Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
64. Faith and test (8)
“Drop your weapons and raise both of your hands! Now!”
In the situation where Yu Sang-hui was taken hostage, no one could make a retort.
I slowly raised both of my hands, and Tao Wonu took off his supporter.
Yu Sang-hun did the same.
Peuk!
At the words “raise both of your hands”, Yu Sang-hun let go of the Demon’s ankle he was holding with one hand.
As if he put some power into it, the body of the dumped Demon twisted strangely, but no one paid attention to it.
But the hand of the researcher, startled by Yu Sang-hun’s powerful movement, flinched and the tip of the needle narrowly passed Yu Sang-hui’s skin.
“…!”
No injection was made, but Tao Wonu and Yu Sang-hun’s expressions turned vicious.
The superpower wave they couldn’t suppress crept around Tao Wonu and Yu Sang-hun.
When the intense energy spread out, one of the researchers shouted.
“If-if I detect superpower wave, we will stab right away!”
Tao Wonu and Yu Sang-hun quickly got hold of their superpower waves.
One of the researchers was holding a superpower wave detector in her hand.
The researchers waved the superpower wave detector and injection needle aimed at Yu Sang-hui’s neck as if for show.
Every time a needle tip brushed her skin, Yu Sang-hui bit her lip.
‘… Let’s calm down. Losing your temper here will only put Yu Sang-hui in danger.’
I came here presuming the possibility of Yu Sang-hui being taken hostage, but seeing this happen right in front of my eyes, it was difficult to endure.
But Yu Sang-hun and Tao Wonu endured, so I couldn’t ruin it.
I got a hold of myself to think calmly.
‘… From the things they say, I guess none of the researchers have superpowers, eh?’
The superpower poison doesn’t affect people without superpowers.
If you can’t detoxify or eliminate the superpower poison, you would be safe if you didn’t have superpowers.
‘If ordinary Players or Jin people came here, they would be captured or killed.’
But there were exceptions.
Like the outstanding Healing Art users like Yu Sang-hui.
But Yu Sang-hui didn’t resist the people without superpowers and got obediently captured.
As such, I could draw only one conclusion.
‘Yu Sang-hui was captured on her own will.’
I knew that Yu Sang-hui was threatened into doing things she didn’t want to because she was in debt because of Yu Sang-hun.
However, what was the reason for putting her life on the line in this situation?
I don’t know what it will be like if only Tao Wonu came, but with Yu Sang-hun in front of her eyes right now, why was Yu Sang-hui not resisting?
It was a situation that if something goes even a little wrong, Yu Sang-hun may do something dangerous for Yu Sang-hui, who was taken hostage.
‘It’s not a simple debt, are they blackmailing her?’
The content of the blackmail, didn’t easily come to mind.
Was it something like ‘If you want to save your dongsaeng life, follow us’ instead of ‘you owe us your dongsaeng life, so pay for it’?
‘Yu Sang-hun awakened superpowers, so Yu Sang-hui’s healing powers can be now used on him. With what on earth are they targeting Yu Sang-hun’s life?’
I couldn’t come up with the pretext for the blackmail.
I came up with one possibility though.
‘… The possible blackmail is a lie.’
Then was Yu Sang-hui being deceived?
When my thoughts got to this far, I heard a quiet curse beside me.
It was Yu Sang-hun’s voice.
“…. Fuck.”
Unlike the swear words that suppressed worries, his expression was vacant.
Yu Sang-hun looked at Yu Sang-hui with the most foolish expression I had ever seen him do.
No, rather than foolish, it was a face of astonishment.
I guess he realized that Yu Sang-hui was in that nasty researcher’s hands right now, because of him.
‘Yu Sang-hun…’
Yu Sang-hun blinked a few times, and fighting spirit returned to his face.
Instead of helplessness, Yu Sang-hun looked at me with a face filled with rage and faith.
Yu Sang-hun felt rage at the researchers and at himself, but it seemed what suppressed it was faith.
And Yu Sang-hun’s faith was directed at me.
‘Yu Sang-hun believes in me, huh?’
Yu Sang-hun believed in me and endured.
However, the other person didn’t.
“It seems you know who I’m, but even knowing this, you are doing such a thing?”
Tao Wonu glared at the researchers.
The researchers trembled because of the frost-like voice, but they aimed the injection needle at Yu Sang-hui’s neck just like before, and directed the superpower wave detector towards us.
Tao Wonu observed all of their reactions and judged:
“From your expressions, I guess you have something to trust in. I guess the one backing up this place weren’t the part of that purge… Then the candidates will decrease.”
“Shu-shut up!”
I guess revealing the backer of the TC Research Institute would shake their safety, so it was more frightening than the appearance of Tao Wonu, the head of the TC Group’s next head.
The researcher brought the injection needle to Yu Sang-hui’s neck even closer.
The needle momentarily pricked Yu Sang-hui’s neck, but Tao Wonu, who saw this, clenched his fists.
Crunch!
As if he put considerable strength into them, I heard the sound of joints cracking from Tao Wonu’s fists.
Tao Wonu seemed to give up on attempting to sound out the researchers.
“… What do you want?”
“Don’t move from here! We will quietly go out.”
“Yo-you know what happens if you move or use superpower wave, right?”
On the structure map of the underground test lab provided by Cheon Dongha, was an emergency exit.
The groups that did dangerous research were always like this, I don’t know about the other people, but they always immaculately prepared for the sake of their own safety.
It looked like they planned to escape this facility with Yu Sang-hui as a hostage.
Looking how one of the researchers was holding a bag used to store data chips, they may be planning to kidnap Yu Sang-hui and continue to carry out their research.
Seeing the researchers look at the slowly walking Yu Sang-hui with satisfaction, I was even more certain.
As if Yu Sang-hun still trusted me, he observed the situation with his mouth shut.
Tap, tap.
Yu Sang-hui started to walk while mixed among the researchers.
Yu Sang-hui passed me and Yu Sang-hun, past the Demon, who crumpled behind us, and even past Tao Wonu.
“Why…”
When he met Yu Sang-hui’s eyes up close, Tao Wonu didn’t seem to be able to endure any longer.
“Why… are you not resisting?”
“….”
“Those people aren’t even Players!”
Tao Wonu’s doubts were reasonable.
Yu Sang-hui had the abilities to overpower ordinary people who weren’t Players.
Wasn’t Yu Sang-hui’s attack skill Vital Point Strike?
She could overpower the Enemies with her bare hands, without even protectors, so it was unbelievable that she moved as ordered because a mere ordinary person was threatening her with an injection needle.
‘… Tao Wonu must know the answer.’
Seeing Yu Sang-hui being dragged away in front of his eyes, I guess Tao Wonu turned his eyes away from that fact because of the suffocating feeling.
Yu Sang-hun looked at Tao Wonu like he saw something pitiful.
Perhaps right now — in this moment — Yu Sang-hun was sympathizing with Tao Wonu for the first time.
“Wonu-ah.”
Yu Sang-hui looked at Tao Wonu with sunken eyes.
It was the first time Yu Sang-hui opened her mouth.
She spoke with a voice dyed with tension and sadness that was suppressed for a very long time.
“… Didn’t you come here knowing everything?”
“….!”
Tao Wonu bit his lips at Yu Sang-hui’s words.
Yu Sang-hui’s words implied many things.
As Yu Sang-hui knew Tao Wonu since they were young, she knew very well how competent he was.
If Tao Wonu came here, she would presume it was after he had learned everything.
“This is the choice I had to make. I couldn’t save my dongsaeng with my power. So I borrowed the power of Wonu’s house… the power of TC.”
There was deep guilt buried in Yu Sang-hui’s voice.
As a genius, who at a young age awakened rare superpower and a talent, Yu Sang-hui had many expectations put on her from the surroundings.
Unlike Yu Sang-hun, who wasn’t healthy and it wouldn’t be strange if he died at any time.
It was obvious what the kind Yu Sang-hui, who was watching Yu Sang-hun die at home, was thinking.
Abruptly, Yu Sang-hui’s past overlapped with the moment I lost my dongsaengs.
‘… If I could borrow someone’s power at that time, I would do anything.’
There was no one, who had the power to revive my dongsaengs around me, so I didn’t have that option.
Moreover, unlike Yu Sang-hui, who stayed at Yu Sang-hun’s side while he was suffering from the strange illness, I couldn’t be at my dongsaengs’ side when they died.
So I didn’t dare to say I understood Yu Sang-hui’s feelings, but I felt like I would do anything if I could save my dongsaengs.
“… Please don’t track me down later.”
It seemed that the researchers didn’t cut off Yu Sang-hui in order for her to say it.
The researchers behind Yu Sang-hui grinned.
Tao Wonu seemed unable to come up with what else he should say, or what he could do.
Tao Wonu didn’t answer for a long time and then said one word:
“Please…”
Tao Wonu bowed his head, while saying it, as if pleading.
It seemed that he was begging her to change her mind even now, but Yu Sang-hui didn’t answer even though she saw it.
She just looked at Tao Wonu, who bowed his head, with a face like she was about to cry.
“….”
When her gaze left Tao Wonu, Yu Sang-hui tried to look back towards Yu Sang-hun, who she already passed by, but the researchers stopped her.
I guess they really permitted the conversation to use Yu Sang-hun to try to stop Tao Wonu.
“Don’t move!”
“Uuk!”
Because they lightly grabbed Yu Sang-hui, the injection needle deeply penetrated her skin.
The injection wasn’t administered, but the action itself was dangerous.
Tao Wonu, who raised his head at Yu Sang-hui’s scream, made a face like he was about to pierce their necks.
“… Don’t come!”
Yu Sang-hui discouraged Tao Wonu, who seemed like he was about to run to her right now.
Yu Sang-hui and the researchers were gradually growing distant.
As if the emergency exit from the test lab was getting closer, a researcher took out a key card and seemed to bring it to a panel.
Wiiii!
The researchers were about to climb inside the emergency exit capsule one after another.
As if they were wary of us until the end, Yu Sang-hui and the researchers aiming the injection needle at Yu Sang-hui kept looking at us.
Tao Wonu, who still didn’t give up and was aiming for a gap, lamented with an anxious face.
“Sanghui-ah….!”
At that moment.
Faint wind started to blow from somewhere.
Swishh….
After the wind passed, the air of the underground botanical garden became lighter.
“… Ah.”
Yu Sang-hun looked around and let out a small exclamation.
An Dain’s ‘special constitution’ was suppressing the poison, but thanks to the sudden something, the superpower poison was blown away.
Because of the air change, I was certain that the chess piece I prepared at last moved.
‘He is coming now?’
I already knew that Yu Sang-hui was here.
Because Yu Sang-hui’s name was among the results of the device tracking list.
As Yu Sang-hui didn’t move with Tao Wonu or the Student Council, the reason she came here was clear.
So I presumed the possibility of Yu Sang-hui being taken hostage.
Whoosh….!
“Superpower wave detected!”
“Where, where!?”
It seemed that the opponent entered the range where detection by the superpower wave detector was possible.
It looked like they knew that it wasn’t us who released the superpower wave, but as if they made up their minds to make an example first and inject Yu Sang-hui, they tried to move the injector.
But.
“I-it doesn’t move!”
“What- What!?”
Their fingers couldn’t move an inch.
It seemed that the opponent used a famous skill that tied the feet of seven fairies[1] under Queen Mother of the West with Taoist arts, Law Of Immobilizing A Body[2].
“My Taoist arts haven’t rusted yet, eh? I couldn’t be certain if it’s going to take proper effect because of the dirty air. Is it thanks to the disgusting medicine I received from the deer on my way here?”
The being who said that was riding a cloud using cloud somersault close to the ceiling of the underground botanical garden.
Someone with his eyes covered smirked.
“I like how you sacrifice yourself for your dongsaeng. You’re unrelated to me, but I’ll lend a hand.”
It seemed the reinforcement I called has arrived.
“You… the irregular luncheon’s….!”
Tao Wonu seemed to have met this other party before.
The Jin I summoned here, the head of the Won tribe, Qítiān Dàshèng Sūn Wùkōng, readily self-introduced himself.
“The Strongest In The Universe, Qítiān Dàshèng appears!”
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[1] fairies — female immortals.
[2] Law Of Immobilizing A Body — 定身法
Translator’s note: That was a suffocating chapter to translate. Not only there were no fun notes to make, I had to watch kids make bad decisions and Jo Uisin talk about making bad decisions. Qítiān Dàshèng, you should come at the beginning of translating this chapter.
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