episode_0002

‘what…? Wait a minute, this is all Tuto…’

That sentence was clearly visible even in gradually blurring vision.

[Tutorial is forced to close due to an abnormal error.]

And unlocking key systems in the game that were unusable no matter what you did until now.

‘I don’t know what it is, but… finally…!’

“Wow!!!! Ugh…! Wow!!!“

A thick brown rope fixed firmly to the ceiling.

I was hanging in the air with my neck completely wrapped in it.

My airway was completely compressed by the rope with my weight on it, and I couldn’t breathe.

With my vision turning white again, I struggled as hard as I could to survive.

I stepped forward on tiptoe and managed to place my foot on the head of the chair placed below the floor.

It only created a very small breathing space.

If things continue like this, I will not be able to move and I will die.

“Ugh…! omg…! Kek..! Wow…!!!”

At that moment, the door opens violently.

As soon as the black-haired woman in the maid uniform saw me, her expression hardened.

She quickly put her hand in her bosom and shouted at me.

“Aaaah!!!! Boy!!!”

A silver, sparkling dagger flowed from the hem of the robe.

He threw it towards my rope with a very elaborate posture.

Hiss!

Craddangtang!

The thick rope broke in an instant and I immediately fell to the floor.

As soon as my rope was released she came quickly to me

I hastily tore off the rope that was tightening my neck.

As soon as the rope tore, I fell to the floor, gasping for air.

My head started pounding and I was on the verge of losing consciousness, but I barely managed to survive.

“Kellogg…gagging…thank you…yuri…”

“Young Master…! Master, are you okay…! I’ll call an ambulance right away. Just wait…!”

“No, no… Kellogg… It’s okay, I’m fine.”

“Are you sure? Still, just in case, get a checkup…!”

I touched my neck and looked at her.

She is wearing a frilly black and white maid uniform.

Straight black hair, red eyes, and skin as white as jade.

It was Yuri Lee, a maid hired temporarily by my family.

Once she confirmed that I was safe, her expression was half embarrassed and half relieved.

“I survived thanks to Yuri, thank you so much.”

“Boy, why on earth would you do something like that…! What did you really want to do…!!”

“Cough… I owe you my life this time… I’ll definitely save you next time.”

A room filled with trash and haphazardly placed furniture.

There are a few flies flying around and the ashtray smells like cigarette smoke.

Here, on the monitor above the desk, a coin transaction table with a return rate of -99% written on it is drawn in bright blue.

This is the first scene when I first reincarnated into this world.

The original owner of this body, Seojin Han, was a 17-year-old male student at Hunter Academy.

Unable to deal with the dark reality at a young age, he ultimately made an extreme choice.

My spirit was transferred into his body, which was hanging from the ceiling in a complete vegetative state.

And the story began when I was barely rescued by Yuri, who happened to visit my room.

‘It really is a return to the past…’

I stood up and looked at Yuri.

She supported me both materially and spiritually as I wandered alone in this world.

When I saw her like that for the first time in a long time, my heart started pounding.

It was a face I wanted to see even more because I had sadly had to let her go.

I planned to put off the emotional reunion for a while and take care of urgent matters first.

Starting with the -99% stock where the bright blue bar falls

From the poor quality of the room to the point where people couldn’t live in it, to the cleanliness.

There is nothing better than cleaning to organize your thoughts.

More than anything else, it’s difficult to calmly organize your thoughts in this stench.

“Yuri, you can leave work first. Thank you so much again.”

“You’re telling me to leave you now…?! You’re planning to do something horrible like that again while I’m gone…! I’m never going out!! I’m going crazy so I’ll leave…! I was wondering why they suddenly gave me a vacation that wasn’t given before, but they did something like this…”

She looked at me with a tearful expression.

Actually, the guy who was hanging around a while ago suddenly wanted to be alone and asked me to leave.

It was obvious that it was an absurd request.

In Yuri’s situation, it was natural for such an emotional reaction to occur.

If I had been found dead, her future would have been in big trouble.

I opened the window in the room wide open, looked back at her, and smiled.

“Then, will you help me clean from now on?”

“Yes…? Master… cleaning…?”

“Yes! People can’t live in a place like this, right?”

Yuri looked at me with a confused expression.

She was so cute that I wanted to pet her, but I decided to do that later.

***

Han Seo-jin went down to the first floor and brought a large pay-as-you-go envelope.

Then, after opening the bag, he quickly started putting in all the trash he could see.

Separate plastic bottles and beverage cans that are lying around randomly.

Bedding that was so saturated with cigarette smoke that it could no longer be used was immediately disposed of.

‘No matter how many times I told you this, you didn’t even lift a finger… Cleaning…?’

Yuri Lee was very embarrassed by this sight.

Isn’t it said that a person who is about to die suddenly changes his personality and does things he doesn’t normally do?

Or, when someone suffering from deep depression suddenly cleans their room…

Finally, it was the same as the signs of an extreme choice in preparation for ending one’s life.

“Young Master!!! Master, I will do it!!”

She was startled and tried to snatch Han Seo-jin’s volume-based fee envelope.

But he waved his hand with a gentle smile.

“No, it’s okay. If you want to help Yuri, can you bring me a vacuum cleaner?”

She took a few steps back, blushing.

Usually, if you call me Master, don’t you get angry for no reason?

Just because there was a maid, they threw trash on the floor until the room was full.

Sometimes, when he entered a room, he would look at himself with empty eyes as if he had lost everything.

But suddenly, his eyes began to sparkle with life, as if he had become a completely different person.

He never lost a smile while cleaning up trash full of bad smells and sticky liquid.

They weren’t even just cleaning up randomly, they were separating trash by type.

Han Seo-jin, who usually didn’t say a word to her, suddenly asked, ‘Can you bring me a mop? Oh, please also take the vacuum cleaner.’ You say the same thing.

It was clear that something was definitely wrong.

Yuri Lee took a deep breath and thought to herself.

‘First of all, I will have to watch the master’s condition and then report it to the elder. It looks like you’ve definitely injured your brain… If you’re an elderly person, they’ll be able to help you get a medical examination somehow…’

Seojin Han started whistling and cleaning without knowing her plan.

As if it were something very exciting.

It was a whistling sound with a beautiful and hopeful melody.

***

2 hours later

I threw away the last envelope of pay-as-you-go and sat down on the chair.

The warmth of the muggy room was enough to make the man and woman drenched in sweat.

“Whoa.. It’s hot…Hot…”

“Thank you for your hard work, master… I’ve never seen a room this clean before.”

“Yuri, you worked hard too. Wow… I really wonder how I lived in a room like this.”

‘Master… did you just thank me…?’

She slowly looked at me with a puzzled expression.

“Master, don’t you… have a headache or something?”

“Huh? No, I’m fine?”

“Do you ever feel nauseous or hallucinate?”

“Hmm… Yuri looks prettier today.”

Yuri was observing me while tilting her head.

Anyway, I stretched out and turned on the air conditioner.

The room was filled with a pleasant cold breeze.

“So, Yuri, are you going to stay next to me like this?”

“Yes! of course. You look away for a moment and then you do it again…”

“Ehehe. Enough with that story. Oh, please don’t report it to the elders. Let’s keep this… a secret between us.”

‘At that time, after this incident was reported, the whole family was in an uproar…’

Han Seo-jin came from a prestigious hunter family that produced Korea’s top hunters.

The only half-child among the five siblings of the current generation.

I lived under all kinds of discrimination and persecution from a young age, and even lost my mother to illness.

A life that was treated as a disgrace to the family who lived like a complete wreck, as it is now.

As soon as it became known that Han Seo-jin survived after making an extreme choice,

There was a time when I had a hard time for a while because all kinds of rumors were going around.

“Then I will decide not to report this matter to you…”

Yuri made a disapproving expression.

I smiled and said ‘Thank you’ to her.

First, I took out a notebook and pen from the bookshelf and started writing.

When there was a lot to do and I didn’t know where to start, the best thing to do was to write it down and think about it first.

As I was engrossed writing something next to her, she came up to me.

“Young Master… Surely it’s not a will…?”

“No. Hooyi Hooyi.”

I gestured and pushed her back a little.

***

“Is this enough…”

There was quite a lot to do, but I wrote down the key things first.

[Project: Thank you Lapis.]

A. Funding (preparing academy admission fee and repaying coin debt)

B. Proceed with the tutorial normally (perhaps a forced defeat event?)

C. After awakening, grow to the level of an excellent academy student

D. Recruiting talent after entering the academy

E. Investigate the costs of regression in detail

I looked at Yuri with a Monami ballpoint pen on my lips.

The whole time she was writing, she was chatting next to me as if she was interested.

Now I was going around the room spraying air freshener.

‘It’s definitely a tutorial…’

I began to vaguely remember the tutorial in this mobile game.

A [C]-class monster, Bloodhound, encountered by chance on the Shinnonhyeon Station stage.

While fighting against such a monster along with the tutorial characters, the main character party is violently defeated.

And where all the party members fell, losing all hope and just before being eaten.

The appearance of a hero who jumps in front of the protagonist and cuts the monster in half with a single blow.

It was the scene where the first 5-star pick-up character [Alice] debuted.

‘The directing was really cool…’

What I experienced here was quite different.

The only person next to me that day was Yuri Lee.

She was a 4-star character and even had the [Sword Strike] compatibility that Bloodhound is weak against.

Moreover, since I already had a vague understanding of the game system, I used a fire extinguisher to attract aggro.

Through the smoke, she quickly threw the dagger like a sophisticated machine.

“Yuri!!!!!! Now is the time!!!!!”

I stuffed the trash can lid into the hound’s mouth.

The moment when the core inside the throat is revealed.

「I will clean it thoroughly. 」

Dozens of daggers flew towards the core at once.

The bloodhound was completely shattered into ashes.

I sit down with my legs completely relaxed and look back.

Alice was standing there, fiddling with the sword body and looking at Yuri with a disapproving expression.

‘Could it be because I won at that time… it was recognized as a game error and Gacha, Awakening, etc. were all not opened…?’

It’s like a bunch of damn code.

Even when I was playing the game, it would get stiff and crash every 10 minutes.

I never would have thought that an error like this would have been messing with me all this time.

“Haha….Ha…Hahaha…!”

I rubbed my face with my palms and washed my face dry.

In an unexpected place, it was tightly twisted from the beginning.

Did you survive stubbornly in that situation and make it to the final boss?

Should I say that he has great will or should I say that he is just a stubborn idiot?

When I found the answer, I ended up laughing because it was so absurd.

‘This… I really need to report this to the elder…’

Yuri Lee looked at me with sad eyes, as if I was about to lose my mind.

And after a while, when things calmed down a bit, she handed me a few letters and a few delivery boxes.

“Yuri, what is this?”

“It was left next to the mailbox today. Didn’t you order it online?”

‘Hmm… This is my first time seeing something like this…?’

The letter was a debt reminder.

– Balance of 200,000,000 ₩.

Thanks to borrowing 200 million won and investing it in coins, he was already 200 million won in debt at a young age.

Last time, like in the [Beast Crossing] game, I worked hard to pay it off like I was paying off a house loan.

Perhaps naively, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t he awaken me if I paid off all my debt?’

[exciting! I paid off the entire coin loan!]

All I got was this annoying system message.

The second letter is a notice related to admission to the academy.

I know the basics, so I’ll skip it…

The problem is these delivery boxes that I have never seen before.

These were packages that I had never received before.

I opened it carefully, wondering if there was something dangerous inside…

Hwaaa!!!!!

The room began to fill with sparkling light.

Inside was an armful of rainbow-colored diamonds.

When I picked up the letter on top of the piles of jewels, I found several things written on it.

[Celebrating 1 million pre-registrations!]

[Sorry for causing trouble]

[Extended maintenance compensation]

[Emergency maintenance compensation]

[Tutorial inability to progress bug fix and compensation]

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‘Could it be… these are gemstones used in gacha…?!’

Thousands of rainbow diamonds, 10 golden tickets, S-class weapon box… various goods…

Yuri looked inside the box with an ecstatic expression, just like me.

I was overwhelmed with emotion and hugged the precious stones.

‘Now the hardships are over and happiness begins…!’

That day, for the first time in my life, I learned that even if I was so happy, I could cry.

Now it was time to grow in earnest.