Episode 13. mana (2)
John’s eyes widened as the speed of mana flowed into Yuri was unusual.
‘Have you felt mana already? Besides, what is this mana absorption?’
Is it true that I really felt mana?
Or did something else happen?
It was still too early to make any hasty conclusions, so John released mana again.
Then the same thing happened as before.
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Mana sucked into glass at breakneck speed.
‘Certainly! This guy felt mana!’
With this much talent, it was not enough to be called a genius, even if not a genius.
a while after that.
Hu-wook-.
As Yuri took a deep breath and opened her eyes, Yohan asked in a slightly excited tone.
“How are you? How do you feel when you feel mana for the first time?”
Yuri did not readily answer Yohan’s question.
At that silence, John smiled happily.
“Ah, how can I express that feeling? That ecstatic first feeling… How can you describe it in human language? Damn, I understand how you feel.”
Yuri, who was staring at Yohan who was rubbing his nose with his index finger, asked back with a wink in his eyes.
in a slightly flustered voice.
“So inspiration… that… What does mana feel like?”
“What a feeling, that sense you are feeling right now is mana.”
“So, what are you supposed to feel?”
“Mana!”
“What does mana feel like?”
“… … .”
John’s expression stiffened at the strangely repeated conversation.
he said in a slightly angry tone.
“Are you kidding me right now?”
“What a joke… … .”
“Then you feel the mana and then say why you didn’t feel it!”
“No, when did I hit Goura! You say you didn’t feel something you didn’t feel, so what do you say!”
“Where is this bastard, a red frog! I can’t feel any mana even after sucking up my mana!”
“What are you talking about? When did I?”
“just now! You sucked all my mana, you bastard!”
“The small person does not know.”
“This, this guy… Are you going to keep talking nonsense while pretending not to know?”
“Wow, f*ck! If I felt at least mana, it wouldn’t be unfair to be criticized!”
Yuri sighed.
John, who noticed the bewilderment in his eyes, sorry and anger, and a strong sense of shame, hardened.
“you… … ?”
He didn’t say anything for a while, then stared at the glass and asked.
“really… Didn’t you feel it?”
“huh.”
“really?”
“huh.”
“Really? Aren’t you groping?”
“uh.”
I said I couldn’t feel something I didn’t feel, but what should I do?
Yuri was proud.
Then, again, John muttered with a bewildered face.
“This, this, can’t be like this?”
If it was the amount of mana he spread, no matter how unresponsive he was, he would feel a slight sense of difference.
Besides, didn’t Yuri suck greedily even for his own mana?
It was strange that he couldn’t feel mana.
However, there was not the slightest lie in Yuri’s shameless face.
On the contrary, I felt a sense of shame about not feeling mana.
Embarrassed, John stammered.
“All right, let’s do it again. I’ll try increasing the mana density a little more.”
Having said that, John released mana again.
Yuri also sat still and closed his eyes.
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More mana was released than before, and mana was sucked into Yuri’s surroundings this time as well.
John asked with a lot of hope and anticipation.
“What do you feel now? yes?”
“hmm… … .”
“How are you?”
“ah!”
Yuri opened her eyes wide as if she realized something.
Seeing this, Yohan nodded his head with a face saying, ‘Yes!’.
“Did you feel it? Did you feel it? yes?! Well yes! If you can’t feel it after you’ve reached this level, you’re not a human child… … .”
“… hungry.”
“… … .”
“Come to think of it, you passed out and couldn’t even eat?”
Yuri now opens her eyes and rubs her stomach gently with a blind face.
Yohan, who looked at the scene in despair, murmured.
“… You weren’t a human baby.”
He was then tearing his hair out like a madman.
“This can’t be… It can’t be like this?”
You can’t feel mana?
Then everything is bullsh*t.
No matter how great your body is, what do you do?
Taejutsu without mana is just an older brother.
What would Hwashin do if it was a great skill?
Even before he can deal with the incarnation, the harmony of body, soul, and energy will completely collapse, and Yuri will become a corpse.
“ruined… I’m screwed… … .”
Yohan, who had been muttering non-stop, muttered while glancing at Yuri.
“Our deal… Can’t we just do something that didn’t exist?”
It’s a new no-nonsense experiment and it’s Nabal.
What would you teach a guy who couldn’t even feel mana in the first place?
“Anyway, you eat too much… … .”
John tried to take a step back.
Before he could finish his sentence, Yuri’s hand came up on his shoulder.
chin-.
“Inspiration.”
Yohan sensed something ominous about Yuri’s bright smile.
“Why, why?”
“Grow up.”
“… … ?”
“Grow up.”
“… what?”
“Even a half-penny like me should grow well to feel mana. So that one person can do their part.”
Is it my own illusion that the words this kid is talking about are oddly familiar?
But that wasn’t John’s mistake.
“I can’t even do this, so can the Sword Master or something win? I was really looking forward to it because they said that they would teach me how to beat the Sword Master… … .”
“… … .”
“Are you giving up right away just because it’s too late for me to feel some mana? Inspiration, was that the only person?”
“… … .”
“Eh, tsk tsk. If you’re going to give up, tell me quickly. I don’t want to waste time either.”
Yohan got back the sarcastic remarks he had made to Yuri.
His expression was as if he had chewed on sh*t.
“What are you going to do?”
Smile, smile.
“Are you going to give up?”
The more she shines on Yuri’s face, which never ceases to smile.
Faced with this, John’s face was covered with a thick shadow.
“Are you going to give up?”
“Kuk!”
A provocation that is not continued by Yuri.
Eventually, a low murmur escaped John’s mouth.
“Cursed child… … .”
Yuri, who heard this, gently raised her palm with a benevolent smile.
At the same time, a refreshing word came out of his mouth.
“reflect.”
“… … .”
John’s already distorted face crumpled.
* * *
The passenger ship bound for Niger, which left Krom Port, has been sailing smoothly for the past 10 days.
The past 10 days have not been hit by a shower let alone a storm.
However, unlike such cruising, there were people who were experiencing difficulties.
“no! how! why!”
“… … .”
“Why dear! You can’t feel it!”
Yuri cleared her ears at Yohan’s scream.
“Would I be doing this if I knew that?”
“Damn it!”
At the calm voice, Yohan pounded his chest as if his clothes would explode.
He sighed and let out a large breath.
“Phhhhh… It’s gone, it’s gone… … .”
Then, this time, Yuri had a seizure.
“What’s wrong!”
“It’s already ten days! You haven’t made any progress in the meantime!”
“It’s only ten days!”
For the past 10 days, Yohan has been working hard to make Yuri feel mana.
However, Yuri was still confused.
‘At first I thought this guy was making fun of me… … .’
Yuri was absolutely not making fun of herself.
It was true that he really couldn’t feel mana.
Yuri’s attitude toward training proved that.
“Stop whining and try again, old man.”
“It’s gone… … .”
“ah! Don’t give up and try again!”
Although he tried to pretend to be calm, he could read the nervousness and desperation in Yuri’s eyes.
He probably couldn’t have imagined that Yuri couldn’t feel mana either.
He was always full of faith in himself, so he must have been quite shocked by the current situation.
So panic at first.
After that, I felt disappointed and ashamed of myself.
And now it will be more desperate than anyone else.
Yuri’s desire for strength was quite hot even to Yohan.
As the situation was, Yuri was pushing for mana awareness training more than John.
Yohan responded to Yuri’s request for training.
‘Well, even if I split up with this guy, where would I go in this vast sea… … .’
Even if you break up, it’s not in the boat anyway.
So where will you run away?
But that is only about 3 weeks away.
‘If you don’t feel mana until then… … .’
At that time, Yohan also thought of giving up Yuri neatly.
It was not in John’s plan that this would happen in the first place.
It was a bit of a waste of effort, but it was better to give up cleanly than to waste time on something that shouldn’t be done.
‘Moreover, if he doesn’t feel mana, he’ll die soon.’
So you shouldn’t have any more regrets.
Yohan gazed intently at Yuri, who was sitting upright.
‘It’s an existence that can’t feel mana… … .’
Even if accepting mana as a body was a separate issue, if outside help was added, mana could be felt.
Even ordinary people with no special talent.
Rather, it is a world where people who do not feel mana are extremely rare.
But Yuri wasn’t even able to do that.
And based on long experience, there was little chance that a person who couldn’t feel mana once would be able to feel mana later.
‘Well, even so… … .’
John sighed inwardly.
‘Like this guy said, it’s still too early to give up.’
As Yuri said, it’s only been ‘only ten days’.
There was a homework that John had to solve as well.
‘This guy is obviously sucking up my mana as if he waited for the density of mana to exceed a certain level.’
And that too at breakneck speed.
However, the strange thing was that no traces of accumulated mana were found in Yuri’s body.
A bizarre phenomenon that even John, who has dealt with mana for decades, has never seen.
That piqued John’s curiosity.
‘I’m sure there’s something there.’
John’s eyes widened slightly as he gazed at the glass.
Then, he frowned at Yuri’s attitude as he slammed the floor to release mana quickly.
“Did you entrust your mana to me? You are urging me grossly.”
“hurry!”
“Tsk, kid, with a temper.”
While grunting with his mouth, Yohan released mana again.
That’s how Yuri’s mana training continued.
* * *
It’s been 15 days since the voyage started.
Rain clouds appeared in front of the cruise ship.
Soon after, the boat, swept away by the turbulent waves, rocked violently.
A shudder that is difficult to control.
But Yuri was so focused on feeling the mana that he didn’t even notice it.
‘Why on earth… Why can’t I feel it!’
Every time Yohan asked such a question, he pretended to ignore it, but Yuri himself was more curious about the reason than anyone else.
His mind was too complex.
‘I am… Can’t you feel the mana?’
If so, what should he do now?
Will the promise to surpass Yohan be blown away before it even starts?
Can I surpass John without mastering mana?
If you don’t learn mana, your body will eventually disintegrate and you won’t be able to live long, right?
Yuri felt his heart suffocate at the distance between his ideal and reality.
But I tried my best to get rid of that stuffiness.
Instead, he focused more on his senses.
‘you can do it. Do not give up.’
According to Yohan, the sense of mana is not the realm of the general five senses.
People often say that they feel mana through their skin, but that is bullsh*t full of delusion from people who don’t know anything!
… I said.
‘Cognition of mana is the realm of perception that transcends the five physical senses.’
For this reason, John called the sense of mana the sixth sense, the sixth sense.
‘If you can suppress the five senses, you might be able to get a feel for the sixth sense more easily.’
The easiest way to suppress the five senses was to block them directly.
Cover your eyes or cover your ears.
But its limits were clear.
Even if you close your eyes, you will see the darkness created by your eyelids.
Even if I cover my ears, I won’t be able to stop the sounds that flow through my body, such as the sound of swallowing saliva and the sound of my heart.
Therefore, Yuri chose a completely different method.
Sound, smell, sight, touch, and taste.
Forgot all about it.
He was strongly immersed in the proposition, ‘What is the sixth sense?’, and thoroughly erased thoughts about the other five senses.
And John, who was watching it from the side, his eyes widened.
‘her?’
Knock Knock -.
No matter how many times I looked at it, this was certain.
‘Look at this madman… … ?’
John, who knew what Yuri was doing, couldn’t help but laugh as if it was absurd.
‘Did you go into Mol-a?’