Chapter 12 – Traps
Two days later, Friday night, Antarctic secret base.
Together with Marcella, I was looking at the second monster that was about to be released.
Awesome! Squeak!
A creepy sound that resonates even in the water.
It seems that the sound waves are transmitted even beyond the monitor.
The second monster is a giant aquatic creature that looks like a sea anemone.
A being with thousands of long, sticky tentacles that will appear in the coastal waters of Incheon.
In the center, an ominous-looking pupil the size of a car tire is looking around.
This guy’s name was Aktoa, and he was a rather unlucky monster that grabbed the bodies of living things with its tentacles and took away their vitality.
It was a monster that measured Leona’s fighting power and judgment, and also a monster that increased her fame in earnest.
‘If Leona loses to this guy, will all the holes be captured by these tentacles?’
I don’t know because I’ve never lost when I was playing, but it’s definitely like that in the flow of magical girl yagames.
Anyway, this guy is similar in intelligence to Amdusias.
Whenever they appear, they will roam all over the place looking for life.
However, as it is active in the sea, it caused less damage to the surroundings than Amdusias.
Although it looks difficult to deal with because of its tentacles, it was very easy to catch it by poking the eyeball in the middle.
I asked as I crossed my arms and watched Aktoa.
“Has it been strengthened by modification?”
“No. Leona should be able to finish it quickly.”
“Improve it a little. Either put a protective film on the eyeballs or make the tentacles harder.”
“Then… Could Leona be in danger?”
“As Leona overcomes dangerous situations because of me, she has to rely on me more and more. You have to face a crisis at least once. Aktoa can’t do anything to Leona anyway. I will solve it.”
Marcella understood what I meant.
She spat out an exclamation of ah… And said.
“The moment Leona is in danger, she tells the demon king about Aktoa’s weakness so that she can attack it… Is this what you mean?”
“Accurate.”
“Ah… Marcella, I understand the profound meaning of the Demon King.”
“If you understand, start right away. It even radiates enough portal energy that Dr. Cathy can notice. Just not if it’s too big. Just emit enough to be moderately vigilant. The location is Incheon.”
“Yes!”
“Then I will go back.”
Returning home through the portal, I thought.
Now is the time to give Sehwa an activity name.
Beast Slayers use activity names.
Leona, Yuria, Rosé, Caroline, and Celine.
It was the name from the first to the fifth, respectively.
Except for Yuria, everyone uses a pseudonym, but currently Sehwa does not have the name Leona.
Originally, the name given by Dr. Cathy after he disposed of Aktoa.
But this time it’s different.
I’ll hit the player first and give her the name Leona.
I have to lead everything in Sehwa.
Until she clings and clings to me.
**
Wheein-!
Soft engine sound.
I burst into admiration as I boarded the doctor’s transport.
“Wow…”
Then Dr. Cathy scolded me.
“I’ve ridden it before, so why are you so strange and confused?”
“You were hurt at the time. I am fine today.”
“Yeah… You will. Learn how to use the machine properly. Especially those inside this transporter should be fully enlightened.”
“Why me?”
“I will hire you as an assistant.”
Done. When I stopped by the lab twice, it seems that playing with various parts worked well.
I’m happy, but I need to manage my expression.
I made an embarrassed face.
“… An assistant?”
The same goes for Saehwa, who opened her eyes wide and looked at me and Dr. Cathy alternately.
But there was a faint hint of joy on her face.
“Why? No? Is this an opportunity to tinker with these futuristic gadgets you love?”
“No… Out of the blue… And coercively…”
“You’ve already dug your feet in this way. Why would I go to the lab with you and not Sehwa? What do you think is the reason for staying quiet even when you damage precious things?”
“It is not damaged. You got it back to normal.”
“It’s the pride of a machine maniac. I will acknowledge your skills. So let’s do our best in the future, geeky sidekick.”
As if I was dumbfounded, he stretched out his hands in front of me, like a soccer player arguing with a referee.
Then Dr. Cathy spoke up for her.
“I have another name that works quite well in the world. If you write a letter of recommendation for you with that name, your future will be solid. I’ll guarantee you. I’ll be generous and let you go to school as a side job.”
Another name for Dr. Cathy? Of course I knew.
Isabel Parsons, famous worldwide as a future science doctor.
Parsons is the former surname of Dr. Parsons.
It was the last name she used before marrying her now deceased husband.
Isabelle is just a pseudonym.
It is also thanks to her name Parsons that she is able to secretly run her lab.
Even doctors who want to blow a little bit ask Parsons for research and analysis help, and her reputation hurts to say that her mouth hurts.
“What is your name?”
“I don’t show my face often and act out. But you’ll be surprised to hear it. I promise you.”
“Ha…”
I let out a deep sigh and reluctantly pretended to agree.
“How much will you pay me?”
“You are rich. Just work for free.”
“…..”
“You, a college student, can handle materials and energy that you will never see. Would that alone be enough?”
“That’s true, but…”
“You don’t have a choice. Let’s end this story here.”
I couldn’t help but laugh at her in her anger.
Do you know who has no choice right now and do that?
Don’t regret it later
Thinking that, I sighed again.
“Ehh… I heard that selling dogs is selling goods. The road ahead is dark, but…”
At those words, Saehwa, who had only been watching her, covered her mouth and suppressed her laughter.
As I look at Se-hwa with the eyes of her giving up everything, she shrugs her shoulders once more.
I mean with a smile.
It was as if he was saying good wishes.
The time when you held my hand tightly and sniffed was just yesterday, but it’s gone.<brhehehehe.
I gave her a weak smile and looked at her monitor.
“Where are you going now?”
“Incheon. Can you see the skull stick in the upper right corner of the monitor?”
“Yes.”
“This is information about the energy generated when the horse head appeared at that time. I named this energy Evelyn.”
Giving it the same name as the game… It doesn’t suit the game, but I give it a different name.
I said.
“It’s a name that suits something. Did you analyze it?”
“Analysis was impossible. It was just reading information. A successful analysis could have prevented this from happening… It’s annoying.”
A tone that seemed to hurt one’s self-esteem.
Well, I was proud of being one of the best talents on Earth, but it was only because I couldn’t analyze it.
Still, if you grasped enough to read this energy, you could call it a considerable genius.
“So you mean this skull stick is an Evilian gauge? It’s about 10% full…”
“Right. It occurred this morning in the sea between Ganghwa Island and Yeongjong Island, and it stopped just after rising there. Compared to when the horse-headed monster appeared… I’m guessing that this monster will appear when the gauge is over 80% full. We are going to explore, explore.”
It’s not 80%.
Currently, the E-Bline gauge has considerable accuracy, with a margin of error of just -10%.
When it is 90% full, the portal will open.
“I see… I see… The monster won’t pop out of nowhere, right?”
“I don’t know. It’s good to be prepared. And… Sehwa.”
When Dr. Cathy called Sehwa by name, she shrugged her shoulders.
Sehwa was scolded by the doctor in her lab before leaving.
Why didn’t you charge your device? What would you do if a monster suddenly appeared?
“Yes…? Yes?”
“At 13 percent, absolutely, absolutely impossible. You know what I mean?”
“Ah, I know.”
“They say you have a solution, but I don’t think the monster will appear yet, so I’ll just sit still… You know? We are in a hurry now To be honest, I don’t like what you’re doing now. If you want to follow your destiny…”
“Okay, okay so later… Talk to you later.”
Dr. Cathy glanced at Saehwa, who was very embarrassed, and shook her head.
I heard the story of the two people, but I pretended not to hear as I looked around the transport plane with an innocent face.
**
We went to a hotel in the southern part of Ganghwa Island, booked three rooms, and immediately set out to explore.
The search was obvious.
Trying to pinpoint the exact location of the energy with Dr. Cathy’s various devices, or looking for something suspicious in the ocean.
That was all.
I picked up the doctor’s devices and moved around briskly.
While sweating profusely.
But he didn’t show any hard feelings.
I just became an assistant, so let’s be faithful to that duty.
The exploration ended only when the sun had set.
Harvest? Of course there was nothing.
Exhausted, I stretched out to the muzzle and panted.
Dr. Cathy approached me and said.
“Good work. Let’s have dinner and rest at the hotel.”
“Any company that serves dinner to its employees is criticized. Just send me home.”
“Noisy, wake up.”
“Ha… What kind of lightning is this…”
I grumbled and got up from my seat and asked.
“But are you going to keep hitting me with your body like this? We just need to send out some of your inventions to protect them. For example, the reconnaissance aircraft you gave me at the time of the war… Wouldn’t it be enough to put the information of Evelyn in there?”
“Right now, we don’t know anything, do we? You have to try many methods until you see it yourself and figure out something.”
“Also, you can inform the world union or the Korean government and get help. Why are we trying to solve it among ourselves?”
“I thought about that too. But how do you think they’ll react if we say, ‘This is going to happen, please help me…’?”
“Doctor, you said that. There are other famous names. Show me the lab machines and write their names…”
“The name has nothing to do with these supernatural things. Also, the monster only appears once. Do you think you’ll believe us when we say we’re all open? The first thing to do is to build trust. And don’t even bother with things like this that make your head hurt. I’ll take care of it. Now stop complaining and take care of those things, won’t you?”
“Yes, it is.”
I shouldered the doctor’s equipment and walked towards the hotel.
At that time, Sehwa rushed over and tried to share the things I was carrying.
But I declined.
“You don’t try. You should save your strength for when you have to fight.”
“When you transform, you get really strong, right? Just give it.”
“Are you very strong? I wonder how strong it gets. But it’s really okay. It’s my job, so I’ll do it.”
My determined expression.
Sehwa replied that he would eventually understand and matched my stride.
“It’s been a while since I’ve come to the sea… It’s a pity that I couldn’t appreciate it properly.”
“Okay? When did you come?”
“It must have been a year? You?”
“I think half a year is over. I went to the sea of Jeju Island.”
“Who did you go with? Ex-girlfriend?”
I’m already trying to float like this… The feeling of wanting to attack rises up to the chimney.
I giggled inwardly at her cute behavior and shook my head.
“No, I went with my parents’ remains.”
“Oh, sorry…”
She is at a loss, not knowing what to do.
I said with a sly smile.
“It’s okay. But do you want to do this job? Do you want to fight real monsters or criminals?”
Sehwa thought about something for a moment before answering my question with a serious face.
“When I transformed, I thought of this. This is my destiny I still can’t forget that thought. The reason is kind of funny… But I’m going to try it.”
“If the decision is firm, it will work.”
“Honestly, I thought you were lucky to be the doctor’s assistant. I don’t know how you are… But please take care of me, Jihyeok.”
Her smile, speaking her honest heart, overlaps with the sunset, making it very beautiful.
I smiled at her.
“I really wish you well. By the way…”
“Yes?”
“If you transform, you might get that… Famous, right? People are just paying attention…”
“I never thought of that… But I don’t want to show myself. I just want to protect people from behind.”
“Hey, what time of day… Do you think you can become an unspoken hero if you want to? Will you find out soon?”
At that, Sehwa brushed one side of her hair and laughed.
“Is it?”
“So I guess I’ll have to use a pseudonym…”
“Alias? Um… Do you have something intriguing in your eyes?”
“There’s a character I’ve always liked… Her name is Leona, right? How about leona? Because I beat monsters, Monster Slayer… No, this is a bit like that… Beast Slayer… I like this. Beast Slayer Leona.”
Saehwa sighed and waved her hand.
“Uh… Childish… I hate it.”
“Is that so?”
As I looked at the ground in embarrassment, Sehwa looked at me and said,
“But… Let me think about it. The name Leona seems fine.”
My face brightened up at once.
“Really?”
“But don’t expect too much. Just thinking… I’ll just think about it.”
Although he said that, Sehwa made a clear decision.
The answer she gave inwardly would be unconditionally positive.
Why? Because I don’t want to see me disappointed.
“That’s enough.”
Yeah, that’s it.
After dinner, we went back to our room and decided to rest in preparation for tomorrow.
And I focused my hearing and listened to what Sehwa was doing in the room.
She seemed to be unpacking a load she hadn’t been able to organize before.
So, just as I was about to get in the shower, I heard a rustle and wheein! There was a mechanical sound.
-Instructions…Instructions…This is going crazy. Why do I even have to do this…?
Sehwa’s murmur.
I opened my eyes wide in surprise, then buried her face in the bed and burst into laughter.
And then I thought
‘Could it be… To masturbate?’
Innocent and upright, Sehwa, the envy of all college men, is masturbation.
I guess I really want to live as a hero.
Fate is really harsh.
But…If you’ve heard the doctor right, you know he can’t charge himself with masturbation…
Well, try it on a hundred days.
Does the device even respond?
Aether is not that kind of energy.
