04. Uncomfortable Cohabitation (10)

The sight unfolding before my eyes.

That was too one-sided violence.

“Oh shit!”

As the man charged from behind, a fist the size of a child’s head cut through the wind and flew towards the back of my head.

Certatus dodged the punch with a light snap of his chin, and at just the right time, he plunged his elbow into the opponent’s face.

“Knock!”

Crash! I heard the sound of my nose bones sinking. The man, his face covered in blood, collapsed on the floor, peeling the whites.

[“It’s a garbage body, but one eye is fine. Why did this kid just get beaten up with good eyes? I don’t understand.”]

“Die!”

“aaa!!”

[“Assholes.”]

Even when seven strong men attacked at the same time, Kertatus counterattacked, deflecting all attacks by a single piece of paper.

Even when he thought he was in no position to counterattack, Certatus did not stop.

Fists and feet were not the only weapons. His elbows, knees, shoulders, backs of his hands and fingers, all parts of his body were used as weapons by Kertatus. It was as if the body was telling us to use it like this.

I only knew of one-dimensional combat, blocking and hitting the opponent’s attack.

However, Certatus naturally connects defense, evasion, counterattack, and subsequent movements in one light movement, like water flowing.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t due to meticulous calculations. It was just a result of instinctive senses and innate senses.

Until now, I had only known about blocking, dodging, and hitting in combat, so every single action Kertatus showed came as a fresh shock.

I thought I should stop Certatus.

I was engrossed in the wonderful movements as if possessed.

Certatus’ hand was very cruel. Breaking bones was common, and I didn’t hesitate to see blood, so my knuckles were gradually drenched in blood.

“Monster, monster….”

“Hey!”

When there were only three people left who attacked me the first time, they gave up attacking and just stared at me with dark, dead faces.

Kim Dong-cheol and two unknown combat students. Somehow, it was the same trio who had come to steal the golden egg on the way back to school.

“Dongcheol-ah… oh, this isn’t it how do you beat that! I can not!”

“Hey! You bastard, where are you going!”

In the past, when Kim Dong-cheol collapsed, the combat department student who ran away first turned his back and ran away.

I just let the student run away then. But Kertatus had no such intention.

[“Ha! Who let you go?”]

Beating his ground with a ferocious smile, Certatus kicked off the wall of his alley a couple of times and leaped high into the air.

It jumped a long way higher than the height of a person’s head, and then fell down and landed a strong kick on the back of the man who was running away.

Kwajik! A man’s body slumped to the ground and the sound of his ribs being crushed could be heard.

“Off… Heo-eok… !!”

The man couldn’t even scream and passed out with a gasping breath. Kertatus laughed as he landed on the limp man’s back.

[“You are weak. You can’t beat a devil kid rolling around the bottom of the demon realm? Did you just brag like this?”]

Now there are only two people left. They hesitantly retreated back, looking terrified and confused as if they couldn’t comprehend the situation.

“Don’t come! Oh, don’t come!”

[“Are you going?”]

“Ughhhhh!”

In a panic, Kim Dong-chul grabbed the shoulder of one of the gangsters left next to him and pushed him forward. And he immediately turned his back and ran away.

The male student who was shoved in the shoulder made a blank expression at first, but then he crumpled his face and spat out double curses.

“Kim Dong-cheol… This bitch- heck!”

After thrusting his fist into the abdomen of the male student left alone and knocking him out with only one blow, Kertatus quickly caught up with Kim Dong-cheol.

“Ahhhhh!”

Certatus grabbed Kim Dong-chul by the back of his head and slammed him down towards the floor. Kwajik! Cracks spread like spider webs across the hard ground.

“Quaaagh! My nose! My cooooo!!”

[“Baby, with some broken bones, you’re going to kill yourself.”]

Kim Dong-cheol curled up like a ball bug, grabbed his nose and rolled on the floor.

He looked up at me, at Kertatus, with a terrified look on his face, and groaned in agony.

“Ugh, ugh…” What are you… What are you!”

[“What?”]

“You weren’t such a strong guy… What kind of support department bastard is this strong!”

[“Ha… young? Have you not understood the situation yet?”]

Kertatus looked down at Kim Dong-cheol with a careless attitude as if he were looking at trash, and his expression crumpled.

At that bloody pace, Kim Dong-chul’s attitude became extremely calm.

“… Um, what kind of support department is so strong… Who are you?”

[“You asked who I am? Good question. Open your ears and listen carefully. This body-“]

In an instant, the back of my neck tightened, and I urgently regained control of my body and kept my mouth shut. It was because it seemed that if I left alone, the devil or whatever would come out on me.

‘Hey! Crazy?!’

Of course, most people won’t believe me if I claim to be a devil, but if I say anything about a devil in front of people, I could very rarely be arrested as a devil worshiper.

Because these days, there is a tendency to be sensitive about devil worship. I sincerely wanted to avoid the situation where a public security hunter visited my house.

[“… Ugh. Annoying.”]

Certatus scratched his ears with a sullen attitude, as if he was going to die of annoyance.

[“Why are you worried about the future? I have never worried about the aftermath.”]

‘What?’

[“This is why you are a kid. These assholes, even if they didn’t know, dared to attack me. Then you will have to pay the price.”

‘Hey, wait a minute… !’

[“Didn’t I tell you you’re going to search? Bye.”]

Certatus raised one of his feet high. A shadow fell over Kim Dong-cheol’s face. He looked dazed as if he hadn’t grasped the situation until the last moment.

“Uh… ?”

Kwaaang!! His feet were stamped down and the ground cracked in all directions.

Power on a different level than before. Clouds of dust rose to knee height.

The whole area was instantly dyed in silence.

My foot was buried deep in the ground right next to Kim Dong-cheol’s head.

“Heo Eok, Heo Eok….”

I hurriedly regained my body and gasped for breath.

‘Really… I really meant to kill you!’

If it was a little too late to get his body back, Kim Dong-cheol would have had his head crushed and died. He really wanted to kill people without hesitation. For one reason alone that he pounced on him.

Kim Dong-cheol, who belatedly grasped the situation, let out a scream full of fear and astonishment.

“hhhhh!”

Kim Dong-cheol, who saved his life by a hair’s breadth, stepped back as if he were crawling on the floor and got away from me. I barely suppressed my trembling body and glared at Kim Dongchul.

In my head, the voice of Kertatus filled with rage resounded, telling me to surrender my body immediately.

“Hey, you… go away… right now!”

“Ugh, yes… sorry… I’m sorry Kim Yi-jin! I won’t do that again! Sorry!”

Kim Dong-cheol desperately nodded his head and ran away with all his might in the alleyway without looking back.

I still grabbed the limbs that were trying to move against my will. It seemed that if I lost my guard even a little, my body would be taken away again, and I would chase after and kill Kim Dong-cheol.

I was wrong. I myself had somehow thought that if I left the fight to Kertatus like this, it would be easily resolved, so I didn’t actively try to get my body back from him.

But that didn’t work. Kertatus is the devil. He was a truly dangerous being to mankind, capable of killing people without guilt just because he was against his own heart.

It doesn’t matter what Kertatus’s purpose is. Even if they are not openly hostile to humans, they are a tribe called devils who do not care about human lives as much as worms. The outcome of what kind of inhumane thing he would commit if he entrusted himself to him was predetermined.

I realized once again how dangerous the guy inside of me is.

‘Quickly… I have to do something….’

I still lose my body from time to time, but there was no way I could do it on my own. I needed a device to control this guy.

Suppressing the raging Kertatus to the depths of my consciousness, I slowly left his back alley.

–

Suseong Guild office located in Jongno-gu, Shinseoul.

The office of the deputy guild leader in Suseong with a panoramic view of the capital city.

“You seem to have made up your mind?”

Shin Seo-yeon crossed her legs and leaned deeply against the back of her chair as she opened her mouth.

Opposite her was her only blood relative, Yoon Seo-hee, who was looking at Shin Seo-yeon, not hiding her displeasure.

“What about things?”

“You have an impatient temperament, too. I want to know who that personality resembles.”

“Stop talking nonsense.”

Shin Seo-yeon’s eyebrows furrowed at the tone of Yoon Seo-hee, who clearly drew a line.

“… Yes. I’ll say it for now, but I can’t readily give out expensive equipment items to a student who hasn’t joined Mercury yet and hasn’t made any achievements. I have no intention of favoritism as a family member.”

“Because you never asked for that?”

“Hmm, that’s right. Anyway, this is the limit of the investment I can make as an assistant guild leader in Mercury to a promising S-rank Awakener.”

Shin Seo-yeon put a small box on her work table.

“Take it. Because what you want is in it.”

“… ….”

Yoon Seo-hee didn’t even answer and picked up the box Shin Seo-yeon gave her.

Then she left coldly without saying goodbye.

“Oh, it’s cold. Do you go in carefully?”

Shin Seo-yeon waved her hand at Yoon Seo-hee’s back. However, her thoughts about her one and only sister were no longer in Yoon Seo-hee’s head.

‘If only I had this….’

She squeezed her little box in her hand.

‘I… I’ll definitely help, Lee Jin-ah!’