Possessed an Academy Security Guard

79 – 079. The Secret of Kang Haneul (2)

Cherry blossoms of love.

One of the two special skills given to me who possessed this world.

I couldn’t tell Suho oppa about his true identity. First of all, you’re a character in a novel, this world is a novel, and I wouldn’t believe it if I told you that I came from the outside world.

It would be nice if we could move on without an explanation, but that’s impossible as long as we’ve set up a place like this.

In other words, there is only one option given to me.

I have to lie to my brother from now on.

A detailed and plausible lie that my brother would understand.

I didn’t want to lie to my brother, but I couldn’t help it.

Yes.

It can’t be helped.

“That ability is-“

Take a deep breath. I swallow the tension that fills my chest and make eye contact with my brother.

Be as calm as possible. As naturally as possible.

I told a series of lies that I had prepared in advance to deceive my brother.

“…… That ability was acquired through Talisman.”

“What?”

“I got the talisman the day before the entrance ceremony.”

At my calmly continued words, Suho oppa’s expression gradually turns to astonishment. However, I just calmly spread a prepared lie.

A lie I prepared.

It borrowed the story of Ryu Tae-hyeon, the original protagonist of this world, who obtained Talisman.

It was long after I got off

The Age of Supermen that Ryu Tae-hyeon’s Talisman came out. However, unlike me, my younger brother, who was still following the latest version, told me about it, so I knew the general circumstances.

Ryu Tae-hyeon received a talisman from the traitor of the dawning party the day before the entrance ceremony. To be exact, I was asked to take care of it for one day, but that was the case. However, the traitor did not appear in front of him again, and in the end, Ryu Tae-hyeon took Talisman as his own after losing his owner.

That was the story of Ryu Tae-hyeon’s Talisman, and it was the gist of the lie I was telling Suho.

‘The possibility that Suho oppa knows about Ryu Tae-hyeon’s Talisman is infinitely small.’

It was an almost sure guess. Because it was like that from the original.

The story related to Talisman was always shrouded in mystery, at least until around episode 200, when I got off . In other words, there is no one who has grasped Ryu Tae-hyeon’s circumstances at the present time, or if there is, there are few.

And the probability that Suho oppa would belong to that ‘few’ number was infinitely small.

The Ryeomendan is an organization located in the deepest shadow in Korea. I couldn’t believe that Suho’s older brother, who was only a member of the guards, would be quick to tell them about their situation.

‘In other words, this lie will never be caught.’

With almost 100% certainty, I looked at the possibilities once again.

In the original work, Ryu Tae-hyeon did not tell anyone about Talisman’s secret. Even if someone noticed the talisman in his hand, he would thoroughly keep quiet about how he acquired it. Therefore, it is unlikely that Ryu Tae-hyeon directly informed Suho’s brother about the situation.

On the other hand, I don’t think Suho’s older brother could find out the circumstances surrounding Talisman by other means. How could my brother know what had happened in the depths of the underworld?

Yes. I can’t get caught

Thought so, I took my thinking to the next level. I came up with an expected question my brother would ask and looked back at the answers.

‘You just have to be consistent in saying you don’t know a lot of questions. Ryu Tae-hyeon also said that he received only Talisman without knowing the circumstances. Rather than clumsily providing information based on original knowledge, he would rather say he didn’t know-‘

“Heaven.”

At that time. I was lost in my thoughts, but Suho oppa asked me indirectly.

“Is everything you just said true?”

“…… Yes?”

I asked back with a puzzled look at the light in Suho oppa’s eyes.

“Is everything true, what is it…….”

Something went wrong. I had that intuition.

I can understand if you are asking about the details of the case. However, the question of whether the story I just said was true was a question that could not be asked without questioning my words.

In other words, my brother doubts my words.

‘Why?’

Is it simply too bizarre? Did you just ask if it was true because you couldn’t believe it?

I thought so for a moment, but the light of doubt in Suho oppa’s eyes was not of that kind. I could instinctively know from my brother’s eyes, voice, attitude, and the atmosphere that emanated from him.

“You don’t think my story is a lie…… ?”

Suho oppa is suspicious of me.

He suspects I’m lying.

Instinctively, the intuition sounded an alarm bell in my consciousness.

***

“You don’t think my story is a lie…… ?”

Yes. I think so.

I managed to swallow the words that came up to my throat. I tried to fix my flustered expression and looked at Kang Ha-neul’s attitude.

Kang Ha Neul’s new ability.

A mysterious ability that unlocks the target’s potential.

The origin of that ability, she explained, was Talisman. And the process of how she got the talisman was almost the same as how Ryu Tae-hyeon got the talisman in the original work.

In terms of details, unlike Ryu Tae-hyun, who met Ji Ye-won on the lakeside, for example, they met in an alley, but the basic gist was the same.

I couldn’t believe what she said because it was the same.

I was suspicious because they were the same.

‘How the hell did this happen?’

In the meantime, I thought that if something happened that I didn’t know about, that is, something different from the original, it would be the fault of the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure. He judged that it must have been a change he made himself, or a butterfly effect caused by the change.

However, isn’t this too harsh?

He gave me the talisman that penetrates the core of the original story, the talisman that should have gone to the main character. I thought so, and it turned out that Ryu Tae-hyun also had the same Talisman. And now, it is said that even Kang Ha-neul obtained the talisman from the traitor of the Dawning on the same day.

‘It’s artificial.’

A story that is too contrived to be dismissed as the truth.

I couldn’t possibly believe that the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure had made up the story in this way. Even though he was naive, he had a high level of pride in his story. There’s no way he can tolerate such a contrived development…… I thought, but on the other hand, I also thought that he couldn’t do anything to f*ck me.

‘The current possibility is one of two.’

One. Kang Ha-neul’s words are true, and for some reason, it is possible that she, like Ryu Tae-hyun, got Talisman the day before her entrance ceremony.

And two. The possibility that Kang Ha-neul is lying to me for some reason. In that case, Kang Ha-neul found out how Ryu Tae-hyeon obtained her talisman through some means, and she borrowed the story to her own lies.

“… ….”

I looked down at the leather gloves I was wearing to hide the talisman. Next, I saw the hands of the river and sky gathered on her thighs. First of all, there was no ring on her hand.

“If it was Talisman, he would wear it in the form of an accessory. Can you show me?”

“Yes.”

At my question, Kang Ha-neul raised her left hand and brushed the hair on the side of her behind her ear.

– Shiny.

Then, a small earring shone slightly in it.

Kang Ha-neul said, showing off an earring with a blue gem in the middle of a small disk.

“These earrings are Talismans.”

When I saw the earrings, I was even more confused.

Are there original earrings like that? I do not know. Because she always covered her ears with her hair on the side of her head. Could it be that it was a way to hide Talisman? Or did she choose earrings as an accessory that could be worn on an invisible part to lie?

First of all, the color is blue, the same as mine and Ryu Tae-hyun’s. But just because the color of a gem is blue doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a talisman.

Can you verify? By what means? Once a talisman is bound, it is just an ordinary accessory. To find out that a talisman is a talisman, you have to kill her original owner to unbind her before wearing it. There’s no way she could do that.

Numerous thoughts popped up in my mind and subsided repeatedly. The more she thought about it, the more complicated her mind became.

“Brother.”

At that time. Kang Ha-neul called me.

“If you find my story hard to believe, if you feel it is a lie, feel free to do so.”

Kang Ha-neul looked at me with an anxious expression. Only then did I notice that my brow was furrowed in displeasure. He later corrects his expression and shakes his head.

“No. Sky It’s not that I can’t believe-“

“So you’re saying you believe my story?”

“That’s-“

I looked at Kang Ha-neul’s face as I blurted out the end of my words.

Anxiously quivering eyelids. Complicated sunken eyes. Weakly drooping eyebrows. Restless and constantly twitching lips.

They looked like they were afraid that their lies would be discovered, or they were unhappy and sad because they didn’t believe them even though they were telling the truth. Ambiguous signs that if I think this way, I look this way, and if I think that way, I look that way.

‘Ah.’

At that moment, I muttered very quietly so that Kang Ha-neul could not hear.

“…… Status window.”

Immediately after that, the river sky’s status window was displayed in my field of vision.

—–

[ Status window of ‘Kang Haneul’ ]

Name: Kang Ha Neul

Gender: Female

Height/Weight/Age: 161cm/47.3Kg/20 years old

Occupation: Academy Student

Affiliation: Green House Hunter Department 1st year 1st class

Possessed Superpower: Avatar (C)

[ Abilities ]

Muscle D

Agility C

Durability D

mana B

Fine B

Will C

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Lucky D

[ Possessed skills ]

1. Slow Starter (Unique. S)

2. Cherry Blossoms of Love (Legendary. S)

—–

“Ah.”

In that moment, I knew whether or not she was lying.

My gaze is fixed on the bottom of the status window. Possessed skill. Cherry blossoms of love. This is probably the ability Kang Ha-neul used on me that day. Like the cherry blossom pattern on her chest, because in the first place, there was only one avatar ability in the possessed superpower column.

Yes. That was the decisive evidence.

I moved the status window of Kang Ha-neul to the side and opened my status window in the empty space.

—–

[ Status window of ‘An Su-ho’ ]

Name: Suho Ahn

Gender: Male

Height/Weight/Age: 182.3Cm/76.5Kg/24 years old

Occupation: Academy security guard

Affiliation: Green House Guard Special Response Division

Possessed Super Powers: Black Smoke (D), Magic Absorption (A)

[ Abilities ]

Strength D+*

Agile C++

Durability D

mana C

Fineness C

Will C

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Lucky B

1. Strength and agility are given a positive correction by the wearing effect of .

[ Possessed skills ]

1. Academy guard (Unique. D)

2. Frost Spirit Contract (Unique. E)

—–

The ability I acquired through Talisman, ‘Magic Absorption’, was listed in the ‘Possessed Super Power’ column. This is also true of Ryu Tae-hyeon’s status window, which he once saw.

In other words, the ability obtained through Talisman is listed in the Possessed Superpower column in the status window.

On the other hand, Kang Ha-neul has only one avatar ability.

In other words, the ability Kang Ha-neul used on me was not a superpower like ‘black smoke’ or ‘magic absorption’.

In other words, Kang Haneul did not use Talisman.

In other words, Kang Ha-neul is lying to me.

Her earrings aren’t just Talis. The origin of the ability called ‘Cherry Blossoms of Love’ is not just Talisman. But that wasn’t what mattered now.

The important thing is that she knows how Ryu Tae-hyun got Talisman and borrowed it for her lies.

‘How do you know that? No, how much do you know more than that?’

It would be impossible to understand her circumstances in such detail just because she happened to see the scene where Kim Min-ah handed over the Talisman to Ryu Tae-hyeon by chance.

Ryu Tae-hyeon said that he did not tell anyone about the day except for the guards. In other words, he did not directly hear the circumstances from Ryu Tae-hyeon. If you had heard it yourself in the first place, you would have heard that I knew what happened that day.

In other words, Kang Ha-neul found out the circumstances related to Ryu Tae-hyun’s Talisman through some independent route, and borrowed Ryu Tae-hyun’s circumstances in his lie, thinking that I would not know it. I couldn’t help but think like that.

‘Independent Routra.’

There were only two things that immediately came to mind.

Guards. Or the Dawning.

On the premise that Ryu Tae-hyeon did not tell him directly, there were only two ways for Kang Ha-neul to find out about Ryu Tae-hyeon’s Talisman.

And the Green House Guard never divulges incident information to outsiders.

‘No way.’

Are you saying that Kang Ha-neul has some kind of relationship with the dawn?

It can’t be. I thought so, but at the same time, I wondered how Kang Ha-neul would have found out about Ryu Tae-hyeon’s Talisman if it weren’t for that.

As I was breaking out in a cold sweat from the creeping anxiety, Kang Ha-neul asked again as if urging me on.

“Are you sure you don’t believe me…… ?”

Kang Ha-neul made a sad face. But she couldn’t tell if that expression was sincere.

I’d rather ask straight away.

Isn’t the circumstances you just mentioned about how Taehyung Ryu got Talisman? What the hell happened why did he lie to me where did you get that information from?

However, there was no way he could answer the question even if he asked. If you were going to ask and answer, you wouldn’t have lied in the first place.

‘Then what can I do now… ….’

After thinking briefly, I smiled softly at the river sky.

“No, I believe you. Heaven believes in you.”

She smiled and affirmed that she believed her lie.

It was best to do this right now. It was best to answer this so as not to unnecessarily arouse her suspicions and to make her believe that I had been duped by her lies.

That’ll buy me time to research her.

“…… Thank you for trusting me.”

At my answer, Kang Ha-neul seemed happy but gave a strangely sad smile.

I couldn’t tell whether that smile was sincere or not.