Gold Ninja

The shutdown message I witnessed at the last moment of game access still felt like it was flickering before my eyes.

The moment I got up from the capsule with a sweat-soaked body, I felt a terrible elasticity.

It was proof that I was so immersed in the game that my real body was affected.

“Ah…”

A low sigh flowed from my mouth. The moment I was about to distribute the gold, it became 10 o’clock and the game access was forcibly terminated.

The shutdown law, it really was a terrifying law. In the past, it was a law that had nothing to do with me, so I just laughed it off, but now it was becoming a huge obstacle in my life.

‘What do I do.’

My head goes blank. It felt like my head, which had been working smoothly while playing the game, had frozen.

First, I got out of the capsule and grabbed my cell phone. Fortunately, there was a group chat room where I could talk to the raid members even when I couldn’t access the game.

If I had run a last minute raid without such a chat room, I would have become a star on the shasage (shitpost forum).

The chat room I checked already had a lot of messages piled up.

It’s a chat room with 40 people in it. Even if only one person writes a message per second, 40 people will accumulate 40 messages.

I stroked my cheeks and checked the chat room messages.

-Wizard Group Leader 1 [Raid Leader-nim shutdown ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

-Priest Leader [Was it real, not a concept?]

-Wizard 22 [Raid Leader-nim… I believe in you…]

-Wizard Group Leader 2 [Hawaawa… This middle school girl-jjang can’t play the game because it’s 10 o’clock…]

Checking the piled-up messages, the atmosphere wasn’t that bad.

But I could definitely feel an emotion of anxiety that couldn’t be hidden. If I left it like this, the atmosphere would become harsh.

I quickly wrote a message.

-Raid Leader [I’m sorry, I got kicked out because of the shutdown. I’ll go in briefly before going to school and send you the gold by mail.]

It was the moment I wrote the message. I heard a cautious knocking sound from outside the room, kong kong kong.

[Ha-yeon. Hey, Ha-yeon-ah.]

It was Ha-rang’s voice. I thought it was Mom, but what’s wrong with that guy all of a sudden?

I ignored his call and focused on my cell phone.

-Wizard 7 [More sincere than anyone in the settings;]

-Raid Leader [It’s not a setting. It’s true that I can’t connect.]

Wizard Group Leader 2 [Hoeeee… This middle school girl-jjang doesn’t lie…]

I frowned. I was only telling the truth, but it seemed that no one believed that I was a middle school student attending school.

Kong kong kong!

[Ha-yeon!]

The knocking sound was louder than before, and the calling voice was also louder.

I frowned and walked to the front of the door.

“What is it? Why?”

[You, you… is that true?]

“What is?”

[You, were you playing Deron?]

He suddenly came and asked if I was playing Deron?

I sighed and opened the door.

“Uh…”

Beolkeok – Ha-rang was standing in front of the opened door with a strange expression on his face.

Why is that guy, who should be stuck in the capsule as usual, out here?

“What’s going on.”

I leaned against the wall with my arms crossed and glared at Ha-rang.

It was still awkward to deal with a boy who looked like my past self.

It was strange to treat him kindly, and it was uncomfortable to treat him as Ha-yeon’s older brother.

Ha-rang, who was watching me, took out his cell phone and showed it to me.

“Look at this.”

I check the screen of the cell phone that Ha-rang handed me. Inside, a post from the Deron Gallery was displayed.

[Deron Online Gallery]

[Let’s find out the value of the gold ninja’d by that middle school girl.] [221]

(Real-time price fluctuation graph of the gold trading site)

The middle school girl-nim, who turned the gallery upside down, swallowed a total of 12,750 gold in 5 hours.

If calculated based on the current market price, 10 gold has a cash value of 14,900 won.

In other words, the middle school girl-jjang swallowed 18,997,500 won in cash.

It really is an incredible event.

2 million in 5 hours? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(A picture of Yeon’s character synthesized with a ninja, with a gold bag on his back)

Everyone was deceived. He was not a middle school girl, but a ninja.

[Comments]

[Info: If you calculate with a 9,000 won gukbap (Korean soup with rice), you get about 2,110 bowls.]

ㄴ[Heok… middle school girl-jjang… is going to explode from eating gukbap…]

ㄴ[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Wow… it seems like last minute raids won’t work anymore]

ㄴ[Just distribute the gold on the spot as soon as the named auction is over]

ㄴ[I have to go to a dice party]

ㄴ[I went to a dice party before and a thief who was doing less damage than the tank swept all the items…]

[It’s not a ninja, it’s a shutdown]

ㄴ[Do you believe that, gay?]

ㄴ[The raid members aren’t saying anything, so why are you being a dickhead?]

ㄴ[The middle school girl raid leader has arrived ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

ㄴ[I’m jealous of the gold, give it to me]

The moment I checked the contents of the post and the comments, the corners of my mouth started to tremble.

It hasn’t been more than 5 minutes since I got out of the game. What the hell happened in that short amount of time?

I frowned and glared at Ha-rang in front of me.

“This isn’t it.”

“What, what is?”

“I didn’t do gold ninja.”

“Uh…”

“Ah, really… I got kicked out because of the shutdown.”

“Th, no… I’m just…”

“You came here because you were curious about this, right?”

Ha-rang shook his head at my question.

An expectation that couldn’t be hidden was floating in his eyes.

What’s the purpose?

“No, what I’m curious about is whether you’re the first clear raid leader.”

I nodded at Ha-rang’s question. I didn’t really intend to hide the fact that I was playing Deron, so there was no reason not to reveal it.

Then Ha-rang took a step closer to me.

“Ha-yeon!”

“Euhit!”

It was quite burdensome when a guy bigger than me suddenly approached.

“Let me join the raid too!”

“Join the raid…?”

I stepped back and asked Ha-rang’s question again.

At this time, I was definitely a member of another raid.

That was my first raid, so I could still vividly recall it. The relationship that started there lasted a long time…

“Yeah!”

“You, didn’t you have another raid?”

“Me, me? It’s only been 2 weeks since I reached max level… raid joining, what’s that…?”

I open my mouth blankly at Ha-rang’s words.

Only then could I recall that this world was quite twisted.

It’s not a play using a keyboard and mouse. Of course, Ha-rang in this world would have played differently than before.

“What’s your job?”

“Me. I’m an archer type…”

As expected, Ha-rang in this world was different. Unlike me, who raised a melee class, he’s a ranged dealer.

But the upper and lower job ranks were important.

“What are the 1st and 2nd ranks?”

“Both are Ranger.”

Ranger, a job that can shoot multiple arrows with one attack.

It had a wide range of single and area damage versatility, and although it had the disadvantage of consuming a lot of arrows, its damage was no less than that of a wizard class.

He reached max level with the Ranger class.

That meant he had a basic sense.

“Get out of the way for now.”

“Huh? Uh…”

“I’m going to take a shower. Talk later.”

First of all, I wanted to wash away this sticky sweat.

When I finished showering and headed to the living room, there was an ice cream on the table.

As I shook my hair and approached the table, I made eye contact with Ha-rang, who was watching me from the corner.

“What are you doing?”

“Is there anything else you need?”

“Did you put the ice cream on?”

“Uh… don’t you like it?”

What was on the table was milk-flavored ice cream. I didn’t particularly like it.

It seemed that Ha-yeon liked it, not me.

I shook my head, unwrapped the ice cream, and put it in my mouth.

It was quite delicious.

I look around the living room with ice cream in my mouth.

I can’t see Mom, so it seems she’s already asleep.

That means I don’t have to be careful.

I walked to the sofa and sat down comfortably.

Water dripped from the hair hanging behind my back, but I didn’t care.

Ha-rang approached cautiously. He also had an ice cream in his mouth.

“Ha-yeon.”

“Why.”

“You, since when have you been doing it?”

I frowned and rummaged through my memories.

It hadn’t been a week since I played the game as me.

But Ha-yeon was already playing Deron. Ha-yeon’s account had other characters besides the one I raised.

That was probably the character Ha-yeon was raising.

“A bit?”

“A bit…?”

“Why, why didn’t you tell me?”

“Do I have to tell you?”

“It’s not that, but…”

Ha-rang kept watching me.

I didn’t like that frustrating look. It was quite unsightly to see a boy who was the same as his past self being careful of a child younger than him.

“I’ll let you join the raid.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Yeah. I was going to replace the dealer line anyway.”

“Re, really? I thought so too. I was watching the broadcast, and those wizard bastards were so frustrating.”

The moment I nodded at Ha-rang’s words, I heard a strange word in my ear.

Broadcast…? Broadcast?

“Broadcast…?”

“Yeah.”

Broadcast, I had never turned on anything like a broadcast.

No, not me. One of the raid members must have been broadcasting.

“You didn’t know?”

I quickly took out my cell phone.

Which bastard was broadcasting? The leakage of the raid’s tactics is fatal.

If other people see and start following the strategy I created, the meaning of my first clear raid will fade.

Preserving the value of items was important.

Maintaining the symbolism as it is was also important.

If everyone can clear the raid, the raid equipment will become a uniform.

I don’t want that.

My head throbbed. I knew it was a raid of ragtag people, but to broadcast without the raid leader’s permission.

Did I burn my body for those guys?

Even giving them the first clear achievement?

I didn’t know that the broadcast was being broadcast until the end of the raid.

I took a deep breath and looked around various sites.

As expected, everything was being revealed in real time because of the broadcast.

I checked the broadcast screen and confirmed the nickname of the wizard who was broadcasting.

[IceMagicBibibig]

This bastard is expelled.

I pressed the chat room and went to the management section and kicked him out.

The administrator has kicked out [IceMagicBibibig]-nim.

-Priest Leader [Heok… Raid Leader-nim is doing a sword dance…]

-Wizard Group Leader 2 [Hawaawa… middle school girl ninja too;;;]

-Sub Tanker 2 [That’s the person who was broadcasting.]

-Dogric [Wasn’t that allowed by the raid leader-nim?]

-Sub Tanker 2 [It seems not, judging by the fact that he was kicked out?]

-Raid Leader [I’m saying this just in case. Please leave the raid if you want to turn on the broadcast. The same goes for broadcasters. Raid tactic leakage is prohibited.]

The situation was roughly settled.

I mumbled and got up from my seat.

Then Ha-rang, who was sitting next to me, also got up.

I looked at him and asked.

“Why are you getting up?”

“Huh? Ah… I’m going to play the game.”

Game. It’s past 10 o’clock. That means he has to teach me how to study.

I also have his weakness. His raid joining is also up to me. So he will never be able to refuse my request.

“Wait here.”

“Ah, you don’t mean…”

“Teach me how to study.”

Ha-rang, who was watching me, nodded and sat quietly in his seat.

Still, his expression wasn’t bad.

A small smile was on his lips.