𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕
「𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠?」
I know a little bit about the Forbidden Arts stone.
If I remember correctly, theoretically, black was the highest value.
「. . . . . . .」
I was bewildered, but to be honest, there were too many suspicious things about this situation.
First of all, in the exorcism worldview, trying to glimpse the future is one of the greatest taboos.
And I know most of the future. This alone is actually more than enough to exceed the tolerance level.
Secondly, I know many spells that are called forbidden arts in the world. And I’ve even used them.
「𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙩, 𝙄’𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙤.」
Thirdly, fundamentally, to me, the people in this world are people in a 「𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙」.
Even though it’s become reality now, deep down, that perception hasn’t completely disappeared.
In that case, wouldn’t the actions I took towards the characters in the game actually be judged the same as the actions I take towards the people here by the system?
「𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚.」
I enjoyed playing the exorcism series and killed many hostile forces and PKed.
I also did a lot of PVP. Enough to climb to the top of the world rankings, actually.
「𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙡. . . . . . .」
There are a lot of things that are really iffy. There was a good chance that all of that would be judged as karma value by the system.
From that perspective, I was pretty much the embodiment of taboos.
「𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙬, 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮.」
The exact value is unknown, but at this level, Cheong Haram would have taken almost double the damage from Phantom Nightmare’s curse at that time.
「𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙄 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛?」
No matter how efficiently I defended, I thought I was surprisingly unharmed in the curse, but that was why.
Anyway, I had to hide it. If anyone saw this, something terrible was bound to happen.
I quickly covered the bead with my body and called forth a part of the earthbound shikigami, Earthbound, and had it hold the Forbidden Arts stone.
Poof?
Earthbound is a shikigami whose nature is relatively pure among the ones I have. Therefore, the bead influenced by Earthbound slowly began to regain its original elegant color.
Just then, the Forbidden Arts teacher, Go Daehye, approached. I canceled the Earthbound summoning and, as soon as she reached out her hand, I very quickly handed her the stone.
A very small amount of black seeped out from where my fingers touched it, but it wasn’t very noticeable compared to yellow or red.
It was definitely fine.
“The color is a bit murky. . . . . . ?”
Go Daehye stared at it intently and then praised me with a sinister smile.
“Hoo. Good. Good. Have you been working hard in class? I’ll give you extra credit.”
Whew.
I let out a sigh of relief, and the teacher took the bead and walked over to the other students.
Since a lot of attention was drawn to me by the teacher’s reaction, I had to keep my eyes peeled in case anyone noticed anything strange.
Clap.
Clap.
Go Daehye drew attention with a clap and gave instructions.
“Okay, everyone, it seems like there are no problems, so we’ll end class today. Everyone remembers the content of the midterm exam in three days, right? We’ll be going outside the school, so anyone who’s late will be left behind~”
Since the midterm exams for other subjects are all over, Forbidden Arts is the last one in order.
「. . . . . . .」
The end of Chapter 1 of the story. Not much time is left until the end-of-semester exam, which will be the background for the Yeongwol Island incident.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
My image throughout the school was slowly improving without me realizing it.
Although there were still many skeptical reactions, I had defeated Cheong Haram, and I had maintained good grades in the midterm exams for various subjects that followed, so rumors gradually spread.
Some people who remember Han Kang-yoon in Class A when he first entered school are probably thinking this by now.
They might be thinking that Han Kang-yoon, who had been standing still while others were moving forward, was finally starting to grow.
Therefore, unlike at the beginning of the semester, when no one paid any attention to me, I could now feel the eyes of others on me whenever I attended class for each subject.
Furthermore, some people even started to approach me and talk to me.
However, there was still no one who approached me in the Forbidden Arts class.
The reason was simple.
“What are you thinking about so much?”
It was because of Seo Ji-an, who was taking Forbidden Arts with me.
When she came up to me for some reason and started making small talk, I answered nonchalantly.
“Just thinking about stuff.”
“I asked you what you were thinking about, but that’s all you’re going to say?”
Forbidden Arts class was moving to the exam site in a Cheonghwa Academy transport vehicle. Seo Ji-an, who was sitting next to me, turned her attention back to the book she was reading.
「𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙝𝙪𝙝?」
Seo Ji-an, who was back to taking regular classes because of the deal she made with me,
However, since she had been taking 1-on-1 curriculum with teachers during elective subject class time, she didn’t seem to have much of a connection with the other students.
「𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧.」
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