01. A sword for you (20)

Combat department students blocking the way to school.

I thought it was somehow familiar, but it was the followers who were flocking next to Lee Hyeon-woo, or, to put it slangly, the followers.

“Yeah, he lived in a nice place.”

“It’s not as good as Hyeonu, though.”

They surround me with a disturbing atmosphere.

I stiffened my face and opened my mouth.

“What is it?”

So one of them smirked and held her hand.

“Hey, it’s done. The one you’re holding now Give it up.”

The only thing in my hand was Yoon Seo-hee’s sword. Did you come to get this too?

I gripped the scabbard tightly.

The only reason they were quiet was that I was waiting for the sword to be finished.

“That won’t work.”

“Ha, can’t you understand the atmosphere? Don’t you notice?”

I quietly looked at their faces. Number three. There are three academy students who have awakened combat skills. But among them, Lee Hyeon-woo was nowhere to be seen.

“Looks like Lee Hyeon-woo didn’t come?”

As I said, the students look at each other because they are dumbfounded. Then, as if it was absurd, he smiled and replied.

“Do I have to come all the way to Hyeonu to catch you? We have enough.”

“What are you talking about? Just drop your sword and go. Then I won’t do it too badly.”

It can’t be. I promised to give this sword to Yoon Seo-hee.

And I didn’t want the sword I made to be stolen by someone like Lee Hyeon-woo who carelessly treats the fruits of other people’s efforts.

“You don’t have any pride, do you?”

“What?”

“Private violence in the academy is a serious punishment. Aren’t you being too cowardly to send only your subordinates to such a dangerous job and fall in love with yourself?”

Stealing Yoon Seo-hee’s sword and threatening people in groups like now.

It’s not something you’ve done once or twice. At that time, he would only do the dirty work for his subordinates and live comfortably in the safety zone.

It was not something he did himself, so if it were to happen, only his subordinates would have to cut off the tail of a lizard, such a mean intention was evident.

I smiled, twisting the corner of my mouth.

“You are being treated as a good dog to throw away. Don’t you have any pride?”

The smiles on their faces disappeared as if they had been hit.

The already threatening atmosphere became even colder.

“This bastard… You wanna die?”

Out of the three students, the tallest and best-built male student walks forward.

“You guys don’t step out. I’m going to hit and kill myself.”

A male student stops a student who is trying to step out from behind and snaps his neck. Perhaps he had the best skills among them, and even though he took the lead, the other two seemed to have no disagreement.

“Is this inside the academy? Uh? I was just going to take the sword, but it must be a little hit. Don’t blame yourself for bringing it on yourself.”

It was unpleasant to use the tone of saying that I was at fault for the perpetrator subject.

Why don’t these guys change the way they speak?

“… ….”

Keep calm. It shouldn’t be me who gets excited.

I opened my mouth while measuring the distance between me and the person in front of me.

“Your tongue was that long before you started fighting?”

“This bastard, for real!”

An opponent who rushes at you like a bull. A distorted expression and a large right shoulder were seen.

I avoided the unstoppable full swing by leaning slightly to the left.

Bung-!

“Avoid this?”

I made a fishy laugh while taking a guard stance.

“Because you are slow like a slug.”

“Shut up!”

I stretched out my fists with my face dyed red as if my fever was stirred up by those words. A straight, straight jab. I raised the guards on both arms to block my fists.

Puck! Even though I successfully blocked it, my wrists tingled as if that size was not a decoration. I can’t stop many times. But instead of trying to express the pain, he pretended to be relaxed and smiled.

“Is it a cotton bat? I thought you were sitting on a mosquito.”

“Let’s see if that kind of thing comes out after being beaten over and over again!”

Again, he bends his back to narrowly avoid a full swing.

To be honest, provoking others with my mouth like this doesn’t suit my personality.

I hate fights, and the act of putting down an opponent with my mouth feels uncomfortable because I’ve been through it a lot.

But I can’t help it. Relatively weak, I need to keep him aroused by provoking him. When you get excited, your movements get bigger and your movements become obvious.

Boom!

“Like a rat, really!”

However, there is a limit to avoiding it. The less effective hits, the more the opponent calms down and becomes calmer.

Unlike before, when he swung his fists at will, he is gradually checking my movements. Indeed, combat. I guess I didn’t play during class.

Boom! Puck!

“Big!”

A straight blow went into the side. The first effective hit. He bit his teeth hard at the tingling pain. The guy’s expression was colored with joy, and the continuous hitting continued.

“I, even after being beaten, said that, come out!”

Avoid what can be avoided and accept what cannot be avoided.

It’s okay. Because I have a strong body. It hurts enough to die, but it doesn’t die. Stay strong and look for opportunities.

As the attack continued, there was a gap, but he didn’t stretch his fist on his own. Save your stamina by aiming for the most certain time.

I am confident in my physical strength. Anyway, he gets tired first.

“Heo Eok, Heo Eok… !”

An opponent who breathes heavily and shakes his shoulders as if he has exhausted his stamina in a series of attacks.

I couldn’t let him catch his breath like this, so I tried to look as funny as possible.

“Are you tired already? You should exercise more.”

“I told you to shut up! aaa!!”

A male student screaming as if he had lost his reason. Throwing his shoulders all the way back, a full swing swings with all his might.

That was the opportunity I was aiming for.

Instead of stepping back or raising my guard, I stepped out and pushed myself into the gap.

The aim is a moment of consciousness, a fatal gap revealed during an attack.

I stretch my arms as hard as I can while clenching my fists.

Fuck!! The focused blows hit the chin in a straight line, and the light disappeared from the boy’s eyes.

“Turn off….”

An opponent who shakes his head from the strong impact and falls backwards. Only then did I catch my breath and massage my aching arm.

“Mi, crazy… Did Dong-chul get hurt?”

“That bastard said it was the support department! What the hell?!”

What is it? It’s my skill

Skill 「Analysis」.

With this skill, I can closely observe and grasp all objects and phenomena.

I just analyzed his battle pattern and attacked his weakness by taking advantage of the empty gap in his upper body. But you don’t have to tell me all this.

Awakeners privately using their skills to harm people is an illegal area that is incomparable to the discipline within the academy. It was fortunate that I wasn’t the type to show my skills on the surface.

“This, sir… What do we do?”

“What should I do? You want me to go back like this and go after Hyeonu?”

He tries to raise his fist, but it’s probably because he just witnessed a guy named Dongcheol fall helplessly in a single blow, and he’s already been pushed back by the momentum.

I thought I would end it like this if I did well, so I strode toward the remaining two with a bit of bravado.

“Can’t you come in?”

As the bull-looking guy did earlier, he overbearingly breaks his neck and creates a harsh atmosphere. Then, the complexion of both of them turned dark.

“I, I want to go. Dong-cheol lost too, how can I win!”

“Hey! Where!!”

A guy seems to have been fooled by my bluff, so he first turns his back and runs away in a hurry.

The guy who was left alone must have lost more momentum after seeing his friend running away from him.

“Oh really, sir… ! Go with me!!”

Looking at the two running away, I shrugged.

It wasn’t that I didn’t want to scold the two of them here, but unfortunately, I didn’t have time.

Wouldn’t it be nice if something happened that I couldn’t bring the sword to Yoon Seo-hee after wasting time on those guys?

I looked down at Dongcheol, who was sprawled out in front of our house, and pondered. So what about this guy?

“Oh, yes.”

I came up with a good idea.

There is a way to solve this situation and maybe pay back Hyunwoo Lee.

I took out my cell phone and made a call.

–

The first year’s final performance takes place in the morning.

Because of this, Yoon Seo-hee has been waiting for Kim Yi-jin since early in the morning.

“Why aren’t you coming….”

It was long past school hours and it was time to take the exam, but Kim Yi-jin did not show up. Since her smartphone is broken and there is no way to contact her, she just waits without any promise.

If I knew it would be like this, I would have remembered my contact information.

Did I not make a sword? No, even so, it was not a reason for her not to attend school.

Can’t you oversleep? It would be better if Have you ever had an accident on the way?

No matter how hard I try to calm my mind, random thoughts continue.

“Class 3 of 1st year, combat department. Move.”

The classroom door opens and teacher Park Jin-hoo enters. It was time for her to move to the testing room.

Yoon Seo-hee closed her eyes nervously.

‘Kim Yi-jin… What’s wrong?’

Yoon Seo-hee headed to the test site following teacher Park Jin-hoo, who led the combat students.

The test site is held on a wide square field. Without any other obstacles, only students and students compete with pure skills.

Teachers and students were gathered on the first floor of the gymnasium, which was used as a test site, and the second floor was blocked by the forcefield, making it impossible to see inside from the outside.

I heard that external figures such as guild executives and corporate sponsors observe the exam. Maybe they gathered there and looked down on us.

I was nervous and didn’t notice other people’s tests. She just longed for her turn to be a little later, for Kim Yi-jin to arrive in the meantime.

“First year class 1 combat department, Lee Hyeon-woo. 1St year class 3 combat department, Yoon Seo-hee. Entrance.”

However, her own turn came so quickly that her earnest wishes were overshadowed.

Yoon Seo-hee exhaled deeply and she climbed onto the exam hall.

A tumultuous, muffled voice is heard. Mr. Park Jin-hoo above her examination hall turned to her and asked.

“Student Yoon Seo-hee. Aren’t you bringing a weapon?”

“… Yeah.”

“If you do not have a weapon, you will be considered unarmed and will be automatically disqualified. Do you know?”

“Wait a minute… Please wait a moment longer.”

Yoon Seo-hee tried to catch her trembling voice and said.

Let’s believe. Kim Yi-jin will definitely come.

She promised to make her a sword. Kim Yi-jin, whom I had seen so far, was not the kind of person who would break promises recklessly.

So now I had to trust him to come and wait as long as possible.

Park Jin-hoo looked at Yoon Seo-hee and pondered for a while, then she opened her mouth in a blunt tone as usual.

“Five minutes. Nothing more.”

“Okay.”

5 Minutes. Yoon Seo-hee waited quietly with her arms crossed.

Then I heard muffled laughter across from her.

“… ?”

Hyunwoo Lee lowered his head and giggled. The despicable laugh made Yoon Seo-hee feel bad.

“What is so funny?”

“No… Oh really. Are you sure Kim Yi-jin is waiting for you?”

At those words, Yoon Seo-hee’s blood cooled. She felt a visceral anxiety.

“Puha! Is there any point in waiting like that? You’re missing out here He will never come.”

“You… What does that mean?”

At the question mixed with anger, Lee Hyun-woo just laughed without answering. She didn’t answer anything, but that’s why Yoon Seo-hee knew. And what cowardly trick did he do?

‘Kim Yi-jin… !’

She clenched her fists tightly. It was a test, and I wanted to turn that mean guy’s face into a bowl of jelly. I could tolerate touching myself, but I couldn’t stand touching the people around me.

The moment Yoon Seo-hee was about to take her first step.

Boom!!

The door to the gym opened and someone rushed in.

In a sudden situation, everyone’s attention is focused on the entrance. It was not an exception to Lee Hyeon-woo and Yoon Seo-hee.

“Yoon Seo-hee!”

What she came in gasping for breath was Kim Yi-jin, whom she had been waiting for so long.

“Take it!!”

Boom! Something flying over the exam hall in a round and round circle.

Yoon Seo-hee was quicker to snatch the flying object with her excellent reflexes than to check what it was.

I realized it only after I was caught in her hand. She only saw it as a picture, but when she checked the real thing, she couldn’t help but notice.

That was her sword.

The sword made by Kim Yi-jin.

“What, how is that bastard?”

Unfortunately, I couldn’t hear the people’s focused attention and buzzing anymore.

She smiled brightly at the sudden appearance of Kim Yi-jin.

Where is this appearing like this?

It’s childish.

It’s embarrassing.

And….

“Thank you!”

Surereung-! The sharp blade sound that can be heard as the sword is pulled out.

The shining sword caught the eyes of those who saw it in an instant.