The S-Classes That I Raised

n me.

“It’s just that it’s pretty hard…”

“How hard is it?”

“You know bladed tools, right? Like knives or scissors.
You have to sharpen them.
Exactly ten thousand of them.”

Yoo Myeongwoo’s mouth dropped open.

“Te-ten thousand…?”

“Yeah.
It’s definitely hard, right? I don’t want to see you suffer either…”

“You just have to do ten thousand? Really?!”

Myeongwoo yelled as if cheering.
The light in his eyes hadn’t just revived but was on fire.
What, do you happen to like physical labor?

“…That’s right.
Though rather than ‘just’, it’s quite a lot.”

“No, it’s not that much.
If I sharpen a hundred each day, I’ll finish in exactly one hundred days!”

“A hundred each…?”

In just a hundred days? To finish that fast, even if you said one took ten minutes, that was 6 in one hour and you had to work for seventeen hours, and eat and sleep in the remaining seven hours…

“……Do it slowly, slowly.”

It was good to be passionate, but first you had to be alive to use the SS-Rank skill.

“Slowly? Should I do fifty each? But then it’ll take long… Troubling you[6] for that long is a bit……”

“It’s okay.
Your food is tasty.”

It was true.
And as time went on, he became even more capable so it was to the extent of anticipation.
Did he have any cooking related skills?

“So, don’t worry.
Instead of me, it would probably be harder on you? Shutting yourself in somewhere and only sharpening knives all day wouldn’t be easy.”

“Don’t worry.
There was a time when I was young when I was engrossed in making a model of the Battle of Hansan[7].
I won a prize with it too.
I have confidence in doing repetitive work all day in a house corner!”

Is that so.
Was this nature also related to skill aptitude? It might be that he would roll out equipment like a factory after he gets Forge.

“Ah, I’ll take and put away the equipment.
Yoojin, you go up first and rest.”

I was about to say it was okay but then I just gave him the equipment.
If these little things were helpful, he would probably feel less burdened.

Really, being too kindhearted was a problem.

Then again, if he was someone who gobbled up anything given and didn’t know to be thankful, I would have thrown him away first.
Since, if he betrayed me after getting the SS-Rank skill, it would be worse than not having one.
And the keyword influence effect would be useless if there wasn’t a caregiver model.

It was because Yoo Myeongwoo was a trustable character that I was able to grab onto him to this extent.

“Yoojin, seriously, thank you.
I’ll work hard and pay it all back to you.
Definitely.”

Myeongwoo said, before he turned.
If you’re that thankful, just make me a good piece of equipment later or something.

I figured out the matter of Myeongwoo and went towards the dorm floor with light footsteps.
Now I really only needed to wait and then just take the harvest.
Everything was mostly done, hooray.

Time to play~ I’m going to slack off a lot~.
The house was big and the days would get hot and I would turn the A/C on full and roll around all day with Peace.
I was going to stop caring about the weirdly changed status window and such.

If you want to make me work, please descend[8] down directly, person who made the system.
Definitely with the instruction manual.

Cheerfully[9], I opened the door.
The ‘click’ noise was so heartwarming.
I should cursorily get through the remaining theory class and then become one with the sofa.
Thanks to my dear dongsaeng-nim, I packed a ton of magic stones and wouldn’t have to worry about money.
Should I buy some more stocks? Or should I pick out a car? Right, I should get my driver’s license first.

As soon as I entered, a bright light shone on the entrance.
Across from the shoe rack, the smiling face of a man was reflected on the full-length mirror.

I didn’t know who it was[10] but his expression looked quite good.
It seems to be a face of one who would play and live well.

But, behind him, there was another person wearing mourning clothe…

Something clammy suddenly grabbed my ankle.
Then, it pulled firmly.
Ack, wait, that’s a foul-!

Bam!

I barely dodged to the side to avoid hitting my head against the steel frame of the inner door and fell.

Fuck, Dokkaebi, this bastard, I told you to scare me, not to make an assassination attempt.
I’m weak.
Really weak.
Don’t take an F-Rank’s weakness lightly.

“Ughhh, my hip… knee… arm…”

I only defended my head and hit everything else.
It seemed like I would become one with the bed instead of the sofa.

“I didn’t think you would fall down that easily!”

“…Apologize first.”

“Sorry!”

A good child who listens well gets 1 point.
When I tried to stand up, staggering, a hand stretched out from behind me and supported me.
Ughh, my entire body was stiff.
To think I would go around a dungeon unharmed and then get injured at my house entrance.
Did I have luck or not? Did I have a pain relief patch at home?

When I turned around, I saw the mask-wearing Dokkaebi crying.
They wouldn’t have come here wearing it from the start, so did they put it on in the meantime?

Looking at that unfunny appearance, I lost the intention to get mad too.

“You came later than I had thought?”

At my words, the Dokkaebi’s two shoulders drooped down.

“……I got scolded.”

“You got scolded?”

“I got scolded a lot! I got nagged at for two days for signing a contract as I please!”

Well.
It seemed like Subordinates 1 and 2 were close to being guardians.
Just how old were they? Since they didn’t say anything about the contract being invalid, they were probably at least over fully 14 years.
Just looking at their height, they were an adult, but were they immature mentally?

“Still, I talked big that it’d be okay because I could win! It wasn’t scary?”

“Rather than being scary, I was about to go on the road to the underworld.”

“Usually the moment when you get home is the most careless moment…”

The Dokkaebi said sullenly.
I was certainly careless.
Still, putting aside the resistance skill, even if I thought of it objectively, the time at the classroom seemed scarier.
Was it because of Suk Hayan? The screaming had a big impact.
Sound really was important.

“There’s still chances left, so hang in there.”

Of course, I had no intention of losing on purpose though.

“Yeah! I’ll work hard!”

“And go to a drugstore and buy a pain relief patch.”

“P-pain relief patch?”

“Quickly.
Right now.
One that works well.”

Saying ‘okay’, the Dokkaebi suddenly disappeared.
It sure was comfortable.
Did you hear, person who made the system? Teleportation for me too, please.

[1] lit.
sth like ‘even if you go sideways/diagonally, you just have to get to Seoul, that’s it’.
It also means ‘no matter what path you take, you just have to get to your goal’, which I personally feel has a slightly different connotation than ‘the end justifies the means’ and suits this context better, but ‘the ends justifies the means’ is a lot smoother/flows better… rolls off the tongue nicer??

[2] So I tried looking up 기승수 again and found nothing useful.
All I’m (99%) certain about is that 수 definitely has to be ‘beast’.
I’m also 90% sure that 기 is 技(talent, aptitude)/伎(talent, skill).
승 could be 承(connect, inherit??, support) or possibly even 乘(ride).
Whatever it is, I’m keeping ‘familiar’ even if it ends up not exactly being a familiar bc at this point it seems to be a pet/combat-support monster, and you can possibly stretch the definition of familiar to that I guess.
It’s a made-up word so to tl, I’d have to use the exact word, make up a new word, or twist similar existing ones to fit it anyways, so…

[3] he uses a word that means ‘rank, class, grade,’ that had been sometimes used interchangeably with the ‘rank’ in stuff like ‘s-rank’, but I didn’t think he was talking about that kind of rank bc then the sentence doesn’t make sense, but idk

[4] lit.
‘dig a hole and go inside’ but I think this is what it means

[5] lit.
‘if one doesn’t even want to be a pyeongyang mayor, then that’s that’ where pyeongyang (as in the current capital of n.k.) used to be a major city in joseon (what kr was called bf the war & division) so being assigned as the official/mayor of there by the king was a rly good position but if u don’t want to do sth that’s good for you, then there’s nothing anybody can do abt it.

[6] this is that ‘owe you’ phrase that you can use to mean to stay over at someone’s house, from ch.
23 (see footnote [1]), which I just realized has a similar eng equiv with ‘trouble you’

[7] it’s actually the ‘great victory [of/at] hansan’ in krn but apparently it’s officially called this in eng.
It’s a famous naval battle by a really famous admiral (Yi Sun-Shin) in krn history against the jpn.

[8] this is a word that specifically means ‘a god comes down to the mortal world’

[9] lit.
‘looloolala’ which is analogous to eng ‘lalala’ (as in like singing) and used to signal being cheerful or excited, but using it that way sounded weird in eng

[10] he’s probably being… well not sarcastic, but funny, bc he’s talking about himself.
This and the following sentence are in honorific speech to further highlight that.