176 – EP.8 The two met again

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The crisp mountain air filled Imina’s lungs.

It’s been a month since I moved to the dimensional rift I opened from where Emma was.

Searching for Inho’s very faint energy, he arrived at a place deep in the mountains where no one could reach.

“Look at this, Mr.

Imina’s finger pointed to a point.

There was tall grass growing there, and her fingers seemed to be pointing at the grass but not the grass.

At her words, her long shadow, formed by the moonlight, took shape and appeared.

Like a snake, the shadow glided from Imina’s shoulders, through her elbows and knees, through her feet and onto the grass.

“It’s really, really faint… but In-ho’s traces end here.”

Imina tilted her head.

“Isn’t it strange? The last time I came, there were no traces like this…”

He traces In-ho’s traces and analyzes them to find out which dimension he moved to.

That was the ability of dimension shifting given to her by the goddess Nibir.

Although she did not know everything about the concept of ‘dimension’ governed by the gods, she thought that she had established her own concept after going through several dimension shifts.

However, the present case is a new case.

An ancient shadow on the grass oscillated up and down.

Mina opened her eyes wide when she saw it.

“At least 10 years? Or maybe even older traces?”

Why didn’t I find these traces last time, and why did I find them this time?

Mina’s head hurt.

“Mr.

Mina called the shadow.

– !!!

As if responding to her call, the shadow trembled.

“I thought I had caught up with Mr. In-ho, but I’m so far away again.”

Mina spoke lonely as she reached out her hand to the sky as if to grab the moon.

“I feel like I can reach you, but I can’t.”

As if suffering, Mina covered her head with both hands and started scratching with her nails.

– buck buck buck buck

The sound of claws scratching skin filled the depths of the mountain where no one could hear them.

“after….”

Mina, who had been messing with her hair for a while, muttered with a clear face after a while.

“It’s fortunate. This seems to be the place where Mr. In-ho died… It will take a long time to analyze because it was a trace made a long time ago…”

Suddenly, Mina stopped talking.

“Wait a minute….”

There was one strange thing.

“Why are there two dead places?”

Apparently, the last time I came, I confirmed that In-ho was dead in Anhui.

But this time, the distance was quite far.

How likely is it to move to the same dimension in countless dimensions?

“Because I died twice.”

The lingering questions were cut off by a single voice.

At the sound of a voice without any sign, Mina turned and retrieved the ancient shadow.

– Bang!

A powerful shock felt on her right arm, and she flew into the air.

Soon, pain spread throughout the body.

“Ugh!”

If it had not been for Namgung So-yeon’s ability absorbed here, she would have been unable to react properly and her body would have broken.

Imina smashed several trees and fell to the ground.

Where she landed, an ancient shadow formed a circle and acted as a cushion.

“Whoa… Thanks to you, I’m alive, Mr. Kkumul.”

When Mina greeted the shadow, the shadow moved the body up and down.

It meant focusing on the upcoming fight.

At the same time, a sound was heard cutting through the air.

Like an arrow from the string of a longbow, something swiftly flew towards her.

“Mister Procrastination!”

With Mina’s cry, an ancient shadow took shape.

A long barbell and a bunch of heavy barbell plates attached to it.

Mina grabbed the end of the barbell and struck it from top to bottom with a blunt instrument made of a bar and a disc.

– Kkang!

With a clear sound, dust rose, and a dull sensation was felt on the rod.

But the indescribable anxiety did not go away.

Obviously, the anxiety that the opponent will be fine.

“It’s a monstrous weapon.”

And that anxiety accurately predicted the situation.

Stuck in the middle of the bar, the opponent’s foot.

The half-bent bong was weeping plaintively.

“Oops…! Mr. Procrastination!”

In preparation for another attack, Mina, who tried to retrieve the shadow, was grabbed by the throat and pinned to the ground.

“Kyaaak!!”

Even as she screamed at the impact of running on her back, Imina’s eyes did not miss the opponent who was sitting on her.

In the dark moonlight, deep in the mountains.

The one who hunted him like a predator was looking down at him with eyes redder than blood.

– Huung!

The opponent who occupied her stomach pulled back his right fist.

The government would be pierced from top to bottom.

‘Avoid…’

That’s what I thought, but things didn’t go well.

The shadow was in the recovery phase, and the body was fixed and unable to move.

The best choice she could make was to hope that the durability she had gained from absorbing people while traveling through different dimensions would be able to withstand attacks.

Anticipating the shock that would follow, Mina instinctively closed her eyes tightly.

– Boom!!!

A huge roar hit my ears.

Her ears were ringing, but the pain she thought didn’t come.

what? Did it hit too hard, overloading the brain?

“……”

When nothing happened after waiting for a long time, Mina slowly opened her eyes.

The fist fell right next to her face.

“Didn’t you say it was already me?”

Flashing red eyes, the opponent slowly lowered his body and brought his face closer.

“I knew you would come again. If you’re following Inho’s trail, you’ll definitely come here.”

“But how do I know when he’ll come? That’s why I’ve been around here ever since you ran away.”

The other person’s voice was full of annoyance.

“I don’t know what kind of magic it is, but you must be chasing In-ho in some way.”

The movement of the opponent stopped at a distance where each breath seemed to reach.

Seeing those eyes that would make your hamstrings tingle if you were looking at them, Lee Mi-na gulped down her saliva.

“Me and Inho met twice. At first, I thought Inho, who had died, had come back to life.”

“But no. The Inho I met recently didn’t remember anything about me.”

“It may be that he forgot his memories during his resurrection, but… one thing came to mind.”

“When I first met In-ho… the appearance of In-ho who seemed to know me strangely.”

“I didn’t know why I was reacting like that at the time, but I only realized it after sending Inho twice and meeting you.”

“It was the first meeting for me and the second meeting for In-ho.”

“However, there are things that cannot be explained even by the assumption of going against time.”

“In-ho must have died. Twice.”

The opponent showed two fingers.

“To my knowledge there is no way to explain this.”

– Bang!

“So that’s all you have to say.”

Once again, the fist landed on Imina’s side.

“Everything you know.”

The Heavenly Demon showed this to Imina and growled.