Who do you think I am?

“I’m Yoo Eun-ha, you know?”
“No, that’s not what I asked.”
“Senpai, if you’re weaker than Yoo Eun-ha, you might not be able to see her status properly.”
“I-I’m weaker than her?”

No, it’s only natural that Lee Yoo-jung, a supporter unlike me, would be weaker.
Of course, there can be a significant difference based on skill. But I never thought I’d be weaker than someone who seems to just laze around every day.

“That might be true. Is it really embarrassing to be weaker than a new student?”

Choi Si-woo seemed to still be feeling the aftereffects of being scolded by Lee Yoo-jung, as he started to chat away like an old lady.
Was he always like this? Rather, he was supposed to be the type who, upon receiving a scolding, would immediately fix his behavior to build rapport with others.

“No matter what, this isn’t even at the level of emotion. Just you wait. I’ll definitely find out.”

If you do that, I’d appreciate it.
Honestly, I’m curious if I have more hidden abilities. But first, I need to figure out why these three were together. Are they planning to ostracize me?

“By the way, where did you guys go without me? Did you eat something delicious?”
“Uh, actually, Choi Si-woo trained us a bit.”
“Training? What the hell? Just you guys, without me?”
“Common sense dictates you have nothing to train for.”

What kind of nonsense is that?
If I want to survive, I’m the one who needs it most.
Without <Acceleration>, I’m just a corpse. Are they seriously going to put me behind Reina and that Han Su-ji?
Is this purely about building heroine favorability?
If that’s the case, I should be included too. Even if I’m disqualified, I’m still a ‘former heroine’ recognized by the author.

“No, I’m the weakest here.”
“Isn’t it embarrassing that you’re weaker than a first-year?”
“Right?”

Even though I am the weakest, I wouldn’t say it out loud.

Choi Si-woo might get scolded, but this is purely an act to accumulate favorability from the heroines.
In the original story, I would have trembled at this.

Choi Si-woo’s cowardly nature was evident, and he couldn’t even look me in the eye.

“Well, I guess this is it. If those two want to get stronger secretly, they should train with me too.”

Yes, finally, some reasonable words.

“So you want to have a real battle now?”
“Yeah, right now.”
“What the heck? We’re still in the morning hours!”

If I don’t go now, I might get in trouble.

“You’re skipping class, so what’s the problem?”
“Oh, you’re right?”
“Let’s meet up after class.”

Wasn’t this something I should have gotten permission for from the club president?
After heading back to the classroom, we ran into the wild club president for quite a while.

“You all know that my time is during the morning hours, right? Prepare yourselves.”

Crap.

“Damn. This is awful. I really need to take care of this sometime.”

Without the bat, I would be just an insignificant presence if I didn’t have the heroine position. How dare that girl be angry at me?
Choi Si-woo, Reina, and Han Su-ji, who had been planning to make me skip school, were still getting scolded by the club president during lunchtime.

From the club president’s perspective, it would be better for me to come to the academy.
After all, she’s in charge of me. I’m sure Yoo Jin-seok gave her a piece of his mind.

“Oh? Murderer.”

Is she talking to me? Am I in trouble?
When I turned my head slightly, a blonde bully with burnt skin was laughing at me from the corner with her gang.
That annoying girl is pushing my buttons. Should I kill her?
No, I need to hold back. If I get provoked, I’ll lose. She’s just a fool who’s jealous of my achievements.

“After spending middle school alone and being all creepy, now you’re just killing people at the Hunter Academy.”
“Hehe, you might die too.”
“Common sense dictates that you’re the one being carried by Reina and Han Su-ji.”

I had expected this. The more I achieve, the more the girls I knew from middle school would pick a fight with me or gossip behind my back out of jealousy.
The previous Yoo Eun-ha would have trembled at this.

Choi Si-woo would likely try to coolly handle the situation like a protagonist.
But I’m not that naive protagonist who would brush this off. I don’t want to be the topic of conversation for those bullies either.

“If you’re so jealous, why don’t you come at me instead of whining behind my back?”

So I shot back.
It had been a while since I had a proper fight. It was time to relieve some stress.
Those damn memories keep giving me headaches; I need to find an outlet somewhere.

“You’ve grown a lot, huh?”

A thug version of Golden Sun walked up to me, snickering.

“You’ve grown a lot, huh? Seeing you still hanging around with scum like this is just proof that you haven’t changed at all.”
“What?”

Look at their faces. They’re pitiful. They’ve got ugly faces, and I’ve never seen any extras like them.

“You guys are always like this. You can’t do anything alone, so you gather your friends around to feel better.”
“A girl who used to be bullied thinks she’s someone just because people are finally paying attention to her.”
“And what? You keep calling us middle schoolers. Who the hell are you?”

I genuinely didn’t remember. Even if I tried to recall the memories of the previous Yoo Eun-ha, I couldn’t recognize them at all.
There’s no way I would remember every girl who bullied me.

“This little brat!”
“Sometimes there are idiots who act without thinking. But what can you do? If you get beaten now, it’ll be even more embarrassing.”

I moved with <Acceleration> and snatched the cigarette out of the thug girl’s mouth and gave her a smack on her cheek.

“Ahhhhh!”
“If you’re going to bark like that, then be prepared for some consequences. If you’re going to mess with Yoo Jin-seok’s sister, you better be ready.”

I tripped her over with my foot.
As soon as the others saw their boss getting hit, they all rushed toward me.

I’m not the protagonist.
If such events exist, I want to decline.
It’s not hard to subdue them.
Even with my lack of strength, I knocked them down a few times with <Acceleration>, and they were left clutching their stomachs as they fell over.

“Hey, it must be embarrassing, right? You guys came with numbers but got taken down?”
“I’m a murderer, right?!”

Now it’s just sad to see her whining like that.

“It’s not strange to kill a member of the Black God Cult as soon as they’re discovered. If Yoo Eun-ha hadn’t made that decision, there could have been much worse consequences. How foolish. Is the quality of first-years dropping this much? Do you think this world is just a playground for heroes?”

In the end, the final act of justice was carried out by the vice president, Yoon Mi-young.
She frowned, clearly dissatisfied with what I said, but that was all. The bullies received penalties and were assigned 20 hours of community service.

At that moment, a woman in a gown entered the club room.
I guess she’s from the infirmary.

“Teacher, how are they?”

She was the one who had been tasked with dealing with the injured bullies.

“Um, they’re okay, but Yoo Eun-ha, if another girl hits that hard in the stomach, it could cause problems later on. They might not be able to have kids.”

I thought it was better than hitting them in the chest, but I must have miscalculated.
Or maybe I should have just hit her in the face.
Oh, but the infirmary only has one person, doesn’t it?
Villain.

“Don’t tell me you’re trying to say that because I’m Yoo Jin-seok’s sister, I should consider his reputation? Those girls are just suited for a lowly villain organization. Ah, well. It would be fitting for a group that only gets beaten by hunters.”

I replied without hesitation.

With my words, the bullies who had ties to Yoo Eun-ha during middle school couldn’t even raise their heads in my presence as they silently accepted their punishment.
It was their own folly to mess with me when I’m no longer the previous Yoo Eun-ha.
I am already someone the guild is interested in, and I’m Yoo Jin-seok’s sister, so my words could influence the association as well.
They treated me like the previous Yoo Eun-ha and got themselves into trouble.

“If I hadn’t been watching, what would you have done?”

As I exited the club room, Lee Yoo-jung, with her half-closed eyes, asked,

“Eh, to be honest, I was watching.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, I was trying to check your status screen.”

Let’s consider this as just another aspect of her personality.
I smiled meaningfully and reached out my hand, and after a moment of hesitation, she took it.
What was there to hide?
This was originally an event for Choi Si-woo.

To be precise, the thug girl from earlier should have been aiming to tease Choi Si-woo.
While I enjoyed the confrontation, I wasn’t involved in it.
Of course, there wouldn’t have been any violence like what happened today. Rather, that thug girl should have tried to frame Choi Si-woo as a pervert, and it would have been Lee Yoo-jung who provided the evidence, clearing up the misunderstanding.
In that case, Choi Si-woo would have developed feelings for her.

He really is a typical harem protagonist.
But damn it, Choi Si-woo is being dragged off with the other two by the club president.
While I released some stress, I also wanted to increase my intimacy with Lee Yoo-jung.
I may have just met her today, but she might have been watching me for a while through the surveillance cameras. No, she must have been watching.

Unlike the other girls who have opened their hearts to the new world, she believes that as long as there’s love, it doesn’t matter if it’s a hole or a stick.
Naturally, she wouldn’t mind even if one of the heroines fell for me.
Her expression showed she had that kind of laid-back philosophy.

“Haha, if you’re honest, you could touch me however you want.”

This body is quite attractive, even to women.
The rumors circulating on the anonymous board about the female students at Hanseong Academy being lesbians might be partly due to me.
I looked at Lee Yoo-jung and smiled, causing her to flinch slightly.

“…”

Her eyes widened slightly at my words, and a spark of desire flickered within them.