92. Spacious(7)

A bus with few people.

“Where are we going?”

“It is a forest where monsters appear.”

“Yes? No, why do you go to such a place?”

I adequately explained the current situation.

Suddenly, monstrous phenomena have occurred all over the city, and since they know the cause, they say they are going to solve it.

“I called because I need your help.”

“I wonder what kind of help you want in detail.”

“I need your superpowers.”

“…… What is my ability?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t have this ability.”

“What?”

Yoo Yeo-han had a face that he sincerely did not know.

My head was complicated by the sudden news.

Strange. There’s no way there isn’t?

Even with his powers of observation, he still had the ability.

I thought about the situation for a while.

And soon, I realized that I was stupid.

“······· Ah.”

Why did I think that ‘Yu Yeo-han’ would know?

Yu Yeo-han has yet to awaken his ability.

You shouldn’t conclude that the novel doesn’t have clear descriptions.

Come to think of it, Yoo Yeo-han didn’t wear a ‘bracelet’ even at the research institute.

“······Still, let’s go.”

Even if you don’t have the ability, you won’t be in danger.

The place itself is dangerous, but I will definitely protect it.

If an emergency quest occurs, he will be brought out immediately.

So, you should pray for awakening with just the ‘situation’.

“It looks like I will become a competent person in the future.”

“Right, smart?”

I actively chimed in.

I can never say that I will become a monster.

“Can I ask what kind of ability it is?”

“There is nothing difficult.”

Yoo Yeo-han’s ability is simply a ‘debuff’.

An ability that weakens the opponent it touches.

“The person you touch becomes weak.”

“······It’s not a very great ability.”

“Well, I think it’s very fraudulent.”

In the original version, the monster king gave Yoo Yeo-han half of his abilities.

Half.

It means that it is not an exact ‘half’.

Of course, the monster king possessed more power.

No matter how much he did something like a hukou, he had prepared himself for the King of Monsters.

A weak but clear difference in power.

Even the difference in experience.

You must have thought that even if a battle broke out, we would never lose.

In reality, that fight is a structure that Yoo Yeo-han can never win.

Nevertheless, it was thanks to ‘weakening’ that we were able to win.

“Let’s assume you cast your ability on an ordinary person, that person can’t walk on their own. The moment you stand up straight, your legs will be crushed.”

The reason Yoo Yeo-han, who has become as weak as he is about to become weak, was able to kill three researchers was also thanks to this ability.

There is a limit to ‘touch to activate’, but in fact, it’s not that big of a limit.

“I have that ability…”

Took.

Yoo Yeo-han put his hand on my shoulder.

I got goosebumps at the moment and hurriedly removed my body.

“·······What are you doing?”

“I tested it to see if it worked or not.”

“What, ability? To me?”

“Yes, I heard you won’t die anyway.”

Imposing attitude.

Anyway, it’s a bit sad to be treated like this by a benefactor.

“Who said that I won’t die?”

“This is Joo Hyun-ah.”

Is she that woman again?

Decided. There is no breakfast for Joo Hyun-ah for a week.

“Hmm, you’re taking it more seriously than I thought.”

“Of course not. If I die now, I won’t be able to live.”

“Oh, I mean it was a joke.”

“Huh?”

“Just kidding.”

I doubted my ears.

Are you kidding?

A joke?

That blunt Yoo Yeo-han, playing a joke?

“So, you mean you played a prank on me?”

“Yes.”

Yoo Yeo-han, who was talking calmly, added a word.

“I just put my hand on it once. Don’t worry, she didn’t even think of using her powers.”

I’m at a loss for words.

Who would take a prank so seriously?

······Thinking about it again, maybe it wasn’t that serious.

No, even so, how do you know it’s a joke if you joke around with an expressionless expression?

“Next time, don’t joke around like this.”

Yoo Yeo-han tilted her head and replied.

“Okay.”

“Yes.”

I’m happy that we’ve grown to the extent of playing around with each other, but seeing this messed up sociality, I’m worried again.

She definitely won’t be able to make friends.

“I can see the forest. Are you there?”

Yoo Yeo-han pointed at something far away.

When I followed with my eyes, there really was that forest.

“Right. You can get off at the next stop.”

Saying that, I glanced at Yoo Yeo-han.

Leisurely sitting in a window seat and watching the outside.

“He doesn’t say much.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I mean taking you out. He’s someone I don’t trust, so can I follow him like this?”

“Yes.”

Yoo Yeo-han said while still looking out the window.

“You won’t harm me. After two weeks, I became convinced.”

“You still don’t believe me?”

“That’s a different matter. It’s my problem too. You don’t have to worry too much.”

“I feel sad.”

“Don’t be too sad. For the time being, I plan to follow your request unconditionally. Oh, except for breaking promises.”

Anything.

It was quite a tempting story.

Every day I thought about how to convince him to fight the monster king, but now I don’t have to.

“Does it really listen to anything?”

“・・・・・・I won’t do anything strange.”

What a strange thing.

What do you see people as?

“I won’t let you do that.”

“Yes, I believe you.”

I didn’t clearly call it ‘something’, but something was very unfair.

But if I make excuses here, I feel like I’m the only one who gets weirder, so I just stayed still.

After a while, the bus announced the next stop.

Since we were supposed to get off, we rang the bell.

I got off immediately and walked another 10 minutes to reach the river the other day.

“Your expression is wet with reminiscence. Do you have any good memories here?”

“Not good memories…”

To put it bluntly, it’s a difficult memory.

“I met the bomb horse here.”

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“…A bomb?”

“Yes.”

“You lived a truly spectacular life.”

“Isn’t that a compliment?”

Now we have to cross this river.

The last time I came, a monster took me across. He was a strange man who walked on water.

“But how do I get over it?”

“There are ways.”

[ Summon the Artifact, ‘Iceberg’. ]

[ Activates the special option of the artifact, ‘Iceberg’. ]

I changed the range of special options head-on.

The cold air shot in a straight line froze the river, and after confirming that it was hard enough for a person to climb, I walked on it.

“… In a way I could not have imagined.”

“I also remembered it while playing a game.”

As a result of walking as fast as I could, I was able to cross the river halfway.

“Now what?”

“Stay there.”

I put the iceberg back and lifted Yoo Yeohan.

“What are you doing?”

Surprisingly calm and relaxed.

“I will cross like this.”

“So, how can I…”

[Use the skill, ‘Burning’. ]

Using the accumulated reinforcement rights, the Burning proficiency increased to 50%.

All other skills are 50%.

Even after this, the reinforcement rights remained, and they were left behind.

I plan to make the appropriate skills 100% when needed later.

“Hold tight.”

Giving strength to his legs, he vigorously stepped on the ice to leap.

The ice floor shattered and my body floated into the sky.

“·······.”

The wind brushes through my body.

It felt like flying in the real sky.

However, the time in the sky is short. Starts to fall right away.

I fell more than twice as fast as before, and I could feel Yoo Yeo-han’s grip on me getting stronger.

Koo!

We landed safely on the other side of the river.

My leg was slightly numb, but not enough to cause a problem.

“Are you okay?”

I dropped off a spare one.

“·······.”

“Yeohanah?”

“·······.”

“Are you comfortable?”

“Woo-woo-wook…”

Yoo Yeo-han shook me off and ran to the riverside and vomited up.

“It’s an experience I don’t want to do again. Please treat me with some respect.”

“Uh… I’m sorry.”

Yoo Yeo-han, who spoke much more seriously and resolutely than usual, vomited once again.

“Ugh… Do you have any water?”

“Yes.”

I always took out the water that I always brought with me to subspace and handed it to me.

Yoo Yeo-han got some water and rinsed his mouth.

“······I didn’t know it would really exist. Where did you get it from?”

“Subspace.”

“How many abilities do you have?”

“Wait. First of all, with subspace, burning, copying, bluffing, resurrection, artifact summoning, coercion, power of observation, again…”

“All right. We’ll do it there.”

“Not yet. There is still a long way to go before synchronization.”

“It would be nice to go even further. Wasn’t it more urgent than that? Let’s start quickly.”

I nodded and went into the woods.

There are two things I learned while being kidnapped the other day.

The first is that there are no monsters at the entrance to the forest. You have to walk at least 100 meters to see the monster from there.

The second is that everything really has become a monster. At the time I proposed the bet, I didn’t touch me because I was a ‘guest of the monster king’, but this time it’s different.

They won’t welcome me when I visit them recklessly.

“Something spooky.”

“Sure.”

It was an atmosphere that seemed like a ghost would come out.

Although monsters actually appear.

“If you stay behind me, you will be safe.”

“・・・・・・Keep in mind.”

The more I walked, the more the scenery around me changed dramatically.

Originally green leaves turn into ominous purple leaves.

A tree that grew tall right away and a root that pierced the earth from below.

The tree’s pattern, as if it had a face on it, was staring at us.

“······Yuhyeon?”

“Yes.”

“That’s not what I think it is,”

“It must be right.”

The second fact to review at this point.

This place really has become a monster of all sorts of things.

Wow.

Wow.

The same goes for that tree.

“Why did you bring me here?”

“Yeah, I shouldn’t have come.”

I will correct it.

It is not a tree.

Trees are ‘fields’.

“Remember? Stay right behind me.”

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