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nI opened my eyes, only to find myself floating in the air with a somewhat ethereal body.

nBut, my real body was on the ground, setting my mother’s head to the side and standing up.

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nTutorial has begun

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nHuh? What the hell is happening?

nI tried to move around, but it felt like I was in water, so I began swimming through the air.

nMy Mobility was low, but at least I was able to get down to the ground.

nWhen I went to touched my real body, my hand slipped through.

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nFirst Step: Wait for the guard to come back

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nSuddenly, the door to the prison swings open, but it looks different.

nIt was transparent and almost ethereal like myself.

nThen, the same guard as always stepped through the real wooden door, and he also had an ethereal form.

nHe was expressionless and slightly transparent.

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nSecond Step: Restrain the guard

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nUpon placing a ghostly plate with the usual scraps into our cell, my physical body picked up a chipped piece of stone and dashed towards the guard’s hand.

nI was barely able to walk, but my body now was practically sprinting across the cell.

nMy body then grabbed the hand, and with a display of incredible strength, he interlocked his arm in between the steel bars, holding him in place.

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nThird Step: Stab

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nKsh Ksh

nRepeatedly, my body stabbed the guard’s arm with a piece of chipped stone.

nTransparent blood sprayed everywhere, my purple hair stained in red.

nAnd even when blood sprayed onto my eye, I didn’t blink, sending chills to run throughout my phantasmal body.

nI looked down at my ethereal form and saw goosebumps littering my semi-transparent skin.

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nFourth Step: Pull the arm farther in

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nThe limp arm was pulled farther in, eventually squeezing the guard’s shoulder through, revealing the side of the man’s neck.

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nFifth Step: Kill

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nAnd with one clean stab, my body had killed the guard without me inside of it.

nTutorial Complete

nWould you like to review the Tutorial once again?

nI glanced up at the panels above me and immediately answered with a,

n“No,”

nComprehensible words finally came out of my mouth, but I was still in my ethereal form, so I knew that was the reason why I could actually talk.

nTutorial has ended

n“Can I ask anymore quest-“

nBut before I could finish asking, I was suddenly sucked back into my body at a speed that caused me to throw up upon returning to my flesh.

n“O-oh, baby, are you alright?” My mother asks, awakened from me choking on the burning stomach acid in my throat.

nShe sets me upright and begins to pat my back.

nYou’re making me want to throw up even more…

n…

nIt was the next day, and I was currently staring at my status while thinking back on what happened yesterday.

nWere those instructions on how to escape? Is that what the system wanted me to do?

nI glanced at my mother.

nShe was sleeping.

nI then flipped over onto my belly and pulled my knees into my chest, allowing me to get up very slowly.

nIn no time, I was walking.

nBut I wanted to try and sprint now, so I took in a deep breath, walked to the back of the cell, and set my eyes on the prison bars ahead of me.

nI started off with a slow jog, but I immediately fell over, slamming my face against the stone.

nUh… My nose.

nIt wasn’t broken, but it definitely hurt.

nI glanced up at the cell bars and got up once again.

nI walked slowly, then jogged slowly but ended up hitting my face against the ground once again.

nThe plan provided by the system was so simple-minded that I had a hard time believing it was real.

nIt was as if one of those monsters had come up with the plan from my previous life.

n『Status』

nName: None

nRace: Human

nLevel: 1

/10 (0

/100) XP Needed

nHP: 10

/10 MP: 5

/5 SP: 5

/5 – Normal Human

nStrength: -1 – Sub Human

nDefense: -1 – Sub Human

nMagic: 0 – Normal Human

nSpeed: -1 – Sub Human

nSkills: None

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nI glanced up at my status and stared coldly at the negative numbers.

nYeah… That plan won’t work.

nMaybe if I had incredible strength and speed, but obviously, I don’t.

nPlus, what happens once I kill the guard?

nI take the keys, always jingling from his belt, but then what?

nI unlock the cell door on the outside with the help of my mother, but then what?

nOnce we leave that door beyond the cell bars, what happens next?

nThere’s no doubt guards are waiting for us. Plus, my mother won’t even be able to leave due to the chain attached to her ankle.

nEven if I manage to remove it, she’s so weak from malnutrition and exhaustion that even if she was the greatest mage to ever live, she’d die within a second.

nEverything about the plan was straight, plain stupidity.

nOr maybe… That wasn’t the plan.

nWhat if it was showing me the way to go.

nMaybe it was showing me that I had to leave this place.

nYou have attracted the attention of a few gods

nThey all wonder how you are so intelligent at a mere age of 1

nAH!

nThe panels that popped up in my face scared me so bad I jumped backward, bruising my shoulder.

nA few of the gods laugh before exiting the viewing area

nWhat… the hell… So many things… Too many things that I’m unaware of… I can’t do this anymore…

nAnd I ended up fainting.

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nHalf a year had passed since my birthday, and a new notification appeared.

nHalf a year has passed with no progress

nA tutorial will be given

nJust like last time, I was slammed out of my body into an ethereal form, but I didn’t panic much as I expected this to happen.

nOver the past half a year, I collected myself and all the information I could get.

nThis included information on the system… though there wasn’t much.

nInformation on the guard who always gives us two meals a day.

nInformation on the prison cell my mother and I were in.

nI had formulated a plan that had so many risks you could probably call it suicide.

nI needed a lot of luck to get through this… but it was my only way now as I’ve gone through every possibility, and this was the only way.

nTup Tup Tup

nMy body walked across the room again to find another chipped shard, and thus the tutorial repeated itself again.

nIt went through the same steps as last time but added one more.

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nSixth Step: Take the keys

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nAnd once my body had taken the ethereal keys, the tutorial ended.

nTutorial Complete

nWould you like to review the Tutorial once again?

nNo…

nTutorial has ended

nMy ethereal body gets sucked back into my own body, and the feeling once again made me throw up all over the floor.

nDue to my mother’s exhaustion, she didn’t wake up this time, but that was good as I needed her to stay away.

nCreeeeek

nThe wooden door opened , and the same guard walked down the three stairs and shoved our plate through the small opening in between the bars.

nOkay, let’s begin.

nBut of course, we’re not following that stupid tutorial.

nThe gods watch intently

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