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While we were moving to the training ground, Lize spoke to me without stopping for even a moment. I wondered what on earth a person could do to be so active and energetic.

In particular, they tried to dig deep into why I was under the witch's curse, but I just brushed off all the leading questions, saying that I couldn't remember because of the curse or that I didn't know.

Then, as if he had figured out my intention, he later changed the question itself.

Unable to bear the barrage of questions, I looked at Iris and Erica for help, but it was no use.

Iris shook her head as if she was going crazy, telling him to just accept it since she wasn't the type of person who could stop him just because she said so.

Erica pointed out every word and action of my actions and told me to please keep my cool, but eventually gave up on pointing it out and apologized to me. Lize smiled proudly as a bonus.

In the end, it was up to me to shoulder all the attention.

Iris stopped walking, wondering how much she had suffered from Lize, who was sticking right next to her and chattering nonstop.

"This is the training ground."

'What, why is it so big?'

In front of me was a huge flat plain that seemed at least three or four times larger than the training grounds in the game. Was this also an aftereffect of the knights' quarters being changed from an ordinary building to a large castle?

I slowly looked around. The size had become much larger, but the overall landscape hadn't changed. It was more like the location in the game had just been expanded left and right.

A warehouse could be seen in the distance, and wooden swords were lined up along one wall. The floor wasn't particularly neat, so dust flew up whenever the wind blew.

Just a moment ago, Lize was whispering something to Erica, and at some point, she came up next to me and opened her mouth slightly.

"How is it, newbie? Do you like it?"

"I just feel like you're ordinary—wait, you're a newbie?"

"Yeah, rookie. Why? Is there a problem?"

"Of course. I haven't even taken the entrance exam yet."

"There's no way Iris would have misjudged someone. And didn't you hear her confidently saying earlier that there was no need to worry? If she's going to say something like that, then passing is a given, so she's a newbie. Don't worry too much, I'll be gentle with you. Oh, of course, not too gentle."

Lize winked as she said that. If the enemy enhancement mode hadn't been installed, I would have accepted it, but since that wasn't the case, I could barely answer by raising the corners of my mouth.

"The test will be a one-on-one duel, and if more than half of the other knight commanders, excluding the Iris Knight Commander, agree to join, you pass. Since Knight Commander Claudia is away, only one of you, my sister or I, will have to agree. It's not a majority, but I guess there's nothing we can do."

"Claudia isn't here?"

Iris questioned Erica's explanation.

It was the same for me. I don't remember the character named Claudia. It would be more accurate to think that all the major NPCs were just changed to women.

I guess I'll have to do some research on how much of this is similar to the game and how much of it is different from the game.

"Claudia? She went to hunt a monster. She received the lord's order not long after you left, so you wouldn't know. She'll probably be back in two days."

The lord's request was to exterminate a monster. That was enough to figure out who the original NPC was.

Iris knew it a long time ago, and Claudia also noticed it. Now all that's left are Lize and Erica. I felt like the outlines of the characters were starting to take shape.

I'll have to keep it a secret from those three, but the commander of the knights named Claudia will probably fail the expedition and return badly injured. That's the story of the game.

Of course, the player can also hit it.

From then on, it was the real beginning. The tutorial area was just a place to show the direction and goals of Blizzard 4, and this entrance exam also felt like a basic battle that explained the game's system.

The only problem is that if you have the enemy reinforcement mode installed, you will have to fight a real half-boss battle instead of a basic battle.

"I see."

Iris nodded briefly.

"My sparring partner is-"

"Nanananana! I'll do it! It has to be me!"

Lize raised her hand in a flash. In reaction, her chest, wrapped in a thin sleeveless dress, swayed greatly. Iris looked at me with eyes that seemed to ask if I cared.

If you want to fight me like that, I guess you don't have a choice. I nodded. As soon as I accepted your request, Lize smiled broadly and jumped up and down.

Erica approached Lize from behind.

"Here you go, Sister."

He had a pair of daggers in both hands, which he had brought with him. When Lize took them, a cold chill spread around her. One of the blades of the daggers turned blue and covered in frost.

Oh, that original NPC just so happens to be that guy.

'Use it.'

I clicked my tongue inwardly. Perhaps it was because she had blue hair that she had ice properties.

I was expecting a plot twist, like using blue flames to make the hair blue, or using red ice to make the hair red.

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"You can use that weapon, so there's no need to give me another weapon, right? If you want to use something else, just tell me. I'll lend you one."

Iris pointed to the bloody sword tied to my waist.

Just as games and reality were blending and it was becoming more acceptable for women to dress modernly, it was also becoming more acceptable for initiation tests to be conducted with real weapons.

Not only Rize, but even Iris and Erika only told them to control their strength properly, and it seemed like they had no idea that the match itself was wrong.

The only mercy was that you could clear the level by reducing your stamina to exactly half instead of all the way down.

'And what's worse, the original opponent is that guy.'

The NPC that became the prototype of Lize was a boss who cast 'Freeze', which would be ranked first if you were to list the dirtiest, deadliest, and most annoying status effect in Blizzard 4.

When the Freeze Gauge is full, the player character will be frozen for 4 seconds, unable to take any actions, and even after the gauge is released, their movement speed, natural stamina recovery, and natural battle fatigue recovery will be greatly reduced for 30 seconds, and their rolling speed, evasion distance, and invincibility duration will also be halved.

Even if there is only one debuff, it is so dirty, but Freezing alone has more than five of them. Other status effects only have one or two debuffs at most.

It was impossible to see this as anything other than the production company's own plan.

What's even more annoying is that such attribute attacks can't be completely covered by deflection. In order to completely deflect attribute attacks, you need a large shield or extra-large shield that matches the attack.

Although the cumulative amount was very small, the fact that the gauge would gradually build up even if the attack was perfectly deflected without a shield was already stressful.

"What's that weapon? It's red?"

When I pulled out my bloody sword, Lize, who had been swinging the dagger around with cold air wrapped around it, asked me as if it was strange.

"This is a weapon obtained by defeating a monster in prison."

"Huh? A monster? There was a monster in the prison? And who caught it? You, Iris?"

Lize opened her eyes wide. Come to think of it, she hadn't explained what had happened in prison yet.

"It'll be long if I explain. I'll tell you after the sparring session. I also have to write a report to give to the lord."

"Oh, I see. You had to report it to that piglet, right?"

"I guess I can come by sometime this evening. I don't really want to do that though."

The lord of this city has a personality exactly like in the game, and not only is the blunt Iris openly showing her dislike for him, but even the friendly Lize calls him a pig.

Even Erica bit her lips with a tired expression as soon as she heard those words.

"Enough with the useless talk. Get ready, both of you."

Iris forced the duel to continue, as if she didn't want to think about the lord any more. Lize and I faced each other, and the two who weren't participating in the duel stepped back farther away.

The cold air swirled from the twin daggers, and white fog began to rise little by little. It was a fog made of ice and frost. The cold air mixed in with the blowing wind.

'I never thought I'd see that with my own eyes.'

I've seen it a lot on the monitor.

He held the bloody sword with both hands, tilted its tip slightly to the right, and lowered his posture. As he inhaled, the cold penetrated his lungs. Surely this wouldn't build up the freezing gauge.

Unlike me, who was very nervous because I had to worry about all sorts of things, Lize started to approach me little by little with a relaxed expression.

"Why are you so nervous, rookie? Are you afraid I'll kill you? That's absolutely not going to happen, so you can relax a little."

'You're good at killing in games.'

I swallowed what I wanted to say. When I first installed the Bella mod, I thought back to the times I died so many times trying to clear it, and it wasn't something I could really believe.

"Instead… … ."

The cold air around me swept in rapidly. It seemed as if it was preparing to leap forward. I also prepared to counter the attack.

"It's going to hurt a little bit!"

Bang, as soon as he finished speaking, the distance between them narrowed.