Enlightenment

‘When did he disappear?’

In addition, no drinks were ordered, so it was like sitting in a book cafe by myself.

She first slightly bowed her head toward Siyoon and greeted him.

Lee Arin, who came out wearing a white off-the-shoulder top with frills and a blue skirt, gave off a fresh newbie feeling unlike the first time I saw her.

“Wow, John…”

A man in a seat not far away muttered with a blank face.

‘It’s not pretty.’

That was something Shiyoon also acknowledged.

It wasn’t decorated like it was at the dinner party, but the background of the original body was a beauty, so the subtle makeup that looked like it was not decorated was quite suitable.

Lee Ah-rin drew all the eyes of the cafe and approached Si-yoon.

“Can I see you from here?”

“I mean.”

“The seat is empty, right?”

“Are you going to sit here?”

“Would you mind interfering?”

Siyoon looked around.

Certainly, the good seats were already gone.

“Nope. I was thinking of taking a little break anyway.”

He is no one else but a savior, so isn’t it true that he treats you harshly? When Siyoon answered, Arin naturally sat down in the front seat and put down the book.

“Johnye and John are good…”

“Are you both wannabe celebrities? Enter staff?”

He could hear the others whispering, but he looked at the book she had borrowed, pretending not to know.

‘Puppet play, you can do it too?’

It was a pretty random book.

Just as he looked at her book, she also asked, looking at the book Siyoon was reading and the things loaded on the cart.

“Are you studying engraving?”

“Yeah, well, shouldn’t we have to eat and live somehow?”

“It’s good. It’s a hundred times better than wasting all your time on alcohol and women.”

“Are you sure you didn’t say that rumors aren’t trustworthy?”

“I don’t know anything else, but it’s true that Choi Si-yoon is very famous in entertainment districts.”

“It is all a misunderstanding. Misunderstanding.”

Although it was for a different reason now, it was a pretty shameless face for a person who passes by the entertainment district every day.

Iarin, who looked at him silently, shrugged her shoulders and said.

“Then shall we play with something like that?”

“Let’s play with that.”

To be honest, even from her point of view, she won.

“Still, you seem to be quite capable.”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s an engraving technique. Because the books you are reading are not easy.”

“Have you read it?”

“A little while in college. I returned it right away because I wasn’t interested in engraving.”

She answered as she took out the ‘Principles and Understanding of Magic Palace Production: Intermediate Edition’ from her cart.

“By the way, are you thinking of borrowing this much? You can only borrow 5 books.”

“I will read half of it here. I have already read these two books.”

At that, Iarin opened her eyes wide as if she was surprised.

“… Unexpectedly, you tend to enjoy reading.”

“I’m a bit of an intelligent person.”

she said with a smile.

“Certainly, it looks more like Choi Il-soo’s senior.”

“Isn’t it rude to compare you to that child?”

“Oh, but that senior, his school grades must have been okay.”

“I am surprised.”

“Yes?”

“Nope. That you know at least a rough estimate of that guy’s grades.”

It was because the Iarin he knew was not interested in that type of person.

Iarin let out a small sigh and answered.

“Even if you don’t want to know, whenever you have a chance, you show up and brag about it, so I have no choice but to know.”

“no way···.”

There, she averted her gaze as if to spare no words.

Of course, the gesture had many implications.

‘Choi Il-soo’s son… You must have loved beyond measure.’

This was something in common with the real Choi Si-yoon.

Si-yoon didn’t mean to, but it was like watering Choi Il-soo in front of the woman he had a crush on.

“Hey, I’m very sorry for this.”

“Even though that senior would have called Siyoon-nim with that in mind from the beginning?”

Choi Il-soo called Si-yoon to embarrass him in front of Kim Seo-ah, so he was a good teacher.

“So you said very little.”

“You are a better person than I thought.”

“Do I look a bit out of character?”

“Um… not necessarily like that.”

Iarin twisted her bangs with her index finger and said with a slightly awkward smile.

“Is that the royal family…?”

‘How eccentric and nasty the characters are, everyone they meet has a prejudice against the Royal Family.’

he sighed.

“It’s all prejudice.”

“I see.”

“I have a drink.”

“thanks.”

Siyoon asked as she watched her drinking the iced americano the clerk brought to her through a straw.

“By the way, were you interested in puppetry?”

“Oh this.”

She said as she touched the book she had borrowed.

“This time, I decided to volunteer at Seo-ah and the orphanage. I was supposed to do a puppet show there…”

After looking through her bag for a while, Iarin took out a cloth doll the size of her palm and showed it to me.

“Originally, he’s supposed to do ballet…?”

Then he moved his hands and began to concentrate. A doll that surprisingly wakes up on its own with a sense of magical power.

The moment Siyoon was about to admire the dance that soon followed, he felt something strange and muttered.

“ballet?”

something like this?

In his eyes, it was nothing but a dance with his hands and feet struggling.

“…it often happens like this.”

Iarin coughed slightly as if slightly embarrassed and said.

“I was wondering if I could get some help from a book…”

“mmm…”

“You know I’m not talented either, right?”

“I didn’t say anything.”

“Hut.”

After breathing in vain for a moment, she muttered as if to make an excuse.

“Anyway, my magic attribute is not related to dolls… That, Seo-ah said it was difficult too.”

“…”

“…”

‘for a moment.’

Feeling something strange, Siyoon frowned.

‘I guess my magic attribute isn’t related to dolls?’

“Is there anyone whose attributes are related to dolls?”

As far as he knew, except for demons, which are the basis of common magic, the five main attributes of fire, water, wind, earth, and lightning were representative.

Other than that, there were rare things like light, darkness, blood, and space.

99.9% of all people born with magical powers are born with demon attributes.

In addition to that, if you possess the property of another element, you can use magic specialized for that area.

For example, the Iarin sitting in front of him was a fraudster who was born not only with magic, but also with water, fire, wind, earth, and lightning.

However, Siyun had never heard of an attribute related to an object such as a ‘doll’ while doing a heroic biography.

Iarin replied as if it were natural.

“Yes, there is. It’s not common, but… Don’t you know the puppet master marionette?”

‘A puppeteer marionette?’

This was also the first time he had heard of it.

There was no such thing as a name unknown to Choi Si-yoon, who could be proud of being rotten due to not being able to go into the heroic biography.

‘If I don’t know…’

Siyoon’s eyes shone.

‘Expansion Pack…!’

He calmed his pounding heart and asked the question calmly.

“So… you mean that you can have things like dolls and swords as attributes besides the 5 major attributes?”

“Yeah, yes. Yes? It’s rare. But I really didn’t know…”

She tried to ask more as if it was strange, but soon shut her mouth.

For a moment, he remembered that Siyoon Choi couldn’t use magic.

‘Magic itself must have been a trauma since I was little…’

Since I was not systematically educated, I thought that there might be holes in my basic knowledge.

The reality was completely different.

Iarin, who gave him a complicated gaze for a moment, then said while clearing her voice.

“···greatness. Usually, it has one or two more elemental attributes in addition to the demon attribute, but if there is a specific environment in infancy, a deep relationship, or history, it can have related objects as attributes.”

His face gradually changed to a curious expression.

“For example?”

“In the case of Marionette, she was originally a lightning magician, but after realizing the doll’s properties, she became widely known as a puppeteer.”

She quenched her throat with Americano and continued talking.

“Once you have doll attributes, you can easily perform your intentions just by connecting the doll and mana.”

Iarin raised the doll funny. Even that seemed difficult to her.

“If I feel like I am manipulating a puppet by connecting dozens of threads one by one, a puppeteer is more like a puppet moving just by thinking about it. there.”

“Is there?”

Saying that, as Siyoon’s eyes brightened like a child’s, Iarin smiled slightly and said,

“Using a doll as a medium, the range of magic that can be exercised becomes wider. In other words, even if you are not a fire attribute, you can ‘able’ to implement fire attribute magic. Of course, the effect will be less than half of the original, but…”

I heard that research on this part is still in progress. she added, grabbing the falling doll again.

“Still, being able to use magic from various elements is a clear advantage.”

Siyoon, who had heard the explanation up to that point, hardened his face at the theory that flashed into his mind.

‘no way.’

“Sorry, can you give me one more answer?”

“Huh, it’s a little fun because it feels like I suddenly became a teacher.”

“Is there a human being without that demon attribute?”

Then Iarin leaned back on the backrest and nodded.

“Yes, there must have been only one actual case so far. Instead, was it fire or water… I could have used magic that way.”

The moment he heard her answer, Siyoon trembled at the terrifying hypothesis he had come up with without even realizing it.

His gaze turned to my hands.

‘no way···.’

Yesterday, he came up with a question about his magical properties. its extension.

What if Choi Si-yoon hadn’t been able to use magic until now?

‘What if it’s because I was born with just one attribute?’

It’s not the magic attribute of common magic that 99.9% are born with. What if it wasn’t fire, earth, water, wind, or electric shock, because he was born with just one ‘object’ attribute?

‘And that attribute is…’

gun, what if?

As soon as the thought reached that point, Siyoon felt goose bumps all over her body.

If this is the case, all the doubts surrounding Choi Si-yoon have been resolved wonderfully.

He thought as he looked at the doll lying face down on the table.

‘found.’

How to bend a bullet.

No, more possibilities than that.

Unable to control his excitement, he jumped up from his seat and said.

“Thank you very much.”

“Yes?”

“Thanks to that, the problem I was worried about was resolved at once.”

“uh···.”

She didn’t know why, but she smiled and said.

“I haven’t done anything, but I’m glad if it helped.”

“Yes, thank you very much. If it’s okay, let’s have a meal next time. I will live.”

There, Iarin narrowed her eyes.

“Are you playing around with this right now?”

“Ah, that’s fine if you don’t like it. It’s me, save money and have a good time.”

He put the book he was reading on top of the cart, put the cup he was drinking on the tray, and pushed the chair back.

Seeing that he was going to leave without any regrets anyone could see, Iarin grabbed him without even realizing it.

“Now, wait a minute.”

“what.”

“The rice is done.”

She cleared her throat and held out the doll to him.

“That… can you engrave some magic here?”

This time, Siyoon’s eyes narrowed.

“No matter how you do it, you use expedients in front of the kids.”

“It’s better than ruining a puppet show. There are only a few days left, but it seems like everything is going to be ruined because of me. Did you know you weren’t this talented? I.”

Siyoon let out a small sigh at the sound of his voice getting quieter as he went back.

“How long can I do this?”

Then Irene’s expression brightened.

“Are you going to do it?”

“I’ll do it for you, so tell me how long you can do it.”

“Until this week?”

“Why are you questionable?”

“Then I’ll ask you until Saturday.”

“Is it okay to stay here until 2:00 on Saturday?”

“Yes Yes.”

“Then see you then.”

Choi Si-yoon, who took only the doll from her hand, left the book cafe without looking back.

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