I Became a Genius by Running Away From the Academy

10 – Growth hides in the shadows, so no one notices (3)

A weak body that is filthy weak and has no talent like chocolate crumbs.

Complaining doesn’t change anything, so I just accepted it, but deep down I was despairing that I had to survive in this harsh world with a body like this moldy bread.

Taang-! Taang-! Taang-!

That was just a little while ago, but now, on the contrary, I felt fortunate to have fallen with a body like this.

[Weapon talent, firearm level goes up by one level.]

[Weapon talent, firearm level goes up by one level.]

[Weapon talent, firearm level goes up by one level.]

Without this body, such explosive growth would have been impossible.

No, it’s actually a lie.

Looking at the messages floating in front of my eyes like a hail of rain, I was definitely in a good mood.

But I think I would have been happier if I just got a body full of talent on the easy difficulty level.

‘Well, it certainly made me feel a bit refreshed.’

It was a godsend to increase the target from Darcy to all students.

As the skill level of firearms increased, handling pistols became incomparably more proficient than before.

It seemed that now it would be possible to accurately match a coin thrown into the air before it fell.

My fingers tickled as if I was telling him to pull the trigger quickly.

‘But I have to put up with it.’

Twoong-!

“Hmm, is it here this time?”

Carelessness is prohibited.

Because what I’m dealing with right now is not a scarecrow, but a beast of prey.

‘I’m going to die, it’s clear that I’m attacking one-sidedly, but I feel like I’m being chased. What kind of monster is this?’

I moved to see that Darcy’s eyes were looking this way.

If I had fired one more shot in that state, Darcy would have read the trajectory of the bullet and figured out where I was.

Even though I was hiding my existence as much as possible by overlapping the two characteristics, there was no time to be vigilant.

‘This body is the problem. At least if I could have run, I would have tried to disrupt the location somehow.’

I let out a sigh.

To be honest, I didn’t see an answer to this question.

It wasn’t for the same simple reason as a lack of muscle strength in the body, but because the problem was caused by the cursed talent of causing the body to lose its sense of balance and fall if it speeds beyond walking.

‘Should I at least walk on quadrupeds like a beast?’

As I was seriously thinking about it, a shadow enveloping my body came into my eyes.

[Shadow Play] When this feature is used, shadows are wrapped around the whole body like an actor wearing clothes on stage.

Thanks to that, it looked pretty cool on the outside, but in fact, it was a disadvantage rather than an advantage.

Because manipulating the shadow after covering it all over the body meant adding an unnecessary process to manipulating the shadow and doubling the consumption of mana.

‘The proof is that all high-level shadow manipulation talents draw and use shadows.’

But for me, this wasn’t just a downside.

Thanks to this unnecessary process of casting a shadow over the whole body, I was able to combine [Shadow Play] And [Invisible Hermit] Without realizing it in the auditorium.

‘Wearing the whole body in shadow for a moment?’

In an instant, a flash of shock hit my head.

‘Doesn’t that mean I can move my body using shadows like a marionette if I’m good at it?’

Of course, this is just my imagination.

But what if that’s possible?

‘It means that I can move my body just as I use my attributes to manipulate magic.’

So I nervously moved the shadows surrounding my body.

‘Enough!’

It’s a bit awkward, but I managed to move my body.

The shadows all over my body supported my movements like a power suit.

I almost lost my balance and fell because of the sudden increase in strength, but when I did, I stretched out the shadow of my legs in the form of a tripod to support my body.

‘Okay, you can! You can do it!’

After a short adaptation, I moved my legs at a speed close to running and pulled the trigger faster.

Taang-! Taang-! Taang-!

An incomparable number of bullets are rapidly extending from the muzzle.

After that, I quickly moved to my seat, and a refreshing sense of freedom enveloped my whole body, as if I had taken off a straitjacket.

And from that moment on, the flow of the fight began to change.

◎ ◎ ◎

Hoo-!

‘Hmm?’

Darcy was puzzled while avoiding the swords that were swung simultaneously from different directions.

‘Suddenly what?’

Darcy was distributing 50% of his energy to avoiding bullets and tracking their trajectory, 30% to dealing with Shigure, 10% to identifying Sunny’s movement, and 10% to dealing with the rest of the students.

But now, the balance is slightly shaken.

‘Did they move together now?’

It was clumsy, but the attack just a moment ago was clearly intertwined with the students.

‘What happened? As each person’s strength and characteristics are strong, it must be difficult to work together right away, right?’

As I turned my gaze to the students in puzzlement, I heard some students shouting.

“Ah! What a bastard! What kind of bastard keeps shooting me in the back of the head!”

“Right! Someone keeps trying to jump out of me, but they’re hitting me in the back!”

“What’s the point of hitting just right before an attack, right before a bounce!”

Fishik-

“Is it that guy again?”

Hearing him, I immediately got a sense of how things were going.

‘At the crucial moment, I left only the ones I could relate to, and then shot all the students who got in the way so they wouldn’t get in the way.’

I laughed out loud because I was dumbfounded at the connection that was created in an unexpected way.

‘Although his eyes, ability to judge the situation, and ability to shoot are surprising, as he calmly examines the battle situation and selects only those who will be linked accurately. Rather, the mindset is more surprising.’

Selecting and attacking allies that are necessary and those that are not needed is not the way a chick should think.

‘I didn’t expect to be driven this far in a half-joking test.’

Until this morning, I never imagined things would turn out like this.

Ssiik-

And that’s why I wanted to know who the hell brought the situation to this point.

Even if you break some of the rules you set.

“I don’t know what kind of guy you are and where you hide…… “

Sug-

“I’ll pull you out and make you regret doing such an insolent thing.”

Darcy laughed fiercely and stopped using the artifact that limited her power.

And at the same time.

Pachang-!

Dozens of bullets shot up and broke all the lights on the ceiling.

Dark darkness fell inside the training room.

“What, what?”

“I can’t see anything!”

Students muttered in bewilderment.

‘It’s an opportunity!’

At that moment, Shigure kicked the ground with a flash in his eyes.

There was no hesitation in Shigure’s movements.

For ninjas, darkness is something that feels familiar rather than fearful.

But unfortunately.

Teouk-

“Nice try.”

Hunters are also familiar with darkness.

The sword was grabbed, and Shigure gritted his teeth and tried to pull out a new ninja sword.

But Darcy wielded the sword faster than that.

“Keah!”

I didn’t get cut because there were no blades.

However, Shigure collapsed on the spot from the impact of the attack.

Darcy made a strong attack because of disabling the artifact, but Darcy ignored it.

‘I’m sure it was over there, right?’

For her now, her first priority was to check where her bullet rose a moment ago.

‘Going in a straight line.’

Darcy leaped into the air.

Taang-! Taang-! Taang-!

Dozens of bullets rained down aiming at Darcy’s vitals.

Looking at him, Darcy laughed.

‘Hey there!’

Now, through this attack, I was able to pinpoint the location of the guy I was curious about and wanted to know.

Tada da da dadang-!

Darcy swung his sword and slashed the bullets.

Then, stepping on the student’s head, he quickly threw himself and stretched out his hand toward the place where the bullet came out.

Kwak-!

“I finally caught it.”

Convinced of him through the sensations in his fingertips, Darcy tugged at his hand.

Then, a mysterious student who had been hidden in the dark so far came out.

“I liked the idea that you would use Fuma Shigure as bait to land the final blow. But I was too greedy in the end. If I had fired a single shot rather than a burst, I might not have caught him.”

Saying that, Darcy knocked the student to the floor and sat on top of him.

After completing the suppression, Darcy quickly grabbed the student’s wrists while sitting on the student’s stomach.

The corner of Darcy’s mouth went up ferociously, revealing his fangs.

If anyone who knew her saw her face now, she would be amazed.

The only time she makes a face like this is when she wins against her prized prey.

‘Anyway, what is this guy really?’

Curiosity flickered in Darcy’s eyes as he looked down at the student.

Even though it was right in front of me, I could only see the outline, but couldn’t see the details of the face because of the shadows.

‘First of all, his body and hands seem to be bigger than mine, and his body is solid, so it’s clear he’s a boy.’

When Darcy is gathering information through his five senses.

Sug-

The student, who hadn’t uttered a sound even at the moment of collapsing, opened his mouth slightly.

Then he spoke in a flat tone that didn’t match the situation.

“Extra points are fine.”

“…… What?”

When Darcy is puzzled by an unknown word.

Surreuk-

Darcy grabbed her hand in reverse as one of the arms she was holding onto turned into a tentacle.

“What…… !”

Darcy looked away in amazement at the unexpected counterattack.

Then, she saw her hand, holding her dagger, stretched out from a blank space in her eyes.

Creepy-

Darcy quickly swung her sword at the creepiness that ran down her neck, slicing through her shadow and backing away.

The moment after such a reorganization.

Tack-

The training room’s auto-repair program fixes a light bulb in the ceiling, and the lights are back on.

“What, what? Where is the professor?”

“Oops, is he down?”

“Oh, that’s the professor!”

Students muttered in confusion.

Darcy ignored those students and looked at the place where he caught the mysterious student a moment ago.

Only a dagger and the shadow it created were left there.

“I don’t need extra points…… “

Darcy muttered, groping her throat.

A cold feeling unique to the sword remained at the tip of his neck.

‘I wonder if the wild shooting was an act to shove a weapon called a gun into my head.’

She was fooled by it and was only wary of her arm holding her gun, and she didn’t even notice that the other arm was a fake made of shadows because the guy kept waving that hand, which kept her conscious.

The guy who laid the pavement like that shook Darcy’s consciousness with one last word, and at that moment, after successfully attacking, he disappeared again.

As I reached that point, a sigh mixed with laughter flowed from Darcy’s mouth.

“Really…… I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve missed a prey.”

His excitement rose and he did his best to cross the line he had set for himself.

And at the last moment of his last, he stabbed his own gap and succeeded in delivering a brilliant blow.

It was her complete defeat.