I Became a Genius Swordsman in the Pretty Girl Game

It was two days ago when Jin Yuha and Baek Seol-hee had just departed for Jeju Island.

After confirming that the two of them had disappeared into the space transfer gate to Jeju Island,
Se-hee called all the party members.

“What’s going on?”
“Did something happen?”
“What about the junior?”
“······.”
“······.”

The party members, who had been doing their own maintenance or personal training after class, gathered in one place.
Among them, Sophia and Ichika glared at each other but didn’t say anything.

Se-hee knew this, but she pretended not to and spoke up.

“Everyone’s here.”

She crossed her arms and scanned the party members with cold eyes.

“First of all, Jin Yuha won’t be at the Academy for the next three days.”
“······What?”
“What? You’re saying the Little Fool isn’t here?”
“Where did the junior go?”
“?”
“!”

Just the news of his absence for three days was enough to make everyone rush in as if it were a big deal.
As expected, it was a matter of time before this happened.

‘Originally, it was a bomb that would have gone off much later, but the artifact measuring his affection accelerated it.’

「Ring of Affection and Obsession」

An artifact that showed the affection Jin Yuha had for the party members in numbers.

Before it appeared, even though they seemed to get along well on the surface, now they were wary of each other, and it was obvious to the eye.

‘The biggest explosion happened when we were preparing for the American monster extermination request.’

In Se-hee’s eyes, the current Utopia looked like a fragile porcelain vase that would shatter with just a tap.

See, the temporary patch they had put on in the US with Baek Seol-hee’s hellish training and Jin Yuha’s disappointment had come undone today due to Sophia and Ichika’s clash.
If it hadn’t been for Ichika, a similar problem would have surfaced soon anyway.

‘And I’m no exception.’

Jin Yuha’s affection.
It was a sweet sentence just to hear.

To gain that, she would do anything······.

Thump─

Se-hee felt her heart racing, but she pretended to be calm and managed her expression.

“So where the hell did the Little Fool go!”

When Se-hee informed them of Jin Yuha’s absence and just stood there staring blankly,
Kang Do-hee, who had run out of patience, snapped.

“Shut up, Kang Do-hee. Jin Yuha has a personal request and has left to fulfill it with Instructor Baek Seol-hee.”

Se-hee snapped, genuinely annoyed.
She was indeed annoyed that she had sent the two of them alone.

“······What, a personal request? Just the two of them?”
“Hah, that shameless instructor. As expected, she’s taking the Little Fool······.”
“Se-hee, do you, by any chance, know where Yuha went?”

When LLim Ga-eul asked, Se-hee shook her head.

“No. I can’t tell you. We have some things to sort out here.”
“······Sort out?”
“I was originally going to do this alone, but I thought it would be polite to let you guys know first, so I called you all here.”

The party members had no idea what she was talking about, so they tilted their heads in confusion.

Swick─

Se-hee smiled coldly and opened her mouth.

“Well, I’m going to confess.”
“······Confess?”
“Yes, I’m going to confess my feelings of love to Jin Yuha when he returns from his personal request.”

At Se-hee’s sudden declaration,
The party members’ eyes widened as if they were about to tear.

“······!!!??”

“Wait a minute! Se, Se-hee, what the hell are you talking about! Ahaha, are you confessing to Yuha!?”

After a brief silence, the first to speak was LLim Ga-eul.
She didn’t believe that Se-hee would do such a thing.

But Se-hee shook her head firmly.

“Yes. I’m serious. I’ve had enough.”
“······Huh, enough?”

Se-hee’s cold eyes turned to Lee Yoo-ri.

“Lee Yoo-ri. You booked a separate training room for your new shield, didn’t you?”

Se-hee’s voice, usually accompanied by a respectful -ssi suffix, was now cold and detached.

“······Huh, yeah, I did.”
“And you booked Jin Yuha’s name along with it, didn’t you? So, you were planning to train alone with him.”
“······!”

Lee Yoo-ri flinched.
But before she could come up with an excuse, Se-hee turned to Kang Do-hee.

“Kang Do-hee. Didn’t you say you wanted to do the training that Baek Seol-hee is doing?”
“······Yeah. It’s not right for the Little Fool to be the only one doing that training…”
“Then, isn’t it right to ask Baek Seol-hee, who created the program? Why do you want to train with Jin Yuha?”
“······.”

At that question, Kang Do-hee bit her lip.
There was no good rebuttal.

After all, Jin Yuha was also a student of Instructor Baek Seol-hee.
It was only natural to ask the instructor if you wanted to do the same training.

Next was Lim Ga-eul.

“Hah, Lim Ga-eul. Why did you ask Jin Yuha to clean your house?”
“We, well, I made a mistake…”
“Hah, that’s funny. In fact, our house is clean enough just by using the cleaning artifact. You were just using the excuse of tidying up to get him into your house, weren’t you?”

And when Sophia’s secret photos of Jin Yuha and Ichika’s physical contact came up, Se-hee’s anger reached its peak.

“You all know my personality. I don’t have much patience. I can’t stand the anxiety of wondering where Jin Yuha’s affection is directed.”

Se-hee glared at the party members, as if asking if they had anything to say.

“I have a very strong sense of possessiveness. If someone takes Jin Yuha away from me, I would plan to destroy that person.”

Se-hee’s eyes shone with a sticky, damp obsession.

“But I don’t want to show him this side of me. So I’m going to confess my feelings of love to Jin Yuha. This is a notification.”

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Squeak thud─!

Se-hee left after dropping that bomb, saying she had some overtime work to do.

“······.”

Everyone stared at the door Se-hee had left through, their mouths agape.

Yeah, I knew.
Their affection for Jin Yuha.

That’s where all their attention was focused.

So they had been making all sorts of excuses to spend more time with him.

And the gazes they exchanged with each other were coldly settling.

“······You got a new shield and made a separate training appointment? Hah, if you wanted to train with the main dealer instead of the sub-dealer, Little Fool, it would have made more sense to ask me.”
“Then why don’t you ask Baek Seol-hee, the one who made the training program? If you wanted to do the same training.”
“······Sophia, is that true? Did you put cameras at every crossroads he passed by······? Creepy······.”
“Senior, please grow up. When will you stop relying on your junior for things you can’t do yourself─!”

The bomb Se-hee left behind was powerful and had a chain reaction.
It was right to blame the person who dropped the bomb, but
She had already left.

So the arrows of blame were directed not at her, who was no longer here, but at those sitting right next to them.
It was the moment when they became aware that they were each other’s competitors.

“······.”

As the voices grew louder, Ichika’s eyes widened at the thought that it was Ichika who had informed Se-hee of Sophia’s visit.

‘······Is this a good idea?’

If a party member showed hostility when informed of her symptoms, she was supposed to let her know.
······But the situation was spiraling out of control to the worst-case scenario.

If this continued, Utopia might even disband.

‘What the hell are you up to······?’

Ichika bit her lip as she looked at the door Se-hee had left through.

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Se-hee, who had come alone to the office, sat at the desk and covered her face with her hands.

Haaah──

A hot sigh escaped from within.

“This is the right thing to do. A festering wound needs to be cut open to drain the pus.”

That was the excuse, but
She had shamelessly confessed her feelings of love for Jin Yuha in front of everyone without feeling embarrassed.

“This is so embarrassing······.”

When she removed her hands from her face, it was red as an apple.

“Hah, hmm! It’s fine! This is all according to plan!”

Yeah, this is all according to plan.

Tap tap tap─

Se-hee, who had finished rationalizing, clenched her teeth and forced herself to act fine as she typed on the keyboard, suppressing the rising shame.

“Hmm! I wonder who will be the first to make a move?”

Se-hee’s eyes shone as she stared at the monitor.