Chapter 26

Anyway, if he could produce that level of destructive power, they should at least be able to guess the type of his ability. Soram himself had no idea whatsoever. And how amazing of an awakening wish must Han Tae-un have harbored to gain such an ability?

Plopping down in his seat, Soram asked,

"Ayoung... What was your awakening wish?"

"Me? But can't you tell just by looking? I prayed that Aila, who was sick and hospitalized, would get better."

"Ah, that's right. I remember."

As a result, the sickly Aila became the strongest, invincible dog in the world. Soram rested his elbows on the table and leaned his head on his arms.

"I wonder what Han Tae-un's awakening wish was."

"You can just ask him."

"I've asked him in passing before, but any questions about his special ability or related to his awakening, he just casually brushes them off."

"So?"

"So... I couldn't find out."

"Why? Tae-un oppa seems like the type who would spill all his secrets if you poke him a bit."

"Nah, that's not it. You know how taciturn Han Tae-un is. If he doesn't answer when you ask him casually, it means he just won't talk about it at all."

Moreover, Soram had a peculiar... should he call it picking a fight, or teasing? That was added, so if he asked seriously, he felt Tae-un would be even less likely to open up to him.

"Geez, what a dense idiot."

Ayoung even clicked her tongue and pointed her finger. What... did I do? Soram felt a bit wronged.

"Oppa, you really can't read people. It's obvious from Tae-un oppa's personality."

"What?"

"He's the epitome of taciturn and indifferent, but in Korean society, you can't live like that. So he's a bear, but a bear that's mindful of those around him."

"...?"

"This type, if a group goes 'You have to do this!' and rushes at them, they'll get swept up in it with a blank expression."

"Wow... Han Tae-un must be having his bones broken from a distance."

Ayoung picked up the cell phone she had put down next to her workbook.

"I'll help you two become friends, who are still using honorifics. Ask Tae-un oppa what you're curious about. Like the awakening wish and also?"

"... Can I ask more?"

"Yeah. Hurry up."

"Then, the special ability? If he doesn't want to reveal it, at least a hint."

"Okay. And what else?"

What else? Has Ayoung gained the ability to see the other person's profile or something? Soram thought for a moment and said,

"Well... Blood type?"

"You're curious about everything. I'll fill in the rest appropriately."

Ayoung continued tapping on the screen. Soon, an alarm also came on Soram's cell phone.

[Team 7 Group Chat ٩(•̤̀ᵕ•̤́๑)૭✧]

Ayoung created a new chat room and invited Soram and Tae-un.

2Ay0: [Notice: Fighting! Field Operations Bureau Team 7 Flight Team!]

A message soon arrived.

2Ay0: [This is the Team 7 group chat.]

2Ay0: [From now on, please leave a self-introduction to mean that we will get along well for a long time!

1. Name

2. Age 

3. Wish when awakening

4. Height/Blood type

5. Favorite food

6. Core keyword of special ability!

7. This is what others must keep in mind - Precautions]

The questions Soram had asked earlier appeared one by one. While he still didn't understand, another message came from Ayoung.

2Ay0: [1. Lee Ayoung

2. Nineteen, a sad high school senior ㅠㅠ

3. Prayed to run and play with Aila again

4. 165/Type B

5. Sundae, Tripe Stir-fry, Tuna Sashimi

6. Summon & Strengthen the dog Aila

7. Don't bother during exam period! Hurry up and finish the CSAT so we can hang out!]

"Okay, oppa, you do it quickly too. Before Tae-un oppa asks what this is."

... What is this?

"Self-introduction?"

"Yeah. Follow the format I sent."

"How detailed? Can I just write like you did?"

"Right? Try to go as far as you can within the range you can talk about. The other person might think, 'Ah, in that case, I should reveal one of my own secrets too.'"

"..."

After staring at the screen in confusion for a little longer, Soram started moving his fingers.

"Come to think of it, this seems to be the first time I'm telling someone about my awakening wish."

1. Jin Soram

2. 26

3. I wished that the bed would fly while looking out the window.

4. 181/O

5. Spicy Rockfish Stew

6. Levitate┃

He wrote up to there, then hesitated. He remembered Ayoung's words. To make Han Tae-un feel like he inevitably had to reveal his secret... Soon, he erased item 6 and rewrote it.

For the last item 7, 'This is what others must keep in mind', there was something he really wanted to say. Then he added more details to the parts that could be written more specifically.

After finishing writing and pressing the send button, his speech bubble was added below Ayoung's.

Jin Soram: [1. Jin Soram

2. 26

3. While confined in my room, I wished that the bed would fly while looking out the window.

4. 181/Rh-O

5. Spicy Rockfish Stew (with perilla powder and handmade rice cakes)

6. Control any object recognized as a vehicle, regardless of weight and volume.

7. Don't try to save me no matter what happens, since I'm the strongest in this team.]

"Huh?"

Ayoung, who checked the message, opened her eyes wide.

"Oppa, is it okay to say this?"

Ayoung pointed to item 6 with her hand. Yes. Soram, who was looking down at the screen, replied lightly.

"It's fine. It's not like there's an official announcement that my ability is psychokinesis."

"No, well, still. Didn't the Rift Phenomenon Management Headquarters officially announce that oppa is a telekinetic? Who all knows about this..."

"A lot of people know. The President, the Prime Minister, the Minister and Vice Minister of National Defense, the Commander of the Special Warfare Command, the Director of the National Intelligence Service, the Director of this headquarters, the Director of the Field Operations Bureau, the Head of the Research Department, Ga-eul, Min-ki. And starting today, you and Han Tae-un ssi."

"Ah! Then it's a national secret! Why are you giving me such a heavy burden!"

"You can talk about it casually."

"Ugh..."

Ayoung grabbed her head with both hands. No matter how much she agonized, she couldn't undo what she had already seen.

And even though Soram lives carelessly, he's not the type to tell national secrets to just anyone. In other words, Ayoung and Tae-un are people who Soram trusts quite a bit. Thinking about that made her feel a little proud and happy. To be sharing a secret with the strongest hunter in the country.

"Ah, so that's why you ride paper airplanes. I'm sorry... I thought you were just doing it for the concept all this time."

"Wouldn't I be hurt if a team member I've cherished so much makes that kind of evaluation right in front of me?"

"I don't think you would be. But oppa, even without the paper airplane, you sometimes float and carry things, right? What's that about?"

"That's me forcibly insisting in my mind that this is a vehicle. When I fly alone, I think of it as a foothold under my shoes. If you apply it well, you can even make the empty space into a platform to push down on, like what you saw at school the other time. But the more the shape is distant from a vehicle, the more strength it requires and the shorter the duration."

That's why I use these as an associative aid. Soram added an explanation while taking out a post-it note in the shape of a baby angel wing. It was the one he had stuck on the sides when levitating a flashlight in the air before.

"Wow, ooh. Oppa's ability is really uniquely strange too. 1st-grades seem to generally have unusual abilities."

Since the vague reason of 'earnest wish' has the greatest influence on special abilities, there are many strange abilities.

There were even cases where the awakener's perceived ability and the actual ability were different. In his first life, Soram also believed he was a telekinetic, thinking there were objects that could be easily moved and others that couldn't. He realized the condition of 'recognizing it as a vehicle' a bit later.

"But why were you confined in your room? Was the door broken or something?"

"My mother didn't let me out anywhere except school. In my parents' eyes, compared to my older brothers, I wasn't something to be proud of in terms of grades or anything, so they locked me up because they were ashamed."

"Huh? So after school, you were just locked up at home and what, did tests?"

"Tests. Until I got a score above a certain level. If the score didn't come out, they didn't even give me food."

"Ah... Oppa, no wonder then, with the way you treated your family."

Actually, that's why I couldn't understand for a long time in the previous lives that you had a good relationship with your family...

Soram just shrugged his shoulders. There were times when the pressure and coercion from his parents and brothers shook his mind, but now it had become an affair of more than 20 years ago. And it felt like nothing, as so much more had happened.

Suddenly, he noticed the number next to the message he had sent in the group chat had disappeared. Tae-un had checked the message. But there was no reply message.

Of course. The image of Tae-un, with his large hands, gripping the cell phone and typing out such content in detail, was absolutely unimaginable.

"Tae-un ssi checked it but didn't send anything. See? I told you he would just ignore it."

Han Tae-un: [1. Han Tae-un

2. 26 

3. I wished to help the hunters.

4. 192/Rh+A

5. I can eat almost anything well.

6. Numerical addition and subtraction.

7. I'm originally a man of few words.

Please take good care of me.]

"..."

A reply... came. And it was perfectly matched to the numbers and format.

While Soram stared at the screen in disbelief, Ayoung's shoulders rose up as if they could pierce the ceiling.

"Aha! Did you see that?"

"Th-this... This worked."