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58.2

Ch. 58.2
The students looked bewildered at first but soon nodded in agreement.

Within the Persona Gate, a certain 'concept' was established, and the story progressed according to that concept.

The guide-line messages were supposed to contain the information about the concept and the story.

However...

None of the students present in this room understood how to interpret the Persona Gate, leaving them all unable to comprehend the concept or the story.

"Listen carefully. You must now attend the Banquet hosted by the Countess of Aeron. Without a doubt, something is happening there."

The students listened attentively to the woman's words.

"If you take one of the four passages, it leads to the underground of the mansion. However, the underground is filled with mazes and traps, and the moment you get lost, the mansion's knights will start moving. So, you have to rely on your own insight and intuition. Can you do it?"

Amidst the lack of understanding, Baek Yu-Seol was the only one who answered.

"Yes."

Since no one else responded, he felt slightly awkward and touched the back of his head.

Of course, it was natural.

The presence in front of them was an NPC who spoke according to the manual.

It was not a real Persona Gate, and who in their right mind would be foolish enough to respond to an NPC in a fake Persona Gate?

However...

"Yeah, you. It's nice to see such confidence."

".... Wha-what?"

"Did you react...?"

The confusion in the students' eyes deepened as the NPC responded to Baek Yu-Seol’s words. They were already sensing something strange, and now they became even more suspicious.

"Before infiltration, everyone should wear this mask."

The woman distributed white masks that covered the entire face.

"You must remember this. Once you wear it and go through that passage, never take off the mask. Understood? Never forget."

After saying that, the woman disappeared. The students held their masks and exchanged glances.

"Hmm..."

"I, I guess I should go...?"

Since the Persona Gate training was also part of the assessment, the professors were observing and grading the students' performance.

Unfortunately, everyone present was in a state of failure when it came to interpreting the Persona Gate.

But here, it wasn't easy to openly ask, "I didn't interpret it correctly. Can someone help me?"

If they were a bit smarter, they might have thought that the difficulty level here was unreasonably high.

However, unfortunately, hardly anyone had reached that point, and they were just waiting for someone else to make a move to avoid revealing their own ignorance.

‘Hmm…’

Among those students, Edna was slowly preparing to speak up.

There probably wasn't a student who knew that this Persona Gate was real.

‘In the original, it was said to be extremely dangerous because they didn't even share the most minimal information they discovered with each other…’