The small academy of Huin Town seemed to be injected with stimulus, as the new batch of students, unlike before, were engaging in heated training.
Children's shouts and gasps could be heard throughout the small academy campus, and at the center of it all was a child with bright golden hair and clear blue eyes.
He was swinging his sword desperately, sweat soaking his clothes. The other children around the golden-haired boy would look at him from time to time—they would grit their teeth and work more fiercely, trying to match the boy's rhythm as he trained desperately.
All the freshmen of Huin Small Academy were working hard, except one freshman.
Black eyes just looked on indifferently from the window at the children who were rolling hard on the training ground.
"I don't want to train my body desperately."
The black-haired child mumbled, her tone rueful.
Yuna had transmigrated a month ago. She was perplexed and stunned at first, and then came a bout of panic and feeling lost. It took her a week to calm herself down and accept her situation.
When she first found herself in another world, Yuna, like any other transmigrator would do in a novel, did research on the world she found herself in.
'A fantasy world.'
Yuna came to know that after reading a few history books of the world.
'A European ambience.'
Yuna came to that conclusion after seeing the facial features of the people.
After sorting out and understanding the world she came to, Yuna, who was still confused and muddled, saw a child—bright golden hair, blue eyes, and the name Austin.
If she compared all the information she read about the world, as well as the small school and the town name Huin, Yuna came to a quick realization that she had transmigrated inside a novel.
Yuna seriously contemplated whether to approach the protagonist and make friends with him, even revealing that they were fellow transmigrators and that he was a protagonist in the novel she read.
Ultimately, Yuna decided against it.
The protagonist had gone through way too many trials, and she—Yuna, who was an average Joe—would not be able to survive if she were caught up in the many ups and downs of the protagonist.
Austin, the protagonist of
Yuna, who was just an average university student who read dungeon break and other various fantasy novels for leisure and never experienced the hardship of survival, simply could not compare to him.
Even if she approached him, Yuna, who did not have a photographic memory—one where she could remember and never forget things once she came across them—would not be able to give him future plot points.
Hell, reading too many novels really confused one's senses, and when some novels were somewhat similar, it made it easier for readers to confuse one novel for another.
Yuna decided to follow along with her classmates at first and go with the flow because, unlike other transmigrators, she did not have any lofty ambition and knew her limits well—an ordinary person.
How could she have a goal so soon after finding herself in another world? That was not scientific, at least in her case.
But Yuna, who planned on following the masses, became quickly depressed when the students started to train themselves hard after being stimulated by Choi Min, a hardworking lad.
For an ordinary person who leaned on the lazy side and even had the bad habit of procrastination—cleaning her apartment rarely and even stacking dirty dishes and laundry and then cleaning them in one heap after it became inconvenient to stack more—the life of studying hard and rolling, aka training hard, was just not for her.
She didn't even have the strength to do simple exercises at home, much less train.
Muscle cramps, deathly tiredness, and exhaustion—the life of those who worked hard to be on top was not suited for her.
She had to take a bath every day with a tired body when all she wanted to do was flop on her bed and sleep because she was sweaty…
The life of an overachiever was not meant for Yuna.
So, after a week, Yuna decisively stopped following along with her classmates and only fulfilled the bare minimum of the school training.
Thankfully, even if she was sloppy and lazy, she was decisive and rarely wanted to tangle herself up in indecision. Her decisiveness yet again stemmed from her laziness. Indecision and tangled choices stressed and tired her.
For the most part, Yuna had a bad habit of a 'devil-may-care' attitude, which actually was her escape mechanism for dealing with real-life problems and constant stress.
'I'll just leisurely explore my ability on my own.'
Yuna thought so.
She was curious anyway, so exploring by herself could also entertain her in a world where there was no internet or mobile phones.
Hell, Yuna was a weak chicken and had a weak mentality. Even if a zombie apocalypse were to happen, she would just let the zombie bite her a little on her finger and zombify herself early. It saved the trouble of always living in anxiety about how to procure food or stay safe from zombies. She didn't want to commit suicide either because she was a lowly person with lowly thoughts like, 'What if I survive the zombie virus and am not zombified, and then gain an ability to be invisible to zombies?'—such loser imagination.
So, finding herself in another world, Yuna, who didn't want to train herself hard and work desperately, chose the option of exploring her ability on her own and paving her own path leisurely.
If in the future she found herself having no choice but to work hard, Yuna thoughtlessly left such future troubles for her future self to deal with.
Yuna felt the elements that were floating around.
Her body awakened as an elementalist.
She awakened as an all-round elementalist, where she could control every element—wood, fire, air, earth, water… you name it, those natural elements.
Although that did not mean that all elementalist were stronger than one-type or two-type elementalists. Everything depended on the person who wielded the elements.
Yuna, as a reader of various novels, did not only limit herself to Western fantasy, but was also an avid reader of Eastern fantasy like Xianxia, Wuxia, and Tianxia.
Yuna sat under the tree after she finished her daily required training, not joining her classmates who were still training and rolling themselves hard.
"Children nowadays, so hardworking; not comparable to us old people," Yuna lamented without an ounce of shame while watching the children swinging their wooden weapons.
There existed warriors, sword masters, and cultivators in the Tianxia and Xianxia genres—those immortal cultivator types in Chinese novels.
"Let's imitate cultivators."
She was excited to try out and have a taste of what it felt like to go through what she used to read in novels.
Yuna just did not have what it took to desperately train like those immortal sword masters and warriors.
Even though she had no high and lofty ambition of becoming strong and being a powerhouse trampling on anyone who dared go against her, Yuna, a very ordinary person, still wanted to be decent in strength.
At least, she wanted a means to protect herself.
Decently strong was enough. Yuna, a self-aware lad, also knew that she would not be able to stand at the pinnacle of strength without hard work, so her goal was only to be decently strong to protect herself.
"It will be a pity if I die even before I explore the fantasy world."
Yuna thought so.
Yuna sat in a lotus position, trying to enter that so-called meditation state.
Not even a minute passed when Yuna bitterly opened her eyes.
The noise around her was too much for her to concentrate.
The children's "heave-ho, heave-ho, hah, hiah, huh, haah," and the sweaty smell lingering in the training ground really made it hard for Yuna to concentrate.
"Let's just wait for the class to end."
Sighing, Yuna just rested under the shade of the tree and entertained herself by watching the children train.
Like it was said before, Yuna was a procrastinator.
"I'll just try it out at home; it's quieter there."
And she came up with a valid, good excuse. All procrastinators are masters of excuses.