Chapter 19 – Episode 19- Suggestion (5)

Hurry up, get ready, and go outside.

A striking black van was parked there.

As I hurriedly ran into the van, the driver’s window slid down.

Ji-hye Kim, general shaman of the Seoul branch.

Jihye Kim was frowning at her, munching her cigarette through her window.

“… Hey.”

Seeing her face as if asking ‘Why doesn’t it pop out at the right time’, I quickly handed Kim Ji-hye a cup of coffee.

“The other day, they said they don’t drink coffee after 5. I’ve had another coffee that burns so badly..Haha.”

I can’t spit on her smiling face.

This is a lesson I learned while dealing with several customers at a cafe during vacation.

Moreover, if you provide service, even angry customers smile.

Kim Ji-hye stared at the coffee I handed her and snapped her fingers.

“Taste and see.”

Kim Ji-hye, who had coffee instead of a cigarette, drank the coffee I handed her, and her eyes trembled slightly.

“… Get on.”

Jihye Kim quietly pointed her hand behind her.

It was also the coffee ratio the manager told me.

I thanked the store manager in my heart, and when I got into the back seat, a familiar guy greeted me.

“Um! Nice to meet you, Hanjun!”

Big, bald, muscular, Kim Cha-ryeok.

He was so big that he was cramming himself into the back seat.

Kim Cha-ryeok looked at me and revealed his dry teeth, as if he was uncomfortable.

“…Yes, nice to meet you.”

Always a positive guy.

When I greeted him, Charyeok Kim nodded his head.

“As expected, he doesn’t seem to have a hangover because he worked out during vacation.”

“What kind of bullshit is that?”

He insists on the theory of all muscles, and as usual, he is talking to a guy who talks bullshit.

Kim Ji-hye put down her coffee, which she had finished drinking before she knew it, and took out a cigarette and asked.

“… Shut up.”

“Yep.”

“I get it.”

So, with me and Kim Cha-ryeok on board, Kim Ji-hye headed somewhere.

After driving for about an hour and a half, we arrived at an empty lot with no one there.

* *

Sand and sparse weeds.

Parked her car in an abandoned playground, Kim Ji-hye toughly got out of the driver’s seat.

Kim Cha-ryeok and I followed closely behind him.

Jihye Kim stopped her steps in the middle of the clearing, and scratched her head as she looked back at the two of us.

“Hmm…”

Jihye Kim closed her eyes gently as she smoked her cigarette and sorted out her thoughts.

After a while, she opened her eyes and opened her mouth slowly.

“First of all, what I’m going to tell you today is basic common sense.”

Basic common sense.

The subject is missing, but witchcraft and youkai.

Kim Cha-ryeok and I listened to Kim Ji-hye’s words to teach us basic common sense in the world we must move forward.

“It’s something that no one would know about a shaman or a youkai who’s been in the other world. Most guys grow up learning these common senses from birth…”

Kim Ji-hye glanced at Kim Cha-ryeok with me and continued her words.

“There’s no way people like you, who suddenly entered the school, won’t know. I’ll teach you in a way that suits Korean sentiment, so listen carefully.”

Jihye Kim snapped her fingers.

Then, in one hand, she held a water bottle.

Kim Ji-hye opened her water bottle with a blunt expression, and she let it spill on the floor.

“Look closely, this is Yin.”

When all the water in the water bottle spilled onto the floor, Kim Ji-hye snapped her fingers once again.

Then, the water on the wet floor suddenly evaporated, and steam rose.

“And this is the sheep.”

“…?”

Unable to understand what the hell he was talking about, I looked at Kim Ji-hye.

“You don’t know?

Kim Ji-hye smiled and then she continued to explain.

“Everything is made up of yin and yang. The sun is yang, the moon is yin. Heat rises yang, water flows yin. Feeling yin and yang, and changing the logic of the world accordingly. It’s basic.”

“So… Everything is dichotomous? Just like the male is the yang and the female is the yin.”

Yin, Yang.

Let’s ask Kim Ji-hye, taking some known words as examples.

Jihye Kim shook her head.

“Wrong, but right, because yang and yin cycle, convert, and transform.”

Jihye Kim snapped her fingers.

Then, a water bottle was created in her hand again.

Again, Jihye Kim opened the bottle and turned her bottle upside down as if trying to spill it on the floor, but…

Surprisingly, the water that should have poured onto the floor dripped and rose into the sky.

As Kim Cha-ryeok and I stared blankly at it, Kim Ji-hye flicked her fingers and evaporated all the water.

“… Just know this much. Just know that there is yin and yang, and that you use magic using that.”

“Yep.”

“I get it.”

I don’t know what it is, but I put it in my head for now.

Looking to her side, Kim Cha-ryeok was nodding his head, revealing a smile as usual.

I was relieved that this guy didn’t understand either.

“Yin and Yang. The two qi are so complex and profound that even most shamans do not understand them until they die. Most of the sorcerers perform magic with the five elements of gold and earth.”

“Then what about youkai?”

It seems like we’ve only talked about witchcraft so far, so I asked about youkai.

Then she told me that Kim Ji-hye had nothing special.

“The principle is all the same. But the difference is that youkai, unlike us, have a large lineage. Depending on the qi they carry in their bodies from birth, their power varies from person to person.”

So, it seems that shamans are RPG characters that all start with the same conditions, and Yokai are gacha-type characters with different grades from the beginning.

“…Youkai is a ninja village.”

Perhaps Kim Cha-ryeok had similar thoughts, she seemed to recall a cartoon she had seen.

“Then, are you teaching us about the Five Elements today?”

At my words, Kim Ji-hye silently took out a cigarette from her and asked for it.

“No. You learn yin and yang.”

“Yes…?”

She heard that there are some shamans who don’t understand yin and yang all their lives.

He said that he would teach yin and yang to those of us who are new to witchcraft for the first time in our lives.

Kim Ji-hye sucked on her cigarette and spat out her words.

“Although you are shamans, you are more like youkai.”

Jihye Kim pointed at my necklace with her fingertips.

“Hanjun Kang, I told you before. What do you have in your body?”

“… Sheep… Sheep.”

“Yeah, that’s it. You’re just a human body, it’s comfortable to think of you as a yokai. A yokai who was chosen since birth because of the absurdity of being a sheep.”

Jihye Kim snapped her fingers.

Then, my necklace fell to the floor.

When I hurriedly picked up her necklace, Kim Ji-hye nodded her head as if telling her not to wear it again.

“Usually, whether you’re a monster or a human, you put yang and yin in your body according to your bowl. But you’re different. The bowl isn’t overflowing with yang, it’s pouring out.”

When I took off the necklace, I felt like I could definitely feel something.

The body feels energized and the senses become clearer.

While I was fidgeting with my whole body, Kim Ji-hye continued her explanation.

“So you don’t need to understand yang qi. But there’s a big drawback: you can’t use that magic if there’s even a little bit of yin qi in it.”

“Wasn’t witchcraft only made up of yang and yin?”

“I told you. Yin and yang usually change and cycle. Most spells contain a little bit of yin energy. But… Except for one spell.”

A memory popped into my head at Jihye Kim’s words.

The witchcraft that her grandmother, who always had a benevolent smile and smile, taught me with a stern expression.

“Payment Law”

“Yes, the payroll law. The spell with the subject missing is actually useless, but… It’s a very good spell for you who are overflowing with good energy.”

Hearing my murmur, Kim Ji-hye nodded her head and snapped her fingers.

“Payment Law”

Then, a thin golden light emanated from Jihye Kim’s fingers and stuck to her floor.

Kim Ji-hye’s payroll yulryeom did not spread in all directions and had a clear shape, to the extent that it was doubtful that it was the same witchcraft I had used before.

As I opened her eyes wide, Kim Ji-hye added her explanation as if she had seen it.

“So, what I’m going to teach you is the conversion of the wage rate, just like before. I’d like to teach you another magic trick… If you use another magic spell in your current state, you’ll run out of energy and die. So, do you understand?”

Jihye Kim looks at me blankly.

She didn’t say anything, but she knew at once what she meant.

Enrolling in the ‘Witchcraft, Yokai Academy’ and stealing the virgins of the female yokai there to replenish yin energy.

“Ha…”

I had been forcibly pushing it out of my memory until now, but the harsh truth I faced again made my sigh come out of my own accord.

Why the hell am I… Why did I, who had avoided women until now, ask me to enter the ‘Witchcraft, Yokai Academy’ and become a virgin bomber…

Thinking of Miho for no reason, the moment I was weighed down with guilt, Kim Cha-ryeok asked a question from the side.

“Um…! Then, what should I do?”

Kim Ji-hye replied to the guy who raised her hand and flashed her hair.

“Just watch from the side.”

“…? What does that mean?”

“Literally, I told you. Not only him, but you too are close to a yokai. You are the one who was chosen for your special talent called ‘constitution’.”

Jihye Kim snapped her fingers again.

This time, a thin golden light emanated from her Jihye Kim’s fingertips, but the direction was not towards her floor, but towards her Kim Charyeok.

“… Well!”

Kim Cha-ryeok turns his head at a tremendous speed.

The golden light that flooded Kim Cha-ryeok skimmed his cheeks and disappeared beyond it.

“Did you feel it?”

“… Um! I felt it.”

His cheek was slightly torn and blood flowed down, but Kim Cha-ryeok wiped it with his arm and nodded as if nothing was wrong.

“Yes, you have a body that has been selected to react more sensitively to yin and yang than anyone else. So, whenever he uses magic from now on, try to feel the energy next to him.”

“I get it!”

Kim Cha-ryeok nodded his head vigorously and naturally moved away.

Left alone before I knew it, I stared blankly at Kim Ji-hye.

Kim Ji-hye nodded her head at me as if asking what she was doing.

“What are you doing…? I don’t use the wage rate.”

“That… Isn’t that what you’re telling me about the transformation?”

“Can I use it if I tell you from the beginning? First of all, I have to learn while getting hit.”

“…But can you give me a brief explanation?”

To my question, Kim Ji-hye sighed as if she was annoyed, but she kindly gave me an answer.

“General magic can be manifested by just solving it in a formal way. But conversion can be achieved by constructing an image there.”

Widely!

Jihye Kim snaps her fingers.

A cigarette was heard in her hand, which had nothing.

Kim Ji-hye chewed on her cigarette, and she told me.

“But simply building an image in your head is too abstract, so it is common for most shamans to set one trigger. In my case, I set the trigger to snapping my fingers or chewing a cigarette.”

“Ah.”

She realized that Kim Ji-hye wasn’t usually snapping her fingers, chewing and spitting out cigarettes.

She used witchcraft and had a hardened habit of repeating such actions.

Kim Ji-hye waved her hand, and she urged me to hurry up.

“But you don’t know that anyway, so just set spitting magic as a trigger and use it. There’s no way it will happen in the first place.”

“Yep.”

Well, in the first place, it was the first time I used witchcraft a few days ago.

It seemed that it would take quite a long time before he could use the advanced skill called Transformation, which looked difficult at first glance.

First of all, I decided to write the payroll law as Kim Ji-hye said.

Inhale.

I thought as I felt the tingling sensation in my body.

A wave of golden light extending forward.

Instead of extending in all directions like the last time, the golden light only extended forward.

If falling down was yin, what I had was yang rising like a haze.

I closed my eyes.

Recognize the sense of heterogeneity within your body as heat, and think of the open space in front of you as the sky.

I wished at the same time as I opened my eyes.

“Payment Law”

Golden light bursts out.

Unlike before, the golden light, which had a thicker light, stretched forward and rolled up the dust.

“Uh… Huh?”

This… Isn’t this what happened?

I looked behind me hastily, and unlike the dusty front, behind me was surprisingly calm.

As if I had succeeded, Kim Cha-ryeok was standing beside me, showing off his bright dry teeth and clapping his hands.

“Good work, Hanjun!”

Kim Ji-hye widened her eyes and stopped her cigarette.

Kim Ji-hye, who had been still for a while as she remembered something, muttered quietly.

“…That father, that child…”

She murmured so quietly that I couldn’t hear her, but Kim Ji-hye, who was standing in a daze, looked lonely for some reason.