The Detention Center’s walls churn. It is like the inside of the Rubix Cube when moving. At the moment of confusion, I have Cube evacuate Yoenha to a faraway place preferably underground, and put her in high-alert captivity.
“Yes, you heard me right! Let’s kill Yoenha’s... Devil’s Seed!” Sorry for bamboozling you guys, he he he he... I snicker inwardly.
"You didn't say it like that..." Nayun annoyedly complains.
"Huh!?" I pretentiously tilt my ears to Nayun, while gesturing with my hand that my ear is just right here. "You must have heard wrong!"
Kim Suho draws his sword and aims it at my neck. I feel its weight subtly touching my skin. He only needs to jerk it, and I am dead. “What did you do? Where is she?”
“Think twice, Suho!” Hajin shouts at Suho with a pained voice. His gun is already aiming at Suho’s temple, threatening to kill him with a single pull of his trigger. “Withdraw your sword!”
Yikes. So scary. Kim Suho’s cold face is scary, but not enough. I know he is not really one who is good at giving glares. “Come on, friends… That's dark, Suho-chan… You cannot kill me! You are too kind of a guy… Maybe if you start calling yourself Batman, I'll be scared.” Hajin too will be unable to kill Suho, as he treasures Suho that much.
I stay still at Suho's harmless threat.
I explain my intentions with little effort. “I am also against offing Yoenha, and since the votes are a tie, then I will be safekeeping her at the moment until we arrive at a satisfactory solution! The way I see it… We are in a deadlock! To break this, we must come either to a compromise or one of you, Nayun and Suho, gets to convince one of us…”
If talking is a Gift, then I believe that I have the gab and glib for it. “With this same line of thought, I think both I and Hajin also have a fair chance of convincing one of you!”
“You are only stalling for time!” Nayun reveals my true intentions.
She is so scary on these rare occasions when she really uses that noggin of hers. I offhandedly comment. “Well, it is all up to Hajin then. You see, I am very confident that Hajin will find a way for us forward! He is the leader, isn’t he?”
I throw the ball to Hajin.
Kim Hajin did not waste it as he declares with certainty. “Give me enough time, and I should be able to do something about it.” He strains his eyes like a wolf as if he sees something peculiar, almost on a precognitive level. He then puts the Djinn Detection Goggles on his eyes to take a glimpse.
“Djinns! There are a lot!” At his words, I immediately take cover behind Suho.
[We are being hacked!]
“Ugh… Aren’t you supposed to be a Super AI?”
One unexpected development after another.
[The Surface Technology is not True Cube Technology. Government Tech is inferior to the Great Sage’s technology. Please don’t lump me with Government Technology.]
I sense spunk from the AI.
“Oh my, where did little Yoo Yoenha go?” A sickeningly sweet voice echoes from the opening electronic door. “Hmmm… It looks like the whole club is here.”
“You?” Hajin expresses his shock as apparently, he knows the character appearing before us. “Kum Seungyeon? What is Yun Hyuk’s second victim doing here?”
“Has she become a Djinn?” Nayun sharply asks.
“No,” Hajin shortly replies. “She is human.”
“Or maybe a Devil’s Seed’s host…” Kim Suho adds, certain of his own senses, and experience on cutting a Devil's Seed once.
“Fancy meeting all of you kids! Where is Yoenha? I don't see her here.” Seungyeon activates her magic power. The surrounding undulates with her immense magic power. “Halt. Stop. Don’t move.” Her eyes glow an eerie pink, and a sweet smell pervades the surroundings.
I feel a compulsion to not move, and stay in place. It feels terrible. So, this is high-level mind control?
Kim Suho changes the situation with a single move. With a breath, he cuts off the control happening on his body. He bolts towards Seungyeon with sluggish speed as the effects of her ability have not completely diminished.
As he has once cut down a Devil’s Seed, Suho now understands what a Devil’s Seed feels like. Thus, giving him a variant ability to detect the Devil’s Seed! That is why he is confident that the person in front of him is a Devil’s Seed’s host.
“Charm,” Seungyeon says with but a word.
This is Lilith all over again. But Seungyeon is more powerful than Yun Hyuk will ever be. I feel my limbs moving on their own without my consent. Hajin is similarly acting on his own as he raises his Desert Eagle towards Suho’s location.
Before I know it, I am already flanking Suho’s side, with my [Wolf Fang] in my hand.
Chae Nayun releases her [Sea of Magic Power] outwards causing a wave of her aura to counter-invade the sweet smell in the air, and dispelling the mind-control on my body, and Hajin’s.
I take control of myself finally! I activate [Not Here] and become invisible. Hajin tilts his Desert Eagle and aims for Seungyeon. As Suho’s sword is about to connect to Seungyeon, I appear on Seungyeon’s back.
I bring [Wolf Fang] to hers, stabbing her where her heart should be. Hajin’s bullet connects to her head, causing a bloody spectacle. My [Wolf Dagger] inflicts her with Nightmare, thus paralyzing her in place.
Kim Suho brings down his sword pulsating brightly with magic power. “Cut!” He animatedly shouts as if to boost his own fighting spirit. Seungyeon contorts her body in an unimaginable manner and tumors start appearing on her skin. She is fighting the Nightmare that I inflict on her.
Still, Suho’s sword connects to her body.
“It didn’t reach the Devil’s Seed!” Suho shouts.
Several Djinns come pouncing at us. Of course, I did not forget them. I activate my favorite trick in the book. This time, as I have more magic power, I have the luxury to squander them as much as I like.
My favorite trick is activating and deactivating [Always Here] on my foes to mess with their accuracy! While at it, I have my AI work overtime as I make it calculate the right amount of magic power, and where should I focus my Gift so that I can induce a premeditated friendly fire to the Djinns.
The Djinns scramble as they accidentally hit each other with their weapons, fists, and abilities. My brain is feeling muddled, and it is overheating, but I endure.
I kick Seungyeon to further inside the Detention Center for her to have a more intimate time with the other three. As a result, because of the momentum, I push myself backward and outside the Detention Center which leaves me with the other Djinns and several mind-controlled humans.
“Cube. Would you please kindly close the door? Don’t open it unless I permit you so.”
[Affirmative. The Detention Center is part of True Cube Technology, thus it is possible.]
“Djinns! I see that you guys want a playmate. You don’t mind me, do you?”
I raise my [Wolf Fang] in a battle stance. This should be manageable. I should be able to survive for some time if I play my cards right. Let’s see. I count one… two… three… four… five… and six Djinns… Damn… I feel that they are all at intermediate rank the same as the Djinn I and Yoenha fought in the museum.
***
Seungyeon's head recovers to its prior state. With her vision returning to her, she sees Suho is about to strike her a second time.
Bad luck. That is what is screwing with Seungyeon right now. She hurriedly comes to the Detention Center to implant the remaining Devil’s Seed on Yoo Yoenha. However, instead of reaching Yoo Yoenha there, she ends up meeting with them— the Devil Hunter’s Club.
It feels like she has fallen into a trap.
“So, Yoo Yoenha vanishing is not my imagination…” Seungyeon recalls that last moment before the doors to the Detention Center has finally been hacked.
Seungyeon barely dodges Suho’s Sword as she tries to pound the door from whence she comes. “It is tough.” She realizes that the technology of the Detention Center is realms above the technology today. “This is peculiar…”
Several bullets come her way. Seungyeon raises her bloodied fist from punching the door to catch the grenade hiding from the flashy bright light-attribute bullets. She throws the grenade back at Hajin who is offering fire support from the corner of the room.
Hajin calmly catches the grenade and stuffs it in his [Stigma Storage] to deal with it.
Seungyeon tanks the bullets, and shield her neck from Nayun’s decapitation strikes, while carefully treading around Suho as he is the real killing blow that she needs to watch out for.
“Charm,” Seungyeon utters to Nayun with a gaze.
Nayun who gets too close to Seungyeon becomes hypnotized and changes the trajectory of her conjured sword of magic power at Suho. Hajin comes right in time to kick Nayun by her leg to lose her balance.
Seungyeon takes her precious time to aim a punch on the wall to see a different avenue of escape, while she dodges Suho’s sword. To her surprise, something suddenly springs from the wall where she is punching at. It is a rotating saw blade appearing just right on time to receive Seungyeon’s fist.
“Aaaah!” She cries in pain as her right arm is cut gnarly in half until the elbow. “I need to escape!” This is her highest priority right now. “I need to get to Yoenha!” She desperately tries to think of a solution how to get out of this cage.
Nayun wakes up from her daze just right in time and summons her sword of magic power once more. She has more resistance to mind control if compared to others, but that doesn’t make her completely invulnerable.
Seungyeon calmly assesses her situation. She glances at Kim Hajin, and then at Chae Nayun. There should be something she can do. “Hmmm… Yes, that should work.” A nasty smirk decorates her beautiful face, while malignant thoughts swim in her head.
The Detention Center’s walls churn. It is like the inside of the Rubix Cube when moving. At the moment of confusion, I have Cube evacuate Yoenha to a faraway place preferably underground, and put her in high-alert captivity.
“Yes, you heard me right! Let’s kill Yoenha’s... Devil’s Seed!” Sorry for bamboozling you guys, he he he he... I snicker inwardly.
"You didn't say it like that..." Nayun annoyedly complains.
"Huh!?" I pretentiously tilt my ears to Nayun, while gesturing with my hand that my ear is just right here. "You must have heard wrong!"
Kim Suho draws his sword and aims it at my neck. I feel its weight subtly touching my skin. He only needs to jerk it, and I am dead. “What did you do? Where is she?”
“Think twice, Suho!” Hajin shouts at Suho with a pained voice. His gun is already aiming at Suho’s temple, threatening to kill him with a single pull of his trigger. “Withdraw your sword!”
Yikes. So scary. Kim Suho’s cold face is scary, but not enough. I know he is not really one who is good at giving glares. “Come on, friends… That's dark, Suho-chan… You cannot kill me! You are too kind of a guy… Maybe if you start calling yourself Batman, I'll be scared.” Hajin too will be unable to kill Suho, as he treasures Suho that much.
I stay still at Suho's harmless threat.
I explain my intentions with little effort. “I am also against offing Yoenha, and since the votes are a tie, then I will be safekeeping her at the moment until we arrive at a satisfactory solution! The way I see it… We are in a deadlock! To break this, we must come either to a compromise or one of you, Nayun and Suho, gets to convince one of us…”
If talking is a Gift, then I believe that I have the gab and glib for it. “With this same line of thought, I think both I and Hajin also have a fair chance of convincing one of you!”
“You are only stalling for time!” Nayun reveals my true intentions.
She is so scary on these rare occasions when she really uses that noggin of hers. I offhandedly comment. “Well, it is all up to Hajin then. You see, I am very confident that Hajin will find a way for us forward! He is the leader, isn’t he?”
I throw the ball to Hajin.
Kim Hajin did not waste it as he declares with certainty. “Give me enough time, and I should be able to do something about it.” He strains his eyes like a wolf as if he sees something peculiar, almost on a precognitive level. He then puts the Djinn Detection Goggles on his eyes to take a glimpse.
“Djinns! There are a lot!” At his words, I immediately take cover behind Suho.
[We are being hacked!]
“Ugh… Aren’t you supposed to be a Super AI?”
One unexpected development after another.
[The Surface Technology is not True Cube Technology. Government Tech is inferior to the Great Sage’s technology. Please don’t lump me with Government Technology.]
I sense spunk from the AI.
“Oh my, where did little Yoo Yoenha go?” A sickeningly sweet voice echoes from the opening electronic door. “Hmmm… It looks like the whole club is here.”
“You?” Hajin expresses his shock as apparently, he knows the character appearing before us. “Kum Seungyeon? What is Yun Hyuk’s second victim doing here?”
“Has she become a Djinn?” Nayun sharply asks.
“No,” Hajin shortly replies. “She is human.”
“Or maybe a Devil’s Seed’s host…” Kim Suho adds, certain of his own senses, and experience on cutting a Devil's Seed once.
“Fancy meeting all of you kids! Where is Yoenha? I don't see her here.” Seungyeon activates her magic power. The surrounding undulates with her immense magic power. “Halt. Stop. Don’t move.” Her eyes glow an eerie pink, and a sweet smell pervades the surroundings.
I feel a compulsion to not move, and stay in place. It feels terrible. So, this is high-level mind control?
Kim Suho changes the situation with a single move. With a breath, he cuts off the control happening on his body. He bolts towards Seungyeon with sluggish speed as the effects of her ability have not completely diminished.
As he has once cut down a Devil’s Seed, Suho now understands what a Devil’s Seed feels like. Thus, giving him a variant ability to detect the Devil’s Seed! That is why he is confident that the person in front of him is a Devil’s Seed’s host.
“Charm,” Seungyeon says with but a word.
This is Lilith all over again. But Seungyeon is more powerful than Yun Hyuk will ever be. I feel my limbs moving on their own without my consent. Hajin is similarly acting on his own as he raises his Desert Eagle towards Suho’s location.
Before I know it, I am already flanking Suho’s side, with my [Wolf Fang] in my hand.
Chae Nayun releases her [Sea of Magic Power] outwards causing a wave of her aura to counter-invade the sweet smell in the air, and dispelling the mind-control on my body, and Hajin’s.
I take control of myself finally! I activate [Not Here] and become invisible. Hajin tilts his Desert Eagle and aims for Seungyeon. As Suho’s sword is about to connect to Seungyeon, I appear on Seungyeon’s back.
I bring [Wolf Fang] to hers, stabbing her where her heart should be. Hajin’s bullet connects to her head, causing a bloody spectacle. My [Wolf Dagger] inflicts her with Nightmare, thus paralyzing her in place.
Kim Suho brings down his sword pulsating brightly with magic power. “Cut!” He animatedly shouts as if to boost his own fighting spirit. Seungyeon contorts her body in an unimaginable manner and tumors start appearing on her skin. She is fighting the Nightmare that I inflict on her.
Still, Suho’s sword connects to her body.
“It didn’t reach the Devil’s Seed!” Suho shouts.
Several Djinns come pouncing at us. Of course, I did not forget them. I activate my favorite trick in the book. This time, as I have more magic power, I have the luxury to squander them as much as I like.
My favorite trick is activating and deactivating [Always Here] on my foes to mess with their accuracy! While at it, I have my AI work overtime as I make it calculate the right amount of magic power, and where should I focus my Gift so that I can induce a premeditated friendly fire to the Djinns.
The Djinns scramble as they accidentally hit each other with their weapons, fists, and abilities. My brain is feeling muddled, and it is overheating, but I endure.
I kick Seungyeon to further inside the Detention Center for her to have a more intimate time with the other three. As a result, because of the momentum, I push myself backward and outside the Detention Center which leaves me with the other Djinns and several mind-controlled humans.
“Cube. Would you please kindly close the door? Don’t open it unless I permit you so.”
[Affirmative. The Detention Center is part of True Cube Technology, thus it is possible.]
“Djinns! I see that you guys want a playmate. You don’t mind me, do you?”
I raise my [Wolf Fang] in a battle stance. This should be manageable. I should be able to survive for some time if I play my cards right. Let’s see. I count one… two… three… four… five… and six Djinns… Damn… I feel that they are all at intermediate rank the same as the Djinn I and Yoenha fought in the museum.
***
Seungyeon's head recovers to its prior state. With her vision returning to her, she sees Suho is about to strike her a second time.
Bad luck. That is what is screwing with Seungyeon right now. She hurriedly comes to the Detention Center to implant the remaining Devil’s Seed on Yoo Yoenha. However, instead of reaching Yoo Yoenha there, she ends up meeting with them— the Devil Hunter’s Club.
It feels like she has fallen into a trap.
“So, Yoo Yoenha vanishing is not my imagination…” Seungyeon recalls that last moment before the doors to the Detention Center has finally been hacked.
Seungyeon barely dodges Suho’s Sword as she tries to pound the door from whence she comes. “It is tough.” She realizes that the technology of the Detention Center is realms above the technology today. “This is peculiar…”
Several bullets come her way. Seungyeon raises her bloodied fist from punching the door to catch the grenade hiding from the flashy bright light-attribute bullets. She throws the grenade back at Hajin who is offering fire support from the corner of the room.
Hajin calmly catches the grenade and stuffs it in his [Stigma Storage] to deal with it.
Seungyeon tanks the bullets, and shield her neck from Nayun’s decapitation strikes, while carefully treading around Suho as he is the real killing blow that she needs to watch out for.
“Charm,” Seungyeon utters to Nayun with a gaze.
Nayun who gets too close to Seungyeon becomes hypnotized and changes the trajectory of her conjured sword of magic power at Suho. Hajin comes right in time to kick Nayun by her leg to lose her balance.
Seungyeon takes her precious time to aim a punch on the wall to see a different avenue of escape, while she dodges Suho’s sword. To her surprise, something suddenly springs from the wall where she is punching at. It is a rotating saw blade appearing just right on time to receive Seungyeon’s fist.
“Aaaah!” She cries in pain as her right arm is cut gnarly in half until the elbow. “I need to escape!” This is her highest priority right now. “I need to get to Yoenha!” She desperately tries to think of a solution how to get out of this cage.
Nayun wakes up from her daze just right in time and summons her sword of magic power once more. She has more resistance to mind control if compared to others, but that doesn’t make her completely invulnerable.
Seungyeon calmly assesses her situation. She glances at Kim Hajin, and then at Chae Nayun. There should be something she can do. “Hmmm… Yes, that should work.” A nasty smirk decorates her beautiful face, while malignant thoughts swim in her head.
