06. Midterm (13)

Late night. Late night

Kim Yi-jin suddenly woke up on the bed in her own room.

She slowly gets up and looks around the dark room. She then smiled and brushed her messy bangs up.

“Finally, it’s my time.”

It is the body of Kim Yi-jin, but the arrogant expression and eyes that are not like Kim Yi-jin.

He was Certatus.

Several weeks have passed since Kim Yi-jin signed a contract to lend her body to Kertatus once a day, for an hour at midnight.

In the meantime, Kertatus… Surprisingly, he was very quiet.

Every night, when it was time to hand over the body according to the contract, he quietly stayed in his room, engrossed in gathering information about the other world, as if to make the most of the time given to him.

In other words, I read the book.

When Kertatus first started reading in the room, Kim Yi-jin was stunned. Because he was never the image he had seen so far.

A reading devil? Of course, there are many demons in the world, so I don’t know where there might be a demon who likes to read, but at least the Certatus that Kim Yi-jin had seen wasn’t like that.

The sight of him seriously engrossed in reading, who only knew how to run rampant and ruinous, was a rare and genuinely surprising appearance of Kim Yi-jin, who is always calm and rational.

Of course, Kertatus had a good reason.

For the devil, a contract is an absolute rule. Even if you are an arrogant Certatus, who regards not even humans as mere worms and only cares about himself in everything, since you are born as a demon, it is impossible to even break the contract you have entered into without the mutual consent of the other party.

Even if the contract was entered into unintentionally, if you poke a loophole in the contract or trick the contractor into breaking the contract yourself, the act of stepping out and failing to fulfill the contract is tantamount to dishonoring one’s reputation.

Of course, there were things he had done in the past, such as stealing his body and rambling in other people’s houses, so Kim Yi-jin was suspicious and wary at first, wanting to know what tricks this guy would do.

But it is also true that it is boring to watch Kertatus quietly read a book every day without making any attempt to leave the room. What is it like to ask for a new book from the library just because you’ve read all the books in the room? It was a refreshing shock.

Kim Yi-jin had good writing grades, but he was far from self-study. He is the type to focus only on the textbook during class.

In the end, Kim Yi-jin, unable to overcome boredom, decided not to pay attention to what Kertatus was doing after a few days. He is watching with Kertatus’ eyes, because the white is paper and the black is writing, and watching him read all the time makes him fall asleep.

That’s why Kim Yi-jin was now asleep in the depths of his consciousness, entrusted to Kertatus.

Of course, if I committed a breach of his contract, such as suddenly trying to leave the room, he would wake up right away, but at least for now I wasn’t watching what Certatus was doing.

That said, Certatus didn’t plan to do anything in particular. It’s just that I can move more freely because I can’t hear the kid’s voice clattering in my head, and my daily routine doesn’t change much from usual.

“Write.”

Certatus stroked his left cheek, which was still tingling.

Today again, it was a sign that a stupid kid was beaten by a human girl for doing something stupid.

“Ehh, bloodyongsin. When will sympathy wake up if you’re so ignorant? Tsk tsk.”

Kim Yi-jin’s intention to measure Yuna to make her gun blade was not conveyed properly.

At first, she started by touching her hands, but as she went on, the act escalated, and before anyone knew it, the skinship progressed to the point where it could only be seen as sexual harassment… Contrary to Kim Yi-jin’s true intentions, the shame of a fresh girl is different to the limit.

The trace of the accident was the swelling left on the cheek.

Well, it seems that the misunderstanding was immediately resolved by apologizing to each other on the spot… Would that make the awkward atmosphere go away? The next day, it was good to see that he would be awkward again.

Kertatus clicked his tongue and looked at the bookshelf in his room.

“Hmm. I’ve read this, and this has already been read… Tsk. I have nothing to read.”

Of course, how many books are there in the room of an adolescent boy who is not even a model student, and how many different types are there? Most of them were related to sword making, so they did not stimulate Kertatus’ interest.

So he asked to borrow a book from the library, but even that had already been read.

Certatus stepped away from the bookshelf and sat down on the bed and turned on Kim Ijin’s smartphone. And like modern people, I went to the portal site and started reading the news as always.

If reading can learn specialized and in-depth knowledge, the Internet has made it possible to experience a variety of knowledge in a much wider field. News articles are natural, and when you read this ‘wiki’, strangely, an hour passed in an instant.

It wasn’t the document I was specifically intending to read, but I read another link in the linked document before I knew it, and when I woke up, I was in the process of coming in contact with information that was completely different from the information I was curious about at first.

Obviously, I was reading a tower document that exists on the Korean Peninsula, but before I knew it, I was playing a video related to a blue whale that had nothing to do with the tower.

“Is this the magic of the Internet? Humans also made interesting things.”

However, the amount of time spent gathering information like this was slowly reaching its limit.

In the first place, the information about the ’99 Towers’, which I was curious about, was finished in one day. The rest is just magazine food to adapt to this human society.

From the beginning, the purpose was to collect information about other demons, so I got all the information that could only be obtained in this room.

“Struggle… It lacks the fighting spirit.”

Certatus, demon of struggle.

He was hungry for a fight now.

Every demon has its own source. Corrosion, illusion, or struggle… That is the devil’s natural desire.

And this makes you feel a thirst that cannot be quenched unless you replenish it regularly.

I’d rather be satisfied with the vicar if this kid, who was his host, was a guy who was fighting back and forth, but the only thing this guy did every day was making swords and frying them with human girls.

There’s something fun about it, like a last-minute drama where you’re going to burst into costume, but no matter how much you do, there’s no excitement that makes your blood boil. Only a fight to the death satisfied Kertatus’ desire.

However, it was impossible to satisfy the fighting spirit in such a small room. So Certatus stopped collecting information for a very long time and took action to satisfy his fighting spirit.

“Hmm… Fight, fight, war… What else?”

Searching for a few keywords on the Internet and looking for something different, Kertatus eventually found something he had never seen before.

Not reading or wiki, but something completely different.

“Soldier Ground… ? 100 People gathering at once and killing and killing until the last one remains? Funny! This is exactly what I wanted!”

That was a game.

Certatus installed the game on his smartphone and immediately started playing.

“Gun? What’s this. Under! Men don’t need weapons. Kill them all with your bare hands… Fuck this! Are these cowardly bastards shooting from a distance?”

“Oh. Is the car abandoned here? Heck, I don’t know what kind of guy it is, but I’ll use it well… Fuck! Are you hiding and sniping? This Kertatus-sama!?”

“Ha, I don’t know what kind of guy he is, but he’s searching all by himself, right? I did a good job farming the silencer up to 3 blocks. There are many items. This body eats well… What a fuck! You were hiding behind the door? These doggies dare to fish this body!?”

Certatus, a novice gamer, struggled to eat chicken lasted all night.

“Damn, is the hour over already? I can’t help it. You guys don’t mess with it again tomorrow. Certainly… !”

Certatus, who had been lacking in fighting spirit for a long time, fell asleep in satisfaction.

And when the house became quiet again, Kim I-jin’s grandfather, Kim Il-woong, alone in the hallway, made a complicated expression and brushed his chin.

“Huh….”

I was thirsty late at night, so I came out to the hallway to drink water, but I heard a loud noise coming from my only grandchild’s room.

He was a good grandson who had never played a game before. Even the kid who never said a bad word in her life in front of her grandfather….

“Did puberty come late….”

Kim Il-woong let out a deep sigh with a disturbed heart and quietly turned his back.

For the time being, I thought that I should pretend not to know what kind of sounds came from my grandson’s room.

The next day.

Kim Lee-jin, who had left the tape recorder on before going to bed, listened to her explicit sexual abuse in the audio file, grabbed her by the back of the neck, and added ‘no talking alone in the room’ to the contract, ending the night’s commotion.