Chapter 460 – Chapter 460 Yggdrasil (4-8)
We accepted the Grave Keeper’s request and entered a dungeon that no one had ever visited.
And the search was conducted by fighting against the best spirits as practice opponents.
However, after that, the reappearing spirits began to attack like fanatics, and in the process Min Ha-yeon was cursed.
And those guys who ran like fanatics….
-[Hypnosis Brainwashing]-
He had such a temperament.
The temperament I was looking for so long….
‘Hypnosis… I must catch him.’
Hypnosis that can bewitch people… I couldn’t pass up this opportunity.
‘It’s an evil spirit, I tried everything, but in the end it was brainwashed with the ability to possess people.’
[But you have to be careful. The opponent has hypnotic ability.]
‘How many Enels do you need to get rid of hypnosis?’
[First of all, it takes 10,000 energy to break the hypnosis of the currently hung souls.]
‘Is it less than I thought?’
It was a bit ambiguous.
First of all, hypnosis itself is a great ability, but it wasn’t difficult to break hypnosis, so I didn’t worry too much.
Even if I get caught, it’s okay if I release it right away.
And the brainwashed spirits were gradually closing the distance towards us.
“Mister… What should I do?”
“Is the atmosphere different from before?”
As Han Bom and Son Hye-eun said, the guys who had been attacking us without hesitation until earlier just slowly approached us without raising their weapons.
Then one of the spirits took the lead and spoke to us.
“Looks like you’ve been through some trouble….”
“….”
“If you answer my questions correctly, I will solve them all.”
The leading spirit showed no hostility towards us.
Rather… I couldn’t feel anything, so I felt a sense of alienation.
The other spirits around us only put pressure on us and just stared blankly at us with their blurry eyes.
I tried to talk to pass the situation.
“What question?”
“You guys are alive, how did you get in?”
“… It came as a reward.”
I adequately explained the boss battle on the first floor and told the truth that I entered as a reward for clearing the boss battle.
‘Let’s match the rhythm for now.’
If the opponent doesn’t move according to my will, I can use Cerberus’ eyeball and, as a last resort, use midsummer to return.
Listening to my explanation, the soul in the lead who had been silent opened its mouth again without any reaction.
“Then how do I get out?”
“I am using the item I received as a reward. However, this is non-transferable.”
The spirit was silent for a moment, stared blankly into the void, then opened its mouth again.
“… Is that the only way out?”
“Yes, if the dead can get out easily in the first place… The world must have been ruined already.”
“….”
“Okay, are the questions over? Now it is my turn to ask questions.”
I opened my mouth, staring at the soul in the lead.
“Tell me how to get Ha-yeon back to normal. If you don’t speak soon….”
I turned my head to where the lead spirit was looking and reached out my hand toward the black figure in the distance.
“You can really get behind it.”
And the green jewel in my outstretched hand began to glow and inject into the eyes of the spirits around me.
“Quaaaaagh!”
The spirits illuminated by the green light cried out and began to slump or collapse on the floor.
I took Cerberus’ eyeball and started approaching the guy I was secretly watching from afar.
Covered in a cloak, the cloaked creature flinched every time I approached, struggling for breath as if drowning.
“Ouch… Come on!”
“I was able to hide well… How is it? Have you had fun?”
“Ruler… For a moment… Come on!”
With my right hand still holding the jewel, I grasped his neck with my left hand and began to lift him up.
Her body was small and light compared to the momentum she gave off outwardly wearing a cape.
Even if she was tall, she was 150 and weighed the same as a thin woman.
I could only guess that it was a man by his voice.
As I grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up, he began to struggle as if he were drowning.
But the soul does not drown.
The reason he suffered was not because I was choking on him.
It was because of Cerberus’ eyeball in his right hand.
The green radiance was instilling great fear as it entered his eyes.
“Big! Wait a minute! My, my word!”
“I’m running out of patience right now. Do you want to hear the answer I want quickly?”
“Do it, I will do it! Please! He-get that jewel away!”
“Clean up?”
“Chi, clear it up! Please! I will do anything for you!”
I started staring at the guy wearing the cape as I threw him to the floor.
Even though the guy was released from my hands, he shouted, shaking his body as if he was playing.
“Oh, clear those eyes! Please!”
“….”
I didn’t collect the jewels and told Armonia.
‘Armonia, temperament.’
[All right.]
I waited for his temperament to rise and checked his condition.
His face was obscured by the cloak, but his body shape was clearly visible.
He was short, about 150, and his body was thin, so he looked small.
Judging by the male voice, I wondered if he was a dwarf like Jeff.
[The temperament window has been opened.]
I heard what Armonia said and immediately checked her temperament window.
The first thing that caught my eye was none other than his ability.
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[Soul Hypnosis], [Incarnation of Revenge], [Cold-Blooded], [Selfishness]….
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‘What? [Hypnotize the soul]? Is it just different from hypnosis?’
[If you look at the explanation given… It says that it is a hypnotic technique that can only be applied to spirits.]
‘What? Spirit!? Then….’
[Cannot bet on ordinary people.]
‘Whoa!’
Poop!
For shit like this to happen….
I started shooting the Cerberus beam at him again, filling my head with rage like a child who hadn’t gotten a present from Santa.
“Ouch! Why! Stop that! I’m going to release that woman, so stop!!”
“Then tell me quickly!”
“No, I say! Please! Put that away!!”
It was when I was so annoyed and shooting beams.
[Suho. I think you should check the temperament window first.]
‘Why? It’s a useless ability anyway….’
[Soul Hypnosis], Where can I use it? Anyway, I have Cerberus’s Eye, a much higher version of the item.
However, Armonia finally started urging me to look again.
[See author’s name.]
‘Name?’
Only then did I withdraw my arm and begin to keep my eyes on the guy’s name.
I had no interest in remembering men’s names.
But even if I wanted to forget the name of the guy I was looking at, I couldn’t.
Because it was a name I used so badly.
I murmured the name of the trembling guy while breathing heavily.
‘Souta Takeichi? The former head of the Red Crescent Moon?’
***
“….”
Min Ha-yeon was silent, sitting on a chair alone in the dark, with her head bowed at her table.
Occasionally, conversations with other people flowed from outside her pocket, but whenever she heard them, Min Ha-yeon could rather taste the feeling of falling into her abyss.
Min Ha-yeon, who was outside her, showed her anger to Seong Su-ho, which she did not do herself, and she showed her irritation to Han Bom, which she did not normally do.
Min Ha-yeon couldn’t help but cry for a long time as she recalled a dark future in a room full of darkness.
There was nothing I could do but cry.
I heard only whispers to accept this darkness, but at some point those whispers disappeared and I was left alone.
“Really… Will it end like this?”
Even if I had been tricked by someone and fell into hell, I wouldn’t have felt this unfair.
But she was overcome with despair at the thought of seeing her body ruin everything she had built up.
As much as she felt hopeless, she began to feel guilty.
Her actions toward Seong Su-ho, whom she trusted and relied on, and Han Bom, whom she had been close to all her life, permeated into herself.
Even though she didn’t do it herself, Min Ha-yeon accepted that she was guilty before she knew it.
She had only been there for a few hours, but Min Ha-yeon’s heart was already beginning to collapse like a sand castle.
“… Would I rather die?”
It might sound absurd to anyone who heard it, but Min Ha-yeon was sincere.
The best way Min Ha-yeon could think of right now was regression.
“If I die… Maybe the two of them spend midsummer….”
But she couldn’t even recklessly attempt suicide.
What if she committed suicide, but what if the mirror that took her body was still there?
What if her mirror completely absorbed her own memories?
That was the worst.
Min Ha-yeon began to run her hands over her itchy cheeks.
Water was flowing again.
The darkness was numbing her senses to the point where she didn’t even know the tears came out.
As Min Ha-yeon felt the touch of her tears with her hands, she began to sob as her emotions rose again.
“Suho… Save me….”
At the moment of sobbing, she began to hear a deafening cry in her quiet room.
(What is this!)
“What, what? What’s up!
The voice of the mirror resounding in the dark began to howl in pain before Min Ha-yeon could answer her question.
(Don’t be funny! I hate it! I hate it!!)
It wasn’t the mirror’s voice that mocked Min Ha-yeon with confidence until earlier.
The mirror sounded as if something had happened to anyone listening to it.
‘Seo, could it be that you were captured by that evil spirit? Oh, no….’
Min Ha-yeon began to recall the voice of the mirror that was annoyed at Seong Su-ho at the end.
He could also recall the voice of Seong Su-ho sighing towards him.
It wasn’t the friendly look he had shown so far, it was a voice that felt stuffy.
Min Ha-yeon started to panic again, thinking that she might have been abandoned.
Then she heard a mirror voice that accelerated her fears.
(Let go of this! It’s my body! It’s my body!)
After the voice of the mirror crying like that….
(Don’t bullshit. That’s not your body.)
“Uh… ?”
Min Ha-yeon raised her head at the clear voice of Sung Soo-ho and began to look at the mirror where the light gradually leaked out.
And from outside the mirror came the voice of a man who had been waiting so long.
(Give it to Hayeon. You fucking bastard.)
With that voice, the white light from her mirror covered the room and began to drag her along.
***
“Huh….”
With Min Ha-yeon’s moaning, I threw her mirror beside her and spoke to her.
“Ha Yeon-ah!? It’s okay?”
“Uh…. Su, is it Suho?”
“Sister, is that right? You’re my sister!?”
“Bo, spring… Hey, this is….”
Min Ha-yeon straightened her back and looked around her, staring at us.
Three people and Hanbom… And Min Ha-yeon, who was looking at me….
“Hey, here… All, did you come back? Did I come back to my original body?”
“Whew… Thank god. Hayeon looks right. Ugh!”
“Huh… Aaaaang!”
Min Ha-yeon suddenly ran to me and hugged her and started crying like crazy.
“Suho! Me! Me… I really… Whoa!”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t save you sooner….”
“Nope! Sorry… Because I’m too bad… Whoops!”
I apologized to Min Ha-yeon, who was crying as she hugged me, holding her face with both hands.
“No, it was because I couldn’t come. If I had more ability, I would have gotten it sooner.”
“Nope! Because I was wrong! I… It’s because I’m not careful like an idiot… Ugh….”
“Nope. I….”
“Because it is not! I did wrong….”
Min Hayeon and I constantly started bickering, blaming ourselves.
And Hanbom, who was in the midst of that quarrel….
“That… I understand that it’s a touching situation, but be aware of other people’s opinions as well.”
He grumbled while shedding tears like us.
“Okay… Yeonah Ha. Let’s talk about it later.”
“Yes… Still, it’s my responsibility.”
Haha….”
Even though Min Ha-yeon cried, she did not stop until the end, and as she gave her last response, she stood up in my arms.
After standing up like that, Hanbom crossed her arms and nodded his head.
“Phew… I also found my sister! Then….”
While he was saying that, Hanbom turned his head and looked at someone.
When the man wearing the cloak caught Hanbom’s gaze, he trembled and began to slowly back away.
“That bastard who made her sister like this… What should I do?”
It was Souta Takeichi.
