Chapter 11
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Translator: True Detective
Chapter: 11
Chapter Title: 10. Magic Class
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The world is doomed.
Countless nations that survived the Great Cataclysm finally exhausted their strength, and human civilization crumbled.
What could I possibly do alone to fix a world that's already fallen?
When I regressed and saw you again, I was overjoyed. Before I knew it, I went up and greeted you.
But for some reason, you were different from the girl I knew—your personality had changed, and your hair was white.
[Perhaps this is the cause of your regression. Going against time means defying fate. It could affect anything.]
The Divine Sword said that. Or more precisely, the constellation dwelling within the Divine Sword.
Unlike the timid you I knew, this time around, you seemed annoyed by the world itself. And you wanted nothing to do with anyone.
I wanted to get close to you somehow. At the very least, your death in my previous life had been a chain of regrets.
The day you died, I synced with the Divine Sword through the power of rage.
After that, I wiped out the villains alongside your brother. You probably never knew.
Upon my return, I tried hard not only with Reina but with you too.
I wasn't particularly interested in romance, but since Reina doesn't like me either, it must be the effects of regression.
Still, the most amusing part is that you've awakened.
[You might have had it before the regression too. But since you never showed your ability properly back then, we didn't know.]
True enough. Still, the ability you possess now is similar to what Divine Sword Yoo Jin-seok has, and I think it's perfect for you right now.
That day, if you'd known how to use that power, you could've dodged the monster's attack. Even if the worst-case scenario happened and a monster core was implanted in you, you would've survived as a monsterkin.
Of course, it's a hard-won opportunity. I won't let it happen again.
But one question lingered about the current you.
Something you'd have brushed off without a care before—illusion magic.
"Kyaa! Haaah! Hngh... Aaaah!"
Why were you so helpless against illusion magic now that you're stronger than before?
I pretended to be affected by the Divine Sword at first, but truthfully, it only brought back terrible memories.
No matter how I thought about it, this world was starting to spin strangely.
[Personality and ability might be distortions from awakening, but... Hm, changing experiences too? Unless Yoo Jin-seok tormented his little sister in some other way, that shouldn't be possible.]
"Could her memories have changed too?"
[Yeah. If she had some other horrific experience that caused her to awaken with that power this time, it would make sense.]
Mentally shattered, she sent a one-sided text saying she'd be skipping school for a few days.
No helping it. I wanted to check on her, but with her personality, one wrong move and she'd end my life. Plus, Han Su-ji was already on edge—with her watching, I'd have to face that Flame Spear for real before any monsterkin even showed up.
Her thrusts alone would grow strong enough to kill one of the Seven Deadly Sins later on. In the past, she annoyed me by targeting me, but now she's following you around.
Honestly, I thought she liked me, but now I realize she just favors the strong.
No way she's a lesbian. At least the Han Su-ji I knew never showed much interest in women.
Still, Rebecca was the one who got caught.
Even before my regression, Rebecca stayed an ally to the end, using her illusion magic to push the Black God Cult to the brink of annihilation.
If someone like that was breaking out in cold sweat, what on earth did you see?
"Instructor Rebecca. What exactly happened? Please tell me."
"It was an illusion of Yoo Eun-ha dying."
"Eun-ha died?"
Pressing Rebecca relentlessly, I learned it was an illusion of Eun-ha dying.
"Yeah, not just once, but hundreds of times."
Hundreds of times, not just once.
"Wasn't the illusion magic just particularly effective on Eun-ha? Making it loop like that."
"The problem is those hundreds of deaths were all different. Like every possible scenario. Like Schrödinger's cat. Like Yoo Eun-ha from parallel worlds dying in different ways, one implanted with a monster core."
[Yoo Eun-ha might have regressed too. Can't ignore the core's influence given her white hair now.]
A possibility of regression without memory. Is that the answer?
After hearing the truth from Rebecca, I returned to the classroom with a grave expression.
This was no ordinary matter. This time, I'd protect you no matter what.
I was really starting to like this dream world subtly.
Dungeon runs are risky without good party luck, but one clear netted me a million won.
And A-rank cores vary wildly in price depending on condition.
A purified A-rank goes for 50 million. S-rank minimum 500 million, SS is whatever you can get. Says it all.
"Come to think of it, the core implanted in the original Yoo Eun-ha was SS-rank."
So the psycho monsterkin who shoved it in her was brain-dead?
Why waste a priceless core like that on Yoo Eun-ha?
The gate that appeared after the rampage got sealed by the Divine Sword anyway.
Oh yeah, Yoo Eun-ha's death was the first meeting between first-gen Divine Sword Yoo Jin-seok and Choi Si-woo. They became master and disciple after that.
So should I die?
It's a dream, so dying's fine, right?
No. I don't want to die even in a dream.
"What do you think?"
I asked the man in a suit standing by the door, but no answer.
What the hell is this guy? Stalking me like that.
Now I can't even tell if he's a ghost or a constellation.
One thing's clear: he's squatting in my room without permission.
What's so great about this pure white room?
Well, living with a beauty like Yoo Eun-ha, even a cave would do.
"Maybe head to the academy."
Or play some games. This dream world has those too.
If I keep skipping, that Blazing Bat might show up.
Ah, no thanks. Scary.
Thinking about it, the monsterkin terror event at the academy is around the end of first semester, first year.
So originally, Yoo Eun-ha died pretty early.
Why aren't you coming to the academy?
My head hurts too much.
Go to the hospital or something. If you don't show up soon, I'm gonna beat your ass.
Ah, period pains.
Do you have your period for two weeks?
Is this overdoing it?
Well, I'd have to experience it to know. This body's fully developed as a woman, but no magic days yet.
Might just be late, but honestly, it's overdue.
This body doesn't even need food or sleep. Does it even get periods?
That's why it's a dream. No real world has a perfect body like this.
Yoo Eun-ha is a baby. Gotta baby her.
If you're not here by end of today, you're expelled.
Wow, music to my ears!
I've already connected with Bbeom-mi, so no more fears.
Yoo Eun-ha!
Common sense: am I so incompetent that I'd waste time at the academy?
She couldn't respond to that.
Yeah, that's it. Honestly, if I unblock those guilds, plenty would recruit me.
But why's she gone so quiet? Normally she'd rage and trash-talk me endlessly.
Something felt off, like thin ice. Looking out the window, a woman with a grotesquely twisted face clung there like a spider.
"You bitch. You're dead today."
"Whoa."
Blazing Bat in hand.
No wonder Yoo Jin-seok hates her type.
Dragged to the academy in the end.
Feels bone-deep that Hell Joseon is credential-obsessed no matter the world.
That Blazing Bat bitch. Without her bat, she's nothing—yet she smacked my ass, humiliating me.
Magic class time before I knew it.
The professor was Rebecca, who'd plunged me into hell.
"Today, we'll learn about magic. Some of you sword or spear users complain, 'Why learn magic if I don't use it?' Know your enemy to know yourself. Enemies include magic users and villains. Your foes aren't just monsters."
Villains, whatever. Divine Sword user Choi Si-woo will handle them anyway.
"Regardless of magic talent, you all have affinities. And counters exist. Those utterly talentless get no affinity—ironically, no worries about counters then. Not bad. Magic swordsmen, magic spearmen, magic archers exist. Cadet Reina's Spirit Arrows here are broadly magic arrows."
"Then is the Divine Sword a magic sword?"
A cadet raised a hand.
"The Divine Sword is a holy sword variant. It's the pinnacle, synced with a constellation—a true ultimate weapon. Don't call it a magic sword lightly."
That guy's Kim Seung-jun, right?
The one who felt inferior to protagonist Choi Si-woo during academy life.
He insisted the Divine Sword should've chosen him, obsessing strangely. His backstory's funny: idolized heroes since childhood, thought only Divine Sword bearers were real heroes.
Rejected, he twisted up.
Even traded with monsterkin villains, became one, and hit the academy first.
Pathetic pettiness.
His ambush fails, then his monsterkin backer raids—with an SS-rank core.
Event's approaching.
Whatever, as long as I stay home.
"Now, close your eyes and feel the mana inside you. Can't explain the feeling. You'll know your own."
"Oh, fuck. This is awesome?"
One cadet muttered meaningfully alone.
"You feel nothing, so quit faking."
A faking cadet got smacked by Rebecca.
Yeah. Mana. Maybe that gloomy suited guy by Rebecca, always turning to the board, has some mana type too.
Anyway, gotta play along in this dream.
I closed my eyes, feeling the mana in my chest.
Hot and intense.
Sensing it, it burst out involuntarily.
Like spilling a full bucket.
"Heehyak!"
"Oh, Yoo Eun-ha. Overflowing mana. Looks colorless. Add trivia: no-affinity's great for Body Enhancement. Tailor to yours for big effects."
How bullshit if it works up to Acceleration.
Next, Choi Si-woo.
"As expected of a Divine Sword user, you wield light. That light could purify abyssal darkness."
"Yes."
"Reina, complex affinities. Spirit power, huh? Otherworlders have elf blood?"
Elves: long ears, pale skin, mana-gifted forest folk.
Otherworld humans descended from elves, they say.
"Yes."
"Tch, bloodlines."
Reina's OP too. Complex affinities. Loved by spirits.
So Yoo Eun-ha feels like a junk item warehouse.
Acceleration sounds cool, but burdens the body hard. Superhuman, maybe.
Everyone with any hunter link knows this stuff.
Makes sense why protagonist crew are elites.
"Now, Mana Manipulation. Draw mana out like forming a sphere on your palm."
Draw from inside, up the arms, to hands, out palm. Slowly. Very slowly.
Thus, I made a splendid white dragon on my palm.
Why a dragon?
"Good, Cadet Yoo Eun-ha. Made a dragon instead of sphere to fool others. Just like Yoo Jin-seok's sister."
Praise or sarcasm?
"Urk. Wait, Yoo Eun-ha. I'll make a tiger."
"Fine, I'll do an eagle!"
"Then a red dragon for me."
Protagonist and heroines ditched spheres for animals.
Rebecca's 'sphere task' got ignored, turning into a contest for non-sphere creations.
Who's gonna save these lunatics?
"Sigh."
Geum Tae-yang or Bbeom-mi Jang seem normal compared to them? Imagination?
And why's Choi Si-woo acting dumb?
Reina or Flame Spear bitch Han Su-ji competing with me? Predictable. But him?
Suspicious. He's not like that.
"Eun-ha."
"Yes, Instructor."
"Behold your achievement."
Rebecca placed a hand on my shoulder quietly.
"Pardon?"
"You shifted goal from sphere to something else, pushing kids to finer control beyond spheres. Their Mana Manipulation's elite-level."
Rebecca's a magic master. If she says so.
"Luck. Or this class is talented."
"So you teach from now on."
"You mad?"
Cut off her unpaid labor demand.
But yeah, this time feels different. Dream effect? Not like original.
Reina made a rainbow tiger, Choi Si-woo a diamond eagle, Flame Spear a flaming dragon.
Do they look like morons with snot dripping? My illusion?
This Hansung Academy?
"Kim Seung-jun, you made the worst."
"Kuh. Professor, I made a globe!"
"Pangaea? Where's the globe? America look like a dick?"
Kim Seung-jun made a globe, huh.
Pretty derailed. Originally, he fails sphere and shatters it dramatically. Now he's past that to globes.
This punk'll get stronger as villain. Better kill now?
Dream Choi Si-woo's dim. Subtly put a hit on him?
"Urk. Just watch, Yoo Eun-ha!"
Why me again? Bounty overheard?
Kim Seung-jun should target Choi Si-woo, not me?