Return of the 10th Circle Archmage

"after···. It's really easy..."

After a long time, I went to my alma mater, Gunpo Technical High School.

but

“The name has changed.”

The school name was changed from Gunpo Technical High School to Gunpo High Tech High School.

[Congratulations! Gunpo Hi-Tech High School, the first to enter Korea University as a senior! 43rd graduate Lee Joon-hyuk!]

[First place in the nation for the first school entrance exam! Lee Jun-hyeok, the perfect scorer!]

[Proud senior Lee Jun-hyuk!]

“Ah, that’s so fucking cringe…. Who put up such a thing?”

The placards hung at the entrance to the school.

There were things such as ‘What, what, what student, KEPCO employment’, ‘What and who, who was a civil servant pass’, and there were placards covering me with him.

It was the first time for me to enter Korea University as a senior at my alma mater, and to be ranked first in the country, so the overwriting was too severe.

“Someone else put the bet, so why should I have to share the indulgence?”

If I had known this would happen, I would never have come.

‘I have to run away as soon as I see only Mr. Im Chang-yong.’

To be honest, that was the purpose of today's day, so I passed between the campus gates as if I was stuck between the students going to school.

“Hey, what time does the graduation ceremony end today?”

“Oh, I don’t know. It will be over before lunch.”

“Uh-huh! I wish I could finish it a little earlier. Hurry up and go home and have a roll.”

“Kukk. Who is playing classic games these days?”

“Girl. Jo Kang-ji's place was good~! Sun fuel is good! Don't you know the word?"

“Crazy bastard.”

I accidentally overheard the conversations of students going to school, and I was startled by the word ‘graduation ceremony’.

‘By the way, I thought it was strange because it was vacation time and the kids went to school wearing school uniforms, but today is the graduation ceremony…’

To be honest, I had never been to a high school graduation ceremony, so I had no idea what it would feel like.

'Anyway, it has nothing to do with me...'

I was a dropout from this school, and my high school diploma was also taken through the GED, so it was too vague to actually say that the Gunpo Public School was my alma mater.

'Because I've only been there for about half a year...'

Still, seeing that I came this far because of that relationship, I felt that I was a ‘human’ that I couldn’t help but.

‘But, I don’t know what to say when I meet Lim Chang-yong...’

By magic, I confirmed that Lim Chang-yong was still attending this school.

However, it has been a long time since we met each other by surprise, so it was very difficult to know what to talk about when we met.

Hello sir. did you want to see

Sir, are you here to repay your favor?

Teacher···.

Sensei...

'Hmm······.'

I couldn't think of what to say when we met.‘It’s best to just be natural.’

I didn't want to pretend or force myself to say something I didn't want to say.

bum bum.

Before I went up to the office, I went into the administration room on the first floor.

"Hello. I am a student who attended this school in 2006. I came here because there was a teacher I wanted to meet.”

I said so to the administrative office worker who was sitting in front of the computer.

"Ah yes. What is the name of the teacher you want to meet?”

“This is Lim Chang-yong, teacher.”

"Ah yes. Wait."

The administrative office staff received my request and called the school office while he was busy with the graduation ceremony.

"Ah yes. Mr. Chang-Yong Lim. A certain disciple came to visit the teacher... What is your name? Wait···."

The staff put the receiver on and looked back at me.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

“My name is Junhyeok Lee.”

"Ah yes."

Then, he picked up the handset again and resumed the call.

“My name is Junhyeok Lee.”

Then, a startling voice was heard over the receiver.

- Who?

“It’s Lee Joon-hyuk-nim… Ah…!”

The staff shouted and looked at me.

- Ask him to come up now. 'Cause you'll be waiting

"Ah yes. I will upload it.”

drop.

“Are you sure you are the 43rd graduate over there?”

“Are you graduating? Didn't you graduate?"

“·················ogue.”

Not graduates, but dropouts.

When I came back to my alma mater after 17 years, I was very embarrassed because I suddenly turned from a dropout to a graduate.

‘I disappeared during the second semester of my freshman year, what made me suddenly become a graduate because I was pretty?’

I was puzzled because it was written on the placard earlier as a graduate.

'I was definitely a dropout before I took the SAT...'

Therefore, the qualifications for the SAT were recognized with the results of the GED. If I had been a graduate earlier, I wouldn't have to do the crap like taking the GED.

‘What is this, I got first place in the country and entered Korea University, so suddenly I put a straw in it and something like that…?’

Otherwise, I couldn't explain the situation now.

‘What’s going on in the world is like that.’

There were not only a couple of people who showed a double attitude, ignoring and ignoring them when they couldn't go out, and trying to get to know him again and get help when he suddenly went out well.

But, even the alma mater I attended would show that.

I shook my head and went straight to the office.

The female employee who called Lim Chang-yong earlier, with her face open, could not raise her face.

Perhaps she was an administrative employee, and she knew very well what was going on.

"Hmm······."

I arrived in front of the 3rd grade office with a heavy bag full of both hands.

The 3rd grade floor, the top floor.

All over the class, students excited about their graduation were chatting and chatting.

‘Is the drink too good…?’

I didn't know what to buy, so I bought two boxes of drink for gifts on the way home. It's the most expensive thing in the store.

smart···.

I carefully knocked on the office door.

"come in!"

A voice came from inside the classroom.

'Is this voice...?'

One of the few voices that remains clear even in the hazy memories.

‘Is it Kang Pil-yong?’

It sounded like the voice of Kang Pil-yong, who was the student body president and computer application machine teacher when I was in school.

'That's right...'

Looking through the door with the power of clairvoyance, as expected, Kang Pil-yong was drinking coffee and chatting with other teachers near the door of the classroom.

‘How can such garbage still be left at school…’

That guy was incompetent and unlucky enough to be one of the first bad teachers in our school.

'The guy who didn't understand the textbook properly, and wasted a lot of time in class every day and wasted his paycheck...'

However, when I pointed out the mistakes in the contents of the class, since then, they have been vindictive and have been retaliating against me.

‘He was a madman who was absent from school when he went out to get a national license.’

Fortunately, my homeroom teacher, Lim Chang-yong, corrected that part, so I had to work full time while I was in school.

‘When you see that human garbage still remains in the school, it seems that this school is still there…’

For schools to change, the quality of the students is important, but the quality of the teachers who teach them is also very important.

However, that guy Kang Pil-yong has no qualms about his skills, and he always oppressed students to cover his ignorance and defended his position with violence or abusive language.

“Honestly, a yangban who is more ignorant than a student is the same for 20 years without any progress...

I stepped forward and carefully opened the door to the classroom and entered.

"uh?"

Then, Kang Pil-yong, who was sipping coffee and looking at my face, was startled and drank all the coffee.

Then, roughly throwing the paper cup into the trash can, he approached me with a welcome expression as if meeting a disciple.

“Hey, Lee Joon...”

swish.

I passed by the nuclear waste that greeted me warmly and approached Mr. Im Chang-yong.

The teacher didn't even know I was there, and he was busy with his work.

"Hello. Teacher."

"Huh?"

The teacher didn't even know I was there, and she was concentrating on her work, then she looked up at me in surprise.“Oh, are you?”

"Yes. This is Junhyeok Lee, who attended this school 17 years ago.”

"Ah···. Junhyuk-ah, it’s been a really long time.”

Then, he got up from his seat and hugged me tightly.

“Where have you been? Your parents were very worried about you missing..."

“I had personal circumstances. I will tell you step by step later.”

"okay. I just finish this. Let's talk again later in a quiet place."

"Yes, teacher."

Then again, Mr. Chang-Yong Lim, sitting at his desk, was busy with his work.

'You're still the same now and then...'

If the other teachers just wasted their time while watching their superiors, only Sensei Lim Chang-yong was doing more work than the job assigned to him.

- I recommend this student to your university. Always sincere and willing to learn...

- I recommend this student to your company.

Active in everything, sincere, able to compromise with others...

The teachers were doing their best until the very end for the students who were graduating.

If you are like other teachers, you can just copy and paste what you wrote before in your life record and hand over the meaningless macro record book to your students.

Even after graduating from her graduation, Lim Chang-yong did not consider her students as strangers, but thought of them as disciples for the rest of their lives and was sincerely thinking about the future of the cranes.

'thank you.'

To be honest, teachers in general tend to work roughly because of the stable part of the guaranteed retirement age and the fact that they receive the same salary regardless of performance.

There was an absurdity that no one recognized me for doing better than others or paid more, and on the contrary, if I worked hard, I would ruin everything for that person.

That is why, in the civil service society, passing bombs to others is prevalent as much as possible.

'But Lim Chang-yong is different...'

Isn't it because of the sense of mission as an educator that he does his best with all his heart and sincerity despite the same salary?

He did not become a teacher with the goal of a stable job in the first place, but with his own dream and philosophy, he became a teacher to truly lead students on the right path, and to guide them so that they can fulfill their roles in society.

So, regardless of whether the salary is small or large, he always devoted himself to the students with the best attitude.

‘Most of the students do well, but they do not recognize it, and there must have been many disciples who acted ungratefully.’

There were a lot of guys who didn't appreciate it if they helped with all their heart, thought that it was their right, and instead demanded more or stabbed a knife in the back without knowing the grace.

‘However, he did not disappoint, and he is a wonderful person because he remains this unchanging image.’

While I was working with Lim Chang-yong, she greeted the other teachers she had taken classes with by handed out drinks.

“Hey, Junhyuk. you came out 1st place in the country.”

“Hey, what?”

“Hey Junhyuk. I thought you would be successful.”

“Heh heh. thank you."

The teachers were generally kind to me, and I treated them with good memories rather than the past.

“·················ogue.”

“····.”

However, he couldn't forgive Kang Pil-yong, so although he was a little shy, he didn't even give him a drink, and of course he just omitted greetings.

“Junhyuk. Now let's go outside. Everything is finished.”

"Yes, teacher."

So I went out with Lim Chang-yong separately.

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