Episode 186 Week 9 Midterm Exam (10)
It wasn’t just a day or two that calligraphers would cut through everything and just throw out key words.
So I stayed calm and asked again.
“Do you want to sleep together?”
“huh.”
“Come to think of it, we slept together yesterday too.”
“Sleep well.”
If we interpret the calligrapher’s words comprehensively, the meaning is as follows.
I’ll sleep close to you again today because I’ll sleep better when I sleep close to you.
The calligrapher came a little closer and added a word.
“Take responsibility.”
“Responsibility? What responsibility?”
“Tiger doll.”
Translation: You left your tiger doll behind for a long time, and I can’t sleep without it.
So take responsibility and be a tiger doll tonight.
‘That’s a valid opinion.’
However, it is true that in return, the sloth was unable to sleep well, and it is also true that I was responsible for that.
It was a very efficient decision to bring in a transparent ghillie suit instead of a tiger doll for the midterm exam, and the transparent ghillie suit was actually put to good use for two days.
So I decided to accept the calligrapher’s request.
“This is just this once. Don’t climb on top. It’s a bit stuffy.”
“huh.”
The calligrapher nodded slightly, then placed her sleeping bag against mine and rested her head on it.
It was a very efficient decision to bring in a transparent ghillie suit instead of a tiger doll for the midterm exam, and the transparent ghillie suit was actually put to good use for two days.
However, it is true that in return, the sloth was unable to sleep well, and it is also true that I was responsible for that.
So I decided to accept the calligrapher’s request.
And in less than 5 seconds, I fell fast asleep.
“… … You sleep really well.”
Did my body have this effect?
I discovered that I have a talent for pillows.
Meanwhile, I wonder what Hong Yeon-hwa is doing.
“Let’s… sleep together… … ? Are you sleeping well… … ? Take responsibility… … ? Get on top… … ?”
I was replaying our conversation with my mouth covered.
It seemed as if it had broken down, unable to handle the torrent of information that was pouring in.
* * *
It was a night filled with misunderstandings, but we still slept well.
I was so tired from moving around vigorously all day,
Hong Yeon-hwa said she couldn’t rest properly even on the first day.
In my dream, I was having a staring contest with a gray cat, and when I opened my eyes, light was streaming in from outside the cave.
The last day of midterms, day 3.
Since we had to get up early, I slowly shook the calligrapher’s sleeping bag.
“Miss, wake up. It’s morning.”
“5 minutes… … .”
Same reaction as yesterday.
In that case, I guess I can wake you up the same way I did yesterday.
I slowly put some distance between myself and the calligrapher’s sleeping bag.
Then a white hand came out of the sleeping bag and slowly pulled my sleeping bag towards me.
“You can’t go… … .”
“Let’s get up now. Today is the last day.”
Get plenty of sleep this weekend after your midterms.
Don’t rest now.
0.3 I brought the calligrapher, who was still awake, out to the front of the cave, where Hong Yeon-hwa and Baek Jun-seok were preparing grilled fish.
“Hey, you’re awake… …?”
“Uh. Good morning.”
“… … .”
Hong Yeon-hwa, who still seems to harbor various misunderstandings, cannot bear to meet my gaze.
I wondered if it was really necessary to explain everything in detail, so I accepted the greeting.
And when I faced Baek Jun-seok, he handed me a piece of well-cooked fish and said,
“I heard the general story from Hong Yeon-hwa. I’d like to say thank you first.”
While he was waiting outside the dungeon, he readily offered Hong Yeon-hwa a meal and a place to rest, as she was left alone.
Not only that, he even exchanged them for a set of crystals.
As Hong Yeon-hwa’s childhood friend and teammate, it is something I should express my gratitude to.
I nodded calmly.
“It wasn’t a big burden on us. There’s nothing wrong with helping each other. Aren’t you dissatisfied with sticking together?”
“Of course not. That was actually a suggestion I was going to make.”
Baek Jun-seok felt his limits after going through a 2 vs. 4 battle yesterday.
Hong Yeon-hwa’s firepower is more than enough to deal with four or more people, but her own defense is somewhat lacking in protecting Hong Yeon-hwa from four people.
In this situation where more vanguard was needed, Hong Yeon-hwa’s team was very pleased with my proposal.
So, we decided to stick together, a total of six people including the four of us and Go Hyun-woo’s team.
After a quick breakfast, we descended the rock garden and started walking.
Hong Yeon-hwa looked at me with a look that seemed to ask where I should go next, so I raised my gaze to the sky.
“I have to go get supplies. The jet will be taking off soon.”
“Yeah, but… … . Don’t I have to not accept this?”
Now that we’ve completed two of the three days and two nights on the deserted island, the survival part is basically over.
At least you don’t have to worry about eating or sleeping.
Then, as Hong Yeon-hwa asked, you might wonder if it is really necessary to receive distribution.
“The last is the most important.”
Of course, the bachelor’s side is aware of this fact, and sends down slightly different items for the final distribution.
Things that directly or indirectly affect the midterm exam rather than survival.
A good example is the [Goblin Flute] I got yesterday.
“So let’s eat separately until the supply and then join.”
“okay.”
After roughly telling them where the box would fall, I split up with Hong Yeon-hwa’s team.
Since I had quite a bit of time to spare, I walked leisurely as if I was taking a stroll with a calligrapher, and arrived at the supply point exactly on time.
As I stood on the wide rock where I had been supplied on the first day,
– Whaaaa …
A jet plane appears over an uninhabited island just in time.
As with the previous two times, it scatters a bunch of boxes with parachutes and then disappears.
Soon, a small, palm-sized supply box landed in front of us.
Inside is a triangular pillar made of a transparent material like glass.
[prism]
When you bring it to the sanctuary, the light that comes out splits into two rays.
In other words, it is an item that allows you to charge two crystals at a time.
Having two charges means you’ll spend half the time in the sanctuary, which means you’ll be less harassed by other teams.
Of course, it is very useful, and Hong Yeon-hwa and Go Hyeon-woo’s team would have each obtained a similar item.
I said to the calligrapher.
“Let’s go join now.”
“Let’s do that.”
Now that we have the supplies, it would be best to join up with Hong Yeon-hwa and Ko Hyeon-woo’s team as quickly as possible.
Because if you keep going as a pair and then meet a group of people, there’s nothing good about it.
So we sped up a little and headed to the meeting place.
But when I almost got there,
– Thud, thud,
The sound of heavy footsteps echoed.
We didn’t avoid it, but walked straight towards the sound of footsteps.
On the third day of the midterm exam, the level of the monsters that appear increases by one level.
And of course, among them are:
“Kuuuuu… … .”
Ogres were included too.
It has a huge size, agility that doesn’t match its size, incredible strength, and thick skin that is difficult to penetrate with just any attack.
It is the most powerful species of monster that has appeared in the practical evaluation so far.
Of course, it didn’t pose much of a threat to the calligrapher or me.
Just a week ago, in the Crystal Battle, he didn’t even brush past them and scored a perfect game.
Rather, the calligrapher regretted not being able to defeat the ogre at that time, and even practiced additionally with An Jeong-mi afterwards.
– Crunch,
So, the calligrapher loads his magic gun as if he had been waiting for it.
But I stopped her for a moment.
“wait for a sec.”
“… … ?”
Something unusual appears in ogres.
Her ankles are covered with chains that resemble anklets, and at the center of them hang something of an ominous red color.
I was very confident about what it was, but
‘But I guess I’ll have to check.’
So I gave instructions to the calligrapher.
“Just avoid it this time.”
“okay.”
“Kuuuuu… … .”
The ogre finally discovered us.
As I quickly stepped aside, the ogre lunged at the lone remaining calligrapher.
– Tutu!
The calligrapher fired two short shots from his magic gun.
Of course, that wasn’t enough to even scratch the ogre’s hide, and it ended up just making him angry for no reason.
“Kuuu—!”
Of course, it was the calligrapher’s intention to draw aggro like that.
I easily dodged the club he was swinging and retreated, only to have the club break two poor trees.
Then the ogre stretches out his free hand forward.
But the calligrapher stepped aside smoothly, his steps feather-like.
While the calligrapher was dodging here and there to attract the guy’s attention, I approached him stealthily from a blind spot.
And then he stuck his index finger into the bastard’s thigh.
[Hyeon-eum-ok-ma-ji]
– Pook,
His index finger transformed into a sharp ice pick, easily piercing through the ogre’s thick hide.
Then, a biting coldness penetrated his body.
– Tsk tsk,
There was a sound of something freezing at a terrifying speed inside the ogre’s body.
The bastard looked around in a rare panic, and only then did he see me stabbing him in the eye.
“Kuuu… … ?”
But it was too late to react.
By now, the cold that had permeated my body would have reached my heart.
“… … .”
– Thud,
Eventually, the ogre just looked at me once and fell to the ground.
Even though the target’s life was over, the cold continued to make a crackling sound as if it was going to freeze what was left.
As the calligrapher approached, I pointed to the chain wrapped around the ogre’s ankle.
“Shoot this.”
– Tutututu!
As the calligrapher concentrated his fire, the chain broke under the barrage of magic bullets, and I was able to cleanly tear off only the part attached to my ankle.
Upon closer inspection, I saw that it was a red liquid in a syringe-like container.
‘Then that’s right.’
As expected, it seemed like they had rigged the midterm exam.
One of them is to attach this syringe to the ogre.
At that moment, two figures came quickly closer to us.
We looked in that direction without being on guard because we thought we knew who it was.
Indeed, the identity of the sound is Hong Yeon-hwa and Baek Jun-seok who have retrieved the supply box.
When you discover the fallen ogre, you flinch in surprise.
“Did you catch… …?”
“uh.”
“… … .”
Looking at Hong Yeon-hwa’s astonished expression, I could guess what she was thinking.
The thought would be something like, ‘That monstrous human did something monstrous again.’
Just like Calligraphy, the duo of Hong Yeon-hwa and Song Cheon-hye also failed to defeat Ogre in the Crystal Battle.
But how long did it take for us to split up and reunite, and in that short time, did we kill the ogre?
But there was a more important matter at hand.
I hardened my expression with seriousness and pointed alternately at the chain fragment near the ogre’s ankle and the syringe.
“This was attached to the ogre’s ankle.”
“… … !”
Hong Yeon-hwa and Baek Jun-seok also stared at the red liquid in the syringe with serious eyes.
Baek Jun-seok asked.
“Even at first glance, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary thing. Do you know what it is?”
“There is one thing I can guess.”
“What is that?”
I paused for a few seconds and then answered.
“Blood bomb.”
