"May big success explode!"
"Haha, may your big success explode too!"
"Thank you."
Many students exchanged these words as they rushed towards the crowd of parents lined up at the gate of Daegu Dongsan High School.
Among the excited or extremely unhappy crowd of students, only one young man seemed extraordinarily calm.
He didn't look like he had just left the university entrance exam which would influence the rest of their lives. He looked more like a young man walking home out of boredom after an ordinary eight-hour school day.
This young man did not understand the meaning of what the surrounding students were saying to each other, and he frowned, silently muttering, "They speak with a new made-up word every day."
Meanwhile, the students who ran past him were looking at him strangely. Not because they heard what the boy said, but because of the young man's appearance.
A sickly pale skin, sparse white hair, and white irises. An albino.
Many students were seeing a boy with this kind of congenital skin condition for the first time.
Of course, there were still many students whose attention was not distracted by his appearance. After all, these students were overwhelmed with extreme emotions, having either succeeded greatly or failed miserably in the most important exam of their lives just moments ago, and they probably wouldn't care about anything happening around them unless someone launched a nuclear missile at them.
The strange looks coming from the surrounding students seemed to bother the boy named Leo not at all, just like everything else. And indeed, he didn't care.
Because Leo had his own big problems to deal with.
For instance, he was wondering what he would do if he accidentally became the nation's top scorer on the exam after having used up all the accumulated luck energy from the last month right before he started randomly marking all the answers he didn't know.
This wasn't even his only problem:
Since he had won the lottery twice in the last year, he had been banned from purchasing lottery tickets, and he now needed another source of income.
Furthermore, his bad luck energy was almost completely full, and he would need to start spending it soon.
Luck and Bad Luck Energy, you ask?
This individual, whose full name is Leo Crane, has actually undergone a soul transmigration.
Before finding himself in the Korea of this new world, he was an ordinary man reading a webtoon before bed. Unfortunately, the webtoon he was reading was a much slower, romance-focused story compared to the cool cover art and the action-packed synopsis in the description.
Seeing that the webtoon he wanted to read and the one he was reading were very different, he was about to switch to a different one, but something caught his attention and kept him in the story.
In the third chapter of the webtoon, the main character met the first villain. This villain was a 19-year-old brat who had immigrated to Korea from America with his family. Besides looking like an ugly albino in terms of design and being an ordinary street thug, he had one more significant characteristic: both his first and last name were the same as Leo's.
Initially, he was depressed to see a character with the same name as him being used as a villain in a scene focused on nationalism, but he continued to read the story to see what would happen to the character with his name.
And he saw that this character was beaten up for seven chapters against the main character, who was trained to become a soldier king.
As his mood worsened further, he decided to close his phone and sleep. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the body of a young man who had just turned 18.
When Leo realized he had entered the body of the side character from the webtoon, he was first happy, and then extremely sad.
"Why did I only read ten chapters instead of finishing that damn webtoon?"
Remembering all this, Leo frowned suddenly as he passed through the crowd waiting for their children to exit the exam. This was the biggest regret he'd had since coming to this world. Other than that, everything was quite good, because like every transmigrator, he also had a cheat.
And just as he emerged from the crowd and was about to turn on his MP3 player, that cheat activated.
Suddenly, two test tubes that only he could see were floating in front of Leo.
One of the test tubes was responsible for collecting good luck energy and had a small amount of gold-colored liquid at the bottom, while the other was responsible for collecting bad luck energy and was almost full of red-colored energy up to the brim.
The reason for these two test tubes suddenly appearing before Leo's eyes was quite obvious.
Leo immediately looked back at the crowd he had just passed through, but he couldn't see a gold or red thread floating above anyone's head. So, he turned his head and continued searching his surroundings until he noticed that the thing he was looking for was floating above his own head.
If he were to rate all the threads of luck he had seen so far, from the thickest to the thinnest, on a scale of 1 to 10, Leo would say that the thread of good luck currently floating above him was worth 8 points.
This meant that a lucky event was about to happen to him.
Although Leo was happy internally, he took off his headphones, put them in his pocket, and started walking home, pretending that nothing had happened.