Chapter 484 – #485 Stop the Ritual!(1)
#485 Stop the Ritual!(1)
“Honey… Please open your eyes…”
“…”
Stephanie called her husband mournfully, but he didn’t answer. He must have been awake just a moment ago, but as soon as he entered the hideout of the Skull Head, he lost his mind again.
Stephanie was going crazy with worry about whether she was sick or if there was a problem.
“… I can’t stay still like this.”
Meanwhile, Jina, who had been biting her thumb nails nervously next to her mother, stood up as if she had made up her mind.
“Huh? What did Jina say?”
“Mom, Dad, please keep an eye on me.”
“Are you passing?”
Having said that, Gina tried to get out of her house, but Stephanie hurriedly grabbed her daughter’s wrist.
“Where are you going?”
“My brother is fighting outside! I’m going to help too!”
“What are you going to do? Trust my brother and wait here!”
Not knowing that Gina was a psychic, and a powerful psychic at that, Stephanie desperately stopped her daughter from going outside.
“… I’m sorry, Mom.”
“What… Huh?”
Gina’s body became translucent. Stephanie’s hand, which was holding Gina’s arm, fell as she pulled back behind her. Stephanie’s eyes widened at the unbelievable sight.
“Jina, you now…”
“I’m sorry I hid it until now, Mom. Actually, I’m also… A psychic.”
“What?”
Stephanie couldn’t believe her daughter’s confession. That her daughter was also a psychic?
“I’m waiting for you here. I’ll go and help you.”
“Jina!”
Stephanie got up quickly, fearing that her Gina would walk away.
“No matter how psychic you are, it’s dangerous outside! You know who your brother is. Trust your brother and wait a little bit. Then everything will be resolved.”
That son was the same Steel Armor.
The strongest psychic and villain known to be unmatched in Dark City. Besides, he knew to some extent what had happened.
If so, he must have come up with a solution to this matter.
In fact, Stephanie was also anxious and nervous.
Even if he is an S-class villain, his concern for his son is no different from any other parent. But she didn’t go to help her son.
Because she believes in her son. She trusted her son and decided to wait.
Besides, Stephanie had to take care of her insane husband as well, and above all, her psychic powers were of no help against monsters.
Although Stephanie is a body-enhancing psychic, she is a body-enhancing psychic, but her body is not enhanced as much as her psychic powers. Her psychic ability [Invisible Fox (Lv. 9)] Was a psychic ability specialized in infiltration or covert movement rather than physical enhancement.
Even if she went out to help her son and fought monsters in the fog, there was a high chance that she would be defeated again.
She is worried and nervous, but she chooses to wait rather than become a burden to her son.
“You wait here too. We must trust your brother! We must believe!”
Through Gina’s confession, I learned that she is a psychic. But she didn’t know how strong she was or what superpowers she possessed, so Stephanie wanted Gina to stay.
“Mom!”
“Jina!”
“My brother is fighting! To protect the people, to protect the Dark City, my brother is fighting hard!”
“…Gina you? Seo, no way…”
Gina’s violent reaction made Stephanie sense something.
This wasn’t simply a reaction from her sister because she was worried about her brother. It was a more primal emotional response.
“Oh, no, Jina? That’s what I’m thinking… Isn’t it?”
“… I’m sorry, Mom.”
“… Oh my god.”
As her daughter averted her eyes, Stephanie put her hand over her mouth. Unbeknownst to her, her son and daughter had committed a taboo.
“Jina! It’s my family! It’s my brother!”
“…It doesn’t matter.”
“What? Gina, you really…!”
“They’re not even siblings anyway.”
“… What?”
Stephanie’s eyes trembled violently. How did you know past that? Could it be that her husband told her?
No, no.
Her own husband is a man with a heavier mouth than anyone else. She was not one to tell anyone that her son was not her real son, that she was born from her egg and not from her womb. Even if it is her own daughter.
“Yeah, how did you…”
“My brother told me.”
“Your brother?”
“Yes. My brother already knew. He was not my mother’s real son. He was not my real brother.”
“… Jina. Still, Jeongnam is your older brother. She grew up as a sibling for decades, how could she…”
“… I’m sorry Mom. I, I can’t hide my feelings. I can’t. So her mom understands. And she understands that I’m out now.”
“Gina! Gina!”
Stephanie called out to her daughter, but she had already used her psychic powers and soared into the sky.
“I’m waiting. I’ll be back with you.”
“Valzina!”
Gina broke through the wall and went outside. Stephanie, who had been staring blankly at the place where her second daughter had disappeared, returned to her husband’s side.
“Honey… I might like this… Pass by with Jeongnam…”
“…”
My husband had no answer.
*****
‘I’m going to save people.’
Gina, who came out through the wall, decided to focus on saving people rather than dealing with monsters.
Her brother, the man she loved, was undoubtedly the strongest man in the world, but she was doing too much for herself.
If Steel Armor focused on hunting monsters rather than saving lives, and the rest of the people were focused on rescuing people, she would be able to sort this out much faster.
She probably couldn’t have saved all the people living in the tallest building, so Gina decided to check that first.
That was the moment she was about to fly.
“… Uh?”
Gina’s eyes caught something.
Others cannot see it, and only Jina with [Ghost Queen] Superpowers can see it.
“Is that… A soul?”
The souls of the dead were flying somewhere.
-No! Help me!
– Someone save me!
– Aaaaagh! I can’t run away!
No, I was being dragged somewhere. Something invisible to the eye was pulling the souls of the dead to one place.
The souls struggled, but could not resist the unknown force pulling them down.
“What the hell… What’s going on…”
Gina, who witnessed a phenomenon that could never occur naturally, was in great shock.
What the hell is going on in the Dark City!
“… This is not the time to save people.”
Should I say it’s a woman’s touch? I instinctively sensed that if I didn’t stop that phenomenon that was pulling my soul right now, something truly out of control would happen.
Whatever happens, you have to stop it.
Gina moved along with the dragged soul.
Jina, too, was in a spirit state, but she was unaffected by the force pulling spirits. She became a soul with the power of superpowers, but she was a living creature.
“Is this…?”
The place he arrived after following the soul was none other than the newly established Hero Association, Heroes.
The souls brought by the unknown power passed through the wall and were drawn into the Heroes’ main building. It was clear that there was something tugging at the soul in there.
‘Let’s check.’
Gina followed her spirit into the Heroes main building, where she tried to find out what was going on inside. If only she hadn’t been in the way.
“Did you get the invitation?”
“?!”
Surprised by the voice behind her, Jina hurriedly turned her body.
Chow-!
Sure enough, something in her jumped out in the direction she was flying, clawing at her in the air.
Salang~
“…”
Gina stared at her falling hair with a serious look. She dodged the attack, but by a fraction of a second, her bastard’s attack cut off her hair.
In a way, she had only had a little bit of her hair cut off. But Jina was very serious about her now attack.
That’s because physical attacks don’t work in the ghost state. And yet her hair was cut? That meant that its attacks would work even in a ghost state. It was also an attack from a guy so cruel that he would try to kill him as soon as he found him.
Gina looked up to see who the enemy was after her.
“You are…!”
Gina’s eyes widened as she checked her man’s face. He was a famous man, no hero.
“White Night? Why are you here…”
“Gick giggle! I’ve abandoned that name for a long time. Please call me [White Killer] From now on.”
“…”
He was a White Knight, no, a White Killer who spoke with a fishy smile.
“By the way, what’s Miss Balzina up to this point?”
“…Do you know me?”
It wasn’t particularly strange that the White Killer knew about him. He said for a while that he was a parachute after becoming a director of Sanctuary at the age of 28.
However, Jina showed off her skills and made it easy to say that she sat in the director’s seat thanks to his parents. The person carrying the parachute was a paratrooper.
So I did a lot of interviews because of that incident, so surprisingly many people knew about Gina.
“By the way, Miss Jina. You can’t enter this place without an invitation. So, please go home.”
“What are you doing here? Why are you collecting the souls of the dead?”
“Chuckling! Like I said before, you don’t have an invitation, so there’s nothing you can figure out. By the way, the earlier attack was a warning.”
Sreuk- Sreuk- Sreuk-
A grotesque tentacle-like thing sprouted from the roof of the building and swayed. The tips of the tentacles were pointed at Gina. It was an armed demonstration, threatening to attack if they did not return.
“…”
Meanwhile, Gina was staring at the White Killer with puzzled eyes.
He had briefly exchanged greetings with the White Knight. She attended an event organized by the Hero Association as an honored guest and briefly exchanged greetings with the White Knight.
The person in front of me then and now was very different. The tone of voice was different, the atmosphere was different.
“Are you really the White Knight?”
“I forgot that name… The White Killer.”
“…”
Seeing her smirking answer, it seemed that she had no intention of answering her question.
‘What should I do?’
Gina had two options. One was to step down and the other was to fight the White Killer.
‘… Let’s step back.’
Of the two options, Jina chose the former, the retreat.
Fighting the White Killer was no guarantee that she would win. No matter what anyone said, he was the strongest hero in name and reality. Of course, the psychic powers he uses seemed to be very different from what was known to the outside world.
In addition, just looking at the White Killer kept making me think of ominous thoughts. Gina decided to trust his own intuition.
“… Let’s back off.”
“You made a good choice.”
Gina flew up into the sky. The White Killer stayed still, as if he really intended to let him go like this.
“I ask you one thing.”
Before leaving, Gina asked the White Killer.
“What is it?”
“The invitation you speak of, where can I get it?”
“Yes? Key, giggle giggle giggle giggle!”
Gina’s question must have been so amusing, the White Killer shrugged his shoulders and laughed exaggeratedly. He then said to Gina, who was looking at him with a frown.
“Die. When you die, you get an invitation?”
“…”
Giving a passing impression on his answer, I headed to the hideout where the steel armor was.
‘I didn’t get much information… But I knew what I had to do now.’
I don’t know what the White Killer’s plan is, but I’ve confirmed that this place is important. Now all he has to do is tell his brother what he has found out and come back here with him.
Gina brushed past her dragging spirits.
