First M.T. (Membership Training)
The psychiatrist, Dr. Cha Eunhee, was consulting her patients.
“Doctor, I don’t know if I want to get married. My boyfriend is all good but he’s too poor.”
“He doesn’t work?”
“He’s an office worker. But because there is a mortgage on the house that there’s no money left over. And in fact…not long ago I met a man on a blind date, he’s much older and I don’t like him much, but he is a professional. This seem swell to me.”
At this moment, she was having a session with a woman at a marriageable age.
“So you broke up with your boyfriend, and chose the professional?”
“I don’t know. I can’t really decide. This makes me hateful of how much of a vulgar person I am. Because of this, I can’t sleep well at night, and it even gives me headaches.”
The common symptom of depression.
Cha Eunhee did not blame the woman.
‘In reality, that will eventually hit home to everyone.’
Cha Eunhee was a doctor who treats disease of the mind, to ease the suffering.
And she was determined to help.
“Miss.”
“Yes?”
Cha Eunhee glanced at the charts.
“You’re 30 years old now.”
“Yes.”
“The average lifespan of a person can hit up to 90 years old, which means a third of your life have passed.”
“So I’ve used that much…”
“Wouldn’t you hit 40 in 10 years? And 50 in 20 years…”
“……”
“Life is like a crab, it scurries along, and when you take a second glimpse, you’ll realize it had long moved. You’ll only get one chance to choose a man to love you during your lifetime, or you could get the house and a nice car that you wanted; it all depends on what you will ultimately decide to ease your mind.”
Cha Eunhee spoke softly as she finishes with the session with the patient.
In the case of mild depression, she just needed to have conversations several times and the symptoms will be relieved within a few days.
“Whew, with this, did it roughly finish with the morning appointments?”
The nurses from the side who were listening in were very impressed.
“Amazing, Doctor!”
It is easy to talk about life. However, it is difficult to change the psychological state of the patients with just a few ordinary words.
Cha Eunhee pouted her mouth.
“It’s not something to be admired. Actually prior to this, I had a talk with a patient about the same subject.”
“What about that patient?”
“A novelist.”
“Yes? They have troubles?”
“Of course, the writer is also a human. He was an old bachelor and anguished over it when he almost got killed, but if you’re going to eat ramen at home then at least peel off the utensil’s coating instead of choking on it and writhing on the floor!”
“……”
She’d know, since her equipments were hard to get and she was incompatible with the human sets of armors and equipments. Since Orcs wouldn’t be able to produce good products as a Blacksmiths due to their low Dexterity, so there weren’t that many out there. But since the Orc’s population was growing at a terrifying rate, overtime, the problem could be solved.
‘I ought to connect to Royal Road at lunch.’
Lately, Cha Eunhee has been fidgeting every time she thought about Royal Road.
Healthy and dependable guy. Geomchi2!
Through her appearance as the Orc Seechwi, he was the most familiar person that stayed by her.
They didn’t have many conversations as of yet, but from his cautious words and attitude, she could feel the care and attention. Occasionally, his embarrassing actions also attracted her.
At times, to her, his sincere efforts to protect her impressed her.
“Huum.”
A soft smile rose from Cha Eunhee’s lips.
Often times when she chat with Geomchi2, through the low proficiency cooking skill, the burnt fish tasted good when it shouldn’t.
Still, Cha Eunhee was cautious as she could not accept to be happy alone.
“Seoyoon needs to speak again soon.”
Progresses have been made with Seoyoon’s treatment.
She has been in Royal Road to be detached from reality to break the ice!
She did not talk for long and pretty soon returned to being speechless.
“It’s fine. She may have long forgotten how to speak but it’ll return like before.”
There was no need to specifically rush things by force.
Cha Eunhee didn’t urge Seoyoon to talk.
If they try to draw her out through coercion, she would most likely hide herself even further. For more than a decade they’ve patiently waited for her to naturally feel like herself. Cha Eunhee witnessed it when Seoyoon took the opportunity to do so.
“By the way, are her lessons going well?”
Cha Eunhee was a little worried.
Seoyoon was also attending school.
If you only let them live in the hospital ever since they’re young, then they’ll fail to fit into society when they leave in the future. So she had a tutor throughout middle school, and attended a formal high school from there.
Of course it was a place mainly dedicated to educate special children.
And last year, she was admitted into the University.
Circumstances didn’t allow her to go every day, and sometimes she just wanders around the school. This was the first time she went to class this year.
“I hope she’s ok. I don’t want her to be caught in an accident. And since I don’t know what will be going on at the school, how will she know what they’re talking about?”
Cha Eunhee was thinking of plenty of false scenarios. Most of which were highly unlikely.
***
Lee Hyun had already paid the expensive tuition, so he did not want to miss attending the classes.
But only a few know of this.
While others had extracurricular activities, social activities, school wide broadcast activities, he only showed up for the classes.
“The average needs to be a C. So I don’t have to retake the class.”
If the academic grades you receive have a warning or a failure as an undergrad, then that will restrict you from graduating. And because of so, since he didn’t want to repay the expensive tuition to re-attend, he was somehow faithful to going to school.
Fortunately, it was a promising fact that the steady attendance can guarantee a C grade most of the time in college.
Lee Hyun usually sat in the front and steadily took notes of the professor’s lectures.
“Have you heard the words going around about Professor Jeong Dongmin?”
“Yeah, he does a really good job with his lectures.”
“You should add him next semester.”
The students’ conversations during the break were basically knocking on his ear.
Half of the students were incline to talk about the class, while the other half broke up into groups and chatted about Royal Road.
“So let’s go hunting at Medium today?”
“I have to fix my equipments.”
“…defensive against Lighting property Sebon set.”
“How’d cha got money for it?”
“Been saving since a month back. Today ima try to buy the full Sebon set. I’m so excited.”
“Whew. When can I wear the set…I’m really jealous.”
Lee Hyun’s mouth permeated into a creepy smile.
‘These group of students as well.’
The price to purchase the Sebon set was 420,000 Won cash.
It was a flawless set for those at mid-range lvl200.
‘Now that I think about it, they’ve just gotten out of high school so a large amount of them are still at the lower levels.’
Comparing to a dark gamer like himself, these students seemed as if they were truly innocent.
Lee Hyun smiled gratifyingly.
But then he heard the low whispers of the students.
“That returning Oppa is laughing at us again!”
“That’s a really sinister smile.”
“He’s full of it.”
Lee Hyun’s reputation within the department was already set in stone.
At the end of the class he would clear up and head off home. He didn’t participate in the department activities, nor did he get along with anybody; thus they labeled him as a charlatan.
‘What choice can I have.’
During break, Lee Hyun also engrossed himself in the textbooks. But the reactions from those around him were far different than imagined.
“Look at him pretending to study…”
“If he was truly studious them he wouldn’t have yawned during class nor slept during break.”
Lee Hyun figured he shouldn’t rebuke the accusations. Since they have already set a prejudice against him, it was to do more harm than good.
And though, some of their misconceptions were a bit appropriate.
Lee Hyun’s target was just a 2.0!
‘Don’t want a warning as an undergrad. Nor any F is tolerable.’
The extent of his studies was only to avoid expulsion or failing.
Even with the perfect attendance record, he did not want a bad evaluation from the professor on his weekly reports.
‘My days are always like this.’
Lee Hyun resigned as he continued going to school. He had already given up making friends.
But today was a bit special. The students were excited about something.
“Where is it going to be this year?”
“I don’t know. It never said.”
“Last year we had a really good time!”
Lee Hyun could not understand their conversations.
‘Are you planning a weekend trip?’
But Lee Hyun thought it was unrelated to him, he didn’t give it a second thought.
At the end of lecture on that day, the professor suddenly said.
“Lecture is over, but we got a little time. Shall we talk about MT just a bit?”
The University initial MT!
For many, they’ve heard it from friends or their superiors, and only Lee Hyun was completely unaware.
‘This is completely irrelevant to me!’
Of course Lee Hyun wasn’t going to go. If you have time to do that, then you should take the time to beat up monsters and make more sculptures!
But it seemed as if the professor had read Lee Hyun’s mind and continued on with his story with such additions.
“Don’t you think that having a real life adventure is important to get a better understanding of Virtual Reality? You have to fully commit to the MT and do not play hooky to eat. You will be evaluated by your peers along with the teacher that will have a major effect on your grades. Of course for the students that will be absent, I will not give you your academic credits.”
The students cheered.
MT will have a major effect on the grade!
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