NOVEL NEXT chapter 39
39 – Entrance exam (4)
I blinked slowly.
“….”
Just in case you didn’t know, press down on your eyelids to relieve fatigue.
“…….”
Now that’s it.
The hallucinations must have disappeared.
Yeah, 98 doesn’t make sense from common sense…….
“9, 98───?!”
As expected!
“What is this?!”
Is the system also faulty?
‘If your parents are in their 100s and your hometown friends are in their 70s, it’s okay, isn’t it?’
I looked at other people’s favorability ratings to see if they were written incorrectly, but all of them were showing reasonable numbers except for the president.
When only the chairman showed an abnormal figure, I felt a sense of embarrassment.
I didn’t even know each other until I came to Academy City, but to show this level of liking after only seeing it once!
Couldn’t it be that the president fell in love with me too…… !
“Uhhh! Uhhhhh!”
…… This! Face!
I quickly calmed down the corners of my mouth, fanned my flushed face, and tried to calm my mind.
Yes, according to common sense, the president couldn’t have fallen for me.
In the first place, the chairman would know me as a man?
Did you show interest in me just by accident?
‘Everyone was floundering alone when deciding on their characteristics, so of course they stood out!’
However, unlike the cold-hearted reason, it seems that the body was not like that.
Though I was thinking that, my hand was naturally pressing down on the favorability window.
【Retardability: 98 (Confidence)】
“Uh heh.”
Wait.
What if you really fell in love?
Perhaps, if it’s just the one case, the president fell in love with me at first sight!
“It’s destiny!”
They fell in love with each other at first sight!
Isn’t that a story like a novel?
In the information window, it says ‘Trust’.
In a flash of vain hope, I erased it from my mind in an instant.
“Oh, what should I do? If the president confesses, should I accept it?”
After all, my father forced me to dress up as a man.
{Noah, keep that in mind. You are a student before you are an adult. Dad doesn’t want you to lead a promiscuous life.}
{Do you understand? The students of Academy City are no exception. All men are wolves! A wolf!}
{What? So is your dad a wolf too? Uh, what is that Dad is an exception! Okay! Daddy is a good person, so there’s no problem with him! So Noah! Don’t go to Academy City, just stay at home…. Omg! Hey, honey! This is not that…… !}
Besides, I don’t know if Dad ordered it alone, but Mom asked for it too.
It was a difficult part to decide so easily.
{Noah, you don’t have to listen to Alex so much. But mom wants Noah to wear a disguise.}
{Reason? Noah may not know it, but Academy City is a dangerous place beyond imagination. A pandemonium where you cannot survive unless you go through hardship over and over again. It is the demon cave where numerous geniuses on the continent feel the limits of their talent and become destitute. It is impossible to survive in such a place with normal determination.}
{And what kind of methods do you think geniuses who feel the limits of their talents will use to survive in such a place? Yes, we use all our moves to hinder our opponents. From lightly small bullying, to severely, such a number as being sanctioned by the general school.}
{Being active as a woman in such a place can be looked down upon by others. Even with this mother right now, her cane was taken away from her during her school days and she was bullied. Of course, at that time, Alex helped and escaped anger, but I can’t guarantee that such a situation won’t happen to Noah as well.}
{Of course, the current Academy City is different. I heard that it has changed a lot even at first glance. However, originally shady things are removed last.}
{Noah, in the end, she is the only one who can protect herself.}
Her mother told her to dress up as a man to enter and hand over an artifact she made herself.
Of course, thinking about it now, she wonders if her mother was overreacting a little.
She must have thought that she could not help but think about it in her position as she actually almost suffered a similar crime.
And I didn’t want to throw away the hard-earned opportunity already.
‘If I take off my disguise anyway, I’m sure the strange guys will be seduced.’
Maybe it’s because her hair stands out. In her hometown, her boys were often chased.
Since she disguised herself as a man, I haven’t had anything like that, so it’s quite comfortable.
‘Because the current appearance is less noticeable than the original appearance. It would be best to keep it as it is now.’
In reality, the eyes that had been gathering were forcibly dispersing while experiencing cognitive dissonance.
With no way of knowing that fact, I was just thinking about dressing up as a man.
And maybe it was because I remembered what my parents said.
I forcibly calmed her fluttering heart and slowly calmed her mind.
‘Academy City is a place where even geniuses fail. It’s a relationship that doesn’t even fit in a situation where you can survive even if you try desperately.’
‘I can’t relax until at least I enter the school.’
I was too loose in the unfamiliar environment and new people.
I gave a small reflection in my heart and slapped both cheeks.
“Whoa.”
When I slowly opened my eyes feeling the hot pain rising from my cheek, the heated atmosphere from just now had completely disappeared.
‘Love, destiny, everything is useless. All I need now is the skills to enter Slane!’
Where is slane easy?
It is the best school on the continent where only a handful of geniuses can enter.
Even if it’s just an entrance exam, there will be no weaker students than themselves as the place is the place.
‘You have to think I’m the weakest there.’
And that would not be so wrong.
‘For the weakest to survive, we must show that much determination!’
For that reason, he must now lock his heart with a padlock.
…… Still, I’d like to see it one last time.
“…Ugh!”
Just one more time.
“Ugh!”
Really, only once!
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.
.
After 30 minutes.
“Kuhm!”
I forcibly suppressed my excitement and left the likeability window behind, exclaiming admiration as I looked at the various UIs provided by the system.
‘It’s a more useful system than I thought.’
Not only a status window where you can objectively look at your abilities, but also favorability that clearly reveals your relationship with your opponent, and even quests that show you an efficient growth route.
I don’t know if I can become a hero by following the system’s guidance, but at least it seemed certain that I could become stronger than I am now.
Even the ‘achievements’ and ‘favorability’ systems give a certain amount of compensation when they are achieved, so it must be different from the average student’s growth rate.
‘If ordinary students just run, will I feel like flying?’
Noticing the overwhelming potential of the system, I gulped and looked at the system carefully.
‘Among them, this must be the most important thing.’
Among all the highly effective systems, there was one thing that caught my attention.
“Main Scenario.”
The biggest spur of growth, and the ultimate goal of a dubious system.
I just remembered the message the system mentioned.
‘They said they aimed to subdue the demon lord.’
This was the optimal growth scenario for that.
Since the various systems including the status window are only for the main scenario.
‘Goddess arrangement…….’
The system said.
The system given to me right now is the arrangement of the goddess to defeat the demons.
Although the authenticity of the words is questionable, the power of the system is not too serious to blindly deny.
It would be correct to say that at least the power of a transcendent being went into it.
…Shall we go to the church and check it out?
“No, but if not, it’s an immediate sentence of heresy.”
I don’t want to see the Saint Cermia Monastery.
The moment they appear is only to judge heresy.
Even if that target is me…….
‘Good idea. Good idea.’
Let’s put the bad thoughts away.
‘In the first place, if it’s a real Goddess’ arrangement, the church must know about it. If I need it, I’ll find it from there.’
Academy City has a lot of candidates for saints, so it’s worth visiting.
Like that.
I put the thought of him out of my head and immediately looked at the main scenario.
‘It must be a big turning point as it is called Main.’
As the target of the system is me, it must be a big turning point in my standards.
‘Then, wouldn’t it be the entrance ceremony?’
It’s a matter directly related to my future, so it wouldn’t be enough to call it the main scenario.
Perhaps ‘pass the slane academy’ or ‘enter the academy in the academy city’ would be the scenario this time.
Like that.
I clicked on the golden exclamation point while spitting out a half-assured guess—
“!??!!??!?!!?”
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【Main Scenario】
Prevent the demon attack!
An entrance exam held once a year. An evil hand has been cast on the entrance exam prepared with great care by all academies!
The demons hiding in Academy City are plotting to summon demons to kill the chicks who dream of entering school!
If the monster is summoned during the entrance exam, the students will surely suffer great damage!
Hero chosen by the goddess!
Defeat the evil one who is trying to ruin the entrance exam and protect the students from the demons!
[Clear conditions]
Destroy infiltrated demons: 0/1
Destroy the attacking beast: 0/?
City damage: 0% (fails if dead)
[On success]
Passed the Slane Academy
Acquire the achievement ‘The One Who Stopped the Raid’
Increased liking of related people
Bonus Stat 10
[On failure]
Canceled this year’s entrance exam
Demons of war appear on the front lines
Declining favorability of related people
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I hurriedly got up from my seat on a much larger scale than I thought.