Chapter 500 – Pocket Girls
“If you pass my test, I’ll join this expedition. Dan! If you don’t pass the test, you can’t go on the expedition. How about this?”
“!!!”
The story of Soo-yeon that makes Seong-il attractive. Knowing how important a colleague who is fluent in local geography is strategically, Seong-il and even Kyu-hyun, who has been watching her closely, are attracted to her words.
“…Really?”
“Do I look like someone I can talk about twice?”
“Oh, well… I don’t mean that.”
Seong-il laughed at Soo-yeon’s words and tried to change her mood. Kyuhyun, who has been quietly watching her, looks at her and asks.
“What if Seongil fails the test?”
“I told you earlier! He can’t go!
“…”
“Don’t make a hurt face on the subject of going ahead with what your superiors say you shouldn’t do for a reasonable reason.”
“…”
Kyu-hyeon shuts her mouth and avoids her gaze, as if her speech was blocked by Su-yeon’s words that hit her head.
“Then… Starting tomorrow, you as well as your partner will be training close to the real battle. Be prepared if you fall from there.”
“…Do you even bother with me?”
“Isn’t it obvious? The main reason you can participate in this expedition is because you have psychic powers.”
“Hmm…”
“If your level is so bad that you can’t even pass this test, shouldn’t you be disqualified?
‘It’s ok… That’s a theory.’
Seong-il couldn’t help but nod his head at Su-yeon’s rational speech.
‘Ehh… It’s not easy to fight while taking care of it in moderation…’
Of course, since he couldn’t show off all of his abilities, Seong-il wonders at what level he should show off to pass the test normally.
Ding dong!!
“…?”
At that time, when I was in trouble for a while, the sound of the intercom ringing inside the director’s office. Seong-il naturally looks in that direction at the sudden sound.
“Huh? What’s up? El?”
‘I guess the name of the receptionist downstairs was El?’
“Ah, really? Really…? There are a lot of pilgrims today? Apply for two tests a day…?”
‘Huh? No way…?’
For some reason, Seong-il feels that there will be only one opponent who will challenge this time.
‘Ah… But he was so excited that he went swimming, right? Are you here already?’
“Seongil-kun.”
“Yes?”
“Would you like to come here for a second? I’ll tell you basic information about submersibles.”
“Ah… Yes.”
While Seong-il was lost in other thoughts, Kyu-hyeon approached him with a serious expression and started talking to him.
“Hmm… Is it like this?”
“Isn’t it easy? Since it’s a small submersible, it’s surprisingly easy to drive. You’ll just have to practice steadily for a few days.”
“Yes. I will definitely learn it.”
Before he knew it, Seong-il gave up his thoughts and began to study the information provided by Kyu-hyeon seriously. How long had passed, while Seong-il was passionately exchanging opinions with Kyu-hyeon, Su-yeon, who was managing the condition of her partners at the gym, stood up and started muttering.
“Huh… You’ve already reached the final floor in just 30 minutes? Just like Seongil, all the pilgrims this time are all good, right?”
“Oh… Already?”
When the challenger succeeds in climbing to the final floor with a clear time similar to his own, Seong-il puts on an interesting expression.
‘Have you seen one? He’s not that good.’
Thinking so, Seong-il looks at Kyu-hyeon and tells him to satisfy his curiosity.
“Can I take a look?
“Haha. Do you have a sense of victory? Okay. Let’s go together. I’m curious too.”
“Yes.”
After completing preparations for battle, the two men move to the arena again, following Soo-yeon as she moves away.
“…Uh!?”
A familiar figure that can be seen when settling in the corner of the arena. Seong-il murmurs in surprise at the appearance of someone he knows so well.
“Why? Anyone know?”
“…He’s my friend. He had a coming-of-age ceremony with me.”
“Oh… Is that so?”
Kyu-hyeon, who came without thinking about Seong-il’s words, takes a seat in the corner and starts looking at Hana, as if he is interested.
“Huh… Hello? Did you come up quickly?”
“Whoops! Of course!! I’m a trainer who trains really hard!!”
“Huhuhuhu? Okay~! I like pilgrims with that attitude~ What partners do you have?”
“Two of us! FYI~! We arrived here with only one partner!”
“Huh… It’s pretty good? I watched it earlier, and it seems like it’s mental system ability, but it managed to come up? Mental system ability is good to deal with the majority, but it has a weakness to deal with a small number of times.”
“Ahem!! It’s all because of my sharp judgment!”
In Suyeon’s evaluation, Hana puts her hand on her waist with a proud expression and shows a cute reaction.
“Put…”
As if her appearance was cute, Soo-yeon smiled lightly, then lifted her cheek and summoned ‘Milla’, a psychic with whom she sparred with Seong-il earlier.
“Milla! A new challenger! Get ready. And one. The rules are…”
Soo-yeon repeats what she recited to Seong-il. After hearing all of that, Hana nodded her head with a confident expression.
“Yes! No problem! Black! Get ready!!”
“Hmm… But… You…”
“…?”
As the gym leader muffles her words before the fight begins, Hana looks at her with a puzzled expression.
“Ummm… As I explained earlier, the final match requires three wins first. Would it be okay with only two players? It would be a disadvantage.”
“Ah~ that’s it? It’s okay!! I’m confident!! I can win!”
“Huh…”
Soo-yeon puts on a slightly bewildered expression at Hana’s overconfidence.
“What…If you asked me to watch it, I was thinking of passing it with only 2 wins from the first line… Okay! Well, then as a rule…”
“Ah!! That’s not the case… Can you please look at it? Honestly~ the friend I’m traveling with accelerated the pace of the trip so quickly that I didn’t have time to capture a new partner~”
“Put…Yes.”
When Seong-il pretends to be weak, Su-yeon smiles and accepts Hana, as if she was cute.
“Okay~ I’ll do that, then shall we begin?”
“Yes!”
As soon as the conversation between the two trainers is over, Soo-yeon sends a signal with her hand gesture, and Mila, who sees that, jumps into the pool and starts surfing, just like she did when fighting Seong-il earlier.
“Black!
“Huh!”
Black nodded strongly with a confident expression at one word. Seong-il looks quite surprised at the calm reaction.
‘Ho… As far as I know, partners are very sensitive to defeat, but such a reaction… Has your intimacy with Black already reached max level?’
Seong-il is intrigued by how Hana’s relationship has improved in this short amount of time, even though Hana did not enjoy the close relationship between her man and woman the way he and Red did.
“Milla!! Ride the waves and throw water beads!!”
“Yes!”
Mila walks around the pool, accustomed to Suyeon’s sudden orders, casting water beads and throwing them at Black.
“Black! Telekinesis shield!! Then use Confusion Wave!!”
“Yes…!!”
As soon as one command is given, Black quickly deploys a telekinetic shield with a smile on his distinctive handsome face.
Black succeeded in bouncing the flying orbs with invisible telekinesis. He then puts his hand on his forehead and, as Hana commands, unleashes a powerful storm of thoughts at Mila.
“Hey!? Kut…!!”
In the midst of excitedly riding the waves and throwing water beads, a powerful shock is applied to her mind, and Mila starts to flirt with a half-blind expression. Eventually, in extreme confusion, she stops riding her surf and falls into the water.
“Okay!! Black is doing great!!”
“Whoa… Whoa…”
One that encourages him to Black’s propaganda. However, despite leading the opponent into extreme confusion and leading it into an advantageous situation, he finds it very difficult to use his abilities, perhaps because he attacked the water park alone.
“Just a little bit… Just hold on a little bit…!!”
“Ugh…”
Despite one encouragement, Black seems to have run out of strength. He puts on a look of exhaustion and then falls to his knees with his iron flop on the spot.
“Hey…”
Hana approaches Black who has collapsed from exhaustion and pats him. Then she picks up the ball and puts Black into the ball.
“Huh~ There’s only one left now? Will it be all right?”
“Hehe!! Sure!! You better be prepared? Come out!! Ruan!!”
‘Oh… He is…’
Appearance of Luan, a semi-legendary (?) Wild psychic that he captured in the hidden area with him. At the appearance of Ruti’s older brother, Seong-il looks very interested.
‘I think the atmosphere has changed a lot…?’
If he had looked like an unpolished gemstone before, he now looked like a pretty refined psychic. Seong-il could even feel refined psychic powers from him that were better than those of Black, who had been trained in the shelter for a long time.
“Luan! Go and avenge Black!!”
“Leave it to me.”
‘Oh…? Are you sure your intelligence is a bit higher?’
Ruan spat out a short line with one command and quickly started running to the arena. In addition, he scatters four or five metal beads the size of a child’s fist into the air in his arms and begins to float them into the air.
“Hmm…? A person capable of manipulating magnetic power? A person with a fairly rare ability?”
“Sure~! Your skills will be even more amazing? Black!! Throwing metal beads!!”
“…”
As soon as a single command is given instead of an answer, Luan throws metal beads at Mila at a terrifying speed. Frightened by the bloody metal ball flying like a cannonball, Mila puts all her strength into making a solid water barrier.
Wow!!!
A bloody roar that rips through the thick, resilient water barrier. Mila, who has a slightly frightened expression at the menacing sound, quickly rides the waves and tries to escape Luan’s bead bombardment.
“Milla!! Dive into the water rather than ride the waves!! Remember? How to dive with an air barrier!!”
“Aha!!”
Mila exclaims as if she remembers Soo-yeon’s words. She quickly forms a film of water to conserve air to breathe, then dives deeply. Thanks to this, Luan’s controlled metal orb quickly loses its destructive power, perhaps thanks to the resistance of the water.
“Huh?”
Even though the attack was nullified, an attitude that seemed very relaxed.
‘What? What else is left?’
The time when Seong-il was puzzled by her attitude. Hana commands Luan in her confident voice.
“Ruan!! Shockwave!!!”
“…!?”
All of the trainers put on a dumbfounded expression when they were told to use abilities of different attributes out of the blue.
Paji Jiji!!!
And surprisingly, an intense electric wave spread from his hand. As Mila approaches the surface to attack Luan, she is electrocuted by an intense electric shock wave and suffers.
“Heeheeeee!!!”
“Come back Mila!!”
Worried about her, her Soo-yeon quickly retrieved her on her cheek. Then she hurriedly puts the ball on the recovery tool and treats Mila.
“A person with double powers!? It also has two rare attributes!? You… What the hell?!”
“Whoops!! A friend I met by chance while traveling! You say you have a lot of talent?”
“No… I’m not asking that…”
“No questions and answers! Stop chatting during the match!!”
‘…I must have been impressed by the strange lines in the novel.’
While traveling recently, I read a fantasy novel written before the fall on my phone in my spare time, and it seems that I learned strange lines. However, despite the childish tone, the content is not wrong, so Soo-yeon nods and takes another partner, Tom, out of the ball.
“Tom! He uses electricity and gravity fields!! Be careful!”
“Two… Two?”
Soo-yeon’s partner, Tom, makes a surprised expression in a slurred tone when he hears that the other person has the ability to double. He puts on a nervous expression and quickly floats the water to create a large number of ice beads.
“Tom!! Throw the ice marbles right away!!!”
“Heeing?! That’s lethal!! Ruan!! Bulletproof!!”
Hana shouts the name of the technique with an expression of embarrassment at Soo-yeon’s quick attack as soon as she settles down. However, unlike her flustered appearance, Luan doesn’t panic in the slightest, and after gathering her orbs around her body, calmly intercepts the flying ice orbs as one command.
‘Oh… Is this a deceptive tactic?’
At first glance, it looked like a simple danmaku made using metal beads, but Seong-il immediately grasped by emotion that the technique used by Ruan was not such a simple mechanism.
‘From the outside, it seems that Ruan is simply controlling the metal orb and intercepting the ice orb, but the truth is that’s not the case at all.’
Seong-il realizes that Luan spreads his telekinesis lightly and widely, and then uses the information from it to automate the metal orb to defend.
‘It’s a bit similar to the way I use empathy. Well… It’s not like I can control an extremely wide range like a reaction. Still, that’s good enough…’
A situation in which an area of about 5m in radius is checked for attacks with telekinesis, and a metal ball floating around 3m is in charge of defense. Seong-il examines the scene with interest.
‘Since I only said ‘simple’ danmaku, the opponent could misunderstand that Luan was defending herself using marbles. Is this a good deception?’
Perhaps Soo-yeon and Tom actually thought so, too, so they throw ice beads at Luan with all their might, ignoring defense.
“Ruan~! Let’s wrap it up! Electric shock!!”
“What…!?”
Even though she is obviously intercepting the flying ice with a metal ball, when Hana makes Luan use another attribute, Soo-yeon puts on a dumbfounded expression.
Paji Jiji!!!
“Kwaaaaak!!”
In the midst of that, the flashing electricity really jumped out of Ruan’s hand. Tom, who was hit directly by it, collapses on the spot, shaking his body.
“Stop!! Tom!! Come back!!”
Soo-yeon quickly turns Tom into a ball and uses the emergency recovery system. She approaches Hana with a very surprised expression.
“Yes, victory. Anyway, where did you bring that child from?! Not only possessing two abilities, but also being able to use them simultaneously… Isn’t that an overwhelming talent!?”
“Ahem!! Isn’t that cool?!”
