Chapter 502 – Pocket Girls
To Hana, who is puzzled, Seong-il begins to explain the precautions related to the inner plane.
‘If it’s necessary, I’ll have to knock them all out and let them escape through the portal.’
***
“Milla!! Make a mist with water!! Block Seongil’s view with it!!”
‘I’m sure I’ll be treated like that.’
For the past few days, Seong-il has been undergoing hard training from Su-yeon at the gym as she had previously discussed. He spreads her spray to obscure his vision, lightly evades Mila’s attack as she bombards her water orbs, and lunges at her.
“Uh… Uh uh…?”
In moderation so as not to be too obvious.’
After strengthening her body by raising only about 4 stars of her inner strength, Seong-il rushes at Mila.
“Hey!”
However, to Mila, whose body is at the level of an ordinary person, Seongil’s bloody rush feels like a runaway truck attacking her.
“Milla!! Don’t be afraid and keep blowing the water beads!! With the extra power, use telekinesis to push her Seongil away!!”
“Psychokinesis isn’t something only Mila can use~”
Seong-il responds to Soo-yeon with a relaxed expression, and she, of course, uses telekinetic powers to block Mila’s telekinesis.
‘To this extent…’
Seong-il uses telekinesis only to the extent that he can fight Mila in moderation. At first glance, Seong-il seems to be pushed behind Mila little by little.
‘The reality is different.’
Seong-il was able to control extremely precisely with his response, so despite using only 1/3 the strength of Mila, he could easily block her pressure.
“Sorry Mila!”
“Hey!!”
When her holy day passes through dozens of fiercely rotating water beads and is approaching her own nose before she knows it, Mila shows a frightened look.
‘…Because he’s a good kid, should I take it lightly?’
Mila always smiles and treats everyone with a smile. Her Sung-il is hesitant to swing her fist hard and hit her with her good-natured relationship with her and her relationship with her, who became quite close after a few days. Instead, he spreads her palms out and seizes her neck with her ghostly swiftness to subdue her.
“Kek!!”
“Did you lose?”
“Stop!”
As Mila’s neck is gripped in her Seongil’s firm hand, Soo-yeon quickly utters a declaration of surrender in Mila’s place.
“What the hell…How did you do it? The psychic energy of your body, which was identified through the ability detection camera, was 1/3 of that of Mila…?”
When Soo-yeon looks at herself with a completely incomprehensible expression, Seong-il gives her a prepared excuse with her calm expression.
“Because you know when you need it and when you don’t need it and use your strength efficiently?”
“I see… That’s why psychics with well-equipped intellect are highly regarded…”
Seong-Il’s answer leaves Soo-Yeon speechless. In fact, it happened because of the extreme efficiency caused by the response, but Su-yeon, unaware of the fact, misunderstands that it is just because of her high intelligence.
“Hehe. Do you recognize Seongil now?”
“…Well, it’s already been five days of training. If you showed results like this once or twice, you would have thought it was just a fluke, but since you’ve shown results like this every day for over ten times, I have to admit it.”
Su-yeon doesn’t hide what he feels in one word, and tells the truth openly.
‘You’d be surprised to know how much I struggled to pass the test while hiding my power.’
In fact, Seong-il used to play against Soo-yeon’s partners using minimal force to avoid revealing his skills, just like in Dalian.
‘It’s an unexpectedly big gain to learn that emotions don’t get caught by psychic monitoring tools.’
On the first day, Seong-Il was worried that he might get his original ability, Emotion, after seeing the psychic data meter installed on the first day. However, for some reason, the monitoring device did not detect his emotions at all, which surprised Seong-il.
‘If I use it lightly, it doesn’t get caught even if I mix it with psychokinesis… Does the reaction have some kind of concealment power?’
Anyway, Seong-il, who realized the limit of his own power, used martial arts, psychokinesis, and empathy appropriately to beat Soo-yeon’s partners during sparring, making it look like there was a paper difference from the outside.
“Seongil! Hard work!!”
When Seong-il wins again, he quickly grabs a drink and a towel and hands them Red and Blue. The words were short, but there was a deep respect in their voices.
‘Anyway… Perhaps because they’ve been trained in psychic powers all their lives, Blue and Red must be aware of how great my skills are and show that kind of attitude.’
Seong-il could vaguely feel why they respected him. He smiles and pats the two of them on the head while drinking the drinks they hand out.
‘Blue is definitely loyal to me now. They don’t rebel like before.’
Feeling so satisfied, Seong-il sits on a chair in the training ground and examines his comrades.
‘They’ve definitely improved their skills.’
Unlike Hana, Seong-il rarely trained for his partner. In the meantime, through this opportunity, Seongil’s colleagues, including Red, received Sooyeon’s training, and they showed remarkable growth in just five days.
“Haaa!!”
While Seong-il was lost in thought for a moment, Red instantly created four or five fireballs with a light gesture and threw them forward. Thanks to her, her battle holograms that had been rushing toward her were hit directly by her flames and were instantly annihilated.
‘…To think I neglected such talented kids… I should reflect on myself.’
Seong-il now thinks that he should secretly teach them the training methods he has learned in the world of Mythology every night at Inner Plain.
『Wooooo!!!!』
While he was lost in thought, a strange roar echoed from the arena. Seong-il looks at the place where the noise that puts considerable pressure on the reaction is happening.
‘…He was the most unexpected.’
The appearance of Luti crushing the training hologram machines that are rushing towards her with a powerful gravitational field. Luti’s fighting skills improved so quickly in the past five days that her holy day, watching from her side, was frightening.
“Electricity!!”
“…”
Luti radiates waves of electricity from his hands as the gravitational field is not enough. The hologram machines, which were already struggling because of the gravitational field, completely lost their fighting ability due to the electric shock.
“Is it because they’re siblings…?”
In addition, two days ago, Luti surprisingly awakened the ability to manipulate electricity like Luan, and thanks to this, she shocked all the trainers who were watching.
“I won!!”
“Yes. I suffered.”
“Lol…”
Upon hearing her praise from Seong-il, she smiles and runs towards him. She sits next to Seong-il and chats about what she likes so much.
‘…He’s also improved a lot in his emotional expression.’
Seong-il once again realizes why trainers are calling for training, training. Then he looks at Hana, enjoying the soft touch of Red and Luti wiping his sweat.
“Okay!! Black!! Protect me!! Luan!! Use the magnetic field on those machines over there!! Blue you ice shield!!!”
‘Is Blue well integrated into the other team now?’
Two men and women who sit on either side of Hana and protect Hana and Luan by creating an iron barrier made of telekinesis and ice blocks. And as if she was relieved by the defense, Luan poured all her strength into the attack, and the heat overpowered the hologram machines.
‘I’m glad though. I still can’t forget the hurt look on Blue’s face on the second day when he heard that he would hand over command to Hana for a while.’
Seong-il was worried about Hana because she had few partners and was a non-celebrity. Therefore, he recommended Hana to hire Blue as her temporary colleague only during this exploration period, and Hana, who lacked her hand, readily accepted Seongil’s recommendation.
However, Blue, who did not understand the situation, was just about to open her heart to Seong-il, but she misunderstood that her owner was changing, and began to cry like her abandoned puppy, and Seong-il started to cry like her abandoned puppy. I had to calm her down for a while and explain her situation.
『I am not sending you to one person forever, I am sending you to this expedition only.』
『…』
“Are you going with me too? I will fight by your side Then, when I return, I will take you back.”
“Really…?”
Unknowingly, Seong-il briefly recalls her dizzying past.
‘Now you seem to be loyal to me, so I’ll have to loosen up and treat you well from now on.’
The time when I was lost in my thoughts. She trusts Black to protect Hana, and she calmly subdues her training hologram machines with Blue and Luan.
‘It’s a wheel war…’
One is that she sends out supernatural powers to the battlefield at the crossroads as if she were putting in one by one rather than all available abilities at the same time.
Then, when both combatants feel exhausted or pushed back, black is put in like a reserve to show how the battle is resolved.
And seeing such a skillful tactic, Seong-il silently admires inwardly.
‘Well… He was also one of the main character’s rivals.’
Seong-il is undervalued because of her bluntness, but she realizes once again that Hana is also one of the main character’s rivals.
“Passed!!”
“Wow!!!”
Perhaps happy to pass her Soo-yeon’s test and be recognized by her, her Hana hugs her Blue next to her and starts bouncing around in her place.
“You worked hard. Take this.”
“…This?”
When Kyuhyun suddenly gives him and Hana badges with a subtle purple hue, Seongil asks him in a slightly excited tone.
“The pass badge of the E-0 gym.”
“Already…? It’s still before exploration, right?”
Seong-il cheers inwardly when he gets the quest item so easily that he has to go around seven cities to clear it. However, after gaining experience in the game world, he became better at controlling his emotions and politely asked Kyuhyun without expressing himself.
“Ha ha… You’re going to the ruins tomorrow anyway. It’s the same every week you go and come back now. I told my younger brother in advance, so when I come back, the badge for Area D will arrive here by mail.”
“Thank you!!”
It wasn’t that he didn’t hate the world of Pocket Girls, but apart from that, the pressure from quests always made him tired, so Seong-il is delighted with Kyu-hyun’s remarks that ease the burden on him.
***
“Whoa… I didn’t know I’d be going with senpai this time…”
“Haha! Isn’t that what life is like?”
“Sheesh.”
Suhyeon grumbles while boarding the concealed submersible prepared by Kyuhyun. And in front of her, Seong-il is seen holding the driver’s seat.
‘…Did I try to be too good?’
Seong-il holds onto the steering wheel and grumbles inwardly as he listens to his colleagues’ chatter.
‘Hey… Who would’ve known that empathy and nanomachines would go so well together.’
On the first day of practical training, Seong-il got behind the wheel of a submersible and habitually used the sensor and nanomachines. After that, thanks to the synergy of the two abilities, Seong-il unintentionally showed great driving skills, and Kyu-hyun, who fell in love with his fantastic talent, left him behind the wheel.
‘Well… But thanks to that, I was able to reduce the variables…’
Thinking so, Seong-il begins to spread emotions mixed with telekinesis all over the place. Then, countless hostile beings felt nearby.
‘Fuck… Why are there so many monsters in the sea?’
Seong-il senses that there are at least two or three mutants or Leviathan per 100 square meters.
‘Fuck… In the original work, Kyuhyun didn’t die at the ruins, but didn’t he die while driving a submersible? It’s an environment that’s understandable enough to think like that, right?’
There are countless enemies and dangers that exist in the sea that make you think so. Despite such a dangerous situation, the submersible couldn’t use even the minimum amount of light for concealment, so Seong-il thinks that Kyu-hyun may have died in an accident while driving.
“You must have a very good sense of space? No matter how hard I tried, this virtual screen made with state-of-the-art technology felt so alien that it was difficult to drive…”
For one, Seong-il, who has only been learning about a week, smoothly operates a submersible, and says, looking at the screen alternately with him.
“No. It’s because I’m used to it because I often played submarine simulator games similar to this screen on my phone before going to bed when I was young.”
“Ohh!! As expected, I am a gamer!!”
‘…Actually, I can’t drive just by looking at that. I’m seeing something better than that, so I’m driving well.’
The screen in front of Seongil’s eyes would make him complain. The screen, composed of clumsy 3D screens, was very crude, unlike the state-of-the-art technology that was created by collecting information obtained from ultrasonic waves and electromagnetic waves.
‘Whoa… Director Kyuhyun, who has been driving after seeing this, is actually amazing. How did you drive after seeing something like this?’
Seong-il, spitting out curse words inwardly, grasps his surroundings through augmented reality that only he can see in front of him. The nanomachine ‘Deus of Machina’ in his body mixes the information given by the existing submersible and the information Seong-il identified through his response, and naturally, Seong-il visualizes the surrounding area in the most ideal way.
‘If the Deus of Machina has such a strong ability to control machines, can’t I just control crazy machines?’
Seong-il, who had such useless thoughts, takes a sip of the mana potion secretly mixed in a drink bottle in order to recover the energy consumed due to excessive use of empathy.
‘When returning, the Deus of Machina can operate automatically with the autopilot program created through deep learning, so I hope the exploration can be completed safely…’
While thinking about it, Kyu-hyeon, who was chatting with Su-yeon, stopped chatting and approached Seong-il to designate a point, wondering if the submersible he was operating had reached the checkpoint that Kyu-hyeon had mentioned.
“Would you like to call over there?”
