The Shaman Wants Transcendence

80 – Yoel

The numbers on the countdown were decreasing.

As evidence of that, signs were appearing.

Just as a tree folds its leaves and shrinks itself before a terrible storm comes, just as insects burrow into their hiding places and hide under leaves to take care of themselves. As with so many small creatures who hold their breath to save their lives instead of making noise in the hopes of finding a mate, the signs tend to come from what people take for granted.

Things people took for granted and overlooked.

Things that are nothing more than a background.

All of that was slowly changing.

There were signs all over the place suggesting that something ominous was about to happen.

The air in the hotel sank.

Employees scrambled to take vacation days.

The cold air became heavy.

A chilly feeling pervaded the hotel.

Pests and seawater that hovered around the hotel have all disappeared.

The rooftop smells of incense.

From the top floor, a faint smell of blood is smelled.

In the room where a young Asian is staying, a dentist comes in and out with a bag for visits.

Noise is heard from the toilet.

There were scratches all over the windows of the hotel.

But these signs are too hard to spot.

If you dismissed it as something insignificant, it was infinitely close to superstition, and if you start paying attention to it, it was like a prophecy of the end times.

So it was no wonder that those at the center of what was to come went unnoticed.

“Aagh! Puma Curry! What are you doing!”

“Can’t go!”

“B-get out of the way! Get out of the way! My rank is shrinking! Oops! I’m in last place!”

The cause that made the atmosphere of the hotel strange was spending a peaceful daily life.

Iarin and Ella were fussing with game pads in front of a large TV that filled the wall. In the TV, cute characters were riding a cart, but this leopard character, supposedly belonging to Arin, was blocking her character from Ella, preventing her from running.

It was an ill-mannered act, also known as ‘stopping’.

“It’s like a troll-!”

After grabbing her by the back of her neck and foaming at her mouth, Ella ended up in her last place.

Unfortunately, however, Ella was a witch and Iarin was unmanned.

Ella was easily overpowered, just as her grown-up overpowers a child, and she was crushed beneath Iarin, forcing her to scream in pain.

“Ha, surrender! Surrender!”

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Ella screamed at the pain she felt as her arm bent behind her, and Arin smiled and let go of her arm appreciatively. Barely freed from her restraints, she glared at Arin with a sigh, then screamed at her.

“Let’s do something else! The one that doesn’t foul!”

“Yes, yes, rabbit. I’ll win no matter what.”

So the two of them manipulated the pad and started looking for other games.

“How about a boxing game?”

“That’s your advantage! Let’s play this trivia game!”

“No! That’s more advantageous to you!”

“Then what do you want to do! Oh, what do you want to do with this? Ring… Checkers? Fitness adventure genre? They say that the motion sensor measures the accuracy of your posture to determine your score and rank?”

“Then let’s do it!”

Even though they were fighting, the two of them sticking together and playing the game seemed like best friends.

Seeing these two people, Serene said to the devil,

‘You two look very close. It’s good that I took a break on my own.’

[ Contractor, my contract. It would be more correct to say that it was not a voluntary suspension, but a forced suspension. ]

All three were students.

And the student’s duty is to attend classes.

It is said that they are hiding in a hotel room to avoid threats, but it is obvious that if they do not go to school, there will be a big problem as a student.

That’s why Se-Rin Lee stepped forward and made all three of them go public.

Yes.

Made it happen

Gremory’s power.

With the power to find out the secret.

‘Zu, the person who asked me to bring the evidence was wrong.’

To find out a secret and claim something as an ingredient.

People call it blackmail.

But this Serene, far from feeling guilty at the fact that she had been blackmailed, rather she shouted at the devil that she was right in her actions. Then her demon purred her lips and quivered and looked at her like she was cute.

[Yes, the teacher was unfaithful. Those things will never come to their senses unless someone shakes them by the leash and shows them how to behave, so it would be more correct to judge your actions based on whether they are efficient or inefficient rather than based on the concept of good or evil. In that sense, you are a contractor. It’s annoying to take classes, but I legally skipped it and even got compliments on it, so my contract made me feel better. What you have done is extremely efficient. ]

The devil said so, he muttered.

[If you act like that to a good person, it’s an obvious evil act. It is human nature to want to wield power, and to look into secrets once they know their existence. My Contractor, my Contractor who hasn’t grown up yet. You will always have to be on the lookout for it and on your guard again. ]

Looking at the talking demon earnestly at himself, this serine nodded his head.

‘I know. That’s why I’m not committing a crime.’

[ Okay. Know. It’s just that you don’t do anything that would obviously be a crime, aren’t you walking that boundary? In the name of satisfying curiosity. ]

‘Ah Okay…’

This serine nodded his head at the devil’s advice.

But while he agreed and accepted the Devil’s opinion, hearing it over and over again was a different matter.

Like Ia-rin, who escaped nagging and escaped to the land of dreams, Se-rin Lee changed the subject to avoid nagging.

‘Well, that looks fun anyway! Shall I try it too!’

She gesticulated and looked toward her TV.

[ … Do you mean that? ]

Where Se-Rin Lee chose to turn her subject, there was a man-shaped beast that turned around and fluttered with surplus of strength, and a weak human who was becoming a corpse in real time.

「One more—Thing-! 」

“Hee-, hee-ik. Sal, help me…”

“Rabbit! Isn’t this fun?”

Ella was on the floor. Her thin limbs were trembling like aspen trees, and her hot breath was spitting out with a scream.

On TV, a muscular trainer who was portrayed as pretty was doing a stretching squat.A refreshing expression and unnecessarily bright voice were stimulating Ella, who had collapsed due to the limit of her stamina.

He seemed to be urging Ella to do the same quickly, and she ignored the terrible request with her eyes tightly closed.

And this Arin, who was running wild beside Ella, was moving her body excitedly as if her body had finally loosened up.

It resembled a large dog with excessive energy sometimes seen in the park and the owner being dragged by the dog for a walk.

“Mo, I can’t. Kill me…”

The figure of Ella lying on the floor and muttering in vain is literally a corpse (Jin) itself.

The sight of her speaking, barely catching her breath and barely squeezing the strength of her muscles running through her body, made the viewer feel sympathetic.

[Looking at it from a distance, it seems like a comedy. However, if I participate in that, it will be a tragedy. Does that really look like fun, my contractor? ]

Lee Se-rin closed her mouth at the camel’s question.

To say that it was fun was because Ella and Se-Rin Lee’s stamina wasn’t much different, so it was obvious that it would be a tragedy, and to say that it was not fun was like hearing nagging again.

“Hey! Serene! Don’t be squirming in bed over there. Let’s do this. No, do it! Do it!”

But she unfortunately had no choice for Serene.

Because the big dog that knocked out her owner has made her her next scapegoat.

Lee Ah-rin jumped up and down and reached in front of Lee Se-rin in an instant, and she forcibly grabbed her arm and dragged her in front of her TV.

“Now, wait a minute. Me, my stamina.”

“Yeah~ You have to do these things to gain stamina! You have to exercise to get better skin! Look. What is that, release toxins? You have to release toxins through sweat to get better skin. Look! Ella’s skin is shiny!”

It did shine.

It is so wet that it can’t be coated with sweat, but if it doesn’t shine, where is it?

Dol hareubangs standing in the middle of Jeju Island will surely shine brightly if they are soaked with sweat.

” Come on! New adventure seekers are always welcome! 」

「Let’s go on an adventure together! 」

” Ruler! Shall we all shout together before the adventure? 」

“Muscle! Muscle! Muscle! 」

But what can a person without power do?

This Seline was forced to hold on to her and became her new adventure seeker, forced to follow the postures specified by her trainer on TV. Now she will give her muscles a serious load and the next day will suffer from terrible muscle pain, a bursting heart and a sweat that will drench the floor.

But is there any salvation?

「Let’s go on an adventure! Come on, get out」

Ba-aaa

Pajik-!

Her blackout occurred as her trainer roared her slogans and tried to take her into her joyous world of fitness.

With a loud sound like an incandescent light bulb exploding, darkness fell throughout the room.

When the fluorescent lights and the TV were turned off, the entire room became virtually invisible. Only the arrows for emergency evacuation made of fluorescent materials were the only consolation in the darkness, shining softly.

“Is it a power outage?”

Ella was lying on the floor when the power went out and she pulled herself up.

“Ignis fatuus!”

Ella, who was accustomed to living in the dark, naturally called her familiar, and thenAn orb of white light came out and circled around her. Then, as if thanking her for calling me, I rubbed my body against her cheek, and as if she were the moon, she circled around her, illuminating the darkened room with a light.

“Haa. Blackout. I want an alternative way to manage power here.”

She sighed and looked out of her window.

I wouldn’t be annoyed if the entire region was like that.

Outside the window, the lights of houses and streetlights were shining brightly, as if a blackout was a story from another country. It shone like a star, spreading light through the glass, and made the large glass in the window seem to be a ripple that swayed and reflected the light.

“I can’t help it! Rabbit, let’s sleep together!”

“Yes?”

“Do you want to sleep together?”

“No, wait. That sounds weird! Are you really a Reds?!”

As Ella gazed at her beautiful night view, Arin came up behind her, put her hand between her armpits, and dragged her to her bed. And even as she was being dragged along because she had no strength, she screamed in fright at the strange expression coming out of Arin’s mouth, and Arin laughed as if such a reaction was amusing.

And Lee Se-rin.

Smart.

I heard a small knock on the door.