episode_0547
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“… Oppa, are you still half asleep?”
There was genuine concern on Jeong Su-jin’s face as she asked that question.
She continued, observing my complexion.
“You don’t look that tired… I guess people were too noisy and interested? Seriously, this is why being a celebrity is hard. Plus, you even starred in a Hollywood movie… ”
“… … .”
I guess she thought I was talking nonsense about having superpowers. Like she was momentarily out of her mind from all the attention people were giving her.
‘Yeah… this is the reaction of a normal person.’
In reality, supernatural powers such as martial arts or supernatural abilities do not exist.
In a way, it was natural for Jeong Su-jin to react that way.
‘… It’ll take some time to convince you.’
Just talking about it will only hurt your mouth. It would be faster to show and explain it to you directly.
I held up my index finger and used my superpower. Strictly speaking, my superpower is a different kind of power from my real superpower, which is speed thinking, but explaining it in such detail from the beginning only slowed down her understanding.
First of all, I was thinking of lumping everything together and explaining it as superpowers.
Hwaruk-
“Bull… ?”
A small flame rose from the tip of her finger. Jeong Su-jin’s gaze was fixed on the sight that reminded her of a candle.
“Hey, do you see this? This is one of my superpowers… … .”
“Why are you suddenly showing me magic?”
She asked, tilting her head.
“… This isn’t magic, it’s a superpower. It’s the superpower to control fire.”
“Superpower to control fire? But that’s the magic my brother showed on TV.”
“So, that magic… What I showed on the show wasn’t actually magic, it was supernatural power. I just disguised it as magic because I was afraid people would be surprised.”
“… … .”
Jeong Su-jin keeps her mouth shut and has a serious expression.
But I could intuitively tell that the expression on his face wasn’t one of him believing what I was saying, but rather one of him genuinely suspecting that I was going crazy from some kind of mental shock.
There was nothing I could do.
In the first place, it was I, not someone else, who saw this and diligently showed it off on TV, calling it magic.
Even if I tell him now that it was actually a superpower, he will only be looked at with suspicion.
There are joking comments like, “I know this isn’t magic, it’s real magic” on magic videos uploaded to YouTube, but the truth is, no matter how amazing the magic trick is, no one seriously thinks it’s real magic.
Because there is no such thing in reality.
I just believe that there must be some clever trick that no one else has thought of.
It was the same even if I showed myself putting in and taking out non-hazardous items from my inventory.
There was no choice but to do it because the space was too small to show off her martial arts skills and other things, and there was a chance that she would get hurt.
However, the look of doubt did not disappear from Jeong Su-jin’s face. She was just awkward at the magic that was suddenly shown to her.
Eventually, I gave up on trying to convince her of my superpowers right away and continued explaining.
“Anyway, Janie… … .”
I told her about what had happened between Janie and me.
The story of working as an agent in a dystopian kingdom, assassinating the king, the situation where things went wrong and mutants arose, and the narrowly escaped rescue of Janie.
“You want me to believe that? That there are superpowers in novels and comics?”
As the incomprehensible story continued, Jeong Su-jin’s voice was rising as if she was getting angry.
‘Do I have to convince them of my superpowers first?’
At that time, I thought that it would be better to take out the manta ray and take her for a drive into space.
Crash-
Janie opened the door and came out into the living room where we were.
“Everything Minho said is true.”
“… Were you even living together?”
Jeong Su-jin asked in a trembling voice, perhaps slightly shocked by her sudden appearance.
“Jenny, I’ll explain… ”
“No. It’ll be quicker to understand if I show you rather than Minho doing it.”
Janie raised her hand to stop me from speaking. Then she looked straight into Jeong Su-jin’s eyes and said.
“If I show you how to use my powers, not Minho, you’ll believe me.”
Wheeingㅡ
“This is…!”
A strong wind began to blow in the living room. The curtains fluttered and Jeong Su-jin couldn’t open her eyes because of the fluttering hair.
Janie slowly reduced the gust of wind that filled the living room and confined it within her outstretched palms.
“Wind… ?”
Jeong Su-jin didn’t even think about straightening her disheveled hair and just looked at Janie’s hand, which was still hearing the sound of the fierce wind.
“Is that really a superpower…?”
I shook my head in disbelief at that soliloquy.
“You didn’t believe what I explained. Why do you believe what Janie showed you?”
“Well, what Oppa showed was magic, and it’s been shown many times on TV. But what that woman… Janey showed was something completely different.”
“I intentionally showed you a small light so you wouldn’t get scared… ”
Ignoring my grumbling, Jeong Su-jin approached Janie and examined her hands closely.
“There is no device, how… ”
“Because it’s a real superpower.”
Flutter-
Jeong Su-jin looked blankly at her hair blowing in the wind following Janie’s gestures.
“You’re not lying…? ”
Nod.
He nodded.
“So everything you said is true? Even the things that happened in the Kingdom of Heylum? And that Janey is… a person from the comic book world?”
“Yeah. It’s all true.”
“… … .”
Jeong Su-jin sat down on the spot with her mind in a complicated state.
Janie helped her up and sat her back down on the chair.
Jeong Su-jin sat frozen on the chair for a long time. Her face looked as if her soul had left her. I waited and gave her time to accept this unbelievable fact.
“… I don’t know what to say.”
The voice that finally came out of her open mouth was more confused than before.
“If I really saved Janey and they are a couple…then what am I? Am I just some toy that you play with?”
“No, that’s not true.”
‘Objectively, meeting multiple women is trash.’
We often refer to our partner as our other half, but not many people would want to share their other half with someone else.
All I can do is be as big a person as possible so that the other half doesn’t feel lacking.
But if I’m going to be trash, my position is that I’m going to be a proud trash.
“I don’t know if you’ll believe me when I say this, but you and all the other women are equally precious to me. I don’t have any intention of hurting you… ”
“What…? What did you just say?”
“I have no intention of hurting you.”
Jeong Su-jin shook her head.
“What I said before.”
“An equally precious relationship?”
“That’s what you said! Say it again correctly. What did you say?”
“All other women are equally precious to me… ?”
“Are there any other women?”
‘Oh, I’m mad.’
I said I would be a proud piece of trash, but I wasn’t used to seeing women get angry. I didn’t want to get used to it, but it was something in my instinctive realm that I couldn’t get used to in the first place.
“That’s right, as I said, I’m able to get into novel-like works, so I get involved in various situations… ”
“Then, am I the only candidate for a lover in reality?”
“That’s not it… No, the word ‘lover candidate’ is a bit… ”
Kwaaak…
But my attempts to calm her down had no effect. Jeong Su-jin clenched her trembling fist tightly and hit me hard in the face.
Phew!
‘I guess I’ll get hit in the end.’
I deliberately turned my head and took a few steps back the moment her fist made contact with my face to reduce the impact. Because of my body’s durability, she could have gotten hurt in return for hitting me.
To be honest, it was somewhat fitting.
Rather, if you think about it from Jeong Su-jin’s perspective, she must have endured a lot.
No matter how much superpower or strength you have, relationships with people don’t always work out the way you want them to. Since what I’m best at is fighting, I couldn’t help but have difficulties in this area.
“… Call all those women and talk to them. This isn’t something I can decide on my own.”
Her eyes, as she spoke, were blazing as if they were going to burn me whole.
Jeong Su-jin clenched her fist again, as if her anger was not going away. She seemed ready to swing it once more if necessary.
‘I think I convinced you about the superpower… but you look really angry. Your eyes look like you’re going to kill me if I do something wrong.’
-Still, that’s fortunate. At least the master won’t get burned.
‘That’s called comfort… ‘
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