Episode 20 The eye of the storm. (2)
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Find the bearded janitor.
It was an easy, but paradoxically difficult spell.
At Trinity Academy, where most of the members are only young cadets, how many people have thick beards?
Besides, he even knew what kind of clothes he was wearing, so there was no reason to feel too difficult.
However, it is only about the person who is looking for it.
It wasn’t about the place he said he would appear.
It’s not enough to be full of people, how could it be easy to find someone in the middle of the wide West Gate Square?
Although it was not at the level of finding a western restaurant in Seoul, it must have been a difficult task.
Olivia and Alfred were scouring the streets, but his bearded bastard was nowhere to be seen.
“So, did you find someone similar to you?”
“No, I can’t even see my nose.”
“I can’t. I need to contact Park Sung-jin now.”
After two hours of wandering the streets meaninglessly, it was only natural that Olivia’s patience was reaching its limit.
So, just before Olivia joined Park Sung-jin’s channel, Alfred abruptly stopped her.
“Olivia, isn’t that him?”
“Where, where?”
“It’s over there.”
“I guess that’s right? From a janitor’s outfit to a long beard. It’s perfect. But, I never thought I would have a beard like that.”
“But, what if we get the wrong person?”
“You can ask Park Seong-jin.”
Like Olivia, an early adopter, she accessed Seongjin Park’s channel at a much faster rate than Alfred.
“Hey, Park Seong-jin. I think you found the person you’re talking to? That nerdy Pumanchu beard? But, it might not be, is there any way to know for sure if that person is the person you are talking about?”
“You’ll know if you just follow me. To the clock tower or not. What’s common sense for the scavengers to go all the way to the clock tower at this hour?”
“Confirmation is complete, I’ll call you back in a little while or so.”
As if there was nothing to do, Olivia immediately cut off communication without hearing the story behind it.
Alfred shook his head as if he had seen such an indifferent attitude for a long time.
“So, what does he say?”
“I want you to follow me all the way to the clock tower.”
“Then let’s chase it.”
The two began to follow the suspicious scavenger with careful steps.
And, the more they passed by, the more their expressions became hardened.
“I saw that.”
“Yeah, because the clock tower is just one more block away.”
“But it wouldn’t be better to watch than to attack first.”
Before Alfred could finish speaking, Olivia was already running towards him.
Due to Olivia’s character, it seemed that Alfred expected something like this to happen, but what happened next did not seem to be expected even by Alfred.
Because he was only looking at Olivia’s back with a look of shock.
who would have known
I don’t think you’d get kicked in the head like that.
“Crazy year… ”
“Senior Pilseung, don’t you know?”
His face sank into a puddle of water on the floor.
It looked like a scene from a slapstick comedy, but the shock he received was quite substantial.
It took me quite a while just to come to my senses.
“What the hell is this?”
“Don’t say sh*t. You villain.”
“I don’t know why you are suddenly doing this to me. Do you have any proof that I am a villain?”
The man began to vomit as if it was unfair.
The sight of him brushing his pitifully wet beard was adding to his sympathy.
Olivia quickly connected to Park Sung-jin’s channel again and whispered.
“Hey, I did a good job, but take it that I’m not. Is there any way to get this guy to confess that he’s a villain?”
Park Seong-jin sighs a little before answering.
“Say, ‘I couldn’t get into the dean’s office.’”
“What do you mean?”
“Do what you say. just.”
Olivia nervously cuts off communication.
“You guys, you said you failed to infiltrate the dean’s office?”
The sad expression on the mustache’s face is distorted.
Alfred does not miss it, and immediately uses his thought power.
Lightning flies and strikes the mustache man.
One question will arise here.
Cadets with serial cards transplanted will receive an electric shock when using their death power in Trinity Academy.
So, for an awakened person like Alfred who can handle electricity, isn’t serial cards meaningless?
Not like that.
Of course, there are countermeasures for that.
The serial cards of the Awakens who deal with electricity are coded with a code that makes you feel intense burning pain instead of giving an electric shock.
Therefore, it is safe to assume that the serial card works fine for Alfred as well.
If you don’t believe it, look at Alfred’s face contorted with pain.
“… I heard it. annoying.”
Alfred is perplexed.
Apparently, the lightning hit the body exactly.
It must have worked.
The moment the lightning hit, he also frowned.
Alfred’s embarrassment wasn’t that the villain had regained his composure.
It wouldn’t be a problem if it was simply tolerating the pain, but there were no signs of charring on its body.
‘Was it an awakening of the rebirth world?’
Alfred does not give in to the burning pain and continues to fire lightning.
The man receives the lightning head-on and walks casually.
In a battle that suddenly takes place in the middle of the west gate, the other cadets are scattered and scattered.
As all the other cadets disappear from the west gate, the villain, who was walking leisurely, suddenly disappears.
And then, it appeared in front of Alfred’s nose.
Alfred responds with a straight punch.
As if he had anticipated the attack from the beginning, the villain leisurely avoids Alfred’s attack and throws an oblique kick towards Alfred’s forward leg.
Then, after being hit, Alfred’s leg broke in an unnatural direction.
Alfred, who had never screamed in spite of the burning pain caused by the recoil of his thought power, let out a weak moan.
Unlike the artificial pain he felt during training, it seems he couldn’t stand the pain transmitted from the actual body.
Olivia sighed softly, grabbed Alfred’s neck and threw it roughly.
“I am resting there.”
“no. Olivia, you can’t handle it alone.”
“Then, fire support from behind.”
Olivia takes a pose.
The villain touched his mustache a few times as if it were a precious thing, and then disappeared again in an instant.
The place he appeared this time was behind Olivia.
For some reason, the corners of Olivia’s lips were raised even in the dangerous moment when his fists were about to hit Olivia’s larynx.
‘It’s too obvious.’
Olivia lowers her stance to avoid her fists, and with a very soft movement she feeds the villain’s head back with a kick.
The villain’s body collapses.
Olivia does not miss it, and reproduces what Alfred had suffered to the villain.
The moment he tries to end the man whose leg is broken and unable to move properly, the villain disappears in front of Olivia.
It appeared far away from Olivia.
with the legged leg.
And as if there was no need to fight anymore, he started running towards somewhere.
Olivia joins the channel again.
“Hey, Park Seong-jin.”
“Isn’t this bastard just a little strong?”
“It wasn’t just about finding ghosts!”
“f*ck it, you bastard Jade. I said that’s why I’m strong in close combat… Oh, Olivia. What?”
It seems that it wasn’t just Olivia’s side that the situation took a turn for the better.
On Park Sung-jin’s channel, several people were discussing the unfavorable situation he was in.
“Hey, I don’t think I’m going to die, what should I do?”
“Just twist the hair! Then you won’t be left behind!”
“Then are you sure you are going to die?”
“Yes!”
“That’s right.”
Olivia also begins to pursue him, who has started running away.
Alfred’s voice could be heard from behind, but Olivia ignored it.
The villain and Olivia gradually began to enter the remote and deep part of the preface.
And when a moderately open space appeared, the villain suddenly turned around.
At that action, Olivia showed her joy with a faint smile.
‘I think I can finally fight properly.’
The villain might think he’s got Olivia where he wants to go, but in reality, it’s the other way around.
Olivia pushed him into a space where he could show off his true talent.
Olivia keeps a smile and walks proudly towards the villain.
At Olivia’s attitude like that, the mustache of the villain, who realized that something was wrong, twitched.
But, realizing that he can’t run away again, he moves towards Olivia slowly as well.
Their steps start to get faster.
In the empty square of the west gate, the sound of footsteps from two people resounded louder and louder.
feeze.
Just as their fists are about to collide, Olivier pulls out his fist and smacks him in the face with the other fist.
A crackling sound signaled that his nose had been smashed.
It would be nice if the game ended with that, but the world doesn’t always flow in the direction you want it to go.
As a guy with a strong regenerative ideology, there’s no way he’d be so incapacitated in battle.
The villain spits out a sip of the blood in his mouth, then sets up a fighting stance again.
‘How can I twist his hair?’
Olivia avoids the villain’s fist by weaving, but does not stop thinking.
It wasn’t because she started being pushed by the villain that she suddenly switched from an offensive stance to a defensive stance.
It’s just because she has changed the idea that it would be a waste to deprive a villain who doesn’t accumulate damage at all, even though she has succeeded in hitting dozens of times.
In an instant, the villain throws a surprise swing punch.
It was an attack that would have been allowed for other S-class cadets.
But, unfortunately, that opponent is Olivia.
She barely evades her fist and catches the back of the villain whose balance is broken.
Olivia quickly gained a back mount position and puts on a naked choke.
He struggles to get out of the choke somehow, but it all comes back in vain.
Olivia firmly believed that she had won with this.
Anyone would have seen it that way.
The clock hand in the West Gate Square just turns silently despite the situation.
Just as the second hand has rotated 1/4 turn from 3 o’clock on the hour, a woman’s scream is heard from somewhere in the West Gate Square.
The owner of the scream is Olivia.
Sharp blades protruded from the villain’s body and pierced Olivia’s body.
Olivia’s perfect naked choke begins to unravel slowly.
No matter how much Olivia was, it was natural that she couldn’t keep it in a situation where her body had a lot of holes.
“Kek, I know you’re behind. I only want to struggle like this with a cadet.”
He took a breath, and slowly lifted Olivia’s blood-stained body.
‘It’s ok. Where can I die like a fool like this?’
The moment Olivia resigned and tried to accept the situation, she felt someone’s popularity.
“sorry. Olivia. I’m a little late because my legs look like this.”
Alfred, who appeared with his legs shuffled, collects electricity all over his body.
With the mental power of a normal person, Alfred does not stop his actions, even when he is stunned by the burning pain.
As the second hand of the clock in the West Gate turns around to indicate that one minute has passed, a strong flash of light covers the West Gate Square.
Then, the light fades, and the figure of the West Gate Square comes into view.
A handsome young man who lost his mind with a broken leg.
There was one woman who had been lying on her back with her body covered in blood.
Finally, there was one corpse that had been charred so that it could not be recognized.
Bloody Olivia manages to catch her mind and connects to Park Seong-jin’s channel.
“ha… It’s me, I defeated him. What is going on elsewhere?”
“f*ck, Park Seong-jin, this isn’t a crazy bastard. Are you trying to make us do this?”
“We solved it first. But everyone is in a very bad condition.”
There is gloom in the words of everyone connected to the communication.
Everyone realizes that they are each other, and the communication channel is briefly filled with laughter.
While they were checking whether they were alive or dead, everyone realized one thing.
Park Seong-jin’s words were not heard.
““… Park Seong-jin?”
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