chapter 16
After I laid the fainting Yoo Hyeon-hwa on the floor, my legs gave out and I sat down… .
“Oh, hot!”
Surprised by the heated ground temperature, I woke up again.
The floor is heated to the level of a stone plate at a meat restaurant.
“What, the floor… Kakkakkak.”
Mouth was dry.
I turn my head left and right to find the vending machine.
On the left, the three of them were still fighting, and on the right… .
‘what!’
Suddenly a person flew in.
I threw myself to avoid the person who had bounced off me like a cannon ball.
My shoulders and back felt hot as they touched the heated floor.
‘Who flew in?’
The face of the person who flew in is something I don’t know.
However, it was possible to know that he was a senior in the second year through the color of his tie.
He must have been one of the sophomores who were called in for the role of disrupting the orientation of the new students.
If there are people who flew, there will be people who blew it.
I could see Namgung-Ik holding a shield with an ignorant look that he would have to hold with both hands, one in each hand, and lightly wielding it.
At his feet, two seniors in the second year were lying down, and one was about to be blown away by a shield.
“… … .”
Namgung-ik did not even look at the seniors he had just defeated, and continued to watch the fight while sitting on his shield like a mat.
I walked toward the vending machine, being careful not to step on the second-year seniors.
slap- slap-
I thought the shoe was making a strange noise, so I checked it, and the sole of the shoe was melted.
Fortunately, the school uniform is intact.
It’s a bit scorched and dirty, but there’s no problem wearing it around.
I couldn’t take off my shoes, so I stood in front of the vending machine with them on.
As long as the soles of your shoes cool down, they will harden on their own.
-Dragon Breath Coffee
12 million Scoville! Challenge the best spicy taste!
Wouldn’t it be carried away if I ate it in its current state?
Instead of coffee with a dragon drawing, he took five cans of an ion drink with a picture of a beach and shot three cans on the spot.
“Kuh!”
After all, ionic drinks to quench thirst.
My sore throat has gotten a little better.
The symptoms of dehydration have not completely disappeared, but it will take time for the body to absorb the ion drink.
‘Other than that, it doesn’t sting, but this feels strange.’
My skin is hot and my palms are numb.
Large blisters on the knuckles of the fingers are second-degree burns, no matter how small they are.
Still, I want something that stops in the palm of my hand.
If I hadn’t opened the second door, I might have walked around with bandages all over my body like a mummy.
“Ehh.”
You can see Yoo Hyeon-hwa lying on the floor and trying to sleep.
As if the heated floor wasn’t too hot, he was sleeping with a peaceful face.
‘Why did he suddenly jump over the limit?’
The reason why my head is pounding is not only because of heat stroke.
An unexpected turn of events thwarted my plans a bit.
‘Still, it’s still within my expectations.
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Justifying myself like that, I went up to Namgungik’s side with two cans of ionic beverage.
“Do you want a drink?”
nod-
This time, he responded with silence instead.
“Can I sit down?”
“yes.”
It was such a voice.
A deep, low-pitched voice that seemed to come from inside a cave.
I used Namgungik’s shield as a chair and sat down next to him.
‘The floor is hot here too.’
The aftermath of the fire seems to have affected this place.
Did Namgoong-Ik also sit down with a shield on because of that?
His gaze continued to be directed at the four men in the fight.
“Which one do you think will win?”
Suddenly, I was curious about his opinion, so I asked.
I know the whereabouts of the match.
There is a possibility that the country will face a different ending due to variables, but watching the fight, it doesn’t seem to be very different.
“there.”
Shin Seong-ah was standing at the tip of Namgung-ik’s finger.
A torrent of mana swirling around her.
It seemed that a great storm was walking around in the form of a man.
3 to 1.
Numerical superiority is a factor that cannot be safely saved, but it needs its own efforts to properly save it.
It wasn’t a situation where they were dragging each other’s ankles, but that didn’t mean the three of them fit together like one person.
Eve Ataraxia, Ben Gibrawler, and Han So-yul.
All three of them are people who do their part.
As can be seen from the admission score. He is the owner of skills and talents that count from above.
However, the divine child is of a different class.
A genius that comes once in a thousand years.
Because it was Shin Seong-ah who declared that the self-respecting Chun Yu-ran was a genius with talents surpassing her own.
“Looks like the end is coming soon.”
“yes.”
Shin Seong-a’s fist, wrapped in mana to the point of being ignorant, swung.
Ben Gibraltar held out his shield to block the fist.
Chiiing!!
A strange roar that could not have been thought of as a fist and a shield colliding hit the lobe of the ear.
At the same time as the sound, Ben Gibraltar’s body flew through the air.
There was not a scratch on the shield, but the person behind it did not.
Ben Gibraltar’s body flew dozens of meters and crashed into a vending machine.
“If I had been a little late, I would have been unable to buy a drink.”
The vending machine was so distorted that its original shape could not be recognized.
It was a fight that was barely maintained as the three clung to each other.
One of them, Ben Gibraltar, who was holding Shin Seong-ah’s feet from the front, collapsed.
It was only for a moment that the balance of the match, which had been maintained at a close, collapsed.
“Kyaak!”
Shin Seong-ah’s new model disappeared, and by the time he chased it again, Han So-yul had already collapsed.
The moment her new type disappears once again.
I gave up chasing her figure and turned my gaze to Eve Ataraxia.
“Ugh… .”
and that moment.
her body was collapsing.
<Shin Sung-ah VS Eve Ataraxia, Ben Gibrawler, Han So-yul>
– Shin Seong-ah wins
Even though it was a 3-to-1 battle, it was Shin Seong-ah who won the victory.
However, if Ben Gibraltar had endured Shin Sung-ah’s fist, the ending might have come out a little differently.
‘Above all, all three of them didn’t use all their power.’
Ben Gibraltar only used a shield to play the role of a tanker, holding Shin’s feet.
Han So-yul only used a whip created with magic as a weapon, and did not use any reagents.
Eve Ataraxia only shot arrows of magic from a distance.
If the three of them revealed all their strength… It was a situation where even Shin Sung-ah could not guarantee a certain victory.
‘It’s more strange to reveal one’s strength only during the orientation.’
Not to mention transcending limits while fighting.
Shin Seong-ah also didn’t show all of her strength, but the difference between ‘not like that’ and ‘not like that’ is huge.
Shin Seong-ah came to talk to me while trimming the clothes that had been disheveled from fighting.
“You two weren’t waiting to fight, were you?”
Then she came out and looked at Namgung-ik with puzzled eyes.
Dori Dori-
Namgoong-ik shook his head from side to side and expressed his intention to deny it.
Instead of answering, I threw the ion drink I was holding.
I’m sorry it’s not Dragon Breath coffee, but I hope you’ll be satisfied with an ion drink.
Do you think the balance in my bank account is five figures by now? Can you get four seats?
“It’s lukewarm.”
“At least I left the coolest one.”
“okay?”
Shin Seong-ah approached, sipping an ion drink.
As she approached, Namgung-Ik’s face hardened like a stone statue.
It occurred to me that Namgung-ik did not have a quiet and reticent personality, but that he was just being shy.
“Can I sit down too?”
nodding-
Instead of answering, Namgung-ik shook his head up and down.
“It’s good because it’s moderately warm.”
Shin Seong-ah, sitting on the tower shield with a sigh, looked quite tired.
The amount of mana that Sacred Child can use is close to infinite, but her mental strength needed to draw it out is finite.
Shin Seong-ah’s gaze led to the sophomores lying on the floor and Yoo Hyeon-hwa lying far away.
“They are both strong.”
Apart from me, it is true that Namgoong-Ik is strong.
If only I hadn’t shed a drop of sweat while dealing with four seniors in the second year… Wouldn’t it be a bad fight even if you fight Yoo Hyeon-hwa, who has just transcended the limit?
It was probably a strength that was within five fingers throughout the first and second years, as long as it was limited to person-to-person battles.
Shin Sung-ah came out and observed Namgung-ik’s appearance, then opened her mouth again.
“Steel with lightning… .”
Shin Seong-ah’s gaze reached Namgung-ik.
Namgoong-Ik turned his head away, as if the gaze was too burdensome.
“Silent flapping of wings?”
Then, his gaze turned to me.
The divine child can read the flow of mana and visualize it.
It is an ability often referred to as ‘synthesia’.
“I’ve never seen a person with such a quiet flow of mana.”
Should I take that as a compliment?
‘Silent fluttering of wings’ is an expression that reminds me of my characteristic, ‘poetry of the jackdaw’.
“I thought it was amazing that the amount of mana was so small that I didn’t think it was the second place in the entrance exam. After all, practice is different.”
As expected Shin Seong-ah, your eyesight is excellent.
I was lucky enough to be second in the admissions table, but I am weaker than anyone else here.
Defeating Yoo Hyeon-hwa was only possible because he induced her to self-destruct.
If I had been in that fire pit for one more minute, I would have collapsed first from dehydration and heat exhaustion.
“So I’m glad. I don’t think I’ll be able to control my strength if I deal with two people in my current state.”
“… … .”
The power possessed by the divine child is close to infinite, but power that is too strong can destroy the body of the person who possesses it.
That’s why she learned to control her powers from a very young age.
Be sure to iron it so that it can be done not only during fights, but also during daily life and while sleeping.
‘If that’s the case… .’
It seems you are more tired than you think.
Come to think of it, was this her first real fight?
Fighting with people may itself be a mental burden for her.
‘The incident in which Shin Seong-ah gave up control of her strength and went wild was definitely something that happened in the first semester of her second year.’
I don’t want to hasten the tragedy of that event by a year and a half.
I’m still disturbed by Yoo Hyeon-hwa, who suddenly crossed the limit, but even Shin Sung-ah… I might go really crazy.
“Cut out your emotions.”
… I can’t do anything about this guy’s anxiety disorder.
Everything is hypothetical, nothing has happened yet.
I don’t know if I should make something like Woohwangcheongsimhwan, a tranquilizer that is more effective than other elixirs.
Of course, I don’t know how to make it, so I’ll have to find someone to make it first.
“Then shall we go?”
To withstand the heat, he spent a considerable amount of mana on strengthening his body.
I’m about to lie down here and ask for a nap, but orientation has just begun.
Of course, I couldn’t collect even one stamp.
“Where?”
“Of course I have to go get this.”
I unfolded the map I had folded in my arms and fluttered about.
The tip of the hair is slightly tanned, but it is good enough.
If this was ordinary paper, it would not have been able to withstand the heat and would have burned.
“Oh right!”
Shin Sung-ah seemed to have forgotten for a while that it was during orientation.
She rummaged through the pockets of her school uniform for a map, but couldn’t find it.
“Maybe I dropped it while fighting… ?”
Namgoong-Ik and I helped her find the map.
Soon after, I was able to find Shin Seong-ah’s map lying on the floor.
The one I found was Namgoong Ik.
“uh?”
Shin Seong-ah received the map from Namgung-ik and checked its condition.
There was a large hole in the middle of the map that appeared to have been caused by Eve Ataraxia’s magic arrow.
“Wouldn’t this work?”
Namgung-Ik and I shook our heads from side to side.
If the map is damaged that badly, you will be eliminated.
It’s good that you read the warnings in advance.
If it wasn’t for that, I might have fallen out like this.
“Then this… ?”
Shin Seong-ah searched for Han So-yul, who had fallen unconscious, and took out her map and asked.
“There is a cautionary note that says, ‘Only the maps that have been provided to you are accepted.’ I don’t think so.”
“Then am I also eliminated?”
I wonder if the contradictory expression ‘won but lost’ is used in this case.
I knew it would turn out like this, but… Seeing her disintegrate, a small emotion similar to guilt creeps into her face.
-Take good care of the map.
If she had given this short piece of advice, Shin Sung-ah would not have been eliminated.
If so, she would be the first to complete the stamp tour by collecting five stamps.
That’s why I didn’t advise.
… I decided not to do that.
– Twist the original.
– Do not twist.
And, I still have to decide.