< 109. Shock and Terror (7) >
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“I don’t remember anything.”
The testimony of Choi Seon-ah, the daughter of the congressman who came to her senses, was consistent. No matter what was asked, she just kept repeating that she didn’t remember anything. Min-jun asked again with a suspicious expression.
“Then what is the last scene you remember?”
“I’m at home every day, so the things that come to my mind are all similar. So it’s hard to pinpoint and say anything…”
She had been missing for several days before reappearing in front of Kwak Do-chul, and she said she had no recollection of ever disappearing.
“Mr. Kwak Do-chul testified that he had threatened to kill Choi Seon-ah over the phone before she went missing.”
“No way. I don’t remember.”
He shakes his head and asks with wavering eyes.
“But… is that person really dead?”
He makes an expression of disbelief, saying he has no memory of cutting off his own head with his own hands.
“No way. How could I…!”
Then she started to sob. She buried her face in her knees and cried loudly. Minjun’s head started to hurt.
‘No matter what, isn’t it too convenient?’
I don’t even remember how I got the sword. Likewise, in the case of the troll who was controlled by the sword, I lost my memory from the time I picked up the sword. Compared to that, a lot more parts were deleted.
‘The differences between the troll and this woman… What is the reason?’
Choi Seon-ah cried for a long time and then complained to her father that she was having trouble breathing. Then the doctor said,
“I’m sorry, but could you give me just a moment? Seon-ah seems to be having a hard time.”
The congressman patted his daughter. Meanwhile, Minjun and Jeongpal whispered from a distance.
“How does it look?”
Jeongpal, who has eaten enough of the powerful group’s food, says:
“It doesn’t seem like a lie, does it?”
While listening to the testimony, Minjun also observed her carefully. No matter how hard she tried to hide it, there were always some gestures that showed when she was lying. Like covering her body, opening her mouth slightly, tensing her eyes, or her pupils narrowing for a moment.
But nothing like that was found in Choi Seon-ah. Not a single one.
Rather, it was more suspicious because of that.
Because it was an exemplary response that claimed it was not a lie.
“It’s just too perfect.”
Minjun stroked his chin with a dubious expression, then nodded as if thinking about something. Then he whispered to Jeongpal.
“Just wait here for a moment. I’ll go to the car and come back.”
Jeongpal parked his car in the underground parking lot.
“Is there anything else you want to bring? I’ll go and come back.”
“No, I have to go and get it myself.”
“What do you need?”
“Frying pan.”
Jeongpal let out a faint sigh.
“Oh, there was that guy!”
A magical tool that claims to be able to scan areas slightly deeper than the surface consciousness of surrounding intelligent beings.
Minjun intended to use it to examine Choi Seon-ah’s inner self. Since he had already taken measures to prevent anyone else from touching it, he couldn’t send Jeong-pal instead.
“Have a nice trip.”
Just after Minjun left, the doctor finally picked up the phone and called the medical team. Then the door opened and a doctor came in. Unlike the doctors and nurses who had rushed in a moment ago, this time there was only one man who seemed to be the doctor in charge. It seemed like he had decided that it was not an emergency.
The doctor shines a light on the pupil and examines it. Then he asks various questions, checks the monitor, and pretends to write something on the chart he is holding. Looking at this, Jeong-pal looks puzzled.
‘Here, the full-time doctor does the charting himself? This is an unusual hospital.’
When the doctor asked about his daughter’s condition, he gave a short answer. He said it was a psychological problem and that she should rest.
It was an answer that anyone could give. But···.
‘Why did you come in alone?’
There was a reason why Jeongpal felt uneasy. In this situation, especially in a VIP ward, it is rare for a doctor to come in alone. Moreover, he kept looking at the machine. It was as if he was waiting for something.
‘Was that a machine that could be looked at for such a long time?’ Jeong-pal, who had been hospitalized in the police hospital for several months due to the nature of his work, realized that the current situation was not ordinary.
That was when.
Phagec!
“What, what?!”
Choi Pan-seok was flustered. Sparks flew from his chest as he screamed.
“······!”
Jeongpal knew this phenomenon. This is what happens when an artifact loses its resistance and breaks down. People of the upper class, such as Choi Panseok, tend to wear protective gear in the form of accessories all over their bodies. It was basic personal protection to prevent assassination or terrorism.
That means it’s broken…
“you!”
The moment Jeong-pal suddenly stands up, the expression on the doctor’s face disappears.
Pot!
White smoke burst from his collar and quickly spread throughout the room.
“no···!”
Thud, the congressman kneels. The detox artifact has already stopped functioning. The man in the doctor’s gown looked at him with a cold gaze. Choi Pan-seok’s eyes were half-closed and he couldn’t move properly. Jeong Pal was not much different either, leaning against the sofa and unable to control his body.
“Ugh!”
Choi Pan-seok struggled desperately. His eyes glared at the man with a terrible emotion. The man, who was receiving the silent curse all over his body, did not care. He just calmly confirmed that the intruders were completely neutralized. Only then did he get down to business.
The two orcs were barely conscious, but the human, Choi Seon-ah, was already completely unconscious. The man removed the wires connecting her body.
And I recited the spell. I concentrated my mind and concentrated my mana. Then, a golden magic circle formed in the air. It was teleportation.
He was planning to escape with Choi Seon-ah once the magic circle was completed. At that moment, there were only a few seconds left until he achieved his goal.
“Kuaaaah!”
At lightning speed, Jeongpal rushed towards him!
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“······!”
The man who had been weaving a complex magic circle was shocked. He opened his eyes wide. The detective who had been half-paralyzed just a moment ago was rushing forward with all his might. The gas created by magic was completely ineffective.
thud!
“Kwaaah!”
Jeongpal threw a body slam into the man. The wizard vomited blood. The spell that was on the verge of completion was shattered. The magical power he had gathered was shattered inside his body and stabbed his entire body like shards of glass.
The wizard almost lost consciousness, but barely managed to hold on.
‘How on earth?!’
As soon as he entered the room, he took action to neutralize all the artifacts around him. The talisman the councilor held was a precious item that the Witches’ Cooperative sold only to VVIPs, and he had made thorough preparations to render even such an expensive magical tool useless.
But that didn’t work on the orc cop?
‘What on earth are you wearing?’
As a wizard, he couldn’t understand English, but it was no different for Jeongpal. The moment the gas spread in the room and the doctor began to tremble, Jeongpal realized for some reason that he was fine. It was a strange thing.
However, he did not rush straight at the wizard. The opponent had already checked the condition of the two orcs the moment the gas was detonated. It was obvious how the spellcasters were thinking and acting. If he had attacked them while they were very tense, another attack spell that he had prepared would have come flying at him.
So Jeongpal waited for a better timing.
And then, after pretending to be intoxicated by the paralyzing gas and wasting time, he flew away the moment the wizard prepared to teleport.
“Ugh! This kid···!”
The wizard and the orc are tangled up and rolling around on the ground. Jeong-pal’s prediction that he would be able to subdue them quickly once they started fighting turned out to be wrong. Humans are no match for the orc’s brute force.
But that wasn’t the case!
‘He’s a professionally trained guy!’
He was no ordinary wizard, holding a grudge and resisting. The attacks continued, one after another.
Meanwhile.
Boom!
“Kwaaak!”
In the midst of the melee, a shockwave erupted between the orc and the wizard, as if a spell had been recited. The detective screamed and was thrown back. He rolled on the floor, groaning. The wizard’s face distorted as he saw this.
‘I blew it to kill you!’
It wasn’t a very powerful spell because it was memorized in a hurry, but it was more than enough to take down an ordinary orc.
And yet, it survived.
But the wizard couldn’t hang around here any longer. The noise was already too loud, and the magic was so tangled and messy that he couldn’t even teleport again.
There is a change of plans.
“Tch!”
The wizard takes off his doctor’s gown, revealing his muscular body. He carries the doctor’s daughter around and recites the spell again.
Clang!
The window of the VIP room breaks. The man throws himself out, holding Choi Seon-ah.
***
As Minjun has already acknowledged, Yumtus is an excellent priest who is hard to find on Earth to compare to.
As if to prove his unrivaled ability, he didn’t need any bizarre preparations or messy rituals like Joachim did when he restored Choi Seon-ah. He simply exerted great divine power by meditating and releasing substances in the brain that induce happiness.
He was sitting on the rooftop waiting for Minjun’s next instructions. He had just displayed a near-miraculous divine power that had saved someone who should have died, but he did not collapse or become exhausted. Rather, he was somewhat relaxed.
Clang!
‘hmm?!’
As he was happily awaiting the incarnation’s command, a strange noise reached his ears.
The sound of a glass window breaking.
‘What’s going on?’
I look down. Then I see a human flying out of the hospital building. But the woman he is carrying looks familiar.
‘That woman!’
This was a patient whom the incarnation had personally ordered to be saved.
I don’t know the English, but since the incarnation commanded it, she must be a very important girl. And the situation that came into view did not look ordinary at all.
‘This can’t just be left alone!’
As a result of quick judgment, Yumtus unleashed his divine power.
Hwaaaat!
Power radiated from his hands. Even at this moment, he was completely oblivious to his holy radiance.
The wave hit the fleeing man straight in the face.
The surgery to stitch up a torn organ can take a whole day, but tearing an organ apart takes only a second. There is a similar aspect to the way the divine power is applied. The power of ferocious will immediately strikes the wizard. Recovery power that has lost its purpose and precision. It has accelerated cell division abnormally, and the result is…
“Ugh!”
The wizard felt a huge tumor growing out of his body. His balance was disturbed.
The bulging flesh all over his body was dragging him down heavily. At the same time, an enormous pain surged in. Having been trained to endure pain, he tried to hold on. However, it was all he could do to not lose consciousness.
Eventually the spell is broken, and the man falls to the ground.
thud!
puck!
Because it fell with the tumor down, a strange scene was created on the crashed surface. It looked like a balloon filled with blood had been dropped and burst.
“Ugh!”
The wizard realized that his mission had failed. He decided to die without hesitation. He didn’t even have time to recite the self-destruct spell because of the pain. The moment he was about to bite the hidden poison.
“······!”
He felt the whip wrap around his mangled body. It writhed like a living snake, binding his body. The wizard lost control of his body.
‘Ah, no…!’
In a world tilted to the angle of the fall, a shadow filled the front. It was huge. A darkness that surged and seethed as if it had a will.
It stretched out like a vine and wrapped around Choi Seon-ah. He must have caught it just before it fell.
A man was approaching with his back to the shadow.
“······?!”
It was a man holding a dagger in one hand and a frying pan in the other.
Even in his frustration and pain, the wizard could not understand.
‘Frying pan···?’
A combination that is difficult to find meaning and purpose in.
But the moment the opponent got close enough, the wizard could no longer think of anything else.
The anger boiling in the man’s eyes. The wizard felt fear for the first time in a long time when he saw it.
Because I instinctively realized it. Those eyes could only see those of the same kind. The gaze of someone who was ready to express the anger that had risen to the tip of his head in a very cruel and sharp way. The moment he was caught up in it, he had a premonition that he would definitely beg for death.
A man like a grim reaper walking through the darkness spoke.
“···How dare you touch my evidence?”
< 109. Shock and Terror (7) > End
