I Became the Academy’s Genius Shikigami Summoner – Chapter 11.1

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏

In fact, if you think about it, my actions are by no means efficient at this moment. You could say it was a rash decision.

However.

「𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮, 𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡.」

Even if it wasn’t now, Cheong Juhwa was someone I would have had to contact at some point. Personally, I had her as my number one priority. It’s just that due to unforeseen circumstances, it happened a little earlier.

「𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙅𝙪𝙝𝙬𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙮.」

It’s natural considering her past. However, on the contrary, that’s why she has a romantic view of a partner, someone she can completely trust.

So how can I gain her trust? It was simple.

“Because I need it.”

Just keep giving her my trust from the start. Directly, honestly. Even if it means taking a loss. That’s how Yoo Ha-on gained her trust in the original.

Everyone’s gaze was drawn to one place.

As everyone was taken aback by my actions, Cheong Haram was the first to speak.

“Are you crazy?”

Her gaze was like that of a bug on the side of the road crawling along cluelessly. Her expression was as if she didn’t even see me as a threat.

“Are you the only one who can do it?”

“. . . . . . .”

Cheong Haram twirled her hair with her finger, wondering if she had misheard, and said nonchalantly.

“Seeing as your shoulders are a bit stronger, so I guess you got your funding again?”

“Well.”

“That could be cut off again, you know. Do you think it’s right for you to do this?”

Of course, that would be the case for an ordinary sponsor. They would side with her, who is known as the rising star of the Cheong family, rather than with a good-for-nothing like me.

However, while it’s one thing to simply overpower someone, Seo Ji-an’s wealth is something that even she can’t recklessly touch.

Especially Seo Ji-an can’t just cut me off, so I had nothing to fear.

“You’re still the same. You.”

If Cheong Juhwa was someone I definitely needed to bring over to my side, Cheong Haram was the opposite.

Because of her S-rank Emotional Predation trait, her mind is fundamentally twisted, and she’s a character who is of no help whatsoever in the future that lies ahead.

She was also my least favorite character in “Exorcism” Volume 1 because of the bad endings she gave by trolling the friendly camp at inappropriate times.

“If you have anything else to say, save it for later. I have nothing to say to you right now.”

“Ha. . . . . . . Okay. Sure. Then go ahead and do whatever you want.”

Cheong Haram pushed Cheong Juhwa away with a gesture as if she couldn’t even speak because it was so absurd.

Cheong Juhwa walked over to me, shuffling her feet, and soon she took my hand and led me to a corner of the lecture room, looking around.

Whispering.

“Did you get turned down?”

“No.”

“Don’t you know who she is?”

“I know. We were in the same class in our first year.”

“Then why the heck. . . . . . . I was just going to act a little hurt and make a face like going to cry, and she’d be satisfied and do whatever I wanted.”

Unlike before, when she was completely sullen, Cheong Juhwa chattered away. This was her true self that I knew from the original.

“I didn’t really need your help.”

“I think there’s some kind of misunderstanding.”

“Huh?”

Of course, it’s true that I acted that way on purpose to shake Cheong Juhwa up. But ultimately, my goal wasn’t to help her.

“Even if Cheong Haram wasn’t here, I would have teamed up with you. I told you I needed you earlier.”

“Why? Do you know me?”

“Huh.”

“Where did we meet?”

“That’s both true and not true.”

Cheong Juhwa looked confused. It was only natural since I kept making meaningful remarks even though it was clear that this was the first time we had met.

I smiled slyly and continued.

“You don’t have anyone else to choose anyway, right?”

“Of course I’m grateful for that. . . . . . . No, that’s not the important thing!”

Things were going awry because of me when she had been trying to let things go quietly without making a fuss. Cheong Juhwa grumbled, looking displeased.

“Are you sure? That’s going to cause a huge mess in the future, are you sure you can handle it?”

“It doesn’t matter. I don’t like her.”

“Who would like someone and hang out with them?”

Cheong Juhwa looked incredulous. It was a natural reaction considering the status that the Cheong family’s direct line holds in Cheonghwa Academy.

I decided to start dropping hints.

“You know, Cheong Haram isn’t really someone to be that afraid of.”

At those words, Cheong Juhwa’s brows twitched. And she let out a sigh filled with deep regret.

“You don’t know anything.”

The Cheong family, the top of the Three Great Houses that have controlled the Korean shamanic world for a long time. Cheong Juhwa had experienced firsthand the evil and greed that had grown as large as the years they had been around.

“. . . . . .You don’t know anything.”

Her past, where she had to watch her parents die and then suffer from severe persecution and humiliation.

Certainly, the original Han Kang-yoon wouldn’t have known about those things.

However. I was different.

I had watched all of that from a different perspective.

“In the end, it means you don’t like the people behind Cheong Haram, right?”

“. . . . . .Knowing that and still saying it makes you even more guilty.”

And I knew exactly what I had to do in this situation.

“There is a way to keep the people behind her in check.”

“. . . . . . .”

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