Kim Soo-hyun, the girl who had charged at Choi Ah-ram first and passed out after her abdomen was pierced.

Wiggle.

Her eyebrows twitched.

‘Where am I…?’

“Kuk!”

Suddenly, she let out a groan from the terrible pain in her stomach.

Wooooong!

“Don’t touch the wound. It’ll get infected.”

A clear, gentle voice.

Kim Soo-hyun turned her gaze to the owner of the voice.

There was a girl with long, straight hair and an angelic appearance.

“……Cheonhwa?”

“Yes, the healers are healing you.”

She looked around.

Familiar faces of healers were treating her.

“……Thank you for saving us.”

“Hmm, but I’m not the one you should be thanking.”

Krrr!

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang!

A rough, throaty sound and the regular, sharp clanging of metal came from a short distance away.

Kim Soo-hyun turned her face away.

‘……Monsters!?’

She widened her eyes in surprise.

An unbelievable scene was unfolding before her eyes.

A horde of monstrous beasts charging at a girl.

“……That girl is definitely…”

Kim Soo-hyun remembered her face.

This morning, during the practical gate training, the tanker junior who had boldly rejected her proposal to join her party.

She was holding a shield firmly in front of her as if she could handle the horde of monsters on her own.

How could the seniors be doing nothing while this first-year student was facing so many monsters on her own?

Kim Soo-hyun scowled and looked around.

“Wow, that ability is really something else.”

“I mean, can a tanker who pulls that much aggro even exist?”

“She dodges all the attacks too.”

But the people around them were calmly chattering as if they had no intention of joining the fight.

“You guys, what the hell are you─!”

Just as she was about to snap at them.

Boom!

Thud!

This time, something exploded.

And then, something fell to the floor.

“That’s the Fighting Dog…”

“She’s really strong, I’ve only heard about it. She doesn’t even need a weapon, she just punches and the dog’s head explodes.”

“Shit, seeing it in person is even more unbelievable… …I won’t be able to act tough in front of her from now on.”

A sharp-faced girl with red hair was punching at the monsters, and where her attacks landed, the monsters’ heads exploded, their brains splattering.

“……Crazy.”

Kim Soo-hyun couldn’t help but widen her eyes.

The difference in skill.

She felt it because she knew it.

She had thought they were both A-grade Hunters, but the girl had a skill level far beyond her own.

The pride she had felt as an A-grade Hunter seemed to shatter into pieces.

‘No matter how the Hunter grade is measured by the number of raid gates, this difference is just too much…’

She had always been proud of her own skills, so she bit her lip.

Okay, I’ll give her that.

Cheonhwa and the Fighting Dog.

These two were already famous before they entered the Academy, and if you thought their skills were overrated, then they were actually underestimated.

And the unexpected skill of the tanker, who was also showing hidden talents that she had never shown before, was not uncommon among students who came to the Academy.

But there was one person.

‘……Lim Ga-eul?’

A girl with a single braid of green hair, always smiling stupidly and saying nothing but ‘hehe’.

A weakling in every way, with poor physical ability, magic power, and skills, and unable to express her own opinions.

“Ga-eul Senior! Accelerate once more!”

“Yes…”

But now, she was perfectly supporting those talented Hunters, fitting right in with them.

As her skill took hold of the tanker and the dealer,

The tanker dodged attacks from multiple enemies at close range without even raising her shield.

The dealer’s movements became even more agile, like a blender tearing through the monsters.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of monsters exploding one after another,

After a while, all the monsters were cleared.

“……”

“……”

“……”

Everyone stared at the scene with dazed expressions.

Suddenly, Kim Soo-hyun’s face hardened.

‘……That bitch… the Demon!’

It seemed that she wasn’t the only one thinking this, as the murmuring around her grew louder.

“That crazy bitch!”

“Hey, isn’t that really dangerous!?”

“If we stay here, we’re all going to die…”

When she turned her gaze forward, Choi Ah-ram was hanging her head low.

Wriggle─

Wriggle─

Right now, her appearance was clearly abnormal.

Her whole body was writhing with bulging muscles, and she was twitching intermittently as if having convulsions.

‘Demon transformation symptoms!’

She threw her head back and screamed at the sky.

“……Kwaaaaaaaaack─!”

A terrible scream, not a human voice, echoed through the training ground.

In this tense situation,

Shin Se-hee looked at Jin Yuha and furrowed her brows.

‘……Are you… smirking…?’

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.

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‘Hah, I feel like I’m going to die…’

I forced down the urge to vomit that was welling up inside me.

I swung my sword, stuffing in as many skills as I could, scraping the bottom of my magic power.

After the final blow, my head was spinning.

To be honest, I deserved some praise.

After all, I had taken on an enemy that was supposed to be tackled by a party, all by myself.

“……Kwaaaaaaaaack─!”

Choi Ah-ram suddenly lowered her head, then threw it back and let out a scream, convulsing.

It was a clear abnormal symptom, but I grinned and rejoiced.

‘……It’s done!’

It was a gamble, as the game and reality were different, but fortunately, this part proceeded according to the original scenario.

‘Well, if it didn’t work, I could always bring the party members and do a real raid.’

But if I had done that, some of the seniors in this enclosed space would have been badly hurt by the Demon’s area attacks.

Originally, Tutorial Boss Choi Ah-ram was a boss with more diverse patterns than expected.

Laser beams shooting from her fingers.

Enhanced physical attacks with her body.

And a wide-area attack that spreads magic power on the floor.

‘But since it’s a tutorial boss, the stunned state comes quickly.’

So, if I went all-out from the beginning and put her in a stunned state,

I could skip all the other patterns and just focus on the first pattern, the laser.

What I did was what any Velvet user who had played the game a few times would do, and even a world-weary Veteran would naturally do.

Tutorial Boss Skip!

Well, even if the Demon had caused trouble in an unexpected space,

It’s still a tutorial boss, so it would be a bit much to struggle here.

Isn’t this a dangerous situation?

No way.

Kuk!

Choi Ah-ram, her face hidden in her arms, shook her shoulders and laughed quietly.

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“Kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha, kha “

Choi Ah-ram, with her hands spread wide, laughed wildly, releasing her sense of liberation.

Sharp horns sprouted from her transformed forehead, and her eyes, with pink irises and white sclera reversed, gave off a dangerous aura that made her look like she was about to snap.

Haaah!

Choi Ah-ram sighed wearily.

“Jin Yuha! It’s dangerous!”

At that moment, the party members who had finished dealing with the monsters gathered around me.

Yoo-ri held up her shield to block my way,

Kang Do-hee was ready to dash out from the side,

And Lim Ga-eul stood right behind me, clutching a magic stone and preparing her skill.

“……You have to attack now while it’s still unstable. Jin Yuha, give the order quickly!”

Kang Do-hee said in a stiff voice, her face hardened.

‘Hmm, I’m really grateful that you guys assembled for me…’

I scratched my cheek.

‘It’s already over.’

“Hmm, let’s just leave it.”

I said in a calm voice.

“……What!?”

They looked at me with bewildered expressions, not understanding what I was saying.

“Just watch.”

I pointed at the Demon, who was undergoing the Demon transformation process.

“That’s thefate of a human becoming a Demon.”

‘Even in a shitty game, there’s no second phase for a tutorial boss.’

This guy was just here to warn about the phases of the bosses to come and to show the fate of a human becoming a Demon.

For a while, Pink Brat laughed like a chuunibyou, drunk on her own power.

Suddenly, her face hardened, and she clapped her hand over her mouth.

Wook!

She tried to hold it in, but…

“Kulk!”

With a cough, bright red blood spurted from between her fingers.

She looked down at her hand with shaking eyes.

“……What is this…”

Gueeeek!

She spat out a bowlful of blood, creating a puddle of blood beneath her.

‘Ew, it’s pretty disgusting to see it in real life.’

I frowned at the grotesque sight.

In the game, this scene was usually depicted with SD characters to make it cute.

“This can’t be… this can’t be…”

She muttered in disbelief.

Then her horns fell off, one by one, with a thud.

“Ah, no…”

Choi Ah-ram’s eyes shook.

And her body slowly withered, losing its power visibly.

Thud, thud, thud!

Her pink hair fell out, leaving her head completely bald.

‘Should I call her Bald Brat now?’

She touched her body in disbelief.

“Nooooooo!”

Thud!

And so, the tutorial boss, Choi Ah-ram, pitifully collapsed face-first into the puddle of blood.

“Hmm, everyone…”

I looked at the party members and made a wry face.

“You’ve worked hard?”

Everyone stood there with blank expressions, their mouths hanging open.

“… ….”

“… ….”

“… ….”