I got into school for nothing - Chapter 140
I got into school for nothing (140)
Interlude. I Awakened for Nothing
Connected by an unknown link, accessing an unknown site, Ban Yumi found herself utterly bewildered by a literal new civilization.
―Welcome to Union Net. All language translation services are provided when using Union Net.
The notification was real.
Because she could fluently read the squiggly characters that filled the screen, characters she'd never seen before in her life, just as her younger brother, Ban Yuwon, could.
Even though she knew it was impossible, she wondered if, by chance, she had also gained an ability like her brother's, and opened an English novel, but sure enough, her vision immediately went dark.
It was indeed true that the translation service was only available when viewing Union Net.
“What the hell is this? Union... Union. Isn't this the name of the place Ban Yuwon went to?”
Her brother, who had always lived a life somewhere between laziness and leisure due to his overwhelming innate talent, one day, suddenly wore a vivid expression and announced that instead of the prestigious S University he'd managed to get into, he was going to some strange, unheard-of place called Union Academy.
He had always been a strange guy, but suddenly he was creating unbelievable things, awakening mana within her too, and then he and Grandfather Ban, who had suddenly regained his sanity, seemed to be whispering about something together, before he simply left.
“What is this...?”
He just left.
That bastard, all by himself.
Leaving only me behind.
“And after all that, he was off flirting with aliens?!”
As someone who had always hated reading characters, it was inevitable that she would access UniTube, Union Net's video platform, and once there, finding the Rebellion channel, which ranked among UniTube's top 1,000, was not difficult.
Furthermore, wasn't Ban Yuwon flaunting his title as a Union Academy student? When she searched for 'Union Academy,' the first videos that popped up were his uploads.
But her relief, upon seeing his most recently uploaded video and realizing he was healthy, was fleeting.
As she watched her brother and an incredibly beautiful black-haired elf—beautiful enough to make her wonder if he'd lost his mind—displaying their affectionate moments in the video, Ban Yumi felt her common sense abandon her.
“Th-this bastard, this is why he went? This is why...? To flirt with pretty aliens?!”
Ban Yumi checked every single video on the Rebellion channel.
What was revealed was even more spectacular.
There were four people, including him, in his class at the Academy: one was a beast who had set her sights on her brother from the very beginning and clung to him; another was a cross-eyed menace who, under the guise of being his master, arbitrarily ordered her brother around and clung to him; and then there was the nuisance who, though said to be a man, looked like a pretty girl no matter how she looked at him, and clung to her brother at every opportunity.
“Ban Yuwon is totally popular...!”
And that wasn't all?
The strange, petal-haired woman who appeared as their supervising professor dared to act as her brother's older sister instead of her; the elf from the first video she checked was blatantly flirting with her brother; female members of the club he'd supposedly created, though appearing to be his juniors, called him 'teacher' and cozied up to him; and even a woman with beautiful sky-blue hair, looking like a fairy, and the demon who was the student council president, both clung to her brother....
“This bastard doesn’t know when to stop!”
She felt a thousand fires raging inside her.
Of course, her brother had been popular even when he was on Earth.
If she hadn't constantly monitored him and fended off strange girls by his side, he would have led an impossibly depraved youth. She believed her brother wouldn't be able to thank her enough, even a hundred times over.
But that ungrateful brat, now that his older sister's eyes weren't on him, was he just freely frolicking with women?
Here I was, worrying so much, but this bastard went to another world to start a harem, just because it wouldn't violate Earth's laws, huh?
‘...But then.’
Just as she was about to explode in fury and smash her phone to pieces.
Ban Yumi suddenly stopped breathing as she watched the woman acting as her brother's master in the video swing her sword.
She was captivated, watching it on repeat countless times.
‘She’s a master.’
And a master so formidable that she couldn't even compare.
Her talent was, of course, outstanding... but unlike Ban Yumi, who had trained in swordsmanship based on Kendo and fencing—martial arts that, in Earth's limited environment, no longer aimed to kill enemies but merely preserved the artistry as a sport—she displayed a beautiful swordsmanship that had reached the pinnacle of purely wielding a sword, not for the purpose of being seen by others.
Of course, the mere fact that Ban Yumi could discern the true essence of Dokgo Yeon's swordsmanship after seeing it just once in a video was proof of her own unbelievably prodigious innate talent, yet she was unaware of this.
It wasn't particularly important.
‘It's infuriating to watch this bastard constantly flirting with women... but I have no choice but to watch it to learn swordsmanship.’
It grated on her nerves to see her brother revering Dokgo Yeon as his teacher, claiming to learn swordsmanship from her, yet in reality, she herself was captivated by Dokgo Yeon's swordsmanship.
Since things had come to this, as revenge for stealing her brother, she vowed to completely take Dokgo Yeon's swordsmanship and become even stronger than her.
She was already abruptly idle after quitting the Olympic representative team.
Her parents suggested she transfer to another university, but for her, a born martial artist, it was absurd to try and forge a path through academics now.
Ultimately, all she could think of was swinging a sword, and at that moment, Dokgo Yeon's sword, which appeared before her, was no different from the light of a lighthouse guiding her.
‘Like this? No, like this. Once I can firmly grasp the form, I'll be able to understand at least a little more of that cross-eyed demon's gibberish.’
She set up a large screen, repeatedly playing the video of Dokgo Yeon swinging her sword on it, and based on that, she completely restructured her own swordsmanship from the ground up.
It was a grueling time, but the rewards were immense.
The mana her brother had awakened within her seemed to favor the sword she had just begun to master, circulating rapidly through her body and steadily growing in volume. Her transcendental sword talent allowed her to skillfully extract only the parts suitable for her from the fragmented sword arts displayed by Dokgo Yeon, and adapt and develop them to suit herself.
‘Look at this bastard Ban Yuwon, his swordsmanship is improving by leaps and bounds. He kept refusing when I offered to teach him...!’
As she consistently watched the videos to learn swordsmanship, her brother naturally kept catching her eye.
It seemed her brother was quite talented even among the rascals gathered at that Academy, as he grew rapidly and was performing splendidly.
He wielded swords, used magic, made strange artifacts, truly doing everything all by himself.
‘And he's scattering gifts to all sorts of girls, just scattering them around. Meanwhile, he only gave me some pathetic massage coupons... He’s dead meat when he comes back for vacation, seriously.’
For reference, she had only received massage coupons until Ban Yuwon was eight years old, but thanks to her foolish brother forgetting to set an expiration date, they were still valid, slumbering in her secret vault.
Aside from that, what else caught her eye on the Rebellion channel were—the monsters that might appear on Earth after the Dimension Evolution.
Not aliens with different appearances than Earthlings, but unintelligent creatures hostile to them.
Watching the various monsters in the videos, Ban Yumi also conducted virtual training on how to deal with them.
That was also why her newly established swordsmanship didn't necessarily limit itself to fighting humans.
“Are these bastards really going to appear on Earth too? Is that what 'Dimension Evolution' means?”
As she browsed information about various dimensions available on Union Net, she naturally came to realize the changes that awaited Earth.
Once she realized that, she naturally had no choice but to tell her parents honestly.
“Mom, Dad, Earth is screwed, apparently?”
“Yumi, what kind of language is 'screwed,' 'screwed'? Could you speak a little more elegantly....”
“Dimension Evolution is happening on Earth. So everything's going to get weird, like that strange school Ban Yuwon enrolled in!” ranOBES
“Dimension... Evolution?”
Naturally, her parents didn't immediately believe her.
But there was already the precedent of Ban Yuwon, who had left Earth, and as they watched Ban Yuwon's video playing on the phone Ban Yumi held up, they simply couldn't disbelieve it.
“Surely you didn’t make an edited video because you missed your brother too much...?”
“Why would I do something so crazy? I can’t stand the sight of that bastard!”
“Right, if you made the video, there’s no way so many pretty girls would be in it.”
Starting with their mother, who finally conceded with a sigh after trying to deny reality until the very end, the Ban family began preparations for the Dimension Evolution.
As for Grandfather Ban, ever since Ban Yuwon had infused him with mana, he had consistently maintained his sanity, and finally, the moment he confirmed that the Tower of Babel appeared in the video Ban Yumi showed him, he succeeded in awakening his own mana, just like her.
“This is no time to be idle. First, I suppose I should raid some of the crop storage facilities in America.”
“Crop storage facilities? What are you talking about, Father?”
“In America, we even have a farm under Yuwon’s name, my son.”
“A farm?!”
And her father, Ban Juseok, realized the existence of the hidden wealth of their family, and awakened his mana, following his father.
It was certainly an event that happened with barely a hair's breadth of difference, yet why did it feel so regrettable compared to his father’s awakening?
“Dimension Evolution, you say. What do you think will be the main changes appearing on Earth, my son?”
“Well... if something called mana appears, will fine dust pollution decrease?”
“Hmm, it seems monsters will be a problem. They say dungeons will also appear....”
“Those monsters, surely our current military firepower can deal with them?”
“Looking at these videos, it seems the technological level of any dimension isn't inferior to Earth’s, so if they aren’t using firearms, isn't there a special reason? Moreover, if you look closely, Yuwon is also mixing mana into his gun.”
“Mana... then, as long as we can't use it, aren't we all screwed, Father?”
“I see where Yumi got her colorful language from.”
Grandfather Ban energetically moved to convert the Ban family's assets, stored across various countries, into precious metals and gather them in one place, stockpiled enough food for the family to consume for decades, raised the mansion walls even higher, lavishly purchased relics with combat capabilities, and subtly hinted at the impending changes to Earth through his connections.
Ban Juseok deeply considered whether to resign from his diplomatic post, which still had many years until retirement, but decided that to minimize the chaos Korea would face immediately after the Dimension Evolution, he would solidify his ties with politicians, with the help of his father, Grandfather Ban.
Meanwhile, her mother, Kang Eunyoung, sighed more and more each day, and whenever that happened, she would calm her troubled mind by intently watching Ban Yumi train.
And Ban Yumi.
“Ugh, uuuggghhh....”
“Yumi? You were training well, why are you suddenly acting like a dog who needs to poop? Do you have something on your mind?”
“No, I've made up my mind.”
After a long hesitation, she finally left a message in the group chat for her close friends—the South Korean national women's fencing team.
[Me: If anything happens, everyone, come find me]
[Me: Prepare yourselves, thinking an earthquake could happen at any time]
[Yumi-gum: What’s with this ㅋㅋ Why are you suddenly like this, unnie]
[HyunG: M-m-me, if something happens]
[Kang Miyeon: Yumi, what’s up? What are you doing these days]
[HyunG: I’m dying to see Yuwon in person, introduce me quickly, quickly]
[HyunG: (Emoji of a woman making a finger heart)]
[Me: (Emoji of a fat duck punching a wall)]
[Me: I can't explain in detail, but just remember it. If push comes to shove, I'll take responsibility for you all.]
[Yumi-gum: Unnie♡]
Ban Yumi blocked Lee Hyunji, who was also her college classmate, and then closed her phone.
Only then did her heart feel somewhat lighter.
She knew it was merely a shallow trick to ease her own burden, but it was better than doing nothing.
How much time passed like that?
Finally, that moment arrived.
[Earth undergoes Dimension Evolution and is officially connected to Union Net! Access rights are granted to the top 1% of talents on Earth, and this percentage will increase as Earth's mana density rises.]
[Earth is a very special dimension. As a reward for its reconnection with Union Net, all Earthlings are granted a high-dimensional Authority: the Status Window. This is a miraculous privilege that even residents of higher dimensions cannot easily enjoy!]
[You awaken a unique Authority, the Unquenchable Flame.]
...And the changes on Earth unfolded in a slightly different direction than Ban Yumi had expected.
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