Chapter 298 – The Second Question (2)
Above and below.
Leading and attracting.
I thought it didn’t matter who occupied what in a marital relationship.
Whether she is on top or leading.
Because my love for Han Joo-hee has never diminished or cooled down.
“The words that Hunter Han Joo-hee is a necessary existence… , That sounds right, right?”
The way she nodded her head, as if she had heard an offer she couldn’t refuse, even with a look of hurt pride.
Only now, belatedly, did I realize that the thoughts I had in the past were wrong.
Ah.
It wasn’t a good option to let go as you wanted for the sake of the other person.
It is only now that I realize that even if I loosen it, I need to tighten it once in a while.
Was my smile painted on my face unlucky?
She tried to counterattack, staring at her with a sharp gaze.
“Don’t be cocky. I’m not sure how that’s even possible… , Don’t forget that this research started because you wanted it.”
The point of the saying is this.
This is a study that you wanted to start, so don’t stretch out with your abilities and don’t even think about sparing it.
What… , On the surface, these words are perfectly correct.
“I started because I wanted to, but now Hunter Han Joo-hee looks more desperate than me… , Is not it?”
“…”
Han Joo-hee glared at this side with her mouth tightly shut at the question that pierces the bottom line.
I don’t know anyone else, but you can’t try to beat me like that.
I know better than anyone that you are crazy about research that interests me.
Han Joo-hee, who has been exchanging glances for a while, asks in an annoyed tone.
“Ha… , So what do you mean? Do you mean to pay a price to use your ability?”
“Yes that’s right.”
Also Han Joo-hee.
It penetrates the heart of the conversation well.
I don’t want to give her anything for free.
I don’t know about others, but I want her to always pay a fair price.
Whatever I want to do in the future.
I also decided what I would receive in return for using this ability.
“You haven’t forgotten that we signed a contract before, have you?”
“That…”
One question that was allowed as a condition of continuing the experiment to uncover the secret about me.
“I think I should ask the second question this time.”
As if something had come to come to my words, she bit her lower lip.
“But that… , It will only be valid for experiments related to your secrets.”
“Then, I’ll tell you a little bit about my abilities as well.”
As soon as I finished my answer, her head drooped about 20 degrees.
You’re probably thinking
Which would be the better option for me, accepting my offer or rejecting it?
I whisper in a low voice to ease her distress.
“If you find out, you will never regret it.”
A voice that whispered to oneself.
But there’s no way she couldn’t hear it.
If you put your mind to it, it is the sense of an S-class hunter that you can even hear the sound of bugs crawling in the farthest part of this laboratory.
After much thought, she lifts her head.
Straight eyes that clearly reveal the personality of pushing forward like a bulldozer once you set your mind to it.
“… Great.”
A thrilling sensation running down your spine.
It was such a pleasure to make the other person’s heart move in the desired direction.
* * *
Unbelievable things are unfolding right in front of your eyes.
A red pill made by mixing magical powers of unknown nature with highly addictive drugs.
It is disintegrating in Kim Do-jin’s hands.
‘How the hell…’
Her evaluation of the character Kim Do-jin was simple and clear.
Orimujung (五里霧中).
A person full of abilities that seemed to completely deny the magic she had acquired through immersion all her life.
If you think you’ve barely awakened to one of them, something else pours out quickly.
‘What is the alternative principle?’
Her gaze goes to the extractor placed on one side of the lab.
How can human hands do something impossible even with machines costing billions of dollars per machine?
She feels endless wonder and possibility from a principle that is completely unknown.
‘If you find out the principle of that…’
Magic that remains at a standstill can develop greatly.
No, the modern lifestyle itself that surrounds humans may be able to innovate beyond improvement.
Yes.
After all, her unknown principles were no problem for her.
Rather, it is a good thing.
It’s such a joy to have a new task that you will devote your whole life to solving over and over again.
But.
‘Why do you have such an ability…’
The only problem is that the person who holds that limitless ability tightly in her hands is Kim Do-jin.
‘What the hell do you want?’
A question asked in exchange for a demonstration of ability.
With that question, the other person is trying to dig into my private life.
The problem is that it doesn’t seem to end there.
The current questions are just a simple preparation stage, but in reality, it seems like they are trying to look into each and every detail of my insides.
Then she realized
‘The real problem was something else.’
There is a more fundamental problem than the fact that Kim Do-jin has such an ability.
Even though I know the inside of the opponent who is trying to look inside me, I can’t kick him out.
Could that be the real problem?
“Where should I transfer the extracted magic power?”
Suddenly coming to her senses at Dojin Kim’s question, she pointed to her machine placed on one side of her laboratory.
“You can put it in there.”
Magic storage.
It was literally a machine that forcibly held back mana that would naturally dissipate if left unattended.
The magical power flowing from Kim Do-jin’s grip seeps into the transparent glass tube.
Concentration of 88% floating on the small screen above the locker.
In other words, the amount of magic power from one pill filled 88% of the area of the glass tube, each measuring 30 cm in width, length, and height.
“… This amount of magic power in one pill.”
I couldn’t believe it.
That this amount of mana came from a pill the size of a little finger.
She struggled to calm her startled heart.
And she put her hand inside the clear glass tube.
A strange feeling that I felt before long.
‘This…’
I feel a slight heat in my hand.
It’s an insignificant amount, but it means that fire-attribute magic is melted into it.
Sensing this, her brow furrowed.
‘The ratio of fire-attribute mana is less than 5%.’
Then, what kind of magical power is the remaining 95% made up of?
‘… What tests should I do?’
The images of countless machines that have helped me with my research so far appear and disappear in my head.
But none of them seem to fit the current situation.
Kim Do-jin, who was watching this quietly, threw out a word as an advice.
“Did I tell you earlier? If you take that pill, it affects the person taking it first.”
“Ah… !”
One way to flash her head on this.
‘What if I put my magic into a glass coffin?’
Han Joo-hee releases the magical power in the glass tube.
When the concentration dropped to 50%, she stopped discharging it and poured her magical energy into the glass tube to adjust the concentration to 100%.
To be exact, 50% of the pill’s magic and 50% of mine.
After getting her proportions right, she kept her hand in her glass tube and watched the situation.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes.
By the time she wonders that nothing has changed even though time has passed.
“… !”
Finally, change came.
“Oh, magic… !”
Two different magical powers are merging into one.
Thinking so, she hurriedly shook her head.
“No, this…”
Kim Do-jin, who was watching this, helped out with a word.
“One is sticking to the other.”
“… That’s right.”
As he said
The mana extracted from the pill is clinging to my mana.
Like a parasite that burrows into the host’s body.
My heart is pounding.
‘Parasite of magical power… , What happens next?’
I waited and waited, hoping that something would happen, but the situation did not change.
At this time, Kim Do-jin stepped out.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“What?”
Insincere speech.
To this, he responded by curling up the corners of his mouth.
“Han Joo-hee Hunter doesn’t seem to have much magic skills… , Isn’t that all?”
“… !”
People have their own taboo words.
To a friend who likes games, you shouldn’t say, ‘You can’t play games.’
If you put it in the words of people these days.
‘The seizure button.’
Words that literally cause seizures in opponents at once.
To Han Joo-hee, that meant that she couldn’t do magic.
Comments that ignore and blaspheme my lifelong research and achievements.
Suddenly, she felt her mind go numb.
If someone who was unfamiliar with magic had said that, they might have laughed at it.
However, the opponent is Kim Do-jin.
In response to the remarks of those who possessed several of her abilities that she did not even realize herself.
“Now… , What did you say?”
Feeling truly humiliated, her emotions and magical powers surged at the same time.
And in her hand, which was inside her glass tube, to be exact, a change began to appear in the magical power around it.
“… ?”
My magic power is changing.
No, to be precise, it was devoured and transformed into the same state by the parasitic magical power.
Kim Do-jin continued her words toward her, who missed the opportunity to express her anger at her doubts.
“Can you feel it now?”
At this she asked, frowning her eyebrows.
“… Did you say that on purpose to make me feel this?”
“Yes.”
A smirk with no sense of authenticity.
But that wasn’t the point.
She marveled at the power of her completely changed nature.
‘The destructive power has increased by at least 1.2 times.’
The thick fire-attribute magic is more activated and rampages.
If you use magic like this, it seems that 1.2 times more powerful magic will pour out.
So, isn’t this a beneficial change?
Unfortunately, it wasn’t.
“Certain emotions… , Magical power that uses anger as a trigger to trigger it.”
Even the magical power that has expanded its territory at will is causing emotions to intensify again.
I mean.
The magical power triggered by anger inversely affects emotions, making them thicker.
The consequences of repeating this vicious cycle are obvious.
“I can see why you want to stop this drug.”
As soon as this drug spreads, it will become a lawless world where people die from simple quarrels.
After forcibly cutting off the mana creeping up through his hands.
She asked towards Kim Do-jin, who was smiling brightly at her.
“How did you know this?”
I don’t understand at all.
The fact that he barely found out through the machine, how he noticed it.
Two assumptions come to her mind.
“Have you already experienced it yourself?”
If you have already experienced it with the magic extracted by the control power of the ridiculous magical power.
But Kim Do-jin shook his head.
“No.”
“…”
Then there is only one assumption left.
It’s really ridiculous, and I think it’s impossible at all.
‘If it’s that person.’
Since the opponent in front of him is Kim Do-jin, this ability is naturally suspected.
She asked in a trembling voice.
“Your eyes… , Can you see the magical power?”
To this, Dojin Kim replied with a smile.
“Answer.”
At that moment, something in Han Joo-hee’s heart crumbled.
It was her pride in magic that she had cherished until now.
