Chapter 34 – Episode 34- Snow Woman, Yu Seol-Hee (4)

A bet with Yoo Seol-hee.

Miho, who had been listening to the bet beside her, looked at me with her worried eyes.

“Han Jun-ah, are you okay?”

Not only Miho, but also Darae came up to me and expressed their concerns.

“Hanjun, I don’t know how to say this, but… I think it must be a bit difficult.

“No.”

Then, before I could say anything, a grave voice interrupted and refuted.

There was only one person who uttered these words.

Bald, presbyopia, and muscular Kim Cha-ryeok.

The guy showed his dry teeth and pounded on his chest.

“Hanjun never loses. Especially against that ice woman.”

Looking more confident than me, Miho asked Kim Cha-ryeok if he was curious.

“That’s right, Charyeok, you also trained together with Hanjun. Do you have any tricks?”

Kim Charyeok shook his head.

“No, but there’s no way Han Joon will ever lose. Because ‘it has no choice but to happen that way.'”

Gulp.

Hearing the man’s boastful reply this time, Miho and Darae looked at me with eyes filled with anticipation.

However, Darae and Miho haven’t been hanging out with Kim Cha-ryeok much yet, so it seems that they haven’t properly grasped that guy’s personality.

In the first place, that guy was a real idiot, and if he thought he was right, he was a guy who believed without grounds.

There was no need for reasons or explanations.

Until now, the guy who had lived only by instinct and intuition fully believed in my victory this time too.

I wanted to refute something, but I didn’t deny what he said either.

Because that was true, and his bizarre intuition was always right.

“Right, I don’t know about anyone else, but Seol-hee will have an advantage.”

Like Kim Cha-ryeok, I also promised Darae and Miho victory.

I was a bit uneasy because I put the flag in, but there was a solid basis.

Recalling what had happened in the library a few days ago, I clasped my hands.

Recognizing a sense of heterogeneity running through my body, I prepared for the confrontation that would soon begin.

* *

Two students facing each other in an open space.

A talisman called Absorption Department was dangling from their chests.

The teacher said that the one whose amulet that absorbs the attack is torn will lose.

We waited for our turn in Dalian at the terraced spectator stand and looked at Darae who was out in Dalian.

Darae was calmly fiddling with the handles of the swords hanging from both sides of her waist, and was making an expression that was no different from usual.

Whether it’s good luck or bad luck, the start of the first match was Darae.

Next came me, Cha-ryeok Kim, and Mi-ho.

I looked back to see if Kim Cha-ryeok, who was going to have the next sparring, wasn’t nervous.

He was excited, his eyes twinkling, overshadowing my concerns.

“Double sword style! Finally, you can see the extreme of romance that you only see in cartoons.”

Also, the guy was always the same.

As I sighed, saying that I was worrying for nothing, Miho muttered next to me.

“I’m curious too. The Sword Demon clan’s swordsmanship is famous…”

Seeing that the ending was blurred, it seemed that Miho’s words included not only the ‘sword sword’ used by Darae, but also other swordsmanship.

‘Moonlight sword’

The clan’s swordsmanship that is passed down only to the daughters of the Sword Demon clan.

Recalling the bitter story I had heard from Kim Ji-hye before, I watched the couple’s confrontation that was about to begin.

Beep-beep-beep-beep-.

Numbers fell one by one from the large electronic display board hanging on one side of the stadium, and an electronic sound was emitted.

If that number, which had dropped to one digit before I knew it, would soon turn to zero, I knew that sparring would begin, even without an explanation.

Three. This. Work.

Each time the number went down, Darae slowly moved her toes.

Darae’s sparring opponent was a shaman.

Perhaps it was a trigger from witchcraft, he was fiddling with a small accessory.

Beep-!

The number changed to zero, and a different low mechanical sound was spit out.

At the same time as the sound of sparring started resounding, the guy who was touching the accessory held out the accessory.

Then, dark black objects protruded from his outstretched accessories and rushed at Darae.

“Summoner, Summoner!”

Seeing this, Kim Cha-ryeok shouted.

It was as he said. Black objects crossed the air and twisted my body.

Every time that happened, a black leg appeared. One head popped out.

Dogs and hawks, leopards and wolves.

Those that turned into dozens of animals roamed the sky and land, surrounding Darae in all directions.

However, unlike the first time, Darae did not take any action.

With a calm expression on his hands on the handles of his two swords, Darae looked at the summoned beasts approaching him.

“Danger…!”

Unknowingly, I opened my mouth and saw the wolf trying to bite me, and the words burst out.

And then, Darae slowly moved his toes.

“What?”

At one point, as if a ray of sunlight fell on the window, the sword of the darae was pulled out.

A blade shimmering like a bright red flame.

As if it was natural from the beginning, it spread like a haze among the summoned beasts.

The blade, which drew a graceful curve like weaving a red thread, connected the summoned beasts in the blink of an eye.

I couldn’t see the figure of Darae, but the sense of difference felt in my body was felt even in that stadium.

Naturally, following the moving shape of the sense of heterogeneity, I was able to imagine the image of Darae.

Grab a knife and draw it upwards.

Naturally, twist your back and bend down.

Using the rotational force, I stepped on his foot once more and raised the sword again.

If I didn’t feel yang, these were movements I couldn’t possibly feel.

I even missed a few times.

As I chased the movement as if possessed, before I knew it, Darae was approaching my opponent’s nose with both swords clutched.

“Huh… Heh heh heh.”

The summoner did not look at Darae, but looked blankly at the summoner who was mercilessly falling behind him.

Darae blinked his yellow eyes and swung his sword for the last time.

Click.

A red line was drawn on the summoner’s body, and it was sucked into Darae’s sword sheath.

The red lines that were connected from the place where the darae had moved from the beginning were cut off and burned.

Fire-!

The bright red flames that burned half a beat later revealed their tails and showed the footprints of my sword.

A red line that stretched in the air until the end was invisible.

The red lines drawn in all directions gradually disappeared from the first tail, and were soon sucked into Darae’s sword.

At the same time, a beep sounded that the game was over.

Darae just moved backwards with a calm expression like the first time.

A graceful, splendid, and therefore awe-inspiring swordsmanship.

It was only then that I realized why Darae belonged to the ‘Geomgwi’ clan.

And then, Miho spoke words of concern to me.

“Are you okay Hanjun?”

“What.”

“Probably, Seol-hee is stronger than Darae… Will it be okay?”

“……”

Up until now, I had been arguing, but as if I had taken it for granted, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat when I saw the hair coming up this way.

“Wouldn’t it be okay…?”

I could feel Yu Seol-hee’s gaze glaring at me from the audience across the street.

Earlier, I resented myself for setting up a lot of defeat flags.

Kim Cha-ryeok, unaware of my speed, patted my shoulder.

“Hmm…! Hanjun, win and come! I will cheer you hard!”

I let out a sigh of relief.

* *

Darae came up, and I went down the arena.

Darae, who met in the middle, greeted me saying, “Goodbye.”

Although he was smiling, Darae’s expression, which seemed to be a mixture of concern and expectation, did not seem to be sure of my victory.

As I went down to the arena, the teacher came near me and attached a suction device to my chest.

“Han Jun-ah, usually the Absorber absorbs damage. Seol-hee has a special constitution, so she can’t block it all. So, if you think it’s dangerous, give up right away. The teacher will take you out midway, even if you use magic.”

Attaching the absorption band, the teacher secretly whispered to me.

But I told the teacher not to worry and gave the answer.

“It’s okay, sir. Maybe, I’ll have an advantage.”

“Han Jun-ah, I’ve already seen your peculiar constitution in the life record book… But simply dealing with yang qi won’t stop Seol-hee’s yin qi.”

At those words, I realized that the teacher hadn’t figured out my identity.

Higher ones who know who I am, some.

Even though only the principal was revealed, I had a hunch that not many people in this academy would know my true identity.

Otherwise, I couldn’t have said that.

“My yang qi is a bit special, so it should be fine.”

Thinking that he was acting like a guest, the teacher let out a sigh.

“Then, if it’s dangerous, I’ll stop on my own.”

After saying that, the teacher got away from me and approached Yu Seol-hee and attached her aspirator.

Seeing that he was muttering something over there, it seemed that he was asking Seol-hee to take it easy.

Seolhee softened her eyes slightly at those words and then touched her fingers.

However, when the teacher escapes, the two of them are left alone in the stadium.

Yu Seol-hee started glaring at me as if she had always done that.

Beep-. Beep-. Beep-.

The number 30 appeared on the display board, and one by one they fell off.

As if acting, Yu Seol-hee stiffened her thorns and growled at me.

“I’ll finish it soon, so don’t resist and stay still. Then it won’t hurt.”

The blade was sharpened, but I knew how dull it was because I had seen the end of that blade over and over again.

So I spat it out as if to provoke her.

“No, I told you. I beat you.”

“Ha…! You who haven’t learned much about witchcraft?”

A white aura flowing beneath her shimmered as if she had reacted to Yu Seol-hee’s emotions.

I take a deep breath, aware of the heterogeneity I feel in my body.

Asserted again.

“Yes, I win.”

It might sound like something you’d think was crazy, but I was more rational than anyone else.

What happened at the library.

If I recall what happened when I touched the ice that Yu Seol-hee created, it was because I was certain of one thing.

I am Yoo Seol-hee’s ‘counter’.

To the point of being called a natural enemy, she had an unreasonable advantage over her abilities.

Beep-. Beep-. Beep-.

Suddenly, the numbers were down to single digits.

Yu Seol-hee must have decided to end her at once, so she spread a shimmering white aura around her even more.

A white aura spread in all directions, and Yu Seol-hee’s black hair gradually began to turn blue.

Watching the arena floor near her become icy, I quietly let out a deep breath.

I didn’t take off the necklace, but I was feeling more of a sense of heterogeneity in my body than before.

As if there were no limits, I quietly closed my eyes after recognizing the swaying sense of heterogeneity.

Beep-. Beep-. Beep-.

Beep—!

A low, majestic mechanical sound resounds.

At the same time, Seolhee Yoo fluttered her blue hair and fired an ice barrier at me.

It was literally.

The ice that rose from the floor rushed at me, calling out my body as if forming a barrier.

Seeing that radical appearance, I slowly stretched out my hand and prayed.

“Pay rate law (急急如律令)”

A golden light shimmers through my body.

Unlike before, the light gathered in one place was condensed in my hand as if it would explode at any moment.

But I whispered one more time.

“Pay rate law (急急如律令)”

Cooong.

Golden light overlaps.

The light that had grown into a ship swelled in my grasp.

But I didn’t stop.

“Pay rate law (急急如律令)”

“Pay rate law (急急如律令)”

“Pay rate law (急急如律令)”

Key Yiing-!

The enormously swollen mass of gold wriggled in my grasp as if it were about to explode at any moment.

Then, I finally let out.

“Payment Law”

The golden light that was clumped together bursts out.

A golden light engulfed the ice barrier, just as a dam burst and the water engulfs everything below.

The ice didn’t melt. Just gone

Looking at the ice barrier that disappeared without a trace, I confirmed that my prediction was correct.