166 – Ability Conflict
– Purrr…
After witnessing an unimaginable and horrifying truth, Kang Ha-neul’s mind was filled with only thoughts of driving his fist into the face of the woman in front of him.
“Why… Isn’t it moving…?”
But for some reason, neither my hands nor my feet can move. No, I couldn’t even blink my eyelids.
“”…………””
And it seemed like the same was true for the group standing behind Kang Ha-neul.
From Lumia, who seemed to be able to deal with most situations with a smile, to Dice, who seemed to be able to come up with a solution to anything.
Pandora, who is usually untrustworthy but turns out to be a master of strategy, and Mystic Shine, who is the strongest when it comes to sheer force.
Everyone was in a situation where they couldn’t move at a single word from Se-Ah Lee.
“Why…”
“Ah, sky. Don’t move too hard.”
As Kang Haneul grits her teeth and twists her body in such a hopeless situation, Isea looks worried and begins to whisper to him.
“Even if you struggle like that, it won’t work out. What are you going to do if you make a mistake and break a joint?”
– Kkukdeukdeukdeuk…
“Look. The joints are already making strange noises.”
Finally, as she said that, she released her embrace, stepped back slightly, and looked at her river and sky.
“But, it doesn’t matter. I will take care of you. Do you remember when we used to play hospital at the playground back in the day?”
– Kkukdeudeudeudeuk…
“At that time, I was the patient and you were the doctor. hehehehe… I feel embarrassed for some reason.”
Her face was blushing shyly as she muttered that.
“I will definitely… I will definitely kill you…”
“Huh?”
“I’m going to kill you…”
Kang Haneul looks at her with anger and begins to chant in a low voice.
“The sky full of life is also quite nice…”
– Sigh…
“But unfortunately, I don’t think I can listen to that.”
But she reached out and began to caress his cheek, whispering in a soft voice.
“I’m going to fix the future from now on.”
“…….!”
“The ritual I’m about to do succeeds, all those b*tches behind you die, Sky realizes my true love, and we live together in a future…”
“Stop it!!!”
“Surprise.”
At those words, Kang Haneul screams with her face turning pale, and Se-ah Lee, with her round eyes, begins to speak with an expression of incomprehension.
“Sky, why are you doing this?”
“That’s what you mean…!”
“Anyway, that’s the future I originally decided on. Since you’ve been living with that future fixed for the past ten years, this is actually true. The past few months have been abnormal, Sky.”
After hearing those words, Kang Ha-neul looks at Se-ah Lee with disgust.
“…Could you please stop looking at me like that?”
Lee Se-ah, who was quietly watching the scene, mutters with a dark expression.
“If Haneul continues to look at me like that, I think it will be traumatizing… I think it may remain as a wound in my heart even when I live five days later…”
“Why on earth… Why on earth are you doing this…?”
Then suddenly Kang Ha-neul lowered his head and asked a question with a pitiful expression.
“Isn’t there a reason for doing such a terrible thing?”
“Why?”
“Is there something going on inside you that you can’t tell me about? Or did you approach me from the beginning with the intention of just using me for a ritual?
“……..”
“Why on earth are you doing this to me…?”
After hearing that question, Se-Ah Lee immediately answers without a moment of hesitation.
“Because I like it!”
Then, at a loss for words, her river Sky began to stare at her blankly.
“I did it because I liked it. Is that so wrong?”
“…………”
“Haneul, I didn’t just like you. I was the first person to like you!”
When he makes a shocked expression, Lee Se-ah beats her chest in frustration and continues the story.
“Think about it. Isn’t it no different from theft for someone else to interfere when you already like someone? Even getting stoned to death is worth it!”
“…….”
“It’s not even like I didn’t show it off! Don’t you remember how I always played the role of your wife when I played house with you? Since then, I’ve been telling everyone not to look down on me…!!!”
“Crazy b*tch.”
Looking at her like that, Kang Haneul blurts out a single word in her cold voice.
“And to be honest, I was so upset when you asked me if I was planning on using you in the ritual from the beginning. How could I do that to you?”
“Get your hands off me…”
“This power I have was obtained through hard work in order to obtain you. The order is wrong, the order is…”
“Get your hands off me, you motherf*cker…”
“It was quite difficult to be in a position to move behind the scenes to save you from those b*tches. If it weren’t for my abilities, it probably wouldn’t have been possible…”
But it seemed as if Se-ah Lee’s ears could no longer hear anything.
“When I figured out the cause of the appearance of demonic beasts and monsters and gained their power, I really thought I was going to die? Still, I endured it while thinking of you…”
“……..”
“Because if I make you the worst villain, won’t everyone hate you? Except me…”
Just like that, Ise-ah continues her story alone, ignoring Kang Haneul’s reaction.
“I know very well that this world is a bit strange… There are many abilities that cannot be scientifically proven, and there are terrible-looking monsters…”
“……..”
“I was quite successful in finding out the cause of that phenomenon. And I decided to use that to work with you!”
She shrugs her shoulders slightly and looks awkwardly smug.
“Huh, what do you think? A woman as capable as me? I can do anything you want.”
“…Then please die right now.”
“That’s not possible! I have to have children with you and live happily ever after, but I can’t do that if I die now, right?”
Then she immediately reacts to Kang Haneul’s harsh words and shakes her head.
“Then I guess I’ll have to die.”
“Of course, that’s not possible either…”
Then she takes something out of her arms and starts muttering with a sweet smile that makes her melt.
“Because your future will be fixed from now on…”
“That’s…”
“Unfortunately, I used my ability once when I came here.”
She says that and shakes the medicine she holds in her hand.
“So, I’m going to take sleeping pills and force my abilities…”
“…….”
“Oh, and before that…”
Ise-ah, who was taking the medicine to her mouth, instantly stiffened her expression and turned her head back.
“I should exclude regressors who have a negative impact on my abilities…”
– It’s not easy…
Then, she raised her hand and aimed her finger at Dice, whose entire body was frozen.
“Wait a minute…!”
– Boom…!!!
And the next moment.
“…Big.”
“Hmm, do you think it’s neutralized at this level?”
Dice, who received a huge shock to the heart, spits out blood from his mouth and his body goes limp.
“No way!!!”
“It’s okay, Sky. I didn’t kill them. I have no intention of killing those women yet.”
When her scream came out of the mouth of her river Haneul, who was watching her, Ise-ah muttered that with a happy smile and then poured her medicine into her mouth.
“…Those women will be stuffed in our house.”
After concluding her words like that, she quietly closed her eyes, and soon her silence descended.
– Tdu-duk-duk-duk…
Even though Kang Ha-neul had clearly stopped moving, except for the sound of joints breaking coming from somewhere.
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“……Ha?”
How much time has passed?
“What…?”
Ise-ah, with an expressionless face, opens her eyes again and begins to mutter in her dumbfounded voice.
“Why is the future still so arbitrary…?”
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– Creep, boom…
“The returner must have been neutralized… But why…”
At that time, she bit her nails and raised her head.
– Wood-dud-dud-duk!
“……!”
Ise-ah’s eyes suddenly turn round.
“People…You were wrong…”
“What? You…”
“What you should have been wary of…”
Ariel, who broke the joints of her entire body to break free from Isea’s bondage, was putting her joints back together, enduring the terrible pain that surged through her.
“It’s me…!”
As her body begins to become covered in red sparks, Ise-ah narrows her eyes and begins to make a wary expression.
“…You seem to know which joints to twist effectively to escape my restraints?”
She looks at Ariel with scary eyes and begins to clench her fists.
“I heard that Haneul has a lot of luck…?”
“Don’t spit out that name with that dirty mouth…”
“Of course, I can’t take my eyes off you even for a moment.”
Soon, Ise-ah points her finger at Ariel, just like she did with Dice.
– Kugugugugugung…!
“…Tsk.”
Luckily for her, Ariel was able to dodge her attack by twisting her entire body, but she was unable to avoid the dust cloud created by the shock wave that hit the ground where she was.
“Let’s try to be a little more clear.”
In a situation where Ariel’s vision is blocked, this time, surprisingly, Ise-ah summons her black tentacles, which her river sky and the concept of humility used to create, to all around her and shoots them all at her.
– It’s hard to crack…!
The tentacles plunge into the dust cloud, and a brief moment of silence begins to flow.
“Hmm…”
Lee Se-ah watches the situation closely and smiles as the dust cloud clears.
“Ha, ha…”
“It was you.”
She was muttering in her creepy voice as she looked at Ariel, who had entered the only blind spot that allowed her to avoid all those tentacles, just in the nick of time.
“…The guy who kept changing the future.”