No Dark Secrets In This Book

Episode 66

It would take 1500 chapters in web novel standards to describe what the sentence “a novel is just a novel” did to the possessed. If it’s 4500 characters per chapter including spaces, that should be okay. 

Unfortunately, many of the possessed don’t quickly accept the dimensional transfer that happened to them. But if you just understand that the present given to me is reality, you can live a wise possessed life like me.

Would you miss the chance to rise together with your favorite just to monologue things like ‘You’re just characters, paper dolls’? 

In that sense, I was accepting Ryuseong quite ‘humanely’. The only thing tormenting Ryuseong was the fact that my personality was rotten.

“Well, is there a problem?”

“You’re the problem. Where did you go and come back from?”

Ryuseong is probably worried about me. But I don’t give a damn about such things and snorted arrogantly and shrugged my shoulders. 

Slowly and arrogantly.

“Are you stalking me?”

“What?”

“Obsession is a disease, Mr. Ryuseong. Your friend told you that, but did you not understand?”

But if you think about it, the fact that I ended my words to this degree to a guy who is hiding his intention to kill me and acting kind proves how good-natured and kind I am.

‘I knew I was a good person.’

Ignoring Ryuseong’s grimace, I walked forward and my wrist was grabbed. I could feel the students carefully strolling in the hallway gasping and holding their breath, stopping in place and looking at us with nervous hearts.

But you know Cassice Demillang’s germaphobia setting isn’t just for show, right? I slapped his grip loudly. I thought this would piss off Ryuseong and make him leave. Because Ryuseong would never guess the reason why my mood has twisted.

From Ryuseong’s point of view, it would be a situation where Cassice Demillang has gone crazy and is being hysterical. I suddenly left early and came back, and when he asked where I went because I looked unwell, he’s treated like a stalker? Hey, even Buddha would get angry at this. Even if I have a prickly temper, I know how to do self-reflection and objectivity.

But reality unfolded differently from expectations.

“…Why are you angry?”

Ryuseong was worried about me even after being treated like this. Does it not matter if others act irritable to him? This was so absurd that I was dumbfounded, so I just stopped with my mouth gaping, and Ryuseong seemed more flustered by that, frowning and taking a step back.

Then, as if declaring he won’t threaten me, he showed his bare hands. I, who never felt threatened in the first place, was beyond dumbfounded and nearly flipped over.

As we were staring at each other awkwardly like that, the next moment, a professor’s intrusion stopped our embarrassing time.

“Oho, where did you learn to block the way by standing in a line in the hallway? Get going!”

It was Professor Apple. As always, he nagged in an exaggerated and heated voice, sweeping the students away. How did he get so strong despite being as skinny as a stick?

‘Ah, did he use a strength enhancement magic?’

Anyway, the timing wasn’t bad. Because I also had a reason to meet the professor.

I raised my hand and gestured for him to come this way.

***

Professor Apple, who was striding forward while roughly pushing students aside, suddenly became startled upon noticing Cassice Demillang’s presence, abruptly stopping his steps and suddenly becoming polite.

“Oh my, Cassice was here.”

Apple’s attitude of nimbly bowing his waist in a noble manner and raising it could provoke dissatisfaction from other students. Because it’s a completely different attitude from how he treats them.

However, Cassice Demillang is different from the students. It’s not just his status. Only ignorant kids insist that Cassice Demillang’s force comes from his status. In the first place, Cassice Demillang is a hunter in name and reality.

Not only is he a senior in the industry, but he’s also an old hand.

What does this mean? It means that even though he just hasn’t awakened his hero name yet, he is already contributing a role to this world.

Cassice Demillang’s capability was proven early on when he attacked a dungeon at the age of thirteen.

‘Shirrkun.’

Attacking a dungeon alone is a crazy thing to do. And Cassice Demillang did it.

Dungeon attack starts with forming a party according to the analyzed risk level. The number of members in the attack team increases or decreases depending on the level of the hunters participating. For example, a party with an A-grade hunter will succeed in an attack even with fewer members compared to a party without an A-grade hunter.

According to that principle, the number of party members doesn’t just increase recklessly because a dungeon has a high risk level.

And it was analyzed that the dungeon ‘Shirrkun’ required nine A-grade hunters until clear.

The fact that he cleared it alone means…

‘At least triple A.’

Of course, analysts conservatively and generously determine the number of attack personnel considering safety, but that is the level a thirteen-year-old achieved.

A crazy guy.

‘…Although Ryuseong was said to be able to attack a dungeon at the age of eight.’

Ryuseong didn’t attack. The leader of Hanra chased everyone away, saying what nonsense are you talking about to a little kid. Maybe that was natural. It was a crazy thing to put a little kid in a dungeon and make them attack alone.

But Cassice Demillang did it. The students still vividly remembered being shocked and dumbfounded when they heard the news through newspapers or broadcasts during their elementary school 6th grade days when they were thirteen. Someone my age did this? Everyone was astonished by the overwhelming feat that couldn’t even be compared to their mom’s friend’s son.

Even after that, his extraordinary moves didn’t stop.

He participated in several attack battles and continued his activities without hiding his own existence.

Well, even Cassice Demillang has a weakness.

‘Not having a hero name.’

With this level of activity, he should have at least awakened a boring hero name like ‘Hunter’.

Cassice Demillang strangely didn’t awaken a hero name.

Considering the point that a hero name is a role given by the World Tree to those who influence the world, and the long-standing idiom ‘Awakening an ability makes you an Awakener, awakening a hero name makes you a Hunter,’ Cassice Demillang is not yet a hunter.

‘Even if that’s not the absolute criteria for judgment.’

In the first place, Awakeners have a registration card, but Hunters don’t really have one. There is no reference point to distinguish between yes or no. If you have the will to participate in dungeon attacks and the power to come out alive, you’re a hunter.

But as everyone knows, the world has factions, so Cassice Demillang, who is young and has a rough personality, is somewhat of an outsider in the Named Hunter industry. Despite his position as a Demillang, he is being ignored to a certain degree.

Originally, it would have been impossible for someone that age to even get into a group of Named Hunters. It was more so because those Cassice Demillang was compared to were not ordinary hunters, but Named Hunters.

Ordinary hunters refer to those who have awakened a hero name, while Named Hunters refer to those who have awakened a unique name.

Cassice Demillang achieved results comparable to the heroes of the world who command the Black Fog without even having a common hero name.

‘Even if he’s evaluated as lacking compared to them… Being compared itself is amazing.’

Cassice Demillang is twenty years old. He has just become an adult. This was also one of the reasons students admired Cassice Demillang.

Not just because he is of the great Demillang bloodline.

The point that he is a pioneer who has already walked the path the students want to go…

‘Because if I had to be in the same class as a genius who wrote such a history, I would be envious too.’

Who wouldn’t feel pressure from a boy the same age attacking a dungeon while they were training by looking at monster corpses provided by adults?

Of course, both Ryuseong and Cassice Demillang have things they were born with. In Ryuseong’s case, it’s his unique name, and in Cassice Demillang’s case, it’s his bloodline…

But you can’t overwhelm others with just innate things. Could all Demillangs have succeeded in the reign of terror like Cassice?

Among the Demillangs throughout history, there were those who were ignored and those who were treated as fools. Only when bone-cutting effort follows can overwhelming achievements that break one’s spirit follow. And Cassice Demillang proved it.

He declared that he is a being that should rightly be feared.

‘I like geniuses. So much that I want to lick them! But that one is truly a monster…’

Professor Apple monologued like that. When he heard that he jumped into the new field of blood magic, he thought, so that’s how it is. When he endured injuries just to train that, he thought he was tenacious.

But the performance evaluation was different.

‘Completion.’

The skill that reached the peak was there. All the professors at the scene were astonished and couldn’t close their mouths. He clearly didn’t receive any separate tutoring as far as I know. There wasn’t even a dedicated professor, but Cassice Demillang somehow crafted a great workmanship that would be recognized by anyone while learning the abandoned magic alone. And in just three months at that.

‘It was to the point that I felt self-loathing. Haha!’

Cassice Demillang made the professor reflect on his own life. It wasn’t just because of the level of that magic. Professors could easily perform that level if it was their specialized field. The problem was the absolute total amount of effort Cassice Demillang put in to reach that point.

‘Three months.’

What crazy bastard develops such skill in just three months…?

Even the professors never thought he would be this amazing. Even the professors who met him in attack battles said they didn’t know he was this outstanding before. They said he’s not a real hunter, but a devilish kid suitable for trickery and conspiracy, a young bastard who stumbles through dungeons with his family’s backing, but this achievement shuts the mouths of even those who inwardly looked down on him.

Apple inwardly thought he did well to suck up to him and smiled brightly at Cassice Demillang.

“What did you call me for?”

“I want to meet my mentor, where is he?”

“Ah, the principal is currently out on business! If you tell me your business, I will pass it on…”

“It’s nothing much, I’m here to drop out.”

“What?”

“Please let him know. Then, goodbye.”

“What?”

Apple suddenly wanted to commit suicide.