Academy Retirement Diary of the Student Council President

"Anyway, it's all gold everywhere."

"Yeah, we live up to our Guild name, don't we?"

Eve Meitner smiled brightly.

'Indeed, a mindset befitting the Guild Leader of the Golden Guild.'

That gold wasn't plating. It was all pure, 100% gold.

The 63-story building located in Yeouido... before I transmigrated into this world, it was just a building with somewhat yellowed glass windows... but in this world, it had transformed into an insanely extravagant building where anything that seemed even slightly shiny was pure gold.

'Ah, of course, she wasn't crazy enough to embed the windows with pure gold too; some parts are glass covered with film... Still, if you stripped off only the real gold, you'd probably get over 100 billion won, easily?'

"By the way, what did you do to the domestic Guilds? That kid from the Spiral Guild was complaining after an A-Rank Gate run."

'...Spiral... you mean Ryu Seong-ho?'

That rather rude text message from before, I hadn't replied and had just ignored it. Was he sulking about that?

"The United States. To be precise, it seems they're quite unhappy about you selling Potions to the Vultures. They're planning to band together with other Guilds and protest it as leakage of national assets."

Eve Meitner casually hinted at the Spiral Guild's next move.

'...Well, let them protest.'

Yuseong Group wasn't a public corporation in the first place.

It was just a small-scale enterprise with the minor power to drastically lower the survival rate of Heroes in Gates worldwide simply by monopolizing the patent and blocking the production of intermediate Potions.

"...Then well, I'll just move to America."

As I stated my next plan very seriously, Eve Meitner looked at me, slightly surprised.

"...Ahaha, unlike the previous chairman, you seem to take quite a hard line."

"Please tell them I won't sell for anything less than 30 million for high-grade and 16 million for intermediate-grade. Considering labor costs, even those prices are the lowest possible I can offer."

I had sold them to the Vultures at that price anyway.

The Korean Guilds had become too accustomed to the Yun Seong-ho era's 'We'll give you Potions for free' and thought it was natural to get them practically at cost...

'The Korean Guilds have gotten too used to it.'

It was a reasonable price, so much so that Thomas Andrea, the Guild Leader of the Vultures, had knelt and expressed his gratitude with tears, thanking me for selling at that price.

'I was really surprised back then.'

I knew beforehand from an email that Guild Leader Thomas Andrea would visit personally.

But after checking all the goods at Incheon Port, when I gave her a top-grade Potion as a commemoration of our first transaction, I really didn't expect her to burst into tears saying thank you.

The world's strongest Defender, whose nickname 'Goliath' was well-earned.

She had a large scar over one eye, making her look a bit intimidating at first glance, but she was a woman of such integrity that she declared in front of reporters that the Vultures would help the Yuseong Group whenever needed.

She was such a warm-hearted woman that she even gave me her personal phone number, telling me to call if I needed help personally... It was a moment that made me marvel anew at Yun Seong-ho's sheer idiocy for turning such a loyal and kind person into a money-crazed demon.

"Anyway, I sold them to the Vultures at that price too, so tell them that if they're Heroes protecting South Korea, they should be satisfied with the discounts they've received so far."

"Haha, alright. I'll tell them when the Guild Leaders meet later. Now, enough about that. Quickly, show me that eye!"

"...Yes, well."

Actually, this was the main event.

I looked at Eve, who had immediately put on a lab coat and rushed over.

I had only seen her once at the Academy, and the casual outfit Eve wore briefly then was a tight-fitting high-leg suit, hot pants—or maybe underwear... anyway, extremely short shorts—and though covered by a robe, the back was also quite deeply cut, a rather risqué outfit.

According to the game's lore, that outfit was an item that enhanced Eve Meitner's own lightning magic...

'No matter how I think about it, that outfit was definitely designed with ulterior motives.'

No wonder there was a line from her fellow Hero, the Sword Demon, saying 'This shameless woman!'

However, looking at the clothes Eve wore now: black dress pants, a khaki knit sweater, and a lab coat stylishly worn over it.

'That look is much better.'

Honestly, even this current outfit was tailored to fit snugly, making it quite... provocative.

An ordinary man might find it incredibly arousing, enough to pounce on Eve immediately... or so

I thought, but Eve's age was greater than even Sword Demon and Sword Saint, who had already become white-haired old men.

In the first place, even the system window only showed Eve Meitner's age as '??'.

Thanks to that, the community rags on her, calling her an old hag or whatever, but according to the game's lore, Eve's physical age is in her mid-twenties.

I understand it's a setting where overwhelming Mana maintains the body at its peak condition...

Anyway, seeing that tremendous Mana container sway with my own eyes was quite...

'Thank you.'

-Drip

"Huh? Sea, your nose is bleeding..!"

"Ah, it's nothing."

Using Psychokinesis, I located the burst blood vessel and stopped the bleeding; the nosebleed stopped instantly.

Seeing that, I even received praise for my excellent application of the ability.

Anyway, enough with the preamble.

Eve, perhaps realizing she was running short on time, seemed to begin her investigation into my eye somewhat swiftly.

I also explained the abilities of the [Eye of Suggestion] as truthfully as possible in order to become stronger.

'Besides, if I lied, her would catch it immediately anyway.'

Thus, at the end of a long, four-hour investigation, Eve was able to reach one conclusion.

"Hmm... truly incredible. How on earth did you endure this madness..."

"Ah, if you're talking about the regeneration ability, Mr. Yun Seong-ho kept digging into my eye with a scalpel to suppress the regeneration even slightly..."

"S-Stop!"

It was that the value of this Magic Eye embedded in my eye truly surpassed imagination.

"First, I have a skill called that continuously replenishes Mana, right?"

"Yes."

"Yours isn't quite at the level of my yet... but your Mana is continuously replenishing at a similar rate. Your base Mana probably increased tremendously right after that monster's eye was transplanted too."

'So this Magic Eye... is like another Mana Core of sorts.'

I explained the supplementary abilities as best as I could. Eve might already know that I killed Yun Seong-ho anyway, and she's one of the people who knows very well what an unparalleled bastard Yun Seong-ho was.

"Let's stop the research here for now. There's still too much to study about that Hypnosis ability... Let's bring in some test subjects next week and proceed then."

Perhaps because of this, Eve seemed to be wrapping up the research on my Magic Eye somewhat roughly.

"So... to summarize simply, your eye has the power to hypnotize those you look at. And just by possessing that eye, your basic Mana capacity and regeneration rate have increased."

"Is that so? No wonder my Psychokinesis felt stronger after that experiment back then."

"Right? Then quickly, put up a barrier."

"...Excuse me?"

"Quickly."

-Zzzzzing...!

"Barrier is u-..."

-Crackle!

"..........!"

Immediately after I said that, a single bolt of lightning instantly flew towards my eyes.

-KABOOOOOOOM!

Fortunately, the barrier didn't break, but it was startling.

"Good reaction. There are many openings in the Golden Guild. Want to join?"

"Uhm... Is training starting right away?"

I scratched my head and looked at Eve.

'Come on, surely she wouldn't start training now after being drained from all the research?'

However, as if intending to slowly crush my desperate hope, the corners of Eve's lips were turned up significantly.

'.........Ah.'

After that, dozens of lightning bolts struck me.

"This hurts way more than the experiment back then."

"Stop whining. I only used magic around the 6th-7th Circle level."

"You do know that's the maximum output for A-Rank Heroes, right?"

I safely woke up in the Golden Guild's healing room.

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Meanwhile, in some ruins in England.

"...Word is, an Apostle who had significantly progressed in Demonisation died in Korea. Cause of death unknown, much is suspicious."

"Korea... Isn't that where a part of the Demon King's remains lies dormant? We couldn't even retrieve the legacy because of those disgusting Hero bastards..."

"Oh my, I quite liked that place; there were many interesting test subjects."

In deserted ruins, 'somethings' gathered around a stone round table.

A black knight clad in massive iron armor, something in the form of a demon with a rather voluptuous figure, and a human shape made of black smoke.

Among them, the black knight commanded the demonic figure.

"You go and check the situation. You're the most free from the 'Restrictions'. While you're there, see if you can find the Gate where part of the Demon King's remains lies dormant... and if you can find a way to awaken our slumbering comrades, find that too."

"Alright, guess I gotta do what the First Seat tells me~"

As the demonic figure stood up, openly expressing its annoyance, the black knight growled as if giving an ultimatum.

"My patience has its limits, Shena. Make sure you complete the task properly this time, without failure."

"Yes, yes~"

The 'something' with horns on its head vanished in an instant...