24. Not Enough Time (1)

Sanya’s after-school lesson was scheduled to continue today.

No matter what I’d been up to until late the previous night, I’d already postponed the tutoring for two whole days, so there was no turning back now.

Even if my body had recovered overnight, I was mentally exhausted, probably from releasing too much j*zz.

Recalling the grand journey of the past few days, I shook my head, which was starting to throb again, and entered Sanya’s room.

“Ah, Jihoo-gun, you’re here. Did you have fun yesterday?”

“Yeah, well…”

“It’s all over your face without you even saying it. You suffered.”

Ttaheuheuk…! She knows everything…!

Is this the wisdom and magnanimity of an elder?

My face must have looked terrible at a glance, because Sanya’s consolation, which wasn’t really consolation, inexplicably warmed my heart. I should treat her better in the future.

“Here, I brought you a gift, nothing much. Even if you’re feeling better after absorbing the magic orb, I don’t know if there might still be something wrong with your body, so it’s to take care of your health.”

I placed the gift, prepared with half apology and half concern, on the table, and Sanya’s eyes widened.

“Wow… What’s all this? Red ginseng drinks? Handmade sweet red bean jelly set? Where did you get the money to buy all this, Jihoo-gun? Well, now that I’ve received it, I won’t tell you to take it back.”

Uh… I didn’t know it either, but I’m actually quite rich.

If I said that I found billions of won in my bank account after falling into this other world, no one would believe me, and they might even suspect me, so I decided to just quietly move on.

But she’s not saying she’ll return it. Unnecessarily materialistic.

“Then let’s put this aside for now, and start with the theory lesson today? Last time, we learned about the components of the echolocation system, so this time, let’s analyze how to use those components one by one.”

“Um, Sanya. No, Professor-nim. Can I ask you a question?”

“What is it? Don’t feel pressured, feel free to ask anything. And call me Sanya.”

“I received an assignment from you during class the day before yesterday, and I wanted to ask about it. You said it’s important to develop magic in a specific direction to create your own special skill, and you emphasized that your beliefs and will should be at the core of that skill… Isn’t the technique that Sanya is teaching me developed to suit Sanya’s body? Ah, I’m not doubting Sanya’s abilities at all, I’m just worried that I might not be able to find my own technique.”

A significant assignment to develop a new technique based on one’s identity.

Special skills should be set carefully over time, and it’s important to focus on one’s values and visualize them… The content that Professor-nim explained with a serious expression yesterday came to mind one by one.

Of course, there are cases of students developing their special skills over four years, so there may be no need to worry so deeply already, but I doubt whether I have that much time left.

Just last week, I was in a situation facing Pantagruel, and I almost lost several precious people in the process.

I’ve already faced Kormuntur directly, so I could encounter him again at any time.

Of course, now that Sanya has regained her power, I can say that there is some safety net against Kormuntur’s possible surprise attacks, but I always have to think of the worst-case scenario.

Last time, I had to fight two sea dragons in a row, the undead sea dragon and the sealed sea dragon, so I gave it my all, but there’s no guarantee that such a case won’t happen again.

Because the opponent is a demon.

As in this attack, demons always use cunning and insidious tricks, so you can’t let your guard down.

…Of course, except for Juha. Juha is half human, so it’s okay.

“I know what you mean. You’re worried that your characteristics will be hidden by my technique? That you won’t be able to use it properly. You don’t have to worry about that at all. Um… Let’s explain it with a picture.”

Sanya took a sheet of A4 paper that was lying around in her office and placed it on the table where I was sitting.

“What I’m teaching you is like a blank white canvas. A pure state with no paint on it yet. Other people, that is, other professors, would probably inevitably have some of their own colors묻어나올 in their techniques. Of course, that doesn’t mean that those people’s skills are lacking at all, it’s natural for most humans.”

Sanya’s slender finger tapped the table, and the paper on it trembled slightly.

It was a level of precise ability manipulation that didn’t make sense even when seeing it directly.

“But I’m different. Surely you haven’t forgotten what kind of person I am, have you, Jihoo-gun?”

“Of course I remember.”

Sanya Dominas, the ruler of sound waves.

She was the strongest telekinetic awakener of this era.

An individual weapon who could wipe out hundreds, no, thousands of awakeners of my level single-handedly.

Seeing Sanya’s face, which seemed to say, ‘Who am I? Number 1,’ I felt a strange urge to joke around, but I didn’t want to ruin the current atmosphere, so I barely held back.

Sanya nodded a few times with a satisfied expression and continued her explanation.

“The technique I’m teaching you, that is, the ‘echolocation system,’ is specialized in the analysis and systematization of individual abilities. To put it simply, if you master the technique completely and then add your own color, the system will probably naturally transform to match it.”

“Then I don’t have to worry about special skills separately?”

“Hmm… To be honest, the amount of magic power contained in your essence itself is not that great, so I think this might be the most efficient way for you to use magic power.”

If you don’t like that, you can develop your abilities as you wish.

Sanya’s last words, thrown out as if in passing, pricked my heart.

Was I secretly wanting to create my own technique?

“You should know that there is no perfect answer to anything. Even if the abilities are similar, they are ultimately different abilities if the people who possess them are different, so you have to acquire the technique that you think you can use best. I’m just showing you the path to grow most efficiently. Well… Or maybe it wouldn’t be bad to create a few techniques that are your own identity, even if they’re not special skills?”

All sorts of miscellaneous thoughts come to mind.

It might not be bad to think about my own path as Sanya said? No, it’s the advice of someone close to the strongest among awakeners, so it’s definitely right to choose Sanya’s technique. If not, what are some ways to make the most of my strengths?

“You can worry about that after class, so let’s get into the theory first. We’ve spent too much time talking. Think about it deeply once, and if it’s still not resolved, come back again, okay?”

“Yeesh…”

After that, Sanya’s lecture continued.

What principles the components of the echolocation system are based on, what functions each component performs in a complementary way, and learning the principles of the detection system, which is close to a sophisticated program, was more interesting than I thought, so at first I was still caught up in my worries, but before I knew it, I had forgotten everything and was focusing on the lesson.

…Of course, when I went into practice, I got beaten so hard that dust flew on a rainy day.

“Euhak… Heoeok… Aigoo, the professor is killing me…!”

“Stop exaggerating. Move a little faster, like when you’re having sex, Jihoo-gun.”

“Stop making weird jokes… When you say that in that outfit, I get hard without even realizing it.”

Sanya, wearing only a sports bra without any proper clothes, stares down at me, who is sitting on the floor.

I know that sports bras are supposed to hold your chest in place so it doesn’t shake when you exercise, but why do those two big lumps of fat keep jiggling every time they move?

“You’re hard? Really?”

“…Not completely, just a little.”

That’s what you call a semi-erection.

Sanya glanced at me with a strange expression mixed with embarrassment and pride and said.

“Th-that, Jihoo-gun… Don’t tell me you get excited when you get hit…? No, well, I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I can understand it enough! Do you want me to hit you more…? If it’s Jihoo-gun, I can hit you gently without hurting you.”

“That’s not it. It’s just that, when Sanya moves, I keep seeing your chest shaking… I don’t know where to look.”

“Ah, I see. I underestimated the sxual desire of a man in his 20s too much… Then do you want to jck off and do it? That’s okay too.”

“No thanks…”

If I release my s*men now, I’ll just get a post-nut clarity.

I looked up at Sanya and felt annoyed for some reason at her grinning face.

Aish, I can’t just hypnotize her.

It’s too wasteful to use the one remaining complete hypnosis ticket for something like this.

Can’t I strengthen hypnosis with the echolocation system?

No, that’s not it. The essence that allows me to use hypnosis is not in my body but in my phone.

Unless I can somehow amplify the hypnotic waves coming from my phone…

“Uh…? Wait a minute.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Can I go to the special purpose room for a moment? I thought of something.”

“I was going to let you rest anyway. Yeah, you can go.”

I immediately burst out of the principal’s office and headed upstairs to the special purpose room.

I hurried into the room, which was empty without anyone using it after school, and locked the door tightly, then fell into thought.

Was I too fixated on one idea?

Since the time I separated the wave and hypnosis abilities, hypnosis has only been used as a tool to manipulate others, and it has never been thought of as part of my own abilities.

If I could interfere with the hypnotic waves emitted from my phone. No, what if I could use the hypnotic waves themselves for a completely different purpose?

For example…

“Self-hypnosis.”

Give myself strong suggestions.

Instill confidence that I can do what I can’t do, and make it a reality.

If I could completely eliminate the side effects of my thoughts being forced by my own commands, it was not a technique that could not be realized at all.

“Echolocation system activation.”

[Echolocation system activated – 100%]

[Operation successful]

Along with the familiar command, the blue magic power is structured and aligned.

Up to this point, it is now possible without much effort.

But the real challenge was from the next procedure.

“Switch to analysis mode.”

[Changing the echolocation system to analysis mode.]

[Remaining magic power: 78%]

Analysis mode, which can collect and analyze a lot of information such as the location, waveform, and amplitude of sound waves.

Even if it is optimized for my body, it still consumes a considerable amount of mana, so the remaining magic power displayed in the corner of my vision flickers and drops at a rapid rate.

“Now to analyze the hypnotic waves… Hoo.”

I open my phone and activate the familiar UI hypnosis app.

If I press the button, hypnotic waves that can immediately send the designated target into a trance state are emitted.

I have never used it before, but I don’t think there will be any problems, so I closed my eyes tightly and pressed the button displayed on the screen.

Uuuuuung–!!

And my vision was covered with light.