“Oh, right.”
I forgot to check the progress of the quest.
As soon as I remembered it, I immediately checked the quest window of the game machine.
[quest]
― Clearing the frame
[Explanation]
― Choi Hyun-woo and Han Su-young were able to deliver the goods successfully after a lot of hard work.
However, the joy will be short-lived, and the two will find themselves in a situation where they are suspected of being thieves.
Please help me prove the innocence of these two.
And keep that in mind.
Without your help, the two will never be free.
[Success Condition]
1) Defend when either of you is accused of being a suspect. [Done] [Successful]
2) Reveal the true culprit by proving the innocence of the person accused of being a suspect. [Proceeding]
[Reward on Success]
1) Fixed liking for Choi Hyun-woo and Han Soo-young
(Fixed favorability refers to a good feeling that does not change no matter what action you take.)
(If you have a high fixed affinity, they will be willing to tolerate your actions even if they are against their beliefs.)
[Additional Success Conditions]
1) Catch the culprit and hand it over.
[Reward for additional success]
1) Differential rewards are paid according to the contribution level.
As I looked at the contents slowly, I tilted my head for a moment at the word “fixed liking”.
‘It’s not even Miyeonsi.’
After muttering like that, I instantly changed my mind.
‘That’s right, the compatibility system between colleagues. That was it.’
In addition to the character you play, there is a system that allows you to recruit other playable characters as colleagues. If so, wouldn’t the difficulty be too easy?
Because there was a match between co-workers. So, if they blindly recruited them as colleagues, they would quarrel with each other, and in extreme cases, they would break out of the party without permission. In addition, if there was a severe feud between the groups, they often interfered with each other.
‘… I see I’ll have to think about which group I’m going to be friends with later.’
It was a problem I hadn’t even thought of.
And I came up with a hypothesis about the word fixed affinity.
‘If this is high, does it mean that you can tolerate such quarrels between the s*xes?’
It would certainly make it easier to act within the academy.
More than anything else, the fact that there are so many people to support me was definitely a good story.
‘It turned out to be an additional success. This is something that wasn’t even in the original.’
I naturally changed my posture and sat down to look at the few lines of content carefully.
Additional success conditions and rewards.
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Of course, it would have been beneficial to me to aim for it.
‘Catch Amelda and hand it over… … .’
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Of course, there was no way that I could fight her head-on and win.
I didn’t even think it would be easy to lose, but winning was another matter.
If it seemed like she would lose, she would run away altogether.
“Suck.”
I stretched my right arm forward and took a small deep breath.
Then, dark green thorn-like vines began to crawl through the skin from his arms.
I felt a foreign body sensation, but no pain.
I tapped the floor with my foot, and this time the shadows fluttered and flowed.
It was a bit slow, but it felt more comfortable to control than before.
“great.”
The branches of the World Tree and the shadow of Henir.
It was only a few hours, but the practice was definitely worth it.
There were two strengths that were most appropriate for the current situation.
It was a magical method, so-called barriers or detection magic, the point was that it was not affected.
In other words, to sense this, you have to see it with your own eyes or feel it with your senses.
‘And in the current situation, there is nothing as strong as this.’
With my thoughts in mind, I got up from my seat.
Now it was time for me to move.
* * *
“In other words, based on a series of evidence, Choi Hyun-woo in the video was manipulated by someone.”
Han Soo-young gathered all the evidence just like the original, and said so in a dry yet resolute voice.
In the room, the director, director Jang, Amelda, Hyun-woo Choi, and Su-young Han.
Finally, there were a total of six people including me.
Jang was the first to respond to her words.
“Isn’t that too absurd?”
“But, sir. The warden confirmed that the door to the safe had been smashed by a right-handed person.”
“What if you purposely changed the hand you use frequently? I am right-handed, but I can do anything with my left hand.”
“Yes, of course.”
Despite General Jang’s words, Han Soo-young nodded as if she had expected it.
In the first place, she was not shaken at all because she was currently doing a so-called build-up.
“Chief.”
“Well?”
“Let me ask you one thing.”
Han Soo-young looked at the director.
To be precise, he looked at Amelda who had transformed into an enema.
“As far as I know, the enema is diabetic, so I understand that he doesn’t eat sweets at all. My master said so too.”
“… therefore?”
“But he ate seven candies in half a day.”
Director Jang looked at the director with a slightly startled face at her words.
Then the manager sighed with a stiff face.
“Are you blaming this old man to save his friend now?”
“no.”
Han Soo-young said that and moved with a clattering sound.
She walked towards the door, and seeing it, I slowly walked towards the window.
Then, hiding his right hand behind his back, he began to pull out the branches of the world tree and the shadow of Henir.
“I want to reveal your identity.”
With those words, Han Soo-young opened the door, and behind it, the emaciated director stood upright.
“what?”
“The two managers… ?”
Jang and Choi Hyun-woo had bewildered expressions on their faces.
Amelda put on a look of disappointment for a moment, then quickly changed into confusion.
“I spread my detection magic and found it. It was hidden in a rift in a cleverly refracted dimension.”
‘What do you mean by that?’
The director, who was sitting in his seat, said to Han Soo-young, who was making an incomprehensible sound with a serious face.
“Are you sure that person is real?”
“I do not know. At least you know.”
Director Jang, who had been silent for a long time at her words, opened his mouth.
“Chief.”
The two directors looked at him.
“What did you eat with me yesterday morning?”
“I haven’t eaten anything.”
The director, who was sitting in his seat, looked at Director Jang as if he was saying something.
“You know I don’t eat breakfast because I don’t feel well.”
“I ate cream bread.”
Said the curator with a haggard expression standing at the door.
For some reason, his face was slightly red.
“I was very hungry that day. When I said I was going to the bathroom for a while… Hmm. I ate one without you.”
As soon as he heard those words, Director Jang immediately hurled himself towards the director who was sitting in his seat.
No, to be honest, at some point he was standing in the place where the director used to be.
It was so fast that all I could hear was the sound of the wind splitting and the sound of hitting something.
“Cuckoo!”
When I turned my head, the fake enema suddenly fell down on the wall.
Shaking his fists, General Jang muttered in a low voice.
“You searched today.”
At this time, I stretched out branches and shadows and sprinkled them on the window sill so that I could grab them at any time.
Normally, it would have been noticed earlier, but since the current situation is the situation, it seemed that no one noticed it at all.
“what?”
He looked like a man who made a name for himself as a warrior and a hero in the past.
He grabbed the enema by the collar with one hand and lifted it up with a terrifying force.
Then, seeing Amelda’s faltering alter ego, she murmured in a low voice, as she was shocked beyond a certain level and her transformation was unleashed.
“Transformed into an alter ego… this!”
“Ahahaha!”
Amelda, no, Esmeralda let out a high-pitched laugh and threw herself back.
She climbed up the window sill in a feathery motion, kicking it and breaking it, shouting.
“It’s already too late! Well then, everyone… Heck!”
Intoxicated with victory, she tried to run away, but she slammed her face against the upper part of the window sill as it was with the feeling of something suddenly grabbing her.
She screamed in pain at her unexpected pain.
“What is this!”
Startled, she shouted as she brushed off the vines that were wrapped around her ankles with her feet.
Thanks to this, everyone in the room looked at the tip of the vine.
Eventually, my eyes focused on me, and I smiled and smiled in the same posture as my arms were pulled.
“Because you don’t know.”
“You bastard… !”
Those were the last words she uttered.
She was hit with the fist of Warden Jang, who suddenly rushed towards her.
That was the end of it.
At least, everyone in this room, except me, must have thought so.
“Your manners are really bad.”
Amelda, no, Esmeralda, who had been beaten by General Jang’s fist, muttered in a low voice.
And another Esmeralda came out of her waist.
Director Jang was not bewildered by such a sight, and continued to blow his fists.
“Oh really!”
Despite his grumbling, Amelda diddge or let his attacks flow with skillful gestures.
And in the midst of this, new Esmeralda clones were flowing naturally from her body as if it were splitting.
At some point, the room grew so full that there were nearly ten of her clones alone.
“… Is this a fucking thing?”
Director Jang, who stood out as if guarding the front of the party, murmured in a low voice.
And as if listening to him, about ten Esmeraldas laughed and laughed at each other.
It had been a long time since the branch of the World Tree that had been tied up in a crevice was cut off.
Still, I wasn’t upset.
‘Esmeralda’s clone ability is up to ten people.’
And now there were exactly ten.
Her clone ability was also an annoying ability, as the body could escape while passing the blow to the clone in an instant.
However, at the moment when the maximum critical point of ten people is reached, the body becomes impossible to take off the so-called skin that transfers the shock to the clone.
In other words, in order to inflict a proper blow to her, you must at least create a state that has created the maximum clone.
‘But could it be said that his clone ability was overwhelming among the abilities of the same type?’
The clone is just like the main body, and if there is any damage to the main body, even that part will affect the clone.
There is no difference from the main body in all aspects, such as physical abilities and magical waves, so only Esmeralda herself can know which one is the main body… It must have been such a setting.
‘But unfortunately, this one already knows all about the law of destruction.’
There are many ways, but the simplest and most reliable way.
It was a way to mark the body from the beginning.
‘The body… over there.’
The shadow of Henir sprinkled with the branches of the World Tree.
It was attached to the body of the main body.
It has been a long time since I confirmed that Henir’s Shadow’s ability can be used separately.
‘then… … .’
With that in mind, I suddenly poured out the branches of the World Tree that had been scattered widely throughout the room towards Esmeraldas.
“Yeah, you were there.”
Esmeralda’s clones eluded the light branches of the World Tree.
Then some of the clones were fiddling with their faces as if they were throbbing.
“huh!”
Then, as soon as my lull was broken by my sudden action, Director Jang entered Esmeralda and started running wild.
Some of the clones were beaten to death, and some were holding out daggers in a seemingly bloody form.
“Ugh!”
Choi Hyun-woo broke in and broke the cable tie with the sound of cheering.
Then he hit Esmeralda, who was running towards me with a dagger, with a desk and blew it away.
In the midst of the mess, I took a step back towards Han Soo-young, who was guarding the warden.
‘Is it still a bit immature to use it in practice?’
Well, I definitely didn’t have time.
With that in mind, I spoke to Han Soo-young.
“Don’t you know of an attack magic that can accurately hit like a sniper?”
“What?”
“So, for an attack that can be hit by sniping… … .”
“No, I don’t mean to say it again.”
Han Soo-young looked at me as if she didn’t understand.
Now, at some point in time, I glanced at Major General Jang and Hyun-woo Choi, who were fighting to keep Esmeralda’s clones from heading this way.
“No matter how much you deal with the clone, it’s meaningless, so you have to aim for the body.”
“Everyone knows that. But who the hell is the body? … .”
Han Soo-young, who had been muttering like that, looked at me in shock and surprise.
“You, do you know which one is the main body?”
I nodded without saying a word.
“How… ? No, that’s the way it was from the beginning… … .”
Han Soo-young, who had been muttering like that, made a determined expression on her face and made a hand like a gun.
At her fingertips, I could feel that an unusual amount of magic was gathering in my eyes, as I was no stranger to magic.
That was then.
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One of Esmeralda’s imitations, who had almost half surrounded Major General Jang and Hyeon-Woo Choi, and had been chasing after them, suddenly flew towards this side.
“You’re immature!”
“Ugh!?”
I thought that the dagger she wielded as hard as she could barely escape, but suddenly her cheeks became hot.
I wanted to avoid it, but it seemed that the end had reached.
I reflexively covered Han Soo-young and the director, and stood behind them.
Esmeralda snorted as if it wasn’t the same as that, turning the dagger, playing with it like a toy, and glaring at me with a fishy expression.
“You’re going to hurt me especially a little bit. So what are you looking forward to?”
“Wow, that’s fair. You looked very sick.”
I looked back at her as I said so.
Director Jang and Hyeon-Woo Choi, who noticed this, turned to join, and their clones and bodies blocked it.
In the midst of such a mess, Han Soo-young was constantly gathering magic at her fingertips, and the director was muttering in a small voice what he was thinking.
‘The one who ran to me is a clone.’
Therefore, it is ambiguous to use the means of blocking it with the shadow of Henir.
First of all, Esmeralda twisted her eyes when she plucked out the branches of the world tree in a hurry.
“A cheeky little bastard… … .”
With that murmur, she stared at me as if to kill me.
I was well aware that I couldn’t keep up with her speed with my current abilities.
It was only a fluke that he was able to avoid the first attack.
But I knew where she was going.
‘When they get angry, they aim at the forehead of the other person, famous.’
As for Esmeralda, this detailed setting was mentioned a lot in the game, so even if I wanted to forget it, I couldn’t forget it.
So, reflexively, I swung my arm that had plucked out the branches of the world tree and blocked my forehead.
Suddenly Esmeralda seemed to disappear, and then a feeling came from her arm.
“What… ?”
Her wrists were held by the branches of the World Tree.
I quickly turned and grabbed her wrist while she was dazed.
and… .
“Ah!”
He pulled out Nidhogg’s fangs and inflicted a deep wound on her wrist.
She let out a short moan at the reflex of the pain and threw my arm away.
Watching her step back, throwing away the dagger, I picked up her dagger hanging from the branch as bluntly as possible.
“Memorization? Because, is this cowardly bastard really coming? !”
The demigod that was wounded by me could no longer speak.
It was because his stomach was pierced by the sharp, sharp ice that suddenly rose from below.
And even before she could scream, the thin ice that started from the pierced part covered her body in an instant.
Maybe it was only 2 seconds?
“I must have looked down on you because you were old.”
With those words, the director let out a rough breath.
Yes, he was once one of the most promising wizards.
While I was thinking about it, Han Soo-young asked me as if yelling at me.
“So, who should I shoot?”
“The one I marked. Anyone who sees it will be a target.”
At my words, Han Soo-young pointed her finger at the place where Esmeralda’s clones were.
And he laughed a little and mumbled.
“It really is a target for anyone to see.”
With those words, a magical arrow shot from her finger pierced Esmeralda’s body with a black circle appearing on her face as if it were a target.
It soon became a gap, and it was the difference between victory and defeat.
* * *
Then it was a breeze.
Rescue the director, retrieve stolen items, and arrest the real criminal and international wanted Esmeralda.
All three of these could be said to be distinct achievements.
And, of course, I was also associated with Choi Hyun-woo and Han Su-young, and my name was raised as a contributor to the association.
The fact that there would almost certainly be a prize money along with a citation was an unexpected harvest.
No, to be precise, it was a disappointment.
So I asked if I could just give you a prize instead of a citation, and the director nodded his head saying not to worry about my request.
In addition, as in the original, the director wrote a letter of recommendation to the academy saying that he can trust the abilities of Choi Hyun-woo and Han Soo-young.
And he looked at me and said so.
‘I feel like Jihyuk-kun, you want to write it too, but you can’t do that because you’re already scheduled for admission.’
Instead, I will help you anytime, so if you have any trouble, don’t hesitate to contact me, I bowed my head deeply.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t, but if he was a director, he was a person who could help out a lot in the future.
‘Anyway, I think I’ve almost done everything I can do with this… … .’
With that in mind, I picked up my phone.
There, the status window that only appeared on game consoles appeared.
‘An additional reward must be the ability to view the same information as the game console on the mobile phone.’
I didn’t expect it, but it was definitely a big harvest.
In many ways, I think a cell phone is much more convenient to carry.
‘But it’s a pity that I didn’t bring Esmeralda’s dagger.’
The dagger of the clone I took disappeared when the main body lost consciousness.
And the dagger of the main body was taken with her as evidence when she was sent to the heroes, so there was no way to steal it.
“I can’t help it, what?”
So muttering, I put my phone on the table.
The place where I sewed my cheeks throbbed a bit, and I distorted my expression slightly.
‘Academy at last.’
The entrance ceremony can be said to be the first step towards the original work.
I could feel my heart pounding at the thought that that day would soon come.