Chapter 73
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 73 - How to Escape From Being a Troublemaker (3)
I just smiled and said some random things.
Fortunately, Scammer only gave short answers to my questions, as if he had no intention of going into more depth about me.
“It’s red coke for you, isn’t it?”
“Mmhm.”
“Yuri said that you used to be a blue coke guy, why did you change?”
He shrugged his head at my words and replied slyly.
“It’s just. If you look at it objectively, isn’t red coke better? Blue coke is too sweet.”
“Maybe you’ll like that sweet taste?”
“I’d rather drink a sweeter version of red coke.”
Why do you have such a needlessly deep philosophy about things like coke?
Anyway, I picked drinks according to my friends’ tastes while listening to the chatter of Scammer who had spoken for the first time in a long time.
“We picked them all!”
There was a rule that drawing drinks was a penalty, so you had to just bring them without using your inventory.
As I hugged the drinks, he held out his hands.
“Give it to me. I’ll bring it.”
“But my physical strength level is higher, you know…”
“…”
“If you’re not careful, you might get hurt!”
“…”
He sank helplessly at the harmless, innocent concern of the girl who seemed to be saying, you’re weak.
That’s what happens when you try to be cool. Stupid.
I started walking while hugging the beverage cans.
With vacation just around the corner, there weren’t many idiots who bothered to come to the training hall, so only the sound of our footsteps echoed in the training hall.
In such silence, he suddenly opened his mouth.
“Nahyun, could you possibly—”
At that time, clank! With that sound, a very familiar person appeared in the training hall.
As if the person had discovered us, she ran towards us frantically, tripped over her own feet, shook, and fell down.
Purple hair like amethyst and purple eyes.
“Help! The research materials were stolen!”
It was Park Yoola. That, too, while crying.
“Damned crow! Bird head! I hate birds!”
She was crying so desperately that anyone who saw her would think the world had been destroyed.
“…First of all, try telling us without crying.”
And for the first time in a long time, I sympathized with Scammer’s words. Just calm down first.
“Let’s calm down. Mmhm?”
I put the drinks in my inventory, patted Park Yoola, and took her to training room 101 where our group was.
In the meantime, Park Yoola, whose eyes were swollen, described the situation as follows.
“A crow raised in the lab next door ran away with my affinity lens…”
In the lab next to hers, an experiment was being conducted on the correlation between animals and mana power. However, today, the person in charge was negligent in maintaining the cage, and the crow escaped.
The crow that escaped broke into Park Yoola’s laboratory and took away the affinity lens. I think it’s because its appearance shines like a jewel.
The end.
“…Do you know where the crow is?”
“I caught the crow! The problem was that it didn’t have my lens! It must have thrown it away or hid it.”
Park Yoola, who was extremely angry, crushed the drink can in her hand and shouted.
“Even though I just need to insert it and the universal being observation device is complete!”
Well, I guess it’s not an anger that can be easily extinguished.
“Let’s calm down for now! Take a deep breath! Deep breath!”
Park Yoola did as I told her and took a deep breath, sighing, then she finally calmed down.
“What should I do… Everything will be ruined… It’s all over…”
“…I feel like you’re suddenly out of your head, though?”
Everyone silently agreed to Na Yuri’s words.
Then Scammer suddenly spoke.
“I’ll help you find it.”
At those words, Park Yoola opened her eyes.
“Really?!”
Of course, I also naturally helped out.
“Mmm… Leaving Yoola in this state is a bit…”
“It’s a bit like that.”
Park Siwoo chimed in from the side. Shin Baran cleared her throat, ahem! and added.
“If that’s the case, I will ask someone to tell me when a lens arrives at the second-handed item store. I know someone. What does the lens look like?”
Starting with Shin Baran, everyone started talking loudly.
“Wouldn’t it be better to find out what route the crow took first?”
“I-I’m going to walk around here and there!”
“Nyahaha, then I’ll give it to you if I find it while playing~”
“…I’ll look for it.”
Park Yoola appeared to be moved and ran towards us, spreading her arms.
We agreed to help, so I hope she stops crying. Looking at her condition, it didn’t seem like the situation would end with her eyes swelling any longer.
Anyway, that’s how we started looking for that ‘affinity lens’.
***
“Here you go!”
After Park Yoola stopped crying, she operated the device and sent two files to our device.
“This is a map showing the places the crow is presumed to have gone and the affinity lens!”
At that time, Na Yuri asked as if she was puzzled.
“Wait a minute, I never gave my device code to Miss Yoola, though? How did you send it to me?”
“Ah, I stole from some of the teachers’ devices. It’s more time-efficient this way!”
No, I mean, is that okay? Our eyes grew cold.
“…I’ll go and report this to the teachers later.”
“Why?”
Why would you do that?
Everyone started the meeting, ignoring Park Yoola, who started whining while clinging to Na Yuri.
Except me. As a sunny and affectionate person, I had to comfort Park Yoola. Ha… It’s hard to make a living…
“I think here, here, and here are places where crows might hide things.”
The meeting was led by Scammer.
“What is the basis?”
“Instinct.”
Uselessly proud.
Na Yuri quietly raised her fist while looking at him with a puzzled expression.
“Yuri…”
Uh-huh, calm down. If you hit him seriously, he dies.
Na Yuri turned to me and she glared at Scammer, lowering her fist.
“Don’t just oppose, listen. There’s no other clever way anyway, right?”
“That’s right.”
Surprisingly, it was Park Siwoo who supported his words.
When he said that it would be better to leave it to chance since we would have to search everything anyway, we decided to start searching by focusing on the places that Scammer had taken pictures of.
The group was divided into three groups,
A group of Na Yuri, Min Jaeyoon, and Shin Baran;
A group of Lee Hana, Choi Soojung, and Park Siwoo;
and another group of Park Yoola, Scammer, and me.
Don’t ask me why this happened. It was selected by lottery.
“Is it here?”
Scammer shook his head at Park Yoola’s words.
“A little further forward.”
I was puzzled by the remark that seemed somewhat certain. Is this an event that also occurs in the game?
Considering what happened at the beast temple before and what happened during meister weapon, it wouldn’t be strange if this guy knew things I didn’t know. Let’s check the appearance part later.
As the silence became longer, I casually asked Park Yoola a question.
“But why do you need an affinity lens to observe universal beings? Is it important?”
However, she responded surprisingly enthusiastically.
“That’s a good question! It’s very, very important!”
Park Yoola smiled happily and continued speaking.
“Because we’re already in emotional communication with the universal beings!”
“…Huh?”
I looked ahead and saw Scammer nodding his head silently.
Did the game originally have such a setting?
“Universal beings look into our lives through various means! What means they use is still a matter of speculation!”
Beings that look into our lives. I looked up at the sky for a moment.
In the skies. It’s like a god.
“However, since there is a ‘recorder’ in our world, I’m guessing that the universal beings see us in the form of a story provided by some other being. These days, this theory is almost accepted as orthodoxy.”
At that time, Scammer opened his mouth.
“By the way, the recorder is my mother. She’s contracting with some beings to observe everything in the world and record meaningful things.”
Then he added something meaningful.
“Perhaps the records are being processed into something like a game and provided to universal beings.”
At that moment, a thought passed through my head.
Meta system. Then…
Appearance parts and reader reactions.
“Yeees—Let alone how universal beings look into our lives!”
Park Yoola changed the topic again.
“The important thing is how we can observe those universal beings with something like an affinity lens!”
I quickly answered that question.
“Mm. Are we even able to see the emotions of those beings?”
“Yes. The important thing is this. The easiest thing to observe is their emotional expressions.”
I took a breath.
Countless comments I had seen so far came to mind.
Language full of emotion that came naturally because they were immersed in a story with Scammer as the main character.
“And the affinity lens has the characteristic of being a lens that observes emotions.”
While, ahem! She said.
“So, in order to observe them, the characteristics of the affinity lens were maximized and processed to create a universal being observation device!”
“Found it.”
“Where?”
At that time, he spoke abruptly and raised his hand to point to a spot. Park Yoola ran towards the direction he pointed as if she was flying.
I had complicated feelings looking at the back.
Now that I think about it, I’ve never thought about what kind of people those who comment on novels featuring Scammer are.
It’s a strange feeling.
So, Scammer played a game featuring Park Siwoo.
I saw a novel in which such Scammer appeared.
And he enters the world of the novel, changes the novel itself, and plays an active role as a character.
Perhaps the people who see my activities now are people from the world of my past life.
“Waaah!”
We found it faster than we thought.
My eyes caught the sight of Park Yoola kneeling down, supporting the affinity lens with both hands, and giving thanks to the heavens. Scammer smiling at the sight also appeared.
Yes, the main character is over there. Even in this story, I’m not the main character, but a supporting character.
Well, again, this isn’t a new fact. Songworms can only live eating pine needles and die. I just smiled and ran to Park Yoola.
(songworms can only live eating pine needles and die: one must know their purpose, position, and role)
“Great! That’s a relief!”
“Yes! Would you like to try it?”
“No! It’s a rare lens that you just found, what if it gets scratched? Put it away!”
“Yes!”
And the friendliness of our group blocked the possibility of using the lens. What if we use it carelessly and Scammer catches my act!
“Why don’t we go quickly and complete the observation device? I wonder what a universal being would look like!”
“Ah, I’m curious about that too. Could it be possible to try using the observation device?”
Fortunately, Scammer also seemed to be more interested in the observation device than the lens.
At our words, she nodded her head roughly and smiled.
“As much as you want!”