74 – 074. Midwinter’s Weakness (1)

The afternoon of the day I had a discussion with Chaeryeong Min. At the lecture of a famous hunter in the auditorium, I stood guard on the way to the auditorium. With our partner, Vegetable Yeon.

However, she went into the auditorium 30 minutes ago saying she was going to the bathroom and still hasn’t come out.

“… ….”

30 Minutes. It was an excessively long time to do errands in the bathroom, but the reason women went to the bathroom was not necessarily to dispose of urine and feces. She must have a reason for adjusting her clothes or fixing her makeup.

‘But there’s no way that Jasmine-yeon would do such a thing… ….’

Then there is only one possibility.

Polka dot.

‘The first year… ….’

How come your mouth has been sticking out since the time you put it in, and you’re finally cutting off your duty. Before me, it was clear how much pain she and her partner, Lee Tae-ho, must have suffered.

‘I don’t know, f*ck.’

I was thinking of calling him and telling him to come right away. If I had to say it was a mission, I just had to guard the street in front of the auditorium anyway. Even without vegetable smoke, there was no problem.

I leaned against a lamppost erected on the corner of the street, staring at the straight road.

“Oh. Suho hyung?”

“Huh?”

At that moment, someone called me from the other side of the street, from the direction of the auditorium.

“What is it? Taehyung, what are you doing here?”

“I was listening to the lecture and I got out of it in the middle. He said he was the person in charge of S-level guild personnel, so I tried to tell him something helpful, but for 40 minutes, all I could say was catching a cloud.”

The identity was Ryu Tae-hyeon. In the first place, there is no one other than Ryu Tae-hyun who calls me hyung in this world.

“Oh, this is the same class as me. My name is Naeun Sol.”

“Na Eun-sol…… ?”

With those words, I finally looked at the little female student hiding behind Ryu Tae-hyeon.

About mid 150’s tall. Her bangs, which grew vaguely enough to touch the back of her nose, gently covered her eyes. The green eyes that could be seen through the glossy black hair looked this way sullenly.

“Eunsol. This is Officer Ahn Su-ho of the Special Countermeasures Division of the Guard. Did i tell you last time? He is the one who saved Kang Ha-neul.”

“Yes. I remember.”

Naeun-sol sneaked out from behind Ryu Tae-hyeon and nodded to me.

“Hello. Ahn Soo-ho. My name is Eun Sol, who is in the 1st class of the Green House Hunter Department.”

“Yes. This is Ahn Soo-ho. I look forward to… ….”

I answered timidly to her polite yet dark self-introduction.

‘I never thought I would meet Eun-Sol here… ….’

Nunsol Na. She was one of Ryu Tae-hyeon’s heroines who appeared in the original story. No, the word ‘one of the heroines’ could not express half of her personality.

Na Eun-sol was one of the two heroines who stayed with Ryu Tae-hyeon until the second half of the original work along with Yang Ah-reum. In addition, she was a heroine of misfortune who was forcibly sold to another man by Ryu Tae-hyeon’s hands due to her extreme obsession with being an extreme yandere and not even caring about her own or the other person’s life.

‘As the relationship between them obviously went to ruin, Naeun-sol was evacuated to a foreign country with a supporting male character in the name of safety.’

It wasn’t that Naeun Sol had a connection with that supporting male character, but she was practically selling out. Nevertheless, public opinion on the development at the time was divided in half. Because her yandere-like obsession she showed was so high-level.

For example, in the original work, Midwyeol dropped out shortly after the start of his sophomore year, and the cause was the political quality plotted by Naeun Sol. The reason Naeun Sol framed Midwyeol was, of course, to monopolize Ryu Tae-hyun’s love.

Because he was a heroine who took such an extreme step, Naeunsol’s fandom had a strong tendency to be rejected by other heroines’ fandoms. In the first place, the fandom itself wasn’t much. Despite such a theme, the reason why she was able to stay by the main character’s side steadfastly until the very end must be entirely thanks to the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure’s bad taste.

“… ….”

Anyway. Naeun-sol was a heroine, but a heroine with many problems. In the original work, the relationship with Ryu Tae-hyun has progressed since the midterm exams were over, so now they must be getting to know each other and building a friendship.

‘…… Should I tip it off?’

Naeun Sol had a certain share in the fact that the development after the middle of the original work went from bad to worse. She was, therefore, at the right time for me, she needed to limit her actions.

As part of that, I wanted to warn Ryu Tae-hyeon of Naeun-sol’s identity.

‘No, it’s not the time yet.’

It is true that if Na Na Na-sol fell in love with Ryu Tae-hyeon, she would be in trouble, but apart from that, she was one of Ryu Tae-hyeon’s indispensable colleagues. It would be better to prevent her feelings from developing into romance, but to allow her to build a certain level of friendship.

“… ….”

While I decided on my own course of action, Eun-Sol stared at me without saying a word. Green eyes shining through her bangs fixed on my face without moving.

“Anything you want to say?”

“…… No. It’s nothing.”

After answering that, Eun-Sol took a step back. As if everything I had to say was over.

Then Ryu Tae-hyun took a step forward as if touching a baton.

“That’s right bro. Didn’t Winter come to visit you recently?”

“Uh. I did come across it once. Why?”

“Did Gyeoli ask Hyung to help him train himself?”

“Ugh. I said so. But how do you…….”

How do you know that Midwinter asked me for help, to help me train to beat you?

Ryu Tae-hyun answered my question with his characteristic friendly smile.

“Actually, I was the one who recommended Hyung to Winter.”

“What?”

“Georeum kept losing to me in the ranking matches, so it seemed like I wasn’t the only one worrying. Personally, I felt like I was blocked by a wall. So, I thought that he might be able to help me overcome that wall, so I told him about him. Let Gye-gyeol go and tell him to help with his training.”

“Midwinter obeyed your words?”

“I said it insinuated, insinuated. It’s just that my brother is a strong superman similar to me, I knew it after fighting together the other day. Well, I just said something like this.”

“hahahaha… ….”

I am strong like Ryu Taehyun? It was the sound of a dog passing by.

‘But not everything Ryu Tae-hyun said was wrong.’

At the very least, I can help overcome the wall that the midwinter is facing. Because that one thing was true.

“You are talking about the wall that midwinter is facing, is that the problem of psychic control?”

“Oh. Did you notice? I only realized that not too long ago.”

“I just thought it would.”

I couldn’t bear to answer that I knew from reading the original, so I vaguely glossed over it. But the wall that stood in the way of her midwinter, in other words, her weakness in her midwinter, was a problem that anyone could notice if they just looked at her carefully.

The psychic power of midwinter is the ability to ignite. The simple ability to emit flames from the body is classified into a system called the emission system in the psychic power system. The emission system referred to here means a supernatural power that can emit and manipulate specific substances or energy through supernatural power.

And the middle of the winter showed a relatively weak appearance in the latter, steering ability.

Midwinter’s psychic powers are unmatched when it comes to simple firepower. However, because of its strong firepower, the control was inexperienced compared to others. Her lack of control would not be evident, as she would only need to press down with overwhelming firepower if she had a fair amount of opponents, but against an equal opponent like Ryu Tae-hyun, her weakness was bound to be highlighted.

‘But Midwinter doesn’t know about that weakness.’

No, rather than not knowing, it would be more accurate to say that I was overlooking it on purpose. It’s Midwinter’s personality that she wants to hit her opponent with stronger firepower if her control ability comes along. Of course, her fistfighting method doesn’t work at all against her formidable enemies like Ryu Tae-hyeon. That’s why she’s dying every time in a ranking match against Ryu Tae-hyeon.

For mid-gyeol to win her Ryu Tae-hyeon, she must be able to objectively look at her weaknesses.

‘That’s why Ryu Tae-hyeon must have thought that I would help him overcome his weakness in mid-winter.’

That’s because I was the same person with her emission-type abilities.

“When her brother fights, in addition to close combat, she uses her psychic powers in the right places, right? If you fight with a hyung like that, I wonder if Kyeol-gyeol will naturally realize that he lacks the ability to control her.”

“That makes sense. If you fight with the same type of ability, you will be able to see each other’s strengths and weaknesses.”

It was a statement that could only be made under the premise that my control ability was superior to that of midwinter, but there was nothing to worry about. The last time I checked, her skill level displayed on the status window was D. In comparison, mine was C. It was a systematically proven fact that I outperformed her in her craft.

‘The fact that her skill level is lower than mine means that Midwinter’s weakness is serious. It’s probably only in the middle of winter that your technique doesn’t exceed C in one and a half minutes.’

Ryu Tae-hyeon, so to speak, entrusted me with the role of pinching that uncomfortable truth.

“Yes. Anyway, I’m begging you, brother. To be honest, I even thought about telling him in person that he was out of control, but… ….”

“You won’t even hear it with the back of your ear. Midwinter isn’t the type to listen to other people’s advice.”

“You know me well.”

To be precise, he doesn’t listen to advice other than those he acknowledges. Of course, Winter would have recognized Ryu Tae-hyun, but he is her current rival. Midwinter pride won’t allow her to take her rival’s advice lightly.

“…… Taehyun, why do you care so much about winter?”

At that time, Naeun-sol, who had been silent, asked Ryu Tae-hyeon in a hint.

“Wouldn’t it be of no benefit to you if Winterie became stronger? It’s almost the only opponent that threatens your rank. Isn’t it good for you to remain weak like this?”

“If you only think about the rankings, of course.”

After answering that, Taehyung Ryu shook his head with a smile.

“But, that wouldn’t be fun.”

“Fun…… ?”

“Yeah, fun. It’s more fun to fight against a strong opponent. Is not it?”

Naeun-sol looked up at Ryu Tae-hyeon with her face saying she couldn’t understand the battle madness answer. However, Ryu Tae-hyeon only smiled as if he was looking forward to a fight against mid-gyeol, who had overcome his weakness.

Seeing that, Eun-Sol asked him indirectly.

“Is it fun fighting strong opponents? Then what about me?”

“Are you Eunsol? You are strong too! Are you currently ranked 6th? Hurry and come up to where I am. I’ll be looking forward to it.”

“Expect, you say?”

A pale blush appears on her shady face. After chewing over Ryu Tae-hyeon’s words several times, she muttered happily.

“Yes, I will go up quickly. Even in the middle of winter, I will pass all the other kids and go to your side.”

I will go to your side. Hearing that word with a different meaning, I gently rubbed the goose bumps on my arm.

‘What happened? It must be after the midterm exams that the relationship between the two will progress. That attitude seems to have already fallen for Ryu Tae-hyeon.’

Did the plot change again without my knowledge? As I gazed at Naeun Sol with her uneasy assumptions, she turned her head towards me.

“… ….”

The green eyes hidden by the bangs radiated a subtle light.

***

And time passed, that Saturday.

One of the private properties of the Hansung Group located near the Green House. In a wide field of 150 meters in width and height, I faced the dead of winter.

I wanted to go to a training facility owned by the Hansung Group when it was said that I was going to have a sparring with mid-winter. However, the place she brought me to was an empty plain with nothing.

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Let’s ask her why she fights in a place like this.

‘? There’s no way the training facility can withstand my firepower, right?’

, He replied refreshingly. In other words, it must be the sound of unsparingly pouring maximum firepower in this place where there is nothing to hold back.

‘It means that I will fight with all my heart.’

In mid-winter, I know as a strong man comparable to Ryu Tae-hyeon. No, not just midwinter, but anyone who knew the whole story of the double dungeon incident would have no doubts. Rather, there must be a lot more people who think that I am stronger than Ryu Tae-hyun.

That’s why Midwinter tried to hit me with all its power as if it were natural. Without knowing the situation here.

‘Is it possible to go head-to-head with mid-winter? … ?’

I was the one who accepted her proposal itself, but her tension rose slightly as she confronted her. It had to be. A flame comparable to a dragon’s breath. With my specifications, even just brushing against it would be fatal.

‘It is possible to avoid all attacks with the acceleration of the morning star’s breath, block unavoidable attacks with smoke, and cool the heat penetrating through the smoke with the token of the frost spirit…… I think I might.’

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Looking at it like this, all of my paddles were perfect for dealing with midwinter. If it was unfortunate, it was an unfortunate coincidence.

“Then let’s check each other’s skills and start slowly. Shall I go first? Or from there first?”

“I attack first.”

At those words, as if midwinter was asking him to come in somewhere, he took a stance with both hands burning fierce flames.

At the same time, the breathing sounds of the talisman and morning star in my hands emitted blue and red light, respectively.

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