Chapter 77 - Where Am I? Who Am I?
I couldn’t help but wonder how far this snowball, which started from an unexpected troublesome guest, would roll.
Looking at this noisy scene unfolding before my eyes today, such thoughts naturally came to mind.
Because of the troublesome guest, we noticed a strange cult, which caused multiple S-ranks to move, giant tentacles appeared, then even more unexpectedly the EX-rank Witch of Music showed up trying to get her hands on me, because of that Cheon Ryu-hwa went completely crazy, and the crazed Ryu-hwa met Hati Eri who came with perfect timing… and finally, they ended up fighting.
What kind of flow of consciousness is this sequence of events following?
The world is truly unpredictable. Even for me, who lives as an amateur fortune-teller.
‘I saw something about “Earth author” in a novel I read somewhere, and this is exactly that…’
Why am I suddenly thinking like this, you ask?
When two crazy superhumans are fighting with their eyes rolled back right in front of me, turning the island into something that used to be an island in real-time, how can I not think like this…
“Kieeeeek!!!”
Cheon Ryu-hwa, swinging her axe while screaming with her eyes dyed bright red, as if wanting to become something that transcends humanity.
“You’ve got some spunk!! Why don’t you fall already?! We should fight for at least four days!!”
And Hati Eri, crazy in a different way, saying she’ll fight for four days with such a Ryu-hwa.
This is a real mess. Why do I have to watch this fight??
By the way, if it’s at least four days, does that mean I have to watch this for four days?!?!
‘I want to go home… Send me home…’
I, who got caught up in this mess I never wanted, muttered weaklessly while inwardly making a crying face.
It’s not like anyone would listen even if I said it out loud anyway.
“Watching fights is really fun after all!”
“The historical fact that watching a fire across the river is the most fun is recorded even in the Goguryeo Subakdo, it’s a historically verifiable fun point!”
See? They’re watching so diligently with 3D glasses, popcorn, and cola that they brought from who knows where, while muttering so carefree.
Well, at least it’s fortunate that they haven’t forgotten to protect me from the aftermath of that crazed fight, so that I don’t end up as collateral damage in a fight between whales.
What could be more futile than suddenly dying while being forced to watch that vicious fight?
‘This is why these guys are burdensome…’
They’re so overwhelmingly strong, what could I, with specs no different from an ordinary person, do as an amateur fortune-teller?
‘Sigh… My fate… Life is so bitter…’
I don’t particularly enjoy drinking, but I feel like I could experience how sweet alcohol can taste if I drank today.
The unnamed uninhabited island’s land we were standing on had long since disappeared, so I, floating in the air thanks to Dalgi’s technique, slumped down in midair.
Whew… No, no, what good would it do to have negative thoughts? Relax, relax.
Let’s think positively, positively…
Yeah, it’s not a common experience to directly observe a fight between S-rank superhumans while safely floating in the air like this, right?
Even for me, who has experienced all sorts of things, such experiences are not common. A fight that I can properly see from beginning to end like this, that is.
Let’s think of it as having a special experience that you can’t see even if you pay for it… That would be better, right…?
From that perspective, it’s an incredibly flashy fight.
Cheon Ryu-hwa, who keeps charging recklessly regardless of whether she gets hit or not, swinging her axe imbued with a red and sticky energy while screaming, and Hati Eri, who laughs heartily while countering that tremendous frontal assault head-on, dodging all of Ryu-hwa’s attacks while landing more than half of her own attacks in a selfish damage trade.
It couldn’t help but be flashy, being a fight between crazy humans who only retreat when they’re hit and sent flying, and moreover, these incredibly crazy superhumans are S-rank.
But if you ask if it’s fun, not particularly.
I’m not sure if I’m too sensitive… Even though I’m being fully protected, maybe because I’m an ordinary person, it’s quite chilling. Well, it’s certainly entertaining to watch.
“By the way, Hati Eri is amazing too… To overwhelm Cheon Ryu-hwa with such a tremendous momentum head-on…”
This is Cheon Ryu-hwa who withstood Aria’s music for a very brief moment.
A genius and born killing machine whose strengths are her tremendous attacks, killing intent, and bizarrely tenacious life force, whom even Akame couldn’t subdue with her own power, and who managed to survive even after succumbing to Dokma’s poison.
For her to be overwhelmed head-on while charging like a mad dog with her eyes rolled back…
“I’d only heard about it, but Hati Eri is incredibly strong too, huh?”
“Well, it would be stranger if she wasn’t included when picking the strong ones among S-ranks.”
Akame, munching on popcorn, answered my mutter.
“‘Varg’ Scolia ‘Fenrir’ Hati Eri. She’s famous for firing undodgeable attacks while tearing through space. She’s not called a monster wolf for nothing, you know?”
“Well, the island does disappear in chunks every time her attacks fly.”
“Personally, I think Ryu-hwa, who gets hit by such attacks repeatedly but recovers immediately and charges back as if she didn’t take any damage, seems even crazier!”
“Well, she’s someone who can survive later, albeit incompletely, even when Dokma uses poison with the intention to kill…”
“Hoyoyo! So her life force alone has stepped into the realm of transcendence!”
“Is that so…?”
Well, if that’s the case, I guess so.
However, that doesn’t mean she’s EX-rank.
The realm of EX-rank, that is, transcendence, is not a realm that can be reached simply by having one ability that’s exceptionally outstanding.
Transcendents are those who reach that realm because all their abilities are above a certain standard, and their representative ability is truly transcendentally outstanding to the point that it surpasses even the sum of their other powers.
So they must absolutely surpass this vague thing called a ‘wall’.
But why do I, an ordinary person, know so much about this? Well, that’s because I’ve seen some related information thanks to fortune-telling for Cheongso-ha and Wi Ji-young. I learned about it from that.
Should I say it feels like I learn something new every time I do fortune-telling? It’s kind of like random trivia though.
Oh wait, come to think of it, doesn’t that mean this defense isn’t safe either?!
“You don’t need to worry about that. They may have gone berserk while fighting, but they haven’t gone so far as to be unable to recognize Han-ul!”
“To begin with, this only blocks the aftermath of that fight. It’s far from enough to really block those two’s attacks.”
“No, even the land below us has been deleted and only the sea remains now, is this okay?!”
“The fact that only the land disappeared and this barrier is intact is the biggest proof!”
Huh…? I-is that so…??
I found myself convinced for a moment.
Hmm, but no matter how I look at it, Ryu-hwa seems to have given up on the path of humanity…
“Ahem, Ryu-hwa’s temper is… so she might look like that, but while she’s not speaking human language, if you look at her attacks and such, you can tell she hasn’t gone so berserk as to not recognize Han-ul!”
Oh, so S-ranks can see such things?
“But even if Han-ul can recognize her, it doesn’t seem like we could.”
“That’s right! If Han-ul wasn’t by our side, she might have charged at us?!”
“Hmm, according to my scope, while she might recognize her first love, she has a face that would chop up even a 10-year close friend with her axe without recognizing them.”
…Can you normally tell such things with a scope?? The world of superhumans is… mysterious!
By the way, if she can’t recognize anyone but me, isn’t that an extremely dangerous state?! Why is everyone so carefree about it!?
Anyway, this fight, which looks flashy on the surface and gets more chaotic the deeper you look, fortunately didn’t last four days as Hati Eri said.
Of course, it didn’t last longer either. It ended in just one day.
Honestly, even one day is extremely long, but I guess we should be thankful it didn’t go on for four days as initially said.
The reason it ended in just one day was because Ryu-hwa regained her runaway sanity.
“Ah! All my stress is gone!!”
“…Uh, I hate to say this, but didn’t you just get hit the whole time??”
After all, Ryu-hwa didn’t land a single effective hit until the end of the fight.
“It’s okay! For this kind of thing, it doesn’t matter whether you do well or not! It’s like the feeling of belting out high notes in a karaoke room to relieve stress, you know?”
Oh! Seeing you express yourself like this, your sanity has definitely returned, Ryu-hwa! That’s a relief at least!
“Aw, I wanted to fight more. But what can we do? If it goes on longer, our teacher will get tired.”
It’s already plenty long, you know…
But now I should be grateful that they ended it quickly…
“By the way, I’m hungry, please make some food~!!”
“Kya! The one who fought with her eyes rolled back is now using baby talk? You’re quite a crazy girl too, aren’t you? Kekeke!!”
“Well, I am hungry… I guess we should all eat together?”
Anyway, after eating like that, the next day…
Black Cat, who had been looking dazed or not very happy throughout watching Cheon Ryu-hwa and Hati Eri’s fight, came to find me.
…Actually, I’m not sure if “came to find me” is the right way to put it since we live in the same house, but anyway!
“Um, please make me strong too, teacher!!”
“Huh??”
Suddenly??