Chapter 18 – Sightings
Everything melts in the fire, and everything that melted in the cold freezes.
At the center of the paranormal society, the family head of ‘Lee Je-ga’ and his second daughter ‘A-Rin Lee’ are now…
It’s a ‘conversation’.
Fierce flames brush my left cheek.
“No sir, I don’t want to go!”
He raises his right hand to form a block of ice the size of a rock and throws it at his father.
My father, who smashed that block of ice with one punch, looks at me.
“Are you kidding me? My sister went too! Shouldn’t my younger brother go too!”
“…Whether my sister went or not, why am I! I have to go!”
“If you are a member of ‘Ijega’! You must graduate from ‘Academy’!”
“That bastard’s academy, academy! Isn’t it enough to just finish the regular curriculum!?”
Father creates a phoenix above his head. It was a phoenix as big as the block of ice I threw earlier.
“No!”
It wasn’t one. The phoenixes gradually increased one or two, filling the sky.
I, too, look at the phoenix and start filling the Yeti with snow and ice.
“People are inherently hairless beasts, and once they are born, everyone is a beast! But! As they grow up, the nature of a beast disappears, and ‘human nature’ takes its place! Arin, the whole process is ‘just’ Do you know if it will happen?”
Dozens of phoenixes rush towards me. The Yeti sees this, grabs the Phoenix by the neck, and knocks it to the ground.
“No! The whole process is not free! It’s ‘education’! The ‘education’ we receive unconditionally as members of the same society is what makes us remain as human beings! But how can you, Arin,…”
“Are you trying to remain as a ‘beast’!”
The Phoenix and the Yeti bite each other, eventually destroying them all together.
A fierce chill emanates from his clenched fists. When he opens his fist, a spear is formed in his right hand and a shield in his left hand.
“You’ve gotten stronger, though.”
The father holds his backpack and looks up at the sky.
Above the sky.
There was a fire dragon.
“You’re still young.”
A fire dragon the size of a house rushes toward me. The face that was savagely attacking him was hurriedly flushed away with his shield, and his heavy torso jumped up to avoid it.
Then, he struck his spear hard at the head of the fire dragon that was threatening me with a ku-oo-ha cry.
OK, that doesn’t work. My eyes are burning from the hot fire. Fire is ice, and you need armor that can withstand fire. The fire dragon’s eyes turn to me floating in the air.
The Fire Dragon opens its mouth towards me.
The hot air gathering between your mouth makes you predict the next action. Quickly, I wrapped my entire body in armor made of ice and snow to prepare for the impact.
Coo-goo-goo. Breath wraps around me.
Ice melts quickly. Quickly fill the melted area with new ice. Breath doesn’t stop. It felt like an egg trapped in a microwave oven.
Upon landing on the ground, it creates a huge ice barrier to block the breath.
The less-melted ice got tangled in her hair and obstructed her vision. If that side makes a dragon, I just need to make the same. Concentrate your mind and think of the dragon phenomenon. Behind my back, I can hear the crackling sound of ice colliding with ice and solidifying.
“It’s worth it.”
My father’s Fire Dragon changes the target.
My goal is Bingryong being created behind my back. I also noticed this, quickly put both hands on the floor and looked at the Fire Dragon. In an instant, the ice pillars and ice chains rose from the ground, blocking the fire dragon from moving.
“By the way, Ariana.”
I look at my father at the sound of words.
Father was not there.
“Aren’t you forgetting this father?”
It was right behind me.
Blue flames wrapped around my father’s fists headed towards my body. Previously, movement was invisible, but now it is visible. Time seems to flow slowly. Quickly, I lifted my hands off the floor and put all my energy into a heavy shield to block it.
Kwazijik-! Do. Fire and ice collide.
“To stop this! In a way, it might be faster than our first.”
From the mouth of the father, the older sister came out.
It’s hard, and the teeth clash against each other.
“…Why is your sister here?”
“It’s a compliment. Arin.”
My father smiles at me. It was a little, but it was a cheeky laugh.
He stopped in place as if he was awkward and looked at me.
“I hate to hear it.”
I throw away my half-shattered shield and stand before my father.
“By the way, Father.”
“Yes?”
“Have you forgotten anything?”
At that sound, the father hurriedly turned his head.
“This.”
Already completed, Bingryong was opening his mouth in front of his father.
After a while, I roll my body to the side at the breath fired.
“You got hit.”
Quguaguagua- and, in response to the fiercely fired breath, the father raised both hands and put a shield of fire around them. As if that wasn’t enough, he puts on an armor made of fire all over his body. Now, slowly.
The chain is thick. A breaking sound is heard.
The Fire Dragon awoke again.
The unrestrained Fire Dragon runs towards me again. Even though it was a little, it ate cold and looked tired. Eat your mind
Let’s end this one room.
An extreme cold begins to gather in my right hand. At the ordinary energy, the Fire Dragon shrinks a little. However, after a while, the Fire Dragon, who came to his senses, rushed towards me. Since I’ve already used the breath once, it’s going to be tough twice in a row. When the fire dragon’s face came close to me-
Two bang-!! Do. Blows away the Fire Dragon with an uppercut.
Literally, blow it up.
Completely shattered, the shapeless face of the Fire Dragon. Fall to the ground with your body. Now, prepare for the shock. He raises his right foot and thumps the floor. A thick, white wall of ice builds up from the bottom. After a while, the Fire Dragon fell to the floor-
Explode
The impact dented the floor, planted trees turned to ashes from the flames, and the stone statues melted into lava. Bingryong was no exception. There are only two people standing on top of it.
Only the head of the household and the daughter.
“…Awesome.”
“Haha…”
“The achievement is so great, I can’t describe it. Arin.”
“…”
“Arina, you don’t want to go to the academy… Is that why?”
I wipe my wet forehead with her hand.
Roughly, I noticed what my father was trying to say. Without meeting his eyes, I nodded, shallowly.
“…Is it because of your sister ‘Lee Socheon’?”
Head, nod
I hate my sister
I hate my older sister who is stronger than me. I hate my older sister who is more perfect than me. My sister is now, she is at the academy. She hates being compared even there.
What is the motto of my life?
Roughly
No, not exactly. It was rough.
I have a talent A talent many times superior to others. Whatever it was, it was done ‘roughly’. If you say ‘approximately’, it’s over.
But my sister… No. He was just a bum, lacking in talent compared to others. The difference between me and my sister was stark, so I was always at the top, and I was number one. My sister, she was always compared to me.
But as I get older. The gap is starting to close.
I hate hard work, but my sister liked it. All the things I skipped over, my sister started to do them with sincerity.
As I got older, the gap narrowed, and eventually my sister passed over me.
After that, surprised by the reversal of the relationship, I somehow ‘tried’ to catch up with her sister… But there was no way for me to catch up with her sister, as I was not used to her efforts.
Now, I am compared to her sister.
Ashamed of that fact, she continued to avoid her sister. My sister sees me like that, and sometimes, all she does is laugh at me. Even if I tried, there was an innate limit. Because I don’t like effort at all. I was used to ‘talent’… There was no way I could make an effort.
Previously, it was fine because the schools were divided…But not the academy. Because there is only one academy in Korea.
I don’t want to see that smile again.
I hate myself for not doing anything after saying that I will jump over it. I hate my sister who went up to a far higher place due to the ever-widening gap. Just everything, I hate it If she met her older sister, she would not be able to lift her face in shame.
“Father.”
“…”
“I don’t want to go…”
Seriously.
My father looks at me
“Arin.”
He looks at me as if he has made up his mind.
“No. I can’t back down any longer.”
My expression gets complicated.
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Time passed, and the seasons changed many times.
In conclusion, I got into the academy. It wasn’t something I could deny. In the end, I was also a member of the Lee Je family and the daughter of the head of the family, so I had no choice but to walk the royal road.
Unexpectedly, my sister and I did not see each other often.
Maybe it’s because he’s busy with his work, or he doesn’t even care about me anymore. Except for occasional run-ins in the hallways, I didn’t even pretend to know them. It was a bit annoying that he didn’t even pay attention. Still, I don’t get compared… It’s okay.
After entering the academy, two years had passed.
At the academy I was forced into, there was no way I could do anything. The goal is just to get a diploma. That’s it. So, all I do is just sit around. Studying a little, lamenting my life, having sex with my boyfriend… That’s all.
Met several people
Certainly, the academy was full of rich and powerful people. Someone somewhere is the daughter of a chaebol, and someone somewhere is the son of a politician… Anyway, there were many. But they were all empty. He too
Surprisingly, not all of them were competent.
The only thing they had in common was their high social status. But even among chickens, there are cranes. There were exceptions.
Han Ye-rin, the daughter of Null Group Chairman.
Kim Seok-hyun, the son of the chairman of Mulsan Group.
The son of an unknown bakery, Kim Tae-ho.
Choi Si-yoon, the daughter of an ordinary family.
Seok Joo-hyeok, the son of an ordinary family.
Akina, an exchange student from Japan.
The witch, Han Seol-ah.
And even her older sister.
All of them had ‘power’ worthy of the high reputation of the academy.
It was definitely different from the other gossips. And among the dogs, there was one that stood out in particular.
Kim Tae-ho, the son of an unknown bakery, was like that.
On the subject of nothing, he won the chief by effort alone.
It’s like looking at his older sister. Unknowingly, I was concerned. Even though it’s Han Ye-rin’s dog. Over and over again, that image, that image of hard work overlapped. He must be stronger than me too. Do. She implicitly compared me to Kim Tae-ho. I did…
Suddenly, she strangely changed her style.
Suddenly, people get weird.
Suddenly, I was kidnapped by Han Ye-rin.
It feels like a bomb has exploded in my boring daily life.
I just thought he was the same kind of person as her sister, but he looked inside. He was an unexpectedly crazy person. Since then, interest in Kim Tae-ho started to grow stronger in a different way.
From a sister’s substitute to a fun-looking friend.
Shall we talk later?
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We had a conversation, once.
Definitely a fun friend. He has a taste for teasing, and the conversation is fun. Contrary to what it looks like, a polite personality creates a gap. After all, I am different from my sister. I liked that.
Lean on the roof railing. The footsteps approaching ceased, and the door opened.
“Oh, are you here?”
Taeho Kim, who climbed onto the roof, looks at me.
“Uh, yes.”
“Yes. It’s much better if you don’t use honorifics. It’s kind of a friend, but I don’t know if you use honorifics. Right? Originally, it’s basic to use polite words, but if you use honorifics, it’s like you’re at a company, not some kind of academy.”
When I say that, I smile without reason. Eyes meet each other.
“Yeah what.”
Come to think of it, there is something I haven’t heard from Kim Tae-ho yet.
“So so? What kind of trouble does our friend have?”
It is pure curiosity. What are you worrying about?
From style to kidnapping. There are a lot of questions about
Kim Tae-ho paused a little. He turns his head and looks out over the landscape.
“It’s nothing special. It’s just that my grades fell a little.”
Sexual? What are you talking about?
A question mark floats over my head. This guy, chief, no. Wasn’t it the second seat? This can’t be the reason. I was kidnapped by Han Ye-rin, but I can’t care about grades.
“Hmm… Really? Unexpected. I thought I was worried because I went through a lot of things after I was kidnapped by Han Ye-rin. Well, if you’re worried about sexual problems, you can call it trouble. Hmmm.”
Upon hearing my words, Kim Tae-ho’s face distorted for a moment, then returned to normal. It is interesting.
“Puh, haha! No, it’s a joke, it’s a joke! If someone the size of Han Ye-rin did a ‘serious thing’, he would have disappeared without leaving any ashes. I just tried it. As expected, the expression is interesting, why? Did you hit the point? No? Fuhehehe. So, what happened to you after you were kidnapped?”
Kim Tae-ho closes his mouth tightly and avoids my gaze.
Just saying
It’s normal to die before doing something big enough to get kidnapped in the first place. Probably, there is no way that Han Ye-rin bought a grudge and was kidnapped. What is there to make Han E-rin frantically pursue and drag her by the collar? It’s also good, so it’s something to kidnap. Well, I’m not sure.
“Yes, yes, you don’t have to say it. I didn’t even intend to listen anyway. I just teased you once. Phehe. So, you’re worried about your grades? Why are you worried? Aren’t you at the top? Looking at it this time, you’re in second place.”
I don’t want to hear it, but it’s still a question. Why did you kidnap…? No, it’s done. No matter how much I think about it, the answer doesn’t come out. Rather, why do you care about grades? It’s a second seat.
“…Because I have a goal. You must be the chief.”
Target?
“Senior? Is the senior’s goal? It’s amazing, I just came here without thinking because my family would say go to the academy. Wait… Being the senior is your goal? You can’t…”
Goal… Chief… Goal…
Ah.
Both eyes open wide.
“Are you going to join the Byeoldongdae?”
At my words, Kim Tae-ho nodded.
Is he sane? Going into a moth?
Kim Tae-ho turns his head towards me.
“Fenrir, do you know?”
I’m not insane.
The target is an ultra-high-risk monster still hiding somewhere in Korea? My head is stuffy. It’s just dog death. It must be dried.
“Are you insane?”
I sincerely ask. Are you insane?
Fighting against a fully formed monster is close to committing suicide.
Bondi, the things called ‘monsters’ that crossed the gate. Its form is made of irregularly shaped flesh that has been crushed and combined, so its attack power is not strong. But if they come together and do their part. From then on, the risk level starts to rise, which is called ‘taking shape’.
Each person’s unconscious flesh gathers to form a colony, and it is subdivided to become conscious. Depending on the shape created, different risk levels are assigned. The more similar the synchro rate is to the shape that becomes the mother, the higher the risk level rises to the ceiling.
The most dangerous are monsters resembling humans.
Down there. Natural objects such as animals, trees, flowers, fire, water, and minerals.
Down there. Artifacts such as cars, chairs, buildings, and machines.
Down there. Parts of the body, such as ears, eyes, nose, arms, and legs.
Each is an extremely high-risk monster. Super high-risk monster. Medium risk monster. And it is a low-risk monster.
But what about Fenrir?
It has the shape of a perfect wolf. Among the super high-risk monsters, it is located on the ceiling.
“Everything has a reason.”
Have to stop
Later, at the class reunion, I don’t want to see this girl in mourning clothes.
“Reason? Are you kidding? It’s just a moth that jumps into the fire. Even if you catch Svarozic for the first time, is there any guarantee that you’ll catch Fenrir? Don’t you know that even half of the detached Svarozic sacrificed himself to catch it?”
“I know.”
To have a headache.
“But why? Even Svarozic, who was invading the Korean Peninsula at that time, did not fight back. He just walked in. But half of them died? Even if he didn’t do anything, that’s about it. How do you think the meticulous Fenrir would be the same?”
Even this was so dangerous that it would probably have been annihilated if the president of the Null Group, Han Seok-joo, had not helped. But why is he so obsessed with Fenrir?
“Nevertheless, I have no choice but to do it.”
Kim Tae-ho looks at me.
I also look at Kim Tae-ho. Those eyes were… Sincere.
“Dad, he was beaten.”
The question is resolved.
“…Hehe”
I pushed myself for nothing… Regrets wash over me like a flood. Damn, if my parents had been beaten, I would have said the same. For that reason, if you have this level of will, you can’t stop it. I look at Kim Tae-ho with sad eyes.
“Sorry, I asked something…”
“No, it’s okay. I didn’t ask you knowingly.”
Kim Tae-ho smiles shyly.
It looks pitiful, and guilt rises to the top of my chest.
“Later, I’ll buy you something as an apology.”
I’m sorry, I need to buy you something later
“Huh?”
“Umm, you agreed? See you then!”
See you today after school.
Really, what would you like to have?
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After school.
‘What’s happening. Fuck hair…’
Me and my boyfriend now
Leaning against the wall in the hallway, I was holding my breath.
And I focus my ears on the sound coming through the wall.
“It’s surprising, I thought it would be less stiff because it’s a used magazine…”
No fuck
“Thank you, my boyfriend’s cock is this big. It’s as good as new, right?”
Hear the sound of water.
What the fuck is this.
Really.
