The Academy’s Deceased Ate It All - The Academy’s Deceased Ate It All chapter 364

Gaiden ― Later story (9)

“… … .”

Laune sat blankly in her seat and looked at the cylinder placed in front of her.

Time was already passing through the morning and moving towards the afternoon.

Raune, who was shaking her head following the ticking clock hand, got up from her seat as if she had made up her mind.

The cylinder full of strange pieces was already empty.

However, there was a reverberation of the seven evil bells that was subtle enough that even the spirits, who could be called the existence of nature itself, could barely feel it.

Laune, who came right in front of him, remembered Yoo Ji-hyeok, who had been here until recently, and Han Soo-young, one of the people who did not change as much as the fact that he was an intruder in the gang, but he did admit it.

* * *

‘A fragment of Milited?’

Yoo Ji-hyuk muttered like that.

Raune clearly remembered that Milited was the name of one of the Seven Devils that had opposed him in the past, and that all the Seven Sevens that existed had fallen at his hands.

“… … .”

It was a fact that Laune knew well that Yoo Ji-hyuk’s body was different from before.

His body was so damaged that he fell from his side, who did not want to fall for even a moment, and collected the energy of the World Tree and passed it on to him periodically.

It was self-evident that a small crack would become a big crack, but Laune and other people’s own methods were merely extending the grace period.

By the way, that’s the only way to fix his body.

Laune, who had finished preparing to launch her body like a missile at Han Soo-young, quietly listened to her.

‘… You know Jihyuk well, but your body became that way because of what happened during the battle with Ariman.’

Han Soo-young sat on Yoo Ji-hyuk’s body and started talking.

‘Did you call it the status window?’

He nodded at her question.

‘At that time, while defeating Ahriman, Jihyeok saw some of your things seep into me. Jihyuk knows that well. And the status window that played the most important role among the things that flowed into me in that way. When Jihyuk heard your story, it was like in a game… .’

Here she paused for a moment.

Yoo Ji-hyuk sighed quietly and looked up at her.

‘… You said it appeared to show the abilities of the characters? But it looks different to me.’

With those words, she waved her hand as if stroking the air.

He shook his head when she asked if he could see it.

‘okay… Anyway, it looks like a circular sphere to me, doesn’t it? However, it has a very similar shape to the one I made for myself to use space magic.’

‘That means… .’

‘According to the person who owns it, it changes into the form that is easiest for that person to understand. Well… It’s a long story, but anyway, why did I bring this up… … .’

With one hand, she pressed on Yoo Ji-hyuk’s chest area, then raised her other hand and spread her fingers.

Then, around her fingers, magical blades that looked like fine saw blades began to form.

‘Can’t you move?’

Han Soo-young carefully cut off the T-shirt that Yoo Ji-hyuk was wearing.

Seeing his exposed upper body, she smiled slightly and muttered.

‘Hey, I’m glad I didn’t get hurt. … More than that, I’m more excited than I thought. Why don’t we do this one more time later?’

‘… This was a 30,000 won T-shirt.’

At his absurd remarks, Han Soo-young made a squeaky sound as if to appease a child.

‘Our baby. Mom will buy you two more expensive and good ones, so stop getting mad?’

‘No, can’t we just take it off? What did you cut it for?’

To his words, Han Soo-young answered with a look as if he was asking something so obvious.

‘Yeah, this is more exciting. Something… Feeling more immoral and dangerous?’

‘… … .’

‘Ahhh, I’ll continue the explanation anyway.’

Han Soo-young gently stroked his upper body and picked up the cylinder while looking at him trembling and trembling at the sudden touch.

‘You can see the status window that Jihyeok is talking about granting some kind of authority to the person who owns it. As if it was given to Ariman, who was in charge of managing the World Tree, the Seven Bells, or the Seven Bells. And I dare to assert that the authority of this status window is at a higher level than those mentioned above.’

‘Authority, who gives it?’

‘… … Well? I don’t know the details of that either.’

Looking at Han Soo-young’s appearance, Laune could feel something strange.

She said she didn’t know, but she certainly knew something.

And it was clear to Laune that Yoo Ji-hyeok had noticed too, but he didn’t bother to point it out.

‘Well… If you roughly guess, Ariman hated him so much, and Jihyuk must have been the one who first sent you into this world.’

‘I guess.’

‘This authority that Jihyuk gave me when you returned to the original world… I spent a lot of time figuring out about it. And only recently have I been convinced.’

With those words, Laune unknowingly remembered the past that she did not want to recall.

Yoo Ji-hyeok disappeared, everyone was having a hard time, and it seemed as if he could still see Han Soo-young, who was locked up in a closet alone like a maniac, staring at the air and muttering constantly.

‘I’ll tell you the conclusion. Jihyuk’s body started to collapse because the ‘authority’ granted by this status window has disappeared. That is why, originally, a kind of penalty is being given to your existence, which can be said to be an impurity in this world. Originally, you would have endured it with the authority you were originally given, but that authority no longer exists for you.’

At her words, Yoo Ji-hyuk looked as if he had remembered something.

It was because he could feel that the titles, such as ‘one who goes against the flow of the world’, which did not appear in the status window as she said, had disappeared, typically ignoring the karma caused by the Seven Evil Bells.

‘There, the powers you gained by killing the Seven Evil Bells remain in your body little by little. that is… You made Jihyeok to build up some kind of karma, and Jihyuk was destroying your body even more. The good news is that Svengali and Minerva are attached to you and conflict with those things.’

Yoo Ji-hyeok broke into a cold sweat without realizing it, as she spit out the words that she might have died sooner.

What was terrifying was that Laune was the same.

Although he did not express it, Han Soo-young was no exception.

‘… I tried to hand over the power I took from you, but that was impossible. So I came up with another way.’

With those words, Han Soo-young shook the cylinder.

Fragments of Milited.

A piece of the Seven Evil Bells with authority.

‘Jihyuk will implant this in your body. And by absorbing it, it is an expedient way to grant authority. If you do that, your karma, that is, your karma, will be in conflict, and you will not be regarded as an impurity.’

‘… Is that possible?’

Yoo Ji-hyuk asked her quietly.

She was ignorant about this, but she wasn’t.

He knew that his body was gradually falling apart, so in the current situation he had no choice but to cling to her.

‘You have to make it possible. Because it was the time for that and it was a choice.’

Han Soo-young muttered with a firm voice.

She began to carefully place the fragments of Milited in her hand on Yoo Ji-hyuk’s stomach.

‘First, let’s start with Jihyuk transplanting into your body. Absorbing… You’ll have to do it slowly and take your time. No worries. Me, Ner, and Sbangali will help you.’

… What happened next was truly instantaneous.

Han Soo-young made a barrier around him saying he didn’t know.

Fragments sucked into Yoo Ji-hyuk’s body.

He clenched his teeth as if in pain, and Minerva and Svengali came out as if they had been waiting for a moment.

After a while, he was half-exhausted, and Han Soo-young and the other two showed signs of exhaustion.

Han Soo-young smiles as if she is lucky to see Yoo Ji-hyeok, who seems to have lost his mind.

Minerva and Sbangali are having a conversation with Han Soo-young.

The two immediately return to Yoo Ji-hyuk’s body.

and… .

“… … !!!”

Thinking about it again, Laune couldn’t contain her anger.

While Raune was gone, Han Soo-young disappeared through space movement as if she had come here with him!

Laune, who had lost him in front of his eyes in the blink of an eye, sat on the floor for a long time and was frustrated.

Then he found a cylinder that had been thrown away on the bed.

* * *

… So the story goes back to a little while ago.

Raune, who had already reached the front of the cylinder, inserted the roots and began to absorb the reverberations of the seven evil bells remaining in it.

If it had been an ordinary mandragora, it might have rotted and cracked or burst, but Laune was no ordinary mandragora.

Mandragora imbued with the power of Sbengali, the Seven Devils.

He had lived there for over 300 years, absorbed the energy of the World Tree, and was an existence with so much power that even a few spirits could not even think of resisting it.

“… … .”

Suddenly, in Raune’s head, the way to become a human that his friend and compatriot had told him was coming to mind.

‘Being a human is simple and difficult, my compatriot.’

She said three conditions must be met.

First, you must have great power and the energy of nature.

No matter how powerful Raune was, it was not comparable to Belluna, who was once revered as a god.

In fact, looking around herself slowly, she shook her head, saying that it would be difficult enough, and gave advice to absorb as much of the world tree’s power as possible and find things that can boost energy, such as spirit stones.

“… … .”

But now, in front of Laune’s eyes, there was a huge energy of nature.

As Laune sucked it all in, two other conditions came to mind.

The second is strong will.

It had from the beginning.

Finally, the establishment of the concrete form to be changed.

“… … .”

It is said that Belluna at first appeared to be a mixture of a long snake, a bird, and a human rather than a human.

Then, she met a human and fell in love with him, and she said that she unknowingly turned into a beautiful woman.

Laune did not forget those words.

And in my head, Su-young Han, Ye-eun Lee, Ye-seul Jin, Yu-na Lee, and Minerva, who were with Yoo Ji-hyuk, came to mind one after another.

Laune.

The spirit, who fell in love with humans, was only then able to grasp a clue as to what he should do and what form he had to take to be by his side like other people.

Now all that was left was to slowly and clearly think of who I wanted to be.

* * *

“eww… .”

Yoo Ji-hyuk slowly woke up in a feeling of exhaustion mixed with dampness and drowsiness.

Staring blankly at the sunlight shining through the curtains, he buried his head in the red hair next to him instead of getting up.

sweet smell.

Her hair smelled like fruit.

He thought with a hazy head, what kind of fruit, but at that moment, he thought blankly, wondering if raspberries would smell like this.

“yes… .”

A quiet breath was heard.

He looked at her tired, still asleep.

Thanks to this, he was about to wake up, but instead of getting up, he decided to lie down a little longer.

how much time has passed

Hearing her breathing as if listening to a song, he was able to come to his senses after a while.

And finally, as he looked around, he realized that the reason he woke up wasn’t just the sunlight shining in his eyes.

“Great.”

When I realize it again, my embarrassment rises.

He got up a little more and looked around.

As promised, the sweatshirt she bought was hanging on the chair, and the T-shirts that looked as if they had been torn with a sharp knife were scattered on the floor in rags.

The events of last night were still vivid.

He got up at the thought of going to the bathroom first, and then carefully covered her with a blanket, who was lying next to him.

Red hair is scattered like flowers.

At one point, he was fiddling with her hair without realizing it.

“… … .”

Han Soo-young knew everything he thought, and it was no exaggeration to say that he was the smartest person he had ever met, and he was the kind of person who worked hard until he knew something he didn’t know.

But even she was so ignorant at first that he had to lead her.

She was very nervous, not like her, but contrary to her concerns, he could and had to wait for her.

… In fact, he wasn’t as experienced as he had been bluffing with her before.

It was probably because he had been busy all his life, so he couldn’t afford to think about or care about anyone other than Yoo Ji-na.

But he knew and she knew that having even a little experience and not having any experience was the difference between heaven and earth.

Gradually she came to know as he had known, and to regain her character.

That was already a few months ago.

and… .

“Uh… .”

Without realizing it, Yoo Ji-hyuk, who covered his face with his palms, let out a sound of pain.

As old as I am, I can’t control myself… .

It was a sad moment when I realized again why Gina sometimes looked at herself like that.

First of all, wash your face in cold water, and let’s come to our senses.

Thinking so, he went straight to the bathroom.

The moment he opened the door and saw his reflection in the large mirror, he made a dazed sound without realizing it.

“… uh?”

A strange pattern was engraved on his body, starting from his heart and descending to his stomach and intestines.