Chapter 21 – Day 21

Day 21

“Um…, miss?”

“Yes?”

The young man’s trembling voice coming from behind.

Cheon Seoa kept her gaze fixed on the monitor and answered with a puzzled voice.
“Could I ask just one thing?”

“What is it?”

“How on earth are you catching them?”

The young man asked Cheon Seoa with a voice that truly, truly couldn’t understand.

Even though they were watching right behind her, the young man… no, including the young man, even the shadow monster couldn’t understand how Cheon Seoa was able to catch the enemies.

Clearly, the enemies weren’t even visible to their eyes, yet Cheon Seoa was acting as if she knew where the enemies were in advance.

No, it wasn’t just that simple.

“Insane…!”

The young man exclaimed in a suppressed voice.

Just now, Cheon Seoa had ended the game with a victory by killing the last remaining enemy with a headshot.

However, the process was simply unbelievable.

Cheon Seoa was clearly defusing the bomb, and the enemy who heard the defusing sound approached stealthily without making a single footstep through ‘walking’.

But even before the enemy could pop out from the alley, Cheon Seoa had long since pressed the 1 key to swap to her gun, and furthermore, in less than 0.1 seconds after the enemy appeared, Cheon Seoa’s aim was already fixed on the enemy’s head.

What happened next?

As expected, the moment the game ended, the chat that had been blocked through all-mute was unlocked.
As a result, the opponents spewed all kinds of profanities along with nonsense about hacks and bugs.

“Are you really using hacks?”

The young man asked again in an unbelieving voice.

Of course, he didn’t care at all whether Cheon Seoa used hacks or not.

But Cheon Seoa using hacks?
That was impossible from the start.

Cheon Seoa didn’t even know about the game called Valorant.
Moreover, the young man had been sticking right by Cheon Seoa’s side from the moment she launched the game.

Even if Cheon Seoa had installed hacks, there was no way he could have missed it.

However, Cheon Seoa looked at the young man, no, at both the young man and the shadow monster who had the same unbelieving eyes, as if she couldn’t understand them in return.

“Why can’t you do this?”

Here’s the English translation:

Cheon Seoa asked again with pure innocence.

‘Damn it! So how the hell did you catch it?!’

The young man, in response to Cheon Seoa’s question, forcibly swallowed such a cry that was about to burst through his throat and tried to smile.

“I really don’t understand, that’s why. If it’s alright with you, could you please tell me how you caught it?”

“Hmm.”

Cheon Seoa puffed her cheeks at the young man who was asking while forcing a smile.

She was just starting to have fun, and she didn’t want to waste time because of the young man.

However.

‘Still, he must have gathered his courage to ask.’

Hmm! With that thought, Cheon Seoa nodded and soon played the replay video of the previous match.

“Now, watch carefully. This part here. Can you see it?”

“What, what am I supposed to see?”

“Can’t you see the gun muzzle here?”

As Cheon Seoa pointed with her finger, the young man squinted his eyes and stared intently at the monitor.

After a few seconds passed like that.

“Ah…!”

The young man let out a low sound close to a hollow laugh.

He could see it.
Now he could understand what Cheon Seoa was pointing at.

But.

“D-Did you see this?”

The young man said with a trembling voice.

At the spot Cheon Seoa’s finger was pointing, a tiny gun muzzle made of just 1 pixel could be seen peeking out.
No, calling it 1 pixel was generous; its actual size was even smaller.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it was completely invisible.
If you focused hard enough, you could see it clearly.

The problem was that she had noticed this in real-time while the game was in progress.

‘How on earth?’

Just as the young man was thinking that to himself.

“If there’s a gun muzzle, it means there’s an enemy character, right? And when I played the game, I found out that Valorant has a feature called ‘wall bang’. The character sizes are also fixed.”

Wall bang.
It commonly refers to a system where bullets fired from behind a wall can damage enemies on the other side.

Of course, it was true that Valorant supported the wall bang feature.
However, wall bangs weren’t possible on all maps.

There were places where wall bangs were possible, and places where they weren’t.
In other words, Cheon Seoa was saying that just by seeing a gun muzzle smaller than 1 pixel, she could identify what kind of gun it was, then aim at where the enemy character’s head would be.
And if it was a position where wall bangs were possible, she would shoot and kill them right away.
‘What the hell is this nonsense?’
The young man let out a hollow laugh.

But Cheon Seoa’s explanation wasn’t over yet.

“And even if you didn’t manage to check that, if an enemy suddenly pops out, can’t you just aim for the head and shoot? Isn’t that enough?”

In other words, Cheon Seoa is saying this right now.

I just saw it, so I aimed and shot.

That’s…

‘Is that possible with human reaction speed?’

Come to think of it…

‘The moment the enemy popped out, before I could even blink, my aim was already fixed on the enemy’s head.’

It was truly beastlike… no, it was a monstrous reflex and dynamic vision that was beyond even describing as beastlike.

At the same time.

‘What kind of ability does she have?’

The young man became curious.

He already knew that the girl in front of him was ‘something’ that even made the Seven Sword Emperor bow his head and act humbly.

But he didn’t know she had such monstrous physical abilities.

Could all of those abilities be due to her power?

While the young man was harboring such doubts.

“Then, is the business finished?”

“What? Oh, yes. It’s finished.”

“Then please don’t disturb me anymore.”

With those words, Cheon Seoa fixed her gaze back on the monitor and continued her game.

* * *

“Really? Cheon Seoa… no, the young lady has taken an interest in gaming?”

Here’s the translation:

-That’s right.

“Hmm, a game. It’s certainly not a bad hobby. Ah, but what game has the young lady taken an interest in?”

-It’s called Valorant.

“Valorant. Valorant…”

Upon hearing the subordinate’s report, the Seven Sword Emperor scratched his chin, mulling over the name ‘Valorant’.

According to the report, the young lady hasn’t stepped foot outside the house for three days, solely playing Valorant.

Could it be that entertaining?

Well then.

“Let’s contact Riot.”

-For what purpose…?

“We’ll sponsor them. Tell them to organize something, be it a tournament or an event, doesn’t matter.”

-Understood.

With those words, the communication with the subordinate ended.

Only then did the Seven Sword Emperor rise from his seat and look out the window.

Below his feet, countless people scurried about the streets like ants.

Watching this scene, the Seven Sword Emperor grinned.

“Meeting the young lady that day was the greatest fortune of my life.”

Recalling the gradually fading memory, the Seven Sword Emperor reminisced about his first encounter with Cheon Seoa.

The Seven Sword Emperor was born during the Japanese colonial period.

Born as the eldest son among seven siblings in a family so poor that even earning enough to eat day by day was a struggle, the Seven Sword Emperor.

Perhaps that’s why.

As the eldest son of an extremely poor family, Chilgeomje had to give up many things from a young age for that reason alone.

Food, clothing, enjoyment, and education, among other things.

In particular, from the age of 13, Chilgeomje did whatever he could to earn money.

He had no choice.
The moment his father – whom he was irritated to even call “father” – who had been earning money, fell ill.

Chilgeomje found himself in a situation where he had to earn money.

In the midst of this, while he was carrying “a certain object” on an errand for a Japanese police officer.

Chilgeomje was severely injured by another police officer who had a bad relationship with the one who had assigned him the errand.

Due to that bastard’s ability, he suffered a critical injury where both his legs were torn off.

Thus, losing both legs and dying in a pile of garbage, Chilgeomje resented his parents, resented his siblings, resented his family, and further resented the entire world.

It was then, as Chilgeomje was gradually rushing towards death while resenting everything in the world, that he met Cheon Seoa.

When he first made eye contact with Cheon Seoa.
Chilgeomje thought Cheon Seoa was an angel who had descended from heaven to take his dead self away.

However, Cheon Seoa was not an entity like an angel or a grim reaper.

Chilgeomje still remembered clearly.

The moment Cheon Seoa made a light gesture, his legs that had been torn off by the Japanese police officer were perfectly regenerated.

Moreover, Cheon Seoa, who had regenerated his legs, said.

[You are a pitiful child.]

A pitiful child.
Cheon Seoa clearly referred to herself that way.

No one else had ever shown sympathy for her.
Not the man lying bedridden who was called her father. Not the woman called her mother who was just holed up in a rundown house under the pretext of nursing such a father.

Without even thinking of earning money with their own hands, they just consumed the food bought with the money she earned. And those damn younger siblings who continued their studies, which she wanted to do but couldn’t.

Furthermore, no one in this world sympathized with her, except for one person. Only Cheon Seoa sympathized with her, called her a pitiful child, and even shed a tear for her.

At the same time.

[Would it be alright if I gave you a ‘small help’?]

[Help… you say?]

[Yes. Help.]

As Cheon Seoa said this, a book was already in her hand.

The book Cheon Seoa handed over was not made of paper or anything like that.

She didn’t know it then, but thinking about it now, the material that made up the book she received was probably leather. And it was likely human leather at that.

As the Seven Sword Emperor took the book Cheon Seoa handed over, Cheon Seoa went on to show something else.

[This is called the Seven Desire Sword. It’s a companion to the Seven Desire Demon Technique I gave you.]

With those words, Cheon Seoa disappeared from sight.

At that moment, the Seven Sword Emperor embraced a faith.

A faith that worshipped the ‘nameless girl’.

Well, it was only later that she learned there were eight others besides herself who had received help from Cheon Seoa.
And when she found out that one of them was that damn Japanese woman, she was furious.

Thus, as the Seven Sword Emperor finished reminiscing about the past, her eyes suddenly lit up.

“By the way… they dared to spout such nonsense to the young lady, did they?”

The Seven Sword Master glanced at the monitor sitting on his desk.

On the screen that caught the Seven Sword Master’s gaze, all sorts of insults and vulgar comments that Cheon Seoa had received while enjoying Valorant were displayed in an organized manner.

Who said what insult, what vulgar comment, on which date, at what time, minute, and second.
All of it.

These things.

“How should I handle this to spread rumors that it was well taken care of?”

As he muttered this with a grin, the silhouette of a demon carrying seven swords on its back flickered behind the Seven Sword Master.