Chapter 77 – Episode 77. Ship Heading to the Island / Compass

Buuuuung-!

The sound of the boat horn announcing departure rang in the cabin.

“I’m going!”

I waved my hand at Halla-eun and shouted.

“Mom, bye!”

Lee Ga-eun also put her hands together and said goodbye to her mother.

With the loud sound of the horn, the ship began to leave the port.

“Contact me when you arrive!”

Halla also responded to our greetings.

The chilly sea breeze blows hard.

Thinking I might catch a cold, I pulled up my top and looked at the waterfront.

Han Ra-eun was looking at us and waving her hand slightly.

The people on the boat waved their hands at the people standing on the dock. Some people shouted goodbye, some waved. There were no people cheering.

Most of the people on this ship were on their way to a boarding school.

Unlike boarding academies that are usually distributed in the outskirts of the metropolitan area, Reverse Genius Study’s residential academies purchased an island and operated a dormitory there.

A boarding academy is an academy that helps you prepare for the college entrance exam while eating and sleeping in a dormitory.

Normally, I just sleep, eat, and study, but since this place is run by the Reverse Genius Adventist Church, the system is a little bit wrong.

Basically, it is located on the outskirts, so you can be far away from temptations that interfere with your studies. Even the place we are going to is on an island, so it is strictly controlled and temptation is completely blocked.

In order to completely cut off the world, you cannot use TV or PC.

Of course, there are separate places to listen to online lectures. This is a place where personal cell phones are stored separately in a cabinet and cannot be used in principle.

In addition, life management teachers are also present and place restrictions on dating and social relationships.

It is a system where the dormitory takes care of everything instead of studying.

We were paying a lot of money to go to a place like that to do well on the CSAT.

I turned my gaze to Lee Ga-eun, who was standing next to me, and she was shivering slightly from the cold.

Because the wind was blowing very strong, I took off the scarf that was wrapped around her neck and tied it around Lee Ga-eun.

Lee Ga-eun looked at me with a surprised expression for a moment.

I said with a small smile. “I’m going to get sick. Let’s go in.”

The cold wind hitting my whole body made me feel like I should go inside the cabin.

Lee Ga-eun quickly looked down at the warmly wrapped scarf and made an indescribable expression.

Her lips twitched as if she had something to say, then Lee Ga-eun swooped into her cabin.

The cabin was located in the aft part of the ship. When you enter the aft entrance, several cabins appear.

There were cabin windows on the left and right sides of the back of the ship.

The cabins in the center had no windows.

We were each booked into separate rooms, but Lee Ga-eun recklessly followed me into my room.

***

My room was an ocean view cabin.

There are 5 hours left to reach the destination.

There was one bed. The room was cramped, but it had everything.

Ocean view cabins are cabins with windows that do not open.

Lee Ga-eun followed me in, fiddling with the scarf I had tied her.

As Lee Ga-eun entered her cabin, she took off her mask and hat and put them back on, letting out a cheer.

“Cadet! It’s so frustrating.”

Lee Ga-eun was even wearing her mask and hat. Probably because she was an influencer.

Now that she’s an influencer trying to become famous, she asks if it’s okay for her to wear a mask and a hat so no one will know, but all she gets is a smack in the back.

We lay in bed together, skin-to-skin, and admired the scenery outside the cabin window.

Lee Ga-eun came into my arms and rubbed her face against my body.

The haughty and fierce-looking Lee Ga-eun was both surprising and unfamiliar.

Lee Ga-eun went into Kang Ji-an’s arms, and she was looking out the window in a daze.

As she looked at the strangely wide sea, she remembered Jeongjeongbong Peak, which she had left at home.

Jeongjeongbong Peak.

It meant the pole that brought justice to fruition.

Her brother fulfilled her justice by blowing away her father, who was her enemy, with a single blow.

She originally had no name, but Lee Ga-eun liked her and gave her name to the baseball bat.

That’s how the steel baseball bat called Jeongjeongbong was born.

For reference, her younger sister, Lee Na-eun’s Jeongjeongbong was ultimately taken by Lee Ga-eun.

Lee Na-eun seemed shocked that she killed her father with her own hands.

She stopped speaking, and her personality was down.

Today, fortunately, it seemed like I recovered early.

So, as her younger brother’s condition improved, he rescued Jeong Eui-bong, who had been thrown into a corner and was alone, and asked her younger brother.

She then asked her sister if she could have it, and she said that her sister had bought it for her.

The iron baseball bat that was returned that way.

Lee Ga-eun named it while stroking her bat.

From now on, your name is Jeongjeongbong!

She wanted to take it to the re-education academy, but she was informed that she could not take it.

She was quite disappointed, but there was nothing she could do.

I came to ask for help from her younger brother.

Never throw it away.

Ga-eun put it in a cabinet in the corner of her room and locked it.

I already wanted to see Jeongjeongbong Peak.

I suddenly missed my school days.

Back in the days when I was staring at the passage of time, I fantasized about using that Jeongjeongbong.

At that time, I solved it very ignorantly.

Because I was busy biting and tearing out hair.

Lee Ga-eun smiled to herself as she reminisced happily.

And she felt even better today.

Being held in Kang Ji-an’s arms made me feel fuzzy and warm.

I wondered if this was what it felt like to be loved.

Because Kang Ji-an was stroking Lee Ga-eun’s head.

“Hey, Kang Ji-an!”

“What?”

“Kiss me.”

Lee Ga-eun, who was rubbing her face on my chest, looked up at me and said.

When I rubbed her face, I was afraid that makeup would get on it, but when I looked, I saw that she had only moisturized.

She only had eye makeup on, and her facial features were so beautiful that she didn’t need much makeup.

If you just put on eye makeup, nose shape, and lips, you could go away as a celebrity.

“No. “I can’t.”

I turned my head and looked at the sea and said.

“What! Hey! “Do it quickly!”

While Lee Ga-eun was in my arms, she jumped up and grabbed me by the collar.

“You can do it.”

I smiled slightly and closed my eyes.

Then, as if Lee Ga-eun’s pride was hurt, she got up, opened the cabin door, and went out.

“If you want to see me, you can come or not!”

Thump – the door closed.

“Phew, it’s gone now.”

I reached out to Deinosuchus.

***

The time we entered the cabin.

Halla-eun, who was watching Kang Ji-an and Lee Ga-eun leave alone, adjusted her clothes and gazed endlessly at the small boat.

Seagulls flying around were flapping their wings.

Deinosuchus came to Kang Ji-an, who was dozing off.

[Discovery] [Discovery!]

-Crrrrk

Deinosuchus spoke while looking across the sea.

“There’s a devil flower blooming somewhere in the sea over there?

No. There are devil plants growing on Earth.

Also in the sea?

I asked again, but Deinosuchus nodded yes.

It was said that Deinosuchus can only affect 50cm around me.

In other words, demon arts can only be used at a short distance of 1m centered on your location.

There was no such option as sending Deinosuchus all the way to North Korea, stuffing Kim Jong-un in its mouth, and dumping him in the middle of the ocean.

It was very difficult to jump into the sea while the boat was in operation.

Otherwise, the only way was to swim to the place where the devil flower that Deinosuchus spoke of had bloomed.

A disposable item that allows you to breathe underwater.

Scales of the sea dragon.

You have to create that item.

Deinosuchus is now my personal portable safe, even though I didn’t want it.

How does it feel to take a moving subspace with you?

I feel bad.

And when I asked him why he was jumping up and down earlier, he said he was just talking in his sleep.

Deinosuchus was staring somewhere in the distance, perhaps feeling embarrassed.

***

In the direction where Deinosuchus is staring.

The time when Lee Ga-eun and Kang Ji-an were heading to the island on a boat.

In the very center of a very large cavity,

There was a high-terraced platform and an altar at the end.

On the surface of the altar, numerous magic circle-like patterns made of blood were drawn overlapping each other.

There was an old-looking compass on top of it.

The compass was spinning as it pleased.

And in front of the altar.

An old man dressed in a black priest’s robe was prostrating.

It was one of the examples of lying down on the floor to show that you were in the lowest place.

And the altar and podium were surrounded by candlesticks, and black smoke was rising from the candlesticks.

Black smoke billowed towards the altar, and the black smoke was gathering on the altar.

In other words, there was a thick layer of black smoke in this cavity.

An old man in front of the altar was muttering something that looked like a spell.

Then he stood up, picked up a very old-looking dagger, and cut his palm with the knife.

When the dagger cut the skin of the palm, black bubbles began to bubble.