Chapter 41
41 fury
Interlude - Club Level LV.5
“bye bye.”
“See you tomorrow~”
That afternoon, after going out the front door with my teammates on the way home from school, I pretended to go home and then turned around and headed back to the club room..
As I received advice from Deokhoon, I planned to use points from now on to raise the level of the club..
‘It'll be trouble if they find out.’
Even Seon-ah, Gyeong-won, and Hayun, who have accepted the strange phenomenon to some extent, have no idea about this game-like system..
Someday I will have a chance to tell you, but right now I am in a difficult situation..
So I'm heading to the club room alone..
A quiet classroom with only a few seniors preparing the palm trees..
The school I went to before was a forced one, but Nakseong High School here seems to be a bit more relaxed, so there weren't many people there.
all.
In today's schools, there are many students who do not compromise with the school for reasons such as going to their own academy or studying better in the reading room..
Of course, this required the consent of the parents, so the seniors who could not reach an agreement remained like this and prepared for the palm tree..
‘That's terrible. I definitely have to take it out.’
In my previous life, I had already taken the college entrance exam and entered college, and then came back..
It's still a month into the new semester, so I'm just holding on, but due to my personality,
I don't have the confidence to go through that boring exam life again..
I went up to the club room, thinking that it would be nice to be able to use this system to manipulate reality and have interactions such as skipping classes..
Grumbling-
When I open the door, I can see the city setting at sunset beyond the club room window..
“Who didn't close the window?.”
I approached and closed the window and slowly looked around the club room..
Desk, chair, whiteboard.
A simple but cozy space exclusive to our ghost story club.
‘no one is watching?’
I stuck my head out into the hallway for a moment and looked..
Fortunately it was quiet.
“Club status window!”
Paat-
[Ghost Story Club LV.2]
① Club management
② Staff management
® Store（Locked）
④ setting
‘1th. Club management.’
Paat-
［Ghost Story Club LV.2］
［You can grow your club by investing ghost story points..］
［Ghost story points until the next level up 0/100］
［ability］
- Space Expansion LV.1
The last time I raised the level of the club as a test, I chose to expand the space and increase the size of the room..
At that time, other abilities that could have been selected other than space expansion were probably 'ghost story collection ability' and 'talent capacity'..
Words that you can't tell what kind of ability you have just by hearing their names..
“Today, I will level up, open the store, and get those abilities one by one..”
I remember probably being able to increase one ability point every time the level went up..
“Now, level up!”
I put my finger on the level up button floating in the air in front of me and pressed it..
Then the points began to disappear before my eyes..
[Ghost story points until the next level up 1 7… 28·” 52·- 75·- 99··- 100/100]
Tiriring!!
Bubble bung~♬
[The club has leveled up.!]
[Ghost Story Club LV.2 -〉 LV.3]
[You can choose (1) ability level.]
“Okay, just sprint to level 5! Let's open a store!”
Then, I continue to press the level up button until level 5..
[Ghost story point until the next level up…
36- 57- 83- 100/100]
Tiriring!!
Bubble bung~♬
[The club has leveled up.!]
[Ghost Story Club LV.3 -〉 LV.4]
[You can choose (2) abilities.]
“good! Let's go!”
Although this system has the form of a game, it takes a very long time to earn points and level up..
It's a bit frustrating compared to working hard to level up by skipping dozens of stairs in a day in a typical online MMORPG game..
Therefore, I felt an exhilarating feeling as my level continued to rise like this..
[Ghost story point until the next level up… 36- 57- 83- 100/100]
Bubble bung~♬
[The club has leveled up.!]
[Ghost Story Club LV.4 -〉 LV.5]
[You can choose (3) abilities.]
At that moment, a hologram-like firework effect exploded in front of my eyes and a message appeared..
[Congratulations! Reached club level 5!]
[Store features are turned off!]
[Ghost Story Club LV.5]
① Club management
② Staff management
© Store < NEW !!
④ setting
［You can choose (3) abilities.］
［Each time the club's level increases, you can give the club one ability point. Please select. Currently available : (3)］
［Ghost Story Collection LV.0］
［Talent Capacity LV.0］
［Space Expansion LV.1］
“After, it's done.”
Store features have been unlocked.
And as the level went up, I also acquired three permissions to grant abilities to the club..
“Status window. Status window… hmm.”
I tried to scroll back and look at the opened store functions, but the screen didn't move..
“Are you saying we should distribute ability points first?.”
A typical old classic game room where you have to perform the activity suggested by the system before moving on to the next window.
It was a ceremony.
“Three… Let's see.”
There are three abilities to choose from:.
Then it would be better to distribute them equally..
“However, space expansion……
It was originally too narrow, so even if it suddenly widened, it could have gone unnoticed, but if it widened further, it would be too noticeable..
“What is it??”
I thought about it for a while, but when I changed my mind, I thought it might be an opportunity.
heard.
Anyway, I have to convince them at some point..
But the club room suddenly got bigger overnight.!
I could use that as evidence later when explaining the game system to the guys..
And I've been hiding it because I was worried about the members' reactions, but now that I think about it, I'm not doing anything particularly bad..
Is defeating the devil and bringing peace to the world something to hide?.
Someday there will come a moment when I have to share all of this strangeness with the members, I don't know if it will be tomorrow or next month, but for now I have decided to expand on it..
“good. I will raise all three abilities one by one..”
Click with your fingers.
[The space of the club room is expanded.]
[The ability to collect ghost stories is added to the club..]
[Talent capacity has been added to the club..]
Existing abilities have been leveled up, and two other abilities have been added to my club..
［ability］
- Space expansion LV.1 -〉 LV.2
- Ghost Story Collection LV.0 -〉 LV.1
- Talent Capacity LV.0 -〉 LV.1
Three abilities were added at the same time.
Just as several internet pop-ups appear, the mesh
The spears overlapped and appeared in front of me..
The most surface message was about the expansion of space..
[Space expansion LV.1 -〉 LV.2]
[The size of the club room is expanded. Please close the door and go outside to load..]
“No, do I have to go out like this every time? Can't I just stay inside??”
I complained, but the system had no answer..
Now that I think about it, how on earth does the loading club room work?.
“Suddenly I'm curious.”
I thought I should check it by taking a video with my cell phone inside the club room and then leaving..
“Let's see.”
I carefully placed my phone on the desk and opened the door to the club room to leave..
“The angle is not perfect. I have to set it up in the corner of the floor so it can be seen clearly on the screen.
me.”
The moment I close the door to the club room again to fix my phone..
[Reload the club room. Please wait a moment.]
“Wow.”
While I was in the room, it started to look like a club room..
I guess opening and closing the door was the trigger..
“I was curious, but it worked out well..”
Well, you won't die..
Inside the loading club room.
As I stood quietly in front of the door with my arms crossed to observe it, the inside of the room began to tremble..
Pabat-
It felt like the entire room was being moved somewhere with vibration, as if the entire room had become an elevator..
When you suddenly move from a low altitude to a high altitude, the scenery outside the window passes by in an instant, with a deafening feeling..
Pavat- Pababat-
0%.
8%.
I felt like I was climbing somewhere for a while and my ears started hurting, so I quickly swallowed my saliva to relieve my stuffy eardrums..
13%.
21%.
Paat-
“Ugh, what is it?.”
The sunlight coming in from outside the window suddenly disappeared..
As the room was plunged into pitch black darkness, I fumbled with my hand in panic and turned on the light..
pot-
The light turns on nervously and trembles.
Only then did I see the inside of the club room changing..
clank-clunk-
The tiles were standing up and turning over one after another, like dominoes being overturned, turning into new tiles, and the wall was divided into several squares and were being pushed one by one, expanding the space..
35%.
47%.
It reminded me of the movie Transformers..
There, when the cars were transformed into robots, they were flipping and folding and changing shape like crazy, and when I saw the club room changing, it was similar to that..
The table went down into the shaking tiles of the floor, and after a while, it came up suddenly in what I thought was the exact center of the newly expanded club room..
puck!
“Oh my, it's a shin.!”
As I was standing on the edge, my leg hit the edge of the rising table and I rolled on the floor..
Then the whiteboard fell from the ceiling and spun around, hitting the top of my head..
Powok!
“Argh! It's F!”
Is this why I told you to stay outside?.
The notice was the system's consideration for the user..
55%.
63%.
After coming to my senses, I stood up unsteadily and walked to the window..
Window when looking in from outside while loading
I remember the door turning hazy and not being able to see anything..
I'm also worried about why it suddenly got dark..
Is the entire space moving somewhere?.
I'm curious to check where this place is before it finishes loading..
“Hmm, what is it? It's dark.”
I closed my legs to avoid the shaking tiles and looked outside through the closed window..
There was only pitch black darkness..
In the darkness, I can see something faintly shining far away, very far away..
“ star?”
It was clearly daytime earlier, so what?.
I opened my eyes and looked around again..
Where is this place?.
Where has the club room been moved and is it being loaded?.
“What is that??”
I saw something sparkling in the distance beyond the corner of the window, but it was difficult to tell what it was because of the angle..
I thought I could see clearly if I stuck my head out, but the tightly closed window did not move..
84%.
91%.
When I pressed my face against the glass, pressing my cheek to the point where it fogged up, I could see what that shiny thing was..
that… A collection of shiny things that look quite strange... It was a nebula..
“universe?”
Various nebulae seen in science textbooks
They pass through my head.
Pillars of Creation, Horsehead Nebula, etc... A collection of interstellar materials floating in various shapes and emitting light in the middle of the dark universe..
Am I in space?.
But there is something strange about the shape of the nebula..
‘Oh, it's backwards.’
When I turned my head in the opposite direction while pressing the ball, I was able to see the whole picture for the first time..
‘… Adversary.’
In the middle of a dark, dark universe.
Among them, the cosmic molecular cloud of unimaginable size took the shape of the devil..
100%
Paat-
In an instant, the scenery changed and a sudden rush of light made me frown..
As I slowly open my eyes, I see my usual playground beyond the window..
After loading is finished, you return to the original space..
dump.
I slumped down in my chair..
What on earth is that?.
Something on a cosmic level… Is it really a living thing?.
Why does the nebula have such a strange shape?.
And where in the universe was that just now?.
If there was a nebula that looked like that, it would have been featured in a magazine already, but for now, I am new to it..
Unobservable at the level of human science... very, very far. Was it somewhere on the other side of the universe?.
“Phew.”
I once again witnessed something I couldn't understand..
I shook my head and slowly looked around, and the club room, which was larger than before, came into view..
Before, it was about the size of a small studio, but now it is about the size of a normal apartment living room..
Enough space for two groups to sit around and do activities..
On one side, you can sit at a table and have a meeting, and on the other side, you can set up a partition and watch TV, etc.
It becomes.
[Ghost Story Collection LV.0 -〉 LV.1]
A message blinks in front of your eyes as if asking you to click quickly..
“Phew. Okay, I understand. click.”
Then, one after another, messages pop up again..
[The ability to collect ghost stories has been added to the club..]
[From now on, club members will regularly collect ghost stories and bring them back..]
[Collecting C-level ghost stories…….]
“what? No, fuck! stop!”
[Member Jang Hwa-eun has completed collecting ‘Class C Ghost Stories – Psychopath Test’.]
dump.
The ability to collect ghost stories was literally the ability to collect ghost stories..
Seeing that it has a rating, it is not a ghost story in the general sense, but a ghost story with substance that I have fought so far.
s'.
“This can't be happening……
If I just stayed still, I was on the verge of death 10 times in a month. Does this mean that from now on, the members are deliberately bringing that to me?.
“How could this happen... Fuck you bastard
I tried cursing the system, but there was no return..
I sighed and flipped through the messages..
Expecting talent capacity to be somewhat usable..
［Talent Capacity LV.0 -〉 LV.1］
［Talent capacity has been added to the club..］
［Each time the level of the relevant ability increases, the system searches for and adds the optimal talent needed for the club. Current capacity is (1).］
［Talents are not treated as club members, but they are partners of the ghost story club who help you outside of school and act as facilitators..］
［Searching for talent… please wait……』
“Hoo!”
talent capacity!
This seemed like a somewhat useful ability..
Compared to space expansion, which increases the size of a room, and the ability to collect ghost stories that are trying to drive me to death, it was the ability that was likely to be the most helpful in practical terms..
[Talent recruitment has been completed.]
[Detective Park Kang-woon has been added as a talent to the ghost story club..]
“detective!”
Does this mean the detective will be on our side?!
That seemed like very good news.
Because this ghost story phenomenon that I encounter is such a crazy situation that it is not uncommon for me to die five or six times every time I deal with it..
It was clear that if the police, or even the detective, would be our helpers, our future activities would be much easier..
I read all messages with this.
I sat dumbly for a while and waited, but nothing happened.
did it.
“where is the detective?”
Give me the detective, fuck you..
I tried to stir the system but there is no response..
Seeing as there is no immediate change, it seems like things will come together on their own over time, just like when I first got a club room..
“Phew, okay. Now I have to finish it.”
All that's left is to check the store!
The moment I sat down and stretched before finishing, I felt a strange feeling.
Feeling angry, I looked at the door of the club room and saw someone standing there..
Someone was looking into the eastern room through the glass window in the center of the door..
It was teacher Jang Hwa-eun..
‘ Since when?’
The teacher is staring at me without making a movement..
I quickly shook my head, feeling my heart sink..
Have I shown any suspicious behavior??
I remember quickly.
Waving alone with my fingers in the air
It was a bit of a struggle, but this system window won't be visible to others anyway..
I remember not being able to look inside while the space expansion was loading..
‘As long as you don't notice that the room has become bigger, there's no need to explain much..’
After checking various things in my head and deciding that nothing looked suspicious, I felt relieved and naturally looked at the glass window on the door and said hello..
“Hello teacher~ I was surprised! what are you doing there?”
The teacher still had his eyes wide open and had no answer..
ghost story club
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