“Hey, hold on!”
As soon as I went out to the street and talked to him, Yuzuki Horie turned his head with a look of wonder.
And as soon as she saw me, she smiled brightly as if she was happy.
“Ah, Jihyuk-kun! It’s been a while!”
Horie looked at me and reached out her hand as if pleased with me, and we shook hands lightly.
“Jihyuk-kun, why are you here? Tintin?”
“It’s not a bummer… … I have some personal circumstances.”
He responded with a smile to her, who spoke to her with a mischievous smile.
“Then why are you here, Horie-san?”
“I’m on a date right now.”
With those words, I was able to notice the person standing next to Horie.
She glared at me with her eyes full of vigilance and clinged to Horie’s side.
Even though it was the first time he had seen his face, he was somehow familiar with it.
“no way… … .”
“Yeah, that’s right. She is the guild master’s younger sister.”
Horie said so and looked at her.
“Miss Hyerin, this is Yoo Ji-hyuk. You can say that he is a student who will become a hero in the future, who has done many things with the guild master.”
Then, Lee Myung-jun’s younger sister, Lee Hye-rin, who would have become an extreme hardline hero along with Horie Yuzuki if it had been the original, nodded her head without saying a word.
He nodded to each other and immediately brought the topic to Horie.
“Hey, Horie-san. Excuse me, but is it okay if I just ask you a favor?”
“For me?”
He nodded to her, who asked her with round eyes.
“Actually, I asked Hunter Lee Myung-jun to leave a message, but there was no response at all for three days. No matter how many times I call, there is no answer… … .”
“yes? For three days?”
She made a surprised expression.
“I can’t… … If you’re not in combat or on an important mission, check them all out within that day. In the case of me, you contacted me yesterday for a regular report?”
“Yes?”
This time it was my turn to surprise.
What the heck, while I was thinking about that, she frowned and said to me.
“Perhaps… … Did you not call from a number other than the original number?”
She nodded, convinced by the look on my face that it was the correct answer.
“Then it has to be. Since the guild master is a famous person, no matter how hard he tried to hide his number, it kept leaking out. So, I set it so that it will not be received at all unless it is a number saved by the guild master.”
“… I really couldn’t have imagined that.”
“Because celebrities are inherently difficult. But what about… ?”
“Because my cell phone was smashed.”
“Aha.”
I almost kept waiting for a call that would never come.
Nodding her head, she pulled out her cell phone.
“Jihyuk-kun, will you give me your number then? I will deliver it to the guild master immediately.”
“Can you please?”
“This is enough.”
When I gave Horie the new number, she immediately sent a text message to Lee Myung-jun.
After confirming that, I bowed my head to her, thinking that I had let it go for an hour.
“Thank you very much. It was really urgent.”
“What. It’s not a big deal.”
“Nice to meet you. Have fun and go.”
“Yeah, I hope things go well for Jihyuk-kun too.”
With those words, Yuzuki Horie and Hyerin Lee continued to walk the same path.
As I looked at the backs of the two of them, close to each other like close sisters, the phone suddenly started to ring.
maybe already?
With that thought, I checked my cell phone and it was Jin Ye-seul, not Lee Myung-joon.
But I was not disappointed.
Jin Ye-seul’s phone call was an important story.
“hello?”
– Hello, Jihyuk.
“What’s up?”
– I have a little important story.
With those words, Jin Ye-seul hesitated for a moment.
As she thought about what was going on, she murmured.
― This isn’t a joke, it’s a bit like talking on the phone, but can you tell me where you are?
“… It’s five streets now.”
– Oh, that’s it. Let’s meet right now. I have something to tell you then, and I will tell you the story I found out today.
“Right Now?”
– yes. you can sneak out one hour… … No, just wait two hours. okay… … Let’s meet at the square.
With those words, Jin Ye-seul immediately hung up the phone.
Her voice was unusually unsettling, even through the phone, she could tell.
What the hell is going on?
Among the eight playable characters, Jin Ye-seul was the furthest from tension or anxiety if it wasn’t related to Shadow Walker.
I could clearly feel that her anxiety had spread to me as well.
First of all, I walked to the square where all the five streets I had planned for meeting with her meet.
Because there was nothing to do right now.
As usual, the square we arrived at was crowded with many people.
The square on the five streets was as wide as any football stadium, because of the huge stone statue in the middle of the square.
A stone statue modeled after a giant creature called a dragon.
Even though it was in the shape of a crouching body as if falling asleep, it was so huge that it gave me a sore throat just looking at it.
And in the vicinity of such a stone statue, many tourists were posing or taking commemorative photos.
In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that most of the numerous tourists who come to Five Streets come here because of that huge stone statue, so famous that it is so-called a symbol of this street.
And there were only a few people who knew that the stone statue was none other than the Chilak sect.
In addition, I was the only one who knew that it was the first to break the seal, and was the one who killed two of the six guild masters, as well as many hunters and heroes, despite being released from the seal and having only half their power.
“… … .”
seven kinds of evil.
It refers to beings who are arguably different from the original horizon cloud and are the true final boss.
And if there was one thing they had in common, it was that they could never be killed by ordinary means.
Therefore, even in the original work, many people are sacrificed to find out their weaknesses or strategies, and it can be said that the main content is that they eventually find out and defeat them through numerous episodes.
But I didn’t have to.
Even though I had forgotten most of the stories after 10 years, I could confidently say that I remembered the things related to the Seven Musical Orders clearly.
I couldn’t even count how many times I died and played the game again.
Even more so in the case of that guy who was released first.
No matter how many times I played, I couldn’t beat him no matter which character I played, so I looked up the strategy book and found out that the only thing that could beat him was the same Seven Evils.
And maybe I wasn’t the only one who felt this disappointment, and the strategy the developer released during the interview was still vivid in my memory.
In a nutshell, the Seven Evils are beings that ignore and deal with a kind of concept.
In the case of Ariman, which I had to capture, it was a being who dealt with the concept of space.
And in the case of the Seven Devils sleeping over there, the concept given to him was none other than ‘perfection’.
perfect.
It means a bead without blemishes.
And in the case of that Seven Devils who have the concept of perfection, when they woke up, they didn’t get hurt no matter what they did.
A sword, a spear, a bow, magic, or even a nuclear bomb can’t do any harm to him.
To put it simply, it was a sound that was systemically invincible and untouchable.
The developer clearly said this.
As with any Seven Evil species, if the concept each one has is disturbed, they will be deprived of immortality from that moment.
In other words, it is said that in order to achieve perfection, it is necessary to inflict a wound because it is even a little bit better.
After that, you need two things to do that.
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One is the Aegis system that can accurately and powerfully pour powerful firepower on the seven evil spirits flying in the air.
And the other was to have Jin Ye-seul inflict wounds before the seal was released.
Among the characteristics that only Jin Ye-seul can have, there is the characteristic of Ha-ok.
In simple terms, it means ‘Jade-Tee’, but anyone could tell that it was a name that was created for the purpose.
In other words, it was said that the strategy was to take away the concept of perfection by injuring Jin Ye-seul, and then intercept the flying guy with the Aegis system and drag it down.
And, of course, in a game 10 years ago, such a high degree of freedom was not possible.
In addition, the Aegis system could not even be approached by any playable character in the original.
In short, it was just an interview that was nothing more than a setting game, but who would have thought that it would be so helpful now?
There was still plenty of time until the appointment time.
I went and sat down on the bench just below the stone statue for Jin Ye-seul to find easily.
Since the statue is so large, I was able to find a place with few people by walking around for a while.
“okay… … .”
In the meantime, I created a portal with shadows and moved my right hand.
I slammed it hard with Nidhogg’s fangs, but I could only feel the pain as if it would tear my hand.
Just in case, I stroked the surface once, but the smooth one showed no sign of damage.
In the end, it was said that only Jin Ye-seul could do it.
So should I give her the fangs of Nidhogg and then order her to secretly injure the statue?
If that’s the case, you’ll have to inflict some damage… … .
“Ji-hyuk.”
Suddenly, Jin Ye-seul was standing in front of me and looking down at me.
When I beckoned to sit down, she took the bag she was carrying on her back and sat down next to me.
“Come quickly.”
“Yeah, I messed up a bit. Oh, right.”
With those words, Jin Ye-seul opened the bag and took out what was inside.
It was the first statue of a bird I had never seen before.
Inseoljo’s Statue (Unique)
―This is a statue modeled after a bird that is said to have a human tongue and vocal cords in the legends of the ancient natives.
It has no value or characteristic other than that it is an antique of artistic value and that the signature of an unknown sculptor is engraved on the bottom of the statue.
―Only ‘Jin Ye-seul’ can apply the concealed effect.
― You can learn the [Hide] skill ‘Bird’s Tongue’.
Seeing the explanation, I clicked my tongue slightly.
Then, Jin Ye-seul asked me with an anxious expression if I had taken it in a different way.
“… Isn’t this?”
“No, that’s right.”
As she nodded, she quickly gave a bright expression and gently pushed it towards me.
At first, I thought she was simply asking me to judge if it was real or not, so I immediately wondered what she was doing.
“What are we going to do?”
“Uh, no… … However, since you are the real owner, I think I will have to ask you for permission… … .”
I couldn’t help but spit it out involuntarily at her hesitant attitude.
“If I hadn’t allowed it. What, just to give it back?”
“… … .”
Jin Ye-seul didn’t answer.
She just looked at me with a gloomy look, and she was about to say something about it, but then she gave up and waved her hand a little and said to her.
“It was a promise, and in addition to that, this is a fair price for what you did, so just take it. This is yours now.”
She nodded without answering my words and put the statue back into the bag.
Looking at it with bitter eyes, Jin Ye-seul hugged the bag tightly and preciously.
As I watched it, complicated emotions came up again.
Jin Ye-seul’s setting was that he was despised by his parents and relatives, ignored by his brothers and sisters for being inferior, and that he was a misfortuned genius who could not get along well with others for the rest of his life.
And the only thing she felt attached to and was obsessed with was the Shadow Walker and his traces.
“… … .”
The tongue of a bird was not a skill that was helpful in battle at all, but it can be said to be a very useful skill.
At first, it was a skill that allowed me to imitate other people’s voices, then change the face and finally the body shape.
The reason why the original Shadow Walker was able to have so many fake identities was thanks to this skill.
To be honest, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t worth it.
‘Yeah, because I couldn’t even learn it from the beginning anyway.’
If Jin Ye-seul learns it, there will be many things that will be more helpful later.
Besides, if you want to entrust her with the stone statues of the Chilak Order, it would be better to tie her up like this.
With that in mind, Jin Ye-seul hugged her bag tightly and began to carefully look around.
“Once we got some information from the two of them. But I heard something I never thought of… … .”
“And was it so important that we had to meet and talk in person like this?”
She nodded her head slightly.
Then he pulled himself closer to me and whispered quietly into my ear.
“The reason they raided the academy was to look away.”
“What?”
Jin Ye-seul was nervous, so she swallowed a small saliva and continued talking.
“They say the Society already knows where the backbone of the Aegis system is.”
They said they’ve already sent another watering team to that place.
And it’s been a few days since that happened.