Episode 27
“Is Choi Hyun-seok definitely cured?”
Raidrun asked with an urgent look on his face.
The next saint, Abelson Marriott, shakes her head.
“I’m not sure.” “What do you mean?”
For a moment, Raidrun’s face crumpled into a grim expression.
Even though it was an expression that would make a normal person wet their pants, Abelson continued talking with an indifferent expression as if he didn’t care.
“This much concentrated magic has been injected into a human. Normally, they should have died. If I wasn’t a saint, it would have been difficult to even save them.” “So what’s the point?”
Abelson glanced at Choi Hyun-seok and continued speaking.
“As you can feel, the magic energy inside this man is not leaving. No one knows what effect this will have in the future.”
“Ugh…”
Raidrun could not deny it.
Certainly, there was still some magical energy circulating in Choi Hyun-seok’s body, albeit weakly.
Magi belongs only to the Demon Tribe.
Humans and magic can never coexist.
Such an impossible thing was happening right before my eyes.
“It could be a temporary phenomenon. The magic could naturally disappear over time, so let’s wait and see.” “Can’t you just erase the magic with your divine power?” “That thing is like a sensitive bomb. If you touch it wrong, this guy will die.”
Abelson said calmly.
Choi Hyun-seok, who had been listening to the story from the side, quickly raised his hand.
“Raidrun, it’s okay! I’m completely fine now! Hahaha!”
Just a few minutes ago, I thought I was lucky to be dead, but when I found out I was alive, I didn’t want to die.
Choi Hyun-seok still had many things he wanted to do while he was alive.
Raidran nodded reluctantly.
“Choi Hyun-seok. I’m sorry. I’ll make sure to repay you in some way.” “No! It was just a minor problem that occurred during the training that Raidrun-nim was giving me. You don’t have to worry about it at all. Just think of it as tuition. Hahahaha!”
Choi Hyun-seok’s tongue danced dazzlingly.
The effect was amazing.
“Sigh… As expected of you…!”
Raidrun wiped his eyes with an impressed expression.
Abelson watched the farce quietly from the sidelines.
For the first time, an expression was forming on her face.
‘What the hell are they doing…?’
Doubt and disgust arose.
A human living in the headquarters of the Demon King’s 3rd Army Corps.
Given the circumstances, it appears that the human is being trained by a high-ranking demon, Raidrun.
Abelson guessed that there was a high probability that this man was a warrior.
Black hair, black eyes.
Only demons or warriors have that.
No matter how I look at it, this man doesn’t look like a demon.
Then, the only thing left was the warrior.
Not all warriors were like that, but quite a few had black hair like that man.
‘A human warrior trained by a high-ranking officer of the Demon King’s Army…’
I thought to myself, but it was so absurd that I burst out laughing.
It was a situation that her head simply could not understand.
“Choi Hyun-seok. Move slowly.”
Raidrun said, rising from his seat.
Choi Hyun-seok looked at him with a puzzled face.
“Huh? Moving?” “Now that you’re feeling better, shouldn’t you continue training!?”
For a moment, despair appeared on Choi Hyun-seok’s face.
It was a fleeting moment, lasting only about 0.1 seconds, but Abelson saw it clearly.
However, Choi Hyun-seok looked at Raidrun with a moved expression as if nothing had happened.
“Hey, Lord Raidrun…!”
He says, wiping away tears.
“I am so grateful that you teach me with such passion!”
“Okay! Let’s go!”
“yes!”
Tears welled up in Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes as he answered powerfully.
“…”
Abelson thinks.
I don’t know how this bizarre situation came to be.
But one thing is certain.
‘You’re having a hard time too.’
The man was desperately trying to survive.
***
Fortunately or unfortunately, Choi Hyun-seok was unable to continue training.
Because after he hadn’t been seen for a long time, we got a call that Bobo was running wild.
“I’m sorry, Raidrun. I think we’ll have to continue training tomorrow.” “Yeah. I guess there’s nothing I can do…”
Choi Hyun-seok said with a truly regretful expression on his face.
Naturally, the inside story was completely different.
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‘Boboya! Thank you!’
I know that this training is a tremendous opportunity.
I also know that I have to work harder to survive.
But, I really felt like I was going to die if I got hit a few more times by Raidrun.
There is nothing more stupid than dying in training to live.
“Bobo! I’m here!”
Choi Hyun-seok, who came to Bobo’s house, opened his arms.
Then, Bobo, who was very excited, came running, drooling and panting.
“Huh! Huh!”
“Yeah, yeah. I missed you so much, hyung… . Ugh!”
A powerful body slam was cast.
Choi Hyun-seok opened his eyes wide in pain, but smiled inside.
‘It seems like it hurts less than before?’
Is it because of my mood?
It feels like the mat has become stronger than before.
Even though he is not yet at the level where he can control his magical power as he wishes.
‘Is it because I just got hit by Raidrun too many times?’
Maybe I was just used to the pain.
Clear away useless thoughts.
Choi Hyun-seok started playing with Bobo.
“Bobo! Ask me!”
“Ugh! Ugh!”
We also play a game of bone throwing, which is a favorite of large dogs.
“Okay. Okay. Eat a lot.”
Bobo’s stomach was also filled with the remaining Talas meat.
It is said that while Choi Hyun-seok was away, Bobo ate three goblins.
Still hungry, Bobo greedily devoured the corpses of Thalas.
“Oh my, so pretty! Our Bobo!”
Choi Hyun-seok kept patting Bobo’s head.
It looks like they’re just playing around, but the reality is different.
‘What should I do now…’
He was thinking hard about what had happened that day.
Since survival was the biggest concern, there was no room for leisurely play.
‘So. The bottom line is that I’m in a really f*cked up situation right now…’
The general situation has been determined.
The stupid little idiot Raidran committed the atrocity of injecting magic into his own body for some reason.
So, he was driven to the brink of death, but barely managed to survive with the help of a woman called the saint.
‘But that magic still remains in the body.’
Of course, over time, the magic may naturally disperse.
But there is also a possibility that this may not be the case.
In other words, a bomb that could explode at any moment was planted in Choi Hyun-seok’s body.
‘Ha, there really are all sorts of things.’ He shook his head to shake the thought off.
Anyway, he knows nothing about magic, magical energy, or holy power.
So this is not a problem that can be solved by worrying about it.
‘Let’s focus on what we can do right now.’
The top priority now is to freely control magical power.
Other than that, I decided to put everything else out of my mind for the time being.
“hmm…?”
After organizing his thoughts, Choi Hyun-seok noticed something strange.
Something feels empty.
‘Rachel is not here?’
He hasn’t seen Rachel since he woke up.
A thought crossed my mind for a moment.
‘no way…’
A conversation I had with Saint Abelson a little while ago came to mind.
“Rachel. Please throw that woman in hell. She’s not an angel. Even an angel has such a bad mouth. Every time she opens her mouth, she curses.”
A phrase said by Abelson, mistakenly thinking he was an angel.
It was meant as a joke, but Rachel must have heard it.
‘To be honest, I was half-sincere…’
That’s why I felt even more sorry.
Choi Hyun-seok cautiously called Rachel.
“Rachel. Where are you…?”
There is no answer.
Choi Hyun-seok called Rachel again.
“Rachel~?”
“why…”
Rachel’s voice is heard from the corner of the room.
“What? It was there….”
Choi Hyun-seok, who was talking, suddenly stopped.
There was Rachel, her eyes swollen and bursting open.
Rachel is about 30cm tall, similar in size to a doll.
There were tears piling up in one corner of the room, showing how much she had cried with that small body.
“Ahem, ahem! Rachel… Why are you standing there…” “It’s nothing… A noble warrior should not pay attention to such a lowly thing…”
Rachel’s voice was as weak as that of a dying person.
She came in front of Choi Hyun-seok and hit her head on the floor.
thud!
Choi Hyun-seok opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“Please forgive me!”
“Hey! Why all of a sudden… .”
“Warrior, shall I serve you? Since you’ll be serving me forever in heaven anyway, it would be good to practice beforehand.” “Rachel, I was joking… Why are you getting so worked up over something like that? Wait a minute! Your head is bleeding!?”
Blood was flowing from Rachel’s head.
She raised her hand, wiped her forehead, and chuckled.
“Good. I should atone for my sins… Aaah! I’m such a stupid, useless, foul-mouthed, bad girl! I should just die! Die!”
Rachel tried to hit her head on the floor again.
Choi Hyun-seok quickly snatched her away.
Rachel struggles as she is held by the hand.
“Profit…! Leave him alone! You can live happily ever after with the pretty silver-haired angel!”
Even in the midst of all this, Rachel couldn’t change her foul mouth.
“Just kidding. Just kidding! Rachel. You’re the best! You’re the best!” “Don’t say things you don’t mean.”
“I told you it’s true!?”
Choi Hyun-seok shouted half sincerely.
Anyway, it was true that she was pretty.
Pretty is the best.
“Rachel, you’re the best! Huh!?”
That day, Choi Hyun-seok had no choice but to comfort Rachel all night long.
***
The next day.
Choi Hyun-seok visited Raidrun’s personal training ground without fail.
“I’m going to get beat up again…”
It was to be beaten in the name of magic control training.
But today’s training was a little different than expected.
“Choi Hyun-seok. Do you know the word speculation?”
Raidrun asked an unexpected question.
‘speculation?’
When we talk about speculation, the first thing that comes to mind is obvious.
Stock speculation. Real estate speculation.
However, Choi Hyun-seok was a martial arts fighter.
Speculation is more familiar to him in another sense.
The will to fight, the skill to show.
It literally means any sport that involves hitting and taking hits.
Choi Hyun-seok opened his mouth.
“Isn’t it a fighting technique?” “In a broad sense, yes. But that’s not what I’m talking about.”
Suddenly, Raidrun took a battle stance.
I think they decided that it would be faster to show it to you than to explain it in words.
“Look carefully.”
Raidrun’s body moves slowly.
Accordingly, angry muscles twitched on his red skin.
‘What are you doing…?’
Raidrun’s posture was strange, like that of a martial artist.
A natural movement that is neither fast nor slow.
Overall, his moves resembled the usual regime crackdown.
But the results were anything but ordinary.
Kwajik, kwaaaaah-!
A storm of magical power blew in the straight line of Raidrun’s fist.
“Whoa…”
Choi Hyun-seok opened his mouth without realizing it.
‘If that happens, finding the body will be a job too…’
It’s torn to shreds, so there’s probably nothing left.
Raidrun, who had shown tremendous destructive power, spoke calmly.
“A wizard uses magic to cast spells.”
“…”
“Speculation, simply put, is magic for fighters like us.”
“I understand.”
Choi Hyun-seok thought it was something like a finishing move.
“Choi Hyun-seok. Your movements are certainly excellent. However, your attacks lack something important.” “Important?” “Yes. You lack the killing intent. An attack without the purpose of killing and crushing the enemy is only half-baked.”
“…”
“I don’t know where you learned martial arts or what kind of martial arts you learned, but you will never be able to defeat Kurken in that state.”
Raidrun’s point was correct.
There is no killing intent in the modern martial arts techniques that Choi Hyun-seok possesses.
The goal of martial arts is not to kill your opponent, but to knock him down.
A fight by the rules and a fight to the death.
The difference was bigger than I thought.
“It would be impossible to change your fighting style in a short period of time.”
Raidrun had a perfect grasp of it, even though he didn’t know the details.
“So learn fighting, because fighting is a skill only for killing the enemy.”
“I understand.”
“Good. Of course, it won’t be easy to learn speculation. Especially for someone like you who has just begun to awaken to magic.”
“…”
“But I believe you can do it, Choi Hyun-seok. You can definitely learn speculation in the remaining time.” “I will work hard!”
Choi Hyun-seok’s heart was pounding.
‘Am I going to become a real hero too?’
Heroes you only see in movies.
Like them, you can use mystical powers to destroy your enemies.
Even if it was something I learned from a Demon King Army officer who could be called a villain.
There is no sin in power itself.
Didn’t they say he worked like a dog and spent like a prime minister?
You can learn well here and use it for good things later.
“Then let’s begin.”
“yes!”
“Clench your teeth.”
“yes…?”
Why do they tell you to bite your molars when learning to speculate?
The question was quickly resolved.
“It’s faster to learn by getting hit.” “Hey… if you get hit wrong, you could really die, kekekeke!”
Choi Hyun-seok’s suffering was just beginning.
