104 – Between Peace and Anxiety (3)
Hyuna suddenly appeared and stopped them.
Of course, she seemed to give in after a few conversations, but her attitude showed clear suspicion, and her Sang-hoon, who couldn’t have been unaware of that fact, acted cautiously, eliminating all of her playfulness –
“…It’s faster than I thought.”
Hyunwoo glanced at the black butterfly passing by him, then sighed and shook his head.
“I said I would be careful, but it doesn’t go away easily.”
There are a lot of people with the ability to monitor things, so it is natural that there will be people who notice something strange.
The number of butterflies wandering around them is increasing, the temperature is rising even though it is the middle of winter, etc.
There was no direct intervention such as stopping again, but he had already noticed that the heroes’ movements were strange.
“It’s going to be dangerous.”
“What?”
“More and more eyes are seeing!”
Much faster than expected.
In the original game, the heroes notice the villains’ intrusion only after the villains have started moving in earnest, but now they are already following their traces before they even make a full-fledged move.
Of course, there are heroes that should not exist, or the main character and his group are heroes that should have existed – even if the skills of the academy students are much higher than the game’s story –
“No, this fast?!”
“Well… We leaked information that villains were coming, so this has no choice but to happen.”
“It’s good to be self-employed!”
“It’s noisy. Anyway, even taking that into account, it’s relatively fast.”
And as Sang-hoon said, this quick reaction was their fault for giving the information to the heroes, but I didn’t expect them to react this quickly.
“It’s difficult.”
“Of course it will be difficult!”
Well, what’s even more surprising than that is the villains’ reaction.
“Are you okay?! “I haven’t even caught six yet!”
“Eunji must have caught about three to four people, so about 10 people.”
Approximately 10 people. When the game story branched off to the Silent Snake, 40 people were hiding, so there must be 30 more.
The heroes would not have been idle, so considering that more will be added here, a quarter of them have already been captured – but there is still no sign of the villain moving.
“Tsk. “They’re not just kids who are being bullied-“
In the game, their resistance gets stronger every time 10 people are caught, but now, let alone resistance, there is no movement as if they are being captured obediently.
No matter how different it is from the game, it shows so much movement, but it just stays still? On the contrary, I wish I had struggled harder.
Why is it so quiet?
Why don’t they move even while being manipulated and captured? That’s probably because even if you get caught, your plans won’t be disrupted.
But no matter how dream eater he is, he won’t be able to do anything if all the assassins are caught.
She deals with her dreams, and is a strong person in reality – but even so, it would be difficult for her to deal with so many people alone.
Then the question is, why are they waiting while she prepares, and what are those preparations?
-Wait a minute. Preparation?
“…f*ck.”
Her ability is to control dreams. No matter how strong she is, she is the one who can unconditionally drag her mind into the world of dreams the first time. And the range of its abilities is such that even this academy can be looked down upon.
“Brother.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Take care of Su-ah.”
“What?! For a moment-“
“Quick!”
Why didn’t she think of this herself? Are you really saying that peace has been ruined?
Hyunwoo frowned at the ominous premonition that suddenly passed through his mind, and even though he was blaming himself for a moment, he stretched out his hand towards the sword on his waist.
Sang-hoon was embarrassed, but did as Hyun-woo said and immediately held Su-ah in his arms. Hyun-woo pulled out his sword and turned to face right next to her.
“Keep your mind straight!”
After shouting at Sang-hoon one last time, he tried to swing his sword at the corpses that were still being controlled by Su-ah and dragging his feet –
Thump.
-You’re quick to notice, aren’t you?
“…Big.”
A mocking voice suddenly echoes in my head and the ground shakes at the same time.
-No, was I too complacent to be quick-witted? Even if it’s like this-
At the same time, the ground split and cracks appeared, and Hyunwoo lost his balance and stumbled, unable to swing his sword.
-I have read the entire oracle, but there is no way I can act according to the oracle, right?
“Suaya-!”
As soon as Hyunwoo looked back at Suah, the voice echoing in his head stopped –
Kugugugugugung!
From between the cracks in the cracked ground, something began to rise up.
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“What do you think? “Do you see anything suspicious?”
-Hmm. To me, they are just ordinary people.
“I said no. Look closely!”
-So, I’m watching it now!
Hyuna questioned So-ah in frustration, but the only answer she received was that there was still nothing wrong.
“…Hyunya. “Why on earth are you doing this?”
“No, no matter how you look at them, they are strange! So why doesn’t anyone notice?!”
“Even if you say that in the first place… We don’t know what you found out with your abilities, right?”
Ji-hyeon, who was looking at Hyuna scratching her head in frustration, smiled bitterly at her and tried to calm her down, but-
“So, half of those people over there – no, more than half of them have abnormal body temperatures?”
“…Body temperature?”
“Yes! “I heard that the guy Hangyeol caught is the same as the corpse you met last time!”
From common sense, wouldn’t a corpse’s body temperature be lower than that of an ordinary person? Of course, the fact that a corpse can walk around and pretend to be a human is not common sense – but even so.
“I can’t feel the heat from their bodies, so isn’t that weird?”
“That’s right. “Then why did you just come back?”
“I reported first, but they told me to wait until help arrived because it was dangerous! “Well, we’re not really kids…”
No matter how much she thought about it, they were strange people. Hyuna grumbled, recalling the people she had stopped before when she felt suspicious. She soon sat down and sighed, probably exhausted.
“Well, something will work out later.”
“…Okay. They say they want to improve their performance, so what can I say? Just graduate. “I’m a senior, I’m older, and I’ll do the same to you after I’ve grown older and have more achievements…”
Anyway, they will be investigating, and if they do, there will be some answer.
They were complaining, but it was because they still viewed themselves as children, not because they didn’t trust the skills of those heroes.
Anyway, all they can do now is wait.
Hyuna and Jihyun took a moment to catch their breath and watched the festival scene blankly, waiting for instructions from the other heroes.
“What are you doing on a festival day? Seriously…”
“So…”
“Aren’t you feeling unfair? “I prepared so hard!”
“Villains are always like that.”
“…Sigh. “That too.”
Is it because they feel uncomfortable at the fact that they are trespassing and disrupting a peaceful festival that everyone is enjoying? Now, Hyuna is holding her knees and lowering her head.
Ji-hyeon looked back at her and smiled bitterly at her, but since her situation was too severe to comfort her, she just remained silent.
“…What is Hyunwoo doing now?”
When was the last festival you enjoyed? Was it a festival that Hyeonwoo and I went to together when we were in first grade? I couldn’t really enjoy my second year because I was looking for Hyunwoo…
Ji-hyeon sighed deeply, and she thought of Hyun-woo, who might be doing something right now, and turned her head again –
“…Huh?”
When I saw the scenery that had suddenly changed in a moment, I opened my eyes wide.
“-Eh?”
People who were smiling and chatting just a moment ago, people who were enjoying the festival – have collapsed on the ground.
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Although they all have happy smiles on their faces, they are lying motionless as if they are asleep, and there is even a single rose on their heads.
Ji-hyeon, who was speechless at the strange scene that suddenly unfolded, could only stand there blankly-
-Hyunya! Jihyun! Hangyeol! Is everyone safe?!
“Uh, uh! “Now with me and Hyuna-“
I suddenly came to my senses when I heard So-ah’s radio call, and I looked back at Hyuna, who was still sitting down –
“There is…”
After seeing the rose stuck in his head – or more accurately, ‘blooming’ – and Hyuna sleeping with her eyes closed, smiling happily as if nothing had happened, he froze.
-Now suddenly people have collapsed… No, what is that?!
What kind of situation is this?
Soah’s radio is no longer heard. Not only is it difficult to understand this bizarre sight, but-
“Ah.”
Because of the sudden drowsiness, it was difficult to keep my mind.
Jihyun stumbled and fell to the floor, and immediately stretched out her hand to hold her throbbing forehead.
“…Oh.”
A drop of blood falling at the same time as the pain felt in the finger. Even though her finger was pricked by the thorn of a rose that was blooming on her head, and despite feeling her pain, the desire to sleep kept coming.
Jihyeon tried to open her eyes that were closing, but in the end she couldn’t bear it and closed them –
-Rose?! What kind of rose is that huge?!
I saw it right before my eyes closed – For some reason, I fell into sleep, leaving behind the huge rose in the distance and So-ah’s voice.