Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Clubs (3)
"Hey, why did you say something like that to Nayun" Kim Suho asked Hajin
"Hm? what'd I say wrong"
"The thing about her brother"
"What about her brother"
"Do you really not know? Anyway we'll talk about it later"
Kim Suho ends the conversation and walks away.
"Wow, you managed to piss off three of the most important people in one hour. Commendable" I say, while inwardly chuckling.
While Hajin is thinking about a witty retort, another notification pops up on his computer
[Chae Jinyoon: In the original work, he was Nayun's reliable brother and Suho's assistant. However, it was deemed that the main character had too many supporters]
[Point of Change: Four years ago, Chae Jinyoon, after being appointed as a hero, got into an accident. On his first deployment, he received a demon's brand and has become a devil's seed.]
If you contain a devil seed, like Chae Jinyoon, you will eventually transform into a demon, the beings djinns make contracts with, after a five-year incubation period. This means that Jinyoon has about nine months before he turns into a demon.
Understandably, Kim Hajin begins trembling after reading this information. At this moment, I doubt anything I can say will help him, so I attempt to comfort him.
'Can't have dying or giving up yet'
"You alright dude?"
"Yea Yea, I'm fine"
"Alright, I'm gonna head back to the dorms"
Knowing that Hajin probably needs some alone time to think over all the information, he's learned, I decided to give my statement to the officers and head back to the dorm. After all, I have some things to ponder.
I also didn't have to give any sort of statement as neither Suho nor Nayun noticed me and Hajin didn't tell anyone about my appearance. However, from today's event, I can conclude that I will need to be somewhat involved with the plot as small butterfly effects that I made inadvertently will cause issues. An example is Kim Hajin not being in the museum and instead trying to treat me to lunch. I would still maintain some distance and hopefully only ever communicate with Hajin as the rest of the cast are pricks except Suho. I also decided to complete one of my goals by stealing. No, getting Aether once I achieve mastery of the first movement, quick flash.
'I should check the log to see if anything changed'
[Log]
[Kim Hajin slumps down on his chair staring at the computer that contains the new information. He decides that he will have to kill Chae Nayun's brother to save the world. He also realizes that he will need to help the main characters with major events as the difficulty may be too high. Kim Hajin receives a notification on his phone]
[Yoo Yeonha: ???? I told you not to talk informally to me. This is your last warning. I also told you not to text me.]
Defeated, Kim Hajin ignores the onslaught of insults and begins to plan his revenge on Ren]
'haha, I'll just find his plan and tear it apart before anything happens'
Without knowing it, Ren's hatred for this world began to fade slowly
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'fuck, not anti-personnel training again'
I stood awkwardly amidst the ground trying to find another person who got left out to spar with. While I was standing with my hands in my pockets, Kim Hajin tapped me on my shoulder, smiled, and walked toward the instructor. I can already tell he's saying "Haha, you have no friends"
Trying to save myself the embarrassment of saying "I don't have a partner" I start thinking over how I can skip this class when I feel a tap on my shoulder.
'This tapping me shit is getting old. Can people not communicate with words anymore???'
I turn around to see Bam, thankfully not the girl from earlier, waiting for me. The rest of the class was pretty uneventful as we just spared for around two hours. I did see Kim Hajin and Chae Nayun get into an argument.
"Hey spar with me"
"I don't want to"
"Why, you scared"
"I need to be careful since I'm using live rounds. I don't want to get in trouble for hurting a cadet"
The instructor, tired of their bickering, yells at Nayun to knock it off. Shortly after I glance a Kim Hajin and give him a thumbs up. He returns my kind and friendly gesture with a glare.
"Fuck you too" I mouth to him.
*Ring*
The bell rang and it was the last class of the day, so I excitedly ran out of the Coliseum. After all, I can't miss my 6 hours of REPEATING THE SAME ACTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN. CAN I? While fighting a mental battle inside my head, Kim Hajin approaches me, grabs my hand, and drags me toward some sort of classroom.
"Dude what"
"Come with me"
I reluctantly follow him as he's probably in a fragile mental state after the bomb of information dropped on him earlier. We enter some sort of lecture hall and I see a banner.
[Academic Club Orientation]
"dude I'm not in the club. what???"
"No, come with me. You're explaining those texts to Yeonha"
In the third row, I can see Yoo Yeonha sitting down awaiting the start of the presentation.
'Oh hell no'
"You want me to die in your place dude? The cube acknowledges me as more important than you. Just take the death courageously. Alright?"
"Oh shut up, you started this and you know it"
'Ha, this the perfect time to display the power that comes with being a loner. "Blending into the background" '
I twisted out of Hajin's grip and blended into the crowd of people walking into the lecture hall for the orientation. I stood a distance away from them and watched Hajin's conversation with her.
"Hey M'am, I brought the culprit from yesterday. See this guy next to me stole my phone and did that"
"I don't see anyone next to you"
Astonished, Kim Hajin looked to his side and there was indeed no one there. Looking behind him, he could hear someone chuckling in the distance. Yoo Yeonha attempts to speak to Hajin,
"So are yo-"
However, Hajin completely ignored her and began looking for me Unfortunately for him, I had already left the lecture hall and was on my way to repeat the same ac...
[Kim Hajin: Dude where are you]
[Kim Hajin: You're not getting away with this]
[Ren Jin: 🤣 🤣 🤣 Oooh, I'm so scared Mr. Rank 934]
'honestly, would have it been better to attend that shitshow?'
After training "quick flash" more commonly known as hell, I headed to the portal to hunt monsters for the rest of the day. I couldn't contact the agent from earlier as he would be helping Hajin tomorrow and I didn't want to change the plot.
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After selling the monsters I got and receiving the funds, I checked my balance.
[Balance: 2.5 million]
'this is probably enough to start investing'
I took out my smartwatch and put two million yen into the packhorse master guild.
'shit, it hurts like hell spending this much'
After checking the log, I saw that Kim Hajin was probably in worse pain than me as he was receiving his first stigma. Since Hajin is not from this world, he is unable to use mana, however; his cheat abilities give him something even better. The purest form of mana or "stigma."
'wait am I normalizing stalking him?'
Since the award ceremony for the cadets, who neutralized a djinn, would start in a bit and I knew that the reward given to Hajin was an incredible amount of money, I waited in a cafe nearby for him.
'he did say he would treat me earlier'
As expected, he walked into the cafe, sat down, and took out his laptop. I watched his happy expression and he thought about the djinn neutralization reward. I slowly walked towards him and placed my hand on his shoulder. With all my money being saved for stocks, I had nothing to eat when the cube cafeteria was closed.
"It just so happens that I heard about the reward for what you did. Remember when you said you were treating me earlier?"
"Yeah, yeah, are you stalking me or something?"
"Nah I just thought about where a loser would go after"
"you know I was your first contact bes-"
"Alright, that's enough dude. Buy me a milkshake, I'm gonna use the restroom"
I walked off because I knew that Yun Seung-Ah would approach him soon to ask about the light magic used at the museum. As Kim Hajin was getting ready to leave her, I conveniently walked out of the restroom and waved at him. After we were out of the shop, I asked him.
"bro you already have Yoo Yeonha, what are you doing"
"..."
*bzz*
We both checked our smartwatches
[We are looking for the people who last saw Jin Ha-Jeong from the World Class]
'ah the second major incident starts now'
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