188 – inside the gate -1
“Are you going now?”
Sua looked at me with trembling eyes.
“I have to go now.”
He was looking at me with such a sad expression that tears welled up in his eyes, but he couldn’t help it.
Because I couldn’t stay in Mir forever.
Mir was my physical home, but my spiritual home was our city.
“If we break up now, when will we see each other again?”
“I’ll come back often, so don’t be too heartbroken.”
It was impossible for me to come by myself, so there was a minor problem that I had to get permission from Hwaryeon first, but I will try to visit as often as possible.
It was dangerous if he didn’t come for a long time and then he turned around and ran out of control.
“okay…”
Sua lowered her head.
“Then see you next time.”
I hugged Sua and approached Hwaryeon.
“Then I’ll see you later.”
The moment when Hwaryeon grabs me and tries to teleport me.
The world has changed.
***
– Goo woo woo woo woo woo
A low vibration continued to shake my whole body from earlier.
“Ugh…”
“Are you awake?”
When I barely lifted my head and stood up, Hwaryeon was looking at me with his arms crossed.
It was so beautiful that it didn’t fit the situation, so I couldn’t help but exclaim.
“wow…”
“Why but?”
“Nothing.”
If I had a camera, I would have taken a picture of Hwaryeon right now… It was very disappointing.
“But what happened? I was sure I was going to teleport with you…”
“A special gate appeared.”
“A special gate?”
Hwaryeon nodded heavily.
“Does a special gate appear so often?”
The place where the younger brother was taken the other day was a rather strange gate…
“Until now, it didn’t appear that often. But as the guys who said they would help us grow appeared, the proportion of special gates increased significantly. I don’t know what kind of relationship they had with them, so the frequency of special gates increased.”
“Aww… it hurts…”
Sua stood up as she grabbed her head.
“Where is this?”
“Inside a special gate. I saw a black gate suddenly appear and devour us.”
“Did you just swallow us?”
“Uh. As if we were the purpose, we moved neatly without touching anyone else.”
It’s a strange thing…
It’s as if the gate has an ego, doesn’t it?
‘Is it the boss monster’s ruse?’
But why did you bring us here?
There’s no reason to just move us without touching others.
“It’s a strange gate. It wouldn’t be easy to make a gate with nothing like this.”
As Hwaryeon said, this gate was really strange.
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Not all gates are like that, but most gates had characteristics.
There is an open road, monsters pop out, and there is an end.
But there was none of that here.
It was all in a small space that looked like a cave, but no matter where I looked, there were no roads.
-Ha ha ha ha ha!
As I was pondering what the hell this was all about, I started to hear a childlike voice.
“It looks like a boss monster.”
“The boss monster appears right away without any other monsters… Apparently, we have something to do.”
-bingo!
A monkey the size of a man appeared from the empty space.
He was about the same height as me, but with a thick body, it seemed that a single hit would not end at the line where the ribs went out.
“Who are you?”
-I am Ansungnim, the ruler of Monkey Mountain. In order to confront you, I personally made a gate and came to you.
“Hey, are you talking to me?”
– Yes, with you.
Ansung’s eyes were strong enough that even if he was a monkey, he could understand his intentions.
“Why me?”
-You looked like the strongest on Earth.
Hwaryeon’s shoulder lifted slightly, then sank again.
He seemed to be trying not to show off, but I could see that Hwaryeon was quite pleased.
“Are you the one who wants to grow humanity?”
-right. Last time, I made a proper 3-gate and contributed to the growth of humans, so this time I came to do what I wanted to do. that’s a fight with you
“No matter how much I think about it, it’s just my loss?”
– Can’t we just fight once? It means that you came with the determination to get scolded.
“If you want to fight like that, offer me a good price. Otherwise, I won’t be able to fight.
Ansung scratched his head.
-Preemption.
“what?”
-What do you want to be preemptive?
“Can you do what I want?”
-I didn’t ask you because you have to listen.
The words could have sounded sharp, but Ansung’s voice itself was a child’s tone, so it didn’t flow in such a bad mood.
“I want to awaken Ahae, but is it possible?”
-Awakening? you mean him?
Ansung came up to me and glanced at me.
The animal’s damp breath ran across my face.
-Awakening is not an area I can do for you, but… I think you can increase the level of mana more?
“Okay. Then let’s face it right away.”
what. Are you replying right away?
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No, I can get more mana?
My heart pounded and I started to run.
It won’t make a clear difference to the extent of awakening, but there will be many things you can do enough just by increasing your mana.
-Wait a minute.
Ansung stood still for a moment, then changed into the same figure as Hwaryeoni with a popping sound.
“… what are you doing?”
– I mean, I have a lot of limitations. My physical condition right now is not what I usually look like. I want to fight as objectively as possible. Can we fight each other with the same physical abilities? Then at least we can objectively grasp each other’s martial arts skills.
“… Okay. Give it a shot.”
-Then you attack right away?
Ansung, who took the form of Hwaryeoni, quickly approached Hwaryeoni.
-thud!!
How can I explain…
With a thud, a thump, and a thump, the case was over.
Ansung was thrown to the floor, and Hwaryeon stood up with a perfectly normal expression.
It was possible to roughly grasp what had happened because it was slower than the usual Hwaryeoni’s body movements, but Ansung was simply weaker than Hwaryeoni’s.
Ansung couldn’t see Hwaryeon’s movements, but Hwaryeon was able to easily subdue Ansung.
“Now, is it my victory?”
-…you are really strong…
Ansung jumped up and sat down and said.
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No matter how strong Hwaryeon is, since she is a woman, she tends to be careful in moving her body, but Ansung didn’t think about it at all, so I just moved, so somehow awkwardness came into my eyes.
“Ahahahaha! Don’t look at that!”
Right before something that looked like underwear came into my eyes, Hwaryeon covered my eyes.
When he bullies me, he shows me everything, but I don’t know why he’s stopping me from showing it like this.
“Put on your clothes properly!”
-Why?
“Anyway, dress properly!”
-Huh… Okay.
Hwaryeon removed her hand from my eyes, probably because she had changed Ansung’s clothes properly.
“Whoa… I’m glad…”
“It seems that Heavenly Demon-nim is very shy. I don’t care what Suhyeon looks like in front of her.”
“Since I’m embarrassed, can you please stop doing that?”
Soo-ah’s hand naturally went toward her collar, so she grabbed her forehead and begged.
Sua also put her hand down right away, as if she hadn’t really meant to play a joke.
-You’re really strong. How are you so strong?
“It’s a talent.”
-It’s too great a talent for a human being?
“Then let’s just say it’s a post-human level talent.”
-Our world…
Ansung, who was about to say something, was cut off.
-It was almost a big deal. I was going to say it without thinking, but I almost disappeared right away because of the restrictions.
“It’s difficult to disappear now. At least increase Ahae’s mana and go.”
-wait. It’s not something you can do right away. There are many things we need and many things we need to prepare. It will take at least two days to implement it in this space, so sit still and wait.
what? Two days?
“Can’t you go any faster?”
-can not. why? do you want to get out soon?
“There’s a party out there. They’ll probably be worried if they don’t come back for a long time.”
-Don’t worry. Since we gave up most of the components that make up the gate, if you have a lot of energy left, we’ll let you go outside as soon as possible, so don’t worry and be comfortable.
“How fast can you go?”
I sat down with my chin resting on my cheeks.
-Well? Wouldn’t it take about 2 hours by external standards?
“That’s fine.”
– I’ll prepare the food for you, so please wait comfortably.
After saying that, Ansung disappeared.