Chapter 149 – 25. Omens (1)
Today, the special purpose room had no time to be quiet.
The wind blows incessantly, sound bombs are fired, and ribbons made of shadows pierce the protector.
Sometimes, there are several attacks that are so strong that it makes you wonder, ‘Are you really not watching?’, And you even feel the threat to your life.
I brushed off the dust from my clothes and stood up.
I didn’t know it during the fight, but after a short rest, my whole body trembled and complained of pain.
“It really has grown a lot. If this is enough, I will win next year.”
“Jihoo, are you okay? Are you seriously hurt?”
“You didn’t lose strength at the end, right? I’m going to catch a real person, aigoo…”
Two people who had been watching me from afar approached me.
One was Sanya, who had been sparring for a few weeks, and the other was a newcomer who had recently arrived.
…Of course, even if he’s a rookie, he’s many times stronger than me, so he’s never won.
“It’s obviously a drawing, but why does it hurt so much… It hurts more than Sanya.”
“Sorry… I can’t control my strength properly when fighting yet… I’ll practice more.”
“I’m kidding. When you do it, you have to do it right. My legs are shaking, so please help me.”
Juha with a worried face holds my arm tightly and looks at me.
It was really a joke. He seemed very sorry, as if he knew that he was still immature in control.
The actual battle will hurt more than this anyway, so I should be able to endure it for now…
Still, it hurts, it hurts terribly.
“Great job. Let’s break up today! Ah, Jihoo stays for a while. I have something to tell you about what I said last time.”
“Ah, I get it. Would you like to wait outside then?”
Joo-ha nodded his head as if he understood and went out.
Eventually, when the door to the practice room was completely closed, Sanya’s mouth opened.
“The girl you asked me to find last time, because you asked me, I’ve been researching for over a month, but I haven’t come across any specific information yet. No, no one has a connection in the first place. I must have recorded personal information when I entered the school, but when I checked the documents, they were empty…”
“Then should I put in a missing person report?”
“I don’t know if that will be of much help since I’m completely missing. Even if I open my eyes and ears, I can’t even get a clue… I don’t think it will change much even if I go into the investigation. I’m sorry I couldn’t find it, the teacher knows in advance. You should have it.”
“No, thanks for noticing.”
After bowing my head, I quickly left the practice room for Juha, who was waiting for me.
Pira County.
During the vacation that lasted nearly a month, she didn’t show up anywhere, and then she disappeared somewhere.
Sanya doesn’t seem to have any doubts yet, but I could be sure that there was something in Pirahyun.
As well as the suspicious behavior on the island, there is also a part where no one knows the whereabouts in an era where CCTVs and awakeners are densely covered.
And, why does the time when Sanya lost her power overlap with the time when Pirahyun disappeared?
Once or twice is a coincidence, but now I feel like I have reached the line of inevitability beyond coincidence.
Maybe there was some reason why he dared to convey the words to me while enduring the annoyance of forcibly stealing Seo Ju-ha’s unconsciousness.
For example…
‘So as not to get caught in the detection net.’
But this is inconsistent.
Because it was later when Sanya regained her power than when Pirahyun approached.
Or, is there another surveillance network that I don’t know about?
There were too many cases to consider.
“It’s over soon? What did you say?”
When I opened the door and came out, Joo-ha, who had been leaning on the side of the hallway and nodding his head, waved his hand and greeted me.
After thinking about how to say it for a while, I answered with as much refinement as I knew.
“Uh… It’s not really important, it’s just that one of my classmates hasn’t been to school in a while.”
“Uh, yeah…? You’re a bit like me…?”
Oh right.
Come to think of it, he too was once a school refusal.
Juha’s embarrassed expression on his face is a bit nasty today.
…Absolutely not because I was beaten to dust earlier.
“Probably nothing special. The sea dragon incident and the NIS raid happened one after another, so the vigilance was strengthened. It’s probably not coming out for some reason.”
“Is it…?”
Juha and the wall were gone, but I didn’t want to get caught up in such a troublesome thing.
As the days go by, my blind hatred for the demons grows, but I can’t put Juha in danger in such a situation.
“Yeah, you don’t have to worry about it. Anyway, you’re so kind.”
“Hehe… Stroke me more.”
As he tangled Juha’s silver hair with his hand, it clung to him even more as if he was happy.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like a puppy.
He has such a gentle personality, but when he fights, he makes sure that it’s amazing.
Usually ‘How can I hurt you! No way!’ Isn’t it a cliché development? How is it that the public and the private are so sure?
I’m weak, so I need to increase my strength, but Joo-ha’s output is so strong that I have to adjust it, so it’s ironic.
‘Last time at Juha’s house, he seems to have adjusted it very skillfully, but now he’s clumsy. Are you doing this on purpose…?’
In this way, I secretly relieve the stress that has accumulated in me…
Ah, please How could such an innocent kid do that?
Even now, he rubs his face against my shoulder saying how good I am.
“Yes why?”
“It’s nothing. Just because it’s pretty.”
Juha’s clear eyes twitch.
Pure eyes that seemed to know nothing… No matter how suspicious I was, I couldn’t question those eyes.
It’s just that I can’t control my emotions properly, so I’m still immature.
Let’s think good.
“Did you say you were stopping by Ray’s house? Can I not buy you something like a present?”
“It’s okay because he received money from me for living expenses. Or, what, should I buy some sweet snacks to eat?”
“Yeah! It seemed a bit empty without anything.”
I already paid for my living expenses generously, but since it was in front of Juha, I decided to match it to the rhythm.
Since Ray is not good at sweets, he’d be happy if he brought them.
After leaving school, I stopped at a nearby convenience store and bought a few bags of snacks wrapped in a set, and the time approached late afternoon.
However, the late summer sun was still shining brightly, so the surroundings were still bright.
Heading to Ray’s house, we exchanged conversations about the previous fight.
“Isn’t today the first time you sparred properly? So far, I’ve only received personal guidance from Sanya.”
“Yeah, I always fight only with Sagna, but since I fight with you, I can’t control my strength. Ah, but it was so amazing! He moves like he’s a real physical-type Awakener… Did he say the skill was called ‘self-suggestion’…?”
“That’s right, self-suggestion. I barely finished it last week, but I’m glad the performance isn’t bad.”
I can feel it very well because it was the ability to compensate for close combat, which is the most vulnerable to the awakened person of the telekinesis system.
Of course, it was possible with Sanya’s advice, intensive lectures for recommended students, and painstaking efforts to establish the framework to some extent, but in the end, I managed to do it.
“It’s still in a hurry to complete, so it’s at the level of strengthening physical abilities and slightly strengthening waves, but if you get used to it, I think you’ll be able to do things you never imagined.”
For example, it might be able to handle breaking through the limit of magical power, or a kind of wave that cannot be used at all.
As the name suggests, this technology starts with ‘believing that it is possible for oneself’.
Of course, this is still just a buzzword.
At best, I can’t use 100% of my accelerated body, so what kind of limit break is breaking through the limit?
“Ah, we have arrived.”
After talking about this and that, before I knew it, I had reached Ray’s house.
I pressed the doorbell, and soon I heard a crackling sound from inside, and then the door burst open.
“Hello Lee Ji-Hoo! Hello Joo-Ha too! It’s been a while!”
“Don’t be noisy dude.”
“Ray is still lively…”
Come to think of it, I’m in the same class as Ray, but Ju-Ha is far from me, so I don’t think we’ve had many opportunities to meet.
After waving her hand and stroking Ray’s hair a few times to greet me, I went inside.
Today, not Ray, but Xian had something to do.
Normally, I would have stopped listening to the news from Ray in the classroom, but today I heard something that I couldn’t just pass by, so I ended up visiting his house.
“Didn’t you say you were recovering her memories little by little?”
“Yeah! Ray’s face seems to be recognizing a little now!”
It was a positive sign.
At first, I couldn’t distinguish anything other than eating, drinking, and sleeping, but thanks to Ray’s diligent care, I think I’ve reached a certain level of stability now.
“Do you seem to remember the recent events? The raid or something like that.”
“Um… I don’t think you recognize that yet… Come in now! I’m awake now, so you can talk to me!”
“I’m sorry to bother you every time. Excuse me then.”
“I brought snacks here, so eat when you feel like it. Don’t eat too much at once, okay?”
“Yeah! Thanks Juha!”
Ray’s pink twin tails flutter.
How low is the threshold for happiness?
I left Ray who was hurriedly opening the package and headed to the master bedroom where Xian was.
Profit.
As soon as the door opens with a slight creak, Xian’s figure comes into view.
This is the first time I’ve actually seen it since the raid, but it definitely feels like a lot of the sharp atmosphere of the time has disappeared.
Seeing that I still don’t feel any magical power, I don’t think I need to consider escaping or suddenly becoming hostile, so I decided to find out at what level I had regained my memories.
“Just a few questions?”
“Who is…? Ray…?”
“Don’t be afraid because you’re here to help Ray. First of all, do you remember your name?”
“Draft.”
Calmly examine your eyes.
If the memory has fully returned, some kind of reaction will occur that cannot be hidden in any way, but the absence of such a sign means that you are still at the stage of amnesia.
In addition, Joo-ha, who was next to him, was also checking the magical response in the room.
There might be some restrictions that have been put in place for a long time to prevent you from revealing your secret, so it didn’t hurt to always be careful.
“Do you feel anything when you look at my face?”
“You look bad…”
“…I’m sorry.”
Don’t laugh
I continued my interrogation, managing my expression as much as possible.
“Next, do you remember what you were doing?”
“I don’t know. It’s just that my hair is white. I remember playing with Ray from the old days… But I can’t remember anything else.”
Is it some kind of infantile regression?
Suddenly, I thought of Ellis living at Juha’s house.
Apparently, it is presumed that both Cyan and Ellis were equally deprived of their abilities by Cormpun Tour, but why did Cyan lose her memories as well?
Alice was suffering from an extreme sense of shame.
Her self-blame for losing her power and becoming incapable of doing anything, and the sense of alienation she feels when she sees herself changed from before.
If she had taken even Alice’s memories, she wouldn’t have suffered less than now.
All of a sudden, annoyance kicks in.
“Can you think of anything else? The raid incident, Pantagruel, the Awoken manufacturing experiment, something like that!”
“Jihoo… Calm down. I don’t think my memory has come back properly yet.”
“…Sorry.”
The target to be angry with is not Xian.
I made a big mistake out of frustration.
I felt like I couldn’t control my emotions if I continued like this.
I was about to open the tightly closed door to cool my head for a while and drink a glass of cold water, but then something strange happened.
Suddenly, Xi’an’s mood changed a little.
His eyes looked similar to before, but his eyes were subtly heavy.
Eyes that hadn’t even looked this way before were staring straight at me with a pale green light.
“I don’t have time, so listen carefully. Plan, snitch. And green.”
“What…? Hey, you!”
Xian spat out three short words and passed out.
She hurried over to her and checked her condition. Fortunately, there seemed to be no major problem with her breathing or heart rate.
We put down the limp cyan on the bed in the corner of the room and left the master bedroom.
“What about you? Did the talk go well?”
“I’m sleeping right now because I talked too hard. You can go in if you’re curious.”
As soon as Juha gave permission, Ray carefully opened the door and went inside.
Again, there were only the two of us left in the living room.
Scheme, snitch, green.
I know the meaning of the second word very well, because Sianna said it to me during vacation.
Sianna’s explanation that ‘someone of the professors colluded with her demon side and tried to endanger the students at the academy’.
Considering that there has been no talk since then, it is highly likely that the snitch has not yet been caught.
It would be good to tell Juha about this.
She accompanied her during the raid, and she is the only heroine who knows Sanya’s secret.
If Ju-Ha helps at a level where he is not in danger, he will not have a stronger reinforcement.
“Could you spread some shadows throughout the house for a moment? It’s something no one should hear.”
“Okay, Jihoo.”
Every time Juha’s hand moves, the shadow grows longer and slowly covers the living room.
Before long, Juha nodded to see if he was ready.
First of all, I should explain the sea dragon.
I opened my mouth slowly, organizing the incident in my head.
