282 – EP.11 What I gave up-3
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She left her house with the intention of going for a quick walk.
As she was walking in the holiday sunshine, a worry suddenly appeared in her mind.
I was worried what would happen if Kang In-ho made a mistake.
We are very close to her, but we have only just met. There was ample possibility of a slip of the tongue.
[Because you might make a mistake.]
“I never thought I’d use it like this.”
Seongah Kim smiled bitterly as she looked at the location tracking app on her cell phone.
She was afraid that something might happen to Kang In-ho, so she bought a cell phone and installed the app.
It was a kind of protective action, but she may not have known at the time that it would be used for surveillance purposes.
Feeling guilty for invading her privacy for a moment, she narrowed her eyes and looked beyond her store.
What were you talking about that made you feel so cheerful? Do I tell my story? What are you laughing at?
All kinds of questions opened like fruit in her head.
Kim Seong-ah, who had been staring inward for a while, was shocked and took a few steps behind her.
Her face, briefly reflected in the glass window, was so frozen.
“…What are you doing?”
Suddenly, Hyeonta came rushing in.
Standing in front of her window, she looked so ridiculous and shabby.
Regardless of her mood, the conversation continued inside her window.
Kang In-ho was talking at length about the question he was asked.
“…?”
And then she saw her homeroom teacher’s face hardening, little by little, ever so slightly.
‘What are you talking about….’
The homeroom teacher’s smile, which had been smiling innocently just a moment ago, began to gradually turn more mechanical.
I see her face hardening.
“Let’s hear what they’re talking about.”
That was when she held out her right hand and was about to work her eavesdropping magic.
Unpleasant waves passed through her entire body.
Chicken flesh has grown.
What this meant, she did not know.
No, it was a mistake because I knew it too well. Because it’s something I’ve felt and dealt with over the past few years.
It is an invasion by the forces of evil.
Normally, she would have already completed her transformation and prepared to fly, but today, for some reason, she cannot easily lose her footing.
“When it’s so important….”
Kim Seong-ah chewed her lip, looking alternately between her crack and the Japanese restaurant.
Her purple eyes flashed for a moment. A crack was forming at a point in the sky far away.
Soon, something will come through that crack.
– Wow.
She gritted her teeth. And what she chose was her duty.
“[The power of the brilliant, sacred star.]”
Chanting, she stamped her feet.
Like a comet’s tail, she soared into the sky, leaving behind a cloud of blue light.
By the time she had finished her spell, her bony, grotesque arms were sticking out from the cracks of her little crack.
An arm that looked like a piece of leather lightly placed on top of a bone began to come out through the crack.
With the white arm gradually extending out, she held onto her staff and got into her fighting stance.
“Single shot between adjustments.”
She took a deep breath of air. Her eyes shone.
End it with just one hit, aim for the crack that opens.
Muttering, her eyes narrowed.
– Ujijik
The space is torn, and the gap between the cracks widens.
Both arms suddenly appeared, using the air as support to open a crack.
Lyrical Star did not miss the opening.
“From the prepared shooter.”
The staff spewed fire. A huge blue bullet entered the gap.
– Pung
Smoke seeped out from inside the crack along with the sound of an explosion.
The arms that were already out fell limply.
“…….”
Lyrical Star lowered his staff and glanced at his feet.
Unseen, far below, there would be his roommate.
And then, a huge shock hit her stomach.
“Ugh!”
I frowned at the pain of my back being bent in half.
She flew through the air. At the end of my vision blurred by intense pain, there was a strange creature with an animal skull as its head.
“Queee!!!”
“I let my guard down….”
She burst into tears, and blood spurted out from her mouth.
It seemed like the attack just had a fairly decisive effect.
And her unexpected anger welled up like the blood she spat out.
“It’s annoying.”
Is it because it was attacked? The lyrical star’s voice became infinitely subdued.
“Gra la la la!”
Her skeleton monster rushed at her, running on all fours through the sky.
“It’s annoying.”
The color of the purple eyes became deeper.
“Oh!”
The monster leaped from mid-distance, overlapped both hands and slammed them down.
The lyrical star chose not to let it go and to fight back.
Receive her fist with the body of the staff held horizontally.
Boom!
My knees bent slightly due to the weight of the slam.
Her skeleton monster struck her alternately with both hands, as if trying to hold her down.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Her legs wavered pitifully as the attacks continued to rain down on her.
“It’s all annoying.”
Her deep purple eyes were still focused on the monster.
She again placed the tip of her spear against her lowering right fist.
Puuk, her staff pierced her bony fist like a skewer.
“Koo?”
The monster bobbed her head at the blue light flowing into her arm.
She, who had gathered infinite star power, muttered.
“Disappear.”
– Pung
The power of the star amplified from within pulverized the skeleton monster.
“…….”
Lyrical Star looked at the stardust falling to the ground with her stern face.
***
Kang In-ho could not keep up with the flow of conversation.
I definitely noticed that the other person’s attitude had changed from before.
But she didn’t know why.
Lim Soo-ah, who treated her in a friendly manner, seemed to have lost interest in her conversation and checked the time on her cell phone every 10 minutes.
‘Did I say something wrong?’
He recalled the conversation he had had so far.
We sit down and talk about Seong-ah until we eat.
And when she had eaten half of her food, Im Soo-ah asked about herself.
– You said you were a freelancer, right? What exactly you are doing…
– Oh, I see. I have a general idea about that job, but isn’t the income still good?
– Do you have a car…?
I couldn’t tell a big lie for no reason, so I remembered answering appropriately.
‘I guess it’s because I spoke too roughly.’
“Would you like some coffee?”
When Kang In-ho spoke to Lim Su-ah, she responded with Lim Su-ah making her troubled face.
“Oh, what should I do? I have to go somewhere urgently.”
“Ah, then there’s nothing we can do.”
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Kang In-ho nodded his head and stood up.
He went to the checkout counter and presented his card to the clerk, who used the card to pay for his lunch.
“Then, please go in carefully.”
Lim Soo-ah said her greetings and disappeared into the distance with her brisk steps.
“…What is this feeling?”
He clearly consulted with a school teacher about a student, and he recalled the memory of once getting rejected on a blind date.
Scratching his head, he was about to go home when he heard a voice calling him from somewhere.
“Mister, are you finished?”
Kim Seong-ah, who looked oddly tired, was somehow approaching him.