[Virtual Reality Department!! Nuna I’m so so sorry for not keeping my promise ㅠㅠ I tried to hold back but my hands were shaking from getting into Korea University and I couldn’t resist ㅠㅠ But you know I’ve improved a lot lately thanks to you right?? When I go to university I’ll really really live properly!!♡♡]
[DdoHaeNuna♡: Okay lol that’s good]
When she smiled broadly and was pleased, his shoulders rose for no reason. Even though it wasn’t a place he actually got accepted to.
In truth, Pyeonghwa didn’t get into Korea University, but rather Jangmak University, which required about an hour’s train ride.
Korea University’s Virtual Reality Department was a top 0.01% university, but Jangmak University’s Virtual Reality Department had a very low acceptance rate.
‘I heard the Hunter Department is famous since it’s an area where Gates occurred in the early days… But it’s still a third-rate university anyway. Who even becomes a Hunter these days.’
Pyeonghwa had no interest in the Hunter profession. Even if you could earn a lot of money, wasn’t it all hazard pay? In an era where you could become a billionaire just by being good at games, who would risk their life entering Gates?
The decreasing number of Hunters and the lowering admission scores for Hunter departments was a natural phenomenon. No matter how much Dohae stuck his pretty face in front of cameras to promote the profession, nothing would change. If you fall behind the times, you eventually get weeded out.
Pyeonghwa knew this fact better than anyone.
Three years ago, the virtual reality game <Last On> was released. As people could enjoy games that felt more real than reality, the existing game market operated by keyboards, mice, consoles, etc. drastically shrank.
In a situation where PC game pro gamers fell to unemployment in an instant, aspiring pro gamers became even more unnecessary. For Pyeonghwa, who attended a gaming high school, it was like a bolt from the blue.
As a non-Awakener, Pyeonghwa couldn’t play <Last On>. Only Awakeners could feel the five senses and move naturally in <Last On>.
For non-Awakeners, from the moment they connected, their movements cut out once every few seconds like a lagging computer screen. Since it was a system created by borrowing the Constellation’s power, it only responded to Awakeners, or something like that.
Keeping pace with the rapidly changing world, non-Awakeners attending gaming high schools quickly went through transfer procedures.
‘Though mine wasn’t a transfer but an expulsion.’
After that, he tried everything to awaken but it was futile. In the end, he fell into being a loser stuck in his room leaving hate comments.
He found himself pathetic, but after a month, two months… as years passed, even those thoughts faded.
“Hah… If only I could have received Awakener bonus points, even Korea University would have been a piece of cake for me…”
Awakening wasn’t something you could do just because you wanted to. The key was how much you attracted a Constellation’s interest, but the criteria for that weren’t known.
Non-Awakeners lived with the hope that they could awaken someday. Even though there were more than a few people whose lives were ruined by slave contracts with evil Constellations, commonly called evil-stars.
Pyeonghwa was one of them. He was ready to eagerly stamp a contract the moment anyone came looking.
[DdoHaeNuna♡: My house is super close to Korea University, want to meet?]
[DdoHaeNuna♡: I’ve done this much so it’s time I get to see you once]
[DdoHaeNuna♡: You want to see me too, Pax lol]
After delivering the news of his Korea University acceptance, ‘DdoHaeNuna♡’s attitude changed 180 degrees. Now that she knew he wasn’t just a room-bound hater but an elite from a prestigious university, she seemed interested.
He thought she seemed materialistic for suddenly actively pushing to meet… but Pyeonghwa soon shook his head.
‘She’s just honest without pretense. Hehe, this is also one of our nuna’s charming points.’
Pyeonghwa evaluated her very highly. Right now they could only contact each other through texts like this, but someday…
In Pyeonghwa’s mind, a wedding march was drawn with himself in a tuxedo and her in a pure white dress.
[Nuna I have circumstances right now so I can’t meet nuna but just wait 2 years I’ll become the perfect man who suits nuna]
…He should prepare to transfer to Korea University. He needed high academic credentials to captivate her. Pyeonghwa changed his mind about not wanting to enter Jangmak University.
He entered his bank app and checked his account balance. Since he barely spent the living expenses his father sent him faithfully every month, a considerable amount had accumulated. Pyeonghwa transferred the tuition to the account number written on the admission notice.
“Hehe…”
Pyeonghwa blushed and twisted his body. Thanks to her again, he was able to escape from his defeatist mentality.
If he hadn’t gotten the goal of transferring to Korea University, he would have given up on college admission entirely and would have lived forever leaving hate comments in this dark room.
Though he’d never seen her face once, ‘DdoHaeNuna♡’ was an existence like light and salt to Pyeonghwa.
Pyeonghwa swept open the blackout curtains with a swoosh. As warm sunlight flooded through the large window, his face naturally scrunched up. Pyeonghwa hastily made a sloppy sign of the cross and neatly clasped his hands together.
“I swear. I, Noh Pyeonghwa, will not spew out gem-like comments anymore…!”
From now on, he was determined to live properly for his beloved her. Pyeonghwa imagined liquidating the dregs of the past, becoming a new person, and standing before her.
Not as a room-bound hater, but confidently as a cool guy attending Korea University… His chest swelled with anticipation.
At that moment, a hologram screen appeared before Pyeonghwa’s eyes.
<Constellation Aggro King’s eyes sparkle.>
<Constellation Aggro King reaches out and brings a contract.>
<Constellation Aggro King proposes a contract.>
“…Eh?”
Thinking he’d seen wrong, he rubbed his eyes several times, but the hologram didn’t disappear and remained as it was.
When he nodded with a dumbfounded face, the sentence he’d been waiting for so long appeared.
<You have become the contractor of the Constellation of Division and Conflict, Agreon.>
“Wow… Wahaha…! Me too, me too…! I finally awakened! I awakeeened!”
It felt like being compensated for all his mental suffering until now. This was all thanks to ‘DdoHaeNuna♡’. Only good things have happened since he got to know her.
Pyeonghwa, unable to properly check the Constellation’s epithet of “Division and Conflict,” raised both arms high into the sky and let out a strange cry.
“Yessss! I can play games now toooo!”
Not knowing in his dreams that he would regret this day’s choice the most.
*
Pyeonghwa wasn’t a hopeless hater from the start.
Rather, he was someone with a positive personality who didn’t yield to consecutive setbacks.
Even when Pyeonghwa was expelled from high school under false accusations, he thought the best revenge was developing his own value.
He was progressive enough to get his diploma through the qualification exam the very year he was expelled and start preparing for college admission.
The story of how such a Pyeonghwa came to leave comments filled with bitterness in his room was like this.
Three years ago.
“I’m going to college first.”
Seventeen-year-old Pyeonghwa set a goal while thinking of the gaming high school classmates who had framed him. He would enter Korea University, South Korea’s most prestigious university!
He had no choice but to give up his pro gamer dream, but wanting to make a related field his profession, he aspired to the Game Department.
The Game Department had a special admission system. If you passed the special admission with help from game competition awards, you only needed to meet the minimum grade on the college entrance exam.
Pyeonghwa burned with determination and studied over twelve hours a day.
However, after a couple months, Pyeonghwa’s efforts became useless. Korea University’s Game Department disappeared when it was consolidated into the newly established Virtual Reality Department.
Because virtual reality games had swallowed the entire existing game market whole, this trend spread into a nationwide movement.
The Virtual Reality Department didn’t have the special admission system Pyeonghwa had tried to apply for. Instead, they granted Awakener bonus points to all applicants and additional bonus points according to <Last On> player rank.
‘Fuck, to pass without bonus points I’d probably need to be in the top five nationwide on the college entrance exam.’
It was realistically impossible. Though he was fairly smart, Pyeonghwa was only seventeen years old. He didn’t have confidence to cram study the entire high school curriculum and rank 5th nationwide.
“I want to awaken too…”
A yearning for awakening boiled up in Pyeonghwa’s heart. If he awakened, he could dream of being a pro gamer again. He could go to college and… it would be killing three birds with one stone, including revenge.
While searching online for awakening methods, Pyeonghwa discovered a blog post saying Gate waves promoted awakening.
[CocoMom’s guide to awakening conditions awakening honey tips perfect compilation!
Author: CocoMom’s
Hello! I’m CocoMom’s ^ㅅ^)/
Today I want to share about “how to awaken”~
Half a century ago, “spatial rift phenomena” appeared all over the world.
Back then they didn’t know that if the Gate wasn’t closed within a certain time, “monsters would pour out” ㅠㅠ
“Hundreds of millions” of precious lives became “stars in the sky.” I’ll have a moment of silence (__)
Fortunately “Awakeners contracted with Constellations” appeared and closed the Gates!
Now 1/3 of the population are Awakeners~ and the trend is increasing!
And many Awakeners claim “awakening is related to Gates”~
In fact, “Hero Do Jeon-gwang”-nim was also a resident of the area where South Korea’s first S-rank Gate occurred!
Then wouldn’t “Gate waves promote awakening”?
I’ll talk about “Constellations” in the next post!
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