Chapter 6

Chapter 6

I Became the Academy Mafia, Chapter 6The helicopter landed on the Academy’s helipad with a deafening roar.

What kind of Academy even had its own helicopter landing pad?

“We’ve arrived, Young Master.”

Han Seo-jun said that as he opened the helicopter door. There was no one around.

I silently nodded, stepped out of the helicopter, and looked at my smartphone.

Checking the time, only about two hours had passed since we first arrived on the deserted island.

When I entered the classroom at a leisurely pace, I saw Ji Su-hyeon wearing a wicked smile.

“Congratulations. You’re first.”

I gave a casual nod and sat in my seat. At the front of the classroom, near the blackboard, the situation on the deserted island was being displayed exactly as it was.

“Have you been watching us through this the whole time?”

In truth, I already knew. I knew this sinister witch would be watching every one of us.

But I couldn’t exactly let her know that I knew, could I?

“Hm? Ah, yeah. I was watching to see how you handled things.”

And what she had seen of us would probably be entered into our student records.

“Why, want to watch too?”

“I won’t refuse.”

I said that and looked at the screen she had been watching.

Kim Se-ah was chanting a spell while the others continuously brought her mana stones.

It looked like things were going well.

As I watched the guys on the deserted island, the classroom door opened. Ji Su-hyeon greeted the newcomer with a grin.

“You’re here. You’re second.”

The guy, his entire body covered in salt residue, looked around before approaching me.

“How did you get first?”

Without even greeting me, he immediately got to the point. The name tag on his chest read ‘Choi Kang-hyun.’

“I swam here at full speed. I never thought someone would arrive before me. How exactly did you get here?”

He asked while staring at me with an expression that made it clear he was dying of curiosity.

Well, there was no need to lie.

“Through the sky.”

“...

The sky?”

“On a private helicopter. I have a lot of money.”

“...

I see.”

After hearing my answer, the guy seemed to immediately lose interest and went back to his seat to sit down.

“If you ever need a job or money, tell me anytime.”

I’d gone as far as saying that to him as he silently sat down, so he would probably contact me on his own sooner or later.

Thinking that, I focused on the footage again.

About thirty minutes passed as we silently watched, and the results gradually began to take shape.

Starting with the bespectacled guy, most of them looked like they would be able to return without much trouble, while the others were also returning through methods of their own.

“Instructor. May I leave first?”

Perhaps thinking he had seen enough of the results, Choi Kang-hyun stood and asked Ji Su-hyeon.

“Do whatever you want.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

After answering, he left the classroom first.

“You’re not leaving?”

Ji Su-hyeon looked at me with interest as I remained seated.

“No. I’ll watch a little longer before going.”

“Really? Do whatever you want.”

Because I needed to recruit useful people from within this school ahead of time and create an organization.

A smile naturally appeared on my face as I already began picturing the organization chart.

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“I’m home.”

I wasn’t able to get home until around three in the afternoon.

Originally, I had thought about taking a bus home, but the moment I stepped out of the school gate, I saw a group of black cars racing toward me and immediately gave up on the idea.

Seriously, talk about overprotective.

“So, how was your first day at the Academy?”

Father, who had been reading a newspaper in the living room, asked me bluntly.

How was I supposed to explain this? Should I tell him I got sent to a deserted island on my very first day? In the end, I decided to give a safe answer.

“It was fun.”

Being able to see heroes with my own eyes whom I had only ever seen inside the game.

To be honest, it had been rather exciting.

“I see. Then that’s enough.”

Father answered bluntly and resumed reading his newspaper.

For my father, Don Vito Calione, to be sitting there reading a newspaper meant that he was currently resting rather than handling Family business.

Thinking this was my chance, I immediately sat across from Father.

“Boss. There is something I wish to discuss.”

“Boss...

you say?”

Father’s expression stiffened for a moment at my words, then changed into one of interest.

“Very well. Let’s hear it.”

Apparently realizing from the title Boss that I intended to discuss Family business, Father folded the newspaper and looked at me.

The eyes of the organization’s Boss rather than my father carried considerable pressure from merely staring at me, but I calmly began speaking without averting my gaze.

“I would like to establish a small organization within the Academy.”

Hearing my words, Father took a cigar from the box on the table and put it in his mouth.

It was a sign that he had heard something interesting.

“Is that so? Then why not simply do as you wish?”

Of course, if I only wanted an organization of my own, I could have done exactly that, but my plan wasn’t nearly so small.

“If I succeed in building a proper organization, I would like you to officially accept it as an affiliate of Calione.”

An organization under Calione.

That was exactly what I was aiming for.

“You want it accepted as an official Calione affiliate? What are you thinking?”

Father’s reaction was perfectly natural.

It was essentially the same as asking him to take an unverified product from some ordinary market stall and release it as the launch product of a luxury brand.

But it was an essential step if I wanted to carry out my plan.

Anyone who had played the underworld route knew the story of the Calione Family.

Eugene Han Calione was originally nothing more than a pathetic second-rate villain in the game.

Consumed by an inferiority complex and constantly committing dirty deeds, he was truly nothing more than an extra villain.

And Eugene’s actions eventually disappointed Vito Calione, who, for the sake of the organization’s future, decided to choose his successor by another method.

That method was to have the organizations under Calione compete against one another.

And through that process, the successor of the victorious organization would become Calione’s ‘adopted son’ and the official successor to Calione.

“I simply want to test myself.”

To be honest, even if I was currently the successor to Calione, there was no guarantee that Father in the future would obediently hand Calione over to me.

Because Eugene in the game never became the Boss of Calione under ‘any circumstances.’

That was why I had thought of this.

If that was the case, then perhaps if it were me instead of him, I could become Boss through Calione’s own methods.

I wasn’t that guy from the original story, so there was more than enough possibility.

“I see. You want to test yourself...”

Father thought while smoking his cigar, then cut off the tip with a cigar cutter and spoke.

“Interesting. Very well. Do as you wish.”

“Yes. Boss.”

With that, my business with the Boss was finished. This time, I changed my attitude and immediately moved to sit beside Father.

“Hm? What is it this time?”

“Father.”

“...?”

Vito looked confused when the word ‘Father’ came from my mouth after I had been calling him Boss only moments before.

It was embarrassing... but there was no helping it if I wanted my plan to succeed.

This too was taking advantage of the fact that I myself was ‘Eugene Han Calione.’

“There is one favor I would like to ask.”

“As my son?”

“Yes.”

Unlike the businesslike expression he had worn moments before, Father now looked at me with a smile.

Seeing Father like that, I became convinced that my plan had practically already succeeded and smiled.

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“Big Brooo!”

As I was returning to my room after finishing my conversation with Father.

With the patter of slippers striking the marble floor, my younger sister Ji-yoon wrapped herself around my leg.

“Big Brooo! How was the Academy? Are there really lots of heroes?”

Ji-yoon hugged my leg tightly and tilted only her chin upward as she asked.

She was unbelievably adorable. How did a child like this come from a father like that?

I stroked Ji-yoon’s head and answered.

“Yeah. That’s right.”

Ji-yoon’s face brightened when she heard me.

“Then you’re gonna become a hero too, right, Big Bro?”

“Hmm... probably?”

Though I was actually closer to a Dark Knight than a hero. There was no need to explain that much.

“I knew Big Bro was the best!”

Ji-yoon said that and buried her face against me. I stroked her head a few more times before returning to my room.

“Then, I should check it out.”

New alerts had already appeared on my smartphone.[Rewards(N)][Character Encyclopedia(N)]

Apparently, someone new had been added to the Character Encyclopedia.[Name: Choi Kang-hyun][Affiliation: South Korea, Academy][Description: A human blessed by the sea. It is said that he can often be seen becoming stronger near the ocean, lakes, or other bodies of water. His family is extremely poor.]

The description looked like it had been written with almost no effort.

In the game, the descriptions were expanded as you progressed through each character’s story, so it would probably change later.

“He still looked pretty weak for now, but maybe he’ll become useful if I develop him?”

A guy I had encountered a few times in the game as well.

Choi Kang-hyun. The Prince of the Sea.

His family was so desperately poor that if he failed to receive an Academy scholarship early on, he either starved to death or simply disappeared from the story.

I intended to bind this guy to me with money and make him one of my people.

“Well, he’s not urgent yet... The most urgent thing is probably checking the reward.”

I immediately checked the reward I hadn’t been able to inspect in the helicopter.[Rewards(N)][You, who will become the Emperor of the Underworld, must first engrave your power upon others! Make your classmates respect or fear you!][Target: 19 / 10 ][Overachieved!][Reward Details]

-New Trait: Hitman[1. Hitman: The blade of the organization that eliminates its enemies. A Hitman maintains composure under any circumstances.

Firearm proficiency increases significantly.]

-Overachievement Reward: Item Search Ticket granted.

“Holy shit...!”

An Item Search Ticket.

It was an item you could only ever see in the game after completing special events or quests.

This damned CS was a game where everything changed every time you started over.

As though everything followed chaos theory, it was always different, and even the locations of items were randomized.

Even the NPCs were always different, which said it all.

That was precisely why an Item Search Ticket carried such extraordinary value in this game.

“To think they’d give me this at a time like this.”

The potential uses of this item were virtually endless.

It gave you the opportunity to obtain a one-of-a-kind item in the entire world, or acquire an item you could use for life to maximize your specialty.

There was only one problem...

“It doesn’t give you the item itself, it only tells you its ‘location’... so if I choose some ridiculous item, I’ll know where it is but won’t be able to get it.”

During a previous playthrough, I had actually searched for the location of the Vermilion Bird’s Feather, a unique item with only one copy in the entire game.

The search result had been [Chronos’s Secret Warehouse]

but since I had no idea where that place was, I ended up wasting the search ticket.

“So I should search for an item that I actually have a reasonable chance of obtaining...”

Was there such an item?

Any item good enough for me to want would surely be somewhere difficult to reach.

“This is driving me crazy.”

I racked my brain as hard as I could. Since we would begin learning weapon techniques at the Academy tomorrow, it would be best to obtain something now.

What sort of weapon suited me right now?

Whenever I chose weapons before, I always selected items that fit the character’s concept while maximizing their strengths.

Then what weapon should I choose now?

I, Eugene Calione, was the heir to the Mafia. In that case, what weapon suited the Mafia?

“...

I’ve got it.”

A weapon that could never be separated from the Mafia no matter how hard you tried, a weapon that could practically be called the soul of the Mafia.

And the weapon that had been the most efficient for sweeping away small fry in the early game.

After calculating that it should be somewhere in South Korea around this point in time, I immediately wrote the weapon’s name on the item search ticket.

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The foreign district of Incheon, steeped in darkness. A place commonly called extraterritorial territory.

The faded neon signs written in foreign languages and the decadent stench drifting through the fog seemed to make the atmosphere of the streets even darker.

Eventually, I arrived before an old sign.[Wild Gunsmith]

It was the name of the gun shop I had been searching for.

“Welco... huh? You’re just a brat?”

The owner greeted me with the jingling of the doorbell, only to scowl when he saw me.

“I came looking for a gun.”

“What? I don’t care how messed up the world is, I’m not selling to a brat like you. Get lost.”

“That’s rather harsh.”The world of CS was truly nothing but chaos and pandemonium.

Because of the dungeons that suddenly appeared, a new culture had emerged in South Korea based on the belief that everyone had to protect themselves.

Legalized firearms.

Thanks to that, obtaining firearms in this world wasn’t particularly difficult.

Guns were everywhere if you visited a nearby gun shop or black market.

“I’m an Academy cadet. With this, I don’t need to show a separate firearms license, right?”

Naturally, even in this world, a firearms license was required.

However, Academy cadets were future heroes who would fight on humanity’s front lines. Because of that, Academy cadets could purchase firearms with only their student identification.

“An Academy student ID? Legally there’s no problem, but like I said, I’m not selling to a brat.”

Even after looking at my student ID, the owner turned his head away as though it made no difference.

In the game, he had sold to me immediately as long as I paid him, so having him act like this was starting to irritate me.

Did I have to choose the easy route after all?

“Will you really?”

The owner looked surprised for a moment when Italian came from my mouth, but soon snorted.

“Ha! You think being Italian too changes anything?”

“Really?”

I’m not an ordinary Italian, though.

I smiled as I said that, then showed him the ring engraved with the Calione emblem.

The owner’s expression stiffened.

“Wait,...

Family? A kid like you?”

The owner’s voice changed.

It seemed he couldn’t tell from the ring alone that I was the successor, but fortunately, he at least began treating me as a customer rather than a brat.

“It just happened that way. So, can you show me the merchandise now?”

Only after I said that did the owner sigh and speak.

“Haah, if you want a handgun for self-defense, just use anything hanging on that wall. I usually recommend revolvers for beginners.”

Without taking my eyes off the owner, I replied.

“Not those toys you could find on any street corner. I’d like you to show me something proper.”

“...

What the hell are you talking about?”

I smiled at him as he looked at me strangely.

“Capone’s Tommy. You have it, don’t you?”

If you’re Mafia, it has to be a Tommy, doesn’t it?