Hermit Wizard

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“It's been a long time. I'm Isureen. You didn't forget about me in the meantime, did you? ”

Beyond the sign, an uncomfortable silence briefly passed. The director, answering Iseryn's phone call, said, "Hmm." He coughed awkwardly and then pretended to be happy.

I can't believe you forgot! How have you been, Mr. Iseryn?

But there is an unbearable reluctance in his voice. Isourin continues the call in a bright tone without being introverted.

“Director! I've read the script you're preparing this time. You've already heard from our promoter, but I want to do this work too much. I'm really confident. Trust me."

Consumption and investment psychology have cooled down in today's context of a day long and massive accidents in different parts of the world. Several years of recession in all industrial groups, except in limited areas such as security/military. The film industry was no exception.

In the meantime, the devastating North Shore erupted, and the global economy was hit by a storm close to the Great Depression. People focused on investing in real-world currencies or gold that seemed a little safer, depending on their values, without being sure what was a safe asset anymore. On the other hand, investments did not turn out well in the film. The line of money has been the same since last year as the dry one. The producers sounded ill, and the market froze.

This aftermath also affected actors. The number of films produced and released in a year has fallen incomparably. I was also blamed for the stiffer, darker social atmosphere.

Among them, Iseryn was the biggest hit celebrity.

Beyond the sign language, the director said in a trembling voice.

Yes, let's review it positively.

When he hung up, Yüthrin thought, This director also hesitates to use himself.

It is not because of their competence or popularity as actors. The low response was due to external factors. I also know why.

‘· · · This is all because of the devil. ’

An unidentified monster who, at the same time, has ruined his life. A demon who behaves like a man and walks around, but does strange miracles that no one else can.

Nowadays on the Internet, the horrible creature in the North Gyeongdong, also known as the Bleeding Dick Tower (BDT), is actually his work.

‘You saved my life, but... ’

She pressed her anger forcefully to swallow. It was useless to burn it alone.

‘At least, I don't make any demands these days. · · · A, let's stop thinking. I have to eat.’

Open the refrigerator and frown. I just saw a few hundred thousand won, but there was nothing left. Everything is getting worse, but the food tasted good. Yesterday evening, I baked a kilo of steak on my own.

I thought this would be the side effect of the magic drug.

Undoubtedly, he didn't get fat eating like that. Since I started taking the magic potion, my skin has been as white and shiny as a baby, and my body contour has been beautiful enough to impress me.

I bought a running machine and installed it at home last year because of the fear that maintaining this diet might explode at a time. However, on the first day of use, I tore the belt in the area where my foot touched and smashed the motor. The machine couldn't stand her running. In a self-conscious sense that he seemed to be becoming something other than a human being, Yüthrin disposed of the running machine.

‘You have to come out and change your mood. ’

Iseryn presses her hat into her face and steps out to the grocery store, a 5-minute walk away.

I think as I walk, I recall the reluctant tone in the director's voice. I pretended not to, but I had no choice but to get hurt every time I did this.

"You must have lost your stuff again, right? ’

I remember the day she was suddenly investigated by the Agency. After being dragged close to the investigation room, he was followed by a stubborn question about the real resident of the apartment he purchased in his own name. Iseryn couldn't say anything because of the contract, and the interrogation that followed a long time suddenly stopped like a lie one day.

I didn't know English when I came to think of it. Without any foresight, the investigators turned their attitude upside down. Iseryn was taken home and there was no such thing as being followed or watched. If this was the case, I didn't understand why I started the investigation forcefully in the first place.

Then, the Devil's last demand was to use a few pensions in Jeju. The government has argued that it is dangerous because it is paying attention to itself, but the demon says he doesn't need to care about it anymore. It sounded like the Korean government was no longer a doorman. Yüthrin gave up on the idea and took steps to make it available immediately. I haven't heard from the devil since. Medicines were delivered on a regular basis without forgetting.

“Oh, it's cold. ”

Soliloquy echoes. The air is full. Waiting for the signal in front of the crosswalk, Yüthrin thinks about the questions he has answered.

I don't know if there's even a dramatic compromise between the devil and the government. As Isourin, there was no way to find out.

But the Agency's intertwined events had unexpected consequences. Rumors have spread in the industry.

The disseminator was, nonetheless, the manager of the affiliate. The manager fired him, but couldn't get rid of the rumors that had already spread. There was a rapid spread of rumors that Isourin had been captured by the regime, and strange stories involving the Channel crisis and xenophobia revolved around it. Although the industry loves gossip, there was no producer to risk alien or wizard coming to the cinema. He was cut off like a liar.

‘Chew. They're all freaking out. ’

I've been playing for quite some time, but I can still hold on with the money I've raised. The problem is that most of them are objects that can only be used with the permission of the devil. Most of the real estate he bought was at the disposal of antiques and jewellery that he had bought from somewhere.

‘No, don't bite your tongue and die touching it. ’

Even so, I didn't want to hear from the devil. As such, it was good for peace of mind to forget.

I don't know why the devil isn't looking for her these days. I had no curiosity to know

Muttering in my heart.

‘Please, just forget me like this. I don't think sending drugs these days is the devil's doing it himself. Instead of coming up with a strange monster like you used to, a pretty normal looking animal brings you something, doesn't it? Yes. If I forget all my money like this, I'll lose contact. You're the one who saved my life, but I did enough. I paid back enough. I just want the kite to break up with this. Please.’

Once again, I prayed intensely.

‘Please don't contact me. ’

The traffic light turned blue. Isourin crossed the road.

And I froze a few steps before I even walked.

In his head, a familiar, but at the same time familiar, sound bursts forth.

Mr. Isourin, can you hear me?

Hardened in place like a piece of ice. Iseryn wanted to deny what she had just heard.

Soon, however, she moved again, as if she had stopped when. Rather, he urged steps. I could barely stand the thought of tears.

Yüthrin now walks like a runner.

“I didn't hear anything! ”

Then, the voice in my head gives me a pincup, as if I told you not to talk nonsense.

I can't hear you, you're all listening!

“I don't know! It's a hallucination!”

I don't have time for this. I'm in a hurry. Listen to me.

“I can't hear you!”

Iseryn walks to the grocery store in a panic. After losing her mind, she made a mistake she wouldn't normally make. He then crossed the lane without even seeing the traffic light on the crossing. The truck that was just circling the curb found her late.

The driver steps on the grade brake.

Profit!

“Argh!”

A scream erupted among the surrounding marchers.

Iseryn raises her head. The truck approaching the pupil is illuminated. I was approaching like a clump. The streets narrowed down in an instant. All the scenes in her eyes spilled like a slow motion.

At that moment.

All the marchers stopped breathing. The driver who stepped on the brake instinctively realized it was too late.

By the way,

“Huff!”

A sigh burst out of people's mouths.

Iseryn flew up into the sky so lightly. A move so fast that you can't even notice the preparation of the leap. The mouth of the marchers opens. Between their lips, a scream exploded that contained emotions different from those that had just been heard.

Just as the restraint of gravity trembled, Yüthrin emerged into the air at an angle and height that was impossible for any gymnast. The truck went a few meters further and stopped even after she had just hit the spot where she was standing. Tire marks left over the asphalt.

Blame it!

Just as the emergency did, so too was the landing. The moment the ground and the floor touched, the sound wasn't even that loud.

The hat was blown somewhere because of the rush to jump. Iseryn frowns. The gaze shifted in turn between the truck that barely stopped on the road and the marchers who were looking at this view around it.

She mutters quietly.

“· · · ruined. ”

Scare and screaming gradually turned into pounding. I was a little confident in those voices.

“Uh, isn't that him? ”

“Huh? That's how pretty she was? I don't think so, but he's much more... ”

“That's right! That's right, the mood has changed a lot, but it's Yüthrin! ”

“Mom, that sister just flew in the sky! ”

“Oh, my God, I guess the rumors were true. You said you had a connection with a magician. Did you just see how a normal person jumps like that? How many meters did you run? ”

“Hey, hey, you got a black box? Let's get that video up! ”

Iseryn's eyes gradually shed tears. I tried to hold on to the end, but I couldn't stop it anymore.

Mutter quietly.

“· · · My life, you've completely dried up with this! ”

The voice in my head asked.

Are you okay? Are you hurt? If you want to get hurt right now, you need to mobilize at least a heavy machine gun or mortar.

“Argh! Shut up! ”

A loud cry burst out. In the meantime, it was a crisis that would collapse like a bubble. Iseryn turns around and runs in the opposite direction. All I had to do was go home. It wasn't like a grocery store anymore.

A complex thought touched my head and passed. What do we do now? Do I have to live in hiding? Isn't the government taking him back? Immigration? Asylum? But where? Will the Devil allow it?

No, in the first place, so why are you treating me like this!

I cried and ran towards the house. After arriving in the lobby, I jumped up the emergency stairs without much time to wait for the elevator. The voice in her head continued to hurt her, even as she broke through the forty-sixth floor of the compound in an instant.

I don't have time for this. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to push in the contract.

“Uh-huh! · · · You demon! ”

Iseryn is forced to listen to her opponent now. Contracts are contracts. I was well aware of the fact that the moment I broke a contract, I might be in an unforeseen position only to die.

“What the hell do you want me to do? Buy more land? Argh! Or a vacation home? Now that we're all screwed, what am I supposed to do? Ugh!”

It's not like that. It's simple. Think of one thing in your mind.

I wanted to know what the odd requirement was.

She barely swallows her tears and asks.

“Ugh! What? ”

What are you thinking?

You used to tell me that Yzaryn was an atheist, but she changed her mind and wanted to have a religion, right? In the meantime, did you really start a life of faith?

I couldn't understand why I was asking this question, but I stole my eyelids with my palms. She was barely regaining calm.

“· · · No. I've been out of church a few times because I'm not fit. Why would you do that?”

I need a heart like the one I was praying in the church at that time. Pray earnestly, I am the one who raises the prayer.

Iseryn thought, "Is that crazy bastard?

“Do you want me to take you as a god? ”

Whether you think of me as a god or whatever, you can think of me as the one who prayed. And imagine taking power from me.

As the request was too simple, Yüthrin was rather alarmed.

“What happens next? So I'm getting stronger here? I think it would be a good idea to pull out the building with your bare hands. ”

· · · Not that kind of power. Anyway, it's not going to change that much. Come on! Come on!

“Really? It's a promise. You're not getting stronger here, are you? ”

No, I mean, come on!

Yitzerin, who barely calmed down, tried to concentrate. Anyway, my life is good, but I don't like it, but it's the same as the dump I got thanks to that demon. Even if today's work goes around the Internet, you just have to catch it that it's not you. If the government intervenes, we have to ask the devil to solve it. It was too late to cry that my life ended with this.

“· · · Yeah, it doesn't end with this. It's a precious life that's been miraculously acquired. I can't give up like this. ”

There will also be ways to change your identity. Change your appearance, become a new person. You can hold on to the Devil's footstool and plead.

There is still hope. There is the possibility to live an ordinary life.

That's why Iseryn decided to do what the devil told her to do. You have to keep the contract to live, so you can hang on to the devil.

She desperately imagined. With a mind of praying to the devil, I came back to my mind to give myself strength.

There was even a guess that nothing big could happen because of this simple idea.

How many seconds were you so focused?

Iseryn opens her eyes in astonishment.

“What is this? ”

Something swelled up inside her. Fullness that seems to fill the soul.

The moment came when she could not fill it, fill it again, and fill it with her bowl any more.

And you are.

“· · · ah! ”

Light exploded.

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At that moment, all the human wizards and transcendents on Earth trembled as if they were stiffening and twitching. They noted one direction in unison. An overwhelming force that had never been felt before was exploding from afar.

And after some time, the general public, who could no longer feel the magic, was looking in the same direction. Each of them stared at Seoul's defense.

Beyond the horizon, a huge silver pillar rises. Like a volcano with a silver glow, it was an overwhelmingly large beam of light that pierced the clouds and stretched to the ends of the sky.

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