chapter 1
1 – Entrance Ceremony Day # 1
“Damn it!”
Am I alive!
“Yeah! There’s no law that humans just die…!”
The joy of life!
As soon as I open my eyes, I feel a tremendous amount of happiness!
“Ohh! Ohhhhh!”
A shout bursting out with intense joy!
Overwhelming joy and pleasure unique to a person who came back from the dead wrapped around my brain! Lived…! Who knows, but I will present a set of homemade ham to the kind person who reported it and to the paramedics!
As expected, there is no law that tells people to just die. Someone must have heard my screams and called an ambulance.
There is a saying that affection has disappeared in Korea these days, but it’s all bullsh*t. If there are bastards saying that, I’ll kill them all.
“Whoa!”
As soon as I shake off my excitement, I feel a sense of relief. Real tears cover the front. Sudden seizure Everyone should experience this to know. Only then can we understand the pain of others. In the future, we should at least launch a campaign to recommend acute epileptic seizures targeting the entire nation.
By the way.
“What?”
Isn’t this a hospital?
It’s not even my house. Is it outside? It’s also an alleyway that I don’t know where it is. But first, I need to check my physical condition.
I immediately checked my body to see if there was anything wrong.
I can’t believe that I’m in my early twenties, and I suddenly passed out from a seizure. Mom and Dad will be very worried. The moment I seriously thought that I would get a proper health checkup soon.
ㅡ A clap.
Something caught on my back.
“This?”
Uh.
“Knives?”
No.
A sword?
“What the f*ck? Why is this?”
I was so surprised that I couldn’t speak.
Looking at his waist, he saw that a scabbard was tied to some kind of belt, and a sword was stuck in it. Surprisingly, I was now wearing a sword like a medieval soldier.
When will I get this?
Never bought nor seen. I have no experience of kicking a sword in my side other than when I was kicking a bayonet in the army.
The knife looks nice, but who in the world would go out wearing something like that?
In this beautiful modern world, only insane, inhuman, f*ck-psycho bastards carry knives.
“No, these crazy bastards?”
But it wasn’t just one or two.
In front of me. Looking outside the alleyway, students dressed in strange school uniforms were moving in one direction all at once, carrying sword-like weapons around their waists.
Did I get acute sleepwalking while I woke up after passing out for a while, so I wore a sword and joined this cosplay procession?
My head didn’t seem to work well, probably because I had just woken up.
Why am I here in the first place?
“…”
Extreme confusion wraps around my body. Looking at it, I didn’t even wear the clothes I was originally wearing, they were the same as those of the students walking around there.
“Amy, save me.”
What I feel is fear.
I’m standing in an alley right now, and suddenly fear strikes me. The enormous happiness I felt after coming back to life was immediately returned.
What the hell happened to you while you woke up after fainting for a while?
Is it true that I passed out after having a seizure in the first place?
—-Sure.
I immediately put my hand in my pocket.
There is a phone.
There is.
“Oh f*ck… It’s not mine.”
It’s not my phone.
It is even a completely new type of mobile phone. Where did my galaxy go? It’s not an iPhone, it’s not an LG phone. What country is your phone from? It looks neat, but I can’t figure out where it is.
But once I entered the familiar pattern, it was solved immediately. Nonsense. Did you unknowingly set a familiar pattern on the phone you bought? I?
“…”
Anyway, the phone was empty. When I first bought the phone, there were only apps that would have been installed, and the phone book was clean.
But there is a message.
[Ares Academy Admission Ceremony Information]
“Ares Academy?”
What is game pre-registration? What the hell happened to me? But looking at it, there was an hour left until the entrance ceremony.
Now is not the time to worry about such things.
I immediately installed the map app to check where I am and try to find the way home, but the app I know doesn’t work.
Not even Chrome and Naver. Isn’t there even a next one?
“…”
What other world is this?
ㅡ Creepy.
For some reason, I feel that way. Still, somehow I searched for maps with the default Internet app.
“Mom, f*ck you.”
What is the map of Korea like? What the f*ck is really wrong with this? Cold sweat flows. The urge to sit down and cry stimulated my brain.
Could it be that I… Have come to a different Earth that is similar to the original Earth, like the hidden episode of Gulliver’s Travels? It was similar to humans, but in fact it was a world inhabited by monsters.
“Wallet.”
Thinking of ominous thoughts, I put my phone in my pocket and took out my wallet. This is a wallet I’ve never seen before. I don’t even know what the brand is. My wallet is a f*cking Louis Quatorze.
“Identification.”
Fortunately, I had an ID.
[Kim Geun-chul]
“That’s me.”
Name Kim Geun-cheol. My ID was stamped with my photo. But the date of birth is strange. In the first place, ID is… A bit yellow. It’s never this red.
“What? Awoken?”
There was even a sign on his ID that he was an awakened person. What is this? Are you saying that you are a stimulant user?
I don’t understand. There’s no chance someone made something like this and put it in my pocket while I was asleep. Either I lost my memory or got caught up in some really weird stuff.
One of the two.
“Student ID.”
And a student ID.
[Ares Academy Student ID]
[Kim Geun-chul]
Another Ares Academy.
The moment I came to get the pre-registration goods for the game, I thought I might have been hit by Arirang.
“Huh?”
Wait a minute.
I’ve seen it somewhere recently.
Ah, yes. That game.
The game I received today.
The academy’s war hero.
There is a school name. Come to think of it, clothes similar to this school uniform. I thought I saw it, but I think it came out of there.
“Mother.”
Amazing imagination.
“Did you really get into the game without playing Gura?”
I was dumbfounded even if I said it myself. Such absurd things cannot exist in real life. But no matter how you look at it here, it’s reality.
That moment.
ㅡ Tiring.
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「Quest occurrence」
「Attend the Ares Academy Entrance Ceremony」
「Reward: 100 Coin」
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“aaa!”
A grotesque sound echoed, and a blue hologram-like window was created in front of my eyes!
“You motherf*cker!”
I knew it the moment I screamed in surprise!
Looks like I’m in the real game!
Perhaps at that moment when I lost my mind earlier!
* * *
After calming down for a while, I adjusted my clothes and came out of the alley. I saw kids wearing the same school uniform as me walking one by one.
By the way… The buildings around are very tidy, aren’t they? Having lived in a red brick house all my life, this was a fairly expensive neighborhood in my opinion. It’s like a European tourist destination.
Anyway.
For now, let’s follow the assistant’s control. I don’t know what the situation is. On top of that, this surreal guide is yelling at me to attend the entrance ceremony while displaying something like a quest window in front of my eyes.
I thought I would see blood if I didn’t do it, so I decided to go with the flow. It must be a quest. The reward is 100 coins, but I hope it’s Bitcoin. I don’t even know what the hell I’m doing because I don’t have a sense of reality.
With that in mind, I followed the students around me.
“…”
Anxiety squeezed his chest the whole time he was moving.
Did you really get into the game? Even if there is no motherf*cking sense of reality, there can be no such thing as this. An absurd thing beyond the limit. That’s just the idea.
But the most disturbing thing was that I didn’t know much about this game.
I just looked at the wiki for a while.
I know it’s a psychic battle. Does that mean I have to fight the monsters in that game too? What else do you know… That the main character is a growing munchkin and has a very good personality? Are there any characters with bad personalities?
It’s really nothing special.
Because I was walking while thinking about that.
“Oh.”
A gorgeous building started to catch my eye. Its size and splendor are incomparable to other universities. A white fortress-like building stood proudly, and starting with that, something like a circular castle wall surrounded it all the way.
Is that the Ares Academy?
In terms of the setting, it was said to be an institution that fosters superhumans. Other than that, I don’t know. If I knew this was going to happen, I would have looked more closely at the wiki!
I never thought I would regret not having looked at the game settings in my life…!
“Sipper.”
The grandeur and splendor of the building. And admiring the size of the lot, I went inside. It was such a flashy place that I thought it would take away my attention, but now it doesn’t catch my eye.
I just found the auditorium where the entrance ceremony was held and sat down.
It’s completely different from the auditorium I used to use in middle and high school.
Anyway.
There were many students inside. It’s buzzing and buzzing. The only difference from the real school is that they all have weapons. And what about the gorgeous hair? There’s something special about everyone there… But what about the kids?
So how old am I?
I’m 24 now, have I gotten younger?
“Whoa.”
Because I’m just repeating my thoughts while brooding over indescribable emotions.
“The entrance ceremony begins!”
The entrance ceremony has begun.
“Start fast, man.”
Let’s see what the hell they’re going to do. I immediately crossed my arms and looked at the podium. Then he jumped off somewhere and landed on the podium… What? Anyway, the moment I saw the black-haired woman in uniform who appeared splendidly.
“Heroes of the future!!!! Welcome to Ares Academy!!!!”
ㅡHwaaagh!
“Billion! f*ck!”
A gust of wind came out at the same time as the woman in uniform shouted! I’m surprised, f*ck! That woman has a blast blowing out of her mouth now! Does this make sense!
“Billion f*ck? Who the billion f*ck!!!!”
“Ugh…!”
But you got caught on this street?! A furious roar engulfed the auditorium! No, anyway, isn’t it a bit strange to set up a drift like this during the entrance ceremony?
At times like this, pretend not to know!
“…!”
Immediately, she gritted her teeth and lowered her head slightly to pretend she didn’t know.
“That guy with his head down there!!! It’s no use pretending not to know!!! Get up right now!!!”
ㅡ Hwaaak!
As if aiming for a target, the wind blew, and my bangs fluttered violently. I heard this At the same time, all eyes in this space turned towards me.
“Hey, hey. Aren’t you talking about that?”
“Hey! Apologize quickly…!”
“This bastard is f*cked!”
Students sitting around me called me in small voices and demanded an apology… Ah, what the f*ck!
“Sorry! I screamed in surprise!”
Let’s apologize first!