Chapter 496 – Pocket Girls
“Okay! Is that the way it is? Now I won’t think of it as a test, and I’ll join you wholeheartedly! Prepare yourself!!”
Soo-yeon shoots at Seong-il with a bit of poison. Pretending to see the condition of a person with powers called Forti, she approaches the tall male psychic who was summoned in advance.
“…Tom! Start warming up now and use your full power as soon as you enter the battle!
“Huh!”
Although her Soo-yeon whispered very softly to her partner, her sensibility became bloody sensitive to her response, and her whispers were perfectly contained in her ears.
‘It’s ok… The trick won’t work.’
It will be the final battle anyway. Seong-il contemplates how to pass her remaining battles as best as possible.
‘Hmm… Do you mean to shoot a cold blast of maximum output at Blue as soon as he calls out to participate without jumping into the pool?’
Inspired by her, Seong-il steals Soo-yeon’s whispers and figures out what action she will take.
‘…Anyway, because of what I said earlier that the other two were fire-powered, did you decide that there would be no problem even if you overpowered your superpowers in this battle?’
In fact, in the case of Luti, she has the ability to manipulate gravity, but … If she does not use the gravitational field, the ability looks very similar to telekinesis. I felt like I was duped.
‘Hey… I was trying to catch the gym leader off guard, but this came back as karma.’
If Soo-yeon knew of Luti’s true abilities, she might not have made such a gamble, so Seong-il regrets trying to deceive her through false information.
‘Keuk… For some reason, if I win this battle, I have a feeling that Blue will definitely open up to me…’
Because of her sense of self, Seong-il wants to help Blue and achieve victory in this battle even if it is a little overworked.
“…Blue. From now on, gather all your strength. Let’s see the match in three minutes. If, in the meantime, your strength seems to be declining, I will quickly declare defeat so that you will not get hurt, trust me and do everything in your power.” Try.”
“Yes!”
Unlike before, Blue answered firmly and concisely. Seong-il realizes that she has started to believe in herself through her several battles.
“…It may waste a bit of energy, but keep an eye on the opponent’s chest and stretch out your hand so that you can cast a cold storm at any time. In addition, when I shout ‘Now!’, I immediately unleash my abilities. I’ll take a picture later.”
“Yes!”
‘Oh… I want to lead this fight to victory in order to maintain Blue’s trust in me…’
For some reason, Seong-il feels that if he loses this battle, a little distrust will settle in Blue’s heart again.
‘Keuk… Even if you have them fight with Red, they’ll fill you in with more practical experience… Maybe it’s because they’re so nervous, it seems that Blue’s strength has lost a lot more than I thought…’
Seong-il understands that Blue, who has been exhausted from previous fights, is unlikely to win. He is a little saddened by that fact, and for a match with visible results, he raises his inner workings again and begins to spread emotions mixed with telekinesis everywhere.
‘I’m sorry, but I can’t help it. Let’s be satisfied with just subtracting the opponent’s strength.’
“Tom! It’s the last time! I’ll trust you!”
“Huh!!”
As promised to Soo-yeon in advance, as soon as a muscular man named Tom hears her command, he raises her hand and activates his abilities and starts to stand up to the arena.
‘…You don’t go into the pool. Are you planning to openly fight for strength from the beginning without any tricks!!’
And Seong-il, who instantly grasped the other person’s intentions. He figures out in advance where Tom is going to cast the ice storm, and orders Blue in a loud voice.
“Now!!! Blue! Instantly cast an ice storm in front of 3M.”
“Yes!!!!”
Spouting an answer suitable for a cold beautiful girl, Blue casts a cold storm with all his might at the coordinates Seong-il took.
“Uh…?”
For some reason, when the opponent takes the exact coordinates he wants to cast and casts a cold storm, Tom, who was concentrating his energy there, makes a painful expression at the strong repulsive force.
“Kuh…!!!”
Tom starts gnashing his teeth, setting the veins on his face on an unexpected counter.
‘…Though, this goal worked…’
Seong-il succeeded in inflicting internal injuries on the opponent by making a surprise attack on the coordinates where the opponent was trying to use their superpowers with all their might. However, there is no way to help the sluggish psychic power struggle that follows, so he just bites his teeth.
“Eith…”
“Aww!!!”
Two men and women who fight for a long time based on the same ability. To win the primal power struggle, Blue grits his teeth and takes out all his strength and begins to spit out his superpowers.
‘Cheer up…!!’
And Seong-il clenched his hands tightly to cheer for such blue.
‘How are things going…?’
Before the battle begins, when the three minutes promised to Blue run out, Seong-il projects her nervous mind onto Blue and examines her condition.
‘Oh… Almost no strength…’
Unlike opponents with psychic powers who still had enough energy, Blue’s psychic powers were almost depleted due to high tension and continuous battles.
‘This is the theory…!! If you keep holding on, Blue might get hurt…’
Seong-il gritted his teeth and pondered. For Blue’s safety, he had to throw in the towel, but he feels that Blue’s efforts are too wasted to give up.
‘Just a little… If I can hold out just a little longer, I can give Blue a victory.’
And if he can win this match, Seong-il feels a great regret because he can firmly gain Blue’s loyalty.
‘If Blue can win…!!’
Then, Seong-il falls into a trance without realizing it and strongly wishes for Blue’s victory.
“Uh…?”
Then, Seong-il feels a strange sense of exhilaration overtake him, and his inner energy drains out of his body faster than before.
‘What…?’
While Seong-il is perplexed by the phenomenon, the mixed power of emotion and telekinesis, which has spread all over the place for some reason, begins to provide Blue with the transfer of Seong-il’s inner strength.
‘…Does Emotion read my will and use psychokinesis as a lever to transfer my inner strength to Blue?!’
A surprising situation. Seong-il is in a big shock when he uses the energy transfer that only support psychics can use.
‘Is this even possible?!’
“Ah…?!”
And as if Blue was shocked as well, Blue flinched and made a surprised expression even though he was concentrating on the fight.
“Focus!!!!”
And Seong-il, who knows how dangerous the act is, yells at Blue with a fierce voice.
“!!!”
And, as if coming to his senses from the voice, Blue quickly regained his composure and began to focus on using his abilities again.
“Aww…!!”
In the midst of this, when it seems that Blue’s cold storm has suddenly become more powerful, Tom puts on a puzzled expression and begins pouring more of his strength into it.
‘Even dirty, it holds up well.’
And at that appearance, Seong-il frowned and transferred more of his inner strength to Blue.
‘The psychic people here suffered the side effect of very low intelligence, but the weight class of psychic powers was very high…’
At that time, Seong-il got tired of Tom’s basic weight class and continued to transfer his inner strength to Blue. A moan of pain begins to erupt from Tom’s mouth.
“Uh… Uh… Keuh…!!”
‘Win!!’
Tom’s moan of triumph. In fact, shortly after, Tom seems to have exhausted all his strength, and he pulls his body back little by little and collapses on the spot.
“Blue!! Stop starting the psychic power!!!”
“Yes? Yes!!!”
If he continues to cast an ice storm, he could seriously injure Tom, so Seong-il urgently orders Blue to stop attacking.
“Ugh…”
Tom collapsed on the floor as if he was half lying on the floor, groaning in pain. Seeing this, Soo-yeon sighs and calls out to Seong-il.
“Yes, it’s a win. Your partner’s skills are great?”
“Haha… Thank you.”
While answering like that, Seong-il sees Blue, who is looking at him with respect and questioning eyes at the same time.
‘…At first glance, if I leave him alone, he’ll get into trouble.’
Seong-il takes the pretext of recovering her before her blu asks her useless questions, and puts her in her cheek and throws her away.
“Children. You worked hard! See you later!”
“Huh!!”
Just in case, Seong-il puts the other two psychics in his cheeks. After that, he approaches Su-yeon to get a clearance certificate.
“Now! It’s a badge that is proof of clearing the gym! Take it!”
“Oh… Thank you.”
Admiring the appearance of a luxurious blue badge made of lapis lazuli, Seong-il happily accepts and takes care of the badge.
“By the way… Your partner is really good. How did you train normally? If you’re a pilgrim, it’s been three months at the most since you left on your trip… No way… A partner you’ve been with since childhood? Or, a psychic with a genius talent whom he accidentally encountered and captured while on a pilgrimage?”
It seems that Soo-yeon misunderstood Blue’s ability because she defeated three of her partners in a row. However, Seong-il, unable to reveal that she was involved, scratches her head and vomits her excuses at her.
“Oh, that’s not true. Blue is a friend transferred from Dr. Wu during the first pilgrimage.”
“Eh!? But that strong?! Did you do any special training!?”
“Uh… That’s not it. Blue just travels with me and goes through intense real battles along with training, so I think he’s been able to use his abilities well.”
“…Real battle?! You, a pilgrim, have already gone through an intense real battle!?”
‘Oops!’
Seong-il realizes that he has made some mistakes.
‘Oh yeah… In general, since pilgrims travel only through the routes that the shelter has secured to some extent, it’s normal that they don’t experience intense combat, except for tasks such as capturing psychics.’
Because of this, Seong-il pondered what to answer for a moment.
‘Well… It’s nothing that never happened. I’ll tell you the truth.’
Then he decides to answer with a bit of fiction mixed with the facts he just experienced.
“Actually… When I stopped by the two shelters in Area B, the Hyperdan guys happened to commit terrorism. Somehow, I got caught up in the incident and had no choice but to fight them.”
“Hmm!? I’ve heard of that too. Some young trainer and his partners did a great job defeating the hyper-dang guys and stopping the terror. It was you?!”
In the middle of a conversation with Su-yeon, an unknown middle-aged man who was watching her match reacted strongly by interfering with Seong-il’s words. Seong-il answers him with a puzzled expression.
“Uh… Yes, that’s right.”
“For a moment…”
“…?”
After talking, a middle-aged man picks up his phone and calls somewhere, and Seong-il looks at him with a slightly puzzled expression.
‘What are you doing…?’
“Ah… Long time no see. How’s it going? Recently…”
‘Are you reaffirming what I said to someone? That…?’
The middle-aged man probably wants to determine the authenticity of what Seong-il said. If it’s rude, Seong-il slightly frowned at his rude behavior. The man answers over the phone with a surprised expression.
“What…!? There was something like that!? Is that possible!? It’s not dangerous…!?”
‘What the hell are you talking about?’
The time when I was curious about the sex date of the middle-aged man’s conversation. He hurriedly finished the conversation, put the phone in his arms and looked at his holy day.
“You… I heard from Junie that he has received up to the second level of artificial psychic flowering!?”
“!!!”
Seong-il realizes that the middle-aged man spoke on the phone with Dr.
“…What’s your relationship with Dr. Jun? I’m also curious what you’re doing together?”
Since it might be a judo newspaper, Seong-il carefully inquires into the relationship between him and Dr. Jun rather than answering him right away.
“Ah… I didn’t introduce myself. I’m E-0 Shelter’s gym leader and archaeologist Kyuhyun.”
‘Uh…? Kyuhyun…? This person is the gym leader of the last shelter…? It’s a bit different from what I knew?!’
When the content of the game he was playing and the settings conflict seriously for the first time, Seong-il asks Su-yeon, who is standing next to him with a firm expression on his face.
“…Is this really the E-0 Shelter’s gym leader?”
“Senior Kyuhyun? Yes. That’s right. He’s been in charge there for 10 years already.”
‘What the fuck… What’s going on?!’
