Chapter 308

**Understanding Problem 19 of the Conformation Advancement Exam**

“The original Arabesque conformation formula simplifies the shape through the Ride Meister transformation, and doesn’t it require twisting the circuit formula like a Möbius strip? I’m not very familiar with the curriculum.”

Contrary to what I had thought, it was a question asking for an understanding of the Fibonacci sequence and how to parameterically substitute curves and surfaces.

That was the intention stated by the evaluators.

It required laying out ten runes corresponding to the Fibonacci sequence from 1 to 89 in a long line and then applying the curve substitution.

“Hmm… I suppose that could work, but it’s quite a stretch to think of it easily.”

I hadn’t even imagined it until I heard the solutions from the viewers.

“So what I’m saying is, there’s the most complex part of the circuit formula, right? If you apply the Ride Meister transformation once, twice, three times, and then four times, it becomes a spirit knot. It’s a part that you don’t need to consider at all when operating the conformation matrix.”

With just a few manipulations of mana, the fragments of the conformation matrix find their places.

-What!!!!!

-That’s ridiculously fast to solve, haha!!

-They didn’t teach us this at the academy, how were we supposed to know!

-Darkness of the darkness skill, haha!!!

-Those who thought of it simply probably all got it right.

-Once you know how to solve it, it’s really an easy problem, yeah;;

[‘QBS Official’ donated 10,000 won!]

-Hello, No Name. This is Jin Sung-moon, a reporter from the QBS editorial team. We are currently reporting on questions that fall outside the KGSAT curriculum. May I shamelessly ask if we can use today’s broadcast video as material for our news?

“Really? Sure, feel free to use it. But many other instructors have complained; do we really need to include my comments?”

-(QBS Official): A friend of mine has a child in their third year of high school, haha;;

-(QBS Official): I have to earn a living too.

-Haha, this is clearly one of the superiors.

-The Wolf Prize winner said, “It’s an idea that’s hard to think of easily.”

└ Wow, how can I resist clicking this haha!!!

└ Fact: No Name is actually an authority figure. Conformation advancement is close to mathematics.

-The evaluators should not be presenting such questions in conformation advancement, not in magic advancement, sigh.

-No Name is a legend… even taking the exam now, they would definitely get all 1s except Korean…

└ It’s not Korean, it’s reading comprehension, mister;;

And the next day, inquiries for them to share the video flooded in from other broadcasting stations.

—

The QBS editorial chief had secured his next promotion with hit exclusive reports on No Name and Valpurgis.

However, with every sweet moment there often comes bitterness.

Joyful events at work were overshadowed by sad occurrences at home.

His youngest daughter, who he adored to the point of being able to drop her into his eye, had scored a level 4 in conformation advancement, risking failure to meet the minimum requirement for all the colleges she applied to.

[How can I be a level 1 in everything but a level 4 in conformation advancement! Am I really going to have to retake the year because of just conformation advancement? Boo… Waaah! At the academy… I only listened to Dad and had been stuck studying there for 12 years since elementary school… Why did I even go there if it was going to be like this!]

Her cries pierced the father’s heart like a nail.

Perhaps because she had never caused trouble for her parents, it hurt him even more.

[So if I get just one more question right, I can be a level 3?]

[Yeah…! Hoaaargh!]

The editorial chief steeled himself.

Issues related to questions outside the curriculum are much harder to overturn than simple errors.

He knew it would be a difficult fight, but peace at home had to be achieved somehow.

After all, the world is a zero-sum game.

And the first victim of the zero-sum game would be the chief of the evaluation institute.

[Next news. Regarding question 19 of KGSAT conformation advancement identified as having been composed outside the curriculum, the evaluation institute has maintained that there is no issue. However, there is backlash from the private education industry and among various academics as well. This is Jin Sung-moon reporting.]

Korea’s remarkable rise to a developed nation over the past hundred years, including the Miracle on the Han River, owes much to its high educational enthusiasm.

During the period of rapid growth, the citizens quickly learned technologies and knowledge to build an industrial foundation.

The idea that one should never let their children go hungry even if they themselves had to go hungry has been passed down through generations.

In a country where education is a profession, making a mistake on a question that could determine someone’s life is akin to committing a grave sin.

[That could work, but honestly, that’s a rather difficult idea to think of.]

The voice of NaeMe flowed from the news.

The girl, who had been shedding tears since last night, suddenly lifted her head and looked.

[A streamer expressed that it is an idea that’s generally hard to think of. Even a Wolf Prize nominee who proved the twin prime conjecture affirmed it cannot be considered a normal solution.]

“Ha… the mosaic doesn’t help at all.”

While watching the 9 o’clock news, the editorial chief handed a tissue to his daughter, chuckling.

The small stature that couldn’t be hidden by mere mosaic and the additional comments mentioned by the reporter made it easy for anyone to guess her identity.

“Why is NaeMe on the news…?”

His daughter tilted her head in confusion.

The editorial chief opened a beer can, thinking carefully.

“If one cannot challenge authority, one should leverage fame.” He was someone who knew how to capitalize on such points.

‘If she’s thinking this way, will they still refuse to change their opinion? Who are you to question it?’

Even if NaeMe declined the Wolf Prize, all citizens of South Korea essentially recognized her as having won it.

The top genius in Korea said that it would be difficult to solve it using that method.

As expected by the editorial chief, the public’s reaction was heated.

-A child who solved a problem that had been unsolved for hundreds of years gave a knowing nod? Game over. Pull it down.

-This problem really is absurd. What’s the difference between this and asking you to construct a 300-gon to find the circumference of a circle?

-From the moment No Name came in, public opinion completely turned around, haha!!!

-But what’s more amazing is how it was solved by applying previous knowledge.

└ There’s no problem that NaeMe can’t solve, right?

-The chief of evaluation? Time to resign?

“Just trust me. They won’t hold out for more than a week.”

And a week later, Kim Soo-young, the chief of the Korean Educational Evaluation Institute, resigned and announced that question 19 would be graded as correct for all.

No one could deny that NaeMe played a significant role.

—

“Why do you think the entire correct answer processing is due to me? It was a problem that deserved to be marked correct in the first place.”

Now, every word I uttered felt cautious.

Even this morning, I was continuously bombarded with embarrassing phrases like “Thank you, Thumbs Up NaeMe” from my seniors on the bus.

“You really have a tendency to downplay yourself, don’t you? If it were me, I’d be like, ‘Hey everyone! Look! I made this the correct answer! Praise me! Worship me! Everyone, applaud! Shower me with money!’”

Adella adjusted her glasses, turned, and looked at me.

“That’s a person who absolutely doesn’t understand shame. Quit rambling and solve some more problems quickly. Your hands are idle.”

“No, that’s true! Didn’t you want that kind of fame too? Or are you the type where your body and mind are at odds?”

“What?”

“Ahaha, forget what I said! Regardless, what I mean is: enjoy while you can!”

“Your hands are idle. And the answer is number 3. Are you really going to keep making calculation mistakes?”

“Where!? Why is this wrong!? Aaaaah!”

Adella, throwing off her no-prescription fashion glasses, tangled her hair wildly until it became a mess.

While I did promise to help her until she could act like a proper human being…

It felt less like helping my sister and more like raising an almost childish daughter.

“That’s right, NaeMe unni.”

“Why? What else is wrong?”

“It’s not that. You never seem to not know anything.”

“Why would I not know things? I have tons of things I don’t know.”

Adella hesitated for a moment, then turned her chair halfway to face me.

“I’ll just mention this since we’re on the subject. Initially, in this world, everyone thought that someone as smart as you was normal. Because I didn’t really know anything about people. I mean, it’s obvious, right? I’ve only lived with fake memories in a fake world until now.”

“Right. But?”

“But that wasn’t the case. After meeting and interacting with people, I found out there are a lot of adults who are dumber than me, and I haven’t seen anyone among the adults who’s smarter than you.”

As she spoke, Adella’s tail and ears drooped weakly.

“The common sense I had from the start turned out to be correct. Eight-year-olds can’t behave like you. They don’t think deeply like you do. And as if you’ve visited a realm of time and spirit, the vast knowledge you possess… do you know what thoughts I had?”

Adella got up from her seat and lay down beside me.

As she gently grabbed my shoulder and pulled me closer, my body was pulled backward along with hers.

“NaeMe unni told me to keep calling her unni. So I was wondering…”

Her breath tickled my ears.

Could it be that she’s figured out about the reincarnation?

Other people have a firm belief that reincarnation doesn’t exist, so they wouldn’t question it.

But Adella didn’t have such prejudices.

If she were to ask about reincarnation, should I affirm or deny it?

And if I deny it, how should I evade the question? Do I tend to expose myself when I lie?

As those disorganized thoughts troubled my brain, Adella finished her sentence.

“Aren’t you secretly a game character just like me?”

“Huh?”

And with that completely unexpected statement, I was left dumbfounded.

“You were actually the smartest character in a virtual reality game created by terrorists and by chance got a real body. For some reason, you have to keep this fact hidden from me! Your mission is to bring all the game characters out into the real world! How’s that? Quite a sharp deduction, right?”

“Ugh.”

I sighed naturally because her theory was too absurdly wrong.

“Why? Is it not? Am I wrong?”

“Yep. Not at all right.”

“Damn, then what could it be…! Am I really just eight years old?”

Does this child even have a brain?

Ah, she probably doesn’t, or else she wouldn’t be acting this way in a virtual reality.

The reason I hesitate to reveal my reincarnation is simple.

In my past life, when I disclosed it, people’s reactions were split into exactly two categories.

They either treated me as a lunatic, or they pretended to believe me for some ulterior motive.

Especially that depraved second prince, Peilan, who attempted to rape me while saying that if I had been a man in my past life, I would understand a man’s feelings better.

I doubted this sweet and innocent cat would do the same, but I didn’t want to reset the carefully built relationship.

“I just learned and matured faster than others in a virtual reality.”

“I see… I secretly hoped you were someone like me…”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah. Then at least there’s a precedent. What if I ended up in the body you created and vanished forever? I was worried about that too.”

“Don’t worry. All the magic is guaranteed to be safe.”

“No, wait… how do you know about those spells? I couldn’t find anything about Dragonia Nascentia online! And is it even possible to make a human body using Akashic Records?”

Suddenly, Adella became sharp on an odd issue.

Now that I think about it, using Dragonia Nascentia would only be acknowledging my past life.

Moreover, the fact that I possess complete human body data is extremely sensitive information that must never be revealed in this world.

That plan to bring Adella into the world quietly was supposed to include “no one,” but why had I not realized that Adella could be one of those?

I embraced her in my arms and gently stroked her head.

“I’ll explain everything to you someday. Someday…”

—

**Every Journey Begins with a Single Step**

“I’m going to take advertisements.”

“Advertisements? All of a sudden?”

“You said earlier. I do want that kind of fame. But I can’t express it well myself due to shame. So someone else can express it for me, right?”

“You’re going to take advertisements for such a reason?”

“I need to earn money to create your body too.”

“Let’s do it immediately! Why haven’t you done it until now!”

Adella immediately changed her attitude.

Up until now, I had been ignoring all the spam emails, but it seemed we had thousands of advertising inquiries piled up.

“As it’s our first time, we need to charge a high price! Remember that!”

—

[NaeMe_11]

[No Name · 7.13 million followers]

[Accepting advertisements. Inquiries can be made through the NoName TGD community.]

Within one day, the comment section was overflowing.