003. Who am I? “Third-rate convenience store owner” (1)
The academy’s Zephrine.
I loved this game so much that I cleared it to the point where I became a veteran.
There are many reasons why I enjoyed it.
First of all, the story is huge.
The story, which consists of 12 acts and 45 chapters, covers the protagonist Celts’s time from his first year of school to his graduation from seventh grade, during which time he decides on his own path, reaches the conclusion, and graduates from the school.
And the various branching points. The changes in the characters’ positions that follow cannot be left out.
A representative example is Eve von Lohengrin, Wolfram’s younger sister.
The girl who kicked me out is the heroine in the Imperial Route, but a helper in other routes. In one route, she even becomes the final boss.
The character’s position changes depending on the protagonist’s choice, giving the game a realistic feeling as if the character is alive.
But the biggest reason I’m crazy about this game is that the rewards are proportional to the effort you put in.
The story of 12 acts and 45 chapters may seem long, but it really flies when you play it.
The time given to the protagonist, Celts, is not very long.
There is a final boss for each ending, and in order to defeat it, you must gather your companions. To do that, Keltus must become stronger, build friendships with his friends, and earn money by hunting or working.
As you build friendship with your friends, they may gift you with equipment or awaken skills. If you fail to build friendship, you may end up with a bad ending.
The five years given are not a tough time, but they are not easy either, and you have to do your best in everything to see the ending.
And if you do your best, you will be rewarded.
The ending where everyone is happy made us cheer with excitement at the countless ‘rewards for hard work’.
That was fun.
A hopeful world where hard work is rewarded, you make friends, and you overcome adversity.
I absolutely loved this unique medieval fantasy world of the Academy.
Now I am in this world full of dreams and hopes.
Even though I am Wolfram, who is not even worthy of standing on the outskirts of this world, Zephrin is right before my eyes. I will survive here.
In this world I loved so much!
“I’m sorry, I can’t hire you.”
“···I’m sorry. There’s no reason for disqualification, but that···. You know?”
“Adventurer’s Guild. There are no vacancies for explorers either. Sorry.”
“······.”
I want to survive.
***
I sit on a bench in the park and blankly look up at the sky.
Clouds drift across the blue sky, and when I breathe in, the smell of the earth, the smell of trees, and pleasant scents brush my lungs.
Zeprin was no longer a game, it was my reality.
And reality was harsh to the point of being brutal.
“Who asked for so much?”
It’s not that there are no jobs, exactly. They just don’t exist for me.
There are swords and clothes worth 80 million lin in the bag, but no one buys them.
There, he was rejected from the Blacksmith’s Guild, the Magician’s Guild, and even the Adventurer’s Guild.
Naturally, jobs under that umbrella were also rejected.
Isn’t it a bit too much for me to be bullied by the entire school island, Zephrine?
“Is that so? Is it because the system treats my presence in this game as a bug, and no one will hire me?”
Well then, there is no real answer.
No, no. That’s not true. I shook my head.
The pressure and pain felt from the clenched fist. The scent of the park that penetrated deep into my lungs gave me a sense of reality that was almost overwhelming.
“Status.”
In that case, you have to survive by your own strength.
I will survive even if I have to be trapped in the forest with only an axe and build a hut.
Open your own status window and check.
【Wolfram von Lohengrin】
【?T】
【Status:
Strength: 4
Talent: 6
Stamina: 2
Horsepower: 3
Will: 4】
【Skills possessed:
Imperial bloodline.】
I checked my stats and chuckled.
“The hut is a mess.”
As soon as you step out into the forest, you’re lucky if you don’t get your throat cut by a goblin in one go.
I’d like to leisurely chop wood with an axe, build a hut, and make beef jerky, but that’s completely impossible for me.
“It’s a really crappy status.”
Next, I tried to check the skill, but this also made me sigh. Imperial Bloodline. What kind of skill is this? It is a skill of bluffing that forces you to use only intimidating and fancy words when dealing with others. It can also be used to your advantage in negotiations, but if Wolfram did that, he would most likely get beaten to death.
“What should I do?”
The sky is clear, the clouds are flowing, the trees are green, and I am unemployed.
“What the heck?”
***
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It’s not that I’m despairing or frustrated with reality. My love for Zephrine doesn’t break down to this extent.
I just, I just felt like I was going to faint.
Why?
What’s wrong? I’m hungry.
“Oh, bitter.”
Jeffrin’s education is compassionate. Uniforms, writing instruments, textbooks, and even meals are all free.
But at the same time, it’s strict, and if you don’t belong to the academy, all those benefits are gone.
So where does Wolfram belong?
Unfortunately, at this moment, I don’t belong anywhere.
I was kicked out of the Ministry of Magic, where I was working under the authority of the student council president.
The next place to enter will probably be Cyprus, which is a mixed population of commoners.
Now, he’s stuck somewhere between expelling and enrolling, and while he’s not officially affiliated with any academy, he’s had to find a way to support himself, but he’s being ostracized by the entire academy.
“Phew.”
It’s not that there aren’t any hidden pieces in D/Z SAGA, but this is another problem. What this game is claiming to be is simple.
‘Hard work pays off.’
‘You get rewarded according to your efforts’
In other words, it meant that even veterans had to be prepared in order to suck up hidden gems like Hidden Piece.
Of course, it doesn’t necessarily have to be combat power. It can also be verbal.
The Sattlers’ letter delivery event, which allows you to earn 10,000 Lin, is a quest that you almost always do in the beginning. After receiving a letter from Sattlers, you just need to deliver it to the second floor of the Magic Castle.
10k as a reward! So sweet.
But I got kicked out of the castle two days ago. Wow! Dog…
Phew. What should I do with the bad words? I shook my head a couple of times.
This is the 8th district of the Magic Castle. I realized that I couldn’t complete the quest for Sattlers’ Letter itself, so I sat down nearby.
The Magic Castle is always bustling, but strangely enough, there is one place where no one gathers.
“Phew.”
That’s the 8th district of the magic castle.
There are just no people. It’s an area where there are too few people.
This was a development failure area that even Zephrin acknowledged.
In the first place, there was no need for the Magic Cave to go up to District 8. Magic is a place where one genius can replace ten thousand ordinary people.
A new city where real estate development has failed utterly. A dormitory overflowing with vacant spaces. Empty stores. Streets empty of people.
That’s the magic zone 8.
But I liked this silence. I remember seeing the tycoon ending by buying the 8th research building cheaply in the merchant route.
Anyway, that’s old news and what’s important is now.
“There will still be a way.”
I am a veteran of this game.
I have a rough idea of how things will turn out.
The effort to think. You have to make an effort to survive somehow.
But you can think about it.
Even if you are abandoned by the academy, you can still think.
Even if you don’t have a job or money, you can still think.
If you give up even trying to think, it’s really over.
“···Let’s catch the monster first.”
I put the notes I had written back into my carrier and came to a conclusion.
It’s really the last one, there’s no chance of winning, but there’s one thing we can do.
I grabbed the longsword that was inside the carrier. First, let’s go outside the academy.
So I stood up from my seat.
“uh?”
I feel exhausted.
But this,
It’s getting a little serious.
My eyes are shaking. My body is leaning forward.
Why? I only starved for a day. No matter how much I sneeze, I can’t collapse here.
“ah······.”
This guy had 2 stamina…
In my shaky vision and dizzy head, I thought of my body.
I wasn’t a burrower.
It was a mess.
“Wait a minute, if I faint here….”
This is Research Building 8.
A redevelopment failure area where no one comes.
If you fall here.
Seriously, dangerous···.
***
“···Ugh, ugh.”
It was the smell that woke me up and grabbed my shaking head.
“Are you in your right mind?”
“······Uh, uh. Who···.”
“I guess he’s alive.”
A scent that grabs your nose and leads you.
I looked ahead with blank eyes and saw the silhouette of a person.
A kind-hearted old man with a slightly combed hair and a smiling face.
“Would you like to eat this?”
“···Uh, uh.”
What appeared before my eyes was bread.
I took the bread with both hands and put it in my mouth. It was delicious. It was so delicious that it brought tears to my eyes.
It was hard bread, but it didn’t matter at all.
“Are you okay? Here’s something to drink, so drink that too.”
I wondered why I would need anything to drink when eating tear-soaked bread, but the water offered moistened my throat.
“How did the little boy end up so hungry?”
“···that is.”
“Okay. There’s a lot of food here, so eat.”
All I had were the lowest-level recovery items, ‘black bread’ and ‘water’, but that was enough. It was so sweet that it brought tears to my eyes.
After eating like that for thirty minutes, I completely satisfied my hunger and nodded.
“Show some courtesy.”
“Why are you being so polite? Why on earth were you doing that?”
“······.”
I had to hide my identity as much as possible. Judging from the reaction, they don’t know that I’m Wolfram.
“Okay. Even if you’re the student body president, there must be a reason.”
“···Do you know me?”
“Then. Aren’t you the chairman who was kicked out by his younger brother?”
You’re hitting me while I’m sick.
You don’t discriminate against me. The world is still worth living in.
“You knew it, but you still gave me food. I’ll repay you later.”
“Ha. It’s okay. It’s something I’m going to throw away anyway since I won’t be able to eat it soon.”
dispose.
It was a familiar sound.
“I see. …Is that so?”
“Huh. So I just brought some bad stuff and fed it to you. You won’t kill me for insulting the royal family, right?”
“···Ha. What are you talking about? I wonder if I can repay the favor later.”
I waved my hand, and the young man smiled.
“So why was our chairman stuck there?”
“···Because I was kicked out. They wouldn’t accept me.”
“iced coffee···.”
“Who are you?”
“I’m the guy in front of the grocery store. My name is Phil.”
“···I see. Phil. Can I call you comfortably?”
“of course.”
Phil nodded and I smiled in return.
“Okay, Phil. Would you consider hiring me?”
“···I’m sorry about that.”
“I see. I guess there’s nothing I can do.”
“It’s not for any other reason, it’s because I’m going out of business soon.”
“···What?”
Phil smiled broadly at me, but there was a shadow in that smile.
“Do you know what it means for black bread, the lowest grade of bread, to go bad? It usually takes half a year for black bread to go bad?”
“ah···.”
“I guess this place is not in a good location. Anyway, I’m thinking of closing this down and going back to my hometown. So I can’t hire anyone.”
“······.”
that···.
That is indeed an inevitable reason.
Don’t stop thinking. What should I do here?
This ruined convenience store. The real estate is ruined. The location is full of empty spaces. The owner is leaving.
And what do I have? What can I do?
No. What does Wolfram need most right now?
I didn’t stop thinking
The answer is out
I came to a conclusion.
“Phil. …Your grocery store. Are you willing to give it to me?”
What I need now is a very small trigger that can give me a starting point.
That’s it.
