Chapter 37 – Episode 37- Snow Woman, Yu Seol-Hee (7)

Midterm, ‘find marbles.’

This test, which has been traditionally handed down from before, was searched on the Internet, and I could find out what kind of test it was without much effort.

A large lot that comes out a little beyond the sorcery and yōkai academy.

The test that takes place there has fairly simple rules.

As the name suggests, finding marbles is a rule in which the test score goes up if you just find marbles.

However, the marble is not a simple marble.

This is because one out of five team members plays the role of a marble.

So, the team members had to keep the marbles assigned to them and steal the marbles of the other team.

Of course, to rule out the possibility of serious injury, each team member is provided with one absorption unit.

If the absorber is torn, leave the arena.

Until then, collecting as many marbles as possible was the key to this test.

However, there were two irregular rules in this game.

First, instead of each team member being given one absorber, the team member acting as the marble was given two absorbers.

If one of the absorber was torn, the magic in the second absorber was immediately activated, and the members of the team, who were marbles, emitted light from their bodies, letting everyone know that they were marbles.

Second, if you collect 5 or more marbles, you have a chance to claim the golden marbles flying around the arena.

These golden marbles, each worth 10 points, did not reveal themselves because of illusions until now, but if you collected 5 marbles, they only appeared to your teammates.

So, as I confirm, let’s finish the explanation of finding marbles.

Darae, Miho, and Seolhee who were listening to the explanation nodded.

Looking at it, I realized that what I explained was roughly correct.

Seeing that Kim Cha-ryeok nodded as if he understood, fortunately, he seemed to have clearly understood the content of the test I was talking about.

“The most important thing in this test is the team member who will play the marble role. Let’s decide the marble role first.”

After talking for quite a while, my throat got sore, so I took a sip of coffee and proposed.

Then, Yu Seol-hee, who was sitting next to me, asked me why she was doing such a thing.

“… It doesn’t matter what the ball role is.”

“Yes?”

When I asked what that meant, Yu Seol-hee looked at me with calm eyes, as if asking because she didn’t know.

“No matter who does it, our team’s power is overwhelming, so there’s no reason to lose the marbles.”

Yu Seol-hee pointed at Darae with the tip of her chin.

“Sword Demon.”

Then he looked at Miho and said.

“A tailed fox with a fourth tail.”

Yoo Seol-hee, who was naturally going to look at Kim Cha-ryeok, who was next in line, saw the guy’s burdensome expression, sneaked over and said to me.

“More than anything else, you, the snow woman, have enough energy to surpass me… Someone touched our team’s marbles.”

Upon hearing that, I realized that Seolhee Yoo was seriously mistaken about something.

“I won’t be able to be the strength of the team that much?”

Seolhee Yoo then frowned at her, as if asking what bullshit she was talking about.

“… Pretend to be moderately modest. The transition is still awkward, but you know that it makes no sense that you’re not strong enough.”

Somehow, since Yu Seol-hee was defeated by me, it seemed that he was missing my biggest weakness.

So, with an awkward smile, I brought it up.

“That’s because the only spell I can actually use is the payroll law.”

“What…?”

Yu Seol-hee refuted me as if she didn’t believe me.

“Seriously, I can only use the wage rate.”

“Gibberish.”

Yu Seol-hee cut her words off and told me.

“The ‘transformation’ that deals with Yang Qi is much more difficult. You, who can transform like that, can’t use any of the top magic in the payroll law?”

“Really, that’s the only thing I can use. Instead of being able to deal with yang qi, it has very big side effects.”

Peculiar constitution.

Due to the will of my parents who were close to being transcendental, instead of overflowing with positive energy, I got the side effect of an extremely lack of negative energy.

If he used any other magic that had even a little bit of yin energy mixed in, he might get a rebound and die.

So I didn’t try to learn or understand the higher magic, I only delved into the payroll law.

It compresses Yang energy to the limit and shoots it out. Even if I could wield it with several layers of Yang Ki on my fist.

Still, I was the one-tool of the wage rate law.

After hearing my story, Yoo Seol-hee told me with an expression that she had been scammed.

“So, when you dealt with me… You mean that all the sorcery was only using the payroll law?”

“That’s right.”

Seolhee Yoo put on a dumbfounded expression.

Even after hearing what I said, she still didn’t believe me.

“Hanjun, then you’re saying that it’s hard to block other spells except for those containing yin energy?”

Darae, who was listening to the story, also asked me with suspicious eyes.

I nodded her head at those words.

“Yeah, I’ve tried it before. It’s easy to destroy magic that contains yin energy, and most of the magic that contains five elements are hard to block unless it’s on the water side.”

I smiled brightly and confessed the shortcomings of my sorcery.

While training with Kim Ji-hye, I went through various experiments.

Perhaps because water, one of the five elements, has strong yin energy properties, water-related magic was quite effective.

For the rest of the attributes of the Five Elements, I could only physically push them away, but it wasn’t very effective.

Upon learning of this, Yu Seol-hee stammered at me.

“Then… If you mixed those easy five elements… You mean you couldn’t stop it?”

“Right.”

Yin and yang.

As much as there are shamans and ghosts that cannot be felt in one’s lifetime, Ki exists in the upper concept of the Five Elements.

Of course, Yu Seol-hee, who was able to handle Yin-qi, only poured magic on me related to Yin-qi.

It was rather poison.

Because the opponent was none other than me, who had only yang, and because it was me who could only use tremendous yang.

The tone has been offset and disappeared.

“If it wasn’t me but another shaman or a monster… I would have lost, right?”

“Right.”

I was able to win because it was Yoo Seol-hee.

Darae wielding a sword using Yang qi, Miho using a mixture of five elements, and even that Kim Charyeok were able to defeat me.

However, as far as Yu Seol-hee, the snow woman, I had the advantage.

Yu Seol-hee listened to my story, and she spat out a word.

“This… Is a scam.”

“It’s not a scam, it just wasn’t a good fit.”

Yu Seol-hee glared at me.

I shrugged her shoulders and took her gaze.

Seolhee Yoo then, as if she felt something unfair, she reached out her white fingers and placed her fingers on the cup of coffee I was drinking.

Awesome-.

The coffee got iced up, and it expanded in an instant.

But that was for a moment, and when I held the coffee cup with my hand, the ice disappeared in an instant.

As I sipped my coffee skillfully, Yu Seol-hee chewed on her lips and tapped my foot with her foot.

A white aura spread and tickled my thighs.

There was no damage to me, who has absolute resistance to negative energy.

“… Profitable.”

Yu Seol-hee mumbles as if she is annoyed.

I can’t believe I’m laughing at the sight of him honestly revealing his emotions.

Miho, who was staring at us from the front, let out a snort.

“Huh~ For some reason, the two of you look good.”

Blinking big red eyes.

Without noticing that Miho’s red eyes, which always looked at me lovingly, were full of doubt.

We chatted like that and continued the meeting at the cafe.

* *

A wide plain a little far from the sorcery and yōkai academy.

A few weeks later, on this plain where midterm exams would be held, a person was walking while humming.

A bright red leather jacket and red sunglasses.

This man, who could be called an unusual person if anyone saw it, threw a small dagger with his right hand.

Whirly Rick.

It was a dagger that instinctively felt unpleasant.

A dark color that can’t be identified, and a day with missing teeth.

The dagger, which was painted with bright red letters, was enough to cause disgust.

However, as if the man was familiar with the dagger, he skillfully tossed and received it in the air and moved on.

The place where the man stopped walking was in the middle of the plain.

There was a large golden orb encased in a square glass tube.

The man lowered his sunglasses slightly, looked at the beads in the coffin, and grinned.

“Found.”

Having found his target, the man stopped throwing and receiving the dagger and pulled one of his cards out of his pocket.

When he brought the card to the glass tube, an esoteric letter appeared on the glass tube and he vomited a golden orb out.

With a single smile, the man took the golden marble and began to scrape it off with the dagger in his hand.

Hard-. Hard-.

A terrible sound rang out.

Just like scratching your fingernails on a desk, the sound that echoed from the orb naturally made me frown.

But the man, perhaps because the sound was sweet, hummed the same as before and scratched the golden sphere.

The man who scratched away for a few minutes must have finished his work, and he put the marble back into the glass tube with a satisfied smile.

But then, a person from afar saw the man and shouted.

“Hey! Who are you?!”

The male turned his head, and he looked at the man who called him.

A slightly bald head, a bulging belly.

The person who appeared to be middle-aged had a card, the sign of a faculty member, hanging around his neck.

The man scratched his head as if he was annoyed, then threw the dagger in my hand.

Whirik-.

A dagger rises in the air.

The man disappeared from the spot.

Chin-.

Strangely, the dagger and the man all disappeared on the spot.

The sound of getting the dagger resounded.

Right behind the middle-aged man’s back.

“Uh… Huh?”

The middle-aged man, feeling a chill behind his back, stopped.

‘If I look back, I will die.’

Since he had participated in the Great War 20 years ago, he knew it instinctively.

That’s why we can’t take any action, and let’s just stiffen our bodies in a cold sweat.

A man walked out from behind me in front of me.

“Why are you doing that, embarrassing people?”

I wear sunglasses, though I can’t see my eyes.

The man smiled mischievously and spoke to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man swallowed his breath and told him.

“Who are you.”

“Me? The person who works at this academy.”

The man held the card he had taken out earlier in front of the middle-aged man.

The card was for an employee at the academy.

In the photo proving his identity, his name was written in small letters next to a smiling man wearing bright red sunglasses.

‘Hongma-dong’

It’s an unusual name, but the middle-aged man who saw the employee card told him with relief.

“Aren’t you surprised? Why the hell are you here?”

“Oh, that’s it.”

Hong Ma-dong replied with a soft smile.

“Because I didn’t know. Maybe it’ll work out… I just tweaked the golden beads just in case.”

“Are those golden marbles for this midterm exam?”

“Yes.”

Hong Ma-dong, who was covered by a large red egg and did not know what expression he was making, said to the middle-aged man.

“I always have insurance in advance.”

It was obviously a soft tone, but there was a chill inside Hong Ma-dong’s words.

The middle-aged man swallowed his saliva and looked at the back of Hongma-dong passing by him before he knew it.

Tall and well-rounded, he repeatedly threw and received the dagger as he did when he came.

Whirik-.

The dagger hovered in the air.

Widely.

The dagger settled gently in his hand.