Chapter 15 – 15.First Friend (1)
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Due to the nature of Lucedia Academy, most academy students stay in inns or dormitories, except for nobles who have separate villas in the city itself.
You have to apply for the dormitory after entering school, so most students live in inns.
Therefore, Lucedia Academy has many inns, so there is no shortage of inn rooms.
Of course, inns located close to the academy are extremely popular.
Pamela and I took a room at an inn that wasn’t the closest, but was within a reasonable distance from the academy, and then stopped by a nearby clothing store to show us our badges.
“I will take your measurements. Could you please take off your clothes for a moment?”
“I understand.”
“Yes, then I’ll measure it right away… Ugh! Come on, I’ll hurry up and measure it!”
When I took off my clothes for a moment to take measurements, a small incident occurred where the store employee looked at my body and was embarrassed, but I completed ordering the clothes without incident.
Scar kerma set to look cool.
However, in reality, these scars were a factor that made people easily scared.
‘Well, it’ll be okay because I won’t be embarrassed like that.’
After leaving the clothing store, I stopped by a nearby cafe and ordered tea and cookies with Pamela.
“Is this really real? I can’t believe I’m really eating snacks with my wife and my first friend. Ugh, heh. Hehe.”
While waiting for tea and snacks, Pamela, sitting across from me, mutters and laughs.
“Pamela.”
“Ugh! Yes, yes! Ah, I’m sorry! You suddenly muttered to yourself again and it made you feel bad, right? Is that so? I’ll just stay quiet. I’ll keep my mouth shut like a dead rat!”
I asked, lightly ignoring Pamela’s talk of low self-esteem.
“I won’t be leaving anytime soon anyway, so why not write a letter here in advance?”
“Open the letter… Ah, that’s right! If you write it in advance, wow, it will be quicker to post it too!”
Pamela pulled her pen and paper out of thin air.
If you look closely, you can see that there was a black ring on the middle finger of Pamela’s left hand.
‘That must be a subspace ring.’
“Is it a subspace ring? You have a good one.”
“Ugh! Yes, yes! I’m sorry. Do you think I’m arrogant for having such an expensive item? I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
“Did you get it from your teacher?”
“Ah, yes, yes! There is no way for someone like me to prepare something like this. Master passed on what your teacher’s teacher’s teacher had.”
“I see.”
Pamela was grinning as she wrote the letter.
“Hehe, hehe…”
She glanced at the content for a moment and saw that she was writing about making a friend.
Cookies and tea arrived just then.
“Pamela.”
“Yes, yes! What, what is it?”
“Have a drink first.”
“Oh, well, I’ll let it cool down a bit… Oh no! I’ll drink it right away!”
“I see. It’s definitely better if it cools down a bit so your tongue doesn’t burn. Then, let’s eat the snacks first.”
“Yes, yes!”
What you need to talk to Pamela is the ability to ignore it appropriately and move on to the next topic.
Eating cookies with Pamela.
“Wow, it’s delicious!”
“Yes, it’s delicious.”
After eating snacks, drink moderately cooled tea.
The tea I drank after successfully taking the entrance exam was special.
‘But I haven’t heard the notification that the quest was successful yet.’
As I became aware of the quest content I had seen at that time, a quest window appeared in front of me.
[Enter the academy.
Reward: Rare item box, point 2. Failure: World destruction]
‘If you see that you can’t just pass the entrance exam…’
After all, it is only a success if you successfully complete the entrance ceremony.
Still, it’s like I’ve already completed the quest, so now I can have tea time with a relaxed mind.
‘Then what we have to do from now on is… ‘ .’
I saw Pamela sipping tea in front of me and smiling brightly, saying it was delicious.
Pamela is the debuffer role that I have chosen as a fixed member.
With the proper speaking skills so far, my impression of Pamela should be very good.
Above all, this is because he is in the position of being the ‘first friend’ to Pamela, who is timid, has low self-esteem, and frequently falls into negative thinking and has no friends.
Pamela does not want to lose her first friend, as she looks so despairing that she asks him not to break off relations.
‘So, if I want it, I’ll grant you any favor.’
Speaking of asking for a favor with her friend, I remember Pamela being toyed with by several users in her community’s secondary creation of her.
A player who composites screenshots and walks Pamela and her her friend her her her rain her.
I even drew the picture myself. Ugh… ! Is this Lubungkun’s real face? Sorry, buddy… I want to quit.
Such self-destructive secondary creations.
A player whose actions become so bold that he falls into Yandere Pamela’s trap and is imprisoned.
Pamela was a character loved by users in many ways, different from Sasha.
She, of course, is a character I like both for her character and game performance
After she took another cookie and ate it, she spoke to Pamela.
“Pamela.”
“Yes, yes! Mr. Sihan!”
“What are you going to do next?”
“Huh? I’m sorry. Well, I don’t really know what you’re talking about.”
“There are still 10 days until the entrance ceremony. I’m asking what to do in the meantime.”
“I see, that’s right. Uh, um… Well, I didn’t think about it. I didn’t think I would pass the entrance exam… “
“I see. So are you free?”
“Yes, yes! I’m free. But why, why?”
“I also don’t have a set schedule for these 10 days. I have enough money to pay for lodging for 10 days, but it’s better to save money for room and board after that. It’s a loss to do nothing for 10 days.”
“Well, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to stay still in the room like a dead cicada… Oh, no, I see! I don’t think you should stay still!”
After asserting her her opinion her her her, Pamela noticed me and quickly changed her words her her her.
Pamela tends to be too self-conscious, but in this situation, because Pamela noticed me, it was easy for her to continue the conversation.
“Then Pamela, how about making a request together?”
“Would you like to request it together?”
“Okay.”
“Um, uhm, are you and Sihan?”
“That’s right. You don’t like it?”
“Ah, ah, no! I don’t hate it! On the contrary, it’s amazing that I’m talking to an insignificant kid like me… Even if you don’t join a party with me, Si-han’s skills will be enough… “
Pamela also saw how I passed the test.
Myself, who passed after using my skills several times, and I, who passed right away with one shot.
I guess I’m asking this question because there is a clear difference in skills.
However, there are definitely roles at a party.
Nowadays, it is easy to defeat bandits and monsters due to penetration and spear mastery…
‘It looks like monsters with high stamina will definitely appear.’
Even if you make a defense-ignoring attack, enemies push in with their stamina as if that doesn’t matter, so they can’t be caught.
What you need against such enemies are buffs and debuffs.
In Rupan, the defense reduction effect does not end when the defense becomes 0.
There is a minus in Rupan’s defense power.
Let’s say you form a party with only debuff characters and use various anti-blocking skills on monsters.
If the coefficient exceeds the 100% defense reduction and causes a 120% defense reduction, damage is added for the remaining 20%.
Furthermore, when a character with a penetration skill like me attacks, the debuff applied to the enemy deals more damage equal to the reduced defense.
In other words, if you attack a monster with 120% reduced defense with a piercing skill, 120% damage will be added instead of 20%.
The damage is strong, so you can defeat monsters quickly.
In the case of boss mobs, the national rule is to apply debuffs and buffs and overuse skills before the cooldown expires.
Due to the setting, all of Rupan’s story boss mobs are large.
If you want to deal with those guys in real life, it’s best to deal as much damage as possible and end it quickly.
To do that, you need the debuffer, Divequeen Pamela.
He shook his head and said to Pamela.
“No, you never know what might happen in actual combat. So it’s better to have at least one more person. Besides.”
“Crab, besides?”
“We are friends now, aren’t we? I thought that if we were friends, we could trust each other and form a party together.”
“Chi, chi, chi, friend… !”
You may be wondering what the person you met for the first time today and became a friend would believe in and form a party with.
If you are an ordinary person.
However, for Pamela, this first friend will easily make her forget such common sense.
“If you say no, it’s a pity, but I’ll be alone…”
“Oh, no! It’s okay! Let’s do the request together. That’s right, we’re Chi, Chi, friends… Hehe, hehe.”
Pamela smiled a very pleasant, dark smile.
“Then, let’s go do the request tomorrow. You’ll be tired because you have an exam today.”
“Yes, yes! Of course, request, I will do my best!”
“Yes, I look forward to it.”
“Hehe, hehe, hehe…”
After that, we left the cafe, Pamela headed to the post office to send her letter, and I went back to the inn first.
‘Tomorrow we’ll be able to see how effective Pamela’s debuff is in this world. And… The current skills of the gacha characters.’
Tomorrow I will ask Pamela many questions I want to know.
And as my first friend, Pamela would answer my questions positively.
‘I’m glad I met Pamela early.’
If it were another character, there is a high possibility that they would be wary or strange about the question.
But compared to that, Pamela is a character that you don’t have to worry about.
If you respond well, you can quickly become friends with this character and it’s easy to recruit to the party.
I was really lucky to have met Pamela early on.