Chapter 67.2

Chapter 67 (Continued)

After a moment, confusion filled Dalbi’s eyes.

“What do you mean…? Get out of here…?”

“What?”

“I was the one who decided to become the dog…?”

A sense of discord.

The air was filled with a subtle sense of discord as if the conversation was going awry. Both felt it.

Dalbi recalled the words she said to the Head Principal at dawn, secretly from Baek-seo.

─ ‘Neither of us will follow the Head Principal’s orders. We know you intend to keep us both anyway.’

─ ‘I see…. You’re smart. So what do you want, child?’

─ ‘Please let Baek-seo be free.’

Dalbi had bowed her head.

─ ‘Please.’

When there was no response from the Head Principal for a while, Dalbi looked up.

The Head Principal was smiling.

It was an extremely unpleasant and bizarre smile, as if she had seen something ridiculous.

The smile, with each deep wrinkle, was etched into her memory.

The Head Principal’s subordinate took Dalbi away at dawn.

That’s how Dalbi and Baek-seo were separated without even a farewell.

“…?”

Dalbi’s expression, not understanding, made Baek-seo puzzled too.

Baek-seo naturally read Dalbi’s minute facial changes with her trained abilities. There was no unconscious expression of lying.

Finally, an alarm went off in Baek-seo’s head.

The sound of realization.

The vague doubts she might have had were now clarified.

“Hah…”

A deep sigh escaped Baek-seo’s lips.

Dalbi tilted her head, still looking at Baek-seo with puzzled eyes. She seemed unaware of Baek-seo’s time as a hound.

Indeed.

‘It was a ruse.’

The Head Principal wanted a child who would follow her words.

So, with a simple and cowardly ruse, she turned the two children into her dogs.

The Head Principal never intended to let go of either Baek-seo or Dalbi. Each was a valuable test subject and a half-successful product.

There was no way the two children of that time could know this.

Baek-seo’s thoughts were organized.

So were her remaining doubts.

The sense of loss she felt, thinking Dalbi had abandoned her, was cleared away.

Swoosh!

The blade of the White Wheel Sword was pulled out of Dalbi’s thigh.

“Ugh…!”

Dalbi barely suppressed a scream.

Baek-seo immediately attached a medical magic tool to Dalbi’s thigh. The pierced area was sealed and compressed, stopping the bleeding.

It was an emergency treatment.

“What are you doing all of a sudden…?”

“I heard you abandoned me.”

“What…?”

At this point, Dalbi couldn’t know.

She had always thought Baek-seo was living freely.

But it was clear the person in question had perceived it differently.

“It was strange. How you became a terrorist after leaving me. So I needed to confirm with you directly…”

While Baek-seo was speaking.

Suddenly, the air grew heavy, and a powerful magic wave brushed against Baek-seo and Dalbi’s skin.

“!”

“!”

Both of their eyes widened.

Clatter!!

Abruptly, the space between the rooftops froze, forming an arch-shaped ice barrier that covered the night sky.

Beautiful and large snowflake shapes drifted in the magic ice mass.

Simultaneously, the path leading to the opposite end of the alley froze solid, blocking the way.

Baek-seo and Dalbi looked up and guessed the situation.

Someone they shouldn’t meet had appeared here.

Click-clack.

The sound of footsteps echoed clearly.

Baek-seo and Dalbi turned their heads in the same direction.

An elegant student with silver hair, clad in a white uniform, approached, exuding a chilling aura.

A terrifying sensation wrapped around Baek-seo and Dalbi.

The cold eyes of the man seemed to freeze everything.

“Why…? You were supposed to be busy…?”

Dalbi looked at the white-haired man with an expression of disbelief.

The man who had subdued Dalbi as a consequence of defying the Head Principal.

Dalbi thought he had left the task to Hong Kyu, one of the Six Sinners, but here he was, unexpectedly showing up.

“…”

Baek-seo remained calm and took a combat stance.

There was no way her actions had been discovered.

That meant.

“They knew I would come here…”

The Head Principal’s side must have anticipated Baek-seo’s movements.

The reason Six Sinner Han Seo-jin had been monitoring Baek-seo.

The backlash expected if they tried to take Ahn Woo-jin through Moon Chae-won.

The Head Principal had figured out everything and laid a trap.

“It’s been a while, Oh Baek-seo.”

The man known to be the strongest in Neo Seoul, second only to Goliath.

The strongest of the Head Principal’s subordinates.

The Spartoi of the 7th Tier.

Cold air flowed from the lips of the white-haired man, Seo Gang-jin.

The situation was unnaturally contrived after he had let Dalbi go and showed up here.

Baek-seo had been watching Gang-jin’s movements closely, knowing they were like a landmine.

Gang-jin’s appearance here was clearly a ploy by the Head Principal.

Too hasty.

She had acted too hastily.

However, Baek-seo didn’t show any sign of dismay.

She merely gathered the magic coursing through her body.

“…Hello.”

Baek-seo summoned her magic.

Even though she knew what future lay ahead.

**

Meanwhile, Ahn Woo-jin was jumping around, repeatedly using spatial jumps.

He searched Ahsung High School and any place where Baek-seo might be, but her whereabouts were nowhere to be found.

The memories of running around frantically looking for Kim Dalbi filled Woo-jin’s mind.

The helplessness of that time gripped Woo-jin’s spirit and spurred his feet to move frantically.

Even while panting and suffering penalties, Woo-jin ran around without any chance to contact Golden Sheep. Pain couldn’t stop his feet.

***

As the rain clouds drifted away, the sun began to rise over the horizon. A dim light cast over the gray city.

Zero Zone.

Amid the ruins of several buildings.

“Cough…”

Baek-seo was covered in frostbite and blood.

She struggled to lift her heavy eyelids, looking at Gang-jin with barely open eyes.

With her blurred vision, she couldn’t make out anything clearly.

Dalbi had already been knocked out by Gang-jin.

Seeing Dalbi trying to help Baek-seo, Gang-jin had made her unconscious in advance.

“The Head Principal was wary of you, Baek-seo. She knew you would target her someday.”

A female student in a nun’s habit, Spartoi Son Ye-seo, said, supporting the unconscious Dalbi.

“But… you were too hasty, Baek-seo. The Head Principal wouldn’t have only targeted Woo-jin.”

“…”

“Gang-jin. Dalbi needs to be confined until she calms down. I’ll take her away.”

Gang-jin didn’t respond.

Ye-seo nodded lightly and left with Dalbi.

Gang-jin silently watched Baek-seo, who was trying to move. But her battered body wouldn’t follow her will.

Eventually, the life faded from Baek-seo’s eyes.

Her consciousness went black.

Drip.

Cold blood trickled down Gang-jin’s cheek.

It was a wound inflicted by Baek-seo.

He wiped his cheek with a white-gloved hand, staining it with blood.

Gang-jin took off the glove and tossed it to Baek-seo before turning and walking away.

In the direction Gang-jin headed, Moon Chae-won stood, looking at Baek-seo indifferently.

“The Head Principal gave me instructions?”

Chae-won asked Gang-jin.

“Extract Unsa’s power. Starting today.”

“I’m currently dealing with penalties, so it’ll take about a week.”

“Do it as soon as you can.”

“So, Oh Baek-seo is being discarded?”

Without a word, Gang-jin left.

He didn’t seem to want to converse any further.

Chae-won laughed hollowly and shook her head.

[…]

Silently, a small goblin that had been hiding in the alley turned to smoke and disappeared.

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