The Protagonists Are Murdered by Me
chapter-119

Two days after Yoo Seodam left for another world.

[Hunter Taylor Nine, 38th person to be promoted to SS-rank!]

[Why did Taylor Nine, a Russian, choose Korean guild ‘Another League’?]

The news of Taylor Nine’s promotion was written in numerous articles all over the world. Taylor herself tried to refuse all kinds of coverage because it was troublesome. However, Yekaterina wouldn’t let this opportunity pass by.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Yekaterina, the Chief Executive Officer of the Another League.”

Click! Click! Click!

Hundreds of cameras took her pictures as soon as she introduced herself. Taylor, who was sitting right next to her, was forced to answer reporters’ questions because of Yekaterina, while making a very annoyed expression.

“Hunter Taylor, I heard you were asked to return to Russia. Can I ask you why you chose to stay in Korea?”

“I stay because all of you~~~~ are so lovely. Sweety, I love you!!”

“We know that the government of Russia has announced its official position. They said that because Hunter Taylor Nine was someone with Russian nationality, you will be counted as an SS-rank superhuman from Russia, what do you think about it?”

“Oh, I changed my nationality~”

“I heard that there is a very special superpower curriculum unique to the Another League Guild, is that true?”

“Wait, really?”

“Do you want to say anything in regard to S-rank Hunter Lee Mosi remark, ‘SS-rank or the S-rank, they have their own position’?”

“Who is that?”

Of course, just like always Taylor Nine didn’t answer the question clearly.

Reporters were already familiar with Taylor Nine’s behavior, so their gaze naturally turned towards Yekaterina.

Feeling the attention at her, Yekaterina sighed and took Taylor’s microphone.

“Please ask your question to me from now on.”

After that, the press conference became a normal Q&A session. The reporters were able to catch their breath thanks to Yekaterina, who had a gentle and calm personality.

“Yes. In fact, Another League has a special superpower curriculum. We are willing to teach those who didn’t have any superpower if they wish, and we could also help those who already had a superpower and help them to develop it further just like what we did with Taylor Nine.”

“In addition, for magic, we had established ‘Yekaterina Magic Lab’ inside the hideout of Another League. In the future we are going to do an experiment to combine ether dispenser technology with magic. And in regards to that, we promised to provide a good treatment for ether craftsmen who joined our guild. We are also planning to recruit some scholars who were interested in studying magic.”

Together with Taylor’s promotion press conference, Yekaterina also ‘advertised’ Another League as a place full of talent that awaits people to join.

So, three days later, Another League began to be crowded with hunters and researchers who wanted to join the guild. Yekaterina was so busy handling thousands of interviews to the point she didn’t have any time to pick up her phone.

At the same time, Russia also announced their official position in order to keep Yekaterina’s Magic Lab in check.

[Morian Guild “We will implement a magic education policy”]

[It will be a study that any Russian citizen can learn.]

It was a preemptive attack from Russia and Morian. They, who so far wanted to keep magic for themselves, suddenly announced that they were willing to teach Magic with some conditions and benefits attached. It was a huge announcement from them, and people were thinking of going to Russia rather than waiting for Another League who only recruited famous scholars.

Yekaterina’s worries deepened. Not only because she was preoccupied with famous scholars, but more importantly, the fact that Morian defeated them for every little thing was putting her in a bad mood.

“Ah, is that so? Why don’t you do YTube?”

“Yes?”

Shin Hye-ji, the direct secretary Seol Jungyeon of New Murim, solved Yekaerina’s worry in an unexpected way.

“YTube?”

“Yes. I think it would be a good if you use YTube.”

Yekaterina fell into deep thoughts as she touched a dark, suspicious armor which was delivered to her by Shin Hye-ji. It was an armor found in the House of Goblin and was brought to Yekaterina, a wizard, because people of Murim could feel the energy of a dead goblin from the armor and were constantly cursed by it.

“Ugh…. Doesn’t that hurt? When I wear it, it keeps bothering me.”

“Ah it’s fine, there’s no problem.”

Rather than a bother, Yekaterina feels like stroking a puppy when she touched it.

Yekaterina contemplated while hugging the armor on her chest.

‘Well, it’s definitely not a bad choice…’

The guild that Yoo Seodam envisioned in the first place was a guild that could protect himself and a place where he could recruit colleagues to move together with him. He said it would be enough to recruit very few elite members, but Yekaterina had no intention of doing so at all.

She wanted to create a perfect guild that would not lose to anyone. She wanted to create a guild that could defeat the large Morian Guild and Lost Day Guild that threw Yoo Seodam away.

When Yekaterina told Yoo Seodam about it. His response was only ‘Is that so……’ and he said he wasn’t really interested in doing it, but he also said ‘Do whatever you want to do. I have no intention of blocking your dreams.’ He also allowed Yekaterina to do anything she wanted to do.

In other words, no matter what she does, no one could argue with her. So she decided to do YTube filming soon.

Of course, even if she showed her magic to the world through YTube, she had no intention to share all of her knowledge. If the level of magic of Morian guild was 1, then, the level of Yoo Seodam’s magic was 10. Yekaterina only showed level 2 through YTube.

After witnessing it people would naturally turn their attention from the Morian Guild to Another League. In addition, what if Yekaterina promised to teach more advanced magic to those who joined Another League? Scholars who had lived their life for math will never be able to stand it and would naturally flocked towards Another League.

“I think it would be good…. Wow, wait, awesome. I’m like a genius.”

“What is it?”

“How about opening an official channel for Another League and includes Ha Sun-young’s mugong, Yekaterina’s magic, and Taylor Nine’s superpower curriculum?”

“Can we do that…?”

“Of course, we can! Besides, all three of you are a beauty, so the channel subscribers will be huge too! My God, my God! Let’s start as soon as possible! I’ll tell Master and help out!”

And just like that, ‘Another League Official YTube Channel’ was created. In the span of a short 3 days after its creation, the number of subscribers of the channel already surpassed 4 million.

The subscribers were mainly those who wanted to learn Mugong, scholars who wanted to learn magic, and those who wanted a ‘special curriculum’ developed by SS-rank superhuman. However, those who subscribed just because they liked the appearances of the trainer weren’t small.

With that much attention, every video uploaded to the channel is always followed by an article ‘the new records of view in the shortest time.’ Not only that, Ha Sun-young, Yekaterina, and Taylor Nine’s names were always competing fiercely in which name had the most real-time search terms. In addition to those three, Ye Sa-hye, who appeared as an assistant in all the videos, was steadily fixed in the search rankings because many people were curious about her.

And now back in the present.

“…That’s what happened in just one week?”

“Yes.”

Yoo Seodam was once again surprised by Yekaterina’s capability as he watched her teaching magic to scholars and students from all over the world by renting a whole huge lecture room at a university in Seoul.

That explains how the Library of White Witch level was increased to C. It seems that Yekaterina was working hard on her recent magic research.

When Yoo Seodam looked across the window, he could see bulky athletes were sitting on their knees to receive Ha Sun-young’s teaching. It was quite mystical to see Ha Sun-young who had smaller stature than the others was the teacher.

There were also dozens of cameras running to film them. It was all to create a video for YTube.

“It’s called ‘sample’. Even if you tasted a little bit of it, you won’t be able to get out of it.”

Ye sa-hye said so as she showed Yoo Seodam YTube live stream of Taylor Nine who was busy teaching about superpower.

-Now look, you’re not pulling ether like me but like a dog. I mean, try to make it fun, cool, and sexy. Uh, uh! okay! That’s it! right!

-Oh, it works!

In the video, Taylor Nine was teaching her way to some talented superhuman, and surprisingly, when Taylor Nine made some weird gibberish, one of the superhumans quickly understood it and did it. Of course, they were someone who were chosen after a strict screening process, even so, the fact that they understood Taylor’s gibberish was quite a shock for Yoo Seodam and Ye Sa-hye.

It was something that both Yoo Seodam and Ye Sa-hye who didn’t have a superpower couldn’t understand.

“….That’s probably something only for superhuman, right?”

“I, I think so too.”

But there was one problem, Taylor Nine’s superpowers curriculum wasn’t perfect. Although she pioneered a ‘new path’ after combining superpower with magic, it wasn’t yet at a level that could cover various superpowers abilities that exist in the world.

“Gilma should also teach.”

(Gilma is shortened version of 길드 마스터/Guild Master)

“But I don’t have super powers?”

“But didn’t you teach Taylor Unni before?”

“Well, that…. That was because Taylor is a genius…”

“Then you can teach another genius and ask them to teach it to other people. Now this has become a very important project for our guild, Gilma-nim must not be left out, don’t you think so?”

“……”

And just like that, Yoo Seodam became a professor of superpower who doesn’t have a superpower.

* * *

If someone asked ‘who’s the fastest rising hunter in Northern Europe?’ Seven out of ten people would answer it with ‘Celeste Costantini’.

She debuted as a hunter at the age of only seventeen. In just two year, she had become a C-rank superhuman with body strengthening-type superpower. She was showing a very unparalleled track record.

[C-rank hunter Celeste breaks through an A-rank dungeon alone!]

[What is the identity of the body strengthening technique she uses?]

[Costantini’s swordsmanship is recognized even by the swordmasters!]

However, her rank could be considered as pretty low.

Unlike ‘natural interference-type’ superpower which randomly manifests and could be A rank immediately after awakening, body strengthening-type superpower belonging to the ‘physical world’ was bound to manifest as an E-rank. It will slowly get stronger and rise in terms of ranking.

Nevertheless, being a C-rank superhuman at such a young age proved that she’s a genius. Even so, for those who knew Celeste well, ‘great’ wasn’t enough to describe her ability.

Celeste Costantini, her swordsmanship was beautiful and sharp. It was something that was akin to Mugong, but there was something different from it.

When she swung her sword, it created a splendid flame, just like an exploding firecracker. It could also be like lightning when the storm struck or just like a raging wave.

Few years ago, Yoo Seodam acknowledged Celeste’s talent in swordsmanship. However, at that time, he did not know in detail about her talent as well as how much potential hiding inside her.

Thanks to the people of Murim, swordsmanship had become much more renown these days.

However, what would happen when someone with body strengthening-type superpower who was capable of overwhelmingly strengthening their destructive output also mastered the swordsmanship of another world?

[C-rank hunter Celeste defeats A-rank Body strengthening-type villain!]

[C-rank hunter Celeste, made a big achievement in the S-rank rift…]

[C-rank hunter Celeste, 19 dungeons cleared in a week!]

Although her rank was low, she had quite a big fanbase. Her ‘Expressionless Selfie’ spread through the internet as both Meme and challenges and many Stargram stars were following her Stargram account.

However,

‘Not enough.’

Her swordsmanship was now at the level that couldn’t be imitated both by people of Murim who were master at mugong or by the knights of the fantasy world who were masters in using aura, because of her unique mix of body strengthening superpower and swordsmanship of another world which had been developed for thousands of years. But, she wasn’t satisfied yet.

However, it was still lacking.

In the end, the swordsmanship she possessed was something she learned at surface level from Yoo Seodam. And even though she pioneered it with her own strength, it was simply insufficient compared to the swordsmanship that other geniuses had studied for thousands of years.

Then she remembered that recently, Yoo Seodam’s guild Another League was mentioned quite often and decided.

‘It’s disgraceful, but let’s ask for teaching again.’

It was not enough for her to just meet any swordsman in this world, even Murim people and their teaching wouldn’t be enough for her. She wanted to learn the mysterious swordsmanship that was different from mugong.

So, Celeste went to meet Yoo Seodam.

“I came here because I wanted to learn swordsmanship again….”

“You pass!”

“Sorry?”

Yoo Seodam grabbed Celeste’s hands and smiled before pointing towards some place.

“There’s a group of ‘body strengthening’ talents who came to us. But because Taylor Nine is someone who handles a ‘natural interfering-type’ superpower, she couldn’t teach them. Unlike you, they don’t understand what I’m saying. From now on you will learn from me and teach those friends. Can you do it?”

“……Yes?”

Thus, Celeste, who came to Yoo Seodam to learn swordsmanship, became a professor who taught senior superhumans who were higher in rank and older than herself.