Academy Munchkin Grew Up To Become a Genius

Episode 9 Parasitic Growth (3)

The next day.

[Kang Seo-jun: I will wait in front of your house. You may encounter monsters, so please make sure everyone accompanying you is thoroughly prepared for battle.]

Jin Se-rin, Seo Eun-ha, and the Sungjin Group’s security team picked up Kang Seo-jun at 9 o’clock sharp as promised.

“Let’s go to the portal customs clearance office. The destination is Songnisan Mountain.”

The driver drove toward the destination guided by Seojun Kang.

So, the group arrived in front of Songnisan Mountain in less than two hours.

“Whoop…! Whoop…!”

Kang Seo-jun vomited as soon as he got out of the car.

No matter how much willpower reached the level of a superhuman, it could not go against the physiological functions of the body.

I usually suffer from severe motion sickness due to all the debuffs, but when I added car sickness on top of that, I started vomiting.

-Puduk! Pudeodeok!

The plastic bag that was used to catch the vomit became heavier with great force.

“…….”

Because Kang Seo-jun kept missing the plastic bag, Seo Eun-ha, who was holding the plastic bag for him, looked down at Kang Seo-jun with a frown.

‘My body condition is like this after just riding in the car for about an hour… ?’

“Wow…!”

-Pudeodeok!

Seo Eun-ha’s expression became even more disgusted.

‘It’s definitely not as normal as it looks.’

Seo Eunha sighed softly.

Is it okay to entrust the girl’s job to someone like this?

I think I’m going to pass out.

The unsatisfactory heat that has continued since yesterday has piled up one more layer.

“Whoa…! Whoa…!”

Kang Seo-jun, who had been vomiting for a while, struggled to catch his breath.

The sound of wheezing was heard every time he inhaled and exhaled. At a glance, it was clear that he was a patient with a serious lung disease.

“Go, assistant manager. Take care of this in the nearby bathroom.”

When Kang Seo-jun’s stomach seemed to have calmed down a bit, Seo Eun-ha handed the plastic bag that Kang Seo-jun had vomited into to Assistant Manager Ko.

“Eh… Yes…”

Although Assistant Manager Go showed his displeasure, he obediently accepted the plastic bag full of Toga.

“Are you feeling okay?”

Seo Eun-ha asked, leveling her eyes with Kang Seo-jun, who was sitting on her bench.

The person who was supposed to be the guide was in a mess from the beginning, so Jin Se-rin and the rest of the security team also looked at Kang Seo-jun with complicated expressions.

“No problem. Let’s leave as soon as he comes back.”

Kang Seo-jun got up from the bench.

But soon his legs started shaking violently and he slumped down on the bench again.

“Ah…”

Seo Eun-ha could not hide her sighs.

This won’t work.

I thought that if we continue like this, this person will die.

“From what I see, it looks like you’re going to have a hard time today. You look so unwell.”

I will send it back first and suggest that the young lady find someone else.

What does a body do with a person like this?

“I think I’ll need someone to carry me.”

But the man didn’t seem to have any intention of going back.

“Huh? You want to keep going?”

“Yes. It may not seem like it at all, but today is the best day I’ve ever had. So I have to go today.”

Kang Seo-jun said, wiping the saliva from his pale lips with his sleeve.

He also knew that if he continued like this, there was a high possibility that he would miss the opportunity he had been waiting for.

I was prepared to some extent that my body would look like this when I got in the car.

“Ah…”

Seo Eun-ha looked at Jin Se-rin with a complicated expression.

Jin Se-rin also looked at Seo Eun-ha with an anxious expression.

There was a glimpse of earnestness in her eyes.

“Tsk.”

Seo Eun-ha clicked her tongue once and spoke.

“If you say so, I understand. We will leave as soon as Assistant Manager Go arrives.”

Seo Eun-ha Although she was not at all reluctant in her position, she couldn’t stop herself from doing what Jin Se-rin suggested before she even started, as if she was grasping at straws.

Soon after, Deputy Go, who had gone to dispose of the vomit, came back with a very wrinkled expression, and the group began to climb Songnisan Mountain.

At first, we climbed the paved uphill road, but when we turned as Kang Seo-jun pointed out, the traces of civilization soon disappeared and the surrounding area became complete wilderness.

A long road with a steep slope on the left and a rocky cliff covered in moss on the right.

“Um…Team leader…”

As the group was walking in silence for a while, Assistant Manager Ko spoke quietly to Eunha Seo.

“Why?”

“Shh…!”

When Seo Eun-ha answered loudly, Assistant Manager Go quickly put his index finger to her mouth and pointed behind her.

It was a gesture to go behind and talk quietly.

At that gesture, one of Seo Eunha’s eyebrows rose.

“Look at this.”

Assistant Manager Go played a video on his cell phone and handed it to Seo Eun-ha.

Seo Eun-ha glanced at the late assistant manager with her suspicious eyes and looked at the video he had given her.

In the video….

“Ugh.”

The toilet was leaking vomit.

“You bird…”

Is this guy retaliating for making me do something dirty?

With that thought in mind, I looked at Assistant Manager Ko and she pointed to the video with a serious expression.

“Please take a closer look…!”

Looking at the assistant manager’s expression, he didn’t look like he was joking.

Seo Eun-ha tilted her head and began to watch the video properly, wondering what was going on.

Just try not to have anything.

From now on, you will only do sparring training with me.

“Huh…?”

But soon something began to appear in the video.

At first I thought it was an air bubble, but upon closer inspection, I saw several black dots wriggling around.

Seo Eun-ha’s expression quickly crumpled.

“Ugh…!”

“You saw it…! A bug…! It came out of the vomiting.”

While whispering like that, Assistant Manager Ko took out a zipper bag from his arms.

Inside the zipper bag were a couple of the bugs in the video.

“Are you… nice…?”

“They’ll say something if you don’t bring it…”

“I know very well.”

Seo Eun-ha received a zipper bag from Assistant Manager Go and examined her bugs closely.

Appearance like a tadpole.

However, if you look closely, its appearance is far from ordinary life on Earth.

“It’s a monster.”

It has a black, round head with no eyes or nose, only a sharp mouth.

“Why does something like this come out of my body?”

“So…! You said you were a cadet entering the academy with the young lady this time, right? Shouldn’t you come down and report this right now? Growing bugs like this in your body. This is loyalty. Illegal!”

A technique to cultivate and control monster bugs in the body of a magician.

In the world, it is called bugsul or chungsul.

Insect magic pioneered by Maduseok, who was ranked 12th in the world’s hunter rankings.

Characters who control bugs using pheromones grow at least two types of bugs in their bodies.

At one time, it was a magic school that was active at the forefront of the hunter industry and was in the spotlight, but it later disappeared as the insect magicians’ terrible human experiments and various conspiracies were revealed.

Maduseok was overthrown as a villain, and his insect laboratory was incinerated without leaving even a speck of dust, but there were still magicians in the shadows who continued research to continue Maduseok’s lineage.

Seo Eun-ha looked at the back of Kang Seo-jun, who was in the lead.

The red and lumpy back of the neck is visible.

Seo Eun-ha couldn’t help but cringe when she thought that it was all a bug nest.

“He was a magician…?”

I thought she was definitely hiding something, but I never expected that she would be practicing the taboo art of loyalty in public.

When I thought that my broken body was also a side effect of the surgery, I was able to understand it to some extent.

‘Then the strangely balanced abilities are also influenced by Chungsul… ?”

Strangely high willpower.

And the remaining abilities are hopelessly low.

“Hmm….”

However, the strange balance of abilities and loyalty did not seem to have much connection.

‘Mr. Ha…. My head is getting complicated again….’

I found out what the man was hiding, but instead of being confused, he felt like he was falling further into the labyrinth.

There were too many other things that were not explained for Chungsul to say that was all he was hiding.

‘No, no.’

Seo Eun-ha shook her head.

What is important now is not what else he is hiding.

I had to report to his master that he was a criminal practicing illegal magic.

“I’m borrowing your cell phone for a moment.”

“Ah…!”

Seo Eun-ha took the late assistant manager’s smartphone and tapped Jin Se-rin on the back.

“Why?”

When Jin Se-rin turned around and asked, Seo Eun-ha put her index finger to her lips.

“Look at this.”

Then, whispering quietly, I played the video I watched earlier.

“…….”

Jin Se-rin blinked her big eyes and looked at the video shown by Seo Eun-ha with a curious expression.

A colorful pizza floating on the toilet.

“Ugh…!?”

“Shh…! Shhh…!”

Jin Se-rin looked at Seo Eun-ha with a disgusted expression.

“Sister…Don’t share my strange hobby….”

“No, that’s not it. Look closely.”

“…….”

Jin Se-rin looked at Seo Eun-ha with leering eyes, then tilted her head at her serious attitude and focused on her video again.

“I can see it squirming.”

“Aww… What is this?”

“This is it.”

Seo Eun-ha warned while trying to hand over the zipper bag containing her bugs.

“You can’t scream because it’s gross.”

“Uh, yeah…”

Jin Serin frowned at the disgusting appearance of the man-eating parasite.

“It came out of that person’s stomach. It means that it is learning martial arts.”

“What? Really…?”

“Yes. Assistant Manager Go checked it himself in the bathroom. It’s hard to trust someone who is practicing illegal witchcraft. Let’s pretend there was no transaction and go down and report it.”

“Umm…”

Jin Se-rin looked at Kang Seo-jun, who was in front of her, being carried on her back by a bodyguard and indicating her direction.

“No, I want to keep going.”

“Lady?”

“There is no problem at all in trading what each other wants. And I don’t think there was any intention to hide it in the first place, but it’s a bit wrong to change one’s position over something like this.”

“You may have been careless. Chungsul is also notorious for human trafficking. You don’t know exactly where you’re going, right? It’s too late after you’ve been involved.”

“If you doubt it like that, honestly, there is no end to it. And you know that. Now, even if it’s a little reluctant, you have to accept it to some extent. The time to choose between means and methods is over.”

At those words, Seo Eun-ha was speechless and could only gape.

I still didn’t like the current situation, but Jin Se-rin’s words were also correct.

“Sister. I’m so worried. Think about it from the beginning. If you had malicious intentions, would you have told me to come prepared for battle? And I approached you first from the beginning, so what if they get more suspicious…?”

“That’s…”

She had nothing to refute.

“I know you’re worried about me, but I’m not going down now. I’m actually feeling better right now. No one has ever come to a place like this before. I think something will be different.”

As Jin Se-rin’s eyes lit up with anticipation, Seo Eun-ha sighed through her nose and made a complicated expression.

Meanwhile,

[Strength experience increases by stealing the host’s experience!]

[By robbing the host of its efforts, physical strength becomes the fruit of growth! Physical strength increases by +1!]

[Skill 《Parasite Growth》 special effect activated! Select the characteristics to steal or pass on to the host.]

‘Finally….’

Kang Seo-jun quietly smiled in relief.

I thought I was really out of breath even if it was just a little bit late.

◆Characteristics

[Terminal cancer Lv. Lowest level]

‘Finally, we are free from terminal cancer.’

It was time to pass on the wretchedness of this body to Park Shin-hoo.

It was a miraculous moment when Kang Seo-jun’s physical condition, which had been rapidly deteriorating since yesterday, was able to breathe.