26 Interview

“The student coming today is the daughter of a Korea University professor?”

“He must have written a recommendation letter for his own daughter. She’s moving up to her second year this year.”

“I’ve always thought recommendation letters were being abused for personal purposes, and this is exactly why it’s a problem. It’s not like she’s some distant cousin or anything—if she’s his daughter, isn’t it a little too obvious?”

“Doesn’t that mean he’s that confident in her? Besides, the fact that he wrote a recommendation letter will be recorded in the Archive.”

“In any case, I don’t like the principal who approved this, either. Is this really a recommendation letter?”

“Yes, Inspector. We’ve all looked her over once already, so you can review her before the interview.”

Inspector Kim Si-hyeong slowly skimmed the recommendation letter bearing Professor Cheon Gyu-jin’s seal. That man was famous enough to occasionally appear on the news.

But despite his reputation, the recommendation letter itself contained rather dull and ordinary details, such as how the student had been interested in magic from a young age and studied it independently, and that she had a favorite spell.

It was almost identical to the kinds of things he had read hundreds or thousands of times a day back when he had worked in admissions.

“There’s nothing special about the recommendation letter. We’ll have to focus on verifying the report during the interview.”...