chapter 21
21 – 1. Academy (21)
#21
“…There can be no such world”
The first thing Lucia expressed to my question was denial.
To the extent that it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a conditioned reflex, the answer that came out was full of confidence. I made a baton of shadows to make that point and hit the desk.
Bang!!
“Hey..!”
Unlike before, when she was watching me, I faced her gaze without being afraid as she glared at me with a hostile gaze, perhaps more startled as it was sudden.
“Can you really be that sure?”
“There’s no way a world that works for one person can work normally!!”
The words she screamed out were like the essence of this world. She reached the essence of this world in that short time! I nodded her head in affirmation.
“Yes, such a world cannot be normal.”
“…Are you kidding me?”
What she had done Her nervousness, which had been daunted, began to revive again.
Yes, if you’re thinking of becoming a business partner, you shouldn’t look at me. What I want is an equal person. You have prepared yourself to jump out from the top of the chessboard, so have that level of spirit.
“I would rather ask. You have seen that abnormal world up close. From your point of view, what was his surroundings like?”
“…What?”
She had an expression she still didn’t understand. No, I understand, but I don’t want to accept it.
“Don’t pretend you don’t know. Aren’t you feeling it too? Making the impossible possible and always overcoming crises to reverse. It’s a cliché, but don’t you think it’s a well-constructed scenario?”
This is how it feels. It feels like a black man who knows all the secrets of the world, pretending to be proud of the main characters and babbling about information.
“Ban Tae-woong. He is loved by this world, to be exact, by the will of the stars.”
“That, run…”
Lucia was shocked, as if she had been told something she shouldn’t have heard, and after a while she began to express her doubts.
Okay, that sounds shocking, but the scale has suddenly become so large that it’s hard to get a feel for it, right? I had times like that too. I began to teach her with the mind of her teacher, who tells her every single one of her failing students.
“Hasn’t there been a lot of big and small incidents around Ban Tae-woong lately?”
“…Right, so I just thought you did. The theft in elementary school and the bullying incident in middle school…You made up the situation so that Taewoong was framed as the culprit.”
That’s right. Of course, there are other real culprits, but I was the one who cleverly designed Tae-woong to be identified as the culprit.
Even if Ban Tae-woong fell down, he immediately stood up and made him move forward without worrying about his back based on full trust.
I was the one who gave you the assignments and hints so that you can finally overcome the crisis and reach the real culprit.
Of course, the fact that the preparation for the process was so easy is a secret that only I know.
Because winding and punishing evil is a cliché that has been handed down since ancient times. There’s no way the world’s will miss that delicious event. The power of the world must have worked without me knowing.
Thinking back, it’s not an exaggeration to say that my movements were controlled from then on. When I think about it, I suddenly get hot.
“I admit it was once like that. It was something I made up. But it is the same concept as vaccination.”
“…Yes, the room? That kind of thing… Taewoong, the things he had such a hard time with were just vaccinations!?”
She vented her anger by clenching her fists. In response to her emotion, she frantically flickered the star crest embroidered on her eyes. It was very beautiful because it seemed that the embers that had just started to burn were flickering.
“You are always like that. Is it fun to manipulate people from behind? Isn’t it fun to let go of emotions like that?!”
It’s so shiny that you’d want to inadvertently throw dirt on it to extinguish it. I put her feelings behind and told her bluntly.
“Don’t be a jerk. What I’ve done is nothing more than preliminary preparation so that he won’t collapse even in dirtier work. There is not a single part of me that would take pleasure in the meaningless actions you said.”
“You…!!”
Boom!!
The sight of her kicking off her seat, grabbing me by the collar, and pushing me onto her sofa was like a beast that couldn’t stand a tantrum. However, the pressure was not that of beasts, but of those who stood above it.
Her job is [Lord of Queen].
It is an extremely arrogant job to be the queen of queens. But what underpins that arrogance is her strength.
If you go back to the classification, her job falls under the same rank line as [Princess Knight]. [Lord of Queen] Is a job that corresponds to the highest level.
In other words, she possesses the authority of a queen as well as her knightly physical abilities. In addition, as if the name of the second generation of chaebol was not a fake, he would have received extreme care and professional training, so if it was similar to Reus Bagna, it would be similar, but not less.
No, wouldn’t she be stronger as she is in the position of a heroine?
Reus Bagna’s position is nothing more than a supporting role no matter how good it is. Even if it is pushed now, as time goes by, the difference will be so wide that it will widen.
If she fights with determination, she is capable enough to kill someone like me in the blink of an eye. Even if I tried my best to arm wrestle her, she could easily break my arm with one of her fingers.
Even now, if she put her mind to it, she might not grab me by the collar, but grab my neck and break it. If she had the power of her family, she might be able to get my body out of here without anyone noticing.
But she didn’t.
She is furious and scolding me, but if she was competent she would have already done her calculations in a corner of her head. And she must have answered. It’s awful, and I hate to think about it…But I’m right.
And you are despising and denying yourself for coming to the same conclusion as me. By criticizing me, the original owner of that thought. In short, complaining. I am different from you. That kind of meaningless whining.
I met her gaze coldly and opened her mouth.
“From now on, there will be a lot of evil around Ban Tae-woong. Whether he likes it or not, the world will present him with crises, hardships, and adversity to make him a hero and protagonist. It doesn’t matter if it’s inevitable”
It is not only good things that the world favors. Only those who have tasted pain understand that happiness is sweet and ecstatic. That’s why the world presents the worst hardships in the hope that the ‘protagonist’ will get the best happiness.
“What will you think when you see them? What if misfortune strikes around you? Will you curse the world? Or will you hate Ban Tae-woong, the original culprit behind this?”
With just one will to give the main character an ordeal, the entire world is painted with misfortune.
It creates an opportunity to drive the king who must have been wise. The doctor’s family, who took the lead in saving people more than anyone else, is brutally killed by an unknown disease.
I hope that it will be a reasonable hardship for the main character, and the world moves.
“What the hell, why…? For what reason…”
“Because that is the fate Ban Tae-woong has been carrying since he was born.”
Yes, destiny. It overlaps and overlaps, becoming inevitable and fate.
The fate of the person who will be the ‘main character’. Having become the eye of a typhoon, he is constantly forced to undergo trials whether he wants it or not. There is a reason why the woman called Ban Tae-woong ‘Star Game’.
Ignoring the will of the person concerned, if you don’t call it Yu-Hee over a game board that moves arbitrarily according to the tastes of the stars, what on earth will you call it Yu-hee?
“You are one of the beings to support Ban Tae-woong from collapsing.”
“…What?”
Her momentary dazedness flinched and trembled. Taking advantage of that gap, I changed her posture and spoke strongly.
“Did the organization that made a plan so elaborate that it kidnapped the daughter of the Valentia family really ‘accidentally’ missed a child passing by? Furthermore, why did she choose to kidnap her instead of killing the child on the spot? The vigilance and crisis that even experts who have undergone rigorous training have firmly declared… Why were only two children able to break through?”
“That, stop…”
“Why? Why? Have you ever had any doubts?”
Lucia’s strength, which held me by the collar, was gradually loosening. Her expression was terribly contorted, as if her chest had been hacked to pieces with a knife.
“Then… I…”
Her From her point of view, it must be her own trauma and at the same time the feeling that her very precious memories are being polluted. She is no different from the fact that the basis of the emotions she is feeling right now are all twisted.
The feeling of hearing that her own heart is all lies and fabricated is so painful that it cannot be dismissed as a joke. Eventually, her tears began to drip, and her strength drained away as if she were sitting on me.
I remembered the image of the woman I had been through before, and I pushed the weak Lucia to the side of her sofa and at the same time slapped her cheek roughly.
Pair
“Ah…?”
It was a fairly dry sound because it didn’t contain magic, but it was enough to clear the room.
She was so shocked that she had been hit by such a lousy attack, and thanks to her tears welling up, she began to look at me, caressing her own cheek.
No ordinary consolation was handed over. This is only meaningful when she overcomes it herself. I’m not going to do anything cheap like shaking her heart out of pity.
The only thing I agree with is that she hates NTR.
There’s no way I’d leave that in the first place and take away the wife (Jin) of the guy I recognized as a friend, and a woman that wasn’t my taste either.
“Is that decoration on your shoulder? Don’t moan, roll your head and think. Doubt the given fact and think about it again.”
So I’m going to scold.
Actually, even saying these words is unfamiliar and it seems like her insides are twisted, but now she needs to be educated at her eye level. The firewood that will make her half-burnt will flare up again, I must deliver her most effective words to her now.
“Was your love for Ban Tae-woong just that much? I’m going to dismiss it as an emotion planted arbitrarily by a bastard who doesn’t know if it’s a god or something, and I’m going to give up as it is if there’s a difficult task.”
“…Ugh, don’t tell me!”
Coming to my senses, she gave a low growl, as if she was chewing it up and spitting it out.
Then I closed my eyes tightly and began desperately to settle my rough breathing. I proudly straightened her bent back, inhaled deeply and consciously dispersed my breath before exhaling.
It’s a rather strange breathing method if you watch it from the side, but when you actually try it, you have to be conscious of your breathing and exhale regularly, so it’s a very effective calming method to empty your thoughts and settle your distracted mind.
“I got it right with your words. I love Tae-woong! No matter what hardships and adversities come in the future, even if this heart was created from the beginning, it doesn’t matter. So far, I’ve come to like Ban Tae-woong himself! How dare you dismiss that as fake?! There is no lie in this feeling! I cannot concede this to anyone. Never, never!!”
There was determination in her appearance as she gathered her hands in front of her chest and began to recite. It would be a lie if there were still no shadows of conflict left. That’s enough.
At least you won’t doubt your feelings anymore.
If I went out in that state, at least spread rumors that I had separated the main character and the heroine. Not only the surroundings, but also the good protagonist will send suspicious glances. Then it’s really over.
I don’t know about other people, but turning Ban Tae-woong into an enemy is a headache.
In that respect, she is fine now. She is confident in her own feelings, and if you look at her perspective a little differently, she has grown up as a human being one step at a time.
The problem is that there would be no point in saying that sad confession confidently to me, not the person involved.
I have prepared something for our clichéd heroine No. 1, Who is unnecessarily considerate of the tsundere theme and has all the annoying attributes of being clumsy in important places.
We’ve finished some serious talk, let’s use this to change the mood.
No matter what happened after her, she has already set her foot on this side and what she can do is decided. In the meantime, it wouldn’t matter much if one or two weaknesses were increased.
I took out the device she had hidden behind her and pressed the play button on her as if to show off to her.
Beep
[I love Taewoong!]
There was a clear picture of Lucia Valentia shouting with a serious expression on her face, with tears in her eyes and a reddened face. It’s a really good shot for the price.
Because models are obviously fraudulent, I can’t help but take pretty pictures like this.
Beep
I pressed the play button again to stop the video. And I played the neatly stored image over and over again.
At some point, the girl in front of me turned to stone and hardened. Oh my god! These days, devices are loaded with spells that cast petrification magic on opponents! It is truly a mystical magic.
“…What is that?”
As if it wasn’t such a good magic, the girl who was soon released from the petrifying magic opened her mouth with her whole body trembling. Her expression, which had been resolute until just now, was darkened. When I saw that, I raised a corner of her mouth and smiled.
“What is it? A confession of love”
“Hey Mr. Lee…!”
Suddenly, Lucia rushed at me, but unfortunately, what I’m losing is strength, not skill. One thing to avoid seeing is to be confident. I could have avoided being grabbed by the neck just now, but I just got hit.
As she got up from her seat and held her device high, Lucia, who began to blush and sigh, reached out her hand and started stamping her feet desperately to grab her device.
She is said to be stylish, but she is a little under 170. Even compared to me, she has a difference of more than 10 cm, which is a height that she will never be able to reach if I stretch out her hand.
Attacks aimed at my body in between were easily avoided or blocked with a shadow. Realizing that there was no point anymore, she opened her mouth as she trembled.
“Erase it now!”
“From now on, I will see what you do and delete it.”
“Delete it!”
I gave back a fishy smile when I saw him using time by taking care of his hair, which he doesn’t normally do.
I definitely have some S skills. Seeing the usually arrogant child acting like a child made me want to bully her even more, and it seemed like her stomach was pierced.
Ah, is this just because he has a lot of things piled up on him? In any case, thanks to this, it was as if I had a dedicated anti-Tae-woong team. I’m busy growing up, but to cover even Ban Tae-woong is a bit over the top.
“There is not much difference from what I have been doing until now. Beside Ban Tae-woong and help him.”
“I will do that even if you don’t tell me!!”
Yes, if the guy you like is in danger and doesn’t move, is that a heroine?
However, the coping with whether you go through it knowing or not knowing that Ban Tae-woong is the main character is different. She won’t be taken aback even in a sudden situation, and above all, a kind of probability is created by her being vigilant.
What probability? Of course, it is the probability of rice cakes that the main character realizes that he is being favored by stars.
There is no way that Ban Tae-woong, who is favored by the world, will not notice that his heroine is in trouble.
Unlike me, who is in the position of a friend who doesn’t mind disappearing anytime, she doesn’t have to worry about dying. Well, it’s the level of crisis right before her death. It may happen for the awakening of the main character, but she won’t die as a result. It is because it goes against the happy ending Ban Tae-woong wants.
If you try to dig into the heroine’s strangeness in your own way, the world has no choice but to help him.
After that, you will come to know it naturally. That something strange keeps happening around him.
This is both her McGuffin and a major bug that can be achieved by making her her ‘player’. It is said that the word on the game board will flow down a side road, not a set rail, but I wonder if there is a developer who will stand still after seeing that.
‘As expected, God is neither omniscient nor omnipotent’
If the author of God was all-knowing and omnipotent, there was no way he would just ignore it when he saw him openly plotting to destroy the game board you made. Now he is no longer just a god. With contempt and hatred, let’s call them ‘self-appointed gods’.
If you twist it, come out and tell me to remove the skin, damn it. I have a lot to say.
“For now, take care of yourself. That rumor was also spread by a bastard in the dark, and he did it to cover up all the innocent sins he had. It happened to me too.”
“…I still can’t believe this.”
“If the data is unreliable, do you personally cross-verify and find out? And if you find a black bastard, call me first. I’ll cook it first.”
Whether you believe this or not, the choice is yours. I just repeatedly emphasized the information I had gathered so far, the countermeasure manual corresponding to it, and the danger of the dark side threatening the academy. I did it twice because it was important.
“Oh, and train Ban Tae-woong well like this. Be sure to hold tight to catch it. You can do well because you are the future Seobangnim, right?”
“St..!? Ahh…”
Looking at the reaction, I thought I could do well. It’s funny how you can’t even express your liking in front of yourself while doing that.
Furthermore, Ban Tae-woong handed her a file in which she had extracted only the extracts of her data about dungeons that were good to try out, and that a better effect could be extracted in a certain way for her to grow in the future.
In preparation for what the woman had told me about, I also handed over a handbook of factors useful for defending someone against her majority.
If you’re an idiot, there’s a high probability that no one will be injured, and no one will be able to evacuate. Then you must fight while protecting someone against the majority. This is preparation for him.
The file name is ‘You can do it too. Raising Ban Tae-woong’. It was annoying, so I made it by accepting the name of the training simulator that popped into my head as it is, but I was satisfied because it seemed intuitive.
“Uh… Um, huh?”
Seeing that, she looked at me and her materials with a trembling expression on her face, and began to look at her suspiciously. Oh, that looks familiar. She had the exact same expression she had when she looked at me and treated me as gay.
Has there ever been a moment when I hoped my feelings were wrong as much as now? Regardless of my will, I struggled to avoid the furrowed brow.
“Hey, I’m really asking this just in case, so I hope you don’t misunderstand me, but maybe you’re a man…”
However, my efforts went well.
The moment I heard that, my hands went into strength and unbearable anger welled up. Crossing the line, this. Before she could speak any further, I pulled out her shadow and sealed her mouth as she spat out her absurd remarks.
“Ehh?!”
“Shut up. Because i like girls If you treat me like that one more time, I’ll spread this on the academy bulletin board and make a public confession.”
“Eh, huh? Eub bum…!”
I gritted my teeth at the sight of him nodding his head in contemplation at my words but still unable to erase his doubtful gaze. This guy and that guy, why are they so anxious about not being able to make people gay?
Someone could be nice to the main character for his old age. Uh! Mr. Hak, you can’t beat this, really.
“Ugh…”
I need to get out of this damn place as soon as possible.
…No.
Wait, why can’t I hit you? He’s not overwhelmingly thin like that woman. On the contrary, Lucia has even been caught by me as a weakness. That means that I am overwhelmingly superior.
Because I am an active supporter of male equality, I am a person who is ready to use violence against anyone, whether male or female, if they say anything to me.
I fed him a chestnut with mana full of mana on the head of the scandalous protagonist, Baragi, who was still looking at me with an expression that he did not know what he had done wrong and was only looking for an opportunity to steal the device.
Thump!
There was a tremendous sound that you would not have thought of hitting a person’s head. Her body began to tremble as if the shock had spread throughout her body.
“Wow…!?”
She collapsed as she belatedly shed her moans. It hurt so much that she couldn’t even scream and ran outside, leaving behind the idiot who was sitting there with her head wrapped around her head. Oh, now that I think about it, I couldn’t scream because I covered my mouth.
“
Belatedly, there was a sound of shouting and magic power bursting out from behind as they called my name, but I ignored it. I don’t know anything luda.
With this, I passed on Ban Tae-woong’s duty, so I’ll have to worry about nurturing him. I don’t know if this choice will be poison later or what. I would only waste my time thinking about things that were halfway out of my hands.
After getting rid of all the complicated things, I remembered that there was nothing like goblins in the early stages of training, and moved toward the place where the E-rank dungeons were arranged.
[Great Achievement! You have brought complete shame and anguish to those stronger than you.]
[The level of the skill [Sadism] Increases.]
[The skill level has increased by 1.]
So, pay attention, system. If you’re popular now, you think I’ve become a pervert who really likes to bully others.