Chapter 589 – Chapter 589 Hero Academy (5)
I blocked the shadow blade that rushed at Seo Ji-eun first.
‘I’m glad I didn’t solve the magic trick.’
I whispered to Seo Ji-eun, holding my sword and watching the shadows moving around her.
“Focus. There are so many eyes to see, I can’t turn off all of them.”
“Yes!”
Seo Ji-eun cried quietly and closed her eyes and began to concentrate.
The moment Seo Ji-eun closes her eyes….
Sasasac! Wickedness! Wow!
As if they had found a gap, the black shadows around her began rushing to hack Seo Ji-eun and me all at once.
Caang! Pacan! Kakakang!
I started casting dissolution one by one, blocking countless shadows with my sword.
And the servants around him also came to their senses and started running.
However….
Wow! Shah! Shaaaaagh!
“Mmm, don’t stop!”
It began to spread as a shadow in such a huge form that it could not be controlled even if nearby servants rushed at it.
The huge spreading shadows were shaped like krakens, turning the surface of the sea into darkness.
“I’ll take care of this somehow, so stay focused!”
“Yes Yes!”
Seo Ji-eun began to concentrate while holding her hands tightly.
But the more she focused, the worse her situation got.
Instead of decreasing the number of shadows, they were increasing.
‘Driving me crazy.’
It was on a different level than when I took care of Seo Ji-eun until now.
The growing shadows began to extend menacingly, to the extent that even users who rushed from outside could not recklessly attack them.
Fortunately, there were a lot of shadows who were paying attention to them, so I could deal with them to some extent.
However, there was a part that I couldn’t understand even though I was dealing with it like that.
‘It’s true that he’s a talented kid, but he’s probably not at this level.’
Seo Ji-eun was already on the level of a hero in terms of her abilities.
There is no mana control, and if you match the match, you will be able to fight and win against the servants.
But now the situation….
Sasasac! Caang! Cacan! Sasasac! Shoot!
“Hurry! Save the lady!”
She was not at the level of fighting and winning against the servants, but at the level of overwhelming them.
“Great!”
“A gap!”
Some of the users who do not have weapons left to quickly pack their weapons.
Four or five wielders with special skills in magic used magic to subdue Seo Ji-eun’s shadow magic.
The voices of both men and women rang out.
“What are you doing!”
“Quickly save the lady!”
Ki Cheol-ho and Lee So-hyun urged the servants to save Seo Ji-eun.
The servants with hero-level abilities were unable to subdue the shadow magic of cadet Seo Ji-eun.
‘Let’s aim for gaps as much as possible.’
I didn’t use the dismemberment technique so as not to be suspicious, and I slammed the sword hard at the shadow that rushed at Seo Ji-eun.
‘Just a little longer, and it will calm down….’
However, unlike my hopeful thoughts, I could see that things were not going well by looking at Seo Ji-eun.
Haha, ha, ha… Nope….”
Seo Ji-eun’s face turned blue before she knew it, and cold sweat broke out all over her body.
Mana out of control.
So far, all I’ve seen is Seo Ji-eun not being able to control the mana she emits.
However, looking at Seo Ji-eun now, she seemed beyond the level of not being able to control her mana.
[This is a symptom of mana exhaustion. It seems that mana is forcibly extracted.]
‘….’
It would be fortunate if it ended at the level of mana exhaustion.
What if mana continues to be used despite mana exhaustion?
At that time, she will not be able to guarantee her real life.
The reason I know this is because there is a case where I personally forcibly extracted mana from another human.
I was no longer in a position to question the practical benefits of my dismemberment.
‘It’s going to get messy if you only follow what’s caught. Let’s find it and see!’
After I made that decision, I began dismantling, focusing on the shadows rushing toward me and Seo Ji-eun.
Kang Han-na heard about the situation and started to give me advice.
[Wouldn’t it be better to stun it by putting it to sleep?]
It seemed like a pretty good way.
But was rejected
‘Now, mana is forcibly extracted! If I put it to sleep, but it stays as it is, it could be even more dangerous!’
There was no guarantee that the forcibly extracted mana would stop just because he fell asleep.
The situation was feared to get worse.
I judged that and performed the dismantling technique while diligently cutting out the shadows.
But every time I perform dismemberment, a new shadow is created and reappears… No, he started attacking Seo Ji-eun.
‘Is this situation getting a bit serious?’
Dismantling seemed to be all-around, but there was one fatal problem.
The magic circle itself could be drawn in an instant, but there was a problem that calculations had to be made after seeing the flow of mana in order to make full use of the magic circle.
And it is that I started to be pushed back in calculations.
‘I’m going crazy. Is this a real talent?’
Slowly, Seo Ji-eun’s shadows began to overstep the scope of my defense.
The fortunate thing was that the amount of external support also increased.
“Concentrate as much as possible and dig in!”
“Your safety comes first!”
Employees carrying various weapons began to enter through the shadows.
Even if Seo Ji-eun’s shadow magic was rare and powerful, it seemed that there was no way to block the attacks of 10 hero-level abilities.
No, even that much is great in the first place….
It was the moment when the number of shadows decreased significantly.
“Huh….”
Seo Ji-eun, who had been staggering, began to sit on the floor as if her body was collapsing.
And at the same time….
“Be careful!”
Wow!
A shadow lunged to kill its master as if in a last-ditch effort.
***
Unhappy human beings are far and wide in this world.
But even so, if you ask people to pick one of the most unlucky people, most of them will point to themselves.
This is because the level of feeling the unhappiness of others is through indirect experience, but experiencing one’s own misfortune directly.
And Seo Ji-eun felt the same way.
Her father, a hero and a world-renowned entrepreneur, goes missing.
And soon after, his wife, mother, becomes a vegetable.
And soon after, as soon as she entered the consulate, she couldn’t even use magic, which was her speciality.
It was as if her world was driving her to her corner.
She obviously knew rationally that there were people more unfortunate than herself, but her head and heart couldn’t accept it that way.
When others see it, they may accuse it of being full, but in the end, human beings feel their misfortune the most.
It felt like walking barefoot through hell every day.
To Seo Ji-eun, who felt like walking through hell every day….
(It’s the first time I’ve seen it, it’s a mysterious ability.)
(Uh?)
For the first time, the rope came down with a bright light.
A man who lightly erased the shadow magic that even Seong Soo-ah, the official instructor, was wary of, as if erasing magic on a blackboard.
(My job is to solve problems when a cadet has a problem. I don’t become an instructor to talk about it here and there.)
If it was this man, he hoped that he would get him out of this hell.
And that hope began to be seen more and more clearly while taking classes with Seong Su-ho.
(I’m sorry. I couldn’t control myself…)
(Don’t apologize.)
(…Yes?)
(It’s not the instructor’s job to apologize to the cadetshehelped.)
A sense of responsibility that is unthinkable as an assistant instructor.
And a secret lesson only for the two of them.
Such a sweet relationship made Seo Ji-eun gradually fall for him.
But he was still wary.
Seo Ji-eun already knew that since her position was her position, there were not one or two people who approached her with strict thoughts.
Seo Ji-eun, who was so wary….
(Dangerous!! Big!)
(School, Instructor… Nim….)
Instructor Seong Soo-ho protected her by taking her shadow blade flying at her instead.
That was the last scene Seo Ji-eun saw as she collapsed.
..
..
“Huh… ?”
As if responding to Seo Ji-eun’s moaning voice, a woman’s voice came from near her.
“Miss. Are you okay?”
“… Mr. Sohyeon?”
Seo Ji-eun came to her senses at the sound of Lee So-hyun’s voice, opened her eyes and looked around her.
“Room… ?”
She was greeted by a place she was tired of because she was not familiar with it.
Her own room, which should be her comforting place.
However, since one day, when she looked at this room, she felt like she was being held captive, and she had her neck tightened.
Of course she wasn’t like that before.
A place where her father goes missing, after her mother becomes a vegetable, and even her abilities go into a runaway state, where she is imprisoned in the name of protecting herself.
“Whoa….”
Seo Ji-eun put her hand on the nape of her neck in frustration and she let out a big sigh.
In a flash, she remembered the last scene she had seen of her before she awoke.
“Ah! Instructor Seong Soo-ho! Uh, what happened!?”
“….”
Hearing Seo Ji-eun’s urgency in her voice, Lee So-hyun turned her head with a complicated expression.
Her actions stopped Seo Ji-eun’s heart and made her sit down.
“No, tell me! Everything, you’re hurt….”
Seo Ji-eun grabbed her heart and slowly began to turn her gaze to the place where Lee So-hyun was looking.
And in that place….
“….”
Seong Soo-ho had fallen asleep while sitting on a chair, leaning on his back.
“Seo, Instructor Seong Su-ho… ?”
“Since the incident earlier, I have been sitting over there and sleeping.”
“Whew….”
Seo Ji-eun sighed in relief, but Lee So-hyun let out a sigh of relief.
“No matter how much you saved the lady, to come into the lady’s room….”
There weren’t that many people who could set foot in Seo Ji-eun’s room.
Currently, her butler, her secretary, and a female servant who assisted her were all.
Seong Su-ho officially became the third man to enter Seo Ji-eun’s room, including her father and the butler.
However, such thoughts did not come to Seo Ji-eun.
Just….
“Thank god….”
It only led them to the fact that Seongsuho was safe.
Seo Ji-eun drew out her lungs and let out a sigh of relief, then she started asking Lee So-hyun about what had just happened.
“Could you please elaborate?”
“Yes. Even after the lady passed out, her magic continued to run wild, but it quickly disappeared, perhaps because of the effect of the fainting. But….”
“… ?”
“It did look a little different from how it disappeared before. It was more like spreading rather than disappearing.”
“Ah….”
Seo Ji-eun heard her words and immediately realized what kind of situation she was in.
‘The instructor solved it….’
There were two ways to calm the mana runaway.
One is a form in which the shadow itself disappears as it calms down as before.
And the second was the way Seong Soo-ho burst the shadows in all directions and put them to sleep.
“The lady wasn’t hurt either, and none of the servants around were hurt.”
Seo Ji-eun looked at Seong Soo-ho sleeping in her chair at the same time as she was relieved, and she asked cautiously.
“What about Instructor Seong Su-ho?”
The last scene Seo Ji-eun saw was something she could never forget.
Seong Soo-ho blocked the shadow blade flying towards him with his arm.
It was never an attack that would end in shallow wounds.
After gently waking her lips, Lee So-hyun answered.
“… She was hurt, but she called the medics and treated her right away.”
“You must have been hurt a lot….”
Seo Ji-eun did not distort her memory, she remembered it straight.
She stretched out her arms to block the shadows flying towards her….
And in that last scene, Sung Soo-ho’s arm was clearly pierced by his own shadow.
Lee So-hyun calmly closed her eyes and nodded her head.
“You are hurt. However….”
“… ?”
Lee So-hyun looked at Seong Soo-ho, who was sleeping with a hearty smile, and opened her mouth.
“Instructor Seong Su-ho asked the lady not to tell you. I thought you were worried….”
“….”
Seo Ji-eun lowered her head and began to be silent.
She was obviously in a situation where she had to harbor guilt.
Seong Soo-ho was seriously injured because of what she invited.
But then, Seo Ji-eun….
‘Instructor Seong Soo-ho… You’re such a nice person.’
With her head down, she began to smile.
She smiled as much as possible so that Lee So-hyun couldn’t see her, then adjusted her expression and said.
“What time is it?”
“It’s nine o’clock in the evening.”
“Then Instructor Seong Soo-ho… ?”
“I voluntarily allowed myself to sleep at the mansion today. If it is inconvenient, we will prepare a vehicle to send to the consulate right away.”
Seo Ji-eun said, instead of making a displeased expression at Lee So-hyun’s words, she smiled brightly.
“No. Well done.”
“Then I will wake you up now and send you to your room.”
“That….”
“… ?”
Seo Ji-eun reached out her hand to Lee So-hyun to stop her and opened her mouth.
“You look so tired. If you wake up later, let me go then.”
