My Genre Is Different From Everyone Else’s - Chapter 2 Part 1
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- Chapter 2 Part 1 - The Mage Who Chose the Wrong Class (1)
A hidden gate was a privilege reserved for hidden class changers, allowing them to travel to where their class officials resided.
For me, this hidden gate led to a grand, tile-roofed house blanketed in multicoloured clouds, where Rang lived. Inside, the house boasted a garden, a pond with silk carp, and, further in, even a lake.
Lee Hoyeon had mentioned that his was a lush mountain where a white tiger lived.
Regardless of its location, a hidden gate was a place where hidden class changers could come and go as they pleased—truly a special privilege. But what good was such a privilege if I couldn’t remember it when I needed it most?
I tidied my hair, which had become dishevelled after removing my mask.
“…I should apologize to him next time.”
Although I had knocked him out in surprise, it wasn’t really necessary. After all, this was Lee Hoyeon we were talking about.
Since reuniting with my family six months ago, I hadn’t been officially active as a hunter.
To everyone, I was a mysterious hidden class changer who had discovered the method to end the era of hell. However, I was also seen as a different kind of monster, one who had single-handedly managed to clear the largest sky shard—a feat that hundreds of people could barely accomplish together.
I was considered even more remarkable than Lee Hoyeon, the first official hidden class changer, and my sudden disappearance was the talk of the town.
It was Lee Hoyeon who defended me. It was also Lee Hoyeon who entered countless gates to return the sky shards to the sky during my absence.
I still vividly remembered Lee Hoyeon’s words to the reporters, something I still couldn’t forget. It was in response to a question about his thoughts on me and my irresponsible disappearance.
Lee Hoyeon had stared at the reporter who posed the question and said, ‘A person who is tired beyond the imagination of the reporter who dared to say such an irresponsible thing.’ The day I saw the video, which was plastered all over the portal all day long, I cried a little.
Lee Hoyeon was the only one who sided with me in an official setting like a press conference. There were others who wanted to stand by me but couldn’t due to adult circumstances.
But to think that I knocked out Lee Hoyeon, the only class changer who officially took my side?
I’m screwed.
I didn’t feel like typing on the keyboard at all, even though I knew my future self would shed tears of blood if I didn’t write the report right away.
Knowing that I couldn’t produce a good assignment in this state, I closed my laptop. My future self would have to deal with it.
I turned off the light, lay down in bed, and activated the connector on my wrist.
[Loading~ Please wait a moment :D]
[Lo ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ a ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ ding]
[Connection confirmed. Nickname Ryu. Class title Dokkaebi Princess.]
The connector, the fruit of the combined efforts of non-combatant hidden class changers and the government, functioned as a sort of exclusive phone for hunters.
It provided regular updates on gate locations, issued draft calls when monsters emerged from sky shards, served as a home shopping network for buying and selling all sorts of goods, and also acted as a medium of communication for hunters.
What I checked on the connector was the free bulletin board, where all sorts of miscellaneous news was posted daily.
The government argued that the name was too game-like, but one of the hidden class changers involved in the connector’s development was a game addict and refused to change it. There weren’t any suitable replacements either.
Hunters of younger ages welcomed it. Honestly, I preferred the name “free bulletin board” as well.
And, to my dismay, the post I had been expecting was up on the free bulletin board.
[Title: Our tiger was carried home!
Author: WhatsAnAvailableNickname (Rivel)
Guess what I saw today? The mascot of our Rivel, our super cool tiger hyung, was carried home on the back of the guild leader!
<Comments>
WhatIsMyName(Butterfly): LHY??
Honeybee(Libra): Doesn’t their guild master manage this kind of thing? Is it really okay to post something like this on the free bulletin board?
CanIChangeMyNicknameLater(Rivel): Our guild master is all about freedom!!
IWantToEatBread(Libra): Is that why everyone in Rivel has such weird nicknames?
OneWayToAngerPeople(Rivel): That’s rich coming from Libra. How about you worry about your own guild master’s nickname first?
OurPuppyIsAdorable(Independent): They’re targeting each other’s sore spots lol
WhenAmIGettingMyStateScholarship(Libra): What’s wrong with our guild master’s nickname!
WhatsAnAvailableNickname(Rivel): Why are you guys fighting here?! Don’t fight on my post!
CanIChangeMyNicknameLater(Rivel): Nyo fighting! Nyo fighting! Lalala
WhatsAnAvailableNickname(Rivel): Ah;; I seriously hate this… Stop it…
BettaFish(Rivel): Delete this
Nickname(Rivel): Delete this
Asdf(Rivel): Delete this now
WhatsAnAvailableNickname(Rivel): Okie…;;( •́ ̯•̀ )
CanIChangeMyNicknameLater(Rivel): LMAO
OneWayToAngerPeople(Rivel): LMAO
WhenAmIGettingMyStateScholarship(Libra): LMAO]
Ah, it seems he’s regained consciousness. Nickname Nickname. Real name Lee Hoyeon. Class title Last Tiger. It was information everyone knew.
A nickname that, when asked, “What’s your nickname?” is responded with, “Nickname,” and makes reporters ask back, “Sorry?” His nickname went along the saying “simple is best,” just like how I derived my nickname from my weapon name.
Since both Lee Hoyeon himself and Rivel’s guild master had told them to take it down, that post would likely be deleted soon.
After hesitating for a moment, I added my own comment.
<Comments>
Ryu(Independent): Sorry
CanIChangeMyNicknameLater(Rivel): ??!!??!!
WhenAmIGettingMyStateScholarship(Libra): Ohmyyomggohmygofdd
OneWayToAngerPeople(Rivel): Don’t delete the post dotn deltete it don’t dleteit!]
[This post has been deleted!◝(⁰▿⁰)◜Ta—dah—!]
It was the sudden appearance of hell’s hero, who had been locked away in their house for over half a year. Satisfied with the perfect timing of the deletion, I drifted off to sleep.
I should apologize properly next time.
* * *
The first image that came to many people’s minds when they thought of Lee Hoyeon was the first (official) class changer. A tiger. And a man deserving of pity.
Now, in the present day, after the sky had collapsed and the era of hell had ended. Class changers—hunters in particular—were exempt from military service. But sadly, Lee Hoyeon was a special case. He had been pulled into a hidden gate just one day before the onset of hell, a month before his scheduled discharge from the military.
What made it even more tragic was the fact his class change quest didn’t conclude until I had completed my own class change.
From the very beginning, the final condition for Lee Hoyeon’s class change quest was that someone else had to become a hidden class changer. Of course, the only ones aware of this fact were me and Lee Hoyeon, who had heard about the circumstances from his class official, the Last Tiger.
What the public knew was only a stripped-down version: that he had spent over six months alone in the mountains, undergoing Spartan-like military training from the tiger until the class change quest was completed.
On top of that, it was also said that he lived a survivalist life in the mountains. From finding a place to sleep to even sourcing water. He had experienced the life of a naturalist living alongside wild animals.
This information had spread when society was just beginning to somewhat stabilize, and people grew more curious about the personal lives of famous class changers. The most common reaction in the comment section of the article reporting this story was, “Ah…”
I also said, “Ah…” when I read that article.
The first time I met Lee Hoyeon was after I had returned the first sky shard, during a time when people were still figuring out how to attack the gates. It was also a period when many placed their hopes on me.
While I wasn’t sure about other countries, at the time, Korea consistently maintained a positive atmosphere when planning gate attack strategies. Because they would place me at the center.
Just in case.
Everyone seemed to share the same thought in their eyes.
Wearing a dokkaebi mask with a black veil and a black dopo that concealed everything but my fingertips, I remained silent, regardless of what people said.
So no one knew my age, whether I was a child or an adult, or whether I was a woman or a man.
At that time, there were no connectors, so they had no way of knowing my class title either.
Although I didn’t speak, I still completed the tasks assigned to me, so people began to view me as some kind of ultimate weapon? Or something along that line.
They didn’t see me as another person. To them, I was a cheat key they could use whenever they wished. A living deus ex machina.
Given that I had already single-handedly returned the largest and most troublesome sky shard, I could imagine how relieved they must have felt.
Of course, I had no intention of blaming them. After all, I was the one who had chosen to remain silent and built a wall between us.
The reason I played the role of a quiet, obedient weapon was because I wanted to find my family as soon as possible.
Because proper systems could only be established once the sky shards were returned, and because the time spent cowering in fear of being killed by monsters could be better used to create things that would help me in my search for my family.
That day was no different.
A fairly large sky shard. Inside the gate, which was now known as A-23, the members of the attack squad I had entered with fled halfway through. They probably ran away with peace of mind, knowing that there was someone to take care of the aftermath.
Lee Hoyeon, who at the time had been raiding another gate, learned of the situation belatedly and apologized to me. He had apologized for having sent me with those people.
He had been gripping my arm, soaked with the blood trickling down Ryu, as he spoke. It was only then that I realized the blood was mine.
Storyteller Clementine's Words
I use the volume version of the raws, which means the chapters are longer than usual. The way I personally split chapters may differ from the webnovel version since I split purely based on vibes, pls keep this in mind when reading >.<
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