I Want That Man!
“I want that man!”
“Huhu! That’s interesting.”
Mi Sina, the instructor in charge of curses, approached my desk.
She looked down at me with an expression of pure curiosity, as if she couldn’t get enough of me.
Whoa, scary.
It felt like being caught by a researcher’s hand as an experimental mouse.
That attractive smile felt downright psychotic.
“Nam Dohyeong, the trainee, right?”
How do these people know my name?
I hope no one knows me. Just for the sake of it, I want to be left alone with my money.
“Earlier, it seems you noticed it even though you were the one, and the person next to you was about to eat the cookie. How did you figure out there was a curse on the cookie?”
“It was just good luck.”
Before I transmigrated into the game, I saw it, but since the content was so shocking, I couldn’t just say I remembered it separately, right?
“Good luck… That’s a pretty Cheonjihae exorcist-like answer.”
I was trying to brush it off because I didn’t want to stand out, but
Mi Sina smiled stickily, as if she liked it.
“Not showing off one’s abilities is also an important quality for an exorcist. Please don’t forget that attitude and study hard from now on.”
Mi Sina reached out and gently touched my earlobe.
Instantly, a chill ran down my skin.
Hey, why do the instructors here like skinship so much?
“I’ll remember your name. If you want a deeper relationship with me, come find me.”
“Uh… You’re talking about the Curse Arts department, right?”
“Huhu… Who knows? How about it?”
She was an S who deliberately chose ambiguous and provocative words to tease people.
I knew what kind of character this was from the start, so I wasn’t bothered.
Instead, Yu Eunhye’s face next to me turned bright red.
“……! ?! !!”
Because she’s so innocent?
She doesn’t seem to have much tolerance for this kind of thing either.
“Well, okay. Then, since the greetings are done, shall we start the actual class? No, a test?”
Calling it a greeting with a cursed cookie.
This person is definitely not normal.
“I think it’s important for exorcists to know their own level. Especially in the Curse Arts department.”
Mi Sina clapped twice.
Then, one side of the lecture hall wall moved sideways and opened.
Whoa…
I thought it was an action exorcism fantasy, but it was SF?
I don’t understand why there’s advanced technology in ghost horror materials.
Anyway, when the wall opened, what appeared was an empty classroom.
There was a tunnel-type structure placed there.
“This is a tunnel that emits curse waves. Simply passing through it will drain your stamina and consume spiritual energy.”
Is it a kind of curse that continuously acts?
Among curses, there aren’t many that have an instant effect.
Instead, draining stamina or causing exhaustion is more common.
Like my ability, where you just say ‘die’ and the opponent dies, that’s almost impossible with curses.
To do that, you’d need to use evil spirits or the shaman himself would have to take significant risks.
That would have been nice, and the curse would have been overpowered.
However, most spiritual practitioners can only repel curses with pure spiritual energy.
Even if they do, there are limitations like the exorcism method, so it’s quite restricted in many ways.
“I said I’d teach curses, but I won’t detail how to attack people with curses. Rather, protecting yourself from curses comes first.”
From the exorcist’s perspective, they need more ways to block the curses placed by shamans.
The exorcist’s main role is to hunt anomalies, but they also have to exclude shamans.
“In that sense, in the first class, I plan to check how much tolerance you have for curses and how well you can deal with them.”
Mi Sina, who was talking, smiled coldly.
“For now, I’ve adjusted it so that if you have Cheonjihae-level spiritual ability, you won’t die, but there’s still a possibility of death, so be careful.”
…I wish she hadn’t said that while smiling.
I’m really scary, you know.
Wait, isn’t it that I’m actually in danger?
The kids here all have some spiritual ability, so it should be fine.
There will be those training curse response methods.
But I don’t even have basic-level spiritual ability.
“Well~ Then, who will be the glorious person to enter this tunnel for the first time?”
Mi Sina looked around, and everyone avoided eye contact.
Normally, when the professor calls for volunteers, it’s customary to start reading a book you weren’t looking at.
Even otherwise, after the cookie incident, who would want to be the first guinea pig?
“Hmm~”
Mi Sina’s eyes turned to me.
Her eyes were playfully raised at the corners.
Oh no, please.
Unlike my wish to be ignored, Mi Sina pointed at me.
“Then, in this case, shall the top student go in first?”
I could feel the surrounding trainees let out sighs of relief.
It’s like, as long as it’s not me.
These people have no sense of camaraderie.
“W-well, is it okay? It looks dangerous…”
Only Yu Eunhye was worried about me.
As expected, you’re the only proper person here.
“Well, I don’t think someone from Cheonjihae would kill people.”
She said that, but honestly, I was trembling and thought I might die.
Others might just faint, but I might actually die.
“Okay, open this door and enter.”
“…Understood.”
Mi Sina smiled brightly and even guided me personally.
I swallowed hard before the door.
Yeah, maybe the beginning is better.
If I enter in the middle, I’ll be compared with the ones who went first.
Even if I fail completely from the start, I can make an excuse like ‘I was the first to enter and it was disadvantageous.’
Good, let’s go!
I forced myself to calm down and opened the door and entered.
At the same time, the curse pressed down on my shoulders.
Uwaaaaaah…
This really makes me think it’s crazy.
In an instant, my whole body became as heavy as if I had a boulder on it.
How am I supposed to just pass through this long tunnel?
If I just stand still receiving it, it seems like I’ll collapse?
Wait, maybe I really might die.
My body was already screaming for limits.
I didn’t want to use it during class if possible, but I had no choice.
Whatever, I have to survive first.
“Die.”
Immediately, I activated the Instant Death skill towards the curse.
Then, the curse disappeared and my body felt relaxed.
“Whew! That was close to a big accident.”
As I wiped sweat from my head, the tunnel started rumbling again.
…Is it a form that continuously creates curses?
Just in case, I carefully didn’t touch the source of the curse.
Because of that, the tunnel seemed to be preparing to spew curses again right away.
Damn. I have to escape quickly.
The Instant Death skill is limited to once a day.
If I miss this, it’s really over.
I started running towards the exit in a hurry.
“Well~ Then, how long do you think it will take?”
Mi Sina looked at the tunnel that Nam Dohyeong had entered with an interesting expression.
The cute trainee who first noticed the curse on the cookie.
She wondered how quickly he would break through this tunnel.
“Huhu! I prepared a special measure for the top student.”
I made the curse intensity stronger than usual.
Because I thought this would be enough to properly check the top student’s abilities.
Nam Dohyeong was the first to discover the curse in the cookie.
Most people don’t notice anything until they eat it.
He noticed it before unwrapping the packaging and didn’t touch it.
It was an absurd level of detection ability.
Of course, it’s not just that the detection ability is good. He might not have curse tolerance.
In that sense, this tunnel was even more meaningful.
It was an opportunity to see how the top student responds to curses.
I wondered what reaction he would show in front of this tunnel.
If I imagine the expression that was calm even with me in front of it distorted, my heart was racing with excitement.
I wonder if he can be at ease with this tunnel in front of him?
No matter how top, it won’t be easy this time.
Personally, I wanted to see him panting and struggling.
No matter how great the spiritual ability, at least 30 minutes.
If somehow the exorcism method succeeds, it might be shortened to the 20s.
This was also thinking as positively as possible.
Haa… This is a big deal. I can’t wait. 30 minutes feels too long.
I couldn’t stay still with the pounding in my heart.
When Mi Sina, who was rubbing her thighs, turned her body while thinking to tease the remaining students for a while,
“He’s out!”
One of the trainees shouted that.
…What?
Mi Sina turned her head with a surprised face.
There was really a top student who had exited the tunnel.
“What? Why did you come out so soon?”
“5 minutes? No, less than 3 minutes.”
“I checked it, it was a little over 1 minute.”
“Just walking at that speed, isn’t it?”
“It said it was a curse, but it wasn’t that big of a deal.”
Disorder spread among the trainees.
Thinking that even though the tunnel wasn’t long, it ended too quickly.
But the most surprised person was, of course, Mi Sina.
How…?
Mi Sina had used this tunnel before.
So much data had accumulated.
The fastest among the trainees was in the 10s.
Even that was because it was the first use, so she didn’t know the trainee level and made the curse too weak.
Moreover, the top student hadn’t used a curse much stronger than usual, right?
That… In just 1 minute?
It should be possible only if it doesn’t affect the curse at all.
It means the tunnel’s curse didn’t bother this man at all.
Moreover, the top student’s face was extremely flat.
It was a face as if he had just gone for a walk.
Monster…
That’s the only way to explain it.
Did I not know there were monsters of this level…?
A chill and thrill spread on Mi Sina’s back.
She clenched her fist without realizing.
This trainee, I have to have him. No, I want to put him right next to me… and torment him!
Mi Sina licked her lips.
Her eyes were gazing only at Nam Dohyeong with sticky desire.