7. Two Possessors (8)
In a dark cave. Blue light billowed around the wounded wolf. The dust that had risen from the battle a little while ago dimmed the light and spread it to every corner.
The turbulent stream of light vibrated with the wolf’s heartbeat and clawed at every object it swept into. The image of a wolf emitting light with its head raised high in the sky shook uneasily as if it might explode at any moment.
A mana flare phenomenon that appears just before the death of a demonic beast. It was the final struggle of a near-death magical beast, and it was also the worst magical phenomenon that killed the most people after epidemics and war.
However, the boy watching it muttered carelessly as if he did not sense any danger.
“Oh, I failed the performance evaluation.”
“What are you saying to the subject on the bus?”
The girl wearing round glasses shot back pointedly at the boy’s words. However, the boy, Siwoo, did not lose and fought back.
“Hey, how do you catch that? “Magic friction will come and go around there.”
“Why can’t I catch it?”
Despite Siwoo’s correct opinion, the girl, Eugene, did not give up. A flame burned in her hanging hands.
Eugene raised her head, smiled brightly, and stretched out her arms confidently.
“I’ve killed that thing over a hundred times.”
With those words, a fireball flew out and hit the wolf directly.
However, the explosion that was supposed to follow did not occur.
“… Uh?”
“For some reason, it seemed like that.”
“Wait a minute, this can’t be happening…”
“Get out of the way. “I’ll finish it.”
Siwoo pushed Eugene and stood in front of her. I heard someone say something like ‘You can only use magic missiles-‘ from behind, but I didn’t pay any attention to it.
Because I personally saw the effect of the ‘circle where only magic missiles can be used’.
Ugh-
Siwoo carefully awakened the circle. Siwoo’s circle, which had already become two, was a special circle where only magic missiles could be used.
At first I was very disappointed. Special circles are valuable because they allow you to use magic that cannot be used with regular circles. I thought that circles that specialized in magic that anyone could use, like Magic Missile, were nothing more than shackles that sealed away all other magic.
But Siwoo soon realized that his thinking was wrong.
Unlike others, Siwoo’s circle did not require calculation.
That meant that there was no casting time for Siwoo’s magic.
Ping- ping- ping- ping-
Blue lights flashed one by one around Siwoo. It quickly became ten, then twenty, then thirty.
All of them were magic missiles just before launch.
“This crazy…”
Eugene, who had been hoping that Si-woo would not be able to do it behind him, was astonished at the speed. Meanwhile, the number of magic missiles continued to increase. Sparkling light filled Siwoo’s surroundings.
And when the magic missiles finally reached seventy, Siwoo stopped reloading and motioned to the wolf.
Following that hand gesture, numerous well-aimed magic missiles bombarded the wolf.
Bang-kwaang-kwakwakwakwaang-
The wolf could not come to its senses and was hit by numerous magic bullets. The blue light receded, and the concentrated destruction tore the beast mercilessly apart.
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Finally, the moment when the wolf died completely.
The cave was nowhere to be seen, and instead, a training room appeared in front of Si-woo and Yu-jin.
“Chun Si-woo, Jo Yu-jin. C.”
The teacher’s cold sentence signaled the end of the virtual battle evaluation.
*
“Oh really, where did I make a mistake…”
On the way back to class after finishing a virtual battle created by combining magic and modern technology. Eugene kept muttering to himself. It seemed like he was quite concerned about the last thing that went wrong.
Siwoo planned to ignore that self-talk, but the road to class was too long. It’s even more difficult to ignore. In the end, Si-woo briefly responded to Eugene’s self-talk, wishing that he would be quieter.
“You must have confused the horizontal coordinate system and the equatorial coordinate system.”
“Ah… !!!”
Eugene, who only then realized the cause, let out an exclamation and pulled out her head. Siwoo completely ignored it and continued walking.
However, regardless of Eugene’s feelings, her self-destructive gesture did not last long. This is because Elia, the main character of the original game played by Jo Yu-jin, was waiting in the classroom. As Eugene approached her classroom, he calmly combed her hair and adjusted her clothes, as if she had suddenly gone crazy.
Siwoo, who had seen such a scene for so long, was no longer surprised. Maybe it’s because I’m so used to it now, but it feels awkward when Eugene doesn’t do that.
However, the question asked by the calmer Eugene was a little surprising.
“But how much magic attribute do you have?”
“Huh? “Why is that?”
“Just curious. “You can use the system, too.”
The ‘system’ that Eugene referred to refers to various game elements of the original game.
The novel in which Si-woo was possessed was a game-possessed novel with Jo Yu-jin as the main character, so the world Si-woo and Yu-jin were in was a world within a game. And unlike ordinary people who don’t even know that this world is a game world, Siwoo and Eugene, who were possessed from another world, were able to utilize the game’s system.
It was thanks to him that Siwoo quickly rose to the second circle. As a result of increasing his magical power by sweeping up all kinds of hidden pieces, Siwoo was able to keep up with the growth of other Siwoos in over 5 times less time than other Siwoos.
“About seventy? “There aren’t that many.”
“… “Hasn’t it been two months yet?”
“If it’s time for possession, then yes.”
“Well, it’s worth it because they took everything that was mine.”
Si-woo snorted at Eugene’s words, which he muttered as if it were obvious.
“Why is the hidden piece yours? “Whoever eats first is the winner.”
“You read what I eat first and then you play. “I should have eaten it originally.”
“You don’t need this anyway. “It was Circle 3 from the beginning.”
“Would I eat that? “Of course I’ll give it to Elia.”
“Anyway, that damn love for Elia…”
Siwoo shook his head as if he was fed up. The tone was closer to a lament than an exclamation, but Eugene burst out laughing as if he was taking it as a compliment.
As they talked like that, the two quickly arrived at the classroom. Eugene opens the classroom door.As soon as he saw it, he pushed past Siwoo, opened the door, and approached Elia as if he wanted to jump in. Then, as always, he trembled and expressed his blatant affection.
However, unlike usual, that expression of affection seemed somewhat risky. Eugene’s gestures were more escapist than arrival, and her words showed signs of trying to forget her other thoughts.
Siwoo’s eyes deepened when he noticed this.
The conversation a little while ago was like that too. Eugene has been avoiding Si-woo ever since the last runaway cat incident, and even after they were in the same group, he never said a word about possession to Si-woo. We only completed the tasks assigned to each of us.
But suddenly talking about the system was clearly not a normal situation.
‘There are situations where I can guess… Well, we’ll see.’
Siwoo decided to watch further and turned his gaze to the chat window.
In the chat window, there was a story about a certain Si-woo who had just gotten rid of the stigma of being an idiot.
*
That evening.
Eugene, exhausted, lay down on the bed in the dormitory. The pouch that she had roughly thrown away in the morning was stuck next to her butt.
The pouch was filled with cosmetics that she had not used before she was possessed. A trace left by the true owner of this body before she was possessed. Eugene felt that he was more concerned about it today.
At the beginning of possession, I didn’t think much of it. Her new parents were such good people that it would be rude to lump her in with the same people as her previous ones, and more than anything, since Elia, whom she truly loved, was by her side, she felt as if she had the whole world. It was good.
But as time passed, she couldn’t help but think more. She was unfamiliar with her Eugene’s parents, and her Eugene’s parents were worried about her and worried that there was something wrong with her.
In Eugene’s concerns, she implicitly read her request to return to the ‘real Eugene’.
A look she couldn’t recreate.
If it had been like before, she would have ignored it, thinking that as long as she had Elia, she could do anything. It hadn’t even been a day or two since she had become estranged from her parents in the first place, so she was already used to it.
However, because of another possessor, she couldn’t just ignore it.
It’s because of that possessor that she read that she failed.
‘It would have been better if I had possessed my original body like that girl.’
Eugene sighed and opened the gallery on his phone. In her gallery, underneath the many photos she took with Elia, there were photos taken by the ‘real Eugene’ before she was possessed.
Those photos that ‘the real Eugene’ took with his parents are the things that I couldn’t erase.
It was a photo full of happiness and connection that she felt she could never recreate.
The photos continued even after I took them down. 3rd year of middle school. Second year of middle school. Middle school grade 1… The accumulated photos held memories proportional to their number.
Suddenly, Eugene felt her heart becoming tight.
The frustration she can’t let go of because she can’t confide in anyone.
‘No one will believe that I was possessed… Peel.’
As Eugene thought so, she remembered that there was one person she could trust.
She knows her situation better than anyone else.
She also said that she had one person in this world who was possessed just like her.
‘Ha, am I really crazy?’
Eugene struggled to erase the thought she had just had.
No matter how frustrating the situation is, it’s not about anyone else but Siwoo. That was impossible. Isn’t Si-woo the one who has been sabotaging her in every matter recently?
This is ridiculous. Not only is it embarrassing and awkward to say something like that, but what will come of complaining like that? Why on earth should you improve your relationship with your parents in the first place?
While thinking that way, I also thought that Si-woo would already know about her current situation.
Anyway, Siwoo said that Eugene was possessed after reading a novel in which she was the main character.
So maybe she knows something? Even if I can’t give her a solution, I think I can at least tell her what her future self did and what the results were.
Eugene, who had entrusted herself to that glimmer of hope, impulsively sent her a KakaoTalk message.
*
That time.
Siwoo was meeting teacher Cheolsu alone in a dark conference room.
Unlike usual, Cheolsu was wearing dark sunglasses and a suit. Unlike usual, where he looked ordinary and ordinary, his outfit and gestures radiated the force of a former elite agent.
In front of him, Siwoo felt something unusual, but spoke as calmly as possible.
“You called me.”
“Yes, Cheon Si-woo… No.”
Cheolsu chuckled.
“Possessed person.”