Chapter 59-2

Chapter 59-2

There was some riddle hidden within the dancing statues.

Since they couldn't interpret the Persona Gate, they had no choice but to use their insight to solve the riddle.

"Hey, Commoner, have you interpreted this gate?"

Hong Bi-Yeon asked directly, and Baek Yu-Seol blinked before replying.

"No."

His answer was slightly disappointing.

"But I have a rough idea of how we can pass through here."

"... Really? You said you couldn't interpret it."

"If you look closely, you can understand some parts even without interpretation."

As Baek Yu-Seol said that, he pointed to the statues.

"If you look closely, you'll see that each statue has a different pose but is performing the same type of dance."

There were almost more than ninety statues, each intricately depicting the movements of a particular dance.

Hong Bi-Yeon nodded her head and spoke.

"The Requiem of the Dead Serena. It's a dance Serena, who couldn't bear her own tragedy, performed right before she died."

"That's right. You know it well."

"Dance is a fundamental part of culture."

"Then you must remember the movements well, right?"

"Well uh."

Finally understanding Baek Yu-Seols intention through his smiling words, Hong Bi-Yeon hardened her expression.

"No way...?"

She urgently examined the movements of the statues carefully.

Now that she noticed... all the statues' movements were connected in sequence.

She initially thought there were just many statues dancing, but now she realized that those countless statues had arranged a single movement in chronological order!

But occasionally, there were empty movements.

There were precisely four movements.

It matched the number of people.

"So... if we fill in those empty movements with our own, will it work?"

"Uh, yeah? That seems to be the case."

As if being hit on the head with a hammer, she stood there dumbfounded.

Once again, she had wasted time on unnecessary details, assuming it would naturally be a statue.

It was a fixed mindset.

She knew how dangerous such rigid thinking could be, yet she still hadn't been able to fix it.

"Here, let's rotate this. Now, can you see the proper dance? This is... 'The Serene Tango.'"

"Oh, yeah. I know that."

"That's right. Does everyone remember the movements?"

"It's such a famous dance, so we've tried it many times."

"Then, match the pieces of the carpet to fit the movements."

As the students started moving busily, Hong Bi-Yeon looked at Baek Yu-Seol, who was working diligently with slightly lowered eyes.

<em class="chakra-text css-0">Indeed... different.

Since the moment she was taught the concept of unique thinking, she had known it, but now that she directly experienced the difference, he somehow felt distant.

The ability to grasp the secret of the statues in such a short time, to observe and think from a different perspective than others

Surely, given enough time, Hong Bi-Yeon could have figured it out too.

No, anyone could have figured it out.

However, the Persona Gate inherently had a time limit.

The longer the time dragged on, the more disadvantageous it became.

Baek Yu-Seol, unaffected by time, immediately derived the solution the moment he looked at the riddle.

Strategy, ideation, observation, calculation, deduction, and more.

In every field that required intellectual prowess, Baek Yu-Seol was undoubtedly a prodigy.

However, a question arose.

<em class="chakra-text css-0">'A prodigy?'

There was something odd about using such a term.

It wasn't simply a matter of being a prodigy... Baek Yu-Seols way of thinking resembled that of a master strategist.

In other words, what distinguished him was not just a difference in raw creativity but a depth that stemmed from his experiences.

It felt as though Baek Yu-Seol had explored the Persona Gate dozens, if not hundreds of times, allowing him to view things from a perspective different from that of Stella's first-year students.

<em class="chakra-text css-0">Hmm, a difference in experiences

Hong Bi-Yeons suspicions deepened gradually.