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I opened my eyes, lightly washed up, and then changed into my school uniform. There wasn't any special preparation. I wore Shadow Stalker and put on Udjat before taking my smartphone with me too. When I opened the door, I saw a girl in a court lady's attire standing in front of me. "Hi."

"..." I stared at the court lady standing at the door. She was a young girl who was familiar to me.

Wol-il High School

Level 3 

Depressed, Lee Seon-ae

Although she was wearing a court lady's attire, she was still a high schooler. Very quietly, she stood exactly one and a half steps behind me without any further greetings. I turned my head slightly and looked at her for a moment. 'Ah, come to think of it, she transformed, right?' She seemed to have some sort of secret. It was pretty impressive to see her Level soaring to Level 8 upon transforming through Synthetic Mana at the moment of crisis. Also, it was pretty funny that her affiliation was still Wol-il High School even though her name was changed to Nike.

"You're back in the palace."

"That's how it turned out,” she answered somewhat brazenly before immediately shrugging and heading towards the stairs.

I looked at her and did not bother asking who she was, where she was affiliated to, what kind of power she had, the reason why the safe house was ambushed, who the traitor was, and how the situation was handled. Since I was uninterested, I thought it to be unsightly to inquire...