Chapter 155
The first step in taking over the Academy is to infiltrate a member of the Family into the Academy.
When else would I be able to infiltrate a member of the family into the Academy?
“First, I need a member of the Family who is a little off duty…….”
Hmm……let’s see what comes to mind.
“No, is there one?”
I couldn’t think of any.
The organization is currently at war with the Villain Alliance, even if it seems peaceful now.
In fact, after the last terrorist attack, everyone’s workload was even tighter.
“I can’t help but think about it. I’ll ask them first…….”
-Bam!
Just then, I heard the sound of something breaking outside.
-Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!
-Don’t touch it with your bare hands! What if you hurt yourself?
A familiar voice was heard from beyond the door.
Cautiously, I peek out to see a white-haired girl staring at the broken pottery and Alessia sweeping up the shards with a broom.
“……I don’t have your talent.”
“Well, you’re an intelligence agent, not a staff member, so you shouldn’t feel too bad.”
“Yes…….”
The girl looks downcast and Alessia is comforting her.
Then she snapped.
“Huh?”
Her gaze meets mine.
“Ah, I found it.”
“Huh? Master?”
Was it because I suddenly opened the door? Latte sees me and jumps up and down in surprise.
“Latte, do you have anything to do right now?”
“What? Uh, I, uh, I have to do some cleaning right now……?”
Alessia nudges the frantic Latte with her shoulder.
“Latte, are you sure you don’t want to go when the Master wants you?”
“Oh, that’s not it!”
“Then what are you doing? Go.”
“Ah. Yes, Master!”
She throws her hands up in the air, suddenly energized by Alessia’s words.
“I need help with a family matter, can you help me?”
“Family……affairs?”
At the mention of family, Latte’s expression loosened and instantly turned serious.
“Anything for the family. What can I do for you?!”
I wondered if she was really an agent who had infiltrated the Villain Alliance for the sake of the family.
Satisfied with her trustworthy answer, I smiled and placed my hands on her shoulders.
“Latte, I think you should be the owner of the cafe.”
“Yes! You want me to……the cafe?”
“Be a cafe owner.”
She told me she’d do anything for the family, right?
Let’s do it, cafe owner.
* * *
-Whoosh─ whoosh─
-Drat-drat-drat.
The sound of construction was heard from the morning rush hour.
The children passing by, curious to see a building being erected in the vacant lot of the academy, smile as they look at the construction site.
They seem to be looking forward to it.
That’s because a building in the form of a cafe was being constructed, something that hadn’t been seen near the academy before.
“Hey, boss, what are you doing there?”
Jin-woo, who happened to be on his way to school, spotted me standing in front of the construction site and waved me over.
“I was looking at the construction site.”
“Construction? What construction? Do you know what they’re building?”
“A cafe.”
“A cafe?”
He furrowed his brow as if he thought the word cafe was out of place.
“What kind of cafe is this in the academy? If they’re going to build one, they should build a coffee shop. What a bunch of douchebags…….”
“It’s my cafe.”
“Still, I think a cafe where you can relax is better. Well, from the looks of it, I can already tell it’s going to be a hotspot.”
“…….”
Jin-woo anticipates it would be a hotspot despite the fact that it’s only a frame of a cafe, and the exterior is just rebar and concrete.
“But it’s strange to have a cafe inside the academy, and it belongs to boss?”
He tilted his head again.
“This time, Hanwol Group got the business rights to the academy. Since I’m attending the academy, I’m in charge.”
“…… A cafe in an academy? Boss is really amazing.”
Then he looked at me again with his usual sparkling eyes.
“I don’t think it’ll be ready until this afternoon, so we should get going.”
“That fast?”
“Don’t you remember the club?”
Once again, it was the ‘Move’ family who came to help with the construction.
This happened because the boss of the Move family pushed me to do it as a congratulatory gesture, saying that anything I do should be the best…….
It was a good result for me because I trusted their skills.
Jin-woo and I walked up to the classroom, and when we opened the door, Se-ah and Young-jae, who were talking, looked at us.
“Ah. You’re here.”
“Good morning.”
They greeted us like any other morning.
As soon as I sit down, they gather around me as if they’ve been waiting for me.
“Mr. Eugene, did you see that outside?”
“Outside?”
“You know, that new building they’re building? It’s a café, a cafe in an academy where we don’t have a canteen and we have to buy food from outside or get it from clubs. Isn’t that awesome?”
I did something, and that was it.
Just as I was about to explain to the kids.
“It’s boss cafe.”
Jin-woo spoke first, as if he wanted them to be as surprised as he was.
He waited patiently for a reaction.
But
“Oh, yeah, that’s definitely something.”
“Well, if it’s Eugene, I suppose it’s possible.”
The kids are more easily convinced than I thought they would be. At this, Jin-woo narrows his eyes and looks at the two of them.
“No, don’t you want to go to the cafe outside? It belongs to the boss, right?”
“Well, it’s Mr. Eugene, so I don’t think we should be surprised.”
“When it’s the boss, anything goes.”
“Right?”
Seeing the two react as if it’s a given, Jin-woo makes a face that says he doesn’t understand.
“……Am I weird?”
“You’ve always been weird.”
“You’re always weird.”
“C’mon…….”
Yeah, this is who we are, and Jin-woo is the best.
A little while later, it was time for Morning Meeting, and as usual, Ji-hyun entered the class with the attendance book.
Unlike the tired look we’ve been seeing lately, she looks very cheerful.
Even her skin, which had been dull, was plumped up, so it was clear that something had happened.
“Morning, Instructor. You seem to be in a good mood today.”
And then the now-obvious question time from Jin-woo.
Normally, she would have told him to shut up, but for some reason, she nodded and answered obediently.
“The kids in my class did pretty well this time, so the academy gave me special money. I was counting on you, weren’t I?”
Ah……financial therapy.
It certainly explains why she’s in such good shape.
It’s enough to make her feel proud that her students are all in the top tier, and it’s even better when the academy gives her a bonus for the results.
“Today, we’re going to spend the day replaying yesterday’s duel, the so-called midterm exam wrong answer notes.”
The kids let out a sigh of relief at Ji-hyun’s words.
“Yeah~ It’s the dean instructions~ We have to do it even if we don’t want to~”
Smiling broadly, as if enjoying the reaction, Ji-hyun popped the CD that came with the attendance book into the player next to the teacher’s table, and a holographic screen appeared in the air.
“Alright, let’s start with the first people to be eliminated from our class.”
That’s how the midterms started.
At first, the kids didn’t want to do it, but once the class started, they started to focus and the atmosphere in the class became calm and serious.
“Jin-woo Bevalt, you tried an all-out fight against Mari, as an assassin. Is that how you wanted to ruin the test? If it weren’t for the points you earned early on, you would have been in the bottom half of the class.”
“……Yes.”
One by one, she begins to point out their problems, telling them the details of their moves and responses.
“Young-jae, rather than buffing your body to evade, you’d be better off casting magic around you to keep them from getting too close. None of them can reliably calculate the amount of magic you have anyway, so you should have bought yourself some time by bluffing.”
“……I apologize.”
“Still, I think you did well enough. Good work.”
“Yeah.”
And so it went, one by one, until finally it was my turn.
“Eugene Han.”
“Yeah.”
“……You’re on your own. I don’t really see anything to criticize in this battle. If I had to say one thing, it would be that I felt like you were playing games against Jung-Hoon, but that’s just because of your bad character, right?”
“Yeah.”
It’s scary how well she read my mind at the time.
Still, the fact that she didn’t have anything to point out made me feel validated.
“Well, is that it?”
Seeing that lunch was approaching, Ji-hyun turned off her screen and looked at us.
“That’s the end of class for today. Everyone had a hard time taking the midterm. Those who want to do clubs, go to clubs, and those who want to go home, go home.”
“””Yep!”””
The class ended earlier than usual thanks to the buff of being right after the exam.
At the same time, I stood up from my seat and started to walk.
“Boss, do we have club activities again today?”
At that moment, Jin-woo asks me first as he prepares to go home.
“Uh, no. I’m probably going to the cafe today. I just got a call that the cafe is finished.”
“Ek, already?”
“Really? Can I go now? Let’s go together!”
“I’m curious, too. Can I go?”
Was it the excitement of visiting the new cafe at the academy?
Se-ah asks with her hands clasped together, while Jin-woo and Young-jae look purely curious.
I don’t have a problem with this, as I’ve been trying to get them to see the cafe in the first place so I nod and take the first step.
“Let’s go together. It’s our first day, but it’ll be a simple coffee.”
You’ve got to start somewhere.
We all walk out of the classroom together, including Se-ah, who can’t hide her excitement.
“Hey! That’s it, right?”
The newly built cafe building was a five-minute walk from the main building.
The building had a total of four floors, with the first and second floors for the cafe. The third and fourth floors were set aside for future use.
“Wow…… looks so pretty!”
Se-ah’s jaw drops when she sees the exterior.
The terraces are wide open, the wooden doors are painted mint, while the brick walls are modern and clean.
It was reminiscent of a European cafe.
The details reveal that the boss of the Move family, Reg Move, had a lot to do with the design.
“It’s inspired by the scenery of his hometown,” I thought.
If it looks classy and beautiful enough to my untrained eye, they must have really put a lot of thought into it.
My favorite of all was the sign with the cafe’s name.
‘Cielo Notturno’
Literally translating to ‘night sky’, it was a great name that symbolized my two identities.
“Huh? Is that the owner?”
At that moment, he glanced at the woman inside the cafe and blushed.
It seemed that Jin-woo’s golden rule had kicked in again.
“Let’s go in.”
He pushed open the mint-colored wooden door and stepped inside, the aroma of fragrant wood and roasted beans enveloping his nostrils.
“Welcome!”
A white-haired woman bows her head in greeting to us.
Her gray hair was tied back neatly on both sides and she was wearing a neatly designed black blouse and skirt.
“To Cielo Notturno!”
It was Latte, my henchman and secret weapon against the Academy.
