◈ Episode 95. Don’t mess with your teacher (1)
The man wearing the skull mask, one of the members of Ilgyo and their de facto leader, was sitting in a hideout he had moved to Seoul and continuing his thoughts.
That is their thoughts about Kim Joo-hyuk, the person they must protect.
‘… … I mean, I don’t understand.’
Of course, whether he understood it or not, his job did not change.
As the Holy See said, whenever Kim Joo-hyuk calls, I will escort him properly from then on.
That was an unchanging fact.
However, apart from that, the man recently had doubts about the very existence of Kim Joo-hyuk that he could not hide.
At least in his opinion, Kim Joo-hyuk had a lot of secrets.
‘The relationship with the Constellation is also fascinating.’
But in fact, that wasn’t the reason the man became seriously curious about Kim Joo-hyuk.
The man’s curiosity about Kim Joo-hyuk amplified in earnest because of something that happened not long ago when he went to deal with Alchemist John, one of the S-class contractors.
‘… … With just a few words from the Constellation, an S-class Constellation can terminate its contract.’
He recalled what happened then.
When he was blown away by the instantaneous shock wave and saw the constellation that had appeared in John’s body, Tugui popped up a notification window telling the alchemist to tell him exactly what he said.
Soon, as instructed by Dungwi, he said exactly what he said to the constellation that had just appeared in John’s body.
Now your contractor is a martial god and is trying to kill your benefactor.
And as soon as he heard those words, the ‘Unchangeable Alchemist’ took away all the power from his contractor.
As if there was no need to confirm the facts, the ever-changing alchemist so cold-heartedly dismissed his contractor.
In the end, John was dragged away by Tugui and died.
‘Kim Joo-hyuk… … ‘Who the hell is this?’
Who on earth is Kim Joo-hyuk that allows his constellation, Tougwi, and the S-class constellation, The Unchangeable Alchemist, to have such an attitude?
He recalled two words he heard then.
The words martial god and benefactor.
I don’t know the word ‘musin’, but when I think of the word ‘benefactor’, there are many things I can think of.
However, if you think about it in relation to Kim Joo-hyuk, there is nothing that can be inferred at all.
Kim Joo-hyuk was human.
Because Lord Tougwi and the Unchanging Alchemist were constellations.
Therefore, after continuing his thoughts for a while, he had no choice but to stand up without being able to come up with the right truth, even though he thought about it for quite a long time.
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next day.
Kim Joo-hyuk, who was out training early in the morning, received a message from Choi A-rin.
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute rabbit waving its hand saying ‘Nice to meet you!’)
Kim Joo-hyuk: Why again?
Choi A-rin: (cute bunny car ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’ laughing emoticon)
Choi A-rin: I don’t think I’ll be able to go for about a week from today.
Kim Joo-hyuk: Why?
Choi A-rin: Because of the world war I mentioned yesterday.
“ah.”
Kim Joo-hyuk recalled hearing Choi A-rin’s story about the world competition through a message yesterday.
World War.
‘Did you say it was definitely an extension of the school competition?’
Kim Joo-hyuk, who remembered that, unlike the three major academies, the World Cup is a competition so large that it can be considered the Olympics of the contractor industry, in which academies from all over the world participate to determine rankings, a fact suddenly occurred to Kim Joo-hyuk.
‘By the way, didn’t you say you were going yesterday too?’
Kim Joo-hyuk: Didn’t we talk about that yesterday too?
Choi A-rin: (An emoticon of a cute rabbit feeling somewhat embarrassed.)
Choi A-rin: (An emoticon of a cute rabbit feeling somewhat embarrassed.)
Choi A-rin: (An emoticon of a cute rabbit feeling somewhat embarrassed.)
Kim Joo-hyuk: How far away?
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute bunny rolling its eyes strangely.)
Choi A-rin: (Emoji of a cute bunny rolling its eyes strangely.)
Kim Joo-hyuk: ?????
Arin Choi; (Emoji of a cute rabbit turning its head and saying ‘Hmph!’)
Arin Choi; (Emoji of a cute rabbit turning its head and saying ‘Hmph!’)
Kim Joo-hyuk: Send only one emoticon.
As soon as Kim Joo-hyuk sends a message like that, the read mark appears, but the emoticon no longer comes through.
Kim Joo-hyuk looked at the message for a while and tried to turn off his smartphone.
[work hard. Send it.]
“what?”
Kim Joo-hyuk asked back when Barce suddenly popped out.
[work hard. It would be better to send it like this.]
“… … suddenly?”
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[Try sending it first.]
Kim Joo-hyuk frowned slightly at Barce’s words, but manipulated the smartphone he was about to turn off and sent a message.
soon.
Kim Joo-hyuk: Work hard.
Choi A-rin: Yes! I’ll take first place!
As soon as Kim Joo-hyuk sends a word, Choi A-rin responds immediately, saying nothing.
[Whoa, look at that. Isn’t what I said right?]
Hearing Barce’s words heard at the same time, Kim Joo-hyuk asked back with an expression that asked what he was talking about.
“what?”
[Didn’t the advice I gave immediately make her feel better?]
“?”
[?]
“?”
[Ha, no matter how I think about it, I think you need to increase communication a little more.]
Barce opens his mouth when Kim Joo-hyuk makes an expression asking what kind of nonsense this is.
Kim Joo-hyuk smiled and said.
“You’re being a bit silly these days, aren’t you?”
[…] … Det?]
At Kim Joo-hyuk’s words, Barce immediately kept his mouth shut.
Like that for a while.
“Ugh, it’s done.”
Kim Joo-hyuk immediately waved his hands and spoke.
[Hmm,]
Barce cleared his throat for a moment at the sight of Kim Joo-hyuk like that, then changed the topic and opened his mouth.
[So how do you plan to check?]
“Check what?”
[Didn’t you say yesterday that you would check how much stronger you have become after absorbing Honggui’s power?]
“ah. “It was like that.”
Kim Joo-hyuk answered like that and recalled yesterday’s events.
yesterday.
Kim Joo-hyuk, who caught Hong Gui and absorbed the ‘name’ into the ring given to him by the guide, immediately absorbed the name in the ring in the way the guide told him, without any hesitation.
‘Of course, it was nice to absorb it because it was comfortable.’
Thinking like that, Kim Joo-hyuk recalled what the guide had said.
‘There are two ways to use the name on the ring. The first is to use the power of the ring to turn the name into energy and absorb it, and the other is to use the ‘name’ contained in the ring as is.’
‘As you may have guessed, there are differences between the two methods. The first method is to literally energize the name contained within through the power of the ring and absorb it into you.’
‘This method will improve your overall abilities. However, the downside is that because the created name is forcibly converted into energy and absorbed, a lot of power is lost while the name is energized.’
‘In short, it means that it cannot absorb the power of the name.’
‘Conversely, in the second case, you accept and use the name on the ring as is. In short, you will be able to use the ‘name’ ability that you stole.’
‘In this case, you can use all the power contained in the name. Just because you are using that name, the power is not lost.’
‘But the downside is that the ability of that name cannot be developed any further. No matter how much you have a name, in the end, you cannot become the ‘original person’ of that name.’
“Well, I didn’t think there would be any use for that guy’s abilities even if he had them anyway.”
For a moment, Kim Joo-hyuk recalled the guide’s words and wondered if he had Hong Gui’s name, but quickly shook his head.
In any case, that power is a power that Kim Joo-hyuk cannot use properly, and what was important to him in the first place was to regain his own power, not the power of others.
That’s why Kim Joo-hyuk absorbed the name without hesitation yesterday.
‘… … It’s so ambiguous.’
Kim Joo-hyuk couldn’t shake off the feeling of confusion.
I definitely felt like I had become stronger by absorbing energy, but the feeling was so subtle that I couldn’t tell how much strength I had returned.
‘Well, just check it out.’
That’s why Kim Joo-hyuk decided to check his own strength when Barche asked.
He thought for a moment,
‘Oh, I could try that.’
Suddenly, he remembered the force check method he had used before and immediately walked outside.
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Logan is the number one contractor and goes by the nickname ‘THE ONE’.
He was currently standing at the entrance of Valhalla Academy and receiving procedures to enter the academy.
The reason is to meet Kim Joo-hyuk.
As Kim Joo-hyuk requested, Black Cat and Adelia Bentrick captured almost all of the rumors about Kim Joo-hyuk that were spreading outside.
He even made his own request to Beck, who was watching the situation, but in the end, in response to his friend’s question, he told the story excluding the story of the contract with the ‘master behind the scenes’ that Black Cat had requested.
Needless to say, Logan, who heard that story, came to see Kim Joo-hyuk.
To be more precise, to interrogate Kim Joo-hyuk in his own way.
Of course, I knew that Kim Joo-hyuk saved his close friend Beck, and I was very grateful for that.
But regardless of that, Logan felt very suspicious of Kim Joo-hyuk.
Right now, he was feeling suspicious as to why the strangely shabby Ventrick family was suddenly protecting him.
Kim Joo-hyuk, who was clearly supposed to be at Valhalla Academy, was clearly feeling suspicious that he showed up there as soon as the Hero Academy was attacked.
And at the same time, Logan was thinking that Kim Joo-hyuk might be related to ‘them’ he was looking for.
Therefore, even though he saved Beck, Logan came here to reveal Kim Joo-hyuk’s identity, believing that there was something to him.
Soon, Logan was able to use his status as THE ONE to easily pass the entrance procedure and enter Valhalla.
And soon after, according to the information I had received in advance, I found Kim Joo-hyuk’s training room in a corner of Valhalla.
‘found.’
He was able to find Kim Joo-hyuk holding a sword outside the training room.
The moment when Logan opens his mouth.
Tsk-!
At the same time he heard a short screeching sound in his ear.
thud-! Kugggggggguk!
“!!!!”
Kim Joo-hyuk realized that the mountain he was facing had been cut.
