06. Midterm exam (19)

You can’t know if you keep your heart inside.

Emotions must be expressed. If you don’t tell me, you won’t know

Emotions you want to hide… There may be. Because Yoon Seo-hee couldn’t reveal her love for the person she likes.

How about the blank index?

Yoon Seo-hee has never seen Baek Ji-soo’s bright smile. I’ve never seen her shed a tear from sadness, nor her shy face from shame.

Of course, it will depend on the person. She may have Baek Ji-soo that Yoon Seo-hee doesn’t know about. She might laugh for joy, cry for sorrow, or blush for her shyness. But she, Yoon Seo-hee, doesn’t know Baek Ji-soo.

However, I know the face distorted with annoyance.

‘I have time to date. That would be great.’

If you think about it, that was the beginning of everything.

Unexplained irritation and very slight anger based on it. There is no way that Yoon Seo-hee, who is sensitive to the gaze of others, could not fail to notice it. She just pretended not to know because she didn’t know why.

I just wanted to know. Think about the position of the other person who suddenly hates her. It is only natural to wonder why she is hated.

However, Baek Ji-soo, as always, had no intention of having a conversation, keeping his heart tight.

She even looked confused, as if she didn’t even know why she was angry.

‘No, does that make sense?’

If I did something wrong, I’d rather apologize and end it neatly, but after getting annoyed, I wasn’t in a good mood either. The two of them felt uncomfortable from the moment they entered the arena, so maybe this was a natural result.

Actually, at this point, I rather felt antipathy.

The one holding the training sword over the golden egg. He also declared abstention from the start.

There were many gaudy excuses, but her real purpose was provocation.

A provocation to bring out Baek Ji-soo’s true heart.

As a result, it was a success. It was the first time I had ever seen Baek Ji-soo’s angry expression. She thought she was insulted and was stimulated with a complex she couldn’t tell anyone about.

Baek Ji-soo, who brought out the power beyond the limit, was now more emotional than ever.

Now we needed to talk.

Yoon Seo-hee shouted loudly in the fierce snow storm.

“You don’t like me!?”

“… !?”

Her blizzard’s momentum was disrupted by that sudden statement. Yoon Seo-hee took advantage of that gap and drew her aura up and down her, cutting through her blizzard and flying toward Baek Ji-soo.

Baek Ji-soo thought that his thinking ability had greatly improved. Yoon Seo-hee doesn’t like her?

“Suddenly… What are you talking about!”

Unfazed, she unleashed her defenses in multiples. Since a shield made entirely of magical power cannot block the aura, a thick ice shield was placed between the two.

An ice barrier that can only be broken with strong physical impact. Of course, I couldn’t block Yoon Seo-hee’s attack to this extent, but it was enough to earn time. Baek Ji-soo, who transferred behind Yoon Seo-hee’s back, finished her magical chant.

Chains to entangle the body fly from all sides, and high-ranking ice spirits form a colony and surround it with attack magic. The debuff magic, which is more powerful than before, takes away energy every moment, disturbs the vision, and disturbs the senses.

Kwurreung!!

All that magic.

Yoon Seo-hee spread the aura all over her and broke it.

“Or what? Is there any reason to do this?”

The game has already been won. From the moment she declared abstention, she had no reason for Yoon Seo-hee to hang out with her. Even if she leaves the stadium, the reason she still remains is to share her story with Baek Ji-soo.

“Is what I, Lee Jin said, so twisted? Do you like Kim Yi-jin too?”

“What, what… ?”

“So if you say you’re annoyed, I understand, but how do I know if you keep your mouth shut?! If you have something you want to say, say it properly!”

It was very unfortunate that the story was a conversation accompanied by swords and magic.

Unfortunately, Yoon Seo-hee couldn’t think of any other way to stimulate Baek Ji-soo in this way.

“I, I….”

In the midst of a blizzard, Baek Ji-soo was lost in thought. Does he like Kim Yi-jin?

She never once thought of it that way. He didn’t want to be conscious, and he didn’t think he should think deeply. So, the moment I opened my mouth to strongly deny this time.

“I like you!”

Yoon Seo-hee shouted in a voice of resentment.

Baek Ji-soo, who is wary of men and doesn’t mix words, always knows that only Kim Lee-jin is an exception. Whenever I have a chance, I know that the end of my gaze is chasing Kim Yi-jin.

I watched from the sidelines desperately trying to save him from being possessed by the devil, and even saving Lee Jin by cutting off my magical power. At that time, Baek Ji-soo did not hesitate. Even for one second. He prioritized Kim Yi-jin right in front of his eyes over his magical powers and his mission to prevent the apocalypse.

You can’t do that with a sense of fellowship or a debt of mind. It’s a deeper feeling. Yoon Seo-hee herself was able to know that as well. She wouldn’t hesitate even for a second if it was to save Yoon Seo-hee and Kim Yi-jin. She would prioritize his life over mine.

This stupidly blunt girl doesn’t seem to understand her feelings… How could Yoon Seo-hee not know the heart of the girl she fell in love with? Her doubt, which she had hoped for, had recently turned to certainty.

“You were jealous because I liked you! I’m getting closer to Lee Jin!”

If you think about it, it’s obvious.

Even Seo-hee Yoon was jealous of Ji-soo Baek. As a fellow colleague of Kim Yi-jin, she had a goodwill towards Baek Ji-soo as much as herself, and she was always concerned about Baek Ji-soo, who suddenly became close with the boy she liked.

If Yoon Seo-hee was like that, Baek Ji-soo would have been like that too.

Even if he didn’t know.

“I… binary… ?”

The blizzard intensified. Ice walls rose from all sides, turning the inside of the gym into a frozen ground.

As if trying to hide the frozen girl’s heart even tighter. She seems to be locked in ice and never to be taken out.

It was easy for her to pretend not to know that. If left alone, Baek Ji-soo will never notice his feelings. She was much more comfortable with Yoon Seo-hee because her rival would self-destruct.

But she didn’t.

Because that’s cowardly. Because it didn’t seem like it.

And it’s not a bad thing to like someone, so why do you hide it so tightly that it makes it difficult even for you? I didn’t like the girl’s attitude either.

That’s why Yoon Seo-hee held up her golden ribbon.

Her purest golden magic rushed like a waterfall across the entire blade.

“… ….”

Looking at that beautiful light, Baek Ji-soo belatedly realized his feelings.

I was jealous because I liked it. That simple conclusion.

When she thought of the boy who always smelled of iron and oil, a part of her heart felt tingly, and she felt frustrated because she did not know the source of that feeling. She is busy trying to prevent the end of herself, but Yoon Seo-hee sarcastically asked if she had time to fall in love… Actually, I was envious.

She was envious of Yoon Seo-hee who was enjoying her brilliant youth, and she was pessimistic about her own situation where she couldn’t do that. She didn’t want to think too hard about it.

Because.

“… I have a mission.”

You must stop the demon.

You must save the world from the apocalypse.

Even now, when I close my eyes, I vividly recall the last moments of the teacher and sister-in-law.

I still can’t forget the noble life that threw away my life like straw in the face of the devil, and the numerous deaths that entrusted the ‘next’ to me.

Even the death of innocent people who were trampled and played by demons for many years, which was like living hell for her, weighed heavily on her shoulders.

That’s why.

“I can’t be happy.”

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Going to school normally like everyone else, making friends normally, and falling in love normally.

Baek Ji-soo could not tolerate himself like that. She thought it was an insult to her dead person who had believed her all along.

It is her mission to guide the opponents in order to prevent the end.

It was a luxury for her to neglect her mission and pursue the happiness of an ordinary 17-year-old girl.

Baek Ji-soo’s body rises high into the sky. As her small body soared higher, the thickness and height of the ice wall on the ground grew thicker as well. Blasphemy! Now, it is impossible to distinguish whether this is a stadium or Antarctica, and the teacher who was watching the situation unfolded a shield to protect the students to prevent secondary damage.

Yoon Seo-hee’s season, Chun-roe, is more like a mobile device used on the ground. As she soars into the air, she has no way of attacking herself. I had to run to be blocked by the ice wall, and I was confident that I could block most of the attacks no matter what kind of attack I prepared with that brilliant mana.

“No.”

As if breaking Baek Ji-soo’s thoughts.

Yoon Seo-hee calmly swung her sword.

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Geumlan unique skill.

Depth Charge.

“You should be happy.”

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Just one step.

Yoon Seo-hee stepped forward with her left foot and drew her sword down with a speed that was neither slow nor fast.

The vision of everyone who watched her was dyed white. A strong light that wouldn’t be strange even if she went blind. Except for a few hunters who could protect their eyes with magical powers, everyone couldn’t face the sight.

Light preceded, sound followed.

I wanted a light to flash, but there was a loud explosion. It was mixed with the sound of thick ice being shattered.

A bolt of lightning that stretched out to the front shattered all the ice walls and blew away part of the ceiling of the gymnasium. Baek Ji-soo did not get hit directly by the thunderbolt, but the aftermath of the magical power caused him to lose consciousness and fall to the floor.

Yoon Seo-hee caught Ji-soo Baek falling like an angel who lost her wings.

Yoon Seo-hee quietly opened her mouth to her in her arms.

“We deserve to be happier than anyone else.”

You work so hard to save the world.

If such a person does not become happy, then who deserves to be happy?

Yoon Seo-hee liked happy endings. When everything was over, she thought of herself being with Kim Yi-jin, but she didn’t want Baek Ji-soo to be unhappy. She didn’t want to take away even her chance to be happy with her.

Baek Ji-soo, who had returned to his short hair before he knew it, spoke slowly with his whole body losing strength.

“I, a little… Is it okay to be honest….”

“Of course not. Anyway, since Lee Jin-yi is a dull tank, you won’t even notice.”

“… That too… That’s right… “

He’s usually quick-witted and dull with his own work, so unless they confess in front of him, he won’t notice the feelings of the two girls at all. Thinking so, the two of them laughed lightly.

It was too childish and girly to be a conversation between a genius swordsman and a genius wizard, but it was fortunate that no one could hear the conversation between the two because of the raging blizzard, the roar of lightning, and the barrier Baek Ji-soo opened.

Except for Kim Yi-jin, who can read the shape of his mouth through analysis.

“… ….”

Listening to the conversation between two people who confessed in front of their eyes and there is not much difference.

Kim Yi-jin only repeated washing her dry face with her face dyed red.