The Hero
Volume 5 – Silver Knight
Chapter 5
It’s been a couple days since Haneul’s last visit to the school, but the interior was bustling with many students. It could be the same for the exterior. There were many students bustling about.
‘Where was the Dean’s office again.’
As Haneul was walking around inside the school, he finally found the door that said ‘Dean’s office’ and made his way towards that direction.
Knock knock.
The moment Haneul knocked on the door, the door flung open.
A baptism of flashes could be seen.
“Ugh!”
As Haneul fell back from surprise, 3 cameras surrounded him.
“h.e.l.lo, Haneul. My name is Miyeon Lee and I am a Hero Reporter for the MBB. I’ve met you once before, do you remember?”
‘Mother f.u.c.ker.’
Haneul felt that everything was starting to make sense now as to why the Dean suddenly invited him over to meet. Silver Knight is currently a rising Hero in the world, and the Dean who knew of Haneul’s ident.i.ty, wanted to make use of him in order to advertise his own school.
“Now now, let’s all go back into the room and calmly discuss this. Are you guys going to surround a person and make him feel fully surprised and uncomfortable?” (Dean)
As if the Dean was afraid that Haneul would run away, he quickly came out and grabbed Haneul by the hand to guide him into the room.
Haneul had no choice but to end up in the Dean’s room, and to start with the interviews.
“Please stop.”
Said Haneul with a straight face, and the reporters who were asking Haneul many questions, suddenly stopped talking and looked at him with a slightly surprised face.
“Are you not happy with something? I apologize if we made a mistake with something.”
“Mistake? Isn’t it strange for you to be even asking me something like that? You guys made a huge mistake. First off, I’ve never even said that I wanted to be doing interviews. How are you guys continuing with your work without even asking me for my opinion?”
Haneul’s searing gaze looked towards the Dean, and the Dean with his half bald head, seemed to be on the verge of embarra.s.sment.
“Ah, no Haneul. This is also good for yourself, as well as the school. Don’t you hope for talented Hero trainees to come to our Woon Rim College after we advertise about how you came from our school?” (Dean)
Haneul frowned.
He was basically called over for marketing reasons, yet hoped it would be for something else.
Haneul stood up.
The reporters looked confused and did not know what was happening.
“Silver Knight. This is great for the school, and just as the Dean said, this is also good for yourself. It’s definitely going to be posted in an article, and it will also pop up in the news. The people want a Hero. A Hero that is special amongst all the other Heroes, especially during the tough times like recently.”
Haneul was about to walk out, but he suddenly recalled the civilians that were at the shelter, shaking out of fear. He remembered the one Hero that gave it his all in order to protect the civilians.
At the least, Haneul thought some of the articles would talk about that person, but no matter how hard he searched he wasn’t able to find any articles regarding this Hero.
With face filled with wonder, the Dean and the reporters were staring intently at Haneul’s back.
Haneul clenched his fist and stood still.
‘That’s right, there’s something wrong with this world.’
The people from this world overly focused on Heroes with certain powers. For example, a Hero that has 50 strength, but can harness 25 of it was praiseworthy. But, a Hero who had 10 strength and harnessed all, no, tried his best to harness all of it, wasn’t given any attention. Actually, they weren’t even being recognized at all. This was……Haneul felt that this was very wrong.
Haneul turned his head.
“Alright, there’s no reason I can’t do this. However, I have a condition for you.”
“Now we’re talking. What is it? If it’s something within our powers, we would do anything we can to fulfill it.”
“There is a certain Hero that protected the civilians at the shelter in the last Earthquake. It was something that I’ve inquired from other people but I’m not too certain about it.”
“Haha, of course. There was definitely an impressive Hero at the shelter that day. That hero was SILVER KNIGHT! You’re quite tactful. Did you want us to write that you were there at the location?”
“No. It has nothing to do with Silver Knight. A Hero by the name of Ironman was there. I honestly look up to a Hero like him. If you all think that I have the capability to have an interview with you guys then I want to have an interview with him by my side.”
Haneul was barely able to get away from the MBB reporters.
‘They’re so clingy that it was hard for me to get rid of them.’
Haneul was fed up.
As soon as Haneul brought up Ironman, the reporters started asking him many questions as to who that Hero was. At that moment, Haneul wanted to take back what he said, but it was something that already came out from his mouth.
Haneul walked away into an area where there weren’t many people, and sat down on a bench, underneath a Zelkova tree. That’s when Haneul received a call.
“h.e.l.lo, Haneul speaking.”
It was the Dean.
He was apologizing for what had happened earlier, and really didn’t know that Haneul hated the idea of having interviews.
“There’s no need for you to say that. I’m alright.”
Honestly speaking, Haneul was still angry regarding the whole situation.
It was very selfish of the Dean to go through with that whole charade without even asking him for his opinion. However, Haneul knew the Dean had his reasons.
Most Heroes never miss the chance to get themselves well known and famous. Even the government was all for the promoting of the Heroes. If a popular Hero was to get on TV and talk about their preparations and thoughts on their job, there would be a huge amount of people watching the program.
With this, the Hero will make their base money that they would normally get, and also receive extra incentives from the program. There were times when Heroes would be able to make double their normal pay, which showed how strongly this world focused on a Hero’s image. It would also show which nation was focusing on which Hero.
“It’s okay. Yes, I’m serious. However, can you please tell me about the situation before something like that happens again? I really hate random happenings like that.”
The Dean stuttered as he agreed to Haneul’s wishes, and was now worried that Haneul might be uncomfortable with him. The Dean was a hard figure for Haneul to even meet in the previous world, but in this world, the Dean was trying his best to stay on Haneul’s good side.
‘So this is what it means to have a social position.’
Chapter 5 – End.