Conquering the Broken Heroine?

First place.

That’s the rank Han Seoyeon achieved in conquering the hunting ground, thanks to Baek Da-eun’s remarkable performance.
Though it was only a ranking in terms of speed.

“Look…! We’re in first place!”
“Yes…”
“Isn’t this what people often compare to riding a bus? Be grateful!”

If this test had proceeded normally, the score these two would have received would have been the alphabet F.

“Thanks to an excellent bus driver like me, even a powerless person like you could receive an outstanding grade!”

…Is this words or a giraffe?

“The one who gave the bus ride wasn’t you, but me.”
“What are you saying!”
“You don’t have friends.”

Han Seoyeon thought.
Being the teammate of someone without friends.
Isn’t this the true bus driver?

“Wh-Wh-What…!”
“You don’t have any.”

The cruel reality.
She might have followers, but no friends.
That was Baek Da-eun’s school life.

“The same goes for you!”
“No, it doesn’t. I have friends.”

A senior and a twin sister.
A number you can count on your fingers.
Still, it was better than Baek Da-eun who didn’t have any fingers to count with.

“In the first place, you should have seduced Han Suho before talking to me.”
“Th-That’s…!”

For a moment, Baek Da-eun’s snow-white skin turned tomato red.

“That’s, somehow Han Suho-yang seemed to be in a bad mood, I felt a distance, if I spoke wrongly now, I thought she might hate me…”

Han Seoyeon rubbed her eyes in surprise for a moment.

“Don’t tell me you have a crush but haven’t even talked to her properly?”

Baek Da-eun’s attitude was the same as in the original work.
The Baek Da-eun appearing in [The Falling Star Swordsman of the Academy].

The Baek Da-eun who would come to feel regret and dependence towards Han Suho after knowing all the truth.

Of course, while they were only slightly similar, it wasn’t to say that she was currently like a ruined story heroine.

“What would you know…”
“I’m not completely clueless.”

Han Seoyeon said.
This wasn’t simply the words of a reader who had thoroughly read the original work.

“I was also quite embarrassed. When I confessed to my senior.”
“Confessed? Don’t tell me, to that foreigner…?”
“Yeah. Though we agreed to start as friends for now.”

Girls in love tend to be shy.
Even munchkin protagonist Han Seoyeon was like this, so how embarrassed must the heroine who makes one want to throw up have been?

“You…”

Perhaps she was impressed by the munchkin protagonist’s words.
Baek Da-eun’s gaze towards Han Seoyeon seemed to change a little.

“…Despite having a painful past of unrequited love, you calmly comfort me!”

Correction.
What the fuck did you just spout, you bitch.

“You’re powerless, promiscuous, and violent, but your nature is admirable!”
“…I wasn’t rejected.”
“Huh? What did you say?”
“I said I wasn’t rejected!”

Han Seoyeon is a munchkin protagonist.
The word ‘unrequited love’ doesn’t exist in her dictionary.

“I wasn’t rejected! We agreed to start as friends and get to know each other!”

Baek Da-eun didn’t say anything.
She just patted Han Seoyeon’s shoulder.

“I understand. You’re saying that because you want to deny being rejected. If I had heard the same thing from Han Suho-yang, I’m sure I would have done the same.”
“I’m telling you, I wasn’t rejected…!”

Certainly, hearing “Let’s be friends” after confessing usually has the nuance of being rejected.

But Michaela said differently.
Let’s get to know each other more.

They went to the hunting ground together and went shopping for clothes.
They were even living together.
It was far from being rejected.

“Well, maybe…”

…However, looking at it coldly, it was also true that it was ambiguous to even call them friends, let alone lovers.

Han Seoyeon had secrets.
Michaela also had secrets.
They were hiding things from each other.

Should this be considered a normal friendship?

“Cheer up. I’ll support you!”
“…”

No words would get through to Baek Da-eun, who was already teary-eyed, lost in her own delusions.

“I miss my senior.”

Han Seoyeon was in a daze.
She missed the feeling of that big heart that purified her eyes just by looking at it.

Some time passes.
Students one by one conquered beyond the hunting ground and reached the goal.
Due to its nature, the academy had few students.

The number of students selected from the best talents across the country was less than 30 per grade.
Excluding the student council who were absent due to work, the total number was around 80.

She looked around.
Unfortunately, Michaela hadn’t arrived yet.

She wasn’t worried.
After all, it’s the combination of a level 100 munchkin and an S-rank Awakener protagonist.

Unless the strongest in the world setting directly targeted them, it would be fine.
It’s still just the beginning of the original work, isn’t it?

As a protagonist who knows the evaluation criteria of the test, they must be conquering carefully and slowly.

Even considering that, they were too late.

“No way…”

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Han Seoyeon’s mind.

“Outdoor… play…?”

This would be impossible for Han Suho, the protagonist of [The Falling Star Swordsman of the Academy].
But what if the blonde tanning (※not really) delinquent (※not really) Han Suho stepped in?

“There’s no way that could happen!”
“What else couldn’t happen!”

This is the golden sun Han Suho who easily conquered Baek Da-eun like eating cake.
She couldn’t help but have her eyes roll at the senior’s voluptuousness.

“You know too! How attractive the senior is!”
“W-Well, certainly her cup size is bigger than mine…!”

A conversation with no practical benefit was about to continue.

[─Ah, attention.]

That’s when it happened.

[Students, can you hear me well?]

An unknown man’s voice is heard.

“Wh-What is that?”

…It was about time.
The first event of [The Falling Star Swordsman of the Academy].
The beginning of the academy terror incident.

“…”

Han Seoyeon closed her mouth.
Then she finished her preparations.
She just caressed the sword hilt.

She will twist the original work.
Here today, one constellation will fall.

──────────
[Choi Min-hyuk]
Lv. : 55
Exp : 1318/8409
HP : 160
MP : 90

[Status]
Strength : 70(Rank : B)
Agility : 71(Rank : B)
Intelligence : 30(Rank : C)
(Distributable remaining points : 0)

[Special Skill]
Supporting Star – Manager of the Abyss{Rank : ■}

[Original Skill]
Unique Ability/Trait Type – Breeding(Rank : B)

[Normal Skill]
Broadcasting(Rank : D)
Conspiracy(Rank : A)
──────────

It’s a brilliant status window.
Choi Min-hyuk laughed every time he saw it.
The fruit of his efforts over the past half year.

A tower of gold built up without giving up even in an unfair and unreasonable dictator’s world.

Even decent hunters were no match for him.
What’s more amazing is that there’s still plenty of room for growth.

Someday he will surpass even the academy professors he just saw.
He will surpass even that madwoman who’s written as a hero but read as a dictator.

For now, to achieve that grand dream, he had to clear the quest.

Choi Min-hyuk reopened the quest window and read.
The parts he focused on were the task to be achieved and the tip.

[Killing Academy Students: Incomplete (0/50)]
[Tip: If cruelty is added to indirect methods, there might be an even more special reward…?]

The status window only speaks the truth.
The same must be true for the tip.

Indirect methods and cruelty.
These two elements need to be added.

What could the special reward be?
Whatever it is, it needs to be obtained.
Choi Min-hyuk believed this without doubt.

“Indirect murder with cruelty. I wonder how I should do it?”

He asks into the air.
Without fail, his Supporting Star answered.

[The Constellation ‘Manager of the Abyss’ wants to see a death game.]

Death game.
A game literally betting human lives.

“Understood!”

Choi Min-hyuk cheerfully accepted the viewer’s suggestion.

The students are stirring.
It was a man’s voice they were hearing for the first time.

First-year students just tilted their heads, wondering if it might be a professor whose face they hadn’t memorized yet.
But the expressions of second and third-year students couldn’t help but be perplexed.

Like the students, the academy’s professors are also operated as a small elite group.

[I am First Lieutenant Choi Min-hyuk of the proud Republic of Korea Army.]

They had no memory of such a man.
Moreover, a soldier rather than a hunter.

[Do you perhaps know the term ‘guilt by association’?]

Above all, his behavior.
It was impossible to consider it that of a professor or examiner.

[Of course you wouldn’t know. I learned it through political education, but you’re just children who haven’t even been to the military yet.]

Nonsense.
The term ‘guilt by association’ is one of the basic common knowledge.
Even without learning it somewhere specifically, people generally know its meaning.

What’s with the sudden talk about the military in the first place?
It’s been over 10 years since conscription was abolished in South Korea.

[There’s a saying that the sins of the parents are the sins of the children. In today’s age of excessive individualism, you might think I’m an old-fashioned person.]

The man’s words were a mess.

[But I don’t think this saying is entirely wrong.]

There were few parts that could be considered correct.

[You have sins. Clear sins of your own. You were ignorant of the sins of your parents’ generation. Ignorance is the greatest sin in the world.]

The students couldn’t understand his words.

[You can’t be happy forever, growing up knowing nothing and remaining ignorant.]

They were words not worth understanding.

[You must know firsthand. The humiliation experienced by the true senior comrades who sacrificed themselves for you.]

Words that no one in South Korea could sympathize with.

[I’ve talked for too long. Aren’t you the AG (After Gate) generation that dislikes long speeches?]

Perhaps only some non-citizens harboring impure thoughts might understand.

[I’ve prepared a game that even you can understand easily. You all like games, don’t you?]

Suddenly, a crack appears in the air.
As if glass is shattering.

Space collapses.
Beyond it lurks another world.

“It’s a gate…!”

Gate.
It is a door not of this world.

[Correct.]

The man said as if pleased.

[To add, it’s an S-rank gate!]

Shock spread among the students at the man’s words.

[Now, let’s start the game.]

As the man’s words ended, the doors connecting the hunting ground and the exit closed.
In the closed space, only about 70 students and the gate remained.

Then.

■■■■■■■■■─────!

Monsters appeared.
A roar befitting the scale of the alphabet S rang out.

[The clear condition is simple.]

Gulp.
Someone swallowed dry saliva.

[Defeat the S-rank monster right in front of you.]

S-rank monster.
A strong being of a different caliber from the weaklings seen only in hunting grounds.

[How about it, quite easy, right?]

An irresistible disaster had struck.

“Oh, that should be super easy.”

That would have been the case if there wasn’t a munchkin protagonist.