Episode 2
I looked at the flame in Gu Beom-mo’s hand.
Elemental skill Fireball.
Even though it is only a class 1 skill, the temperature in the classroom rises.
The children around him who were watching this situation muttered, but Taehyun didn’t care.
Because I know that none of them will get involved in the fight anyway.
Taehyun stopped walking about five steps ahead of the fireball.
Gu Beom-mo, who thought it was because he was scared, giggled and shouted harshly.
“Do you finally understand the situation? You fucking loser. Even now…”
“It’s loud. “You can’t keep it up for long anyway, right?”
Stop.
“This bastard is really trying to die…!!”
Gu Beom-mo trembled at the light provocation.
“try. “You idiot.”
Taehyun sneered.
Awakening of ability usually occurs in childhood, although there are individual differences.
However, you cannot use that power without permission until you become an adult and acquire player qualifications.
This is because, except in special cases, the use of force is subject to state sanctions.
Of course, children’s fights are not a special case, so if Goo Beom-mo were to injure someone with his skills, a crime would be committed.
‘Normally, I would cancel the skill here, but…’
Taehyun didn’t think Gu Beom-mo would have that level of awareness.
I don’t know what it was like in the past.
3 seconds.
To ordinary people, it may be considered a moment, but in the Abyss, it is the time when life comes and goes.
Taehyun approached Gu Beom-mo in an instant and slapped Gu Beom-mo’s cheek.
slap!
It’s a slap that’s nothing special because I’ve lost all the muscles I trained in my previous life.
It was an ordinary slap with strength comparable to that of a peer.
Gu Beom-mo, whose legs gave out, collapsed helplessly.
“profit!!”
Is it because he also recognizes this absurd situation?
I quickly tried to get up, but it was a futile struggle.
A series of shocks due to the use of untrained magical power.
The initial symptom of reflux is loss of strength throughout the body.
Taehyun smiled bitterly and looked at him.
‘If you look at it like this, it looks like a real kid.’
In my past life, I was called a ‘loser’ because I could not awaken my skills.
Getting caught up in numerous troubles was a bonus.
The guys called Iljin started a fight with their poor skills, and Taehyun rushed at them without any skills.
Jo Tae-sik and Gu Beom-mo were the most vicious among them.
A typical bully who is strong towards the weak and bows down to the strong.
I think there were more than 25,000 people who transferred schools because of these guys.
‘Normally, I would give it some consideration, but…’
15 years of experience as a porter.
Taehyun was keenly aware that sometimes mediocre favors come at us like daggers.
Slurp.
Taehyun sat down on Gu Beom-mo’s body.
and.
slap.
As I waved my hand, Gu Beom-mo’s face, who had fallen, turned around once again.
“Proud Iljin Koo Beom-mo. How do you feel?”
“this person…!!”
Slap slap.
“You bastard…!!”
Taehyun’s hand, constantly moving, prevented him from finishing his sentence.
Slap slap. Slap slap.
“hey. “Say it again.”
The hand that had been slapping him was suddenly curled up and clenched.
puck. puck. puck. puck.
Kwasik. Kwasik. Kwasik.
“Ugh… Ugh… Stop…”
Was it about 30 seconds since the one-sided beating continued?
Gu Beom-mo, covered in blood, began to sob.
“what? Hey, what if you cry?”
Even as he said that, Taehyun didn’t stop his hand.
“Stop it, you bastard! “People are going to die!!”
Jo Tae-sik, who had suddenly regained his sight, shouted with red eyes.
I actually shouted, but I was so overwhelmed by the force that I couldn’t rush at him.
“I know because I hit you too. People die that easily. No. And you’re not done yet either.”
Quang.
“Come here.”
Taehyun hit Gu Beom-mo’s head on the floor and stood up.
Jo Tae-sik began to slowly take a step back as he looked at Gu Beom-mo, who was not even moaning as if he had fainted.
“Oh…don’t come…!!”
“hey. “Friend, don’t be upset and come here?”
The moment when Tae-hyun, who had a lot to worry about, tried to grab Jo Tae-sik by the collar.
“Kim Taehyun, stop!”
A woman walked out from among the students who had been just watching.
‘what?’
“Are you planning to kill me? “This is enough to give you back.”
A woman glaring at herself with a face that doesn’t look like she has a drop of water on her hands.
He was over 170 cm tall, had his hair neatly tied up, and wore the same school uniform as everyone else.
Still, I felt an unknown dignity.
‘From this point on, I started to see buds.’
Lim Ayoung.
In the past, I thought she was just a woman who was born into a noble family, received a good education, and developed top-level skills.
You’re a hypocrite who doesn’t know anything about the world.
However, she becomes an SS-rank player in the future and achieves numerous achievements.
The word that always follows me is noblesse oblige.
Taehyun is a person who has lived a life of struggle while being labeled as a loser.
It was natural that it didn’t look good.
‘Im Ah-young came out like this in the past too. Although the perpetrator and victim have changed.’
One corner of Taehyun’s mouth went up again for a moment before a smile appeared on his happy face.
“Are you slandering me by saying you stayed quiet when I was being beaten and said you would serve justice?”
“….”
Although I know that it hasn’t been long since she entered the classroom.
Taehyun didn’t care.
From the first day I returned to the past, I have no intention of being played by hypocrites.
Taehyun grabbed Jo Tae-sik’s collar, who was still frozen.
“Let go of this…!”
“It’s noisy. Bite this tightly. “It breaks.”
Slap slap. Slap slap.
Taehyun repeated what he did to Koo Beom-mo.
“Ugh… skill… ice… kkkkkk…!!”
When Jo Tae-sik tried to use the skill in a last-ditch effort, Tae-hyun stabbed him in the eye again.
As a side effect of being forced to cancel, the skill was activated strangely.
Blah blah blah.
Jo Tae-sik’s Ice Hand is an E-level skill that strengthens the hands with ice.
However, looking at the condition of my hands, it seemed like I would have to suffer a lot from frostbite instead of strengthening them.
If you don’t take action soon, you may have to cut it down.
Taehyun grabbed his frozen hand and lightly pushed Jo Taesik, who was screaming.
The guy rolled around on the floor.
“Kim Tae-hyun, you….”
Lim A-young frowned at the unexpected situation.
“Class monitor. “Is there anything left to say?”
Taehyun asked, feeling refreshed as if he had just finished cleaning.
“Now that it’s like this… I have no choice but to report it to the teacher.”
“do it yourself. “That’s what it’s supposed to be like, right?”
“….”
Just then, the bell rang, indicating it was time for the next class.
‘Good timing.’
Taehyun shrugged his shoulders once and left the classroom.
In the past, I never went to college. What is the importance of classes in a situation where we have regressed?
It’s just a buzz.
No one blocked the way.
* * *
After leaving the classroom, we arrived at the rooftop.
Perhaps because class had started, it was quiet without anyone.
Even on the rooftop, it’s a corner.
I stopped at a place where cigarette butts were scattered randomly.
It’s called Smoking Zone.
It was a blind spot not monitored by CCTV, which is one of the few places in the school.
Taehyun opened the status window.
[Name: Kim Tae-hyeon]
[Age: 19 years old]
[Grade: E]
[Skill: Predation – 0%]
Basic status window before official upgrade.
‘There are certainly limits to the information that can be known…’
It seemed clear that he had been awakened, and that fact brought about a strange sense of elation.
“The thing that brought me back to the past… the king… was it his power…”
The faces of Asmodeus and the king were still vivid.
In fact, all of this happened in less than an hour.
I’ve seen and heard a lot of skills.
‘Regression’ and ‘time manipulation’.
There was absolutely no information about such skills.
“But why is it rated E? “If anything, it would have been better if it was S or SS grade.”
Has the time of living with an unknown potential level been over 20 years?
It seemed like he was implicitly expecting at least S rank.
At that time, something displayed behind the skill caught my eye.
‘0%? for a moment. Is this… a growth-type skill?’
Even after wiping my eyes again, I can clearly see 0%.
“oh my god.”
A smile that could not be compared before was drawn on Taehyun’s lips.
For normal skills, the grade is fixed upon awakening.
Only reawakening could raise the awakening level and skill level.
However, according to statistics from the Players Association, there are less than 10,000 people around the world who have reawakened.
and.
Even rarer than such reawakeners were growth-type awakeners.
‘If this is really a growth skill…’
The stigma of being a loser.
The life of a player that was only dreamed of in the past.
Because there is no power, there is no money.
I remembered my past life where I had to move around the floor.
but.
I felt confident that this life would be different.
“oh my god.”
I thought that one day I would awaken.
That was why.
As for anything related to players, I always studied it.
Is that all?
In order to take on the position of a porter as a non-awakened person, he focused on weight training and did not neglect physical strength management.
The content I studied remains in my mind, and I also know training methods to improve my physical abilities.
Moreover, the red-haired man who brought back the person who was called the king.
‘I think it was definitely a hint to see each other again.’
It seemed like this power he left behind was not an ordinary skill that would simply grow.
I looked at the status window again.
Since there was no description of the skill or magical magic displayed, I had no choice but to try using it.
“By predation… you mean catching and eating something?”
I had seen absorption-related skills a few times in my past life.
It absorbed magic power, objects, creatures, etc.
If the level was high, what was absorbed was stored in subspace and then discharged.
‘But predation…’
It was a skill that even Taehyun, who knew many players and skills well, didn’t know about.
“Let me check it out.”
I looked around, but couldn’t find anything that I could use the skill on.
Taehyun reached out to the wall next to him.
‘Use skill. Predation.’
Tiring.
[The skill is not subject to use. Search for target within range.]
The message came to mind and my body felt weak.
It was an aftereffect of the magic power being lost.
“Is there even an automatic search function? “Isn’t this really a joke…?”
It was a time to make various assumptions and guesses.
Kwaang!!
The rooftop door opened roughly and a man appeared.
Thump thump thump thump.
The man immediately approached the smoking zone.
“Hey~ Kim Tae-hyun, our student from Konkuk High School, was here.”
“Bae Hyuk-soo?”
Taehyun frowned at the unwelcome face.
at that time.
Tiring.
[The target for using the skill has been confirmed. The skill can be used.]
At the following message, the frowning face brightened.
“Nice to meet you. “It’s Hyuksu.”
Bae Hyuk-su, a large man.
Taehyun greeted him brightly.
