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“Ajusshi, wake up! Ajusshi!”
Byul approached and shook the man’s shoulders.
However, the man didn’t move.
“Ajusshi……! No, no!”
Byul blankly stared at the man’s corpse with eyes that still couldn’t believe it.
Arena approached next to her.
“Byul, this man is…………”
Byul’s voice, exhaling tightly shut breath, was trembling.
It was the first time Arena had seen Byul like this.
This American man named Oliver had been by Byul’s side ever since the time when Byul’s memories began.
Unlike the other Seven Divine Pillars, No One, the 7th Divine Pillar, did not belong to Jindal, and also didn’t go around subjugating demons personally, he was a Shinryeong who lived for Byul’s family.
She didn’t know, and wasn’t even curious about the reason why this man, and the Shinryeong that he had, were so loyal to Byul’s family.
However, what Byul knew was that this man, who had a scary impression at first glance, ate kimchi well even though he was American, liked doenjang jjigae, was fluent in Korean, was confident in front of adults but was endlessly flustered in front of children………….
Such, such・・・・
Arena quietly embraced Byul, who had lowered her head, from behind.
After a while, Byul, who had finished her short mourning, got up from her seat.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, more than that, Lena-ya, let’s investigate.”
“Investigate?”
Byul approached the corpse closely.
“This person is the one who was protecting us, whom I had mentioned. I need to know why he’s ・・・here.”
“Yeah, leave it to me!”
Arena raised her voice and approached Byul closely, following her.
Anyone could tell that she was speaking energetically on purpose.
It was quickly obvious that the hole in his stomach was a fatal wound. And…………
However, there was almost nothing that the two girls could know.
They were not experts.
They couldn’t even tell whether he had died instantly because his stomach had been pierced, or whether he had died from excessive bleeding.
“Who could have done this.”
“Jindal.”
Byul put those words into words quietly, and Arena answered.
“It’s definitely Jindal. He must have ended up like this while trying to protect us from those guys.”
“…Is that so?”
If that was true, she couldn’t forgive Jindal at all.
What wrongs have they done to have this happen to them? Of course, breaking into the prison as they pleased and taking Chayeon out was a wrong, but was that all?
Why is Seohee-sensei not contacting them.
Why is Jindal targeting Chayeon?
Even going so far as to come to an island like this and attempting a surprise attack.
“I can’t forgive them. I can’t forgive them!”
Arena’s eyes burned with anger and hatred.
Byul agreed as well.
She also couldn’t forgive the person who had killed Ajusshi.
But.
For some reason, Arena’s assertion felt somewhat uneasy.
Byul also knew well that once Arena was fixated on one thing, she couldn’t get out of that thought.
Moreover, Byul agreed that Jindal was the most suspicious in the current situation.
However, something was bothering her.
Arena too, Chayeon too, and also the people who had come from Jindal.
Looking back, they all seem somewhat frantic.
Byul, whose mind had paradoxically cleared up from the death of a person close to her, constantly ruminates.
If she just looks at each and every action, would each action be understandable if she excluded the ‘reason’?
Why would Jindal try to capture Chayeon?
After glossing over only that part, she looks back at all the situations again.
A thought came to mind.
When Arena and Byul went to find Chayeon, the guard was beating Chayeon.
It was irrational from here.
At that time, what had settled in the guard’s eyes was clearly anger and hatred.
After that, the two girls rescued Chayeon. •That’s right. We had rescued Chayeon.
Arena jumped up and down and asserted that they had to save Chayeon, and Byul had accepted that.
The two girls escaped and went to the island.
According to what Chayeon had told them, Seohee had said that she would calm the others down.
That they would ‘calm them down’.
That meant that the people from Jindal had received the news that Chayeon had escaped and had been in a state of excitement.
And Jindal had come and attempted to attack without notice.
One by one, it was understandable simply.
But the part where that led to ‘action’ was abnormal.
People don’t immediately put their thoughts into action.
But when she had gathered them like this, she received the impression that the brakes had been broken.
-Seizing fragments of emotion, maximizing those, and restricting or amplifying action.
It was the content that she would learn first in Demonology, a compulsory subject as soon as she entered the 1st grade.
The demon’s weapon that they had to be the most careful of.
Byul had never experienced mental manipulation.
But was it just her delusion that the actions of the people right now felt like they matched that explanation?
‘……There’s no way. It must be a delusion.’
It must be a delusion.
Mental manipulation is not a panacea.
First, the target must feel a certain ’emotion’, and then they can maximize that emotion and dig into it.
If they feel fear, then they dig into the fear, and if they feel love, then they dig into the love.
For example, even if a demon was casting mental manipulation, if the target was feeling wary of the demon, it was impossible to change that wariness into intimacy, stability, or fondness.
Humanoid demons often had outstanding appearances, or conversely scary appearances.
Because if they could capture even a trace of fondness from their appearance, they could amplify that.
In the past, she had heard that some demons were able to use ‘Bewitchment’, the final stage of this kind of mental manipulation.
Because of that, the most important thing when an Ineungnyeokja faced a demon was composure.
Don’t listen to the demon’s words, and don’t be captivated by that appearance.
They also mustn’t be intimidated by the atmosphere.
That was the basic stance for facing a demon.
There’s no way that Jindal’s top-notch Ineungnyeokja wouldn’t know these facts.
They were masters of dealing with demons.
According to Byul’s delusion that had flashed through her mind, if the series of results leading from the excess of emotion to action was someone’s prank.
-Chayeon, Arena, and perhaps Byul herself and Jindal’s numerous Ineungnyeokja had come into contact with ‘a certain existence’ and had been hit by mental manipulation.
That’s the kind of story it would be.
So subtly that they wouldn’t even notice it themselves.
Moreover, if that was true, this wasn’t the kind of thing that they were hit by for a moment when facing a demon.
By seizing the appropriate emotions in advance so that the situation would lead to this point, they were amplifying those and leading it so that a synergy effect would occur.
That’s impossible.
If there was an existence who could do such a thing, she would have to call them a god.
Byul, who had thought of a delusion that didn’t even reach the level of a hypothesis in that brief moment, shook her head.
In the end, she couldn’t know anything if she didn’t know why Jindal was chasing Chayeon.
“Uh…?”
Arena’s voice scattered Byul’s thoughts.
Arena was sitting in front of the corpse and carefully picking up something.
“This……..”
Arena’s voice was trembling.
Feeling that something was unusual, Byul quickly confirmed what Arena was holding in her hand.
It was a strand of hair.
A slender and long black strand of hair that had the white snow as its background was reflecting the light.
She might not know when looking at it at a glance, but she could see it if she looked closely.
That it was becoming red as it went down.
“Uh?”
Byul also made such a sound without realizing it.
There was only one person who had this color of hair on this island right now.
The one whom the two girls knew well, the one whom they had been with for the past two months, the one whom they were looking for.
-Chayeon, Arena, Byul, Seohee, and the people who had been dispatched from Jindal and were chasing Chayeon. If there was a person who had come into contact with these people in common, who would it be?
The thoughts that had been cut off came up again.
-It’s obvious. It’s too easy of a problem. The current incident is revolving around Chayeon. Then…..
“No!”
At Arena’s loud voice, Byul’s thoughts scattered and flew away like dandelion seeds.
“Huh?”
“No, it’s not!”
Arena grabbed Byul’s shoulders tightly and made her turn around.
Golden eyes were looking straight at Byul.
As if she knew all of what Byul had been thinking,
“There’s no way that’s it! It’s not!”
She said that.
Because that gaze was so upright, Byul came to her senses.
“…Yeah, there’s no way that’s it.”
What am I thinking right now.
To suspect Chayeon-ssi just because a strand of hair had fallen.
“But at least Chayeon-ssi came and went here.”
That must be the reasonable conclusion.
Arena also nodded in agreement at those words.
The two girls, who had been following Chayeon’s traces, eventually discovered that only one part of the trees surrounding the clearing had been strangely dented or broken above the trunk.
It was as if someone had used the trees as stepping stones to move forward.
“Let’s follow them!”
Contrary to when they had come, Arena took the lead, and the two entered the forest again following the traces of the trees.
It was purely a coincidence that they had found Chayeon’s hair again in this wide forest.
“This!?”
“Yeah.”
It seemed certain that Chayeon had headed this way at least.
Perhaps she had been moving like a ninja while stepping on the trees.
It was an unrealistic imagination, but it seemed plausible when she put Chayeon in her imagination.
“There’s something over there!”
Arena discovered something and started running out.
Byul also quickly followed behind her.
And,
Byul frowned, and Arena was blankly staring for a while before covering her mouth.
It was a scene that was much more horrific than the corpses they had seen just a moment ago.
There were a total of eight corpses.
What was terrible were five of them, their entire bodies had been chopped to pieces and had become fragments and their flesh and organs were all exposed and scattered.
There was also one without a head.
Byul, who had counted the number of arms and legs as soon as she saw them, and otherwise she wouldn’t have realized that there were five corpses, if she just looked at them, it was just a list of fragmented human bodies.
The remaining three corpses were much more intact, but they all looked bizarre.
Two women and one man.
Even though they were corpses, the faces of the two women were so beautiful that she had stared at them without realizing it.
And on the man’s side, he had only one eye in the middle of his forehead.
Only one eye?
“These are….”
“Demons.”
Byul nodded at Arena’s words.
It was highly likely that the three people whose corpses were relatively intact were demons.
She couldn’t judge because the remaining five were so torn apart that she couldn’t recognize their original appearance at all.
“Why are the demons here!?”
“Perhaps a rift has been created.”
She had a thought that perhaps Ajusshi had been murdered by the demons.
Arena, who had been blocking her nose and walking between the corpses, suddenly widened her eyes and stopped.
“No, no way….”
“It’s not, Lena-ya.”
Byul took the initiative before misunderstandings could grow.
“Chayeon-ssi isn’t in here. Her height doesn’t match.”
“I see.”
Arena, who was relieved, finally began to breathe easily again.
“Could Chayeon have defeated the demons that are here?”
“It could be, or perhaps they fought each other and were all annihilated.”
Or a third existence had killed all of them and ran away.
She had such a thought, but she didn’t put it into words.
“For now, let’s keep moving forward.”
“Yeah.”
They came to a conclusion and began to move their steps again.
Right after that,
The ‘change’ was made in an instant.
It was night.
The surroundings had become dark before she knew it.
“What is this?”
“……Ah, ah……..”
“Arena, what’s wrong?”
What was even stranger was Lena’s reaction.
She suddenly began to tremble.
“Arena, what’s wrong, what’s wrong, Lena-ya?”
“No, no way. No. No…………that was dead, Chayeon definitely…………”
And,
Clang clang-
The metallic sound that followed.
“Arena, what’s wrong! Arena!”
“…N, nothing, A, ah……..”
Now, Lena was trembling fiercely, hugging her body with both arms to the point that it was hard to watch with her eyes open.
“Araa~? Who is this. Lena-yaa! Long time no seee!”
A bad feeling voice was heard.
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