chapter 12
12 – 012. Yewon Ji (6)
A winter night full of moon.
On the roof of an abandoned abandoned building, Ahn Soo-ho and Ji Ye-won were confronting an assassin from the Rising League.
Ahn Soo-ho, who was attacked by an assassin, caressed my chest. He allowed blows unguarded, but the pain did not break his bones or render him incapacitated.
Ahn Su-ho admired a little, saying that he himself is a superman in spite of his pitiful abilities.
-Sereung.
Ahn Soo-ho quickly grasped the situation as he pulled out the stun blade that was worn around his waist.
‘Less than two. That blonde bully in front of me and the sniper who shot me from afar.’
However, I couldn’t see the two as the end. Assuming the worst, it wouldn’t be strange if a third or fourth enemy appeared.
On the other hand, this side’s strength is only herself and Ji Ye-won.
Chae So-yeon’s injury was serious. She suffered mortal wounds that could have resulted in her death, even considering she is superhuman. It can’t be expected as a force.
‘But it’s not even that bad.’
Amidst the misfortune, fortunately, thanks to his psychic power, ‘black smoke’, sniping from a distance was half-sealed.
In other words, the enemies in front of me right now are all assassins.
His strength is unknown, but if he fights Ji Ye-won 2-1, he will have a good chance.
“What is the status of Vegetable Yeon?”
“I am alive. But it won’t last long.”
Ji Ye-won laid the unconscious Chae-yeon’s body on the floor. Only her intermittent shallow breathing maintained that she was not yet dead.
‘Chae So-yeon is neither a main character nor an academy student.’
In other words, even if she dies, there is no systematic penalty going to Ahn Su-ho.
However, Chae-yeon is Min Chae-ryeong’s subordinate. Min Chae-ryeong wouldn’t blame him for her death, but it would have been better if he could have been saved.
‘Fortunately, there are intermediate recovery potions as well as quest rewards.’
Ahn Su-ho estimated the potion’s recovery effect based on the knowledge of the original work. Since it was a fatal wound, it couldn’t be cured, but it would be possible to mitigate the injury to the point where it wouldn’t die.
‘In other words, I have to finish it quickly before the vegetable-yeon dies.’
He gripped the handle of the stun blade strongly. The blade was blunt, so its function as a sword could not be hoped for, but the murderous current flowing through the sword made even a superhuman nervous.
‘It’s a fight to the death.’
His greatest achievement in his life related to fighting was a giant who was beaten for three full minutes in boxing classroom sparring. His palms were drenched in cold sweat at the tension creeping up on him.
“Yewon. I’m telling you in advance, I’m not very good at fighting.”
“Only pace. I will take care of the rest.”
Yewon Ji stepped forward holding a black dagger in both hands.
“Ohhh, fighting back without thinking about running away, that’s great! Well, you caught the attention of that little rat when he stole the talisman, right? I heard you came from a hunting team, so you must be good at fighting?”
The assassin slung an ax over his shoulder in an awkward posture. A mischievous smile appeared on his face.
“But let’s not be too hasty. Even though he betrayed them, he was a family member who ate together until recently, right? Let’s talk leisurely before killing each other.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Are you afraid I won’t know that you’re trying to buy time for the others to come?”
Ji Ye-won lowered her stance. The momentum to run right away. As Ahn Soo-ho adjusted his stance, the assassin of the organization spoke with a smirk.
“Sadly, what is the ulterior motive? I mean, let’s talk. Aren’t you curious about what happened to your colleague?”
At those words, Ji Ye-won’s shoulders trembled. Seeing that reaction, the assassin smiled even more deeply.
“Can I tell you? How did it go? Huh? Aren’t you curious?”
“Shut up.”
Ji Ye-won could easily guess the situation her colleague was in.
Perhaps he could not overcome the severe torture and confessed all the information. Proof of this was that he, the assassin of her organization, was waiting for her as if she were showing off.
“My name must have been Minah Kim. You said you were pretty close with that rat? Was she from the same orphanage? Aren’t you really curious what happened to her friend? Coincidentally, I was there when she tortured her. I can explain it vividly if you want.”
“I told you to shut up!”
“It was an unfortunate torture in many ways. The person in charge of the advisor was a newcomer, so he was a bit inexperienced.”
No matter what Ji Ye-won said, the assassin didn’t care.
His eyes curved like crescent moons. He opened his mouth in an excited tone, as if he couldn’t bear to talk.
“Since ancient times, the beauty of torture is to gradually increase the intensity and tighten it gently, but this guy must have been nervous, so he went too hard from the start.”
“What was the beginning? Yes, first of all, I started by removing all of his toenails. But he didn’t even open his mouth to that extent. Even though I removed all 20 of my limbs, my eyes are still alive.
“But I told you. That the torturer was a rookie. I’m sure I did as I was taught, but the other person didn’t even show the letter of surrender, so I got nervous.”
“Originally, if you don’t confess to the first torture, you should be given a confession, leave it for a while, marinate it, and ask questions again, but this guy immediately moved on to the next torture. I smashed his fingers with a pliers, hammered the backs of his hands, and sliced the flesh of his forearms with a knife. It goes up in order, starting with his fingertips, as if he were following any textbook. Hey, a newcomer is a newcomer and you think you learned it well?”
“But now that’s where the problem arose. Originally, this kind of torture, especially physical torture, shouldn’t cause too much pain. It can go into shock, and even if it doesn’t, it’s annoying in many ways if your mind is damaged too much. So, whether it’s a confessional or a drug, you have to marinate it in advance to alleviate the pain. After all, the purpose of torture is to inflict pain, so it’s ironic, isn’t it?”
He looked at Ji Ye-won while he was talking excitedly. She was listening to him silently with her painful expression on her face, ready to rush at him.
The assassin really liked Ji Ye-won’s expression.
‘Even if you pretend not to, in the end, you’re curious about what you’re curious about.’
He was well aware of how special Kim Min-ah and Ji Ye-won’s relationship was.
Perhaps now she is worried about the safety of her dearest friend and she is also wondering.
Then she said that it was her duty to satisfy her curiosity, and he followed her, who wiped her dry lips with her tongue.
“But I told you. This newcomer didn’t use any drugs, including the confessional.”
At those words, Ji Ye-won’s expression hardened. I was expecting what the man would say next.
“Anyway, the rookie’s pride must have been hurt quite a bit. Even though that b*tch cried and screamed, the torture never stopped. Then, I tortured her by touching her spinal nerve with a strange needle, but, strangely, she didn’t respond. I felt sorry for her. I saw that he was already out of his mind. Should I say that his body is alive but his mind is dead? Belatedly, he gave first aid, administered painkillers, and tried all sorts of sh*t, but he couldn’t recover.”
“……What?”
“Thanks to you, it was such a struggle to find out this place. I couldn’t even speak properly, and even opening my mouth hurts, I hate it, kill me, all I said was these!”
He sighed after making a lot of noise. It was as if he was relieved to have conveyed all of this properly.
“This is the reason I didn’t retrieve Talisman earlier. How did they find out the place, but the taste was so bad that they couldn’t use their superpowers at all. What, that space storage? You say you have to go there yourself or give someone a key or something to open it? Would that be acceptable to a b*tch who drools and drools in embarrassment? Thanks to that, I was nervous at the thought of doing an undercover job, but thank you so much for showing up in one day!”
The assassin bowed his head. Actions with sarcastic intent.
Ji Ye-won gnashed her teeth with a loud noise. Her fists gripping her dagger trembled.
“Yewon. Calm down.”
“…… What is true I am very fine.”
It was an obvious provocation. Ji Ye-won managed to control her heart. Although she may be angered by the assassin’s words and actions, she kept her rationality cool.
“It’s torture, it’s nabal, and we’re already prepared for each other. If I didn’t have that kind of determination, I wouldn’t even think about betraying the Dawning.”
“Oh, be prepared.”
She
Tried to keep up.
“He seemed like he would suck my dick if I saved him after an hour or three. What a modest resolution.”
“……You bastard!”
However, at the sight of him teasing his tongue with sinister eyes, the string of reason he was barely holding on to suddenly snapped.
-Pot!
Ji Ye-won kicked the ground with a bloody expression. The moment Ahn Su-ho recognized it, she had already burrowed into the pursuer’s arms in an instant.
-Kaang!
Immediately after that, the sound of metal colliding with metal resonated fiercely.
-Kaang! Kang! Caang! Kaaang!
A blurry reflected light was embroidered in the air. The blade and the ax blade intersect in all directions. A speed that ordinary people can’t keep up with. Even Ahn Soo-ho barely chased after the afterimage.
-Kaaang!
Ji Ye-won wields daggers in both hands.
It looked like petals blowing in the wind.
Movement closer to sword dance than combat. It was a splendid dance move that disturbed the eyes of the beholder. Although he surrendered to his rage, there was not an inch of movement in his movements.
-Kaaang!
On the other hand, the assassin’s attack was extremely simple.
Block attacks, swing horizontally, or slash with a bell.
It was a simple three-time movement, but there was no gap at all. The momentum with which he swung the ax in an honest manner was like a solidly fortified fortress.
A fight between a spear and a shield. A charter that seems to be antagonistic at first glance.
However, Ji Ye-won was not alone in fighting the assassin.
-Pajijijik!
Ahn Soo-ho jumped in belatedly and swung a stun blade.
An exquisite position to attack the assassin without interfering with Ji Ye-won’s movement. It was a very good positioning for someone unfamiliar with combat.
However, it’s a beginner’s move anyway. It wasn’t enough to threaten an assassin who had won a battle.
-f*ck!
“Keugh?!”
Ahn Su-ho’s body was pushed back by the unwitting kick.
It was not an attack with sincerity, but a blow that was extended as a check against Ji Ye-Won.
However, that was enough to deal with Ahn Soo-ho. Even an assassin’s light blow came as a fatal wound to his pitiful body.
“Why are all my colleagues so boring! One fell behind with a sniping shot, and the other one can’t even fight properly?”
“I alone am enough to kill you!”
“You are very handsome, yes!”
-Kaaang!
The next moment, Ji Ye-won’s dagger was shattered by the assassin’s axe.
A fishy smile tugged at the corners of the assassin’s mouth. Ji Ye-won, who took a step back to straighten her posture, rushed fiercely into Ye-won’s arms.
-Kaang!
However, the ax he swung vigorously was blocked by An Su-ho’s stun blade. Because of the difference in muscle strength between them, Ahn Su-ho’s knee broke.
It was bent, but the brief gap he made was enough time for Ji Ye-won to adjust her posture. Before she knew it, a new dagger made with psychic powers was clutched in her hand.
-Blood Shoot!
The assassin’s arm was cut shallowly. A minor wound, but a wound is a wound. In an instant, a look of displeasure appeared on his face as he stepped back ten meters.
“Are you good enough?”
“…… Thank you for the compliment.”
The two took their stance again. Seeing that, the assassin clicked his tongue.
‘Ji Ye-won. I heard you came from a hunting team, but you’re strong as expected. That guy named Suho Ahn is also strangely intrusive because he has a good sense compared to his slowness…….’
The assassin glanced behind him. A black smoke screen filled the air in the direction of his fellow sniper.
‘Looking at the fact that it doesn’t even get dissipated by the wind, isn’t it an ordinary smoke screen?’
He lowered his posture, thinking that it must be the psychic powers of that man, An Su-ho.
‘It’s a bit unexpected, but it’s not particularly dangerous.’
Other pursuers of the organization were guarding another place for Ji Ye-won to go. All of them were running towards this abandoned building where he was now. The sniper should also be moving to an area unobstructed by smoke by now.
Right now, he is temporarily at a disadvantage, but over time, that degree of merit or disadvantage will naturally reverse itself.
The possibility that Ji Ye-won might have another colleague passed by, but she immediately shook her head. She lost even her organization, the criminal she belonged to, so where will she find her comrades?
Even if she had a colleague she knew before, few would be willing to help her when she turned her Dawning group into an enemy.
‘But where the hell did those kites come from?’
Looking at Chae So-yeon and Ahn Su-ho alternately, he was lost in thought. There were various possibilities about the identity of the two people, but none of them came to mind.
No matter how successful he was as an assassin in an organization, he would not have expected that the academy guards would contact Ji Ye-Won first and offer his help.
‘I don’t know.’
In the end he gave up on thinking. Even so, she is a woman who is shot and killed by a man with poor skills. It wasn’t a big threat.
‘Looking at it, it doesn’t seem like the two of them have been together for a long time… ….’
After the previous battle, he was able to understand the two of them to some extent.
Ji Ye-won was strong. The flamboyant swordsmanship, such as dancing, was intimidating enough. He said, but if you ask me if I can’t handle it, it’s not.
On the other hand, Ahn Su-ho was clumsy. He seems to have some talent, but his skills are one thousand. His physical ability as a superman was also poor.
‘If you’re aiming for one of the two, that’s him.’
The assassin grinned. A rough picture was drawn in his mind as to how to defeat the two people in front of him.
-Paat!
The assassin charged. The ax that was being swung with the force of a raging sword aimed at Ahn Su-ho’s neck.
-Kaang!
Ji Ye-won blocks the blow, and An Su-ho swings the blade without missing a chance.
Responding to the attack, Ji Ye-won this time, and An Su-ho again fills the gap between partners.
At the attack of the two who took advantage of the advantage of 2 to 1, the assassin’s body gradually increased in small wounds.
At first glance, a very good link.
However, if you look closely, there are many gaps here and there.
‘I can win.’
On the other hand, Ahn Su-ho himself could not hide his excitement at the unexpectedly favorable charter.
‘I can win. It’s worth a try!’
This is the first real life risking experience. Tension and excitement all over the body. His blood boiled with the adrenaline that flooded his brain.
The anxiety I felt before entering the battle was gone. The excitement of his first real fight, the confidence of taking the initiative clouded his judgment.
A move that made him even more daring because he thought he could do it too.
Recognizing this, Yewon Ji forcibly matched his tempo, but as a result, the improvised connection between the two gradually began to crack.
And not long after, the gold became a huge crack.
“Huh!”
Ahn Su-ho swung the blade as hard as he could. A blow full of gaps. However, the assassin didn’t aim for that gap and let his attack flow behind his back.
Unable to overcome the momentum, An Su-ho’s body fell forward.
Novice mistake. But who can blame him? Rather, he had done his part enough by being able to match Ji Ye-won’s movements, albeit clumsily.
However, this is a life-and-death battle.
Even if no one blamed him, the consequences of my mistakes were entirely up to him.
Or, his colleague is in charge.
– aaang!!
Assassin’s Strike. With a shrieking sound, Ji Ye-won’s blade broke again.
Her dagger was created with her psychic powers. It was inevitably inferior in quality to an assassin’s ax made from expensive monster materials.
Immediately creating a new sword, she stepped back. Originally, Ahn Su-ho should have filled that gap, but he couldn’t overcome my momentum and went far ahead.
A look of frustration passed over Ji Ye-won’s face.
The assassin’s ax struck down fiercely without missing the gap.
-Poo-Hak!
The next moment, bright red blood splattered.