Chapter 95
Chapter 95
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 95
Chapter Title: The Vomit Master
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‘No fucking way~ This method doesn’t work either~’
Saebyeok vomited with a blank expression.
At this point, it was honestly getting tiresome.
This shitty body. After all this, couldn’t it show some kind of twist?
The clichéd tragic development had grown so dull it barely registered. Saebyeok wiped her mouth after spewing her guts.
“Is that adventurer okay?”
“……Head back to the army for now. I’ll draw a teleportation magic circle for you.”
After sending Hea-il back to the army, Fran approached Saebyeok.
She looked incredibly frustrated, but like she didn’t want to talk about whatever it was.
“Saebyeok unnie, Saebyeok unnie? You’re not dead, right?”
Saebyeok suddenly froze, staring blankly ahead without moving a muscle. Her whole body had gone rigid.
“Unnie?”
“Fuck, this shitty thing. Do I laugh at this or not…….”
A notification window popped up in front of the listless Saebyeok, who was lying there.
[You have met the conditions!]
[You can change jobs to the hidden class, [Vomit Master]!]
[This is a job that can overwrite your current one.]
“Unnie????”
“Pfft, fuck, this is so fucking hilarious…….”
Tears streamed from Saebyeok’s laughing eyes. Out of all the hidden classes, why did it have to pick the most ridiculous ones?
“Unnie, let’s skip the dungeon today and hang out with me? Just chill for a bit!”
Fran grabbed her hand, flustered by Saebyeok’s mix of laughter and tears.
“Haha, the system, fuck, the system’s just toying with me? This dogshit. Everywhere I go, everything I do, it’s like this, fuck.”
The tears stopped quickly, leaving only laughter. Saebyeok buried her face in her arms and kept on laughing.
Occasional sounds escaped that could’ve been sobs or giggles.
“Vomit, Vomit Master. No, fuck, for real……. What a no-fun asshole……. What the hell is this. Does job change mean I shoot vomit beams? If I awaken like this, am I a Vomit Hunter? I held back the nausea wondering what job I’d get, and it’s Vomit Master for real? No, fuck, seriously.”
“…….”
The flustered Fran hugged Saebyeok tight, patting her back until all the compressed despair-laced laughter had run its course.
Saebyeok stared at the job change prompt and gave it serious thought.
Still, it seemed more likely to infuse her body with mana than the swordsman class.
Vomit Master.
Maybe……. Just maybe……. It could be a class that overcomes this shitty dizziness.
She hated herself for desperately clinging to hope in this hopeless situation.
‘If Vomit Beam comes out, I’m done for.’
Saebyeok gave up on the swordsman job change and switched to the hidden class, Vomit Master.
[You have acquired the skill, [Vomit Ray Lv. 1]!]
Checking the system window, Saebyeok pressed her forehead and let out a hollow laugh. What kind of bullshit……
“Fuck this shit, total dogshit game. I’m out.”
“Unnie? Unnie, wait!!! What’s going on?”
“Oh. I was trying something, and it failed. So I’m heading out.”
About to log out, Saebyeok turned to look at Fran.
This loyal dog character had been a real help in so many ways. Too bad she wasn’t real. Being an AI was the pity.
In a final hug, Saebyeok savored Fran’s warmth and rubbed her face against her shoulder.
“No way. You’re leaving?”
“Yeah. If I stay here any longer, my mental’s gonna bail. Still dizzy too.”
Being Vomit Master didn’t ease the dizziness at all. For a hidden class, the skills were all trash.
“Next time I come, it’ll just be to hang out. Don’t wait for me.”
And just like that, the Saebyeok who had burst in so fiercely logged out emptily, leaving her frequently used sword in Fran’s hands.
“Saebyeok unnie…….”
What the hell just happened. She showed up out of nowhere and vanished just as suddenly.
Saebyeok was always there outside the dungeon, but now that emptiness hit hard.
She regretted not holding on tighter, not treating her better. It gnawed at her chest belatedly.
She’d meant to do everything for her, but Saebyeok had moved so frantically there’d been no opening to suggest anything.
She’d run nonstop without a break.
“Saebyeok…….”
The Saebyeok who’d secretly craved affection, hugging her tight and nuzzling in.
Her lingering presence was so strong that Fran sat dazed in the spot where Saebyeok had left.
She’d sworn to learn everything about her, but her defensive attitude had kept it all locked away.
Touching her wounds felt like it’d make her explode, so she’d hemmed and hawed until the bird flew off.
Feeling down, Fran sprawled on the ground like Saebyeok had, staring blankly at the sky.
{Primavera: Dun……. Saebyeok left…….}
Somehow……. It felt so empty. Somehow……. Like a mirage…….
In the end, she’d learned nothing about that girl. Not her trivial worries, not her deep ones.
She’d show up when hurting, hug without a word, toss a few jokes, then head off to fight again…….
She always seemed pained somewhere, floating untethered, drawing the eye. Mysterious, in a word—a rougher-edged Dun.
{Dun: lololololol so fucking funny lolololololol}
{Primavera: What’s so funny?}
{Dun: I was just watching you guys. Jobbing to Vomit Master and losing it looked batshit insane from a third-party view lololol. And that wistful exit……. Absolute perfection. You playing along was hilarious too lololol}
{Primavera: Don’t call our Saebyeok a crazy bitch!}
{Dun: Our Saebyeok? Well, well.}
{Primavera: Wait, you were watching the whole time? From where?}
Hearing she’d been watched, Fran scanned around for Dun.
{Dun: Use Vision Expansion magic and turn your head northwest.}
Fran turned her head roughly northwest as instructed and cast Vision Expansion.
The distant landscape suddenly zoomed in close. She could make out every tree in the far-off woods.
{Dun: Not there, tilt your head a bit more to the left.}
Fran turned left a little more.
{Dun: Me, up in the tree!}
Far off, tiny Dun waved a speck of a hand from atop a tree, telescope in grip.
In her other hand, an even tinier coconut juice with a straw. Utterly laid-back.
{Primavera: No way, that adorable…….}
{Dun: But did she log out with all her items? I don’t remember.}
{Primavera: Looks like she took everything without leaving a thing.}
{Dun: She was too lazy to sell them and kept carrying them around. Left the inventory behind though. Should’ve killed her before logout?}
{Primavera: Cherish your past self a bit. That struggling, day-to-day survivor—what, kill her too? I’d have stopped you.}
{Dun: Why so serious? lololol Can’t even joke. Anyway, heading your way.}
{Primavera: Come to my arms like before.}
Utterly ignored.
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Dun walked toward the front of the dungeon where Fran was. Fran sat primly, recalling Saebyeok rampaging inside.
“Is Saebyeok okay heading back like that? No, what was she even going through to look so restless and on edge.”
“I’m about 70% sure, but her future’ll probably play out like I know. She logged off pissed, then vents by hitting the mart with her roommates and kids. Don’t worry too much.”
On bad days, she’d grab new roommate Woo Ji-yoon and a few others, load a cart with goodies, and race down the hill.
She was probably on that route now to blow off steam.
Once exposed to people, surveillance and control as a test subject dropped off sharply.
That’s how she could hit convenience stores or marts, and sometimes sneak to amusement parks with the kids for real.
All while her desire to awaken burned stronger.
“More importantly, what happened to you back then? And Vomit Master job change—what the hell.”
“Just what it says: got assigned adventurer job as Vomit Master. Comes with Vomit Ray skill.”
“Vomit Master……? You really jobbed to that? After all that desperate dungeon grinding and dying, that’s the result?”
“No wonder she stormed off, right?”
Recalling the past, Dun slurped her coconut juice.
“Yeah……. Yeah. So fucking pitiful. I get why she snapped. If it were me, I’d bawl my eyes out from the injustice. But why stake your life on adventurer job?”
Why stake her life? To awaken, duh.
Post-association, her life was nothing but grinding her ass off to awaken from start to finish.
Dun sorted her thoughts to explain simply and clearly to Fran.
“It’s complicated. See, some adventurers come here, and if they play, they manifest mana in the real world. That’s awakening.”
“And.”
“I desperately wanted to awaken. All my friends around me had, but I was the only one who hadn’t.”
At Dun’s words, Fran suddenly recalled the kids who’d chased her like hunting dogs on Saebyeok’s orders.
Each moved like some imperial assassin squad.
“Why are all your friends so strong?”
“They had to be. All trained A-rank test subjects.”
“Test subjects? What kind? Magic experiments?”
“Yeah, kinda? Just keep dosing them with drugs till they’re deemed safe.”
“That……. Guardians approved it, right? Some safety protocols?”
“Huh? No way. That’s why they’re all orphanage kids. Illegal test subjects.”
Fran’s face twisted more grotesquely, which amused Dun, so she laid out the association’s internals even more bluntly.
Nutrient processing, thug overseers, swarms of supervisors, A-to-D class system, kids going mad.
It was all neatly wrapped up old history for her now, so the words flowed easy.
“Don’t tell me it’s a lie?”
Worse than she’d imagined. How could one person’s selfishness sacrifice so many innocents?
And Saebyeok.
Cranked pain tolerance to max for awakening, died in dungeons how many times?
And the payoff? Vomit Master. Knowing the context made that earlier scene even more horrific.
Not something to brush off with a laugh.
“I regret sending Saebyeok off like that. Feels insane now. I gotta jump to your world right this second. Send me there. I’ll zip over, shank the association head, done. Your laws can’t execute me, right? Zip in, shank, zip out.”
“You’re plotting to shank the emperor. Someone else is handling the association head. And no matter what, Saebyeok’s gonna end up like that anyway? She has to die for me to exist.”
Fran pictured Dun flailing to death, leaving her alone in Montgel again.
“Can’t let that happen! Send me to Saebyeok! Saebyeok! Saebyeok! Your reaction to sending me off was too cruel—I’m the one hurt! Portal—there’s gotta be one planted here somewhere! Gotta go comfort her properly! Not make her laugh like before, but hold her till she really cries……! Adventurers always return whence they came, so there’s a hidden portal around here……!”
Fran stayed at Saebyeok’s logout spot, drawing various magic circles.
Dun watched silently as Fran despaired like the world had ended.
She’d thought this over-the-top freakout was just that.
Over-immersing in someone else’s past, making a fuss—it hadn’t made sense before, so she’d viewed it cynically, like performative goodness or whatever.
But now, oddly, it didn’t feel so bad.
“Body Transformation.”
Dun reached to the ground, grabbed some dirt, and shifted into Saebyeok’s form for Fran.
Utilization rate tanked, so she couldn’t hold it long, but enough to quell Fran’s isekai escape frenzy.
Fran, digging futilely, spotted Saebyeok and went wide-eyed. Tears suddenly plopped down.
Seeing Fran cry for her sake tugged at Dun’s heart a bit.
“Hey, why cry. Don’t cry.”
Feeling a tad better, Dun’s ears flushed slightly as she checked her inventory for tissues or whatever.
“Huh? Wait. Inventory’s intact! Fran, everything you gave me’s all here!”
Saebyeok’s inventory seemed perfectly replicated too.
Dun, as Saebyeok, dumped out all the weapons happily, saying she’d return them to the armory.
Seeing the spilled gear, she suddenly recalled Saebyeok grinning ear-to-ear last time over an epic weapon.
She’d been so thrilled—the one time she’d truly seemed pumped here—and yet she’d never properly used a single one.
“At least take these properly…….”
Her heart ached, tears pouring harder.
A little crying was bittersweet, but this flood flustered Dun.
“W-what. Why more tears. Did someone die? Hey, stop crying. Consoling’s hard, y’know.”
“……You don’t have to console me. And those are all yours anyway.”
“Oh, got it, I’ll take mine. Yours are mine. Mine mine. Happy? Satisfied? Only happy if I take it all?”
“Yeah……. That’d satisfy me…….”
Fran buried her face in her hands, ignoring Dun’s “Hey, still crying?” teasing beside her, and sobbed for a good while.