I'm Dumber Than That Guy?
I'm Dumber Than That Guy?
I don't like playing like a hardcore gamer.
I like clearing difficult levels, but I'm not some pervert who goes out of their way to suffer when there's an easy path.
In that sense, what the hell is up with my stats that just looking at them makes me depressed?
"Um... Doa? Doa~?"
"Ha, hahaha. Hahaha... I'm an Awakened... How am I weaker than a normal person..."
"At least your Agility rank is average... Ah, I got it! I shouldn't have said that! I'm sorry! Don't cry~"
Since I kept laughing aimlessly even in the cafeteria, Aisha started feeding me.
She told me to stop talking nonsense and just eat.
"Here comes the stew, ah~"
"Hahat, heheh— nom."
You might wonder how I can eat after seeing my student ID, but it goes down just fine.
Damn, this beef stew is delicious.
I don't know if trash like me should be eating something like this, but I'll shove it in my mouth anyway.
"Is it good?"
"......... Yeah."
Waaah. I'm an F-rank fleshlight.
Aisha-mamang, feed me.
"Still, don't be too discouraged~ Didn't she say that if you work hard with the equipment you got from Arnes-ssaem, you can at least beat D-rank Magic Beasts?"
"What kind of D-ranks are there?"
Arnes had given me a hint because she felt sorry for me after I turned pale when the measurement ended, but there's no way I heard it properly when I was branded as having intelligence lower than a monkey, despite believing I was smart.
Aisha, who was wiping the stew off my mouth, said.
"Hmm, Goblins and Hounds?"
"Yeah... that's something, I guess."
The heroine says I'm on par with Goblins and hunting dogs.
'UtoAca... surely they didn't include eroge elements, right?'
Anxious worries came flooding in one after another.
In most games, what kind of monster—no, Magic Beast—are Goblins?
In wholesome RPG genres, they'd just be considered mob monsters, but I think of them as cunning dwarves that don't travel alone and build lairs to form packs.
'... It's sad enough that I became a woman, I'm not going to get raped and impregnated.'
One-on-one situation? I can automatically picture myself getting distracted and then getting knocked out by another Goblin's club hitting the back of my head.
I grabbed Aisha's hand tightly.
"We're always together, right?"
"Of course! We're a precious team, roommates, and above all, friends!"
As expected of my Chapssaltteok.
If I draw all the aggro and tank, you'll do the DPS and healing, right?
Even if my durability is less than human, if I just don't die and hold on, I think she'll save me somehow.
You're a Saint Candidate, I hope you can do at least that much easily?
I wanted to rub my face all over her cheeks with my flapping twin tails, but I decided to hold back since lunch break was ending soon.
In the afternoon, there's the combat equipment lecture as Arnes announced, so I have to go if I want to be able to fight at least as well as a Goblin.
After finishing our meal, we went out to the outdoor playground.
Maybe it's time for only Class 1-A to use it, as only Arnes and the Class A students are gathered on the playground.
Arnes, who spotted us, clapped lightly to get everyone's attention.
"Everyone is here except for one person. We have some time left until the lecture starts, shall we start quickly and finish early?"
"Yes~"
"Yes!!"
"That's great~ That's great~"
Cheon Hae-won... still doesn't show up.
He's skipping lectures all day again today. Yeah, that's what a delinquent should do.
"Haa... huh?"
"Why? Is there something on the roof?"
"The jerk."
"The jerk...? Ah, Hae-won."
While I was stretching my body, the moment I tilted my head up, I saw a familiar blonde hair on the roof.
The way he's looking down while smoking a Mana Herb, look at this guy?
If he was going to skip, he should have gone to a bar in the downtown area; I don't know what he's trying to do, dressed neatly in his uniform unlike yesterday when he was just wearing a shirt.
He doesn't look like he's planning to come down, so let's ignore him.
As Aisha and I joined Class A, Arnes began the lecture in earnest.
"The equipment provided by Utopia Academy is basically divided into three parts. Base Suit, Armor, and Weapon. It's a collaboration between me and my darling, so I'm confident it's better than most commercial products.
The equipment reacts to the wearer's magical power and is equipped. Those who are skilled in using magic can change clothes at will, and those who are inexperienced can easily put them on with simple operations. Everyone is wearing the choker that came with the uniform, right?"
She said that if you don't like the design or performance, you can buy and use commercial equipment yourself.
Upon hearing Arnes's words, the students unconsciously touched their necks.
"So that was the purpose..." while some students exclaimed softly as if they had realized, others asked if there was any other equipment because it felt stifling.
"There is a bracelet version, but I don't recommend it."
"Why is that?"
"It's a dramatic example, but if your arm gets cut off, it's over, right? If it's not in your field of vision, you won't even know your wrist has been cut off. Like this."
"Ugh!?"
Sarak-
A shiny purple thread wrapped around the wrist of the lizard Beastman student who asked the question.
The thread came from the tip of Arnes's index finger.
"Right? On the other hand, the choker can be easily operated with a small movement of slightly touching your shoulder and face."
"Isn't, isn't that too forced..."
"Forced? Where are you going?"
"If you attack suddenly without saying anything, how am I supposed to react—"
"Do Magic Beasts or criminals attack while shouting that they're going to kill you, like idiots?"
The faint smile that Arnes always wore whenever I saw her disappeared from her face.
I completely agree with her.
Earth covered in Magi. Even though it's a world where supernatural powers exist, it's much harder to survive than on Earth before I was possessed.
Rather than conflicts with other countries, fights with Magic Beasts or Awakened could happen to us at any time.
Arnes, who untied the thread that was binding the student, stroked his head.
"I'm, sorry..."
"Don't be sorry, it's natural since you're not used to combat yet. So, as I said again, as a teacher, as a hero, and as a life senior. I will help you become stronger than you are now. So don't worry, I'm always here."
"W, woohoo!!! I understand! I'll do my best!"
If you step on the wrong path, I will lead you.
The lizard student, who had been intimidated, shouted boldly and burned with motivation.
The atmosphere that had turned cold heated up in an instant.
"Since everyone's amount of magical power and the weapons they are used to are different, I've only put the Base Suit in the choker you're wearing now. I'm going to unlock it now, so shall we all equip it together?"
On the choker I checked by feeling, I can feel slightly convex buttons in all directions, front, back, left, and right.
Aisha, the Class A students, and I pressed the buttons at the same time according to Arnes's instructions, and a holographic band appeared from our necks.
"Oh..."
I was worried that I might end up naked for a moment like a magical girl before it was put on, but it was a futuristic presentation.
Maybe because the starting point is the neck area. The hologram that came up scanned my face and quickly disappeared.
Then the uniform disappeared and the Base Suit was put on...
'... Huh?'
As soon as the equipment was finished, I could feel the playground grass under my feet.
The sensation of wind passing not only through my thighs but also through my buttocks and crotch.
The pressure of the clothes fitting tightly.
'The texture is also strangely smooth...'
"Hick?! Wait, don't tell me this is..."
At the same time I let out a strange sound without realizing it, sharp screams began to spread all around.
"It's a swimsuit...!"
A school swimsuit that boasts insane exposure with the iliac crest fully exposed.
For reference, the male students had body suits that were exactly what the name implies, a combination of short sleeves and shorts.
I want to wear that too!
Why do I have to wear a women's swimsuit!
Unlike me glaring at her, Arnes was busy savoring the sight, looking at both men and women with ecstatic eyes.
"Why, why isn't it working again..."
"Don't look this way~!"
"Haa... as expected, this reaction is a delicacy whenever I see it..."
The Base Suit must have definitely been influenced by that perverted succubus's taste.
The female students were either squatting down to cover their exposure, or some were just standing there blankly, unable to hide their embarrassment while saying they had to get used to it.
The male students... well, yeah. They have etiquette.
Keep looking the other way. I don't want to see your front parts either.
Amidst the growing confusion, Yoon Sia swung her sword as if dancing.
And she exclaimed in admiration.
"Indeed, to think that just the basic outfit significantly absorbs the body's recoil... This outfit is definitely a masterpiece, Arnes-ssaem."
"Thank you for recognizing it, Sia-yang. It's because of students like you, Sia-yang, that it's worth making."
"It is my honor that you think so."
"That aside............... It's only March, but it's very hot."
That's because you're embarrassed.
Sweat is flowing like water, and you don't know why? Did you grow up without ever knowing the emotion of shame?
Anyway, wow...
'The swordsmanship pocket is crazy.'
It's not that there are only bad things about becoming a woman.
One thing that's good is that no one says anything even if I look openly like this.
'... I'm dumber than her?'
While I was blankly admiring Yoon Sia's pocket, where her silhouette was fully revealed, her status I saw through the artifact suddenly came to mind.
It might be because I caused some trouble during my middle and high school days, but I think the reason my intelligence was rated low is because I dropped out of school to help the director with this and that.
The amount of knowledge gained on the path of learning.
In other words, it's a structure where the shorter your education, the lower the rating.
Still, for someone who didn't get an education, I lived pretty well.
It was just that I wasn't good at studying, not that my memory or sense was bad.
Even in the orphanage and studio apartment I lived in before being possessed, it was basic for me to easily handle cleaning, cooking, and laundry,
and the life knowledge I learned while working still remains in my head.
'So, I'm definitely not stupid.'
It makes no sense that my grade is lower than that idiot with huge breasts who, not content with suddenly shoving gloves into her mouth, has grown up for 20 years without knowing shame.
While I was denying it like that, when I thought of the word 'breasts', I felt like I had forgotten one thing.
......Ah, Chapssaltteok.
I wondered if she was in a panic state again after seeing Yoon Sia, but it seemed like she didn't even have the leisure to care about others.
"....................."
Violently flapping twin tails.
Her appearance, like a newborn goat trembling while only staring at her own chest, is cute but also pitiful, should I say.
'How flustered must she be that she can't even think of covering it with her hair...'
Thinking it would be better to cover her, the moment I approached to put my hair over her, a jacket was draped over Aisha's shoulders.
A men's size that was quite large for me or her to wear, coming down to below the thighs.
A moment later, the owner of the jacket stood side by side next to Aisha.
Blonde hair and red eyes.
The jerk.
"... Hae-won?"
"Why does that woman make you wear such crazy things as armor... aren't you cold?"
"U, uh... thanks to you, I'm warm. Thank you, you really are Hae-won."
"What kind of nonsense is that. If I'm not me, then who am I. Stop talking nonsense and put your arms in. The clothes are sliding down."
Cheon Hae-won hesitated for a moment, then soon stroked Aisha's hair as if he were used to it.
Chapssaltteok didn't seem to mind it either, smiling with her eyes and burying her face in the jacket, acting all lovey-dovey.
'Is that what a childhood friend is... though, considering yesterday, I wanted to beat him up. It feels like he suddenly became kind?'
"What. Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Ugh..."
For a brief moment, I had several questions, but when I made eye contact with Cheon Hae-won, who was looking at Arnes with a pathetic gaze, my body flinched and moved backward on its own.
'I'm not scared... I'm not scared!'
"Pfft."
...?
Did he just laugh at me?
"Sorry about yesterday, kid. I didn't know you were such a total newbie, and I made such a pathetic mistake. Did Isha fix your wounds?"
"Sorry? What happened with Doa yesterday?"
"It's nothing, so you don't need to know."
... Yeah, I don't know what happened after he did that suffocation play with me yesterday that made him lose his edge, but still.
He's laughing so annoyingly.