episode_0074

The time we stayed at the inn was only 2 hours.

Even though it was a short break, my physical strength recovered a lot.

Now I had to return to the academy as quickly as possible without attracting anyone’s attention.

Then Ariando’s second scenario will end successfully.

‘Is it only the last minute left?’

But it was as if the scenario in the game was laughing at me.

It was clear that he was threatening to never eat me.

“Let’s go out.”

“Eph!?”

Ariando, who was still chomping on food in his mouth, was lifted by the back of his neck and escaped through the back door.

If Ariando has a particularly distinctive appearance, the store owner will quickly think of it.

We’ll soon see the empty seat we were sitting in, and we’ll do something to grab it.

“People who appear to be your family’s knights have entered the inn.”

“Ummm?!!”

The guy with wide eyes chews the food in his mouth hard and swallows it.

And then he urgently grabbed my collar.

“Are you really a knight of our family?”

“okay.”

If you get caught, you will fail.

If he fails, Ariando cannot grow perfectly.

I don’t know about other characters, but Ariando had to succeed in all scenarios without failing.

‘I’m still this strong, but how strong will I be when I succeed in all the scenarios?’

There was a need to be alert since I witnessed the monster chewing Peronpa in one mouthful with my own eyes.

To be honest, I thought the kids were so great that if they could get their hands on their own unique equipment, there wouldn’t be a need to go too far.

However, the ‘shadow’ I saw that day made my complacent thoughts change 180 degrees.

‘Work harder and faster than now.’

SSR characters must be selected and developed.

Because it’s not in the game.

The conceit that if I step forward in reality, I will be able to progress in a much better situation than in the game.

Now that I was terrified in the face of overwhelming force, I couldn’t remain calm.

Of course, it was necessary to first solve Ariando’s scenario right in front of us.

“let’s go.”

I was glad I had prepared in advance.

We had two legs that were faster than horses, and we had ordered food in advance and received it as soon as we came down after washing up.

There is no problem even if you leave in such a hurry.

However, it seemed like there was a need to twist the route a bit.

“If we move as scheduled, we will catch up quickly. We will go in a different direction. It will take a little longer, but it will be much safer.”

“Yes! But how did they chase us all the way here? We moved very quickly and there shouldn’t have been any traces to track us.”

“It is possible if we use the power of the awakened people. At least if we want to be caught, we have to be near the academy. If we are caught here, we will soon find out why we came here.”

“Ugh… am I going to get scolded a lot?”

Ariane may also think that if she gets caught, it won’t be a big deal.

After all, aren’t her parents people who pamper her?

“Do you mind if your sister finds out why you came here?”

“!!!”

“It’s not a problem to get scolded by your parents in the first place, right?”

Ariando’s complexion turned pale in an instant.

“You absolutely must not let your sister find out!”

Ariando’s body, which felt somewhat relaxed due to the two-hour rest at the inn, begins to move more quickly.

“Mercenary boss, welcome! We have to run away quickly!”

If she finds out that she came here to seek revenge, her relationship with her second sister will be irreversible.

Ariando may have done it with a good intention to save her sister, but from her sister’s perspective, it was no different from losing her prey to her younger brother.

“Hey! It’s not that way. Break it!”

“Hyaaa!!”

Ariando began to run at an incredible speed according to his improved stats, and of course, I couldn’t keep up with his speed.

I barely managed to change direction and ran again.

There might be some traces left, but they probably weren’t using them to follow us anyway.

They were probably using the Awakened’s abilities to figure out where we were going and follow us.

This road goes around in circles and has many side roads, so if you follow the direction you will probably get confused often.

Even in the scenario, if you choose the fork in the road well, you can beat the knights at Gimun.

‘If you go the wrong way, you might get caught sooner and it could be dangerous…’

I already knew the answer to which way to take.

Fortunately, the game company did not provide randomness to this road.

“left.”

“Hyaap!”

“right.”

“!!”

“Straight.”

“Agh!”

Ariando was having a hard time because he kept changing directions at high speed.

It would have been easier if he ran behind me, but he seemed to be very frustrated with my speed.

Since I was running with my body buffed using a scroll, my current speed was the best.

As I was running around like crazy, my stomach started to growl.

“Hehehe mercenary boss, I’m hungry!”

“Let’s rest for a moment.”

Ariando is so exhausted, how should I be embarrassed?

I washed it thoroughly, but it was no use.

He and I each ate the sandwiches we had purchased at the inn.

Mumbling-mumbling-

“So, are we going to the academy?”

“uh.”

“Would it be okay if I went to the academy?”

“You will have to take the disciplinary action given by the academy. There is no way you can get away with skipping class without permission.”

“If they ask me why I was absent, what should I say?”

“Isn’t that something you should have thought about?”

“Hehe, I’m so out of it.”

So in the end, you didn’t even think about it?

“Are you saying it was just because you didn’t want to go to the academy?”

“That is a very dishonorable excuse. If you use that as an excuse, you will be criticized!”

Hmm, that’s a pain in the ass.

“You think about it yourself.”

“I knew the family members came this far, so I had to make it up to make sense…”

“Well, you say you fell in love with a Confucius from another family and followed him around.”

If we say that Confucius secretly came near the front line because he wanted to see it so much, it might seem plausible at first glance.

“Oh? Is that so?”

“Are you really doing this?”

“I guess that makes sense.”

“I’m going to ask you who the hell you are, but who are you going to say?”

Whose family dared to make the duke’s daughter fall in love unrequitedly?

I don’t know who that guy will be, but the future won’t be bright.

“You don’t have to say anything.”

“That’s right. If you say that you won’t tell your family even if you die for fear of harming them, it seems plausible. Why did you come back to the academy?”

“You confessed and then got dumped?”

Up until then, we had thought carelessly that we had come up with an excuse that made sense.

What I focused on was getting him back to the academy without being discovered by the family knights, and I didn’t care about anything after that.

I shouldn’t have done that.

Even if we regretted it later, the incident had already been done, and we managed to escape the knights and arrive at the academy safely.

⁂ ⁂ ⁂

“Thank you, mercenary boss! I’ll come see you when I’ve finished my disciplinary action!”

“Have a hard time.”

My suffering is over now, but for him, his suffering has just begun.

Ariando used his ID card to allow him to enter the city faster than others.

Ariando goes to the academy, and I go to the general store.

After parting ways neatly, I wiped away tears as I returned to the general store after overcoming the danger of death.

“If you leave home, you’ll have a hard time.”

Although it hasn’t been long since I started running the general store, my love for this space has been overwhelming.

I opened the store door and went inside.

Perhaps because the space had been deserted for several days, the dust seemed to have piled up quickly.

“I need to clean up the store first.”

After washing my sweaty body and taking a nap.

I will open the door wide and clean the house.

“This is healing.”

Sleeping in a campsite is hard and crawling with bugs. It’s the worst of the worst.

I was excited to take a nap in the bed that was said to be used by nobles.

Grumbling –! Grumbling –!

As soon as I lay down on the bed, I immediately fell into a deep sleep.

I can be confident that I would have fallen asleep within 3 seconds.

I felt like I could sleep for another 24 hours…

Thump…thump…thud.

There was a faint but clear sound coming from it.

It was clear that someone was knocking on the door of the general store.

“Ugh…what is it?”

Even if you are a customer, you do not have the right to knock on the door of a closed general store.

I only receive guests!

…Mr.!…Mr..Mr.!

I’m closing the door, thinking that if I don’t respond, it’ll just go away, but it won’t go away.

Now he was even shouting and calling for people.

“ha…”

In the end, I got up and went down to the first floor.

Even if you don’t know who’s knocking on the door as if it’s splitting open, you’ll probably end up cursing them.

Jump up!

“Sipal, why are you waking me up when people are sleeping? Can’t you see that the general store is closed?!”

“Suhan~!!!”

“mister!!!”

ah.

First, without even checking who it was, I started yelling and then checked who it was.

I thought it was just one person, but there were two people in front of the general store door.

“…What are you doing here?”

Rebecca and Shine.

If these two were knocking on the door of a general store, it was understandable that they would try to break it down.

“Where on earth did you go without telling me? I was worried because the general store suddenly closed and there was no news.”

“That’s right! Where have you been? It looks like you came down in your sleep. I think you need to put some clothes on.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

I was only wearing panties and it came down like that.

“Hehe, why did you say that? It was nice to see.”

Rebecca gives a dark smile and blatantly scans my body with her eyes.

“Does it look that good? Can you give me some service?”

“Wait a minute, why is your body so black? Where did you get hit?”

To be honest, there were more bruises all over my body from hitting the tree due to the unfamiliar flight than from the monsters.

I was embarrassed to say that I was hit by a tree, so I just vaguely said it.

“If I’m this good, how bad is she? Don’t talk nonsense and just come in. Hwaaaam~”

The trees that turned my body black will be growing fine in the polluted zone.

But there was no way for them to know that unless I told them directly.

As I yawned and went up to the second floor and put on my clothes, the kids came running up to me again and started asking me where I had been.

“What does it matter where I went? Do I have to get permission from you guys to go around?”

“Not to be rude. Is that what you say to someone who worried about you?”

“That’s right! The person who was so worried is disappointed.”

Rebecca dug her fingers into my side, telling me to pay for all my worries.

“Oh, muscles.”

“Hey, why are you like this?”

“I wasn’t mistaken earlier. You’re much sturdier than before, right? Have you been training?”

Rebecca was amazed at the changes in my body that had occurred because of how closely she had seen my muscles in that short period of time.