04. Uncomfortable Cohabitation (3)

From the moment I took the three-man sword out of my hand, I couldn’t move at all.

Your senses are alive, but no matter how much you struggle, your whole body feels heavy, as if it were weighed down by a lump of lead.

Not even a single finger, even the blink of an eye, can’t be controlled.

I felt like I was imprisoned.

‘What should I do?’

I never thought the speed at which demons recover their strength would be this fast.

In those few days, my body’s initiative was completely taken away, as if my body had finished adapting.

I had no choice but to watch the situation as I was possessed by a demon that called itself Kertatus.

‘He became one with his heart?’

Is that why he was able to come back to life even though he had a hole in his heart?

It was a somewhat complicated feeling. He barely survived thanks to his regenerated heart, but in return, he gave up his body to the devil.

No matter how much Baek Ji-soo tortured the devil with the three-man sword, there was no sign that he would leave my body.

If what he said is true, I’ve already become one with Certatus, so even the devil can’t just give up on my body.

Around the time when I was thinking about how to do it with only my consciousness remaining.

Suddenly, Baek Ji-soo untied my top.

‘What is he doing now?’

It was just embarrassing for me to suddenly reveal my inner flesh.

[“Human bitch, you… Did you have a relationship like that with the owner of this body? Somehow, the eyes were not serious… !”]

What kind of stare is this guy suddenly looking at?

I don’t know what kind of misunderstanding it was, but there must be a reason why Baek Ji-soo did this.

She’s not the type to do meaningless things.

As if my prediction was correct, Baek Ji-soo placed both hands on my exposed chest, more precisely on my heart, and quietly closed her eyes.

Her small, soft palm pressed against my chest completely.

Baek Ji-soo’s hands were still cold. Even in this situation, the touch of her bare skin felt pleasant.

[“Wait, no way you… !?”]

I could see her concentrating her consciousness through the devil’s gaze.

The pure white mana flowed from my heart and spread towards my heart along the circuit.

‘Oh. This feeling… ?’

It was certainly not unfamiliar. It felt like something I had experienced before.

The first time I used the three-person sword skill, the memory of receiving someone’s magic like a baby bird in my hazy consciousness came to mind.

I just remembered. That was the magic of Baek Ji Soo.

She was trying to save me the same way she did before.

[“Bitch… ! A clan of witches! Do you intend to infuse your true spirit into this human? That the owner of this body is so important?”]

Kertatus raised his voice as if he had realized something.

I couldn’t understand even half of what he was saying.

What kind of being is a witch, and what does it mean to infuse a novelty?

I was just feeling the pure and pure magic flowing from the fingertips of Baek Ji-soo pouring into my heart.

[“Ha! It’s stupid. Did you think that would work? Jinki is also part of magic anyway! I’ll eat them all and make them part of my power!”]

Perhaps because the demon completely took over my body, I could feel the mana flowing into my heart trying to convert it into demonic energy.

‘No… !’

If you let the devil consume that amount of mana, it will only restore more power. Baek Ji-soo wouldn’t even know that, so why?

I felt something wriggling in my heart. It was the soul of Kertatus.

Even now, the fragments that are turning the mana squeezed out of the heart into demonic energy reached out with greedy hands to transform even the magical energy of the white water inflowing into demonic energy.

[“What… !”]

However, Baek Ji-soo’s magical power was not affected by anything, and it only accumulated in my heart one by one.

[“A pure magical power that I can’t touch? How about a human being?”]

A crystal of pure magical power that accumulates in the heart.

I don’t know why, but no matter how much the devil’s soul tried, Baek Ji-soo’s magical power did not lose its chastity and maintained its original appearance.

That was becoming my perfect magical power that the devil couldn’t touch.

Slowly, I felt the balance of the demon-oriented scale within me level.

[“Wait. Stop… ! Stop it!”]

Tsar Tomb! Charreureung!! Certatus violently twisted his body in chains.

She was trying to attack her by moving her limbs, in order to somehow get her back from her hands.

I couldn’t let it go like that. At this moment when Baek Ji-soo worked so hard for me, he had no intention of just watching.

I tried to move my body, which had been stolen by the devil, little by little.

At first, the tip of the knuckle. It moves.

Then all fingers. It also moved.

The initiative that was taken away from him is slowly returning to me.

Baek Ji-soo was sweating cold and extremely concentrated, and was still delivering magic to her heart. As such, the range of motion I could move gradually increased.

[“Yes, now I understand! Female… ! You are not a pure human being! No way, it’s a mixed-blood cloth-“]

“- Hey.”

My mouth finally moved freely.

“Shut up and give me my body.”

The scales tipped towards me.

Now I had the initiative of the body.

I felt the demon, unable to speak anymore, sink into the depths of my consciousness.

Kertatus began shouting in his head in a voice full of rage.

[Oh shit! Like this, like this, do you think I’ll give up? Wait and see! When the opportunity arises, your body again-]

“Noisy.”

To gossip in someone’s head.

I suppressed Kertatus’ soul even deeper into his consciousness.

I could still feel him talking loudly in the depths of my consciousness. But he was at a level where he couldn’t be heard unless he was paying attention.

I did it.

I succeeded in getting my body back again.

It would have been impossible without the blank index.

I looked at her with a sense of her sincere gratitude.

“Is it Jisoo?”

She was still pouring her magic into her trance with her hands on my chest.

“Baeksoo? I am Jinjin Kim. You can stop now.”

There was no sign that he was paying attention to how much he was concentrating.

I realized it at that moment.

There was no light in Baek Ji-soo’s pupils.

“… Hey!? Baeksoo! Wake up! Wake!”

Even at a glance, she wasn’t normal now.

I twisted her whole body hard to awaken Baek Ji-soo’s spirit.

Tsar Tomb! Charrureung! The chains held me so tightly that I couldn’t move properly. I was reassured when I was tying up the devil, but when I was in a situation where I was being tied up, it was difficult.

At that time, red blood flowed from Baek Ji-soo’s tall nose.

Even the whites of his eyes were congested red and blood vessels had burst.

I was even more frightened and desperately shouted.

“Jisoo! Wake!! You die then!”

At that rate, Baek Ji-soo was about to collapse.

Is there any way to awaken her spirit?

If there’s one word that can bring you to your senses….

I started throwing out whatever words I could pick out of her head to get her attention.

“The world will be destroyed by the devil in 10 years! You and I decided to prevent destruction together with Yoon Seo-hee! Huh? So, if you want to return and save people, you can’t do this!”

“… Devil… fall… return…… Master… Brother and sister….”

Baek Ji-soo’s eyes sank even deeper.

Oh.

I don’t think this is it?

My words provoked some kind of trauma in Baek Ji-soo, and she started muttering something to herself with a more serious expression than before.

“… I have to work harder… Otherwise… No… no… People die because of me… I can’t stand it any longer… More than now… Harder….”

“… ….”

It felt like I was unintentionally looking into the abyss inside Jisoo Baek.

While you are still working hard, what more do you want to do?

Anyway, this wasn’t it. Seeing that there was a reaction, the method was good, but the direction was wrong.

Are there any other keywords? How can a word that elicits Baek Ji-soo’s reaction….

‘Ah.’

“Jisoo! Let’s eat!”

“…… Rice?”

It was an embarrassingly sudden remark, but Baek Ji-soo’s muttering suddenly stopped at those words.

‘There is a response!’

I brought it up because I remembered Baek Ji-soo eating deliciously at my house in the past.

Surprisingly, this was the correct answer.

I lined her up with her favorite food, desperately trying to get her to come to her senses.

“Do you want to eat porridge? Shall I cook kimchi stew? Or braised ribs? Is there anything you want to eat? I’ll make anything for you!”

“… Porridge… Kimchi stew… Galbijjim….”

Baek Ji-soo swallowed his saliva.

The empty eyes were looking up at me expecting something.