I Am Kwan Dae-ha (3)
"That scared me. Why are you standing here instead of entering?"
A slim beauty stood before me. With porcelain white skin and a tall stature of 170cm, despite wearing a school uniform, her coquettishness and sexiness was not something that high schoolers would possess.
"Ah, sorry."
I walked past her with an indifferent look.
Ahh, please tell me she just stopped by to see her friends. Please, please. Please walk away to another class, or even better, a class further down the hallway.
"Ah, wait a moment."
I flinched at her words.
What? Why is she calling me?
I had many doubts at that moment, but I couldn't stay still just like that so I turned around slowly.
Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Everything will be over if she finds anything strange. You need to calm down.
I answered with the calmest expression possible, "Yes? What's wrong?"
"No, I just want to say that we are finally in the same class. You are Dae-ha, right? I heard a lot about you."
"Is that so? I hope it's nothing bad."
I answered calmly, but I was screaming inwardly.
Arghhhhhhh! So we really are in the same class! Damn it! Damn it! I should lie low like a dead rat this year!
"Huh? Where are you going?"
"Hmm? I'm going to my seat. Do you have anything else to say?"
"Ah, no. Not really. Got it."
I left her with a wry look on her face and headed towards my seat. Our school pre-assigned seats for their students like how they would assign classes, so there was no need to fight for seats and one could just head to their designated seat. But the assigned seat could still be changed by informing the teacher.
"It has been a while."
"Ah. Y-yeah. How have you been?"
I felt baffled at that calm voice.
Ahh, damn it. Kim Dong-min is in the same class too…
"No, not really good."
"Huh? Did something bad happen?"
"Rather than bad, it's troublesome… but I've already solved it."
I was convinced that the hassle was certainly not something ordinary students would experience such as having your vacation homework delayed or having an argument with a friend. Perhaps, that hassle was on a larger scale and he would have solved it in an even more dramatic way. But of course, I was not interested in what that hassle was or how he solved it at all.
"Ah, hi."
"Yes, hello."
I sat on my seat. My partner was a pretty cute looking female student. Usually, I would have shouted 'Lucky~!', but I was feeling a little depressed now.
"Now~ This is the beginning of a new semester, but you all know this right? You have to prepare now if you don't want to have a hard time when you reach your senior year. It's different now that you're juniors."
A new teacher in his mid-thirties was talking about everything. In summary, he was telling us not to play but study. And he just kept rambling on.
"...So introduce yourselves one by one so we can match your names to your faces. You will be seeing each other for a year anyway. So, let's start from the first student."
"Eh, haha. How awkward. Um, nice to meet you. I am…"
Everyone stood up in turns and introduced themselves. I was number 27 so it was still quite a while. I glanced at the titles of my classmates. Fortunately, they all looked ordinary. I might really cry if there was anyone else besides Kyung-eun and Dong-min.
"Nice to meet you! I am Lee Kyung-eun. My hobby is watching TV and I don't really have any specialities. Studying is important but let's get along with each other~!"
Lee Kyung-eun, who was seated in front of me, smiled brightly.
Ah, damn it. She's too close.
But as I sit behind her, I can clearly feel that she really had a nice body. For a woman, she was quite tall. Her slim legs and slender waist formed a beautiful S shape. In addition, her body felt more like a well-trained sword rather than having been born with it. Maybe that was why it looked solid? Or did she exercise diligently?
'No matter how I look, she's someone that can't help being popular.'
With her amiable personality, captivating looks, and thorough self-care, it wouldn't be surprising if she were to become a celebrity, since she looks like Little-Miss-Perfect. Nevertheless, there was one flaw that covers all her virtues.
Human Slayer.
Right, that title. That title was an enormous flaw. Frankly speaking, I wouldn't believe she'd killed someone, but unfortunately, I had never seen a case where the titles were wrong, so I could only be careful.
'Now that I think about it, I have never seen her with another title besides that one.'
I called it the permanent title. It would appear when someone achieved a special condition or had done a special action, their title would not change as often and they would be stuck with it. An example would be my father, and most recently my brother, whom I wasn't sure what he had done to obtain the title Ghost Blade.
The same went for Dong-min, but it was hard to grasp the condition or state of someone that had a permanent title at a glance. In simple terms, if I see someone with the title 'Itching to pick up a fight, Yoon Jung-min' from afar, I would avoid him. But I couldn't tell at a glance if he wanted to fight anyone because of the permanent title. I would have to go through the Classification process. If I wanted to know the current conditions or thoughts of people with permanent titles, I would have to concentrate for a moment as their titles do not change often.
"Hmm."
I suddenly became curious about Kyung-eun's current condition and began classification. It was simple. I was close enough to her, and even though her back was facing me, I could still see her title clearly, so I was able to use my ability easily.
'Let's see… I should check her latest status than her current mindset.'
I looked into 'Status', and selected 'Present'. Of course, the whole process was only visible to me, and I felt comfortable doing it as I was quite used to it. And her title was manifested like this.