Confusion 1

[The Academy’s Falling Star Swordsman] is a novel.

The genre is tragedy.

The protagonist is a pushover, and the heroines are unsatisfactory.

It’s nothing more than scraps of paper, bits of data.

There’s no need to give more value as a reader to a novel that isn’t even to one’s taste.

But this world is not a novel.

The scenery has a gentle breeze, and people breathe.

This is reality.

And Baek Da-eun was Han Seoyeon’s friend.

One who visits her home, goes to amusement parks together.

Baek Da-eun is not just some heroine craving for a hero.

She was Han Seoyeon’s one and only, irreplaceable close friend.

That’s what she should have known.

She should have known, but why.

Why did Han Seoyeon notice so late?

Looking back, there were signs.

[What do you think of me, Miss Han Seoyeon?]

Alone together in the Ferris wheel at the amusement park.

The girl had said that.

[Can you confidently say that you don’t find me attractive as a woman, not just as a friend?]

At that time, she didn’t give more value to those words than simple jokes.

Because she believed without doubt that Baek Da-eun liked Han Suho.

Didn’t she always say it with her own mouth?

That she liked Han Suho.

…But that’s nothing more than an excuse.

Han Seoyeon knew that Baek Da-eun liked Han Suho, but she never asked about the reason.

It was because she thought to herself.

That it was natural for Baek Da-eun, the heroine of the original story, to like Han Suho, the protagonist of the original story.

So there was no need to ask why.

Because it was natural.

Even though she had intercepted the first meeting between the protagonist and heroine, and the second meeting too.

Han Seoyeon vaguely thought just that.

It was ironic─.

No, it was foolish.

Even though she had thought countless times that this world is not a novel.

In the end, Han Seoyeon herself had treated this world more like a novel than anyone else.

She thinks.

Even if she had noticed, what would have been different?

Han Seoyeon is a munchkin protagonist.

She must be a munchkin protagonist.

Yet, the range she can embrace is narrow.

No matter how you look at it, the person she loves is only one in the world.

‘I don’t know…’

Reaching a happy ending.

Not just the result, but even the process.

But she couldn’t do that.

Han Seoyeon made her precious friend cry.

‘How should I…’

Han Seoyeon didn’t see the ending of the original story.

So she doesn’t know how the original protagonist solved this situation.

‘I…’

There was no answer.

There’s no way there could be a clear answer sheet in this world.

“…You know that the final exams are in a few months.”

As if mocking her worries.

Cruelly, time flows, and the story progresses.

“In that sense, I was thinking of going on a preliminary survey to a few candidate locations.”

What awakened her from her daze was a voice filled with confidence and charisma.

Lee Ha-yul asked.

“Want to go to Japan once?”

She cannot run away.

When Nam Gung-hyeong opened his eyes, he was surrounded by darkness.

Something cool was restraining his entire body.

“…What.”

His body wouldn’t move.

His voice had no strength.

The air was cold and biting.

The stench of blood assaulted his nostrils.

“Looks like you’re awake.”

Eventually, he turned his gaze towards the source of the sound.

Flaming red hair, with eyes flickering golden.

“He, Heavenly Demon…”

“It doesn’t matter if you sleep a bit longer.”

The Heavenly Demon of the East.

A true monster that makes even the Central Plains tremble.

That person was right in front of him.

While butchering the corpses of two unidentified men.

“Sa, save me…!”

“Be quiet. I’m busy.”

Lee Yeon carelessly tossed the corpses of the two men, who were once members of a somewhat famous guild, into a container filled with dissolution fluid.

“Not enough.”

Blue mana shines.

The men’s corpses evaporated on the spot.

While speaking as if satisfied, Lee Yeon frowned.

Then her gaze turned to the criminal who dared to defile the sacred Academy.

“…Hii, hiik!”

“Just a little more.”

Lee Yeon reached out gently, mercifully.

There was no death agony.

“Spear will be completed.”

This was something that originally, according to the original fate, couldn’t have been achieved.

It was possible because fate was twisted, and a living named player was used as an experimental subject.

The completion of Spear is near.

Lee Yeon smiled ecstatically.

The time for revenge was close.

Revenge for her younger sister, for Lily, for all fallen comrades.

“Everything will end. Everything.”

Bringing down the Constellations to the human world.

Judging them in the name of the guillotine and justice.

“…Lily.”

That was the only thought from the beginning.

[Chapter 2 Clear!]

[Current Progress: 100%]

This was the last of the labyrinth exploration.

Kim Il-soo set his gaze on the noisy status window notification.

[Chapter 3]

[‘Reunion’ is unlocked.]

[Current Progress: 0%]

When he learned that the identity of the culprit who killed his subordinate, the Falling Star Swordsman, was that noble Student Hero.

From that moment, Kim Il-soo spared no effort in his determination.

He slaughtered countless monsters.

To avenge his subordinate.

Even if they were incompetent and useless subordinates, the one to judge their sins should have been the legitimate army of the Republic of Korea.

Only TROKA, the organization that can conduct military trials in South Korea.

The current national army has long been corrupted.

Isn’t a man who betrayed his comrades by licking the boots of a con artist, truly like a traitor, leading the military headquarters?

The scene that always comes to mind is one.

The atrocity of the con artist who carelessly took away and threw aside the stars that were his pride and self-esteem.

It was truly infuriating and frustrating.

Even more so because such an atrocity was committed by a former subordinate.

He believes he did his best as a soldier.

To protect the country.

This was not an excuse.

It was merely an extremely objective fact.

He declared martial law to replace the collapsed central government.

He brought order to the citizens who had fallen into chaos.

Due to manpower shortage, he implemented emergency conscription.

Isn’t it natural for citizens to respond to conscription to protect the nation?

Also, he formed units with people who had awakened to abilities.

Although young, a precision unit that could strike monsters.

If it weren’t for the excellent command of those soldiers.

Undoubtedly, today’s glory wouldn’t exist.

The generals did not live comfortably in the rear, as the con artist’s false propaganda claimed.

They devoted themselves to the country more than anyone else!

Some might say.

Was it right to send young girls to the battlefield just because they awakened to abilities?

Kim Il-soo could proudly answer.

Wasn’t it unavoidable because it was wartime?

In fact, there were a few among the old generals who sympathized with Lee Yeon.

At such a young age, she witnessed the tragedy of Gates and monsters, lost her parents, and was conscripted and sent to the battlefield just because she awakened to abilities.

While she stayed on the battlefield, her only remaining sibling was killed by monsters.

She lost comrades on the battlefield.

It might be a bit harsh experience for someone so young.

Some accepted the demotion ceremony with self-deprecation and bitterness.

However, Kim Il-soo thought that was wrong.

While it might form empathy narratively, that’s all it is.

There’s no reason to empathize with a criminal’s narrative.

Whatever excuse there might be, Lee Yeon’s crime was treason against the state.

That con artist, blinded by power, killed politicians and slandered soldiers.

It was nothing more and nothing less.

Even if it’s a tragic narrative, it’s nothing more than a story that any soldier of the Republic of Korea at that time would have had at least one of.

As a citizen of the Republic of Korea, isn’t it right to naturally accept that level of sacrifice for the greater cause?

Lee Yeon couldn’t do that.

So she was just a con artist, not a leader of the people.

[The Constellation ‘Guardian of the Sun’ sponsors you.]

Kim Il-soo silently moved his steps.

[Sword Discussion Book]

[Details: A martial arts book for sparring by setting up an imaginary enemy.]

For what he rightfully should do.

“Where are you going, Your Excellency?”

The staff officer asked.

The current location of TROKA was China, specifically Shanghai.

The site of the former Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

A place imbued with the iron-like military spirit of inheriting the will of independence fighters to reclaim the country.

“To the land of Wa.”

The land of Wa.

The exact name is Kyushu Island, Japanese National Administrative Bureau, Republic of Korea Territory.

“I’m going to hunt a fox.”

To finally catch the fox that was once let go.

Kim Il-soo disappeared beyond the horizon with a small boat.

“…Right. It was about time for Kim Il-soo and Lee Ha-yul’s episode, wasn’t it?”

And.

The returnee stretched lazily with a languid smile.

[The Constellation ‘Heart of the Demon King’ guides you.]

“Yes, yes. I get it. I get it, so stop nagging.”

Even without such nagging, the future is ultimately predetermined.

This world is nothing but a mere novel after all.

“…Tsk. By the way, something feels off.”

He tilted his head as if puzzled.

“Was the original protagonist’s name Han Seoyeon…?”

That was something he couldn’t help.

His memories were not intact.

[The Constellation ‘Administrator of the Abyss’ shakes its head, saying you’re talking nonsense again.]

[The Constellation ‘Rampaging Black-Eyed Dragon’ nods.]

[The Constellation ‘Sword Sage of Raging Flames’ agrees.]

“Ah, come on! It’s noisy!”

Suddenly falling into another world.

Being treated as a porter by companions, and finally being murdered.

“I don’t know, it’ll work out somehow.”

Well, there’s no way he could have all the memories of his past life intact.

After all, it’s just a world inside a novel, isn’t it?

The man was a special existence even in such a world.

Because he was special, he received the choice of so many Constellations, didn’t he?

Although it was surprising that the world he returned to was not reality but inside a novel, the man didn’t mind much.

Perhaps this world might be the right place where he should be.

Thus, the man was a ‘returnee’.

This time, he swore to live for himself, not to be a porter or be betrayed.

In the world of the novel he enjoyed reading since his past life.

While fucking the heroines like dogs!