Bangdeng-i said that back in middle school, Seo Ga-eul was such a good student, she wouldn't even utter a single curse word. A model student and Seo Ga-eul?
It was hard to imagine, seeing how she throws a fit every day, but it made sense if you considered that she was always acting.
The important thing was that Seo Ga-eul's pretense had once been shattered completely. During their 8th grade school trip.
The kids, including Baek Yeo-ul, turned off the lights in the dorm and rushed at Seo Ga-eul.
It was just a common prank among friends, or so they said?
But the moment they grabbed Seo Ga-eul and tickled her sides─. ━Ah, fuck! A curse word so thick you wouldn't expect it from the innocent Seo Ga-eul's mouth, burst out.
I can easily imagine how quickly the atmosphere must have turned cold after that, it feels like I was there myself.
That's how weak Seo Ga-eul was to tickling. "Everyone has a weakness. But the important thing is how you endure and overcome that weakness. This is part of that training." In a world of doom, being ticklish was a pretty critical weakness.
On par with a "peanut allergy," which is voted as the worst weakness by the world's best middle school graduates. Therefore, I planned to help the girls completely overcome their weaknesses during this 10-day suspension. "Seo Ga-eul, are you ready?" I asked, and Seo Ga-eul, who had been sitting cross-legged and taking deep breaths, opened her eyes and asked me in return. "Are you sure you won't go back on your word? You promise to grant our wish if I endure the tickling for 15 minutes without laughing?" "I, Ha Nam-jin, am a man who keeps his promises, contracts, and purity. Even if you cry and beg, I have no intention of breaking them." "We have no intention of crying and begging either! And who cares about your purity!" Seo Ga-eul flared up.
Yoo Yeo-reum patted Seo Ga-eul's shoulder. "Don't fall for such obvious provocation. You need to control your mind. Remember that tickling is nothing more than an electrical signal from the brain." She seemed to have high expectations for Seo Ga-eul.
Like a gambler who bet all his money on a horse with a strange name at the racetrack.
Thus began the weakness overcoming training. "Okay, Seo Ga-eul, lie down on the bed." "Don't say it like a pervert." "Lie down on the bed-ing." "...Ugh, seriously." Seo Ga-eul lay down neatly on the flower-scented bed.
She looked so reverent, neat, and solemn, she could have been a human sacrifice offered to the Aztec god of abundance, Tezcatlipoca. Step-.
But as I took a step towards Seo Ga-eul, she suddenly frowned and burst out laughing. "Pfft-! Pfft-hahaha!" I hadn't even started tickling her yet, and she was already laughing.
Soon, Seo Ga-eul, her face red, got angry. "Hey! This is invalid! You didn't say start yet! And don't make weird faces, that's cheating!" "Alright. Invalid, I admit. And I wasn't making a weird face." The game was reset.
It was when I approached the reverently lying Seo Ga-eul. "Pfft! Hey! Don't try to make me laugh!" "Why would I try to make you laugh? This is just my natural face." "No, it's not your face..." "I'm serious." This suspension was hard-earned for training time.
Why would I waste time joking around? "Pfft-hahaha! Pfft-hahaha!" But Seo Ga-eul kept laughing, like an overflowing dam.
Her face was bright red, and she was even angry at me. "Hey! Stop! Don't try to be funny!" "What did I do?" Even Yoo Yeo-reum, who was watching this scene, scolded Seo Ga-eul. "Hey, Seo Ga-eul. Be serious. And Ha Nam-jin, stop doing that to Seo Ga-eul." No, what did I really do?
I'm innocent.
What am I supposed to do if Seo Ga-eul laughs just by looking at my face? But I could understand Seo Ga-eul's feelings.
After all, a handsome man can make a woman smile just with his face.
I guess this is also the fate of "Brad Pitt" Ha Nam-jin. # # # Seo Ga-eul kept giggling and dying of laughter whenever she saw my face, so I had no choice but to blindfold her.
But a problem arose. "Pfft, pfft-hahahaha!" With her eyes covered, she burst into laughter even before I could approach her. Then, Seo Ga-eul pinched her thigh and bit her lip.
About 5 minutes passed? "......" Seo Ga-eul didn't even budge.
Like a statue.
She must be ready.
I approached Seo Ga-eul and poked her side with my finger. "Namjin's Finger Flick." "...Mmph...!" Seo Ga-eul clenched her body, trying to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out of her lips. The veins on her forehead were bulging.
Impressive. "Oh, are you enduring?" Instead of her side, I focused on Seo Ga-eul's legs, which were covered in white socks over stockings. I slid off the white sock to reveal a foot wrapped in black stockings. "Wh-What are you doing! You perverted bastard! Why are you taking off my sock!" "Are you afraid?" "...Fuck you!" The foot is called the second heart because all the nerves are concentrated there.
For someone who wears stockings every day, her blood circulation must be good, it's warm.
Then what about the sensation? "Tickle 100x." Swoosh-.
I lightly rubbed Seo Ga-eul's foot with my finger, and an amazing thing happened. Seo Ga-eul, who was lying on the bed, jumped up like a shrimp and started having a fit. "Pfft-hahaha! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh!" Laughing and being angry, what a talent.
In the end, Seo Ga-eul couldn't stand the tickling for even 5 seconds, let alone 15 minutes.
It was only natural for Yoo Yeo-reum, who was watching this scene, to cover her face. 「Name: Yoo Yeo-reum
Possession: Click to expand ☜
Status: 《Despair》 - A rare opportunity was lost and she is frustrated. She is very disappointed in Seo Ga-eul.」 "Seo Ga-eul, you failed." "A-Again! Again!" "If you want to do it again, at least try to act cute." At my words, Seo Ga-eul's expression twisted.
But when Yoo Yeo-reum shouted, "Hey! Seo Ga-eul! You have to seize the opportunity!", Seo Ga-eul ground her teeth and twisted her body. "...Ooh, ooh, again..." "It's not that great." "You bastard!!!" The problem was that it was the same no matter how many times we repeated it.
Seo Ga-eul would have a fit and burst into laughter as soon as my finger touched her. "Seo Ga-eul, you can't even handle a little tickling and you're going to mess things up? I thought I'd already seen your limits, but I'm really disappointed." Yoo Yeo-reum glared at Seo Ga-eul with contempt.
Seo Ga-eul flared up. "Hey, do you think this is easy?" "I'm not ticklish. I'm used to withstanding torture." Yoo Yeo-reum had undergone various experiments in an illegal and secret research facility since childhood.
She probably wouldn't even scream at tickling or moderate pain.
Then what about this? ━Gyuuing. I took Inging-i out of my bag.
And I held it out to Yoo Yeo-reum, who was terrified and backed away, then fell on her butt. "Ge-Get it away!" Yoo Yeo-reum was weak against monsters.
She couldn't even handle a "Emergency Rations" like 「Inging-i」 who only likes to eat. It's a big problem for an Awakened to be afraid of monsters.
It's like a swimmer who is afraid of water. "Yeo-reum-ah, everyone has a weakness." It means that those who overcome their weaknesses are great enough to be applauded, but it's not something to be ridiculed for succumbing to a weakness.
Yoo Yeo-reum, experiencing putting yourself in someone else's shoes, had nothing to say and stared at Inging-i with her mouth shut. ━Inging-yaing. Yoo Yeo-reum's monster sickness and Seo Ga-eul's tickle phobia.
Whether or not they can be overcome within these 10 days.
Now my eyes turned to Seo Ga-eul's "Treasure," the box. 「Name: Fairy King's Treasure Box
A box that the Fairy King of the Great Labyrinth cherished very much. It can store all the things in the world.
Possession: 《Hope Level 3》 - Contains hope at the level of a first-prize winning lottery ticket.」 It looked exactly like the box that made Jin Eun-byeol strange.
It's unlikely that there are two of those things. "Seo Ga-eul, when did you get that box?" "In my first year of high school. I got it from the Treasure Hall." I see.
Did the one that Jin Eun-byeol had go to Seo Ga-eul through various routes?
I suddenly became curious. "What's it for?" "It's a box. You can put things in and take them out. In my case, I can use it to separate the concepts that I unintentionally awakened." Putting in and taking out concepts-.
If the concept of 「Demon」 was in there, and Jin Eun-byeol acquired it?
And became a Demonkin?
It makes sense. I was very interested in Demonkin because of this incident.
Humans, but not quite humans. They hid their identities so thoroughly that even I only found out about them now, after returning to the past.
What if the sudden destruction of the world and they are connected? Did future Seo Ga-eul tell me, "Don't reveal that you've returned to the past if possible. There was a traitor," because she feared the "Demonkin" who were living as humans?
It felt like the puzzle pieces were fitting together.
An important piece.
A really important piece is missing, though... Suddenly, I remembered what Seo Ga-eul had said. "Seo Ga-eul, you said you felt something strange about Jin Eun-byeol from before?" "Yeah." "Did you feel that strange feeling from the guy behind this door?" "Yes. I just know when I see them. It's like the uncanny valley." I see!
It felt like the important piece was fitting in.
Could Seo Ga-eul possibly detect 「Demonkin」? So the Demonkin stabbed future Seo Ga-eul in a vital spot to kill her─if you think about it that way, everything really fits together! "Seo Ga-eul, if I told you to find people who feel like 'uncanny valley' like Jin Eun-byeol among people, could you do it?" "I don't know. I'd have to try. And I think you're really weird too, Ha Nam-jin? Honestly, I think you're crazier than Jin Eun-byeol. You crazy perverted bastard! Give me back my socks you took off earlier!" Whoosh-! While Seo Ga-eul took the socks from my pocket, I made a proposition. Grand Proposition.
【Seo Ga-eul can detect Demonkin.】 If this proposition is true, it made sense that future Seo Ga-eul said confidently, "If the past me trains well, I can stop everything."
If future Seo Ga-eul needed to awaken the concept of 「Appraisal」 to identify the unidentified guys?
My own reasoning is giving me chills! Of course, it's just my hypothesis.
But it seemed worth experimenting with. "Seo Ga-eul, you need to go out with me tonight." "Outing? Tonight? It's not even a full moon?" Seo Ga-eul's eyes shone strangely.
I didn't need to use the power of "Appraisal" to figure out her inner thoughts. "What if I run away when we go out?" "No, you can't run away. You have another weakness besides being ticklish. A weakness that is even more critical than a 「peanut allergy」." "I have a weakness? And what's this Inging-i hair-eating nonsense about a 'peanut allergy'?" While Seo Ga-eul was looking at me like I was a strange person, Yoo Yeo-reum, who had been nervously biting her thumbnail, asked me in a subtle voice. "Only Seo Ga-eul is going out? What about me?" "You stay here, Yeo-reum-ah. Don't worry. I'll leave Inging-i, so you won't be bored." Alone with the cute Inging-i.
Yoo Yeo-reum's expression twisted strangely, probably out of extreme happiness.

Peanut Allergy is the Worst Weakness