chapter 40
40 – 9. Why are you out there?
There were several sub-quests in this damn female-oriented miyeonsi made by a little sister.
Little things like running errands, giving advice, helping others.
And the biggest among them was the [Treasure Hunt] quest.
‘It was very long.’
In terms of setting, treasures such as artifacts and jewels that the academy hid here and there 20 years ago.
It was a linked quest to find them one by one, but I was able to find them by throwing enigmatic hints and then coming up with additional options when I went to the right place.
If there’s a problem… … It was said that there are many cases where you can’t find all of the treasures until you see the ending of the game because the number of treasures is well over 50.
‘I remember 32 of them.’
Amman, I still couldn’t remember all the treasures, but I wrote down in my notebook as I remembered just in case, so I don’t have to worry about forgetting.
So, what can we use these treasures for?
Is it all money or artifacts, do I wear or sell them all?
‘I do not need.’
Excluding jobs where skill restrictions have been lifted, such as Liu’s [Wealthier] and [Emperor], the maximum number of normal skills that a job owner can have is two.
Even for me, <my own little fortune teller> and <observation>, which is a special case of <cleanliness>, are over.
‘Among the other treasures, there’s nothing useful to me.’
Except for <Observation> that I dug up in advance, the rest are skills that I don’t really need as a <Fortune Teller>.
So, if you take out the artifacts, there are gems and money left over.
‘The money problem has been resolved for a long time.’
As long as there is a reliable lender called Liu Yan, at least there is no room to worry about money problems.
Still, finding them and selling them one by one would make money, but there was a much more useful way than that.
‘Let’s pass it as an excuse of a dot.’
Artifacts with skills that I didn’t need were hard to find and expensive. It’s like a romance academy, so they spread this to the students as a treasure hunt.
What if you fake these points and tell them their location?
‘The craze for treasure hunting isn’t over yet.’
Although it has decreased a bit since class started, there are still quite a few students wandering around looking for treasure in their spare time.
The craze for treasure hunting started unintentionally from me.
… … This is your chance.
A chance to win word of mouth as a ‘fortune that specializes in treasure hunting’!
So, I told Manderick, who felt his identity, the location of <Gloves of Tears>.
‘The <Gloves of Tears> grants the <Sweet Growth> skill only to martial artists.’
And the <Sweet Growth> skill, as its name suggests, is a skill that increases the experience gained through training.
As much as ‘salty’ is attached to the name, the rise isn’t that great, but… … .
‘Because it’s an illusion to feel identity in the first place.’
Are you in last place now? It’s just that Manderick is weaker than other fighters at this point.
Rather, Manderick was a name among fighting characters. A person who plays an active part in the midterm and final exams and rises to the top of the first grade fighters.
I even gave that character an artifact that speeds up their growth, so they’ll grow up on their own.
‘And they’ll think it’s thanks to me.’
If you get an artifact by doing a fortune teller and then grow faster, you usually think it’s because of the fortune teller and the artifact.
If you use that gap appropriately, a regular customer will pop up.
‘It’s good that Manderick is getting stronger, and I’m happy that he has regular customers.’
Isn’t this mutual reciprocity?
‘As planned.’
I smiled and looked at Manderick, who was still agitated.
I was a little surprised when I suddenly came to the fortune teller, but it wasn’t a big deal since I confirmed that I had obtained the artifact.
“You’re amazing sir! How did you know there were artifacts like this!?”
“I just listened to Mr. Manderick’s concerns and figured out how to solve them.”
“As expected, the best fortune teller…!”
Well, I guess I just came here to say thank you.
Is he overreacting? Is it because this is a female-oriented non-yeonsi?
“If you’re grateful to me, I’d appreciate it if you could tell other people about this fortune teller.”
“Of course! Call me anytime if you ever need me! I will definitely repay this favor…!”
… … It’s also very over-action. Could it be that you actually have an acting constitution?
Anyway, if I inform people around me, I will also achieve my goal.
Still, there must be a limit to telling Manderick alone. Maybe ten people at most? I need to find some more artifacts.
Manderick, who had been lowering his head as if he had suddenly remembered something, raised his gaze to me.
“Oh, come to think of it, I have something to tell you.”
“……yes?”
What should I tell you? Is it a letter or a word?
is it rio? Or did Rain or the princess send it? But if they’re like that, there’s no reason to go through Manderick, right?
“Well, I’ll tell you as it is.”
“Yes. Please tell me.”
“Uh… [Are you enjoying Romance Academy?]”
“……?”
what.
That annoying double expression… … I heard a lot.
“[I think I’d be more than happy if I had a good time there. I had a hard time too.]”
“……uh?”
for a moment.
this?
“[Forget about this place and live happily there.]……This is the end.”
“………that word.”
“yes?”
“Who did you hear that from?”
… … please.
Just don’t tell me the name I know. Just let me think it’s my embarrassing delusion.
“Uh, actually I don’t know.”
“yes?”
“When I went to the basement of the power transmission tower, I suddenly heard someone’s voice behind me, so I turned around… There was no one there, only a note with the words I said earlier on the floor.”
“…Can you give me that note?”
“Well, I’m sure I put it in my pocket, but it disappeared at some point… I’m sorry!”
“No. No…”
… … Wait a little longer than that.
Didn’t you hear the voice?
“voice.”
“yes?”
“I heard a voice. It was…a woman’s voice?”
“Oh, yes. I did.”
… … … pestilence.
“…Thank you. It was very important to me.”
“No! I will definitely repay this grace!”
“Well, it’s time to start studying divination…”
“Ah! I didn’t notice. I’ll come again next time!”
“Yes. Goodbye.”
After Manderick, who maintained high tension until the end, left.
I am.
“……It’s Jisoo.”
I remembered my sister.
“Are you here too?”
… … I said ‘I had a hard time’.
Come to think of it, how did I get into the game?
“and…….”
What was I doing before I came in here?
Were you at school? Were you at home? Were you walking down the street? Were you playing this crazy game?
Why couldn’t I have thought of this question?
“……like.”
As if I hadn’t thought of it on purpose.
I didn’t hear it directly from him, I didn’t receive a note, but I only heard it indirectly.
Questions and memories about Namgoong Jisoo seemed to overflow.
But among all the questions, there is one thing I am most curious about.
“Why are you…”
Did you give the note to someone other than me?
In the end, it was something to tell me, but why?
I clutched my head.
Thoughts about my younger sister, something I never thought about or doubted after entering <Romance Academy>.
I’m too busy thinking about it.
“Nam Goong-min…”
“… you son of a fortune teller.”
Even though I heard someone’s voice and felt someone’s gaze.
Not paying attention, I just pondered the same question.
that was the limit
*
Manderick couldn’t believe his situation.
Since I found these half-gloves yesterday, it’s been like I’ve been dreaming ever since.
“Huh!”
Quaang!!
“Manderick… 820 points.”
“Eight hundred or twenty?”
“How did you get that score…?”
“It’s like yesterday’s evaluation, isn’t it amazing?”
As part of today’s lesson, punching was given to the students.
After Aileen Teddy Bear set a record of 975 points, most fighting students scored between 500 and 600 points.
Obviously, Manderick, who was in the bottom of the class just three days ago, set a record of 820 points, third in the class.
“Mmm, student Manderick. What a surprise. Amazing growth!”
“Thank you, Instructor!”
“The posture, center of gravity, and power of the punch are impeccable. Is that because of that artifact…?”
“You’re benefiting greatly.”
The artifact that Manderick wears in both hands, <Gloves of Tears>.
Thanks to Namgoong Min’s divination, this artifact found in the basement of an abandoned power transmission tower became Manderick’s possession after receiving official permission from the academy.
‘Finally I have a skill… … !’
There are two general skills that one person can have, but it is difficult for most job holders to fill them.
With the exception of extremely rare cases of obtaining normal skills by chance, normal skills are obtained through artifacts.
And that artifact is an amount that Manderick wouldn’t buy one even if he saved his whole life.
‘This is the treasure of that rumor!’
Manderick had also heard of the treasure hunt commotion. But at that time, I treated it as nonsense and only focused on training.
“<Gloves of Tears>… I also now know about the treasure hunt that existed in the past. I don’t know if I will be active after graduating, but at least it must be the best item while attending the academy.”
“That’s right!”
“Congratulations! If it’s an artifact brought from outside, there’s no problem if it’s from the academy. I look forward to the days ahead!”
“yep!”
“Okay, until the next class, everyone has a 10-minute break!”
“”””yep!””””
The skill contained in these gloves was called <salty growth>.
There was no better artifact than this for him, who had been stagnant in improving his skills.
‘Find a hidden treasure, and even that’s an artifact that’s perfect for me… … !’
After all, fortune tellers and teachers are amazing!
A little time to rest until the next class.
Udangtang!
As soon as Manderick returned to his seat, the students in the class began to flock to his seat as if they had been waiting.
“Hey! Manderick! What are you!”
“Yesterday, during the evaluation, something happened!”
“How did you get that artifact!?”
“I’ll answer, so everyone be quiet.”
The first evaluation I saw yesterday while wearing Half Gloves of Tears.
There, Manderick rose from half-bottom to upper-middle at once.
Even that much is a huge growth, and even if it’s not a proper evaluation today, it’s a whopping 3rd place!
Right now, even Manderson himself can’t understand it, but other students will.
Most of all, they were worried about Manderick, who was depressed at the fact that he was in last place, so they were curious about his growth while congratulating him sincerely.
“As the instructor said earlier, my growth is thanks to this artifact.”
“crazy……!!”
“Isn’t growth-related artifacts very expensive? How did you buy them?”
“Idiot! Even if I bought it, I couldn’t use it inside the academy! Of course…!”
“It’s a treasure hunt!? How did you find it!”
“Of course I could have found it myself? I had help!”
Like Manderick, students with high tension add one word at a time.
This is usually the case with combat jobs, but especially in <Martial Song>, most of the students are active in various meanings as they use their bodies the most intensely.
As if in return for Manderick’s voice, all sorts of answers poured out.
“As expected, Manderick! You’re so lucky!”
“Hey! If you had money, you should have paid back the money you borrowed from me!”
“Did Manderick get money? He believed in it! Today is a dinner party!”
“Manderick shoots!”
“Manderick! Manderick! Manderick!”
“Absolutely not, you kids!”
There are no outsiders or loners that often occur in the class, and everyone makes friends.
Normally, it would be difficult for everyone to become close to each other, even if they were fighters with a simple temperament.
It was possible because the experience of the entrance ceremony maze, the experience of everyone working together to destroy a common enemy (maze wall), was still vivid.
No matter how clumsy a conversation is, no matter how hard a person is to get close to.
If I brought up the incident at the entrance ceremony, I could talk to anyone in a friendly way!
“I didn’t buy information with money, I went to the celebrities of our academy!”
“……A celebrity? Could it be that super-wealthy man?”
“Or the royal family? A saint? A psychic?”
“It’s all just special job classes?”
“If you’re a celebrity, of course you’re in a special job class, right?”
“It’s a special job class. There’s one I haven’t mentioned yet, right?”
“……fortune-teller.”
To the answer I heard from somewhere.
The students made faces that said, “Ah.”
The other celebrities, the students of the special vocational class, are a bit distant from the upper class of society, but–
“Namgoong Min!”
“Did you visit Namgoong Min?”
──Fortune teller, Namgoong-min, the story is a little different.
After all, he was the main character at the entrance ceremony!
“That’s right. Didn’t Eileen tell you? The fortune teller that Namgoong-Min opened, and this artifact was found by fortune-telling there!”
“Does that… make sense?”
“Looking for treasure with points?”
“I did fortune-telling too, and I was with Manderick when he found it, so it’s real!”
“Even Layla? There are already two of them?”
Layla dispels Manderick’s distrust of his words.
“Uh, I’ve heard. Namgoong Min was the first person to find the treasure.”
“Was that real!?”
Rumors that have been floating around the academy are also added, and Namgoong-min’s curiosity about divination grows.
buzz buzz.
Although Eileen, the center of the class, had already talked about fortune telling, the majority of the students just listened and passed it off for fun.
I acknowledge Namgoong Min’s leadership, but there were many cases where I felt burdened or considered the act of fortune telling itself meaningless.
But today, there’s a beneficiary of that manderick.
Even if it’s an artifact, a popular treasure hunt among students—
“I want to go! Where is the fortune teller!?”
“Wouldn’t it be nice to hear from Eileen? Where did she go?”
“I left early after punching earlier. Did you say you were being treated by a saint?”
“Then Manderick! You guide!”
“hahahaha, don’t worry. I’ll take them all!”
“”””Waaa!!!””””
──That’s right, of course, everyone will try to go at least once.
Namgoong-min was confident in his plan, but he overlooked two things.
“Let’s all go! Follow me!”
“Follow Manderick!”
“He’s a god! He’s a god!”
First, Manderick, who found the artifact, is a student in the <Martial Song> class who is easily swept away by the atmosphere.
“Huh? Suzuka, aren’t you going?”
“I don’t believe in divination. I’ll just rest here.”
“What are you talking about! Guys! Get Suzuka!”
“Uh, eh!? Hey! These!”
“If you’re going, let’s all go together! Let’s all go!!”
“hey!!!”
Second, it was a class that everyone became friends with thanks to the experience of the maze at the entrance ceremony.
Even his class instigated by Manderick had 50 people.
Even if it was announced, it was a number that far exceeded Namgoong-min’s expectation, which he thought was ten at the most.
“Let’s inform the other classes!”
“If we preoccupy the artifact, of course we <fighters>!”
“Hey! Attention everyone! Namgoong Min’s treasure hunt is so popular!”
“Huh? Really?”
“Really? Shall we go?”
Even that number was growing in real time.
There are 4 classes for <Martial Arts>, considering that there are about 50 students in each class.
It’s like almost 200 fighters rushing to a fortune teller without any jokes… … !
“………uh.”
And, Leila, who kept her seat while watching her classmates run away.
“Isn’t class over yet?”
Because he had already read fortunes, he was able to keep his reason like the students who had fortune-telling with her.
“These guys!!! Where are you going as a group!!!!!”
All caught, of course.