Chapter 53
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 53 - How to Deal with Abnormal Situations (2)
If you think about Min Jaeyoon’s awakening story in the novel, this is a bit, no, too dangerous.
In the novel, Scammer and Min Jaeyoon met around the middle of the first semester. So, after Min Jaeyoon was freed from the intensive surveillance inspection team, Yggdrasil agreed to take care of her, and they met in class A.
After seeing Min Jaeyoon’s stats, he realizes that her stats are lowered due to low self-confidence, yet her original stats are high.
Scammer approaches Min Jaeyoon after seeing her talent and treats her kindly, and she falls in love with Scammer.
Afterwards, Min Jaeyoon sees the talented heroines and thinks that if she continues to be weak, Scammer will abandon her.
Min Jaeyoon, who’s constantly anxious, explodes when the student who rejected her catches up with Sammer around the time of the second semester midterm exam.
And at the same time as her abilities run wild, she’s fully awakened.
Ironically, Min Jaeyoon, who tried to suppress her curse, is only able to fully deal with it after using her curse with all her might.
Yet coincidentally, I became Min Jaeyoon’s friend now that she was becoming more unstable and obsessed with relationships.
I made eye contact with Min Jaeyoon when I saw her hand holding my device as if it would break.
Krrrk. There was a crack in the screen.
“I was just looking at some items!”
“I see… That’s a relief…”
What I mean is that her current state is a weak one.
There is a saying in the world called ‘yandere’.
It’s a term used to refer to people who commit extreme crimes due to their desire to possess the person they love, and this yandere quality is dormant in Min Jaeyoon.
And in the novel, the moment Min Jaeyoon is able to fully deal with her curse, she awakens into a yandere.
If she awakens as a yandere, you can see her activating her madness skill every time she becomes romantically involved with someone else, saying things like, ‘If we die together, we’ll be together forever, right?’
…Scary.
Anyway, I don’t know if it was because the likes and dislikes of Min Jaeyoon were so divided among readers or if the author found it difficult to handle, but her role gradually decreased.
After the awakening event, she’s sometimes used a few times to ventilate the mood through jealousy, and later on, one or two lines appear like ‘Min Jaeyoon is dispatched somewhere’, to that extent?
And that small proportion is my goal.
Did I show too strong a move for that?
No way. In this novel, which is overflowing with heroine candidates, I’m just a piece of rice cake that will soon be forgotten.
Look at Min Jaeyoon’s case. Even such a strong character was quickly forgotten as her screenplay was reduced! I can do it too!
While I was thinking about that, Min Jaeyoon’s hands gently touched my cheeks.
“Nahyun?”
Ah, this isn’t the time to think such nonsense. I smiled brightly.
“Hm? What’s wrong?”
While stroking Min Jaeyoon’s head.
“No… It’s just…”
That’s right. Right now, I…
I’m giving Min Jaeyoon a lap pillow.
For your information, patting her head is something I do because I want to.
I thought for a moment about what to do about this yandere reserve who seemed to notice every time I thought of something else, like a ghost, and then gave up on the idea.
I don’t know…
If I don’t know, let’s look for more items that can be purchased with meta point later.
I gently stroked Min Jaeyoon, who was snuggling into my stomach. Her hair was so fluffy that it was quite nice to stroke it.
***
That night.
I looked around the meta point store.
Min Jaeyoon’s mana is greatly influenced by emotions.
The fact that my fingertips have turned dark despite Haeju’s Bracelet means that as Min Jaeyoon’s obsession with me intensifies, the curse she released has become grade E or higher.
Therefore, it’s necessary to gradually acquire items with better performance.
However, it’s difficult for me to buy better Haeju items with the money I have now, so I have no choice but to use the meta point store.
I have passed the skill to do it. If I ever run into Scammer, it would be better to look like I suddenly have an item rather than suddenly have a skill. I can even claim that I bought the item cheaply by chance.
However…
[Ring of Divinity – 3000 points]
– Defends against all curse attribute skills and attacks.
Expensive. It’s really expensive.
…Should I just survive?
I had that urge for a while, but I bought it just to be safe.
[Current meta point: 5520 points]
I feel like crying. My point.
Anyway, let’s use what we bought well. I lay down on the bed wearing the Ring of Divinity.
So what should I do about Min Jaeyoon now?
There are two ways.
First, leave it like this.
I have the Ring of Divinity, now the curse has been resolved. If I want, I can just endure Min Jaeyoon’s slight obsession and return to my original class.
But…
[Someone like me should just die…]
One of my younger siblings from the orphanage whom I cared very much also showed similar symptoms, but I kept thinking of that child’s face and for some reason I couldn’t make up my mind.
…Second, helping Min Jaeyoon develop her abilities completely.
Min Jaeyoon has low self-confidence, that’s why she’s unable to demonstrate her true abilities. Conversely, it means that if I just solve it, she can become a great force.
Since it’s already a novel and a game, and the original story is completely different, no one will say anything if I improve Min Jaeyoon’s skills. New strong connections are always welcome.
Not only that…
I got out of bed and sat down at the desk.
[I’m so happy!]
I kept thinking of that happy voice.
That’s why I keep realizing my true desire to be close to her, even though I have to embrace her obsessive side, her dangers, and everything she does.
If that’s how I feel, I don’t want to regret it.
There is a need to re-establish the relationship by awakening Min Jaeyoon.
A relationship that relies solely on me as it is now can’t continue.
Min Jaeyoon can’t be tied down to just one person, me, so eventually, one day, this relationship will fall apart.
Thus what I can give Min Jaeyoon is a friendship that supports each other. There is a need to declare that and reestablish the relationship.
I fiddled with the device, whose screen was cracked due to the strength of Min Jaeyoon’s grip, and took out a document.
How to awaken Min Jaeyoon?
[Interview Application]
I need to explode Min Jaeyoon’s jealousy. Just like in the original novel.
***
The next morning.
Min Jaeyoon looked bewildered.
“Uh, uh…”
“Hmm! Great! You have talent!”
That’s right, if a legendary hunter suddenly appeared, grabbed one’s hand, and complimented them, anyone would be embarrassed.
While Min Jaeyoon’s eyes were spinning, Yggdrasil’s gaze turned to me, who came to school surrounded by people watching.
“You’re here?”
Yggdrasil held out a new device. While we were here for the interview, I came to bring a new application.
“If you’re ready, let’s go!”
Yggdrasil grabbed my arm and led me. Then Min Jaeyoon grabbed my other arm.
“Nahyun, w-where are you going…?”
“My family came to see me, so I’ll take a quick look at them.”
As soon as I said those words, an anxious look appeared on Min Jaeyoon’s face.
As her innocent, sheep-like face became tearful, my conscience pricked me. However, I can’t accept Min Jaeyoon’s foolish behavior forever.
I said, carefully removing Min Jaeyoon’s hand.
“I will be back.”
“…”
My back was stinging.
A little while later we arrived at the interview room.
Before entering the room, Yggdrasil assumed the role of surveillance and kicked out the real guards in the room.
Immediately after that, I heard a rattling sound and a chair shaking.
“Nahyun!”
Anyway, Academy bastards. I told you they treated me like a pure criminal. I thought about that again as I looked at the glass window that separated me from Teacher.
“Are you not hurt?”
“Yes. I’m fine. Are the kids all safe?”
“Yes. Miss Yggdrasil helped me a lot. She also freed the brainwashing…”
Fortunately, Yggdrasil seemed to have solved all of Tornito’s brainwashing on my orphanage family.
Teacher shook his head as if recalling the dizzying moment. Still, looking at their relatively peaceful complexions, it didn’t seem like the children were seriously hurt. That’s a relief.
Teacher and I talked about what happened while we couldn’t see each other.
Meanwhile, a story about Kangyoo’s surgery emerged.
“That’s right, Kangyoo, you know. Anti-awakening surgery. We decided to do it this winter.”
I paused for a moment.
My orphanage’s younger brother, Kangyoo, is a patient of a disease called ‘hyper-awakening.’
In the case of mixed race people, ‘innate awakening’, which awakens abilities from birth, may appear, but in this case, the awakened abilities are so strong that the body can’t withstand them, which is called hyper-awakening.
“…If the surgery is done, Kangyoo won’t be able to become a hunter.”
A typical treatment method for hyper-awakening is to insert a device into the body that artificially interferes with the activation of awakening ability.
Since awakening itself is prevented, it naturally becomes impossible for one to become a hunter.
I thought of Kangyoo, whose eyes lit up when he saw the hunters and when I wore the Guardian Academy uniform.
“I suppose so. But I think living comes first.”
Teacher smiled bitterly.
I quietly looked down at a window.
Elixir.
A legendary cure only rumored to be able to cure anything.
And…
[Elixir – 10000 points]
A cure that may not destroy Kangyoo’s dream of becoming a hunter, but is within reach with just an outstretched hand.
I quietly looked at the letters.
“Teacher.”
“Why?”
“No, nothing.”
Now isn’t the time to talk about this. Let’s just say if I’m sure I’ll get the elixir.
“It’s just… Would you like to hug me tight for the first time in a while?”
“Fufu. I’d love to.”
Teacher looked at Yggdrasil as if he was asking permission. Yggdrasil cheerfully gave an OK sign…
“Mmmp!”
Ssss!
The window was completely blown out.
…It’s also pleasant.
Teacher just smiled briefly, as if that wasn’t shocking enough, and then without hesitation, he came towards me and hugged me tightly.
It had been a while since I felt Teacher’s warm embrace, and I hugged him in a calming way.
“Thank you.”
“This much, well.”
Seeing him like that made me think that I should try harder.
For Teacher and our family.
Soon, the teacher was guided by Yggdrasil and went out the other door, and it was time for me to leave the interview room as well.
And the moment I left the interview room, I realized that now wasn’t the time to think about anything else.
“N-Nahyun… Are you abandoning me? Are you going to your family now?”
Because before I knew it, Min Jaeyoon, who had followed me, was looking at me with her dead eyes and flowing out her black mana!