Breaking Up With the Heroine in an Otome Game

29 – Side Quest Dungeon Exploration Failure and Strategy (9)

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The breath of flame scatters deep crimson flashes and attacks greedily as if it would devour everything.

I felt like my eyeballs were burning and the moisture in my body was evaporating just by looking at it.

It felt as if the blazing flames were heating up the surrounding air. Yoo Seol-hyeon felt her breath getting hotter for some reason. He seemed to have difficulty breathing for some reason.

It was clear that if a human were to touch that fire, they would be reduced to a mere piece of meat and burn brightly until they were reduced to charcoal.

Even if he is a hero, he cannot avoid death if he is hit with his bare body.

Hasn’t Yoo Seol-hyeon almost died from touching that flame several times?

But, but… ….

How on earth did this happen?

Yoo Seol-hyeon was unable to ease his bewildered mind as he recalled the scene he had just seen.

Wasn’t that why he cut it down?

That flame.

‘You cut that flame with a sword?’

When Jinhyuk Lee drew his sword, the breath of fire split in an instant.

The flame filled with magical power was so fleeting that it was so fleeting that it was soon neglected.

The fierce craze floated gently in the air like the flapping wings of a butterfly and soon died down.

…… How on earth did this happen?

Yoo Seol-hyeon, who suddenly saw a scene that did not make sense, had no choice but to look at Lee Jin-hyuk’s back with bewildered eyes.

Was it possible to cut through that breath of fire without even applying sword energy?

No, even if you use sword techniques, you cannot cut down and extinguish a flame with that much magical power.

Just as you cannot cut water with a sword, of course you cannot cut fire with a sword.

Therefore, what Yu Seol-hyeon witnessed now was a scene that deviated from common sense and logic, so it was natural for a question to arise in her mind.

‘…… Strange ability? Is it really a strange ability?’

Unusual ability.

The power to manifest one’s own ideals in the world.

This unique power broke down many of the common sense and laws that humanity had established and presented new possibilities.

If he had used an abnormal ability that could be said to be an incomprehensible mystery, cutting the flames and destroying them, it would have been understandable to some extent.

Because there are so many different types and powers of abnormal abilities.

But if he had that much abnormal ability, why did he hide it until now? There would be no reason for that.

Also, didn’t Jinhyuk Lee already have the ability to predict the future? He has the ability to predict the future, but he also has another strange ability? This is a bit difficult to understand.

‘Could it be that it is not an abnormal ability but pure swordsmanship?’

To have that level of skill and skill, you have to be at least a master of handmade swords, right? The master of the sword is not the name of the dog next door. Yu Seol-hyeon shook her head in her heart. There is no way he could become a master at that age. Unless you are a sword-level genius.

This was when Yoo Seol-hyeon’s worries deepened.

“You, you!”

“… ….”

“What, how did you do it!”

“… ….”

Kate screamed and glared at Jinhyuk Lee viciously, but Jinhyuk Lee did not say anything and just stared at her quietly.

Unlike before, the cold, sunken eyes, the stern facial expression, and the sight of the sword being swung as if of course it could be blocked were stuck in Kate’s mind and never left.

It was an incomprehensible sight to Kate to see the breath of fire cut through as if it were no big deal.

Because she had never blocked even the heroes she had come across with a single swing of her sword.

Even the stronger guys were busy avoiding most of them, but what about that guy?

Until just now, he was a guy who was hiding behind girls and using only arrows and other tools in a petty manner!

“Kill me, I will kill you.”

Kate growled loudly.

“There’s no guessing this time!”

She shouted again to shake off her inexplicable nervousness and quickly summoned her magic power.

I don’t know what tricks she’s done, but I know she’ll be no stranger to it this time!

I will finish with a stronger blow than before.

Just as I was thinking that, Jinhyuk Lee silently raised his sword. What is that guy? What are you thinking?

“…… You?”

“… ….”

An enormous amount of magical energy began to be concentrated on the blade, which was upright. A heated blade scattering bluish light. The amount of concentrated magic power, dare I say it, was similar to the fireworks that Kate had shot out.

A mere archer, or rather a swordsman, has that much magical power?

She was very embarrassed because Kate was once a wizard.

If that boy was able to generate that much magical power, why did he only shoot useless arrows earlier?

Questions abound, but that’s not what’s important right now.

For now, let’s focus on burning that man.

‘At this distance, I have a much advantage. ‘We can burn it down before he gets there.’

Range, which can be said to be the weakness of all swordsmen.

As the sword was a typical cold weapon, it was an inevitable weakness. No, not only swords but almost all cold weapons were like that in the first place.

No matter how fast that boy approaches, he will inevitably be slower than Kate, who has already completed almost all preparations.

‘So stop dying now…… ?’

Poof.

In an unconscious moment, the sword was swung.

What are you doing? A sword from that distance? I captured the flame with this thought, but wouldn’t it be a crescent-shaped magical power shooting out from the sword he swung?

Seol, really a sword dealer?

“?!”

Kate hurriedly stoked an unfinished fire in an unexpected situation, but it was to no avail.

The sword energy rushed in as fast as a beam of light, fiercely cutting through the flames and reaching right in front of Kate’s nose.

Kate unconsciously stretched out her arms and the remaining bundle of tentacles to protect her body.

However, the moment it touched the sword, which was as hot as molten iron, the tentacle cut into pieces, cutting Kate’s chest cleanly, cutting off her arms and bones.

“Big, ugh, wow?!”

Kate lost concentration due to her terrible pain, and the enormous amount of magic she had stored up in her mouth was all at once disturbed, and her magic, which had lost its way, shook Kate’s insides. It was hit.

“Cluck, crack, crack, wow!”

Kate suffered serious damage because of this.

There were so many wounds here and there on her body that it was beyond what her body could handle. Kate collapsed, vomiting blood. Huh, huh, wow, that’s ridiculous. Me, that guy, that guy… ….

“Geo, sword energy, sword energy merchant…… ? You, a guy like you…… How did you get that skill…… !”

He was said to have lost half of his intellect and was behind his mental age, but he clearly remembered that in the past, there were very few swordsmen who could embody a swordsman.

Therefore, I never imagined that that little boy could use the Sword Technique Merchant.

Woe, wasn’t he a bowman?

Could it be a fake to distract you?

I don’t know, I don’t know.

“…… Ugh, ugh.”

“… ….”

“Oh, don’t come, don’t come!, Don’t come, don’t come, go!”

“… ….”

When Lee Jin-hyuk slowly and very slowly fell down without saying a word, Kate threw up! He shouted.

It was like a slender snake that predicted death.

Kate felt her fear and tried to run away, but she couldn’t move her body because all her tentacles, arms, and internal organs were all messed up.

If you were an ordinary person, it would not be strange if you died.

Because Kate had a half-human, half-animal body, she was barely able to maintain her life.

But that won’t last long.

Because a man was approaching very slowly, very slowly, as if he was savoring the end of a mere prey.

“uuu.”

Jump, bump, bump.

The sound of slow, quiet footsteps rang like thunder in Kate’s ears.

As Kate’s death, which she could not resist, came before Kate’s eyes, Kate could only look up at Lee Jin-hyuk with helpless eyes, pouring out the blood she deserved.

Jinhyuk Lee looked down at Kate for a moment. Kate may not have known it, but this was an action born of her hesitation. But there was also a moment of hesitation. Jinhyuk Lee soon made a decision. He raised his sword.

“…… Ugh, am I going to die like this, cluck cluck, huh?”

“… ….”

Looking at the boy she lifted up without saying a word until the end, Kate thought back to her past.

After studying and studying magic, she became a monster herself.

She just wanted to study for a longer period of time, and she didn’t want to die of old age, but Kate’s greed ended up making her angry.

How many people did she sacrifice to prolong her life?

In the end, she too is destined to fall fleetingly like this.

Kate soon closed her eyes in resignation.

Her death is approaching.

Soon, sigh.

Lee Jin-hyuk’s fingertips seemed to tremble slightly, but Kate ended her life as a crazy soft magician with pain that pierced her heart.

This was the end of the Yeongdeungsan dungeon boss monster.

‘…… Jinhyuk Lee.’

And Yoo Seol-hyeon’s mind, who was watching this whole row of scenes, was confused.

This was because there were many scenes that did not make sense.

‘…… He was a sword dealer, wasn’t he?’

Sword merchant.

This is the season that many prosecutors dream of.

It was a long-distance attack that could only be performed by swordsmen with advanced magic concentration, acceleration, and release abilities.

Among the current academy trainees, there are at most only a few people who can use the sword technique. There are many people, even instructors, who cannot use it.

It was such a rare skill even in Union, where geniuses among geniuses gather.

Yoo Seol-hyeon also could not be used. Although there was a similar technique for shooting magical power as a spear, Yu Seol-hyeon only continued to fail until now. He was that difficult.

‘It was much stronger than what Lee Si-woon showed during the last performance evaluation.’

Of course, it may not have been used to its full potential during Lee Si-woon’s test, but I dare say it is impossible to compare the power of the sword technique used by Lee Jin-hyuk now.

Wasn’t even that powerful half-human, half-animal monster neutralized at once?

Yoo Seol-hyun knew very well how strong and sturdy Kate was because she had risked her life fighting that monster all this time.

I can’t believe that the monster that Yoo Seol-hyeon couldn’t defeat even though he fought hard and shed blood for dozens of minutes ended up in vain like that.

Jinhyuk Lee, what on earth is this?

From cutting down the flames to using a sword blade.

I heard that his skills were so bad that he barely got into the academy. Why, why were these things hidden?

Whether it’s abnormal ability, swordsmanship, or something that Yu Seol-hyeon doesn’t know, why…….

If you dream of becoming a hero, it would be better not to hide it.

‘…… Ah, consciousness.’

Is it because I am relaxed?

I could see that the consciousness I was holding on to was slowly fading away.

Before he lost consciousness, Yoo Seol-hyeon thought about Lee Jin-hyuk again in his dazed mind.

‘Why on earth are you…? … ?’

Only questions lingered in her mind, but soon Yoo Seol-hyeon’s consciousness flickered.

Beyond my dim consciousness, I heard a voice that seemed to be Jinhyuk Lee calling me, but I soon lost consciousness.

***

“Oh, I thought I was going to die.”

I sat down. Huh, look at how my legs are shaking.