13 – 013. Awakening

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An Suho’s mistake. Ji Ye-won’s gap. The moment those two elements overlapped, the assassin struck down the ax with fierce momentum.

An ax blade descending aiming for the middle of the forehead.

In front of him, Ji Ye-won twisted her body, albeit in an unstable position.

-Poo-Hak!

The next moment, blood splattered from Ji Ye-won’s shoulder blades.

“Ji Ye-won!”

Ji Ye-won’s shoulders were stained red in an instant. Thanks to the protective elements of the borrowed defensive coat, she was spared a fatal wound, but it was by no means a shallow one.

The assassin chased after Ji Ye-won, who grabbed her by the shoulders and stepped back.

-Cheong! Caang! Caang! Kang! Kaaang!

Every time the ax blade flashed, Ji Ye-won’s posture gradually collapsed.

Only once.

Permitting that single blow turned the tide of battle. Ji Ye-won had no choice but to rush to defend her, wrapping her injured shoulder in the attack of the assassin who increased her momentum as if transitioning from the Siege War to the Siege War.

The splendid sword dance lost its splendor, and the assassin’s ax gained more momentum. In an instant, small wounds increased on her body.

Belatedly, Ahn Su-ho rushed in, but he could not hastily approach the ax that was being swung with the same momentum as a raging sword.

‘Damn it.’

Ahn Su-ho chewed her lips.

She had to cut off the current since she had gone over to him. She had to cut the flow, step back once and reposition her.

“Ji Ye-won! Back off!”

Thinking so, An Su-ho activated her own psychic powers.

Black smoke.

A rare ability to create and control black smoke from both hands.

With his lack of direct attack power, at best he could only hold back his opponent’s ankles.

‘I have to grab my ankle somehow!’

But now, even that was desperate. It was built on the wall of a huge smoke screen between Ji Ye-won and the assassin with his supernatural ability.

And that judgment worked as poison for Ji Ye-won.

-Ssik.

The assassin laughed. He raised the ax with all his might. It was the thought that he would split Ji Ye-won with acting.

A posture full of gaps where the torso is open. However, Ji Ye-won could not see it because of the smoke that blocked her view.

“Damage!”

Belatedly, Ahn Su-ho shouted, and the ax fell right after.

-Kwajik!

Deep in the left shoulder. The blue ax blade dug into the wound he had made earlier. The sound of bones snapping and flesh being crushed echoed everywhere.

Soon he pulled out the axe, and red blood splattered vigorously. It even smeared on the cheek of Ahn Su-ho, who was far away.

“Ah.”

Ji Ye-won’s body staggers. His knees buckle, his back rolls backwards, and before long he falls completely to the ground.

“Ji Ye-won!”

The moment Suho Ahn shouted, the assassin and his eyes met.

Shortly after, his ax, which had approached unknowingly, was sucked into Ahn Soo-ho’s neck.

‘I will die.’

This is dead. Instinctively he sensed it. It was a blow that could not be avoided or prevented.

The moment of despair. The world Ahn Su-ho sees has slowed down significantly.

Everything felt slow, but also sharp. However, his body slowed down as well. He couldn’t do anything even as he watched the ax hit his neck.

The only thing I was able to do was close my eyes tightly before the ax barely reached.

-Quad Deuk Deuk!

The sound of blades cutting flesh and cutting bones.

But oddly enough, I didn’t feel the pain that would accompany it.

Ahn Soo-ho quietly opened his eyes. A black blade protruded from the assassin’s chest.

“Cheer, heck!”

He looked down at my chest. Soon, his face turned to shock.

As if laughing at him, a low voice leaked from behind him.

“……… I should have made sure it died properly. I immediately turn my eyes and run at him. Why, I guess, because of the smoke screen, I couldn’t see well?”

“Uh, how?”

“Like this.”

Ji Ye-won’s left shoulder was cut by an assassin’s axe.

Innumerable blades protruded from the cracks. The moment the ax cut through his flesh, he created a blade from within his body and managed to protect his vital organs.

Even so, the fact that it was a fatal wound did not change, but it was possible to delay the death that approached him.

Ji Ye-won pulled out the blade. The dagger that had served its purpose disappeared as if it were melting into the air, and the assassin’s body leaned sideways.

I won.

Did you win?

Winning?

Ahn Suho’s pupils trembled at the bewildered victory. And the moment that gaze turned to Ji Ye-won, the trembling intensified.

“Ji Ye-won?”

The moment he first checked her condition, he thought her body was standing. Ji Ye-won’s condition was so miserable.

Red blood was leaking from all the tiny cuts that went through her body.

His skin was pale with blood, and his breathing was intermittently quivering.

In particular, the condition of her left shoulder, which was cut once more at the end, was extremely serious. Her left arm was barely hanging from her torso. She was able to block it with her blade, so it stopped like this.

“Are you okay?”

“…… Do you think this is okay?”

Ji Ye-won looked down at her and let out a sigh. She gave off a fishy metal smell from her breath.

“…… Oh damn I thought I could stop it.”

“Go to the hospital right away-.”

“Okay. Can’t live this Die on the way.”

Even as she spoke of her own death, her attitude towards Ji Ye-won was aloof.

This happened because of Ahn Soo-ho. She could have blamed her once, but she just stared blankly into space with her mouth shut.

Soon she took out a small ring case from my chest and handed it to Ahn Su-ho.

“…… Take this instead of me and run away. Before the others arrive…….”

“Running away. How can I leave that side alone?”

Ji Ye-won quietly shook her head. I was already prepared for my own death. The sight made Ahn Su-ho speechless.

A fact flashed through his mind at that moment.

“…… Portion.”

An intermediate level potion that was posted as a quest reward. If you use it, you will be able to save Ji Ye-won.

“There is a potion. It’s an intermediate recovery potion. If you use it, you can probably buy it.”

Ahn Suho opened the quest window with trembling hands. On the reward tab at the bottom of the quest window, as he said, there were six letters that said Intermediate Recovery Potion.

However.

‘Why doesn’t the quest end?’

The quest isn’t over even though the assassin has been defeated.

At that moment, Ahn Su-ho remembered the existence of the sniper he had forgotten about. The quest condition is ‘defeat the assassin and protect Ji Ye-won’s life’. If the assassin mentioned there included the sniper, the quest was not yet over.

‘What should I do? Should I still find the sniper and kill him? But how do I know where he is?’

Ahn Su-ho wrapped his head and fell into trouble. Ji Ye-won shook her head with a weak smile, not knowing how to interpret his appearance.

“…… Don’t worry. If you have the potion, you have to save him first.”

“Yes?”

Ji Ye-won weakly pointed at the vegetable kite.

“I’m just a criminal after all, but that girl is your co-worker. But you’re going to use that expensive potion on me? Stop thinking useless and save him.”

“But-.”

“At the point of betraying the organization, I was already prepared for death. Yes, I hate dying, but as long as they don’t take Talisman away, I’ll be satisfied. …… I can die contented.”

Ahn Suho shook his head.

Vegetable smoke. Yeah, she had to keep her alive if she could keep her too. However, Ji Ye-won’s comfort was several times more important to him than the vegetable-yeon.

It was inevitable. Regardless of whether it was affection or friendship, Ji Ye-won was literally the one whose life was at stake.

However, there was no way Ji Ye-won knew about such a situation.

She was just happy to know that the man in front of her was worried about her own death, just a day after they met.

A subtle smile appeared on Ji Ye-won’s face, and after that smile, her eyes slowly closed.

“Yewon?”

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Losing her mind, her body collapsed into Ahn Su-ho’s arms. The sound of his shallow breathing was weak, as if it would die out at any moment.

“Yewon? Ji Ye-won? Wake! Come to your senses! Damn you, don’t die on your own!”

Blood came out profusely on the arm that supported her body. Blood loss. Excessive bleeding. Those words passed quickly through his brain.

‘What should I do?’

With a confused mind, he quickly grasped the situation.

To complete the quest, you must find and capture the sniper. However, he does not know where he is.

Will a sniper come here to kill himself? Or will you retreat once you see that your comrades have been killed? If he retreats, what will happen to the quest? Is it treated as clear? Or a temporary hold?

‘First of all, first aid.’

I looked at Ji Ye-won’s wounds with that thought, but I was at a loss. Aside from the cuts all over her body, there was no way to stop the bleeding from her almost severed shoulder.

First of all, I tied the coat she was wearing around her shoulders as if it wasn’t enough, but that wasn’t enough to stop her bleeding.

‘119. I need to call 911-.’

He took out his smart phone with trembling hands. The police investigation that would inevitably follow when an ambulance was called or Ji Ye-Won’s identity were no longer on her mind.

First of all, we have to save her somehow. It was all in his mind.

But at that moment.

“Keuuugh.”

With a thick groan, the fallen assassin raised his body.

“Huh?”

The assassin staggered and grabbed the axe. Ahn Su-ho’s hand unconsciously gripped the Taser. Immediately he pulled the trigger.

-Pajijijijik!

“Kuuu!”

An electric current rose and the assassin groaned. However, unlike Yewon Ji, he survived the electric shock of the taser. While Ahn Su-ho was taken aback by the sight, the assassin cut off the wire of the taser with trembling hands.

Ahn Suho stood up. A bit of a bewildered look.

“How… ….”

“…… How did you survive? Or how did he not die?”

The assassin laughed and opened the hem of my clothes.

Inside the tattered shirt, the wound on his chest pierced by Ji Ye-won was wriggling and recovering quickly.

“My psychic power is ‘body regeneration’. It heals all kinds of wounds, and even if it’s a fatal wound that leads to death, you can barely survive at least once. It’s a modest ability, but it’s quite useful.”

Ahn Soo-ho pulled out the stun blade as he watched the assassin trudge towards. Seeing him step forward as if to protect Ji Ye-won, the assassin laughed.

“Arthur. No matter how bad my physical condition is, you can’t beat me. Quietly hand over the Talisman and go away. Then it will save your life.”

“…… If I hand over Talisman, will Ji Ye-won be killed?”

“Of course not. The Dawning has no mercy for traitors.”

“Then I can’t back down.”

“Huh.”

Resolutely determined to die, Ahn Soo-ho aimed his sword. A sloppy posture. To the assassin, it was just ridiculous.

“…… If you really want to die, there’s no choice.”

-Paat!

As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed at Ahn Soo-ho.

Perhaps it was because of the aftereffects of his injury, his speed was noticeably slower. However, it was still much faster than An Su-ho.

– Wedge love liquid!

An upward attack from below. Ahn Su-ho’s waist bent like a bow, and an ax blade brushed past it.

‘I avoided it-.’

-f*ck!

However, the kick that followed right after was stuck in his stomach. Without realizing what had happened to him, An Su-ho’s body flew several meters and landed on the roof wall.

“Hey!”

All the air in my lungs came out. The impact is clearly transmitted even on the defensive court. In the pain that seemed like his intestines would burst, he tried to breathe, but only a gurgling sound came out.

Ahn Suho thought. That this can never be won

“What did you say? Can’t you back off? I only lived on the topic of Gangjeong, which was empty.”

A relaxed smile came to the lips of the assassin. Now that Ji Ye-won is down, he has no element of losing himself.

With a sense of half-playing, he raised the ax toward An Su-ho.

In the sense of half playing, I tried to kill him.

Ahn Soo-ho trembled when he intuited that fact.

I was afraid. He was just afraid.

The scent of death approaching him gripped his heart.

If I stay still like this, I will die.

But even if you fight back, you will die.

Even if she wins, if Ji Ye-won dies, she will die too.

A situation full of death everywhere.

In that situation, there was only one thing he could do. He got up and straightened his posture.

There is only one thing he can do now.

“Oh, you want more?”

Just a desperate struggle.

“What a futile resistance.”

The assassin grinned.

The next moment, his palm approached in an instant and slapped An Su-ho on the cheek. His head jerked and blood gushed out of his mouth.

“I told you. If you run away, I will spare your life.”

While holding onto the staggering Ahn Soo-ho by the collar, he swung his palm.

– Jjaak!

“When they said they would send it.”

– Jjaak!!

“I’ll run away or run away.”

– Jjaak!!!

“What? Can’t you step back?”

– Jjaaak!!!

“You’ve been talking about nothing!”

– aaa!!

A weight-bearing slap sent his body flying several meters again. His body rolled like garbage on the rough concrete floor and hit the railing.

‘Stand up.’

Take the ground. Raise your body However, his brain was shaken by the continuous slapping, and his half-standing body leaned sideways.

‘I have to stand up.’

I managed to lean my upper body against the railing. Hudeul Street gets on his knees and tries to stand up somehow.

‘But what if I stand up?’

Even if I stand up here, will anything change?

He’s already dead anyway.

“What the f*ck, really… ….”

I will die even after this. Die anyway

Swearing came out naturally in an unreasonable situation.

The demon of pleasure, that abominable name, came to his mind. Resentment outweighed anger. If ordinary people who have never fought before were possessed in this world, wouldn’t they be able to play an active role only if they had something in their hands?

But what about reality?

Ability is rubbish, superpower is not very good.

The skill he gave you as a perk of possessing is half-baked, with no room to even use it right away.

I don’t know if I can pick up even a plausible skill from somewhere like the main character, but I can’t even go to pick up an obvious skill because of my pitiful ability.

‘No. For a moment.’

That moment. A fleeting flash.

‘…… A chance?’

Ahn Soo-ho rummaged through his pockets. There was only the Talisman he had received from Ji Ye-won a while ago.

A chance that the main character should have gotten.

However, right now, it was openly existing like this right in front of his eyes.

Perhaps this talisman was a chance prepared for me by the abominable writer.

As I stared down at Talisman blankly at such thoughts, the assassin’s face caught a fishy smile.

“Arthur. Wearing a talisman does not necessarily mean awakening new abilities. At best, the probability of awakening your abilities is-“

“1 In 10,000. I know.”

1/10,000. 0.01%.

Ultimately, the probability of failure is obvious when you think about it with common sense.

However, now that all possibilities are blocked, it is time to challenge that possibility.

‘The Heavenly Demon of Pleasure, you damned piece of writing.’

He brought out a talisman. A beautiful ring with a blue gem was placed on his hand.

The assassin didn’t bother to stop that action. Rather, he was just making a mockery of it, as if asking him to give it a try.

‘If you really have any conscience left, this Talisman is the opportunity given to me!’

If even this didn’t work, there was no other way.

Cleaning his teeth eagerly, he put the talisman on his right index finger.

-Titling!

Shortly after, system messages filled his vision.

—–

[ I only wore the talisman of . ]

[ The chance of success is compensated by the luck of the C rank. ]

[ There is a 0.03% Chance that only that talisman will settle on you. ]

[ Attempting to settle Talisman. . . . . . ]

[ Attempting to settle Talisman. . . . . . ]

[ Attempting to settle Talisman. . . . . . ]

—–

-Quooooo!!!

A strong gust of wind began to blow around the ring-wearing hand. Unidentified energy scattered all over the place began to be sucked into his right hand.

– Fast! Fast!

In the next moment, an intense pain came centering around my right hand.

“Creepy!”

Unfamiliar energy ravaged his entire body. Perhaps this aura is magic, he guessed.

However, the pain was not good enough. It just hurt and hurts again.

The pain that lightly exceeded the threshold made my vision blurry. From the other side of that distant field of vision, a kaleidoscope spread out.

Numerous scenes passed his vision. Each and every passing scene was a precious memory or memories from the other side of the world.

I left all of that behind and came to this world.

Forcibly possessed by this world.

That fact was just unfair. Resentment soon turned to sadness, and sadness soon turned to anger. That rage soon turned into willpower fueled by evil.

In the face of pain that ravaged his whole body, that rage was his only ally. I desperately suppressed the raging magic within his body with willpower overcome by evil.

An eternity that seemed like an instant, or an eternity that seemed like an eternity had passed.

—–

[ Attempting to settle Talisman. . . . . . ]

[ Attempting to settle Talisman. . . . . . ]

[ Settlement was successful. ]

[ The A-rank superpower Is awakened! ]

—–

The moment the system message finally appeared indicating success.

His vision, which had been far away, was dyed black.

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