chapter 2
2 – Have a hot entrance ceremony, but don’t let anyone know (1)
“To all the new students who are new to Circle Academy, I sincerely welcome you. Starting today, you will learn and learn a variety of things here, so that the seeds of potential within you will bloom.”
Circle Academy, the apex of numerous superhuman training schools.
At the same time, it is the name of the school I must attend from now on.
‘I remember when I first entered college.’
I looked around, slightly fed up with the familiar sensation.
Then I saw the faces of the numerous freshmen who were admitted with me this time.
The eyes of all the students were shining brightly with confidence and pride, as if there was no one who came as if they were kidnapped like me.
“Hey, what are you planning to do after the entrance ceremony?”
“First of all, I plan to look back at the places I briefly saw on You Tube.”
“Then, shall we go around and flirt with some of the girls who came in with us?”
“Of course not! I heard that after the entrance ceremony is the best time to flirt with girls…… “
Hmm, after hearing the whispers from the side, it seems that it wasn’t the glinting eyes.
‘Anyway, seeing the entrance ceremony that I only saw in games, I can feel that I’m definitely in the game.’
I tapped my thighs with my fingers in line with the sound of words coming from in front of me.
Then, slowly, in my head, lines from the narration that would have originally appeared with this opening event came to mind.
‘Thirty years ago, a cataclysmic inundation of monsters occurred.’
After that, a few top-class superhumans who thought this shouldn’t be the case, created this circle for the purpose of protecting humanity and training outstanding superhumans.
‘Well, actually, protecting humanity and training superhumans are the slogans of most schools.’
However, the words of Circle should not be taken lightly.
That’s because this place really sincerely puts into practice those words that are close to the façade.
You can tell just by looking at the fact that the Circle is built on a huge artificial island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean right now.
For reference, the circle wasn’t built in such a grandiose way for some great reason.
It was just built like this for the reason that I wanted to do it this far, although it was important, to escape from useless power struggles and to protect students from vicious villains.
‘Well, if you look at it differently, it’s also the place where I was able to build a school like this thanks to that ideology close to madness.’
Looking around, I saw that all the students were shining in their own way, scattering extraordinary energy.
‘But right now, if I were to pick the person who shines the brightest here, everyone would probably pick one.’
I looked up and looked at a female student who was giving a speech on the podium.
“As the president of the student council and as one of your seniors, I sincerely welcome the admission of talented students.”
She said that with her gorgeous red hair that seemed to contain sparks, her scarlet eyes twinkling, and a supremely confident smile.
Rias Vermillion.
The daughter of a family of knights who have been protecting the British royal family for generations.
Such a background is definitely great, but the circle paid more attention to her ability to win the seat of student council president with her skills and popularity even though she was a sophomore, rather than that background.
‘But that’s not the point.’
There is only one thing that is important to me.
There was only one fact: Rias Vermillion, she is one of the protagonists of the game and one of the heroines who will help save the world in the future.
‘Anyway, this is more than expected.’
I am simply listening to the speech.
“Wow…… “
“As expected, circles are different no matter what they are…… “
However, her mind continued to be shaken by her charisma.
Looking to the side, the women were covering their mouths with both hands, while the men were staring at Rias with their mouths open.
It was an unbelievable sight even though I was watching it with my own two eyes.
‘Seriously, she’s a heroine who attracts and dyes people, and the term ‘flame-like charm’ suits her well.’
That’s the power of a girl who has just become an adult. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Still, thanks to that, I was sure.
‘As expected, it’s dangerous to get involved with the main characters.’
To everyone, she may look like a jewel that sparkles like a flame.
But to me, she looked like a roaring flame.
It’s definitely good if you use it well, but if you do it wrong, it’s a dangerous flame that can burn your entire area.
‘As expected, in order to keep my peace, it would be best for me to move alone on my own.’
Just as I was circling the hypotheses in my head, the entrance ceremony also came to an end.
“Finally, there will be an oath of the best students who achieved excellent grades in this entrance exam.”
At Rias’s words, the students looked up at the podium with their eyes full of emotions such as jealousy, envy, and longing.
By the way, they weren’t the only ones watching the current situation.
Many guild executives were also blinking their eyes from afar through the video.
That’s also because the main characters who gave this horseman the grandiose name Golden Horseman appeared.
Turb-Turb-Turb-
When everyone’s eyes were focused, five people stepped up on the podium with the sound of footsteps.
“What, why are there only five people? Shouldn’t there be ten people originally?”
“Well? Is there something going on?”
I heard the two of them talking quietly while making a hunting plan.
I knew the answer to what they were curious about, having seen countless gameplays indirectly.
Actually, there was no such grandiose reason.
I didn’t come because I didn’t want to come.
Most people don’t know, but in fact, circles do not force participation in entrance ceremonies.
And because of that, as if they weren’t from the same generation as the main character, the main characters with a strong sense of their own pace chose not to attend the entrance ceremony.
Oh, these guys made a fuss as if they wanted to stand out.
‘Hmm, what’s up there right now is the jizzing jjirit, the idiot, and the prince’s disease…… Uh?’
While checking the faces of the guys on the podium step by step, a pair of men and women on the far left of the line caught my eye.
At that moment, I was frozen like ice with my mouth open.
One of them was a handsome man with black hair gently waving in the wind and golden eyes sparkling.
I knew him.
A guy who was born with the temperament of a harem master who continues to entangle women no matter what route he takes, whether he is a hero or a villain, based on his face full of probability.
A guy with truly fraudulent, truly protagonist-like characteristics who grows into anything according to the owner’s efforts as [The Seed of All Things] And allows us to see the drama.
The main character of this game that the player will meet immediately when he starts the game.
Because it was Han Siwoo.
And if so.
What is the identity of that woman standing with black hair and golden eyes, who looks exactly like Han Si-woo?
“Are they the ones on the far left?”
“Yes, the twins said to have come from a samurai song in a country on the periphery.”
“Two twins are the best students at the same time, so it seems we can’t ignore the lineage.”
“Hmph, it’s just a country on the outskirts, well. Korea, I heard for the first time today that such a country exists.”
“Kuh-kuh, that’s right.”
Thanks to the conversation between the two, I was able to find the answer.
No, to be precise, I had no choice but to stop denying the answer in my heart.
The name of the woman next to Han Si-woo is Han Si-yeon.
It was another main character in [Circle Academy] That appears when the player’s gender is female instead of male.
And that fact drove me crazy.
‘There are two main characters, what kind of situation is this? Shouldn’t there be only one main character that the player can move?’
Actually, strictly speaking, this was a good thing.
It meant that the number of swords capable of piercing the heart of the final boss increased from one to two.
But I couldn’t help but laugh.
To my eyes, the two of them standing together seemed like a gift mixed with evil from the world, saying that this amount would be at least balanced.
And as if affirming my thoughts.
Kwagwagwagwang-!!!
The ceiling and walls of the auditorium were shattered at the same time, and numerous monsters invaded the auditorium.
“Kyaaa!”
“What is this!”
“Damn it, run away!”
Students in the auditorium panicked and shouted at the sudden appearance of the monster.
In this urgent moment when life goes by seconds, I dare to say it.
The decisive factor that separates the Lunatic difficulty from the Hell difficulty is the presence or absence of randomness.
For example, at the moment of the opening event where the students with the best grades were introduced by Rias Vermillion and went up to the podium.
I raised my head to see who would have gone up on the podium, but if I had known that I was in a world built on Hell difficulty, I wouldn’t have bothered to do so.
Even if it wasn’t so, I already knew what kind of character would appear.
Hell difficulty is difficult enough to make you vomit, but there is no change in the flow of the story.
However, the Lunatic difficulty is not.
The Lunatic difficulty level is not enough to make you cough up blood, so random elements pop out from various unexpected parts every time you play the game.
Simply put, predicting what will happen in the future through multiple attempts and previous experiences was meaningless in the Lunatic difficulty.
And that’s the fundamental reason most people quit Crane on Lunatic difficulty.
‘Even when it comes to simply looking at the level of difficulty, the Lunatic difficulty level is even worse. But it’s natural that people do it because they’re mixed with random events you don’t know when and where they’ll pop up.’
Let’s say it’s a soul-type game where you get used to the Hell difficulty step by step through continuous challenges and break it as you progress.
Then, the Lunatic difficulty level was like trying to clear Hell Mode Want, a soul game with only the minimum amount of information acquired.
In other words, what I want to say is this.
Kuweeaek–!!!
I also didn’t expect monsters to pop out during the entrance ceremony.
“Haa, why did I have to leave this world?”
Ah, by the way, judging from how this happened, I guess I’m on Lunatic difficulty too.
The parts that kept tickling were scratched coolly, but perhaps because of the sense that his life was threatened, only his hands and feet trembled like crazy without feeling cool.
‘But it can’t be eaten quietly and become food for Monster II.’
Sug-
‘Even though I’m scared, I have to get up and move somehow.’