Chapter 171 – 27. White Night (9)
“This is our best. We will hold on to the front line as it is, and when reinforcements arrive, we will attack together and defeat the demon army.”
“Now, wait a minute. Cyana…”
“…It was an inevitable sacrifice.”
“It’s inevitable…! Where in the world is such a sacrifice?”
“Jihoo. I’m sorry, but I’m not in the mood to say more. Please leave for a while.”
Sanya’s resolute order to celebrate.
I had no choice but to close the door and come out.
‘Cyana… Is dead?’
No way.
Didn’t he say that the two of them were together?
I don’t think that Shiana, that woman of strong spirit, could have died in a moment like that in vain.
But if her life really ended, the cause…
‘There was a big battle… Or I fell into a trap prepared by the demons…’
Either way, only terrible results come to mind.
Did Shiana really face the end of her demons?
‘…No, that can’t be the case with the one I know.’
Sanya Dominas, a hero more noble and righteous than anyone else, could not have forced such a worthless sacrifice.
The person who fought to the point of destroying his essence during the Sea Dragon Incident is now demanding sacrifice from others?
Rather, she might have sacrificed herself to save her Sianna, but from the moment she said that she lost Sianna in the first place, she felt something strange.
And the doubt gradually spread to certainty.
She didn’t have to delay any longer. Now was the time to prove it with action.
I opened the door I had just left wide open again.
And there was Sanya, who looked quite embarrassed.
No, something wearing Sanya’s mask.
“Who are you.”
At my question, she only smiled blankly.
“You’re not Sanya Dominas. You’re just another being disguised as her. Any Sanya I know wouldn’t act like you, nor would you force your trashy mindset on me.”
Her eyes are dizzy and tremble.
“If you don’t answer for three counts, I’ll assume you’re hostile and attack. Three.”
I thought of suppressing it first.
“Two.”
Quickly raises mana.
The entity that took Sanya’s body with my momentum also quickly begins to prepare magic.
“One.”
Magical bullets formed at her fingertips.
If you let go of the control at any time, it will immediately launch into Sanya’s forehead.
At the very least, he didn’t want to fight a being with the body of his master, but as long as he didn’t answer yet, fighting seemed inevitable.
“Wave width—”
“Wait, Jihoo.”
I knew it.
Sanya no longer had the face of Sanya.
Her red eyes and silver hair are the same as before, but her expression reminds me of someone else.
Fragments of emotion were revealed in the empty, empty face.
That expression, that hand gesture, that look that smiles at me.
Oddly enough, I remembered it all clearly.
“Pirahyun…!”
“Yeah, it’s me. It’s been a while…? I got caught too soon.”
“Where did Siana go! Joo-ha! Are you the ringleader of Pantagruel? It’s like the sudden disappearance from sometime ago, the moment you spouted strange words like a prophecy…!”
“Calm down, Jihoo.”
A dark red light shone in Sanya’s eyes.
As if trying to make sure that she was in control of this body’s life and death, she placed her hand near Sanya’s heart and said softly.
“It’s not good for you to get angry like that. Yes, you’re nice. Shall we go inside and talk?”
“…”
Sanya’s hand points to a table in the back of the room.
There was no right to refuse me now.
As I strode closer and sat down on the chair, Pirahyun smiled as if satisfied and sat down opposite me.
“Jihoo. Do you want to save Juha?”
“Now you’re saying that—”
“I’m asking if you want to save it. Should I answer with one of the two?”
Blink.
The lights in her room fluctuate with each word she speaks.
Black and white shimmer, and the space expands and contracts repeatedly.
She, Pirahyun, was like a god.
An absolute being who can exercise infinite dominion over this space.
I was so overwhelmed by her that all I could do was crouch down and tremble all over her body.
I am like a small speck of dust.
Her infinite universe, her shabby compared to her, her trash by the side of her road.
If I stay like this any longer, I might just die.
Lack of presence leads to human death. When a person realizes that he is nothing in this world, he struggles to find the reason for his existence or chooses to give up.
So I give up
Consciousness slowly subsides.
Down to the surface.
“…Do you hear me? Wake up.”
Ironically, what brought me back to the other side of my unconsciousness was the whisper of Pirahyun whispering in my ear.
“I haven’t even started properly yet, but Jihoo is too weak.”
“Don’t fuck with me. This bastard…”
“Oh.”
Her hand stroked my hair.
Upset. Get your hands off
“My Jihoo can’t stand me, so I’ll tell you one thing and leave. Professor Sianna and Juha are all right. We’re taking them with us.”
“…”
“If you want it back, come and take it from me. I won’t get involved.”
The movement that was stroking me stopped.
“If you really come… Then I’ll tell you my true identity. Oh, by the way, there’s not much time left, so cheer up. Then goodbye.”
Side.
Something soft touches my cheek and falls.
It was the first time I knew that even the actions of the same Sanya’s body could feel so shameful depending on who the subject was.
“Love you.”
Kill it.
I poured all kinds of curses into her heart toward her, and I lost her mind, unable to overcome her pouring fatigue.
* * *
“…Kun, Jihoo!”
How long had passed since then, the consciousness that had been floating at the bottom of the image for a long time slowly began to float.
A sweet woman’s voice in my ear.
It was unmistakably Sagna’s, but having gone through the preceding incident, I couldn’t shake my suspicions.
“It’s me. Are you awake?”
“Are you buying…? Buying or not, right…?”
“Then, of course I am. Can’t you tell by looking at my face?”
Sanya looks at me with a face mixed with half worry and half joy.
Reflexively, he raised his motionless head and met Sanya’s eyes.
In her eyes, fortunately, the dark red aura no longer leaked out.
…It was only then that I felt a little relieved.
“Saya… Buya…! I missed you… Really… Really…! Hehe…”
“Yes, yes… I saw it just before, so I must have had a dream at the time.”
Just before…?
So, did you mean that Pirahyun didn’t steal Sanya’s consciousness from the beginning?
“Hey, how far have we been talking?”
“Huh? Didn’t you say you detected signals from Ha-yul and the other kids? And you suddenly collapsed while I was looking at you… Did you, by any chance, have short-term memory loss…?”
“No, it’s not like that… Whoa.”
Pira County.
What the hell are you doing
No, can I call you a person?
Her unique ability is Absorption and Emission.
This is a fact that was revealed during the practical test.
She’s even been shown demonstrating her abilities in practice.
And prophecy.
I don’t know if this ability can be accurately called prophecy… But it’s similar in that it predicts the future.
This was also told to me directly during the sea dragon incident. In the original work, there was a time when it was short with one line of dialogue.
Next up is the ‘Heist’ ability, which I arbitrarily named.
It was the same with Juha last time, and it was the same with Sanya just now.
She can steal the minds of others and manipulate them at will.
A normal Awakener, no, an ability that can never be used by any Awoken person in the world…
Is not
There is me
My ability is hypnosis. The power to manipulate the minds of others.
Is that why she is so obsessed with me? Does she have abilities similar to yours?
Or, is something in me that I don’t even know is arousing her?
“What are you thinking so hard about? Hurry this way, Hayul will arrive soon.”
“Ah yes…”
Even as I spoke, I couldn’t shake the thought of biting my tail.
Perhaps Sanya wanted to hide the fact that Ciana was also kidnapped. Even now, she deliberately leads the atmosphere and pretends to be as bright as possible.
But thanks to Pirahyun, no. I found out the truth unintentionally because of Pirahyun.
Would it be rude to Sanya for me to bring up this topic? If it was Sanya, she would most likely be vague when I asked where Shiana was, saying that she was on a separate operation.
After Hayul and the other kids arrive, there won’t be time to really talk about it.
Sanya will have her own work, and monitoring the school and surroundings will require a great deal of concentration.
In other words, there was no timing like now to bring out the story.
Not only the news of Siana’s abduction, but also the identity of Pira Prefecture.
“I’m buying it.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Shiana, was she kidnapped by her demons?”
At that moment, the surroundings froze.
“How did you know that…?”
“…”
“I haven’t said a word about Cyanna.”
Sanya hugs my shoulders from behind.
Then he quietly whispered in my ear.
“Jihoo-kun, where the hell did you hear that?”
Her hands trace my breasts.
Inside a tattered shirt, slightly to the left of the center of her chest.
Pressing the place where the heart is located, she said.
“Are you… Colluding with the demons?”
Instead of answering, I shook my head.
“So? How did you deduce that?”
“First of all, the chest is a little… Ok.”
“Don’t lift your hand until you say it. Come on, say it.”
I knew it would be like this.
I took a deep breath and calmly organized my thoughts.
After arranging where to start and what the existence of Pirahyun had done, he quietly opened his mouth.
“Do you remember the boy named Pirahyun?”
