103 – 103. Simultaneous Events (18)
-Brush.
A small shadow quickly traveled through the overgrown forest.
The identity was Naeun-joo. A diminutive ten-year-old child ran down the rough mountain road with light steps, as if playing in a playground.
However, his heart was in a hurry.
Naeun-joo is currently manipulating her Kali’s mind, giving her time to escape. The problem was that Kali’s physical condition would not be strange even if she died immediately. To repel her pursuit, she had to get as far away from the scene as possible before Carly’s life ran out.
Although Naeun-joo was a superhuman, she was only a child after all. Her still unfitted body was like a shackle to her. Even if Na Na-joo ran hard for 10 minutes, if she was an ordinary superman, it was only a distance she could run in 3 minutes.
“!!”
In the meantime, Naeun-joo’s footsteps suddenly stopped.
‘I’m dead… ….’
Naeun-joo felt that she had lost connection with Kali, whom she was controlling. She wondered if it was because of the distance, but it wasn’t. Naeun-joo’s psychic range is about 3 km. However, Naeun-joo has not yet managed to escape even half of that half.
‘Cheet. She didn’t think she could last even a minute…… !’
-Peeing!
At that moment, Naeun-joo’s brain was overcome with intense dizziness.
“Huh?!”
Naeun Joo Her feet twisted and she rolled on her ground. She used her mind control twice in a row, and her recoil just severed her connection to Kali, and she was swarmed at once.
“Ugh. It hurts… ….”
When she lowered her head, her knees were peeling, revealing her red flesh. Naeun-joo’s body was also fragile. Her athletic ability was at least more than that of an adult, but her body strength was no different from that of a normal average person.
Naeun-joo struggled to get her body up, grabbing her knee as her aching pain rose. She then busied herself with her feet again.
‘In the world, why the hell…… !’
Na Na-joo, who was running away, bit her lip.
She
She said, ‘If only she could control that brother, she would have won! Why the hell couldn’t I control it!’
Na Eun-joo was about to explode. She said that her psychic powers are compatible with each person, but even if her compatibility is the worst, she should be able to at least bind her movements. At least, she was until now.
However, her psychic powers did not work on An Su-ho at all. Never had anything like that happen before.
‘Okay, let’s ask Dad when we get back. Daddy should know the answer!’
Na Na-joo, who thought so, sighed, and she ran even faster. It was only possible after she asked Naju Yong and ran away from here.
On the rugged mountain road, the sound of a child’s panting breath echoed softly.
***
Meanwhile, at that time.
A clearing in the forest where the noise of battle has stopped.
“Awesome…….”
The sound of a woman sobbing softly echoed through the air.
Ahn Soo-ho looked down at Kali, who had collapsed in disrepair in front of him. She, who had been controlled by Naeun-joo and didn’t even take care of herself and rushed at her recklessly, now lay limp on the floor like a doll with her thread cut.
It was a bland workshop that had nothing to do with a battle.
In the first place, Kali’s body was not in a state to fight. However, Naeun-joo forced Kali to fight, and as a result, her body collapsed without lasting even a minute. Even that was a possible result because Kali was manipulated without reason and neglected her life.
“Save me, give me… …. I don’t want to die……. Please… ….”
Carly stretches out her hand with difficulty. The fingertips grab the crotch of An Su-ho’s trousers.
As if begging for help.
But her Kali’s injuries have already passed the point of no return.
Deep cuts all over her body and massive blood loss due to excessive activity.
Her skin was very pale and her flesh was rapidly losing its warmth.
Carly will die soon.
In the first place, the fact that Carly came to her senses now was only possible because she had received a ‘death wound’. The fact that her Kali regained her own self and begged Ahn Su-ho that she did not want to die paradoxically indicated that her death was not far away.
Ahn Su-ho knew that very well.
And Carly also had an instinctive intuition.
“Please, I will do anything. Save me…… “
Nevertheless, seeing Carly longing for her life, An Su-ho felt uncomfortable. Perhaps it is pity. Before Na Na-joo came, her intense anger and sadism towards her had disappeared as if she had washed them before she knew it.
Because I feel sorry for Carly? I’d be lying if I said there’s no reason for that.
But more than that, Ahn Soo-ho felt that the intense emotions she felt at the time were infinitely unfamiliar.
She feels like she has become someone she is not.
Ahn Su-ho thought that it was the feeling that someone else’s feelings had been punched directly into her brain.
‘…… I must have been pretty excited too.’
Ahn Su-ho concluded that gap between her. She wondered what else the answer could be.
She never thought that it would be possible for the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure to even influence her own feelings.
“My, feet… ….”
“It’s no use begging me. You will die soon.”
“No. I can live if I do treatment…… “
“No. It’s already too late.”
“… ….”
Her Carly looked up helplessly at Ahn Su-ho. Those earnest eyes, as if trying to deny my fate, gradually grow cloudy and far away.
Death hangs over those distant eyes.
It was the first time Ahn Su-ho saw the death of another person. The other day, she had accidentally killed the pursuer of the Dawning Corps, but at that time, she was so careless and evaporated without even leaving a corpse, so it was out of the question. However, Ahn Soo-ho was watching in real time the process of the other person’s life being extinguished.
He wasn’t in a very pleasant mood, but he wasn’t in a bad mood either.
I was just calm.
Meeting Ji Ye-won and Kang Ha-neul, and interacting with various people, An Su-ho began to accept this world as a real world, not a novel, but he did not have enough morality to sympathize with the enemy who risked his life.
On the other hand, Carly.
Carly, who worked as a contractor and witnessed countless deaths with her own eyes, was terrified of her own death, which she was experiencing for the first time in her life.
Her own death, different from the deaths of countless others she has experienced so far.
It’s cold.
It was gentle.
However, it was steadily tightening her breath.
When her fear-ridden mind finally crossed the threshold, Carly’s mind was filled with only one thing: regret.
‘If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn’t have accepted a request like this.’
Before long, the lights in those eyes went out, and her Kali’s head went down.
Carly is dead.
Ahn Suho stretched out his hand toward the rapidly losing warmth. Talisman’s light dwelled in his right hand, and black smoke whirled.
Carly is dead.
However, the body could not be left unattended. Fortunately, someone found it, and something tiring might happen.
-Kudeudeuk.
Ahn Suho put his hand into Carly’s wound. It was still warm. And it was sticky. In that eerie warmth, black smoke compressed endlessly.
-Too Kwaaa!!
After releasing the smoke, Kali’s corpse was shattered into hundreds of blood clots and scattered in all directions by an explosion that occurred inside. Not only that, the ground on which she had fallen was also literally plowed by the storm, and even the bloodstains she spilled were gone without a trace.
Ahn Suho thought as he wiped the blood on her face with his sleeve.
‘It’s over.’
That moment.
-Gee-Ring
—–
[ Clear the Extra Quest. ]
[ You safely rescued Kang Ha-neul from being kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Come on, take her and head to her safe place. ]
1. ■■■■■■■
( Activate Rewards tab to claim rewards. )
—–
Ahn Soo-ho let go of the tension at the system message that popped up in front of his eyes. An exhilarating abdominal pain felt right after.
“Keugh.”
Ahn Suho frowned. The fatigue from the battle, the recoil from Talisman, and the deep wounds from Kali. Even if the quest was over, the state of Ahn Su-ho was also meaningless.
‘Yes, it’s over and not over yet.’
A picnic is a picnic until you return. It wasn’t over yet until we took Kang Ha-neul to a safe place. Ahn Soo-ho headed to Kang Ha-neul, who had been laid neatly on the outskirts of the battle site. Checking the quest reward was a backfire.
“Heaven.”
There was no answer. The effects of her anesthetic administered to her will last at least until tomorrow. There was no way she would wake up unless she had her avatar taken out by some means, as Naeun Joo had done.
‘Na Eun-joo… ….’
Ahn Su-ho looked in the direction Naeun-joo had fled. Of course, there was no one in that direction. Because of her sabotage, risking her Kali’s life, Ahn Su-ho had no choice but to miss her.
Through today’s work, Suho Ahn clearly felt the danger of Naeunju. However, even if he pursued it now, it would be impossible to pursue him.
In the end, Ahn Su-ho gave up the chase and slowly went down the mountain path carrying the fallen Kang Ha-neul on his back. The condition of his side, which had been blocked by his makeshift method, was getting worse and worse, but it could not be stopped.
How far did it go down like that?
-Brush.
“Ahn Soo-ho…… ?”
Ahn Soo-ho sighed in relief at the sight of Ji Ye-won appearing in front of her while wading through the grass.
The fact that Ji Ye-won came to find her means that the situation in the warehouse under the mountain has been completed to some extent.
“What happened? Who is that contractor? Wait, is that guy behind your back really Kang Ha-neul?”
“Right. As for how that happened…….”
Ahn Soo-ho, who was trying to explain everything, suddenly blurted out his words. He stretched out his hand to stop Ji Ye-won, who was approaching him.
“Wait. Don’t come any closer.”
At the same time, Suho Ahn murmured softly.
“…… Status window.”
However.
-The ring.
—–
[ Unable to view status window. ]
[ Subjects are not affiliated with the academy. ]
With [ , You cannot view the status window of non-academy officials. ]
—–
Ahn Su-ho was startled by the message. But soon he realized that he had overlooked something.
‘Ji Ye-won is no longer a student.’
Ji Ye-won’s academic records had already been expulsed. Therefore, she was not affiliated with the academy.
“What are you? What’s wrong all of a sudden?”
Yewon Ji asked, tilting her head. However, Ahn Su-ho could not answer. Right now, in his mind, the suspicion that the Ji Ye-won in front of him is not a fake is sprouting.
At first glance, you might think this is too much of a doubt. However, from Suho Ahn’s point of view, the story is different. He has already been fooled by the shapeshifter twice today. Aside from that, one of them was a copy ability, not a transformation ability.
Anyway.
Ahn Su-ho thought that the Ji Ye-won in front of him was the real Ji Ye-won with a 99% probability, but he couldn’t ignore the 1% possibility. Without lowering his guard, he asked Ji Ye-won.
“Before you approach me, prove whether or not you are a real Jiyewon.”
“…… What?”
“I’m a bit sensitive because I’ve already been tricked by fakes twice today. So prove it. Yeah, for example, tell me something that only Ji Yewon and I know about. Then I’ll believe you’re real.”
“No, in this situation, what kind of nonsense is that… ….”
It was absurd for Ji Ye-Won, who rushed up the mountain because she was worried about Su-Ho Ahn, but she had no choice but to follow Su-Ho Ahn’s will in the end because of the sincerity of Ahn Su-Ho’s attitude.
‘It’s a fact that only I and Ahn Su-ho know…… ?’
Even if you suddenly tried to say something like that, there was no way it would come out right away. Yewon Ji pursed her lips and pondered for a while.
“Mmm.”
Soon after, that cheek starts to turn red.
“What are you doing? Do you want me to tell you?”
“………… Five times.”
“What?”
“Five times. That, you and me that day, in your room…….”
Ahn Su-ho tilted his head as he saw Ji Ye-won, who was shy and slurred. When I told her to tell me a fact that only the two of us knew, she didn’t say it clearly, and if she just said five times, how would she know what it was?
“It’s no use trying to gloss over things like that. Tell me straight up.”
“I have a listening ear behind me, do I really need to tell you?”
“Kang Ha-neul is asleep. There’s nothing to worry about, so tell me the right way.”
Ji Ye-won hesitates despite saying that.
With Ji Ye-won’s attitude, Ahn Su-ho’s doubts were about to grow. I wondered if I was asking, but was it really fake?
‘Wait, five times?’
At that moment, a flash of light passed through Ahn Su-ho’s mind.
“…… Ah.”
Soon Soo-ho was able to understand what Ji Ye-won was talking about.
Five times. The identity of the number Ji Ye-won said is…….
‘This crazy… ….’
Number of s*xes.
What Ji Ye-won said was the number of times the two of them shared that day, the day Ji Ye-won and Ahn Su-ho overlapped.
The secret itself that only Ahn Su-ho and Ji Ye-won know, and that only the two share.
“…… “
However, after hearing the answer, Suho Ahn was unable to speak for a while and just bowed his head awkwardly. Numerous thoughts come and go in Ahn Su-ho’s mind.
Do you say that even if you say it?
I could have said something else.
No, if you think about it, is that answer really a good answer? It’s something nobody but the two of us will ever know.
But, no matter how much…….
Ahn Soo-ho felt a sharp pain in his head at Ji Ye-won’s bold remark that came in suddenly. A solemn silence descends between the two.
“Is this enough proof that I’m real? Or should I say more…… ?”
“…… No. That’s enough.”
Ahn Su-ho answered with a tired expression, but his face showed a lot of relief.
Because Ji Ye-won is the real Ji Ye-won? Of course there was, but that wasn’t the point.
‘…… It’s good that Haneul is sleeping.’
Ahn Soo-ho let out a deep sigh as he clearly felt the weight of Kang Ha-neul on his back.
“What happened down there?”
“How is it? Of course it’s all over. Heaven handed it over to me Judging by your condition, you don’t look like much either.”
“Yes….”
Ji Ye-won, who received her river sky from her Ahn Soo-ho, carried her on her back with the sound of a lift. Ji Ye-Won murmured softly as she glanced over her shoulder at the weakly drooping river sky.
“…… I slept really well.”
I was told to listen to my heart.
Ahn Suho pricked up his ears at that small muttering.
“What did you say?”
“Huh? No, nothing Apply it to the wound as you go.”
“What is it?”
Yewon Ji tossed the red-colored medicine bottle out of her pocket.
“Potion. It was brought by Seol Ah-hyun.”
“Ahyeon?”
“Yes. I heard you brought it from the guild in case you didn’t know? They said it was an intermediate level potion. After all, is it good to be a guild master?”
After saying that, Yewon Ji led the way down the mountain path.
“It’s an intermediate potion… ….”
An item that was previously received as a tutorial quest reward. At that time, I received this potion by saving Ji Ye-Won, but this time, it was a new feeling to receive it from Ji Ye-Won.
‘Anyway, this should be worth at least 100 million… ….’
I wondered if it was okay to accept this kind of thing, but Ahn Su-ho finally opened the lid of the potion as the pain started spreading again.
‘What happened? I approached Seol Ah-hyun with this in mind in the first place.’
Ahn Soo-ho, thinking nothing of it, applied an appropriate amount of potion to the wound and then drank the rest of the potion.
I never dreamed of how Seol Ah-hyun felt when passing the potion to Ji Ye-won.