Chapter 10 – A Quite Menacing Voice

“Did you call me just now?”

I looked at him for a moment, wondering if I had heard it wrong.
In the middle of a normal day, he just ignores me.
On the outside, the guy who kept a face-to-face relationship was the guy who never called my three-letter name clearly.

“Why, if you call me, tell me.”

I don’t know who will see it, even though I have to speak softly.
Is it because something happened to him?
The words that came out of my mouth were never words to say face-to-face without any emotion.

“…No.”

Kim Joo-won looked at me for a while, took his eyes off me, and started looking out the window blankly.
What are you thinking?
Could it be that the incident is today?

“Kim Joo-won.”

The guy who was looking out the window turned his attention to my calling.
As if he didn’t know that I would call him, he looked quite surprised.

“I’m telling you in advance, I don’t want to stand out too much, do I?”

And as soon as he said that, instead of surprise, doubt filled his eyes.
His eyes slowly began to narrow.

“So, don’t be fooled.”
“What are you talking about?”

What I just said was the kind of thing you would never do if you didn’t know what was going to happen today.

“I’m just telling you to put aside the thought of asking for a strange favor.”
“You…”

Today, a lecture on how to clear the other side world is scheduled.
And this lecture also included a pilot course for clearing the world in person by the instructor.

“You know something.”

Of course, if it had passed without incident, my novel would have been a daily life rather than a regression.
Dedicating space in a novel means that a special event has occurred, at least in terms of the work itself.
Today was the day when that first special event broke out.

“Well?”

An incident related to the Instructor’s back world clear demonstration.
Of course, I shrugged my shoulders at Kim Joo-won’s words.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

At my sly words, Kim Joo-won glared at me, then stood up and stood in front of me.
He probably guessed.
I don’t know what reason, but the fact that I know the future to some extent like you.

“You definitely know something, right? Otherwise, there’s no way you’d say something like that today-“
“So you think you know something?”

Of course, you can’t be sure of the truth only with your heart.
It seems that Kim Joo-won tried to scare me into giving me the answer he wanted.
Of course, that opponent was me.

“Don’t pretend. There’s no way I could have said that all of a sudden today.”
“Do you know what’s going on today?”

Designed this world.
He was a writer who talked about what happened in it.
At the same time as knowing that he was a regressor, his head was filled with the thought that he would feed the big taffy unconditionally as much as he suffered.

“5pm.”

Then Kim Joo-won spit out the word that now became a trigger and made my body flinch.
But after the die has already been cast.

“If you don’t want to spit out what you know, you’d better say it now.”

Kim Joo-won asked me in a rather menacing voice.
I look straight at that guy.
No matter what he said, he began to tell him with his eyes that he was never going to give him the answer he wanted.

“Tell me what?”
“…What?”
“You didn’t think I’d just do whatever you want after you did that to me, did you?”

It was then.
I heard the footsteps of other students from behind, so I had to stop my conversation with the guy who seemed to grab me by the collar at any moment.

“It’s the same later at 5. Even if you fuck me, the words you want won’t come out of my mouth.”

However, before heading to my seat, I did not forget to say what I had to say while glaring at the guy who was trying to intimidate me.
As if I should look carefully at how the bullshit you’ve done to me is changing me.

Today, when the instructor shows a demonstration of clearing the behind world, a problem arises with the device for implementing the virtual behind world.
The impact of this, along with the unexpected increase in the difficulty of the virtual underworld.
The ability to immediately escape does not work.

Both are pretty fatal errors to demonstrate.
Since you have to find the clear conditions first, in a situation where you don’t know how many days it will take to capture.
The combination of the future information of the regressor Kim Joo-won and Lee Seo-ha’s ability to take him directly to the target to be eliminated was like a scam.

“Now, is everyone gathered!”

Poor Instructor.
You don’t know what’s going to happen in your future today.
I shook my head left and right as I tried to recall for a moment the scene of throwing myself into an error-prone machine in order to teach students according to the structured curriculum.

The important thing now is not how he was expressed in the novel.
Because it was to give a big taffy to that damned regressor who was only thinking of taking advantage of the situation the instructor was in.

“Yes!”
“Then let’s all stand up.”

At the instructor’s words, all the students rose from their seats.
In the meantime, Kim Joo-won cast her eyes on me for a moment and then left the classroom first.
At the instructor’s words, I entered the two-dimensional space with him and headed to the training ground faster than anyone else.

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“What is the Underworld? Why does it exist? Have you all thought about it?”

The instructor opened the door with those words and started today’s lecture.
Yesterday and the day before yesterday.
In the first lecture, I explained what Guardians do and the other side of the world, which is the reason why Guardians exist.
The instructor left such an assignment for the students.

“I have no intention of blaming you for not thinking about it. If you were a sophomore, you should be scolded, but you guys are little kids who have only been in school for about a week.”

At his words, some students let out a small sigh.
Who was it
It was said that there were quite a lot of students who were surprised to see James savagely saying, “Don’t move quickly because the students are missing.”
It looks like a bastard who wants to play somewhere.

‘Well, originally, I used to imagine it to look a bit mean.’

He yawned less than the slender-looking instructor.
I can’t help but yawn right now, this world is my novel.
A regressor is a world based on having everything.

As the writer who wrote the novel.
Perhaps more than the instructor, if I had set it up myself, I’d know the contents of the world better.
I can’t help but yawn while listening to him lecture.

“Lee Seo-ha, are the lectures boring?”

And after seeing me yawning, the instructor asked me if I had seen it again, mentioning my name.
To be honest, I wanted to answer yes to that question.

“Sorry.”
“I didn’t call you to reprimand you. Maybe it’s boring if you know everything.”

However, in the eyes of that instructor, I am not the writer Lee Su-hyeon, but just a freshman Lee Seo-ha.
If I answered yes here, I’m sure you’ll get stuck in your hatred.

“So, can you tell me what you know about the Underworld?”

However, it seemed that my pain from the earlier yawn would not end here.
If I can’t answer properly here, I’ll order 10 or 20 laps around the playground, which is about 1km one way.
If the instructor runs under the supervision, even if the bandage comes off, or if something happens, such as exposing the pelvic line that should be covered by the coat…

“Hmm.”

But there’s no need to start thinking like that.
After letting go of the silence once more to drag out a little more time.
With a fraction of the time earned, I take a moment to decide at what level I should answer.

“The other side world refers to a virtual world where magical powers that suddenly appeared in the world from 20 years ago are recombined and eat away at the world.”

After that, the tone of the voice may be a little high after making the judgment.
Start talking slowly so that you can hear it in a male voice, but with as low a tone as possible.

“At some point, it appears in the form of a gate in a specific area, and if you enter the other side world through the gate, you will show a story with a specific theme to the guardians who will become characters to dazzle them, and if you fail to clear, Forcibly encroaching on the world, enchanting any living beings and turning them into characters from their own world…”
“Stop.”

Rather, to the point where the instructor stopped me.
Perfect to not give me any discipline easily.

“You know exactly. It would be hard to find anything about the Underworld.”

Of course, if you knew that much about the other side of the world, you would have such questions.
Originally, the contents of the other side world were not disclosed in detail unless they were guardians in order to control information.
But isn’t it information that you can’t find at all if you look for it?

“There was a difference between the time of awakening and the time of admission, so I prepared some lessons in advance.”
“You must have been a better student than I thought, Seoha Lee.”

Originally, the instructor must have scolded me.
I dared to fall asleep right from the first lecture on the subject of freshmen.
However, he seems to have nothing to say, and after a few moments of silence, he just said, “But don’t yawn during the lecture.”
Without saying anything further, he sent me back to my seat.

“Anyway, as student Seoha Lee said, the other side of the world is eating away at our reality. Then, what should we do to get rid of this?”

A blue hologram window appears next to the instructor.
As his hand touched the blue window, a gate soon appeared next to the instructor.

“People simply say, ‘Isn’t it just a matter of finding the purpose of clearing and clearing it? But that’s not the case.”

At that moment, I don’t know if I could have seen it in the eyes of others.
Something like a small spark instantly happened in the hologram window.
Maybe that’s a premonitory symptom of today’s incident.

“If it were easy, you would have played Dogs and Guardians, wouldn’t you?”
“Yes.”
“So today, what kind of difficulties are there in clearing the other side world? I want to show you this first, so I hope everyone follows-“

Then, her gaze naturally turned to the regressor who seemed to be waiting for the right moment.
He still had an expressionless look, as if he didn’t know what was ahead.
It was clearly visible in my eyes.

‘It’ll start soon.’

A small accident that happened to the instructor.
His plan to use as a stepping stone to avoid being interrupted in the future.

‘No, no.’

But I didn’t want him to go as planned.
Actually, for the sake of this world’s well-being, I should let that regressor do whatever he wants.
Even thinking of the teeth-grinding things he had done to him so far.

“Do…”
“Instructor! Wait a minute!”

I have a really vicious thought from his point of view that I will interfere as much as possible at the level that I can interfere with you.

“Student Seoha Lee, what’s going on?”
“There seems to be something wrong with the virtual behind-the-scenes device!”

He called the instructor and raised his hand.