39. Trouble with True Apostles (3)
“I like that it’s warm…”
Song Xia dug into my arms.
A patrol area that is off-limits to ordinary cadets.
Ground Zero and the remnants of the era of great chaos remained, and the area was like ruins.
So, Song Xia showed me full of emotions without paying attention to anyone.
‘You’ve completely fallen for me.’
night when the sun goes down.
Songxia seems to have become more beautiful under the crumbling moonlight.
However, she was able to think more calmly because her absolute composure was maintained.
I grew up not receiving any affection from my parents from a young age.
The only reason Song Yu-hwan is interested in Song Xia is true blood.
Of course, people under Song Yu-hwan, not family members, paid a lot of attention to her.
It is also because of the background that she is the daughter of Song Yoo-hwan.
Song Shia is someone who has never received love and attention in a pure sense from anyone.
‘Except for me.’
In my case, it wasn’t affection as a member of the opposite s*x.
I was well aware of Song Xia’s unfortunate background through the original work.
The fact that Song Shia grew up to be an emotionless monster.
It must have been a defense mechanism to avoid being hurt by the people around you who are trying to use you.
So, during the Aegis days, I was always kind to her.
Rather than An Yu-min, whom I liked, I paid more attention to her emotionally.
Of course, the result was Song Xia’s betrayal.
‘It’s too late, it’s funny that I noticed.’
But now Song Xia was in my arms, holding me tight as if she was longing for that body heat.
The warmth that Song Xia felt for the first time since she was born.
It wasn’t until after I left that I didn’t even know that I had noticed the warmth of that warmth too late.
“Now… I will never… let go. I will not give you to anyone.”
To the point of being very sad, Xia Song continued to express her feelings.
However, unfortunately, her heart did not reach me at all.
While gently stroking Song Xia’s silver hair, which was close to silver.
I had no feelings for her at all.
I would rather have felt anger towards her.
There might have been at least some possibility for Song Shia.
If that anger is resolved, the relationship between the two people who ended in the worst form might start again.
But absolute composure was literally absolute.
I just use her for the useful tools of demonization and demonic power.
Now, I was not the Lee Jun-woo she knew, but the villain Unknown.
At that time, Song Xia spoke.
“Look at me.”
Her red eyes shone like jewels.
A face full of anticipation.
Her eyes were wet with an expression full of affection for me.
Just like Instructor Lee Soo-yeon, like the manaab created by peak-class awakeners.
Xia Song tied me up.
Like a small animal encountering a dangerous poisonous snake.
My entire body instantly froze.
“Like last time… kiss me. Do you… love me too?”
The true blood vampire’s overwhelming hypnotic ability.
Even I almost lost control of my body for a moment.
It was fine too.
Even in the eyes of the Jinhyeol who constantly seduced me, my spirit remained intact.
But I deliberately pretended to be hypnotized.
‘It’s giving false hope to Song Xia now.’
It was like me during Aegis.
my sincerity Just like the foolish me who believed that my sincerity of wanting to grow with them would definitely be conveyed.
I will give even more vain hope to the present Song Shia.
And, when Songxia fell into a perfect illusion.
When I’m under the illusion that I’m completely in her circle, I’ll confess the truth.
The truth that in my heart, I have no feelings for her, not even a speck of dust.
“Come on, answer me. Do you… do you love me?”
When Song Xia fell into despair and yearned for me even more.
I will make that Songxia into a marionette, that puppet, and I will have a complete devil’s body.
I smiled.
He smiled, nodded, and replied.
“I love you too.”
You’d think it was a hypnotized answer.
Even with that false answer, Song Xia showed me a very ecstatic smile.
“Me too… I love you… Chuuup…”
With both arms wrapped around my neck, she kissed me.
Baring her fangs, she lightly bit my lip.
Licking the blood, Xia Song kissed deeper than the last time and continued for a long time.
***
Song Xia’s vampirism continued like that.
after a while As expected, the voices of the cadets resonated not far away.
“What happened!! Go, the attack doesn’t work!”
It was the voice of a male cadet.
He looked like a member of the True Apostles.
Shocked by that voice, Xia Song released her arm from my neck.
Until then, I, who had deliberately acted out a hazy expression.
He shook his head pretending to be free from hypnosis.
“What’s going on…? Could it be that something happened to Jin Hyun-joon’s gang a while ago?”
I sneakily checked Song Xia’s face.
The full blood of true blood was released, and the ecstatic expression was full of regret.
However, it seems that Song Shia has also confirmed that I have been released from hypnosis.
She said.
“Unlike other patrol areas, this is an S-class danger zone. I think there must be a problem.”
“Let’s go over there right now.”
To be honest, I wasn’t worried about the members of the True Apostles at all.
Jin Hyeon-Jun, who has a good sense of humor, was on patrol.
He must have touched the trigger to enter the Mirror Hotel.
As expected, when I arrived there in a hurry, the situation unfolded as I saw in the original story.
‘It’s a monster that I can’t handle at the cadet level.’
A gigantic monster that looked over 3m in size and Jin Hyun-joon and his party were in a confrontation.
The half-man, half-beast monster Lamia.
A mythical monster with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a human.
Although the upper body was humanoid.
With several pairs of arms, it had a skin color so bizarre that it was impossible to think of it as a human, and it was uncomfortable just to look at it.
‘Is it a dark attribute?’
In the form of a normal monster, if it had a light or dark attribute, the risk rose from at least half to one grade.
Lamia’s monster grade is usually B.
Even assuming that it was a B+ rank, it was impossible for a normal cadet level.
“So many dark attribute Lamia…”
It was at least five.
It was such a dangerous situation that a normal cadet would have died instantly.
Still, like members of the elite cadets, the Apostles, everyone was holding on.
“Keep the party in shape. If the holding power goes down like this… it will be a big deal!!”
Jin Hyeon-jun, holding a sword, was desperately shouting.
However, you can already tell that it is the limit just by watching it from a distance.
‘In the first place, the opponent is designed to be impossible.’
It’s not a monster that jumped out of a normal dungeon.
It’s related to the Hotel of Mirrors.
A monster that has the Dark attribute and uses Illusion Magic passively.
So the main body probably isn’t that many.
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Due to an unexpected encounter with a high-level monster, the panic-stricken cadets couldn’t tell them apart.
It was so sophisticated that even I wouldn’t notice the mirror image if I wasn’t paying attention.
“It’s dangerous, get back!”
I quickly jumped into the gap between the monsters.
Although Song Shia did not seem to have any intention of helping Jin Hyeon-joon’s group.
Still, I moved first, and she followed suit.
[Active skill barrier creation (lv.2) has been used.]
The barrier I created surrounded my body.
Maintaining that barrier, I jumped towards the group of lamia.
“Lee Jun-woo? Helping us… More than that, that Lamia is dangerous! Get out of here!”
“Since you know, use a recovery potion on the wounded.”
It seems Jin Hyun-joon never thought that I would help them.
Me, a member of the student council who fell out with the True Apostles.
‘Well, since we had a war of nerves like that a little while ago.’
But there is a reason for everything to help.
To enter the Hotel of Mirrors.
Conditions were the same as before.
Letisine’s Ark is basically a system to protect the cadets.
But now, there’s a problem with that system, and it allows such dangerous monsters to appear.
For its protection, the Ark forces the cadets into the Hotel of Mirrors.
‘That’s why the higher rank cadets are more likely to enter the Hotel of Mirrors.’
It means that Jin Hyeon-joon, who developed that sense, properly set up the beehive.
Knowing the circumstances behind it, I had nothing to fear even in front of the dangerous monster in front of me.
“Dangerous! A single person can never handle those guys!”
Jin Hyun-joon was frightened when he saw me standing alone against the Lamia group.
Song Xia was also startled by my sudden action, and hurriedly ran to me to protect me.
“I’ll deal with you myself, Jun-woo, avoid you!!”
Of course I didn’t mean to.
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The barrier deflected the mana rays of the dark attribute created by the lamia group.
However, the barrier was shattered in an instant, leaving them defenseless.
“Lee Jun-woo! No more!”
“You guys who are injured can’t stand it! So I’ll deal with you!”
“Why are you helping us so much…?”
“Don’t ask for obvious things. It’s the same Theia’s motive.”
At my words, Jin Hyun-joon couldn’t answer for a moment and was silent.
It was such a strong attack that the recoil alone pushed my body far back.
So, even with a barrier, it took considerable damage.
Jin Hyun-joon, to the extent of being surprised to see me throwing my body to help them.
But I wasn’t afraid, and fired a fireball.
Rather, Lamia’s gaze focused on me.
‘Anyway, it’s difficult for Jin Hyeon-jun and his party to really die.’
Once more, Lamia started a concentrated bombardment at me.
“I’m really dangerous!”
Song Xia also hurriedly activated her magic.
Although that spell killed one Lamia.
Unfortunately, it was welcome.
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The dangerous moment when Lamia’s attack flies as it is.
I activated the barrier once more to protect me and Xia Song.
“Lee Jun-woo!!!”
Hyunjun Jin shouted.
At that moment, a very bright light enveloped the party.
[The quest ‘Hotel of Mirrors’ has been opened.]
As in the original story, I entered the Hotel of Mirrors with my party.