Chapter 16 – 04. Your Eyes Looking at Me (4)
An accident that occurred by chance when I was 16 years old took away everything in my life.
That day was an exceptionally snowy day.
I went to match clothes with my parents to celebrate entering high school.
‘If I hadn’t done that then, how would I be living now?’
Weak thoughts.
My parents drank tea at a nearby cafe, and I wandered the streets and got my eyes wet.
I think I was more excited because it was snow that I couldn’t easily see in the area where I live.
It wasn’t until about an hour later that I realized something was going wrong.
There’s no way it’s snowing this much.
As if possessed by something, I looked at the piling up snow for a long time, then suddenly noticed that the whole world had turned white.
Snowfield.
People, buildings, and everything were covered with snow, and in a dizzyingly dazzling white world, only I existed.
It was after my parents had already been taken to the hospital when I heard the explanation that it was a runaway caused by the early manifestation of abilities.
Every day, scary-looking people came to the house and threatened to keep signing papers using their abilities.
My parents were barely surviving with a respirator on, and my relatives, who were usually nice to me, hung up the phone despite my tearful request.
From that day on, I couldn’t trust people.
The snow that had accumulated to the depths of his heart made even his heart freeze cold.
* * *
I did everything I could to pay off the debt, even if it was just a little bit.
As a student, most of the work was not allowed without the consent of the guardian, so he did not hesitate to commit illegally related work.
And one day at the age of 19, I officially awakened my abilities.
A man in a stylish suit, different from the scary people in black sunglasses who usually visited me, told me how to register as an Awakener and that the academy was compulsory.
Until he entered the academy, he trained his abilities without stopping at a training institution.
‘If I had realized my abilities sooner, if I had been able to control such strong abilities even a little bit… Would my parents have been safe?’
Weak thoughts.
I was worried that I would not be able to continue working if I entered the academy, but fortunately the school gave me some consideration.
Members of the student council were exempted from all tuition fees, so I joined the student council immediately after admission.
The student council work was never easier than the work outside, but I was a little happy that I finally had someone to lean on and rely on.
However, the cruel world gave me another ordeal without giving me time to properly enjoy even that brief happiness.
Just before her sophomore year, a girl who had just joined the student council thought she was a very nice girl at first.
After attending the academy for a year, I opened up to her and told her everything about my past, thinking that I had become her best friend.
However, as expected, humans were beings that would attack if there was even the slightest biting wound.
In the student council embezzlement case that occurred one day in March, she pointed to me as the culprit and submitted CCTV data as evidence.
She looked at me with an impudent smile at the gathering of all the student council executives, and she looked so ugly that I wondered if she was her former friend.
The CCTV file showed me entering the student council room at the time the crime was supposed to have occurred.
But that was utter nonsense.
Because I was dating ‘her’ at the time.
‘She’, who made a suspicious proposal to me without revealing her name, wore her robe and only her jet-black eyes were shining brightly.
‘Don’t let anyone know that she met me. I’ll come back in a few days At that time, if you succeed in what I ask for, I’ll grant you anything you want.’
She was more incredible than anyone else, but because of that, I felt like her words were a rope.
And two days later, she came to me again to save me from embezzlement.
Oh, I’m sick of white now.
A black angel whispered sweet words to me.
* * *
“I would have told you to come over for lunch.”
Perhaps he had mistaken it for someone else, his expression quickly hardened as he played a strange prank.
“I got injured while sparring… I’m sorry, senior.”
I just heard about it from the principal.
The fact that Lee Ji-hoo was injured while using his powers unreasonably.
However, from what ‘she’ told me, Lee Ji-hoo never had the ability to injure herself.
“You, too, are hiding something.”
I quickly checked his reaction.
Surprised, Lee Ji-hoo’s hand, which reflexively grabbed the pocket of his pants, was telling him that something important was in it.
“Whatever is in your pocket, take it out.”
One of the lessons I’ve learned from dealing with so many humans is that most of them have terrible abilities compared to me.
Ordinary humans can easily be incapacitated by the ‘frost fog’ created by the energy flowing out of the body.
As I raised my strength to disperse the fog even colder, he shivered and reluctantly took something out of his pocket and put it on the bed.
It was a peculiar-looking cell phone with a capsule of deep energy embedded in the center.
“Originally, I was going to put it next to me and watch it a little longer, but I couldn’t help it.”
No, not at all.
What I just said was probably nothing more than self-consolation for my conscience, which was crouching down somewhere in my heart.
The purpose of calling him to the student center today was also to lure him in and incapacitate him, but knowing that he was in such an injured state, he didn’t have to bother.
That cell phone didn’t seem to have much to do with it other than its unusual appearance, so I’ll probably pass him out like this and then when he wakes up, I’ll slowly ask him one by one.
“Sorry, I had to do this.”
In just a little while, Lee Ji-hoo will pass out from hypothermia.
As I was thinking about making the fog stronger, he opened his mouth with a trembling voice.
“I’ll tell you everything. If you lower your abilities a little bit…”
After all, humans are so weak.
“If you do anything useless, I’ll stab you right away.”
Easily create a sharp ice pick from the moisture in the air and aim it at his hand.
If you show even the slightest attitude of attacking me, I will pierce your hand right away.
To the extent of simply penetrating the hand… People do not die easily.
“Now, wait a minute…”
Jihoo Lee manipulates his phone to turn on an application with a strange UI.
Looking at it from the corner of my eye, I didn’t think it was stupid like calling 119, so I tried to watch what excuses he made.
At that time, I felt something incomprehensible.
As if the video was playing in slow motion, I see Lee Ji-hoo abruptly extending her phone towards me in slow motion.
“Ah…!”
She quickly sent an ice pick to pierce his hand, but perhaps she couldn’t control the force, and the awl shattered after slightly grazing his arm.
And I lost my mind
* * *
Suddenly, I felt that senior Yoo Seol-ah’s attitude changed drastically.
The fog of her ice and snow that always surrounds her also gradually expands to envelop me.
“Originally, I was going to put it next to me and watch it a little longer, but I couldn’t help it.”
I also wanted something suspicious.
To suddenly join the student council, to come to the student union by tomorrow…
“Sorry, I had to do this.”
Damn, that’s what I said to Goryushin.
Hearing this directly from someone else makes me feel very dirty.
Don’t fall down like this, you have to do something.
At least, if the intensity of the fog was lowered a little, a hypnosis app would be able to counterattack…
“I’ll tell you everything. If you lower your abilities a little bit…”
I’m hoping for a flimsy hope.
She came to think of me as useless, so that she would no longer be wary of my actions.
“If you do anything useless, I’ll stab you right away.”
Her fog lifted a little, but immediately she felt a colder touch near her wrist.
Although it was improvised from ice, sharp awls that seemed sharper than metal weapons touched my wrists and conveyed a tingling sensation.
“Now, wait a minute…”
There is only one remaining charge of the critical shield, and there is only one chance.
I immediately pressed the icon on the screen to run the hypnosis application.
Please… Please load quickly…
The slowly filling gauge bar passed by, and I saw a UI with two familiar buttons.
Right now.
Critical Shield can only defend against one fatal attack, so make sure to finish it before she can land a full blow.
I immediately lifted her trembling arm, quickly brought it close to her face, and pressed the button on the hypnosis app.
Passasak.
The awl, which would have been fatal if it hit properly, is blocked by the shield of the critical shield and splits into small fragments.
When I finally calmed down my blurry vision and looked at her face, I saw that the eyes that had been giving me a cold look a moment ago were now wide open.
“Ha… Fuck.”
Even though he blocked it as much as possible, he could feel the hot blood running down his arm through the wounds that looked like they would freeze after being stabbed countless times by shards of ice.
I think I’ve been thinking too naively up until now.
The idea that you can attack the heroines while avoiding the eyes of the main character with a hypnotic ability that can only come out of a cartoon, and just hide quietly and wait for three years without getting caught up in the incident.
Maybe it was considered a kind of game from the beginning.
Fictional worlds, hypnosis apps, quests and rewards.
Someone who sent me here caught me off guard.
Yoo Seol-ah, who had been threatening to kill me just now, is seen hanging down as if she had become a doll with the push of a button.
The power of hypnosis is obviously strong if used properly.
But so far I’ve been too weak.
Even if I put aside my weak body, I felt keenly that I could never see the end of this world with my weak mind.
Academy’s minor role… Villain.
I think I finally understood the meaning a little bit.
