episode_0138

Bam-!

“This arrogant little human bastard… … ”

The oni glared fiercely and ground its teeth.

Do Yu-jin ignored that guy and calmly took out a dagger from her bosom and held it.

“If you have the strength to move your mouth like that, you should save it and put it in a club.”

The groundwork has been laid and all preparations are complete.

“This will probably be the last attack I make while I’m alive, so it’s better not to have any regrets, right?”

So from now on, the key was to continue moving according to plan and hold out as long as possible.

While Do Yu-jin was hammering that fact into her head once again.

“Ha! Come on!”

Oni shouted with anger, his already red skin turning even redder.

“If that’s what you want, I’ll turn you into a flat piece of cake and kill you!”

With those words, the guy gritted his teeth and raised the club he was holding in his hand.

A posture that focuses solely on offense, with no defense in mind, with the upper body tilted back as far as possible while holding a large club reminiscent of a log with both hands and raising it high into the air.

The guy’s two arms were swollen and shaking like a volcano about to explode.

However, Do Yu-jin, who was standing in front of that guy, was the complete opposite, releasing all of his strength.

“Okay, okay, I got it, so try harder.”

I just quietly watched the guy act in a way that seemed playful at first glance.

If he weren’t holding a shabby-looking dagger in his hand, you could almost believe he was staring blankly at the sky.

Crack-!

‘What the heck, why are you just standing there?!’

Rumi watched him like that with an expression full of impatience, as if she would jump out of her seat and run away at any moment.

Her legs were shaking slightly as if they would push off the ground at any moment.

Kwak-!

But Rumi held onto her own leg with one hand and held it down, keeping her position until the end.

That’s Do Yu-jin.

“… … ”

Because the only man she trusted kept sending her signals with his eyes telling her to stay put.

When Rumi was quietly chewing her own lips.

“You little brat! Where the hell are you throwing your eyes at!”

The Oni, who had been gathering strength for a while, let out a roar and released all of the strength in his entire body at once.

The power that many people have worked so hard to create can be broken with a single mocking gesture.

The overwhelming violence created by that Oni gathering all of his strength.

The blow swung as if it were carving through space, filling the vast space with a dull sound.

A sound that was not only destructive but also eerie, as if it would crush rocks and cause a sandstorm.

And in the midst of all that noise.

“You… … !”

Do Yu-jin was standing there with the same feminine look she had shown at first.

With both arms down, he took the guy’s attack with his forehead, without being pushed back even an inch.

An appearance that went far beyond the expectations I had in my head.

“You, you punk! What kind of magic did you use to attack me… … !”

When he came upon him, he was startled and shouted.

Ignoring that guy’s screams.

Swish-

Do Yu-jin quietly moved her hand to touch her forehead and the red line of blood flowing from there.

‘It’s a wound… … It’s definitely a bit awkward, perhaps because it’s the first time I’ve used a technique that I had only vaguely thought about in my head. But, well, I think I got the general idea with this.’

Glance-

‘I guess I’ll be able to get used to it enough to use it before I get rid of all the practice dummies over there.’

Do Yu-jin muttered something to herself, then wiped away the blood flowing down her eyes and cheeks with the back of her hand and muttered blankly.

“By the way, you were lucky. It’s a good thing this guy is weak, otherwise he would have been hurt worse than this. There’s still a long way to go.”

“This fucking human son… … !”

Even in the midst of confusion, the oni was so indignant that he picked out words that were insulting him like a ghost, and was about to scream.

Swish-

Do Yu-jin quietly moved her hand that had been wiping the blood off, and pointed the dagger with a sharp tip at the guy.

Oni, whose anger was at its peak, ignored the rules of the ghost ritual and tried to chew up Do Yu-jin’s outstretched hand with his arm.

But eventually the guy stopped moving.

Why?

Because I remembered the rules of the ghost festival too late?

It may have seemed that way on the surface, but the reason the guy stopped was actually simpler than that.

That would be the case, because in fact the guy hadn’t stopped moving.

Buzz buzz buzz-

Like a frog in front of a snake, Do Yu-jin’s murderous intent squeezed his entire body, making it impossible for him to move even a single finger.

‘Me, me, am I scared? Afraid of a human who is nothing more than food?’

When Oni realized that fact and was trying hard to deny it while sweating profusely.

“Okay, so I’ve roughly experimented with the defense side… … ”

Kook-

“This time, let’s try the attack side.”

Do Yu-jin slowly stepped forward and put strength into the hand holding the dagger.

An action so simple that it’s a shame to even call it a movement.

As if imitating Do Yu-jin’s appearance, the dagger he was holding also drew a rough and simple trajectory, but it didn’t matter.

Because this was enough.

Skills in handling daggers?

Controlling strength through breathing?

Odd body movements?

No need.

Just as a wolf with its mouth wide open needs only sharp fangs and strong jaws to break bones and rip out hearts.

For him to suffocate something, this simple action was enough.

No, rather, anything else is just a distraction.

As if to prove this fact, the dagger held in Do Yu-jin’s hand was dyed black and dug into her flesh like cutting through water.

Kadeuk-

He tore apart Oni’s most precious treasure, which was beating thumpingly inside.

The feeling of something being irreparably damaged, something I’ve felt several times since falling into this world.

The moment Do Yu-jin felt him once again with her fingertips and quietly took back the dagger she had shot.

Kuung-!

Oni’s body, having lost its heart, collapsed and fell to the ground.

Looking at that guy, Do Yu-jin was lost in thought for a moment.

In the past, Do Yu-jin doodled on Han Si-yeon’s face and told her to create her own fighting style.

After hearing that, Han Si-yeon asked Do Yu-jin in return what his fighting style was, but Do Yu-jin was unable to say anything in response.

At the time, Do Yu-jin had little fighting experience and did not have any fighting skills that could be called proper.

Of course, that’s still the case now…

Kook-

But unlike back then, I feel like I have a sense of something now.

Do Yu-jin looked at her hands in that state, lightly squeezing and releasing them repeatedly, then glanced at Shuten-Doji and spoke.

“The winner got one drink, and the loser got five drinks?”

Like the tiny ripples created by flower petals falling on a glass, a silence mixed with shock spread gently along Do Yu-jin’s words.

An atmosphere where even astonishment was crushed.

“What are you doing? Not drinking?”

In it, Do Yu-jin spoke in a calm voice and sent a signal to Rumi.

Gulp-

Rumi tilted her glass and thought to herself, feeling her chest tightening.

‘It’s possible to look at a man and still think he’s sexy.’

He said that he would grab it by the throat and never let it go.

◎ ◎ ◎

“What is the situation?”

“Everything is going smoothly.”

The man in the black wedding dress bowed his head and said.

“Thanks to the believers who gave their strength and created a bigger hole in the wall of the Demon Realm than expected, Osaka is now preoccupied with stopping the monsters that came over from the Demon Realm.”

“What are the chances that the Superhuman Association will intervene in the situation in Japan?”

“They are using the Japanese politicians they have worked so hard to educate without sparing them, so the possibility of the Superhuman Association intervening right away seems slim.”

“Their conversion may not have been completely completed yet?”

“Yes, but while insisting that the Japanese guild alone is enough to handle the situation, they are also blocking the flow of the meeting by raising the issue of the cost that would be incurred when requesting help from the Superhuman Association.”

The man in the black priest’s robe who had been speaking up to that point bowed a little deeper than he had originally bowed, and spoke.

“Since we have completely blocked the Japanese government’s movements, there will be no mishaps of the Superhuman Association coming here before the grand plan begins, Master.”

The man called the cult leader nodded at the desirable answer.

In his appearance, there was no sign of complacency or satisfaction.

And that was as it should be.

The situation is shaken by a sudden incident in the circle and the appearance of Ellis, an S-class superhuman who had been holding his breath.

It is true that they broke out at this time because everything else was exquisitely timed to encourage them to move, but they had been diligently laying the rails on the land of Japan from the beginning, investing a lot of time and capital.

So, for the leader, the current situation in which the ark was moving smoothly toward success was nothing more than a natural situation.

That’s why he turned his gaze away.

Not towards the top where the path they had carefully laid out lay, but towards the bottom which was so dark that they could not properly perceive it.