Chapter 234 – Kang Seong-Ki, the Strongest Player in Korea (55)

“I had an awakening reaction when I was 19. But I didn’t tell my parents right away. Because I knew my parents would have high expectations. But I didn’t feel much different over time. Time went by, thinking it was fortunate that I didn’t tell anyone like that. The first thing that happened was when I played with my friend’s cat. The cat followed me very well. I was petting her as usual, and suddenly the cat fell down. He didn’t breathe…And he died right there. My friend thought it was just a cat that had a problem and died suddenly, but I knew it wasn’t. I could see the cat’s soul escaped with my eyes.”

Oksana’s sad voice captured the feelings of the day.
The others listened to her without saying anything.K.A.

“I saw that the cat’s soul had escaped and disappeared somewhere, and I couldn’t find time to panic and feel sad because of it. I thought and thought and came to the conclusion that I killed the cat. I had a feeling when I touched a cat. Something was released by my hand, and there was a sense that it went into the cat’s body. It happened after that. The cat’s soul slipped out of its little body. How can a normal person do such a thing. Of course, I remembered the fact that I had awakened. I started searching the Internet hard to find out what my abilities were. And I found it. The information that can best explain my abilities. Spiritualist…I found out that people with that ability went through the same thing as me. I didn’t want to be in that feeling anymore because I spent a few days in a feeling of fear and confusion. So I tried to feel positive about my ability. It’s a rare ability in the world. The fact that you can extract the soul and make others stronger… Now that I think about it, the information I found was so sloppy and so much wrong. But I purposely tried to see and accept only good content. And I told my father about my awakening. The guy who didn’t stop using violence against people with alcoholism, as expected, was jumping up and down. I also felt good because of the expectation that I could get out of poverty. And it happened…”

Oksana stopped talking for a moment.
I felt hopeless from her.

“Are you okay?”

She shook her head when I asked because I was worried.
She looked at me softly, and I felt the despair that had filled her eyes disappear, and for a moment I felt a bright energy coming into her eyes.
She took a deep breath, calmed herself down, and continued to talk, as she cheered up by looking me in the eye.

“I told my father the information I found on the Internet. It’s about extracting the soul from the living and making others stronger. My father was happy if he could make a fortune. But he knew it, too. The fact that my ability is the kind of thing that I can’t use normally. To strengthen someone, you have to extract someone else’s soul, and that’s murder. Just like when the cat died. My father seemed to find a way to make money using me in his own way. I was excited every day like a winner of the lottery. Even then, I didn’t stop drinking, and whenever I did that, I did what I had done as a habit. Hitting my mother… I was more excited that day, and my mother, who was beaten by my father, collapsed and couldn’t get up. My father and I both knew we were in big trouble. I told him I had to take him to the hospital, but he was afraid that he would be known to have hurt his mother. I think he thought he might have left me out if there was a problem. My mother said the same thing a lot. If you don’t work after drinking, you’ll take me out. My nervous father ran outside. I was holding my mother’s hand, who was barely breathing. Half an hour later, it was a drunken man that my father brought with him excitedly. He was drunk and unconscious, and he was drenched in blood, perhaps beaten by his father. My father shouted at me with red eyes. “Oksana! Save your mother with this!” I was shocked. But at the same time, I thought it was possible. I was just as eager as my father was to investigate my abilities and overestimate their potential. I only used my powers when I killed a cat, but I didn’t know how to use them, but I decided to do what my father told me to do. I thought I could save my mother with the power I had. Because of my father, a drunkard had a bad preconceived notion that he was subhuman. So I thought it wouldn’t matter if my father killed the drunkard he brought. To my shame, I thought so at the time…”

Oksana told the rest of her story in a lower voice.
It was as expected.
She didn’t quite understand Oksana’s abilities, and she didn’t know that taking out her common soul meant nothing more than simple murder.
Somehow she succeeded in pulling out the drunk man’s spirit, but it flew away through the air without any control over her.

Her mother stopped breathing, and her father became more agitated and went on a rampage.

That is why her father, Oksana, sold her to the criminals of her real estate.
Originally, her father was excited to keep Oksana with her and to keep her money going.
But when she saw her ability to easily kill people with her own eyes, she was rather frightened.
Alcoholic and gambling addicted, he was well aware of what he had done to his family.
She thought that her life was in danger if Oksana was with her.
So she sold her daughter for very little money.

Oksana saw her mother die, and she panicked completely, because she even committed her murder with her own hands.
She feels something is wrong, and instead of overconfident in her abilities, she begins to think of herself as a damned human being.
It was the stories she had heard from the men she sold that gave her a better understanding of the soul mage.
The information I got from the Internet was rarely correct.

Originally, she intended to die, but she came to have a vague expectation that if she was handed over to the soul magicians as planned by the men, she might be able to live another life.
And this is what happened.

She was led by the men to Baek Seong-hun’s house, and she infused him with the soul Baek Seong-hun gave her.

I was able to picture in my head Baek Seong-hoon, who was excited after realizing that he had become stronger.
However, as he listened to the story, he realized that there was something strange about it.

“S-class soul?”

Oksana said Baek Sung-hoon had a tool to extract souls, and she forced him to inject S-class souls into himself, which she did.
It’s an S-class soul.
How could Baek Sung-hoon have it?
Whose was the S-class soul Baek Sung-hoon had?

“It must have belonged to Kang Dong-kwon.”

Kang Ah-jin said.
She was in Hongcheon with me and she went through everything together.
Kang Dong-kwon, who came to visit me with Han Cheol-gwan.

He struggled in pain from the poison I had injected and was taken away in an ambulance.

But I knew
The fact that the poison would not have killed Kang Dong-kwon.

It’s the mana I got from first-class poisoners Louisa, Chi-Chi, and Titi, and we evolved each other further through sex.
It was safe to say that there was absolutely no room for error when it came to the power of poisoning.

“Probably Baek Sung-hoon killed him.”

Kang A-jin spoke again as if he had read my thoughts.

“I probably got that tool from the Argentines.”

Valentina said too.

“Their abilities are a bit complicated, so there are those who can only use some abilities and those who can do all of them. That’s why we need to help each other. It’s rare that one guy can do it all. Possibly Baek Seong-hoon had the ability to extract souls with his tools, and the ability to contain souls in his body. The South American guys must have thought that Baek Seong-hun was worth using. It’s a mistake Baek Seong-hoon didn’t consult with them. It seems that this happened while he was greedy on his own.”

Of the people here, it was Valentina who knew more about soul mages than Oksana.
She fought the soul mage organization, and she got Lisa, who could be said to be the spoils of it.

As the story lined up, I was able to understand everything.

“Poor girl.”

Valentina spoke to Oksana in a voice full of sympathy.