Chapter 80: Slightly different and special people (2)

After successfully hunting the Supreme Dharma, Yoo Seodam’s skill level and his stats had risen considerably. But for some reason, the level of ‘Library of the White Witch’ remained the same. He was slightly disappointed, but at the same time he understood the reason behind it. The ‘Library of the White Witch’ was the kind of skill that grew stronger after he completed the trial inside the library.

However, Yoo Seodam forgot about an existence who could pass the gate without even taking the trial. She was the same as him and was the original owner of the library. And she was also human at the same time. So the library affirmed that he didn’t have to pass the test.

“You really just opened the door and came in?”

“Yeah!”

“Did you feel like your emotions were gone, or do I look like a bug in your eyes?”

In the middle of the D-rank library, where books were as big as the human body and as small as the palm of a hand, scattering around, Yekaterina looked at Yoo Seodam and shook her head with a bright smile.

“No! Hunter Yoo Seodam is still Yoo Seodam!”

“Whoa, amazing….”

Yekaterina was a witch who had survived in modern times. Yoo Seodam had heard from the system that just like how humans were everywhere in every world, witches also in fact, existed in many different worlds in their respectful old days. However, in most dimensions, witches would not survive because they would be eradicated.

The reason for this was simply because even though they possessed excellent magic skills, their numbers were very small, and they also had a nature which most living beings would hate. And even in some world where they managed to survive, they treated other living things like bugs, not even thinking of interacting with other races.

In any case, witches on earth had hidden in human society in order to survive from the forces who hunted them. And now it is said that some humans had witch’s blood mixed in their blood.

It was also a mystery how a witch, a creature with no emotion, could give birth to a child. But it was even more interesting how a genius like Yekaterina was born with the ability of ‘prophecy’ even after centuries of diluted blood lineage in her body.

Should I say it is a relief? Yekaterina was born with the blood of a witch running through her veins, but she also had ‘feelings’ which was considered to be shortcomings for a witch.  But for humans, that ‘feeling’ was an essential way to survive. Thanks to that, Yoo Seodam didn’t have to worry about finding a way to control her. 

And Yoo Seodam knew that her emotions were not faked. Because ever since Yekaterina came into his imaginary world, he was able read her feelings and thoughts whenever he wanted to.

“Is that so…”

Yoo Seodam glanced around the D-rank library. He hadn’t even read books in E-rank yet, so he didn’t have any idea about the level of magic on this side of the library.

‘By the way, what’s that in the middle?’

Near Yekaterina, the silver spirit flower wandered around with her ‘two feet’ as she read a book. It was fascinating to see her carrying such a large book with her small body.

“Ah. Are you perhaps talking about Silver? She’s sweet and friendly, isn’t she cute?”

“…..cute?”

Well, everyone’s taste differs from one another, let it be. 

As Yoo Seodam glanced toward the silver flower, he took a D-rank magic book and opened it.

….And then 10 seconds later, he closed it.

“It has been such a long time since I read a word that it makes me a little emotional….”

These days, Yoo Seodam had many things to attend to. He had to study about how the guild and hunter industry worked, and of course he needed to start studying about magic soon.

However, he wouldn’t start at D-rank. D-rank magic seemed to be at the level of university while his current magical knowledge was barely at high school level. The reason he could use magic with terrible knowledge of his was thanks to the flower pot.

The magic books in the D-rank library contained magic that was incomparable to any magic he had seen before. He wasn’t sure about the output level yet but in terms of application, it could probably even exceed an A-rank superhuman.

“Alright. By the way, what are those things?”

Yoo Seodam looked toward the E-rank library. It was decorated with all kinds of furniture. He didn’t know when Yekaterina put all of it inside the library. Moreover, there were so many music-related playback devices, even now, he could hear classical music being played from a LP nearby.

“The music playing right now was Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K.626, Have you ever heard of it?”

“Uh? Mo, Mozart? Of course! I know. It’s a very famous song. I really like it.”

“As expected! You also have a good music taste.”

“…….”

….To be honest, he had never heard of it.

She slowly rose from her seat and headed towards the E-rank library with an excited step. She touched the various instruments and music players with her hands.

“You know, before, you said I would come here whenever I’m falling asleep, right? But I thought it was possible only when I was sleeping, but I could come here even when I closed my eyes and earnestly wished.”

“What? Really?”

‘Crazy.’

What she could do was at the same level as Yoo Seodam when he used his skill. She can’t use the search function yet, but she could come to the library and read anytime she wanted.

“All I do in reality is study, so I come to the library often. And when I imagined the objects I touched with my hands, I could bring them to this library. It doesn’t work well for something complicated like an electronic device, but for something like these instruments, it works as long as I know the structure.”

“Uh…Is that so?”

When Yoo Seodam paid more attention to his surroundings, music was playing all over the library. However, not one musical note overlapped with the other, it was as if every note was pre-arranged to play in a certain area.

Yoo Seodam felt quite strange to have the inside of his imaginary world being decorated by someone else.

“Did you create all of these to listen to music because you were bored of reading books?” 

“Yeah? Uh…No Just, uh…”

It was a random question from Yoo Seodam. But she was taken aback by it and she responded with a sigh

“Actually, everyone used to call me a piano prodigy until I was in my teens, and awoke the power of prophecy. Perhaps if I grew just like that, I would have become a renowned pianist. As I gained the power of prophecy, I lost all of my musical abilities.”

“…..?”

Yoo Seodam couldn’t understand the part she said about losing her musical abilities.

“Well, no matter what kind of music I listen to, I can only hear a creepy noise. You know… I…I really loved music. Music was all I had, and it was my life.”

Maybe Yoo Seodam would never know how it felt when everything you loved turned into something that would make you feel disgusted by its mere presence. How when something that you once thought of to be as precious as your own life turned into something that was the most terrible thing you had ever laid your eyes upon. 

He couldn’t understand, but he had a vague idea of what she was feeling. It was a lot more painful than the feeling you would experience when your heart was crushed.

It feels like you were falling into an endless 

abyss.

It was a place where there was nothing to despair anymore. But, in reality, she couldn’t help but feel despair even more. The only thing that could be done in that endless abyss was to forcefully hold on to the remnant of the lovely music in her memories.

Only then Yoo Seodam could see why she put so many music-related things in the library.

Now that she was able to enjoy music once again, she didn’t want to be separated from it even for a single moment.

She was a witch who had experienced losing her ability to listen to music once. She was probably worried that she might lose it again. And if she ever lost it again in the future, she wanted to remember the happiness that she felt in this moment.

“…It’s good music, and it really suits the atmosphere. I also like classical music, so please play it often.”

“Yeah! Thank you. Hehe.”

A thought popped up Yoo Seodam’s mind while he was quietly stroking the piano.

‘If it’s possible to bring these kinds of instruments here, isn’t it okay to do some paperwork here?’

Yoo Seodam still hadn’t got a proper office, he had been looking for a space to conduct his work, but now he thought it would be better to do it while listening to music in this library.

He immediately returned to reality, placed his hand on the papers and copied them. Then, he brought them back into the library of the White Witch.

“Wow… You learn so quickly. It took me a while before I could do it perfectly.”

“O-Of course.”

He said so but it wasn’t his skill but rather the flower pot’s skill. But he was too embarrassed to admit that he couldn’t do better than his tenant.

* * *

After hunting Supreme Dharma, I had yet to gain any talent and skill.

The system was constantly grumbling about something without explaining the reason, but it seems to me that she is sorry for something. To be honest, she doesn’t have to do that.

I’m not sure about the reason, but I didn’t rush her to solve it as soon as possible knowing that I wouldn’t get it right away. Anyway, she keeps trying to solve the problem. It has been going on for over a month already, but I was also quite busy, I didn’t have much time to pay attention to it.

‘Take your time.’

A few days after that.

As usual Yekaterina was studying in the library while I was completing the paperwork for both Murim Alliance and Another League.

Currently, my guild was running with a two-member system, but Ye Sa-hye, who became Ha Sunyoung’s disciple, was growing at a terrifying rate and recently she had been generating some profits for the guild. Thanks to that, my work has increased a little. But was there any boss in the world that hated more work for their company?

So while doing paperwork in her library, it was really a coincidence that she saw my paperwork.

“Well, that’s a headache.”

“What?”

“No, it’s nothing. I got a call from the Murim Alliance. There are some people who keep using the name of their martial arts. Whether in the guild or in the country.”

“Aha……..?”

Then, Yekaterina tilted her head for a moment and said.

“Can’t you just designate Mugong as a ‘superpower special intellectual property’?”

“Superpower… what?”

“Long ago, there was a dispute going on because some guild was trying to steal Morian guild’s magic.”

Come to think of it, didn’t she say that the core member of the Morian Guild is made up of ‘witches’? It was a pretty interesting story.

“These days, all things related to superpower or mystical ability are recognized as technology. Why? Because every skill is different from the other. That’s why it is now treated as an identity, in other words, a weapon. So, if you designated it as a ‘superpower special intellectual property’, people can’t openly steal that technology. Well.. There are many ways to work around it, but it would be difficult to touch a martial artist who is recognized as Mystical ability wielder.”

“….really?”

Poof!

All worries that had been bugging me for days were gone in a single moment.

From then on, I continued to ask her many questions, and I realized that Yekaterina was more capable than I thought.

Park Seong-ho and I knew a lot about the guild industry and the Murim Alliance. But in the field of ‘mystical abilities’, Yekaterina was much more knowledgeable then both of us combined.

“You, you really, you….”

“Yes?”

“You are the best……”

“Oh, hmm hmm. I know I’m a little awesome.”

How long have I tried to introduce Mugong, an ability that was difficult to fit in into modern times? As if mocking all my worries, Yekaterina resolved it quickly. In that aspect, she was very knowledgeable, there was practically nothing she didn’t know.

Come to think of it, my guild was going to teach both martial arts and magic.

Currently, I’m teaching Ha Sunyoung my white swordsmanship so she could teach it to other members. And, Ye sa-hye was her first disciple, but isn’t it difficult for me to teach magic?

What if Yekaterina joins Another League?

She could be in charge of the magic department and help both the Murim alliance and Another league in administrative matters, while Ha Sunyoung would be in charge of swordsmanship. Thus, Another league could grow by utilizing individuality from both sides.

More importantly, if Yekaterina joins Another league and takes over the management, I could go to different worlds without worrying about something going wrong since she was far superior compared to me in those fields.

But…….

“It’s a shame that you are already in the Morian guild.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, you’re really the right talent for our guild. But honestly, our guild can’t compare to the Morian guild.”

Although mentally she was tied to me, I had no intention to force her. If I do that, it would be the same as retraining her, who had been confined to her museum for her whole life.

So it was quite regrettable.

The Morian Guild is one of the best guilds in the world. Besides, recently, she said they’ve been working on a project together with ‘Lost Day’, so there was no meaning for her to quit a guild of that size and join a new guild with only three guild members-

“Please take me in!”

“….Eh?”

“I can do anything you ask! I’m willing to be a machine that works for you for the rest of my life!”

Yekaterina stood up to me and grabbed my hand. Her white eyes were twinkling as she spoke.

“If you take me out of Morian, I have the confidence to work like a dog for you!”

It was more like a plea rather than an answer.

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