Chapter 70 – Dalian Training

“Seoha.”
“Why.”
“It’s delicious.”

An empty chicken box.
And the voice of Kim Joo-won.

“…The taste is there.”

This guy doesn’t have money, what does he know all these things.
After she wiped her mouth with a wet tissue and spoke, Kim Joo-won sighed and smiled.

“I’m glad it fits in your mouth.”

She got up from her seat.
Kim Joo-won also sent me the meaning that she could go, saying, “Leave it, I’ll throw it away,” As if she had no intention of holding on to me anymore.

“I’m going.”
“Huh.”
“…Rest well.”

I left the medical building of her academy and let out a small sigh.
What the hell is the guy thinking?
I should have known that I wouldn’t be able to defy myself easily anyway.
Why did he call me around by asking me to buy chicken?

‘I don’t know.’

Contemplating the unknown Kim Joo-won’s intentions, she moved on.
Unlike before, after her suicidal commotion, she forcibly suppressed me and tried to do as she pleased.
I notice that you want some kind of emotional connection with me, but…

All I can tell right away is that he’s changed a lot since that day.
Everything else is still shrouded in fog, so it would be meaningless to think about it further.

“Should I go back to the academy later…?”

Since it was a Dalian class in the afternoon, I slowly walked to the training ground where the instructor told me to come.
Although I could have gone faster using my dimensional abilities.
Because I need a little time to think alone now.

“…?”

So he walked.
Without realizing that my life pattern was adjusted to the standard of using dimensional ability.

“You’re a little late, Lee Seo-ha.”
“Ah.”

When I entered the training ground like that, the instructor’s sharp gaze flew at me.
However…
Why are there so many people?

“Sorry.”
“Don’t be late next time.”
“Yes.”
“Anyway, the flow was cut off for a while, but today’s close combat sparring is a joint class with other classes.”

The doubts did not last long.
The moment I heard the instructor’s words, an episode came to mind.

“The other side of the world is a series of unknowns. And that unknown includes the enemy’s combat power.”

It’s not the face I used to see as the same class.
Students from different classes.

“In other words, when entering the underworld and defeating an enemy, the first thing to do is to check the enemy’s combat power.”

And Kim Joo-won overwhelmingly smashes all the students in other classes without leaving a single one.
Even though Kim Joo-won is not here now.
An episode from a novel I wrote.

“That way, you’ll be able to avoid situations where you need to avoid a fight.”

Perfectly similar.
… Even Seoha Lee is a little late for the lecture, the same situations that are so creepy.

“That’s the purpose of today’s joint class. Indeed, how quickly you can figure out your combat power against an unknown opponent, decide whether to fight or not, and win unconditionally if you decide to fight.”

I felt a sense of deja vu.
Obviously, Kim Joo-won is not there now, but it was because the situation in the novel and now felt very similar.

“Seoha, it’s late.”
“Uh, yes.”

Yoon Shi-hoo from the side smiled mischievously and gave a rough answer to what he said, looking ahead.
Something pretty bad was about to happen to me.

“In that sense, I hope you learn as much as possible in today’s class. Right now, due to the risk of injury, the use of abilities is prohibited and you will only fight with pure martial arts, but you can get a glimpse of the opponent’s combat power with just your fists and feet.”

What about that bad thing?
When I thought about it in conjunction with the setting of the novel, I could immediately realize that I was screwed today.

“I hope it’s time to enter the underworld and think about how to act.”

It is said that there is no difference in the peak of the guardian’s strength according to gender.
Surprisingly, the difference in gender has a greater impact on the physical ability than the difference between each individual.
For example, if men have better strength and stamina, women have better physical endurance and agility.

So when male Awoken are strong in hand-to-hand combat.
Recalling that women Awoken have an advantage over men in roles such as scouting and reconnaissance…

‘Is it okay if I do today’s class?’

After listening to the instructor’s words, I repeatedly opened and closed my fists for a while.
A fairly slender wrist and a hand that could never be said to be large caught my eye.
It was only then that I began to understand a little why the instructor called me earlier in the morning and said that.

Perhaps he wanted to point this out.
Even if it’s just this sparring right now, there’s virtually no target I can beat with pure martial arts yet.

‘I don’t know if there are multiple hits without getting hit, but…’

In fact, even though I remember in my head the fact that I’ve been dressing as a man with a woman’s body.
I could count on one hand the number of times I experienced it physically while attending the academy.
Of course, because she was bullied by Kim Joo-won, she had little opportunity to experience the fact that she was a cross-dressing woman.
As a freshman, most of the lectures have been given priority to the theoretical issues you need to know to become a guardian.

In other words, such sparring training.
Men go into the other side of the world and spend a day or two in it.
Because of the gender difference, I didn’t have to go through things like this…

“Seoha.”
“Why.”
“Are you okay today?”

Yoon Shi-hoo’s small, whisper-like voice sounded cautiously in my ear.
She honestly said I wasn’t sure what to do because I couldn’t answer.
He let out a small sigh as if he had accepted my silent answer as his own.

“Lee Seo-ha, Kim Jeong-wook!”

And in the novel, the first batter in this episode was Yi Seo-ha.
Naturally, Kim Joo-won at the time was not yet physically prominent.
On the other hand, Seoha Seo-ha obtained a martial arts master’s license to some extent and stood out physically, so it would have been natural.

“Seoha.”

Now, the episode is unaware of the changed situation.
As if to give it a shot, he opened his mouth at me, beckoning me to come into the pit.

‘Fuck.’

He sighed and got up from his seat.
Kim Jeong-wook.
In the original work, Lee Seo-ha’s martial arts skills were easily broken without being able to do anything.

“Lee Seo-ha.”

However, he doesn’t have excellent martial arts skills like Lee Seo-ha in the original work.
As a female Awakener, she is lacking in physical strength and stamina, so it may be harder to win than you think.

“Are you okay?”

It’s not a battle you have to win.
But if I pull out my tail from the beginning, you might doubt my identity.

“Yes.”
“You don’t have to push yourself.”

Nodding at the instructor’s words, I came out to the empty space in the center and called Kim Jeong-wook.
In the original work, I swallowed saliva while watching the huge, muscular man who was described as just being big.
I just thought that if I got hit, I would faint right away.

“Instructor.”
“Huh?”
“Is he a man? Why does he look so thin?”

For me, who is not really a man, even though it was a statement that would make my heart skip a beat.
Not Lee Seo-ha, a man with a height of 180.
As Lee Seo Ha, a woman in her early 170s, I was overwhelmed by his size before I knew it.

“Are you kidding me?”
“But a little…”
“Anyway, don’t look down on me. Before you woke up, you were in the school judo club.”

A bloody conversation with the girl in charge, who seemed a bit short.
He swallowed once and took a fighting stance with his fists clenched.

However, the moment I heard James’ voice saying, “Start!”

“Uh?”

He looked at the object that had popped right up to his eyes in an instant and blurted out the sound.

*

“Ooh! Ooh!”

He regurgitated what he had heard in the bathroom.
Chicken.
As a fried chicken coated in batter, it is a dish that gives a subtle burden to the inside.

“Whoa, whoa…”

The kind of food I shouldn’t eat yet, having been stabbed with a knife by Seoha and having my intestines sliced ​​open.

I left the bathroom and lay down on the bed, leaving the empty chicken box as it was.
Her stomach ached from being pricked by her.
I somehow got up and recovered enough to maintain consciousness.
That doesn’t mean it’s normal yet.

But what remains clearer in my memory is the fact that I was stabbed with a knife.
Because that’s the expression she had after stabbing me.
These days, I feel like I’m going crazy if I don’t see her fine for even one day.
I had no choice but to call her this way.

Of course, I know that I shouldn’t call her out on her subject, who did her mean to her, in this way.
However, her feelings for Lee Seo-ha never went her way no matter how long she had lived.

‘Lee Seo-ha…’

I remembered her as I lay on her bed, looking at her slightly ivory-tinted ceiling.
I thought you could stab me with a knife for what I did.
Originally, she was in the process of getting a little uneasy because of me.

But like Lee Seo-ha before she went crazy.
Maybe it was because I didn’t want to see the innocent girl who didn’t know anything, shocked and completely let go of her mind.
Maybe it was because I just wanted to see her, because it was okay to be angry and it was okay to make a disgusted expression.

I grabbed the infusion holder, put it on the stand, and walked slowly to the entrance of the hospital room and opened the door.
Maybe I came to check my condition, but the nurse’s eyes met.

The other day.
With the nurse who came to check my condition when I decided to return and broke the hospital room and made a fuss.