Chapter 102 - Chapter 100: Episode 100
A dense, massive forest.
Giant trees soared high into the sky.
The thick, subtropical vegetation felt alien and hostile.
Up until now, I'd always thought of forests as familiar, healing spaces—places with nice scenery and walking trails.
But that was only because humans in Korea cultivated and manicured them for our own convenience.
A massive, untamed forest where nature actually lives and breathes? That's never a place familiar or favorable to humans.
-Screech!-
The cries of unknown birds made me shrink back.
My classmates, while perhaps not as rattled as I was, clearly looked intimidated by the forest's hostile atmosphere.
"Where the hell are we?"
"Where do you think? It's virtual reality."
"Ah, shit. That's not what I meant, you bitch."
The girls who'd been bickering started to settle down,
and a few offered some plausible deductions.
"Judging by the climate, it's a subtropical jungle or forest...
But something's weird: the vegetation growth is irrational.
It's rare to see plants this massive in a subtropical zone between temperate and tropical climates.
Even if it's completely untouched by humans, the whole place just feels... off."
"What do you mean by 'off'?"
"I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. It just feels... wrong."
"What kind of random environment did the teacher load? Even for a random setting, there's a limit."
"Our homeroom teacher probably just hit 'random' without thinking, no conditions or restrictions...?
I guess we should be thankful we didn't end up in a volcanic zone or the Siberian Arctic."
I couldn't agree more.
Knowing Park Hye-ji, she definitely just hit 'random' without a second thought.
She probably lazily selected the settings while picking her ear or scratching her belly or ass, then went straight to sleep.
"Still, she wouldn't have set the monsters to full random, right?
They'll give us Goblins or Orcs based on our difficulty level, right?
Surely not some super high-level monster or hostile species..."
"Ayy~ No way~"
"Who cares? Whatever comes out, I'll wipe them all out."
I wanted to shut them up.
They were planting death flags all over the place.
Fortunately, it seemed at least one girl was on the same page as me.
"Ah, shit. You bitches, stop planting flags."
"Bullshit. Saying that is a flag, too."
"Flag trope: The character who says 'don't plant flags' like I just did is the one who survives."
"Flag trope: You just played the exposition fairy, so you're going to die soon for being a gag character."
The girls were busy teasing each other, cracking jokes.
They'd been tense for a moment, but the fact that this was virtual reality—not the real world—clearly played a big part.
Or maybe... they were just trying to act cool because they knew I was watching?
"Normally, if we were stranded like this,
we'd prioritize securing drinking water and food...
but since we only need to survive for 24 hours,
do we really have to...?"
"Still, food aside, shouldn't we secure some water?"
"That makes sense. Let's split up and look."
"Hey, hey, the goal is for the whole class to survive. What if we split up?
That's the best way to get picked off one by one.
Haven't you seen those survival movies where monsters show up?"
"Is that so? Then let's go together. Does anyone here use spirit magic?"
"Oh, right. Spirit magic. Can't we just summon a water spirit?"
"You idiot. You want to waste mana summoning a spirit for drinking water when we should save it for when monsters appear?
Unless we're on the verge of dying from thirst, that's a no-go."
"Oh, right. Sigh. Then it's impossible to get drinking water with spirits or magic."
The girls discussed it and made the decision themselves.
I was worried they might rely on me or ask me since I'm the class president,
but thankfully, they didn't—even though they included the vice president, Choi Seo-ah, in the discussion.
I don't know if that's good or bad, but at least I didn't have to take on a burdensome role.
'But why are they all holding meetings in front of me...
It feels like they're hovering around me to show me something cool.'
I thought my assumption might not be wrong.
The way they come up to me in this wide space to discuss things seriously,
or show off tricks by climbing trees to look reckless.
It's all something...
It's exactly what people do to look good to a girl they like in the real world, so it was easy to figure out.
'...I was like that once, so I can roughly figure out the psychology....'
There was a girl who came right up to me and took off her top, saying it was hot.
I blushed, looking at her breasts and cute, dainty pink nipples.
It was a bold move, and honestly, a pretty girl's breasts make a man's heart race.
As I kept glancing at her while blushing,
she smiled at me with a look of victory.
Then, stimulated by that, other girls started taking off their tops in front of me one by one.
'Wow, I'm in heaven.'
A feast of pink nipples.
After that little incident.
Following the majority opinion of the girls, we set out to find water.
Fortunately, there were plenty of talented people in the class, so we quickly secured a fresh water source.
The real problem wasn't the water; it was the boys whining next to me.
At first, they just grumbled behind my back, watching the girls hover around me.
It sounded like they were calling me unlucky and accusing me of flirting with them.
'Are they talking behind my back...?'
When I thought this,
the boys whispered among themselves, then approached me with fake smiles.
"Class President~ My feet hurt~"
'...What do you want me to do?'
Since the guys with dicks were acting weak and whining, I wanted to punch them.
No, they're clearly stronger than me, yet they're already crying about it.
Even I, who has shit stats except for agility, am walking just fine.
"Me too~ My legs get cramps if I walk a lot~"
"Hiiing~ We're going to drink water that we don't even know the quality of? I don't drink anything unless it's high-end bottled water like Evian~"
I really didn't know what these guys wanted from me, so I just stared blankly.
Then Park Ji-hoon, who knew me because he'd dealt with me before, ran over and whispered the requirements.
"Class President~ So, can't you ask the girls to 'take care' of the boys a bit~?"
"...What kind of care?"
"No~ You know, that kind of stuff~ The kind of care the boys receive~"
What is that?
I couldn't figure it out at all.
'Do they want to be carried in a palanquin? What kind of care do they want here?'
We walked together like we were on a stroll,
and thanks to the many talented people among the girls, we easily secured drinking water.
What kind of care is needed here?
Since I couldn't know, I decided to ignore them refreshingly.
I couldn't be swayed by the words of such pathetic trolls.
When I ignored the words of the dick-having bastards,
they grumbled,
and approached the girls directly.
"What are you saying, fuck."
"Care, my ass. Are you out of your mind?"
"We found all the water, and you guys just walked along behind us with your hands in your pockets."
Of course, it didn't work on the girls at all.
Instead, the dick-having bastards just got cursed at and shrank back.
But in the midst of that, one of them used a pathetic evasion tactic.
"No~ It's not us~ The Class President said he wanted to~"
"...Really? The Class President said that?"
The girls stopped being annoyed, their attitudes shifting the moment they looked at me.
It was as if they were completely different people from the ones who'd told them to stop talking bullshit a moment ago;
now that I supposedly wanted it, they were actually considering it.
The boys glared at me, clenching their teeth at the sudden shift in attitude,
and I don't even know what I did to stack up this much of a grudge.
Damn it, you bastards—you dare glare at me? Let's see your reputations get even more fucked up.
"No. I didn't want that. I told them not to, since you girls were taking the lead, finding water, and working so hard."
The look in the girls' eyes as they turned to me became incredibly favorable.
It was like they'd been looking at trash—at men—and suddenly found a pearl.
"Ha... shit. I guess they say appearance and personality are proportional."
"See, I was right? These days, cute and handsome guys are kinder."
"...The Class President is an angel...."
The girls flocked around me even more because of my 'kind guy' act,
and the boys glared, shooting daggers at me.
So what, you fuckers? What are you going to do about it?
When I and the boys were having a meaningless staring contest,
some of the girls who were secretly keeping watch gave a warning.
"Something... is coming!"
-Rustle-
Normally, we should have heard the sound of enemies passing through the bushes.
But these enemies approached silently, and we were surrounded in an instant.
I saw them.
Beauties with pointed ears and smooth white skin.
They looked slender with thin waists,
but they had large, accentuated breasts with pink nipples.
Their pelvises were wide, and their butts were big and pretty—like their breasts—so they looked like they'd give birth easily,
but since they didn't cover their bottoms at all, the pussy I could see was a hairless, straight white pussy.
Women with pointed ears who wore subtropical body painting or tattoos rather than clothes because of the hot weather.
Beautiful women with long straight hair—so-called Elves—approached us with bows and spears aimed at us.