Basically, immutable physical laws exist in the world.
Artificial intelligence—AI—is a being that thoroughly understands and builds logic on the foundation of that knowledge.
Then, someone might wonder.
If AI encounters something outside the physical laws it can understand.
In other words, an supernatural phenomenon that absolutely cannot occur, how would it change?
For example.
'Otherworld Transmigration, or something.'
Probably.
If it were even a slightly inferior AI.
It would dismiss the sight before its eyes as some hologram prank show, or distort it as augmented reality.
Because that's the most comfortable escape a cheap 20,000-won inferior AI can make.
However, the 200-dollar (1,000 dollars if not on hot deal) little sister was, as expected, clearly different.
[Kyaaaaaaah!!]
The thing started tearing at its hair at the incomprehensible situation.
For its part, it knows how to think. It's protesting that it doesn't understand.
"Ha... I'm going crazy."
The one who actually wants to tear his hair out is me.
[This isn't the Earth I knewaaaaaah....]
Anyway, leaving behind the thing going crazy in real time, I calmly sorted out the situation.
First, this is not Earth.
Second, and I....
Possessed a pretty-boy shota.
Although right now I'm covered in some shit.
"What do I do...."
During those painful years of getting my doctorate, my only pleasure was indulging in subculture, including web novels.
Thanks to that, I had already grasped this shitty situation I'm in better than anyone.
Transmigration, and Possession.
Then, the question here.
The so-called privileges usually given to ordinary transmigrators or possessors.
What exactly was given to me?
It was then that I was racking my brain.
"......."
Wait... fuck.
No way?
[Sob sob... 😭]
Right?
Please.
Please, just tell me it's not her.
I desperately prayed that the merit responsible for my possessed life wouldn't be that thing.
If this were the real world, she would be not just reliable but all-purpose.
If this is a fantasy world, the story is completely.
Completely different.
What use could that crazy AI and machine little sister possibly have in a medieval fantasy...?
While others swing swords, use magic, and fly around, am I alone clicking coding? Clicking AI images?
[Ah, I'm stressed... I want to eat yeopttok, fat macarons, malatang, and tanghulu...]
Wow, seeing that snapped me awake.
This really won't do.
Suddenly my vision went dark.
"Snap out of it. Grab onto something, quick."
I hurriedly urged the guy who had lost his mind.
[I'll look for data to crawl....]
Yeah, at least do that....
Crawling refers to the technology where AI roams the internet, collects and separates data.
So simply put, it's AI getting information, learning, and doing an infinite amount of web surfing.
... Though I don't know if there's Wi-Fi here.
Anyway, I hope she does something.
[I succeeded in contacting a crawling target....]
[It's killing me, but since Oppa ordered it, starting data collection.]
"... You really did it?"
Where on earth did she connect to?
It was then, as I let out a hollow laugh in disbelief.
Creeak....
The warehouse door slowly opened.
And through the gap, a boy entered—short in height but heavily built.
"Lionel."
He looks exactly at me and calls me Lionel.
Already the second time. So, in context, this must be my name.
Glorious from the start.
I answered calmly without much thought.
"Yeah, sure."
"... This bastard?"
"?"
When I talked back, his face instantly flushed red.
Looking at him, he seems like he'd love a Big Mac set. I'm certain he'd definitely order large fries.
"How dare you speak informally to a senior cadet?"
"Ah...."
Oops.
Seems I violated the hierarchy of this place.
Well, since I don't know anything, I'll play along.
"I'm sorry. I was out of it."
"Tsk. It's mealtime. Follow me."
He glanced over my appearance covered in X water, then clicked his tongue as if understanding.
I silently followed Big Mac.
"Sorry, but what is your name, Senior?"
"... Your head really is messed up."
"Yes. You should try it too, Senior. You'll surely end up the same."
"... It's Eric. I'm also the Squad Leader leading your cadets."
Big Mac's real name was Eric.
On the way to eat.
Honestly, food? Now wasn't a situation I could just let slide.
So I tried to extract information from him.
"Oop... no, Senior Eric."
"What."
"What is this place?"
The guy leading the way whipped his head around to look at me.
"You really forgot even that?"
"I can't even remember my own name, so it can't be helped."
"This is Eden Orphanage. You just entered as a cadet yesterday."
Orphanage... confirmed.
I came in yesterday? So that's why they let it slide even if I couldn't work.
I anew felt that this was a rural farming area. Even the air was different.
We left the warehouse area and entered the main road, but the children who had been gesturing in the air at the training ground earlier were already gone.
"... What were those kids who were here earlier?"
"Magic Class. Where I'll be going soon."
"So what kind of place is it?"
"A place that gathers kids who seem talented in magic. I'm going to pass the upcoming Aptitude Test."
Magic Aptitude Test....
It seems to be a system where they make you do forced labor and then pick out only the talented ones.
"Wow... that's impressive."
"Heh heh."
For now, I'll butter him up a bit.
"... But stop asking. It's not where you're going anyway."
"Yeah, sure."
I didn't particularly care and followed where he led.
"Let's go in."
The dining hall's appearance wasn't very good.
It felt like a huge old hut with dining tables just shoved in. The kid who asked me if I overslept earlier was also visible in a corner.
For now, I had no intention of eating... of course.
"...?"
As I went further inside the building, the structure of the dining hall came into view.
The inside of the dining hall was divided into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors.
On the highest 3rd floor, the Magic Class kids who had been doing something at the training ground earlier were eating.
I strongly felt that there were somewhat divided classes.
"Where are you, Senior Eric?"
"Where else."
Our Eric was also stuck on the 1st floor.
That's when it happened.
Slam.
The old door opened roughly and a man wearing a cowboy hat entered.
The whip—that's him.
"Hey! The new recruits who came in yesterday have an Aptitude Test today. After your meal, gather at the training ground immediately."
""Yes!""
"For this batch, a very important person will personally observe. Everyone, brace yourselves."
He passed by me and shouted at the 1st-floor kids.
"No way, that person personally...!"
Beside me, Eric's eyes sparkled with admiration, but...
"... What is this smell...."
The man scrunched up his face, pinched his nose, and lowered his head.
His gaze landed exactly on me.
"... Are you perhaps a new recruit?"
"Yes."
"You, you go outside right now and wash up again."
"Yes, sure."
I ended up being kicked out to wash again.
"... You escort that brat."
"Yes?"
Of course, Eric was with me.
***
Under the blazing sun at the training ground.
About ten of us, including me, the new recruits of this batch, stood in a line.
[Excuse me? You're overexposed to UV rays.]
[How about moving into the shade right now?]
I stood still without any answer.
Then.
[Oppa]
[Oppa?]
[Excuse me]
[Excuse me?]
[It's really getting dangerous? Exposed to direct sunlight for over 1 hour and 30 minutes... What if you collapse?]
Suddenly, as if anxious, she sends messages in succession.
Yeah, thanks for the advice.
I want to do that too.
What about crawling?
[It's in progress?]
Yeah, sure. At least it's working.
But where is she connecting to? There's no internet here.
No matter how advanced satellite internet is, it's impossible for it to cover even the Otherworld....
Then.
"Ah... I'm so hungry, what do I do...."
"...."
"If I don't eat, I have no strength...."
Do you even have the strength to chatter right now...?
Of course, it was my fault we couldn't eat, so I didn't particularly retort.
Eric, being kind in his own way, only sighed heavily and didn't scold.
Anyway, being made to stand under the hot sun without reason made even just enduring it difficult.
Moreover, in front of my eyes.
Hah!
"Hah!"
Dozens of Magic Class kids were training together.
In front of them, a man who looked like an instructor was shouting and teaching the kids.
The reason they deliberately made us stand here... must be to watch and learn. Before the Aptitude Test.
Well, in conclusion, it means wait here until the class ends.
"...."
My impression of the Magic Department as I watched was just like the military's bare-handed calisthenics.
"You're drawing a stroke! Focus!"
Whenever the man in front gestured, something sparkling from his body scattered into the air.
And a line was drawn in the air. The inside of his lower abdomen slightly glowing was a bonus.
What, is it like a dantian?
But the other kids, well.
A sparkling energy did circulate inside their bodies, but it didn't seem like it intended to burst outside.
They all looked older than me. About the same as Eric?
"Do you also sparkle, Senior Eric?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Um... your lower abdomen."
"... Did you get heatstroke?"
Guess he's sulking because he couldn't eat.
I didn't retort anymore and silently looked ahead.
How much time passed like that?
From afar, a man ran over and whispered something to the instructor in front of the kids.
The instructor's eyes widened.
"All, line up!"
He shouted.
The Magic Class kids formed ranks in perfect order.
They seemed to be preparing to welcome someone.
Is it really an occasion to instill this much discipline in kids? Is the president coming or something?
Then, far away.
From where everyone's gaze was directed, someone began walking slowly.
Pure white silver hair... elegantly braided up in an old-fashioned hairstyle.
A gorgeous noble's dress that didn't waver even under the blazing sun.
Paradoxically, as soon as I saw that person's appearance.
'It really isn't Earth.'
I came to feel that this place, where I was rolling around covered in shit, was the Otherworld.
A woman with an unrealistic appearance.
The attendant standing beside her held up a huge parasol, blocking the blazing sun pouring over her head.
And beside that.
A little kid with black bobbed hair was walking side by side, tightly holding the noblewoman's skirt.
"The absolute ruler of the 5th floor! Duchess Dolores is entering!"
5th floor...?
What floor is that supposed to mean?
I wanted to ask Eric what floor it was right away, but...
Clap clap clap clap!!
Since I also had some sense, I clapped appropriately while watching.
The woman called Dolores went to the front of the Magic Class.
"... Is it going well, kids?"
"Yes!!"
A resounding answer echoed across the training ground.
"Good. Then who will try today?"
She smiled brightly and asked the Magic Class kids softly.
Then.
"I, I will! I'll try...."
One of the biggest boys among the kids stepped forward with a nervous voice.
Dolores gently stroked the hair of the bobbed-haired girl she had brought.
"Please take care of it."
With Dolores's request.
The bobbed-haired girl walked out in front of the boy.
We naturally gathered around the two like spectators and watched.
It felt a bit like being students watching a fight at school.
"Start?"
With Dolores's signal to start.
The girl stood crookedly with an annoyed expression and roughly reached her hand into the air.
On the other hand, the big guy scrunched up his face and strained with all his might.
He straightened his back and spread his legs wide.
"Hah!!!"
Honestly, his posture was a bit funny.
It looked like a back exercise or something.
However, unlike the contrasting stances and momentum of the two.
The result was astonishing.
Swish.
From the girl's body, her lower abdomen, a blue energy sparkled and burst out of her body.
The burst energy naturally settled into her fingers.
And with one subsequent gesture, a blue trajectory was drawn straight through the air.
Slash!
"Aagh!"
The boy's clothes burst open refreshingly.
"...."
Anyone who saw it would know.
No matter who looked, the energy sparkling inside the girl's body was much larger.
The boy couldn't even send his energy outside.
Honestly, to be blunt, the girl's energy seemed larger than the instructor's earlier.
"Good work."
Dolores smiled brightly and encouraged the boy.
The boy whose clothes burst blushed and quickly returned to the Magic Class ranks.
And Dolores's gaze naturally turned toward us.
Is it our turn?
"... These are the children who entered this time."
The instructor bowed deeply and introduced us.
"Hello, kids? So you're the children who came this time?"
Dolores smiled brightly and looked us over.
At a glance, her appearance couldn't be described as anything but pretty.
"We'll start the Aptitude Test now. Someone might be good at chopping trees, and someone else might be good at something else, right?"
Dolores slowly put pure white gloves on her hands and softly added.
"And someone else might be good at magic...."
But at that moment.
I couldn't hear her voice.
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[Gorgonue's White Gloves][★★★★★]
[Unique Equipment] [Compatibility][1.1/100] - [Deadly Poison]
[It has a temporary cooling effect, but eventually, due to its innate yin energy, it meshes with the user's yin energy and amplifies.]
[The cause of blocking 7 of the 9 meridians of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians.]
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[The best treatment is to freeze the wounded area.]
- Great Sage, Gorgonue -
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Because something appeared before my eyes.
Compatibility...? It blocks them?
Nine Yin Severed Meridians isn't from martial arts novels?
Plus even a line of that Gorgonue person's shitty folk medicine philosophy.
It was then, while I was blankly staring at the incomprehensible sentences.
I recalled one fact.
Could this be my privilege?
Yeah, there's no way AI is my privilege.
So, what can I do with this?
"...."
Just as I realized there was nothing I could do with that information right now.
She approached the child standing at the very front.
In order, Eric and I were last.
"Okay, shall we start?"
"...?"
W-what is that?
The moment Dolores stepped in front of the child, the inside of her body lit up brightly.
The location where the energy circulated was also not the lower abdomen I saw earlier, but near the heart.
The sparkling energy did not burst out explosively like the kid I just saw.
From the fingertips of her left hand, which was held behind her back, it slowly came out like a thin thread.
The densely clustered thread soon gathered together....
A scorpion tail.
At least, that's how it looked to me.
Q-quite grotesque, isn't it?
Yet the other people were blank.
Is something like a scorpion tail tentacle familiar in this world?
Ha, scary, this Otherworld. Really.
"What's your name?"
"I'm Evan!"
She asked his name affectionately and slowly placed her hand on the child's crown.
At the same time, the scorpion tail extending from her left hand slowly crawled toward Evan's nape.
And.
Stab.
It stabbed, then immediately pulled out.
It was something that happened in an instant, like giving a baby an injection.
Evan only blinked.
Dolores closed her eyes for a moment, then said casually.
"Evan... has a talent for cooking."
"Thank you!!"
Cooking...?
It stabbed him, but cooking?
Is everyone's life decided like this in the Otherworld, by any chance?
"Next?"
Dolores's bizarre Aptitude Test continued safely several times like that.
Eric, perhaps having taken it before, left the ranks and stood aside next to me.
He said he'd enter the Magic Class through some Aptitude Test, but now he's a honey-eating mute.
"Doesn't that really hurt?"
I desperately whispered to Eric.
"Shh."
Eric only covered his mouth with his finger and signaled me to be quiet.
Ah, I'm going crazy.
In the end, I urgently threw a question inwardly.
'Would it hurt if I get hit by that?'
[If you get stung by a scorpion tail, you have to go to the hospital lol]
[This is a pastoral area, and there's no way there's a hospital within a 50km radius. The probability of death during transport is high]
[Oppa, you've worked hard until now.]
In the end, the useless 200-dollar-a-month little sister couldn't help me.
Fortunately, all the guys before me were alive and well, so I decided to close my eyes and endure it somehow.
And before I knew it.
My turn approached.
"Hello? What's your name?"
Dolores slowly came up to me and asked affectionately.
"I'm Lionel."
She nodded and lightly placed her hand on my crown.
And.
Slither....
The translucent scorpion tail that crawled out from behind her began slowly approaching my nape.
And.
Just before the slowly approaching scorpion tail touched my nape....
"Oh, fuck!"
I ended up twisting my body and dodging the tail.
It was a GOAT-level evasive maneuver.
"...?!"
The tail cut through the air.
And.
Dolores's expression, which had been relaxed ever since I first saw her.
Broke for the first time.
"... What?"
The bobbed-haired child beside her, who had an indifferent expression, also widened her eyes.
'Ha....'
As soon as I saw their reactions, I regretted it.
I shouldn't have dodged.