167 – Conflict of abilities (2)
– Kwazisik… Kwazisik…
“…Ugh.”
As the red sparks spreading everywhere clear, the staggering figure of Ariel is revealed.
– Wiggle, wiggle…
Countless tentacles floating above her head.
“Clearly… I guess I saw the future.”
“……..”
“I see you lasted for such an unusually long time.”
Isea, who was moving her tentacles freely, began to mutter in a low voice.
“But if I keep avoiding it, I’ll be in trouble, right?”
– Kkukdeudeudeudeuk…!
“You already look tired… These tentacles never get tired.”
As she said, although Ariel was using her amazing skills to avoid the tentacles rushing towards her, her speed was also gradually slowing down.
“Hey, there you are.”
Around the time the tentacles began to pass over her skin and leave scars on her.
“How many times have you repeated this?”
Ise-ah smiles with her back turned and asks a question in a low voice.
– Pajik…!
“Huh!?”
The brief commotion caused by those words caused Ariel to lose her balance, and Isea’s black tentacles did not miss the chance and dug into her heart.
“Ah, ahhh…”
“…Looking at it, it doesn’t seem like it was repeated for that long.”
As Ariel, who had fallen forward thanks to her, rolled around on her floor, Ise-ah whispered, pulling back the tentacles that had stretched out with a satisfied expression.
“And I’m sorry, but no matter how many times I repeat it, you can’t beat me.”
“Ugh…”
“No matter how much you have the ability to interfere with the future… There’s no way you can beat me now.”
She says as she looks at Ariel, who is glaring at her with her fierce, fiery eyes.
“Because I am the one who has reached the deepest part of the laws of this world.”
“What… Are you talking about?”
“Everyone knows…? That this world has turned into a game.”
Ariel heard those words and her face hardened for a moment.
“I made a deal directly with the being who made this world like that.”
“How…”
“He wanted to have a little more influence on this world, but for some reason he couldn’t interfere directly, and I needed his power, right?”
“…….”
“So-called business partners.”
After hearing those words, Kang Ha-neul asks a question in a strained voice.
“Are you really… So sure?”
“Huh?”
“Have you ever thought about being taken advantage of…?”
Then Ise-ah begins to tilt her head as if asking what she is talking about.
“Think about it. Why would someone powerful enough to turn the world into this situation approach one of you and offer a deal…?”
“…………”
“There’s no reason for that, right? Think about it carefully, Ise-ah. Maybe you were played by him from beginning to end…”
“…It doesn’t matter?”
When she answered so confidently, she stopped talking and Kang Haneul made a blank expression.
“Ah, I know that guy, that’s why he pinpointed me and asked for a deal… And I also know his identity.”
“What is that…”
“And it doesn’t matter if I was used. Because I don’t care if the world is destroyed as long as I have you.”
“……..”
“And Sky. Think about it. Why didn’t I remain on guard even after encountering such a suspicious being?”
“…….?”
“That guy actually… No, you shouldn’t say it here. That’s different from a promise. Yeah.”
Ise-ah tries to say something to him, but quickly corrects herself and smiles.
“Anyway, a lot of time has passed.”
“…………”
“I need to start the ritual soon.”
“…What do you mean by consciousness?”
“Oh, would you like me to explain?”
He looks at Kang Ha-neul with a slightly sad look in his eyes as he persistently asks questions in Kang Ha-neul’s increasingly tired voice, and then asks again.
– Just…!
After saying that, she snapped her fingers.
“…Huh?”
Kang Haneul, feeling his heart pounding, clutches his chest and collapses in his seat.
“What… Did you do?”
“Aren’t you embarrassed because it’s so out of your consciousness? I’ll explain it kindly.”
Ise-ah touches his chest and begins to whisper softly.
“What I and the Great Being are trying to do is very simple. First of all, you know about the body parts of the Great Being that each Knight of the Apocalypse possesses, right?”
“…Eyes, heart, brain, and body?”
“That’s it! As expected, Haneul is smart…!”
When Kang Ha-neul, recalling what the president of the Hero Association said at the seminar, answered with a sad expression, she clapped her hands and hearts appeared in her eyes.
“But I don’t have that…”
“…Sky, what do you mean?”
Then, upon hearing Kang Ha-neul’s remark, Lee Se-ah immediately makes a straight face and puts her hand inside his clothes.
– Wiggle, wiggle…
“The heart of a great being has already been fused with your heart…”
When Kang Ha-neul heard those words and made an expression of disbelief, Lee Se-ah smiled shyly and pressed her cheek to his heart.
“You’ve already given me a name ‘Kkeuleuki’…? It’s really cute. hehehehe…”
“Then this is…”
When Kang Ha-neul mutters with a stiff expression upon her words, Lee Se-ah looks into his eyes and begins to whisper.
“It must have been in the shape of a huge heart before it was fused with you. Didn’t you notice? Oh, by the way, Haneul is smart, but she’s been very clueless since she was young…”
“…….”
“…No matter how much I appeal to him, he just treats me like a close friend and goes off to hang out with other girls.”
Then, her expression suddenly becomes cold, and she inserts her shadow-enveloped hand into the heart of her river sky and grasps it fiercely.
“Ouch…”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I intentionally disrupted your mind to prevent your mind from being read by your ability.”
“Cluck, cough…”
“So sometimes it tastes like this. hehehehe…”
Then, before she knew it, her expression relaxed and she withdrew her hand with a bright smile.
“Well, it’s still better than when I acted for a moment thinking that you were the real villain and that I was doing justice. Please take a look?”
“That… Again… What are you talking about…”
“You know this well from the case of Hart, who had a dual personality, right? The most effective way to defend against mental abilities is to get mentally ill. It’s like a so-called vaccine.”
“…………”
“Anyway, back to the main topic, do you know how scared I was during the seminar? No, no matter what, our Sky is going to die there…”
When she did not hear an answer from Kang Ha-neul, who began to vomit blood from her mouth in the aftermath of holding her heart in his hands, she began to continue her story alone with a sullen expression on her face.
“Originally, I should have fused with ‘Kkeunreuki’ there and started down the path of corruption in earnest… Why am I filming a romantic drama with a junior from school I’ve never even heard of or seen before?”
“…….!”
“Now I see that’s you? You b*tch.”
Then, she turned her gaze to Ariel, who momentarily flinched as she collapsed on the floor, and muttered coldly.
“In order to save Haneul, who kept dying due to the variable you created, all the poison was lost in awakening Kkyoreuk a little faster… If it had been fully absorbed, everything would have gone as planned by now…”
“Were you there?”
After hearing those words, Ariel asks with disbelieving eyes.
“I… I’ve never seen you in all those repetitions…”
“I guess that’s because it was in a form that humans couldn’t perceive, right?”
“……..”
“By the way, I was wondering where such a strong person suddenly appeared.”
And the next moment.
– It’s not easy…
“aaah!!”
Ariel suddenly screams in pain and begins to twist her body.
“…Did you think I came here without any preparation, even though I thought I had the same ability just a moment ago?”
“aaah, ahhh…!!!”
“Now, you won’t be able to use your abilities for about a day. With the attack you made earlier, the heart where the concept resides has been contaminated with shadow.”
Ise-ah, who was looking down at her rolling around in pain with cold eyes, slightly raises the corner of her mouth and whispers in a low voice.
“…In other words, now there is no one who can interfere with my future.”
And then the cold silence began.
“Anyway, to continue the explanation from earlier, the success conditions for the ritual are as follows. Sky.”
Within the restraint strengthened to the point where no one except Ariel and Kang Ha-neul can even keep their mouths shut, only Lee Se-ah’s excited voice resonates.
“Did each of the four Knights of the Apocalypse have the eyes, heart, brain, and body of a great being?”
“…Ugh.”
“Or give it to one person.”
In such a situation, Ise-ah begins to massage Kang Ha-neul’s heart more gently than before.
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“I’m going to choose the latter.”
“Stop…”
“Because you have to be the best. The concept of death and the concept of war happen to be in the same place.”
“Stop it!!!”
Her river Sky tried to call out to her with all her might, but Isea just smiled at her and massaged his heart.
“I’m sorry, but your heart is now polluted by my power… So you can’t use your abilities.”
“…….”
“And it’s the same for those b*tches behind us…”
Just like that, the light of hope slowly begins to disappear from Kang Ha-neul’s face.
“Once we absorb the two people here, let’s hunt down the hidden concept of hunger and complete the ritual.”
“No…”
“And then, let’s begin.”
It was the same for Kang Ha-neul and his group behind him.
“A happy world for you and me…!”
Recognizing such a situation, Se-ah Lee spread his arms with a happy expression and was about to declare victory.
“…Hey.”
“…?”
Right then.
“How many times do you think I’ve repeated this situation?”
Ariel, who had been lying quietly on the floor until then, began to mutter in a low voice.
“…I’m not sure because I gave up counting halfway through, but it’s probably twice as much as at the seminar, right?”
“Hey, what are you saying?”
Ise-ah opens her mouth, looking at her as if watching her fall.
“In the end, the end of that repetition is that you were neutralized by me, right?”
She closes her eyes and shoves the extra pill into her mouth again.
“Now, no one here can stop my abilities…”
“I’m sorry, but my abilities are in the concept of a hero. Not in the concept of regression or repetition…”
At that point, Ariel slowly raises her head and reveals her truth.
“…..?”
“…Well, it’s okay if you don’t understand.”
She looked at Se-ah Lee, who was putting her medicine in her mouth and making a puzzled expression, and slightly raised the corner of her mouth.
“Because I wasted all my time.”
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“…Ise-ah.”
And, it was the very moment Ariel’s speech ended.
“Stop everything you were trying to do…”
A cold voice rang out from the back of the road, which had been hidden thanks to Kang Ha-neul’s group gathered together.
“Thinking, breathing, heartbeat…”
“You…”
“…Everything stops!!!”
Kang Maru finally reached her destination, and with tears streaming down her eyes, she gave a command to Isea with all her might.