Episode 37 2nd week strategy battle (4)
Why do you suddenly ask to see my hand?
You must have heard something from Bona Mana and Kwak Seungjae.
– There is a student in this school who learned Inferno Fist.
– And that student is most likely connected to the missing forbidden items.
From the leadership’s perspective, they would want to catch the culprit as quickly as possible.
The clues are the burns that would have left on your hand if you had used Thief’s Walk, Hummingbird, Invisible Ghillie Suit, and Inferno Fist.
First of all, it is difficult to see the thief’s steps as a valid clue.
It is a general skill that many ranged dealers, in addition to the Rogue class, enjoy using, so it is virtually impossible to identify someone with it.
Hummingbirds and transparent gills are relatively easy to narrow down.
There may be quite a few people who have learned the Hummingbird, but there are probably only about ten people in this school who can control it enough to break through Kwak Seung-jae’s guard.
Transparent ghillie suits are also expensive items, so not many people will have them.
If we look at these two things from Song Cheon-hye’s perspective.
I’m pretty good at Hummingbird, and a calligrapher I’m close with happens to have a transparent gilli.
Then, could it be that you borrowed a transparent gili?
You’ll feel like it fits somehow.
I can’t help but be suspicious.
So, it looks like they’re trying to check if there are any burns left on my hand, which is a prime suspect…
Will that really work out as planned?
I asked, pretending to be innocent.
“Hand? Why my hand?”
“Can’t you just show me?”
As he approached me without any hesitation and lowered his gaze, I covered my hands with my hands behind my back.
The doubt in Song Cheon-hye’s eyes grew stronger.
As he quickly turned around behind me, I spun around in place to match his movements.
Song Cheon-hye moves behind me again and I turn around.
After walking around like that for a couple of minutes, I put my hands in my pockets.
“ah!”
“I don’t understand why you are so obsessed with other people’s hands. You need to know the reason before you show it to others or not.”
“that…….”
It’s hard to answer easily because I have no excuses.
You can be honest and say, “I’m looking for someone suspicious,” but that’s basically the same as saying, “I think you’re the culprit!”
You questioned me during the entrance ceremony and during the band wave, but you got no answer. What if the same thing happens this time?
Your pride will be secretly scratched.
‘I have to show it.’
If the attention of the leadership continues to be focused like this, my movements will be restricted to some extent.
There is a need to confirm that the hand is healthy now.
So I made up an excuse.
“Why, can you at least look at my palm?”
Song Cheon-hye’s face brightened.
“That’s right. It’s a palm!”
I’ll just grab this… … .
If you think about it, isn’t it on the same level of strangeness that they immediately look at your palm?
But if I tackle this, I’ll be back to square one, so I decided to just pretend I didn’t know.
It seems that it will be quite some time before Song Cheon-hye gains enlightenment and kicks off the blanket.
“… … .”
Two soft hands took hold of mine.
Song Cheon-hye began to examine my hand, kneading it diligently.
I check to see if they are disguising it by adding magic or items, even adding magic power to it.
The result is, needless to say, clean and healthy bare hands.
“… … Let me look at the other hand too.”
“Yes, please do so.”
Because palmistry looks at both hands.
But the other hand couldn’t have been covered in wounds.
I didn’t take any damage from the beginning.
The doubt on Song Cheon-hye’s face quickly subsides.
He lets go of my hand and asks a question.
“What did you do last weekend?”
“Do I really have to tell you that?”
“… … No. I made a slip of the tongue.”
When I showed my displeasure, Song Cheon-hye felt stung and immediately admitted her mistake.
In this situation, I think asking questions like an interrogation would have been excessive.
Eventually, he bows his head and steps back.
“Excuse me.”
“wait for a sec.”
“……yes?”
He asked Song Cheon-hye, who was trying to return to her seat, in a playful tone.
“I should tell you the results of my palm reading before I go. Do I have any luck in love?”
“… … You’re going to have a hard time from now on. Seriously.”
Song Cheon-hye answered dryly and walked away.
With this, he has been excluded from the Dragon’s Ship for the time being.
However, judging from the fact that Song Cheon-hye kept sneaking glances at me even after returning to her seat, it seemed like she hadn’t completely let go of her suspicions.
* * *
– Boom! Boom!
The calligrapher was firing a pistol with only one hand.
The other hand moves between the bread bag and the mouth, picking up a tiny mini donut and eating it.
I don’t usually buy a lot of bread because I don’t have a big appetite, but today, for some reason, I can’t stop eating bread.
It seems like my body is demanding energy as I consume a lot of mana in training.
– Boom! Boom!
Since I instructed not to use magic bullets, only a stream of magic bullets comes out of the muzzle and hits the target.
In some ways, it’s similar to shooting a water gun.
How many times must he have repeated this? The calligrapher’s eyebrows slightly rose.
“… … !”
He turns his head towards me, but realizes that he still has something in his mouth, so he just mumbles for a while.
He slowly sips the drink I handed him and only then opens his mouth.
“… … I learned it.”
“Already? That’s fast.”
I mastered [Injection] in less than half a day after starting.
This time again, the speed exceeded my expectations.
Talent is just unbelievable.
I think it would be okay to work on the D-rank [Magic Bullet] without me being right next to you.
He even said with his own mouth that it was almost over.
“I’ll go in first. You can take care of the rest, right?”
“Okay. See you tomorrow.”
The calligrapher waved his hand gently.
As I left the training center, the sound of magic gun shots continued to echo behind me.
* * *
And the next morning,
The calligrapher went to school looking twice as sleepy as usual.
Open your mouth small and yawn slowly,
What I mean is, with a drawn-out tone of speech,
“I took it to the next level… … .”
“[Injection]?”
“huh…….”
[Magic Bullet] D-rank, and with the [Injection] that I just learned yesterday, I was able to achieve E-rank on my own.
Talent is talent, but I can’t help but picture how hard he must have worked last night behind my back.
I nodded.
“good job.”
‘This way I’ve earned a day.’
Originally, it was planned to take an extra day for [the injection], but since the calligrapher overcame the process on his own, there was no reason to delay.
“Let’s go right after class.”
To update your score.
* * *
After school.
I shook the calligrapher awake, who had been lying face down and sleeping throughout class.
I led the half-asleep calligrapher to Dungeon-dong.
Fortunately, by the time we arrived, he seemed almost completely asleep.
Before entering the dungeon, make a rough plan and step into the teleportation portal.
[Time attack will begin soon.]
[5:00 remaining]
“Let’s do it.”
“yes.”
[3]
[2]
[1]
[Start!]
[4:59 remaining]
– Tututu!
As soon as it started, the calligrapher fired several shots from his magic gun into the air.
The sound of a blast echoes through the quiet swamp,
“Keruk?”
“Krrrrr. Krrr!”
Soon the whole area became noisy as if a beehive had been stirred up.
Goblins began to pop their heads out here and there from the beginning.
Hit the grass to scare the snake.
A startled snake will curl up even further or reveal itself to bite its prey.
And as expected, the big snake appeared.
– Thud,
“Grrrr… … .”
Although he landed upon hearing the commotion, the goblin decapitator was unable to locate us and was wandering around.
On the other hand, the calligrapher had already started preparing from the moment he fired the magic gun into the air.
A long muzzle is aimed at the guy.
Almost at the same time he discovered us,
– Boom!
The magic bullet was fired with tremendous force.
A blue line is drawn between the rifle and the decapitator’s head,
– Boom!!
The bastard fell flat on his face, his head and waist twisted backwards.
The force was so strong that he rolled over several times even after falling backwards.
“Ugh… … .”
The beheading goblin fell into a state of stupor after one blow and was unable to regain consciousness.
If a health bar appeared above your head, it would be close to 0%.
This is in contrast to before, when he had to be hit four or five times in succession before he finally fell.
A merciless final blow was struck at the man who was crawling on the floor, struggling.
– Boom!!
‘I’d just stick with anything that scores around 900.’
A high-grade magic gun, perfectly shaped D-rank [Magic Bullet], and E-rank [Injection] are added to unleash terrifying destructive power.
Other areas still need a lot of improvement, but in terms of firepower per room, it is comparable to promising players.
If you can use the surprise attack well, I think you can quickly rise to the 900s.
“Good job. Let’s go.”
– Tututututu!
The power of the dual pistols also increased dramatically.
Previously, you had to shoot several times at vital points to take down a single goblin, but now you can take them down with just one or two shots.
As the calligrapher fires his pistol in all directions, the goblins fall one by one.
Soon the totem came into view.
The calligrapher kept running at a fast pace, aimed only at the pistol, and fired rapidly.
– Tututu!
The totem shattered and scattered.
Clear the dungeon.
[1:20 seconds remaining]
+ [Number of Goblins Killed: 28]
+ [‘Formidable Enemy’ Killed: 120]
—————
[3:48 seconds remaining = 228 points]
+[Clear Bonus: 500 points]
—————
[Total score: 728 points] * 0.8x
= 582 pt
Saved a lot of time by killing the decapitator goblin in one breath.
I was able to achieve a record much faster than my previous attempts, thanks to the many goblins I caught as I passed by.
I also easily completed my strategy quest.
“It was perfect. High five.”
As I raised my palm, the calligrapher also raised his hand and lightly touched it.
A silent high five. Clap.
“Huh? You laughed.”
“… … ?”
The calligrapher tilted his head.
I didn’t seem to realize it, but there was a faint, imperceptible smile on the corner of my mouth.
He was a calligrapher who silently touched the corner of his mouth with his finger.
* * *
Next is a one-person dungeon.
Compared to the 2-person dungeon, there are some differences in terrain structure and monster placement.
It goes without saying that each person has to solve their own problem.
“The single-person dungeon won’t be too difficult. You’ll be able to get a high score on your own.”
“huh.”
“Just in case, try practice mode a few times and then go in.”
“Okay. Thanks.”
The calligrapher entered practice mode through a teleportation portal.
I also scanned my student ID on the terminal.
However, I am not in practice mode, I am in actual combat mode from the very beginning.
Because it’s all already in my head.
[Time attack will begin soon.]
[5:00 remaining]
‘Newbie love is successful.’
From now on, it is the time of the old people.
The supporters ate it all
