episode_0032

“Is it that surprising that I’m going in there?”

Do Yu-jin asked back, looking at Erio, who was looking at her with rabbit eyes as if asking if what she just heard was correct.

“Very much.”

Erio spoke briefly and firmly.

“Honestly, I didn’t think I’d go anywhere else but those two.”

“Well, aside from the two places you mentioned, there really isn’t anywhere else that interests me.”

“But why did you say you wanted to go there?”

“For the same reason as you.”

Do Yu-jin lowered her head slightly and looked at Erio in her arms as she spoke.

“I want to grow more here too.”

Well, this time, what Do Yu-jin was trying to do wasn’t the vertical kind of growth that increases strength.

It was a horizontal kind of growth, expanding the scope of what you could do.

‘This is just a guess, but… … I think I’ll probably be moving around from behind, hiding my identity, a lot like when I moved around Cheongdo this time.’

So, Do Yu-jin planned to use this opportunity to properly prepare things about him.

Of course, even if you entered the club, the trait you would gain would be at most a 1-star level.

But it didn’t matter.

Do Yu-jin’s hands were overflowing with the characteristics that she had acquired while moving around Cheongdo and Circle for the past two weeks and had not yet been sorted out.

Using them, it was easy to level up a few 1-star traits.

“Anyway, I’m thinking of going to those two places, what do you plan on doing? Are you going to go to the club?”

“I don’t know.”

As he said that, Erio leaned his back against Doyujin’s chest.

She remained still for a moment, then hesitated and opened her mouth.

“Then Eugene… …Maybe tomorrow, I can hang out with you?”

“Together?”

“Yeah, I want to see if there’s a club I can join.”

“Really? Then let’s go around and look around here and there together tomorrow.”

At Do Yu-jin’s cool permission, Erio clenched his fists slightly and expressed his joy.

‘That’s good.’

And Do Yu-jin also expressed her joy.

‘Even without that, I was worried about how I could naturally attach Erio to Han Si-woo, the male protagonist of this world, but I couldn’t think of a good way, so I was worried.’

Those worries seemed to have faded away, and looking at the situation, it seemed like things would go smoothly if Erio was put in the club that Han Si-woo was joining.

‘If I make the two of them become close like that, I might be able to make Han Si-woo do what I want to some extent by asking Erio.’

Do Yu-jin smiled as she imagined such a happy future and got up from her seat.

“Then let’s finish eating lunch and get ready, then go back to class.”

“Yeah!”

Erio answered forcefully and quickly went into his room.

Do Yu-jin briefly looked at the room Erio entered, then took out the device.

Swordsman: Hey, are you training me like a dog?! You’re just making me run around the dungeons a few times!

Swordsman: When are you going to fight me!!!

As expected, when I turned on the screen, a long stream of now familiar text was already pouring out.

“I knew it, but this guy is really tough.”

Do Yu-jin let out a long sigh.

After creating the chat room, Han Si-yeon started sending text messages like this every day.

The content of the texts sent was not particularly consistent.

Sometimes it was about him urging me to fight him like this, and other times it was about him grumbling about how the food at the restaurant was not tasty.

But one thing was always the same: he got angry if I didn’t answer his calls.

‘By the way, I had a fight with this guy… … ‘

Hmm-

‘Well, it’s about time for that.’

For the past week, Do Yu-jin has been sweet-talking Han Si-yeon with all sorts of tricks, forcing her to go into the dungeon every day.

‘If you’ve been running dungeons that much, your body should be built up to some extent, so it shouldn’t be a problem to fill in a few skills now.’

Todododo-

Ghost: I’ll fight you this week.

Ghost: So stop bothering me and go practice swinging your sword.

Swordsman: Ha! You swing your sword so much in the dungeon that you don’t need to do that.

Ghost: So you were practicing getting hit by me and running away?

As soon as I scratched it like this, more letters started pouring down like rain.

‘In some ways, this guy seems simpler than Erio.’

It was just funny that, with such a choleric personality, her image in the circle was that of a cold ice princess.

Swordsman: Phew, that’s good. Well, it means I can fight anyway.

Swordsman: Don’t run away this time. If you do, I won’t let you off easy.

Ghost: Okay, I guess I’ll just enjoy the club exhibition.

Swordsman: Tch, even if you didn’t say anything, I was planning on resting then!

Ghost: Really?

“That’s fortunate.”

Do Yu-jin put the device away, satisfied with the fact that she now had one more card to prepare for an emergency.

‘If my memory serves me right, this festival ended without any incidents or accidents, and only served to bring the protagonist and heroine closer together.’

However, since this was a world based on hell difficulty, it was forbidden to let your guard down.

At this level of difficulty, you need to eat donuts while suspecting that what you put in them is actually salt and not sugar.

‘It’s even more dangerous now that I’ve pulled out a bunch of the sleeping Black Dragon’s nose hairs.’

If Do Yu-jin had expected it, the Black Dragon Society would likely move towards using its power rather than accumulating it for the time being due to the events in Cheongdo.

Because Do Yu-jin used up all the Black Guild’s stuff, it was obvious that people would rise up from all over the place.

‘Thanks to that, I can worry less about what they might do later, but right now, I can’t predict what kind of ripples they’ll cause.’

In the end, there is only one thing you can do.

All I could do was to gather as many cards as possible with my senses sharp like an ant, and then flexibly respond to each situation as it came.

So the next morning.

Swish-

Do Yu-jin, who was wearing her club uniform even though it was the weekend, lightly smoothed out the wrinkles in her clothes and went outside.

“Ah.”

Then, Erio, who was wearing a pure white one-piece dress unlike usual and was getting ready to go out, was seen running towards me with sparkling eyes.

Looks like you’re really looking forward to today’s outing.

Well, even in the midst of all that, his blank expression remained the same.

“Shall we go?”

“Yeah!”

Erio answered cheerfully and naturally jumped up and rode on Doyujin’s back.

Do Yu-jin noticed that she was carrying Erio so familiarly that she couldn’t help but laugh lightly in disbelief as she spoke.

“Then, Erio, is there a place you want to go or are interested in?”

Unlike Erio, he had a definite intention to join a club and had already decided which club he wanted to join.

So, Do Yu-jin had decided that today’s goal was to find a club that Erio would like.

Well, one of the two clubs that Erio could join was already decided by him.

“There isn’t anything right now.”

“Then, should I take my time and go around?”

“Yeah.”

With Erio’s calm yet cheerful answer.

Hit-

Do Yu-jin walked towards the place where numerous tents were spread out in the distance.

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“Hey! Move carefully!”

“Where is the item we ordered?”

“Whew, but it seems like things are starting to settle down?”

Even though it was still early in the morning, closer to dawn than morning, quite a few students had come out, pitched tents, moved luggage, and prepared the club’s stall.

‘Have you been preparing since yesterday evening?’

Do Yu-jin was slightly surprised, but it wasn’t really that surprising.

The club exhibition only lasted for two days, and students were everywhere trying to squeeze money out of the people by making the most of the limited time.

And that was like saying, in other words, that we’re going to have a 24-hour food stall as a group at a college festival.

Normally, you would have to ask if they were in their right mind, but for them, it wasn’t exactly a murderous schedule.

“What! Why are you so uncomfortable using magic? Are you a novice? What did you learn in class?”

“Are you tired because you just lifted a 100kg box a few times? What, you were in the intensive care unit and just got discharged?”

After all, they were all superhumans with the power to easily overpower people’s common sense.

‘The difference in basic physical performance between me and ordinary people is too great.’

It’s a bit of an odd analogy, but I found it easier to think of it as a similar principle to how most physical education students say that they need to eat at least two servings to feel like they’ve had enough.

“Hey! Why are you using fire magic like that!”

“Sorry, I’m sorry! I’ll fix it!”

“What are you trying to fix! There’s no flavor in the sausage at all! The meat and juices aren’t even dancing to the blues! Adjust the heat carefully to bring out the flavor!”

“Yes! I understand! Sorry, senior!!!”

Do Yu-jin, who had left the house without eating breakfast, was looking around here and there when she went into a pojangmacha that looked very enthusiastic and bought a hotdog.

In addition, I saw a lot of food like waffles and skewers here and there, so I didn’t get bored.

Percussion-

“Here”

As Erio was walking and enjoying the festival atmosphere, he finally found a building and stopped walking.

The theater, Do Yu-jin’s first destination, was showing off its magnificent appearance.