Became a Human Rights Advocate

21 – Episode 5. Baek So-so.

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Boom! Joo Ji-young hit the desk in her office with her fist. Even so, she sat down on her chair as if tossing her body with heavy breathing, as if she was not relieved of her anger.

“Those damn old people!”

Her agenda was rejected by the board. She was, to be exact, she was fired at the document review stage without being able to formally go up to the meeting.

A cursory reading would have made her aware that this was an important matter that needed to be dealt with immediately. It was clear that someone deliberately used a hand in the middle.

“Teacher?”

The sound of Makina knocking came from outside. It was because the sound of Ju Ji-young hitting her desk was heard in Makina’s room.

“I heard a threatening sound. Can she come in Makina?”

“… Yes, Makina.”

At Makina’s voice, Joo Ji-young cleared her anger and said. With a squealing sound, Makina, wearing a dinosaur-patterned pajama, opened the door and entered.

Unlike her cute outfit, her face is as stiff and expressionless as usual.

“What is it, sir?”

“hahahaha, she rejected the booster agenda from the board. Judging from the rejected speed, it seems that you haven’t even read it. One o’clock is urgent, but I didn’t expect it to come out like this.”

“What should Machina do?”

She looked up at Makina Joo Si-young, who had come right in front of her, and said. The pink hair of her machina sticks out from under her hood.

She had an expressionless face, but her intention to help herself was clearly conveyed to Joo Si-young.

So Joo Joo-young smiled bitterly and tousled her hair with her hood.

“Sensei, if you do, Makina’s vision will be blocked.”

“Oh, sorry, sorry. Then may I ask for a cup of coffee, Makina?”

“Okay. Makina goes to her kitchen to show off her skills no less than her barista.”

With her eager steps, Makina went out of her office. Ju Ji-young noticed that a faint smile had formed on her lips.

Ever since she returned to Academia, Joo Joo-young has been so distracted day by day. She

There was not one or two things she had to deal with in order to run the Special Division, and she had to defend herself against the interfering board of directors in every case.

Not even a tenth of the promises Plato promised Joo Joo-young were not properly fulfilled.

She says there is nothing she can do since Plato, her party, is missing, but she believes in the promise and only sighs as Joo Si-yeong, who returns to Academia.

‘Still, that old man left a good thing behind.’

It was fortunate that Makina was there. There were still many parts of her behavior that were difficult to understand, but she was of great help in comforting Joo Si-young’s weary mind and body.

While she was thinking about her machina like that, a student’s name suddenly popped into her mind.

Lee Si-hyeok.

A male student who was looking at Makina with her strange eyes in this regular raid ideaa and in the central test site.

“Did you fall in love?”

Joo Ji-young muttered that, and let out a laugh as if she was dumbfounded by what she said.

She does not yet have the charm of a woman to Makina. Unless she’s quite the weirdo, she won’t have feelings for Makina beyond her cuteness.

As soon as the idea of Lee Si-hyuk was opened, the questions that had been piling up for so long burst out at once.

Ju Joo-young considered Lee Si-hyeok her target of interest.

At the time of the confusing entrance ceremony, the only student who noticed the solution to the situation and moved to the Central Tower Idea.

A student who left an unprecedented record of being promoted from D grade to B grade in one test.

A student who has matured beyond his age and cannot easily understand his intentions no matter how many times he talks to them.

‘No, should I say that I’m acting for my age?’

Every time she talked with Lee Si-hyeok, Ju Ji-young would always feel something unknown in her. Obviously, the focus of the conversation was not out of sync, but strangely, it felt like Lee Si-hyeok was playing with his intentions.

It may simply be because Lee Si-hyeok is excellent.

However, all the records Lee Si-hyeok left so far said that he was an ordinary student.

If she had been an ordinary student in the first place, Joo Si-yeong herself could not have cared so much.

Ju Ji-young trusted his instinctive senses, and most of the judgments that depended on those senses were correct.

It was after Plato’s disappearance that Lee Si-hyeok started his full-fledged career.

The reason why I came to the central tower, Idea, may have a hidden intention that has not been revealed.

The reason why his ability was suddenly promoted to class B is too artificial if you think about it in detail.

This was the reason Ju Ji-young personally visited Lee Si-hyeok and suggested that she join her specialty department.

Because her actions were so suspicious, Ju Ji-young felt the need to closely monitor Lee Si-hyeok.

‘It’s complicated.’

Joo Ji-young reached her hand for the electronic cigarette on her desk, then stopped her movement and froze.

It was because Makina, who returned with her coffee, was staring at her.

“Sir, Makina recommends quitting smoking for the sake of her teacher’s health.”

“… Thanks for the coffee.”

Joo Ji-young avoided Makina’s gaze and took a sip of her coffee. A bitter, savory aroma spreads in her mouth.

“Machina.”

“Yes, sir.”

“What do you think about Lee Si-hyuk?”

“He is an unusual person who is well suited for a special department.”

Machina said that and stared into Ju Ji-young’s eyes.

“Machina is ashamed that the teacher did not respond to the gag of conversion.”

“Ah… sorry.”

Joo Ju-young still couldn’t figure out exactly what Makina’s actions were. It was not clear whether she was simply repeating the learned behavior or what intentions she had.

There was only one person on this school island who could distinguish Makina’s subtle emotions.

“Machina doesn’t know much about Lee Si-hyuk. But sometimes, she looks at me silently.”

“… Okay. Thanks Makina. Now go back and sleep.”

“Yes sir. Please go to sleep before it is too late.”

Joo Ji-yeong nodded her head and Makina left her office.

“I don’t know.”

Joo Ji-young got up from her seat and went to her window, holding her coffee cup in her hand.

Amid the dark night of Academia, the sound of rain hitting the window could be heard.

The more she thinks about Lee Si-hyeok, the more she feels she falls into a labyrinth.

The request Lee Si-hyeok made last night made that thought stronger.

Nicola and Baek So-so.

For the two talented people, Lee Si-hyeok has made conflicting requests.

Ju Ji-young agreed that Nicola was a talent to be missed, but how on earth did Lee Si-hyeok know about Nicola?

Nicola is a simple and inconspicuous talent, but he has steadily stepped up the stairs.

Until recently, when the stock price rose at Central First High School, Nicola had never been exposed to any media.

She wouldn’t say anything if she knew it through rumors, but she’s still suspicious.

A request to remove Baekso from the special department. This was also one of the things Joo Ji-young pondered after hearing Makina’s report.

What the Special Division needs right now is power that can be used right away. No matter how high the potential for growth is, it is meaningless if we cannot fight right away.

Besides, the psychological problem was an area that was not easy to solve even with Ju Ji-young’s abilities.

“White Sora.”

However, it felt like something was going on in blindly following Sihyuk Lee’s words.

Joo Ju-young’s worries only deepened with the pouring rain.

How long has it been?

By the time Makina’s coffee had cooled down to the cup, Joo Ji-young finally came to a conclusion.

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-Special department, meeting after school today.

When I woke up in the morning and checked her phone, there was a message from Joo Si-yeong.

Perhaps dealing with Booster was rejected by the board of directors. That’s why I’m calling the special department in such a hurry.

Dealing with boosters is a matter of dealing with every minute and every second.

Even after the special department has grown to a certain extent, the board of directors refuses to deal with the booster factory. In the end, the special unit fights against Zetas, which distributes boosters, and wins.

In the process, Sensei and the Special Division notice the existence of a traitor to humanity hidden within the board of directors, and then the episode leads to finding this traitor.

Of course, this is a story in a game.

In this world possessed by Lee Si-hyeok, I intervened from the beginning and told Ju Ji-young where Booster’s factory was.

Of course, it is something that shakes up Leoa’s story from the beginning.

But considering the harm that Booster would do to Academia, this would be much better.

Just…

I like white cows.

When I first started playing Legend of Academia, Baek So-so was the first 5-star character I picked.

Before he grew up, his stats and mentality were not good.

Baek So-so always fell first in battle, and there were quite a few times when he cried out, asking why something like this came out.

Seeing that the first guy I met after becoming Lee Si-hyeok was Baek So-so, it seemed like we were related in many ways.

As I know, no, more than that, a guy with a glass mentality and a coward.

Someday, if time passes, I will overcome all my weaknesses and stand tall as a confident hero, but not right now.

You can see that just by looking at the night before yesterday. Didn’t your whole body stiffen and tremble just by watching them fight?

That’s why I couldn’t send Baek So-so to the special department yet.

This world I am in is not a game.

This is not the Legend of Academia, where if you lose a battle, you just have to use action to try again.

No save, no load. There is no magical device to cure any injury, and there is only one life.

If you die, that’s it.

I was so afraid of that.