Chapter 71 - Chaotic Chaos
Somehow, it seems today is a day with really bad luck.
“Ugh… Today’s condition is killing me?? Well, it’s not like there’s any use for it…”
It was fine up until I woke up refreshingly in the morning…
No, actually it was good even after I woke up in a good mood, drank some water, washed my face a bit, and until I was eating…
“Ah! You’re awake, Han-ul teacher! I just finished making toast, let’s eat together!!”
“More than that, the Hanwoo beef I personally cut in Jangheung…!!”
“…No, I heard there was an incident where five or six cows went missing from a Hanwoo farm in Jangheung, was that you?? And more than that, beef from the morning is a bit…”
I really don’t know where Cheon Ryu-hwa might go off… She’s like a time bomb with a spring attached… Sigh…
“No! Our teacher likes to eat just rice in the morning! I made rolled eggs too, let’s eat together!!”
Ooh, as expected of Black Cat… The person who made me kimchi fried rice during the time she was calling herself Phantom Thief Black Cat…
Rolled eggs… Now that I hear it, it does sound tempting…
“But I was thinking of eating cereal today.”
I’ll pass since I don’t really feel like having breakfast, I’ll just eat something simple.
“Heeng…”
“…Should we just eat together…?”
“Sure, why not! There’s still a lot of meat left! There will be many opportunities!”
“Ryu-hwa, such words are usually said internally.”
“It’s okay! I’m an honest person! I’m honest about what I want to do too!!”
…Is that a good point or a bad point?
Anyway, it was a good morning with nothing to be concerned about.
The tentacles that were supposed to suddenly appear in Korea were all dealt with by the S-rank friends even before they appeared…
So there shouldn’t be any particularly annoying things for a while.
Slurp!
“Owang! This cereal is delicious??”
It was my first time trying it today… I should buy one at the mart later if I remember.
Anyway, I was sitting on the sofa eating cereal and watching the news on TV.
There weren’t any particularly interesting channels on.
But then something shocking popped out of the TV I had just casually turned on.
“Huh? What’s that?? Tentacles???”
It was giant purple tentacles that had risen up as if to pierce the sky and were wriggling.
To be more precise, they were revealed in the screen that was now showing breaking news.
[Breaking news!! In a neighborhood on the outskirts of Seoul and a mountain famous for being frequented by people…]
No, why did those suddenly appear?? Surely they should have all been dealt with?? I even got confirmation from Cheong So-ha…?!
[…Seoul citizens are currently in confusion due to the sudden appearance of unidentified tentacle monsters, and an evacuation order has been issued for the downtown area as a priority. Monster experts are speculating that this might be a case of a dungeon that wasn’t cleared bursting open, resulting in the appearance of such monsters…]
And if it were to follow the fortune I saw originally, 4 tentacles should appear and they should be a bit bigger than that, so why are there only 2 and they’re a bit smaller in size??
“What’s really going on here?? I’m all confused…”
Those tentacles themselves, even if 4 had popped out, were something the Korean S-rank superhumans could sufficiently handle. There would have been some damage, but still.
Let alone when they’re smaller than the ones that were supposed to appear originally and fewer in number, they should be able to stop them more easily…
“Ah, something feels off…”
“Huh? What are those tentacles?? Ah, are those the tentacles you told Cheong So-ha and Old Man Hwang Min-wook about, teacher??”
“Huh? Ah, yes, but something’s a bit…”
“Teacher!!! There’s chaos outside!! Over there in Seoul, huge tentacles just suddenly rose up!!”
At that moment, Lee Su-yeon burst in through the door.
She had gone out saying she’d eat cup noodles sitting on the roof for the ambiance… It seems she also witnessed those tentacles.
It doesn’t seem like she saw it on TV, but rather with her bare eyes befitting her fame as the Gunslinger of Magic Bullets, Lady Barrett… But that’s monstrous in its own way?? No matter how big the tentacles are, you can see them appearing in Seoul from here??
“We were just watching those tentacles too. It’s on the news right now.”
“Whew! It looked like a big deal, and it immediately became breaking news! That’s quick??”
Anyway, although a strange phenomenon suddenly occurred, I thought it could be stopped without any particular damage, so while I was surprised, I wasn’t particularly thinking beyond that as I watched TV…
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“??? Huh? What’s this?? Piano sound??”
Suddenly, piano sounds started to resound as if stuffed into my ears.
“What is this, I didn’t turn on any piano music…”
Moreover, it was heard very clearly and in detail as if earphones were plugged in with the volume turned up.
“Is it because of those tentacles?? Some kind of ability that causes confusion to those who see it?? But there was no such content in the fortune I saw…”
Wondering what it was, I looked closely at the TV screen and saw that the tentacles that had been swaying their bodies had completely stopped moving and were frozen in place.
“It’s not because of the tentacles?? Then what’s causing it??”
So if it’s not because of the tentacles… As I was thinking for a moment about what this unidentified song could be, something caught my eye.
Sway! Sway!
“Huh?? Black Cat, what are you doing??”
Black Cat, who was beside me, suddenly stood up and was… dancing some strange dance, fully utilizing her flexible body and cat ears and tail!
Moreover, she didn’t even react when I spoke to her! Her eyes seem a bit dull too, is she under some kind of brainwashing effect or something??
No, did those tentacles really have some kind of mental pollution option attached? But I didn’t see anything like that… Then does this unidentified piano sound have such an effect?!
Sss, I don’t know the details, but first I should try to calm Black Cat down…
“Guys, help me… Huh?!?!”
Sway sway!! Wiggle wiggle!!
Surprisingly, it wasn’t just Black Cat who suddenly became dull-eyed and was dancing.
Lee Su-yeon who had come in surprised by the tentacles, Lee Su-jin who had come in following her sister, Akame who was eating…
Even Yeondal-gi was showing a somewhat seductive dance, proudly wiggling her fluffy nine tails and fox ears.
Oh my goodness, even Cheon Ryu-hwa is dancing?!
And the things they were eating just fell to the floor with a splat!! Damn, cleaning that up will be a job too…
“They’re all dancing differently, but they’re all dancing the same dance??”
While they’re each showing something that seems to have a bit of their individuality… in the end, they’re all dancing the same dance.
To music that suddenly started playing… dance… It seems like whoever is responsible for making this music play has done something…
Even the people visible beyond the screen were dancing, and seeing how the screen was shaking, it seemed the cameraman, reporter, and anchor had all been affected too. The tentacles aren’t dancing but have completely stopped moving.
This incredibly wide-ranging ability, and these bizarrely strange appearances of people. It’s an ability I’ve heard of before.
One of the EX-rank superhumans, the Witch of Music, Aria of Dissonance.
It seemed to be the doing of her who performs madness-filled eccentric acts every time she appears in the world!
However, the peculiar point is that the songs she plays are all said to be terrible pieces that should never exist in the human world again, something even noise can’t approach, but the music I’m hearing now is…
“…It sounds good??”
I have normal taste in music too… What is this? Is it not the Witch of Music? Or did people just exaggerate?? Because they’re upset about being made to dance such weird dances??
“But anyway, what do we do about this situation…”
Really, how do I deal with this at our house…
As the mood of the music changes, they dance another bizarre and outrageous dance according to the changed mood, which was just… utterly confusing.
Just as I didn’t know what to do, a strange sound was heard.
“Bleurgh!! M-my head hurts…!!”
“????”
Out of nowhere, Cheon Ryu-hwa, who had chopped her own head with her hand axe, shouted while bleeding profusely.
No, Ryu-hwa Ryu-hwa… I understand what you’re thinking, but isn’t it natural that it hurts when you chop your head with an axe…?
By the way, maybe because she’s a talented friend, it seems she’s somewhat different? Even other S-ranks were affected without being able to react…
“Hee, heee!! Hand axe dance!!”
…Or not? Is she the same too??
It seemed like she resisted a bit, but she got affected again quickly…
“Aaagh!! I’m against such weird dances!!”
…This time she chopped her neck to revive. What’s really going on??
“Ooh! Dance dance!!”
……And she got affected again. No, this is really mentally taxing.
The house is becoming a sea of blood too!! Urgh, but I can’t really say anything… It’s not like words would get through anyway, so what can be done…
“…Sigh, is there no one else sane?”
Anyway, seeing Cheon Ryu-hwa gave me a bit of hope, so I went outside the house and immediately despaired.
First of all, putting aside the Rico family and the Cheongsong Guild security guards who were inevitably affected and dancing…
Huff huff!!
“…Breakdancing??”
Yeopoong was breakdancing quite deliciously like a b-boy.
Maybe because it’s not human but a monster-cum-beast, it’s dancing a different dance from the people who are all dancing the same dance… No, but does that have any meaning??
Anyway, after confirming that there were no sane people, I just lay down on a nearby lawn.
“…Aish, I’m really getting dizzy all of a sudden. What on earth is this situation??”
And now that I think about it, why am I fine in this situation where even S-rank superhumans couldn’t react??
No matter how much I racked my insufficient brain, I couldn’t figure out the reason…
“Ah… It was fine and good until just a moment ago, but what’s this chaos really…”
It feels like my energy is being completely drained.
“…Even Arin was affected and spinning around… Ugh, how do I solve this… Should I just stay still?”
Unable to quickly adapt to the rapidly changing situation and feeling dazed, I just sprawled out on the ground to try and find a solution.
After doing astrology last time, I could do something similar just by looking at the sky even if I couldn’t see stars clearly. It also felt like I could feel the stars a bit.
Anyway, as I was lying there, someone I didn’t know suddenly appeared in my line of sight.
“Hello? Were you sunbathing?”
“Wuak!?!?”
Whew! You startled me!! Who is this person?!
Surprised, I rolled to the side and then got up.
“W-who are you…??”
“Ah, I’m called Aria Musica Elacia Märchen. I’m usually called the Witch of Music?”
“What???”
The woman who introduced herself as the Witch of Music, Aria Musica Elacia Märchen, slightly lifted her dress and greeted elegantly like a noble young lady.
No, I was thinking about the Witch of Music, but you were really the culprit?! Moreover, why did such a dangerous person come here!! Someone who causes incidents on at least a multi-national scale every time she appears?!
“By the way… Did you enjoy my music well? As expected of the person I’ve been searching for all my life. It was a good song, wasn’t it? Thanks to seeing you, musical ideas kept popping up, so I was able to finish the work quite quickly this time! Ah, come to think of it, we haven’t properly introduced ourselves yet?”
…Oh boy.
“If it’s not too rude, may I hear your name?”
I can feel an… unmistakable madness in that softly smiling face. No, and when did you see me to say you saw me!?
Ah, it seems I’ve gotten tangled up in something troublesome again?!