Chapter 123: Verification of Life (2) (1/2)

Good. It landed perfectly.

Thinking that, Yeorum distanced herself.

A portion of the battle was over, and her body became relaxed. The time she spent walking awkwardly while holding onto Yu Jitae’s hand flashed across her head. “You’ll now learn how to walk.” Those were the exact words that Yu Jitae had used back then.

The fact that she will learn how to walk implied that she wasn’t able to walk until now, so Yeorum had been discontent and doubtful.

But now she had a rough idea.

This was how great ‘walking’ was.

Since she had been holding back because of what Sophia said, it was the first time she used everything in her arsenal against a living target in a real battle. Strength overflowed from her body. Despite the fight having ended, her dragon heart still pulsed with a thud.

The first thing that she thought of was Yu Jitae.

Yu Jitae.

He was a very strange human.

At times, he was like a kidnapper but now he was acting like a guardian. At times, he acted like a human but was like a red dragon during training.

Plus, before, he had been acting as if he was interested in teaching her, but was now like a true teacher.

She wasn’t sure but now she was certain. Yu Jitae’s training method was correct, and he was her teacher.

Just then, she had proven that with her own body.

“Oi! Yu Yeorum!”

That was when Sophia urgently ran up and pushed a potion bottle into her mouth. Her own shoulder had a hole that bled heavily but she didn’t care.

After Yeorum swallowed the potion, Sophia yelled.

“Yu Yeorum. Are you crazy for real?”

“Aingg. What now.”

“What were you thinking, like seriously?”

“We won anyway.”

“No we didn’t. It’s not over yet! Why in the world did you start this just by ourselves? We almost all died here!”

“You don’t die though? You just get proclaimed that you’re dead.”

“If that happened, you would be dead by me!”

Wearing an expression tainted with fury, Sophia irritatedly shouted.

“Why are you doing whatever the fuc* you want without saying anything?”

“Why not.”

“Stop. I’m really angry right now.”

‘Why’ am I doing this?

Yeorum turned around with an indifferent expression. Sophia shouted something but ignoring that, Yeorum rummaged through her pocket and found a small piece of chocolate.

At a distance, something covered in blue light could be seen raising its body up behind the large, burnt corpse of the large spider.

“It’s too late anyway. Prepare yourself if you have time to chit-chat.”

Yeorum threw the chocolate Yu Jitae gave into her mouth. She didn’t really like the sweet flavour it had.

A cigarette would have been better.

***

Petrovic, and not only him but most of the superhumans that had been active during the Great War, tended to find the new generation of superhumans sloppy.

Petrovic always thought to himself.

Back in my days, my mother would die if I died to a monster. The life of a single mother who had lost her husband to a monster in her youth; her life that was spent trying to feed my younger brother and I, rested on my shoulders.

But do the kids these days even understand that?

The kids these days,

They were sloppy.

There’s no eagerness, no sense of danger and no urgency. The desire to get stronger at the risk of their lives is non-existent. Since they are feeding themselves on a safe grassland with plenty of water, they don’t understand how it felt to look for weeds and devour it up to its roots at a dusty desert.

To them, superhumans were some sports players or something.

Geniuses existed in any era, and there were some dumbfounding ones like Yong Taeha in the mix, but that was the end.

Most of them avoided risky places and were busy trying to push their task onto someone else. It was impossible to find any young one that tried zealously to kill monsters at the cost of their flesh.

Of course, it wasn’t their fault as cadets. He just found it regrettable that the era and the society had made them like that.

That’s what he had been thinking, but –

– Wahh! Yu Yeorum!!

– So cool!!

– Wtf! She’s really insane!!!

– YOOOOOOO!!!

Petrovic formed tight fists.

On the screen were superhumans of the past.

They had young and immature faces and it was a sloppy battle, but he could see a reflection of the past young soldiers in them – those who had to shoulder the lives of their families and those that were made to realise that weakness was a sin.

“Ouuhh damn! It’s crazy!!”

The moment Yu Yeorum dashed through dozens of metres and landed a strike onto the boss, Petrovic unconsciously swung his fist and destroyed his bookshelf. Books came crashing down but he didn’t spare it a glance.

“Stay on your toes everyone! It’s not over yet!”

The middle-aged retired soldier yelled excitedly.

“I’ve said it many times, but you always have to understand the monsters when you’re fighting a monster inside a fissure!”

– Yes sir.

– Yes, you said it!

“Why would the boss have a human body on it as a mere spider?”

As soon as his words came to an end, the second phase of the boss raid began.

Flames erupted and the body of the spider was scorched to ashes. Like all arthropods, spider-type monsters were also weak to fire.

However, things were different for the human body that was attached to the outer shell of the spider. Despite its head being cut off, it began to move.

Kwakwakwang!

At the same time, the entrance of the boss room that had been blocked by Yeorum, was opened. While swearing out loud, approximately 30 cadets came rushing in as a grooup.

Grit… griiit…

The second phase began with the human body separating itself from the outer shell. Although the upper body resembled a female, what came out from beneath the shell were four pairs of wings, and it looked like a winged insect.