Your Commander-in-Chief – Chapter 251

I tilted my head at Ellie’s response.

As she casually mentioned, Ellie had never experienced school life because her body was weak.

How on earth did someone like her manage to enroll in high school, and at a place like mine?

“Are you feeling okay? Didn’t they say you couldn’t go to school?”

“I’m fine now… as long as I don’t overdo it.”

Ellie took a deep breath and straightened her bent back to look at me.

Her sparkling eyes made me almost reach out to pet her head without realizing.

“Why are you here?”

Just as I was fidgeting with my hands while looking at Ellie, Sohee, standing next to me, stepped forward to block the space between us.

Ellie took a step back, looking a bit taken aback.

Yet, her gaze shone brightly as she looked up at Sohee.

She looked like a puppy rebelling against its owner.

“Sohee… you definitely said you’d let Hayun go to school with me…!”

“I did that, didn’t I?”

“But we’re in different classes…!”

“I never said we would be in the same class.”

“Ugh…”

I stood behind Sohee, listening to their conversation.

It seemed there had been some sort of deal between Sohee and Ellie, but it appeared things had gone a bit awry.

“I didn’t lie. It turned out the way you wanted.”

“That, that’s…”

“If you have complaints, just say it. Right now, I’ll…”

A fleeting glance—

Sohee, who had been speaking confidently, seemed to realize something and quickly glanced back at me.

Then she firmly shut her mouth.

It appeared there was something I shouldn’t be hearing.

“Anyway…”

“I have no complaints… just…”

“Just?”

“I’m a bit disappointed…”

Ellie said that with a deep sigh.

Seeing her small chest rise and fall, I couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of pity.

I walked past Sohee and reached out my hand.

“If you’re in a different class, you can just come visit during breaks.”

“Is that… really okay?”

“What’s the harm in that?”

I heard Sohee’s sigh from behind me.

*

Returning home to dinner.

With Mom out on a business trip, it was just me and Harang, the dark-skinned brat, eating together.

Since neither of us could cook, dinner turned out to be takeout.

“Hey.”

Instead of answering, I slightly raised my right eyebrow.

I couldn’t respond to Harang because my mouth was currently full of crispy pork cutlet.

Crisp—crunch—

With the crunchy battered coating.

Beneath it, the soft meat.

The mild fry scent filled my mouth as the sweet taste of pork cutlet sauce tantalized my tongue.

“Go to bed early tonight.”

“Go to bed early? Why all of a sudden?”

I scrunched up my face as I chewed and swallowed the cutlet.

It was too late to pretend to be a good big brother now.

“I don’t want to.”

“You’re starting high school tomorrow. Are you going to just lay your head on the desk and sleep right after you arrive?”

I put down the fork that I had been bringing to my mouth.

If I were to lay my head on the desk and sleep on the first day of high school, I’d definitely look like a lunatic—if I were an ordinary student.

But I’m a cute girl. A very adorable girl.

So surely, the teachers would look the other way if I slept in class.

Of course, there were other reasons too.

I had always done well in exams, even while sleeping.

“As long as I get good grades, right?”

“A girl who only sleeps through class wouldn’t get good grades!”

“Yeah.”

I could back myself up since I had my report card.

Harang looked at me incredulously while sneaking a piece of service pork cutlet into his mouth.

His actions were so sneaky and quick that I could only watch in despair as the cutlet disappeared.

“You little pig!”

“Slowpoke.”

I reached out desperately, but there was no retrieving the pork cutlet once it was in his mouth.

Harang stood up with a mischievous smile.

No way, he was trying to distract me so he could snatch the cutlet.

He truly was a wicked, devilish guy.

“Hmm…”

With his mouth full of cutlet, Harang climbed onto the sofa and continued talking.

“Are you really good at studying?”

I confidently nodded.

Most of what the teachers said in class was incomprehensible, yet I always scored in the top tier when taking exams.

There are kids who look like they study well but end up with low test scores.

So the opposite must be true as well.

That’s exactly me.

This is what you call being practical, right?

The more I thought about it, the more amazing I felt.

Managing a killer schedule in Deron while keeping up my school grades. Was I hiding some incredible talent for studying all along?

At this point, I started to feel a bit scared of myself.

I’m scared. Of me.

“Are you lost in thought again?”

“No, I’m not.”

“Whatever. Clean that table up and log into Deron. I cleared it last time, so it’s your turn this time.”

I nodded at Harang’s words and checked the clock on the wall.

The raid time was fast approaching.

“I’ll head out first.”

“Yeah…”

As I watched Harang leave the living room, I stuffed more pork cutlet into my mouth.

Chew chew, as I was happily chewing on the crunchy cutlet, I suddenly noticed how messy the place where Harang had been sitting was.

Was he crushing the cutlet with his fist? There was breading scattered everywhere, and the pickles were stuck flat to the table.

“Hey!!!”

Calling out to Harang, I got nothing but silence in return.

The happiness I felt from eating delicious cutlets quickly sunk.

What replaced it was only irritation toward my one and only brother.

“You crazy brat…”

But what could I do? All I could do as a powerless little sister was curse at my older brother while clutching at wet wipes.

As I started to clean up the messy table and headed toward my room, I was met with the sight of Harang stepping out of his room, grinning.

He spotted me and immediately spoke.

“Hey, you’re in big trouble…?”

“What trouble…? Did Deron shut down or something?”

“No, there’s an emergency hotfix coming!”

“Hotfix…?”

As he spoke, Harang showed me the screen of his phone.

[Emergency Hotfix Maintenance Notice]

Estimated maintenance time: 7 PM to 10 PM [3 hours]

Hotfix contents:


An issue where certain races and jobs’ synergies were applied differently than the developers’ intentions.


When using skills from the ‘Magic’ ‘Continuous Use’ category, the skills would not be interrupted if the user stood still while being moved by another user.


Users with jobs affected by this patch will receive an [Rank Reset Ticket] item.

“What’s this…?”

“What do you think? It’s the execution notice for Princess Yeo.”

“Th-this…”

I frowned at Harang’s face.

This can’t be happening.

We hadn’t even cleared the raid yet! The cooldown for repurchasing the rank reset ticket hadn’t even expired…

Denying reality, I dashed into my room.

But what Harang showed me was the undeniable truth.

Knocked out on my bed, I held my phone and kept staring at Deron’s announcements.

Honestly, I had expected this.

But the timing was just too early.

It had been just a day since I changed my job!

I thought I could hold out until we cleared the raid at least.

Sighing, I began tapping on my phone.

With nothing to do, my fingers naturally moved to log into the Deron gallery.

It was the same as before.

The first thing I checked upon entering the gallery was to search for my alias.

The name Yeo had too many overlaps, so this was my only choice.

[Title + Content] Blood Demon King [Search]

[Haha, I just started the Reincarnation Quest ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ] [3]

[Hotfix is so fast ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ] [3]

[Nerf ssssssssss] [2]

[Is that not going up today?] [11]

[Pigs build is crazy ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ] [6]

[Isn’t this totally overpowered? Just from the video, it looks like all dungeon bosses melt away?] [32]

[Killing pigs poohh ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ] [2]

[Who made this build?] [2]

[With one healer, the dealers are all wiped out ㅋㅋ] [6]

[Is our Blood Demon King no longer in high school?] [1]

[Honestly, isn’t the Blood Demon King just washed up now?] [6]

[Today’s armpit compilation] [23]

The content posted in the gallery was always similar.

But there were eye-catching words among them.

Killing pigs build.

I couldn’t help but check the main post in the gallery.

And as I expected, there it was, the build I had told the party about.

With about 40 people. It was only natural for it to leak since I hadn’t requested to keep it secret.

I thought of the Snow Mage and tapped on my phone screen.

Me – [Hey, Snow?]

Snow Mage – [Yes!!!]

Me – [Did you see the announcement?]

Snow Mage – [Yeah, I saw it. I can’t do the raid today, can I?]

Me – [Are you okay? You didn’t inadvertently share your build…]

Snow Mage – [It was somewhat intended, actually. I was curious. I wondered if the operators were watching all the users.]

Me – [Huh?]

Snow Mage – [If they were monitoring all the top users, they would have patched it right when the Blood Demon King caught Crow, right? But they let it slide.]

Me – [That’s true…]

Snow Mage – [So I threw out a bait to watch for reactions. Since my prediction was right, I think I’ll be able to use a new build.]

I tilted my head at Snow Mage’s words.

From her response, it seemed she had anticipated this situation and was throwing out bait.

By the way, a new build?

Could it be she had another one prepared that she hadn’t shared with me?

Me – [Is that a True Blood build?]

Snow Mage – [Yes, as long as the job skill Blood Magic isn’t modified, it can be used as is. If it gets modified, I’ll have to return to the original build.]

I sighed in relief at Snow Mage’s reply.

If she was fine, then I’d be fine too.

Me – [Are you going to share that build?]

Snow Mage – [Nope? I will never share this one. Only the Blood Demon King can use it.]

Me – [Whoa…]