episode_0102

“Jeff.”

“Yes… No!”

I answered, startled by the hand that grabbed my shoulder and shook me.

“Are you sure you can do well on the test?”

“Yes…”

I nodded at Amy’s worried question.

The events that had just happened with Shine were still fresh in my mind.

I wasn’t the only one at the starting line.

There are a total of five people taking the test with me.

They were people I occasionally met while coming and going from the training ground.

Their eyes are turned towards me.

No, it would be more correct to say that it is directed at Amy, who is standing in front of me.

My body was frozen stiff from tension, and every movement felt awkward.

I walked up to the people and stood next to them.

Amy immediately shouted after confirming that I was ready.

“Everyone, get ready!”

The muscles all over my body become stiff.

People who have lowered their posture as much as possible are ready to run.

“Start!”

As soon as Amy’s voice ended, a loud explosion occurred.

Bang! My body sways in the strong wind.

As I cover my eyes and groan at the rising dust, the figures standing next to me disappear.

“Gasp…”

As the dust settles, the surrounding scenery is revealed.

I was the only one standing at the starting line.

“Jeff. Are you allowed to be so relaxed?”

I started to move urgently at Amy’s words.

People’s eyes are drawn to the hurried movements.

My face feels hot.

I couldn’t concentrate at all.

I shook my head.

“Jeff!”

At that moment, Shine’s voice flew in clearly.

Among the crowd of people, I see Shine, waving at me while hanging on the railing.

“Jeff!”

Rain also waved at me while hanging next to Shine.

I took a slow breath.

You can do it.

I can do it.

Because Shine said she could do it.

Dismissed-!

My heart starts beating wildly.

The stiff body slowly begins to relax and a blue light begins to spread throughout the body.

Dismissed!

depart.

Take a step.

A blue light bursts out from under my feet, and an electric current envelops my entire body.

A blue light formed by lines shot out like a flash.

The start is a straight course.

It first penetrates the crowd of people running ahead, leaving behind a blue afterimage.

Dismissed-!

When I reached the corner where the road was turning, I stopped with my hands on the ground.

The hair flutters and the sense of speed attached to your body quickly decreases.

It slips and the dust rises.

You arrive at a course where you cannot run in a straight line.

You can’t run fast like this.

I reached out towards the top of the building.

A blue current extending from the hand sets the next coordinates.

At the sound of footsteps behind me, I jump up in a hurry.

The body, riding on the blue light, flies into the air.

Hwaak-!

A strong wind is blowing.

Startled by the unfamiliar sensation, I turned around and saw a man floating in the air smiling at me.

Every time the man’s body moved, a strong wind pressure was emitted from his body.

The moment he loses his posture in midair, the man’s body shoots forward.

“Ugh…”

A faint groan escapes from the heavily bitten mouth.

I reached out again.

The moment the blue light shot out, my body arrived on the roof of the collapsed building.

scary.

I couldn’t go any faster than this.

A future where he hits his head against the wall again and passes out is depicted.

I bit my lip hard.

“Jeff! You can do it!”

Shine’s voice is heard again.

Her voice was clear no matter how far away I was, as if she was speaking right next to me.

I immediately kicked the ground and ran.

The body, enveloped in blue light, begins to run at high speed.

In a straight line, in a straight line again.

Straight line gallop.

But speed doesn’t come easily.

The time spent stopping was too long.

I stopped in my tracks and immediately unleashed a current field.

A blue sphere of light extends from the body.

More broadly.

The sphere covering the body spreads out more widely.

More broadly.

The blue sphere grows larger and larger, engulfing the building I’m standing on.

yet again.

More broadly.

My hair stands on end.

Enveloped in blue lightning, your abilities are pushed to their limits.

A giant sphere surrounds the interior of the testing room.

I can hear everything.

Every movement is audible.

The entire internal structure of the testing room is input into your head.

“You can do it.”

I can do it.

Start running.

Light shot in a straight line does not stop, but instead turns in the next direction.

The gaze cannot keep up with the speed.

In a world that has turned white, you move with the information entered into your head.

Invisible, yet visible.

Up, down, left again. And left again.

Back up again.

My head is throbbing as it’s been heated to its limit.

Knock-knock- the blue light begins to touch something.

A jarring sound is heard, as if gently touching a dead wall.

But it doesn’t stop.

Phagec!

The only sound I can hear is the sound of electricity.

All other sounds are buried.

Just after exiting the messy course, I was able to arrive in front of the remains of a collapsed building.

I can picture in my mind the sight of high-rise buildings completely destroyed and in disarray.

I climb up the outer wall of the building without stopping.

Because it was slightly tilted, I was able to run up the wall without any problems.

The window at your feet is breaking.

My body staggers with the feeling of being shattered, but I run without stopping.

And at that moment, a subtle movement was detected.

Something is shooting towards me at high speed.

The wide open electric field still remained.

So, what I was saying was that this entire testing area was within my range of perception.

The flow is distorted.

Your body reacts to an unidentified object flying through the air.

A weak electric signal shot from the current field spreads throughout the body.

The still body jumps into the air, dodging flying objects.

The speed is reduced.

The moment my vision returned, I was able to spot the next object.

“Public?”

ball.

Yes, that’s right.

It was a ball.

Large balls were flying from all directions.

But it wasn’t an ordinary ball.

The moment the ball was hit, it fell on the outer wall of the building and dug into the building.

I looked in astonishment at the direction the ball had come from, and saw several ball launching machines that I had seen at the training ground.

[If you get it right, you’re out!]

A message stuck on the front of the machine.

I immediately twisted my body.

Thanks to his reflexive movements, he was able to avoid the large ball by just brushing it away.

I’ve never seen anything like this when Shine ran.

Thinking like that, I immediately started running.

The body that had been still begins to gain speed and shoots out quickly again.

The end of the collapsed building course was approaching.

I didn’t slow down as I ran towards the high place.

Tick- Tick-

Dismissal-

Something that had been hanging over my head was shattered.

At that moment, my hazy mind began to clear up.

I felt like I had woken up from a long sleep.

Your whole body begins to feel energized.

Thoughts that had been cloudy become clearer.

“You can do it.”

Yet, a voice that does not disappear.

I nod to Shine’s words.

I can do it.

Fly from the end of the building without slowing down.

It flies high, engulfed in blue electricity.

The body that rose with a loud crash immediately began to fall.

Use the speed as is to get over the next course.

It starts to fall,

A fall from a high position.

I stepped towards the ground.

thud!

My whole body trembles from the strong impact.

My legs are twisted and my mouth is filled with blood.

After spitting out the blood that burst out in a fit of rage, he measures the distance.

I stare at the straight road with blurry eyes.

The right hand touching the ground was engulfed in blue electricity.

A blue line stretching across the ground.

A current that extends in a straight line very quickly passes its destination.

At the same time, I also arrived there.

The body falls apart.

I sat down and spat out the blood that had filled my mouth.

“Eww.”

People waiting at the arrival point are surprised and run towards me.

I lay down and looked at them.

“It’s an injury!”

Leaving behind the noisy voices of the people, my gaze was directed towards the large screen attached inside the examination room.

1st place Jeff.

Arrival time: 1 minute 20 seconds.

I smiled.

Arrived faster than Shine.

I won.

“Jeff!”

Rain and Shine, who were watching the test while hanging from the railing on a high floor, jumped down at the same time.

The people around them reached out in surprise, but the water that had gathered around Rain wrapped around the two of them and fell towards me.

This time, Shine’s voice is heard clearly.

Rain and Shine, who had come down the water, ran towards me.

“Jeff’s hurt!”

Rain grabbed my arm and started to fuss.

I laughed awkwardly.

“I passed.”

“You idiot!”

Shine was angry.

She took a handkerchief out of her pocket and wiped my lips.

The white handkerchief turned red.

“We have to go to Rabin quickly!”

Rain tried to carry me with his small body.

He could have carried me, but because of his small stature, his legs touched the ground.

People who looked like doctors came up to me and examined various parts of my body.

Inside the mouth, legs and arms.

After a brief examination, they laid me down on a stretcher.

Amy came running as soon as she heard that I was hurt.

The internal structures in the testing room were completely destroyed by Amy’s white flash, as if they had been running so fast.

I passed the exam with first place and also walked out of the testing room with first place.

I was carried on a stretcher to Rabin’s hospital room.

“Ravin! Jeff’s broken!”

Those were the first words Shine uttered when they arrived at the hospital room together.

“Your leg is broken.”

As Rabin said, the condition of the bridge was not good.

His bones were shattered from falling from a high place and supporting himself with his legs.

“Should I be hospitalized?”

“I don’t think that’s necessary.”

Ravin smiled and answered Amy’s worried question.

Rabin’s hands began to turn green.

He was a very rare healer.

The treatment for the leg was completed quickly.

The bone healed, but not completely, so it seemed like he would have to wear a cast and be in a wheelchair for a while.

“It’s all over.”

Rabin said after wrapping the cast around my leg.

“Jeff’s legs are stiff.”

Shine touched my leg and made a sad face.

She seemed to like soft legs better.

Shine muttered softly as she sat on the bed and stroked my legs.

“If you hurt your leg, you can’t walk.”

“Yeah.”

“Then I can’t even go to the bathroom?”

“Right…?”

“Should I help you?”

I didn’t answer.

Shine smiled happily and hugged my leg.