Chapter 4 – Im Nayeon (4)
[Ttareun Ttareun.]
I opened my eyes in surprise at the sound of the clock ringing. A dim light streamed in through the cracks in the curtains beyond the window. I looked at the clock and it was 5:30. I wiped my face with both hands and pondered. Will you sleep for 2 more hours or wake up early for morning training?
In fact, since I have to train in the morning, waking up is a sure thing. Because training is a means to raise my ability to crawl on the floor.
“Life.”
He sighed heavily and headed to the bathroom.
I turned on the cold water and waited for the hot water to come out, then I got bored and washed my face with cold water. Mistress, cool! Still, the hazy head awoke.
I roughly wiped my face with a towel, took off my shorts, changed into sweatpants, put on socks, grabbed a jersey from the hanger, put on my shoes, and quickly headed out.
When I came out, many students were already engrossed in sports. Only about 300 people can be seen. Considering that this is a first-year dormitory and the number of first-year students is 1,000, about 30% are exercising outside. There are also students who use personal training grounds indoors or collect mana, so the number will increase. What did I do when I was a student The memory of struggling to sleep better is clear.
After lightly doing gymnastics to warm up, I used the perks. Privilege, cloth mask. Wear the mask of Helchang that you saved in advance. A mask that focuses on growth rather than increasing physical ability for efficient exercise. Feeling something invisible being used on my face, I ran to the playground.
As I was running, I saw an unwelcome face.
“Are you exercising in the morning? Yes, work hard.”
Im Na-yeon, wearing a tracksuit and with her hair neatly tied back in a ponytail, asked me what to say.
“Because the body, the hook, the ability, the hook, are low.”
It’s only been a month since I fell into this world, so my physical abilities are very weak. I’ve been corrected in my own way, but even compared to the students at the bottom of the academy, I have less agility and less strength than them. The magic attribute is naturally low enough to crawl on the floor.
As for how I was at the top of the academy, it was all thanks to the perks. A thousand masks (S), knowledge reading (S), and thousand hands (S). With the power of reading knowledge (S), you can become the first person in the academy to have a perfect score in the written test, raise your stats with the mask of a thousand (S), or use a swordsman made by referring to a video, or a spearman’s mask, only won with
‘It’s a special synergy that brings out a real sigh.’
Thousand Mask (S) is a little ambiguous, but Thousand Hand (S) and Knowledge Reading (S) are definitely good perks. If you have Heavenly Arms (S) and Sword Demon (S) or Sword Master (S) with Heavenly Arms (S) or No Polarity (S), you will already be able to beat even quite a few proficiency melee professors at the academy. If you had chosen knowledge perk (S) as a mason (S), master of magic (S), perks that synergize with magical power, or attribute perks like Thunder God (S) or Wind God (S), you would have made your name widely known as a mage.
… If I, having skimmed through the perks, ask why I know perks so well.
‘Fuck Taechang.’
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Name: Lee Siu
Strength: 8
Agility: 10
Stamina: 8
Magic attribute: 5
Unique Ability: X
Attributes: Cloth Mask (S), Knowledge Reading (S), Thousand Hands (S)
The neatly shaped status window stood out. And the unique ability that is empty at the bottom of the status window. All characters in this world have a status window and can see it. And the status window will open, and if you work hard, your unique ability will bloom.
Inherent abilities vary from person to person.
A unique ability is a kind of personality and a guideline that tells you how far you can grow. Of course, this is not absolute. Because it depends on what characteristics you get.
I thought about the perks.
The perks were the end kings of unique abilities. Sword Demon (S) is the best among those who handle speedy swords, and Sorcerer Emperor (S) has the ability to control the magic around him.
In other words, I haven’t developed my unique abilities yet, but in reality, I have 3 forms of evolution of my unique abilities. However, there are downsides too. I can’t raise it to the higher grade, Ex grade, and because of this, other attributes can’t be placed in my talent window.
Well, even if you go to the true ending for the Ex rank, you can only see two, so it doesn’t matter… Speaking of true endings, the route of being killed by the demons came to mind.
Please, it should be an ending where the world does not reach the true ending.
“Good morning, Nayeon.”
A voice came from somewhere. A handsome man caught my eye by intervening between Im Na-yeon and me and widening the distance between me and Im Na-yeon.
Jongwoo Han.
He is a supporting actor who plays the hero’s rival. The son of Gwang Seong-ja, who leads Changcheon, one of Korea’s three major guilds.
It has the largest faction in class A, with a very high ratio of leading and supporting actors… He is a high percentage of my current school life.
I glanced behind me and saw Han Jong-woo’s men rushing toward me. The number is about 20 people. It’s really bad. I stopped running and sat down to catch my breath. He took off the mask of Helchang and put on a mask of rest that increases recovery. The breath that had risen to the tip of the chin was slowly recovering.
“Are you okay, Siwoo?”
“What, are you tired already?”
I heard Lim Na-yeon’s worried voice and Han Jong-woo’s laughing voice. When Lim Na-yeon glared at Han Jong-wu, Han Jong-wu glared at me. So what.
Han Jong-woo’s subordinates, who were following behind, began to notice between Lim Na-yeon and Han Jong-woo. When I criticized me as usual, Im Na-yeon seemed to be covering me, so I hesitated.
“I’ve been feeling this since last week, do you keep arguing with Siwoo?”
“Shit. I’m just telling the truth.”
Han Jong-woo frowned and said. In the game, he is a middle schooler, but he is quite bold and has his own leadership, so he is popular in his own way. Jealousy is ugly.
“Why do you rush around and say something to one person?”
“…It has nothing to do with you.”
At Im Na-yeon’s words, Han Jong-woo said with a frowning expression. A man with such a face It’s kind of terrible.
“You… Ha. Okay. I’d rather talk to the wall than talk to you.”
Im Na-yeon stomped on the playground floor and approached Han Jong-woo’s clique.
“I’m going to tell you here, if you bully Siwoo from now on, will you kill me?”
“Uh-uh-uh. Okay…”
Lim Na-yeon glared at her eyes and said to Han Jong-woo’s faction.
At those words, Han Jong-woo gnashed his teeth and glared at me.
This is a bit twisted However, compared to Han Jong-woo or Lim Na-yeon, as someone who is closer to the common people, turning Han Jong-woo into an enemy gives me a headache. But here I am not able to do anything. If I go there in the middle and stop it, Im Na-yeon will listen to me, but Han Jong-woo will hate me even more.
“Oh, what is it? Everyone is training hard from morning?”
A thin, sweet voice separated them.
Lee Ji-ah, her brown hair swaying, came running. Han Jong-woo’s subordinate B, Kang Kang-nam, who secretly liked Ji-ah Lee, waved her hand and pretended to be solemn. He was a likable handsome man who looked like a man and could be popular with women.
“Ji, Jiah, hello. You’ve been working out hard since the morning too.”
“Uh, uh uh. Well, that’s right… Are you working hard too?”
Lee Ji-ah was bewildered at the red-faced subordinate B’s greeting and accepted the greeting. I know that reaction.
When a kid whose name he doesn’t even know accepts as if he was saying hello to him, the greeting he receives without feeling embarrassed…
I suddenly felt depressed.
“Ah, Siwoo. Eat this.”
Lee Ji-ah approached me with a genuine smile as I sat down and rested. She snuggled into the seat next to me and pulled out a transparent bag from her bosom. They handed over nicely wrapped cookies. I accepted the cookie, bewildered by her kind behavior. Is it because you helped me in many ways at the beginning of the semester? She treated me very kindly.
“I was eating at a cafe yesterday and I thought of you so I packed some cookies.”
“Uh, thank you. I’ll eat well.”
“Hmmmm. Nice to see you two.”
Han Jong-woo was satisfied with Lee Ji-ah’s words and looked at us. Im Na-yeon looked at me and Lee Ji-ah with her complicated eyes.
Han Jong-woo’s subordinate, Kang Han-nam, who had Lee Ji-ah in her heart, was looking at me with her burning eyes, and then gave a flirtatious look at Han Jong-woo’s words.
“Then I’ll go. Everyone, train hard.”
Feeling uncomfortable being there for nothing, I went back to my room to wash up.
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On my way to school after a rough breakfast of cookies, I saw a pink-haired woman surrounded by three girls.
“Well.”
Looking closely, everyone was smiling and chatting happily. At first glance, I don’t think it’s a scene of bullying, but I know as I know the original work. That the scene is a place of bullying.
I don’t lament that it’s bullying at the academy to become a hero. In the first place, except for Han Jong-woo, most of the characters who are the cause of bullying are bound to drop out in the middle.
I took a step Of course, I am not a righteous person who cannot turn my head at this sight.
Because Harin Kim, the bullied girl with pink hair, is an important person to me.
Even if I didn’t ask for it in the first place, the hero would find it for himself… I started to ponder. She is quite a helpful person. Although she is notorious as a newbie slayer and has all kinds of bad ending routes, she has a route to degenerate into a villain…
There is also a route where she sided with the hero.
If she joins the hero, she becomes a useful ally. Above all, if you can make her an ally in the early stages, clearing her theoretically top dungeons is easy.
‘But it’s because the route to becoming a villain is too problematic.’
On the route of becoming a villain, she is very picky. This is because her unique characteristic is the ability to counter the characteristics of the highest class heroes among ‘heroes on the side of justice’.
‘And above all, his personality is damn good.’
But I soon decided to help her. She’s very picky when turned into an enemy. It wouldn’t hurt for her to erase some debt.
“Harin.”
The pink-haired girl turned around.
“I found it, where was it?”
“Uh, uh…?”
“Nayeon and Jia have been looking for it since before.”
“This, Im Na-yeon and Lee Ji-ah?”
One of the three harassing Harin, the girl in pink, said. A visibly bewildered expression. I was good at selling it too.
“Yeah. Ah… I’m sorry. Were you talking about something urgent?”
“Oh, no. Take me quickly.”
He waved his hand and began to run away.
-Hey, hey, there was no saying that Im Na-yeon and Lee Ji-ah were close!
– I, I don’t know, mistress, what happened?
Looking back, I see Harin Kim ‘trying’ to put on a visibly relieved ‘face’.
“Ah, thank you. You’re Siwoo, right?”
“Thank you, the same class.”
Said with a shrug of her shoulders. Since she is the same age, I want to tell her to be comfortable with her words, but I don’t think Ha-rin Kim, who has a timid personality and ‘pretends’, will let her go right away.
Is it an additional effect of the cloth mask? Or is it because I know she’s acting. She looked awkward the way she was ‘acting’.
“I helped because it seemed to be bothering me, but was it by any chance?”
“Oh, no…Thank you for helping me…”
She put on a dark expression and slurred her words. She looks like she wants someone to help.
However.
I’m not fooled by her acting. It’s because when you help this nasty woman, you use this as an excuse to roll the main character around. Then he enjoys rolling the main character while giggling inside her. If you choose the wrong route here, you will stick a knife into the belly of the protagonist, the warrior, and hand it over to the villain.
Maybe if I get hit, I’ll die without moving.
But the main character is different. He somehow overcomes her crisis with her own characteristics, causes friction between her and her, and eventually ‘pretends’ to be influenced by his temper, receives her ‘salvation’, uses her bravery, and fights with her. Enjoying wealth and fame is her sixth ending.
‘I really have no dreams or hopes.’
If that doesn’t help, then that’s a problem. Sooner or later, those women who will be expelled may get caught up in Harin Kim’s anger and one day become corpses and return to their parents.
Then I had only one option to choose from.
“Come to think of it, do you know the silver hair in our class?”
“Silver hair? Yes, because he stands out.”
Harin Kim answered with a puzzled feeling. I told her with a smile that looked good on her person.
“He’s an expert on this stuff. Talk to him.”
It was handed over to the main character.
