Chapter 117 – Trial of Many-to-Many Combat

After that, the guy and I didn’t say anything on the way back.
I don’t know what Kim Joo-won was thinking when he heard me say that.
I think I regretted the words that I had drunk in the mood, if not completely, a little bit.

Forgiveness.
Those words that shouldn’t be spit out easily.
In addition, when I think of what Kim Joo-won did to me, I have not yet received the corresponding atonement, so I must not say words yet.

However, in front of Kim Joo-won, he did not show off.
He’s a guy who won’t say anything even if he bites off the words he’s already spit out.
Still, if I remember what he did to me after that day, at least that’s it.
Because I felt like I could become a human being like the guy who fished with the bait of hope.

The night came after such a short outing.
It’s been a year since Kim Joo-won and I slept in the same bed.
Although, due to the system of one-person dormitory, the rooms themselves were separated.

“Didn’t you sleep?”

Now, such divisions of space are meaningless to me.
I grab a pillow and sneak into his room again without anyone noticing.

“Uh.”

When Kim Joo-won steps aside, as if he waited, he dug in next to him and naturally, as if he had gotten used to it.
He pulled the blanket over me and covered himself with it.

“Today, you worked hard.”
“You also.”

I could feel his arms hugging my body.
If there is nothing special, the familiar warmth that I felt every day surrounds my body, and drowsiness pours out little by little as if I had waited.
Very slowly

“Hey.”
“Huh.”
“It’s nice to touch me while I’m sleeping, but don’t wake me up like last time.”
“I will not.”

I felt a slight poke in my inner thigh, but it couldn’t be helped.
Because my body is a body that a man would have a hard time keeping still.

“Then what is this thing that stabbed my thigh, Joo Won?”
“Do you really need to ask?”

I spit out a joke, close my eyes, close my eyes in his arms and go to sleep.
Kim Joo-won is like that until I fall asleep.
I don’t know if he touched my body after I fell asleep, but at least before I fell asleep.

“Sleep well, Seoha.”

I fell asleep like that
Time passed and morning dawned.

The time at which the students of the academy start their day.
And it’s also a good time to finish her wild imagination about what the man and woman who disappeared before the ordinance even started.

It seems that you can’t deviate even an inch from your expectations.
When you open the classroom door and enter, your eyes are drawn to a female student in a male school uniform who is still in a male class.

“Hey, come.”
“I thought you wouldn’t come, did you?”

Yesterday’s deviation, disappearing alone with a man.
The subject of entering Cheonghwa Academy and disappearing with a man disguised as a man, and the fact that he went out alone with a man again, should be enough to make you have many insidious imaginations.
Of course, no one will ask me directly, but…

‘Let’s go to sleep.’

Sat down on the desk.
It would be more comfortable to fall asleep until the instructor arrives than to feel the attention of others.
However, a mother who has lost her child doesn’t even have that much time to rest.

I could feel it next to me, pretending to be someone sitting down.
And the sound of the front door opening.

“Wake up all you sleepers!”

Soon, the instructor’s words, which might have been a bit nervous, raised my body.
Take a peek at Kim Joo-won, who was sitting next to me, and look forward for a moment.
To the students, the instructor, who seems to be a bit nervous, sighed for a while as soon as our eyes met, and cleared his throat.

“Are you all gathered?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t think you’ve forgotten that today’s lecture was a combat test.”

A many-to-many combat test?
Are you talking about having multiple people with abilities?

“So everyone can gather at the training ground in time. That’s it!”

I opened my hand at the instructor’s words and looked at it for a while.
Then, at the words of Kim Joo-won from the side, “Let’s stop, let’s go,” He nodded his head, stood up, and stayed blankly for a while.
Shaking his head from side to side, he and Kim Joo-won used dimensional transfer to move straight to the training ground.
Because I wanted to erase even a little the gaze that had a little insidious meaning looking at me.

“Hey.”

For a while to be dyed in blue light.
Where no one has come yet.
In a place where it was only me and him, I cautiously called him.

“Today’s Dalian, do you know what it means?”
“3 vs 3 sparring.”
“Which side?”
“From my memory, around this time, it will probably be decided randomly.”
“Random?”
“You’ll know when you see it.”

I’m worried about something.
In the original story, what was the guy doing roughly a year later?

Regression in two rounds.
Because he knew how the academy’s curriculum went and only needed to develop his fighting ability, the academy’s classes were not very necessary.
As soon as he finished his morning routine, he would always focus on self-development by locking himself in the personal training ground in his spare time.
That’s why his academy part wasn’t that long.

“Seoha.”
“Uh.”
“If we meet on the same battlefield, on different sides, don’t look at me, okay?”
“I will do it even if you don’t tell me.”

At that moment, students who started earlier than us started to enter the training ground.
The eyes of the students looking at me felt a little strange.
… I might look like a bitch who is really crazy about men.

That moment.

– So, six people arrived?

Just when they arrived, the instructor’s voice rang loudly from the speaker in the corner of the training ground.
Take a moment to look around to see where I am from.

– Today is the evaluation, so it’s okay if you guys start first?

In the eyes of the dimension, I saw the instructor looking down at this direction from the control room in the center, which I don’t know when it was created.
When I looked in the direction of the control room, I hoped that the instructor would look startled for a moment.

“Yes!”

Hearing the students’ voices beside her, she immediately started manipulating her control panel.

– Good luck then, guys.

Regardless of my will, a light came out from below and soon began to be transmitted somewhere.
Around the time I guessed that Kim Joo-won said something like this.
In the midst of not being prepared, I hit my head somewhere and lost my mind for a while.

* * *

“Eww…”

I could feel the wind brushing my face.
With the faint light coming through my eyelids, my consciousness was slowly raised to the surface and I opened my eyes.

“Ah, it’s the head…”

My head, which had hit somewhere, was still tingling.
If it wasn’t for that, I think I could have grasped the situation more refreshingly.

“Oh, are you awake?”

Under a cloudy sky, in a forest of fallen leaves as if autumn had arrived.
Was there someone by my side while I was down?
The moment he tried to organize his disheveled clothes, he must have fallen into the virtual world created at the training ground.
When I turned my head to the voice I heard next to me, a male student wearing the same school uniform as me was sitting looking this way.

“Who…?”
“Oh, I didn’t introduce myself. My name is Jinsu. Seoha noona, right?”
“Oh, yes, but…”

After straightening the disheveled belt and tidying up the sleeves, he continued by pulling the cloth that was supposed to cover his chest to bring it back to its proper shape.
Seeing that this guy is good at talking, he must be a similar type to Yoon Shi-hoo.

“It’s fortunate. While I was worried about one of our team missing, my sister was also down, so I thought it was ruined.”
“My team?”
“Ah, it’s my first time with my sister, so you don’t know.”

…The title of older sister is uncomfortable.
If the fact that she was a woman hadn’t spread, she would have disguised herself as a man to hide that she was a woman and heard hyung’s voice.

“The many-to-many sparring evaluation is a test in which three people form a team, fall into a specific terrain, and decide who is the first to annihilate the enemy.”

I got up from my seat.
In the underworld, there’s nothing more stupid than staying still unless it’s necessary.
Does he even know that?
He stood up after me and quietly followed me by my side.

“Of course, in the real world, there is no need to fight between guardians, so it can be seen as training in preparation for encountering a strong enemy.”
“But why is it just the two of us?”
“I looked around while you were sleeping, but I didn’t see you?”

It was then.
An intense flash of something flashed in the distance.
After a while, the sound of the explosion and the impact of the explosion shook the ground, and I felt the vibration along the floor.

“Wait for a sec.”

What happened all of a sudden
I opened my dimensional eyes and looked at the point of the explosion.
The sight that looked like that, Kim Joo-won destroyed what was our team member.
In the center of the scene of destruction, it was as if he was standing in front of a male student who had been knocked down by a thunderbolt and looking around.

“Ha, fuck this.”
“Why, sister?”
“Hey, shall we abstain?”

Above Kim Joo-won’s head, a red triangular pyramid was pointing at him, as if it were a sign that he was an enemy.

“Because I, that ability is an ability, I can see a little far away, right?”
“Yes.”
“But one of our team members seems to have already been hit. What should I do?”
“Yes…?”

It was then.
The moment when I felt like Kim Joo-won was looking in a certain direction, and I felt like I was going to go to the middle of the day.
Just before turning off the dimension’s eyes, I began to see him running in this direction.

“What is that…”
“There is a guy named Kim Joo-won on the other side.”
“Kim… Ah!”
“But he’s a bit strong. Uh… To what extent.”

Maybe I want to finish this evaluation quickly and go to personal training, so I will run while using my abilities.
The speed of the guy who runs as one with the lightning is probably the kind of thing that an academy first year student can’t handle.

“Seoha, how are you?”

Scary to say, it looks like he’s trying to hit me with a thunderbolt.
He wrapped a bolt of lightning around his sword, leaped up into the sky, and took a stance to strike down.
I really can’t say anything.

“Move!”

Places a dimensional curtain in front.
And as if thinking about what the situation was, I grabbed the dumbfounded guy by the back and pulled him toward me.

“Ahh!”

At the same time, Kim Joo-won, who destroyed the place where I was standing with the dimensional curtain, looked at me with a regretful expression.
With the thunder sword still crackling, he was saying that he wanted to end this evaluation quickly.

“Hey, did you say Jinhansu?”
“Yes.”
“I think we should jump out first.”

Without preparation, fighting that crazy regressor is almost impossible.
The choice I made was to run away.
Jin-soo grabbed him by the back and forcibly used the dimension transfer regardless of his will.