Chapter 41 – Room 104, Room of Curses - 'Prestigious College Prep Hotel High' (1)
Chapter 39 – Room 104, Room of Curses - 'Prestigious College Prep Hotel High' (1)[User: Han Ga-in (Ji-hye)
Date: Day 16
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 104 (Room of Curses – Prestigious College Prep Hotel High)
Sage's Advice: 3]
There have been many attempts to define what music is in terms of the specific att- Examining the meaning of this sentence through the surrounding context --------
Absolutely disgusting.
(A) The number of distinct real roots of the equation f(x) - x = 0 is 2. (B) The number of distinct real roots of the equation f(x) x = 0 is 2.
At this time, f(0) is ---------
Please stop
(A) was granted a monopoly sales right for specific goods in exchange for supplying goods to the royal court or government offices. According to the Yukjeon Jorye published in the mid-19th century----------
I already took the CSAT, you fuckers!
*
Ah. What on earth is this.
Why am I, who has already taken the CSAT, locked up in this ridiculous 'boarding school' called 'Hotel High' and doing college prep studying 'again'?
The newly entered Room 104 was truly a terrible hell.
We were probably divided into student team/teacher team roles based on age.
The teacher team prepares the college prep education, and the student team studies.
Me, Elena, Yu Song-i, Kim A-ri, Park Seung-yeop -> Students
Kim Muk-seong, Cha Jin-cheol, Lee Eun-sol -> Teachers
That's the situation. The ridiculous thing is the student team's situation.
The crazy hotel ignored each of our actual ages, adjusted our physical ages, and shoved us all into our third year of high school.
In other words... Even Seung-yeop, who is only in his second year of middle school, was forcibly 'grown' and turned into a high school senior!
Thanks to that, Seung-yeop, who originally looked like he had no connection to studying, is sitting across from me with only his body grown, staring with soulless eyes.
What on earth is the 'danger factor' in this room?
Right now, this damn college prep studying itself feels disgusting, but since difficult studying won't physically kill us, the danger factor is probably something else.
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): Find out anything?
Han Ga-in (Student): Class is hard
Park Seung-yeop (Student): Yeah
Yu Song-i (Student): T_T
Elena (Student): Sob
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): There are exams every day. I'm currently making the Language questions.
Cha Jin-cheol (Teacher): Seems like there's some kind of sports day the day after tomorrow.
Han Ga-in (Student): Dog babies
Kim Muk-seong (Teacher): Peculiarity. School rules. It says if academic ability is lacking, you receive discipline in the old school building.
Han Ga-in (Student): Old school building?
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): Abandoned building behind the main building.
Yu Song-i (Student): Why?
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): Don't know. No explanation either. Everyone takes it for granted.
Old school building.
It's definitely strange.
Scolding someone for low test scores is a common occurrence, but sending them to another building to scold them?
I've never heard of a school doing such a bothersome thing.
Putting that aside, a daily pop quiz? What a great school. Truly a prestigious college prep school!
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As a result of everyone completely ignoring the class and focusing entirely on the mental chat window, a thunderous shout fell.
----Thwack!
The chalk slashed through the air.
"Uwah! T-Teacher, what is this-"
"Park Seung-yeop! You're not focusing on class! What are you thinking about! Do you think I haven't seen kids like you for just a day or two? Kids who don't study during class, just have useless delusions in their heads, and waste their lives away. Come out here!"
Seung-yeop, who was the worst at 'managing his facial expressions', was summoned. What do we do about this?
More importantly, what are they trying to do? Are they going to send him to that 'old school building'?
"N-No. I was listening to the class. You saw it wrong, Teacher."
"What? You little brat, seriously! Then answer this question! I've been talking about King Yeongjo since earlier, so you should know if you were focusing. When did King Yeongjo's reign begin?"
? No, it's not even some historical event, but asking when a king reigned? What is-
"1724."
...
The teacher who had been shouting fell quiet.
... Did he get it right?
The teacher asked another question in a voice that seemed somewhat smaller than before.
"What year was Crown Prince Sado executed?"
"1762."
...
The teacher fell quiet again.
No, he got it right again? Does that make sense? When the hell did he memorize the entire national history textbook?
"Ahem. So you were listening to the class. The teacher must have been a bit mistaken. But you need to hold your book straight, open your eyes wide! and look at it with your soul. Since your gaze keeps wandering back and forth and you look dazed, the teacher misunderstood, didn't he? Alright! Everyone, let's focus on class."
Yu Song-i (Student): What what?
Han Ga-in (Student): Are you perhaps a genius?
Elena (Student): Do Korean students normally memorize even the years like this?
Han Ga-in (Student): Not even a national top scorer, but that kind of crazy bastard?
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): Save your characters. What the hell is it?
Yu Song-i (Student): Seung-yeop got the history questions right
While the conversation continued in an excited atmosphere, Seung-yeop, who had suddenly fallen under suspicion of being a genius, was actually saying nothing.
Kim A-ri (Student): Seems like he used a Blessing
Park Seung-yeop (Student): Yes...
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): Details
Park Seung-yeop (Student): When the question came in, it popped up as 100% and asked if I wanted to use Blessing of Luck... so I thought, I'll use it! But there was no change at all, so I just yelled out whatever number thinking 'whatever', and they were all the answers.
Kim Muk-seong (Teacher): Are you out of your mind, consuming a Blessing with such a long cooldown for something so trivial?
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): No, this is important.
My older sister is right. This isn't simply Seung-yeop wasting his Blessing.
Because Seung-yeop didn't use the Blessing on his own whim.
Before that, the message 'Do you want to use Blessing of Luck?' must have popped up first.
There's no way such a message would pop up by chance.
It popped up because it was a 'crisis situation'!
What if he got the question wrong? He would have probably received 'discipline in the old school building'.
One fact was confirmed. Going to the old school building is a danger factor.
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After that, everyone at least pretended to look at their books, and the painful class time passed.
Lunchtime. The entire student team gathered.
"Hyung! Noona! Seriously, what should I do? I looked at the book but couldn't understand a single word!"
"Seung-yeop, calling me Noona with that body size feels weird... But seriously, what should we do? Ga-in Oppa, do you have any thoughts?"
"First of all, seeing as a notification popped up asking whether to use a Blessing the moment the question was received, 'going to the old school building' itself seems to be the danger factor."
"So, that means we all need to study hard for now~"
"Hmm, A-ri, you seem pretty confident."
"My! I'm not confident. I'm just saying that's how the situation is."
What was that? It felt like some sparks flew between Song-i and A-ri just now. Is it my imagination?
Elena, who had been silent, opened her mouth.
"The immediate problem is the 'exam' they say we have after class. I'll be honest. I don't think I can solve it at all. I can't understand almost any of the subjects at all. Language and National History, fine, since I'm not Korean, but I can't even touch Math or English either. Is Korea normally like this?"
"No, it's not. I'm... um, it seems like I'm the only one here with college prep experience, but the current class level is above that of special-purpose high schools. Even the top-tier Korean students would barely be able to keep up. At this rate, the difficulty of the exam after class will probably be almost impossible to even touch."
Everyone fell quiet.
I had never asked about things like grades since coming to the hotel, but just by the feel of it, it didn't seem like Song-i or Seung-yeop would be good at studying. Elena is a foreigner.
What on earth should we do about this?
With the current atmosphere, the student team would be annihilated the moment we take the exam, leaving at best only me alive.
Seung-yeop spoke up first.
"How about we all just run away no matter what? Like how I ran away from the Bizarre Family and ended up escaping."
"That place was a residential area connected to the outside, but this is an isolated boarding academy. The security guard was strictly controlling the door, so I think it'll be hard to escape."
"Then, since my body has gotten bigger too, Hyung and I could just beat up the teachers-"
"Wait, wait, you just keep quiet for a moment. Didn't you learn anything from the ranch? The teachers here aren't exactly 'anomalies'. They're just teachers from a 'prestigious college prep school'."
When A-ri fired off a remark, Seung-yeop shrank back with his head hung low.
He still can't do anything in front of A-ri...
Of course, this is no time to be thinking about that.
And I do understand what Seung-yeop is saying.
At this rate, aren't we just going to take an impossibly difficult exam, get failing grades in bulk, and get wiped out in the 'danger zone' called the old school building!
In the quiet atmosphere, A-ri opened her mouth.
"It seems like we don't need to go with a frontal approach."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's cheat."
Everyone fell quiet again.
"What? No, well, were you guys actually planning to study for the real CSAT in this hotel?"
"No... it's not that, but how are you going to do it?"
"How, what how? Why are we hesitating when we have people with a chat window in their heads? You said the teacher team is making the questions? We just need to post the answers."
Ah. Coming back to the classroom and wearing the school uniform, I must have unknowingly deluded myself into thinking I was a real high school senior.
A-ri is right.
Why the hell are we studying in a place like this? We just need to cheat and be done with it.
While everyone was having an epiphany, A-ri swiftly posted her opinion.
Kim A-ri (Student): Teacher team attention
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): ?
Kim A-ri (Student): Judged old school building dangerous. Need to pass exam. Please post answers to questions currently being created.
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): OK but can't post all
Han Ga-in (Student): What do you mean?
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): I have Language, Cha has Physical Ed, Kim has National History. Therefore, I only know the Language and History answers.
Kim A-ri (Student): Please post even just those
Lee Eun-sol (Teacher): OK
Thanks to the twisted teachers actively cooperating with the cheating, the situation was resolved to some extent.
It didn't seem like there would be a written exam for Physical Ed, and the answers for Language and National History would be posted.
However, a serious problem still remained.
What on earth are we doing about Math, English, and other subjects?
While I fell into deep thought, A-ri stared at me intently.
"What? Do you have something to say?"
"It seems like it's up to you now, Oppa."
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"The only one among us with college prep experience. A pre-college student who took the CSAT. A K-University acceptee. I'm trusting you."
Everyone looked at me with eyes full of dreams and hope.
I ended up clutching my head.