Episode 42 Final.(2)
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The Aina family, the Mitsuru family, are former hunters and current assassins.
Obviously, Aina must also be used to hunting something.
However, on the contrary, he would have rarely experienced being hunted.
This time, let me present the experience.
I plan on harassing you thoroughly enough to feel that it is painful.
To do that, the first thing you need to do is find a suitable place to hide.
Oh, no need to look around.
Because there is already a building in mind.
This is the building in front of me right now.
It’s an ordinary commercial building with no special features.
Today, I have a business to see in this mall.
Why is this a building anyway?
Because a building like this makes it more difficult to guess my location.
Take a closer look and you’ll see why.
Before entering the building, I first pulled out a tracking mine.
“The Delta-class equipment that cadet Park Seong-jin was preparing was a tracking mine! It remains to be seen whether or not tracking mines can be a game-changing key card in this final.”
“Tracking mines are easily destroyed when attacked, so they are not a suitable weapon to attack children or cadets. It is likely to have other uses.”
A tracking mine broke through the hard concrete floor and descended into the ground.
The landmine burial ends here.
I entered the building, plucked almost every thread I could pull out, and spread it all over this holographic city.
The yarn spun this time is very thin and has very low strength.
Such a thread that breaks very easily even if it gets caught in people’s bodies.
Are most of them caught in spider webs? And the thread is so weak that it can be ignored.
I’ll tell you why I pulled out such a thread, but this thread is what I need the most right now.
Hmm, it looks like the threads are well spread all over the city.
Citizens walked through the streets of the city, severing several threads.
I can feel the thread breaking, but it’s not easy to detect because the vibration is so weak.
You have to focus almost all of your attention to the extent that you can feel it for a very short time.
It’s the first time I’ve ever needed such a tiring job.
I still have to, what can I do?
With all my nerves in the room, I activated the trigger of the tracking mine.
The bioreactions of the surroundings detected by the mines were appearing on the screen of the percussion device.
Also, there’s no one around here.
I moved the tracking mine in the direction of concern.
Strangely, no reaction is felt.
The movement of the people in this city is clearly visible through my thread.
However, as far as the northeast of the city, no human movement is detected.
Aina’s starting point is north.
If this happens, Aina is more likely to be in the northeast.
About three minutes after the tracking mine had moved northeast, a bioreaction was detected in the percussion machine.
However, none of the threads installed in the northeast were broken.
could be sure
This is Aina
What’s the rationale?
The detection ability of my thread and the bioreaction detector mounted on this tracking mine each have one weakness in finding Aina.
First, Aina is an extremely well-trained assassin, aware of all these fine threads. Of course, it doesn’t get caught in my thread at all, so Aina can’t detect it.
Second, the bioreaction detector of the tracking mine can detect all living things unless special equipment such as a bioreaction disruptor is worn, but there is no way to distinguish Aina from other creatures.
If I had explained this to you, you would have noticed.
So, what if ‘a creature that is caught by the bioreaction detector and not caught by the thread’ appears?
That’s Aina.
This method won’t work if Aina is any other normal cadet.
I’ll just ignore getting caught in the thread.
However, due to long training, Aina instinctively recognizes this thread, and her body reacts automatically to avoid the thread.
The extreme sensing ability he has been training hard for has rather caught his ankle.
I set the target of the tracking mine to Aina, the object currently being caught by the detector, and only stopped firing.
With this setting, the tracking mine will follow Aina on its own.
Now, it’s time for me to hunt Aina.
After harvesting some of the threads scattered all over the place, he poured indiscriminate baptism of cutting threads towards the place where Aina was detected.
“Cadet Park Seong-jin! I’m attacking Aina Cadet! How did this happen? Where there are children or cadets, it is a place that cannot be seen from the perspective of cadet Park Seong-jin!”
“Iknow, right. I don’t know how they’re attacking, either.”
It wasn’t that he was attacking Aina directly, but more than 90% of the attack was missing, but that wasn’t very important.
Even if my attack hit rate is less than 10%, it doesn’t matter.
I can only attack, so what does hit rate matter?
Aina can’t even pinpoint my location.
This is pretty fun.
You’ll never be able to escape
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At first, I thought it was force majeure due to the difference in compatibility.
The second was luck.
Third, when he beat Olivia, I finally admitted it.
Park Seong-jin is strong.
He is very good at sealing the opponent’s strengths and digging up weaknesses.
There are not many people who can readily say that they like such a person.
No, what if you don’t like it?
Even if you dislike someone, it is rare that you have a great reason for hating that person.
Of course, there are cases where they actually have such a sad story or a burning desire for revenge.
… However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that I hate Park Seong-jin, or that I have feelings for Park Seong-jin.
The honest feelings I feel for Park Seong-jin now are longing and jealousy.
At first, I thought he was just an idiot.
No, the stupid guy is right.
Because I can’t understand my subject, and I don’t even have a clue.
But, as if he didn’t care about such things, he suddenly got ahead of me and was shining like this.
I’m envious of that
Yeah, I actually didn’t hate him.
I couldn’t hate Park Seong-jin, I just hated myself.
I couldn’t accept the fact that I admired a guy like that.
I hate the fact that I was jealous of that guy.
Pretend you hated him
I still can’t understand myself.
So, I had to defeat Park Sung-jin.
So that I can let go of this longing, that I can let go of this jealousy.
If only Park Seong-jin was defeated, all the discomfort seemed to be resolved.
…
He had cuts all over his body.
it doesn’t hurt
Because I’m used to enduring the pain.
Why?
It must have been me who hunted.
when did this happen
At what point did it go wrong?
I, Mitsuru Aina, have fallen into a situation where I can’t even use my hands and run away.
Why, why?
I didn’t make any mistakes.
How can you always be one step ahead of me?
No one told me about it?
Please, allow me to let go of this heart.
If you have this heart, it hurts.
It hurts more than hurt.
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In the midst of tormenting Aina, a loud noise is heard from outside.
What’s going on?
“What is that.”
I’m confused because I’m speechless.
The black wind (?wind) moved forward, gradually destroying the city.
If that were the case, the citizens would also suffer damage and be eliminated…
all run away
The vortex was advancing exactly in the direction I was in.
No, the direction was meaningless.
It was so huge that it covered a large part of this small holographic city.
“Children and cadets! Using almost all of his brain power, he created a vortex of shadows huge enough to engulf the city!”
“Even if the finalists are different, what is the difference? While Cadet Seong-Jin Park has shown a lot of witty coping so far, I can’t believe he’d been prepared for an attack of this size! It looks like it will end like this!”
Proceed to plan B.
I don’t know if I’ll succeed, but it’s not like I wasn’t prepared for this kind of situation.
I immediately collected all the threads and started manipulating the mines with the percussion machine.
At my command, mines run southeast.
And, in the direction in which the mine started, it fired a single large thread.
If you get caught in the vortex directly, it will break anyway, but until then, that thread had to hold up.
I wish the vortex had reached the target point before it reached my building.
The jet-black tornado destroys everything and moves forward.
There is currently no way for me to stop it.
I calmly climb to the roof of the building and just watch it reach me.
not giving up
Just sit still and wait for the right time.
Until the tracking mine, which started southeast, touched the end of the thread I had fired… .
Now the vortex is only about a block or two away.
There is no news of tracking mines yet.
“Cadet Park Seong-jin! Have you given up? Why are you standing still?”
“But I haven’t abstained yet! For what reason!”
After all, is it my defeat… .
At that moment, I felt a familiar vibration from the only thread connected to my body.
tracking mines.
No time to hesitate.
I immediately detonated the mine.
Now, the city center is completely engulfed in darkness.
And the vortex of shadows that destroyed the city also disappears.
“This is the plan of cadet Park Seong-jin.”
“What?”
“By sending tracking mines to the power plant that supplies the city’s electricity, they blow up the power plant.”
“Why is that important?”
Erzebet looks at the exam hall with a funny face.
She was also really enjoying the game.
“Shadows can only form when there is light. There are usually two light sources that exist at night in a city. The moon and the city lights. However, it is raining at the exam site. This means that the light source of the moon, which was supposed to exist, does not exist because it is obscured by clouds. So, the only light source that currently exists is city lights. What would happen if the light source of the only city that existed was gone?”
Han Baek opened his eyes wide as if he had realized it.
“Without light, there is no shadow!”
“That’s right. If the city doesn’t have electricity, all the light sources go out.”
“Does cadet Park Seong-jin have such a situation in mind… . If you have that level of coping ability, you can be put into the field right now.”
Hmm, did you win?
Now, Aina has no specific means of attack.
The memorization remains, but my location hasn’t been discovered yet.
In fact, there is no way to attack.
Obviously, when the light source is removed, there is no shadow.
However, this means that the ‘form’ of the shadow just disappears.
In other words, the city itself is engulfed in shadow.
Aina cannot create shapes with shadows, but she can choose to increase the density of shadows inside the city.
However, that method will not work.
Why? The pressure of the shadows also affects the citizens.
If you use it, you will be disqualified.
“… I will abstain.”
[Aina cadet withdrew. Winner, Park Seong-jin. The final exam has ended.]
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Obviously, my heart ached until I gave up.
After giving up, it doesn’t really matter.
I don’t care about winning or losing at all.
Rather, it feels kind of sad.
Why?
Does this tingling feeling have anything to do with a similar, strange feeling?
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