episode_0147

Salang-

Five beasts appeared behind Tamamo, who was wagging her tail lightly.

A red bird fluttering its feathers of fire, a blue carp swimming with water droplets, a green deer with wooden horns, a brown snake with stone-like vinyl, and a gray wolf with skin of steel.

The beasts, standing proudly and revealing one axis of the Five Elements, shouted loudly with their whole bodies that they were here, and then rushed towards Do Yu-jin.

Five monsters, each worthy of being called a disaster, rush forward with their hostility fully displayed.

Seeing that sight, Do Yu-jin hurriedly took out his dagger and swung it instead.

Ugh-!

He quietly chewed his tongue.

The wound on my tongue that I had barely healed with a potion bursts open again. The pungent scent of blood fills my mouth.

Phew-

At the same time, Do Yu-jin’s face naturally wrinkled at the pain that came, but she sighed in satisfaction.

Thanks to that, I was able to regain control of my hazy mind.

“You bastard right now… … !”

Tamamo, who had been looking relaxed the whole time, opened her eyes wide as she watched Do Yu-jin release her fascination.

“You bastard… …What the hell did you do? How did you come to your senses after facing this body’s evil eye head-on?”

Hearing Tamamo’s words, Yumi opened her eyes wide in shock, then clenched her teeth.

He realized that before he knew it, there had already been a fight between Doyujin and Tamamo.

“Indeed, those guys were just bait for the trick.”

Yumi muttered as she watched the five disappear quietly in the same way they had first appeared.

‘It’s true that those five came down behind the main body. However, the part where they suddenly rushed in was a lie, an illusion.’

Yumi narrowed her eyes as she deduced the flow of events that had unfolded in the invisible space over a series of moments.

“Indeed, those guys were just bait from the beginning to deceive us.”

The two people were on high alert as they watched the suddenly revealed Hwan-soo.

But in fact, what Tamamo really aimed for was to make the two people tense up like that.

That way, he could divert the attention of the two people who were completely focused on him elsewhere.

In other words, the real attack she had prepared was not a physical attack using the five beasts, but a mental attack using the Demon Eye.

‘If Abi had not been able to resist the power of the Eye of the Devil and had been charmed by it, then everything would have ended just like that.’

Yumi let out a sigh of relief as she imagined the hand that was protecting her so firmly now strangling her neck.

Since Doyujin had overcome Tamamo’s evil eye, such a thing would not have happened.

‘but……’

Yumi looked at Do Yujin with eyes filled with curiosity.

Fortunately, it’s fortunate, and curious things are curious.

‘How on earth did you manage to withstand the power of the charm that the main body used? It’s not like it’s a simple ability that can be released by simply biting your tongue.’

Do Yu-jin took in the gazes of the two people for a moment and then slowly opened her mouth.

“Well? I don’t know, but maybe the power of the charm you wrote was weak?”

Do Yu-jin usually wore a mask and did not open her mouth while fighting to avoid giving away unnecessary clues.

But even he was an exception at this moment.

Now, I had to somehow make time to think.

“Ha! Stop talking nonsense! Even though my body is like an empty shell right now, my power of charm is not much different from my prime!”

Ugh-!

“That’s not something a guy like you can dare to refuse or resist!”

Tamamo, whose pride was properly hurt, gritted his teeth and shouted.

As the saying goes, her eyes were never weak.

He used his powers against a large target, such as a city, to the point where he caused all the people and monsters inside to stop in place like statues, and then sacrificed their own lives.

Why was Do Yu-jin able to endure despite being hit by such abilities?

Even though he was far from sane, it was because he had already experienced it once.

‘Should I thank Yuna when I go back?’

I am talking about the experience of being faced head-on with a transcendent gaze that is incomparable to what Tamamo is showing you now.

No matter how strong the charm radiated by Tamamo’s magic eyes was, it was not unbearable compared to that moment.

Kook-

‘Well, I think it might be a bit dangerous if it keeps happening.’

What Do Yu-jin did just now was, if we were to use a metaphor, like taking a heavyweight boxer’s blow with only his chin while his body was relaxed.

Of course, it was a jaw-dropping surprise, but saying that it didn’t hit me was a completely different story.

‘If you continue with your mental attacks, it’s dangerous.’

Do Yu-jin made that judgment in her mind.

Shrug-

“But you actually held on like this.”

On the outside, he pretended to be calm and started talking.

The bait of information warfare thrown out while hiding the cold sweat flowing down one’s back.

“Profit! That can’t be! You must have been up to something! Tell me what you were up to right now!”

Tamamo was so humiliated by the fact that her magic eye didn’t work that she got angry and scolded Doyujin.

But that was all, there was no sign of him trying to take action.

Looking at that sight, Do Yu-jin thought calmly.

‘It seems like that guy isn’t in normal condition either.’

Just as Shuten-Doji lost most of the strength he had from enduring the long seal, Tamamo also seems to have been greatly affected by the seal.

Of course, what Tamamo had shown me a little while ago was shocking.

Because each and every one of the beasts behind her had the aura of being able to easily crush an A-class superhuman.

‘But if you say it differently, that’s all it is.’

Considering that even now, there are eight tails waving here and there behind Tamamo, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the blow she showed just now was like a cotton bat.

That’s why Do Yu-jin dug into that part.

“Well, I don’t know either? No, maybe… … ”

Do Yu-jin intentionally trailed off.

“Maybe it’s because you haven’t yet completely mastered the power and personality of your tail.”

At that moment.

“You guys… … ”

A deep sense of wariness appeared in Tamamo’s eyes.

It looks like he’s hit the nail on the head.

Do Yu-jin nodded inwardly while looking at him.

‘That’s what I thought.’

For a gumiho, the tail is not simply a vessel that stores strength and amplifies energy like a warrior’s dantian.

The tail of the nine-tailed fox is the essence of power created by shaping different realizations into one, or in other words, the crystallization of life.

Even though hundreds of years have passed, you can see how great it is just by looking at each of the sealed tails gaining a personality.

‘But right now, that guy can’t use that power because his tail personality keeps resisting. So for now, the best thing to do is to just unleash the power indiscriminately.’

Phew-

Do Yu-jin, who had finished thinking that far, took a deep breath.

Only when my head was cleared could I look straight ahead.

‘That guy is imperfect right now.’

The approximate size of the force was probably around that of Omiho, which would put him a few ranks higher than Shuten-Doji, who was currently fighting Rumi down there.

‘Well, it seems that he invested a lot in the Ma-an’s ability to absorb essence because he wanted to recover his strength as quickly as possible, so his actual fighting power is only one level higher than Shuten-Doji’s…

Sigh-

‘The problem is that to that extent, it’s not at all difficult to trample on me and Yumi.’

Sighing inwardly, Do Yu-jin tried to come up with a way to overcome the current situation.

Combine traits to create a fatal blow?

impossibility.

Sure, it might be possible to land a single blow on Tamamo using Black Sword, but the prerequisites for using that technique were too difficult to meet.

So how do we increase our power by calling Yuna here?

impossibility.

Even if I summoned Yuna, I didn’t think she would be able to defeat Tamamo.

How about using all your points to buy something from [Store] that will turn this situation around?

impossibility.

To buy something of that level, you would need an astronomical amount of points, but Do Yu-jin didn’t have that many at the moment.

Impossible. Impossible. Impossible.

Do Yu-jin has a lot of thoughts running through her head, and they are painted red and discarded.

After repeating that process roughly a few dozen times, a sigh naturally escaped my mouth.

‘Tsk, if only I had some useful card like the one that gave Shuten-Doji Rumi, I could’ve done something about it… … !’

No matter what you do, you can’t defeat the golden fox before your eyes with force.

When I realized that fact anew, the option of running away naturally came to mind, but that was also impossible.

Although he intervened in the middle and prevented Yumi from being absorbed, he was unable to prevent the two from becoming weakly connected in the process.

Now that the thread has been connected, Tamamo will be able to sense Yumi’s location no matter how far away she is.

Because of that, running away was impossible.

‘Then the only way left is… … Ah!’

Do Yu-jin, who had been desperately racking her brain, let out an exclamation.

The exclamation of enlightenment that comes when a new idea, and a pretty useful one at that, comes to mind.

But Do Yu-jin’s face, who spat him out, was not bright at all.

That’s understandable, because Do Yu-jin’s exclamation a little while ago did not mean, ‘That’s right, that was the way to go! Now I’m alive!’ but rather, ‘Ah, if I do that, I can definitely live, but do I really have to go that far?’

But there was no time to hesitate.

Even now, in front of them, a golden fox was glaring as if it was going to rush at them at any moment.

‘Oh, really!’

Neither fighting nor running away is permitted.

A lonely path through thorns that was barely found in such a situation.

If I set foot there, I would risk losing everything I’ve built up so far, but no matter how much I think about it, this is the only way.

Phew-

‘I can’t help it.’

That’s why Do Yu-jin moved her feet quietly.

There was no need to take the time to make up one’s mind to take that one step.

Thinking about your family and children’s well-being before yourself.

This was something so natural to Do Yu-jin.

Swish-

So Do Yu-jin slowly brought her hand to her mask.

Oh my gosh-!

Tamamo, who saw that, realized that Doyujin was trying to do something and quickly became alert.

It was a blow to my pride that I had to do this to a mere human, but I couldn’t help it.

From the beginning until now, the Do Yu-jin she saw was an entity of unknown identity.

‘I have to get out of here as quickly as possible or kill that guy.’

Tamamo, who had taken some time to relax, lowered his body like an animal going out to hunt.

A stance to quickly kill Do Yu-jin and then capture Yu-mi.

Should I really say that?

The decision was extremely quick, but the very act of thinking before making the decision was problematic.

While she was wary of Do Yu-jin and was struggling between advancing and retreating, Do Yu-jin eventually took off his mask.

Click-

Because I activated the mythical trait that I obtained by making a contract with Yumi and vowed never to use it no matter what happened in the future.