Chapter 8 – Episode 8
[Installing…]
What do you mean by installation?
I am not a computer whatsoever.
I tried to rack my brain as to why this suddenly happened.
But the accident stopped.
I couldn’t think of anything.
His entire body froze as he put his hand in his bag.
I couldn’t budge at all.
How much time had passed since I screamed in pain.
My heart was beating like crazy, and the blood rushing along with it seemed to rush to my head.
And at some point, the pain started coming again.
The excruciating pain that began in his head was beyond description.
Would you say that someone hits with a hammer, drives in nails, and cuts with a knife?
I had a premonition of death.
Is it like this when people die?
It’s so different from what I thought.
I couldn’t even scream and begged for help.
I didn’t have a religion, but I found God, and I would do anything, so please don’t take this life.
Please… Please.
Darkness came suddenly.
I couldn’t see ahead.
Then again the light… Again the darkness…
I wondered if I was losing my sight in pain.
Help me… Help me… Please…
My cry went nowhere, and I passed out.
With that, I just knew I was dead.
No, maybe he died.
However, I just opened my eyes again.
***
“Here…”
What I saw before my eyes was the ceiling of a familiar tent.
I saw metal poles and frames made of special materials to support the tent.
And the lighting was dazzling.
My whole body ached as if I had been beaten.
However, it was so insignificant that it could not be compared to the pain he had experienced earlier.
This kind of pain became ridiculous to the point that I just wanted to get sick.
How much time has passed?
I was lying down and struggled to get up.
But suddenly the world started spinning, and I heard a tinnitus that beeped.
“Ugh…”
I couldn’t stand up easily.
The head that floated in the air crashed down again.
Fortunately, what was waiting for my head was a pillow.
Realizing that he couldn’t get up, he turned his gaze to the side.
I was able to turn my head.
“Uh?”
Someone was lying next to me.
It was a woman.
Back.
What was visible was the back of a dark-haired woman’s head.
I reached out and shook the person in front of me, trying to ask what had happened since dinner.
It seemed like a lot of time had passed since then.
“Hey… Hey.”
“Umm… What is it?”
A woman who talks in her sleep.
Shit.
It must have been Kim Isol.
Why is this bitch sleeping next to me?
But again, the vision flickered.
Suddenly, my heart beat quickened and my breathing quickened.
My body was craving oxygen… Air.
I took a deep breath.
Please calm down
Why are you doing this?
I couldn’t help it.
Because I had to ask for help.
He reached out to Kim Isol again.
There was no response when I pushed her back, so my hand eventually went to her hair.
Have to live
I managed to grab Kim Isol’s hair with her outstretched hand.
And she tried to pull with all her might.
〈 ON [ OFF ] 〉
What?
I noticed something blocking one side of my vision.
ON and OFF
I couldn’t understand what this was.
I gently let go of Kim I-sol’s pitch-black hair that was wrapped between her fingers.
Then the sight in front of her eyes gradually faded and then disappeared.
What is it?
It was difficult to understand the situation at all.
He pulled her outstretched right hand and stared blankly at it.
The right hand that I thought would be crushed by the Awoken.
What the hell happened to her right hand, which had been restored by the mobile writing?
It was this right hand that had apparently been stretched out inside the bag.
“Huh? Are you awake. Team leader?”
Jang Yong’s voice came from up high.
I looked away, but I couldn’t see him directly.
I struggled to squeeze out my voice.
“Mr. Jang Yong. What the hell happened?”
It’s good that at least the mouth is in good shape.
There is nothing more frustrating than not being able to talk.
“Ah, don’t you remember? You fell down. I was really surprised. During the meal, I heard a scream from inside the tent, so I thought he was screaming. I thought a red ghost was hiding inside the tent.”
“Could you tell me the exact story? What happened to me?”
“Do you really need to listen to it right now? Everyone is barely asleep. I came in while standing guard. If you can move, would you like to go outside and listen to me?”
It was admirable that he stood guard on his own even though I passed out.
Well, you probably learned it at the academy.
I asked him the time.
As he took off his protective suit, he left the watch on his wrist unfastened.
“It’s only 1:00 in the morning. Get some more sleep.”
Time passed less than expected.
Of course, from my point of view, it was as if my life had been turned off and turned on again, like a switch.
The memory of excruciating pain, like what happened just a minute ago, was not forgotten.
I got up again.
Fortunately, there was no tinnitus or dizziness this time.
My whole body seemed to have no strength at all, and a chill came over me as if I had body aches, but it wasn’t so much that I couldn’t move at all.
Business people on the left. On the right, women were sleeping.
I don’t know why I left all the lights on while I was sleeping.
I quietly headed out of the tent and asked Jang Yong, who was standing in front of the barricade, about the progress of the incident.
While lighting a cigarette.
“I went inside the tent and he was passed out. Just as he was sitting with his hand in his bag. We were surprised and only found out he was alive after taking the pulse from his neck as we learned at the academy. The guys, the away team manager, couldn’t just go back in this situation. I asked if it would be good, but Kim Isol stopped it.”
“Is this Kim Isol?”
“Yes. He just passed out. Let’s wait one night.
I can guess why she said that.
It must be because of what I said during the day.
An expedition to an F-level dungeon… He wouldn’t have wanted to fail his first expedition.
“Still, the men said they would call a doctor, but Kim I-sol said there was no need to do that. Pointing to Dong-geul.”
“Moving text?”
“Yes. Since there is only one heal left, you can use it… Immediately after that, Lee Dong-geul used the heel on the team leader. He didn’t react much, but he was breathing well, so I laid him down.”
Is that really all there is to it?
Then what was my right hand?
Unable to clear my doubts, I looked at my right hand holding a cigarette.
On… Off… What the hell are you turning on?
When you put your hand in the bag…
No, it must have been yesterday when I touched that capsule with my bare hands.
Bare hands?
It was then that I suddenly understood why this strange thing had happened.
Those weird looking capsules.
Apparently, he was wearing a suit the first time he touched it.
I didn’t touch it with my bare hands, and there was no reaction.
Because of the thin suit?
Or because of the mana coated on the suit?
I couldn’t figure out the reason beyond that, but somehow the culprit seemed to be in that capsule.
Well, whatever that is…
Next is ON and OFF.
What to turn on and what to turn off?
No one can explain this.
But suddenly I see something like that right in front of my eyes. I can’t tell anyone.
Then I’ll have to test it…
“Jang Yong, can I touch your hair for a moment?”
“Yes? My hair?”
Was it too sudden?
Ara I don’t know
“It will take a while.”
Jang Yong looked at me suspiciously, but from my point of view, I wanted to check it out right away.
I lightly slapped Jang Yong on the back of the head so as not to be misunderstood.
“What, what are you doing. Team leader?”
“Oh, sorry. There was a little bug.”
I did it because I thought there would be a strange misunderstanding if I lightly stroked his hair.
Whatever Jang Yong’s reaction was in the first place, it didn’t matter.
I was in a hurry to check this out.
Obviously, I only saw it the moment I touched it.
The strange letters that appeared in the field of vision appeared the moment they touched the head, and quickly disappeared.
I immediately wanted to experiment with something else.
He said to him who still looked at me in bewilderment.
“I’m sorry. I was joking. Could you shake my hand for reconciliation?”
“Yes?”
After getting hit in the back of the head, Jangyong hits the wall and becomes vigilant.
But it’s a handshake
It was something we shared when we met at a cafe in the morning.
I wanted to say one word, ‘Don’t eat me, fuck you bastard’, but I held it in.
Eventually I was able to shake hands with him.
“We’ll often be together on dungeon expeditions like this. Please take good care of us in the future, Mr. Jangyong.”
“I-now… Let go.”
Have you been holding on too long?
He pulled back the hand I was holding.
What the hell are you misunderstanding, you crazy bastard?
I was annoyed, but I didn’t show my emotions.
I let go of the strength of the hand that I was holding on to the iron skin, and I touched his shoulder.
“Please take good care of me in the future. Please take care of me and even stand guard when I faint.”
“Oh, no big deal. I just did what I was taught…”
I’ve done two experiments now.
First a handshake.
While holding his hand, suspicious letters appeared in front of my eyes.
On the other hand, it was different when I tapped him on the shoulder.
Didn’t see it at all.
Skin contact is OK.
Hair is OK too.
But on clothes, NO.
Now what I need to find out is, can I turn this switch on and off at will?
And what the hell is this turning on and off.
I extinguished the cigarette with my foot and began to think about who to do the first test with.
But soon the choice was made.
I didn’t have to worry about it to come up with an answer, and it wouldn’t be like people dying suddenly if I switched it to ON.
However, I had no intention of testing it on Jang Yong.
He already doubted me and was scratching at the situation for nothing.
There’s a lot of stuff to test out.
A number of sleeping figures are in the tent.
I said that I was dizzy and went back to bed leaving behind the guard.
And I looked at the sleeping figures of the people who would be my test subjects.
Determined by you
In case of an emergency, I decided on Kim I-sol.
What will happen to this devil bitch?
I couldn’t hide my smiling face, anticipating what would happen.
So you should have been nice to me first, bitch.
I returned to the seat where I was lying earlier and sat down and gently put my hand on the hair of Isol Kim, who was sleeping next to me.
Being careful not to break it.
〈 ON [ OFF ] 〉
The suspicious selection window started to appear again.
I thought it was a touch type, so I inadvertently stirred the air.
It wasn’t.
I felt a bit ashamed of myself, but this time I imagined it in my head.
‘ON! ON! ON!’
〈 [ ON ] OFF 〉
Then there was a change.
As I thought, the selection window moved.
I waited anxiously to see what would happen next.
But nothing else happened.
I just started to see other information before my eyes.
〈 Name: Isol Kim 〉
〈 Type: Swordsman 〉
〈 * Sync Rate: 0% 〉
〈 * magic attribute : F – 1 〉
〈 skill 〉
– Aura Blade
(* Points currently held for the target: 1)
What is this?
I checked the information in front of me one by one.
Since the amount of magic attribute is F-1, it probably means the lowest grade, right?
I had to come to our company.
It reminded me of her profile I have.
The information received from the academy was similar.
It’s just that the expression is slightly different.
But sync?
And point 1?
I couldn’t quite figure out what that meant.
“Ugh…”
But suddenly a headache came.
It wasn’t that serious, it was tolerable, but I started to worry.
Something like that happened earlier, and I wonder what the hell is going on in my head.
But gradually, as the headache subsided, information flooded into my head.
As if I am a computer and someone puts data into it.
Can I use those points?
It wasn’t like anyone told me about it, it felt like I’d known it for a long time.
Even though it was definitely information that I didn’t know at all a while ago.
Dog is crazy…
I captured all of this information that suddenly came into my head.
And through the information I realized through this, I focused my thoughts on the part marked with a star among Kim I-sol’s information windows in front of me.
Synchronization rate first.
I skipped it for now because I only had the information that increasing this would increase the number of points I had.
Next, check the amount of magic attribute.
Then
〈 [ Magic attribute ] : F – 1 〉
The asterisk has disappeared.
And the same mark as when ON was selected for the word magic attribute.
Soon more details began to emerge.
〈 [ Magic attribute ] : F – 1 〉
– Potential: 1/7
– Class : F
– Mana Amount: [ F – 1 ] F – 2 F – 3 F – 4…
– 〈 [ ON ] OFF 〉
Potential is something called potential.
F… Her current level was clearly revealed.
However, the story that Kim I-Sol’s potential could still rise 6 levels was a bit absurd.
After graduating from the Awakened Academy, the F-class guy will grow up well.
Huh?
I saw one thing that intrigued me.
Is there an on/off button here too?
According to the information that just popped into my head… Heh.
I made a face that I had never made since I was born.
A very strange and mean smile that anyone who saw it would hate it.
“Kim I-Sol. Become a bitch now.”
It seems that now I can freely turn on and off her mana.
