LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 22 My College Motivation is Real Jae-Young's
first semester begins. Like any other college student, Jae-young, who entered school with excitement as a newbie, was waiting for the professor while talking with Jae-gyun.
“I know that? You can even make money with Arcadia! 1 gold now costs about 100,000 won!”
“okay?”
“uh! Of course, earning gold is not that easy. It's because they don't give you that much money even if you complete the quest...” Since it was
in the early stages of opening, the players' abilities were low. Jaekyun muttered with a slightly regretful expression that he couldn't earn gold that easily. Then he said again with a bright face.
“ah! But they say mining can make money these days! The daily income is about 1 gold and 80 silver, but in cash it's about 180,000 won! Isn't that great?”
At Jaekyun's words, Jaeyoung was stunned, but he tried his best to put on a good performance and spoke as if he was amazed.
“Oh... can you make that much? It's really amazing...”
“Yes! So I'm going to go mining once. It's a bit of a distance, but it's worth it.”
“.....”
Jaekyun's words made Jaeyoung a little embarrassed. I said that I don't play games, but I still can't stand it when my first friend in college is saying that he's going to visit me to sign a slave contract on his own feet. So Jaeyoung tried to stop him.
“But that's so strange...?”
“huh? what?”
“lets think. If the income you can earn per day is 180,000 won, it is 5.4 million won if you work a full month. That’s almost double the income of an ordinary office worker.”
Almost the amount of money that can be taken in the bankbook if you are a manager or manager of a large company. It was too abnormal to see it as an income that could be generated just by playing a pickaxe in a game.
“That's...”
“And let's pretend that's true. But at that level, any real dog or cow would come running, so can this situation last for a long time?”
“.....”
If you are not a person who is paralyzed by money, you can think of it even if you think about it a little calmly. At Jaeyoung's common sense question, a small doubt began to bloom in Jaekyun's heart.
“Yeah.... Hearing you say something is strange...”
Jaekyun started thinking about something with a frown on his face as if he had grown a little grumpy. Seeing him like that, Jaeyoung said with a tone that he was not interested.
“Well... you do what you want, but watch a little more. Wouldn’t it be better to first check if the information is true and then go to it rather than walking in vain?”
At Jaeyoung's sincere advice, Jaekyun pondered for a moment, then nodded.
“Yes, I will. If it's a bubble anyway, it'll be gone soon, but it'd be better to hunt and raise the level during that time.”
Jaeyoung sighed as he saw Jaekyun give up right away.
‘Ugh... Today I saved one person's soul.'
Jaeyoung, who knew better than anyone else that he would fall into a slave who sold his soul the moment he signed the contract with Baron Mikhail, felt strangely proud. Still, isn't it pleasant to watch one of your acquaintances fall into the swamp of your own creation? I don't know if the party is Cheolcheon Jiwon.
“ah! The professor is here.”
While talking with Jaekyun, Professor Kim Taehoon entered the classroom. Upon his appearance, the classroom quickly became quiet, and Professor Kim Tae-hun started talking with a cheerful face.
“Nice to meet you, everyone. I sincerely congratulate everyone who entered Seomin University.”
The first class I started after becoming a college student. At the words of the professor congratulating the meaningful moment, a strange feeling of pride appeared on everyone's faces. Seomin University is not such a good school, but isn't it a place where everyone works hard and enters on time or on time? However, Professor Kim Tae-hoon's words after that terribly turned their pride into powder.
“But since you've been admitted here, your future is bleak.”
“...?”
“...?”
“...?!”
The faces of the students stained with absurdity. Professor Kim Tae-hoon, who looked around at the students' expressions as if they were saying with their faces, ‘What the hell is that bullshit?', said in a determined voice.
“What do you intend to learn and gain from me in this class called ‘Computer Architecture' that you will listen to me this time? Please answer the boy in front of you.”
“Is that me?”
A question that comes in without even blinking. While the male student, startled by the question, was sweating profusely, Professor Kim Tae-hoon shouted in frustration.
“As I said before to computer science students, the world has become a world where you can't help but fall behind if you stay complacent! In other words, this is not an era where someone can give you the necessary knowledge and develop your individual abilities if you sit still.”
virtual reality.
Professor Kim Tae-hoon, who had previously given a speech to computer science students. The same was true of other professors, but he reacted more sensitively to changes in the world than any other professor.
“Why are you still ignorant of reality! If you just sit here and listen without thinking about anything, then graduate with a rough grade, that's just going out as a loner who doesn't know how to do anything! Are you all going to walk out as idiots with nothing but a college diploma!”
Tang Tang Tang.
Prof. Kim Tae-Hoon shouted and slammed the desk, perhaps because he was excited. At his response, the atmosphere in the classroom became cold as ice. The male student, who hesitated before answering his question properly, hung his head as if he was sitting on a cushion of thorns.
“From now on, all of my classes will not just settle for old computer skills! I will research and teach you everything from what you know about virtual reality to related papers that are pouring out recently. So...”
Professor Kim Tae-hoon blurted out his words with cold eyes. There was even a little bit of life in his voice.
“I hope there will be no such thing as copying an assignment or doing it roughly. I hope you will do your best to show your own results that exceed my efforts.”
At the same time, Professor Kim Tae-Hoon shed his own words as if passing by.
“Otherwise there would be no graduation in my dictionary.”
Did I say that the scariest person in the world is an enthusiastic and competent boss? The synergistic effect was no joke as the interest of the professor, who is burning with passion for learning, to the students is enormous.
‘School life won't be that easy.....'
For some reason, Jae-young was filled with an ominous feeling.
* * *
“Wow... isn’t the real professor so scary?”
after the first class. Jaekyun shuddered with a pale face. From the first day of orientation, Professor Kim Tae-hun taught the class for two hours. His reaction wasn't strange, considering that he even gave him two assignments.
“Yeah... I think it’s a bit harsh...”
“No, during the last oti, I said this semester just like before!”
I was walking out of the classroom listening to Jae-kyun complaining that it was not as promised when someone suddenly started talking to me from behind.
“Jaegyun!”
“hmm....? uh....! you!”
Jae-gyun turned around at the sudden voice calling him, and Jae-gyun, who confirmed who it was, opened his mouth wide with round eyes as if in surprise.
“how have you been doing? It's been a while! Is this the first time you've graduated from school?”
A girl with straight black hair, who fits the word “innocent,” was looking at Jaekyun with a smile on her face and waving as if she was happy. Next to her was a male student who looked up and down Jaekyun with an expression of disapproval.
“Uh uh uhhh... long time no see...”
Jaekyun looks really flustered and can’t even speak properly. However, Jaeyoung was able to notice that his embarrassment was not because of the girl, but because of the boy next to him.
“Hey Jaekyung. How are you these days? After graduating from school, you haven't been contacted at all? Keep in touch and live.”
A tone full of ridicule. Jae-gyun bowed his head, unable to respond to his words. Seeing that reaction, the boy laughed and then patted Jaegyun on the head and said,
“Let’s see each other again when the time comes. It’s almost time for the next lecture, so we’ll go first.”
“Jaegyun! I'll text you! Come out!”
A woman waving her hand as if sincerely regretting it, and a man glaring at Jae-gyun in contrast. Looking at the two contrasting backs, Jaeyoung asked Jaegyun.
“Who are those kids?”
“huh? Ah... friends from high school.....”
Same high school friends. Normally, meeting an alumni from the same high school at university would give a feeling of joy, but Jae-kyun's reaction did not show that kind of emotion.
“Are you close to each other?”
“...that's a bit complicated.”
An atmosphere that doesn't want to say anything. Jaeyoung, who noticed this, spoke with consideration for Jaekyun.
“I won’t bother asking, so don’t worry...”
“The girl from earlier is called Chaeyeon. The boy is Taesoo.”
“.....”
So, the story of Jaekyun’s school days continued for a long time. For a long time, as if to vomit out the resentment that had accumulated in my heart since I hadn't been able to say it until now. And while listening to the story, Jaeyoung deeply regretted that he had asked a question that he was not even curious about.
“So... Chaeyeon is a very kind and good friend, and Taesoo likes Chaeyeon?”
“huh.”
“But Tae-soo doesn’t like Chae-yeon being nice to you, so he keeps harassing you where he can’t see you?”
Nod.
A high school love affair story that could have happened. It wasn't difficult, but there was one thing I didn't understand.
“But why is Chaeyeon being nice to you?”
Even at a glance, Chaeyeon must be popular for her objectively pretty appearance. Compared to her, Jaekyun was just an ordinary, or to put it badly, a male student who was close to being a big brother. That is why it was difficult for Jae-young to understand that Chae-yeon, not Jae-gyun, was interested in Jae-gyun first.
“That's...”
“That's...?”
Jae-Kyun is full of embarrassment at Jae-Young's question. With a blushing face as if embarrassed, he answered Jaeyoung, who was staring at him, blurting his words.
“That's... I feel sorry for not having any friends...”
“Wow.....”
The reason why I feel like my pride will go over the floor and go to the basement just by listening to it. If it were Jaeyoung, he would just tell him to stop paying attention because he would become miserable, but Jaekyun doesn't seem to do that.
“what? Do you like that girl from before?”
“.....”
Jaekyun lowered his head with a blushing face. Jaeyoung asked a question without thinking, but he was surprised to see his reaction and asked again.
“Eh? Do you really like it?”
“ah! Jum!”
Seeing Jae-gyun's reaction, who tried to cover his mouth while frantically looking around to see who would hear it, Jae-young couldn't help but open his mouth in embarrassment.
“Hey... Then shouldn't you at least stand up to that Taesoo? He said he likes Chae-yeon in the first place?”
I don't know if they're close friends or if they're attending a lecture together by chance, but seeing the two stick together and leave, Jae-gyun seems to have fallen far behind in the dating competition, so Jae-young said.
“But Tae-soo has a lot of money... he’s handsome... he has a good body... he wears clothes well...”
As if he was introspecting himself, he pointed out one by one the boy named Tae-soo was better than himself. Jaekyun, who had a dark expression on his face, muttered in a crawling voice.
“There’s no way Chaeyeon would like someone like me.”
“.....”
A sound that makes you lose your energy just by hearing it. Jaeyoung thought for a bit about where to start with this, but soon came to the essential question of why he should interfere in other people's love lines. And I just yelled at Jaekyun.
“I don’t know! Just don't mind. If it's meant to be, we'll meet again someday, and there are a lot of women in the world! I will meet your mate someday!”
So the two moved on to another subject. However, Jae-young did not know just how great the talent and potential of the real (?) Jae-gyun was and how much he would get entangled in this damn dating eunuch's unrequited love.