Ex Rank Supporting Role's Replay in a Prestigious School

Chapter 96

Translator: Jimin Beom 
Editor: NovelMultiverse

After going down to the stage, Me and Jin-seung Ma were guided by Stalemate staff and moved to the place where we would play.

Between the huge chess pieces created by Mr. Yong, several chess tables were arranged in two columns.

When I saw the chess table and chess clock, the realization that I had to play chess finally hit me.

‘It’s been a long time.’

The last time I played chess was in the fall of my third year of junior high school, at the final round of the World Junior Chess Championship hosted by the World Chess Federation(FIDE).

The first news I heard on my return to Korea after a 14-day tournament in Delhi, India, was the death of my family.

Immediately after the accident, the only thing my parents, who were barely conscious, said was, “Don’t tell Ui-shin,” and the coach who was with me in Delhi respected the will my parents had left.

By the time I returned home, the funeral was over.

The only thing I could do for my family was to go to the charnel house.

‘Objectively, it has nothing to do with chess.’

I could understand why my parents had left such a word, and why my coach had not told me.

I also accepted that there was no causal relationship between my playing chess and the death of my family.

I stopped objectifying, rationalizing, and blaming myself in my head, but I couldn’t play chess.

But now I was standing in front of the chessboard again.

“Hello!”

“Hello.”

I was pulled out from my thoughts at the loud voice of Jin-seung Ma, who looked nervous.

‘He was a playable character who often had an exclamation mark at the end of his sentence, and he actually has a loud voice.’

Although Jin-seung Ma was my senior, chess is a game of manners and morals, so it was an unspoken rule for chess players to greet each other politely.

After shaking hands with Jin-seung Ma between the chess tables, we sat down.

I came to my senses due to my playable character, who was once destined to die, in front of me.

‘No one knows what will happen in this world.’

This place was filled with various Gwanglims, Skills, and Enemies.

There are also forms of attacks that dig into the player’s mental weakness.

If you do not overcome your trauma, the initiative of your mentality may be stolen from you.

If I, with the skills such as ’Player Trajectory’ and ‘Power of Destiny’, fall into the hands of the villains, it would be difficult for the playable characters to deal with.

‘I can’t leave my mental weakness. I have to overcome it.’

That was what my brain was telling me, but my heart and body didn’t like that.

My head ached just looking at the chessboard.

The 64 squares were slowly changing shape.

“We will decide on black and white by throwing a coin.”