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The Gourmet Club.

Just hearing the name makes it sound bizarre.

If it’s gourmet, it’s gourmet; if it’s weird food, it’s weird food.

But what is “mi-goesik”?

Why would anyone eat weird food in the first place!

It feels like a crime against my stomach, which is already struggling with just delicious food.

As expected, my stomach seems to dislike this situation too, growling loudly.

I’m definitely not hungry.

Really.

Because of Hayan, who filled out the application form without any discussion, I guess I have no choice but to look into this club.

“Instead of this, let’s head to our club room.”

“…Are we just leaving the promotion booth like this?”

“Nobody’s going to come anyway.”

“…”

Then why did we even set up the promotion booth?

And what’s up with Lee Ha-yoon, who just joined this club that nobody wants to join?

Today, everything is pure chaos.

On days like this, if you slip, your ribs might break.

If you fall backward, your nose might get smashed…

I just hope my sturdy body can hold up.

“By the way, my name is Kim Dong-ju.”

“…I’m Jeong Gyeoul.”

“Of course I know! You’re the special admissions! The youngest Awakened One and the youngest S-Class! No Awakened One wouldn’t know you two!”

Kim Dong-ju was thrilled, boasting about the incredible achievement of recruiting the only two special admissions in the school, Lee Ha-yoon and me.

At first, I just watched quietly…

But I stopped him, feeling like if this continued, I’d have to sacrifice my precious lunchtime.

“…Let’s wrap this up and go quickly.”

“Okay!”

I guided the overly excited Kim Dong-ju to the club room.

Of course, we left the promotion booth behind.

‘…They’ll clean it up later, right?’

The club building was located in a triangular formation with the lecture building and the dormitory on the map.

It’s an isosceles triangle, but a triangle is a triangle.

Anyway, I followed Kim Dong-ju.

We passed by numerous club rooms for swordsmanship, martial arts, calligraphy, beauty, instruments, dance, monsters, and more, finally reaching the most remote room at the highest point.

The name of the club room we might join is…

[Gourmet Club]

The (mi) that was clearly written on the application form had disappeared, leaving only the cursed name “Gourmet Club.”

Even opening the door is scary.

As soon as you open it, you might see the club president cutting into monster flesh with a knife.

Or maybe the room is filled with pineapple pizza, Soju, and Jjikko.

“Open it quickly!”

“Come on! We’ve come this far, what’s there to be scared of? Open it, Gyeoul!”

Kim Dong-ju urged me to open the door.

Lee Ha-yoon, the main cause of this situation, also urged me.

Fine! Opening this door won’t kill me, right?

If it’s really as I imagined, I can just close the door and leave.

As for Lee Ha-yoon…

She can figure it out herself.

This will be a good experience to learn the dangers of impulsive decisions.

I prepared myself and opened the door.

What I saw was…

“…What is this?”

“Wow…”

“Is this what all clubs are like?”

It was incredible.

The club with the strange name “Gourmet Club” had decorated its room to the point where it felt more like a gaming club.

As soon as you open the door, you see five computers.

The shiny PCs and gaming chairs greeted us in all their glory.

On either side were a pantry and a small refrigerator.

The pantry was stocked with all kinds of snacks, and the semi-transparent fridge was filled with something.

‘What if everything inside is Jjikko and Soju…’

It was different from what I imagined.

In fact, that made it even more suspicious.

But even if there’s something weird inside, I can just not eat it.

Can the Hayan-Gyeoul duo deploy without going to a PC bang?

This is precious…

“Over here, you can watch movies and all kinds of variety shows while lounging on the sofa! How about it! Tempting, right!”

I followed Kim Dong-ju’s finger to where he was pointing.

Just a slight turn from the computers…

There was a TV that looked even bigger than the one at my house, with an incredibly plush and expensive-looking sofa right in front of it.

Next to the TV was something that looked like an air purifier, but upon closer inspection…

It was an Enjoy Station 5.

TV? Dramas? Variety shows?

Don’t need any of that.

The ES5 is enough.

But, is all of this really… free?

If that’s true, then Kim Dong-ju is a marketer with no skills, a salesperson with no results.

Truly… an F-class member.

“You should have said this first.”

“Huh? What?”

“If you had told me the club room was like this, I would have signed up immediately!”

“…We usually use this to lure male students.”

What kind of world do we live in to discriminate like that!

Do they even know how many female gamers there are?

Just looking here, 50% of the girls are gamers.

“Are you being sexist right now?”

“N-no, it’s not like that! Oh my!”

Kim Dong-ju, turning pale, waved his hands in denial, expressing his frustration.

It wasn’t a big deal, but why is he overreacting…

Just as I was about to tell him it was a joke.

“What’s going on… Why is it so noisy…”

A voice came from the right, where a man who had just woken up was looking at us.

Even a foldable bed…

I could live here forever.

“New recruits?”

“Yes, President! Look who I brought!”

“…What, is that for real?”

…?

Calling someone “that” to their face.

And asking if it’s real.

Is he still half-asleep and talking nonsense?

‘Do you have a personality problem?’

If it were just a Blue Name Tag, I would have snapped back…

But unfortunately, it’s a Red Name Tag.

I am a person of good and upright character.

You have to treat seniors with respect.

“Hello, I’m not exactly a new recruit… more like here to check things out.”

“It really is Jeong Gyeoul!”

The man getting up from the bed already knew me.

Is there really no one in the school who doesn’t know me?

Well… it would be faster to find someone who doesn’t know me.

The national media focused on me as the youngest Awakened One, so I fled to England.

“Hello, President! I just joined earlier.”

“Ah, hello. I’m Lee Chae-song.”

“Hello, senior! I’m Lee Chae-rin!”

“Lee Ha-yoon and the twin foxes!”

I just realized that the Lee sisters were also celebrities at the academy.

Twin foxes.

What a lazy nickname, but it fits perfectly.

“President! If this happens…”

“Dong-ju! That’s right! We avoided disbandment! Well done!”

Red and blue meet, creating the harmony of yin and yang, forming the Taiji…

Damn it. Do I have to watch two guys hugging and celebrating?

“…Ahem!”

“Ah, sorry! We got too excited about the new recruits who will save us!”

“I said I’m not a new recruit…”

The Gourmet Club, on the brink of disbandment.

Even the president and members don’t seem to be in their right minds.

Despite the state-of-the-art multi-room, it’s strange that I don’t feel like running away.

Glancing to the side, the Lee sisters also seemed to sense something was off.

‘Lee Ha-yoon, you’re killing me…’

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Instructor Kim Gae-soo, in the middle of the semester, committed the outrageous act of changing the curriculum and was busy cleaning up the mess.

“…I feel sorry for the club students, it’s a tough time for them.”

The club Instructor Kim Gae-soo was in charge of would be disbanded if they couldn’t recruit new members this time.

But because of the monstrous new student, Jeong Gyeoul, Instructor Kim Gae-soo was too busy with his main job to take care of the students.

“Is the promotion going well?”

On his way to get monster corpses for the afternoon class, he decided to visit the promotion booth.

He hadn’t been able to check on them lately.

Stopping by for a bit wouldn’t interfere with the class.

But…

No matter how much he looked around the bustling promotion area, the Gourmet Club was nowhere to be found.

Instructor Kim Gae-soo didn’t give up.

He walked to the remote corner where students rarely went and found a promotion booth named “Mi.식 Club.”

Only by looking at the small text did he realize it was the Gourmet Club.

“I told them doing this would violate school regulations…”

He thought about complaining to the administrative office for assigning the promotion booth of a club on the verge of disbandment to such a place, but he gave up immediately, fearing the students would get caught for violating school regulations.

He thought all of this happened because the club advisor couldn’t do anything.

The president and the member.

The only two club students.

He approached the promotion booth to encourage them, but…

“Why is no one here?”

It was completely empty.

The president was passed out in the club room.

The member had already taken the bait, Lee Ha-yoon, and left with Jeong Gyeoul and the kids to the club room, but Instructor Kim Gae-soo didn’t know that.

“…Did they give up?”

Instructor Kim Gae-soo couldn’t hide his bitterness.

The Gourmet Club, which he had taken on as an advisor due to the desperate pleas of the 9th class, the Green Name Tag students…

Surprisingly, it was a club that matched his personality, and he had fun interacting with many students.

‘It was so happy traveling around with like-minded students, eating weird food…’

-Why on earth would you eat this?

-You said you’d feed us delicious food, but…

-Bread with mayonnaise? This is just…

-Just looking at it makes me feel greasy…

-Bread with mayonnaise is an incredibly amazing dish. Once you try it, your thoughts will change.

-Yuck… It’s disgusting!

-Hahaha! Everyone starts like that.

Starting with mayonnaise bread.

Coke rice.

Mint chocolate chicken.

Eel jelly.

Ant egg soup.

Kidney pie.

The Gourmet Club was gradually evolving, painting a bright future.

But as time went on, members kept quitting.

Instructor Kim Gae-soo couldn’t figure out why they were quitting.

Now, after three years, only Jeong Min-jae and Kim Dong-ju remained.

“Our club is finally ending like this…”

Kim Gae-soo reminisced and set off on a journey to find monster corpses.

 

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