chapter 47
47 – After the big commotion, time to clean up (4)
“But you said the camera was broken, right? Then, what happened to the picture I took yesterday?”
At Me Meri’s words, Erio stopped chewing her chicken and bowed her head.
“…… Did I do something wrong?”
“Oh, that’s not it.”
While saying that, he patted Erio on the head.
“Actually, I was curious about that, so I briefly asked on the way to this restaurant. But this guy seems to have blown up all the pictures he took yesterday.”
“You blew everything?”
“Yeah, I got excited about the camera being broken and I tried my best right away. By the way, he fights using lightning.”
In a world where things like devices are casually roaming around, I wondered if it would be possible to recover the data, but it seemed impossible.
I saw that it was a fragment and looked like an SD card that I brought, but it was burnt to an almost unrecognizable shape.
“Then, are you doing that because you’re sorry that the photos are all gone?”
“That’s how it was, taking pictures was fun, I went around taking tons of pictures yesterday.”
“Hmm, if that’s the case, I’m glad.”
As I looked at him with puzzled eyes, Mee Mary drew her V with her finger and said with a smile.
“Actually, I gave that camera yesterday without unlinking it to my account by mistake.”
“Hmm? That means…… “
“Right, if you log in to my account, all the photos Erio took yesterday might still be there.”
Oh, what a world you can sync your camera with your internet account.
When I am amazed that I have learned something new.
“Is that true?”
Erio asked Memeri a question with his eyes twinkling.
“That’s um…… To be honest, I don’t think it’s something to say as someone who brought it up, but I haven’t checked it yet, so I can’t say for sure.”
Chuuk-
“Senior, don’t you usually have to check things like that and then let us know?”
When I asked why Tantan killed her child twice, looking at her memory with her eyes, she made an excuse with a look of regret.
“Ugh, but you can’t just look at other people’s photos without permission, right?”
Like that, the two of them whispered a little while looking at Erio.
“So what? If it’s okay with you, shall we check it now?”
“Yes…… Check it out.”
Erio nodded his head nervously.
At the same time, the nervous Memery carefully checked the device.
“How is it?”
“Whoa…… “
Memery let out a small sigh at Erio’s words.
Then Erio’s eyes, looking at Memeri, were gradually trembling as if an earthquake had occurred.
“Yeah, it seems like everything is there, nothing is missing.”
Me Meri changed her expression and smiled broadly.
“Wow!”
Erio, who noticed the situation belatedly, looked at Memeri with a mixed expression of joy that the photo was safe and a sense of betrayal that he had been deceived.
‘It looks funny.’
I wondered if the cat would make that kind of expression when it realized that it was mixed with bitter medicine.
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“A shop?”
“Yeah, because I want to go get the picture quickly.”
After eating the chicken, Erio heard from Memeri that there was a machine that could take photos in the club room, so Erio decided to stop by the club room for a while with the two.
By the way, I decided to break up here.
When I said that I was tired and wanted to rest, both of them said they knew it and said see you next time.
Exchanging contact information was a bonus.
“Are you really not going?”
In the meantime, Erio kept pestering me to go with him.
But I wasn’t the kind of person who would go with him obediently.
“Since I always do your favor, you should do my favor sometimes too. We are friends.”
“Ugh…… “
When I talked about the friend contract I made on the first day, Erio let out a small drool and withdrew as if it couldn’t be helped.
“But will you be okay?”
She asked Erio while nodding her head inwardly saying that it was also a good idea to hold the contract.
It wasn’t a problem since I was by his side when we ate a little while ago, but Erio will go back to his original state once he’s separated from me.
“Yeah, it’s okay. I’ve had a good night’s sleep lately, so I can tolerate a slight tingle.”
Erio managed to read the meaning of my words and said so.
Since he said it was okay, I nodded quietly instead of saying anything more.
“By the way, will Eugene be okay?”
At that time, Erio looked at me and asked.
I wondered what this meant again, so I tilted my head and looked at Erio.
“Won’t you get hurt again just because I’m gone?”
Erio’s voice was low pitched when he said that, but there was quite a bit of deep concern.
‘Heh heh…… ‘
I wanted to tell you if you were in a position to worry about me when I saw you looking up at me with worried eyes.
‘But now that I think about it, I think I’m in the right situation.’
Because I kept losing to him in the bathroom this morning.
“Okay. I’ll be careful not to get hurt.”
So I just nodded.
“If there is anything dangerous, call me right away.”
It was a strange feeling to be worried about a kid who was only half my height.
“Okay.”
Anyway, after I broke up with Erio like that.
Joo Woo-wook-
I enjoyed the freedom that came with me walking down the street lightly.
Now, it was my turn to take some time to look back on myself.
[Status]
Name: Yoojin Do
Level: 43
Attributes: [In a transparent world (5★)], [Covered in a shadow (5★)] And 9 others
Strength: 15
Agility: 24
Stamina: 16
Intelligence: 21
mana: 42
[Talent]
-Physical talent [-60/100]
-Magic Talent [-60/100]
Attribute talent
Fire – [-60/100]
Water – [-60/100]
Wind – [-60/100]
Sat – [-60/100]
Brain (Thunder) – [-60/100]
Thursday – [-60/100]
Gold – [-60/100]
Poison – [-60/100]
Light – [-60/100]
Cancer – [100/100]
Hour – [-60/100]
Empty – [-60/100]
None – [-60/100]
-60 POINT
[Weapon Talent]
-Dagger with open mouth LV. One
-Awakened Gun LV. One
[Technical Talent]
-Introductory Alchemy LV. 4
-Summoning LV. One
This time, the first thing that caught my eye was the level I had risen once again after catching Monica.
However, unlike the last time, I wasn’t particularly happy when I saw the level I had risen.
‘Tsk, that’s embarrassing.’
No, rather, it was only a small tongue.
As I said before, stats are the same as muscles.
Just as a person who has never exercised builds more muscle faster than a person who already has some muscle, a person with low stats can increase more quickly.
The problem is that even if the stat is low, the speed at which the stat increases is slowed down if the level is high.
‘The stats are low, but the level is high.’
Magic is the most used stat, and I ate a lot of elixirs, so I had it to some extent.
However, this was just too low, so it looked good, but it was by no means high compared to the level.
‘How come there’s no stat higher than the level?’
The fortunate thing was that, unlike stats, talents grew quite smoothly.
‘A dagger with an open mouth and a gun with an open eye.’
I got a rough sense of why I grew up this way.
‘The dagger was only used to end one’s life, and the gun was only used to snip from a distance.’
His talent grew one step further, and his new skills were proving it.
[Lock-On]
▶Effect – Makes the attack move toward the set target.
[Bite]
▶Effect – Increases the penetration of attacks by one level.
[Amplify Attributes]
▶Effect – Makes the properties of the material stronger.
Basically, skill is a form of skill that is an extension of talent.
That’s why I could use it as much as I wanted without consuming mana.
Of course, if you use magic, the effect will be better.
‘Well, he sure has grown tremendously.’
This is a clear fact.
But still, I was full of shortcomings.
‘One weakness, monotonous attack method.’
My attack tactic is basically assassination, and when assassination doesn’t work, I attack using shadows.
And that’s why, if surprise doesn’t work and I lose my temper in elemental fights, my strength will be drastically broken.
‘It was like that just this morning.’
I tried to masturbate, saying that I didn’t use half of my strength, but to be honest, that’s the same for Erio.
In other words, if Erio was my enemy at that time, I would be finished.
It was not a situation where assassination would work, and the opposite was also unfavorable.
‘Thinking about it that way, I can feel that I’ve been lucky so far.’
The reason I’ve been able to win against opponents much stronger than myself so far is because I’ve poked at their weaknesses.
In other words, there was nothing strange about me being pricked by those weaker than myself and dying because of my mistake.
I was already full of weaknesses, and because of my low stats, I couldn’t fully demonstrate the power of my 9-star talent.
‘I have to somehow diversify this one and only attack method.’
And fortunately, I had already thought of a countermeasure against it.
I stared at the word Summoning in the stats and passed my thoughts to the next one.
‘My second weakness is that I still don’t know how to fight.’
As I said before, until now I have specialized in assassination.
Because of that, I was still in a state where I didn’t know how to fight from the front.
‘After sparring with Han Si-yeon this time, I think I’ve got a bit of a sense of what a fight is.’
Well, like the one above, I decided to go to the circle and try to solve it step by step.
After organizing my thoughts like that, I selected the information I was supposed to send to Siyeon Han and sent it to her.
Because I was busy when I was at the dorm, so I texted him saying that he would send it later.
‘Information I need to tell you…… It was the difference between the location of Monica’s laboratory and the Mine that appeared in the Circle this time and the Mine that have existed.’
To be honest, I thought about providing more information other than this.
Aris is undoubtedly one of the top players in the current situation.
If she moved her, I could easily untie her many tangled strings.
‘Well, I quit after all.’
One of the reasons was that she couldn’t predict how she would react when Han Si-yeon, who serves as a middle bridge, learned useless things, but the biggest reason was Aris.
‘Right now, his interest in me is probably at the level of simple curiosity, but if I give him all the uninformed information that says he’s going to block what’s going on behind this, then from then on he’ll try to catch me.’
And then everything gets twisted too badly.
Umm-
‘But I wonder if it’s okay to give some hints.’
To Talk-
So I added a service to the two pieces of information and sent it to Siyeon Han.
It wasn’t difficult to send information by reference.
Thanks to organizing the information on my device whenever I had a chance, all I had to do was copy and paste what I wrote down in advance.
Ghost: Now, since I told you, tell the chairman now.
Ghost: And you should train hard for a while.
Ghost: I’ll tell you about a training program later, because you need to have basic stamina for that.
When I sent a text message like this, another text bomb flew from Siyeon Han, but I ignored it.
‘Now then, shall we go back to the inn and get some sleep?’
It’s 2:00 PM right now, but it’s still too early to go to sleep.
Ghost: Alright, then we’ll see you at midnight.
Fire: All right.
Today I had an appointment in the evening, so I thought it would be better to go to bed early.