Chapter 37 – The Most Ideal Imagination

Our eyes met in the air with the instructor.
Maybe he felt a little uneasy about my attitude, as if I was saying something hastily.

“Are you okay?”

His voice sounded a bit worried.

“Yes. It’s fine.”

In fact, the condition is at its worst.
I am a newbie who doesn’t even know how to use mana.

To be honest, I had no confidence or anything.
Just an object.
A hasty action caused by the impatience to follow him.

In fact, there is no such thing as an object.
The other side of the world you have to enter anyway.
In addition, they said there is no disadvantage if you can’t clear it, but you can just go in and experience it and come out.

For some reason, I was volunteering to enter the underworld first.
At that moment, Kim Joo-won appeared in the gate leading to the underworld.
Just as I was standing up and looking at the gate, his eyes met momentarily through the air.

‘It’s clear that I have it.’

But he looked away from me as if he wasn’t interested.
Did he even want to hear the opinions of his attack on the other side of the world?

“Kim Joo-won.”
“Yes.”
“It’s quite strong. Are you investing all your spare time in training?”
“That’s right.”
“It’s a good attitude. So that we can continue to work like that in the future.”

I nodded at the instructor’s comment and was about to return to my seat, but hesitated for a moment and spoke to the instructor again.

“Instructor.”
“Tell me.”
“If it’s okay with the instructor, I’d like to go home early today and do some more personal training. Can I do that?”

…It was an incident that happened in the original story.
Kim Joo-won goes to training for his own strength.
Seo-ha Lee said that she had a personal business and went somewhere else first.

“Hmm.”

And that worried look on the instructor’s face.
All of his permission, “Okay, then go in early.”
Things I wrote myself in the original work.

Only if it’s different.

“If the other trainees succeed in clearing the Underworld, I’ll let them go home early, so everyone can do their best!”

The fact that I was not included in the target of leaving school early.
Kim Joo-won did not enter the other world with me.

These, too, occurred because Kim Joo-won was not in the 3rd round.
Variables different from the original.
“Are there any students who want to experience things together with Lee Seo-ha?”

Close your eyes for a moment and see how Kim Joo-won conquered the world.
How did he attack when he was with Lee Seo-ha in the original work?
While mentally comparing the two methods, planning in your head how to attack the lab.
I heard the instructor’s voice and opened my eyes to look at him.

The students all hesitated at the voice.
Lee Seo-ha, deputy seat.
He is a student with a unique awakening ability called dimensional ability, but he is usually a person who doesn’t talk well and doesn’t get close to him.
Does he feel repulsive about being friends with people he doesn’t know well and entering the underworld?

However, going in with other students was a specification on my part.

“Instructor, I’m fine.”
“Hmm?”
“I will go in alone.”

In order to come out with an ampoule that can strengthen the physical ability
Because it was more comfortable to be alone than to be in the eyes of others.

“Hmm, I see.”

Two-dimensional space.
In the meantime, moving in a two-dimensional space seemed like teleportation to the other students.
Seeing me appearing with a blue light, I heard a word mixed with regret from behind, “Oh, did you really think we should go together?”

Maybe the place where Kim Joo-won broke through head-on with all his strength.
With Lee Seo-ha’s dimensional ability, he might have thought that he could easily break through.

“I’m ready, so let’s go in.”

In the meantime, has the reset of the underworld been completed?
At the instructor’s words, I inhaled and exhaled lightly.

I have written many novels.
The other side world that made me wrap my head in making up a story that would frame the world.

However, when I was writer Lee Soo-hyun, I only talked about it in print.
Now that it has become a reality, maybe he wants to eat me who might have made him.
Maybe it’s because of the strange reality that opens the entrance called the gate and sends a greedy gaze…

Just four steps.
Even though I only had to walk those four steps, somehow my steps did not fall easily.

I wonder if he felt like this when he first encountered the other side of the world.
The first playthrough was neither a regressor nor anything.
No, in the 0th episode, which was not written as a novel, did he have the same emotions I have now?

“I’ll go in.”

However, I couldn’t come up with an answer to that here.
Not only did it not take long to get lost in thought.
The gaze I felt from behind seemed to tell me to do what I had to do right now with Seoha Lee.
‘Cause I was pushing my back.

“Okay, then Seoha Lee…”

As I took a step, I heard the instructor’s voice and stopped my steps.
Let’s focus our attention on the gate for a moment without turning our heads.

“Good luck.”

It’s different from telling Kim Joo-won to do his best.
It is simply that Kim Joo-won does not enter the dungeon with Lee Seo-ha.
When I realized what the single choice the regressor had made had changed, my lips fell silent.

“Then enter!”

Instead, did the instructor’s words put things in order?
Unlike before, when I hesitated.
I took the remaining three steps forward without hesitation.

Soon, a black veil covers the whole body.
The world around him was pitch black.

And as described in the novel.
A blue message window popped up informing me that I had entered the Underworld.

[Behind the scenes – You have entered the mad scientist’s laboratory]
[Clear Goal – Defeat Mad Scientist ‘Calus’]

And after that message, I lost consciousness.

* * *

– Beep.

A faint echo of an electrocardiogram sounded in my ears.
It was as if a mask had been put on her face.
Regardless of my will, I felt like I was trapped somewhere.

“Eww…”

It probably took quite a long time for me to open my eyes.
In fact, if you put it into reality, it wouldn’t have been that long thanks to the time multiplier that was properly adjusted until it happened.
Is it because of the gas coming out of the mask over the mouth?
There was no energy at all in my body.

‘The first obstacle…’

Test subject.
The role assigned to me in the underworld of the mad scientist’s laboratory.
Maybe that’s lucky
If you started out as a security guard, it might be quite a task to sneak out.

‘How to do it.’

In this way, no one knows what role each Guardian will start when they enter the underworld.
And even what to do with the assigned role.

So, the first thing you should do when you enter the underworld is what kind of existence you are in the world now.
It was to figure out what to do with the role assigned to him.

In that respect, the first side world I came across was created according to the academy education curriculum.
How lucky we are to be this mad scientist’s lab.
The background story is that a test subject with a vengeance on the scientist who roughly made him look like this is trying to kill the scientist.
It’s because it’s a hidden world made up of common stories.

Conversely, the time when you are most likely to die because you do not know what to do is when you first enter the underworld.
Fortunately, the place I entered now had a clearly defined state of what I had to do.

Of course, getting past those guards is another matter.

‘Let’s go out.’

Could it be that mana has returned to the body?
I closed my eyes for a moment as I felt the energy gradually return to my body, which had been weak from the gas mixed with the anesthetic.

Dimensional eye.
One of Seoha Lee’s unique ability to see through the essence.

Unlike when entering a two-dimensional space where the surroundings are stained with blue light.
This time, as if the world was submerged in water, the world painted in blue light came into my eyes first, as I was in the laboratory with my eyes closed.

It is as if the soul has escaped from the body.
After staring at Lee Seo-ha with her eyes closed for a while, as if curious, she turned her gaze to the same route that Kim Joo-won had pierced.
I started looking for a laboratory where Calus would be.

Reconnaissance and positioning.
Even the distance limit was on the side of being colorless, and the range of fraudulent abilities of the wide dimension began to manifest.
Soon, I could see Calus staring at the monitor screen.

‘Found.’

I ended the activation of the dimensional eye, and I calmed down for a while.
I found the location, and fortunately the distance is still within the range of dimension transfer that can be activated at once.
Without hesitation, he began preparing to activate the dimension transfer.
I didn’t have anything to prepare for.

‘Kim Joo-won, I must have thought that if you left me behind, I wouldn’t be able to clear it.’

It’s because all I do is curse at the guy who abandoned me, as if I was asking him to go through it once.

In fact, going to the central control room in this behind-the-scenes world is insanely difficult for newcomers.
He recalled the memory of setting the battle power of the boss, Calus, to be not very high.
Besides, he was swept away fairly easily by Kim Joo-won’s knife.

No matter how much there is a difference in combat power between him and me.
With Lee Seo-ha’s combat power, he could win.
And I will be the second student to leave school after Kim Joo-won.

It was 5 minutes ago when I had the most ideal imagination.
The conditions for clearing this side world are just what I saw through the eyes of the dimension.
It’s all about defeating the mad scientist Calus, whose body is grotesquely covered in metal.
It was because I thought that the boss’ main fighting power was weak.

‘Fucked.’

But Calus didn’t die even after being hit by my dimensional wave.
I had to feel sweat running down my back at the sound of the siren.