Chapter 44: Hexennacht (3).

With both hands gripping the sword set up, her hands tingled.

Chayeon quickly looked around while tightly gripping the hilt with both hands.

What happened?

Where’s Arena?

As the snowflakes scattered by the impact of the explosion subsided, Chayeon’s vision captured the surrounding circumstances.

Dozens, no, more than a hundred people.

Unknown men and women, who I don’t know where they came from, were surrounding them.

Various genders, various age groups.

When Chayeon saw familiar faces here and there, she was sure who they were.

It’s Jindal.

“Let go of this!”

A shrill scream rang in her ear.

A large man was restraining Arena from behind with his brutal hands, twisting her arms behind her back.

-That son of a b*tch!

Black energy was condensed and spread around Chayeon.

As she swung her sword, the claw-shaped image of a black beast appeared accordingly and swept around.

Spreading overwhelming pressure to the point that several Ineungnyeokja in front of it couldn’t even collect themselves and were pushed back, Chayeon ran towards Arena.

However, a long and sleek leg flying in from the side blocked her charge.

A shockwave spread from the point where the black energy and the leg collided.

The trees were shaking due to the strong wind that was spreading.

<<Is that Wolmyo! The situation isn’t good.>>

Heukgu murmured, but it didn’t reach Chayeon’s ears.

Once again, she swung her sword with all her strength.

However, the woman in front of her blocked the blade, especially a blade with the power of Heukgumiho infused in it, with just her bare legs.

“Get out of my way!!”

<<Chayeon, get out of here for now. There are too many of them.>>

Heukgu advised Chayeon when a lull came after the exchanges were made.

At the same time, the scene beyond Wolmyo’s back came into Chayeon’s eyes.

A woman was approaching Arena.

It was a skinny woman whom she was seeing for the first time.

The woman stood in front of the struggling Arena and looked into her eyes.

At that moment, the light disappeared from Arena’s eyes.

Her struggles subsided, and she could see the strength leaving her body.

“What are you doing to Arena!”

Chayeon charged again, holding her sword again.

The movements she had shown in the Ranking Match were slow compared to it, and she flew towards Arena quickly and precisely.

However, Chayeon’s movements were repeatedly blocked by Wolmyo.

“….? You…?”

“Arena!!!”

<<Calm down!>>

Chayeon screamed and swung her sword wildly.

Wolmyo, who was blocking Chayeon, was just blocking Chayeon’s attacks without any expression.

In order to move forward, she took a step forward. And at the same time,

“Ugh!”

Chayeon’s legs were magically frozen solid.

Before Chayeon could take any action, another woman, who had popped out from the side, swung the hammer in her hand towards Chayeon’s ribs.

Crash!

“Cough!”

Chayeon’s body collapsed on the spot.

At the same time, a flame that flew by grazed Chayeon’s ears.

The electricity that couldn’t be avoided was shot into Chayeon’s face the moment it came into her sight.

Chayeon’s body trembled from the electric shock.

“Uwa,a,a,a,a.”

<<This is too much, too many.>>

Attacks from top-notch Ineungnyeokja, including the Seven Divine Pillars, who had been training for over decades, were constantly poured down to suppress only Chayeon.

It hurts.

It’s painful.

It feels like I’m going to die.

Beyond her blurring vision, Arena’s appearance and Byul’s appearance far away came into view at once again.

The two of them were slumped over and were being dragged somewhere.

The memories she wanted to forget came back.

A dark prison relying only on dim incandescent light, a large fist coming towards Chayeon, who was unable to do anything and was cowering, and kicking.

With her abilities sealed, even if she begged to stop, to stop, the violence, fear, and powerlessness that enveloped her whole body didn’t stop.

Those two kids, Arena, must not experience such a thing.

I can’t leave it like that.

“Uaaaaa!”

“Kh, what power!”

Around Chayeon, who was roaring, black energy explosively spread once again.

<<We somehow got out. Chayeon, retreat right now!>>

One step, she took another step.

<<Chayeon, it’s impossible to save those kids right now.>>

She leaps.

<<Regain your reason!>>

To Arena, to Arena who still has nightmares and wakes up crying sometimes, to her who acts like she’s okay with all her strength even while coming out with her eyes bloodshot, I can’t let her have that experience again.

Such a scary thing, I can’t let such a young and tender child experience it.

“Get out of my way!!”

<<I can’t help it. I’ll borrow you for a moment.>>

At that moment, sensation disappeared from Chayeon’s body.

Starting from the tips of her hands and the tips of her feet, the sensation that was as if she was getting local anesthesia ran towards the center of her body and her head.

The body that had lost its sensation broke free from Chayeon’s control.

“I’ll apologize later.”

Heukgu, borrowing Chayeon’s mouth, said that and leaped from the spot.

Black energy was abundantly scattered and devastated the surroundings.

“Attack all at once!”

Along with such a sound, the Ineungnyeokja in the area began to pour out their abilities respectively.

Ineungnyeokja with various abilities, such as elemental, telekinetic, spatial domination, and physical enhancement, were all pouring out their best towards Chayeon all at once.

While dodging or deflecting all those attacks here and there, Chayeon leaped backward.

Yeonkyung, who had come out from the inside, had only just discovered that sight.

“…Huh?”

Seeing the energy that Chayeon was scattering, she widened her eyes as if she couldn’t believe it.

From the inside, she heard Yggdrasil’s voice.

Words of Yggdrasil that she didn’t understand, that she couldn’t understand.

“…Kang-sensei?”

“Yes!”

Yoona, who had misunderstood the meaning of Yeonkyung’s call, looked at Chayeon with her eyes shining.

Red eyes like Chayeon’s looked at each other.

Yoona’s mental domination dug inside through Chayeon’s eyes.

“What power someone had given you, you foolish fellow!”

Chayeon scoffed and leisurely left that spot.

“…Huh?”

Yoona, who was flustered because her abilities didn’t work.

“Mental domination doesn’t work!”

“You, are you saying that you suppressed it?”

“No, no! That’s not………”

Yoona hurriedly denied Yeonkyung’s words.

Her eyes were filled with confusion.

“Kang-sensei?”

“It’s not that I suppressed it, it just doesn’t work at all……… that kind of………”

Yoona’s eyes were shaking with bewilderment.

Yoona’s words were giving strength to what Yeonkyung had felt and what Yggdrasil had conveyed.

Even though so many Ineungnyeokja rushed at her, Chayeon eventually succeeded in getting away from the spot.

If it was normal, she would have suspected that he was a powerful adversary, a powerful demon who threatened Baekgumiho and had put mental manipulation on Seohee.

An existence that had come since a year ago.

At the same time, she would have thought that he might be the owner of the name that came out of Uroboros’s mouth.

However,

Yeonkyung was confused.

“Kang-sensei, follow me right away.”

“Yes?”

“We need to check the students’ minds.”

Yeonkyung and Yoona entered the mansion.

A place where traces of life could be seen.

It was presumed that Jeon Chayeon had been living with the two students here, although she didn’t know what the purpose was.

The two approached Arena and Byul, who were leaning against the wall and slumped over, having lost the initiative of their minds.

“How is it?”

“…It’s on one of them. The other one is….”

Saying that, Yoona shook her head. Her eyes were also full of confusion.

What on earth is this?

The same thing that was on Seohee was only on one student. Why?

Did Jeon Chayeon put it on them?

But it was strange.

Yggdrasil, who saw Chayeon exerting power in front of her eyes for the first time, was constantly saying.

That Jeon Chayeon, is Heukgumiho.

I’m sorry for only realizing it now.

That, is not a demon but the king of our Shinryeong.

It was impossible.

Because Heukgumiho is in Jindal right now.

The twins whom Yeonkyung also knew well were Heukgumiho.

Because Yggdrasil had directly confirmed it a year ago.

Yggdrasil was refuting those words.

What is it? What on earth is going on?

“Director, what should we do with these two students?”

Kang Yoona asked back.

“…For now, put them in a room.”

She can’t open the heads of the children. It was different from Seohee’s case.

In Seohee’s case, there was a high probability that ‘Seohee’ ‘wanted’ it.

But, black nine-tailed fox (Heukgumiho) is felt from Jeon Chayeon.

She was confused.

What on earth is going on?

“Yeonkyung.”

The woman who had faced Chayeon, Wolmyo, approached Yeonkyung silently.

The chinadoll dress that revealed her body was torn here and there with traces of battle.

“Did you feel it?”

“……You too?”

At Yeonkyung’s question, Wolmyo nodded silently.

The two Seven Divine Pillars had confirmed it.

That there is Heukgumiho inside Chayeon.

If so, what are the twins in Jindal right now……?

“Kang-sensei, contact Jindal right now and find out the whereabouts of Melara and Meridi.”

Long ago, Yeonkyung had heard a story from her grandmother.

A situation similar to now. The terrible crisis that Jindal had experienced because of it.

But they had died back then.

By none other than Yggdrasil’s hand.

Priority is given to grasping the situation.

Yeonkyung instructed the Ineungnyeokja who were chasing Chayeon.

“Stop all attacks on Jeon Chayeon. Make the search the top priority, but prohibit attacks. Hurry and bring her here!”