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I hid in an alley and glanced behind me.

He appears to be hesitant and hastily moves away, as if he has some regrets.

I took off the hood that looked suspicious so that other people would see it.

“after…”

Is it because it is an academy city after all?

There are too many things to pay attention to.

This means that the difference in life between commoners and nobles is that big.

‘It’s ridiculous that they won’t let you in if you don’t care about your behavior.’

Commoners who were unable to take care of their appearance and nobles who took care of their beauty through various means.

This is a world where taking care of your appearance is known to be a noble virtue.

Even among the nobles, there were ugly people, but if they had a good appearance that they maintained consistently, they were recognized as nobles.

The reason commoners were not mistaken for nobles no matter how basic they were born with was that their unique ‘managed appearance’ was not something that could be easily imitated.

In the first place, it did not even occur to commoners that they had to take care of their appearance.

However, to me, the lifestyle of nobles was not that unfamiliar.

Isn’t he a man from Korea, a country known as a beauty powerhouse?

‘I know roughly how to take care of it.’

A pack that my girlfriend sometimes gives me.

The days when I was forced to apply sunscreen.

The game had a feature that allowed you to increase your character’s attractiveness and sociability with items, and I generously applied attractiveness-boosting items to my face to enter Academy City.

Thanks to this, I succeeded in transforming my face, which had not been maintained for a long time, into a smooth, ‘maintained beauty.’

‘The good thing is that nobles are tolerant of scars.’

Perhaps because of the nobles’ situation where they had to enter the contaminated area and fight monsters, scars on the face or body were tolerated.

I spent as much money as I could on clothes, so I bought a dark blue suit and wore it.

Since I had already worked on my identity a long time ago, there was no problem, and all I had to do was the appearance to avoid suspicion, and that was covered with an item.

“When this came out, I really wanted to throw it all away… But since I have it, I have something to use it for.”

These beauty products will also sell well if sold to nobles.

However, from a game system perspective, the beauty products were no different.

This is because after going through hundreds of times to select children’s weapons, you often see hundreds of beauty products piled up.

‘It’s not a bad thing to increase the sociability that increases the relationship level due to character synergy, but it was an annoying element that made me click a few more times for no reason.’

However, now that the game has become a reality, it can be quite useful.

‘Do you think the girls would like it if I gave it to them as a gift?’

Among women, which one is not interested in beauty?

It’s something to think about later when we become friends, so I’ll leave it alone… .

I entered the inn and sighed deeply.

“It was really hard.”

It took a whopping 14, no, almost 15 years to get here.

During those long years, I worked hard to be near the academy.

The time it took for a commoner to presumptuously reach a nobleman.

14 years.

‘Fuck, let’s adjust the difficulty level better.’

But even after infiltrating near the academy, my hardships did not end easily.

Before I retired, I went to a contaminated area with a group of mercenaries to receive a last request to purchase a special product.

I was able to safely purchase the special product.

I successfully captured the monsters I encountered after the kobold, and gained confidence in my skills.

And I think it was the best up until that point.

‘I shouldn’t have been caught so easily… .’

I think I was very excited about catching a monster that used this ability.

Even though I was a little upset, I was also full of energy thanks to the power I gained from the scroll.

What can men do who are filled with uncontrollable confidence that they have caught a monster with special abilities?

‘You’re causing an accident, right?’

It’s a perfect accident to die for.

I had a desire to catch more monsters before the scroll’s usage time expired, and the mercenary leader was also thinking that one monster was not enough.

We really… It hit well.

That shouldn’t have happened.

‘I ended up using the tracking scroll again.’

And without realizing how close I had gotten to the contaminated zone, I rolled my eyes and chased after the monster.

Unfortunately, we soon encountered a monster.

A monster so powerful that we can’t even put a scratch on its body.

‘My precious scroll.’

In order not to die, I had to use every scroll without sparing any effort.

Thanks to this, I killed the monster using a rare and rare magic scroll that I only had one copy of.

‘I made money, but… .’

To be honest, I still feel sick to my stomach that I used that scroll there.

‘Thanks to you, I had money leftover even after selling it and purchasing a special product. That’s why I was able to select him too.’

Once again, I thought of the girl I had just met.

After coming to the Academy, I once again realized that this world was a game.

It had to be that way.

‘Because the character selection window has finally opened.’

A large city built around the Academy.

Only nobles whose identities have been thoroughly verified can enter, and commoners can only enter if they have received a guarantee from the nobles.

What if I get it under warranty and get into an accident?

The nobleman who gave the guarantee must take full responsibility.

Therefore, nobles were reluctant to give guarantees to commoners.

Unless it is truly necessary or it is a trustworthy person.

Some say that there is a need to check access so thoroughly… .

‘The justification for the academy to be thoroughly protected was stronger.’

Thanks to this, I had to put in a lot of effort to get here.

That period was 14 years.

‘Actually, it took me 14 years to arrive, but I was worried that the characters I knew would graduate and no longer exist.’

A period of 14 years.

It was a time when it would not have been strange to enter and graduate from the academy.

I regularly charged for character-exclusive weapons whenever special packages came out, but I didn’t think I would be able to sell all of those weapons.

Rather than wasting time trying to meet characters that you will never meet because you have already graduated, they thought it would be better to sell exclusive equipment to existing characters.

however… .

‘It’s not easy.’

Even after arriving at the academy and watching the students come and go for several days, there wasn’t a single character I recognized.

At first, I was disappointed because I thought I had arrived at the academy too late, and I was worried about how to contact those who had enlisted in the military.

Then, it occurred to me that there must be a reason why a character draw was held as soon as I arrived at the academy, so I used my remaining cash to draw a character.

“I never thought charging would be the answer.”

The shock from that time still remains.

When I drew my first character with a flashy light effect, the first shot was pretty good.

Because SSR characters came out.

Of course, what shocked me wasn’t that there were good characters.

The moment you summon a character.

The problem was that the character came to life in front of me.

“Huh? What am I doing here?”

10 characters that appear in one draw.

[R] [R] [R] [R] [SR] [R] [R] [R] [SSR] [R]

There were no duplicates, and all 10 characters looked confused and then dispersed to wherever they wanted to go.

Of those ten, most were R and SR level, not worth raising.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t stop the 10 people from going their own way, and it was only after I came to my senses belatedly that I finished assessing the situation.

‘It’s not that it didn’t exist because it was late, it just didn’t exist at all.’

I still get goosebumps when I think back to that time.

It was the Academy that rediscovered the 10 characters who had disappeared somewhere.

They lived as if they had always existed, laughing and chatting calmly with other students.

Noble families that had never existed were created, and no one questioned them as if they had existed from the beginning.

‘So you’re saying I have to pay a fee and at least destroy all of the kids’ business cards?’

How much impact would it have on the world if the character didn’t exist at all?

The performance of characters that are paid for will be better than extras, even if they are characters that are not used directly.

‘And if those kids graduate from the academy and go to war to reduce the pollution rate by even 1%…’

Ultimately, the billing had to continue.

The survival of the world depends on how much effort I put into running the gacha.

I don’t know why someone like me got this ability, or why they put such a burden on me.

‘It’s money again.’

The answer was just to make money.

It was a tiring job, but now that I’ve made it to the academy, I think my life will be much better than when I earned money as a mercenary.

I used up the remaining cash and picked a character.

Unfortunately, the only character worth raising was the SSR that I initially picked.

And the SSR character I chose is the girl I talked to just a moment ago.

[Name: Shine (SSR)]

[Grade: Class B]

[Skill: ]

[Stats: Power (B) Stamina (C) Dexterity (B) Magic (C) Charisma (C)]

If you look at the character window, the basic stats are not good.

In order for it to function properly, you must draw the same character multiple times and raise its rating to 5 stars.

In addition, you have to complete scenario quests to develop your character and raise their stats.

Among the various stats, the main stats, power and agility, must have SSS, and magic must have at least SS to be a character that can achieve its full value as a tier 2 character.

‘It would be better if there was also character-specific equipment.’

And fortunately, there was Shine’s unique equipment in my item window.

It’s a great weapon that Shine can’t help but buy.