Chapter 170 – Episode 170 an Experiment to Restore Cheongha

The first experiment to restore Chungha noona to normal.
I was determined.

When she went to Diana’s lab, she greeted me as she was ready for her experiment.

“You try earlier than expected.”
“I told you. I’ll be able to fix it within a week at the earliest. I analyzed a large part of it, and when I checked the remains of the various cores of the other monsters you brought, I was able to confirm various information.”

Diana shrugged her shoulders and continued her words.

“I have good news and I have bad news. Which one would you like to hear first?”
“What is the good news?”
“How many times have I said that this core turns humans into servants of the Beholder?”
“It was. It also said that it absorbs information and leaves nothing in the physical brain.”

She nodded her head at my answer.

“I confirmed that the sucked-in information is still in the core.”
“Information?”
“Yes. Things like her memories and abilities and human emotions.”
“Is that verifiable?”

Diana smiled her confidently.

“When modern science and magic work together, you can do almost anything.”

It was amazing.
The magic of Diana, who completed the analysis so quickly.

“The way to get Cheongha back to normal is simple. It brings the information remaining in this core back to her body.”
“I guess this is good news.”
“That’s right.”
“Then what’s the bad news?”

Diana let out a serious sigh.

“We have to find various ways from now on to get that information back into the body.”
“I haven’t found a definitive way yet.”
“Yes. So, this is the first experiment.”
“Did you tell the elders?”
“Yes, Sword Saint-nim said he would accept any method. Because he wanted to make it come back somehow.”
“…”

I saw Chungha noona sitting in a chair.
She looks at me with innocent eyes and likes a child who likes to say she hasn’t seen her in a long time.
After greeting her older sister Chungha, I looked away and spoke to Diana, who was typing something in front of a huge computer in the lab.

“So you are starting now.”
“That’s right. I called Siwoo after finishing all her preparations.”
“Is there a reason you called me separately?”
“I heard from the swordsman. Miss Chungha, who lost her memory, has a special attachment to you.”
“It seems so.”

She could only speculate that it might have been thanks to freeing her from the brainwashing of her Watcher.
She didn’t know exactly why she was so aggressively approaching me, who wasn’t even a Sword Saint.

“I’m guessing that it’s because the existence of you remains the most in the depths of Chungha’s unconscious.”
“Am I left big? Is that possible? Me and Chungha noona… She is like a close alumnus and friend who learned from the same teacher.”

At my words, Diana stopped her hand on her computer and looked at me.

“Is that so? Hmm, I think a little different?”
“Is it different?”
“Yes.”

She looked back and forth between me and her sister-in-law.

“Do you really not know what it means to think of you before your family, Sword Saint-nim, in your subconscious and rely only on you?”
“…”
“It is love. Seeing as you don’t think so, it might be a one-sided love.”
“I don’t know what you mean. Chungha noona likes me?”

It won’t be.
Although he was close with Chungha noona, she showed no room for developing such a relationship.
If it had been that way in the first place, I would have noticed it a long time ago.

Even when the two of us practice together.
Even when I stayed behind to help teach me, there was no sign of that.

“… Well, maybe not if it wasn’t for you. I don’t really want to know more about their relationship.”

Diana’s attention turned back to the computer.

“But one thing is certain, Miss Chungha values ​​you very much. And I’m going to use that in this experiment.”
“Use me.”
“Yes. You are the medium through which her memories and information about her original self, contained in her nucleus, can be well assimilated to the current Miss Chungha.”
“Do you think I know all of Chungha’s current sister and the older sister before being brainwashed?”
“That’s right.”

As if setting things up, she opened her mouth with a voice full of determination.

“It also said that after she was brainwashed, she recognized you first.”
“Even if it wasn’t before I was released, after I was released, they recognized me.”
“Yes.”

Finally, she suspends her mysterious device from Chungha’s sister’s head and the core attached to the back neck of her bodysuit.

“I plan to extract the information embedded in the nucleus by giving an electrical signal to this machine.”
“Isn’t it painful?”
“It will hurt a little. It’s because you’re poking electrical stimulation directly into your body.”
“…”

She knew that little bit would never be ordinary.

“You know that pain is inevitable.”

Was my expression that dark?
Diana spoke to me as if to comfort me.

“The risk is minimized. First of all, since this was my first experiment, I put stability first rather than boldness. It will hurt, but you will be able to bear it. So don’t be too disappointed if you don’t get good results. Because this process leads to better results.”
“All right.”

I knew it wouldn’t be easy.
I also knew it would be painful.
That there is nothing you can do about it.

‘I knew.’

But why does my heart hurt so much?
I hesitated involuntarily at the fact that she would be in pain.
It shouldn’t be like this.
There were times when I had to endure even though it was painful.

“Stand here. This is the position where you can be seen best when Chungha is conducting experiments.”
“Are you going to have to stand still?”
“Yes. I will bring the two information together through you as a medium.”

I asked while looking at the numerous lines connecting the machine and Chungha noona.

“What will happen if I hold Chungha noona’s hand?”
“… I recommend not doing it. I don’t want variables involved.”
“… If your sister is really having a hard time.”
“It’s okay to do it then.”
“All right.”

I saw Chungha noona standing across from me.

“Siwoo, hehe. Long time no see.”

She was smiling brightly like a child.

“My sister is here. How have you been today?”
“Yes, my grandfather played with me until yesterday. My sister here is also very good. Chungha had a good time too. There were times when I felt a little lonely without Siwoo, but now it’s okay.”
“I’m going to play for a long time today. As long as this experiment goes well.”
“Yea, I got it. Are you playing hide and seek today?”
“Of course.”

While talking to Chungha noona, Diana opened her mouth.

“The 1st mental fusion experiment begins.”

At the same time, the machine started working.

Jijijik.

Electrical stimulation was applied to Chungha’s whole body.

“Aww…”

Chungha noona bit her lip and endured her rising pain.

“Quit…”

Her moans were weak, but she knew when she saw tears welling up in her eyes.
That the pain is never small.

“Cheong-ha, now, because I’m patient with it… It’s over later, then you have to play… ?”

She looked at me and said
There was only one thing I could say to her sister, who was like a child, as she endured her pain.

“Okay. When it’s over, let’s play all night. I won’t say anything even if I sleep late today.”
“Hehe, I’m glad. Shut up…”

Her sister, who closed her eyes tightly, gritted her teeth.

“How much do you have left?”

I asked Diana, who was conducting the experiment.

“You just have to be patient a little longer. Then it will go up to the number I expected…”

I took a step towards Chungha noona.

“Ha, ha, Siu…”

I could feel my strength draining at the sound of her calling me.
I wanted to stop right away, but…

I didn’t know the side effects of stopping it, so I couldn’t move recklessly.

Support position!

As her electric signal continued, Chungha’s sister’s bodysuit began to wriggle.
Trembling, the suit covering her entire body appeared and disappeared repeatedly.
It was as if the tentacles that started in the nucleus were retrieved again.
The suit that covered Chungha noona’s fingertips and toes came off, revealing her white skin.

‘It works.’

The body suit is definitely narrowing its scope.
Cheongha’s sister’s white skin, which only exposed her fingers and toes, exposed her arms, legs, thighs, and even her shoulders and buttocks.

“Huh!!!”

The moment Chungha noona trembles with her body.

Chew!

At least the bodysuit that covered her body disappeared at once.
It was sucked into her nucleus, like releasing a rubber band that had been pulled taut.

“End of the 1st experiment.”

As soon as Diana finished speaking, the electric signal disappeared, and I took off her coat and covered Chungha noona’s body.

“Haha.”

Could there be residual heat from the electrical stimulation?
Chungha noona exhaled heavily, and her body trembled.

“Sister, are you okay?”
“Haha… Siu, Siu…”

Her eyes turned to mine.
She was smiling even though the electrical stimulation that had just touched her whole body must have hurt.

“Chungha, you endured well… ?”

I couldn’t help but laugh the same way when I saw her like that.

“Good job. Sister.”

But laughing wasn’t laughing.
I felt sorry for her who had to endure her pain, and I felt so helpless that I couldn’t help her.

It’s been a while since I felt like this.
The helplessness that comes from not being able to do anything despite seeing the pain of my acquaintances.

It felt as strong as the helplessness I felt when I was betrayed by my comrades.

“Great job. You did really well.”

I hugged Chungha noona.
It didn’t seem like her mind was fully fused yet.
But it doesn’t matter.
Because she had endured her pain, her bodysuit, which seemed unlikely to come off, had come off.

Progress has been made.
She was glad the pain wasn’t meaningless.

“Like I said, let’s play all night.”
“Huh… Good. Lol. Can I get some sleep instead?”
“I’m sleepy?”
“Huh… I am a little sleepy.”

I looked at Diana and asked with my eyes.

She nodded her head as if it were okay.

“It will be mentally difficult. I need to give my brain a break.”

After hearing her answer, I brushed her sister’s head and said,

“Then let’s sleep a little and wake up and play. Understand?”
“Huh… This time, Siwoo is the tagger.”
“Okay.”

Chungha noona closed her eyes.
I tidied up the cloak that covered her body as she slept soundly.

“What happened? Is it a success?”
“Yes. First of all, it was half successful. Because the bodysuit went inside the core.”

At Diana’s words, I checked Chungha’s sister’s information once again when I appraised her suit.

[Baek Chung-ha’s Battle Suit: Estimated Grade – S~SS]
[This is a divine item made by the watcher to make his follower, and it is a suit made by Baek Cheong-ha as a follower of the watcher. A state in which the corresponding function is stopped due to an external force.]
[Possessed Skills]
[Increase stats – Partially increases the wearer’s stats. Sensitivity to demonic energy increases.]
[Auto Regeneration – The suit heals the area it is wrapped in.]
[Hypnosis and Brainwashing – Brainwashes the wearer into a faithful follower of the Watcher. (Stop state)]
[Cognition Decreased – Lowers the wearer’s cognitive ability to make it easier to brainwash.]
[Skinization – It becomes the wearer’s skin and does not come off.]

Cognitive decline and skinization.
I looked at these two abilities and asked.

“Are you related?”
“Yes. The feeble energy emanating from the bodysuit was preventing her mind from merging.”

Diana, lightened by the success of her experiment that will go down in history, spoke in her excited voice.
The energy she’s talking about is probably the story of the cognitive decline triggered by the suit.
The skin fades and the suit no longer covers her body…

‘The effect of cognitive decline must have disappeared or weakened.’

I was able to cross-check the telegrams I observed with her technology and the information revealed by my emotions.
I was able to put my mind at ease only after confirming the truth of her words.

“With a few more experiments, we should be able to harmonize her mind.”
“But will the next experiment be this painful?”
“Yes. This can’t be helped.”
“… All right.”

I hugged Chungha noona.

“Where is your sister’s room?”
“Ah, follow me.”

I went to her room with Diana.
Cheongha noona’s room was a spacious room with cute furniture and white wallpaper in harmony.
I laid her sister on her bed and got her up.

“Are you going to sleep here tonight?”
“It should be. If my sister wakes up, I will have to play with her.”

You must keep your promise to her.
Because I endured the pain alone with pride.

“Then can we talk for a minute?”
“You mean?”
“Yes. There are many things I want to ask about you. There is also Hyeri’s problem.”

Raising her glasses, she grinned.

“All right.”

***

“Siw… ? Where are you?”

He was left alone in a dark space with no one around.

“Siw… ? Siwoo… ? Grandfather… ? Where are you all?”

Crying at the fact that she couldn’t see anyone, she called the people she knew one by one and found a light in the distance.

“Be there… Uh?”

She walked towards the light.
In the light that has been lifted from the darkness.

“Come on.”

She was sitting by a woman who looked just like her.

Baek Cheong-ha before being brainwashed.