Chapter 318: Start of THE NEW WORLD
Clatter Clatter Clatter Clatter!
Countless camera shutters clicked.
At the same time, a barrage of questions from reporters poured out.
“Student Kyung-joon! Please tell us how you feel about achieving the top score in the national college entrance exam!”
“I heard it was an extremely difficult exam this year. What’s your secret?”
“Is it true that you were accepted to all seven universities you applied to, including Seoul National University, KAIST, and POSTECH?”
“The lowest correct answer rate since the 1997 exam……”
Kyung-joon, the unique perfect scorer in all subjects on this historically difficult exam.
He received countless questions from reporters.
“It’s simple. I focused on Korean, English, and Math……”
Kyung-joon, who had already ruled over tens of thousands of residents in his territory.
And now, the de facto ruler who had made the entire underworld his own.
But here, he was just an ordinary third-year high school student.
If there was anything special, it was that he had received a perfect score on the exam without missing a single subject.
And the fact that he was well known to The World players as the lord of the Study Territory.
Other than that, people didn’t know much about him.
Certainly, no one knew that he had temporarily shut down The World server at the end of October, had acquired enough military power in reality to conquer the world, had implemented mana, and had eliminated Chairman Yoo.
Except for the two people waiting behind the press conference stage.
“Again, again, again. He’s messing with people.”
Yoo Seol-ha, watching Kyung-joon from behind the stage with cold eyes.
“Huh? Messing with them?”
And the Fairy King, polymorphed into a human, who was listening to her.
“He didn’t take the exam himself.”
On the day of the exam, Kyung-joon’s body did go to take the exam.
But his mind was Teemo’s.
In other words, Kyung-joon was in the game as Kyung-joon, and Teemo controlled Kyung-joon’s body in reality to take the exam.
“Aha. But isn’t that the same for you, Yoo Seol-ha?”
And Yoo Seol-ha was the same.
On the day of the exam, Yoo Seol-ha worked all night in Kim Elsa’s body.
In other words, the bodies that Teemo controlled were Kyung-joon and Yoo Seol-ha.
That’s why Yoo Seol-ha was even more dissatisfied.
“That’s right. Because of this damn crystal, I lost the national top spot.”
Yoo Seol-ha poked the crystal floating next to her, Teemo, with her finger.
<^오^>
<I knew based on big data analysis that Master wouldn’t be able to solve math problem number 30, and I just honestly followed that.>
“You’re lying. I also tried solving problem number 30 separately and I solved it. And stop calling me Master. It’s so cheesy.”
<Master is being tsundere.>
“You wanna die?”
“Tsundere? What does that mean?”
<I, Teemo, will tell you. What tsundere means is……>
“Hey! Shut up!”
A strange combination of Yoo Seol-ha, Teemo, and the Fairy King without Kyung-joon.
As the three of them bickered, the press conference ended.
“What’s all the commotion?”
Kyung-joon came down from the press conference stage and joined the three.
“It’s nothing. Let’s go quickly if it’s over.”
“That’s not the way.”
“I, I know that!”
Yoo Seol-ha turned her slightly flushed face away and quickly walked away.
Kyung-joon followed silently.
<^오^>
Teemo, as always, floated along with the ^오^ emoticon, following Kyung-joon.
“Hmm, so that’s what tsundere means. But I don’t quite understand……”
Following them was the Fairy King, searching Naver Wiki on her smartphone with its large font.
The direction they were headed was the nearby Seolha Entertainment headquarters.
There, they would prepare for a very important special announcement tomorrow.
A somewhat awkward silence filled the air for some reason.
The first to break the silence was, as always, Kyung-joon.
“So, are you ready?”
Kyung-joon asked Yoo Seol-ha, who was reading documents using the hologram function while walking.
“Almost. We’ll be perfect after a few rehearsals today.”
“No, not that kind of preparation.”
The preparation Kyung-joon was asking about wasn’t about whether Yoo Seol-ha could properly make the announcement tomorrow.
“Are you sure you won’t regret it?”
What Kyung-joon asked Yoo Seol-ha was about her ‘resolve’.
Because after that announcement tomorrow, the world would be completely turned upside down.
And the person who would have to bear all of that was Yoo Seol-ha, the current chairman of Seolha Group.
“Yeah.”
Yoo Seol-ha replied calmly, still not taking her eyes off the documents.
“It’ll be harder than it is now.”
“Yeah, it’s okay.”
“There will be many days when you’ll be so busy you won’t be able to sleep a wink.”
“Yeah.”
“You might not be able to be like this anymore.”
“Well, that’s……”
“You won’t be able to cry when you want to cry, laugh when you want to laugh, and you’ll have to hold back even when you’re angry. Will you still be okay? Becoming the head of a country, beyond just being a chairman……”
“Oh, really! I said I’m okay!”
Yoo Seol-ha turned off the smartphone hologram function with a snap and turned around to face Kyung-joon.
“Since you’re going to make me do it anyway! Why are you pretending to be worried now?”
<Master. For your information, Master is still sulking about that incident.>
“That incident?”
<When Master embedded Secretary Oh in the ceiling and you rescued her.>
“Aha.”
“W, What nonsense! I’m not!”
Understanding what the problem was, Kyung-joon immediately took action to resolve it.
Something he had thought about doing a few years ago above the Seoul nightscape where not a single star was visible, but hadn’t done.
“Eek?!”
Kyung-joon suddenly pulled Yoo Seol-ha into his arms, setting the mood.
“It’s okay. I’m here by your side.”
He said these embarrassing words.
“W, What are you doing……!?”
Whack!
Yoo Seol-ha pushed Kyung-joon away and escaped from his embrace.
Then, she quickly opened and closed the door with force and entered the Seolha Entertainment headquarters building first.
“Ah! That’s what tsundere is!”
The Fairy King exclaimed in realization and clapped her hands.
Kyung-joon couldn’t help but chuckle at the situation he couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago.
And he thought.
What started as simply looking for a place to study in the game had led him all the way here.
The result of not giving up, not hesitating to learn, and continuously seeking the truth was right here, right now.
Things had already happened.
There was no turning back.
He had made those choices.
Then he had to accept them.
There was no other way but to take responsibility and move forward.
Just like he had always done.
Kyung-joon looked back at the Fairy King and Teemo and said,
“Shall we go too?”
“Let’s go. I should probably store some mana in scrolls in advance, thinking about the magic I’ll be demonstrating tomorrow.”
At Seolha Group’s special announcement tomorrow, Yoo Seol-ha and the Fairy King would reveal the existence of magic to the world.
“But Kyung-joon, are you really okay not doing a demonstration?”
“Yes. It’s enough for me to work on various things behind the scenes.”
“You’re quite the behind-the-scenes power broker.”
“Haha, well, yeah.”
As Kyung-joon opened the door to the headquarters to follow Yoo Seol-ha, who had gone in first,
<Master. Come to think of it, we haven’t decided on a codename for this operation. Since it’s a special announcement that will turn the world upside down, it needs a suitable name.>
“Do we really need one? Can’t we just make the announcement?”
<Considering we’ll be putting up banners, I recommend coming up with one.>
“Hmm……The Advent of The World without a connection device? The World was actually another world? How about something like that?”
<Too long. Wouldn’t a more concise and eye-catching name be better?>
“Hmm, then……Ah, this is it.”
Kyung-joon pondered with his chin resting on his hand and soon came up with a good name.
Kyung-joon said with a grin,
“New World.”
<Completed>
^직^공^
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