episode_0221

‘no···.’

Why are they both so good?

Not to mention Rahee, who is being promoted by the association with the catchphrase “A promising star who will take charge of Korea’s future!” Is this because Ari is also born with a good sense of dealing with things that are invisible to the eye?

The two of them, who learned about the existence of energy with my help, absorbed my teachings like sponges in the process of learning the Mind Method.

Thanks to this, contrary to what I had internally expected, both of us were able to form a bond within a few hours.

If Jo-in, who can be said to be my martial arts teacher, was here with me, I wouldn’t have been saddened at the same time as my eyes sparkled at their talent.

If only the initiation period had been a little earlier…

The two were so talented that such thoughts came naturally.

However, the directions were a bit different…

What if Ari was born with an innate sense of energy?

Rahee knew how to use her skills as she wanted.

I just gave an example to show that this kind of use also exists.

I learned on my own how to strengthen my body through internal energy.

‘Do I really need to get some elixir and give it to you…?’

I think it would be really crazy if my storage capacity increased…

No, let’s not be in too much of a hurry already.

There is a saying that too much is too little.

Of course, the martial arts people will say that the more internal skills the better, but that is only when a certain level of skill has been accumulated. For those who have just entered this world, like Rahee and Ari, a large amount of internal skills may act as a bane rather than a benefit. This was high.

“It was thanks to you.”

“Huh? What?”

“You jumped from almost three stories high, but you were fine without any injuries.”

“Ah, when a crack opened around here?”

“Yes.”

Ra-hee pretended not to be interested, but when it came to fruition, she became more active than anyone else.

I found Rahee’s change in attitude somewhat cute, so I had to suppress my laughter.

“What do you mean by that, brother?”

“Oh, well… there was a crack that opened around here.”

“Really?”

“Yes, but strangely, the brake burst right as soon as the crack was formed.”

“Heek… Really?!”

Should I say Ari?

The reaction was as vivid as a live fish freshly taken out of the water, so it was fun to read.

“Then you handled it by yourself?”

“Of course, they were dangerous if left to spread around.”

“What kind of monster was it?”

“Um…Ari, do you know that you are a giant bat?”

There is a separate official name given by the association, but the one that hunters who run in the field are familiar with is the name Daegalbat.

So I tried to speak up, and Ari, who seemed to be thinking for a moment and made a ‘Umm…’ sound, soon opened her eyes wide.

“I know. You’re talking about a bat with a really big, scrunchy head!?”

“Our Ari…you studied hard?”

“Hehe…❤️”

I guess it wasn’t a bad feeling since he gently stroked my head as a compliment and as long as it didn’t mess up my hair.

Ari’s mouth softened with a cute laugh.

“If you look for it, you’ll find a video, right?”

“Really? Show me!”

“Wait a minute…”

If Ari asks me to show him, I have to show him.

Cancer, whatever.

So, I took my phone out of my pocket and searched for a video of that time, and a question mark appeared in my mind despite my will.

It wasn’t because I couldn’t find the video.

As I remembered, I searched with the keyword ‘hoodie guy’ and there were so many results that popped up.

[The identity of the Hwiseo-dong hoodie was actually a black agent of the association?! Fact checking begins.]

[What was the reaction of active hunters who saw the battle scene of the Hood Man in Hwiseo-dong?!]

Even the types were very diverse.

First of all, what I saw the most were videos of people I had never heard of or heard of, introducing themselves as experts and making speculations about my talent.

And the next thing I often noticed, I don’t know how they recruited me, were the videos commonly called reaction videos, where I sat down active hunters and showed them a video of my activities at the time and recorded their reaction to it.

The problem was that not only the videos corresponding to the two types mentioned above were uploaded.

Although you had to scroll down a bit to see them, there was a significant portion of the videos that speculated about my identity rather than my talent.

As if there wasn’t enough work to do, there was even a video titled ‘A complete analysis of Hoodie’s outfits!’ that listed each outfit I was wearing at the time and recorded the brands and prices.

‘Isn’t there really nothing to do?’

Why on earth are you analyzing what a man, not a woman, is wearing?

Even if that’s the case, didn’t everyone say that YouTube has already become a red ocean for a long time…?

Red ocean… right?

It doesn’t seem like it at all when you see useless videos like this getting so many views.

While I felt that way about the endless feast of related videos that popped up no matter how many times I scrolled down, I also got a bit creeped out at the same time.

Just because you’re a student at the military academy doesn’t mean you can’t fall into the cracks.

Even Hunjun students can enter the crack in the name of training.

However, the cracks allowed to the students were limited, so it was inevitable that problems would arise later or that people from the association, who would be rushing to the scene after hearing the news too late, would catch the book and get caught up in troublesome trouble. It’s a shame because I was wearing my hood over my head. What if I hadn’t?

Could it be that the thing that came to mind so hard to assume was because it was a memory from a time when I was going through a difficult time?

My jaw was tense and my hand holding the phone trembled slightly despite my will.

“···Oppa?”

“Hey, why are you acting like this all of a sudden?”

I was acting like I was going to find a video of my activities at that time and show it to them, but suddenly I stopped as if there was a lag. Not to mention Aria, who was in the middle of a conversation with me, was watching the situation unfold from the side. Ra-hee, who was in middle school, wondered what on earth could happen.

I was finally able to come to my senses after a voice filled with both puzzlement and slight worry flowed into my ears.

“Oh, I can’t find the video. Rahee, what was the video you sent back then?”

“I thought there was some kind of problem because he suddenly stopped, but what did I say… If that’s the case, you can go into the chat room and search the chat room.”

“That’s right. Smart?”

“···Isn’t something really wrong with you?”

“What happened… Ah, I was here.”

He looked at me with narrowed eyes, gave an appropriate answer to Rahee’s question, and held out his cell phone, which had already started playing a video, towards Ari.

“Now, here is the video Ari wanted to see.”

Just like that, a video containing my activities at that time began to play in front of the two people.

Did it look cool to see myself holding a cold, shining sword in my hand and cutting down a monster with a single slash as it came out of a crack?

Not only Ari, who was seeing me like that for the first time, but even Rahee’s eyes, who had been aware of the existence of the video before me, began to sparkle as if they were embracing stars… but their reactions were not very happy.

Strangely enough, it was.

*****

When a sudden mad movie screening was being held at the training center attached to Rahee’s house, there were people who were staring at the exact same video they were watching…

Those people were commonly referred to collectively as the Association’s Human Resources Team.

“So this is… Yoon Soo-hyun? The Yoon Soo-hyun I know?”

“According to what has been investigated so far, it is said to be so.”

“The Yoon Soo-hyun who heard the biggest bubble sound ever?”

“Word.”

“···Ah.”

In response to the man’s comment made in a low voice, the woman who had mentioned Su-hyeon’s name raised her hand and smacked her lips until it made a clicking sound.

And then he just smiled shyly.

“I made a mistake.”

“Please be careful what you say. Are you going to say that in front of the person you are supposed to embrace?”

“No, the manager knows it too. I have never made a mistake like this.”

“You know. It has been that way so far, but I also know that there is no guarantee that it will be that way in the future.”

“Well, that’s right.”

The woman, who could have easily refuted the other person’s words but readily acknowledged them, cast her gaze towards the wall again.

It was almost at the same time that the frozen video started playing again.

For a while, my eyes were fixed on the video playing through the beam projector, and then the woman muttered in a low voice.

“No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem to make sense, but this…”

After mumbling like that for a moment, the woman’s gaze turned towards the man.

“Well, what did the guys on the analysis team say?”

“···They say he is believed to be the first person to awaken multiple talents. I can’t believe it, but.”

“What kind of talent are you expecting?”

“There is one talent that strengthens objects that come in contact with the person, and one that is presumed to be in the body strengthening category.”

“As expected… it wasn’t just my eyes that saw it that way.”

People lump the teams they work in and call them human resources teams, but in fact, their ultimate job is ‘talent management.’

Among the awakened Koreans, the core of them are managed ‘carefully’ to prevent them from leaking out to other countries.

That was their goal and duty, so it was only natural that Suhyeon came into their sights.

It was only natural that Rahee was also among those they were keeping a close eye on.

But one day, a man suddenly appeared in her house.

They were well aware of the fact that one of the methods commonly used to recruit awakened people in other countries was the beauty world, so they immediately began investigating, and while digging into Soo-hyeon’s background, they discovered it.

A video containing the activities of Su-hyeon, who was thought to be an infallible non-awakened person.

And when it was revealed through CCTV footage obtained from the surrounding area that the man in the video was ‘Yoon Soo-hyun’, who had once received the high expectations of not only the association but also the entire nation… employees belonging to the talent management team literally fell on their feet. The fire went out.

“At that time, weren’t the malicious comments definitely a joke?”

“···That’s right.”

“I remember that the association did not provide any particular protection…”

“Because the association’s decision at the time was that if there was no sign of awakening talent, it would be used as a fodder for arrows.”

“But the friend who was stoned by the whole country like that realized his talent and came back? And there are as many as two.”

The woman who spoke up to that point let out a laugh without realizing it.

I thought that a B-class movie scenario would be more probable and realistic than this.

“Why don’t you just give up on this guy, Manager?”

“···Do you think that is possible?”

There’s no way it’s possible.

Even if you point out each and every reason why it won’t work, the higher-ups won’t accept it.

This is an association that is always thirsty for talent.

But are you asking us to give up on what may or may not be the world’s first multi-talented awakener?

Wouldn’t it be much more realistic for the association’s leaders to suddenly go crazy as a group and declare the association to be dissolved?

the problem is···.

“Do you think it would be possible to persuade this friend to stay in Korea?”

“···.”

“Even if it’s just me, I think I’m so sick of the country called Korea that I want to open it.”

That was it too.

“···But you still don’t know. Since you are your girlfriend’s family, they might at least listen to you if you come forward. And if it doesn’t work out-”

“If it doesn’t work out, what? Are you really asking me to use beauty tactics against a boy who is dating my cousin? And that to a boy who is seven years younger than me?”