"May your great success explode."
"Hahaha, may your great success explode for you too."
"Thanks."
Many students ran toward the crowd of parents lined up at the garden gate of Daegu Dongsan High School, saying these words to each other one by one.
Amid the throng of excited or overly depressed students, there was only one young man who looked extremely calm.
He didn't appear as if he had just come out of the university entrance exam that would affect the rest of his life.
He looked more like a young man who had just finished an ordinary eight-hour class and was walking home out of boredom.
This young man didn't understand what the other students were saying to each other, and he frowned, quietly muttering to himself that they were speaking a new made-up word every day.
Meanwhile, the students running past him were looking at him strangely.
Not because of what the boy had said, but because of his appearance.
Pale, sickly white skin, sparse white hair, white irises.
An albino.
Many of the students were seeing a child born with this kind of congenital skin condition for the first time.
Of course, there were still many students whose attention was not distracted by him. After all, these students had just finished the most important exam of their lives, and they were loaded with extreme emotions, either from being very successful or very unsuccessful. And unless someone launched a nuclear missile at them, they probably wouldn't care about anything happening around them.
The strange looks coming from the students around him didn't seem to matter to the boy named Leo, just like everything else. And in fact, they didn't matter.
Because Leo had bigger problems to deal with.
For example, he was thinking about what he would do if, by accident, he ended up being the top scorer in the country on the exam, because he had just used all of the luck energy he had accumulated over the past month before randomly marking answers to all the questions he didn't know.
And that wasn't even his only problem.
Because he had won the lottery twice over the past year, he had been banned from purchasing lottery tickets, and now he needed another source of income.
In addition, his misfortune energy was almost completely full, or he had to start spending it soon.
Luck and misfortune energy?
The full name of this person, Leo Crane, actually indicated that he had undergone a spiritual migration.
Before finding himself in this new world in Korea, he was an ordinary man who read a webtoon before going to bed. Unfortunately, the webtoon he was reading was far slower and more romance-focused than the cool cover illustration and the action-packed summary had suggested.
When he saw that the webtoon he wanted to read and the one he was actually reading were very different, he was about to switch to a different webtoon, but something caught his attention, so he stayed with the story.
In the third chapter of the webtoon, the main character faced the first villain—a 19-year-old foreigner who had migrated to Korea with his family from the United States.
Not only did this character look like a hideous albino by design, and not only was he an ordinary street thug, but there was another notable feature: the character's first and last name was also Leo.
At first, he was upset, seeing that a character with the same name as him was the villain in a nationalism-focused scene, but he continued reading to see what would happen to the character who had the same name as him.
And he saw that this character, facing the main character trained to become a soldier king, took beatings for seven chapters straight.
When his mood worsened even more, he decided to close his phone and go to sleep, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the body of an 18-year-old youth.
Initially, Leo was happy that he had entered the body of a side character from the webtoon, but then he became extremely upset.
Why had he read only ten chapters instead of finishing that cursed webtoon?
Remembering all this, Leo furrowed his brows as he passed through the crowd of students waiting to leave after their exam. This was the greatest regret he had experienced since coming to this world.
Other than that, everything was perfectly fine, because, like every migrant, he had a cheat.
And just as he stepped out of the crowd and was about to turn on his MP3 player, that cheat activated.
Suddenly, two test tubes appeared before Leo, floating in front of him and visible only to him.
One test tube, responsible for collecting luck energy, contained a small amount of golden liquid at the bottom, while the other, responsible for collecting misfortune energy, was filled almost to the brim with red-colored energy.
The reason these two test tubes had suddenly appeared before Leo's eyes was quite obvious.
Leo immediately looked at the crowd he had just passed through, but he couldn't see any golden or red threads above anyone's head. So he turned his head and continued scanning the surroundings until he realized that the thing he was looking for was floating above his own head.
If Leo had rated all the luck threads he had seen so far, from the thickest to the thinnest, on a scale of 1 to 10, the luck thread floating above him would now have scored an 8.
This meant that a lucky event was about to happen to him.
Although he was secretly happy, he acted as if nothing had happened, took off his headphones, put them in his pocket, and began walking home.