‘How am I so stupid to not know?’ I mull over to myself.“Look, if it’s such a big deal, I’ll treat you to lunch for a month. But can we just forget that problem? I really want to be friends with you.” Kanon said, looking away and looking a bit nervous.“Uhh… You don’t have to do that.” I said. I look at her. ‘Now how should I move on with this?’She looks at me. “But you seem so serious. You must be upset.”I gulp and nervously look away. “I’m just not expecting you to be here.”She looks at me curiously. “No… You’re not expecting me to come up to ‘you’, are you?”“It’s the same.” I pop a samosa into my mouth. The delicious chicken curry invades my mouth as soon as I chew.She smiles knowingly. “Aww. You’re a sucker for sweet gestures. I know exactly fifteen guy who are just like you and trust me, they all melt after they know me.”I hum. “Mmhm. You’re gonna have a hard time melting me.”“And why is that?” She asked, taking a step closer to me with a smug smile.“Because I’m a diamon

After I’m done enjoying the treat I deserved, I asked her. “So what do you want to see me for?”“I’m assembling a team.” She said in slight whisper.I instantly recognized this as a canon dialogue. But isn’t she supposed to be discussing this with Rean instead of me?“Wait, why are you talking about it with me?” I immediately asked.“Well, you’re the first person I know here and you’re good. You beat the Ice Fairy.”“ ‘We’ beat the Ice Fairy. ‘We’.” I corrected her.She rolled her eyes. “Yes, but it’s mostly you. Anyway, I’m assembling a team, and I’d really like you to help with it. Since you’re from here, I’m sure you know some cadets that are exceptionally good.”As far as I know, the team is canon. It would never change even if she ask me. But the problem was that ‘I’ need to get in this team somehow. So—“Me? Are you asking me to join or just my opinion?” I try to open the gate myself.She looked conflicted. “Well, I kinda heard that the teachers had already found my long-ranger,

After that short briefing, we were dismissed. Rufus and the others went on their own way while I left to plan my own strategy.‘Ozzie. Did you catch when the event is going to happen? And can I have a map of the venue?’ I asked the System as soon as I got off the elevator.[It will happen at the end of this week. Map will be available for free when you are at the place. But you can buy it at the Shop if you are desperate.]That means I have less than a week to raise my level to at least 16, and work together with… I gulp. Rufus’s team.I never liked them back when I was still a player or now. Rufus is such a… Character. He’s a real bully and bad, and… I don’t like him. Period.Pierce is the only one tolerable. He is the one who has more sense between the three of them. But I still can’t trust him because he still has a dark side that he hasn’t shown yet.While Guinevere... Well… She’s Princess Annoying. F minus. Bleh.I whisked them away from my mind for now and opened the System’s sh

In the end, that SE stood for South East because we ended up going to the forestry near Rowan village.I didn’t take them to be people who like cold temperature, but I think they picked this area because the monsters are less wild than the southwest.Southeast region has Bearons, bear like beast monsters, that while don’t move as fast as Direwolves in the southwest, are essentially more powerful. Added with a couple of Prantas, vine-like plant monsters that crawl on the ground and could grab someone by their feet, this area is a perfect place for training.“The target today is killing a Bearon. Then we’ll bring its head to the local hunting lodge. It’ll fetch some money for dinner.” Rufus said.I’ve always wondered how did the game reward the characters’ team money while all they do is just killing. But here, I found out that monster corpses could be exchanged for money through instances such as Hunting Lodge in the forest.But luckily for me, I didn’t have to do that because the Syst

Guinevere followed the sound of gunshots and roars that led her deeper into the Southeast Forest. Her heart was beating fast with anxiety. Between getting lost and ambushed, she was also anxious that they would be punished for the chaos in the village. They were the ones who told Blondie to hunt a Bearon after all. And Guinevere had a thought that he must have aggravated the monsters in the forest somehow. She didn’t know if that’s true, but that what most likely to happen. And if it was, then it was their fault. 'Is he dead?' Guinevere pouted in distress. Because if he was, it was also their fault. She started to think that testing the Blondie with Bearon hunt ‘alone’ was a bad idea. 'What if he's badly injured and he reports us to the teachers? But he's a nobody. So no one would listen to him, right? But he looks like he's close with Rean... And Rean is a star student, teachers praised him&helli