Chapter 256 – Pocket Girls
“When are you going to the place you said?”
“Um… When is it possible?”
“Any time within two or three days is possible!”
“…Is that so?”
Seong-Il thoughtfully brushing her chin with his hand at Lia’s words. He pondered for a moment before opening her mouth to her.
“Hmm… Let’s go in two days. I think I’ll take a little break today. I think I’ll visit the gym tomorrow.”
“Aha~ Qualification exams are important!”
‘…You’re a member of the Hyper Team.’
Seong-il looks absurd when a member of the Hyper Corps, the main enemy of the Shelter forces, mentions the importance of the Shelter test.
And perhaps feeling his gaze, Leah smiled shyly and continued her words to him.
“Hehe… I’m half a shelter person…”
“…Okay, anyway, let’s meet outside the shelter at this time in two days.”
“Yeah~~”
“Are you going to stay here?”
“No! It’s because I got a temporary undercover job to see Seong-il! Now that the contact is over, we have to get out of here again.”
‘What level of security is this world?!’
Shelter’s security, which seems to be meticulous on the surface. However, seeing a double agent like Lia roaming freely here, Seong-il feels doubts about whether Shelter really cares about security.
‘What… I might be weird for wanting a lot of things in the world…’
Seong-il, who has been thinking to himself that a game is just a game, finishes the procedures and moves to his lodging.
“Shall we start soon…”
As soon as Seong-il enters his dorm, he casts 『Inner Plane』 And moves there.
“Come out! Red! Luti!”
Seong-il summoned his partners Red and Luti from inside the 『Inner Plane』. Seong-il looks at the two and waves his hand.
“Good lunch everyone~”
“Huh!”
Red responds in a familiar voice to greetings on such a holy day. Seong-il looks at the two and explains the situation.
“Kids! Tomorrow we’re going to have a fight with the gym leader here…”
So Seong-il begins to explain the battle tomorrow and the enemy’s abilities.
“Huh…”
Eventually, after hearing the explanation, Red is disappointed to realize that he has no room to play an active role. Seong-il comes to her disappointed and pats her and continues her words.
“Don’t be too disappointed. What can I do with such a match? Instead, you just have to help me fight so that this friend here can win tomorrow’s match. Right?”
“Yes!! Let’s go!!”
‘…He has a really nice personality too.’
Far from saying no to his request, Red seemed delighted to be helpful. Seong-il feels that a part of his heart is warmed by that appearance.
‘She listens well, but I’ll have to give her a present soon.’
After hanging out together for a few days, I got a rough idea of Red’s taste. Seong-il thinks that sooner or later, she will have to provide her with a lot of sweets because she likes her sweet tooth.
“First of all… Luty, let’s stick together for tomorrow’s sparring with me and Red.”
“Yes…”
Luti nodded her head, flinching at Seongil’s words. Seong-il smiles lightly at her appearance and continues her words as if to soothe her.
“Don’t worry. You won’t get hurt.
“Yes!”
When she said that she wouldn’t get hurt, Luti’s hardened expression instantly relaxed and she smiled slightly. Seeing her cute appearance, Seong-il laughs at her and makes the two fight in the middle of 『Inner Plane』.
Quaang!! Quaang!!
It’s sparring, but it’s a fairly intense battle between the two. Interestingly, because of the difference in character level, Luti could have won, but absurdly, she was terribly behind by Red.
“Keugh…!!”
“Lute! Gravity field should be sprayed here and there!”
Luti is in a hurry to defend himself with a gravity field specializing in Red’s fire attacks. Seong-il sighs, feeling frustrated at her appearance.
‘Kkeuh… There’s definitely a big difference between having and not having actual combat experience. Red is a kid who received regular combat training in a shelter, so it’s even more…’
If her holy day goes on like this, she has a feeling that the odds of winning against the gym leader tomorrow will not be high.
‘Haha… Just close your eyes and come out yourself? Or, appease Blue and make him fight…?’
However, it was ambiguous to see Blue as an advantage because he also had water attribute abilities. Because of her surname, she was really worried about whether or not she should step up on her own. An idea flashes in his mind.
‘Isn’t it?! Why should I let them use their natural ability to fight? Anything that looks like a supernatural power doesn’t matter, right?!’
Seong-il, who came up with an idea like that, quickly stops the battle and calls Luti.
“Looty! Red! Let’s take a break!”
“Yes…”
Luti approached Seong-il with a depressed expression, probably because he was being pushed badly by Red. Her Seongil feels sorry for her, so he comforts her by patting her on the shoulder.
“Don’t be too upset. If you train hard, you can become as strong as Red.”
“So…?”
“Then!”
That’s when Seong-il soothed Luti. He feels the back of his head heat up.
“Huh…?”
“Joy!!”
Then, you see Red’s pouting expression. Seong-il is taken aback by this and quickly approaches Red and begins to appease her.
“It’s not…”
“Joy!”
‘Damn it… I guess I’ll have to take them separately from now on.’
Seong-il, who soothed Red for such a long time. He approaches Luti as she lets go of her temper and quickly returns her to the cheek.
“Rutie. Do you want to come over for a minute?”
“Yeah… Why?”
Luti approached Seong-il, answering in a slightly clumsy but cute tone. In the last few days, Seong-il has definitely felt that her attitude has become more intimate with her.
‘How strong is the white ball…’
The degraded version is this much, but I can’t imagine how powerful the original version will be. As much as he takes the shelter route, he thinks he must get a white ball.
“Oh, it’s nothing…”
Seong-il fell into other thoughts for a moment. When Luti approaches him and looks at him blankly, Seong-il smiles shyly and hands her one of her gloves.
“What is this…?”
“Whoops! A secret weapon for tomorrow’s battle!”
“Hmm…”
Luti stares blankly at him with a puzzled expression when he suddenly hands him a worn-out leather glove. Seong-il smiles lightly at her figure and starts explaining about her gloves.
“It’s… You know?”
“Hmm…”
At Seong-il’s words, Luti looked at her gloves with a suspicious expression. However, unable to resist the words of her own trainer, Seongil, she can’t help but put on her gloves and stand in front of her Seongil.
“Okay! Then, would you like to do what I said earlier?”
“…Huh.”
Luti clumsily shouts “Start” While wearing gloves as he commanded, at the holy fire on the holy day. Then, to her surprise, she feels a powerful power flowing through her own body.
“!!”
“Okay! Can you feel something?!”
“Yes!!”
An intense power that I felt for the first time in my life. Luti trembled at the power and stared blankly at the holy day.
“Okay! Now move quickly based on that power! And believe in the shield activated in the armor and charge at me! While doing so, actively use your gravity manipulation!!”
“…!!”
Seongil explains to Luti how to resolve the battle. Following his guidance, Luti naturally rushes towards Seong-il.
‘Huh… I just pointed it out, but it changes so quickly!?’
Of course, thanks to the artifact 『Indomitable Will』, His strength has doubled and his ordinary body has become very powerful, but Luti’s momentum cannot be explained simply by that.
‘…Is this the talent of a legendary character?!’
Admiring her fighting ability, which improves in an instant, her seongil tries to block her attacks one by one.
‘If you think of the ‘trick’ that I will secretly use tomorrow…! I can easily win tomorrow without even looking at the game!’
Seong-il fought with Luti for such a long time. He ends her day by sparring until she is half exhausted.
“Sungil-kun!! Are you there!?”
“Whoah… Wait a minute…”
After sleeping in a comfortable lodging for the first time in a few days, Seong-il overslept. He visits her in the morning and greets her one visit knocking on her door rubbing her eyes.
“What! Are you still sleeping?!”
“Ah… I’m sorry… I did a special training yesterday…”
“Special training…?”
“Yeah… Seeing that Red was being countered by the gym’s talents here… I prepared for a sparring with Luti.”
“Ahh…!! Actually… Red was a fire attribute, right?”
One with Black as a partner, who has abilities based on lightning. It seemed that she wasn’t particularly worried about this challenge because the opposite sex was extremely advantageous to her.
“Yeah. So this gym will be challenged by Luti instead of Red.”
“Hehe… I’m already so close. I’m envious~”
“Hmm? Are you still with Luan?”
“…Huh.”
Hana and Ruan still seem to be on bad terms. The story of Luan
The woman immediately lowers her head and whines at her Seong-il.
“Haaang… I’m just going to send Luan to Dr. Woo for socialization training…”
‘Come to think of it… I was able to pass her ball to the shelter for training or return it to get merit points, right?’
Seong-il recalled the fact that he had forgotten since he entered the world of Pocket Girls after such a long time. He plans to send the psychics to Dr. Woo’s shelter if he ever catches a wild psychic.
“By the way… Are you confident about this match…?”
“Huh? Uh… Well, it must be as effective as dying. What…”
“Hmm… That should work.”
“Don’t worry~”
After talking in detail like that, the two of them arrive in front of the gym before they know it.
‘Hey… Here?’
B-02 Shelter’s gym, which looks like a general gym that existed in real life. Looking at the exterior of the building, Seongil naturally thinks of a swimming pool.
‘Hmm… How was the real life of the gym leader realized…?’
Seong-il cautiously enters the gym with Hana. Then you can see the huge swimming pool.
“…Is this a dam? A swimming pool?!”
Hana muttered as she looked at the pool as if she was dumbfounded by the overwhelming scale.
“Ohohohoho! It looks like you’re new. Seeing how surprised we are at the size of our battle pool!!”
‘…A pool is a pool, what is a ‘combat’ pool?’
Seong-il looks at the source of the voice with a puzzled look at the absurd explanation of the swimming pool.
‘Oh…’
Then, I saw a short-haired woman in a bikini with an impressive copper-colored body. She was a wild beauty with impressively tanned skin.
“Hello! Director! We finished our coming-of-age ceremony at A-01 Shelter, and we’re on a pilgrimage to the Shelter with our first mission!”
“Whoops! How can you think so! Then, you guys must be aiming to challenge me and my partners to get licenses, right?”
“Yes! That’s right!”
“Then, that’s great! My name is Jiyeon! I’m the director of the gym here. Now, shall we fight?”
Ji-yeon, the gym leader, answered boldly, as if she knew what to say. She takes out a ball dangling from her waist and throws it on her floor.
‘…A man.’
Unfortunately, Ji-yeon’s partner appears to be male. She jumps off a high platform and lands next to her partner before talking to them.
“Okay! Which of the two do you want to try first?”
“Me! I’ll go first!”
She is one who is full of confidence because she has the best adult partner in the water property. She confidently raises her hand to challenge Ji-yeon.
“Whoops… I wonder if her skills are as good as her confidence?”
“Heh! Of course! You’ll be surprised by my partner’s abilities.”
Having said that, Hana throws her ball at her floor and summons her Black in front of her eyes to prepare for her battle.
