Hermit Wizard

Kim Kyung-ah hasn't been able to speak for a while. A confused light flashes from both eyes.

“Focus on what I say. ”

Her brother's tone of urgency hardened, but she didn't notice.

“Have you ever talked to a stranger before? ”

He barely rang his vocal chords and spoke loudly as if he had spit on his neck.

“· · · I was there. ”

Why is it so hard to say this? I consulted him, but I didn't get an answer. My heart was burning and frustrated. I felt like I swallowed boiling iron beads.

“Let's go a little further down. ”

“What? Down? ”

“Oh, did you hear that again? Me, really. ”

By the way, I just said · · ·. My brother's lips don't seem to have moved.

But how did you hear that? Kim Kyung-hwan shot the horse again before focusing on the idea.

“A man or a woman? ”

Kim Kyung-ah barely stood up.

“· · · Men. ”

“Where?”

The sensation of his left arm became more painful. Kim Kyung-ah remembered a month ago with her arms clasped.

“On the way to work, I suddenly came in front of my house and asked her something. ”

“What did you look like? ”

“That's · · ·. ”

Kim Gyeong-ah's words were blocked.

I stuttered my memory, but I didn't think of anything creepy enough. I remember being a man, but like painted paper, my face remains black.

I swallowed my breath in awe. It was absurd.

“Why are you doing this? ”

Focus on the recall again. The man who was approaching her. I kindly asked him something.

What did you ask? I asked the question internally, but I don't answer it cold. I couldn't remember a word. I only remembered what that man's voice felt like.

The man's voice was filled with strange colors.

‘It was a strange voice. No · · · strange? ’

It's elegant and humid, like dizziness if you're listening. It was a sensation I had never felt before. I didn't remember what I said, but the voice that I didn't remember was as vividly engraved in my body.

Kim Kyung-ah mutters.

“· · · · · · · · · · ·. ”

The more vivid the sense of memory, the more faint and blurry you feel.

My eyes were blurry.

“The person is a · · ·. ”

The words that leaked from my lips lost their power and fluttered. And · · ·.

Consciousness precipitates into memory.

Exactly!

The sound of a clear ringing in the ear.

“· · · What? ”

Kim Kyung-ah woke up with a twinkle.

My brother was looking calmly at himself. Keep your hands forward.

“· · · Just now? ”

I think I just bounced my finger against his ear.

“Wake up. Don't sink.”

Kim Gyeong Ah's consciousness returned to reality.

“Sink?”

“Don't be encroached upon by the fear of being unconscious. ”

After returning to a clear mind, Kim Gyeong-ah again focused on her brother in front of her eyes.

“You talk a lot of strange things today. ”

“There's nothing connected to you right now. And yet, it's because I remember being unconscious. I fear that horror.”

“Fear?”

“Because the opponent is too scared, he wants to voluntarily submit and beg for his life. Obedience is what happens when the surface consciousness doesn't notice. It's a sophisticated brainwashing.”

“Brain wash?”

“Let's go back to the first question. What does it look like?”

She shakes her head.

“What does this mean, Kyung-hwan? You can talk to strangers when you live. There 'll be more besides him. I can't remember and talk about all those events. ”

My brother decisively stops talking.

“You don't have to remember anything else. Focus on that memory right now. ”

Kim Gyeong-ah thought that he should somehow change.

“Why? Why? ”

“The first thing that comes to mind is that guy. I already remember your subconscious. It's the first thing that comes to mind because it's so scary. ”

“But I don't remember his face, I don't remember what he said. ”

“You must have hung the implication. But I remember unconsciousness. Now, sister. Listen to my story. ”

My brother looks straight at Kim Gyeong-ah as he pushes his upper half forward. Because of the eyes that seemed to pierce through her, she felt a disguise.

“You, really strange. ”

“Don't focus on it! ”

Strangely enough, every time my brother shoots a word like this, the direction of the accident is easily changed.

“Let's ask unconscious again. You see that waiter? ”

Kim Kyung-ah turns her head. A man waiter was serving a table across the street.

“What do you think of that face? ”

“I just looked normal. ”

“What if that face turns into his face now? ”

I snorted.

“That makes no sense. ”

But Kim Kyung-hwan's bitter eyes stubbornly followed her.

“What if that face turns into his face now? ”

One word my brother said seemed to strike me with a physical vibration. Kim Kyung-ah felt a sense of intimidation that did not know the cause. The world seems to be pushing towards her.

“Kyung-hwan, what is this? ”

My brother focuses once again on making a sentence without being stubborn.

· · · It's like an order.

“What if that face turns into his face now? ”

Kim Kyung-ah shook her lips and looked at the waiter. I couldn't turn my head.

Looking at her like that, my brother speaks like a blade.

“What if that face turns into his face now? ”

At that moment.

Kim Kyung-ah saw it.

“Argh!”

Her arm twitches and then hits the water cup on the table.

It's sunny!

A broken piece of glass rolled onto the cafe floor.

At the same time, everyone in the café looked at her.

“Argh! ”

Kim Kyung also looked at them, trembling.

The atmosphere in the room, which was normal, changed. Fear and hatred took a picture of her. I feel something strange from everyone in the cafe.

She barely made a horse.

“I don't like it! ”

A middle-aged man who sat alone and learned to eat sandwiches.

Women dressed in suits who opened up papers and had conversations.

A group of new hires who made scissors at the entrance to the cafe and determined who to count.

A waiter who received a table order opposite the menu board.

They all heard Kim Gyeong's screams and looked at themselves.

By the way · · ·.

“Oh, no, no! ”

Kim Kyung-ah lifts her feet over the couch and curls up. Bury your head in the knee.

She just witnessed. A colourless gaze that was staring at itself. Their faces were as dry as one. No trace of emotion remained on his face.

And one more thing.

All those faces had one thing in common.

“Hey, it's him! ”

The faces of all of them were turned into the faces of some young man.

Like clones, various dressed people became like-looking men, staring at Kim Gyeong-ah with no expression. Dry eyes pour over her shoulder.

“That's him! ”

Kim Kyung-hwan looks at her without being agitated. Then I turned around and shrugged.

“You must have been terrified. I didn't induce this kind of scene. ”

The next words were heard from Kim Gyeong-ah even though he did not move his lips.

“Once the bank collapsed, it became a nightmare. ”

Kim Kyung-hwan stood up.

“That face, by the way. I must have seen it somewhere. ”

The time of rumination was not long.

“Aha! ”

A pale smile on the mouth.

“These parasites, are they doing their job right? He said he's getting rid of the leftovers.”

He grumbles like that, and Kim approaches the chair where Kyung-ah is sitting.

“Sister, don't worry. I'll forget it again. ”

“Hahaha! ”

Kim Kyung-ah felt blurry without lifting her face. The cries that burst out did not stop.

Her brother says again calmly with his hands on her shoulders. The horse sat on his head.

“I'll forget it when I wake up. ”

And I also seemed to hear small additions.

“· · · I'll never see you again. No, you have to. ”

Finally, Kim Kyung-ah confronted the conflicting senses of her entire body.

* * *

“Huff!”

Kim Kyung-ah opened her eyes as she cramped out of bed with a rough breath. My whole body was soaked in sweat.

“Huff! Huff! ”

My breath was swift. My heart beat like crazy. I was also afraid to go out of the blanket because of the fear of raiding my entire body. I was lying on my side for a while, stabilizing my breathing.

‘· · · Ah, left arm. ’

He sleeps with his left arm closed and frozen. I moved carefully and changed posture.

What was your dream? ’

Fear remained only a residual wave, wandering around my head. Having barely regained consciousness, she focused on the idea of what a worker nightmare was.

‘Something, I only remember being terrified. ’

I didn't think of anything specific.

She soon stopped thinking about the details of her nightmare. It was common to forget a dream when you wake up. If I think about it again, I'll just fall asleep.

Despite stopping to think about the dream, she couldn't go back to sleep right away and struggled for a while. It was an unexpected night of insomnia.

* * *

On the roof of the apartment where the darkness was sitting, I looked at the image of a dream seeping into the pulsations. I became an unexpected nightmare thanks to my involvement.

“· · · Really, when you wake up, you don't remember? ”

Looking at me like that, Kim Kyung-hwan asks anxiously. I nodded.

“Yeah. Right after I got out of my dream, I absorbed it right here. ”

I looked at the yellow metal bead in my hand. Kim Gyeong-ah's new dream is fulfilled.

“The timing overlaps so badly, it's going to stay until you feel like you have a horrible dream. But you'll never remember the details. ”

Just like the night Mac ate his dream.

I threw my gaze at Kim Gyeong's apartment a few hundred meters outside.

“I don't think you need to worry about your sister or her condition. The magic of the psychic system seems to be all unraveled now, and there is no connection that anyone planted. ”

“Then · · ·. ”

Kim Kyung-hwan turns her head towards me as she blurs her words.

“Getting your sister out right now would be dangerous, right? ”

My voice was filled with worry.

There are surveillance magic, eavesdropping devices, cameras, etc. attached to the building. If it disappears suddenly, the watchers will notice this side.

“There's a way to get the Blunt White Rock inhabitants back in the wilderness, but I don't know if I can agree with them right now. Unlike the Korean government, there are now magical means of mobilization. ”

He said he was angry with two fists.

“I tried not to get close to my sister on purpose in case of this! ”

The way he chose to protect his family was the opposite.

Kim Kyung-hwan raises his head and says: The flames were boiling in both eyes.

“Who the hell controlled your sister? ”

“Oh, that's it. It was a sphere.”

Exactly the face I saw through the memory of the typewriter.

He looks like he doesn't understand.

“I don't know how they stuck together, but · · ·. ”

I scratched my head.

“I think I have a stake in your sister's work. ”

His eyes shook.

“Don't worry too much. It's roughly outlined. You'll have nothing to worry about in a little while. ”

A low voice flows in the night sky and it locks.

“Well, let's just guess one last puzzle. ”

* * *

Near the North Shore, a large science and technology complex.

Similar buildings are increasing in appearance and it is difficult to distinguish the differences between them, but there was a thoroughly controlled access area within the complex. Secret spaces that don't even share roads, as well as entrances from other districts. It was the residence and research facility of the Grampers.

But some time ago, a thoroughly secured area that surpassed the Grampery residence began to emerge within the research complex. Some of the facilities shared with the Chinese government were suddenly deprived of Gramperi's access.

There was no convincing explanation on the part of the Chinese, but the xenophobics could guess why. Due to the recent departure from China of some Gramperi, bilateral relations have deteriorated rapidly, and this is a gesture in its own right to complain about China. I decided so.

Mo Dimido's leadership instructed them not to provoke them to anger, and Gramperi, who remained on the north coast, remained purely in the restricted area as instructed by the Chinese authorities.

Not until a while ago.

Glug

The sun that illuminated the complex gradually pales, and finally the darkness descends.

In keeping with that, the magically hidden soul was walking cautiously inside the complex.

With a kind of hidden spell that was not shared with the Chinese government, the intruder went deeper, avoiding the area where the boundary artifacts were placed. I was free to go and go until recently, but now it was a border crossing into a controlled area.

The intruder stops his steps.

A vigilant spell was before your eyes that could no longer be avoided.

The first thing the Chinese government did after the expulsion of Gramperi was to change the security system. In addition to the Earth's contemporary techniques, the magic taught by Gramperi was mixed and used. Their common sense is that even a self-approved gramperi can't break through without a key.

The intruder smiles invisibly.

‘That's what the Chinese government knows. ’

Grampery, which melts transparently in the dark, quietly breathes magic into the artifact. A complex horsepower pattern surrounds the body. One step at a time, one step closer.

Grampery crossed the line, and the alarm didn't go off.

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