06. Midterm exam (18)

“I’m giving up.”

It’s rattled.

It was then that Kim Yi-jin entered the gym.

Even at a glance, Baek Ji-soo is not fine. And Yoon Seo-hee drops the sword and declares abstention. Looking at it, Kim Yi-jin with a puzzled expression on what the situation was.

Yoon Seo-hee, like a sensitive awakened person, immediately noticed Kim Yi-jin’s presence, turned her gaze toward the entrance, and said, “Ah, I saw it…” ‘, She smiled bitterly.

All the spectators in the gym couldn’t hide their embarrassment. The same academy students, teachers, VIP seats, and even Park Jin-hoo, who always has a serious expression.

Of course. Anyone can see that it was a sudden declaration of abstention in a situation where Yoon Seo-hee’s victory was confirmed. Isn’t that a deception?

But a declaration is a declaration. Park Jin-hoo, who should do his duty as a referee, asked again about Yoon Seo-hee’s intention with a firm expression.

“Are you certain about abstention?”

“Yes.”

“I see. Then this game is Baek Ji-soo’s victory-“

When most of the stadium is not convinced of the outcome of the game.

“… Anybody?”

Baek Ji-soo, with the most unconvinced expression, opened his mouth with his tightly clenched fists trembling.

“I, not yet.”

You can do it. The moment he was about to say that, Baek Ji-soo’s eyes spun. Yoon Seo-hee clicked her tongue briefly at the sight of Baek Ji-soo staggering dizzy.

“Do you say that when you feel like you’re about to collapse from magical exhaustion?”

Baek Ji-soo seemed to have no intention of ending this game. If so, Yoon Seo-hee had to finish it.

Even if that’s the way Baek Ji-soo didn’t want.

She didn’t want to do any more harm to her body because she thought of her as her colleague. Giving a final blow to someone suffering from magical exhaustion is too dangerous.

Yoon Seo-hee’s consideration was not conveyed to Baek Ji-soo at all.

Baek Ji-soo lowered his head and bit his lower lip.

I was upset.

This is by no means a win. She won… It would be more correct to say that It’s true that she wanted to win, but she didn’t want to win this way.

I was angry.

She had been feeling it for days. This anger is unreasonable and illogical. I was annoyed for no reason. Why and what part are you angry at? She tried to find the answer, but she still couldn’t figure it out.

It’s not like me.

Yes. This was not white water. Didn’t he remove all unnecessary emotions in order to have an unshakable cool-headed reason? Although it is close to impossible to erase all emotions as a human being, where did the cause of such uncontrollable emotions come from?

I don’t know everything.

I just didn’t want it to end like this.

The wind blew. A cool wind blew in the empty room, and Baek Ji-soo’s hair and clothes fluttered wildly. The white magical light that symbolizes Baek Ji-soo gently flowed outside of his body, creating an aura. It was proof that uncontrolled magic was leaking out one after another due to the rapid use of magic.

“That… !”

“What mana?”

It was a huge magical power that even Baek Ji-su could not control. Lee Ji-hyun, who was watching the situation from the VIP audience, saw the numbers on the holo device hit the ceiling, and he forgot to even breathe for a moment.

The Holo Device that only Hunters can wear is the essence of modern technology. The amount of mana that cannot be measured with such a holo device. In other words, it meant that it was beyond the limits of S rank that could be measured with modern technology.

Baek Ji-soo’s short bobbed hair, which had barely reached the nape of her neck, became long enough to reach her waist in an instant. Baek Ji-soo, with long white hair tinged with a soft white light, looked at Yoon Seo-hee with clear eyes, straightening her back as if she had stumbled.

“Que… !”

Even Yoon Seo-hee, who was standing on the other side of the strong north wind, couldn’t escape the wind’s influence. Her hair fluttered wildly, and her sword, which landed on her floor, flew far out of the arena before she knew it.

While Kim Yi-jin made her sword and Yoon Seo-hee devoted herself to her training, she was not playing around as Baek Ji-soo. From the moment she returned to where she was now ten years ago, she has been doing everything in her power to regain her power.

It was difficult to expect any more means of restoring strength by waiting for it to recover naturally or offering a corresponding sacrifice. The threat of the devil was already in front of the nose, and the power to fight was needed right now. Because she hated being left with incomplete knowledge of the future and a half that could only use clumsy secondary magic.

So, Baek Ji-soo once again focused on the space-time magic that brought him back to the past. And he found the answer.

An ancient magic formula.

Time retrograde.

Now, Baek Ji-soo was borrowing the power of ‘self 10 years later’.

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Jisu Baek sat on his cane and floated up into the air. Most of the audience naturally exclaimed in admiration as she looked like a beautiful witch in a story.

However, Park Jin-hoo, who was watching the situation under the stadium, hardened his expression heavily.

‘The test must be stopped.’

The game has already been won. With the victory of Baek Ji-soo.

From the moment Yoon Seo-hee declared her withdrawal, further tests were meaningless. And the state of Baek Ji-soo was unusual.

He was groaning about mana exhaustion just a while ago, and then suddenly spews out that much mana? It’s an unusual skill, but nothing in the world is given without a price. I don’t know, but it must have put a lot of strain on her body.

The moment Park Jin-hoo was about to jump onto the test site without delay, someone grabbed his shoulder from behind.

“Shh. Let’s not do something so moodless.”

“You… Dean?”

A man with a profound impression wearing glasses.

He was the dean of the academy.

“Still, the student doesn’t want to continue? Quitting halfway through is a no-brainer.”

“But, dean. Yoon Seo-hee has already declared a withdrawal. And more than that is too risky.”

The reason Park Jin-hoo didn’t stop the match between Yun Seo-hee and Lee Hyun-woo during the exam last semester.

That’s because she was confident that Park Jin-hoo would step in in the middle no matter what variables happened. Even if she couldn’t help getting hurt a little, she could have prevented the worst.

However, what about the situation right in front of you?

One is an aura user who is considered the youngest S rank, and the other is an unprecedented magician with magic that cannot be measured even with a single device.

Participating in that game is something Park Jin-hoo would risk his life for, and even if he risked his life, what could he do there? It was best to block it from the beginning.

But the dean shook his head quietly.

“Mr. Park Jin-hoo. It doesn’t matter.”

The dean pointed to the VIP room on the second floor in the corner of the gymnasium.

“The VIP wants to continue the exam. I’m looking forward to what kind of match those two will show. Do you understand?”

Park Jin-hoo rarely showed a rotten expression. Park Jin-hoo is just a retired hunter, but the academy dean in front of him is a top-notch hunter who once built a legend.

The name ‘VIP’ that such a person speaks of is not light. Speaking of the VIP room, it meant that there was someone who could be called a real VIP watching this test in that place where deputy general manager level was common. Maybe he didn’t come himself… The agent must be relaying the test through magic communication.

Of course, Park Jin-hoo didn’t want to know about such a political reason, and he had no reason to care. However, he wanted to jump onto the field, but he couldn’t move because the dean was holding onto his shoulder. The moment she tried to do something against the dean’s will, she had a hunch that she would lose her consciousness in an instant.

Such a situation like that was good for Yoon Seo-hee and Baek Ji-soo, who were now standing on the pitch.

Yoon Seo-hee shouted as she held her hair blowing in the strong wind.

“Are you really going to do this!? Why are you doing that!?”

There was no reply. Even Baek Ji-soo didn’t know why he was doing this. He didn’t even know himself, so there was no way he could answer.

I was just annoyed.

From the moment she saw Kim Yi-jin’s face as she entered the arena, and as soon as she announced her withdrawal, she was even more so with Yoon Seo-hee, who didn’t even look at herself and only focused on Kim Yi-jin.

“I want to be equal to you.”

She shouldn’t be the subject of conceding victory.

Seriously, I wanted to remain as an equal and threatening existence to the extent that I could predict the outcome only if I clashed with all my might.

If you remain a person who doesn’t care all the time… Because she had a hunch that she would not be able to follow her for the rest of her life.

“Oh yeah? It comes out like that, right?”

Yoon Seo-hee, who couldn’t stand it, pulled out a golden sword from the space expansion bag on her waist that she had been wearing. Then, a brilliant aura that was not shaken by Baek Ji-soo’s strong magic spewed out.

The moment when the students who were watching from under the stadium on such an overwhelming scale thought that they had to run away even now, and Kim Yi-jin wondered how the situation had gotten to this point.

The second match between the two has begun.