## Chapter 6 – Discord
“Where are you going?”
The soft light of dawn was breaking.
I turned my head at the voice from behind and saw a female student with a long ponytail looking at me.
It was Kang Hye-rin.
The daughter of a real estate tycoon. Picky and, in some ways, with firm standards… a tough character for a girl.
“It’s cooler during the day.”
“Cooler?”
“…I’m going to look around now. And also see if there’s anything that can replace food.”
Kang Hye-rin stretched her neck and wrists as she approached. I stepped back slightly and asked her.
“What about you?”
“I have morning training. My body doesn’t feel right if I skip even a day.”
Her family was not only a real estate tycoon but also descendants of a famous martial arts school.
Perhaps that’s why she placed so much importance on training.
“Follow me.”
Kang Hye-rin ran past me and said.
She didn’t even wait for my answer.
Haa.
I ran after her. Running from early dawn… my body, exhausted from yesterday, screamed.
‘Let’s think of it as doing today’s daily quest.’
[Daily Quest 1: Move 10km. (0.912/10km)]
The daily quest reset after midnight.
It meant that I had to complete that target amount once a day anyway.
I stretched my shoulders.
‘Still, moving around seems to loosen up my stiff body from all night.’
My body was a mess because of yesterday’s strain.
My muscles were stiff and didn’t move well, and my head was foggy.
But as soon as I started running, my stiff body quickly loosened up. My steps became lighter.
However, my expression didn’t brighten easily.
‘Surely she’s not going to do it on a day like this, is she?’
Speak of the devil.
Kang Hye-rin, who was running ahead, stopped and said.
“I searched the plane thoroughly yesterday, but there were no wooden swords. So, I think we’ll have to procure them locally today.”
“……”
“What are you spacing out for? Go over there and pick up something useful. Bring the sturdiest one you can find. And don’t forget to bring two.”
Of course.
“If you pick up something weird, you’re dead. Bring the sturdiest one you can find. And don’t forget to bring two.”
And under the guise of sparring, I was indiscriminately beaten.
“Is that all you’ve got?!”
Thwack. Thwack. Thwack.
“I! Hate! Weak! Men! Got it! Or not!”
Thwack. Thwack. Thwack. Thwack.
At first, I tried to block it somehow, but there was no way a regular person could face a martial artist who had finished warming up.
When I got hit in the leg for the seventh time, I collapsed, and after that, merciless violence rained down on me.
“Get up! Get up! Don’t just block! Fight back!”
Thwack thwack thwack thwack!
After thoroughly beating me for about 2 minutes, she dropped a wooden club in front of me and said.
“It feels good to grip. Keep it. We’ll use it tomorrow too.”
Then she turned around and left alone.
Taking off her top and flapping her bra back and forth.
***
I groaned for a while before lifting my head slightly.
‘Is she gone?’
Weak creatures have their own ways of surviving.
Even a pheasant chick covers itself with fallen leaves and stays still when chased by a pursuer.
The beating disguised as sparring had been going on almost every day for three years, and to escape the pain even a little earlier, I had to learn my own survival methods.
That was it.
Pretend to be knocked down after taking a moderate beating.
‘She’s gone.’
I raised my prone body and lay flat on my back.
After all that suffering yesterday, running from early morning and getting beaten…
But somehow, I felt good.
Laughter escaped me.
‘I’ll definitely pay you back later.’
I thought to myself as I looked at the status window in front of me.
[Remaining Points: 3]
1 point for completing yesterday’s daily quest.
1 point as a bonus for completing the first quest.
And 1 point for completing today’s daily quest just now, totaling 3 points.
But when I thought about how to use the points, I groaned softly.
“Hoo.”
The points were less useful than I thought.
Honestly, since there were stats in the status window, I naturally thought that I could use the points to raise my abilities.
Like in an RPG game.
Strength or agility.
I thought I could enhance my body as I wanted with the points earned from quests…
But it wasn’t.
That was too naive and obvious of a thought.
After getting the points, I focused on the [+] marks that appeared throughout the status window.
‘So, points are used to upgrade or unlock things, right?’
The targets included the status window, quests, and abilities.
Specific examples were as follows.
[Status Window] -〉 Encyclopedia Unlock -〉 Locked
Encyclopedia (20 points): Everything is recorded if you have succeeded in hunting even once. You can check various information.
First, you had to unlock the one in front to check the locked parts behind.
Sometimes there were multiple choices.
[Daily Quest]
-〉 Increase Difficulty (10 points)
-〉 Increase Daily Attempts (10 points)
[Danger Detection]
-〉 +1 Stamina Consumption Reduction (10 points)
-〉 +1 Ability Enhancement (10 points)
-〉 +1 Range (10 points)
But nothing was immediately useful.
What I desperately needed now was food.
I had to be able to provide for myself to guarantee tomorrow.
We only had enough food left for 19 days at most.
Maybe that time was even shorter for me.
I opened the inventory window.
‘Should I use it now?’
In the only space available, there was a golden box. It was the [Transcendent Random Box] received as a perk.
I hadn’t opened it because I didn’t know what would pop out.
You might ask, why not put it in the inventory slot? But the space was smaller than I thought, so large items couldn’t fit.
If a huge item came out of the box, it would be impossible to handle.
‘At least to open this, I have to become strong enough not to have the contents taken away by the kids.’
Or find a place to hide the contents in advance.
I turned my head and looked at the cliff far away. A distance that seemed impossible to reach even if I walked all day.
‘It’s too far to go there.’
I turned my head and looked at the forest this time.
Saaah-
The forest, occupied by dark shadows, occasionally swayed in the dawn breeze.
The dense trees seemed suitable for hiding something.
Since there was a snake incident yesterday, no one would be brave enough to come in there.
Only someone like me with [Danger Detection] could barely go in and out.
But I shook my head.
‘Let’s not be reckless.’
Didn’t I see a gym teacher die a miserable death after being confident in his abilities?
There was no need to rush.
Revenge or manipulation, it could only be done if I survived.
I shook my head and returned to where the others were.
***
“Ugh, so what!”
When I returned to where the people were, someone was raising their voice.
It was Kang Hye-rin and Park Ji-min.
“I told you before, don’t take my things without permission.”
“Is it the same now as it was then! If I had my own makeup, I wouldn’t have used yours!”
“Why are you using mine because you don’t have your own? And if you’re going to use it, shouldn’t you at least ask first?”
“Ugh, come on! I’ll buy you some? I’ll buy you a hundred boxes later!”
I could roughly see what was going on.
Park Ji-min often took other people’s things and used them as if they were her own.
It always caused trouble, and what was even more absurd was that she would raise her voice even louder.
As a result, she was nicknamed ‘Crazy Bitch’.
“Ha. You crazy bitch. Did you do drugs this morning?”
“Fuck off. You baby pussy.”
“!!”
“Has some hair grown now? Huh? Or are you still a natural bald pussy with no hair?”
Ooh. Some of the boys laughed, and Kang Hye-rin’s cheeks twitched.
“…I told you not to say that.”
“Oops. Did I? Then shall we talk about our breasts? Our Hye-rin unnie’s breasts are inverted ni…”
Kang Hye-rin reached out and grabbed Park Ji-min, then performed a shoulder throw.
“!!”
Park Ji-min, who was floating in the air, fell straight onto the sandy beach.
“Cough.”
Kang Hye-rin mainly trained with swords, but in today’s world, it was rare to master only one martial art.
Perhaps that’s why her lifting and throwing Park Ji-min was done in an instant without any unnecessary movements.
“You, bi…!”
Fortunately, it seemed she had controlled her strength, or maybe the impact was less because the ground was sandy, but Park Ji-min jumped up from her spot, veins popping out on her neck.
“Kang Hye-rin, are you fucking crazy!”
“You’re the crazy one. I clearly warned you not to say that, didn’t I?”
“Oh. Okay. Let’s do it, huh?”
Park Ji-min grabbed Kang Hye-rin’s hair. Kang Hye-rin grabbed her neck.
Just as they were about to devolve into a dogfight, someone stepped between them.
“Guys. Why don’t you stop there?”
Pause.
It’s over.
I thought as I looked at the woman who had stepped between them.
“…Yoo Ha-na.”
Yoo Ha-na.
The most noticeable presence in our class, which was made up of beauties.
With a doll-like face and ombre hair dyed in various gradations, she exuded a fantasy feel. She was the goddess of Korea International High School.
Some people even called her an elf.
However, in this group made up of millionaires, it wasn’t just her appearance that silenced those two.
Yoo Ha-na was the heiress of a famous fashion brand, and her grandfather was the chairman of a top five conglomerate in Korea.
She was also the fiancée of Kim Jae-joon, the leader of the boys’ group.
There weren’t many people who could raise their voices in front of her.
Even among the diamond spoons, there were different levels.
Park Ji-min approached her and complained.
“Ha-na. Listen to me. No, is it right to make such a fuss over just using makeup once? Huh? Like a petty and stingy commoner.”
“Ji-min.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“Stop acting so low-class. You’re annoying me.”
“Huh?”
Yoo Ha-na gathered Park Ji-min’s hands and held them tightly, giving a warm smile.
“I told you then. When you took my things without saying anything. If you get caught in my eye one more time, I won’t say nice things.”
“……”
“Stop acting like a fool and apologize to Hye-rin. It’s your fault, you idiot.”
Park Ji-min’s face turned red and blue.
She soon turned her head and looked at Kang Hye-rin, said ‘Sorry,’ and then stormed off into the distance.
It was a moment that made me realize how much power Yoo Ha-na had.
That crazy bitch just backed down like that.
‘That being said, she’s so full of energy. Someone’s dying from muscle pain, but she has the energy to fight from morning.’
As I was about to sit down on the floor to rest, Kim Tae-hoon approached me and nodded.
“Hey. Follow Ji-min. If she’s about to do something, stop her.”
“……”
…Really, whether it’s the boys or the girls, they don’t give me a break.
I shook off my seat and chased after Park Ji-min. She had so much energy that she had already disappeared from sight.
‘I need to quickly acquire self-sufficiency and become independent.’
I grumbled inwardly and followed Park Ji-min.
Not at all expecting what would happen a little later.
