Chapter 23:”Just wait a little! Huaaang! After I hack this damn brat’s location, home address, and where in Japan she lives, I’ll kill her! Huaaang!!”

KAIST Basic Science Building, 3rd floor.

[Room 311
Quantum Technology and Quantum Optics Laboratory
(Advisor: Seo Anguk)]

It was a very famous lab, not only within the KAIST Physics Department,

but also people from other departments would have heard of its name.

First of all, the professor was famous.

Seo Anguk.

A person who had received so many ministerial awards that it was tiresome to count, and had even received the

Presidential Award twice.

Besides, he often appeared on broadcasts.

Simple public lectures were surely tiresome.

He also appeared quite often on variety shows, so when you said his name to parents who watched TV, five out of ten

would answer, ‘Ah~ that KAIST professor?’.

He even appeared on famous science channels or Mutube several times.

Usually, if a professor is this interested in the outside world, the public likes it, but students usually dislike it.

Other professors must dislike it even more.

Saying that that person tasted money and popularity and completely gave up on research.

But Professor Seo Anguk was not like that.

It had already been over 20 years since he got tenure, but he was still active.

Since he was still active and had accumulated experience,

of course, there was no need to ask what kind of graduate student guidance he provided.

Just a popular lab, beyond a super popular lab.

Even within the same physics department, there was fierce competition to go to that lab.

There were even cases where first-year undergraduates who had not yet decided on a department applied for

individual research.

If a Nobel Prize in Physics were to come out of Korea for the first time,

it would most likely be someone from Professor Seo Anguk’s lab.

This kind of talk is now very common in the Korean physics community.

At least,

[KAIST Professor, Received Tens of Billions in Offers from Googol for Quantum Computer Torture, But Rejected Flatly]

News like this had to be a topic of conversation.

Actually, it was a much larger amount, but it was rumored that he deliberately reduced it by one digit to the reporters.

Because it had been like that so often,

recently, it was bound to be even better prey.

To the reporters.

[KAIST Professor, Who Received Love Calls from Googol, Couldn’t Protect His Own Student.

(On-site Coverage) Professor’s Lab is Locked, But Graduate Student Lab is Bright 24 Hours…… Questions Arise About Student Guidance Problems Unlike Fame.

KAIST Student Reported as Homeless Last Year, Turns Out to Be Graduate Student of Googol Love Call Professor.

“Some students had to work for three days straight and still had to come to work” (Related Person Interview)

The Woman Who Was Criticized for Evangelizing, Turns Out to Be a Student of Googol Love Call Professor.

At the Question of KAIST Graduate Student’s Presumed Suicide Attempt…… Googol Love Call Professor Bursts Out!

“Ah, these f*cking reporters! It’s been quiet lately, but the cooldown is over? They’re at it again……!”

A graduate student in Professor Seo Anguk’s lab.]

Kwak Youngjin was angry again today.

He couldn’t control his anger at the ridiculous article titles.

“……These fckers, I’ll send a correction report again! Sht!”

Kwak Youngjin’s seizure and soliloquy.

It was a common occurrence that everyone in the lab knew.

Everyone was already used to it, so they wouldn’t have paid much attention, saying it started again,

“What’s wrong again?”

but recently it was different.

“Didn’t your Naver ID get suspended because of that before?”

“That was because I was leaving comments!”

“Haa…… I don’t even need to ask what kind of comments you left. Didn’t I tell you to stop doing that…….”

It’s been like this for three weeks already.

Ever since that incident happened.

“Why is Eunhee unnie like that? Did Youngjin hyung eat something secretly again?”

“……Ah, Hyuna is here.”

At that time, a small girl came out of the lab with a trotting gait.

“Or is it because of the senior again?”

Yoon Hyuna asked, and with a slightly frowning expression, she clicked her tongue softly.

Gong Haeun sighed and nodded, then pointed with her finger to see.

“No, look at that. He’s doing that again while looking at useless articles. This time, he’s saying something about a

correction report…….”

“What? Did another article about the senior come out? My thoughts were right. I told you they would be quiet for a

while and then take revenge.”

“That’s right. Really…… I told you not to do that on the lab phone.”

“Ah, let’s write an email!”

“No, write it. Did anyone tell you not to write it? You wrote something like hello…….”

Kwak Youngjin was still struggling with the email on the screen.

―Tap tap tap!

“……Huh? Unnie. He’s saying, ‘Hello, I’m Kwak Youngjin from the Quantum Technology and Quantum Optics

Laboratory’?”

“What, what? No, Youngjin……?! What are you revealing that it’s our lab in front of the email?!”

“Then why should I hide it? Did we do something wrong? These f*ckers are the problem!”

“No, really, please. Isn’t it because you keep doing that since then that the reporters are doing more of that? Last

time, you even cursed at the lab in person like chasing away a peddler…….”

“Then they’re peddlers, what else would they be? They’re making money with f*cking titles by selling our lab name!”

“……But when you look at the title, it’s not a complete lie, is it?”

“What?”

“No, it’s true. Being reported as homeless was when the senior stayed up for three days and said he was sleeping on a

blanket right in front of the lab door because of the specialized research personnel inspection, and everyone will

know that he buried that crazy cult woman…… The lab lights were always on 24 hours a day, because hyung and the

senior told us not to turn off the lights because they were automatically running something.”

“……”

“So what are you going to request for a correction report?”

Yoon Hyuna.

Kwak Youngjin avoided her gaze for some reason.

“The reporters seem to be misunderstanding something, but actually, they’re all the same person, it’s actually all the

senior. Are you going to say that?”

“……F*ck! I know! So I was thinking about what to write, but you two suddenly came!”

“I came because you were making a seizure sound again.”

“Ah, really!”

“……Haa, both of you calm down. And Youngjin, it’s already been over three weeks. Because you keep doing that, the

research isn’t progressing properly, and the atmosphere is getting worse instead of getting better every time you do this.”

“It’s because they keep doing that even after three weeks that I drew the sword! Atmosphere or whatever, I drew the

sword because you, the lab head, didn’t do anything in the first place!”

“……What? Are you done talking?”

Gong Haeun, the oldest and the lab head.

And Kwak Youngjin, who was the same age, just came in a little later.

“It’s always like this since the senior disappeared…….”

Besides, with that guy whom Yoon Hyuna called senior, the three of them were also classmates.

Originally, it was common to see these two bickering.

But it never got this emotional.

“Yeah, I’m done talking! No, I need to say more! Am I the only one like this? What, the research isn’t progressing? Go

tell Irina, who has been holed up in the dormitory for three weeks, that!”

“……I know you think I’m showing off like you, but I went. I went. As the lab head that you’re so dissatisfied with, I

went. But what did you do? Stirring up the reporters to fuel the fire?”

“How can I go into the women’s dormitory! Or should I jump over the physically blocked speed gate?”

“……Physical, what are you talking about? Are you kidding me now? Do you really not know what I’m saying?”

“Uh, yeah, I don’t know! Is it only here that the atmosphere is ruined?! It’s the same in the next room! Even though

there are so many researches on the things he left behind, they’ve all just stopped!”

For three weeks, ever since he disappeared forever.

The lab was like this.

“But the professor says he’s busy and doesn’t come, he says he has something to think about! The most recent time I

thought he came, I went to the office and he was saying, ‘……Is this pose popular among Japanese middle school girls

these days?’ while holding a picture up to the ceiling and muttering, so I was so scared that I just came out!!”

“……What? Suddenly what middle school girl, uh……? Irina……?”

“Irina……!”

“Yeah. Middle school girl.”

“I don’t know!! Just f*cking everything is ruined! Irina, us, the professor, the next room, the physics department,

KAIST, me, the country! Even the middle school girl, everything—”

“Durak. That middle school girl, this?”

(TL Note: Durak means fool in Russian)

“―Uwaaak?! Wh-what……! Y-you, you Irina……! When did you come?!”

“Just now.”

A blonde Slavic female exchange student, standing right next to Kwak Youngjin in her ethnic patterned pajamas..

“Durak. Answer my question.”

For reference, durak meant fool.

Irina called all the men at KAIST who were inferior to her genius girl in knowledge and wisdom that.

Except for a few professors and only one graduate student.

“It’s been three weeks, wh-what suddenly…….”

“Picture, you saw.”

“I don’t know. I just saw the professor saying something about a middle school girl. All I saw was the professor

holding something up to the ceiling, and it was shiny and all white because of the fluorescent light…….”

“Enough.”

That was really enough.

“Durak. Lab server computer, not running anything, right?”

“Yeah. Nothing is running, just stuck like you. What lab server computer? Nothing is running, including the lab.”

“Yes. Good. Then die.”

Irina immediately sat down at her lab desk.

Because it was a lab computer that was always turned on,

even though three weeks had passed, she could immediately access the lab’s server computer just by turning on the

screen.

“No, what is it all of a sudden for a kid who barely showed her face in three weeks. Hah. In the first place, the one

who died was not me, but him…….”

―Glare!

Irina glared at Kwak Youngjin for a moment as if she wanted to kill him.

Perhaps there was really murderous intent, even he, who was the best at throwing tantrums in the lab, soon looked

away awkwardly.

“……He always said die, die, and it’s funny that it really happened.”

Of course, that didn’t mean he would shut his mouth.

“Hey……! Kwak Youngjin, you!! Are you crazy?!!”

“……Wow, I thought Irina would do that someday when she came back, but she really did. God Youngjin is really amazing.”

It was then.

Kwak Youngjin also thought it was a bit too much after saying it, so he glanced at Irina.

―Tap! Tap tap!

Unlike before, Irina didn’t glare at this side, and she was typing on the keyboard with her small hands.

“What…… She’s fine…… Uh?!”

At an incredible speed, various black and white windows full of English popped up and disappeared on the screen in

front of my eyes.

“……No, c-crazy! Irina, are you doing this now……!”

It was then.

“Haaaang!! I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you……!!”

In the end, Irina couldn’t hold it in any longer and burst into tears, crying like a real child.

And the more she cried,

Tap tap tap tap! Tap tap tap tap!!

As if that was a booster,

Irina’s small fingers became faster and faster, to the point where it was difficult to follow them with the eyes.

“……Hic! Haaaang!! Durak
“

So, just three weeks.

The lab’s server computer, which had never stopped even once until that incident, started moving again.

To find someone who might be in Japan.