NOVEL WEB Chapter 6: Rumy
It was especially fortunate to have Daeun, who had scored first on the battle practice portion. She was probably making up for the performance that the Byung Hoon guy and I had.
Since we were told to get into our groups, I moved to where group 7 was sitting.
“Oh, really? I am from there, too.”
“Let’s do this! I am specialized in vicinity-type…”
The surroundings were busy with people who were introducing each other. Since you had to be in the group for the remaining semester, it was best to get comfortable with each other.
“Woah, I am honored to be in the same group as you, Daeun Nam. I had only heard about you.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
“Oh, right. I forgot to introduce myself. I am the oldest son from a guild family with a rich history…”
But what was wrong with my group?
After getting into groups, only the guy named Byung Hoon Lee was talking. He was not even looking over to Rumy and I.
“Okay, so we will conclude today’s class for now. As I previously mentioned, your first assignment is to have lunch with your group members and take a group picture. A pro hunter is one who can establish teamwork from the start with someone they just met.”
I did not think that this assignment had a lot to do with being a pro hunter, but it was required. Where should I start?
The other groups were already deciding on a menu as they walked out, or had already left.
Byung Hoon Lee kept talking to Daeun and she was packing her bags while still ignoring him.
Rumy was looking back and forth between Daeun and Byung Hoon trying to jump into the conversation.
And Hoyeon Lee was just observing all of this.
‘I think I should say something?’
I decided to step in after contemplating.
“Hey guys, what should we go eat?”
Daeun stood up from her seat.
I had decided on a plain question after thinking for a while, but before I even finished talking, Daeun was heading towards the exit.
“Daeun, do you know any restaurants?”
“..I have no plans to participate with kids.”
“Hmm?”
She really left after leaving those words. What the hell? It was an assignment, not some child’s play.
Byung Hoon Lee glanced at Rumy and I after Daeun left and said, “well, I made plans already…” and left.
“…”
All the others had already left to go eat, and it was just Rumy and I left in the classroom.
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『The subquest has been delivered.』
[Console Sad Rumy!]
The dreams and aspirations of Rumy as she started attending this academy has been shattered!
Still, it is not too late. Please console Rumy and make her feel better!
– Reward : Random skill set +1
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Then, a quest appeared.
Console sad Rumy?
“I messed up making my first friend. Dummy, why can’t you say that you like spicy rice cakes?”
When I looked to my side, Rumy was talking to herself with a depressed face.
Well, this wasn’t that bad, after all. Since I could only seduce Daeun towards the second half of the game, and that guy was easily disposable.
“Well, Rumy. Let’s go eat something ourselves since they left.”
“Huhh? ME? You are going to eat with me, sir?”
“Yeah, it’s our assignment after all.”
“Well…but Daeun has left.”
Why was she mentioning her? I guess she didn’t care about that guy either.
“Well, that’s their loss! Do you like spicy rice cakes? I know a place, do you want to go?”
“Yes! I want to!”
*
In front of me was Rumy, who had food stuffed in her cheeks like a chipmunk. Her eyes were wide open and shining.
“You can take your time. I won’t steal it from you.”
“Oh, yes. Sorry…”
“No need to be sorry. It’s good to see you eat well.”
“Hehe..but it’s really delicious! How do you know about this place when you have just started school?”
This place was an essential date place with Rumy in the game. All she ate till the end was the rice cakes. Of course she liked it; it was her favorite place.
★ Heroine Statistics
[Rumy]
– [ Friendliness : 35 ]
– [ Sexual Desire : 30 ]
– [ Hunger : 15 ]
– [ Tiredness : 40 ]
Her friendliness was up by 20 points. If I took her to eat 4 more times, I could finish seducing her.
Since her hunger had dropped to 15, it should mean that she was done eating.
“I think you are finished here, should we take a snap? My phone doesn’t have a nice camera, but do you want to use yours?”
“Oh, yes. Sure!”
We switched places after she handed me her phone.
I got close to Rumy.
“Hmm? Umm you are really close?”
“We need to get both faces to get credit.”
Click!
“Even though we are missing two, the picture came out great.”
Since I had a great shell, it looked like an editorial.
“Ah, yeah..it came out great….”
Why was her face all red?
Anyways, since I had no reasons to keep her for any longer, I needed to start my seduction.
I mentioned something as if it was a coincidence as I gave her phone back.
“Rumy? Isn’t that the case from the Idol group Party?”
“Yeah? Yes! How did you know?”
“I really like them, too. Do you?”
“Yes! I love them so much! I got all of their limited edition sets, saw all their animations and the movies, too!”
The girl who was so shy before was not blurring out words so quickly.
I had no idea what she meant by the limited edition sets, but I had other plans.
“Do you want to go see their movie that’s coming out soon? I was debating to go since I had no one to go with.”
“Ah, umm a movie?”
“Yes, but no pressure. I can go alone.”
“No no, that’s fine. I really want to go!”
“Then let’s go this weekend. Can you give me your number?”
“Yes..okay!”
When I handed over my phone, she accepted it with shaky hands.
Rumy pressed on the dial slowly as if she were cautious not to mess a single digit. She recited with her mouth, “friends exchanging numbers…exchange numbers…”How cute.
“H..here you go.”
“Thanks. I will talk to you later. Shall we get going?”
“Okie!”
*
Tuesday night.
I visited the training center after parting with Rumy.
I needed to figure out my skills before attending the classes tomorrow, which will be the actual beginning to learning magic.
I entered my smart watch and entered the private room.
[Grade 1 Class A student Hoyeon Lee confirmed for Entry.]
In the original game, depending on which type of training you go through, those that are trained will become your specialty.
Mana for magicians. Strength for fighters. Reactiveness for assassins. You could develop your skill set with these in mind.
The most common and easy path was that of fighters.
This was because it had a relationship with the given talent of the protagonist.
A given talent is a unique ability that only the individual has.
Most people cannot activate their special abilities, but I had a pretty good ability being the main character.
───――「 Battle Sense 」───――
▶ Unique ability
▶Adjusts for all activities considered as ‘battle.’
The greater the danger of the ‘battle,’ the more effective the ability becomes.
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‘Battle Sense’
As a unique combat-related ability, it is a talent that displays innate combat sense and battle sense in all combat-related actions.
Since all skills related to combat received adjustments, it was most useful for proximity battles which require the most battle sense.
Also, the longer you went on, there were more events where you had to fight humans or human-like creatures. This made the combat route the most useful.
Despite everything, I still chose the path of being a magician. The first reason was because I had an advantage from the special skill set [Mana Empathy], and the second was because I knew how evil the bastards were in the game.
To fight them with a sword? No way. There was no way that I could retreat in real life, so it was best to throw them fire at a distance.
“Magic proficiency test.”
[Starting Magic proficiency test.]
I needed to figure out the state of my abilities in order to come up with responses.
The proficiency test provided by the training center was the database of the academy and gave me a comprehensive evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses and current state.
[Beginning the test for level 1. Please shoot out the mana spread out wide and thin.]
With the audio of the system, a thin wall composed of mana appeared throughout.
It must be measuring my mana.
‘Shoot it thin and wide?’
I had never done it before, but it didn’t seem too difficult. I raised my hands and thought of a mana as calm as a wave.
Woong. Woong.
A blue mana shot from my hands. I could see the floor of the room from how thin it was.
[First level test complete.]
Had it been a minute? I heard a sound that it was over.
[We will begin the second test.]
A dart board appeared.
[The board will soon be activated. Please eliminate the target.]
[5]
“You need to at least give me time to prepare!”
Even with my complaint, the system mercilessly continued counting down.
[4]
[3]
[2]
[1]
‘What is the spell that could get rid of the target as fast as possible that I can think of ?’
[The target board is activated. There are 10 critical points.]
I had no more time to think. I thought of the arrow made of wind from the book I read yesterday.
The mana that appeared on top of my head turned into a strong gust of wind and got into the shape of arrows.
Tssstttttttttt!
The arrows formed a breeze as if they were going to rush somewhere.
The wind arrows that were floating darted towards the target.
Kazam!
One, two, three, four, five….ten.
The ten arrows that shot strongly bashed the target loudly, and dispersed into mana.
“Wow.”
There were no surviving targets.
“Isn’t this fun?”
*
“Hhmmmmmm…”
Rumy, who returned to her room after parting with Hoyeon, was in a deep contemplating state.
‘Is it okay to message him if he returned safely?’
“I guess now that we exchanged numbers and ate together, this makes us friends? No…still, we just met. I don’t want to take it too fast.”
Rumy, who was an introvert growing up, always was a homebody. She did not like the attention she got due to her breast size, and this with her introverted personality made her stay home mostly.
Her twin sister Lucy was always overprotective of her. From this, the weirdos stopped approaching her, but she had entered the academy without having any friends.
Rumy had planned on fighting against her past and debuting as a new person at the academy..but her plans didn’t go well from the group project. Then, Hoyeon Lee came to her rescue.
“He wanted to go for movies on the weekend. This makes us friends, right? Ahh…I don’t know. Should I Google it?”
Rumy turned her phone on and looked up ‘a guy wants to watch a movie’ in the search bar.
[A guy that I am not too close to asked me to go watch a movie.]
“Oh, this is it!”
There was someone with the same question online.
- [A guy wants to go for movies, does this mean that he likes me or just wants to become friends??]
- [From the looks of it, he definitely has attraction. You should get to know each other better through a conversation after the movie. And if you are wondering, I am thinking that you like him a bit, too. This is a good chance, I hope things work out and you guys get to like each other more:)]
“Att…attraction?”
Rumy, who had never had a real friend, never had dating experience. To her, this Q & A was like a god-given answer.
“True, you wouldn’t watch movies with someone you don’t like. So, Hoyeon likes me?”
Hoyeon Lee. It was her first time eating a meal with the opposite sex, so she could barely keep a conversation. Even though he said to speak comfortably, it was not easy for her.
“But why would such a cute guy would like to be with a girl like me…well, i should just text him.”
[ Me : I had a great time:) It was yummy! (Puppy emoji) ]
[ Hoyeon Lee : Yes, did you get back safe? ]
Badump. Badump.
It was nothing more than a casual conversation, but Rumy’s heart was out of her control.
“Eh….what should I say back? Should I look it up again?”