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nA mature, gentle, and kind child.

nLenna Lee was perceived as a good child since she was young.

nShe did not cry often, and she was treated as a nice kid who was willing to share everything with everyone.

nHowever, Lenna never thought of herself as ‘good’.

n‘I was like that only because I had no one to comfort me when I cried and no one to hear my tantrums.’

nLenna’s oldest memory was sitting alone on the floor of a spacious, cold living room.

nParents that were busy with meetings each night.

nA much older sister who never visited home after moving to the school dormitory.

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nIt was rare for the four people to come together.

n‘’When I think about it, I think my family has drifted apart more after my psychic abilities developed. Maybe my family became this way because of my ability.’

nAfter her psychic abilities blossomed, her intelligence increased and her physical abilities were improved, so naturally, she became the best and most behaved student at school.

nNow, Lenna is struggling to avoid failing in Eun-kwang high, but among all the players, Lenna quite superior.

n‘…… Although I’ve never been praised by my parents.’

nLenna’s parents always argued about how much money and time was spent on her upbringing and education, and how unhappy they were because of that.

nFor Lenna, it was unavoidable that money and time was spent on her as long as she lived in their house.

nThat was why she tried her best to live up to all the money spent on her, and obeyed her parent’s words.

nExcept for what she testified about the Dream Auction.

n‘My parents said it was all for me, for my sake, but I wished that the dream auction would be gone….’

nLenna first went to the Dream Auction when she was a middle-schooler.

nThere, she saw players with rare talents being tortured, and Lenna was terrified.

nShe told her parents that she’d rather have her tongue cut off than do nothing about this, and persuaded them to break the vow to inform the police and Players Association.

nAs a result, she received punishment and admonishment.

n‘This is for your sake.’

n‘We’re only doing this so you’ll have connections with the higher society.’

n‘We go through all this for you, how dare you say that, you ungrateful bitch!’

nEven after hearing those harsh words, Lenna believed that her parents really participated in the Dream Auction for her own good.

nTo stop participating, she believed she had to become successful enough to not go to the Dream Auction.

nThat’s why she took the entrance exam for Korea’s best player high school, Eun-kwang.

nDespite her efforts, her parents still said she had to go ‘Because you entered Eun-kwang high, you need to see more high-ranked people’ and Lenna fell into despair.

nHowever, the auction she hated to go to, ended in the hands of the Phantom of the Red Wall, and the high-ranked people who supposedly in Eun-kwang high were arrested.

n‘I believed that everything would go well if there were no auctions that my parents had to participate in.’

nLenna actively testified of the Dream Auction and chose silence when it came to the Phantom of the Red Wall.

nShe figured that because the auction ended, her family wouldn’t have to force themselves to come to this horrible place and suffer for her sake.

nIt turned out her parents only tried to fill their self-interest using Lenna as an excuse.

nConsequently, after her testimony, her parents took all their anger out on her.

nLenna’s parents were so fierce and pushed her to the limit that she thought of killing herself.

nAlthough now they lost all contact with her after they were caught in the brothel business incident.

n‘Anyway, I’m glad that the Dream Auction disappeared and Se-eum is safe.’

nWhen Se-eum Sawol first attended school on April Fools’ Day, Irena’s shock was beyond imagination.

nShe fell into self-loathing, thinking that she only watched her classmate being sold off as a slave had it not been the Phantom of the Red Wall.

n‘If anyone knows I was in the auction, Se-eum and the other kids will be disappointed in me……’

nMr. Geun-hyung Ham, who defended herself among the board members who tried to cancel Lenna’s admission and accepted her in class 0.

nEui-shin Cho, the vice class president, who saved her from falling off the dormitory roof on the first day of enrollment.

nYuri Kim, the class president, who smiled sweetly and asked her to keep coming to school.

nHan-yi, who spared his study time to help her during midterm week.

nHyo-don Meang and Se-eum Sawol, who stayed up all night during midterms with her and encouraged each other.

nEvery time Lenna thought of the faces of her classmates, her heart warmed up, but at the same time, it also became heavier.

n‘All of them are good kids…… but I am…….’

nOn the desk in the dorm room.

nIrena blamed herself when she saw the printed group photo of the first grade 0 class picnic.

nShe was fine when she was between her classmates, but when she was alone, the words and dark thoughts she had heard from her parents flooded out of her.

n‘……Let’s just go to school.’

nToday is the performance day of the EverLake Team Master Jae-in Kwon.

nLenna brushed her useless thoughts away, blaming them for her lack of sleep.

nAfter dressing up, she put a violin-shaped badge from the string orchestra club on her school uniform.

nStudents in music-related clubs often collaborated.

nFor easily securing performers and purposing collaborations, it was customary to wear a badge that stood for the musical instrument each student played.

nAlthough Lenna wasn’t skilled enough to collaborate yet.

n‘By the way, Jun-yeoul Yeom wasn’t the Phantom of the Red Wall… Who is the Phantom?’

nPhantom of the Red Wall, Jun-yeoul Yeom.

nShe didn’t have a long conversation with the two, but she could see that they were not the same person.

nThe Phantom who saved both her and her classmate.

nShe wanted to say thank you to him one day.

nA place accommodating about 1,000 people, a concert hall in Hoyeon hall in the central area.

nThere was still time until the performance started, but the area around Hoyeon hall was overflowing with people.

nAs the security process for Eun-kwang high was complicated, it seemed that outsiders who did not have regular access permission came early with enough time to get registered.

n‘……Yup, it’s always the early birds who manages to get the tickets.’

nFirst grade, class 0 was defeated in the ticketing war and became a staff member.

nAmong them, there were four who took on the daily staff role today.

nMe, Se-eum Sawol, Yuri Kim, Lenna Lee.

nJiho Hwang wanted to do it, but there were only four daily staff recruiting.

n‘You’re supposed to be a close relative of chairman Myung-ho Hwang. If you’re staff, you’ll get too much attention.’

nI persuaded him with these words, and although complaining, Jiho gave up.

nThe four of us arrived safely behind the stage of Hoyeon hall without Jiho.

n“…… Our team master is as fickle as the weather, many people are suffering. Why a performance in Korea so suddenly? And in Hoyeon, of all places! It’s not exactly a well-equipped hall. I don’t know what Jae-in is thinking.”

nOne of the members of the EverLake team was the organizer of this concert in Korea.

nJared Lee.

nInspired by Jae-in Kwon’s musicality and talent, he is a blonde foreigner who abandoned the “Three Knights’ Oath,” his former team and one of the top 10 teams in the world at the time.

n‘Now, EverLake is also in the top 10, but then it was just a novice team.’

nIt was rare for Jae-in Kwon to directly deal with the media.

nIt was Jared who was dealing with the media on her behalf.

nIn Korea, he was quite popular as the “blonde foreigner who speaks Korean better than Koreans.”

n“It was difficult to recruit people because of the sudden decision. Thanks, for being here, guys.”

nJared handed out business cards to the four of us and greeted us in a friendly manner, speaking perfect Korean.

nThe tone and accent were completely Korean, so I felt like watching a Korean-dubbed person.

nJared explained step by step what we should do and what we need to watch out for.

n‘We’re just part-time staff. Maybe it’s because Jae-in Kwon is our alumnus, but I can’t believe the director is explaining this to us.’

nOur job wasn’t that great.

nWhat we were in charge of were subtle chores; not important enough to be entrusted by a staff with expertise, and even more so to formally recruit people.

nCarrying equipment.

nInspection and distribution of booklets.

nPosing a paper poster.

nSeat informant.

nI realized what kind of efforts were made behind the scenes for a concert held for less than a few hours.

n‘Alright, here we go!’

nJae-in Kwon’s performance that I only saw through the game screen.

nI was just doing chores, but being a part of it was more rewarding than I thought.

n“Should I install this on the ceiling?”

n“Yeah. I would like to ask you to adjust the angle of the lighting on the wall.”

n“Yeah! Which one?”

nAmong the four of us, Se-eum was the most active.

nSe-eum was one of the weaker players among Eun-kwang High, but he was stronger than normal people and had flight abilities.

n‘It’s his first time experiencing a part-time job or watching a concert, he seems to be enjoying it……’

nIt was inefficient to use flying or teleport items every time, and it was difficult to recruit players with flying skills because they were treated as advanced personnel.

nSe-eum, who really enjoyed doing the work, was most welcomed.

n“I don’t know if it’s allowed to order around a Eun-kwang highschool student with flying skills like this. Jae-in might scold me later.”

n“It’s team master’s fault for scheduling the concert this suddenly. Just pretend you did nothing.”

nWhile checking the copy of the booklet, I heard the acoustic staff talking.

nThey were working as the acoustics staff, but most of them were actually members of the EverLake team brought by Jae-in Kwon.

n‘It’s not something the top Players and acoustic staff should worry about.’

nAlthough born with psychic abilities, the players of EverLake were more interested in music rather than attacking the other-world.

nThose who lived like hermits joined the EverLake team, drawn by Jae-in Kwon’s melody, and the team grew.

n‘It’s not unusual because there are fans of Jae-in Kwon, not only in the Original clans but also among the top players.’

nWhen Jae-in Kwon held a solo concert at Manchester Arena and performed ‘for LENA’ in response to a passionate encore request, among the nine Mussai sisters, the muse, Terposicore, Euterpe, and Calliope descended for one minute and danced and disappeared.

nThat incident was famous.

n“Can I take my really leftover posters and brochures…?”

n“Yup. We prepared more than enough, so you can take as much as you need.”

n“Thank you······!”

n“That’s great, Lenna. Oh, if there’s a booklet left, I’m going to have one too!”

nLenna was Thrilled by Jared’s words.

nYuri, who was inspecting the booklet next to her, also looked bright.

nAs I finished checking the brochures I had for my share, the staff from the EverLake team spoke to me.

n“Eui-shin Cho. Please attach this poster to the location stated in advance. Normally, it is processed as a hologram, but our team master insisted on installing a paper poster…”

n“Yes sir. I’ll be back.”

nSe-eum was busy with work.

nChecking the booklets were not over yet, and Yuri and Lenna would want to see the rehearsal performance.

nInstead of these three, it would be better for me to go outside Hoyeon Hall.

nI stepped outside the Hoyeon Building with a box of posters, tapes, and scissors.

nIn front of two gypsum tiger statues in front of Hoyeon Hall.

nIt was noisy and bustling.

nA group wearing our school uniform was at the center of the noise.

nIt seems that there are some students who have succeeded in group ticketing in our school.

n“Rock Paper Scissors!”

n“Ah, I drew again! Don’t copy me, Chan Wang, you asshole!”

n“reflect!”

n“Then I rainbow reflect!” *

n* reflect and rainbow reflect: when someone swears at you, you can use reflect to make the curse bounce back to the person who used it. Rainbow reflect is stronger than reflect and used as a counter-attack. It’s a common concept among Korean elementary school children.

nI heard their voice somewhere.

n‘It’s a combination of 2nd-grade class 0 Geum Chan Wang Chan…!’

nAs I looked closely, there was also a teacher standing among the second graders in school uniforms, Mr. Jae-gul Jegal.

n“Ah, they’ve already drawn the tenth time.”

n“Crazy people have similar thinking circuits. That would be the result of their own advanced psychological warfare doing rock, paper, scissors.”

nAssuming what I’ve heard from their conversations, second-grade class 0 tried to get tickets for the whole class and succeeded nicely.

n‘So those people ruined our ticketing!’

nAnd now, those who succeeded in ticketing were playing a rock-paper-scissors tournament for a seat next to Jae-gul Jagal.

nthe seat to the right of Jae-gul was occupied early by the ace of the theater club, who was the best at psychological tricks.

nThe problem was the left seat.

nWith that one seat, two proud class executives were in the finals.

nI proceeded to work by hiding my body properly behind the pillars so that I could not be seen.

n‘…… Let’s pretend not to know them.’

nThe craziness of second-grade class 0 also happened earlier in school today.

nAs Jae-in Kwon’s concert in Korea was held today, at the Hoyeon hall, the broadcasting club organized songs composed by Jae-in Kwon as class bells.

nHowever, the second grade, class 0 secretly changed all the songs to ‘for LENA’.

nThe comments left by class 0 of the second year, who conquered the Broadcasting club, were as follows.

nThe more you listen to a masterpiece, the newer it sounds!

nAs a result, today’s class was the same song all day long.

nIt was the same song, but the players and instruments kept changing.

nSongs that all the music clubs covered “for LENA” with all kinds of instruments were used as class bells, and the more I listened to it, the more it felt like I have never heard the song before.

n‘The Haegeum and Taepyeongso* version were the most impressive.’

n* Haegeum and Taepyeongso: traditional Korean instruments

nAfter finishing the work, I looked around the second grade 0 class again, and I noticed that they wore a group cloth emblem with today’s date and summary.

nJae-gul Jegal was wearing one, too, but his had gold leaf ornaments.

n‘They get along so well.’

nJae-gul Jegal was here, so there was no need to worry about them making an accident during the concert.

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nwas curious about the outcome of Geum Chan Wang Chan’s Rock Paper Scissors tournament, but I was done with my work so I decided to move.

nI moved to another area, checking the holograms.

nI ran into a group wearing suits.

nThe figure standing in the center was familiar.

n‘That’s Jiho Hwang……!’

nHis hairstyle is different, and his hair and eyes are blacker than Ji-ho.

nStill, I saw it several times in the game and immediately recognized it.

nThis was the 30s version of Golden Tiger.

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