Chapter 145 – Defense of Jeju Island (4)

Are you not recognizing me?
Even though I was circling around them, no one was paying attention to me.

I stretched out my hand.
My hands passed through their bodies as if I were a ghost.

Looking at the windows arranged in the auditorium, it was dark outside the windows, as if the body of the space had not been formed at all.
And the condition of the students was strange.
There was no movement, just sitting.
The face was also covered in black instead of the eyes, nose and mouth.

Could it be that the only people who have faces are those whom Ah-yeong has known?
Some of the students’ faces were still there.

“Oh, young?”

I approached Ayoung, the owner of the dream.
It was the same that she, like the other students, did not recognize me.
I was just looking at something beyond my body with anxious eyes.

“Hmm…”

She used her dreaming skills to make Ah-young recognize me, just like Yuri did.
But the result was unsuccessful.
She still didn’t recognize me.

‘Should I wait for now?’

You may be able to learn about Ayoung’s past history that I don’t know about.
I don’t know if I can get her out of her nightmare if I raise the level of her dreaming skill right away, but I felt that her original problem wouldn’t be solved.

I sat down next to Ayoung, who just happened to be empty.
Fortunately, the entrance ceremony did not last too long.

As if skipping a video, the principal was on the podium finishing the entrance ceremony.

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This time a much more familiar place than the auditorium.

1st year class 7.
It was our class.

The homeroom teacher standing in front of the blackboard opened the front door and went out.
After that, the students sitting in the classroom looked at each other for a while, and some students got up from their seats and gathered in two seats.

One is Ayeong and the other is Laysha.

And they were saying something to them.

“Is Ahyoung right? I say OOO, but please take good care of me in the future.”
“My older brother is a member of the Tooseong Guild…”
“Do you have any party members in mind? If not, maybe with me…”
“Ayoungah, what kind of people are Gayoung-senpai and Nayoung-senpai…”
“There are older sisters like that, but you’re also very strong…”

After listening to them, I also went near Laysha’s seat.
She, too, was hearing something similar to Ayeong.

However, the difference between the two is that Ah-yeong is barely answering their words with her hard face.
Her face frowned.

They wanted something and were looking forward to Ayoung.

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The place this time is in front of the entrance to the world of glass.

Is it Friday when there is a special class?

All the other students were carrying their own weapons.

And after the homeroom teacher said something, Ah-yeong’s turn came.
4 people with darkness covering their faces.

“Please take good care of me.”
“Can’t I just do it alone? Because we also need to be evaluated.”
“Isn’t our party beating Laysha’s party? If Laysha is over there, then we have Ayoung.”

At their words, Ah-yeong trembled.
Her eyes twitched and her mouth opened and closed repeatedly.
He seemed to want to say something.
But every time she tried to speak, they blocked her.

And the party entered the world of glass.
Opponents ghoul.
It was an F-class monster.

“Wait a minute.”

A female student said.
In an instant, her mana radiated from her.
When I saw the nature felt in mana, it seemed like it was probably a search skill.

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Ayeong was lying in front of the entrance to the glass world.
She grabbed the knife and tried to stand up again, but as if there was no strength in her body, she slumped back down again.

“Ah Young-ah…”

If you die in the glass world, a terrible sense of exhaustion will follow for a week.
I wanted to tell you to give up.
That it can’t happen again anyway

But she plunged the knife into her ground and tried to stand up again.
Every time that happened, the students’ whispers began to grow louder.

“Quiet!”

A woman who was familiar with the students in her homeroom approached Ah-young.
She was a seoin

“Can you wake up?”

Seo-in held out her hand to her A-young, but A-young didn’t even look at her hand.

“Yet, I can… I can…!”

She grabbed her sword, which she had placed on her ground, and braced her body, as if she were ready to rise on her own.
But of course it was impossible.
Because she’s not her, even her S-class hunter, that’s impossible.

In the end, Seo-in, who was worse than her, put her arm over her shoulder and supported her Ah-young.

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She returned to class again.
Ahyoung’s face was nowhere to be seen.

Soon after, the back door opened and Ah-young, in uniform, returned to the classroom.
And she sat in her seat.
This time, other students did not crowd her seat.

Did she think it was better?
Ah-Young let out a small sigh of hers,

“How did you get in?”

Someone’s voice came from somewhere.
Ah-young must have heard the sound, and her body trembled.

She looked around.
First digit on the right.
Two female students were whispering together.

“Therefore. Did you see yesterday? Even ghouls can’t deal with them properly?”

Obviously, judging by their posture and the shape of their mouths, they were never talking loudly.
However, their voices seemed to echo in the classroom.

“Can’t you just look at it? It must have come in through the house. In addition to the Seo family, there is a guild full of castles.”

“Well, their dad and older sister are S-class hunters.”

They looked at Ayeong sideways.
A-Young, pretending not to hear anything, lowered her head towards her desk.

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Will the next scene be inside the glass world?
There was a wide forest, and Ayeong was fighting the goblins in it.

The goblin’s old, small dagger grazed Ayeong’s forearm.

“I’m sorry…!”

Red blood began to ooze from the cut wound.

“Huh…!”

Ayoung swung her sword.
But the goblin twisted her body and escaped.

And the struggle began.
In a way, it was a fiercer battle than the first time I battled a goblin.

“Ha…! Ha…!”

But in the end, Ayoung succeeded in stabbing her sword through the goblin’s heart.
However, the small wounds that Ah-yeong suffered were not easy.
A-young’s favorite training suit for combat was torn in various places, and a little blood was leaking from between them.

“Whoa…”

But she had no party members or potions to heal her wounds.
After picking up her magic stone, she led her injured body back to the garden.

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Many scenes passed by.
Scenes of her eating, training, and studying for exams.

Ayoung gradually became alone.
Maybe it’s been about 1 month?
She became the “Only” F-class student among the first year students at the academy.
Yes, it is ‘unique’.

‘Where am I?’

Yes, at the time I entered this garden, I was an F-class student along with Ah-yeong.
Saying that it is nonsense that the other students see her and whisper that she is the only F-class Hunter.

I wondered if it would be normal to have an F-class male student who originally possessed it.

‘It’s not possession, but transference? Then what the hell is the information I’ve been looking for and my student ID…’

As her doubts deepened, Ah-young confronted the ghoul.

‘Okay.’

It was clear that she would get no answer if she wrapped her head now and thought about it.
As she thought to focus on Ah-yeong, her ghoul instantly turned to dust and disappeared.

‘What…?’

It was not only me who was surprised, but Ah-yeong too.
She looked around her with her surprised eyes.

At that moment, something appeared from the sky.

White goat’s horns and bat-like wings.
Red eyes and vicious demonic energy.

Something non-human with an unmistakably enchanting body.
It was the devil

My legs started to tremble spontaneously.
The alarm bell was ringing, as if instinct advised us to flee.

‘… Calm down, it’s a dream anyway.’

I tried to examine her appearance.
Her high nose, seductive red lips and pink hair.
I realized that she was her familiar face.

‘Yuri Lee…?’

The devil’s true identity was Lee Yu-ri.
But something was strange.

Yuri’s eyes, where the light had disappeared, caught a glimpse of a terrible emptiness that I couldn’t know the end of.
Like a puppet being manipulated, her body was full of strength, and she held a familiar book between her armpits.

It was the black book she was holding on the day she first met the real Ah-young.

“Finally found.”

Yuri opened her mouth.
But that voice wasn’t Yuri’s.

I felt the weight of his voice weighing me down.
The voice of something in the form of Lee Yu-ri was dry and horrifying.

‘Uh…? What, what!’

And my body started to become more and more transparent.
It was a phenomenon when going out of a dream.

“Why at such an important moment!”

Despite my shouts, my body became more and more transparent. The last scene I could see was a scene where something other than Yuri reached out to Ayoung.
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In the center of my vision, I saw Ayoung lying on the bed.

When I looked around her, Laysha had disappeared, leaving only Chloe.

“Siwoo!”

When I came back to reality, Chloe jumped up from her chair and came over to me.
Her expression, which had always been expressionless, was strangely stiff.
What happened while I was in Ah-yeong’s dream?
For a moment, a great sense of uneasiness came over me.

“Seoin and Laysha? What’s the matter? Are you okay?”

“Yeah, that’s fine, but… Look out the window.”

“Window…?”

I looked out the window at her words.
Outside the window, an ordinary landscape caught my eye.

After opening the window, I pulled myself out and looked around.

“The sky…”

The sky was dyed red.
And between the red sky, something resembling a star was shining darkly as if absorbing light.

I’ve definitely seen this scenery somewhere.
Beyond the monitor, it was similar to the sky in the Demon Realm.

“… Are Seoin and Laysha all right? What happened was…”

“No. Laysha is currently patrolling the hotel with Seoin, but she is safe.”

“… Okay. I’ll leave and come back, so please stay here with Ah-young.”

I immediately turned and tried to leave the front door.

“Siwoo-nim, you must be safe.”

Chloe, who followed me, looked up at me and said.
Complex eyes where anxiety and trust coexist.

“Yeah, don’t worry.”

I said, kissing Chloe’s forehead.

“Where are Seoin and Laysha?”

“Probably in the lobby.”

After hearing her words, I headed straight to the lobby on the first floor.

Elevator was too slow.
After using instant acceleration, I jumped down from the 9th floor to the 1st floor.

There, Seoin and Laysha stood side by side.

“West…!”

Laysha looked at me and said as if she had been waiting, but unfortunately she didn’t have time.

“Have you seen Yuri?”

At my words, they looked at each other for a while and shook their heads.

“Okay. I’ll go out and come back.”

I immediately got out of the hotel leaving them behind, turned on the engine of the motorcycle I had parked, and activated the search skill by stepping on the pedal.

I had to find the encroaching glass world and Lee Yu-ri, which must have been opened somewhere on Jeju Island.