episode_0431
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“What is that?”
“Well, it looks very peaceful.”
“Isn’t that guy Jay? You’re lucky. I guess I caught something easy.”
“Damn, that should have come out when I tried.”
“Jeira… Now that I think about it, it seems like a face I’ve seen somewhere before.”
I stroked my chin as I listened to the students waiting in line. Olivia reacted to me tracing my memories. Since it was the same school, I guess it was a face I remembered.
“Jay? Ah, at the homecoming party, she was the one who asked my friends and I to hang out together if we didn’t have a partner.”
“I don’t think I’ve had a particularly long conversation with the male students since I came here, but maybe that’s why their faces seemed strangely familiar.”
After listening to it, I felt like I remembered it. When I returned from disposing of the bomb, it was the student who was talking with Olivia and her group.
When I came back, he quietly disappeared, so I quickly erased it from my memory, but I guess that’s what happened.
“Yes, I guess it’s familiar because I saw it back then. But from what I heard, it looks like you’ve become a fan of Minho. I heard that he looked up all the old videos and promoted them to other kids quite enthusiastically. I don’t think he’s a bad kid. It seemed like he was on the football team.”
“Really? It’s fascinating.”
Normally, if you set out to do something and fail, it would be normal for you to blame your competitor out of hurt pride, but it was a strange feeling to find that they had actually become my fan.
Seeing that I was on the football team made me think that they might have become a fan because of my outstanding athletic ability. This was because it did not seem like the student named Jay would be particularly interested in games.
In the end, it didn’t bother me because it seemed like evidence that his approach to Olivia was just a result of the party atmosphere and that he wasn’t specifically targeting her seriously.
Anyway, Jay was wearing a helmet and was alone looking at the different scenery. I smiled quietly as I looked at the monitor showing the green hills.
That was a special fantasy I had separately requested from Maria.
***
The moment Jay put on the helmet for the first time, he felt pitch-black darkness. He felt as if his head had been plunged through a hole in his helmet into a sea of darkness where no light existed.
He suddenly realized that he couldn’t hear any of the other students’ mutterings.
‘Is it noise canceling technology? It’s huge… ‘
It was so quiet that you could even hear the sound of blood flowing through the veins.
Darkness and silence. He thought that if it weren’t for the feel of the hard stool against his butt, this alone would have been quite a scary challenge.
Fortunately, that terrifying silence did not last long.
A bright light that stung my eyes emanated from beyond my vision. When Jay reflexively closed his eyes and opened them again, green meadows and hills appeared in front of him.
“Wow… ”
Jay unconsciously opened his mouth in admiration at the sudden change in vision.
The entire area was covered with green grass that was about ankle length long. It was like a lawn that had grown arbitrarily.
When Jay carefully turned his head to look around so as not to fall off the chair, he saw that the terrain he thought was a hill was surrounding him in a circle. The place he was in was a kind of basin.
As Jay admired the scenery for a moment, a question arose in his head.
‘But what comes out of this? ‘
As far as he was concerned, there was nothing to see here that would take him away from his chair. Rather, the gently blowing wind and the sound of grass blades rustling felt so good that I felt like I could last the whole day.
Other challengers who participated for the prize would have been happy, but Jay was different.
Of course, it would be nice to win a prize, but the main reason he participated in this challenge was because he wanted to survive the scary scene and impress Minho as a fan.
So, he couldn’t help but feel sorry for the seemingly peaceful scenery. The moment he was slightly disappointed by the difficulty level being too easy.
Wow~
A halo of light began to form around Jay.
“What, what is it?”
He whipped his head around at the sudden change.
The halo of light was not one. The lights gathered like fireflies and swirled around the basin on a large scale. Suddenly, a sphere of light larger than Jay’s body filled the basin.
‘one two three four… ‘How many are there?’
And before Jay could calm the confusion, the light sphere exploded and scattered.
Jay’s eyes widened as he witnessed the scene.
This was because numerous people appeared from the scattered mines.
“This mission will be harder than you think, right?”
“But once a difficult mission appears, the next three missions will be easy.”
“I rather like these defense missions. All you have to do is hold on.”
“An ignorant person like you would be like that! I am a slender lady.”
“The slender women are all dead. When I see the corpse of the monster you mutilated, I feel sick to my stomach.”
The people who emerged from the halo of light were dressed like medieval adventurers or knights. They all settled down in various places around the basin, conversing in familiar positions.
Jay was watching it with a blank face.
Naturally, people who appeared in the basin also spotted Jay and started whispering.
“Where on earth did that person get that chair?”
“This mission was about defense… So are you protecting that guy? I haven’t heard anything like that.”
“It looks a bit stupid, right?”
Jay naturally thought the conversation was meant to get him out of his chair, but it was such a realistic fantasy that his face automatically got hot.
‘mission? ‘Is there a battle going on?’
But he was not given time to understand the situation. The fantasy went to the next level as if it was driving him out of his head.
Doo doo doo doo…
“Ready for battle!”
“Large size available!”
“Damn, there’s no time to prepare this time?”
Before the people could finish preparing, the sound of the ground shaking was heard. The sound was so loud that Jay thought the ground was really shaking.
The identity of the foot cloud sound soon reached the basin and revealed itself.
“Kiaaa!”
“Grrr… !!”
“Keeek!!!”
‘Well, what kind of monsters are those again…’ !’
Monsters appeared, each making bizarre cries. Their true identity was the monsters in the travel destination designed under Minho’s inspection.
They had surrounded the basin and were glaring at the people located on low ground.
“… This won’t be easy, right?”
“Ahh! Why did I have to go on a mission like this… !”
As soon as they emerged from the halo of light, the people who had been calmly preparing for battle seemed clearly nervous.
The tension makes even Jay, who knows it’s just an illusion, sweat. The moment he, who was frozen like a statue, swallowed his saliva, the battle began.
“——!”
Wow!!
Kill it!
Wooo!!!
The monsters pushing down toward the inside of the basin and the people holding on clashed.
The clanging sound of the monster’s rusty weapons colliding with the humans’ weapons sounded as if it would tear Jay’s eardrums.
Jay didn’t notice the urgent situation and the noise of the battle, but his helmet was playing loud music at low levels to heighten his emotions.
The scene of a fierce battle that I experienced for the first time in my life. In that vivid moment of struggle that could not be compared to a movie, Jay even forgot to blink.
However, it is also a moment to comfortably watch the heart-pounding battle. Humans slowly began to be pushed out by the forces of new monsters that were constantly being added into the basin.
thud!
“Cough… !”
“Uh, what?”
A human being hit by a club swung by a monster as big as a giant fell to the side of Jay. It was a woman who grumbled and called herself a delicate lady.
For a moment, Jay forgot that this was all an illusion and spoke to the woman.
“Are you okay?”
“Ugh… It’s impossible. I can’t bear it if it continues like this. Total annihilation… ”
After taking a few breaths, she looked at Jay and said.
“You there… ! If you don’t want to die, help us from now on. Right now, even just one person is missing out!”
“Well, what is that… ?”
‘Can we even have a conversation? what? Why does this feel so real?’
Jay’s head began to fill with confusion.
Suddenly, people appear in a peaceful basin, and a battle with monsters breaks out. It was a fantasy that went in an incomprehensible direction, but it was all intentional.
The purpose of this illusion was to continuously put the challenger in a confusing situation so that he could not come to his senses as much as possible.
Thanks to this, Jay did not notice that no one was bleeding or dead even during the battle.
“Ugh… Usually, when doing unfavorable missions like this, there are many cases where the helper is strong… Why doesn’t this bastard move?”
“What does mission mean? I don’t know anything!”
No one died, but the human defense line was shrinking, with Jay at the center.
Jay glanced at the bloody battle scene getting closer and closer, gritted his teeth and repeated.
‘no… This is a fantasy… The battle feels realistic, but it’s all fake… ‘
“Ha… If you don’t step up, we’re all dead! Do you want to just watch and be helpless?! Is that really what you want?!!”
“… … !”
At the desperate cry of the fallen woman, an image of Minho flashed through Jay’s mind. The scene where he jumped into the choppy sea to rescue Olivia and the scene where he overpowered the kidnappers, even engaging in a gunfight.
If Jay was thinking of Minho, he would never have backed down in a situation like this.
Finally, Jay spoke to the woman in a trembling voice. Now the sounds of battle have become so loud that we have to shout to communicate.
“What can I do?”
“Say status window!”
“Status window?”
“Then you too will gain the strength to fight those monsters!”
Jay, who didn’t usually read books and whose only cultural activities consisted of watching movies, didn’t find it strange.
He obediently followed whatever the woman told him to do.
“sa, status window.”
“Bigger!”
“Status window… !”
“Bigger! Stand up and shout loudly to the sky!”
The battle is just around the corner. The cries of monsters and humans. An arrow passing before your eyes. Magnificent music playing softly on the helmet. Jay ended up completely immersed in the fantasy.
Jay took a deep breath, jumped up from his seat, and shouted.
“Status difference!!!”
Jump up!
“… … .”
And then there was silence.
“… Huh?”
“Push… !”
“Puhahahaha! Status window… ! It’s a status window!”
“Jay, haven’t you been watching too many cartoons?”
When I lifted my butt off the chair and the challenge was over, I could see the other students waiting through the visor of my transparent helmet. Before I knew it, the humans and monsters that had filled the surrounding area and were fighting had all disappeared.
Jay stood on the mattress with a dumb expression on his face and muttered.
“Oh… ?”
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