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Dozens of minutes before Shizuko permanently banned [SlavicGeniusGirl].
Overseas, Republic of Korea, Daejeon, Yuseong-gu, Eoeun-dong, KAIST Basic Science Building, 3rd floor.
“Haaaang!! Durak, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you! He’s not dead, he’s not dead, he’s not dead……! My teacher!
Hic……!” (TL Note: Durak = Fool, in Russian)
Irina was really crying sorrowfully.
Because she had been holed up in her room for three weeks, her already long hair was sticking to below her eyes.
All over, including her bangs and sideburns.
“No, why is she crying like she was wailing like back then…….”
“Do you even need to ask?! It’s all because of you, you idiot!”
“……I-I know that! It’s just that I’m saying…….”
“Is that even something you should say?!”
“Haa, really God Youngjin…… Are you the same as you were in undergrad? Are you going to hold another hearing?”
“N-no. Really, compared to back then, I’m very socialized now…… B-but more than that, we need to do something
about Irina……!”
It was the second time.
Everyone in the lab had seen Irina like this only once before.
It was the last day of his funeral.
How sorrowfully she had cried then.
Because she hadn’t shed a single tear until the last day, just sitting there blankly like a doll without any emotion.
The image of Irina bursting out on the third day of the funeral was still vividly etched in my mind.
“……Uchitel is! Still alive……! He’s still alive, he’s alive……! Haaaang!!” (TL Note: Uchitel = Teacher, in Russian)
However, the situation was a little better than back then,
―Tap tap tap tap!!
Even though she was crying so sorrowfully, her hands still didn’t stop.
Of course, she was originally smart and particularly specialized in multitasking and parallel thinking, but.
“You made her cry and you’re going to pass it on to someone else?!”
“N-no! Surely, if I try to comfort her, she’ll say Durak die…….”
“Haaaang!! He’s not dead! Uchitel is not dead……!!”
“……Uwaaa! Wh-what should I do?!”
“I don’t know! You figure it out!”
Haeun, the lab head, crossed her arms and turned her head away!
I looked at the junior next to me as the only remaining hope, but from the beginning, Yoon Hyuna was just looking at
me with a look of looking at trash.
It was as if she was kicking a stone on the street, and she just jerked her chin once, meaning that Kwak Youngjin, you
should figure it out somehow.
“Ugh, ugh……! O-okay! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!! He’s not dead, he’s not dead!! Instead, I’ll die! I’ll die instead, so……!”
Kwak Youngjin said so and sat down close to his computer screen again.
Now, he didn’t even have a correction report in his head, and he closed the mail window without any regrets.
“……Give me the web address with Airdrop! You’re still digging into the frontend anyway. I’ll do the backend, so give
me the framework Ibis drop…….”
“Haaaang!! I’m already doing both at the same time……! Die die die die die!! Take this before you die……!”
―Ding!
“F*ck, why did you have to give me reversing…… I don’t know, you said Japan? Phone? Computer?”
“She’s broadcasting……! Then of course it’s a computer, you Durak!! Haaaang!!”
“Okay, it’s a computer. The Japs are all Apple fanboys, but their computers are Windows. Roughly 64…….”
“Hic……! Sh*tty computer!! Probably a Geojibook!!” (TL Note: Geojibook = Beggar book, implying a cheap laptop)
“What? If it’s a Geojibook, it’ll be ARM. Okay.”
―Tap tap tap tap! Tap tap tap tap!
―Tap! Tap. ――Tap, tap~!
The sound of constant and fast typing like a machine.
And the sound of irregular beats that seemed to be riding the rhythm overlapped at the same time.
“……If you do that and it becomes an international problem, Hyuna and I don’t know.”
“Tell them you don’t know! She knows!”
“? No? The only person hacking the next country right now is one man?”
“……Man? No, there’s only one man here! Sht, fcked up……!!”
Kwak Youngjin said so, but he didn’t stop typing.
He wasn’t as fast-thinking as Irina, nor did he have special abilities like parallel thinking.
Nevertheless, as the only man who had been in this lab’s graduate student for the longest time after the lab head,
Kwak Youngjin had one very strong advantage.
“……How many years have I been doing ssalsoong-i macro with that guy!” (TL Note: Ssalsoong-i refers to a specific
type of rice farming macro/bot)
The fact that he had ravaged countless virtual worlds with “him.”
The world of sweet stories with the taste of maple leaves. -MapleSyrup Story-
In the classical world where the wind of seonhyeop blows. -Country of Seonhyeop-
(TL note: Seonhyeop is a genre of martial arts fantasy)
Of course, in the world of dungeons where you fight and adventure. -Dungeon and Fighting-
We even went to extort a stone called the Lost Ark. -Loss Arctic-
Even in the world of money-is-everything where only the law of the jungle is the answer under the name of blood
alliance. -Lineage-
“Kyakaka! What? You’re going to sue me for obstruction of business on the broadcast?! You’re kidding! We caught all
the macros that you guys couldn’t catch with him!”
“……Shumno(Шумно: Noisy).”
“Ah, of course, I just helped and learned a little…… But thanks to that, we prevented the game from going bankrupt,
so what’s wrong with eating a little bit! Khahahat!!”
He warned them like that, but they still haven’t caught him to this day.
Kwak Youngjin and “he” were pros at automatically mining light.
Their computer skills, which were honed only for that,
had already surpassed the prominent hackers of this school long ago.
Because when those in the computer science department were programming with the complacent mind of just
building a career.
These two were coding every day like it was a real battle to survive.
After the work was already done.
If they were caught, their status as specialized research personnel would be revealed, and they would immediately go
to military court and then to military prison.
Then, surely, they would be transferred to a university called the military, and their ankles would surely explode in a
landmine.
Or, while receiving punishment training, they suddenly had difficulty breathing, but they missed the golden time
because they said they were pretending, and they died.
“Hahaha!! I broke through, I broke through!! These Pajijik f*ckers are nothing!! Uhahaha!!”
At first, he was just helping “that guy” next to him.
But don’t they say that even a dog in a schoolhouse can recite a poem after three years?
‘……This f*cking guy. What you made is still running……! Khhk!’
Although it is said that he will never be seen again.
Still, the maintenance (macro) left by him lived without dying, and was still normalizing all kinds of god games in
Korea.
I learned and helped him for over 5 years, by his side.
“……Okay. Now, if I just connect to the laptop that must be somewhere in that Jap country, the location will come
out right away.”
How could there be a way to win?
“Well, this is enough, right? The rest is up to you, Irina…… Huh?”
―That was the cause of defeat.
“…….”
The typing sound had stopped long ago.
Just a moment ago, she was busy pressing this key and that key like a moving sewing machine.
Irina’s fingers had stopped and were frozen.
“Hey. Irina. What’s wrong all of a sudden? Do you need to poop?”
Surely, if it were usual, Kwak Youngjin would have already died more than 10 times in the mind of the Slavic self-
proclaimed genius girl.
At least he would have heard something similar.
“…….”
But Irina still didn’t respond.
She had already forgotten to cry,
and she just stared blankly at her smartphone screen with her eyes wide open like a rabbit’s eyes.
“Irina, Irina, are you okay? Hyung, why is Irina like this all of a sudden? What happened?”
“I don’t know. She was watching internet broadcasts on her smartphone until just now, but now it suddenly stopped
as if it was lagging?”
“Did you say something f*cked up to Irina again?”
“No, what, they say I did it every time! This time, I really didn’t do anything―”
It was then.
―Doong!
Kwak Youngjin’s computer went down.
No blue screen, no error window.
It was without any warning.
As if the power had gone out completely.
“Uh, uh?! Wh-what, what’s wrong all of a sudden?”
I tried to turn it back on.
Surely, the LEDs on the main unit and the screen were blinking.
It meant that the power was on.
“I-it won’t turn on! Sh*t, what’s wrong with my computer……?!”
―Click, click, click, click, click!
No matter how much I pressed the power button, the computer would not turn on.
It wasn’t just his computer.
“Huh? Isn’t Eunhee unnie’s computer also turned off? Unnie always keeps her computer on.”
“That’s right? Maybe…… Wh-what is it?! Mine won’t turn on either!”
“Uh? M-mine won’t turn on either!”
It was the same with other graduate students’ computers.
The ones of the other kids who had already left work late at night.
Even the computers of people who had already graduated and were just left plugged in.
None of them turned on.
“Haa…… Ha…… Hyaa…….”
Except for one person’s.
“Uh, what. Why is yours fine―”
“……Lan-kabel!!” (TL Note: Lan-cable in Russian)
Irina shouted.
Her voice was small, so it wasn’t very loud.
But they had rarely done that, so everyone was embarrassed for a moment.
“La, lan…… what?”
“Lan! L! A! N……!”
Only then did everyone check what Irina was holding in her hand.
It was a LAN cable.
“……We’ve been compromised! First, the lab, hurry!!”
―Tap tap tap!
Everyone was quick to act.
“U-uh!”
“I’ll go to the server computer in the workshop!”
“Th-then I’ll go check Lab D outside!”
First, they gave up on the lab computers that were clearly broken, and everyone went out to check the computers in
the lab.
“The one that can be started…… probably one laptop connected to Wi-Fi. The rest…….”
But Irina, who was left alone, vaguely knew.
“……High probability of annihilation. 99%”
That it was already too late.
[Huh? What are you doing?
Then Irina suddenly remembered.
LAN cable disconnection work. And connecting to the lab, Lab B.
“He” as her advisor―
Why? Because all the lab networks are connected to one local network, right?
―The memory of when he was still by her side.
In fact, they all share from one main hub…….]
Of course I knew the principle.
[What, you know it well. Why are you asking if you know?
……Because if it’s not a question like this, you’ll avoid it first.
Ah, why we’re moving to Lab B. That’s what you were curious about.
So every time… I had no choice, but pretend I didn’t know and ask.
Hyuna is studying quantum communication, especially multi-network with quantum cryptography, right?
She is doing research and experiment on converting between classic and quantum. So, let’s try to test it out.
It would be more fun to try using it in a real internet environment rather than making a Proof of Principle in a lab
environment, right?
She was extremely depressed because she was one step away from Nature publication but was eventually rejected.
Although she feels a little better, she doesn’t feel perfectly alright.]
But you were concerned about someone else, not me who asked.
What? Bright? No, that is not it. You don’t know Hyuna well.
When Hyuna is having hard time, she pretends to be brighter than usual…..
…..hey?! why did you touch it?! Now, we have to…..!!
So much.
Haaa….. how did you pick it up…… Well, it doesn’t matter. Since we have to start over anyway, I might as well just
hand it over.
Why are you standing so far away? Can you see it from there? I don’t think you can…….
Yeah. It should have happened sooner.
….Get away from me. Are you Italian? Why are you so close, as a Slav.
Huh? What the heck are you talking about? I am the one who is close to you, not the opposite? Ah, relativity of
simultaneity.
Yeah. According to Special Relativity, it can be also interpreted as….. What? 990,000won? You’re saying I have to
pay because I touched it?
F***. 990,000 is a load of bull*shit
Although the language was rough.
….Argh?!! A-ah! I didn’t go! I did not!! It was originally a spam…. Hey! Why are you checking my phone? Are you
insane!!
I also used to be too much.
Haa… See? There is nothing. There was a crazy woman last week who suspected me in the subway…..
No, I am saying that someone pretended to be like you and showed their ass…. Not that…
(Tl Note: He thinks she is accusing him of sexual harassment, but she is accusing him of acting like someone who did)
Are you going to keep telling me to die after you did it first?
Yeah… I did too much
But….
Alright, Alright. After installing this, if you can hack my computer, I will die as you wish.
I have never truly wanted that.
“……sob, hic, I’m sorry….. I’m sorryyy…… I keep telling you to die….,”
These words will probably never reach.
“Sob, hnnngh… Because of me…. It’s all my fauuult…”
It was always like this.
It was not only like this today.
“I always tell him to die…. Sob…..!”
When she was holed up in her room all day.
When she briefly went up to the rooftop at dawn when no one was around.
Even when she unknowingly got too close to the temptation towards the bottom.
Even now, when she came back to the lab after three weeks.
Well, at least until you can do the work of a graduate student, I can’t die. I’m your advisor, for now.
The memory tormented her every time.
“……Sniffle.”
But she had no intention of forgetting.
So listen carefully. Since I’ve already died 87 times in words today, I’ll stop.
Even though she felt like she was going crazy with guilt every time she remembered, she couldn’t stop.
Now, what I’m going to connect to my computer is quantum cryptography, especially the field you probably don’t know well…….
“……Yes. I remember everything.”
The computer turned on.
……What? You’re asking for the password because you might not know? My computer? No, why…….
His lab computer that no one had tried to turn on until now.
The seat was not even cleared.
It was still in the same state as it was three weeks ago when he was still there.
No, what kind of crazy guy keeps baseball videos on his lab computer? Do I look like that? Hah, really.
Because if I cleaned it up, I felt like I would really admit it.
I didn’t want to admit it.
Okay. Then I’ll just write down a hint. Try to solve it later.
“……”
[Account: Lab Computer]
[Password: ]
Irina reached for the keyboard.
It didn’t have a speck of dust, even though it had been three weeks, as if someone had been wiping it every time.
[Hint: What I want to say to Irina right now (no space)]
“……Fi, idiot.”
Irina hesitated a little, then soon closed her eyes tightly and entered the password.
[Password: iloveyouirina] (TL Note: There is no space)
And enter.
“Haaa…….”
She closed her eyes for a moment with an excited heart and a slightly blushed face.
And the main screen.
[Incorrect password.]
“……No, why?!!”
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