Chapter 4 – The Traitor Is Nearby (04)

The atmosphere has changed.

Suddenly, I felt a cold sensation, as if a life-threatening horror element had been added to the genre’s strange romance story.

‘I have a gut feeling that the game is over’

The tense background music of enemies approaching the protagonist seemed to be gently ringing in my ears. I thought it was my imagination, so I clenched my teeth, but it did not go away, so the actual system was sending me a warning.

I installed something wrong.

Or is it because I didn’t install the additional mod that I needed to install?

I watched Marian’s heart rise in real time in front of me, and even though it was clearly a heart showing affection, my instincts were warning me.

No, more than anything, looking at the figure approaching me with a slightly relaxed expression, I could see that it was extremely dangerous even without the help of the system.

‘Was he really this big?’

When looking at the game screen, there was some correction in the chat window, but Marian, who grew up in a famous sword family, was very tall for a girl, and the main character had not finished growing and had not yet shed his boyish appearance.

So, as Marian came closer, she really looked up at her as if she were her older sister her, and seeing Marian’s mesmerized expression from up close to her made her feel extremely intimidated.

Heart was about to cross the 4th space in an instant, and I thought that something would be unlocked the moment I crossed that.

It goes without saying, but rather than a feature that helps the convenience of the game, it seems like something that will be centered around the adult mode will be unlocked?

Above all, I think it will be executed regardless of my will?

‘Danger…!’

Due to the influence of the Five Elements of Warlessness, my abilities have increased significantly compared to the beginning, but as of now, if I get together with Marian, she will be taken first due to the difference in agility, and if I get hit once, I will be dragged away.

If I had a wooden sword, I would be able to counterattack, but in this situation, I’m stuck!

“Would you like to call me sister?”

The heart was trying to cross the fourth space, but it was fluttering around without being able to fill the last bit. It seemed like it was a systematically blocked limit.

I thought it would be dangerous if I stayed any closer, so I tried to back away, but before I knew it, my sleeve was already grabbed, so I even missed the chance to run away.

“If you just call me sister…”

The letters of the desire for confinement floating next to my face were blinking so violently that it hurt my eyes.

Moreover, the facial expression was the basic expression seen at the normal acquaintance stage, but only the eyes had dark hearts, showing that he was not in his right mind.

“Wait a minute, Marian… Calm down… Calm down and take a deep breath first…”

“Haa…Haa…”

“No, don’t take that deep breath, dude!!”

If you’re blowing hot breath in the face, it’s obvious to anyone that you’re in heat!

‘That’s wrong. It’s already a serious bug…’

If I could force quit this game, I would have turned it off, cursed, and then relaunched the genuine game.

However, unlike games where you can open the menu window and turn it off at any time, I was living here in reality, so there was no way to force quit or start the game again.

‘There were many perverts among Class F characters, but I never knew Marian would end up like this!’

Since he was originally a class president and a quiet schoolboy, I thought that if he calmed down just a little bit, the conversation would work, but looking at his current state, he was no longer able to win the mode.

The more I turned to get out, the more he grabbed my sleeves and tried to pull me in.

As if in a tug-of-war, I tried to back away by pushing her weight her back, but Marianne was in good physical condition at the moment and her abilities were several times higher than mine, so she was being dragged.

“Areen…?”

Moreover, the voice calling me was not an ordinary voice calling a friend, but had changed into a voice that made me tickle, and when I saw the corners of his mouth his turn up, he was smiling.

“Why don’t we go somewhere quiet for a moment?”

The desire for confinement had already moved to the first cell, not at the level of bright red sparkling, but dark red blood.

‘Are you saying there is an angle?’

I was in big trouble.

The game over angle came from an unexpected place.

If I had a wooden sword, I could have resisted, but now even if I tried to resist with my bare hands, both hands were already caught.

“Would you like to go with my sister?”

There was no one to help me because the other characters had little likability or were acquaintances whose faces I only knew.

In this world that runs on a game system, no one will help you in a tutorial that has not yet started properly.

“Hmm?”

Except for one ‘friend’ who I had developed a crush on even before that.

She hugs my dragged body from behind and helps me shake off Marian’s hand that was squeezing my sleeve her her her her.

“We were supposed to tour the academy together in the afternoon, but you forgot?”

Although I never made such a promise, I naturally surrendered myself to the soft touch on my back and shook off Marian’s hand that was holding my hand her her her her.

“Ha… Ha… What are you…?”

Marianne, who had been holding my hand with an ecstatic expression just moments ago, distorted her expression sharply and began to argue with her nervous voice.

She was originally a model student and a quiet character, so I was surprised because it was my first time seeing her like that, but Ophelia blocked my path with her usual smiling expression, whether she was aware of the situation or not.

“Ophelia, Aren’s childhood friend!”

Ophelia, who proudly introduced herself by placing her finger on her, this time did the opposite and raised her finger and pointed at her, Marian, her.

“What are you?”

“I am…Aren’s older sister…”

Marian’s gaze was not on Ophelia, who was blocking her path, but on me, who was hiding behind it and observing her situation.

Slowly, I am retreating in fear of Marian.

“My brother… The person who takes it away…”

Watching her her hand her her go to the Highborne sword hanging at her waist her, Ophelia also placed her hand on the handle of her own sword.

“I can’t forgive…”

As she retreated a distance of approximately 5 meters, the heart that appeared in Marian’s eyes disappeared as if fading.

Although there was still an afterimage of the heart in her eyes, she blinked a few times and her eyes returned to normal, and her flushed cheeks calmed down, turning into the appearance of Marian she often saw on a daily basis.

“Ah…!”

Only then did she return to the normal Marian level of her acquaintance her, and when she checked her her half-drawn sword, she was surprised at her own condition her her her her her.

“What have I done…”

Marianne, who had retreated in embarrassment, came back to me and the moment I made eye contact with her, a blush appeared on her face and she turned her back and started running away.

“Luckily it’s not too late.”

I thought that if it weren’t for Ophelia, I would have been imprisoned by now. I felt like her legs were going to lose strength, but she wisely picked me up from behind and held me back to prevent me from falling.

“It was dangerous…”

Originally, even if I met Marian in the middle of the day, I was only going to say hello and introduce each other, but I didn’t know it would end up like this.

“Where did the fight start?”

“It’s not like that…”

To be exact, it wasn’t that there was a fight or a bad relationship, but an error occurred, but I couldn’t explain that to Ophelia, a person inside the game world.

“Are we being territorial just because we’re transferring students?”

“Well…”

“I heard that Celestial Academy was safe. But when I actually came here, it turned out to be more dangerous than I thought?”

After hearing Ophelia’s words, her body flinched for a moment.

Because something really dangerous happened on the 6th day.

“Has Ophelia already finished her business?”

“Huh? I guess I can go back to pray later, right?”

I was supposed to meet and talk to the henchman planted by the duke by now, but to be honest, I was a bit surprised that he suddenly appeared.

“Because the only people I can trust here right now are the two of us.”

Apparently, he was trying to contact his henchman when he heard Marian and I arguing and came back in a hurry.

‘Thank you, but…’

“Hurry and go before the temple closes.”

“But won’t she be dangerous if she meets that woman again?”

It would be dangerous to let her go now and not let her henchmen hear her information.

If you don’t prepare in advance on the 6th day, you could be in trouble without even realizing it.

“I’ll go to my room and rest. I’m sure they won’t come all the way to the dormitory.”

If possible, I tried to meet Class F students for a week to increase my favorability, but I couldn’t do it.

First of all, safety comes first, and other than Marian, there are no characters you must meet during the tutorial.

“Then I’ll take you to him. Aren is a stray who often gets lost on nearby roads, right?”

“Am I a kid?”

That’s what I said, but I was worried if a similar bug occurred in Marian or another character, so I obediently held Ophelia’s hand her her her her.

Since I’m a transfer student anyway, I don’t have separate dormitories for men and women, but live in rooms right next to each other for a week.

I thought she was going to take me and meet her henchman right now, but when I heard rustling in the room next to her, it seemed like she was going to protect me today and not meet my henchman.

“Ha…She will take care of herself first.”

*

It’s day 5 of the tutorial.

She gave up looking for other characters outside and stayed in her room, but surprisingly she wasn’t bored.

When you sit upright on the bed, the Five Elements of Nothingness and Mind method window will pop up, and if you clear several mini-games one by one, you will be given a reward.

Tiring-

– Aren’s strength has increased by 1 –

At best, your stats are still increasing by 1, so your stats won’t be high enough to be meaningful until the end of the tutorial, but if you repeat consistently and solve the high-difficulty minigames, it will make a big difference in the future.

‘There won’t be much of a difference until today’

On the 5th day of the tutorial, the first tutorial battle of the Celestial Academy game begins.

In a fantasy world dominated by power and magic, institutions of higher education functioned as military academies, and as a result, the abilities required here were swordsmanship and magic skills, or combat power.

Originally, we classified classes from the time of admission and classified students as they progressed by grades, but since we were transfer students, we did not have proper information.

So, it was a light sparring in the name of understanding the level of the transfer students, and if we prove our abilities here, we are given the opportunity to move up to E or higher instead of F class.

‘Even though I was originally going to just shut up and send him to Class F, the duke’s family made a strong request and gave him a chance to be promoted…’

Because I was too weak anyway, and because Ophelia was following me in the story, it was decided that I would enter class F.

In the first place, the main character’s abilities are low, so Ophelia has to fight 2:1, but the difficulty level goes crazy due to the tutorial topic.

At Celestial Academy, if you surround the enemy with a large number of people, your attack power increases and you receive attacks of opportunity depending on the number, so you absolutely have to avoid being surrounded, but in the tutorial, the only real fighting force is Ophelia, so you will be surrounded every time.

Even in the second half, there were many enemies and you were surrounded, but after the middle half, a well-trained character can increase his evasion and counterattack power, so even if he gets hit multiple times, it is possible to cut them all down, but it is very early in the game and he does not have that level of ability, so the difficulty level is high. It’s going crazy.

Normally, even if you fail a tutorial like this, you’ll still be in class F and move on, but this vicious game just gives you a game over.

In other words, if you get hit repeatedly, you’ll get hit constantly, but the reason this game is vicious is that there are more enemies than the main character’s party in any case.

At least, the basic idea is to play as a standard RPG game where you have local superiority in power and defeat each individual.

But now it was different.

As soon as she entered the tutorial battle, Ophelia pulled out her sword and single-handedly struck down two sword instructors.

Originally, it was a turn-based SRPG, so attack and defense had to be divided for several turns, but in reality, there was a difference in stats and a difference in skill that was not revealed by the swordsmanship value, so Ofelia took her time and finished the first battle.

Of course, in terms of gameplay, Ophelia was active alone and I was hiding behind or assisting, but I had no idea that two trainers would be defeated without even me stepping forward and not even trading swords a few times.

“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”

“You can’t get hurt in a battle like this…”

“Yes, I’m glad!”

I thought it was because it was a tutorial battle and there was not much difference from the game content.

I was worried because it was my first battle, but I was relieved to see that Ophelia was stronger than I thought.

But the problem arose the next day.

“Ophelia?”

Today was the second battle day of the tutorial.

Originally, Ophelia was taking a break due to her fatigue in her own way since she had an exam yesterday, but after receiving a false letter disguised as her teacher, Ophelia goes out and faces her assassins who are trying to kill her .

However, originally, her henchman had informed her in advance that some of her teachers were planning to assassinate her, so she went out with her weapons and responded, and in that situation, I, who was looking for her, arrived and helped her as she was surrounded. It’s about escaping her from her her crisis her her her …

“This…Why is it here?”

Her sword belt and sheath were hanging on Ophelia’s coat hanger.

In the original game, the items that were taken in advance in preparation for the assassination were left in the room.

‘No way… ‘No way?’

At that time, in order to save me from being captured by Marian, did you give up contact with your henchmen, and as a result, did you end up falling for the assassins’ scheme without being informed?

“Ah… Damn it!”

I stopped in place as my mind turned white and went back into my room.

Ji-profit!

And what I took out was an old wooden sword with 99999 reinforcements attached.