episode_0012

Phew-!

‘hmm?’

Darcy looked puzzled as he dodged the students’ attacks.

‘What’s going on all of a sudden?’

50% of the time, avoiding bullets and tracking their trajectories, 30% of the time, dealing with Han Si-yeon and Shigure, and understanding Sunny’s movements, and 10% of the time with the rest of the students.

Darcy’s mind was basically maintaining this balance now.

But just a little while ago, that balance was slightly shaken.

‘Did these guys come in here in conjunction with each other just now?’

Although it was very clumsy, the attack aimed at her just now was clearly a synchronized strike.

‘What happened? Don’t these guys have the experience or knowledge to mesh their personalities?’

Darcy looked puzzled.

At that moment, I heard some students shouting.

“Oh! What kind of kid is this! What kind of kid keeps shooting me in the back of the head!”

“That’s right! Who keeps hitting me in the back of the head when I try to jump out!”

“What’s with that, hitting it just before it attacks, just before it jumps out!”

Ps …

“Is it that guy again?”

Darcy heard the students’ screams and immediately understood the situation.

‘I can imagine. At the crucial moment, they probably shot and stopped all the guys who were struggling with the connection, leaving only the guys who were in sync.’

Darcy laughed at the unexpected connection.

On the contrary, her head coolly assessed the situation.

‘The cool-headed view of the situation and the ability to judge the situation, leaving only those who can connect accurately, and the shooting skills that make it happen are amazing, but the most surprising thing is the way of thinking.’

Select and filter out the necessary and unnecessary allies.

No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t the kind of thinking a squeaky chick would have.

It was the kind of thinking a ferocious eagle might have when hunting for prey high in the sky.

‘I never thought I’d get this frustrated on a test I was only half joking about.’

Until this morning, I never imagined that something like this would happen.

Is that why?

Shhh-

I really wanted to know what kind of guy put me in this corner.

Even if it means breaking a little of the rules you’ve set for yourself.

“I don’t know who you are or where you’re hiding, but… … ”

Swish-

“Even if I have to force you out, I will make you regret doing such an impudent thing.”

Darcy laughed ferociously and stopped the several artifacts that were limiting his power.

The curse that now enveloped Darcy was organically connected like cogs in a wheel.

So, if you weren’t going to destroy all the artifacts at once, you had to do them in this order, over time.

‘Thanks to you, I’ve come back only a little, but this is enough.’

Darcy smiled in relief.

Pachang-!

At the same time, thick darkness fell on the training room.

“What, what is it?”

“I can’t see anything!”

Students were confused by the unknown situation.

But Darcy was able to see it at the last moment.

Dozens of bullets flew overhead, destroying all the lights in the ceiling.

‘This is an opportunity!’

At that moment, Shigure’s eyes flashed and he kicked the ground.

To a ninja, darkness is not something to be feared, but something friendly.

That’s why there was no hesitation in moving.

But unfortunately.

Turuk-

“Good try.”

The hunter was also familiar with the darkness.

Shigure, who had the sword caught, gritted his teeth and tried to take out a new ninja sword.

But Darcy was much faster at swinging his sword.

“Cough!”

Shigure, who was attacked, flew backwards.

I ended up overdoing it a bit due to the backlash from disabling the artifact, but Darcy ignored me.

‘It was definitely there, wasn’t it?’

Because her top priority right now was to determine where the bullet had just struck.

‘Going in a straight line.’

Tadadadadang-!

As Darcy leaped into the air, numerous bullets flew, targeting her vital points.

A hail of bullets fired in rapid succession.

Darcy smiled as he faced him.

‘There it is!’

Because through this attack, I finally found out where the prospective disciple I was so curious about is.

Phew-!

He steps forward, stomping on the students’ heads with his feet.

With his hands he swings his sword and makes holes in the rain.

Kwak-!

Having overcome the attacks, she finally stood in front of the student holding the gun and muttered with a smile on her face.

“Finally caught it.”

Darcy, confident of victory, extended his hand.

Then, the mysterious student who had been shrouded in darkness until now was dragged out with both wrists held.

Darcy knocked the student to the floor, subdued him, and sat on his stomach.

“I liked the idea of using Fuma Shigure as bait to land the finishing blow. But you got too greedy at the end. If you had fired a single shot instead of a burst, you might not have been caught by me.”

As Darcy spoke, the corners of his mouth went up in excitement, revealing his fangs.

If anyone who knew her saw that smile now, they would be shocked.

Because she only made that face when she had won against valuable prey.

‘By the way, what the heck is this guy?’

Darcy’s eyes sparkled with curiosity as he looked down at the student.

Even though the lights were off, I couldn’t make out the face properly, only the outline, even though it was right in front of me.

As if obscured by a shadow.

‘First of all, his build and hands seem bigger than mine, and judging by his sturdy body, he’s definitely a boy.’

While Darcy was gathering information through his five senses.

Swish-

The student who had not made a sound even when he fell opened his mouth slightly.

As Darcy instinctively listened, the student spoke in a flat tone that did not fit the situation.

“Additional points are okay.”

“… … What?”

Darcy was puzzled by the words whose meaning he could not understand.

Shururuk-

At that moment, one of the arms she was holding onto transformed into a tentacle and grabbed her hand instead.

“What… … !”

An unexpected counterattack.

In her bewildered eyes, a hand holding a dagger appeared swinging from an empty space.

Creepy-

A cool sensation ran down her neck.

In response, Darcy reflexively swung his sword, cutting off the shadow that was holding his wrist, and then took a big step back.

The moment we distanced ourselves like that.

Click-

The lights came back on, thanks to the training room’s automated repair program fixing the lightbulb.

“What, what is it? Where is the professor?”

“Oh my, he’s fallen?”

“Oh, there’s the professor!”

The students were confused and murmured.

Darcy ignored those students and looked at the place where he had caught the mysterious student a moment ago.

All that remained in that place was a dagger and the shadow it created.

“I said no additional points were needed.”

Darcy muttered and felt his neck.

I could feel the sword’s characteristic cold sensation lingering on the tip of my neck.

‘Was the indiscriminate firing of bullets just an act to insert a gun into my head?’

He was fooled by it and only focused on the arm holding the gun, and eventually, because his consciousness was focused, he did not even notice that the other arm was a fake shadow.

The guy who laid the groundwork like that shook Darcy’s consciousness with one last word, and at that moment, he used some kind of means to swing his hidden hand, successfully attacked, and then disappeared again.

A sigh mixed with laughter escaped Darcy’s mouth as he realized the series of events that had transpired.

“I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve missed my prey.”

I was so excited that I gave it my all, even crossing the line I had set for myself.

But at the very end, the guy took advantage of that weak point and landed a great punch before leisurely escaping.

It was her complete defeat, without any excuse.

◎ ◎ ◎

“This is the end of the skill evaluation.”

Darcy, who saw the last student standing collapse, put the sword on his shoulder and said.

She looked at each of the students who had collapsed in that state.

But in the end, I couldn’t find the student I wanted.

“Please refer to what I said during this evaluation to help you choose your classes.”

Crunch-!

“… … Hey, is it really right to grab a freshman like this?”

“I don’t know, I’m a freshman who just got in today, how would I know that?”

As Darcy left, the students who had been lying on the floor as if dead slowly got up.

‘That last one, was that something you did to find me? Oh my, I thought I was going to die from the goosebumps.’

And among them was Do Yu-jin.

‘By the way, maybe because I’ve been lying on the floor for so long, my body feels a little sore, and the back of my head feels a little throbbing.’

Do Yu-jin grumbled to herself and stroked the back of her head.

Then the memory of the last moment came back to me.

‘After successfully attacking Darcy, I rolled away and got out of the way, but then some guy suddenly jumped out and kicked me in the back of the head.’

Because of that, Do Yu-jin, who had a very weak body, fainted without even having time to do anything.

Do Yu-jin didn’t know it, but he was actually lucky.

If I hadn’t fainted at that perfect time, I might have been caught in Darcy’s senses.

“Anyway, the circle is different no matter what.”

“Did you see him running while avoiding attacks? I was so scared I almost peed my pants.”

“And wasn’t all the advice you received while avoiding attacks incredibly helpful?”

Do Yu-jin listened to the students’ conversation while tapping the sore spot with her fist.

‘It definitely helped a lot.’

[Weapon Talent]

-Dagger LV. 3

-Firearms LV. 6

A satisfied smile appeared on Do Yu-jin’s lips as she looked at the status window.

Thanks to the continuous shooting, the gun’s talent level has increased to 6.

Thanks to hitting Darcy with the dagger at the last moment, I was able to raise the dagger talent by one more.

In addition to this, I was able to get a rough idea of how to use my characteristics in real life, so I definitely gained a lot.

‘Well, it’s still not enough.’

Do Yu-jin clenched her fists as she recalled the entrance ceremony.

‘I need to build up strength faster.’

I never wanted to do something like that again, when faced with a crisis like that, doing nothing and just leaving my life up to luck.

[Passed a difficult test while keeping his identity hidden.]

[You earn 310 EXP.]

[You have achieved a simple achievement.]

[Acquire a new trait (3★).]

As Do Yu-jin was making that pledge, the message that had been waiting for her appeared before her eyes.

It wasn’t a surprise since I already knew from the game’s lore that I would get the trait.

The reason I went to such lengths and risked my life being revealed in the end was to obtain the trait.

Do Yu-jin’s children, who were trying to recall the traits reflexively, were seen leaving the training room.

‘Should I go out for now? It’s lunchtime, so I can check the characteristics later.’

The moment I left the training room.

Turuk-

Suddenly, Do Yu-jin’s sleeve was pulled up.

At first I thought it was caught on a doorknob or something, but when I turned my head, it wasn’t that.

“Found.”

Erio to Vista, the only blue-haired genius beauty who did not participate in Darcy’s evaluation.

She was now staring at Do Yu-jin with her sleeves tightly held up.