Chapter 951 – 951. Savior of the Academy
The broken body of Am-O was darkness itself.
It was natural. Because it was a dark spirit. Its essence was darkness itself.
“Kwu-wook!”
Mocha let out a roar. A blue bolt of lightning radiated from his body and passed through the darkness. I shook off the darkness clinging to my body and got up. As Am-O died, the darkness gradually disappeared.
Cales came to my side. I deliberately staggered her body, and she hurriedly grabbed her by the shoulders and supported me. My arm gently touched her chest.
“Something… It’s different from usual. Why is Mocha doing that?”
“Looks like you learned something from this battle.”
Grip support. Dismissal. Grip support.
Thunderbolts were emitted from Mocha’s body without a break. Mocha burned the darkness around her with lightning, and then she flew up into the sky. Mocha’s body shimmered enough to be seen from a distance.
“Can the spirit also attain enlightenment?”
“Even spirits have egos, don’t they?”
“Is Mocha going to become a higher level spirit now?”
“I can’t be sure. However… Moka thinks she’s built up enough power to become a high-ranking spirit. She probably flew to the sky now because she needed time for herself. Trust Mocha and wait for her.”
“Yes, what. The contract isn’t broken, so you’ll be back soon.”
Shared Mocha’s vision into her elemental. Now Mocha was flying through the clouds. Her thunderbolt presence is felt around her mocha. Her mocha continued to grow stronger. Even if I don’t care, you will reach the level of a higher spirit.
Calles looked at the place where Amoh had been with a complicated expression. He must have felt futile since the higher level spirits of darkness he had been with had disappeared like this.
“Miss Calles….”
That’s it. Her present was a good opportunity to flirt with her by placating her. I slowly approached her.
“Don’t be too heartbroken. How wide is this world If you look for it, there will be other higher level spirits of darkness.”
“Heartache? It’s not like that. I felt strange. The Am-o I know isn’t normally like this. Perhaps the new contractor influenced Am-Oh. And A-Oh’s new contractor is dangerous. I want to find out the identity as much as possible, but….”
“Is there a way?”
“No. That’s the biggest problem.”
Calles sighed. She stood in her place, seemed to ponder for a moment, then she spoke to me.
“There is nothing we can do here. Let’s go back If you report it to the dean, you’ll hear something….”
“Are you going back right away? We’ve come all the way here, so let’s play for a while, right? There are no injuries anywhere.”
Right back? Can not be done. Now that the two of you are out of the academy, it’s a golden opportunity to seduce Calles.
“Originally, I planned to do a bit of sightseeing before going back, but… Did an accident happen? I think it would be better to go back to the academy right away.”
Calles was adamant. I knew intuitively. No matter what I say, she won’t change her mind easily.
“Ka, Mr. Calles. Can I come see you for a minute?”
“What to do? Ah…. I’ll wait here, so take your time and see.”
I bought time. I am far from Calles. I stopped at a distance where I couldn’t feel any voice or presence.
“Machina.”
Makina was summoned with a face full of displeasure. She had bits of vegetable on her puffy cheeks and red sauce on her lips.
“What’s wrong with your face?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know? It’s lunch time now. I was eating chicken salad and rose tteokbokki… I couldn’t even eat it all because of you!”
“Why are you so greedy for spirits?”
“Don’t ignore the spirits!”
“Mom is?”
“I was with you until recently. Send it back quickly! If you return too late, the lady will eat all the tteokbokki!”
“You have something to do. Just do that and I’ll send it back right away.”
“Do I have to do it now? Can’t we eat something?”
“You don’t want to eat?”
“Ah Okay. You can do it.”
I raised my finger and pointed in one direction.
“If you fly this way, a car will come out. The car is broken to the point where it can’t run. Do not break it artificially, as if it was broken very naturally. Can you?”
Makina squinted her eyes and looked at me.
“I can, but…. What else are you up to this time?”
“You do not have to know. Oh, don’t even tell your mother. If you ask, they just look around.”
“Okay. If you do that, you have to send it back right away.”
Makina quickly flew through the trees. I shared her vision with Machina through her elemental eye. Within a minute, I found a car parked on the shoulder of the road. It’s a rental car that Kalles and I rode in.
-Is this car?
‘Right. Break it.’
– Can I just make it not roll?
‘Uh. Naturally.’
Makina picked up a nearby leaf and put it inside her engine.
-It’s over. Send it back You have to eat Rosé Tteokbokki!
‘It’s just the leaves. Are you kidding me?’
-You want it to break down as naturally as possible. That’s enough.
Machina is a mechanical spirit no matter how she looks. Since she knows more about machines than I do, I decided to trust her. And if the car doesn’t break down and moves, it’s just a matter of summoning Makina again.
I reverse summoned Makina and approached Cales.
“I’m sorry, sir. You waited a long time, right?”
“What is the long wait? Let’s go downstairs.”
Calles took the lead. Perhaps because it was an elf, it easily found its way even in the mountains. Found a car Outwardly, it looked very fine.
We got into the car and she started it. It started up and then suddenly shut off.
“Yes?”
Cales, perplexed, started the engine again. It is the same this time. It started up and then turned off. I tried the action 3 more times, and soon the engine completely gave up.
Calles was taken aback.
“Hey, why is this happening?”
“I-I don’t know much about cars either…. Are we really in distress here?”
“What do you mean by distress in this day and age?”
Cales, who was flustered, quickly regained his composure. No one was injured, only the car broke down. She contacted the rental car company on her smartphone.
‘Right. It was modern here.’
I clicked my tongue inwardly. South Korea’s infrastructure was excellent for strange things to happen in the distressed mountains.
“The rental car company said they would send someone. They say it will take about 3 hours… Hmm. I think it would be faster to walk to the nearby village.”
“On foot? Is there a village nearby?”
“You saw it when you came earlier. It’s roughly an hour away. It sounds like a small town… Will there be a taxi? Otherwise, telling someone else to rent a car is one way.”
Rolled her head Either way, the result was the same. Wouldn’t it be better to just wait in the car? Because I have 3 hours free time.
“…… What do you think would be best for Ms. Calles?”
“I think it’s better to move than to stay here. Can’t you walk? Should I call someone else? If you ask the dean, you will be able to get support for a helicopter.”
“No. Do you really need to? It’s not that urgent, and it’s not that you’re hurt. Walk.”
We just got out of the car. I left the car and walked down the road. Even in Korea, there were no cars passing by on the road, perhaps because it was a corner place.
I rolled my head. Some way…. There must be a way I haven’t thought of.
“It’s not bad to walk like this. Right?”
“Yes. It’s good to exercise too. By the way, teacher. I have a question.”
“Are you curious? Don’t mind asking.”
“You said earlier that Am-O would become stronger if he ate me. Do spirits get stronger by eating people?”
“You know very well that it can’t be.”
“Yes, but just in case.”
As far as I know, there are no absolutes in this world.
“… Normal spirits don’t get stronger by eating creatures. Absorb the energy of nature to become stronger. And the energy of nature naturally builds up…. The reason Am-O made this mountain his territory was to slowly absorb the energy of the mountain and become stronger. If you could eat people and become strong, you would have already tried to eat hundreds or thousands of people.”
“But Am-O was convinced that eating me would make him stronger.”
“I like that too. Maybe the other contractors in Am-O did something….”
Calles was speechless. Her face was really complex.
The atmosphere hardens. I turned around to lighten the mood. As the atmosphere eased, the conversation became smoother.
Arrived at the village It was a small town. The population will not be less than 500. Still, it had everything. I see old people working in the fields. The young man was nowhere to be seen.
“First, let’s talk to the village chief and then borrow a car.”
As usual in such a small village, it was quicker to talk directly with the village chief.
‘…… Is there any way? To think I had to get in the car and go to the train station and go back to the academy…. At most, the two of us came out of the academy… This good opportunity….’
While walking down the road in the village, a guest house caught my eye. Compared to the motels in the city, it was rundown and small. However, the guest house with a wide yard and a quiet rural landscape had its own taste.
I swallowed my saliva. After a wild imagination, a good idea came to my mind.
“Mr. Calles.”
“Yes? Why?”
“Can we stay here today and return tomorrow?”
Calles tilted her head. It seemed he didn’t understand what I was saying. If she had been another woman, she might have been angry at the first time, but she was calm.
“What do you mean by all of a sudden?”
In the aftermath of the battle, he felt unwell. The word should not be spit out. Calles, who has a sense of responsibility as a teacher, will request helicopter support from the Academy Dean as soon as she finds out that I am not feeling well. And Sung Hari will be contacted. Seong Ha-ri’s personality could put pressure on the Hero Association, so the time for me and Calles to be together would be even less.
“Because of Mocha. Mocha is around here. As Mocha’s contractor, I want to check Mocha’s growth here. And maybe if I’m not here, Mocha will follow me….”
“Thunder owls may not reach the advanced level… ?”
“Yes.”
“I’ve never heard of it, but… It doesn’t make any sense at all. Because spirits are sensitive. It’s not uncommon for middle-level spirits to rise to higher-level spirits….”
Calles crossed his arms and touched his own chin. Deep in her thoughts, she opened her mouth again.
“First… Let’s start by reporting to the dean. Sleeping out must be done with the dean’s permission.”
“Yes. Teacher.”
Kang Ji-young would allow it. An academy student wouldn’t deny an opportunity to become stronger just because his return was delayed.
And as I predicted, Kang Ji-young allowed it. Calles and I ended up staying at a guesthouse. Of course, it was all over the place. There were no beds and no computers. However, the yard was wide and there was a floor. Calles was satisfied.
I went to the village supermarket and bought a bunch of food and came back. We ate dinner at sunset. Samgyeopsal was delicious wherever I ate it.
I sat down on the floor next to Calles. I took a small glass of wine. It was clear soju.
“Did you know that academy students are not allowed to drink alcohol?”
“A. This isn’t an academy, is it? Academy rules don’t work.”
“It’s sophistry, but I’ll admit it. It’s a secret to anyone else that we drank together.”
Calles raised a glass. Braided! The glasses collided and made a clear sound.
Alcohol went in The heat passed through his throat and warmed his body. Me and her had a conversation over drinks. As the alcohol went away, the distance between her and me got smaller and smaller.
The stars in the night sky were twinkling, and insects were chirping. A cool breeze blows and tickles me pleasantly.
The atmosphere has been created, and the time has come. I put my hand on Calles’ shoulder. Her slightly opened eyes met mine.
“Carles.”
“…… Eugene.”
