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Even though I have already finished meditation, the sense of magical power continues to deepen uncontrollably.

The magical power became clearer.

Now, beyond what we can see with our eyes, we can touch it by focusing and touching it with our fingers.

It feels like countless stems are extending from my body and are connected to all the magic around me.

A strong sense of déjà vu shakes my mind.

“This… ?”

Just a few days ago, I experienced this sensation.

The day I escaped from Son Si-woo’s body and settled into Kim Do-jin’s body.

This is exactly the feeling I had before waking up.

A feeling of dominance, as if holding the whole world in both hands, as if taking control of the entire surroundings.

“No way was that time… ?”

It definitely felt like I was taking off a layer of clothing.

Maybe at that time, I was in a state of being sucked into Kim Do-jin’s body as a soul.

Could it be that he had thrown off his body and faced the magic that filled the world as a soul?

“I definitely struggled at that time.”

I don’t want to forget that ecstatic feeling, so I still remember flailing my arms and struggling when I fell.

It may be that what was left behind by that struggle at that time is the feeling I have now.

“This doesn’t make sense… .”

These abilities cannot be demonstrated simply through spiritual experiences.

“This body itself is also special.”

Judging by the fact that the speed of sensing magical power was very fast, this body itself was unusually sensitive to magical energy.

A body that is unusually sensitive to ecstatic spiritual experiences and magical energy.

“Did this happen because the two came together?”

I waved my hand at the magic flowing in the air.

Something amazing happened.

The pure, unprocessed magic power immediately became the wind, fluttering the shaggy hair before disappearing.

“ha ha ha… .”

I never knew how to use a single spell, but I know very well how magic works.

When she wasn’t my wife, when we were just on good terms, she liked to talk to me about magic.

Wizards want to appear honest.

That is why magic is called a study.

Juhee Han was no different.

She said that magic is a very profound study, and that those who learn magic, which is a method of realizing miracles by causing various changes in magic, which is the energy of nature, through certain techniques, are called wizards.

“I’m curious.”

I waved my hand again with determination.

This time, a blazing flame bloomed on the palm of my hand.

The magic of profound learning that Juhee Han talked about so loudly.

If you could see before your eyes the magical power being processed and changed solely through will, without its help.

“What kind of expression will you make?”

A curiosity so intense that I couldn’t bear it ran through my whole body.

At that moment, the flame burning in my palm went out, and an intense feeling of dizziness overtook me.

“Ugh.”

It’s a feeling I felt a long time ago.

A feeling of helplessness and despondency, as if something precious inside the body had been sucked out and disappeared.

It was a sign of magical exhaustion that occurs after using up all the magical power in the body.

Only then did I remember a fact I had overlooked.

“You bastard… , No, I had 1 magic power… .”

It is the magic power in my body that is used to assimilate and change the magic power around me.

Since the wind and flames were created with less than half a pea’s worth of magic power, it was only natural that something like this would happen.

“Wow… .”

My vision begins to spin.

Then, at some point, it suddenly stopped and the whole world turned black.

* * *

Seo Jeong-hee felt a little strange yesterday and today.

It started when Kim Do-jin, who had rented the rooftop room a little while ago, came to borrow a vacuum cleaner.

Three years ago, I felt sorry for the child who had nowhere to go, so I let him stay in a rooftop room at a low rent.

Aside from the pity I felt personally, Kim Do-jin was extremely lazy, lazy, and messy.

Once a child locks himself in his room, he doesn’t move for a few days, and when he runs out of snacks, all he does is sneak into a nearby convenience store.

I heard that they are making some money through games, but I don’t know for sure.

Every week, when I made side dishes and brought them to me, I was surprised by the view of the house beyond his bloated body.

It’s so messy that you don’t know if it’s someone’s house or a pig pen.

Three years have passed like that.

When even the very compassionate Seo Jeong-hee started to feel like she couldn’t do anything with him.

‘Dojin is cleaning… ?’

The child who used to make a mess said he would clean it up.

‘He was even reluctant to come to our house because of Yu-jeong… .’

Every time they met, Kim Do-jin’s daughter, who was the same age as Kim Do-jin, behaved so fiercely that he got so frightened that the child, who rarely came to visit him, even came to see him on his own accord.

‘What kind of wind is blowing?’

Suddenly, I remembered the moment Kim Do-jin collapsed yesterday.

I even thought that maybe I had bumped into something wrong at that time and had gone crazy.

“I think it’s a good thing either way.”

It’s a situation where you can’t afford to be comfortable forever.

Kim Do-jin will also have to leave this place someday and stand on his own, and if he has truly decided to change, this should be celebrated more than anything else.

“I hope you’re doing a good job cleaning.”

There must be a lot of old dirt because it hasn’t been cleaned so much.

It’s not an easy task for a child who has never cleaned before to handle.

Maybe you will give up on change because you are blocked by the wall of cleaning.

“It won’t work.”

It’s a waste of time off, but since he’s like family that we’ve been with for 3 years, we should help him if he shows his will to change.

She got up from her comfortable position and headed straight to the rooftop.

Contrary to what I thought there would be a lot of noise, the rooftop was quiet.

“Have we finished it already?” ?”

That can’t be possible.

At first glance, it was a dirty room that would require at least a day to be cleaned.

Perhaps he has already given up and is preparing to return to his secluded life.

As soon as her thoughts reached that point, she immediately knocked on the iron door.

Thump thump thump!

“Student Dojin!”

There is no answer.

“Dojin student?”

Even though I called again, no sound was heard from inside.

Feeling ominous, she immediately pulled the doorknob.

The door opened immediately, as if it had not been locked.

“Student Dojin… ?”

I cautiously called his name and went inside.

“and.”

She was a little impressed.

There was quite a bit of cleaning done.

Although there was dust piled up here and there, it was worth giving a passing grade as the floor was dirty enough to make the soles of your feet stick to it.

“Dojin student?”

Kim Do-jin came into her field of vision as she looked around.

He is leaning against one wall and closing his eyes.

“Oh my, are you asleep?”

I must have been tired after sweeping and wiping the floor with my heavy body until it was so clean.

She smiled softly and approached him.

“Student Dojin, if you sleep like that, your back will get worse.”

He walked closer and tapped his shoulder, but Kim Do-jin still didn’t respond.

It was then.

She felt something strange.

“Dojin?”

He called again and shook his shoulders a little harder.

OK.

dump!

Didn’t Kim Do-jin’s body, which was leaning against the wall, fall sideways?

“Do, Dojin!?”

Surprised, she hurriedly grabbed her shoulder and patted her cheek, but she still didn’t respond.

I collapsed yesterday, and I collapsed today too.

Maybe I have developed a serious illness.

“oh my god… ! “I should have taken you to the hospital yesterday!”

I felt like it was my fault that Kim Do-jin fell.

I should have immediately called an ambulance yesterday to take him to the hospital and show him to the doctor, but I thought I might have collapsed again because I couldn’t.

“1, 119.”

She immediately took out her smartphone and called the fire department.

“This is the rooftop of the Happy Villa, and someone has fallen! “Please send an ambulance quickly!”

As I was carefully following the first aid instructions given by the paramedic over the phone, I heard a loud siren sound from outside.

She went straight outside and waved at the ambulance standing in front of the villa.

“W-Here!”

The able-bodied paramedics came up and placed his heavy body on a stretcher.

She got into the ambulance with Kim Do-jin, who had collapsed.

Since Dojin had no family, he had to follow as his guardian.

As soon as he arrived at a nearby hospital, a doctor came and treated him after he collapsed.

The doctor, who was tilting his head while checking his condition, brought a large machine and attached the hooks attached to the machine to his hands and feet.

After a while, a piece of paper was pulled out of the machine.

“Stop, teacher. How about this?”

Out of urgency, she couldn’t wait for the doctor’s answer and asked first, and the doctor shook his head.

“It’s a symptom of magical exhaustion.”

“Yeah… ? “Are you saying it’s magical exhaustion?”

Her mouth opened wide.

Isn’t magic exhaustion a symptom that appears when awakened people or hunters who can handle magic use their body’s magic excessively?

“I feel like something is wrong. Dojin is not an awakened person, teacher.”

As she spoke, the doctor showed her the paper that had been pulled out of the machine a moment ago.

“That can’t be possible. As you can see from this result sheet, a faint magical response appeared in the body of patient Kim Do-jin. “If you weren’t an awakened person, this reaction wouldn’t have occurred.”

“Well, that can’t be possible.”

At the shocking result, she looked at Kim Do-jin lying on the bed with devastated eyes.

Was he hiding the fact that he was an awakened person?

‘No, that’s not it.’

If he had hidden it for a long time, he wouldn’t have suddenly collapsed from magical exhaustion like this.

So, it means that you recently experienced an awakening.

“ah!”

Suddenly, the image of Kim Do-jin, who collapsed yesterday feeling dizzy, flashed through her mind.

It is said that all awakened people feel extreme pain and fall down when their characteristics are engraved on their bodies.

‘Is that… ?’

Was it a precursor to awakening?

Then everything fits together.

‘Yeah, that’s why I did it.’

It is understandable that he came to borrow a vacuum cleaner as if he was trying to make a sudden change.

Since he became an awakened person, he must have decided to start anew somehow.

The reason why he suffered from magical exhaustion was because he was trying to test his own characteristics.

The puzzles that were mixed up are coming back into place one by one.

“Anyway, it’s not a very dangerous situation, so if you get hit with the magic sap, you’ll come to your senses in no time.”

“Ah yes. thank you.”

Following the doctor’s instructions, a nurse inserts a catheter into his arm and connects the fluid.

Seo Jeong-hee sat on the chair next to his bed and looked at Kim Do-jin.

‘I never thought Dojin would become an awakened person.’

An awakened person is someone who is given characteristics and a status window and is qualified to escape from human limitations.

People who can protect themselves in an era overflowing with all kinds of strange monsters.

At the same time, it was also the minimum requirement to become a hunter who could conquer dungeons appearing around the world and obtain rewards.

The characteristics that an awakened person gains are extensive.

While there are characteristics suitable for battle, there are also abilities suitable for rear support, and there are even characteristics that provide greater power in daily life.

That’s why not everyone could become a hunter.

Only a small portion of awakened people can become hunters by passing the Hunter Exam of catastrophic difficulty.

“Perhaps you wanted to become a hunter…? .”

Seo Jeong-hee gently wipes the sweat from his forehead.

It might have been.

Maybe I thought that was the only way to unfold my life after being abandoned by my parents and being abused in an orphanage.

I can’t guess his intentions.

Although we lived close to each other for three years, he was a child who spent time alone in his room and did not give his heart to anyone, including himself.

‘You’ll find out when you wake up.’

She sat on the chair and waited for Kim Do-jin to wake up.