episode_0164

Toouk-

“What the heck? How dare some fearless guy touch my shoulder, which is said to have the potential to be chosen as one of the S-class superhuman candidates in the future… … ”

A boy with a bear-like build immediately tensed his facial muscles and shouted when he felt a blow to his right shoulder while walking down the street.

Seizing the initiative through threats.

It could be said that this was a reasonable response in a circle that took on the form of a jungle, as it gathered together young superhumans of a high-spirited age.

But it is truly unfortunate.

“Hey, what did you just say?”

This time, the English opponent was not good.

“Are you just rambling for me to hear that?”

“Oh, no, that’s… … ”

A man with an evil face and a pretty girl with slightly sharp eyes.

If you think about it normally, it would be correct to think that girls are more dangerous.

And actually, that was the right answer.

“Are you ignoring me? I’m asking you what you were talking about a little while ago.”

Because the sight of Rumi, who seemed ready to swing her thorny club at a male student’s head at any moment, was the very definition of danger.

“That, that’s why… … ”

The pressure that Lumi exudes, almost violently.

The male student who confronted him head on.

Kuung-

Eventually, I trembled like a cornered rat and fainted right there.

That student was also a student who had a bit of a reputation in the circle, but even so, his skills were not comparable to those of Rumi, one of the ten best students in the first year.

“Tsk!”

Rumi frowned when she saw that the fallen boy’s pants were soaking wet and she started walking again.

In fact, if it had been the usual Rumi, the moment she saw the boy sweating profusely, she would have just gone back on her way.

What she likes is fighting, not bullying the weak.

But unfortunately for the boys, Rumi wasn’t as gentle as usual today.

Groan groan-

“Wow, I knew about it through rumors, but seeing it in person is no joke.”

“That’s right. I made eye contact with him for a moment, and his legs already felt loose?”

“You really shouldn’t mess with that Rumi.”

“I guess he was so strong that he was able to do so well in Japan too?”

Shudder-!

When she heard the word Japan while walking down the street, Rumi instinctively stopped walking and a man’s face came to mind.

Bam-!

He soon began to grind his teeth fiercely.

‘That bastard! He talked to me like that and now he left me behind again!’

After somehow winning the fight against Shuten-Doji, Rumi was the first to climb up to the roof where Doyujin was.

But at that time, Do Yu-jin was on the roof of the power plant, thinking about what kind of modifications to add to the railgun she bought from the [shop], so Rumi had no choice but to come up empty-handed.

Well, it wasn’t a total waste of time though.

Because the strange guy who appeared after that threw a shuriken with a note tied to it, I was able to obtain the name and contact information of Ghost.

‘You punk! You’re not even trying to joke around with me right now. What are you trying to do?’

However, Rumi, who had already been held in Do Yu-jin’s arms and literally done everything, including biting and sucking, naturally could not be satisfied with that.

And Rumi could not bear such dissatisfaction.

Kukwaaang-!

Without a moment’s hesitation, she unleashed the power she had gained from defeating Shuten-Doji and ran wild.

An action taken with the sole purpose of finding and catching Do Yu-jin, the person who had screwed him twice.

But, ironically enough, her actions caused countless Yokai to disappear, and thanks to that, Rumi is now considered one of the heroes who protected Japan during this crisis.

Thanks to that, I was even given a separate award from the circle!

Of course, it was a very honorable thing, but even so, Rumi’s sullen expression did not show any sign of brightening.

In the end, the original goal of catching Do Yu-jin and rushing to the wedding hall ended in failure.

That is, in Lumi’s eyes, the award the Circle gave her now seemed like it was teasing her.

ha-

‘I want to just jump out and do whatever I want, even if it’s just a prize or something… ‘

But this time, that wasn’t possible either.

After all, the one who recruited all the students this time was none other than the Circle’s principal, Ellis.

Although Rumi basically acts on her own and tries not to do things she doesn’t like, she has the intelligence to distinguish between situations where it’s okay to mess around and situations where it’s not okay.

‘If you run away, you will definitely be caught and brought back.’

It would have been better to just walk there on my own two feet.

Sigh-

‘I hope it ends quickly.’

With that thought in mind, Rumi stood quietly in front of the waiting room.

Now that I was here, I could get away from the chattering of other students coming from all over the place.

But Rumi stood in front of the door and hesitated to go in.

“Oh, by the way, what happened to the gifts you said you’d give to your club seniors?”

“I gave it to you yesterday on my way to pick up a photo.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, I was glad to have a nice cosplay tool.”

“That’s just like them. Oh, right!”

Fumbling around-

“This is the hairpin you gave me last time. I forgot about it because so much has happened since then, but I’m returning it to you now.”

Ppaan-

“Do it yourself.”

“Huh? Well, okay.”

Click-

“Huh? Oh, sorry. Now that I think about it, I did it in the back instead of the front. I’ll do it again.”

“Okay, I’ll just do it like this from now on.”

Because I could hear some unknown guys openly flirting inside the waiting room.

Cheet-!

Rumi clicked her tongue as if nothing happened and walked in with rough steps, not even giving them a glance from the beginning.

On the outside, it looked like he was just really annoyed, but that wasn’t true.

‘Sigh, if things were normal, I would be doing the same thing as that guy by now.’

Rumi was so depressed and gloomy right now that she was on the verge of tears.

‘After holding hands and hugging, in the end it was like this and that… ‘

That’s when Rumi was healing her emotional wounds, even if only through imagination.

“It’s time.”

One of the professors outside called them over.

As we were guided up to the stage, the award ceremony began shortly after, as most of the conversation had already taken place while we were in the waiting room.

Seeing this, the students instinctively clapped their hands, but some of them tilted their heads as if they were puzzled.

“Hey, I understand everything, but who is that guy?”

“I don’t know, I’m seeing this face for the first time too?”

“But don’t you think he’s a little handsome?”

New Face, the surprise of seeing an unexpected new face.

Thanks to that, things got quite noisy, but Rumi didn’t pay any attention to the students and focused only on recalling Do Yu-jin’s face, which was the last thing she saw.

‘Ha, I want to see it one more time. That black hair and eyes.’

“The color of the hair and eyes are all black? That’s amazing.”

……huh?

Rumi reflexively turned her head to the side as the sound coming through her ears overlapped with her thoughts.

Then it appeared.

“Uh… … ?”

A boy with black hair and black eyes who looks familiar.

“Thank you.”

It was the sight of someone standing next to me, giving off an air of having seen him somewhere.

◎ ◎ ◎

“Okay, take it.”

“Thank you.”

Do Yu-jin received the award and put it in her arms.

As I bowed my head slightly in that state, the applause around me grew louder.

The pouring gazes have become even sharper.

‘It’s hot.’

By the way, Do Yu-jin is not the type of person who gets nervous in crowded places.

In my previous life, I was considered a genius artist, so I was used to all kinds of attention and attention from the public.

To begin with, I wasn’t the type of person to feel pressured by things like this.

In other words, what Do Yu-jin was embarrassed about right now was not the gaze of the other students below her.

“… … ”

It was Rumi’s gaze that I felt right next to me.

‘I was a little relieved because it seemed like he didn’t notice even though it was right in front of him, but I don’t know why he’s acting like this all of a sudden. I thought it would be okay because it was night and far away, but I guess not?’

Do Yu-jin felt slightly uneasy as she looked at the inactive [The Beauty of the Country (10★)], but then reassured herself again.

‘No, Rumi, if she had known I was a ghost, she would have rushed at me right away. More than that, she had already lost half her sense of reason because it was her first time turning into a monster. She probably just felt a sense of discomfort.’

Of course, even so, it was true that it was a bad sign.

Even though Do Yu-jin had activated her trait, she had already shown her face to Rumi once.

There was another problem besides that.

This was an event to award prizes to all the students who had made a name for themselves by working on both the club exhibition that had been postponed due to Ellis’s absence and the large-scale Japanese dungeon break.

In other words, to put it simply, there are currently no people on the stage other than Erio and Rumi.

“They’re them?”

Han Si-woo, Han Si-yeon, and even Rias were there.

Do Yu-jin imagined herself being stuck between them for a moment.

‘It’s like a crow stuck between two phoenixes.’

It was a combination that couldn’t go unnoticed even if you tried to avoid it.

‘Please, let time pass quickly.’

When Do Yu-jin prayed like that, it was as if her wish had been heard.

Knock knock-

Ellis suddenly tapped the microphone in front of her.