Astronomy // Duty After School

Chapter Thirty-Seven.

(Y/n) had indeed made pancakes for the class, even going as far as pestering Ae-seol and Yeong-shin, who were on night shift, to come and help her out. Yeong-shin grew quite fascinated by how sufficient the girls worked. His only task was to actually pack up the pancakes in the black containers (Y/n) had grabbed the previous night. While (Y/n) made the batter, Ae-seol did the cooking. The class was very thrilled to wake up to pancakes, even though there was no syrup to have them with. As they all ate, Chun-ho went over the plan.

"Attention, everyone," Chun-ho called. "To seek out and eliminate every single Cell, spreading out all over the town is too dangerous." The class nodded in understanding. "Do we will gather all the Cells in Mesong City College here," Chun-ho pointed at the map, "and eliminate them in one blow." Bewildered looks were exchanged.

"But how?"

"In one blow? How?"

"Eliminate them in one blow?"

"How, how?"

"Is that possible?"

"Everyone," Chun-ho said. "Listen carefully to what I'm about to say... Dynamite sticks will be found in the storage room meant for the soldiers on guard." Immediately, the class understood where he was going.

"Are we allowed to blow things up without permission?" Yeong-shin asked.

"They wouldn't issue out dynamite if they didn't expect it to be used," Bo-ra countered. Chun-ho nodded once.

"They'll understand," Chun-ho concluded, reasoning that they were saving lives at the cost of a college campus. He began assigning three kids to each unit— Yu-jeong and Jang-su were their own pair while Ae-seol and Yeong-shin were paired with Won-bin. Once everyone was assigned, he got right into explaining their duties. "Unit 1, restore power in the mechanical room," Chun-ho said, beginning to assign tasks to the groups that weren't setting up the explosives. "Once the power is restored, everyone else will install DU explosives in the main building. Unit 6, until the DU explosives are installed, observe the Cells' movements and signal the units, so they can complete their mission. If the Cells show even the slightest unusual movements during the mission, report to me immediately. Once we're done installing the explosives in the main building, we'll close off all the doors to the outside. They quickly move to the Seolbonggwan building and standby. After we lure all the Cells and lock the doors, we'll detonate the DU explosives and eliminate all the Cells." The class nodded.

"Be careful," Bo-ra said as So-yun nearly lost her footing while they and Hui-rak searched the storage area for TNT sticks.

"Oh, that!" So-yun said, darting over to a box clearly labeled as Dynamite.

"What, what, what?" Hui-rak and Bo-ra also came over to check. "Hey, this is it, right?" Hui-rak asked.

"I think this is it," So-yun grinned. They brought it back to the library, where the others had finished eating. The group that had gone off to get their supply of DU ammunition returned at the same time.

"Gosh," Wu-taek muttered, setting the box down.

"First, combine the DU ammunition and the dynamite to make DU explosives," Chun-ho said, demonstrating how they would be setting up to DU explosives. The class immediately got to work. They taped three sticks together and passed them down the line to the kids who would then attach a row of DU ammunition to two of the sides.

"Hey, be careful!" Jun-hi yelped as Sun-yi stumbled a bit after tearing a piece of tape with the DU explosive in hand.

"Be careful, be careful..."

Once the DU ammunition was securely attached to the explosives, it was passed down the line and added to the growing pile of explosives. Won-bin had gone off to get the wiring they would be attaching the dynamite to and once they were out of explosives, they were divided evenly among the kids who would be setting up the dynamite.