It was impossible.
It was something that should never have happened.
‘I… lost?’
Buried in the forest floor as she stared up at the starry night sky, Min Arin could not believe the situation she was in.
At the beginning, the battle had been evenly matched.
No—in truth, she had clearly held the advantage after launching the first attack.
But the tide had unmistakably turned once close combat began.
Unlike her, the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple had shown herself to be skilled not only in magic, but also in physical combat.
―If there’s someone who threatens me… Gyeonu told me not to hold back.
Muttering incomprehensible words,
the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple had swung her sledgehammer without hesitation, shattering Arin’s barriers and giving her no time to properly cast her magic.
She had even launched attacks with swift kicks.
Then she had been struck by Arin’s magic, caught in the explosion, and blown away.
―W-Wait…!
―It’s going to hurt a lot.
Before Min Arin could do anything to respond,
the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple, who had been on the ground, lightly leaped into the night sky and leisurely took control of the air above her.
She had pulled both hands gripping the sledgehammer behind her shoulders.
Sensing what was about to happen, Min Arin had been so shocked that she had widened her eyes and tried to stop her.
But it was useless.
────!!
The Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple brought the sledgehammer down with all her might.
Min Arin had been struck head-on by the attack and sent crashing to the ground.
After losing consciousness for a while and then regaining it, she had been left sprawled there, without even the strength to move her body.
She had lost.
There was no room for argument.
‘This is a dream….’
Even so, she denied reality.
She could not accept it.
She was Min Arin.
A genius praised as the most outstanding among the direct descendants of the current generation of the Mado Min Family.
The granddaughter dearly loved by her grandfather, who reigned as the head of the Mado Min Family in this era.
The little griffin of the Mado Min Family.
A promising talent expected to stir up a storm in her generation and become its representative.
Someone like her could not lose.
‘I… I lost? I lost? Me, Min Arin?’
She could not accept it.
She could not permit it.
The battle was not over yet.
She had to get up quickly.
Min Arin clenched her teeth and tried to force herself up through sheer stubbornness.
But damn it, her body simply refused to obey her.
“…”
“Ah….”
It was then that the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple approached her.
Min Arin opened her mouth in despair.
“If you force your body to move, you could damage your mana circuits. It would be better to recover your strength where you are.”
Beneath the night sky where the stars and moon shone,
the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple spoke as her white hair fluttered in the wind.
Crack!
Min Arin looked up at her.
The girl must have gone through an intense battle as well, but she did not seem to be injured much.
The thought made Arin grit her teeth.
‘Don’t… look down at me….’
It was frustrating. Her pride was hurt.
Min Arin felt complicated emotions toward the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple.
But unaware of her feelings, the disciple gently reached out her hand.
“I’ll take these. You collected quite a lot.”
“Ah….”
The Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple collected the exam tickets from Min Arin.
Min Arin tried to brush her off.
But unable to move her body, she had no choice but to watch as the exam tickets attached to her clothes were peeled off one by one.
Even her own exam ticket was taken.
“…Don’t….”
“…”
“Don’t take them….”
Min Arin pleaded tearfully.
She had never lost even once until now.
She had never experienced the feeling of defeat.
Having felt nothing but superiority ever since she was born, she was experiencing defeat and humiliation for the first time in her life.
She had never imagined that she would abandon her pride and beg like this.
Even so, the exam tickets she had collected were desperately important to her.
More than anything, she did not want to lose her own exam ticket.
That exam ticket was practically her pride itself.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t do that.”
“Ah….”
“Then I’ll be going. I hope you can compose yourself and make a speedy recovery.”
But the Witch of Seven Colors’ disciple did not heed Min Arin’s plea.
Having gathered all the exam tickets, she immediately left.
Min Arin could do nothing but stare up at the night sky from which she had vanished.
“I’m… I’m Min Arin….”
The top score on the entrance exam belongs to me.
The night sky looking down at her was so disgustingly beautiful that it made her want to curse.
In the end, Min Arin shed tears.
* * *
There had been a monster attack during the night.
As I had already been unable to sleep deeply because I was spending the night alone, I had to fight those creatures several times.
Fortunately, I had an instinct for evasion. The other examinees must have had a hard time staying up all night.
“I should get moving soon.”
And so, the second day on Honrim Island dawned.
Having greeted the morning at the place the triplets had prepared for me, I decided to wander around the island as I had yesterday.
However, I could not simply roam around at random.
I checked the time on the Gate Watch strapped to my wrist.
08:58:23
There was just over a minute left until 9:00 a.m.
I waited for that moment.
Before long, the hour digit changed to 9.
Beep-beep!
The Gate Watch sounded its notification, which rang at three-hour intervals, and a message appeared on the screen.
I checked the message.
[09:00:00]
[All exam tickets located within a 500-meter radius will be displayed.]
Dots appeared across the grid-like screen.
The cluster of dots in the center of the screen indicated the exam tickets I possessed.
So I focused on the locations of the dots surrounding me.
‘It’ll be easier to find clues about Lee Gahyeon if I move toward a place with a lot of people.’
I decided on my course of action.
I would move toward the place with the most dots.
Of course, I knew that the dots did not perfectly indicate the examinees’ locations.
They indicated exam tickets.
One person, like me, might possess a large number of exam tickets.
But that did not matter.
‘Everyone will gather there anyway to obtain exam tickets.’
It was simple logic.
By now, the examinees nearby would have begun heading there.
Perhaps someone might even be coming to the place where I had been.
In that sense, waiting might have been an option.
But with a place containing more dots than I had gathering around it, I did not want to wait around out of boredom.
Before long, I arrived there.
‘They’re right in the middle of a fight.’
There were quite a few examinees.
They were scattered throughout the area, fighting over the exam tickets.
The contest for them was also unfolding differently from yesterday.
“You bastard…!”
“Hand over your exam tickets!”
Perhaps because the test would be over tomorrow, they had become more daring in their actions.
Most of them were not holding back at all.
And—
“More people are forming groups.”
Yesterday, it had only been something I saw occasionally, but today there were quite a few of them.
It was easy to witness examinees forming groups and fighting over exam tickets in various places.
They must have judged that forming groups was better for taking and defending their exam tickets.
For me, that was welcome news.
‘It saves me the trouble of searching for them one by one.’
I leaped into the chaotic melee, where metallic clangs rang through the air.
The examinees, who had failed to notice my presence because they were focused on their opponents, were greatly flustered.
“You, you’re…!”
“The Divine Sword Do Family….”
Don’t waste time talking. Swing your sword.
I landed on the ground after dropping from a tree and swung my sword before they could finish speaking.
The examinee at the very front was unable to support himself and was sent flying backward.
“How many exam tickets does he have!?”
“Watch out! He’s from the Divine Sword Do Family!”
“We have to stop that guy first!”
“You bastard…! If you’ve already eaten that much, just get lost!”
The examinees who had been fighting among themselves instantly joined forces because of my intervention.
They pointed their weapons at me and rushed in, surrounding me.
I did not tense up in the face of their numerical advantage. Instead, I quickly surveyed my surroundings.
Whoosh!
Flames flared up in midair.
The examinees in the rear were casting magic.
Some were nocking arrows, while others were loading magazines.
‘I should deal with the rear first.’
I immediately put my thoughts into action.
I pushed past the examinees in front of me in one burst and advanced.
They could not react to my speed.
Naturally.
While their Agility stats were generally around 30, mine was 71.
There was a difference of at least 30 points.
“…What!?”
“St-Stop him! Quickly!”
The examinees who realized my intentions shouted urgently.
But they could not stop me.
Even if they attacked me from the rear….
Crackle!
I could simply evade them with my Evasion Instinct.
Dodging the examinees’ attacks, I manifested the mana within my body.
Blue mana enveloped the blade.
Blue currents of electricity flashed around it.
Lion Dance
A swift sword technique unbound by form.
The first slash cut down the staff of an examinee about to activate magic.
The second deflected a bullet and struck the examinee holding the gun.
The third shattered a bow and struck the examinee who was switching to a dagger.
The fourth, the fifth, and so on….
As the swift sword technique was about to end, I unleashed another series of sword techniques.
Lion Assault
I stepped on the brakes with one foot.
Then I spread my other foot wide, half-rotated, and changed direction.
I had thoroughly cleared out the rear. Now it was time to deal with the front.
I leaped forward in a thrusting stance, charging at the examinee standing along the line toward which my toes pointed.
“Guh!”
The first strike.
Then I changed direction and delivered the second.
I did not stop there, unleashing a series of strikes until all the remaining examinees had fallen.
Trails caused by Wall Lightning formed along the path I had passed through.
“Phew.”
The situation was settled before I knew it.
Unfortunately, I had been unable to catch the examinees fighting in the distance.
The moment they witnessed my skill, they had turned tail and fled.
I forgot about them and decided to collect the exam tickets from the fallen examinees.
But before that—
“I should gather it while I can.”
Wall Lightning still lingered around me.
I decided to use the ability of the Ultramarine Sword to absorb the remaining electricity.
Wall Lightning flowed into the Ultramarine Sword.
Blue currents intermittently leaped from its pitch-black blade.
After the sparks subsided, I returned the Ultramarine Sword to its sheath.
Then I collected the exam tickets.
“How many points does that make now?”
The examinees I had defeated had possessed quite a few exam tickets.
After taking all of theirs, I seemed to have gained roughly 600 points.
I clicked my tongue at the unexpected windfall.
However, I could not forget my purpose.
‘Could Lee Gahyeon not be around here…?’
From what I had seen while surveying the area from the tree, I could not find any examinee who seemed likely to be Lee Gahyeon.
It seemed this place had been a dead end.
It could not be helped.
I had no choice but to keep searching.
If I wandered around places where many people had gathered, I would be able to find her.
I decided to move elsewhere.
At that moment, the Gate Watch rang.
Beep-beep!
“Hm?”
What was it ringing for this time?
I checked the Gate Watch.
[Distributing supplies.]
Supplies were distributed once a day.
There was no set time, and the locations where the supplies fell from the sky were random.
It seemed they were being distributed at this time today.
I looked up at the sky.
“…”
Wooden crates with parachutes attached were drifting down from the sky.
I searched for the wooden crate closest to me.
“I should go get that.”
In fact, I had obtained supplies yesterday as well.
I had enough water and food.
But there was no harm in having plenty.
More importantly—
‘People will gather to obtain the supplies.’
Surely, everyone on Honrim Island had begun to move.
There was no reason for me not to go.
I quickly started walking.
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The parachute caught on a tree.
Following the parachute, I ran through the forest and increased my speed.
Before long, I spotted a wooden crate swaying back and forth in midair.
“Am I the first one here?”
I spread out my detection field.
I could not sense any human presence.
It seemed I had arrived first.
Since I had been hoping the examinees would gather, I could not help but feel disappointed.
Still, I could simply wait.
But before that.
‘Shall I see what’s inside?’
I cut the parachute cords hanging from the wooden crate.
The wooden crate dropped to the ground with a thud.
When I opened it, the supplies inside greeted me.
“Everything we need is here.”
Chocolate bars, pound cake, cup noodles, military rations, first-aid medicine, a compass, sanitary pads, men’s and women’s underwear, socks, and more.
Everything necessary for surviving on the island was provided.
I took out a canteen.
“Oh, that’s refreshing.”
I had been thirsty to begin with.
Though I had a canteen hanging from my waist, the water inside was lukewarm.
By contrast, droplets of water had formed on the surface of the canteen I took from the crate, and a chill ran through my hand.
I unscrewed the lid and drank deeply.
I could feel myself cooling down from the inside.
“We found it! It’s over there!”
“No way, we’re the first ones here….”
“Ah….”
“….”
That was when three exam takers emerged from the bushes.
Having followed the supplies here, they flinched when they saw me sitting on the crate and drinking water.
‘My first prey has arrived.’
As I closed the lid of the canteen, I calmly stared at them.
“….”
The exam takers, each holding a weapon, were wary of me.
They seemed to know who I was.
Even so, the reason they remained rooted to the spot instead of running away was probably the wooden crate I was sitting on.
They couldn’t bring themselves to leave because they wanted the supplies.
‘But it doesn’t seem like they have the nerve to attack rashly, either….’
I had no desire to continue this unproductive standoff.
It seemed Lee Gahyeon wasn’t among them, but that wasn’t a reason to let them go peacefully.
I decided to deal with the exam takers.
There was still one more person, however.
“Is the person coming this way also with you?”
“….”
Another person was approaching from behind the exam takers.
They didn’t question my words, but that person was undoubtedly part of their group.
I intended to take their exam cards once that exam taker arrived.
“Guys! Did you find the supplies? Huh?”
“…Goeunbi?”
“Gyeonu! You were here too!”
The exam taker who emerged from the bushes was none other than Goeunbi.
With leaves clinging to her brown hair, she was overjoyed the moment she saw me.
If she had had a puppy’s tail on her rear, it looked as if she would have wagged it nonstop with delight.
At the sight of her, I sheathed my sword.
Any thought of taking her exam card vanished completely.
“What? It was you, Eunbi? Then they’re your companions?”
“That’s right! This one went to the same middle school as me, I met this one during the second exam and we became friends, and this one was at the banquet hall yesterday….”
Goeunbi nodded.
She turned around and introduced the awkwardly standing exam takers one by one.
It was a clear demonstration of just how sociable she was.
I let out a small laugh.
“You really do have a lot of friends.”
“Aw, what do you mean, a lot? This is pretty average.”
“I don’t have any friends.”
“Oh, come on! How can you say you don’t have any friends when I’m right here? And why are you leaving Haneul out?”
“Then I only have two. I probably still don’t have as many as you.”
“Wow, you definitely have more, don’t you? You’re teasing me right now, aren’t you? Anyway… Gyeonu, how many points have you collected? I’m only at 180 now…. And isn’t that a black exam card? Who did you get it from?”
“Nam Yuri.”
“Oh, the one from the Yeonseong Nam family?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow… that’s incredible. I knew you were strong, Gyeonu, but you even beat her?”
Goeunbi marveled as she looked at the exam card hanging from me.
At the same time, throughout our conversation, her eyes kept drifting elsewhere.
Toward the supplies behind me.
Before long, she clasped her hands together and spoke to me in a coaxing tone.
“So, Gyeonu?”
“What?”
Goeunbi’s intentions were obvious.
I could already guess what she was about to propose.
Even so, I pretended not to know and decided not to make the offer first.
I needed to think of a way to tease her.
‘…This could be fun.’
I came up with a suitable prank.
I pulled up the corners of my mouth.
“We’re friends, right? We are friends, aren’t we? Right?”
“Well, for now, I suppose we are friends.”
“Aw, don’t tease me like that again. What kind of relationship do we have? Have you forgotten how well we clicked during the third exam?”
“We did get along pretty well then. So?”
“There seem to be a lot of supplies behind you. Could you share some with a friend? Please? Kind and handsome Gyeonu.”
“Well, there’s enough that it’d be difficult for me to carry it all alone… so I suppose there’s no reason I can’t share some with you, Eunbi.”
“Really!? I knew I could count on you, Gyeonu! Thank you! I’ll buy you a meal sometime!”
“But those people behind you are your friends, not mine.”
“…Can you at least set aside my share?”
“I’ll set aside your share.”
“Gyeonu-oo, don’t be like that….”
“Don’t shake my arm, and don’t cling to me. The fact that I’m even letting them go without taking their exam cards is already me showing considerable favor. Give it up.”
“Isn’t there really anything I can do? Please?”
“Well, it’s not that there’s absolutely nothing you can do….”
“What should I do? Just tell me! As long as it isn’t anything strange, I’ll do anything!”
“Really?”
“….”
“You won’t regret it?”
“…Why do you look like you’ve been waiting for me to say that?”
“You said you’d do anything as long as it wasn’t strange, didn’t you?”
“I fell for it. You were planning to prank me from the start!”
“You already said you’d do it, so trying to back out now won’t help.”
“Did I just get tricked!?”
“Yep!”
“You jerk! You’re such a jerk! So what is it!?”
“It’s nothing much.”
“It doesn’t sound like it’s nothing much….”
“Why don’t you write your name in the air with your butt? Slowly. There are three of them, so let’s have you write it three times.”
“…Um, Gyeonu? I’m a middle school student. I’ll be entering high school this year.”
“Yeah, so?”
“I’m not a little kid. You want me to write my name with my butt?”
“What’s the big deal? Every time you move your butt, you can fill one of their stomachs.”
“….”
“Twice means two people, three times means three people. You can save three people just by setting aside your shame for a moment.”
“But my butt is precious….”
“Don’t you want to become a Hunter?”
“….”
“What’s a Hunter’s role?”
“Killing monsters.”
“And?”
“…Saving people?”
“Right now, you’re trying to ignore your duty to save those people.”
“That’s… sophistry.”
“But you feel guilty now, don’t you?”
“Ugh….”
“Choose, Eunbi.”
“….”
“Will you live alone, or will you live together with them?”
“I….”
Goeunbi struggled with the decision.
Before long, she seemed to steel herself and let out a deep breath.
She turned away from me.
“Guys… could you go somewhere out of sight for a moment?”
“E-Eunbi….”
“It’ll be over… It’ll be over soon.”
“Sniff…. What are we going to do? Poor Eunbi….”
“Don’t worry about me. Besides… Gyeonu is kind, so he won’t be too cruel.”
“Sniff….”
“Guys, it was fun being together. See you later. And I have one request… don’t look. I don’t want you to see me shaking my butt disgracefully.”
“…Why did the mood suddenly become so serious?”
“I’m being defeated by nothing more than food….”
“There were sanitary pads in there, too.”
“…Please, don’t watch me being defeated by sanitary pads….”
Goeunbi wiped at the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief that had seemingly appeared from nowhere.
The exam takers there sobbed as they disappeared somewhere into the forest.
Now, only she and I remained in the vicinity.
Her expression was grim.
“Have you finished saying your goodbyes?”
“…Yeah.”
“Then go ahead.”
I sat on the wooden crate.
Goeunbi nodded meekly and pushed her rear out behind her.
“Okay, Go.”
“Goo.”
“Eun.”
“Euuun.”
“Bi.”
“Bii.”
“Now, two more times just like that.”
“I’ve never even let my dad see me write it three times….”
“Come on, other exam takers might arrive. We don’t have time, so hurry. Go.”
“Goo….”
Wiggle, wiggle.
Goeunbi shook her butt as she wrote her name in the air.
Three times, slowly and clearly, making it very large.
It would have been more fun to tease her if she had had a puppy’s tail, but unfortunately, she didn’t.
It was also a shame that she had her head lowered close to the ground, so I couldn’t see the embarrassed look on her face.
‘If I get the chance, should I make Haneul do it too? But even if she wags a rabbit’s tail, there might not be anything to wag….’
It would still be worth seeing.
Though there was a high chance that if I so much as brought it up, Yeon Haneul would smash my head open with the iron hammer she wielded.
In any case, I decided to be satisfied with this.
I lightly clapped my hands to tell Goeunbi she could stop.
“That was quite a sight. If I’d had a smartphone, I would’ve filmed it.”
“You were planning to film this? Wow, seriously…. Sniff, my chances of ever getting married are ruined…. Mom, what am I gonna dooo….”
Goeunbi let out a sound like a wailing sob.
She crouched down where she had written her name with her butt and buried her face in her knees.
It seemed she was too embarrassed to raise her head.
I decided to comfort her.
“It’s fine, Eunbi. I’m the only one who knows about what happened today. If I don’t tell anyone, nobody will ever find out. I’ll keep it a secret.”
“Really?”
“And when the day of your wedding comes, I’ll go to the ceremony and tell everyone. ‘My classmate Goeunbi once wrote her name with her butt. It was really fun back then, but it’s a shame I can’t watch it together with everyone here—especially the groom.’”
“Ah, seriously, don’t! Then I’m not sending you an invitation, Gyeonu.”
“I can just show up without being invited. I’ll give you a generous wedding gift.”
“A wedding gift? Hmm…. That’s right, you were a rich young master.”
“By then, it’ll just be something we can all laugh about, saying, ‘Oh, that happened once,’ haha.”
“Um, Gyeonu? I don’t want to become the butt of everyone’s jokes like that.”
“Oh, I should tell your husband this, too. ‘You’ve never seen it before, have you? I already have.’”
“No! Punch, erase it from your memory!”
Goeunbi sprang to her feet and threw a punch at me.
Her fist was light as a feather.
I didn’t dodge, allowing her to hit me.
* * *
I couldn’t carry all the supplies by myself, and it was time for lunch anyway.
So Goeunbi, her friends, and I decided to have lunch together.
After taking down the exam takers who had come looking for the supplies, we found a suitable place.
“Oh! There’s a stream over there. How about eating there?”
“I needed water to boil anyway. We can draw some from there.”
“I should wash up a little before eating! I was going crazy because I couldn’t even wash my face properly.”
“…You haven’t washed?”
“Have you? Then again, you probably could’ve washed with drinking water, Gyeonu….”
“The water would be wasted. We have Clean magic, so I can just use that.”
“If you wash with Clean magic, it doesn’t feel like you’re washing! You have to scrub yourself to really get clean! You should wash too!”
Goeunbi seemed to be just like Yeon Haneul.
After discovering the stream, she widened her eyes and badgered me to wash.
With no choice, I took off my shirt, rolled up my pant legs, and stepped into the stream.
The water was very cold.
We lightly washed ourselves while facing away from each other.
“There are exam takers over there too.”
“Yeah. Since there’s water here, I guess they came to rest. Or maybe they came to eat.”
Meanwhile, we occasionally spotted other exam takers near the stream.
They noticed us as well.
“….”
But without any particular reaction, they turned their backs to us.
They had tacitly agreed not to fight over supplies while eating, but to pretend they didn’t see one another.
Since I had no intention of attacking them without reason either, I decided to ignore them for the moment.
Filling our stomachs came first.
After returning to the water’s edge, we decided to eat lunch.
There were plenty of supplies, so we had no need to worry about food.
“There’s instant curry and rice? And there’s a mess tin here, too. We can cook rice with this!”
“There’s that and meatballs too, so eat up…. I’m going to have cup noodles as well. You’re each having one too, right?”
“Ramen sounds great too! Let’s eat! Let’s eat everything!”
We each took on a role and began preparing lunch.
Go Eunbi cooked the rice, while I boiled water from the stream.
The other examinees’ roles were pouring water into the ramen, heating the curry and meatballs, and keeping track of the time.
Before long, it was time for us to eat lunch.
“Ah, this is so good. I love meatballs.”
Go Eunbi put a meatball in her mouth and expressed her delight with her whole body.
I slurped down my cup noodles.
Indeed, ramen eaten after entering a Gate was tastier than the ramen I usually ate.
Before long, under Go Eunbi’s lead, we decided to introduce ourselves belatedly.
“Once we’ve eaten together, we’re friends! We’ll be seeing each other at the academy too, so let’s at least say hello! Everyone probably knows me already, so Gyeonu and you guys….”
“Hello, my name is….”
“I’m….”
“…It’s nice to meet you.”
“My name is Do Gyeonu. It’s nice to meet you. Let’s get along from now on.”
I briefly exchanged names with the three examinees.
Since Go Eunbi had confidently called them friends, they were probably good kids.
I decided to remember their names.
Having let down our guard around one another, we decided to exchange the information we had gathered while traveling around the island.
That was when the information I had been looking for slipped from Go Eunbi’s lips.
“Come to think of it, there was someone like that. She went around picking fights with the examinees as though she were an evaluator herself, judging them on whether they had passed or failed. If she judged them a failure, she took their exam tickets, but if they passed, she left without taking their tickets even if she won. Her abilities seemed extraordinary, so we watched the situation from a distance before running away….”
There was no doubt about it. She was talking about Yi Gahyeon.
I took an interest in what she was saying.
“What did she look like?”
“Hm? Well… First of all, she was a woman. Her exam ticket was yellow. Come to think of it, it’s strange that someone that skilled would have a yellow ticket. Did she happen to ruin her qualification test because she was unlucky? Ah, I’m getting off track. She seemed to use twin swords, and she was fairly skilled in martial arts too….”
“Do you know where she is now?”
“No, of course not. We ran away partway through. Even if we did know, wouldn’t she have gone somewhere else by now? Ah, but judging by her behavior, it seemed like she was looking for people who had collected a lot of exam tickets.”
“Eunbi.”
“Yeah?”
When Go Eunbi had gotten that far.
I thought of a way to find Yi Gahyeon.
No, a way to draw her out.
‘If I can’t find her, then I just have to make Yi Gahyeon come find me, right?’
I already had all the materials I needed.
I had collected a large number of exam tickets, and Go Eunbi was a social butterfly who was good at spreading rumors.
That should be enough to draw out Yi Gahyeon, wherever she was.
“Want to make a deal with me?”
“A deal? What kind of deal all of a sudden?”
“I’ll help you get a lot of exam tickets.”
I pulled up the corners of my mouth.
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