Drum Cans?

Clouds floating beautifully in the blue sky.

A pleasantly cool breeze that frees your body.

Compared to the max-level 90 city of Yggdrasil, it’s just an ordinary medieval city, not a fantasy world, but it’s still a beautiful city that makes my heart flutter.

,It’s such a pretty town, even after a long time.’

When you start LORE for the first time, this is the town where you first open your eyes.

The fountain in the center of the town, where most people pass by.

This is also where I first opened my eyes as Arang.

The so-called newbie village. The reason I’m here now is because Chanmi and her friends said they wanted to try LORE…!

Not just newbies, but real, real newbies and girls my age!

Chanmi said she didn’t want to do it at first.

It was because she saw my recent gameplay video on RyuTube, run by PinkuBerry, where bugs were pouring out.

But her friends persuaded her to start a 4-person party, including me, so she decided to start.

They’re not just guys, but fresh middle school newbie girls who want to play games together, who would refuse!

They’re students, so we won’t have much time to play together, but it’ll be really fun to go to dungeons and do quests together.

I decided to raise a new job to grow with the kids.

It hasn’t been decided yet what jobs the kids will do, but I think I’ll probably be the Tanker.

,Everyone has a lot of trouble at first, so I should raise a Knight who is the most durable and can heal.’

“Wow…”

“Heok! I was confessed to by a young mastermind. It’s like a new world!”

“Mastermind, eung…? What are you talking about?”

“Chanmi-ya, don’t you even know ‘Young Mastermind Confessed to Me’!? It’s the most famous romance fantasy novel right now!”

My friends logged into LORE almost at the same time.

Everyone’s customization was the same. Did they not know how to do it? And what’s scary is that their nicknames are their real names. Like me.

The kids look like they’re saying, “We’re middle school girls~” to anyone who sees them.

Of course, if you go back to my era, they look like high school students because of their height, but I’ve adapted to this era to some extent by going out a lot recently.

,A lot of bugs are going to come around.’

LORE is popular, so there are female users, but if you look at the ratio, there are overwhelmingly more men.

And because there are so many users, there are also strange users.

In LORE, if you just block a user, that user is mosaiced and you can’t hear them, but I’ve already experienced unpleasant things, so I feel pretty bad.

,They might play when I’m not around… First of all, I need to invite everyone to the guild.’

The guys in my class will shout that it’s unfair if they find out! Do you want to play games with middle school boys? Or do you want to play games with middle school girls?

The answer to this question is obvious.

Everyone wants to play games with pretty and cute people.

Of course, it’s different in PVP where competitions and tournaments are important, but if you’re just doing a party play together, everyone will definitely choose middle school girls.

“Did everyone come?”

“Wow, it’s Arang!”

“Arang-a, hello!”

I greeted the kids who logged in first and briefly explained LORE to them.

Among them, the first thing I explained was roles and jobs.

“I’ll be the Tanker because this is the first time everyone has played this kind of game.”

“Arang-i is going to be the Tanker!? It’s dangerous, no way! I’ll do it, unni!”

“Sojin-a, why are you unni? We’re all the same age.”

“That’s true, but I still want to be called unni by Arang-i!”

“Then let’s go catch a level 1 Goblin as practice for now.”

Explaining it in words won’t make a big impression, so I took the kids out of the village and went to the plains.

In the plains, a monster Goblin with a small height and green skin was walking around with a small dagger.

“Wow.”

“It’s a Goblin.”

LORE has been released for a long time, and it’s a game where you can’t create a second character, but because the servers are integrated, I could see newbies who hadn’t started the game for long.

“Okay. Let’s catch a Goblin one by one! I’ll show you first.”

I ran at the Goblin.

Power starting from my feet to my hands. I slashed the Goblin’s upper body with a level 1 beginner’s sword.

Seogeok!

11!

It’s much weaker than when it’s a field boss because it’s a level 1 Knight, but the sensation you can’t feel in reality is fun.

“Kkiiiiiik!”

The Goblin, who didn’t die, swung its dagger at me.

If it were the old days, I would have moved my body to avoid it, but now I’m a Tanker Knight.

Taang!

I blocked the Goblin’s dagger with my wooden shield and slashed the Goblin’s neck with my sword.

Seogeok!

14!

The Goblin’s head flew off and disappeared as it became particles.

“Ooooooh!”

“Arang-i is so cool!”

“Wow.”

I just caught a level 1 Goblin, but the kids clapped and praised me for being cool, so I felt really good.

==

A dark and gloomy sky with ominous moonlight.

A cold and sharp sea breeze that feels like it will freeze your whole body.

It’s not a late hour, but there’s no one passing by. Compared to Seoul, it’s a place with nothing, and it was a scary place that made my whole body tremble with fear, not just because of the cold.

,Where, where is this…? Why can I hear the sound of waves?’

Baek Chowon carefully opened her eyes and woke up in a place where she could see the sea with waves crashing in front of her.

Men in black suits in front of her.

Numerous cans next to those men.

Drum cans. Baek Chowon closed her eyes tightly and opened them, wondering if what she was seeing was real.

She just wanted it to be a dream, but nothing had changed.

,I have to run away…’

Baek Chowon slowly checked her body.

,I’m tied up… My arms and legs too…’

And the voices coming from all directions were telling her that there were people in front and behind.

,What, what’s going on…?’

Baek Chowon slowly thought about what had happened.

Her last memory was of men in black suits blocking her way in front and behind.

,That’s right… And then my whole body tingled and I fainted. And when I opened my eyes, this is the situation… So that means kidnapping…? No way. Kidnapping in the middle of Seoul?’

“Hmm…?”

“Huh? Who are these guys? School uniforms? Middle school students?”

“They’re the guys who threatened the boss’s youngest daughter, -nim.”

“Ne? There are crazy people like that on Earth. How ignorant do you have to be to do that.”

The men were gathered around the bullies.

They all didn’t look ordinary. They looked like they had a lot of combat power, enough to think they were special forces.

The men were obviously wearing weapons all over their bodies.

They are naturally the Korean employees of the MARS private military company [MARS] affiliated with Masubul. They protect the Masubul branch, and they gathered at this place today after receiving a high alert.

,Threatened the youngest daughter, -nim? We did?’

A popular transfer student came to school, and they just wanted to give her a hard time because she was rude.

And they were just going to tell her to live quietly at school.

They weren’t going to do anything if she just stayed quiet at school. But that girl, Na Gyeong-yang, started the fight first. They told her to follow them, but she ignored them.

,What should I do? How can I get out of this situation…? S, scary. I, I have to tell my dad.’

Baek Chowon slowly reached her hand, which was tied up, to her skirt without anyone noticing. She groped around.

She couldn’t feel anything in her skirt pocket.

“Kkeueueuk…!”

“Aeu… W, what…?”

“Where is…”

The bullies who were with Baek Chowon, who woke up first, started to wake up one by one.

Among them, the bully who was stabbed in the abdomen was able to barely open his eyes because he had received first aid.

“Long time no see, everyone.”

“Huh? Who is this? Isn’t it Na Gyeong-i? Long time no see. How was life in America?”

“It’s okay. And everyone, put out your cigarettes.”

“Ha? Na Gyeong-a, you’ve grown up a lot? You’re ordering me to put out my cigarette?”

“Then do you want me to go to Arang-nim with the smell of cigarettes on my body?”

“Ah, that’s right. Our Na Gyeong-i is the princess’s exclusive bodyguard. I’m sorry.”

The man, who was the leader of the mercenaries, immediately put out the cigarette he was smoking in the portable ashtray he was carrying.

All the men in the place also put out the cigarettes they were smoking in their respective portable ashtrays.

“W, what!”

“Where is this! Who are you guys!”

“Do you know who my, my dad is…!”

“I’m not going to let this go! I’m going to make you regret it!”

Baek Chowon and her friend. The male bully who was punched in the stomach and the two male bullies next to him.

As soon as everyone came to their senses, they shouted at the [MARS] mercenaries who had kidnapped them, but they still didn’t know who they were.

If the bullies knew a little bit about LORE, or if they were interested in games, they would have known Arang-i.

And that Arang-i is the youngest daughter of Masubul.

The bullies kept talking about their parents, but they could only laugh at them.

Masubul, the biggest, most dangerous, and largest company in Korea, no, the world right now.

That’s because there is no one on Earth higher than the youngest daughter of Masubul’s representative.