27. Mock Dungeon Exam (3)

“May I ask why?”

Choi Bit-na let out a sigh.

“It’s trauma. Sort of. She used to sparring with one of her friends in high school. Both of them had high self-esteem, so they sparred with sticks without wearing protective equipment.”

Bitna Choi took a sip of her latte and continued her words.

“I almost killed you. She could control… As if written by something, he was aiming for her stomach. If a friend by her side hadn’t reported it sooner, she would have died.”

‘Is it talent?’

What Dojin Lee felt while using his body during combat was that half of his movements were in the realm of instinct.

And Choi Bit-na in front of her had a high probability that her combative instincts exceeded those of her peers.

Unconsciously enough.

“Have you ever faced a monster?”

Bitna Choi nodded her head.

“In her third year of high school, she killed a goblin that appeared at the gate. Without using mana.”

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“Did your body move instinctively even then?”

“Yes.”

He has no qualms about killing monsters.

That was good news. But she didn’t even spend that mana and her experience of killing goblins made her Choi Bit-na, coupled with her previous experience, seemed to overestimate her own instinctive strength too much.

‘Is her grounded fear of her own power.’

“In her entrance exam, she couldn’t have killed anyone.”

At Lee Do-jin’s words, Choi Bit-na smiled self-deprecatingly.

“Yes. I haven’t been able to knock down a single one.”

The reason why Bitna Choi was assigned to Class 10 was revealed, considering her skills.

The moment Dojin Lee, who organized her thoughts, was about to open her mouth again.

A woman from afar approached me.

“Wow, long time no see. It should shine.”

It was a woman with bobbed hair.

Choi Bitna also had an awkward smile as if she recognized the woman.

“Oh, long time no see. Kimyearim.”

Kim Ye-rim, a short-haired woman, put her hand on the table where her coffee was placed.

“I came because the freshman representative wanted to see me. You have a very friendly face. Hello. Cadet Lee Do-jin.”

Kim Ye-rim smiled brightly at Lee Do-jin. She

She and She bowed her back toward Dojin Lee.

Deep as if to emphasize the curvature of the body.

“My name is Kim Ye-rim, the daughter of the former Taehwa guild master. Here.”

Then, she held out her business card to Lee Do-jin.

“Even during summer vacation, Cadet Lee Do-jin will receive countless scouting requests. Especially for a mid-level guild like us. But I still want you to visit our guild once.”

Lee Do-jin touched his business card.

It was the Taehwa Guild Master’s business card.

“Why is it not your own card, but the guild master’s card?”

Kim Ye-rim had a natural eye smile.

“My name has no authority or value yet. Compared to Cadet Lee Do-jin. That’s why I gave her father’s business card, which had enough authority. Don’t worry, I’ve been given permission to use my father’s authority.”

Kim Ye-rim continued.

“So, when you have time, please stop by the head office. You will always be a guest.”

Lee Do-jin nodded her head slowly. She

She didn’t even answer, but Kim Ye-rim smiled again as if she was satisfied with the action.

And this time she turned her head and stared at Choi Bitna next to her. He whispered close to her body.

“You said you were in class 10? Still can’t get over that phobia? This… Wouldn’t she be a nuisance to the same team members?”

Bitna Choi’s eyes trembled.

Lee Do-jin watched him quietly.

Kim Ye-rim stared at Lee Do-jin again.

“A simulated dungeon test, you were a member of the same group as Bitna, right? Oh my god… This time she might not win first place. Cadet Lee Do-jin.”

Kim Ye-rim smiled bashfully at her smile until the end, and after saying see you next time, she moved away from the two of them.

After a moment of commotion, several voices were heard.

“Wow, that’s the representative of freshmen this year.”

“Oh, that’s right, that’s right.”

It was the voice of seniors and classmates.

“Because I can be a freshman representative, is Taehwa Guild’s daughter pushing me like that?”

“It was too aggressive.”

It seems that no one has heard the story that Kim Ye-rim whispered to Choi Bit-na.

Taehwa Guild was not a top-class guild, but it was a middle-ranking guild known to all academy cadets.

Since the daughter of such a guild made direct contact, it was inevitable that people’s attention would be drawn for a while.

It was a very short time, but it was quite a long time for Choi Bit-na, who clenched her fists.

Only after everyone’s eyes disappeared, Choi Bit-na straightened her body.

“… Sorry. Because of me.”

Bitna Choi’s voice was shaking.

“What are you sorry about?”

Lee Do-jin did not like her attitude towards Choi Bit-na. This situation, swayed by her words and depressed.

“As Kim Ye-rim said, I thought it would harm Joe… Sorry for bothering you.”

Lee Do-jin smiled and crumpled the business card he had just received.

“Why do I care about the person who gives me the business card of my father and guild master because his name has no value? A man who has nothing but that.”

And threw it into the trash can next to the table.

What Lee Do-jin just said wasn’t even consolation for Choi Bit-na. It’s just a very honest impression of her situation.

“If you are going to keep this attitude after hearing such words. It will disappoint you.”

Bitna Choi opened her eyes wide at Dojin Lee’s words.

I felt like I vaguely knew what kind of person Lee Do-jin was.

Lee Do-jin drank the remaining iced americano and stood up.

“Tomorrow, right time?”

Bitna Choi nodded her head.

“I will move a little early. Around 7 o’clock. See you at the station.”

“But two, two?”

Doubt bloomed on Choi Bit-na’s face.

“Uh.”

Lee Do-jin grinned.

For some reason, Bitna Choi sent chills down her spine.

“I’m thinking of winning first place this time too. Of course, with the crew.”

Lee Do-jin was thinking of breaking down the wall.

This time, it wasn’t the wall he had to break, but the wall blocking Choi Bit-na’s path.

**

Let Jia Ryu and Jihoon Kim do their own training. On Sunday, the two of them announced that they would train together.

When Choi Bit-na said that she was thinking of solving her problems, both agreed.

Early morning.

Choi Bit-na exhaled heavily.

“Wow… You were a really strange guy.”

Paju Gamak Mountain.

Lee Do-jin was climbing the place where he first met Baek Hwa-yeon two years ago.

The reason Lee Do-jin brought Choi Bit-na to Gamak Mountain was simple.

It was also a place I had been to once.

I thought it was a place where I could train without worrying about anyone.

The two of them climbed halfway up the mountain in silence.

“Good.”

Bitna Choi, who swallowed the water in the plastic bottle with a gulp, said while looking at the green mountains and fields.

“It feels like my complicated mind is being organized.”

“I am resting comfortably. We’ll start in 10 minutes.”

“Huh? 10 Minutes later? What are you talking about?”

Lee Do-jin sat with his back against a tree.

“I told you. I’m going to be number one this time too.”

“Oh, I did.”

“Then you should solve the problem of not being able to fight against people.”

Bitna Choi’s eyebrows narrowed.

“… Yes. But how can I solve it? I know now that you hate weaklings. You only have one day left. Mock dungeon exam.”

There was no change in Lee Do-jin’s expressionless expression.

“One day is enough. I’m going to give you a prescription.”

Choi Bit-na tilted her head.

“… Extreme drug prescription?”

“Uh, a deadly drug.”

No matter how much I thought about it, there was only one way to solve Choi Bit-na’s interpersonal phobia in one day.

And that would have been a pretty bitter prescription from Choi Bit-na’s point of view.

The 10 minutes passed quickly.

“… What are we going to do?”

Bitna Choi looked at Dojin Lee who was approaching her.

Lee Do-jin had a wooden sword in his hand.

A colorless sword flowed through the wooden sword.

“Wake up.”

Lee Do-jin hit the wooden sword.

The gale tore the floor in a straight line.

Sorry!

The leaves fluttered. Sand splashed everywhere.

“Take out the window, Choi Bitna.”

“No, what are you trying to do! Hey!”

Choi Bit-na stared at Lee Do-jin with her face saying that she would like to see her star madman.

“Raise the window, if you want to live.”

Choi Bit-na took out her spear from her pocket and held it.

Strong enough to crush.

This is because Lee Do-jin’s appearance was unusual.

“If you wield it properly, you won’t know!”

Lee Do-jin raised his wooden sword high.

Because it was literally just ridiculous. He was convinced that he could not help himself with nothing but his petty instinctive combat talent.

“Don’t talk nonsense. Swing properly.”

Fear and anger coexisted in Choi Bit-na’s eyes.

Choi Bit-na gripped her spear with both her hands and gnashed her teeth.

“Every time I think I will do it right, my body moves on its own. That feeling is so dirty.”

Bitna Choi raised her body slowly.

“Ha….”

Her lips quivered.

The spear blade aimed at Lee Do-jin.

The spear was still shaking.

Lee Do-jin swung his wooden sword. She didn’t intend to stop her arm until right before it touched Choi’s neck.

Right before the wooden sword touched her throat, scattering colorless sword energy.

Bitna Choi’s eyes flashed.

Card Deok!

The wooden sword scratched the spear.

Lee Do-jin grinned.

Something has definitely changed in prayer. A strange haze was flowing from Bitna Choi’s body.

“I… How I hate feeling like this dog. You won’t know I will never know.”

Choi Bit-na pointed her spear at Lee Do-jin again.

I didn’t shake at all this time.

Kwaaak!

Bitna Choi stepped on the ground strongly.

A purple air stream flowed from Bitna Choi’s body.

A spear wrapped in magical energy was shot.

The atmosphere is distorted. The wooden sword touched the window. The waves spread widely as if crying out.

The bodies of the two moved again before the leaves scattered in the sky fell.

Choi Bit-na’s spears all moved toward Lee Do-jin’s stomach.

Salcho.

And all that grass went back to nothing. By Lee Do-jin’s wooden sword.

‘It’s definitely sharp.’

The standard for instinctive fighting sense seemed to be exceeded.

Looking at the endlessly pouring spears, Lee Do-jin remembered what Sword Emperor Dan Chun-wu once said.

He told me the story of Moorim whenever he was bored.

-You have a pretty good fighting sense. In the world where I lived, there were people with better bodies than you.

– Just like a person’s personality changes when he gets a weapon, there were also those who only aim for weeds like ghosts. I said it was close to instinct.

-However, that is a level of talent that you can surpass. Talent is, after all, relative. It’s just a curse if you don’t handle it properly.

“That fighting sense you have is a definite talent. But you can’t even control it properly.”

Bitna Choi grinded her teeth.

“… Like you know everything about me!”

“It’s worth knowing. He’s just a coward who can’t handle his insignificant talent.”

The spear extended sharply. So fast that afterimages of the trajectory can be seen.

However, the trajectory got caught in the wooden sword and was deflected.

“Don’t let your instincts sway you.”

Lee Do-jin continued his sermon.

“Be aware. Don’t let your instincts take over your ego.”

It was sincere that I didn’t want to see him stand still after being eaten up by the talent he was born with.

“Didn’t you come all the way to the academy without giving up trying to do that?”

Choi Bit-na stopped swinging her spear with both arms.

It felt like a blow to the head.

Bitna Choi was angry.

The current situation where her classmate’s words hit her bones.

Bitna Choi acknowledged it.

‘Lee Do-jin won’t die with my instinctive spearmanship.’

A workshop close to 100 sum.

You won’t be able to inflict even the slightest scratch, let alone kill.

Lee Do-jin’s defense was that perfect.

‘Awareness, awareness….’

I never thought I’d be able to tame this beastly ‘instinct’.

“Let’s continue.”

Choi Bit-na pointed her spear at her again.

As Lee Do-jin said, I came to the academy to break my pitiful self.

“Continue.”

Lee Do-jin smiled at Choi Bit-na, who was earnest about her growth.

Choi Bit-na’s eyes staring at herself.

Because the look in her eyes resembled her own eyes when she died a thousand times in front of her sword master Dan Cheonwu, with only one of her longing for her martial arts.

The window split the atmosphere again.

The wooden sword crushed the ferocious grass.

Once, twice.

… Fifty.

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Every time the workshop continued, Bitna Choi felt goose bumps all over her body.

I began to perceive her instinctive fighting sense rationally.

The wall that had imprisoned Choi Bitna for a long time was crumbling.

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