I opened my eyes to an unfamiliar ceiling.
Thankfully, my mind seemed intact, as the last thing I remembered was the ‘Achievement Unlocked’ notification I saw right before losing consciousness from the fall.
According to my original plan, I should have been blown backward when the explosion occurred, but because I had Hobabas in a headlock, my body was launched upward.
It was fortunate that the location was a forest, with trees to help disperse the impact; if it had been flat ground, things could have turned out very badly.
“Whew… Forget revenge, I almost went up in flames with the mosquitoes.”
The thought of facing death made my head throb, so I covered my eyes with my arm to rest, but something felt off.
“Huh? What’s this?”
My milky-white arm was now a healthy, gleaming tan.
Born into the Yang family and never having stepped outside until the age of 20, my skin had always been milky white. But I woke up unconscious to suddenly find myself with a healthy tan? What the heck…?
“Oh, could it be?”
A chilling premonition ran down my spine, and I immediately sat up and threw off the blanket covering me.
And I was able to confirm it.
“Wow.”
My entire body, without a single exception, was tanned in a healthy and sexy bronze.
After pushing my body to its limits with bodyweight exercises, I had achieved a physique that seemed impossible to improve upon.
from being
Not only did I have chocolate abs, but there wasn’t an ounce of fat to be found. My arms, composed of well-defined deltoids, biceps, triceps, and forearms, looked strong enough to overcome any hardship.
But even with such a perfect physique, I always felt a strange emptiness in my heart, as if something very important was missing. Now, it felt like that emptiness had been filled.
By this healthy and sexy tan, that is.
“I see. So this was the last piece of the puzzle…”
Now that I had this tan, the contours of my muscles looked deeper and more defined, giving me the feeling of being even healthier.
As my lips curled up in satisfaction, I noticed a mirror on the table next to the bed.
“Huh? What’s this now?”
More precisely, it was my face in the mirror.
I could accept that my face was tanned in a healthy and sexy bronze, but the color of my hair and eyes had changed from what they used to be.
The original me, Yang Woobin, the eldest son of the Yang family, had jet-black hair and eyes.
But now, the reflection in the mirror showed golden hair and red eyes, a flamboyant color combination that bore no resemblance to my former self.
“Okay, I can accept the tanning, but why did my hair and eye color change…?”
I tilted my head in confusion at this belated question when a notification popped up in the corner of my vision.
[* Your body has evolved to suit him due to surviving the initial manifestation of the ‘Solar Physique’ trait.]
The status window tells me even this kind of thing?
Well, the status window is literally a window displaying my status, and it probably knows more about my condition than I do, so it’s not that strange for me, who possesses the status window ability, to receive such a notification.
In the first place, I was too much of a veteran of regression hero stories to be surprised by a status window notification. Instead of being startled, I chose to read the contents of the notification and accept it.
“Evolution, huh… Sounds good? Just a regular delinquent was a bit bland, but now I look like a golden-haired tanned delinquent to anyone.” A completely lucky break had occurred.
Creak-
I was rejoicing at my evolution from a regular delinquent to a golden boy when the door to the room opened, and a middle-aged man in a nurse’s uniform entered.
“Hehehe… Hmm? Oh, oh?! He’s, he’s awake…?! Doctor! Doctor!!! Patient in room 101 is awake!”
Then, upon seeing me sitting on the bed, he dropped the charts he was holding, his eyes widened, and he rushed back out the door, shouting for the doctor.
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“Your body recovered a long time ago. We were worried because your mind wasn’t returning. But I’m relieved to see you awake and healthy like this.”
“Ah, thank you.”
I bowed my head and expressed my gratitude to the doctor who had entered with the nurse who had run out of the room earlier.
Because he was the one who had treated me.
“You’re welcome. I was just doing my job.”
The doctor didn’t act high and mighty at my greeting, but accepted it with composure, put down the chart he was holding, and met my eyes.
“Oh, I haven’t introduced myself yet. I’ve seen your face so much that I’ve become familiar with it, so I forgot that we haven’t even exchanged names. I’m Baek Woohee. I’m a doctor at Dapecheon Academy. Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too. I’m Yang Woobin.”
“Hehe, I know.”
Baek Woohee covered her mouth and chuckled at my answer.
Light brown, messy hair, green eyes, a beauty mark under her right eye, and a puppy-like face.
She looked exactly like the healing-type older sister I had only seen on the monitor, and I felt my tension melt away with familiarity.
Come to think of it, isn’t this the first time I’ve actually met a major character from Regression Heroic Tale? To meet and talk with a beloved character from my favorite game, isn’t this a truly historic moment?
I was internally making a fuss like a true Regression Heroic Tale enthusiast when Baek Woohee suddenly let out a sigh of relief. “Whew, I’m so glad you woke up. When you first arrived at the emergency room, I didn’t know what to do. Your injuries were really severe. Due to the impact of the explosion and fall, bones all over your body were fractured, your skin had third-degree burns, and you had severe bleeding from your neck.”
My condition after catching Hobabas was truly dire.
If I hadn’t miscalculated the explosion and been blown into the air, I probably wouldn’t have been injured so badly, but because I was caught in the explosion and fell, I had brushed against the door of death.
It was natural for a doctor to treat a patient, but I still felt sorry for making her go through so much trouble because of me.
“Even for a superhuman, such severe injuries would require a miracle to recover from, but you’ve recovered so quickly and completely. It’s really amazing. I would have had difficulty treating such severe burn scars, let alone other scars. You healed even the burn scars purely with your own healing power. And you’re not a woman, but a man.”
But Baek Woohee clearly attributed my recovery to my own abilities, not her own, even though she was the one who saved me.
I was inwardly moved by her personality, befitting the best healing-type character in Regression Heroic Tale, when a strange point suddenly struck
me.
Come to think of it, why don’t I have any scars? Even if other wounds healed, burn scars should remain.
‘The Great Disaster,’ who had the same Solar Physique trait as me and was controlled by the Disaster Witch I saw in the game, was covered in burn
scars.
The fact that he had survived long enough to become like that meant that his body had also evolved to suit the Solar Physique, but this showed that even if the body evolved to suit the Solar Physique, it didn’t eliminate burn scars.
So what is it really? Why is my whole body clean without a single scar?
I thought about it carefully, but no plausible reason came to mind.
But the pride of a veteran wouldn’t allow me to give up without knowing, so I frowned and tried to find a plausible reason when Baek Woohee said something that I couldn’t ignore.
“Considering your injuries, it’s truly a miracle that you regained consciousness and fully recovered in just one month.”
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..What? A, a month?”
“Yes, a month. You woke up really quickly…”
“This is crazy. Can, can I be discharged now?”
“Yes? Ah, yes. Your body has fully recovered, so if you just get one last checkup today, you can go back to class normally starting tomorrow.”
A month? Every day is precious, and I was asleep for a month? Did the snowball that was launched upward due to my miscalculation roll this far?
The good mood I had from becoming a golden boy and actually meeting Baek Woohee turned sour the moment I heard that I had slept for a month. I quickly revised the plans I had originally made in my head and said to Baek Woohee.
“F, first, please do that checkup as soon as possible!”
The reason why I didn’t have burn scars or anything else didn’t matter; it was more important to recover the precious time I had lost by sleeping for a month.
X
Fuyuno Tsubaki, who had witnessed the Dapecheon Academy entrance exam rift incident a month ago, had developed a small hobby.
[Hey! Get rid of that straw, you filthy mosquito bitch!]
[Oppa my ass, you’re a decrepit old mosquito hag who’s hundreds of years older.]
[Ugh. Still doesn’t work.]
[Hey, mosquito.]
[It’s going to be very spicy.]
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…..Hehe.”
That was, to recall the black-haired man who had appeared when she had given up on life after thinking it was really over, and to smile creepily.
To her, who had never been saved by anyone in 20 years, the man who burned his own life to destroy evil and save others was the hero from the fairy tales she had secretly read as a child.
Having actually met the true hero she had only dreamed of, it was only natural that she would develop such a gloomy hobby.
But even just imagining it in her mind was something Fuyuno Tsubaki could only do after assessing the situation.
Smack-!
“Agh!”
“Hey, Tsubaki, are you crazy? Why are you grinning to yourself?”
Because Fuyuno Tsubaki was the weakest person at Dapecheon Academy.
“I, I’m sorry, Jinsuk…”
As the imagination ended, the gray world filled her vision once again.