I Became a Genius Swordsman in the Pretty Girl Game

In a desolate slum of the United States, in Zone 56, all members of the Utopia party except Jin Yuha had gathered.

This was before Jin Yuha had even brought Charlotte’s son to the Academy. In less than half a day, they had managed to wrap up their respective zones and assemble here, a truly astonishing feat.

“Huff!”

“Haa… Haa…”

“Sssss… Phew…”

The party members, still catching their breath and with beads of sweat on their foreheads, looked at each other awkwardly.

“Well… you all came so quickly?”

Shin Se-hee looked at them with a sour expression before speaking.

“I did ask you to come early, but I didn’t expect you to be this prompt. You all seemed to be in quite a hurry.”

Of course, thick beads of sweat were also visible on Shin Se-hee’s forehead.

“I don’t think you’re the one to talk, Se-hee. You know how much you nagged us to get here—Ouch!”

Ichika, who had just finished cleaning up Zone 55 with Shin Se-hee and had used all the mana she could find to transport Se-hee here with her shadow, tried to interject but was silenced by Se-hee’s hand over her mouth.

“Ehm, anyway! Well, since you’re all here so quickly, we can review our plan. This is actually a good thing.”

“Hey, is that love demon or whatever really here?”

Lim Ga-eul asked.

“Yes, we wiped out all the demons, and this one must have felt threatened and gone into hiding. This place is the safest for demons. And the tracking device I attached to it is pointing right here.”

When did she even attach a tracking device?

This proved that Shin Se-hee’s claim that she could wipe them all out herself was not an empty boast.

“Um, I’ve been wondering about this for a while. Why is making people get along considered a curse?”

“Yeah, why is that a curse? Isn’t it a good thing for the party?”

“That’s because of his twisted taste.”

Baek Seol-hee explained to the puzzled party members.

“Twisted taste?”

“Yes, demons are creatures that derive pleasure from fulfilling their own twisted desires. This one is no different. He calls himself the Love Demon, but his true nature is jealousy.”

“Jealousy…”

“He usually targets mixed-gender parties, making everyone fall in love with the same person, blinding them with jealousy, and causing them to turn on each other, thus breaking up the party.”

“Huh?”

An awkward atmosphere filled the party members.

“Oh my god.”

“What a truly horrifying demon.”

“Yeah, making everyone fall in love with the same person and turning them against each other…”

Those who spoke up, their voices tinged with embarrassment, soon averted their gazes, feeling awkward.

After all, they had experienced something similar themselves.

The dirty and cunning mind games they had played with each other over Jin Yuha, which had only recently been resolved through negotiations.

If any one of them had prioritized their own feelings over Jin Yuha’s, Utopia would have fallen apart long ago.

“But then… isn’t this dangerous?”

Lim Ga-eul frowned as she spoke.

“Dangerous?”

“Well, to be honest, none of us can claim to be free from jealousy. If that’s amplified…”

Lim Ga-eul didn’t finish her sentence, but the rest could easily guess what she meant.

‘There might be a bloodbath.’

But then, Shin Se-hee scoffed.

“Hmph, do you think I wouldn’t have considered that?”

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[Utopia LIVE (ON)]

The Utopia live broadcast began.

-Huh?

-A sudden broadcast!?

-Oh, GOAT… the highest mountain, the longest river…

-Loving Jin Yuha is like peeing your pants… everyone can see it, but only I know how warm it is…

-What a terrible metaphor!

-Cheer for Utopia! Cheer for Utopia! Cheer for Utopia! Cheer for Utopia! Cheer for Utopia! Cheer for Utopia!

-The world’s strongest party is here!

People flocked to the sudden broadcast, immediately showering the party with adoration.

This was not long after Utopia had cleared the Demon Gate, and the internet was still buzzing with excitement. The whole world’s attention was on them.

-Huh? Everyone’s here today?

-Wow, even Cheonhwa is in her combat gear???

-And Alice, who just enrolled, is here too!!! Wow, they all look amazing together…

-It’s a well-known fact that Utopia picks members based on looks.

-Shouldn’t we give our new member, Alice, a nickname too? Since she uses a sword, how about Sword Blossom?

-Sword Blossom? I saw her fight, and she’s more like a Lu Bu. Such a delicate nickname doesn’t suit her.

-Hey! Isn’t that the instructor from a while back? The one Jin Yuha calls his master!

Shin Se-hee, who was rarely seen in combat, Alice, the new member of Utopia, and Baek Seol-hee, who had only appeared once on the broadcast but was known as Jin Yuha’s master, were all present.

The full party combination of Utopia, rarely seen, was a sight that thrilled the audience.

However, people soon noticed the absence of a key member.

-Where’s Jin Yuha?

The leader and head of the party, Jin Yuha, was not seen on screen!

“Hello!”

Sophia greeted the drone camera with a bubbly voice.

“We’re here without Jin Yuha!”

-Sophia! Sophia!

-You’re so pretty!!

-Your voice is so cute…

-Secretly?

-What are you doing secretly?

“Well, to briefly explain the situation… We cleared the Demon Gate, right? But the demons are after the spoils.”

• Oh no.
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• Crazy…
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• Those damn demon bugs, can’t they just be eradicated?
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• Sorry to be serious, but shouldn’t this be kept off the broadcast? What if they all run away after watching this?
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“Haha, don’t worry. They’re gone. There’s only one demon left.”

Sophia smiled sweetly, but what she really meant was that they had already taken care of them.

“Anyway, there’s only one demon left, and we need to pass a test.”

-What kind of test?

“Um, we were told that Utopia can’t do anything without Jin Yuha, or that the party members are too dependent on him!”

“That’s not a suspicion, it’s a fact.”

Baek Seol-hee, who was standing nearby, retorted in a cold voice.

“So, we’ve been training hard.”

Baek Seol-hee scoffed at Sophia’s cheeky remark and turned her head away.

“As you just saw, the instructor doesn’t seem to have much faith in us. This time, we’re going to show her that we can take down a demon without Jin Yuha!”

“Sophia, focus. This is the demon’s hideout, and there are probably traps everywhere.”

At that moment, Yoo-ri stepped forward and spoke in a firm voice.

“Alright! Our sub-party leader is speaking. Well, that’s all for the broadcast! From now on, watch our real-life action!”

And so, Utopia, without Jin Yuha, entered the alley of the slum.

Despite Jin Yuha’s absence, the party members took their positions skillfully.

Yoo-ri, the tank, stood at the front.

Behind her were Kang Do-hee and Alice.

In the waistline position were the special positions of Ichika and Shin Se-hee.

And at the tail end were Lim Ga-eul and Sophia.

Finally, Baek Seol-hee stood three steps away, in the position of an observer.

Thud— Thud—

As everyone held their breath, walking through the eerie alley of the slum, Yoo-ri raised one hand.

The party members all stopped in their tracks.

As Yoo-ri raised her shield, a chilling sound of rusty hinges echoed.

The door of the dilapidated building next to them opened.

A pale woman emerged, her yellow hair faded, and her sunken eyes resembling those of a drug addict.

The woman looked at Utopia with a bizarre twist of her head and spoke in a hoarse voice.

“Who… are you?”

-Enemy?

-What? A zombie?

-Wait, isn’t that…?

-Isn’t that the guy from the Lawrence Guild, the one who stabbed his guild members and ran away?

-The one who tried to take on the guild members and got himself killed?

-Yeah, this guy’s a wanted criminal. Why is he here…?

As the audience was shocked by the sudden appearance of the wanted criminal, Yoo-ri took a step forward.

Thud!

Yoo-ri kicked off and rushed forward.

Boom!

“Ugh!”

Crack!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Yoo-ri pushed the wanted criminal with her shield, sending him flying into the walls of the dilapidated buildings, which crumbled under the impact.

And from within the torn walls, dozens of disheveled humans emerged.

-Wait, are… are all these people…?

Someone in the chat room reacted with astonishment, and as the party members glanced at it, another voice spoke up.

-What… what’s going on?

-Holy… are all these people hunters?

-Crazy… I was wondering what happened to the missing criminal hunters, and they’re all here…

-More are coming from the other side! Their numbers are increasing… can they win this?

Anxious voices started to fill the chat room, but Yoo-ri’s dagger struck her shield with a resounding clang, as if to say this situation was no big deal.

Yoo-ri glanced at her party members and issued a firm command.

“Everyone, take them out!”

And with that command, the Utopia party members charged forward without hesitation.