I Became an Illegal Cheat User – Chapter 61

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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After all of today’s classes had ended, I went down to the Academy cafeteria for dinner time after resting briefly in the dormitory.

And just as I was about to start eating after filling my tray with my usual choices and sitting down.

“It’s Crow!”

“Top Student Crow!”

“Crow, enjoy your meal!”

My classmates who had come down for dinner stimulated my embarrassing memories as they passed by.

However, perhaps because I had been watching my embarrassing moments throughout class time.

“Oh, you guys enjoy your meals too.”

The shame didn’t surge up uncontrollably as it had before.

As a result, I was unfazed by my classmates’ teasing.

“Mr. Crow! Let’s eat together!”

“Oh, Asuka. Welcome.”

Even when Asuka teased me.

“Crow, may I sit across from you?”

“Oh, go ahead.”

Even when Arthur teased me.

“Mr. Crow, may I join you for dinner?”

“Oh, Noah. Of course you can.”

Even when Noah teased me.

“…Crow.”

Even when Seo-yeon teased me.

I was unfazed.

“Mr. Crow, I heard something when I was leaving the classroom.”

“Oh? What was it?”

…I shouldn’t be fazed.

“You know the video the instructor showed us during class earlier? They said it’s going to be used as teaching material!”

“…What? Teaching material?”

But I couldn’t help but be fazed.

“Yes, teaching material!”

Asuka nodded with a bright face.

Then she stabbed the tteokbokki she had brought with her fork and popped it into her mouth with an “Ahm”.

It was truly an adorable sight.

However, unlike usual, I couldn’t smile warmly this time.

‘They’re using my embarrassing moment as teaching material? No, why?’

My composure shattered completely.

Shame surged up again and my face began to heat up.

At this, I took a deep breath and asked Asuka.

“Is that… true?”

To my question, Asuka nodded while chewing her tteokbokki and after a moment, she swallowed and said.

“Yes, I don’t know who the instructor was talking to, but he said this, there has never been a better villain performance than this. So this must be used as teaching material.”

“……”

At those words, I quietly put down my spoon.

Then I gulped down the water I had brought to cool my face that had heated up from shame.

But despite this, my face didn’t cool down, instead it got hotter and hotter.

At this, I immediately opened my inventory and took out a Spirit Energy Pill, which acted as a full-body cleanser and mind stabilizer, and I popped it into my mouth as if taking a pill.

The Spirit Energy Pill that entered my mouth melted as it touched my tongue.

Then a refreshing and crisp scent filled my mouth.

Only after the Spirit Energy Pill’s unique mystical energy spread throughout my body did my mind, which had been boiling like a furnace, stabilize.

Accordingly, the heat in my face that had felt like it would explode at any moment cooled down rapidly.

“Phew.”

Only then could I breathe comfortably.

“Hm? What’s this refreshing scent?”

“It’s like a crisp scent you’d find in a forest.”

Perhaps because we were sharing the same table.

When they smelled a scent more fitting for a forest than food, Arthur and Noah looked around with puzzled faces and before long, the two realized that I was the source of the scent.

“Such a calming scent, I don’t know what perfume it is, but it must be a very good one.”

As if agreeing with Noah’s words, Arthur nodded and said.

“I’ve never been interested in things like perfume, but if it smells like this, I might consider getting one.”

Arthur, usually had no interest in cosmetics or perfume, or anything decorative.

But now, perhaps because she really liked the scent coming from my breath.

“Yu-jin, if it’s not too much trouble, I’d like to buy the perfume you used. So, could you sell it to me?”

She’s not asking where to buy the perfume… is she?

For a moment, I thought I had misheard and asked Arthur.

“…What did you say you wanted to do?”

Then Arthur, who was cutting her steak drizzled with mint sauce, tilted her head and said.

“I said I’d like to buy the perfume you used, didn’t I?”

“……”

Seeing Arthur’s nonchalant appearance as she popped a piece of steak into her mouth, I was at a loss for words.

‘Arthur, you’re getting more and more shady by the day…’

Of course, Arthur didn’t show this shady side to other people.

She always showed an orderly and dignified knight’s appearance to people other than those sitting at this table right now.

Literally, she only showed her true self to me, Seo-yeon, Asuka, and Noah.

But that true self was a bit… too much.

‘First the masochistic tendencies, and now this shadiness?’

This was the person who was going to be the Knight King in the future?

The future of England… no, the Round Table Guild looked bleak.

But it seemed I wasn’t the only one thinking this.

“…Ugh.”

“……”

Asuka, who had been eating her tteokbokki with “nom nom” sounds, was looking at Arthur with somewhat contemptuous eyes.

And Seo-yeon… was glaring at Arthur with very fierce eyes, as if she might swing the knife in her hand at any moment.

Seeing the two of them like this, Arthur tilted her head as if to ask what the problem was.

As she did so, she put the finely cut steak into her mouth and chewed thoroughly.

That appearance made it seem like she was provoking them, saying ‘What are you going to do about it?’

“Haha, is this what they call bonding between friends?”

Noah, do you see this fierce battle of wills as bonding?

‘…You’re quite oblivious too.’

I sighed deeply and shook my head.

The meal that had started chaotically and ended fiercely, came to an end.

Except for me, the other four headed to the training ground.

No, to be precise, only Seo-yeon and Asuka headed to the training ground.

I called Arthur and Noah aside for a moment.

Click.

In a study room inside the Class 1-A exclusive building.

As soon as we entered the study room, I took out two boxes containing Spirit Energy Pills from my inventory, and I handed one each to the two of them.

“Here, take these.”

“…What’s this?”

“What might this be?”

Arthur and Noah received the boxes with puzzled faces and the moment they opened the lids of the boxes.

Whoosh!

“This scent…”

“Could it be that the scent we smelled in the cafeteria was from this elixir?”

A refreshing and crisp scent filled the study room.

At this, Arthur and Noah looked back and forth between the elixirs in their hands and me with surprised faces.

I nodded at Noah’s question and said.

“That’s right, all that talk about perfume in the cafeteria was because of the scent coming from this elixir.”

“Hmm… to think it wasn’t perfume, that’s a bit disappointing.”

“Indeed, if it had been perfume, I would have bought some too. What a shame.”

Arthur and Noah closed the lids of the boxes with short sighs, as if truly disappointed.

Then without a moment’s hesitation, they held them out to me again.

I shook my head.

As I pushed away their outstretched hands, I said.

“Those are for you. So you don’t need to give them back.”

“…Your heart is truly in the right place, but we can’t accept such precious elixirs.”

“I also agree with Arthur’s words.”

Arthur and Noah expressed reluctance.

Seeing the two like this, I opened my inventory again and as I had done with Seo-yeon before, I decided to personally dispel their hesitation.

That method was.

Rumble rumble!

Pouring out the elixirs.

“No, what is this…!”

“…Good heavens.”

Arthur and Noah had shocked expressions on their faces and their actions differed from each other.

Arthur opened her eyes wide and looked down at the elixirs piling up on the study room floor.

Noah, like a priest receiving a demonic temptation, closed his eyes tightly and made the sign of the cross.

Seeing the two like this, I chuckled and stopped pouring out the elixirs.

Then, picking up one of the elixir boxes piled on the floor, I said.

“It’s a bit embarrassing for me to say this, but…”

I opened the lid of the box.

“These elixirs aren’t precious to me at all.”

I picked up an elixir.

Then, as if eating a snack, I casually tossed it into my mouth.

After swallowing the melted elixir, I continued.

“As you can see, these elixirs are like snacks to me.”

Snacks that I ate to pass the time.

“So don’t worry and just eat them.”

Because you can.

At my words, Arthur and Noah looked at me with blank faces.

Then, as if they had made up their minds.

They opened the lids of the boxes in their hands again.

Whoosh.

As the lids opened, the unique scent of the elixirs spread again.

Arthur and Noah picked up the elixirs with trembling hands.

Then they looked up at me again.

I nodded to them.

Then Arthur and Noah took a deep breath for a moment.

“Thank you, Yu-jin.”

“Thank you, Mr. Yu-jin.”

Expressing their gratitude to me, they tossed the elixirs into their mouths qnd as soon as they put the elixirs in their mouths.

Gulp.

Arthur and Noah’s Adam’s apples moved.

At the same time, due to the effect of the Spirit Energy Pills.

Whoosh!

Magic power began to swirl around their bodies.

And after a moment.

“…I feel like my soul has grown a level.”

“I feel like controlling my talent has become much easier.”

It seemed the effects of the Spirit Energy Pills had been properly applied.

Arthur and Noah muttered about their conditions with surprised faces.

Seeing them like this, a warm smile formed on my face, as if I was watching newbies who had just started a game.

‘Ah, this is why I raise newbies.’

Of course, Arthur and Noah weren’t actually newbies.

But their reactions were so newbie-like that I couldn’t help but feel warmth.

At this, to maintain this warm feeling, I quickly took out two Physical Enhancement Pills from my inventory and I held them out to the two who were still marveling at the effects of the elixir.

“Here, eat these too.”

“…Is, is this an elixir too?”

“Haha… oh Lord.”

Arthur and Noah looked at me with somewhat nauseated expressions.

I opened the lids of the boxes with an especially kind face and said to the two,

“Eat.”

“…Thank you.”

“…I’ll eat it gratefully.”

Time flew by like an arrow.

We built up our skills as heroes by alternating between indoor and outdoor classes.

Thanks to the recipes I had registered at the Alchemy Workshop, I was able to make various weapons and special bullets when I had enough money.

Like that, without any problems, it became June and summer arrived.

As the air got hotter, we started wearing summer uniforms.

And today.

“As announced last week, we’ll be conducting ‘midterm evaluations’ this week.”

“The location for the midterm evaluations is an ‘Uninhabited Island’.”

“Yes, that’s right. It’s the place where you took your final entrance exam.”

“The midterm evaluations will be conducted over a total of 5 days, and the evaluation objectives will be sent to each of your smartwatches the moment you arrive on the Uninhabited Island.”

“You want me to give you a little hint about the evaluation objectives? I’d like to, but as you can see ‘@#$@%’, the principal’s information protection magic is applied.”

“But I can tell you very simply.”

“The theme of the midterm revelations you’ll be taking is.”

“Survival.”

The midterm evaluations had begun.

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