Chapter 40
40 fury
Interlude - Q&A with Deokhoon
[2019Monday, March 18,, 06： 35]
[Lee Jun - 2nd episode]
[ghost story point : 436]
[causality : 10%]
After a golden weekend, it's Monday morning..
Fortunately, I slept well..
Maybe it was because I slept so well, but I woke up earlier than usual feeling refreshed even though it was Monday morning..
‘Phew, I still can't decide.’
I was thinking while lying on the bed in my room..
A whopping 400 points I earned by defeating my first A-level ghost story..
I haven't decided how to use these points yet..
‘Where should I write this so I don’t have any regrets?.’
There are many options in my mind, such as using it on myself to gain new abilities, unlocking the abilities of my friends, or raising the level of the club.
It hovers in.
If I were to use it on myself, my primary goal would be to gain the ability called Companionship Ear..
I previously memorized several skills that seemed useful when acquiring lipreading skills, and one of them was co-regression..
As can be inferred from the name, it is probably the ability to return with someone..
In this A-level ghost story, we all worked hard together to overcome the crisis, but in the end, I am the only one who remembers it completely.
At first, defeating the ghost story and the world
I thought it was a good thing that he was fine, but what would happen if it was like this every time I experienced a ghost story??
Let's all struggle together to find out the truth, then return alone and finish it..
That was never a good ending.
The gap between my experience and the level of the members is growing bigger and bigger..
3A fight that lasts for years.
Especially as someone with a glassy mentality, it is an ordeal that I can never handle alone..
I don't know what the members' opinions are.
It may be difficult, but we will have to drag them into this mess and grow together..
‘I'm a bit sorry though......
I'm sorry for attracting friends who lead normal lives, but I'm not the manager of a weird club because I want to either..
‘If it's in the name of world peace, wouldn't it be self-defense even if you involve your friends?!’
Thinking about this, I lay down on the bed in my room early in the morning and seriously thought about the ability called ‘co-regression’..
‘It would be best to overcome the ghost story together without everyone dying and without the world becoming a mess, but will things really work out that way?……
once.
If we can go through this together just once, it will be much easier to convince them next time..
Or, as if you were playing an online game's random cash draw, invest all 400 points into abilities and pray that the companion group will listen to you..
but it was too dangerous.
The precious thing I gained by throwing my life away
point.
No matter how desperately you need that ability, you can't leave it to chance..
Then, how about investing the points you earn into raising the club level?.
‘store！’
I don't know what it sells, but this system has a store feature that opens when the club reaches level 5..
Unlike the companion regression ability, which may or may not come out, it had the advantage that if you invested points in a club, the store would always open..
The current level of my club is 2.
300Even after investing to raise the level to 5 and open the store, 100 points remain..
‘100If you have points, you might be able to buy something at the store..’
Investing in a club is a truly safe choice with no chance of losing money..
However, there is a downside to this as well, which is that increasing the club level is not very helpful in the ghost stories you will encounter next..
Even if you use up all your points in the club, it means you can unlock new elements.
However, the only benefits that came with it were additional functions such as larger club rooms..
On the other hand, investing in myself and acquiring new abilities was somewhat risky, but there was a high possibility that I could use them immediately in the ghost stories I was about to encounter..
‘Hmm, what should I do?.’
I have no intention of splitting up the points and using them..
If I invest in ability, I plan to pour everything in until a joint regression is created, and even if I invest in a club, I plan to pour everything in until the store opens.
It's a stroke.
‘What a pain in the ass. If there is someone who knows the game well, I would like to ask for advice..’
* * *
After a while, school.
break time.
“game? Deokhoon probably knows that kind of thing well..”
“That guy?”
Kyungwon calmly answers me when I cry out in surprise..
“Even though we are partners, why don’t you know? That's what the animation he watches every day is all about. Contents of going to another world and adapting to game fantasy.”
“Hoo.”
Now that I think about it, I remember sneaking a peek from the side, and it seems like all the animations Deokhoon watches have a fantasy background, and that the main content is gaming, such as catching monsters and gaining experience points..
“thank you. But you don't play games?”
“I'm too busy studying.”
The optician answers with a smile..
I thought he was like a guy..
And after a while.
“Kyusso, did you think I only watched pretty girls? When do you talk about enemies?.”
“Uh, sorry.”
“Please tell me what you want to ask. This body, mastering Konosuba, is good when it comes to gaming fantasy. embrace.”
What is Konosuba?.
I shook my head and asked what I was curious about..
“Then listen carefully, Deokhun. I
It's a game I'm playing these days..”
“The title is?”
“Well, the title is… I don't know. I can’t remember because it’s a foreign language..”
“Is it an indie game?.’’
“Indie? Well, that's it. anyhow.”
I cleared my throat again and started explaining..
“I am that… I earned a lot of points by killing enemies.?”
“ score?”
“Uh, score. So, in the game it says “point”.”
“Huh… It's not experience points, it's points
Deokhoon tilted his chin and tilted his head, but continued his explanation..
“But I'm worried about where to use those points. I can use it on myself to enhance my abilities, or I can use it to unlock new elements of the game and store features..”
“Cook. Why are you worrying about something like that? Jun Kun, it looks like you haven’t played many games..”
“No, I do it a lot.…”
I've only played online games like LoL or gun games, so I don't know much about anything else..
“Kuso. No need to think. of course
Multi-talented abilities that must be used to unlock new elements.”
Deokhoon speaks confidently..
‘Wow, new element!’
“why? what is the reason?”
“Yare yare.”
A guy who pretends to be proud and hesitates for a while.
Speak quickly, I'm angry. Phew.
“Of course it's the beginning, right? Rather than focusing only on the possibilities in front of us, isn’t it natural to increase our options??”
Increase your options.
“Hoo.”
When I think about it that way, it certainly seems like opening up store functions is a reasonable choice..
As Deok-hoon said, rather than judging from a narrow perspective since it is just the beginning, wouldn't it be wise in the long run to look back and decide where to invest the points after uncovering all the new elements?.
“I see It definitely helped, thank you!”
“Cook. What do you mean, it was a simple thing for this body??”
“I'm sorry, but can you please stop talking like that??”
The guy who flinched for a moment.
“I answered at best.”
He looks angry too.
“sorry. But I keep worrying about it.”
Are you upset?.
“I have a few more questions, could you possibly answer these as well? There are about two things.”
“Kuum, you are a shameless partner..”
The guy who turns his head again.
“say it.”
While I was leaving, I was curious about something
I started asking questions step by step..
First of all, in the last A-level ghost story, I encountered three low-level ghost stories in a row..
It was clearly different from usual.
It feels like something is attacking us with intent..
‘No, not just then.!’
This whole life is like that..
After transferring from my previous life, the three years I spent at another school were normal, without encountering anything like a ghost story..
‘Where should I begin to explain this?.’
I sorted things out in my head for a moment, then started explaining..
“The game I play. that… It starts with a tutorial?”
Deokhoon quietly nods his head as if he is listening..
“However, there was a time when I ran away to another area without completing the tutorial. Did you live quietly without anything happening at that time? However, I started the game again, and this time I finished the tutorial and was playing through the quests properly, but I felt like someone was constantly interfering with me..”
“Uhm? disturbance?”
The guy frowning his eyebrows.
I tried explaining it, but it's too vague..
“Tell me in detail.”
“So… Enemies appear when you least expect it. It continues so suddenly. It's not like I was looking for it on purpose..”
“Yare yare.”
The guy sighed with an exaggerated gesture..
“Who is the final boss?.”
“First of all, the devil... Looks like.”
“Then, of course, the Demon King eliminates the hero.
Isn’t that what they’re sending it to do?
“Yo, warrior?”
I was surprised and asked, and he looked at me with an expression like I was surprised..
“If you're going to defeat the devil, then of course you'll buy a dragon.”
“that. I see.”
When I think about it, that's right.
No, it's natural..
If there is a game where the goal is to defeat the devil, it would be natural for the main character to be called a hero..
This is Nazo, who only played online games.
What I know conceptually through the arcade games I played in the past
This would be an extremely obvious fact in a game, but when it actually appeared before my eyes in reality, it was something I had never thought about until now..
‘A warrior, I am a warrior！’
That word is somehow childish, but it makes my heart flutter..
‘I see Until now, the devil has carried ’
The reason why nothing happened in my past life except for the first head explosion incident,
Isn't it because I had neither the will nor the ability to stop the devil?.
I didn't touch it because it wouldn't be a hindrance anyway, and when the time came, the demon king was naturally revived..
But in this life, I followed the flow of the game and struggled to stop the devil..
Accordingly, the devil is also trying to get rid of me somehow..
In terms of games, monsters… In other words, using phenomena called ghost stories,.
‘… I see That's how it happened.’
If you think about it that way, it's been less than a month
It is understandable that we have already encountered more than 5 strange phenomena in a short period of time..
“Oh Deok-hoon is the best.”
“hmm！”
snorting guy.
“Can I ask one last question??”
“Oi oi. I'm listening.”
He makes an expression that asks me to tell him if praising him is not a bad thing..
This time, I began to explain by substituting the game, hiding the facts appropriately..
“Well, in the game. If you die while fighting an enemy, you can go back to the point before you met the enemy and try again, right? But the strange thing is, when you meet the final boss and lose, you go back to the starting point of the game instead of right before the boss room..”
this was really strange.
If you follow the trend that when you die, you go back to the time before you encountered the ghost story,.
When he was killed by the Demon King, why on earth did he skip three years and come to the entrance ceremony??
“…end2”
The guy who was quietly crossing his arms asked as if he was dumbfounded..
“uh. If you die from the devil, you return to the starting point of the game. I'm curious about this.”
“Kuu - Really, really. What does that mean?.”
“Isn't it strange? Of course, if you resurrect from the last step like before, isn't it normal to have to try again right before the boss room??”
“Baka. It’s the ending branch, right?.”
ending branch?
“Losing to the boss is itself a choice. Bed ending in that state
Look, you've entered 'New Game+' ”
This guy is strangely familiar with this kind of thing..
Is it because I often played games with lots of options and branches, and pretty girl dating simulations?.
“New, new game? tell me in detail.”
“Phew.”
Break time is almost over.
Deokhoon seemed a little annoyed that I was taking up all of his animation watching time, so he shook his head and answered..
“The answer only ends here. '2. episode. It's called 'tea'. This means continuing the experience from the previous game and starting the game again from the beginning. end.”
After saying that, the guy put on his earphones and started watching an anime called Konosuba..
I see a noisy blue-haired girl rolling around from room to room..
‘New Game Plus… 2nd round……
Although I liked games, I mainly enjoyed playing online games..
I have no questions whatsoever about games with endings or choices like this.
It's foreign.
So naturally, a question came to mind..
Are you saying that not defeating the final boss can be an option??
Are there some gamers who make that choice on purpose??
Why on earth? why?
“Phew.”
shook my head.
You have to ask too.
grasp-
He forcibly snatched Deokhoon's earphones and spoke into his fat ear..
“Hey, I'm really sorry, but there's one more thing. Why is not defeating the boss an option??”
Deokhoon suddenly loses his temper..
“Noom! How dare you disturb my anime time?!”
He huffs as if he is genuinely angry..
“I'll go to the store and buy some bread. tell me.”
Deokhoon's chin shook as if he was surprised by those words..
“You become my bread shuttle?”
“Just for today.”
“Kucuk.”
A guy who shakes his flesh and giggles as if he's having fun.
“This body. After 17 years of always delivering other people's bread, I finally have my own bread shuttle? Cucumber - Don't mess around~ Things like that happen in reality.-”
“ answer.”
A word from a guy who thought for a while.
“To see the true ending.”
“···okay. thank you.”
As expected, it's a mess that I can't understand right now..
But something was saved.
Adversary.
The giant monster currently sleeping under the school.
Strange creature. Final boss. darkness.
It wasn't just buried quietly..
He was constantly targeting and attacking me..
The sleeping demon king and me standing above him with a base called the club..
An invisible, bloody struggle was unfolding secretly across the school..
ghost story club
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