How to Get on the Main Character’s Flower Path

 

To test the point changer, I put a class D potion that I had previously received from Na Yuhan in the point changer.

 

Then, the potion disappeared from my hand and a system window that actually listed the price of the item appeared.

 

[Item: Regular Class D potion]

 

[Value: 10 point]

 

[Would you like to change it?]

 

[Yes/No]

 

I pressed ‘no’ for now. Then, the Class D potion appeared in my hand again.

 

That’s amazing… It’s a pretty good function.

 

If I can secure enough good items, I think I can be free from the appearance part and reader reactions to some extent.

 

Well, I’ll stick to Na Yuhan’s side to suck up some honey.

 

I tried putting in various items that I had, yet it seemed that the items in the meta system store were changed to the same price as the ones listed in the store.

 

I suddenly became curious.

 

So what about items that aren’t in the store? I took out the ‘7th Key’ from my inventory.

 

And as soon as I put it in the point changer, the system window vomited out a crazy price.

 

[Item: Cheonho’s Key]

 

[Value: 20,000,000 point]

 

[Would you like to change it?]

 

[Yes/No]

 

20 million points?!

 

I had to hold back my jaw from dropping in surprise at the crazy price.

 

At the same time, I felt my determination to keep this key was growing stronger.

 

Key transfer? No way!!! How much does this cost!

 

I carefully held the key, worried that it might get scratched, and put it in my inventory.

 

At that moment, I heard a knock on the bathroom door.

 

“Sister, I’m going to the bathroom!”

 

“Sister, are you constipated?”

 

“No! I’m going out now!”

 

…Well, the orphanage was a bit lacking in personal space. That’s what happened. I hastily finished cleaning up and left the bathroom.

 

However, the kids seemed to have already convinced me that I was constipated. I awkwardly laughed as I handed back my yogurt to Nana, who was holding hers.

 

…This is going to be a joke for a while.

 

***

 

Contrary to Yggdrasil’s threat that we would go straight to training after the pajama party, she let me go, saying that she needed to focus more on Kangyoo’s training.

 

I spent the remaining vacation leisurely at the orphanage.

 

Kang-yoo was still doing special training with Yggdrasil for the transfer exam. I didn’t even have time to see him because he was spending all his time training except for eating and sleeping in the training grounds prepared by Yggdrasil.

 

I waited for a while, worrying if he was doing well and if he got hurt.

 

“Sister, Brother Kangyoo is coming back today.”

 

“Yeah. I hope he’s not hurt.”

 

Before I knew it, it was the day Kangyoo was coming back.

 

I waited for Kangyoo in front of the orphanage entrance. The kids who were especially close to Kangyoo were standing in a group and looking around together. Soon, his blue hair began to appear from afar.

 

The children ran out and clung to Kangyoo’s body.

 

“Welcome!”

 

“Welcome, Kangyoo. Are you hurt?”

 

The children seemed amazed at how much he had grown.

 

I showed them a few pictures, but it seemed like it was still quite amazing.

 

If that many children had clung to Kangyoo in the past, he would have stumbled and fallen over in no time, yet now Kangyoo was standing tall without a problem.

 

“You’ve grown so much, Brother!”

 

“You’re strong now!”

 

He grabbed the upper body of one child and lifted him up high, smiling.

 

“Yeah, how are you all doing? I’ve gotten so much stronger!”

 

Yggdrasil said that since Kangyoo’s firepower was fine, she would have him practice focusing on control. Fortunately, the training seemed to have been successful.

 

“How was the training?”

 

Kangyoo’s body, which had been carefully separating the children one by one, stopped for a moment at my words. 

 

“Um…it was fine!”

 

“…It was… fine? What kind of training was it?”

 

That’s ridiculous. I was shocked and asked Kangyoo back, and I got an even more ridiculous answer.

 

“I just trained from the moment I opened my eyes until I went to bed… I trained without using any magic while wearing the magic control device… And I trained all night long like it was a real fight?”

 

…That’s strange, how could that be fine?

 

…Huh, is my little brother a training fanatic?

 

I tried to deny the truth, but I tried to deny it. There’s no way my little brother would have been a little bit of a troublemaker.

 

“I still need to practice more, but I think I can pass the transfer exam at this level. But if I don’t get top grades, I’ll get in trouble… I’m going to work hard until the end!”

 

“You’ll do well. Let’s get some rest today.”

 

“Yeah!”

 

I carried his bag for him then he talked to me about things he’d never done before.

 

Kangyoo seemed to have been suited to training, and he seemed to have received a lot of affection from Yggdrasil. What would have happened if you had surgery to remove your powers, Kangyoo?

 

I couldn’t help but smile as I watched Kangyoo chatter away happily.

 

Seeing Kangyoo’s healthy appearance, it seemed like all the hardship and fatigue I had endured up until now was melting away.

 

I really like this place and the children who live here.

 

I decided once again that I would continue to work hard to collect metapoint and protect the future of our children.

 

***

 

The day of the transfer exam dawned.

 

I set off for the transfer exam site with Kangyoo.

 

“Sister, will I be able to pass?”

 

Kangyoo seemed anxious even though he had been training hard all along. I gave him a bottle of Cheongsimhwan that I had prepared in advance and patted him on the back.

 

(Cheongsimhwan: a pill formulated with thirty odd herbs and other medicinal ingredients, including calculus bovis, ginseng, musk, and Chinese yam root. source: wikipedia)

 

“Don’t worry. You will definitely pass. If they fail you, the judges are the one whose eyes fail them.”

 

Kang Yoo swallowed the Cheongsimhwan in one gulp and ran over when his number was called. Starting from the second semester of the first year of the Academy, students from other academies or those recommended by a trusted upper-level hunter are allowed to transfer. Of course, they all have to take the exam.

 

In addition, all academies are allowed to exchange with academies from other countries starting from the second semester of the first year.

 

So, starting from the second semester, you can see various new faces among the first-year students at Guardian Academy.

 

This means that a lot of new faces are expected to appear.

 

I wondered if there were any familiar faces described in the novel. I looked around for no reason.

 

Kangyoo, whose eyes met mine, smiled brightly and waved. I smiled back and waved back.

 

The moment Kangyoo turned around to take the exam in earnest, someone spoke to me.

 

“Haha. You guys are still close?”

 

It was a strangely familiar yet unfamiliar voice. Likewise, his face was strangely familiar yet unfamiliar.

 

I looked back.

 

A young man was smiling slyly at me. An orange-haired fox-man hybrid. Behind the round glasses, his emerald eyes sparkled with mischief.

 

“…Who…?”

 

“Ah, as expected, you don’t remember right away? It’s me, Fox. The Fox who went to Germany.”

 

As soon as I heard that, a flash of realization flashed through my head.

 

I unconsciously started to swear at him.

 

“You, you, you…!”

 

“Are you that happy to see me?”

 

“Why are you here… No, rather, you said you’d contact me but didn’t send me a single letter?! You ungrateful brat!”

 

“…There was a reason for that. The family situation was a mess…”

 

“There was a reason for that, you say!!! Do you know how worried I was?!”

 

I grabbed Fox by the collar and shook it. Fox laughed and was caught by me, waving around weakly like a paper doll.

 

Then he carefully grabbed my hand and said with a serious expression.

 

“There really was a reason for that. The situation was a bit bad, so I shouldn’t have exposed my weakness. My weakness is you guys.” 

 

“Weakness?”

 

I stared into Fox’s eyes. He smiled brightly, yet didn’t back down, looking straight at me with its sparkling emerald eyes.

 

In the end, I let go of his collar with a deep sigh.

 

“If you had such a difficult situation, why did you come all the way to Guardian Academy now?”

 

“The situation that has been bothering me for so long has finally been sorted out. And…”

 

He smiled with the corners of his lips slightly raised. It was a smile that somehow created a strange atmosphere.

 

“The Master is interested in you.”

 

“To us?”

 

“To your group’s… Na Yuhan, to be exact.”

 

“Who is your master?”

 

He put his index finger to his lips and smiled mischievously at my question.

 

“You’ll find out when the new semester starts.”

 

“What do you mean? Are you transferring to the Academy?”

 

“Well, that’s what it is. Oh, by the way, I’m your senior. I transferred as a sophomore.”

 

“What?! Why?!”

 

“I skipped a grade and… I’m an international student? Rather than that, shouldn’t you call me senior?”

 

He smirked and teased me. I smiled back and replied.

 

“That won’t happen unless you call me older sister, little brother.”

 

No way, you little brat.

 

Still, as we talked, it seemed like he was still very active. I felt a little relieved. I had been worried the whole time. Perhaps he was welcomed by good people in his adopted home.

 

While I was chatting with Fox while thinking so, he pulled out a pamphlet.

 

“Do you have a religion, older sister?”

 

“No, senior. Why?”

 

“Then how about this?”

 

Religious solicitation?

 

When you meet a friend after a long time, you usually get one of three things: multi-level marketing, insurance solicitation, or religious solicitation. Now it was finally my turn. I took the pamphlet he handed me with an uneasy feeling.

 

The first page of the pamphlet had a drawing of a pagoda and a ten-tailed fox seal.

 

“It’s a religion called Liberate the Tower.” 

 

“I’m not getting into a cult.”

 

This is that cult.

 

I quickly returned the pamphlet, recalling Choi Soojung and Lee Hana’s messages also Min Jaeyoon’s words.

 

“Won’t you just take a look?”

 

“If you keep forcing me, I’ll cut you off.”

 

“Got it, got it.”

 

The grumbling Fox put the pamphlet back in, as if he didn’t really want to push me that hard.

 

Could it be that Fox is into a cult? What should I do? I can’t tell him to stop right now.

 

I thought I should just look into the situation.

 

While I was thinking about it for a moment, Kangyoo’s entrance exam was coming to an end.

 

“Huh!”

 

Kangyoo let out a dumbfounded voice and summoned a huge number of spinning water blades.

 

“Eek…!”

 

The sparring partner was terrified by the terrifying amount of spinning water blades that filled the training ground, and attacked he by shooting wind blades. However, Kangyoo dodged all the attacks as if he could see the wind, and quickly rushed towards his opponent.

 

Boooom—!

 

Kangyoo, who had a spinning blade of water wrapped around his arm, jumped up and slashed right next to his opponent.

 

“Will you surrender, bro?”

 

The spinning blades of water that Kangyoo had created surrounded his frightened opponent.

 

The opponent, who was engulfed in countless blades of water as if he were wrapped in several flower petals, shouted urgently.

 

“S-Surrender!”

 

“Thanks!”

 

In that way, Kangyoo defeated his opponent in the final test, the sparring, in a spectacular and overwhelming manner.

 

Kangyoo, who was enjoying his victory, ran toward me, but stopped when he saw Fox next to me.

 

Fox, who saw him, smiled and said.

 

“Hey, you’ve grown up well! How have you been?”

 

“Kangyoo, do you remember? Fox. The brother who was adopted before.”

 

“…! Ah!”

 

Only then did Kang Yoo seem to remember Fox’s existence.

 

As soon as he recognized that it was the fox from before, Kangyoo smiled brightly and ran toward me without hesitation. 

 

“It’s been a while, Brother Fox!”

 

“Yeah, yeah.”

 

“It’s good to relieve your feelings, but this guy tried to persuade me to be religious. Ignore him too.”

 

“That’s too much too much.”

 

We chatted for a while and reminisced.

 

“Are you an academy student too, Brother?”

 

“Yeah. Starting from the second semester.”

 

“Please call me senior.”

 

“Please, older sister~”

 

“Yes, yes. Senior.”

 

Seriously, it seems like only unexpected things happen the whole time.

 

And so the turbulent vacation passed by, time passed by, and before we knew it, the first day of school had arrived.