01. A sword for you (15)

“Did you close your eyes?”

“I wound it up.”

“Never float.”

“Okay.”

I already tied it up with a tie.

I waited until she was ready, completely blind.

I heard the sound of clothes brushing against each other, but I tried not to be conscious of the possible sound considering Yoon Seo-hee’s mood.

“Enough.”

Even if he pretended to be calm and opened his mouth, he seemed to be unable to hide his tension.

I carefully placed both hands on her back.

Her breasts were the result of a compromise because they said absolutely no.

“It’s okay.”

Yoon Seo-hee shook her shoulders. Perhaps because I have a high body temperature, her skin under her palms was relatively cool.

“Are you okay?”

“Oh, no. Do it faster. Because I’m fine.”

I don’t think it’s okay.

But since I couldn’t spend time like this, Sewol-ah, I gently pressed my palms over her skin.

“Let’s get started.”

“Yes….”

Actually, I am also nervous. You should have done magic synchronization before.

But knowing that if I, her practitioner, were nervous, she would become more anxious, so she didn’t show it and calmly moved her magic.

I’ve never heard of a person dying while synchronizing magic, so that’s okay, right?

“… ….”

Concentrate your consciousness.

The magic flowing inside me is projected with my palms and penetrates into her heart, the center of magic within her body.

“Ugh… It feels weird.”

“Doesn’t it hurt?”

“It’s not like that, but it feels like a foreign body is entering the body.”

That’s not wrong. The fact that someone else’s magical power exists inside one’s body is no different from a foreign substance.

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Just as the immune system is activated when a virus penetrates her body, I already felt a strong sense of resistance as if Yoon Seo-hee’s magic wanted to drive me away.

“Don’t be conscious. The more you do it, the more the backlash grows.”

“I’m worried, but what should I do?”

“Think of entrusting yourself to me and take a slow, deep breath.”

Yoon Seo-hee took a slow, deep breath at those words.

She inhales deeply, exhales.

Inhale, exhale.

Then her mana calmed down, and her sense of repulsion became much less.

“Good job. In this state, I’m going to turn her magic power once. Keep your composure as you do now.”

The magic that spreads from her heart circulates through Yoon Seo-hee’s whole body.

Her magic doesn’t flow in just one line. As if roots had grown into dozens or hundreds of branches, my magic power spread throughout the divided circuit.

A cold sweat formed on his forehead.

It’s difficult. If I loosen the strings of tension even a little, I feel like I’ll lose control of my magical power.

Controlling the mana that was divided into dozens or hundreds of pieces one by one and grasping the flow was as complicated as having to solve a difficult math problem with only mental arithmetic.

Once you solve one problem, the next problem follows. It is a repetition of risky tightrope walking.

“… Wait, wait! Slow down!”

“Shh. Do not talk to me.”

I could feel her mana rising again. Her current feelings of restlessness are revealed as they are.

Perhaps you don’t like intruders roaming about, no matter how much you send a command to stay still, an instinctive sense of resistance arises.

“After….”

I catch my breath and carefully pour her mana into it again. Do not collide with force-to-force as much as possible, but gently, as if riding the current.

I can see why people who don’t trust mana tuning don’t even try it.

Knowing your weaknesses aside, the difficulty itself is just too high.

As an analogy, it feels like you are performing the most difficult acrobatics in a circus, and the audience is booing and throwing things at you.

It’s difficult as if my head would burst, but the inner magic doesn’t respond at all.

Magic power reflects the owner’s emotions as they are. It is true that it has only been a few days since Yoon Seo-hee and I have become close friends, no matter how much our understanding is the same.

It was only natural to feel repulsive, unless it was really a family, a lover, or a friend you can entrust your life with.

‘This is… I can’t do it.’

I felt like my head was going to explode any longer.

I took her hands off her back and breathed heavily on her.

My magical energy projected onto Yoon Seo-hee’s body escaped into the air as if being chased away and scattered like smoke. Perhaps it was because he couldn’t retrieve any of them, so his already low mana was empty.

“Are you done? Was it faster than you thought?”

What’s over? I couldn’t even turn the wheel properly.

I tried to say something, but I couldn’t say anything because my head was suddenly spinning and I felt like I was losing consciousness.

“Ugh… !”

“Kim Yi-jin? What’s the matter?”

It was dangerous. She almost collapsed in front of her.

As I hold onto her throbbing hair, Yoon Seo-hee turns her back and caresses my forehead.

It felt good to feel a cool hand on my already heated head.

“Oh my God, look at the sweat! Are you okay?”

“… Are you okay. I’m just a little tired.”

“You have such a fever? I can’t. Lie down for now.”

I was led by Yoon Seo-hee’s hand and laid her body on the bed she was sitting on. Her body was so honest that she was screaming that she wanted to lie down right now, so she couldn’t bear to refuse.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead and the nape of her neck with her handkerchief.

“I’ll tell you if it’s this hard, I don’t even know….”

“Don’t worry, it’s bearable. Take a break and you’ll be fine soon.”

I didn’t know that the consumption would be so intense.

No one told me that mana tuning was so difficult. There is also a big difference between just knowing it as knowledge and actually experiencing it.

After a few minutes of rest, the terrible dizziness went away. After confirming that his magic power had recovered enough to try again, he raised his upper body.

“Let’s do it again. We can do better this time.”

“… Do you have to do that? What you’ve done so far is enough.”

Yoon Seo-hee spoke to her in a voice filled with her worries.

“Who wants to make the perfect sword? You don’t have to push yourself this far. So just-“

“No.”

I don’t like it.

I understand her feelings. But I didn’t like that.

I picture Yoon Seo-hee losing to Lee Hyeon-woo because the sword I made is not enough.

It’s a nightmare. It was a nightmare that would come true if I didn’t do anything.

You can never do it in moderation. Can she proudly say that she did her best in front of her after all her work, when she hadn’t even tried everything she could?

Did you shout out loud that you would help her dream of becoming a craftsman who makes masterpieces even though she is not good enough?

I am a bluffer.

But I didn’t want to become a talker.

I will do more than I said I would. Because that’s my pride as a craftsman.

“You promised to do your best.”

“…… Ha, really.”

The words she spat out as if she was going crazy reveal her emotions.

I’m just sorry because I know you’re being forced.

“Okay.”

Yoon Seo-hee also opened her mouth with a determined voice, as if she had made up her mind for something.

“Let’s do it again. Instead, if this fails again, this is the end for today. There is no disagreement. Got it?”

I nodded in the affirmative.

Yoon Seo-hee showed her back again. As before, I raised both hands and slowly raised my mana.

Concentrate.

The magical power that stretched from her heart spreads back to her heart, and eventually to her whole body. The branch of magical power that spreads evenly like a plant taking root.

“…… ?”

I only noticed it when I got there.

Compared to just a moment ago, the backlash of magical power has become much weaker.

No, I barely felt it.

It wasn’t just that. Yoon Seo-hee’s magic did not sink like a calm lake. Far from she was, she flowed through her circuits, blending together.

It was as if he was pushing my mana from behind.

Only then did I understand how her magical energy flowed through her body, not her head.

“Sup, ha.”

Inhale deeply, exhale again.

Inhale, exhale.

I didn’t know if this repetitive breathing sound was caused by me or her.

We were even breathing the same way before we knew it.

Magic energy from the heart spreads to the peripheral part of the circuit and returns to the heart, repeating the flow.

One turn. Two wheels. Third round.

Considering that at first it bounced without even turning half a turn, it was a great improvement.

While repeating the flow like that, I understood and accepted Yun Seo-hee’s magical power with my sixth sense, not my five senses. A sixth sense that does not exist for ordinary people, only for awakened people who perceive everything only with magical power.

It felt like I was dancing with her. She has never danced before, but she didn’t differ much from her partner in that she needed perfect harmony.

“… ….”

Only after repeating it for the fifth time did I withdraw my mana from within her body. Unlike before, I was able to remove her hand without any aftereffects.

No, I even felt like I was dreaming.

“… It’s over?”

She opened her mouth in her sleepy voice.

“Yes, good job.”

My voice was similar.