Chapter 71 Part 2: Exam

Jin, who was chewing hay with a serious expression, slowly began to turn around as if he sensed my presence and Shine’s.

“Ah….” His mouth gaped open, and the wet hay fell from his mouth.

The hay fell with a small noise, and the rabbits around him gathered and began to eat it.

“Hello?” Jin greeted us warmly and stood up.

He looked like he had been chewing hay until just now.

He brushed off the hay stuck to his mouth and said, “Are you looking for me?”

His sparkling eyes, the greed in them.

They were clearly the eyes of someone who covets talent.

I met his gaze and swallowed.

“Jin.”

“Yes. I’m Jin.”

“I want to do the same thing as Amy.”

He looked surprised at my words.

One eyebrow rose to the sky, and the corner of his mouth trembled subtly.

“Really…? Really?”

“Yes.” I nodded.

Shine, who was next to me, grabbed my arm, but I didn’t turn around.

“Jeff…”

“Okay, Jeff. I understand your intentions. Does Amy know about this?”

“No.”

“I thought so, because if Amy thought the same, she wouldn’t have sent you before me.”

Jin said that and scattered a pile of hay over the rabbits.

The rabbits’ eyes grew as big as bells as the hay scattered everywhere, and they started to rush toward the food.

“Okay. Jeff, you and I are thinking the same thing. Right?”

“Yes…?”

“I really want you to work for us, and of course, Shine next to you.”

Jin’s voice, which was clearly audible, began to blur.

As I was about to finish speaking, I could see Shine’s back blocking my path.

“You!”

The moment I heard Shine’s voice, a strong shout, Jin’s voice that had filled my head disappeared as if it had been washed away.

My body’s senses returned.

As my hazy mind began to come back to its place, I could see Jin and Shine glaring at each other.

The two of them started a staring contest with the rabbits between them.

I shook my head and approached them.

“Jin? Shine?”

Neither of them answered.

Shine’s mouth opened when the rabbits had eaten all the hay.

When the rabbits under his feet disappeared, Shine opened his mouth.

“What were you going to do to Jeff?”

Shine was asking Jin.

But Jin didn’t answer and kept his mouth shut tightly.

“Tell me! What were you going to do to Jeff!”

Shine’s gaze shook violently.

She was genuinely anxious.

Strangeness, Jin suddenly started shaking.

“Tell me!”

Shine’s high-pitched scream shook the small farm.

My brain felt like it was shaking.

I sat down on the floor, clutching my head.

The rabbits must have felt the same, as they fell to the floor with me.

Jin, who had been shaking all over, suddenly collapsed with a nosebleed.

His eyes had turned white and his hands were trembling.

But even so, Jin’s mouth did not open.

“Jeff…”

Shine’s shadow fell over my head that was lying on the floor.

I just raised my head and looked up at her.

“It’s too hard…”

Shine’s figure hung limply.

It was a pitiful sight, but for some reason I felt goosebumps and the hairs on my whole body stood on end.

Before I could feel the…

“If I push too hard, I think it’ll break…”

“Shine…”

“Jeff is precious… I always tried to be careful…”

The shadow begins to shake.

Her figure slowly sways from side to side.

A broken smile appears on Shine’s face as it begins to blend in with the shadow.

“I tried to do something strange to my precious Jeff.”

“Shine…!”

A body that couldn’t move due to an unknown force.

I tried to raise my powers like before, but I couldn’t use my powers because of the strange flow that was tangled around my head.

Blue lights flashed at the tips of my fingers, but they scattered like dust.

Shine…!

My body couldn’t move, and my tongue couldn’t even move, so my voice calling her name was incomplete and scattered inside my mouth.

Shine sank to the floor.

In her hands was the rabbit that had been lying limply next to me.

“If I push too hard, it’ll break…”

Shine’s small hand went up to the rabbit’s head.

She gently stroked its head.

The rabbit blinked its small eyes, but the moment Shine’s hand passed, its eyes slowly began to close.

The rabbit’s appearance was completely different from before, and it was hanging down.

The small chest that had been rising and falling while breathing no longer showed any movement.

“Jeff….”

Shine let out a small sigh and looked at me.

The emotion in her eyes was definitely affection.

Overflowing, terribly great affection heads in a twisted direction.

“I’ll make it a little stronger.”

Shine muttered softly and approached me.

Her hand slowly reached out and covered my face.

The small hand flinched and caressed my cheek.

“Because Jeff did something wrong.”

Her hand moved gently.

I closed my eyes, entrusting myself to her touch.

I felt all the sensation in my body fading.

My head, which had been lifted slightly, went up onto Shine’s lap.

A small breeze blew and swept my hair.

I blinked and looked up at Shine.

Shine was smiling brightly.

She silently stroked my head gently.

Shine.

My mouth opened.

But no voice came out.

I was flustered and tried to reach out, but my body didn’t move.

“Don’t do anything dangerous.”

Shine’s voice continued, almost like a whisper.

“Don’t use your powers in front of me.”

“Don’t reject me.”

“Don’t talk to Jin.”

“Always be together.”

The voice sank deeper.

“Don’t recall old memories anymore.”

White snow fell on the huge mountain of trash.

Pure white snow covering all of the memories.

Before him, the mountain of trash no longer existed.

“Jeff. Are you having a hard time?”

I just blinked without answering.

Are you having a hard time? Me?

“Hehehe…!”

Shine, who let out a small laugh, began to speak.

“You know, Jeff. I wish Jeff would rely on me more.”

My head was tingling.

It felt as if someone had tapped my brain directly.

Feeling a severe headache, I raised my hand as my body’s senses returned.

“Jeff. I’m your older sister. Right?”

My face was distorted by the headache.

Through my frowning eyes, I could see Shine’s smiling face.

She moved her hand and grabbed mine.

“I’ll make sure Jeff isn’t in danger.”

Shine, who had been mumbling softly, blinked and nodded.

“That’s right. I have to do that so that Jeff is not in danger. To do that, I have to get stronger, right?”

Shine, who had been looking down at me, raised her head.

Her gaze was directed at Jin, who was covered in rabbits.

“Jeff. Jeff was right. My family… I have to get stronger to protect Jeff. Jeff thought the same as me, right?”

Ahaha!

Shine’s laughter burst out.

She was smiling as if she was genuinely happy.

“Jeff, I really like you!”

Shine lifted me up from where I was lying and hugged me.

However, Shine’s weak arms could not support my body, and we fell together on the green grass.

“Let’s do the same thing as Amy. So we get the suit and support items and become stronger.”

Shine hugged my body with all her might.

She nodded as if she had made up her mind and got up from her seat.

“I will protect Jeff from anything that could put him in danger. I will do that.”

Shine said that and approached Jin, who was lying down weakly.

Shine squatted down and started to slap Jin’s cheek without mercy while he was lying down.

Slap slap – Jin’s cheek turned red every time her small hand brushed his cheek.

“Get up. Get up.”

“Ugh…” Jin let out a painful groan.

He still seemed to not have come to his senses.

“Listen carefully, Jin. We will do the same thing as Amy.”

“Work…? Amy…? Resistance…?”

“That’s right. Jeff and I will become the resistance.”

Okay.

Jin, one, two, three, that’s how it is.

Shine lifted Jin up and placed the rabbit in his arms.

And then, she started counting.

One.

Two.

Three.

Clap-!

“Jeff!”

My blurry vision began to clear up.

I, who had been sitting blankly, blinked and looked around.

The familiar layout of the room, and even the computer screen in front of me.

Everything was so familiar.

“Are you asleep?”

At that moment, a familiar voice was heard right next to me.

“Ah… Rain?”

She was smiling brightly.

It seemed like Rain was calling me.

I could see the bandage wrapped around her right arm.

“Discharged…?”

“Yes! Today.”

The little chick flapped her bandaged arm.

I wondered if it hurt.

When I looked at her with concern, she answered with a confident expression.

“I’m fine!”

Rain’s face was…

“Ah… yeah.”

I awkwardly smiled and stroked Rain’s head.

The soft, flowing hair dug through my fingers.

After feeling the pleasant, fluffy sensation for a while, I checked the date written at the bottom of the computer screen.

January 20th.

After staring at the blinking clock for a while, I sighed and got down from the chair.

I couldn’t remember what I had been doing until just now.

“Where’s Shine?”

“She went out for a bit with Amy.”

When Rain said that Shine wasn’t in this room right now, a strange sense of anxiety rose up in me.

I wiggled my fingers and went to the table in front of the entrance, where I could see the entrance well.

“Are you waiting for Shine?”

“Yeah.”

“Jeff really likes Shine, huh?”

“Yeah! Really. She’s the best thing in the world.”

Rain came over to me and sat down, rubbing her cheek on the table with a jealous expression.

“Then me?”

“Rain is third.”

“And second?”

“Amy.”

“I think I’ll be a little disappointed.”

“I’m sorry, Rain.”

Rain turned her head away with a cold expression at my apology.

I smiled awkwardly at that sight.

Shine.

When will Shine come?

Shine.

The small fingers on the table moved busily.

She grabbed and put down a small pen.

She repeated it several times, making small noises.

After spending some time like that, the front door opened and Shine and Amy, who had been waiting, appeared.

“Shine! Amy!”

The sound of my heart that had been pounding anxiously became a rough sound filled with excitement.

Her cheeks flushed slightly.

A smile appeared on her face with red warmth.

Shine opened the front door and came in, and she looked surprised when she saw me.

“Jeff?”

Dadadat-!

The moment I ran toward Shine, small footsteps echoed several times.

I held out my hand with all my might.

Shine reflexively opened both arms at my appearance.

“Shine!”

Shine’s soft and fluffy embrace.

A familiar body scent wafted in deeply.

“It’s fixed!”

Shine, who had been frozen in embarrassment, soon smiled brightly and hugged me.

What does it mean to be fixed?

As I looked at her curiously, small, soft lips settled on my cheek.

At the same time as I heard a small “Choo-” sound, I jumped back in surprise.

The hand that was touching my cheek felt strangely damp.

Shine was looking at me with a playful smile.

Embarrassed, I opened my mouth and sat down on the floor.

The hand that was touching my cheek was excessively hot.

My heart was pounding with no intention of stopping.

My heart was beating so hard that I worried that it might burst.

It was a strange feeling.

The very faint emotion that I had felt before was suddenly growing.