Discovery (2)

"O-oh, this?..."

I completely forgot.

Minpyo touched his head, trying to quickly think of a solution that Yeohui would take but unfortunately. There were none.

Should I just give in...

Yeah.

"Actually..." Minpyo gave in and chose to tell Yeohui, she was someone he could trust, atleast. She also kept an act whitout me even realizing. And there's no use on lying about something since he could've done that a while earlier.

So he ended up telling Yeohui about why his hair turned white, got taller, and why he knew that was because the government told him all about it when he got called. But Minpyo didn't mention the part about th secret school. It was supposed to be a secret afterall.

Surprisingly, Yeohui took the truth really well and understood everything. Minpyo was so glad that he wanted to get down on his knees and thank Yeonhui for understanding.

"So you're telling me.. that you're becoming a Main Character?"

"Mhm." Minpyo nods.

"And you're not the only one?"

"Mhm."

"For real?!"

"Yeah."

"For real, for real?!?!"

"Yeah.." Minpyo was starting to get irritated.

"For real for real for rea– mmphh!"

"Yeah, yeah! Now shut up I don't want to hear you saying For real five times!" Minpyo cut off Yeohui's stupid charade by shoving a handful of radish in her mouth and shut it tight.

"Fa ha! Shhawy, I ash gittim! (Ha ha! Sorry, I was kidding!)" Yeohui laughed with her mouth full, quickly chewed the radish and swallowed. Like there was so period in her sentence, she started talking right away.

"This is crazy. Minpyo, I look up to you deeply now." Yeohui covers her wide smile with her hand.

Minpyo scrunches his face like he doesn't believe the middleschooler. But he knew she meant that because Yeohui always wanted to be a Main Character. Even though it's probably temporary and she'll find it stupid once she grows up.

But kids almost never lie.

When he was telling Yeohui everything, Yeohui may have looked calm but she was probably burning up with energy inside. It was one of her traits as a theatre top student, to be able to conceal what she actually feels.

"Don't you dare tell anyone, Yeohui. You're just a kid but I'll trust you because you're in your last year of middle school." Minpyo grins at Yeohui. It wasn't true, trusting a kid with a secret may be foolish but in Yeohui's case, it wouldn't be.

She was a chaotic kid but held onto her principles very tightly and set limits for certain things. It was one of the traits she got from him. Though Minpyo's grown out of it now.

The kid was lucky enough to be friends with him since she was born because they were neighbours and their parents were long-time friends. They we're so close people always asked if they we're siblings or not.

As mentioned already, Minpyo was a spectacular kid. And that spectacular kid was always beside a baby.

Who knew what the hell small Minpyo had taught baby yeohui. The list of craziness was endless.

Soon, after the second documentary they were watching ended, Yeohui stood up and hurriedly looked at her phone to check the time.

"Pyo oppa, I'll be going now." Yeohui finished the can of soda she was drinking quickly and aggressively placed it on the coffee table inftont of her with a pleased smile. "Or should I say, Main Character?" Yeohui giggled.

"Shut your mouth and go already." With that, Yeohui giggled and said bye to Minpyo before going out and slamming the door annoy Minpyo.

Finally, he was alone again.

Ha.. how do I explain that at school...

I'll just tell them what I told Yeohui.

-

Minpyo went to school as he did yesterday. He dressed just like he used to but this time with the dammed hairspray. He had to resist running his hands across his hair for the sake of not taking of a bit of the old hairspray since yesterday.

And as expected, everybody was showering him with the same questions.

"Why were you called by the Governement?"

"What did the Government tell you?"

"What happened yesterday?"

He tried his best to not throw up by the pressure of all of the questions and especially because he wasn't used being approached by a crowd.

He especially felt really different since he woke up in the morning. But he didn't know how to describe it. It was like his way of thinking, feeling, and acting changed. Not completely because he would notice and come back to his senses.

And he also tried his best to answer not too vaguely.

"They thought I was a criminal." Definitely not vague.

Minpyo kept repeating his word and even making his response longer so everyone would leave him alone already.

He never thought he would used the forbidden tactic of making things calm and quiet; being absolutely, visibly rude and annoyed infront of a crowd. And it was just a perfect chance for him not to do so.

It worked.

But it didn't last long because he finally reached his classroom.

"Minpyo!-"

"They thought I was a criminal."

"Woah, brother calm down!" A redhead calmly approached Minpyo but because of the endless calls of his name being followed by the same questions, Minpyo answered the same phrase with a dark aura around him.

"I already know, so I wasn't here to ask you!" The redhead laughs out loud,

"So you know, Minpyo. I'm a very observant man, right?" Minpyo can never get used to Joo Ryuin's way of talking.

"Eung."

"I observed that Minpyo has gotten taller!" Joo Ryuin was right, he did get tall. But he was the second person to notice since Jiwoo did.

He'll just say he got a sudden growth spurt and get him to shut-

"Did the Government tell you you're a Main Character, too?" Joo Ryuin whispered after leaning to Minpyo's uninterested face that quickly turned to surprise and confusion with what Ryuin just said.

"What- Too? You mean, you're also a Ma-" Ryuin places his hand on Minpyo's mouth to keep him from continuing.

"Shh, brother tone down. You know we can't let anyone know." This idiot just keeps on giggling and teasing Minpyo who was still proccessing what he had just figured out. But the first professor walked in and he just decided to focus on class and not overthink discoveries.

After his last class, Minpyo tried to look for Joo Ryuin but gave up when he realised he had nothing to do with him once he finds him anyway.

He was a main character all this time? He sure is good at hiding that considering he has a big mouth.

And as Minpyo was walking to go work his part-time job because it was close to the campus, but right infront of the evening bar he works in, a girl in a female working suit looks up at him.

It was dark, so he couldn't quite see her face well. This was the first time he saw someone waiting for the bar to open like this. His shift included opening up the bar.

Just as he was about to turn the key of the padlock closing the big entrance, the woman grabs his wrist.

Minpyo flinched and tried to break out from the grasp quicky, "Uh- uhm, I'm sorry but-" Minpyo started when he couldn't escape but shortly stopped talking when he saw who was infront of him.

Lady Oh...?

"Oh my- oh, I mean, Lady Oh?"

What is she doing here?

"I didn't recognize you at first." Lady Oh finally lets go of Minpyo's wrist. "Quit your job.".

Huh?

"Wait a minute, Why??" How am I supposed to earn money though?!?

"Have you forgotten?" Lady Oh crosses her arms and looks at Minpyo, "Didn't we say that you don't need to work? Look at your bank account."

He wasn't listening to one part of what the president was saying yesterday because he had said at some point that this part "isn't that important". But Minpyo never expected it to be.

Minpyo reached for his phone inside his shoulder bag and opens his bank account.

No way. "160M₩" was on the center of the screen. Minpyo almost fainted at the amount he was seeing.

Minpyo didn't have any rights to refuse at that very moment.

He looked at Lady Oh and nodded hesitantly,

"I'll quit." He was defeated. Lady Oh smiled and went off with a bow.

The next day, he called his boss with a determined resolve.

He quit. Proudly. (He hoped). The bar practically was the reason he was living for almost two years, so Minpyo cried tears of joy only. But was everything really fine?

Meh. Nothing comes from thinking like that. Let's just spend this whole saturday lazying around.

And so he did.

The next day, he received an email while working on his homework early in the morning.

"What and who might it be?" Minpyo sing-song's in a raspy voice that it triggered the birds singing majestically and making them choke outside his window.

When he opened his mail, the first thing he saw was the governments name. It must be what Mister Lee told me he'd send. Minpyo opened the email and it contained a message telling him he was enrolled to "Mains of Net". He figured the name was based on "Main Character" pretty quickly, he didn't know what Net meant though.

The school starts perfectly after his whole college schedule, that was a relief. Since he quit his job that took on his evening. The whole email contained everything about the Mains of Net. His schedule, where it was, the time, contacts numbers and some pictures of the school. It looked like a normal academy, with the small classrooms and the layout of the whole school.

The president also mentioned yesterday that he still had to go to college, obviously for "less suspicion".

Since it was a sunday, he spent all day working on the projects and assignments he had procrastinated on. Nothing could beat a college life without some intense sunday cramming.

But he was so wrong, all day, his throat hurt so much he couldn't even breathe without it feeling like he was inhaling glass shards. Can't wait to hear about this at school.

Still, he finished all he needed to do and diractly passed out on his bed after showering and brushing his teeth. Even though all he had today were protien shakes and grapes he found inside his refrigerator.

Minpyo woke up feeling better, he still had a sore throat but he could breathe without feeling like inhaling glass shards but he still couldn't talk.

He rechecked all of the work he finished yesterday in case he missed one and gladly didn't. After that, he didn't have anything to do so he decided to visit Yeohui and her parents after putting on hairspray.

Minpyo hoped she had kept her promise.

Without wasting time, Minpyo went out and knocked on the door right beside his. He expected Yeohui to open it but Yeohui's mother did instead.

"Hi, Auntie." He greeted her with a smile and she tilted her head.

"Minpyo, you've grown quite tall." She said in her usual cheeful voice while smiling. "I have to look up higher this time, at this point my neeck will break if you grow any taller than this."

Minpyo blushed, "Oh, I got a growth spurt." He laughed while walking inside the door and closing it. "I just came here to overcome my boredom."

"You always do, feel free so eat those fruits on the coffee table. Yeohui is still sleeping." His aunt goes back to cooking something on the kitchen.

"Thank you so much, Auntie!" He says while walking towards the sofa in the living room and waving to Yeohui's dad sitting outside in the balcony drinking coffee.

Yeohui's family is so chill and the best place to feel like a bum. Nobody complains at him doing what he wants, not like when his he was still with his family on away from Yeohui's family. He was lucky enough to take their old place, which is beside Yeohui's place.

He takes his phone and goes to social media to read some posts while eating fruits to at least give his stomach something to dissolve.

Shortly after 15 minutes lying on the sofa while eating, Yeohui comes out of her room. She didn't even bat an eye at Minpyo looking like he owns the house and went straight to the bathroom.

Minpyo continued scrolling and he came across Joo Ryuin's account. There he posted a full body picture of him taken infront of a mirror with a caption, "Outfit today~" and Minpyo couldn't lie, the guy was a looker and he had a type of personality that would make you not get bored of him. There was no need to question why he was also chosen to become a Main Character.

But Minpyo? Why was he even becoming a Main Character, he was just a boring guy with nothing but good grades. He could admit though, he was good-looking at highschool.

If only he didn't have a weird-ass personality, he could've become much more popular. He was too dense to realize that there was a line of girls and boys waiting for their chance that never came.

He admired Joo Ryuin's picture and looked at his reflection on his phone from the dark moded app.

Nothing much changed.

Suddenly, a voice entered his ears from behind his head. "I didn't know you swung that way, oppa!"

"Ahh! Gosh, you startled me!" Minpyo clutched his shirt, "And what do you mean I swung that way, I like women!"

"You were staring so hard at his picture, though."

"Shut up! I was staring at my reflection!" Minpyo sat up and faced Yeohui. And in good timing, his aunt shouts from the kitchen,

"Yeohui, get dressed already. Stop bothering Minpyo!"

Yeohui laughed and went inside her room with a smirk on her face while giggling "Minpyo swings that way~" He really wanted to pinch her face right now.

Afterwards, His auntie asked him to join them for a quick brunch but he already ate so he passed on the offer before saying goodbye and going back to his place to get ready.

Meanwhile back inside Yeohui's place, her father points out, "Minpyo's starting to grow some white hair too like his father." Which Yeohui flinched at. Apparently, he saw some white ontop of his head while going out of the house.

"Oh really? Haha! Their genetics are indeed strange!" Her mother answers.

Yeohui thought, I gotta tell him to cover it up better...

At this point, Minpyo was already out of the shower and looking at his schedule for Mains of Net.

It started at six and a quarter in the evening and ended at exactly nine pm. It was pretty short.

I wonder if I'll see Joo Ryuin there, Minpyo wondered after putting on his bag and stepping out. And honestly, Minpyo felt kind of excited.

When he reached the campus, he practically speed-run on taking notes and submitting all the assignments until his schedule was cleared in the afternoon.

"Is there something important you've been waiting for?" Minpyo flinched at the sudden voice entering his ears. It was Yoeun, his seatmate, who he didn't even notice was beside him all along while he was standing on the hallway.

"Huh?" Minpyo answered after calming down.

"You were moving fast and rushing everything since the first period, who wouldn't notice?" Yoeun had started walking and Minpyo settles on walking behind her.

"Ah, yeah. Something like that. I guess.." Was I really acting like that? Minpyo dwells.

"Oh, I get it." Minpyo sighs at the relieving answer.

"Are you going that way?" He asks Yoeun when they finally reached the exit.

"Yeah." Yoeun nods while looking to the direction.

"Oh, mine's the opposite." Yoeun starts to walk and so does Minpyo, "See you tomorrow then?"

"See you tomorrow!" Yoeun waves at him before turning around. Now he could finally go to that secret school he's been so interested in. Minpyo made a fist and hit the air with an enthusiastic face.

He walked to the bus stop and waited for the next bus but remembered something he read from the email.

"The location of the Mains of Net is saved in the Teleportation Device of The Official Side Characters of the Stories Government-"

The teleportation device! He remembered the teleportation device Lady Oh gave him the other day when she told him to quit his job and said it should help him a lot. Minpyo was pretty sure he had hid it inside his bag and rummaged through until he found it at the very bottom.

He never realised but it was small, like the size of a small Nokia phone where you could type something on but it's a touch screen. He searches for some "saved" locations and found Mains of Net pinned inside it.

Minpyo clicked the text and just as he felt the other day, it was nothing exciting. Other than the sight he was seeing right now.

It was far away on a completely different city but it was filled with students, like an academy. Right, was the secret school hidden inside an academy school? Smart idea

As he was expecting, someone approached him and told him they'll assist him to Mains of Net saying that they're gonna be his teacher. Of course they won't send him here to leave everything for him to figure out.

"I can't believe there's another Main Character already! You look amazing just as I expected." She sure was chatty on their way but it kept Minpyo entertained because they were walking for so long now.

"Is it far..?"

"Nope, we are right infront of it!" They were at a normal looking classroom in the middle of the hallway where there were also filled classrooms. Minpyo was right, they did hide this secter school at a studying academy.

When his said teacher opened the door, Minpyo saw what he least expected. Minpyo expected there to be 10 students maximum but it seems like it was 20 students minimun instead.

There were atleast 20 people inside and all of them were looking at Minpyo. Some of them smiled, some of them were confused, and some of them looked really happy to see him. Like Joo Ryuin at the farthest seat from the door.

"Finally! Minpyo, my brother, you're here!" Joo Ryuin stands up and waves his hand while everyone else either looks at him or Minpyo.

"Ryuin, shush! We gotta introduce Minpyo to all of you, so sit please!" His teacher claps her hands and in a blink, everyone was in their seats. Whoa, theh really are Main Characters.. So obedient. Minpyo thought.

"Uhm, should I introduce myself now?" Minpyo gor dragges to the center of the front and nervously looked at his teacher who nodded.

"N-nice to meet you all. I'm Dal Minpyo, in college, and I.. uhm, I thinks that's all I've got to say.."

"No! Tell us what kind of Main Character you are!" One Green-haired girl on the front raises her voice.

"Well, I'm not entirely sure. It hasn't been long-"

Minpyo gets cut off again, "Then tell us how you changed instead!" Joo Ryuin talks this time.

"I guess I got taller and then my hair changed." He almost choked while saying that because it was his first time telling a big group of people what happened to him. But he was glad they were all people he could trust.

"Can you show us?" His teacher follows, Minpyo nods and pinches a chunk of his hair to take off the hairspray he had on.

Once he revealed this, there were ooh's and ahh's following everywhere and Minpyo felt kind of embarrassed.

"There's no need to be embarrassed, some students here are just the same as you. Look at Jaeha over there!" She point to someone sleeping at the side of the classroom. He also had white hair like Minpyo. And he wondered why he wasn't hiding it.

"Oh.."

"Okay, were done with Minpyo's introduction and now it's time for all of you to introduce yourselves to Minpyo!" And Minpyo giggled at the sound of everyone groaning but also at the same time, half were looking forward. Minpyo also took a seat behind the green haired girl whonspoke earlier.

Everyone introduced themselves one by one starting from left to right. It took quite a while, but Minpyo tried his best to remember all of them.

"O~kay! Let's start now, feel free to do anything you want while I lecture some easy topics for Minpyo after I do something real quick.

Minpyo nodded at the teacher with a smile but once he blinked, he saw an elder lady instead of the young lady. Minpyo thought his eyes were joking.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, sorry Minpyo. I am the prophet." She shapeshifted? She can shapeshift? Part of Minpyo's head filled with these two questions "Yes, I can shapeshift, it's one of my powers, did that surprise you? I apologize~"

Minpyo turned beside him but everyone was looking at him that he didn't know who to talk to.

"Come on, guys, knock off the staring, you're clearly making him uncomfortable.." The guys beside him saves him from the overwhelming stares. He laughed and said thank you.

Apparent the guy's name is Seonggu and he was becoming a Main lead on a romance story based on what he said when they were introducing themselves.

"Okay, let's start! For Minpyo!"

"For starters. You are becoming a Main Character as time passes beause the Artist, one of the gods, is currently designing a MC with the same traits, age, and info as you. It might be fictional, your Character I mean, the story of yours might be fantasy.

Slowly and slowly, your body will change against your will and eventually, you'll become a completely different person physically.

And us, the Mains of Net is taking care of hiding this facts until you guys disappear!"

Wow.. the prophet sure is good at this. Wait. Disappear?

Minpyo gets caught off guard and raises his hand "Disappear..?"

"Ah, yes. Once your Character has been designed throughly, you will be transferred to the World of the Main Characters permanently, unless something takes you back like what happened to me."

What..?!