I Became the Only Buffer in the Academy

82 – Preparation period – 3

How long did you walk with me at the association? Yoo Cho-ah stopped walking in front of a slightly shabby-looking snack bar.

“Here it is. Grandma! I’m here!”

“Hey. Choa is here? Come on in.”

A nice-looking grandmother greeted us with a smile. There are a few tables inside. Yuchoa, who went to one of them and sat down, smiled and raised her hand.

“Please give me 2 servings of tteokbokki and sundae and fried rice! Oh! Oden too!”

“Yes. Wait a minute.”

After a while, a plate full of tteokbokki, sundae, and oden came out. Quite a lot of fries.

“Do you give me this much for two people?”

“It’s the deadline now. Choa is here again, so I have to give her a lot.”

“Ehehehe~! I’ll eat well!”

Bursting out her amiable laugh, Yuchoa bowed her head to her grandmother. I also thanked her for her, and we immediately put her tteokbokki into her mouth.

The store is shabby, but the taste is definitely good.

“How is it? How is it?”

“It’s delicious.”

“Isn’t it?! I like this restaurant the best.”

“By the way, you seem to be close with grandma here? How often does she come?”

“Um… Quite often? Oops! Don’t look at me like that! I’m training well. I just came with my friends after training!”

“Who said what?”

“That gaze just said, ‘Isn’t this kid just hanging out all the time without training?’ Was that your gaze?”

Blinking her eyes and exclaiming confidently, Yuchoa dipped her sundae in the tteokbokki sauce and held it out to me.

“It’s not like you can’t eat sundae, right?”

Yuchoa took a sip of oden soup while chewing on the sundae that naturally slipped into her mouth.

“Huh… I feel full. Ah. If you want something more, you can order it. I’ll buy it today!”

“Is it okay for me to buy it?”

“Uh huh. Put it in. Put it in. If you do anything, you’ll buy it next time.”

“Um… That would be better. But I don’t know of any other restaurants out there?”

“I want you to know that. Aren’t you just training too much?”

“A hero must never stop working hard to train his body and mind.”

“Wow. You look like a model student.”

Yuchoa shook her head slightly and put her tteokbokki in her mouth. Gulping her little lips, she tapped her table and continued her words.

“But isn’t it hard if you just train too much?”

“Really? And I have to work hard. The people who originally applied have to work harder.”

The stronger the buffer, the stronger the party power. You can’t relax that much.

Buffers rarely fight directly. Shooting a bow once in a while is just a part of a check or to cut off a skill.

So buffers have to work hard outside of combat to build up their personal specs.

“Awesome… Um. It’s reliable as expected.”

Yuchoa nodded her head and smirked.

“Then I can’t stay still. If you don’t take your time, people will collapse quickly. That’s why I’ll take you here and there from time to time, like restaurants or places to hang out.”

“Huh?”

Single distance looked at Yoo Choa, who spoke lightly with her face. Her gaze went back and forth for a long time, but it was her who finally looked away.

“…Why. Don’t you like it?”

“Rather than hating it, wouldn’t you be busy too? Your feet should be very wide.”

“Don’t worry. How difficult would it be for a sister to take care of you?”

Who is your sister?

Yuchoa held out her hand as if to reject her objection, and I looked at her hand and nodded her head.

“Yeah. But I don’t always have time on weekends or something like that. Let’s adjust our schedule and go.”

“Really?! It’s a promise?!”

“Yes. Yes.”

“Ehehehe~.”

As if my answer was satisfactory, Yoo Choa’s face brightened even more. She hasn’t been much of a thing since then. Just the story of her academy bachelor life. Friend’s story. He just eats snacks while talking about the latest rumors.

We got up when the tteokbokki, tempura, and sundae that were on the table were completely gone.

“Grandma! Well done!”

“Okay. Come again next time.”

After paying the bills, we went outside and a cool breeze greeted us. I need to step in now…

“Let’s eat ice cream! How about buying one at the convenience store over there and eating it on the go?”

“That’s not bad either.”

I headed to the convenience store with Yoo Choa. When I bought her ice cream there and paid for it, she looked at the ice cream in her hand and looked at me with her sad face.

“Why?”

“I was going to buy this too.”

“No. I should buy this…”

“Chi. Then next time you buy it, I’ll make sure to buy the ice cream for you.”

“Yes. Let’s do that. Come on. Let’s go soon.”

With ice cream in our mouths, we slowly walked towards the gate. Perhaps it was the nighttime weather that was approaching summer, so the feeling of being cool rather than chilly was quite strong.

In the meantime, as I ate cool ice cream, my head gradually clears up.

“It’s not long before the training camp is over.”

“That’s right. During this training camp, they say they train regardless of class. I wonder how the team will be formed.”

“That’s right.”

As in Hero Academia, there is no class distinction in the camp training. She was told that teams were formed based on overall performance and then trained according to those teams.

If you look at it roughly based on grades, you can predict how the team will be formed, but you can still form a team with people you don’t know.

“There is a survival test at the end of the training camp, right?”

“Yes.”

“I heard it was an individual exhibition back then… What do you do?”

“I think the healer will focus on recovery or support.”

In the survival test, instead of taking the test, the healers wait in the test field and move with the person who is looking for them.

Outside camp training survival test is also a kind of competition. The content of the test is to protect the badge given to oneself and steal the badge of others, and a battle is likely to occur in the process.

Of course, this kind of test is no different from asking a healer to do a score vending machine, so they evaluated it in a different way, and I heard they are doing it again.

“Are you like that too?”

“Maybe so.”

Anyway, I belong to the healer side, so I guess.

“Hmm. Then how quickly I find you does matter?”

“Of course, I am also me, but it would be important to find other healers like Serenia and Ki Joon-yeol?”

“Hmm. I guess so. And Elizabeth, Siyeon, and Suho will also try to find you…”

How come I feel like a prey? Anyway, I’ll have to go see it then.

“It’s an individual competition, but there’s no law against cooperating. Wouldn’t it be bad to make a team through moderate negotiations?”

“Huh? Can we form a team?”

“As far as heroes are concerned, they fight with the strength of bond, love, and courage. Unless the opponent is evil, it’s best to achieve what one wants through negotiation. Isn’t dialogue the greatest weapon humans have?”

“How come it seems to be far from the purpose of the test… Hmm. Then I’ll go and think about it then.”

I can see the gate before I know it. Yuchoa spoke forcefully, clenching her fists, and took her remaining ice cream in one bite.

“Today was fun.”

“That’s right. Let’s go play again next time.”

“Yes!”

Yoo Choa’s reply was quite energetic.

As soon as she broke up with Choa Yoo and entered her dormitory, she took out two skill books.

Multiple agility increases, and a shroud of brilliance.

I hope these two skills will be of great help in Chapter 2 as well.

Anyway, let’s read quickly.

I cleared my mind and read the skill book. How much time had passed like that? The last time I got a multi-agility increase was well past midnight.

“Whoa…”

Shall we go to sleep now?

As I was about to lie down on the bed, the phone rang. When I checked, it was a message from Kim Yeon-ha.

[It’s late, are you sleeping? If you’re not sleeping, call me, and if you’re sleeping, come to the instructor’s office a little early tomorrow.]

He wasn’t sleeping, so let’s call him.

I called her right away, and after hearing her call, Kim Yeon-ha answered her call.

“Hello.”

[You weren’t sleeping. I heard you went to the association today.]

“Ah. Yes. It happened today. Did you get in touch already?”

[Yes. They were amazed that they received the skill book. It’s related to buffs… Are you thinking of going to the buffer side at all?]

“That would be better, wouldn’t it?”

[Yeah… Well, it wouldn’t be easy to go down a road that others don’t go. If that’s the path you chose, I won’t stop you. However, there are no buffer classes among the instructors, so there must be no one who can teach them properly.]

It doesn’t matter because I can solve that later when I meet Azazel.

[By the way. It’s a story about lodging. I don’t know if you know it, but the support class has a special position in the survival at the end of the training camp. Instead of participating in survival, you guys are located in a specific area…]

“Ah. Yes. I know.”

[Really? Then there is nothing more to say.]

“Ah… Is that why you asked me to call you?”

[There’s one more thing I’d like to talk about… Didn’t you get an offer from the association?]

“Yes? No.”

[Really? Hmm. Is it still okay?]

“What suggestions?”

[The association said that they are investigating the ruins related to the blue bird that brings the apocalypse. They said they were asking for healers from the academy because they lacked healers. So I wonder if the offer went to you too.]

“It didn’t come to me.”

[Hmm… Then who did you contact? Anyway, the schedule and camp schedule could overlap, so I tried to tell them not to do it if possible.]

“But if it’s a standard column, wouldn’t it?”

[Well, if it were him, I’d think so, but… Anyway, I got it. Let’s try to contact Kijun-yeol. Sleep well and see you tomorrow.]

A really businesslike and dreary phone call ended.

Anyway, these are ruins related to the blue bird that brings the end.

Suddenly, the Association will begin to relate to the main story.

Um…

From nob le mt l. co m

No big deal yet.

What I have to think about right now is the training camp.

Who will find me at the last survival camp?