I Became a Mental Health Care Patient in the Apocalyptic Era

Episode 22-The Monster in the Dormitory

It was a story about an essence that would appear.

Since the dormitory raid incident was dangerous even by just hearing its name, it was obvious that the essence that only the main character could eat appeared in the wild.

Unless you have learned the world as a player, you can’t even know that the essence appears in such a field, and if you leave it alone, of course no one will eat it and leave it unattended.

The problem is that this essence weakens by 10% every day.

If you absorb the essence as soon as it appears, you will be able to catch up with top talents such as Yang Ga-hyun and Lee Seo-yeon in the short term, and in the future when you get used to the power of the essence, you will be able to raise the player’s power by at least 10%. A great thing becomes less effective as the day goes by.

At first glance, it could have been seen as a time-consuming process to claim such a good thing and stop the monster after seeing me, but it was not only like that.

‘Because the advantages of electrons are terrifying’

Apocalypse Escape is not a game that players can clear alone.

It is true that the strength of a player who never goes crazy and always shows stable performance is important, but the most important thing in a game is to properly utilize the NPCs around the player.

The favorability and influence on the academy accumulated while fighting monsters with the NPCs didn’t decrease much even compared to the power gained from essence.

Actually, when I played Apocalypse Escape, I chose to defend the dormitory much more than to eat the essence at the crossroads like now.

I wasn’t that confident in my physicality.

‘In the first place, I can’t go to eat the essence right now.’

It was not something I could just eat even if I wanted to.

Since he’s a talent like Park Soo-hyun, he can make a plan to go to the wild field alone and eat the essence and come back.

Park Soo-hyun knows that well, so he can say it confidently.

Shouldn’t it be called division of labor rather than time management?

Since it was Park Soo-hyun who was trying to hand over the heroine’s mental management to me, it was only natural for him to take the thing that made him stronger and hand it over to me that he could raise his likability to, in a way it was actually more efficient.

“Okay. I’ll take care of it myself.”

A smile settled on Park Soo-hyun’s lips as he spoke calmly.

“Looks like you already knew.”

“It’s not because I know, it’s because I saw a precursor.”

There was no such thing as a precursor to finding the essence.

It seems really funny that the player is going to claim the essence that suddenly appeared, but if you know about the dormitory raid, you can see a harbinger.

You can use that portent to alert the main characters, and when attacked, just roll your brain well to block the monster.

“Anyway, I’ll take care of it, so just focus on your growth.”

“Please.”

By the time my conversation with Park Soo-hyun was over, Yang Ga-hyun came into the class.

“… Lee Joo-eun, what are you doing at this time?”

“You said you were going to the dormitory.”

Yang Ga-hyun’s face was full of color, probably because I was so happy that I went into the dormitory.

“Thought it well. If you go into the dormitory, you can save time and have a good night’s sleep. How nice. I’ve said it before, but I didn’t go to the dormitory because it was a waste of money because I only had fragmentary information…”

Listening to Yang Ga-hyeon’s words with one ear and letting it out with the other, I began to ponder how to deal with the monster that would soon appear in the dormitory.

*****

After the additional training was over, walking around the dormitory, I felt a small presence in the corner of the dormitory.

-Slurreuk

‘If you try to find it, you’ll see it really well.’

When it comes to monsters, it’s easy to think of images of familiar monsters, but not all monsters have the appearance of monsters.

In particular, monsters that cause great damage to humans often have appearances that we cannot easily imagine.

I moved to a place where I could feel the presence and looked at the small smoke moving around the ground.

[Monster: I found a nightmare]

[Main Quest]

[Kaiju: Save the dormitory from nightmares]

[Reward: Massive EXP]

The small smoke in front of me disappeared the moment I looked at its existence, as if it had never been here before.

You may wonder how scary a small smoke can be, but there are not just one or two places like that.

They spread throughout the dormitory, grow individually, and later combine to become a huge monster. If prepared in advance, the power of the monsters could be greatly reduced.

Since catching nightmares in the dormitory was an option with a strong impact, unless the physicality was very good, most players tried to deal with the dormitory raid case, and thanks to this, an almost perfect formula was created.

‘If I were Park Soo-hyun, I could just solve it according to the formula, but…’

I am Lee Joo-eun.

Since my strength is weak, I should borrow the strength of another friend even if I suffer a little loss.

-Smart

“Who are you?”

After going around the dormitory and knocking on the door, I heard a familiar voice.

The dormitory of the 3rd academy was not a place where male and female cadets were strictly prohibited from coming and going.

Although they told me to refrain from entering the room, I didn’t directly block them, and no one cared about male students wandering around in the female dormitory rather than entering the room.

“It’s me.”

-Jumping

In less than 10 seconds after answering lightly, the door opened.

“It’s surprising. I didn’t expect you to come to me first.”

Lee Seo-yeon’s gaze at me was calm.

She herself was no exception to her cold and strict personality.

She The room behind her was perfectly organized, and it was impressive to see that only the nightstand on the bed was on, perhaps reading her book.

“Shall we talk for a minute?”

“Okay. Come in.”

Lee Seo-yeon pointed to her back and said.

‘It seems that being weak is not always a loss.’

If I were Park Soo-hyun, she would probably go to a place like a terrace rather than her room.

Being weak wasn’t always a loss if you thought that Seoyeon Lee could overpower me at any time if she put her mind to it, so she could let her into the room.

“Why did you suddenly come to my room…”

The girl who was guiding me suddenly moved quickly and sat down on the bed.

‘What is it?’

I think you saw a piece of cloth right before she sat down?

“Wasn’t something there?”

“There was nothing.”

Seoyeon Lee She always had a steel plate on her face so I couldn’t tell if she was lying or telling her truth.

“You can bring a chair over there and sit down.”

Although she had doubts about the way she spoke with her waist covered in flowers, she couldn’t justify the suspicion.

She finally sighed and sat down and she looked straight at me.

Her eyes were so straight that it felt burdensome, but when she had a serious talk, she always looked her partner straight in the eye.

“So, why did I come?”

There was a confident smile on her lips.

She was full of emotions as if she were her own, but I don’t know what I could say and smile confidently like that.

“Do you look very confident?”

“Because I have nothing to regret.”

“Do you know that I have regrets?”

When I said her dumbfounded words, she smiled and put her hand to her chin.

“Don’t you have any money?”

“I don’t have money for a day or two, and I don’t have any intention of borrowing money from you.”

She looked down at me with a look of pity for her when she said it with a tone that was 120% sincere but absurd.

“You don’t have to lie. Since you’re in the dormitory, shouldn’t you pay for the dorm? If you want, I can pay as much as you want.”

Oh, was it because of that?

Somehow, he seemed confident.

“I can take care of the dormitory expenses myself, and I came here because I have something to do with you.”

“Do you mean work with me?”

Lee Seo-yeon tilted her head slightly and asked.

The way her hair swayed slightly was quite cute, but if she were Lee Seo-yeon, she would have tilted her head thinking that she looked prettier through such an act, so she wasn’t that cute. .

“Uh.”

“Did you come to see me for something?”

“The monster has infiltrated the dormitory.”

At my words, a slight frown appeared between Lee Seo-yeon’s eyebrows.

“What kind of guy are you?”

“Nightmare.”

My words made the frown between Lee Seo-yeon’s eyebrows much worse.

At the same time, Lee Joo-eun’s weak body trembled at her resentment.