Chapter 63 – Now Go

Puppy.

Really, you’re just getting farther away from me.

You said I’m not close with Irene anymore.

But, why?

“Ha…”

Why did you say that? Why, for what reason to Irene.

Did you ask, “Are you okay?”

You guys are no longer friendly.

Said to have fought

He said he was no longer a ‘friend’.

Ah.

I see

It’s a ‘lie’.

“Flaw.”

It’s annoying.

No, i’m angry puppy.

Why are you ‘lying’ to me?

“Ha…”

He lied, so he must be punished.

I have to… Punish…

To do…

“I’m sorry…”

A cool breeze blows through the curtains. Annoyance, anger, disappointment and anger pound nails into the heart. The fact that he rejected me, the dog that keeps getting further away from me. Witch, Iarin. It all mixes up in my head and bothers me.

Every dilemma.

Dog, I don’t want to lose you. If I punish you… You’ll leave me.

But if you don’t do anything… You’ll be taken away from someone else.

“Ugh…”

I hate both. Even if you die, losing your dog is unacceptable.

“Now… ‘Carrot'”

Now is not the time to give the whip. When you have to treat your dog with only ‘carrots’.

There’s no way you can give something like ‘punishment’.

But you keep getting farther away I’m still like an idiot…

“No.”

Grit your teeth

Can no longer escape The witch and Iarin.

If someone else approaches, I just have to hold on tight and not let go.

Just don’t back down.

Even if your arm is broken.

He takes out his cell phone and texts.

“Ummm…”

Slow. We need to call more people.

Even if I can’t do it, I have to get the artifact by tomorrow.

With more money added… Yes, let’s add about 80 billion won. No, let’s add about 100 billion neatly.

I’m pushing the release date forward, but this should be enough.

Send a text.

“Ha…”

Never miss it

Puppy.

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My whole body is tired.

A feeling of separation between bones and muscles. The body sinks in fatigue. As I dodged and dodged like crazy, the practice was over before I knew it.

Am I… Good? I don’t know.

The words Kang Ji-ah said come to mind fragmentarily. He… What did he say?

To act ‘strong’? You say ‘focus’? Right now I just… I don’t know. I just want to rest

Lie down on the bed and lean against the wall. Cold. Slowly, in my head, I pictured the previous combat practice.

“Ummm…”

All I can think of is just dodging… Keep dodging. The situation was so crazy, and even thinking about it now, I have no idea how I managed to avoid that fist. My head doesn’t turn properly because I’m tired.

I turn around and look at the bed next to me. I can see the chest of a black figure hidden by the curtain rising and falling in the breath.

Yerin Han.

I was honestly surprised.
When I saw that ‘redemption magic’… It was so sophisticated that I wondered if it was really human. A cold sweat runs down your forehead. It’s not like he’s second in magic for nothing. Although his personality is bad, he is now the chief. Because her skills have been verified.

“Ha…”

Lie down on the bed and stare at the ceiling. The familiar gypsum tex’s winding pattern is visible. The sound of breathing can be heard from the bed next to you.

A cool breeze came in from the open window, gently shaking the white curtains. The cicadas, not paying attention to whether they close their eyes or yawn from fatigue, cling to the tree as usual and sing a mating song at the top of their voices. There is not a single cloud in the clear sky. In the short break that came after the fierce battle, he cleared away a short yawn.

Again, she falls into a restless sleep.

Tuk-tuk- Someone touches my shoulder.

“Huh… Uhhh…”

My body is sluggish from unresolved fatigue.

“Are you awake…?”

Her gray hair brushes the tip of her nose. Who… Ah.

“Should I stand…?”

Seol-ah is sitting on the bed and looking down at me.

What… Why is Seol-ah here?

“Why are you here…?”

Seol-ah meets her eyes. Combat practice… Wasn’t it?

“I just came…”

Seol-ah smiles lightly. Did you just come?

“What about combat practice?”

“Umm… I just finished a little too soon…”

“Did you say it was over soon?”

Seol-ah nods her head. Looking closely, her clothes are slightly torn. No… No way.

“Did you win?”

Seol-Ah avoids her gaze for a moment, then nods her head.

Did she beat Yeonhwa?

How much of a monster is she?

Yeon-hwa… Is a non-human who is the highest peak in ‘magic’ that turns monsters into powder simply by collecting mana and ‘shooting’ it.

It is difficult to obtain purely ‘refined’ magical power, but the application of that refined magical power is also the highest peak in the world. According to one theory, there are over 500 magics that can be used instantly. It’s fair to call him ‘The Great Wizard’.

But you beat that person?

“How did you win?”

Seol-ah hesitates, then lifts one of her fingers and makes a small magic formula.

“I won with this…”

Telekinesis.

Wait, one of these?

“Did you use other magic?”

“…No.”

“…”

I’m trying to say more… Manda. Just don’t think too deeply. Yeah well, Yeonhwa could win. Looking at Seol-ah’s expression, it doesn’t seem like she’s lying.

The one who beats the archmage with one telekinesis is my friend?

After hearing the shocking story, fatigue naturally runs away. Get yourself out of bed

“Keuh… Ha…”

Simply stretch and get out of bed.

“Oh right.”

“Yes?”

“Come to think of it, how many minutes did we last?”

That’s right, I didn’t hear the most important thing. I make eye contact with Seol-ah.

“Umm… I lasted 21 minutes…”

What?

“It must have felt like 5 minutes.”

21 minutes? That I lasted 21 minutes against Jiah Kang?

“You’ve endured a lot.”

Yes, it is true that I endured a lot. Even so, regret remains in my heart. This awkward feeling.

Still, the thought of ‘lack’ is stuck in my head, and I can’t shake it off.

“Yeah, I’ve endured a lot…”

Seol-ah nods her head. When I stand up from her seat, Seol-ah grabs my arm. Wait, what about the other teams?

“Are the other teams finished practicing?”
“Yes…”
“Do you know how many minutes the other teams lasted?”
“Ummm…”

After thinking about it, Seol-ah opens her mouth.

“I’ll tell you from Team 2…?”

He lowered his head and met Seol-ah’s gaze.

“Team 2 lasted 1 minute and 30 seconds…”
“Ummm…”
“Team 3 lasted 45 seconds…”
“…”
“And… 4 teams lasted 11 minutes…”
“Oh.”

11 minutes?

“Wait, 4 teams… Isn’t it senior Lee Socheon’s team?”

“Ugh, that’s right…”

Seol-ah is out of luck. She slowly opens her curtains and steps outside. Seol-ah grabs my sleeve.

“All the other team members were knocked out… I just dodged and survived like Taeho…”

“Oh oh…”

Go out of the infirmary slowly. Wait, Arin Lee and Yerin Han…

“You’re still sleeping.”

The bed next to me startled and trembled.
As soon as the horse leaves, a rustle is heard. When the bed curtain opens, Han Ye-rin looks at her with her fist clenched and tapped on her shoulder.

“Ah, Gang-ah?”

Han Ye-rin and Seol-ah meet their eyes. Han Ye-rin instinctively lowered her head.

“…”
“…”
“…”

A sudden silence. Looking to her side, Seol-ah glares at Han Ye-rin.

“…What’s going on?”

Seol-Ah’s voice is low and low-pitched. Han Ye-rin’s shoulders tremble. Usually this happens… After a while they run away.

“I just have something to tell the puppy… He said.”

She didn’t run away. Han Ye-rin raises her head and looks at me. Fuck?

From the extremity of her waist, an ominous aura surged up.

“Wait a minute, can you… Move over?”

Face each other, facing each other. You’re right I need to step back here… Fuck, why? A cold sweat runs down your forehead.

“Are you trying to bully me again?”

Seol-ah glares at Han Ye-rin. On Seol-ah’s hand, her magic formula is drawn. Han Ye-rin trembled.

“No, that’s-“
“Quiet.”

Seol-ah cuts her off. Her tension rises endlessly and hits her ceiling.

“Tae-ho hates being by your side.”

The drooping tone calmed down in an instant, and her voice was lowered. Han Ye-rin, completely withdrawn, trembled her body little by little.

I swallow her saliva.

“Move aside? Do you know what you’ll do in the meantime?”
“That…”
“I can’t believe it. No, I don’t even want to believe it.”

Her magic formula runs wildly on Seol-Ah’s hand.

“If there’s anything you want to tell me, tell me later. For now-“

“My boyfriend… Because he’s a ‘friend’. Don’t think about touching me. And I mean it.”

“I can break your arm.”

Han Ye-rin is unable to raise her head in fear. She looked up and her hands were shaking. Me too, but she is suppressed by Seol-ah’s spirit.

Silence for a while.

The air freezes

“Han Ye-rin, now I understand-“

Charak-

The bed curtains open.

Lightly stretched blue short hair.

Iarin wakes up and looks at the three of us.

This is the face of something.

What…

The string of tension that had been pulled taut is released without a pulse.

“I woke up because it was a bit cold. Umm…”

In an instant, the air becomes awkward.

“What’s going on?”

“Tae, Taeho, let’s go now…”

Seol-ah drags me. She glares at Han Ye-rin, then slams her door open and goes out.

You have to stand… There really is only you.

Now, he protects me by his side. The monster that ends the archmage with one telekinesis is protecting me!

He is a very good friend to me.

My body is dragged here and there by less tiredness.

When I go outside, students are lined up in the hallway. Is it… Lunchtime?

“Wait, the time is…”

“It’s lunchtime…”

That’s right.

I nodded lightly. As we walk down the aisle together, we see students in groups of twos and threes chatting loudly.

The content is roughly… Most of them say that they don’t like the detached unit that came this time. Well, I guess so.

As soon as I arrived, I was stunned with spirit, and I was replaced with a theory class without any fuss. It’s not that I don’t understand it at all. Of course, the conversations heard are not without exception.

I spot a student talking loudly among people in the distance.

The eldest son of Dongbu Steel, whom you sometimes meet on the road. Tool work.

He is arguing passionately among the students.

What…

Get closer.

“-No, so he lasted for more than 20 minutes by himself! Is it true? Didn’t you hear that Ji-ah Kang came and even praised you?”
“No, you have to believe it…”
“Is it real? Even if he’s a bit underrated, Mr., He’s in second place. That’s enough to be a knight? Why can’t you believe-“
“Fuck yes… Let’s say that. Let’s say you lasted for 20 minutes. But that Kim Tae-ho wasn’t the only one who endured it, right? Huh?”
“That’s right, he didn’t hold on alone. Still, it was Kim Tae-ho who just dodged in front of him and did everything he could, right? To be honest, I think the result would have been the same even if they weren’t there.”
“Don’t be a jerk. He couldn’t have done it alone. Kim Tae-ho is second only to being strong, but neither are they weak?

Was it about me?

As if the tool work was frustrating, he scratched his head. He sighs briefly, then looks this way.

“Huh? Huh!”

Oh fuck

I quickly grab Seol-Ah by the back of her neck and leave her seat. He hears a call behind him, but he tries to ignore it and runs to the bench.

What the fuck… What’s going on…

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Awkward air.

There are only two left in the infirmary. I’m not doing anything.

“Hey, what, did you even fight?”

Ask Yerin Han. The atmosphere was not very good…

Well, if you fought, that’s fine as it is.

The farther you get away, the more I can get closer.

A slight smile forms on her lips.

Artifact.

If you receive an artifact, I’ll run right over and tear it apart. It’s such a shame that a man like Taeho is tied to a woman like Han Yerin.

At least to be tied up, you have to be tied to me.

“…”

Han Ye-rin shakes her head and avoids her gaze, and she immediately spreads herself out on her bed.

“Ummm…”

To ask more Give up.

As I got closer, he kept saying things like ‘I couldn’t do anything…’.

Han Ye-rin… Actually, isn’t it a bit weak?

Get up from her seat, put on her shoes, and go outside.

Let’s find Taeho first.

After finding it, in our ‘now’ –

Let’s ‘train’ together!

Running through the hallway, he finds Tae-ho dragging Seol-ah from far away. Sitting on a nearby bench, Seol-ah is seen tearing open a bag of bread.

“Guys!”

Come to think of it, I’ve been having sex lately, and I’ve never had a proper discussion. It’s been a while since the three of us talked like this. A smile forms on your lips without knowing it.

“Yes?”
“Huh?”

Naturally, I sit next to Taeho.

“What are you two doing?”

“I’m going to eat now…”
“Báb…”

Seol-ah fidgets with her hand. She averts her gaze a little awkwardly.

She smiles and looks at Kim Tae-ho.

“It’s Taeho.”

“Ok?”

Tae-ho comes out of nowhere and meets our eyes.

“Would you like to come over to my house today?”

Go straight to the point

“Huh? No, what?”

Put a smile on your lips. Just say ‘good’. That’s what we’re going to do now.

I’ll help you train! So don’t worry, Taeho, I won’t have sex with you. Maybe.

“That, so suddenly? No, more than that, why?”

Taeho looks at me. Why?

For your goals.

Just, nothing else.

Smile softly

“Tae-ho. You, your goal was to catch Fenrir, right?”
“Uh, yes. That’s right.”
“But how was it when you fought the Byeoldongdae today?”
“…It was hard.”
“Isn’t it? It was hard, right?”

Take Taeho’s hand. I can feel his body startle and tremble.

“You keep feeling like you’re not enough.”

“…”

“So, by the way…”

“Would you like to come over to my house and have a ‘training’?”

“…What?”

Tae-ho’s eyes go white.

“It’s literally. Taeho.”

Make eye contact

“I’ll give you the ‘solution’.”

Are you fine?

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In front of my eyes, I see a lot of hanoks standing in a row like crazy.

This place is now

It is a ‘learning ground’ that all people with superpowers know.

Finally came

I wondered if I would be eaten again, and I thought many times about whether or not to go. In the end, getting eaten is the same, so I decided to follow Iarin.

I’m not stupid.

If you do this, you will be eaten, if you do that, you will be eaten. It’s best to get what you can get. Fuck.

“From now on, sometimes… No, it’s okay to come to my house often! I explained to my father, so he told me to bring him!”

Walk slowly toward the front yard. I don’t know if this is a yard or a soccer field.

If you continue to walk along the stone path, you will reach the main hall before you know it.

“Sit here and wait for a while! I’ll call my father!”

Ia-Lin taps my shoulder and leaves her seat.

After all, it is evening. The sun goes down and the moon sits astride beneath the clouds, shining blue beneath her feet.

I pick up the teacup lying next to her and slowly drink the tea.

Green tea

If you sit still and wait for the owner, a text will come.

– It will be finished tomorrow.

Huh?

– Artifact.

Fuck.

Driving me crazy.

Scratching her head. I feel like I’m really going crazy because the incidents don’t stop. Let out a deep sigh.

If you look at the clouds that flow by so quietly and carelessly.

“Are you her daughter’s friend?”

Lee Cheon-hwa, the head of Lee Je-ga, sits next to me.

I was startled and tried to say hello, but I said it was okay. Grab my shoulder to sit down.

The hot heat touches your cheeks.

“Yes, yes, it’s okay, so sit down.”

My body shrinks slightly at the spirit that I can’t control even though I’m next to you. Even though it is hidden, energy like a mountain flows over Lee Cheonhwa.

“Mmm, yes. My daughter said she wants to kill Fenrir?”

Cheonhwa Lee laughs. Feeling embarrassed for some reason, I stroked the back of her neck.

“You have a big dream. It’s outrageous.”

Avoid eye contact. Well, it’s an absurd goal even when I think about it.

“But how did you come up with that goal?”

I met eyes with Lee Chun-hwa.

“…Because my father suffered.”

“Hmm?”

Lee Chun-hwa’s eyes are stained with bewilderment. She averted her gaze and stroked her chin, then she coughed briefly.

“I-I’m sorry…”

Bow her head Embarrassed, she waved her hand and said no, she said she didn’t know that and slipped.

After a while, I finally calmed down. Lee Chun-hwa looks at me.

“I’ll buy you something later.”

I guess it’s not someone’s father, how can they act the same. She waved her hand again saying it was okay.

“Keuheum, um. Then time is also time, so it’s better to learn quickly.”

Li Chun-Hwa rises from her seat.

“Do you know what ‘awakening’ is?”