The blood-red magic that surged like an explosion spread like fog.
Isabella, who had been crouching in the blood-red fog, slowly got up.
The magic that was thick like fog flowed into her body.
“...ah.”
Isabella came to her senses and slightly pulled down the white blouse she was wearing, letting out a low exclamation.
The stigmata of leech engraved on pure white skin.
The eleventh stroke engraved next to it was tinged with blood and was emitting red light.
“Oh Mr. Oh Jin...!”
Isabella rushed towards Ojin with an excited expression.
Isabella jumped up and clung to Ojin like a cicada with her arms and legs and rubbed her cheek against Ojin’s head, screaming almost like a scream.
“Kyaaa! 11 stars! “It really has reached 11 stars!”
Isabella, who shed her usual elegant and polite appearance, let out a scream of excitement.
but.
She drank Ojin’s blood and reached the threshold of the 11th castle, but was eventually blocked by a wall and could not cross the threshold for quite a long time, so she could not help but be excited.
* * *
“Whoop whoop whoop whoop.”
Isabella jumped up and clung to her like a cicada, causing Ojin, who was caught between the overwhelming mass of flesh, to shake his body without even being able to say a word of congratulations.
The strong scent of roses fills my nose and the heavy pressure felt through my thin blouse.
Even though I couldn’t even breathe properly, the vain thought that it wouldn’t be so bad to just suffocate and die like this filled the top of my head.
“What are you doing so rudely?”
Cassia frowned and pulled away Isabella, who was clinging to her like a cicada.
“Huh, sister?”
“I understand that you are happy to have become 11, but will the Colgrande family be able to save face if you stick to it without any hesitation?”
“Ugh.”
Isabella bit her lip at the sharp words.
Ojin lightly patted Isabella’s shoulder, who was looking gloomy.
“congratulations.”
“Hmm. I’m sorry, Oh Jin. I got so excited without realizing it...”
“No. “I’ve reached the 11th star I had hoped for, so it’s worth getting excited.”
And what.
To be honest, it wasn’t a bad experience enough to warrant an apology.
“But has it really become 11 stars?”
Ha-eun approached Isabella and gently pulled down her blouse to examine her stigmata.
The 11 strokes carved next to the stigmata were clearly visible.
Ha-eun stamped her feet and shouted as if she was being unfairly treated.
“How can you possibly get 11 stars just by touching me once?!”
“Hey, sister.”
The expression is too vulgar.
“me too! Strengthen me too with that black cloth or something!”
“What kind of reinforcement NPC am I?”
“No, if I got stronger by sucking your blood and touched the stigmata and got to 11 stars, is that a strengthened NPC or what?”
“uh?”
what?
After listening to it, it seems plausible.
“anyway! “If we can imbue the stigmata with the power of the Black Heaven, isn’t it also possible to have the Stigmata of Dragon?”
“That...”
It’s probably possible.
The trick itself for imbuing the stigmata with the power of the Black Heaven will be the same.
However, in that case, Ha-eun will be affected by her ‘domination’.
Ohjin woke up and clutched his head, feeling a crushing headache.
‘Where... is this?’
A mattress and blanket that gently wraps around your body.
It was not the sleeping room attached to the training facility where I had been sleeping for the past three months.
It wasn’t such a soft bed.
With that thought in mind, I looked around and what I saw was...
“...is it my room?”
Although I had been confined to a training facility for three months, it felt a bit unfamiliar.
It was clearly his room.
Ohjin got up from the bed and looked around the room, where not a single dust had accumulated, as if someone had been cleaning it consistently while he was away.
“Ugh.”
A pounding headache.
When I frowned and grabbed my head.
Sweet.
The door opened and Isabella came into the room.
“Are you awake?”
“Why am I in my room?”
When I said it out loud, it seemed like something strange.
It was a question that could easily have come up from the perspective of Oh Jin, who had been confined to a training facility for the past three months and had been practicing day and night Jangcheon.
“ha.”
Isabella let out a deep sigh and glared at Ojin with fierce eyes.
“You really don’t remember?”
“...memory?”
After washing up at the end of the sanctuary development training, I lay down on the bed in the sleeping room and closed my eyes for a moment.
“After that, we received a report that Ms. Oh Jin’s vitals were abnormal, so we urgently sent her sister to bring her home.”
“Your vitals are abnormal?”
“yes. “The training facility is equipped with sensors that can always check Oh Jin’s physical condition.”
“ah.”
I wasn’t really paying attention, but maybe something like that was installed?
‘Then, something suddenly happened to my body while I was sleeping.’
Ojin narrowed his eyes and was lost in thought.
“...Did deploying the sanctuary put a strain on the magic circuit?”
After three months of training, we succeeded in increasing the range of the sanctuary to tens of meters around us.
As the amount of magical power input increased, a problem may have occurred in the magical power circuit.
‘If not, it could be the influence of the Black Sky.’
Although he was barely able to control it with the power of the Lyra Stigmata, the Black Heaven he possessed was in a precarious state where it would not be surprising if it exploded at any time.
Perhaps, while he was asleep, Heukcheon went on a rampage to take over his body.
“No, it’s not like that.”
Isabella shook her head resolutely.
“According to the analysis of Mr. Oh Jin’s current condition by Col Grande’s professional medical staff, it is not a problem of sanctuary development or black sky.”
“then?”
What on earth happened to his body without his knowledge?
Oh Jin swallowed his dry saliva with a nervous expression.
“Mr. Ojin’s current condition is...”
After a brief pause, Isabella continued speaking with a distorted expression on her face.
“I’m overworked.”
“...what?”
“It’s overwork, overwork! No, do you know what a device is?! “Of course, it takes a toll on your body as you sleep for 2 to 3 hours a day!”
Isabella’s nagging poured out like rapid fire.
“Anyway, it’s absolutely stable for the time being! Do you understand?!”
Ojin had no choice but to nod calmly as Isabella’s eyes filled with anger.