I was confused. I was irritated. I was frustrated.
I screamed loud enough that everyone near the gate was looking at me. They must be thinking that I was pitiful. Yes, I was pitiful! It was stupid of me to think that I would finally see the next day.
To begin with, I did not understand the cause of this stupid game over. How was I supposed to advance? Why the heck the [User Manual] provide me with walkthrough? At this rate, going home was probably nothing but a dream.
"Are you okay? Do you need help?"
That voice. It was the third time already, so there was no way I would mistake her voice. Griselda, my roommate. While I loved her beautiful voice, I was not in the mood to meet her. Her lines did not change, anyway.
I was tired of these same events. Meeting Griselda, meeting instructor, going to the assembly, going to the dorm, et cetera et cetera et cetera. I would love to skip everything, but I guess that could not be done. In the end, I followed everything that happened on the first day again for the third time with my heart being somewhere else. To be precise, I did the exact same thing as I did in my first playthrough. When I realized, it was already night.
Even though it was already time to sleep, I was wide awake. Actually, I did not want to go to sleep. The second day was a real headache. Getting involved with Rain and his stupid actions got me game over. Not getting involved with him also got me game over.
If avoiding him was a bad idea, then I got no choice but to confront him. The problem was how I should interact with him. I did not know what went wrong on my first. He was hostile and stupidly competitive towards me.
"Competitive...."
Something flashed in my mind. Right, he asked a duel with Clarissa Edelrose. I was not so stupid to accept a duel that I had no chance to win. But...
"Wait, do I really have no chance?"
That! Why did I assume that I would lose? Okay, I was a complete novice that time and beginner luck would not happen as a daily occurrence. However, I did not have the chance to look at his ability before. Considering how bad his move was on martial arts, his sword skill was probably below average. Moreover, I was not a complete novice anymore. I dropped the complete word and became a just novice now since I already had the sword class twice and about to get the third. I could hold and swing the sword quite normally or at least better than before.
Okay, I had decided! This time, I would approve his challenge!
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