|U/N|
<SPONSOR SELECTION>
It was finally time to contract with a constellation, and I already knew which one I wanted to pick as he was the first one to lend his hand out to me in all of this chaos.
[YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE CONSTELLATION, COLLECTOR OF STORIES, AS YOUR SPONSOR!]
‘Attribute window.’
A status window appeared with information about me and my current level of abilities
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NAME: [Jinsil-eul Balghida(Means uncovering truth in Korean)]
AGE: 17?
SUPPORTING CONSTELLATION: COLLECTOR OF STORIES
STIGMAS: [BEAST LORD LV.1: A higher version of the skill, tame, allows you to thoroughly train and tame monsters and make them have a better affinity towards you.]
[FABLE LIBRARY LV.?: Allowed to borrow Fables or buy them/check them out, a unique ability given by the COLLECTOR OF STORIES. Skills and various other things can also be bought with coins.]
ATTRIBUTES: [HIDDEN FROM SIGHT(COMMON): A strange ability hiding your mere presence from others.]
[INTERFERER(?): Doesn’t give any boosts or perks.]
SKILLS: [COLLECTING INFORMATION LV.1: As the name states, ability may have been adjusted due to your constellation.]
[CAMINO LV.1: Tracks whatever you have designated as a target, you will see a small map on your status window showing dots showing enemies in red and allies in green.]
[INSIGNIFICANCE LV.1: So insignificant and not noticeable that you’ll be invisible, requires mana each time you activate it. There is also a passive ability that makes you forgettable.]
[THREAD LV.1: A seemingly useless skill that shoots spider webs out of your body, maybe it can be put to use if used correctly.]
STATS: [ATK LV.10] [HP LV.14] [SPD LV.20] [MANA LV.17]
COINS IN POSSESSION: 10,580
EVALUATION: Information about you has been blurred out, it is unknown why that has happened, unable to get any 1|\||=0/\/\@T10|\| about you.
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I stared at my status window for a while, not believing what I saw.
‘Huh?’
‘What are these supposed to do?!’
“Hey!” Na Bori shouted, wait…Na Bori?
‘How did I know-’
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES ORDERS YOU TO GAIN ALLIES WHILE YOU CAN, HE’S INTERESTED TO SEE HOW SOMETHING HE HASN’T SAW TURN OUT.]
“That was very cool of you to have-” Na Bori began to say as she and Lee Jihye walked up to me with relaxed and calm expressions
‘He wants me to…’
It was a bit weird, but…I looked around the classroom to see their were barely any other survivors except for…
“It seems we're the only ones left…” Jihye mentioned, the sudden relaxing atmosphere became gloomy once again.
“Aaaahhh! Nooo! You humans really-!” The Dokkaebi suddenly shouted with panic, was something wrong?
“Oh, yes our dear constellations! I’ll begin the next scenario! It’s in progress.” The Dokkaebi quickly reverted back to a professional manner, it was unsettling…but…
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES SAYS YOU SEE THE ARROW DON’T YOU?]
‘...Yes…but I don’t know if I can still completely trust you.’
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES NODS HIS HEAD AND SMIRKS, SAYING THAT’S FAIR, THOUGH THERE’S A HIDDEN DUNGEON AT THE END OF THE ARROW.]
“W-Wait, what did you just say?” I blurted out loud as Jihye and Na Bori looked at me with confused looks on their faces
“We were talking about how to get out of here.” Jihye said with a smile, I realized I had almost blown my secret conversation with my constellation.
“Ah, right.” I said, quickly switching the topic.
‘I guess we could follow that arrow for now…’
“You look like you have an idea, would you mind telling us?” Na Bori caught on, her expression full of curiosity.
“Sure, though I’m not sure if you both will be okay with it.” I spoke with a slight smile, feeling a bit worried.
“Come on! We’ll be fine, plus we’re the ones trusting you anyway.” Na Bori grinned cheerfully, I felt myself relax as I began to lead them amidst the relatively creepy school hallways.
‘There’s probably other survivors…not that I’ll need to help them.’
“...Jihye, what do you think…” Na Bori was muttering to her friend behind me, they were speaking pretty quietly so that I couldn’t hear them.
‘Trust me you say…? Yeah…’
The world has changed, trusting people could also lead to your downfall, but right now most people probably need a shoulder to lean on.
‘Ugh…thinking this much is giving me a headache…’
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES IS CHUCKLING IN AMUSEMENT AT YOUR EXPRESSIONS.]
‘Well, if you would kindly give me-’
[YOU HAVE BEEN GIFTED 10,000 COINS.]
…
…
“Hey, why did you stop?” Jihye asked, though I was stunned, who was this constellation that he could freely just toss out this much coins like that?!
‘Sorry for doubting you…’
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES SMIRKS SMUGLY.]
“I think I saw something, just being cautious. And that’s our exit.” I mentioned, pointing at a normal looking storage room.
‘Well, it was time to enter this dungeon whether I liked it or not…’
|LEON TAKUIRA|
“OUT THE DOOR, NOW!” I yelled, everyone ran out, I stayed behind as the door to our cabin was slowly breaking down.
(LEON TAKUIRA)-That damn crazy bastard!
“Haa…I just have to fight him…it’s fine, nothing wrong with trying to defend myself from a protagonist…” I groaned both verbally and mentally, summoning a sword to my hand which I had made with some metal pole.
“Leon!” Dokja shouted my name, I turned around to see that he was worried for me.
“...Just run! I’ll catch up!” I advised Dokja who only gritted his teeth as he nodded
“BAM!”
“CRASH!”
I leaped out of the subway, the door was sent flying as after I reached the ground, that man was now standing before me with an icy glare.
“...Who are you? It seems you’ve killed Kim Namwoon.” He spoke harshly, his sword already drawn as I smiled in excitement.
“Oh, I didn’t. Trust me on that, Yoo Joonghyuk.” I said, making the protagonist flinch as he bull rushed at me.
(LEON TAKUIRA)-Shit, I didn’t plan this out…
“BOOM!”
The noise stopped me for a second, that sound was…!
“The bridge collapsed.” Joonghyuk said calmly, I only sighed in annoyance.
“Hey, I can be of use to you, or matter fact. Let’s be, friends.” I said, stretching out my hand to him as Joonghyuk looked tempted to cut off my arm.
“...I, have no need for-” Joonghyuk began to say with a glare but stopped when I interrupted him, “I know everything about you, better than yourself. I’ll help you, my only desire is to achieve-”
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“U-Um…can I back out of this one?” Na Bori spoke with tears in her eyes as she looked at the scenario window, we were going to destroy ghosts technically, and I never knew Na Bori was this scared of horror.
‘And Jihye is…’
Jihye was also shaking with terror, but was the more calmer one in the situation, I was rather surprised I wasn’t freaked out.
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES IS YAWNING, WAITING IN SUSPENSE.]
‘And it’s probably because of him…’
The scenario I knew of here has been adjusted…it was a bother, but maybe I could earn something out of it.
“CLANG.”
“AAAAAHHH!” Na Bori screamed at the top of her lungs at the strange metallic noise we just heard
“Jesus! Bori, don’t scare me like that!” Jihye shouted, clearly nervous and tense.
“Just think of this like participating in a haunted house.” I sighed in an irritated manner, the others were still in a frightened state, if an actual ghost appeared…
“Are you-?” A sudden mysterious voice that echoed through the dark surroundings as we were traveling in the damp cave, a cold chilling feeling was on my shoulder as Na Bori and Jihye seemed to be spooked out of their wits.
‘...It’s behind me…isn’t it?’
[COLLECTOR OF STORIES NODS.]
Managing to muster up the courage to turn around, a face full of blood greeted me with its creepy features as I felt my soul leave my body.
“THUD.”
