforts were successful.

“yes?”

“… …what you just said.”

“Ah. Revenge?”

Kang Tae-woo, who was typing a message, put his phone down on his lap and looked at me. He had such a dumbfounded face that I couldn’t believe it was the No. 3 I knew.

“Teacher, can’t you understand me?”

“… … .”

“You were also at the research lab, teacher.”

I suddenly got lost.

It’s not because Kang Tae-woo said something absurd. Rather, it’s because what he said was so accurate.

It’s such an obvious lie to say you don’t know that.

But as an adult, it was not something I could do to understand.

I never learned from my father what facial expression, what voice, or what the correct answer would be to such words.

But it didn’t seem like my father knew the answer.

No, my father probably had his own answer.

‘I will let you do whatever you want.’

Of course, I don’t think revenge would have been permitted.

I’m sure he’d sorted it out before I came forward. And he did.

That’s an answer I can’t use.

As always, there is no father here. Hong Seok-young is also not here. Ah, if only Isabella and Robert were here, I could have passed it on.

shit.

“Anyway, the teacher is also always chasing the research lab. I helped him out with that, and from what Sohee said, it seems like that’s the case.”

Kang Tae-woo continued speaking with a still blank expression.

But the hand holding the phone is very strong.

“That’s what happens at school too. The lump of magic that Irok chased after me a while ago too.”

“… Did you see it?”

“No. But it was so big that I could feel it.”

I was so focused on Woo I-rok that I forgot about Kang Tae-woo’s magical sensitivity.

I let out a short sigh.

Sunsunjin shouldn’t have cared about what Hong Seokyoung’s private detective was talking about. Kang Taewoo, who told her that, was thinking the same thing.

It’s all my fault.

The space where the kids are… the school should have been used only as a school.

When you go to school today, no matter what Kim Chae-min and Lee Mi-seon say, let’s clean up the monster corpse on the playground first. We couldn’t cover it up with a tarp forever.

“Anyway, I want to… get the person in charge of the research lab.”

“you….”

I chose my words.

Let’s think about it differently.

In the end, experience is the biggest motivation. It is actually quite common to see Kang Tae-woo say that he wants revenge. I was just too embarrassed by the extreme word revenge.

This can be easily found in everyday life. You may decide to become an environmental activist after seeing someone littering on the street. You may become an animal rights activist after seeing an abused dog. You may dream of becoming a police officer after seeing a hit-and-run victim.

The same goes for Kang Tae-woo.

“…Even though the teacher is already doing it like you said?”

“I haven’t caught it yet.”

“… … .”

“teacher.”

The adventures of school days ultimately begin with disobeying the teacher.

If I say no, will Kang Tae-woo hear it? Will he run away without permission?

I don’t think she would do something so stupid because she has Sophia, but on the contrary, she might think it’s okay because Sophia has a guardian.

“Do you know that?”

“…what?”

“There are people at the research institute who decided to graduate me.”

“… … .”

“My mom was there too.”

Kang Tae-woo was smiling.

“Actually, it’s a bit weird to call her Mom. But back then… No. I don’t think I’ll ever understand why Mom was like that.”

“… … .”

“Teacher. Have you seen my mother since then? Did you catch her? I think you recognize her face.”

“Do you want to catch your mother? Do you want her to be punished?”

Please say so. Say so.

Your revenge is enough to see those humans receive the appropriate legal punishment.

Kang Tae-woo did not answer.

Instead, he said something else.

“Originally, I wanted to catch and kill the guy who killed Sohee and Sophia.”

“… … .”

“I remember your face. I was obsessed with the fact that I could sense magic, right? So I thought that if I revealed that fact in an interview after becoming a Hunter, you might come looking for me.”

I forgot the previous conversation for a moment and looked at Kang Tae-woo with tired eyes.

Kids these days… Are they all like this? It’s difficult.

“But actually, I scrapped that plan because he said he helped me. I asked Sophia, and she said she met him again when she was in Boston. She said he was a pretty older brother.”

ah.

“The teacher didn’t seem to care, so I just stayed quiet… Isn’t that him? He’s been noisy lately. I remember that face. Alex Hope.”

This is a real mistake.

“Are you the person in the infirmary?”

I couldn’t control my expression for a moment, and it showed on my face. Kang Tae-woo shrugged.

“I wouldn’t suddenly sneak into the infirmary and stab someone with a knife or anything. I guess, uh, if I didn’t know you saved Sophia.”

“… …Thank you for telling me.”

If I could, I would get out of the car. I couldn’t be more resentful of being in the driver’s seat.

I remembered a beat later that there was another kid there when Alex Hope attacked Kang Tae-woo.

“… Maybe Seungyeon Lee too.”

“Seungyeon hyung? Of course I remember you.”

“… … .”

“Is that face one that you can easily forget?”

“okay….”

“Because my brother doesn’t know about Sophia… I had a hard time trying to stop him from going to ask Hunter Yim.”

“I see….”

I should tell Yimiseon too.

I checked the time. I couldn’t stay on the road like this. I slowly drove the car.

“… Burn it.”

“yes.”

“Yes. It’s true that we’re chasing the lab, just as you said. Most of the kidnapped children have returned home, and quite a few of the researchers have been captured.”

It’s not like I’ve been just teaching children and playing around all this time.

“I will help you if you seek revenge on those people through legal means.”

“…if it is by legal means.”

“Instead of personally chasing them and doing something about them, we should have them tried through a legitimate investigative agency.”

Kang Tae-woo kept his mouth shut.

I spoke to Kang Tae-woo slowly.

“It’s difficult right now, but… I want to create a specialized investigative agency for awakened people to track down these types of crimes later.”

“… Isn’t it still there?”

“It’s not a dedicated agency. It’s woefully inadequate.”

When I first fell into the past, I thought of the Awakened Investigation Office where I had been briefly detained. At best, it was a small team of people. They had no choice but to borrow personnel from outside.

The situation is very different now from when my father created the management office. Hong Seok-young may not feel the need for the management office as strongly as his father. There is still a need for reform in dungeon raiding, but it does not have to be as violent or radical as it was then. Since I have experienced it, I can make up for what I lacked then and prepare more thoroughly now. There are also Lee Seung-yeon and Oh Hyun-wook. I don’t think those kids would abandon what they are doing now on a momentary impulse.

Rather, what this world urgently needs right now is not an administrative agency, but an Awakened Investigative Agency like the police. A place to track crimes within dungeons and deal with Awakened culprits.

A place where people who want to make the world a better place can work to make the world a better place.

…which my father tried to make but ultimately failed.

“No, I will make it.”

“…Teacher?”

“I don’t necessarily have to do it, but someone has to step up.”

Kang Tae-woo frowned. I don’t know what kind of expression that is.

Do you understand what I’m saying? Or not?

“Can’t you do that? Your revenge.”

Fantasy, contemporary,