Episode 227
The guy, who had been busy running through the air, stopped moving for some reason and stared at me as I left.
‘… I’ll just give it to you.’
He also knows the former me. That’s why he decided not to give up Javawork and not let go of his advantage.
Indeed, it was a cool and rational decision that saw my target number.
‘It won’t be easy.’
After I got down to the arena, I teamed up with other shikigami to defeat the incapacitated Java Walk without difficulty.
The last remaining opponent, the Sleep Dragon, was just waiting for me in the sky.
“Black sound. Doyoung (盜影), publicly.”
Hearing my words, Black Eum and Black Birds joined forces to catch Doyoung and flew away, while Gongsam grabbed my shoulder and climbed up to the sky together.
This is the optimal configuration for effectively conducting dogfights.
So now, somehow, with the current members alone, I had no choice but to fight the dragon and defeat him.
“Just do what I said before.”
[aah!]
The two shikigami responded, and finally, Doyoung nodded.
So, we climbed into the air again, and we were able to face the dragon with a different momentum than before.
‘There’s no such thing as being vigilant anymore, isn’t it?’
In fact, I can’t feel even the slightest gap in the current sleep dragon.
So, it was our task to somehow create it.
“… Burn it.”
Fuwaak!
Whoops!
At the powerful flames that Gongsam-i spewed out, the Sleeping Dragon avoided it by rotating its body as if performing acrobatics.
And taking advantage of that gap, Doyoung and I, who had organized the rite, pressed him from both sides.
“Chilsan Gyeok (七散擊).”
[…] Chilsan Gyeok (七散擊).]
Nettle juice!
quagga gag!
The sleep dragon preferentially evaded the relatively powerful magic on my side, and Doyoung’s attack flowed through the scales as it was.
And with an ear-piercing roar, he flew straight towards us.
‘… Is it going to be a match right away?’
The roar with the power to paralyze the body for a moment, and the treasury trick that followed it was a tactic of victory that I also used frequently.
However, that was the moment I had been waiting for.
[Now.]
Verdi, who had been timing the timing through my words in advance, canceled the flying technique, and at the same time, I summoned the dark tones and the black swans into the shadows.
So we naturally fell, and we managed to get out of his attack range.
‘It was close.’
However, this is where it becomes advantageous.
As soon as the paralysis was relieved, I immediately summoned the shikigami again, and Verdi gave me another flying technique.
And around the sleeping dragon, who had missed the timing, the amulets I had left were scattered and radiating powerful spiritual power.
“Clean Zucchini.”
Whoops.
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
A blue-green wine made by Cheongju-hwa using the amulet of blue fortune.
Of course, its power cannot even be compared to normal ones.
Embarrassed by this, the Sleeping Dragon hurriedly twisted his body and started avoiding the chains, so he did not notice it.
From the amulet floating above the guy’s head, for some reason the chain wasn’t coming out.
“just now.”
[Yes Yes. I have already unlocked it.]
The amulet that was flapping in the air emitted an intense light, and then it inflated its size and began to change into a form of something.
Its true identity was Gsondae, who was disguised as a talisman through the witch’s magic.
[Kooh!]
The Sleeping Dragon, who was completely bewildered by the sudden appearance of a giant goblin, started to fall into the arena along with Gsondae while twisting its body as it was.
It seemed that he was trying to resist with all his might, but he was also a mighty yokai that had reached S rank.
The Sleep Dragon, weakened by being reproduced by the Proposal Sutra, was not an opponent that could be ignored.
Whee done!
Aww-!
In the end, the two collided with the ground with a strong impact, and I also hurriedly pursued them and headed to the arena.
In the meantime, Gusundae, who was thrown into a corner of the arena and shook his head, was staggered, but the dragon who raised his body somehow.
However, it would be near impossible for such a sleep dragon to escape the already perfectly formed siege.
– Kyao-o-!
It was a sleeping dragon who tried to create a gap with a loud roar again, but it was not as powerful as it used to be.
In the end, without breaking the siege, he also continued the battle in an unfavorable space.
‘He’s strong. However… … .’
Even my present shikigami have never been weak. If the circumstances were up to this point, it was enough power to get him to win.
Fuwaak!
Whoops!
Wedge lover!
Kwa-Gaga-Gak-!
As the battle continued, more and more scratches were engraved on the sleep dragon’s body.
And when the hard scales finally came off and blood spurted out, the fate of victory and defeat began to change.
– Whoa… … .
Koo!
The result, of course, was our victory.
[…] That’s great,]
At some point in time, the me of the past reappeared and uttered a soft exclamation.
To be sure, I, too, never expected to win so perfectly.
What if I had been standing here in the past, not having experienced many experiences here?
I’m not sure, but maybe I didn’t win in the end.
However, now I have done it and successfully passed the ordeal of the Proposal.
And to me like that, the guy said.
[Finally, it seems that you are qualified.]
“What do you mean?”
Then, just as I was about to ask the question, the spiritual power within my body spontaneously surged, and a strange feeling of exaltation enveloped my whole body.
Whoops.
gurgling.
A new possibility was given to me, who had overcome the ordeal of the Proposal.
‘… Awesome.’
Forgetting the previous question, I was purely admiring it.
Although I saw the description several times in the work, the actual feeling I felt was different from that.
It felt like I was being reborn as if I was in a martial arts metamorphosis.
As I realized it as if possessed, the space of ordeal that had fulfilled its role suddenly began to crumble.
And to me like that, the me of the past spoke to me again.
[Keep in mind.]
“… what?”
[The thing you really need to overcome is that it’s not just an illusion like me.]
At the same time, I felt the gaze of someone other than his.
And I soon found it.
A dazzling blonde woman staring endlessly at me in the collapsing arena.
And I knew her identity.
‘Ciel.’
He was the only one who asserted that I could never win in the previous world.
She, who was ranked number 1 in the PVP world ranking, was once again asking me to a duel here.
***
There, I was ranked seventh.
However, as I said before, it is the maximum number that I was able to climb by using my lack of time with a full-time job.
And I was, in fact, confident that if I had enough time, I would defeat all five of them above me.
‘but… … .’
not like her
Ciel was the first and last opponent I recognized as an unbeatable opponent.
And after the day I admitted everything, I never challenged her to a duel again.
‘The impossible is impossible.’
I was confident in my skills, but that made it possible for me to make a more sober judgment.
There is an insurmountable wall between me and her.
And it will never break.
‘If it were someone else, I would have tried to overcome it by creating a variable somehow… … .’
she is different
Even on days when she was sick or not in good condition, as a result, her strength never wavered.
In a word, she was a person who seemed to exist in some other dimension.
In fact, I thought that would be the same feeling if the main characters representing the Exorcism series were brought to reality.
‘… Well, meeting Yoo Ha-on in person was different from that.’
Anyway, to be honest, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to reach her now that I’m more grown up than I was before.
It was already deeply rooted in my mind, and was soon accepted as a solid fact.
‘By the way… … .’
In the midst of the ordeal of the Proposal, she appeared again.
And indeed, even after I got out of the ordeal, the Proposal is responding to me.
It meant that I still had the conditions to enter there.
‘Is the ordeal not over?’
However, it is very strange. I was able to accept the trial of the Proposal only once from the beginning, and I have already acquired that power.
It was proven by the actions of the characters in the work, and I have never heard of another ordeal like mine.
‘If that was possible, I wouldn’t have known… … .’
However, no matter what happened, I was given another ordeal now, and it seemed to me that it was a condition to win against her, who was the No. 1 ranking.
‘Certainly.’
The hand sign that she sent while staring at me in the space of trials is a kind of command that asks for a duel with each other in the latest work.
Although a lot of time has passed since then, there is no way that I will ever be mistaken for it.
Recognizing that, I recalled the memories of the past one by one and slowly looked back on the duels I had with her.
And now I imagined that I would fight against her.
The result was really simple and clear.
‘No matter how many times you stick, you lose.’
No matter how much I imagined, I couldn’t come up with a picture that would defeat her.
It wasn’t even a slight difference. Because in my imagination, I was literally suffering an overwhelming defeat by her.
No matter how much you think of variables and cut the results, that fact does not change.
At that, I let out a bittersweet laugh, and immediately turned away, leaving the Proposal Sutra in the intangible.
“Are you done with all your chores?”
“Yes. Thanks for your help.”
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My thoughts did not change at all until the moment I met Jeong-ha and said goodbye and returned to my residence.‘It’s impossible to get over her.’
Even if I grow up and come back.
Whether the level is over 60 or over 70, you can’t reverse the already set result.
So, I denied it and continued my judgment rationally.
‘The original purpose has been achieved, so there is no problem anyway.’
If I was convinced and resigned like that, at least my heart wouldn’t be complicated.
So, I put the worries about another ordeal of Proposal in the depths of my heart.
I thought I would never go back to that space again.