There Are Too Many Bugs in the Academy

Episode 11

4. What else is this (2)

“what?!”

I glanced at the fallen Camilla and the girl who appeared first. A woman with long gray hair tied in a ponytail.

Clear eyes and cherry-colored lips.

Even if they met while passing by on the street, they never felt uncomfortable.

And to be honest, it was pretty.

However, apart from his appearance, he had an odd posture with his arms wide open and his legs glued together.

It looked just like a mannequin.

‘Are you a T? I think the character loading is less… … ‘

T pose.

Occasionally, this was a phenomenon that occurred when the skeleton responsible for the movement of the joints in the game was not loaded yet.

Of course, as it is a game with a lot of bugs, it was a phenomenon that often occurred when moving between regions or riding a warp gate, so I was familiar with it.

“Then this must be a bug.”

Scary to say, the console window popped up in front of my eyes.

『Bug occurrence / Data error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』

『Bug occurrence / Data error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』

『Bug occurrence / Data error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』

『Bug occurrence / Physics engine error ERROR CODE: MISSING NO.』

… …

… …

[Bugs found: ????]

[Fixed bug: ????]

An endless stream of bugs. The bug codes that always appeared were not output, and the number of found bugs was just displayed as ???.

Almost 40 bugs have been fixed so far, but this is the first time that so many bugs are displayed at once and the number of bugs is not even displayed properly.

gulp.

It didn’t seem like a big deal right now, but I have a bad feeling about Camila’s collapse.

‘Damn, you don’t have weapons or anything else?’

I looked around the background of the gymnasium. But all I can see is an empty vacant lot.

The number of objects is also remarkably insufficient, lest it be space for someone to create.

[Are you sure you want to edit? YES / NO]

Two options that catch my attention more clearly than that.

If I click YES here, will he attack me? But to press NO, I thought that something might happen to Camilla.

Right now, it doesn’t seem like aggression.

“Maybe a monster?”

My first thought was that it might be a doppelganger.

A demanding, high-ranking monster that causes confusion by imitating the voice, actions, and appearance of others.

But, why is it that a strong enemy that you often encounter in the dungeon appears here until you are in your 3rd year?

Besides, I was concerned about the error messages that filled the console window to treat it as just a monster.

For a hostile monster that strikes first, it was strange to be meek.

But it was still the same, not saying anything and not recognizing me.

It felt like something out of the ordinary. It was completely different from monsters and normal NPCs.

It didn’t make me goosebumps like watching a horror movie, but the reluctant impression was the same.

What should I do in this case? Should I leave Camilla and run away?

But Camilla was a roommate who lived next door to me.

By the way, what would it be like if that guy did something to Camilla and then tracks me through those memories?

Leaving Camila alone in the first place is also not very receptive to her heart.

He’s from the Marine Corps that catches ghosts, but he’s scared of such a thing and runs away leaving only the girl.

“Ttt, I think this is the only way in the end.”

I clicked the YES button that popped up on the console window with a click. As always, a green light enveloped his right hand.

The moment I reached out and tried to fix the bug in question-

Its appearance changed again.

“……!!!”

The guy who had the appearance of a young beauty turned into that of a black-haired boy this time.

At the same time, the changed outfit also caught my attention.

A white robe and a main black belt on the waist.

It was a design that Koreans had no choice but to get used to. Because this was definitely a Taekwondo uniform that you can see in any neighborhood.

‘Anyone can see that fighting is a character. Haven’t you seen any other fighters other than Camilla Lilly at Paradise Academia?’

Both the taekwondo boy and the gray-haired girl were characters they had never seen in the game.

An unidentified NPC that even I, a deceased person, could not meet.

‘What the hell happened?’

I have no idea at all The series of events that took place in my sight were all incomprehensible.

Is it the concept of changing faces every certain time?

It’s not some kind of X-T inside, it’s too basic… … .

At that moment, its mouth, which had been silent all along, opened.

“Oh, this is your first time at the gymnasium? Nice to meet you! My name is Tae-Hoon Kim. Please take care of me.”

The voice of a hot-blooded boy full of blood. I was so embarrassed that I even took a step back.

“We don’t teach martial arts in Arthur’s Faculty, so we fighters train here separately after school.”

“Hey, why is this all of a sudden?”

“If you’re looking for the firefighting Camilla, it’ll be in the back of the gymnasium.”

The fact that the context of the conversation did not connect well seemed to just spit out the set script.

His facial expressions, movements, and even his voice are natural. It is a normal NPC that has changed 180 degrees from the previous one, which was just a mannequin.

‘no way… … .’

A passing question becomes a conjecture, and the conjecture turns into a certainty.

“Is this dummy data?”

* * *

Games are a field where the circumstances of adults are more entangled than you might think.

The amount of money invested in producing a game is huge, so it is not easily developed, and even if it is developed, there are a lot of scenarios or characters that fall over without appearing properly during the release process.

In that case, you can’t actually check it in-game, but… … .

There were many cases where it could be retrieved in some ‘abnormal’ way, such as confirming its existence with a log that remained undeleted, or using a cheat.

In other words, this guy was one of the ‘unimplemented NPCs’ of Paradise Academia.

“Twp! tk!!”

I observed the boy in question carefully. It’s only temporary, but every time he makes a fist, his figure changes.

Sometimes he looked like a younger child, other times he looked like a young woman, and sometimes he turned into a muscular man with his upper body undressed.

Those figures are probably the NPCs that were placed in this gymnasium at the time of development.

‘So that’s what the error code looked like.’

I checked the console window again.

The error codes that are continuously being recorded in the Paradise Patch are MISSING NO. The phrase was attached to it.

Commonly known as ‘Missingno’.

To be precise, it is a phrase that means that no code has been assigned.

An NPC that should not appear for some reason is treated as a bug, but at the same time, there is no error code to specify the fact.

If this was the case, the series of events that had occurred so far were fully understandable.

The fact that more NPCs were originally scheduled to be placed in the gym is a fact revealed by users who have already read the logs left behind.

“But, let’s fix it for now. You don’t know what will happen later if you leave it alone.”

I carefully grabbed the guy’s shoulder, lest he would trigger some kind of trigger.

Soon, the space around him is distorted and his form disappears out of nowhere.

As if I had cleared a stage, the console window that popped up in my head was especially nice to follow.

[The bug has been fixed.]

[Fixed bugs: 1]

[Bug fix rate: 3%]

“Huh? Why are the numbers so high?”

But what was even more surprising was that this one shot jumped the bug rate from 0.8% to 3% in an instant.

It’s worthwhile to have found a bug so overwhelming that it’s hard to keep up with scrolling, but it’s strange that there’s only one bug fixed.

As I tried to analyze a phenomenon that could not be easily understood, a fact I had forgotten for a while suddenly came to mind.

“Oh right! Camilla!”

Oops.

Missingno’s impact was so strong that he completely forgot about Camilla’s existence.

I grabbed her from the floor and lifted her up.

“Hey, come to your senses! Are you okay?”

“Uh…”

The bugs found so far did not affect the people around them. It was just that an intact basket was flying in the air, or the shopkeeper repeating the same lines.

That doesn’t mean I’ve never been caught up with other people just passing through the buggy area like Camilla did this time.

‘Is the dummy data different from a normal bug?’

Whatever the case, it would have been better to move her, who seems to have fainted, back to the dormitory.

Because there didn’t seem to be a suitable place to lay her down around here.

In addition, the Hyunmu Forest adjacent to this dance hall was also a place where some monsters wandered at night.

In the game, Camila alone is enough to repel it because she’s just a mob, but it’s not enough to protect and respond to Camila with my current specs.

“Ugh- tea!!!!”

After a few minutes of whining, I managed to wrap Camila around.

“Damn, I came to practice and what is this!”

About 500m to the warp gate.

It seemed too far away.

* * *

—–

[Hidden Street: The battle of the four weeks has been completed!]

—–

[Paradise patch function has been unlocked.]

The four-week rehearsal hall where darkness and stillness descended.

As the moon, which had been obscured by the clouds, raised its head and scattered a soft light, the firmly closed door opened.

The sun had set, but it wasn’t until the time when traffic was closed yet.

Even if the passage was prohibited, if the purpose of training for personal devotion was the purpose of training, the guards at Nakwon School were usually generous.

This is Paradise Island, because it was an educational institution for nurturing warriors.

That is why the boy and the girl visited the theater tonight as well.

Her neatly trimmed hair fluttered, and the belt tied around her waist was carefully inspected.

The boy started warm-up lightly, and the girl warmed up next to him.

The two figures were engulfed in the twinkling moonlight, creating a very mysterious atmosphere.

“Okay! Let’s start today!”

With the wind blowing from the forest, the two men’s white Taekwondo uniforms fluttered.

Nakwon School Arin undergraduate first-year candidate, Kim Tae-hoon.

And, likewise, Yoon So-young of the Arin Faculty.

With a loud cheer, the fists of the two young fighters cut through the cool night air.