49. Moon Walk
49. Moon Walk
Next day.
As the students were given free time, I walked around the hanok village with Yoo Ha-yeon.
As we continued to walk in the same position, Ha-yeon Yoo asked me as if frustrated.
“Han Si-jun. What are you doing?”
“Shh, wait.”
“I’ve been waiting for 30 minutes already…?”
Is the time already like that?
The time now is 11:35.
In the hanok village, the cuckoo sounds, announcing that it is 12 o’clock.
And it acted like a gate-opening flare in V. AGE Episode 2.
The remaining time is about 25 minutes left.
I was located in a small mill on the outskirts of the hanok village so as not to get caught up in the center of the gate.
It was just a pity that I could only do this.
“Yoo Ha-yeon. How would you feel if I shouted that the gate is now open here?”
“What did you eat wrong yesterday?”
Even Yoo Ha-yeon said so much that she couldn’t believe me.
Why is the gate open in Jeonju Hanok Village, where the gate has not been opened for decades?
I’m like, ‘The gate is open! Everyone run away!’ But they don’t believe me,
Will treat me like crazy
If you clear the gates in Episode 2 quickly, people won’t take any damage.
All I could do was clear the gate without saying anything.
‘For that, we need Lee Seol-ha.’
The reason I wander around the same place in the outskirts is to find Lee Seol-ha.
I feel inferior to the students who spend money in their free time to relocate.
‘If I had money, would I have been able to have fun like that..?’
Seol-ha Lee, who lives in poverty, is paying off her debts with only scholarships.
She is envious of the students who are playing without any worries, and they run away to the outlying areas where they cannot be seen.
Before 12 o’clock, she’ll act around here.
I asked Yoo Ha-yeon.
“Yoo Ha-yeon. If there is someone who doesn’t like you. What will you do?”
“Ummm… just ignore me. If you don’t like me, then there’s something wrong with that person.”
“Where does your confidence come from..?”
“Hey… And it’s okay if other people hate me. As long as you like me that much.”
Love me as much as others hate me.
That statement was quite powerful.
‘Suddenly it’s coming in.’
My heart fluttered a little at Yoo Ha-yeon’s words.
After such an action with me, Ha-yeon Yoo rushed to me as if she had awakened from something.
It seemed that the reins of the family had been loosed.
After that.
Ha-yeon Yoo and I were arguing, waiting for Seol-ha Lee to come.
She didn’t even dream that I was waiting for Lee Seol-ha.
10 minutes before the gate opens.
Seol-ha Lee, with a gloomy expression on her face, began to appear from afar.
As I looked at her, my eyes lit up, Yoo Ha-yeon patted me and asked.
“You. You’ve been waiting for him..?”
Yoo Ha-yeon knew the rumors.
Rumor has it that senior Lee Seol-ha hates him.
It is rumors that stem from inferiority and jealousy.
It was a part that showed how blatantly Lee Seol-ha was hostile to Yoo Ha-yeon.
‘First, I have to explain.’
Yoo Ha-yeon looked at me with a disappointed expression, so I quickly told her.
“Wait for me to know how he will come. It’s a coincidence. A coincidence.”
“Yeah… you don’t know the future, I misunderstood. I’m sorry for this!”
“Since I apologized so quickly, I’ll give you special forgiveness.”
Unintentionally receiving an apology, I looked at Lee Seol-ha, who was getting closer.
She has a better sense of humor than others, and she recognizes my gaze,
He lifted his head, which had been gloomy.
She sharpened her eyes and looked at us.
“You guys…”
“It’s been a while. Lee Seol-ha.”
“..Long time no see?”
Ha-yeon Yoo didn’t even know I was talking to her, so she was a little puzzled about the fact that we were spherical.
Lee Seol-ha looked at us alternately with indigo blue eyes, and then suddenly frowned.
“It seems like they’re not childhood friends for nothing, they’re always together. Like gum sticks on the floor.”
“Why are you arguing? Why don’t you just shut up if you don’t have anything to say?”
No, it’s kind of bad if we fight.
The gate will open soon, and we have to cooperate.
Already the cogs are creaking?
Yoo Ha-yeon was not shy about fighting, so she was fighting Lee Seol-ha’s quarrel.
“It’s not really a girly thing to talk about. Your childhood friend would hate a girl like you? He might be holding on to it even now.”
“He asked me to fight now. Don’t stop me, Si-Jun Han.”
“Seeing you get angry, you must have been stabbed? I’m sorry, I didn’t know that~”
Did Yoo Ha-yeon get angry at Lee Seol-ha’s sarcastic sarcasm?
It felt like a fight even now.
I pointed my finger at the sky to mediate their fight.
It is the central point of the hanok village.
It was the place where the gate was about to open.
“It’s better to fight later. Look at that.”
“..?”
Then they caught a strange air current moving in the sky,
Lee Seol-ha, who has a better sense of humor than others, has grasped its identity.
“Gate…? Why is that…”
She’s seen gates being created long ago,
It looks like he found out his identity at once.
Afterwards, Ha-yeon Yoo also read the current and grabbed my hand and gave me strength.
“Let’s run away! Han Si-jun!”
“It’s already too late.”
In the clear, open sky, a black space was gradually forming.
A gate that connects different dimensions.
It opened little by little, spreading magic power, and covered the sky.
“Ahh..”
Ha-yeon Yoo was standing still, looking at me, probably because she decided that she couldn’t run away anymore.
Then he told me
“I’ll protect you this time.”
“..thank you.”
As a protected position, all I can do is say thank you and provide information that can attack the gate.
It was safe to say that my life depended on Yoo Ha-yeon.
I said to Lee Seol-ha, who was staring blankly at the sky.
“You know what’s going on? We’ll be inside the gate soon.”
“..therefore?”
“Let’s go together. The three of us are safer than alone.”
I reached out to her to go with her.
Hero Academy Gate Countermeasures.
If you get caught up in the gate incident, hold the hand of the person next to you.
If that’s the case, don’t fall for that person.
This is a basic countermeasure against gates, and Lee Seol-ha, who is more eager to study than anyone else, was well aware of the contents.
But she’s male-phobic, so I kept watching to see if she couldn’t hold my hand.
‘I can’t help it.’
I signaled her with my eyes.
A signal to hold the hand of Ha-yeon Yoo next to me.
When she met Yoo Ha-yeon’s eyes, she frowned, wondering if she had seen something she couldn’t see.
“I don’t want to hold her hand…”
“Who caught you and when? It’s ridiculous…”
Seol-ha Lee grabbed Yoo Ha-yeon’s hand inevitably.
She had an expression on her face as if she didn’t like it, as if she had eaten astringent food.
We held each other’s hands so that we wouldn’t be left behind.
A black space covers the blue sky,
It radiated ominous magic.
And not long after, we were drawn by a violent magic storm, and we were sucked into the Black Gate.
***
The inside of the gate was gloomy.
The white moonlight lit up,
There were the remains of an old building mixed with the tiled roofs of a hanok.
‘In reality, it’s even more ominous.’
The white moonlight was staring at us,
I felt like I was showing the world of V. AGE that was destroyed by the wreckage of buildings.
I approached Yoo Ha-yeon, who was bowing her head.
“Are you okay now?”
“Gi.. Wait.. Woow..!”
Ha-yeon Yoo turned her head so that I could not see, and expressed a feeling of vomiting.
There were also cases where she had motion sickness, and because of the high amount of mana, she couldn’t come to her senses.
I patted Ha-yeon Yoo on the back, and approached Seol-ha Lee, who was kneeling in the distance.
“Would you like me to touch your back?”
“C.. it’s okay.. don’t touch it.. you’ll die..”
She was also unconscious.
So, who has the magic core?
I was very sad at this moment when I was the only one who was normal.
‘First. blue stone’
I turned the golem’s core into bluestone, supplying my body with magical energy.
Without magical power here, I was in a pretty difficult situation, so I had to keep the blue stone at all times.
After a certain amount of time has passed, Yoo Ha-yeon and Lee Seol-ha barely come to their senses.
I told them quickly.
“Children, we don’t have time. Let’s go.”
The main characters of the party who barely got up.
Ha-yeon Yoo saw that my eyes were blue due to blue stone, but
After circling it roughly saying, ‘It’s because of the gate’s influence,’
We guided them towards the shaded area as much as possible so that the moonlight would not illuminate us.
“Lee Seol-ha.”
“..why.”
“Can I use the ability now? If not now, as soon as possible.”
“…for what reason?”
Lee Seol-ha asked me with disbelieving eyes.
She seemed to have decided that I didn’t have to listen to my orders because I didn’t look very strong.
‘It’s frustrating..’
Tt
I clicked my tongue as if uncomfortable, and told her.
“We’re not the only ones here. Use your powers.”
“..?”
Your eyes as if you knew what I didn’t feel.
Of course, I didn’t feel it, I just experienced episode 2 in advance.
Seolha Lee decided to listen to me first, so she used her unique ability.
[Beast]
The ability to have the same senses as a beast and to have that much power.
She listened intently and listened to the sounds around her.
“People…? crawling… walking… what… what…?”
When you hear the sound, it’s human.
They are human-like, beast-like beings.
From her reaction, it seemed as if they weren’t near us.
“Keep it up as much as possible. It’s going to cause a lot of trouble if they come nearby.”
“Ah Okay..”
She looked puzzled at the fact that I first knew they were there.
Her unique abilities were unmatched in tracking and retrieval abilities, so her reaction was understandable.
Ha-yeon Yoo looked at me like I was great,
I asked a pure question whether I sensed doubt in my body.
“Han Si-Jun, did you originally wear that big..?”
Is it that much already?
My magic power was less than theirs, so it seems I was the only one who progressed faster.
My regular fit clothes were changed to overfitting.
“It’s nothing. Let’s go.”
I smiled as if nothing had happened and hurried my steps.