Sigh—
Meanwhile, Shin Se-hee let out a deep sigh. Her entire body was drenched, as though she had just taken a shower.
The mental strain from blocking Jin Yuha's voice still lingered in her body.
Her fingertips trembled faintly.
"It seems I succeeded in preventing his voice from leaking… and also stopped it from reaching the other party members."
What Jin Yuha had said just now could not recklessly fall into the ears of others.
Shin Se-hee checked her equipment's operational status once more.
The flow of magic and the frequency that muffled sound were both functioning perfectly.
Only then did a sigh of relief escape her lips.
She leaned back in her chair, gazing at the empty air.
Despite achieving the result of defeating the dire Spider Queen in her first command, Shin Sehee's expression remained complicated.
Instead of the joy of victory, her eyes were filled with conflicted emotions.
"Now I understand…"
Shin Se-hee slowly recalled the words Jin Yuha had just muttered.
Each fragmented, incoherent phrase now carried a completely different meaning.
The words Jin Yuha had spoken in his trance-like state were disjointed and fragmented, easy to dismiss as nonsensical ramblings.
But with her brilliant mind, Shin Se-hee pieced those fragments together into a cohesive picture.
Like solving a puzzle, the many incomprehensible actions and words she had witnessed finally connected into one.
"…Not foresight, but transmigration. Yes, it was transmigration."
"Is this world really a game?"
It was a shocking truth.
But it couldn't be dismissed.
If Jin Yuha's extraordinary ability wasn't foresight but the power of Transmigration...
The many things that had seemed strange so far began to make sense all at once.
Jin Yuha had been able to clearly see what kind of person someone was, their past, and even their future before even meeting his party members.
Jin Yuha displayed an almost script-like accuracy about future events, as if he were reading a predetermined storyline.
From the very beginning, he demonstrated a combat command style so flawless it felt alien.
Indeed, there had been something off about calling it mere foresight.
No matter how excellent one's foresight, it was impossible to know such fine details about everything.
Moreover, just seeing the future wouldn't explain his exceptional command skills or his rapid growth rate.
"During the last Demon Realm Gate incident, Jin Yuha knew not only the enemies' patterns but even the lines they were going to say."
To think all of this was because of Transmigration!
Shin Se-hee looked at the information on the Spider Queen Irine that Jin Yuha had organized for them.
This, too, was laid out like something from a game.
"...Does that mean I was one of the characters Jin Yuha played?"
Thinking back to their first meeting, she suspected she hadn't been a particularly likable character.
Shin Se-hee felt her common sense about the world collapsing in an instant. But because it was Jin Yuha, she was able to accept it.
Hoo─
No, to be honest, she was still confused.
She closed her eyes and calmed her racing thoughts.
What was she so anxious about right now?
Fine. Let's say this world is a game.
Does that mean her essence is not that of a human, but a character?
No.
She, her comrades, and every individual here were alive, with desires and emotions. Could all of that truly have been designed by someone?
No.
Creating all of that from graphics made of 0s and 1s?
Unless they were a god, it was impossible.
That would be not a game, but the creation of an entirely new world.
"Perhaps the game Jin Yuha played was a world that imitated this one, made to be endlessly similar."
Yes, that was enough to define existence.
Now, moving on.
Jin Yuha.
Could she treat him as the same person as before? Could she love him as she always had?
Surprisingly, the answer came too easily.
So easily that Shin Se-hee herself found it absurd.
"...Isn't it obvious?"
No matter who Jin Yuha had been in the past, the fact remained that he had become a ray of light in her miserable life.
Perhaps her initial interest in him had been due to his appearance. But that wasn't the case now.
His dazzling exterior drew her eyes, yes.
But it was his inner self—his personality, values, and words—that shook her soul.
His appearance and all those traits together only served to make Jin Yuha shine even brighter.
If he had only been about appearances, she might have briefly taken an interest before quickly losing it.
After all, she was a woman prone to boredom and whims.
Pisik─
Shin Se-hee let out a quiet laugh through her teeth.
"Yes, nothing has changed after all. Nothing at all."
Rather, what came to her mind was something entirely different.
She felt no resentment toward Jin Yuha for keeping secrets.
Instead, she simply tried to gauge how heavy the burden on his shoulders must have been.
She recalled Jin Yuha's mutterings that had once reached her ears.
A one-star trash character, the lowest physical stats, swordsmanship specialized at E-rank. The worst character, one you'd reset your account immediately upon drawing.
Every word he had spoken settled heavily in her chest.
Why had he chosen to come to the academy with such a body?
Why had he fought so fiercely?
Why had he trained daily to the point of coughing up blood to become stronger than anyone else?
For the people he cared about, to prevent the world's inevitable destruction.
A modest yet grand goal for which he had burned himself white and given everything.
If it had been her, could she have made such a choice and taken such actions upon finding herself in an unfamiliar world?
No, of course not.
Such actions were only possible because he was Jin Yuha.
Shin Se-hee gazed blankly at the holographic screen.
Perhaps due to the backlash of using Muah, Jin Yuha had collapsed unconscious on the spot.
"Jin Yuha!!!"
"Junior!!!"
"Jin Yuha-nim!!!"
"Savior!!!"
"Instructor!!!"
The party members rushed toward him with alarmed expressions, showering him with Sophia's healing and potions they had prepared.
"...You really were sent to our world as its savior."
At that moment, a pure white light began to pour down on Shin Se-hee's head.
"Huh, huh!?"
A dreamy glow, as if the condensed light of the moon.
The entire world fell silent, as though time had stopped.
Shin Se-hee blankly stared at the white light gathering above her head.
"...This is."
She had heard of it before and even witnessed it herself.
Something Jin Yuha had experienced three times, and Lee Yoo-ri once.
Awakening.
"Is this... happening to me?"
Saaa─
As the light descended, a voice echoed in her ears.
[ Your rank has risen. The stars turn toward you. ]
With that message, the warm light began to grow more intense. It soon began to engulf her entire body.
The sweat that had drenched her evaporated in an instant.
"Urgh...!"
Shin Se-hee instinctively clenched her teeth.
She had expected pain after witnessing Jin Yuha's awakening. But this was beyond anything she had anticipated!
The flow of magic coursing through her body accelerated.
Like a massive river being forced through a narrow channel, her veins were forcibly widened.
Tuduk─
At the same time, there was a fierce sense of liberation, as though a binding spell had shattered.
"Ughhh──!"
Shin Se-hee clenched her teeth tightly, gripping the documents before her in that overwhelming sensation.
Suddenly—
The entire world turned white.
Amidst the intense light, so bright that she could barely open her eyes, Se-hee witnessed it. She saw the chains of limitation binding her soul shatter and the moment she reached a realm she had thought unattainable.
What felt like an eternity passed in an instant, and the light gradually receded.
"Haah...haah..."
Finally able to breathe again, Se-hee closed her eyes and assessed her condition.
"…I've gotten stronger."
From her fingertips to her toes, she could feel strength welling up from every part of her body, as though her old self had been replaced with something entirely new.
"No, it feels even more fundamental than that—like the density of my soul itself has changed..."
The narrow streams of energy that once struggled through her body had widened dramatically, now flowing like majestic rivers.
And in her mind, the countless tangled pieces of information seemed to reorganize themselves neatly, as if carefully summarized and filed away.
No matter what she thought of, the process and results came to her immediately.
She felt confident she could now handle far more than ever before.
Se-hee was thrilled by the changes within her. It felt as if the world was acknowledging the correctness of her judgment and choices.
"…With this, I can help Jin Yuha even more."
Wearing a faint smile, she slowly opened her eyes—only to blush a deep red in embarrassment.
"…Ah, that's right. This... phenomenon always destroys clothes, doesn't it?"
Se-hee immediately pulled out a spare set of clothes from her subspace tattoo and hastily dressed herself.
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